The Tel-Aviv municipality hasn't run any ads against anything. In fact, municipalities don't run political ads at all! The link you sent has nothing to do with Arabs marrying jews in Israel.
Also, no laws recently passed that state anything of the sort. There is one political party that likes to make a lot of noise. That's all they do pretty much; noise. Most Israelis disagree with them. No Israeli Arabs were ever deported from Israel, without having been convicted of treason of some sort. The only {maybe} exception to that is a former Parliament member who fled to Syria after it was discovered he used his position to send the Hizbolla military intelligence during the 2006 Lebanon conflict. He fled by his own will though.
Seeing the above story, you must understand that the whole issue of trust is a big issue. The episode during the 2006 conflict didn't help bridge trust between Israelis and the Israeli Arab politicians. You compare it to the situation of African-Americans in the USA, but Afterican-Americans share the same interests as the 'White' population. The Arab population does not. I certainly wouldn't want someone who's loyalty is in question being my defense minister. In a nation such as Israel, some things are too critical. Also, previous governments have offered Arab-Israeli parties to join the coalitions, but most parties decided that it "wasn't in their interests"
As for the pilot: the article you linked to said it all; he probably didn't pass his security clearance. Security clearance is taken seriously in all armies. Israel is no exception. To every sensitive position you must pass a series of background checks. In more sensitive roles, such as intelligence analysts or pilots, the level of clearance needed is high, and in clearance, you better be safe than sorry! I know 3 people, Israeli Jews, that didn't pass their security clearance. One of them didn't pass because he was friends on facebook with someone from Iran. I know another Jewish American, that immigrated to serve in the army, which didn't get the security clearance he wanted because he holds another citizenship and the risks associated with it. I know it sounds bad when looking from the outside, but Israel has suffered too many times from cutting corners on security clearance, and I'm not surprised they didn't do it again.
That post contains 100% bullshit material.
Israeli Arabs are treated equally by the government in Israel. Sure, some people are bigots, but you find them in every nation.
The post above makes it seem like the government endorsed a "Jews Only" sign policy, when in fact, it didn't. It didn't because it didn't see the problem arise and when the problem rose, they did introduce a law banning it.
As for pilots and ministers:
Israeli Arabs aren't conscripted for military service. Those Israeli Arabs that wish to volunteer have most options open to them, even in some of the most sensitive units. I know a few Israeli Arabs serving in Intelligence units and there is even a story about an Arab medic that is now part of the elite 669 Unit. Pilot selection is a tough process, and it only takes the best of the best. The top 3% of the fit teenagers are summoned for testing, and of them single digit percentages get in. Once you start the course, over 80% of the accepted candidates fall in the three years of pilot training. I know that Israeli Arabs that volunteer can be summoned for testing, it's just that with the small percentage that do volunteer, I don't see it as a big shock statistically that none have yet made it in. (I think there was a Druze pilot that fell in his last year of pilot training).
As for ministers; even more bullshit: Ever heard of Raleb Majadele, the Muslim, Israeli Arab that was during Olmert's Government Minister of Science, Culture and Sports?
I don't think I need to say much more...
While Iran is on paper a democracy, looking at the flowchart above it's more complex than that.
The 'Guardian Council' has veto power on political candidates, a power it exercises often. It is elected by the Parliament (who's members it can veto), the Supreme Commander and the head of Judiciary, which is selected by the supreme commander.
Oh, and that same Supreme Commander, he's elected for life. Furthermore the Supreme Leader can even dismiss the president and prevent the legitimation of any law (appointed by assembly) by the institutions under his control, the Guardian Council and the Expediency Council.
Slightly more power than Obama has, doesn't he?
It's all built in a very confusing way that makes it hard to see that it can easily be controlled by one man who can put his friends in all the right places. Democracy? On paper maybe. In practice, I don't think so!
I am not an expert when it comes to the Novell-MS deal, and I am not an expert on the SCO case either, but what if they are connected?
What I mean is this: maybe Microsoft aren't interested in Linux all that much, but they might have some IP that they licensed from SCO, and to avoid any problems with that they contacted Novell with the IP protection idea, seeing as they knew Novell was gonna win. Then the agreement could have evolved to also include other things, such as the whole Linux part that gets all the attention these days.
Anyone have more details?
Loki tried it, and failed miserably. There really isn't that much demand out there. Actually, I believe that Loki were very successful, as in, the company was profitable and the business model worked, and everything company wise was ok... The problem, from what I understood was more of the CEO and his wife using the companies funds as their personal bank account.
Even if not, though, don't forget that Linux has changes substantially since 2002! In 2002 I would have never considered giving my sister any distro of Linux. Now my sister is dual booting openSuSE and Ubuntu debating with herself which she wants more (she has been dual booting them for over half a year, but she still can't choose...). My point is, the leaps Linux has made since 2002 are substantial, and anything that happened back then can not be used as an excuse now, because the landscape of the market is different. Ubuntu has introduced the idea of free operating systems to teenagers worldwide (I know at least in the USA, Belgium and Israel, where I've been working lately and talking to many Linux users) and many more would jump ship from Windows in an instant if they could play their games on it. If someone were to start a porting house, that would negotiate and port games and important programs over to Linux (important programs like the Adobe suit(Photoshop for example) and Quicken's programs), it would probably, not only be successful (provided they manage to find a good "platform" to base the "linux platform" on) but they will probably become very influential in matters of computer software.
Seriously, you could probably get a customized version of the early kernels to compile on this quite easily... Fluxbox anyone?
If they manage to run Compiz Fusion on this thing, nobody will be able to call Compiz junk that takes up resources;)
"pry it out of my hands at gunpoint" Why? I mean if I were him, at gun point I would just say "Take it, I'll just download another ISO":D
Or you can just point them to https://shipit.ubuntu.com/
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The Tel-Aviv municipality hasn't run any ads against anything. In fact, municipalities don't run political ads at all! The link you sent has nothing to do with Arabs marrying jews in Israel. Also, no laws recently passed that state anything of the sort. There is one political party that likes to make a lot of noise. That's all they do pretty much; noise. Most Israelis disagree with them. No Israeli Arabs were ever deported from Israel, without having been convicted of treason of some sort. The only {maybe} exception to that is a former Parliament member who fled to Syria after it was discovered he used his position to send the Hizbolla military intelligence during the 2006 Lebanon conflict. He fled by his own will though. Seeing the above story, you must understand that the whole issue of trust is a big issue. The episode during the 2006 conflict didn't help bridge trust between Israelis and the Israeli Arab politicians. You compare it to the situation of African-Americans in the USA, but Afterican-Americans share the same interests as the 'White' population. The Arab population does not. I certainly wouldn't want someone who's loyalty is in question being my defense minister. In a nation such as Israel, some things are too critical. Also, previous governments have offered Arab-Israeli parties to join the coalitions, but most parties decided that it "wasn't in their interests" As for the pilot: the article you linked to said it all; he probably didn't pass his security clearance. Security clearance is taken seriously in all armies. Israel is no exception. To every sensitive position you must pass a series of background checks. In more sensitive roles, such as intelligence analysts or pilots, the level of clearance needed is high, and in clearance, you better be safe than sorry! I know 3 people, Israeli Jews, that didn't pass their security clearance. One of them didn't pass because he was friends on facebook with someone from Iran. I know another Jewish American, that immigrated to serve in the army, which didn't get the security clearance he wanted because he holds another citizenship and the risks associated with it. I know it sounds bad when looking from the outside, but Israel has suffered too many times from cutting corners on security clearance, and I'm not surprised they didn't do it again.
That post contains 100% bullshit material. Israeli Arabs are treated equally by the government in Israel. Sure, some people are bigots, but you find them in every nation. The post above makes it seem like the government endorsed a "Jews Only" sign policy, when in fact, it didn't. It didn't because it didn't see the problem arise and when the problem rose, they did introduce a law banning it. As for pilots and ministers: Israeli Arabs aren't conscripted for military service. Those Israeli Arabs that wish to volunteer have most options open to them, even in some of the most sensitive units. I know a few Israeli Arabs serving in Intelligence units and there is even a story about an Arab medic that is now part of the elite 669 Unit. Pilot selection is a tough process, and it only takes the best of the best. The top 3% of the fit teenagers are summoned for testing, and of them single digit percentages get in. Once you start the course, over 80% of the accepted candidates fall in the three years of pilot training. I know that Israeli Arabs that volunteer can be summoned for testing, it's just that with the small percentage that do volunteer, I don't see it as a big shock statistically that none have yet made it in. (I think there was a Druze pilot that fell in his last year of pilot training). As for ministers; even more bullshit: Ever heard of Raleb Majadele, the Muslim, Israeli Arab that was during Olmert's Government Minister of Science, Culture and Sports? I don't think I need to say much more...
While Iran is on paper a democracy, looking at the flowchart above it's more complex than that. The 'Guardian Council' has veto power on political candidates, a power it exercises often. It is elected by the Parliament (who's members it can veto), the Supreme Commander and the head of Judiciary, which is selected by the supreme commander. Oh, and that same Supreme Commander, he's elected for life. Furthermore the Supreme Leader can even dismiss the president and prevent the legitimation of any law (appointed by assembly) by the institutions under his control, the Guardian Council and the Expediency Council. Slightly more power than Obama has, doesn't he? It's all built in a very confusing way that makes it hard to see that it can easily be controlled by one man who can put his friends in all the right places. Democracy? On paper maybe. In practice, I don't think so!
http://www.google.com/linux The reason your link didn't work was because you had .html on the end. No discrimination :)
So continueing the human race is not good use? (well, nearly any race for that matter, because we humans aren't the only sperm producers...)
I am not an expert when it comes to the Novell-MS deal, and I am not an expert on the SCO case either, but what if they are connected? What I mean is this: maybe Microsoft aren't interested in Linux all that much, but they might have some IP that they licensed from SCO, and to avoid any problems with that they contacted Novell with the IP protection idea, seeing as they knew Novell was gonna win. Then the agreement could have evolved to also include other things, such as the whole Linux part that gets all the attention these days. Anyone have more details?
Seriously, you could probably get a customized version of the early kernels to compile on this quite easily... Fluxbox anyone? If they manage to run Compiz Fusion on this thing, nobody will be able to call Compiz junk that takes up resources ;)