If Palestinians ended their resistance, would Israel treat them fairly?
Take a look at the West Bank where the ruling Fatah party has done that. What have they gotten in return? Ever expanding settlements, walls and checkpoints.
You are parrotting the developing right-wing narrative about the mortgage crisis. It is a misleading and self-serving one. Conveniently it blames minorities as the sole cause of this disaster.
Teaser rates and adjustable rate mortgages during the Bush years were important culprits. Fannie Mae joined the bubble when the real estate industry made it clear they woudn't play ball with them unless they dropped standards like private lenders had. From the private sector we had irresponsible securitization, bad assumptions, insufficient capital requirements. From Democrats like Charles Rangel we had opposition to sensible regulation. We had a White House that saw ever rising house prices as a national economic strategy - White House Philosophy Stoked Mortgage Bonfire.
There is enough blame to go around between both Democrats and Republicans, and private sector and government. The specific emphasis on one factor over another says more about your agenda than anything else.
No, the "fact" is climate change deniers typically respond to reasoned scientific conclusions with half-assed blog postings and variants of "we don't really know anything so there likely is no problem".
Religious extremism in Islamic societies exists because of the state of those societies not because of the religion itself. That is the key point you are missing. A few centuries ago Christian societies were in a similar state.
They changed, the religion didn't. The same thing will happen in the Islamic world, hopefully sooner than later.
Aha! It was all Janet Reno's fault! I knew it! And those endless generic subdivisions in Phoenix and Las Vegas were meant for black people.
Seriously though, that is a very selective and limited analysis. There was more than enough encouragement from the deregulation happy Republicans. And adjustable rate mortgages pushed by a Fed subservient to a spend-your-way-to-success *Republican* White House are what has brought millions of Americans to brink of foreclosure and thus screwed Wall Street.
And lets not forget the role of the absurdly low capital gains tax rate in encouraging risky behaviour and an 'asset bubble' in the financial industry.
But I know, blaming minorities has always been a fun and profitable strategy for right wingers.
I wish I had references, but I remember the reason behind all the rejections of Gecko in favor of Webkit (Apple, Nokia, Google, Epiphany, Adobe) had to do with the code itself.
The Gecko source apparently is a tangled mess compared to Webkit, which has managed to keep things relatively simple and modular. The Google comic book alludes to this.
What you are paying at the pump is the direct result of environmentalist's policies fed by the FUD spread by AlGore.
Wrong. Its the result of an illegal invasion, an unsustainable deficit that has driven down the dollar, and the rise of Indian and Chinese demand. I know its a shame when the facts don't line up with your ideology.
The idea that Iran would in effect commit a nation wide act of suicide terrorism is the stupidest and least informed idea that I have heard in discussions about the Middle East.
Unfortunately you are not alone in this and in believing in extreme overgeneralizing and simplistic models of Islamic behaviour.
Wrong. The Palestinians are the people evicted from the land now called Israel. They are distinct from the Bedouin tribes that constitute "real" Jordanians. Many elderly Palestinians still have the keys to their long gone houses in Israel.
And in Mahmoud Abbas, the Israelis have the most reasonable pragmatic Palestinian leader they have ever dealt with. And what is the reward? More roadblocks, more checkpoints, more walls and last but certainly not least, MORE SETTLEMENTS.
The possible benefits of rising C02 will be outweighed by speed of the increase. Many lifeforms will not be able to adapt in time leading to a massive die off. Increasing CO2 levels are already leading to an acidification of the world's oceans - we're facing a marine extinction event.
So the environmentalists stated aims will *not* be served by global warming.
Its the integrated concept, packaging and execution that counts even if the individual pieces already exist. This guy actually *did* something and made it available rather than complain about other peoples work on the Internet.
And just because something is not perfect doesn't mean that its crap.
The reflexive cynicism and unctuous dismissal of these types of creative hacks are one of the more annoying characteristics of the Slashdot community.
The cars of yesteryear were far more polluting as well, so whats your point?
Emissions from both trains and cars have been improved. Trains still win the energy per transport mile efficiency contest though due to their nature. Moving X amount of people in 1 vehicle is always more efficient than moving X amount of people in X amount of vehicles.
Spoofs and thoughtful criticism of Islam are one thing. Steyn's shrill book however is just old fashioned hate mongering
His books and articles with their hysterical fear mongering owe a spiritual debt to works like the 1911 anti-Asian screed "The Yellow Peril" and even a little bit to the classic "Protocols of the Elders of Zion".
Make blissfully contemptuous generalizations about currently fashionable minorities like Jews or homosexuals and you are an instant pariah. A finished career and a round of condemnation from sound-bite worthy people are what you'll be getting. But do the same with Muslims and you are a champion of free speech and democracy.
Free speech has never been an absolute. And restrictions around hate speech in Canada were never a problem until they started interfering with anti-Islamic smears.
Everyone arguing for Steyn's right to earn a living as a Professional Muslim Hater owes a letter of support to Holocaust deniers like David Irving and Ernst Zundel who have been prosecuted under hate speech laws.
The challenge of Islamic terrorism has tested the commitment of the West to it's stated principles. And from habeus corpus to hate speech, to limits on executive privilege, to privacy it has found that commitment wanting
Wrong. The U.S extracts wealth from its victims through forcing regulatory regimes that favor American interests. They've done it for decades behind the facade of the international institutions like the IMF and the World Bank.
More currently, the proposed "Iraqi" oil law is a 100% American creation that tilts the playing field in the favor of Exxon et al.
Oh and the so called "aid" money is usually nothing more than subsidies for well-connected American businesses. They'll announce a few billion in aid to country X. That money goes straight to favored American compainies for over inflated goods and services that country X often doesn't even need.
American imperialism is a fact. Paying rent for bases doesn't change anything. Its a token gesture that you've seized on. Its sad though that nothing makes Americans more rabid than being reminded of their sins.
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Reflexive cynicisim is not an adequate substitute for an actual argument.
If Palestinians ended their resistance, would Israel treat them fairly?
Take a look at the West Bank where the ruling Fatah party has done that. What have they gotten in return? Ever expanding settlements, walls and checkpoints.
Like Bush, Micheal Dell did not forget Poland.
Thank you I'll be here all week.
You are parrotting the developing right-wing narrative about the mortgage crisis. It is a misleading and self-serving one. Conveniently it blames minorities as the sole cause of this disaster.
Teaser rates and adjustable rate mortgages during the Bush years were important culprits. Fannie Mae joined the bubble when the real estate industry made it clear they woudn't play ball with them unless they dropped standards like private lenders had. From the private sector we had irresponsible securitization, bad assumptions, insufficient capital requirements. From Democrats like Charles Rangel we had opposition to sensible regulation. We had a White House that saw ever rising house prices as a national economic strategy - White House Philosophy Stoked Mortgage Bonfire.
There is enough blame to go around between both Democrats and Republicans, and private sector and government. The specific emphasis on one factor over another says more about your agenda than anything else.
No, the "fact" is climate change deniers typically respond to reasoned scientific conclusions with half-assed blog postings and variants of "we don't really know anything so there likely is no problem".
That says more about the chaos and poverty in these societies than about the religon of Islam you bigoted fool.
That says more about you then them. You should get out more.
Religious extremism in Islamic societies exists because of the state of those societies not because of the religion itself. That is the key point you are missing. A few centuries ago Christian societies were in a similar state.
They changed, the religion didn't. The same thing will happen in the Islamic world, hopefully sooner than later.
It does make sense that conservative assclowns dismiss any thinker that doesn't rigidly follow their doctrines.
Don't confuse cunning with smart.
The tiresome wingnuts on the right. Always ready to attack any science that might lead to any sort of collective response by society.
I hope you don't use the highway system either. That was the result of govt planning too you know.
Aha! It was all Janet Reno's fault! I knew it! And those endless generic subdivisions in Phoenix and Las Vegas were meant for black people.
Seriously though, that is a very selective and limited analysis. There was more than enough encouragement from the deregulation happy Republicans. And adjustable rate mortgages pushed by a Fed subservient to a spend-your-way-to-success *Republican* White House are what has brought millions of Americans to brink of foreclosure and thus screwed Wall Street.
And lets not forget the role of the absurdly low capital gains tax rate in encouraging risky behaviour and an 'asset bubble' in the financial industry.
But I know, blaming minorities has always been a fun and profitable strategy for right wingers.
I wish I had references, but I remember the reason behind all the rejections of Gecko in favor of Webkit (Apple, Nokia, Google, Epiphany, Adobe) had to do with the code itself.
The Gecko source apparently is a tangled mess compared to Webkit, which has managed to keep things relatively simple and modular. The Google comic book alludes to this.
What you are paying at the pump is the direct result of environmentalist's policies fed by the FUD spread by AlGore.
Wrong. Its the result of an illegal invasion, an unsustainable deficit that has driven down the dollar, and the rise of Indian and Chinese demand. I know its a shame when the facts don't line up with your ideology.
The idea that Iran would in effect commit a nation wide act of suicide terrorism is the stupidest and least informed idea that I have heard in discussions about the Middle East.
Unfortunately you are not alone in this and in believing in extreme overgeneralizing and simplistic models of Islamic behaviour.
Wrong. The Palestinians are the people evicted from the land now called Israel. They are distinct from the Bedouin tribes that constitute "real" Jordanians. Many elderly Palestinians still have the keys to their long gone houses in Israel.
And in Mahmoud Abbas, the Israelis have the most reasonable pragmatic Palestinian leader they have ever dealt with. And what is the reward? More roadblocks, more checkpoints, more walls and last but certainly not least, MORE SETTLEMENTS.
RTFA, the point is to make them with equipment available in developing countries.
If you can't see that is possible to make a reasonable anti-nuclear argument then you are the one with the problem.
It is a sign of maturity to respect other people's opinion even if they are different than your own.
It is a sign of an unreasonable zealot to believe that you are just *so right* that the people who disagree with you can only be malicious or foolish.
If you watched the presentation you'd know that they do use Akamai as the first layer of their infrastructure.
The possible benefits of rising C02 will be outweighed by speed of the increase. Many lifeforms will not be able to adapt in time leading to a massive die off. Increasing CO2 levels are already leading to an acidification of the world's oceans - we're facing a marine extinction event.
So the environmentalists stated aims will *not* be served by global warming.
Its the integrated concept, packaging and execution that counts even if the individual pieces already exist. This guy actually *did* something and made it available rather than complain about other peoples work on the Internet.
And just because something is not perfect doesn't mean that its crap.
The reflexive cynicism and unctuous dismissal of these types of creative hacks are one of the more annoying characteristics of the Slashdot community.
The cars of yesteryear were far more polluting as well, so whats your point?
Emissions from both trains and cars have been improved. Trains still win the energy per transport mile efficiency contest though due to their nature. Moving X amount of people in 1 vehicle is always more efficient than moving X amount of people in X amount of vehicles.
Spoofs and thoughtful criticism of Islam are one thing. Steyn's shrill book however is just old fashioned hate mongering
His books and articles with their hysterical fear mongering owe a spiritual debt to works like the 1911 anti-Asian screed "The Yellow Peril" and even a little bit to the classic "Protocols of the Elders of Zion".
Make blissfully contemptuous generalizations about currently fashionable minorities like Jews or homosexuals and you are an instant pariah. A finished career and a round of condemnation from sound-bite worthy people are what you'll be getting. But do the same with Muslims and you are a champion of free speech and democracy.
Free speech has never been an absolute. And restrictions around hate speech in Canada were never a problem until they started interfering with anti-Islamic smears.
Everyone arguing for Steyn's right to earn a living as a Professional Muslim Hater owes a letter of support to Holocaust deniers like David Irving and Ernst Zundel who have been prosecuted under hate speech laws.
The challenge of Islamic terrorism has tested the commitment of the West to it's stated principles.
And from habeus corpus to hate speech, to limits on executive privilege, to privacy it has found that commitment wanting
P.S kdawson is a troll
Thats way too many people for the amount of resources we're using per person.
Everybody, stop fucking.
Wrong. The U.S extracts wealth from its victims through forcing regulatory regimes that favor American interests. They've done it for decades behind the facade of the international institutions like the IMF and the World Bank.
More currently, the proposed "Iraqi" oil law is a 100% American creation that tilts the playing field in the favor of Exxon et al.
Oh and the so called "aid" money is usually nothing more than subsidies for well-connected American businesses. They'll announce a few billion in aid to country X. That money goes straight to favored American compainies for over inflated goods and services that country X often doesn't even need.
American imperialism is a fact. Paying rent for bases doesn't change anything. Its a token gesture that you've seized on. Its sad though that nothing makes Americans more rabid than being reminded of their sins.