I agree that Hamas' stand of 'never' accepting Israel is a problem. But I believe this situation has been exasperated by Israels policy of extreme retaliation and determent, which does not work and has, over generations, made many palestinians hateful and irreconcilable towards Israel.
It will be a long way to peace and some kind of solution. But unless Israel wants to walk in the footsteps of the Nazis and engage into some kind of monstruous, genocidal extermination program, this way will have to begin with a commitment to peace and a renounciation of violence. You reap what you sow.
If some streetkid stabs my wife, I try to find out why he did it, bring him to justice and take measures so that something like this doesn't happen again.
Israels measures consist of throwing a grenade through the window of the home he lives in. Possibly killing the kid and his parents. The next day, his two brothers and one of his friends stand behind the corner, armed with knives. As I said, answering violence with violence has been the strategy of the last century, and so far that has lead nowhere. Air strikes are not effective at making palestinian terrorists 'regretful' or 'intimidated'. All they do is create more hate and resentment towards Israel.
Maybe, after 100 years of eye for an eye, it's time for a new approach.
I have to admit, I don't know much about the origins of this never ending conflict.
I do know however that Israel has a functional state and government that speaks and acts with one voice, whereas the main Palestinian authorities struggle to cooperate with -and contain- splinter groups that often act independently. Israel has the functional institutions and strong, modern military, whereas Palestinians have inter-faction rivalries and makeshift rockets.
Now, when some angry youths on the Palestinian side decide to fire rockets into Israel, which more often than not cause no casualties or significant destruction, and Israel responds with air strikes that kill dozens, including uninvolved civilians, that is: - disproportional retaliation - irresponsible application of force - ineffective as a deterrent - every death creates more enemies - indiscriminate collective punishment of innocents due to the acts of a few - unworthy of a democratic, free country
As I see it, Israel has the greater power, and therefore also the greater responsibility. The fact that this conflict still exists and that people are still dying is hard proof that the ways in which Israel deals with the situation are not working - have never been working. And still they don't change.
It's not just calculating a trajectory. I'm not an expert, but I assume it involves at least:
1. Detection - multiple layers of detection systems such as
- radar
- IR
- computer vision / pattern recognition AI
all of these have to work in unison to produce a high detection ratio and eliminate false positives 2. Tracking
- tracking the object during its flight path using the aforementioned systems 3. Projection
- thinking ahead of where the object is likely to strike, a small part of this is the "trajectory calculation" 4. Threat assessment
- use projection data to assess the strategic value of impact location 5. Fire control
- make decision to intercept, if positive
- allocate the most appropriate platform
- check airspace / final safety assessments
- send warnings / signals / fire confirmation
I have smoked weed a couple of times in my life, and it definitively enhances your creativity. I remember looking at basic stuff in my room and seeing so many kinds of interesting shapes and "visions", I wanted to take notes and start painting to capture them.
However, I also remember walking to a club after having a smoke, a path I had walked a hundred times before, and getting lost on the way.
It's definitively also disorienting, makes you drowsy, and I would be concerned about the effects of long-term use.
I didn't know about this double meaning of "cash" and was seriously thinking that perhaps they were going to unload trucks of money on Georges porch to save on taxes or transaction fees or something.
But now that you have made things clear, that does seem a bit ridiculous.:)
Right, I forgot about the domes. I was thinking about the other aspects, such as the planet being an entire, gigantic city and the political intricacies of the factions that govern it. The Wikipedia entry on Trantor actually states that: "Coruscant (which was in some early sources called "Jhantor", in homage to Trantor)...". Go figure.
Then there is also the Empire in Star Wars, which has more than a few resemblances to the Galactic Empire in Isaac Asimovs "Foundation" Universe, like for example the home planet "Coruscant" which is basically a 1:1 copy of "Trantor".
I don't think it's fair to label George Lucas a "whore" though. Human culture is replete with developments that are inspirations of prior art. It is only rarely that something truly new appears on the scene, and more often than not these innovations themselves are rough and unrefined. It is mostly the following works it inspires that truly appreciate the idea and make the creation whole.
2 BILLION in cash? That must be a Calamari Cruiser full of bills! Don't these people have bank accounts? Whats the point of paying such a huge amount of money in cash? Does George intend to fill his house with money and perform some weirdo Scrooge McDuck impersonation?
Grandparent is rated -1, but actually I've wondered about this myself. Is your explanation really accurate or are you just guessing? Intuitively I would also suppose that a body that was formed from a collision rather than a cloud of gas would assume an irregular shape. I mean, many asteroids and moons of Jupiter are probably product of colissions and do have an irregular shape.
> "...Consider that top teir earners pay most of the tax in the US right now..."
This only applies to federal taxes. Republicans love to talk about federal taxes because it's the only tax where the wealthiest have the biggest share in. They like to keep it so that they are technically 'speaking the truth' when they claim that the wealthiest pay the most taxes. The fact that they are only talking about federal taxes is usually in the fine print or lost completely. If you take all taxes combined (state taxes, sales taxes, etc.) it turns out that middle and low income families, depending on state, pay 3 to 6 times more taxes on their overall income than the wealthiest.
You know that taxes alone already account for at least 30% right? And if you think that the other 30% will account for the "real necessary consumption" you're incredibly naive. You're saying that roughly 500 bucks a month is enough for: - rent - food - health costs - transportation - home appliances and possibly even stuff required for kids, such as - new clothing every year - school books
In my calculation a wage of 10$ an hour is enough to barely live an adequate life - without savings and without kids.
Extremists feed of each other. A jewish extremist makes a film ripping on Muhammad, and islamic extremists go on rampage, thereby proving jewish extremists' point to the world, serving his propaganda purposes.
Maybe we can found a new country, Extremistan, and put them all there to kill each other while the rest of the world enjoys peace and pluralism.
What are you talking about? Romney is pretending to be more right-wing than he really is in order to appease core republican voters. The only reason he's the republican nominee is that many people in the GOP thought they needed a more moderate guy in order to beat Obama. Now that they have the guy it seems they are worried about their voter base, which is why Romney has drifted to the right and they nominated Tea Party darling Ryan as vice president.
Well, I think this makes it pretty clear what kind of people the Iranian regime consists of. Anyone who is prepared to ally itself with North Korea, the greatest gangster -1984 nightmare- regime in the world, loses all credibility in my book.
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I agree that Hamas' stand of 'never' accepting Israel is a problem. But I believe this situation has been exasperated by Israels policy of extreme retaliation and determent, which does not work and has, over generations, made many palestinians hateful and irreconcilable towards Israel.
It will be a long way to peace and some kind of solution. But unless Israel wants to walk in the footsteps of the Nazis and engage into some kind of monstruous, genocidal extermination program, this way will have to begin with a commitment to peace and a renounciation of violence. You reap what you sow.
If some streetkid stabs my wife, I try to find out why he did it, bring him to justice and take measures so that something like this doesn't happen again.
Israels measures consist of throwing a grenade through the window of the home he lives in. Possibly killing the kid and his parents. The next day, his two brothers and one of his friends stand behind the corner, armed with knives.
As I said, answering violence with violence has been the strategy of the last century, and so far that has lead nowhere. Air strikes are not effective at making palestinian terrorists 'regretful' or 'intimidated'. All they do is create more hate and resentment towards Israel.
Maybe, after 100 years of eye for an eye, it's time for a new approach.
I have to admit, I don't know much about the origins of this never ending conflict.
I do know however that Israel has a functional state and government that speaks and acts with one voice, whereas the main Palestinian authorities struggle to cooperate with -and contain- splinter groups that often act independently.
Israel has the functional institutions and strong, modern military, whereas Palestinians have inter-faction rivalries and makeshift rockets.
Now, when some angry youths on the Palestinian side decide to fire rockets into Israel, which more often than not cause no casualties or significant destruction, and Israel responds with air strikes that kill dozens, including uninvolved civilians, that is:
- disproportional retaliation
- irresponsible application of force
- ineffective as a deterrent - every death creates more enemies
- indiscriminate collective punishment of innocents due to the acts of a few
- unworthy of a democratic, free country
As I see it, Israel has the greater power, and therefore also the greater responsibility. The fact that this conflict still exists and that people are still dying is hard proof that the ways in which Israel deals with the situation are not working - have never been working. And still they don't change.
As preparation for the BIG ANNOUNCEMENT you might want to listen to this before tuning in to CNN tomorrow
It's not just calculating a trajectory. I'm not an expert, but I assume it involves at least:
1. Detection - multiple layers of detection systems such as
- radar
- IR
- computer vision / pattern recognition AI
all of these have to work in unison to produce a high detection ratio and eliminate false positives
2. Tracking
- tracking the object during its flight path using the aforementioned systems
3. Projection
- thinking ahead of where the object is likely to strike, a small part of this is the "trajectory calculation"
4. Threat assessment
- use projection data to assess the strategic value of impact location
5. Fire control
- make decision to intercept, if positive
- allocate the most appropriate platform
- check airspace / final safety assessments
- send warnings / signals / fire confirmation
All of this has to happen within seconds.
That's what I was thinking. GIF? Now? Nobody uses GIF's anymore. PNG has all but replaced GIF.
Actually, having 1000 developers working on one project is an excellent explanation for the cost, time taken and failure.
I have smoked weed a couple of times in my life, and it definitively enhances your creativity. I remember looking at basic stuff in my room and seeing so many kinds of interesting shapes and "visions", I wanted to take notes and start painting to capture them.
However, I also remember walking to a club after having a smoke, a path I had walked a hundred times before, and getting lost on the way.
It's definitively also disorienting, makes you drowsy, and I would be concerned about the effects of long-term use.
Ah, Strike Commander... good times.
They don't make games like that no more.
I see the chinese espionage is alive and well. That plane looks almost exactly like an X-35, except it has two engines instead of one.
I didn't know about this double meaning of "cash" and was seriously thinking that perhaps they were going to unload trucks of money on Georges porch to save on taxes or transaction fees or something.
But now that you have made things clear, that does seem a bit ridiculous. :)
Right, I forgot about the domes. I was thinking about the other aspects, such as the planet being an entire, gigantic city and the political intricacies of the factions that govern it.
The Wikipedia entry on Trantor actually states that: "Coruscant (which was in some early sources called "Jhantor", in homage to Trantor)...". Go figure.
Then there is also the Empire in Star Wars, which has more than a few resemblances to the Galactic Empire in Isaac Asimovs "Foundation" Universe, like for example the home planet "Coruscant" which is basically a 1:1 copy of "Trantor".
I don't think it's fair to label George Lucas a "whore" though. Human culture is replete with developments that are inspirations of prior art. It is only rarely that something truly new appears on the scene, and more often than not these innovations themselves are rough and unrefined. It is mostly the following works it inspires that truly appreciate the idea and make the creation whole.
2 BILLION in cash? That must be a Calamari Cruiser full of bills! Don't these people have bank accounts? Whats the point of paying such a huge amount of money in cash? Does George intend to fill his house with money and perform some weirdo Scrooge McDuck impersonation?
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I'm not trolling, I'm really interested about this. STOP BEING SO PARANOID!!!
And thanks for the link.
Cheers
Grandparent is rated -1, but actually I've wondered about this myself. Is your explanation really accurate or are you just guessing?
Intuitively I would also suppose that a body that was formed from a collision rather than a cloud of gas would assume an irregular shape. I mean, many asteroids and moons of Jupiter are probably product of colissions and do have an irregular shape.
Because moving in, turning the world around, and then just pulling out again, is a dick move.
You have to at least pay for dinner as well.
> "...Consider that top teir earners pay most of the tax in the US right now ..."
This only applies to federal taxes. Republicans love to talk about federal taxes because it's the only tax where the wealthiest have the biggest share in. They like to keep it so that they are technically 'speaking the truth' when they claim that the wealthiest pay the most taxes. The fact that they are only talking about federal taxes is usually in the fine print or lost completely. If you take all taxes combined (state taxes, sales taxes, etc.) it turns out that middle and low income families, depending on state, pay 3 to 6 times more taxes on their overall income than the wealthiest.
You seem to have failed to notice how energetically Oracle is promoting JavaFX and pushing the technology forward.
You know that taxes alone already account for at least 30% right? And if you think that the other 30% will account for the "real necessary consumption" you're incredibly naive. You're saying that roughly 500 bucks a month is enough for:
- rent
- food
- health costs
- transportation
- home appliances
and possibly even stuff required for kids, such as
- new clothing every year
- school books
In my calculation a wage of 10$ an hour is enough to barely live an adequate life - without savings and without kids.
Extremists feed of each other. A jewish extremist makes a film ripping on Muhammad, and islamic extremists go on rampage, thereby proving jewish extremists' point to the world, serving his propaganda purposes.
Maybe we can found a new country, Extremistan, and put them all there to kill each other while the rest of the world enjoys peace and pluralism.
What are you talking about? Romney is pretending to be more right-wing than he really is in order to appease core republican voters. The only reason he's the republican nominee is that many people in the GOP thought they needed a more moderate guy in order to beat Obama. Now that they have the guy it seems they are worried about their voter base, which is why Romney has drifted to the right and they nominated Tea Party darling Ryan as vice president.
Actually, Battlestar Galactica does have moderately realistic air combat physics for space battles.
Well, I think this makes it pretty clear what kind of people the Iranian regime consists of. Anyone who is prepared to ally itself with North Korea, the greatest gangster -1984 nightmare- regime in the world, loses all credibility in my book.