I was just reading your comment on slashdot and wanted to make a few minor
clarifications. Just so you know who's talking, I'm a Jew born in the USA who
immigrated to Israel and am currently serving mandatory service in the Israeli
army.
You make the statement that, "the Arabs have NEVER attacked any Israeli religious
targets. It is not the religion that bothers them. It is the lack of religion. It is the secular
Israel that offends, not the Jewish one. "
The Arabs have, in fact, attacked Jewish religious institutions and have done a great
deal to delegitimize Jewish history, religion and nationality. After Jordan expelled all
the Jews from east Jerusalem (including the old city) in 1948 they destroyed all of the
Jewish houses of worship (Synagogues) in their part of the city. There is a Jewish
cemetery outside the walls of the old city in the valley of kidron. It is ancient. Jewish
kings from the second temple period are buried there as are some of the high priests
of the temple and many other jewish notables from throughout history. The
Jordanians vandalized the cemetery, destroying ancient graves and taking the
headstones from many graves to use to tile toilets and build sidewalks and roads.
During the current violence the arabs have burned the Tomb of Joseph and are
currently doing all in their power to erase all traces of jewish history from the temple
mount. They are building a new underground mosque in the mount and are cutting
up stones from the second temple period that they have found while digging, to use
as tiles for the mosque floor. They have specifically targeted ultra-orthadox non
nationalist Jews for attack on holidays when they come to pray at the Temple Mount's
western wall. At this point they are simply anti-semitic in addition to being
anti western. Maybe part of the cause was that the Jews brought western secularism
to the area, but I doubt that. All of the arab dictators are secular arab nationalists for
the most part. Of course the islamic fundies hate them too, but the fact is that if we
Jews were instead secularized muslims they wouldn't be fighting us the way they
are.
The cause here is something else. The fundie muslims believe that they are intended to rule the world by Allah and to convert or kill all pagans, and to put people of the book
(Jews and Christians) under the heel of their rule as subjects. They believe that they
are inherently superior by fact of being muslim and that any area that they've
conquered in the past, such as Israel or Spain, is their property - Islamic Waqf. They
see the Jews in Israel as a inferior subordinate people who have basically revolted
and taken away a piece of the Islamic nation's real estate.
Anyway, I'm sorry I've been rambling on for so long... It's late, someone was murdered
by terrorist's in my neighborhood in Jerusalem last night so I'm note particularly happy
at the moment.
I would not know if that is true or not, but according to this site, they passed 1991 footage showing the palestinians dancing.
Anyone with better info can deny/confirm this ?
I live in Jerusalem and I can confirm it. I spoke with people here who say it with their own eyes. One potential reason for the lack of footage is that the Palestinian Authority threatens the lives of reporters in the West Bank and Gaza who report things that are unfavorable to the PA. In this specific case they threatened to kill one journalist who had filmed the celebrating. The rest probably just didn't even bother because they knew it would endanger their lives.
The specific images being used by CNN may in fact be archive pictures, footage, but that doesn't change the reality of what happened - namely that large numbers of Muslims across the middle east were happy about the attack.
the continued oppression of Palestinian civillians by Israel (recent death toll in the thousands, at least)
Ignoring the "oppression" propaganda, let's just take a look at the numbers. The Palestine Red Crescent Society list the number of dead from the violence since Sept 29, 2000 as being 650 as of midnight Sept. 12.
The Israeli number of dead is approximately 190 for the same period. And don't give me that BS about how who's right or wrong somehow has to do with the kill ratio.
Oh yes, one more thing. The images of Palestinians celebrating in Israel you have seen on the news are most likely fake. In a manner of speaking, anyway. They are from 1991 and unrelated to anything going on currently.
Wow! They're fake?! That means then that all my friends here in Jerusalem who claim to have seen the celebrating with their own eyes must have had a mass hallucination! It also must mean that the reports about Arafat's people threatening the lives of reporters who tried to film what was going on were also fake.
A couple of days ago I heard a report about a Palistinian village. Israel had suspected that terrorists were
there, so Israeli tanks surrounded the village, bombarded it, and left.
The report you heard was wrong. It's straight Arab propaganda. Nothing like that has ever happened here in Israel. City have been surround by tanks at times of heavy fighting between Arab Police/Soldiers/Terrorists but Israel has NEVER bombarded an Arab town in the way that you describe. The only terror and the only terrorists here are Arabs.
Arafat strongly condemns all terrorism.. why do you include him in your list?
Arafat has a habit of talking out both sides of his mouth. He says one thing to the Western media because he knows it's what he needs to say to gain favor in the west, while at the same time saying the exact opposite to his own people. Arafat is a terrorist dictator who uses conflict to sustain and justify his own corrupt regime.
The US has recently weighed in massively on the side of Israel, and done nothing to help the Palestinian
victims of Israeli terror attacks.
Israeli terror attacks? You mean when Israeli kills the people who are directly responsible for killing and attempting to kill it's citizens? Funny, in most of the world that's called self-defence, not terrorism.
You obviously have no idea how many more Palestinians have been killed by the Israelis this year that
the other way 'round. I think the current ratio is about 10:1 (even after the suicide bombers).
The Palestine Red Cross lists the number of Arab dead at about 611 since September last year. About 180 Israeli's have been killed. The difference is that about 90% of the Arabs killed were engaged in acts of violence at the time of their death whereas 90% of the Israelis killed were randomly murdered civilians going about their daily business.
Israel Radio announced this evening that Magen David Adom is opening its
blood collection centers in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and Tel Hashomer at
midnight to collect blood that will be flown to the United States in the
morning.
There is a national call for everyone having type "O" blood to contribute to
the effort.
Israel Radio Military correspondent Carmela Menashe reported that Israel is
sending its IDF emergency evacuation team to the United States and that the
Israeli flag will fly at half mast.
Again, perhaps this fellow is lying or out-to-lunch. But if what he states is truthful, I think it's fair to say
that the fanatics have just cause to be pissed off (and that's not to say that they are excused for being
terrorists.)
The guy is spurting propaganda and lies. I live in Jerusalem and I serve in the Israeli army. The Arabs have accused us of just about everything. Here's a short list of the BS accusations:
1. We've been accused of using depleted uranium ammo.
2. We've been accused of dropping candy on Arab towns from planes which cause sterility.
3. We've been accused of using poison gas against the Arabs.
4. We've been accused of sending female soldiers into Arab towns who do stripteases to lure young Arabs out into the open and then they pull pistols out of their panties and shoot the young Arabs.
5. We've been accused of spreading AIDS amoung the Arabs.
6. We've been accused of genocide and sending Arabs to gas chambers.
The list goes on and on. The fact is that Israel's policy minimizes civilian casualties. We've go after individual terrorists who are directly responsible for planning and executing terrorist attacks. Israel's attacks are pinpoint attacks whose purpose is to take out terrorists with an absolute minimum of collarteral damage. The Arabs on the other hand specifically target civilians and purpetrate random acts of mass murder as a strategy of sowing fear and confusion. Just look at what happened today...
The fact is that this guy is just another anti-semitic propagandist.
Actually, we're not living in a democracy - thank G-d. You're right that democracy is nothing more than mob rule, and that's what scared both ancient Romans and the founding fathers of this county. It's the reason that the USA is not a democracy, but a constitutional republic. The difference being that in a democracy 50%+1 can do what every they want, including throwing the 50%-1 to the lions (at least theoretically). On the other hand a constitutional republic has a supreme set of laws whose purpose is to maintain stability and protect society from the poorly thought out excesses of the moment.
As much as I admire Chan as a martial artist and enjoy his films, saying that he brought martial arts movies and Hong Kong to Hollywood's attention is showing how little Mr. Katz knows about the history of the martial arts movie. It was a Chinese-American named Bruce Lee who brought Hong Kong and the martial arts film to the American big silver screen - over 30 years ago.
People like Samo, Jackie Chan, Chuck Norris and Jet Li would all acknowledge without hesitation that Bruce Lee is the father of the modern martial arts movie. Heck, Samo and Norris even got their starts in acting appearing in Bruce Lee movies. (Yes they are that old, and so is Chan)
Check the archeological record. You'll see that the earth is warming, has been warming for 8000+ years at least, and that it has absolutely nothing to do with people. The ocean has been rising an average of 1 inch per hundred years for at least a few thousand years now. A good example from the archeological record is just off the coast of Israel where I live. About 4000 years ago about some 50-100 people built themselves a little village about 20 or 30 feet from the beach. Their little village is now 30 feet underwater. Same story for numerous other archeaological sites up and down the coast.
Israel's been using similar kind of stuff to kill Arab terrorists for years. The most famous instance was back in 95 I believe. A terrorist nicknamed "The Engineer," took his cell phone in
for repairs. The Israelis booby-trapped it with
plastic explosives and after he got it back from repairs they called him to make sure he had the phone and detonated it remotely. The Arabs have been using simmilar techniques. They plant bombs in a public place like a restaraunt which have a cell phone as the detonating mechanism. After they're out of the area they call the cell phone and boom.
If you would have read the linked page then you would see that he did contact the head of the company and tried talking to him. The head of ariston basically blew him off.
Where else can you get two countries that absolutely hate each other to fight without bloodshed?
I guess that you forgot about how the Arabs murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1979. Even more disgusting was their threat to boycott the most recent Olympics if a planned memorial for the murdered Israeli athletes was carried out.
There are a number of tools that allow you to mount NTFS partitions under Win9x and Fat32 under
NT 4.0 and other neat stuff. They are made by a company called Winternals.
ZDnet has an article reviewing a few of these tools.
OK, I can't let this pass. Face reality: Netscape lost not because of Microsoft's strong-arm actics (which were there, of course), but because the browser simply sucked. IE has been so much better since version 3.2 that it's ridiculous. Netscape has always been an incredibly slow, buggy browser, and remains so to this day.
First, I've had plenty of stability problems with IE, maybe not as much as with NS, but the difference isn't enough reason to switch. Next issue, speed. IE is significantly faster than NS.
You claim that these difference are unrelated to Microsoft's illegal use of their monopoly, but on the contrary they are directly due to that. Look at what NS has to deal with - a crapy, esoteric, poorly documented API. At the same time, the IE guys are sitting there with the people who wrote the operating system in the next cubicle. Not only that but IE is even DIRECTLY INTEGRATED INTO THE OS. So of course IE is going to be more stable and faster than NS. Face reality, Netscape's current position is a DIRECT result of M$'s illegal use of monopoly.
What the US Government has done to Mitnick is a joke compared to what they've done to Jonathan Pollard. He was working for the US Navy and found out that the US was supplying Iraq with chemical weapons technology to use in it's war against Iran. He passed this info on to Israel along with other intel on the military capabilities of Arab states that Israel was at war with. Normally, spying for an ally gets you a sentance of 4 years. The US gave him a life sentance. He spent the first 10 years of it 3 stories underground in solitary confinement. He and his lawyers have been denied access to the secret evidence that was used to sentance him for over 15 years. Over 15 years in jail and he still hasn't gotten to see the classified secret evidence that was used to sentance him. For more info see the Free Jonathan Pollard web site at, http://www.jonathanpollard.org
What would be really interesting to see would be a book discussing Telsa's patents from a technical and technology impact point of view, and say with a companion volume that has copies of all said patents. Here is the URL of a page at Yale which deals with the Tesla issue.
Saying USENET sucks is just going way overboard. The quality of each forum in USENET, just like each discussion on/., is a function of the quality and dedication of the participants. If there are serious participants than after a short time you'll learn to identify them and you'll learn to ignore the idiots and the spam.
I have a friend who works for a company called WebGlide which just singed a contract with RealNetworks for about $10 million. WebGlide has a tech that is similar to VRML or Quicktimes 3D walk through environment. They have a few articles describing the deal and the tech on their website.
RealNetworks is known for software used to play music and video clips on the Web. The Seattle company said it will integrate the WebGlide technology with its RealSystem G2 software to create a new product, code-named Utopia, that will be ready in the first half of next year.
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You make the statement that, "the Arabs have NEVER attacked any Israeli religious targets. It is not the religion that bothers them. It is the lack of religion. It is the secular Israel that offends, not the Jewish one. "
The Arabs have, in fact, attacked Jewish religious institutions and have done a great deal to delegitimize Jewish history, religion and nationality. After Jordan expelled all the Jews from east Jerusalem (including the old city) in 1948 they destroyed all of the Jewish houses of worship (Synagogues) in their part of the city. There is a Jewish cemetery outside the walls of the old city in the valley of kidron. It is ancient. Jewish kings from the second temple period are buried there as are some of the high priests of the temple and many other jewish notables from throughout history. The Jordanians vandalized the cemetery, destroying ancient graves and taking the headstones from many graves to use to tile toilets and build sidewalks and roads. During the current violence the arabs have burned the Tomb of Joseph and are currently doing all in their power to erase all traces of jewish history from the temple mount. They are building a new underground mosque in the mount and are cutting up stones from the second temple period that they have found while digging, to use as tiles for the mosque floor. They have specifically targeted ultra-orthadox non nationalist Jews for attack on holidays when they come to pray at the Temple Mount's western wall. At this point they are simply anti-semitic in addition to being anti western. Maybe part of the cause was that the Jews brought western secularism to the area, but I doubt that. All of the arab dictators are secular arab nationalists for the most part. Of course the islamic fundies hate them too, but the fact is that if we Jews were instead secularized muslims they wouldn't be fighting us the way they are.
The cause here is something else. The fundie muslims believe that they are intended to rule the world by Allah and to convert or kill all pagans, and to put people of the book (Jews and Christians) under the heel of their rule as subjects. They believe that they are inherently superior by fact of being muslim and that any area that they've conquered in the past, such as Israel or Spain, is their property - Islamic Waqf. They see the Jews in Israel as a inferior subordinate people who have basically revolted and taken away a piece of the Islamic nation's real estate.
Anyway, I'm sorry I've been rambling on for so long... It's late, someone was murdered by terrorist's in my neighborhood in Jerusalem last night so I'm note particularly happy at the moment.
Here is a link to a story about the Palestinian's threatening journalists about airing footage of Palestinians celebrating.
I live in Jerusalem and I can confirm it. I spoke with people here who say it with their own eyes. One potential reason for the lack of footage is that the Palestinian Authority threatens the lives of reporters in the West Bank and Gaza who report things that are unfavorable to the PA. In this specific case they threatened to kill one journalist who had filmed the celebrating. The rest probably just didn't even bother because they knew it would endanger their lives.
The specific images being used by CNN may in fact be archive pictures, footage, but that doesn't change the reality of what happened - namely that large numbers of Muslims across the middle east were happy about the attack.
Ignoring the "oppression" propaganda, let's just take a look at the numbers. The Palestine Red Crescent Society list the number of dead from the violence since Sept 29, 2000 as being 650 as of midnight Sept. 12.
The Israeli number of dead is approximately 190 for the same period. And don't give me that BS about how who's right or wrong somehow has to do with the kill ratio.
Oh yes, one more thing. The images of Palestinians celebrating in Israel you have seen on the news are most likely fake. In a manner of speaking, anyway. They are from 1991 and unrelated to anything going on currently.
Wow! They're fake?! That means then that all my friends here in Jerusalem who claim to have seen the celebrating with their own eyes must have had a mass hallucination! It also must mean that the reports about Arafat's people threatening the lives of reporters who tried to film what was going on were also fake.
The report you heard was wrong. It's straight Arab propaganda. Nothing like that has ever happened here in Israel. City have been surround by tanks at times of heavy fighting between Arab Police/Soldiers/Terrorists but Israel has NEVER bombarded an Arab town in the way that you describe. The only terror and the only terrorists here are Arabs.
Arafat has a habit of talking out both sides of his mouth. He says one thing to the Western media because he knows it's what he needs to say to gain favor in the west, while at the same time saying the exact opposite to his own people. Arafat is a terrorist dictator who uses conflict to sustain and justify his own corrupt regime.
Israeli terror attacks? You mean when Israeli kills the people who are directly responsible for killing and attempting to kill it's citizens? Funny, in most of the world that's called self-defence, not terrorism.
The Palestine Red Cross lists the number of Arab dead at about 611 since September last year. About 180 Israeli's have been killed. The difference is that about 90% of the Arabs killed were engaged in acts of violence at the time of their death whereas 90% of the Israelis killed were randomly murdered civilians going about their daily business.
There is a national call for everyone having type "O" blood to contribute to the effort.
Israel Radio Military correspondent Carmela Menashe reported that Israel is sending its IDF emergency evacuation team to the United States and that the Israeli flag will fly at half mast.
The guy is spurting propaganda and lies. I live in Jerusalem and I serve in the Israeli army. The Arabs have accused us of just about everything. Here's a short list of the BS accusations:
1. We've been accused of using depleted uranium ammo.
2. We've been accused of dropping candy on Arab towns from planes which cause sterility.
3. We've been accused of using poison gas against the Arabs.
4. We've been accused of sending female soldiers into Arab towns who do stripteases to lure young Arabs out into the open and then they pull pistols out of their panties and shoot the young Arabs.
5. We've been accused of spreading AIDS amoung the Arabs.
6. We've been accused of genocide and sending Arabs to gas chambers.
The list goes on and on. The fact is that Israel's policy minimizes civilian casualties. We've go after individual terrorists who are directly responsible for planning and executing terrorist attacks. Israel's attacks are pinpoint attacks whose purpose is to take out terrorists with an absolute minimum of collarteral damage. The Arabs on the other hand specifically target civilians and purpetrate random acts of mass murder as a strategy of sowing fear and confusion. Just look at what happened today...
The fact is that this guy is just another anti-semitic propagandist.
Actually, we're not living in a democracy - thank G-d. You're right that democracy is nothing more than mob rule, and that's what scared both ancient Romans and the founding fathers of this county. It's the reason that the USA is not a democracy, but a constitutional republic. The difference being that in a democracy 50%+1 can do what every they want, including throwing the 50%-1 to the lions (at least theoretically). On the other hand a constitutional republic has a supreme set of laws whose purpose is to maintain stability and protect society from the poorly thought out excesses of the moment.
People like Samo, Jackie Chan, Chuck Norris and Jet Li would all acknowledge without hesitation that Bruce Lee is the father of the modern martial arts movie. Heck, Samo and Norris even got their starts in acting appearing in Bruce Lee movies. (Yes they are that old, and so is Chan)
Check the archeological record. You'll see that the earth is warming, has been warming for 8000+ years at least, and that it has absolutely nothing to do with people. The ocean has been rising an average of 1 inch per hundred years for at least a few thousand years now. A good example from the archeological record is just off the coast of Israel where I live. About 4000 years ago about some 50-100 people built themselves a little village about 20 or 30 feet from the beach. Their little village is now 30 feet underwater. Same story for numerous other archeaological sites up and down the coast.
Israel's been using similar kind of stuff to kill Arab terrorists for years. The most famous instance was back in 95 I believe. A terrorist nicknamed "The Engineer," took his cell phone in for repairs. The Israelis booby-trapped it with plastic explosives and after he got it back from repairs they called him to make sure he had the phone and detonated it remotely. The Arabs have been using simmilar techniques. They plant bombs in a public place like a restaraunt which have a cell phone as the detonating mechanism. After they're out of the area they call the cell phone and boom.
If you would have read the linked page then you would see that he did contact the head of the company and tried talking to him. The head of ariston basically blew him off.
I guess that you forgot about how the Arabs murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1979. Even more disgusting was their threat to boycott the most recent Olympics if a planned memorial for the murdered Israeli athletes was carried out.
ZDnet has an article reviewing a few of these tools.
You can even download NTFSDOS for free and try it out.
First, I've had plenty of stability problems with IE, maybe not as much as with NS, but the difference isn't enough reason to switch. Next issue, speed. IE is significantly faster than NS.
You claim that these difference are unrelated to Microsoft's illegal use of their monopoly, but on the contrary they are directly due to that. Look at what NS has to deal with - a crapy, esoteric, poorly documented API. At the same time, the IE guys are sitting there with the people who wrote the operating system in the next cubicle. Not only that but IE is even DIRECTLY INTEGRATED INTO THE OS. So of course IE is going to be more stable and faster than NS. Face reality, Netscape's current position is a DIRECT result of M$'s illegal use of monopoly.
What the US Government has done to Mitnick is a joke compared to what they've done to Jonathan Pollard. He was working for the US Navy and found out that the US was supplying Iraq with chemical weapons technology to use in it's war against Iran. He passed this info on to Israel along with other intel on the military capabilities of Arab states that Israel was at war with. Normally, spying for an ally gets you a sentance of 4 years. The US gave him a life sentance. He spent the first 10 years of it 3 stories underground in solitary confinement. He and his lawyers have been denied access to the secret evidence that was used to sentance him for over 15 years. Over 15 years in jail and he still hasn't gotten to see the classified secret evidence that was used to sentance him. For more info see the Free Jonathan Pollard web site at, http://www.jonathanpollard.org
What would be really interesting to see would be a book discussing Telsa's patents from a technical and technology impact point of view, and say with a companion volume that has copies of all said patents. Here is the URL of a page at Yale which deals with the Tesla issue.
Saying USENET sucks is just going way overboard. The quality of each forum in USENET, just like each discussion on /., is a function of the quality and dedication of the participants. If there are serious participants than after a short time you'll learn to identify them and you'll learn to ignore the idiots and the spam.
I have a friend who works for a company called WebGlide which just singed a contract with RealNetworks for about $10 million. WebGlide has a tech that is similar to VRML or Quicktimes 3D walk through environment. They have a few articles describing the deal and the tech on their website.
One article, "RealNetworks to Use Technology By WebGlide to Send 3-D Images ," from the Wall Street Journal says the following:
RealNetworks is known for software used to play music and video clips on the Web. The Seattle company said it will integrate the WebGlide technology with its RealSystem G2 software to create a new product, code-named Utopia, that will be ready in the first half of next year.