I enjoy a lovely Mountain Dew high every morning at work, and never suffer any ill effects... other than the giant spiders. Those can be a bit off putting. The glowing, telepathic ferrets usually keep them at bay, though. Hallucinations! Pfft! As if! Now excuse me. I must kiss teh sky.
For the most part, LSD doesn't cause true hallucinations -- it distorts things.
those things are really there, man! Remember that matter is mostly made up of air. When you see the wood grain on your desk flowing, you're literally seeing the molecules in the desk bouncing around. When you see your face melt off and drip sizzling on the countertop when you look in the mirror, you are literally watching your personality dissolve into the phantasmagoric infinities of nothingness. It's real, man, real I tell you!!! Hey who the fuck let all these bats in the room??
Oh, great, now look what you've done. Do you realize how hard it is going to be for the GP to heal from the emotional scars you've inflicted by calling his claim utter nonsense?
If watching three seasons of Dexter has taught me anything, it's that once someone gets a taste for killing, they have a need to kill again. What happens with this army after it kills the cancer? Who does it kill next? You're going to have a mercenary army running loose in your system desperate for another kill....
My point is, Hamas was never "attempting genocide." They were trying to get Israel to reconsider the blockade. And if you think the only possible response on Israel's part is, well, attempted genocide, then you need to take a class in creative thinking or something. Cheers!
So in your opinion the number of militants is a static number that will never change, no matter how many civilians are killed? And you think Israel can just hit the soldiers without hitting anyone else? Meanwhile, Israel continues to attack civilian centers and blaming Hamas for "hiding" among civilians.
I'd rather drink LSD than whatever koolaid you're drinking. Bottoms up!
Israel had to attack now. Hamas left them no choice, which was what Hamas wanted. The only option for Israel is to wipe out the military wing of Hamas, and when I say wipe out I mean that quite literally, and then go in and take control over the area.
You do realize that's not possible without genocide, right? And you also realize such an attempt at genocide will lead to the destruction of Israel, right? And you do realize, since you said it, that that's exactly what Hamas wants, right?
This is precisely the problem. Israelis are worried that a truly democratic one state solution will eventually lead to an Arab state. Giving the state a "right to exist" that trumps the population's right to self-determination is the only long term solution, they seem to believe. (The problem is, it's not much of a solution if its inevitable corrolary is ceaseless violence). The South Africans actually found a way out of that, but the situation is very different in South Africa than it is in Israel.
If there was some way to convince the people in the region that there is no need for a "Jewish" or "Islamic" state there, but simply a democratic state with strict separation of church and state, things might be more interesting, but that's not likely in the near future.
What are they "defending themselves" from? Oh right, retaliation from their rocket attacks.
I won't defend the rocket attacks, but please put them in context. How many people did the rockets kill in between June 2008 truce and the Israeli response? How many civilian casualties, how many military casualties? Oh right, 0 and 0. Hell, over the past 8 years, Hamas has killed 15 Israelis with these home made rockets. So this incredibly violent and seemingly indiscriminate attack on Gaza was in response to exactly zero Israeli deaths at the hands of Hamas rockets.
That's true, but it's also convenient for Egypt to keep things this way because it gives the Egyptian government (like the other Arab governments in the region) a very convenient distraction from all of its domestic problems. Hey, Egyptians, ignore our mismanagement of the economy, the torture that goes on in our prisons, and the pervasive corruption in our government -- instead, get angry at what the Israelis are doing to our Palestinian brethren! In the end these governments don't really want to help the Palestinians either -- they'd rather have big bad Israel as a convenient punching bag to distract their people's attention. It's the same thing Fidel Castro used to do with the US -- he loved the US embargo for that reason.
None of this excuses Israel, of course -- what they're doing in Gaza is both cruel and counterproductive. Besides the humanitarian tragedy, in the long run it only undermines Israeli security as well.
True that; I know a couple others still desperately clutching their treos like me but you're right this won't kill the iphone for most. It's not just the provider for me; I dig the iphone but copypasta is an everyday thing for me, not once in a rare while, and I don't see how the app selection makes up for the lack of a basic functionality. Yeah it does have a lot of cool apps, true, but I'd be constantly frustrated if I couldn't copy and paste a url or send a photo... and I don't really like the iphone touchkeypad; I prefer the tactile feedback.
As for rumor sites, I don't read them at all; if Apple has all this stuff cooking, that sounds great, but if they're going to continue to handicap it from basic tasks I can't get too excited.
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you made them all up.
I enjoy a lovely Mountain Dew high every morning at work, and never suffer any ill effects... other than the giant spiders. Those can be a bit off putting. The glowing, telepathic ferrets usually keep them at bay, though. Hallucinations! Pfft! As if! Now excuse me. I must kiss teh sky.
So what's it like working at Microsoft anyway?
For the most part, LSD doesn't cause true hallucinations -- it distorts things.
those things are really there, man! Remember that matter is mostly made up of air. When you see the wood grain on your desk flowing, you're literally seeing the molecules in the desk bouncing around. When you see your face melt off and drip sizzling on the countertop when you look in the mirror, you are literally watching your personality dissolve into the phantasmagoric infinities of nothingness. It's real, man, real I tell you!!! Hey who the fuck let all these bats in the room??
show of hands ... how many people are going to go out and do exactly this thanks to this advice?
this is exactly why marijuana should be legal. Because not being able to get ahold of it leads to really stupid human tricks.
What utter nonsense.
Oh, great, now look what you've done. Do you realize how hard it is going to be for the GP to heal from the emotional scars you've inflicted by calling his claim utter nonsense?
If watching three seasons of Dexter has taught me anything, it's that once someone gets a taste for killing, they have a need to kill again. What happens with this army after it kills the cancer? Who does it kill next? You're going to have a mercenary army running loose in your system desperate for another kill....
Christmas: Girlfriend!
One word: HOPE
Good point. I withdraw that remark. The wall comment stands, however.
It's Google, man. Those guys can do anything.
Who wants to hang ascii art on their wall? Besides:
2. Select data file. This will be the data file embedded in the ascii art. (Limited to around 40kb at the moment)
Hmmm, how secure can this tool be when you have to send your secure data, unencrypted, to another site to use it?
I agree, but "attempted genocide" was your phrase, not mine.
On the brighter side, you've inspired me to use the "foe" button for the first time in about ten years on slashdot. congratulations!
Sorry, I really can't continue any kind of discussion with you -- your puerile personal attacks are a low even for slashdot. cheers!
My point is, Hamas was never "attempting genocide." They were trying to get Israel to reconsider the blockade. And if you think the only possible response on Israel's part is, well, attempted genocide, then you need to take a class in creative thinking or something. Cheers!
So in your opinion the number of militants is a static number that will never change, no matter how many civilians are killed? And you think Israel can just hit the soldiers without hitting anyone else? Meanwhile, Israel continues to attack civilian centers and blaming Hamas for "hiding" among civilians.
I'd rather drink LSD than whatever koolaid you're drinking. Bottoms up!
Way to miss the point.
Israel had to attack now. Hamas left them no choice, which was what Hamas wanted. The only option for Israel is to wipe out the military wing of Hamas, and when I say wipe out I mean that quite literally, and then go in and take control over the area.
You do realize that's not possible without genocide, right? And you also realize such an attempt at genocide will lead to the destruction of Israel, right? And you do realize, since you said it, that that's exactly what Hamas wants, right?
I don't think all these people will fit in Poland.
This is precisely the problem. Israelis are worried that a truly democratic one state solution will eventually lead to an Arab state. Giving the state a "right to exist" that trumps the population's right to self-determination is the only long term solution, they seem to believe. (The problem is, it's not much of a solution if its inevitable corrolary is ceaseless violence). The South Africans actually found a way out of that, but the situation is very different in South Africa than it is in Israel.
If there was some way to convince the people in the region that there is no need for a "Jewish" or "Islamic" state there, but simply a democratic state with strict separation of church and state, things might be more interesting, but that's not likely in the near future.
That's easily the stupidest thing I've seen in quite some time.
I guess you don't have a twitter account.
haim moishe
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abdullah
@IDF in your face infidels! radio shack DIY rocket kit FTW!! 9 minutes ago from web
ehud
taking a massive crap while ordering more bombs against @hamas 16 minutes ago from twhirl
What are they "defending themselves" from? Oh right, retaliation from their rocket attacks.
I won't defend the rocket attacks, but please put them in context. How many people did the rockets kill in between June 2008 truce and the Israeli response? How many civilian casualties, how many military casualties? Oh right, 0 and 0. Hell, over the past 8 years, Hamas has killed 15 Israelis with these home made rockets. So this incredibly violent and seemingly indiscriminate attack on Gaza was in response to exactly zero Israeli deaths at the hands of Hamas rockets.
England is still occupying US.
And thank God for that. If they weren't, it would be impossible to get a proper crumpet here.
That's true, but it's also convenient for Egypt to keep things this way because it gives the Egyptian government (like the other Arab governments in the region) a very convenient distraction from all of its domestic problems. Hey, Egyptians, ignore our mismanagement of the economy, the torture that goes on in our prisons, and the pervasive corruption in our government -- instead, get angry at what the Israelis are doing to our Palestinian brethren! In the end these governments don't really want to help the Palestinians either -- they'd rather have big bad Israel as a convenient punching bag to distract their people's attention. It's the same thing Fidel Castro used to do with the US -- he loved the US embargo for that reason.
None of this excuses Israel, of course -- what they're doing in Gaza is both cruel and counterproductive. Besides the humanitarian tragedy, in the long run it only undermines Israeli security as well.
True that; I know a couple others still desperately clutching their treos like me but you're right this won't kill the iphone for most. It's not just the provider for me; I dig the iphone but copypasta is an everyday thing for me, not once in a rare while, and I don't see how the app selection makes up for the lack of a basic functionality. Yeah it does have a lot of cool apps, true, but I'd be constantly frustrated if I couldn't copy and paste a url or send a photo ... and I don't really like the iphone touchkeypad; I prefer the tactile feedback.
As for rumor sites, I don't read them at all; if Apple has all this stuff cooking, that sounds great, but if they're going to continue to handicap it from basic tasks I can't get too excited.