Stable is a relative term. Stable compared to what? It is the same thing I think of when someone says "soon". Are we talking "soon" compared to a fruit fly's life or "soon" compared to galactic time? From the article;
According to Stanford, the results so far look promising. In tests the new lithium anode reached 99 percent efficiency over the course of 150 charge/discharge cycles.
150 charge/discharge cycles is not very much. That is only 5 months use. Who is to say that the battery does not degrade to 50% at 200 cycles? What about 3,000 cycles? I bet they have done that test a few times. They seem to be hiding something. Sure it may be stable compared to current lithium anode technology but is it stable compared to other lithium ion battery technology?
Show me the complete data or I will assume you are hiding something to make your technology look better and garner investment even though you know the technology has a fatal flaw.
yet we refuse to spend more on space industry than we do on our aircraft carrier program (old Nimitz class cost about 4.5 billion - and we have 11 of them).
The Nimitz program produced ten carriers between 1968 and 2006. That is 38 years for a yearly budget of $1.8B. That is approximately 10% of the NASA budget. There are now also 10 large carriers in service. Comparing a long project with a single year budget is inaccurate.
Actually you are incorrect as the top two languages are Mandarin and Spanish. The Mandarin speakers would be speaking Japanese and many of the Spanish would be speaking German. My point was that WW2 would have turned out very differently if the US had not manufactured arms and non-native languages would be imposed by conquerors..
Not quite. Has the US exterminated 8 million Jews or 5 million Ukrainians? Is Europe Democratic or Communist? Does Kuwait, Israel, South Korea and Taiwan still exist? Is Tunisia still controlled by Qaddafi? You are very self centered if you only look at the US.
Most of the things you state do not effect the average person.
Wow did you misunderstand me. I was trying to say that the OP does not want to help weapons but is fine having them used by others to protect him. I would call that a hypocrite. I am not a gunophobe the OP is.
The only part of the Geneva convention that Israel has broken is about settlements in occupied territory which has nothing to do with original borders. At the end of many wars borders have changed. A good example of that being the Ottoman Empire at the end of WW1 which created the British Palestinian Mandate.
The Nazis didn't follow the Geneva Conventions on the Soviet front in WWII,
The treatment of prisoners also has nothing to do with the restoration of boarders to an arbitrary point.
All Israelis are not Zionists. I also like the contradictions in your statements.
Hass... who have spent their lives in Israel.
Amira Hass lives in the territories
How can someone live in Israel and the territories at the same time? You might also want to post the rest of that paragraph from the wiki article.
Commenting on the incident, Gershom Gorenberg, of the liberal magazine The American Prospect, stated "CAMERA is ready to exempt itself from the demands for accuracy that it aims at the media. And like others engaged in the narrative wars, it does not understand the difference between advocacy and accuracy." Gorenberg criticized CAMERA for telling members not to share information about the campaign with media, and he also argued Ini's definition of accuracy "only means not printing anything embarrassing to his own side". David Shamah, of The Jerusalem Post, stated that "the vast anti-Israel lobby that haters of our country have managed to pull together" hate it when groups like CAMERA mess up "their anti-Israel propaganda with (gasp!) facts".
They could have accepted (with negotiations) any of several peace offers, such as the Arab Peace Initiative
You mean a peace initiative heralded by a Massacre. The problem with the peace initiative is that those signing it have no control over Hamas. Do you really believe that Israel could have signed an Arab Peace treaty after the massacre and subsequent Intifada? The other issue with the Arab Peace initiative is that it requires return to the 1967 borders. The Arab League attacked in 1967 and several times after and now they want to call "no harm no foul"? The repatriation issue has the same problem.
The settlement Ariel is right in the middle of the narrowest part of the west bank, and cuts it in half.
If you mean the Arial on this map you are a bit off.
So when you let the settlers stay there, you're rewarding their illegal behavior and violence.
So by returning to 1967 borders and allowing people who left to clear the way for the destruction of Israel you are rewarding illegal behavior and violence. It strikes both ways.
The Likud Constitution[31] of May 2014 is more vague and ambiguous. Though it contains commitments to the strengthening of Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria, it does not explicitly rule out the establishment of a Palestinian state.
I am not the only one who see Arima Hass as biased.
Andrea Levin, executive director of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting said the newspaper was doing "damage to the truth" and sometimes making serious factual errors but not often correcting them. Earlier, in 2001, Levin criticized Haaretz correspondent Amira Hass for inaccurate reporting and said that Haaretz is fueling anti-Israel bias.
Gideon Levy also has his detractors. Sorry but the words of two propagandists do not carry no more weight than a terrorist.
Israel allowed Palestinians to have a real option, they wouldn't vote for Hamas.
How is Israel stopping the Palistinians from forming a viable perty that is not Hamas or Fatah. The Palestinians are not children to be controlled by Israel.
You cannot always avoid the places that will be bombed because you do not always know the places that will be bombed.
Israel does not bomb areas randomly. They bomb areas where missiles are being launched from. As I said, perhaps Hamas should cease trying to youe civilians as human shields for their launchers.
That is exactly what is happening in Egypt right now,
That is a completely different situation. The government that Israel is trying to not allow into power is trying to destroy Israel. That is completely different than a government intimidating their own people to stay in power.
You totally missed my point. Sure, those tunnels are being used to funnel rockets into Gaza now but they were originally built because the residents of Gaza were literally dying of thirst
No, I didn't believe your point. Show me anything to support that position. I think that the tunnels were built from the start to circumvent the blockade of arms into Gaza. That they are also used to bring in supplies is secondary.
In no circumstance is it okay to seek vengeance for the crimes of a government by attacking its people.
Since those people continually voted that government into power it is no longer just the crimes of the government. It becomes the crimes of the people as well.
if the Israeli government hadn't forced Palestinians to stick to three "Safe Passages" while allowing Israelis to wander the West Bank as they please,
Israelis are not wandering the West Bank in suicide vests. Opening the border with The Strip will open Israel to attack. By opening Safe Passages trade is allowed and security concerns are addressed.
... then Hamas would have no power.
I disagree completely. Hamas will have power as long as there is a faction of Palestinians that believe that Israel can be destroyed. The war started when the Arab League attacked Israel on it's formation and has yet to stop.
It all comes down to this. Hamas exists and must be dealt with. What is your solution? Should Israel open the borders of the Gaza Strip to allow arms in and experience daily rocket and other terrorist attacks? Will this get Hamas out of power? All I see it doing is solidifying Hamas' hold on the Strip as they will appear to their people as winning. Sorry but that is not a solution. Until the Palestinian people see Hamas as the cause of their problems Hamas will always be a problem.
Some people would like to paint the conflict as Israel versus the terrorists,
It is Israel vs the terrorists but with the Palestinian people caught in between. It is time for the Palestinian people to throw out Hamas and create a new Government that can actually talk peace with Israel. The Israeli people have no control over that. It is up to the Palestinian people. One huge step would be to form groups to stop the roc
Okay, find me a biased American reporter who writes articles asking Americans to sympathize with Al-Qaeda.
Maybe he is not a reporter but this guy is an American on al-Qaeda's side.
That should be enough evidence to show that the Israeli attack on Gaza more morally ambiguous than the American attack on Afghanistan.
Sorry but the opinions if two biased people don't make what they say true.
Okay, maybe in your mind the prisoner swap was unjust. But it was still legally binding.
It is common law that any contract signed under duress is null and void. I would say "Sign or we keep your soldier" would be considered duress.
You mean the tunnels that were built so that Gazans could smuggle in the fuel...
And arms and rockets into Gaza. They will also be used, as Hamas has stated and is doing now, to strike at Israel.
Abbas has already said that he supports the Israeli bombings in Gaza
Do you have any reference for this statement?
Maybe the PLA would have caught the criminals if they had a real police force, but Israel will not allow them to maintain one.
Did you even look at the date of that report? That happened twenty years ago. Things have changed.
Fatah = Israeli military government 2.0.
So if Fatah is a sham then any coalition between Hamas and Fatah is also a sham. You can not have it both ways.
Israel has "warned" the civilians to leave, but the Egyptian border is closed, so where can they go?
They have not been told to leave all of the Gaza Strip. They have been told to leave certain areas where operations will be held. Operations outside those areas are in direct retaliation to Hamas rocket attacks. Maybe Hamas should stop using their own people and human shields?
Then ninety Palestinian civilians are dead. Ninety for three.
It is not just about the deaths of 3 Israelis. It is also about the launching of rockets into Israel. While they cause few deaths they cause great terror. Would you feel safe if at any moment a rocket or mortar round could fall out of the sky and kill you? Read this for some perspective. It is like poking a bear. If Hamas pokes Israel enough times with rockets and terrorist attacks they will be swatted by the IDF.
This is what will happen to you if you vote for Hamas. This is what we will do to you. Some democracy those West Bankers have, eh?
I see no problem with that. If the Palestinians vote for Hamas they are voting for more rocket attacks and more Israeli retaliation. If they vote for a terrorist organization bent on the destruction of Israel they deserve to bear the consequences of that vote. Showing those consequences is not a bad thing.
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Stable is a relative term. Stable compared to what? It is the same thing I think of when someone says "soon". Are we talking "soon" compared to a fruit fly's life or "soon" compared to galactic time?
From the article;
According to Stanford, the results so far look promising. In tests the new lithium anode reached 99 percent efficiency over the course of 150 charge/discharge cycles.
150 charge/discharge cycles is not very much. That is only 5 months use. Who is to say that the battery does not degrade to 50% at 200 cycles? What about 3,000 cycles? I bet they have done that test a few times. They seem to be hiding something. Sure it may be stable compared to current lithium anode technology but is it stable compared to other lithium ion battery technology?
Show me the complete data or I will assume you are hiding something to make your technology look better and garner investment even though you know the technology has a fatal flaw.
yet we refuse to spend more on space industry than we do on our aircraft carrier program (old Nimitz class cost about 4.5 billion - and we have 11 of them).
The Nimitz program produced ten carriers between 1968 and 2006. That is 38 years for a yearly budget of $1.8B. That is approximately 10% of the NASA budget. There are now also 10 large carriers in service. Comparing a long project with a single year budget is inaccurate.
Which during the hot months that did in the mornings and evenings and not a 9-5 schedule so they can coordinate with the rest of the country.
"Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun"
Here is a link to a story about the outage.
Therefore, the chiller plant and a large portion of the building’s electrical grid were rendered inoperable
It is also difficult to work without lights, computers, routers, PBX, etc.
Those settlers were not required to sit still inside during the hottest part of the day.
Actually you are incorrect as the top two languages are Mandarin and Spanish. The Mandarin speakers would be speaking Japanese and many of the Spanish would be speaking German. My point was that WW2 would have turned out very differently if the US had not manufactured arms and non-native languages would be imposed by conquerors..
Are you quoting this Christopher Titus.
Not quite. Has the US exterminated 8 million Jews or 5 million Ukrainians? Is Europe Democratic or Communist? Does Kuwait, Israel, South Korea and Taiwan still exist? Is Tunisia still controlled by Qaddafi? You are very self centered if you only look at the US.
Most of the things you state do not effect the average person.
Wow did you misunderstand me. I was trying to say that the OP does not want to help weapons but is fine having them used by others to protect him. I would call that a hypocrite. I am not a gunophobe the OP is.
Do you really think Germany or Russia would honour your GPL?
I just don't want to have helped them!
But you have no problem basking in the freedom provided by those who use them.
This comes from someone who just does not understand that without weapons manufacture most of the world would be speaking German or Russian by now.
"Often" aka not always. By the way, that phrase was added much later than the original.
No, I am saying that it tries to be too many things, does all of them poorly and ends up being useful to none.
Jack of all trades master of none.
Here is an official rebuttal of one if Goldberg's recent articles.
Which includes the Geneva Conventions.
The only part of the Geneva convention that Israel has broken is about settlements in occupied territory which has nothing to do with original borders. At the end of many wars borders have changed. A good example of that being the Ottoman Empire at the end of WW1 which created the British Palestinian Mandate.
The Nazis didn't follow the Geneva Conventions on the Soviet front in WWII,
The treatment of prisoners also has nothing to do with the restoration of boarders to an arbitrary point.
Which specific international law are you citing?
Is Hamas's revised charted published anywhere?
even Zionists like Hass and Levy
All Israelis are not Zionists.
I also like the contradictions in your statements.
Hass ... who have spent their lives in Israel.
Amira Hass lives in the territories
How can someone live in Israel and the territories at the same time?
You might also want to post the rest of that paragraph from the wiki article.
Commenting on the incident, Gershom Gorenberg, of the liberal magazine The American Prospect, stated "CAMERA is ready to exempt itself from the demands for accuracy that it aims at the media. And like others engaged in the narrative wars, it does not understand the difference between advocacy and accuracy." Gorenberg criticized CAMERA for telling members not to share information about the campaign with media, and he also argued Ini's definition of accuracy "only means not printing anything embarrassing to his own side". David Shamah, of The Jerusalem Post, stated that "the vast anti-Israel lobby that haters of our country have managed to pull together" hate it when groups like CAMERA mess up "their anti-Israel propaganda with (gasp!) facts".
They could have accepted (with negotiations) any of several peace offers, such as the Arab Peace Initiative
You mean a peace initiative heralded by a Massacre. The problem with the peace initiative is that those signing it have no control over Hamas. Do you really believe that Israel could have signed an Arab Peace treaty after the massacre and subsequent Intifada? The other issue with the Arab Peace initiative is that it requires return to the 1967 borders. The Arab League attacked in 1967 and several times after and now they want to call "no harm no foul"? The repatriation issue has the same problem.
The settlement Ariel is right in the middle of the narrowest part of the west bank, and cuts it in half.
If you mean the Arial on this map you are a bit off.
So when you let the settlers stay there, you're rewarding their illegal behavior and violence.
So by returning to 1967 borders and allowing people who left to clear the way for the destruction of Israel you are rewarding illegal behavior and violence. It strikes both ways.
From your own reference;
The Likud Constitution[31] of May 2014 is more vague and ambiguous. Though it contains commitments to the strengthening of Jewish settlement in Judea and Samaria, it does not explicitly rule out the establishment of a Palestinian state.
What is your solution? Should Israel just sit by while rockets are launched from the Gaza Strip?
I am not the only one who see Arima Hass as biased.
Andrea Levin, executive director of the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting said the newspaper was doing "damage to the truth" and sometimes making serious factual errors but not often correcting them. Earlier, in 2001, Levin criticized Haaretz correspondent Amira Hass for inaccurate reporting and said that Haaretz is fueling anti-Israel bias.
Gideon Levy also has his detractors.
Sorry but the words of two propagandists do not carry no more weight than a terrorist.
Israel allowed Palestinians to have a real option, they wouldn't vote for Hamas.
How is Israel stopping the Palistinians from forming a viable perty that is not Hamas or Fatah. The Palestinians are not children to be controlled by Israel.
You cannot always avoid the places that will be bombed because you do not always know the places that will be bombed.
Israel does not bomb areas randomly. They bomb areas where missiles are being launched from. As I said, perhaps Hamas should cease trying to youe civilians as human shields for their launchers.
That is exactly what is happening in Egypt right now,
That is a completely different situation. The government that Israel is trying to not allow into power is trying to destroy Israel. That is completely different than a government intimidating their own people to stay in power.
You totally missed my point. Sure, those tunnels are being used to funnel rockets into Gaza now but they were originally built because the residents of Gaza were literally dying of thirst
No, I didn't believe your point. Show me anything to support that position. I think that the tunnels were built from the start to circumvent the blockade of arms into Gaza. That they are also used to bring in supplies is secondary.
In no circumstance is it okay to seek vengeance for the crimes of a government by attacking its people.
Since those people continually voted that government into power it is no longer just the crimes of the government. It becomes the crimes of the people as well.
if the Israeli government hadn't forced Palestinians to stick to three "Safe Passages" while allowing Israelis to wander the West Bank as they please,
Israelis are not wandering the West Bank in suicide vests. Opening the border with The Strip will open Israel to attack. By opening Safe Passages trade is allowed and security concerns are addressed.
... then Hamas would have no power.
I disagree completely. Hamas will have power as long as there is a faction of Palestinians that believe that Israel can be destroyed. The war started when the Arab League attacked Israel on it's formation and has yet to stop.
It all comes down to this. Hamas exists and must be dealt with. What is your solution? Should Israel open the borders of the Gaza Strip to allow arms in and experience daily rocket and other terrorist attacks? Will this get Hamas out of power? All I see it doing is solidifying Hamas' hold on the Strip as they will appear to their people as winning. Sorry but that is not a solution. Until the Palestinian people see Hamas as the cause of their problems Hamas will always be a problem.
Some people would like to paint the conflict as Israel versus the terrorists,
It is Israel vs the terrorists but with the Palestinian people caught in between. It is time for the Palestinian people to throw out Hamas and create a new Government that can actually talk peace with Israel. The Israeli people have no control over that. It is up to the Palestinian people. One huge step would be to form groups to stop the roc
Okay, find me a biased American reporter who writes articles asking Americans to sympathize with Al-Qaeda.
Maybe he is not a reporter but this guy is an American on al-Qaeda's side.
That should be enough evidence to show that the Israeli attack on Gaza more morally ambiguous than the American attack on Afghanistan.
Sorry but the opinions if two biased people don't make what they say true.
Okay, maybe in your mind the prisoner swap was unjust. But it was still legally binding.
It is common law that any contract signed under duress is null and void. I would say "Sign or we keep your soldier" would be considered duress.
You mean the tunnels that were built so that Gazans could smuggle in the fuel ...
And arms and rockets into Gaza. They will also be used, as Hamas has stated and is doing now, to strike at Israel.
Abbas has already said that he supports the Israeli bombings in Gaza
Do you have any reference for this statement?
Maybe the PLA would have caught the criminals if they had a real police force, but Israel will not allow them to maintain one.
Did you even look at the date of that report? That happened twenty years ago. Things have changed.
Fatah = Israeli military government 2.0.
So if Fatah is a sham then any coalition between Hamas and Fatah is also a sham. You can not have it both ways.
Israel has "warned" the civilians to leave, but the Egyptian border is closed, so where can they go?
They have not been told to leave all of the Gaza Strip. They have been told to leave certain areas where operations will be held. Operations outside those areas are in direct retaliation to Hamas rocket attacks. Maybe Hamas should stop using their own people and human shields?
Then ninety Palestinian civilians are dead. Ninety for three.
It is not just about the deaths of 3 Israelis. It is also about the launching of rockets into Israel. While they cause few deaths they cause great terror. Would you feel safe if at any moment a rocket or mortar round could fall out of the sky and kill you? Read this for some perspective. It is like poking a bear. If Hamas pokes Israel enough times with rockets and terrorist attacks they will be swatted by the IDF.
This is what will happen to you if you vote for Hamas. This is what we will do to you. Some democracy those West Bankers have, eh?
I see no problem with that. If the Palestinians vote for Hamas they are voting for more rocket attacks and more Israeli retaliation. If they vote for a terrorist organization bent on the destruction of Israel they deserve to bear the consequences of that vote. Showing those consequences is not a bad thing.