A more universal truth would be to say that 5 in 5 people lie/don't hold their word. I'd like to see someone try to find 3 people in the entire world who haven't lied or purposely misled someone.
One time I flew with EasyJet from Copenhagen to London. The devices that moved the luggage weren't working, so instead of waiting for them to work they decided to just put us all on the airplane, fly it in into the sky, and THEN tell us our luggage was left in Copenhagen.
Thankfully it was the end of my trip, so no big loss. Not so thankful for a group of 4 girls who were just starting their 3 month vacation around Europe and everything they took with them was now gone. They had no place to have the airline send their luggage to either. Goooood times.
Unfortunately, I don't think RFID will resolve general douchebaggery.
A key thing to note in comparing the profits of these two sales is that Sony isn't profiting, while Nintendo already is. So from my understanding, Nintendo has already sold many more units, has just as strong (if not a stronger) foothold in the market, they profit from each Wii, and have more reshipments before the Holiday season. Meanwhile, Sony is losing a significant amount of money per PS3 and won't even have a big reshipment until when? Next year? That's a giant amount of potential money they're losing by not having consoles available for Christmas.
I'm not saying Wii is better than PS3. I'm just saying Nintendo wins the launch war with flying colors.
If the leadership performs actions ill-desired by the Israeli people, they have and will use their political power to prevent them from being in power (even if they may have to wait a little time for re-election). And you say the Israeli economy is gaining from war? On the contrary, Israeli tourism is suffering.
I hate parallels from the U.S. war in Iraq to the Israeli situation. Hamas is posing a real and active threat to Israeli citizens, this isn't a chase for some imaginary WMDs.
The "taking your homes and subjugating your race" bit was performed by Jordan and Egypt. Israel was merely left with with ramifications after the 1967 war. Egypt refused to take the Gaza Strip back with the rest of the Sinai Peninsula, and Jordan was more than happy to be rid of the West Bank.
There's nothing cowardly in trying to minimize the deaths of Palestinians. The intention isn't the issue, it's the way it will be percieved.
If Israel really wanted to commit genocide in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, I don't understand why they'd be wasting their time and own people performing targetting operations when they could just as easily send in bombs to take out the entire region. Israel's doing an equally bad job "squeezing out" Arabs if they're withdrawing from the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon (may I note, that in both these cases the withdrawal was used to send missles into Israel).
So far Israel hasn't been moved by the humanitarian suffering of the Palestinians
Now this is an outright lie. Israel has been supplying the West Bank and Gaza strip with fund money to build schools (which are then used to teach anti-Israeli retorict) and help its people for decades. It also offered a whole ton MORE of fund money in negotiation agreements to create the country of Palestine. They only recently cut off this funding to the Gaza Strip since its people decided to elect Hamas into government, and allow the organization to send missles, and perform terrorism kidnappings. Is Israel supposed to continue to give its money to Gaza when it's being used, in turn, to attack Israel?
While they are still in a strong negotiating position, they should make peace with the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon.
It's another lie if you think Israel has not attempted negotiations. Do you understand how difficult it is to negotiate with organizations who will only accept terms that will severly damage Israel? "Right of return" expects Israel to give up most of its country to create Palestine. This isn't a negotiation, this is a peaceful request to collapse the country of Israel. Whomever is in power for Palestine (be it Hamas, the PLO, etc.) is never negotiating but only demanding. Those in power do not wish to coexist with Israel. Please tell me how you negotiate with this.
Over the past years, Israel has been effective at demolishing the Palestinian civil society
That's because over the past years, terrorists have refused to give up their practices. You tell Hamas to stop attacking Israel, and you see how long Israel will continue to perform any sort of military insurgency.
You are horribly misled.
Jews/Non-Jews/Europeans/Whoever, who had moved into "Palestine" in the early 1900's had bought their land legally, and lived on that land legally. When Israel was created by the UN, Israel was only created on land with over 50% of people being these Jews/Non-Jews/Europeans/Whoever, while Palestine (first ever mention of the country) was to be created over areas with over land with less than 50% of these people. However, they abandoned the idea of their own country in hopes for the absolute destruction of Israel, and were so much as picked up by buses sent from Jordan and Egypt and brought away from their land so that the countries sorrounding Israel may destroy it.
"The arabs there are 100% justified fighting back using any measures they have, because a lot of the world has abandoned them to genocide." The rest of the world? I can name exactly what countries abandoned these Arabs: Jordan, Egypt, and Syria. They brought these people out of their homes, forced them into refugee camps in present day Gaza Strip (then controlled by Egypt) and the West Bank (then controlled by Jordan), and DISALLOWED THEM FROM ENTERING THEIR OWN COUNTRIES! Even today Jordan and Egypt have blocked borders to their Arab "brothers" living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
When Palestinians inside the West Bank began to have sovereignty in the West Bank while it was controlled by Jordan, do you know how Jordan responded? They killed Palestinians en masse, and expelled many out of their country (which is why so many live in Lebanon today).
Please educate yourself on the subject, and don't believe all the false retorict you hear. Palestinians ARE victims, but victims of their Arab neighbors. On thing you're right on, Israel is largely secular and not Jewish. As such, they don't just run around calling people anti-semites and killing them. Organizations pose a real and active threat to the lives of Israeli people, and as such the Israeli it is the Israeli governments duty to do what it can to prevent these people. They COULD just bomb all of Gaza, but instead they attempt to perform targetted assassinations and arrests (much nicer than the massive killings and expellations of their Arab neighbors).
As long as these Arabs are "100% justified" in thinking they somehow still have the right to take back land they abandoned, where Israelis have lived for over a generation, the Israeli government is "100% justified" in protecting its people from these terrorists' actions.
As a staunch Israeli supporter, this really frustrates me. Yes, it will reduce civilian casualties. Yes, it will be able to destroy missle launchers without having to go in and do any fighting. Yes, it will render the Hamas tactic of hiding amongst their own people useless.
But no, there's no way you're going to establish trust with a people when you have killer robotic hornets flying around their homes.
I disagree; although internet fads and games are always changing, the things that make the internet appealing are fairly constant. Using the internet to promote ideas didn't start or end with blogs. Online gaming communities didn't start or end with WoW. Weird internet humor didn't start or end with goatse.
Honestly, I'm surpsied it's taken this long. Internet use and culture is fascinating, I don't see how psychology can be such an enormous field and yet no one's begun a real effort analyze internet behavior. If you read the article, I'm certain they aren't just going to be analyzing what people are spending their time on (yeah, yeah, we all know teens just look at porn between emo bulletin posts to their Myspace). It should be more indepth then that.
Of course, it's debatable if psychological findings really mean anything, but I'm happy to see that people are finding potential in internet psychology.
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A more universal truth would be to say that 5 in 5 people lie/don't hold their word. I'd like to see someone try to find 3 people in the entire world who haven't lied or purposely misled someone.
It's not the Blu-Ray's fault most movies in the last year have been miserable.
Yeah, I'm personally surprised there hasn't been any lawsuits over this, as people are known to have broken their televisions because of them.
What do you mean Win2k isn't secure? It's perfectly secure so long as you don't connect it to any sort of network.
One time I flew with EasyJet from Copenhagen to London. The devices that moved the luggage weren't working, so instead of waiting for them to work they decided to just put us all on the airplane, fly it in into the sky, and THEN tell us our luggage was left in Copenhagen. Thankfully it was the end of my trip, so no big loss. Not so thankful for a group of 4 girls who were just starting their 3 month vacation around Europe and everything they took with them was now gone. They had no place to have the airline send their luggage to either. Goooood times. Unfortunately, I don't think RFID will resolve general douchebaggery.
A key thing to note in comparing the profits of these two sales is that Sony isn't profiting, while Nintendo already is. So from my understanding, Nintendo has already sold many more units, has just as strong (if not a stronger) foothold in the market, they profit from each Wii, and have more reshipments before the Holiday season. Meanwhile, Sony is losing a significant amount of money per PS3 and won't even have a big reshipment until when? Next year? That's a giant amount of potential money they're losing by not having consoles available for Christmas. I'm not saying Wii is better than PS3. I'm just saying Nintendo wins the launch war with flying colors.
If the leadership performs actions ill-desired by the Israeli people, they have and will use their political power to prevent them from being in power (even if they may have to wait a little time for re-election). And you say the Israeli economy is gaining from war? On the contrary, Israeli tourism is suffering. I hate parallels from the U.S. war in Iraq to the Israeli situation. Hamas is posing a real and active threat to Israeli citizens, this isn't a chase for some imaginary WMDs.
The "taking your homes and subjugating your race" bit was performed by Jordan and Egypt. Israel was merely left with with ramifications after the 1967 war. Egypt refused to take the Gaza Strip back with the rest of the Sinai Peninsula, and Jordan was more than happy to be rid of the West Bank. There's nothing cowardly in trying to minimize the deaths of Palestinians. The intention isn't the issue, it's the way it will be percieved.
If Israel really wanted to commit genocide in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, I don't understand why they'd be wasting their time and own people performing targetting operations when they could just as easily send in bombs to take out the entire region. Israel's doing an equally bad job "squeezing out" Arabs if they're withdrawing from the Gaza Strip and southern Lebanon (may I note, that in both these cases the withdrawal was used to send missles into Israel).
So far Israel hasn't been moved by the humanitarian suffering of the Palestinians
Now this is an outright lie. Israel has been supplying the West Bank and Gaza strip with fund money to build schools (which are then used to teach anti-Israeli retorict) and help its people for decades. It also offered a whole ton MORE of fund money in negotiation agreements to create the country of Palestine. They only recently cut off this funding to the Gaza Strip since its people decided to elect Hamas into government, and allow the organization to send missles, and perform terrorism kidnappings. Is Israel supposed to continue to give its money to Gaza when it's being used, in turn, to attack Israel?
While they are still in a strong negotiating position, they should make peace with the Palestinians, Syria and Lebanon. It's another lie if you think Israel has not attempted negotiations. Do you understand how difficult it is to negotiate with organizations who will only accept terms that will severly damage Israel? "Right of return" expects Israel to give up most of its country to create Palestine. This isn't a negotiation, this is a peaceful request to collapse the country of Israel. Whomever is in power for Palestine (be it Hamas, the PLO, etc.) is never negotiating but only demanding. Those in power do not wish to coexist with Israel. Please tell me how you negotiate with this.
Over the past years, Israel has been effective at demolishing the Palestinian civil society
That's because over the past years, terrorists have refused to give up their practices. You tell Hamas to stop attacking Israel, and you see how long Israel will continue to perform any sort of military insurgency.
But what about the communications structure that lets terrorists communicate over a wide area?
The Gaza Strip isn't that wide of an area.
You are horribly misled. Jews/Non-Jews/Europeans/Whoever, who had moved into "Palestine" in the early 1900's had bought their land legally, and lived on that land legally. When Israel was created by the UN, Israel was only created on land with over 50% of people being these Jews/Non-Jews/Europeans/Whoever, while Palestine (first ever mention of the country) was to be created over areas with over land with less than 50% of these people. However, they abandoned the idea of their own country in hopes for the absolute destruction of Israel, and were so much as picked up by buses sent from Jordan and Egypt and brought away from their land so that the countries sorrounding Israel may destroy it.
"The arabs there are 100% justified fighting back using any measures they have, because a lot of the world has abandoned them to genocide." The rest of the world? I can name exactly what countries abandoned these Arabs: Jordan, Egypt, and Syria. They brought these people out of their homes, forced them into refugee camps in present day Gaza Strip (then controlled by Egypt) and the West Bank (then controlled by Jordan), and DISALLOWED THEM FROM ENTERING THEIR OWN COUNTRIES! Even today Jordan and Egypt have blocked borders to their Arab "brothers" living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
When Palestinians inside the West Bank began to have sovereignty in the West Bank while it was controlled by Jordan, do you know how Jordan responded? They killed Palestinians en masse, and expelled many out of their country (which is why so many live in Lebanon today).
Please educate yourself on the subject, and don't believe all the false retorict you hear. Palestinians ARE victims, but victims of their Arab neighbors. On thing you're right on, Israel is largely secular and not Jewish. As such, they don't just run around calling people anti-semites and killing them. Organizations pose a real and active threat to the lives of Israeli people, and as such the Israeli it is the Israeli governments duty to do what it can to prevent these people. They COULD just bomb all of Gaza, but instead they attempt to perform targetted assassinations and arrests (much nicer than the massive killings and expellations of their Arab neighbors).
As long as these Arabs are "100% justified" in thinking they somehow still have the right to take back land they abandoned, where Israelis have lived for over a generation, the Israeli government is "100% justified" in protecting its people from these terrorists' actions.
As a staunch Israeli supporter, this really frustrates me. Yes, it will reduce civilian casualties. Yes, it will be able to destroy missle launchers without having to go in and do any fighting. Yes, it will render the Hamas tactic of hiding amongst their own people useless. But no, there's no way you're going to establish trust with a people when you have killer robotic hornets flying around their homes.
I disagree; although internet fads and games are always changing, the things that make the internet appealing are fairly constant. Using the internet to promote ideas didn't start or end with blogs. Online gaming communities didn't start or end with WoW. Weird internet humor didn't start or end with goatse.
Honestly, I'm surpsied it's taken this long. Internet use and culture is fascinating, I don't see how psychology can be such an enormous field and yet no one's begun a real effort analyze internet behavior. If you read the article, I'm certain they aren't just going to be analyzing what people are spending their time on (yeah, yeah, we all know teens just look at porn between emo bulletin posts to their Myspace). It should be more indepth then that. Of course, it's debatable if psychological findings really mean anything, but I'm happy to see that people are finding potential in internet psychology.