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  1. Re:Radicalization on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I'm old enough to remember Nasser and the 7-day war, and Israel's 1982 invasion of Lebanon and the resulting mess it caused, even to this day. For forty years I've been shaking my head at Israeli intransigence. Eventually, maybe someone will come forward in Israel who realizes that "give us everything WE want up front, and then we'd perhaps be willing to sit down and talk about and maybe even consider what YOU want" isn't really an effective first-offer negotiating position.

    I will cheerfully admit that Israel has a right to exist, and to defend itself. However, it seems that every time they "go over the line defending themselves" they end up occupying territory that didn't formerly belong to them, and never leaving, which only further exacerbates an already powder-keg situation.

    I'll also cheerfully admit that everyone in that part of the world is fucking nuts, driven by religious extremism and centuries-old resentments, and completely immune to reason or compromise.

    The real "Israeli" problem is the propaganda war that conflates the Israeli government and the Jewish people, and the world has been falling for this transparent trick for 70 years.

  2. Re:Radicalization on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 2

    What a load of contemptible, ignorant, anti-Semitic bullshit.

    Criticizing Israel's actions is no more anti-Semitic than criticizing an African nation's actions is racist. You sound like the people who claim "racism" every time somebody says something negative about Obama.

    These shitheads brought this all down on themselves. But the defective Muslim mind...

    LOLOLOL

    "These [Jew] shitheads brought this all down on themselves. But the defective Jew mind..."
    Now that would be anti-Semitic.

  3. Re:Radicalization on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 1

    Then have them take down the walls and checkpoints, and have them get their soldiers out of there.

  4. Re:Radicalization on Gaza's Only Power Plant Knocked Offline · · Score: 3, Insightful

    "Not that I approve of Israel's bombing of their own citizens" - Israel never bombed their own citizens, you probably mean Hamas. In fact, Israel developed high-end technology to protect its citizens from rockets.

    "who happen to not have the right to free travel, economic independence, the vote, or other important aspects we might consider important to a self-declared modern liberal democracy" - Israeli citizens has all the rights that Americans have. That includes everything on your list, and it also applies to all citizens, regardless of their religion or political affiliation.

    How is this lying bullshit propaganda "insightful"?

    Saddam never gassed his own citizens, you probably mean Kurdish insurgents.
    Assad never gassed his own citizens, you probably mean rebels.

    "i kan reed"'s "troll" above is exactly correct. Those people have lived within the territorial boundaries their whole lives. How are they NOT "citizens"? Oh, that's right, because the Israeli government SAYS they can't vote or travel freely because they've put a handy (potential) "terrist" label on them, simply because they live in an area that Israel ANNEXED and is OCCUPYING militarily.

    The Israeli government is being run by far-right reactionaries who make Dick Cheney look like a "live-and-let-live" dove, and yet people still blindly support their aggression with Netanyahu's "right-to-exist/security" rhetoric. Instead of blindly "supporting Israel", maybe we should support Israel when they do something worth supporting. - like trying to get along with their own second-class citizens.

    Some gutless asshole will anonymously drop a "I don't agree with you - troll" mod on this, but that won't make it any less true.

  5. Re:Mostly contribute on the Shapeoko site on Build Your Own Gatling Rubber Band Machine Gun · · Score: 1

    You've probably forgotten - ArcheryTalk is one of those forums that doesn't allow you to actually look at JPEGs unless you're logged in - stupid, stupid, stupid. Nice looking case. Gotta say I like the clear coat one better than the dark stained one.

  6. Re:Useless Internet on Off the Florida Coast, Astronauts Train For Asteroid Mission · · Score: 1

    In space, no-one can hear you fap.

  7. More "pretend" than "simulation" on Off the Florida Coast, Astronauts Train For Asteroid Mission · · Score: 2

    This is kind of like sleeping in a tent in the back yard and pretending you're lost in the jungle. They've still got real-time communications for most things, and they can get materials in and out, so not really like being ten light minutes away at all.

  8. Re:simulate high-latency communciations? on Off the Florida Coast, Astronauts Train For Asteroid Mission · · Score: 2

    My kingdom for mod points. Really informative.

  9. Re:Lucy ???? on Soccer Superstar Plays With Very Low Brain Activity · · Score: 1

    He'd have a lotta splainin' to do?

  10. In other news, water is wet on Soccer Superstar Plays With Very Low Brain Activity · · Score: 2

    So he plays using "automatic" skill. Every target shooter knows that place. Every cook flipping an egg knows that place. Hell, everybody knows that place. When you're first learning to drive, making a left-hand turn or backing out of a parking place requires lots of thought about HOW to do it. After long practice, you don't think about it, you simply do it. The trick, in soccer, or shooting, or writing code, anything that requires sustained performance, is to stay in that place.

  11. Re:Australia Deserves it. on Australian Government Moving Forward With Anti-Piracy Mandate For ISPs · · Score: 5, Funny

    Good thing the government took their guns away first.

  12. Re:So ... on Black Holes Not Black After All, Theorize Physicists · · Score: 5, Funny

    WTF does a large neutron star look like then?

    Like a small neutron star. Only bigger.

  13. Re:What about existing evidence? on Black Holes Not Black After All, Theorize Physicists · · Score: 1

    Black holes and neutron stars are both examples of stellar remnants, where fusion has stopped, so they're not emitting nearly as much energy as previously, just residual effects of temperature, magnetism and gravity. In the case of black holes, we've been assuming that the radius had collapsed to the point where the escape velocity was greater than the speed of light, hence, "black". Even if that isn't the case, they're not necessarily going to be easy to spot.

  14. Re:wat on Black Holes Not Black After All, Theorize Physicists · · Score: 4, Funny

    Holy crap. The referenced paper is dense enough to have its own Schwarzschild radius.

  15. This is terrible!!! on Black Holes Not Black After All, Theorize Physicists · · Score: 2

    Now how is Michio Kaku going to portray black holes as marauding monsters that travel around like itinerant serial killers, gobbling up everything in their path?

  16. Re: Dismantle DHS on The Department of Homeland Security Needs Its Own Edward Snowden · · Score: 1

    Yeah, but then you have to explain what "hypergolic" means. You'd probably get more traction with non-geeks using a matter/antimatter analogy.

  17. Re:Dismantle DHS on The Department of Homeland Security Needs Its Own Edward Snowden · · Score: 2

    The fact that they came up with that name and didn't see any irony in it tells you a lot. Remember, "they hate us for our freedom".

  18. People unclear on the concept on The Department of Homeland Security Needs Its Own Edward Snowden · · Score: 5, Insightful

    The whole point of being the secret police is that they're the SECRET fucking police. We've allowed literally half of the government agencies to be consolidated under one uber-agency whose charter is some nebulous bullshit about "keeping the fatherland safe". And then people are SURPRISED when it follows the example of the Gestapo and the KGB.

  19. Re:So says on Buying New Commercial IT Hardware Isn't Always Worthwhile (Video) · · Score: 2

    Anyone denigrating "Oooooooh! Shiny!!" CLEARLY doesn't understand Slashdot.

  20. Re:Better version of TFA on The "Rickmote Controller" Can Hijack Any Google Chromecast · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Gosh, I wonder what item on YouTube THAT could point to...

  21. What an awesome security hole! on The "Rickmote Controller" Can Hijack Any Google Chromecast · · Score: 4, Funny

    That's right up there with the Windows Explorrer thing that executed arbitrary code from a bitmap file when you visited the directory it lived in. Kudos to Google for keeping up.

  22. Re:What about on Verizon Boosts FiOS Uploads To Match Downloads · · Score: 1

    Yeah, and it makes this odd "whooshing" sound.

  23. Re:What about on Verizon Boosts FiOS Uploads To Match Downloads · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Advertised: 150/150
    Actual: 112/112

  24. Re:Local testing works? on States That Raised Minimum Wage See No Slow-Down In Job Growth · · Score: 1

    As a couple of data points on the thin-skinned study, I had two different people (nicks "Libertarian_Geek" and "c5402dc53929211e1efb") go to the trouble of making me their "foe" yesterday. Try to imagine my sorrow that two random Libtards on the Internet don't like what I said.

  25. Re:Local testing works? on States That Raised Minimum Wage See No Slow-Down In Job Growth · · Score: 0, Troll

    Oh, I'm sorry. Did someone make fun of your cherished fantasies?