Intentioanlly offtopic but I can't ignore the sig.
You aren't going to give me a million dollars. Please note, all logic and paradox arguments you want to make aren't going to change the observable reality that you aren't giving me a million bucks. Among other reasons, you don't even have it to give:-)
Also: per this argument, assuming you had it and were honest, you'd be forced to give it to me at some point and then immediately try to take it back (and then regive it, re-take it back, etc)....but as soon as you hand it to me, I'm hitting you in the head and running away with it:-)
capable of storing around 2,000 words in a unit the size of a white blood cell ... The cell is capable of storing a file the size of the United States' Declaration of Independence
OK. "Declarations of Independence per white blood cell" is officially the coolest unit ever.
I suppose that is the small unit and the largest one for practical purposes would be Libraries of Congress per Spleen.
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Except there were Jews living on that land during at least the same time frame or earlier than the Arabs....how far back do you want to go? Pick a timeframe and there isn't an argument that there weren't Jews living there.
Subject says it all. Depending on your personality, please choose the next comment from: A) Where can I get a topic....wakka wakka wakka B) Won't somebody PLEASE think about the children?!?! C) Something about welcoming our schizophrenic, likes-to-play-dress-up, beastilic-tendency-having overlords?
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I'm not accusing anyone of being antisemitic for disagreeing with Israeli policy. The cornerstone of civilization is debate and free speach and it saddens me to see these things being stripped away from us in the U.S.
Anyway, lets talk about the settlements. First of all, the west bank and gaza and technicall still part of Israel since no Palestinian state has been established yet. Personlly, I'm all in favor (despite the tiny size of Isarel and the huge size of its neighbors, who, like Jordan and Lebanon hold a large number of Palestinians anyway) of partioning some of Israel so the Palestinians can have their own state and have fewer excuses to kill Israeli civilians at bus stops.
Israel has at times been very willing to make that trade too, but since it is mostly a political game and every Arab leader wants to be seen as 100% determined to kill all Israelis and not negotiate, they never want a deal. Read up on Arafat turning it all down. Sad stuff.
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Sorry, again I have to disagree. Israel certainly did NOT invade Lebanon or attempt to take its land. Israel is perpetually attacked from across the borer in Lebanon and was trying to stop those attacks. It did what ANY country being attacked by forces outside its borders would do. The media latched onto the abducted soldier angle but really I don't think it was those specific soldiers that triggered the crisis...it was the perpetaul, unprovoked violence being launched against it.
Also, there seems to be this tendency to say that the Israel government's actions and the terrorism perpetuated against the Israeli people are equivalent. They aren't. In general, Israel (brutally, yes, and violently) attacks "military" positions of those attacking it. Israel does NOT target hospitals, schools, etc, except to to the extent that the opposing forces use their own populations as human shields and base their operations from those places. I'm not making this up: for the palestinian side, they seem to either win if they kill Israeli's or if the palestinians murder their own civilians by basing operations amongsth them and then using the resulting PR opportunities when those civilians die in the conflict. Make no mistake: the fault for those deaths lies squarely on the shoulders of the palestinians. Frankly, that one aspect of this war makes me sick to my stomach.
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Nobody's land was taken for Israel's formation; in fact every tree in Israel has a birth certificate since the entire infrastructure was build up by the Israeli's. As for ancient historical / cultural / religious claims on the land, Israel has as much a right (if not more so, given the significane of Jerusalem to Judaism) to the land!
As for the palestinians having nothing, research this question: what is the history of Lebanon and what % of its population is palestinian? The answer may surprise you.
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First, let me say that your entitled to your opinion and I do not want to engage in a flamewar. I'm an American Jew that supports Israel and the attitudes expressed in your post are just baffling to me. So, let me throw my two cents in:
I consider myself a pretty fair guy that understands that for the most part, people want to support their families, feel secure and live decent lives. No sane citizen would want ongoing, pointless, bloody violence. That's the same whether you are a palestinian, Israeli, American or whatever.
So consider Israel's situation. They are as legitimate a nation as any other. There're tons of border and land disputes in the world and Israel is obviously not an exception. But they exist, they have sovereignty and are a democratic, legitimate state.
It is also worth noting: Israel does *not* try to invade and expand into is neighbors for the purpose of getting more land. In fact, since its establishment in 1948, Israel has only responded to its neighbors declaring war on it (sometimes with extreme responses, it is true) but hasn't declared war first itself. Granted, one of those cases was a neighbor closing Israel's access to sea ports, which internationally is recognized as an act of war.
My point is: Israel is fighting for recognition and survival. All of its neighbors that attack it are fighting to kill every israeli man, woman and child. They want its land. They want its people dead. Furthermore, a lot of the violence is carried out by terrorist groups that have no accountability internationally. Israel on the other hand has to answer to the world (or at least, they are a government that makes decisions and the world can hold Israel accountable for them...there is nobody to even negotiate with or hold responsible on the Palestinian side because nobody has any leadership or control over the military apparatus...it is all different factions).
Now, to address the point about U.S. media. Israel is critized ALL THE TIME. In fact, my big complain with NPR is that they always run Palestinian human-interest stories and report on facts as "palestinian sources say" without giving any of the Israelie perspective! CNN is the same way.
The international community certainly (or U.N.0 doesn't seem to be stepping up to say "Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish state; we will defend this right". I mean, you can hate the jews or not but your hatred shouldn't give you the right to kill them and take away their land does it?
I think your guess is wrong actually. I know that, political affiliation or party be damned, I'd vote in a heartbeat for a candidate that made such a statement. If someone honestly committed, in simple language and with the seeming conviction to follow through, to putting us through some immediate pain to get us off foreign oil, I'd vote for them IN A HEARTBEAT.
Can you imagine getting a candidate with that much backbone? Something like JFK and making it to the moon by '69, but related to oil? We just don't get politicians like that anymore.
Remember: legitimate governments derive their power from the people they serve. I'd argue that without elected and constrained leadership, a nation does not in fact have any legitimate rights under the aeigs of "sovereignty".
The world should grant respect and (more importantly) refrain from interfering with their fellow nations to the degree that those nations are goverened by elected leadership and aren't committing atrocious human rights abuses.
Yes, if you are curious, I do NOT consider the U.S. a perfect democracy that would warrant absolute deference and lack of interference from the rest of the world. I'm as pissed off as anybody that these last 6 years have seen a huge erosion in liberty and governmental checks-and-balances.
Heh. And I can't help pointing out that you are most certainly NOT A MARKETER. Can you imagine Trojan or any condom company selling "Extra Small"? Yeah, I'm sure they'd fly right off the shelves.
It would have to be marketed as "Tight-fit Performance Pro" or hidden in with macho words like "Maximum Super-Shrunk Thunderbolt" or something like that!
As every loyal Pastafarian knows, the Flying Spaghetti Monster considers all things piratical blessed and holy.
Furthermore, it is clearly the case that the decline in pirates over the years has lead to a huge increase in global warming and other distasters. Only by promoting the pirate and his way of life can we hope to save this beautiful planet of ours!
Lisa: Listen, I can take care of everything, all you have to do is unshrink me.
Little Frink: Unshrink you?! Well that would require some sort of a REbigulator, which is a concept so ridiculous it makes me want to laugh out loud and chortle.. but not at you O holiest of gods with the wrathfulness and the vengence and the bloodrain and the "hey hey hey it hurts me"
Zonk must be new here. When I submitted my post I called attention to the best part: "A built-in computer powered by a Pentium chip will make intelligent purchase decisions".
Pentium? And Intelligent? In the same sentence? My blood turned cold and I new I had to submit the story.
If that isn't -1 Un-funny enough for you, let's just move on to the next most predictable comment: So, can I power Linux computers on this thing or will the Pentium-based "intelligent optimization" features stop them from working;-)
That would be a great way to block the previous generation or two of web analytics providers like DC. These days though, many solutions in that space rely on a first party domain for their data collection, which they use DNS to send to the vendors data collection server. This is easy to set up and requires nothing to be hosted via the website being tracked...they just have to set up their DNS appropriately.
You must be new here if you think that the U.S. military will find it any more difficult to degrade or disable Galileo than it does the U.S. GPS network.
...since I've installed Office but is 80 MB really mammoth? That doesn't phase me. I only get mildly annoyed when I see a 500 MB or greater install, these days. Pretty crazy when you think back to the size of harddrives ten years ago.
Who could possibly understand better than Disney that children are destructive forces??
YOU try walking around the park dressed as Goofey and getting punched in the nads every 3.5 minutes and then come back and tell me how sweet and innocent kids are.
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Intentioanlly offtopic but I can't ignore the sig.
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You aren't going to give me a million dollars. Please note, all logic and paradox arguments you want to make aren't going to change the observable reality that you aren't giving me a million bucks. Among other reasons, you don't even have it to give
Also: per this argument, assuming you had it and were honest, you'd be forced to give it to me at some point and then immediately try to take it back (and then regive it, re-take it back, etc)....but as soon as you hand it to me, I'm hitting you in the head and running away with it
OK. "Declarations of Independence per white blood cell" is officially the coolest unit ever.
I suppose that is the small unit and the largest one for practical purposes would be Libraries of Congress per Spleen.
Except there were Jews living on that land during at least the same time frame or earlier than the Arabs....how far back do you want to go? Pick a timeframe and there isn't an argument that there weren't Jews living there.
...see no point welcoming our backwards-in-time-travelling photonic Overlords. After all, they've been here all along.
Subject says it all. Depending on your personality, please choose the next comment from:
A) Where can I get a topic....wakka wakka wakka
B) Won't somebody PLEASE think about the children?!?!
C) Something about welcoming our schizophrenic, likes-to-play-dress-up, beastilic-tendency-having overlords?
I'm not accusing anyone of being antisemitic for disagreeing with Israeli policy. The cornerstone of civilization is debate and free speach and it saddens me to see these things being stripped away from us in the U.S.
Anyway, lets talk about the settlements. First of all, the west bank and gaza and technicall still part of Israel since no Palestinian state has been established yet. Personlly, I'm all in favor (despite the tiny size of Isarel and the huge size of its neighbors, who, like Jordan and Lebanon hold a large number of Palestinians anyway) of partioning some of Israel so the Palestinians can have their own state and have fewer excuses to kill Israeli civilians at bus stops.
Israel has at times been very willing to make that trade too, but since it is mostly a political game and every Arab leader wants to be seen as 100% determined to kill all Israelis and not negotiate, they never want a deal. Read up on Arafat turning it all down. Sad stuff.
Sorry, again I have to disagree. Israel certainly did NOT invade Lebanon or attempt to take its land. Israel is perpetually attacked from across the borer in Lebanon and was trying to stop those attacks. It did what ANY country being attacked by forces outside its borders would do. The media latched onto the abducted soldier angle but really I don't think it was those specific soldiers that triggered the crisis...it was the perpetaul, unprovoked violence being launched against it.
Also, there seems to be this tendency to say that the Israel government's actions and the terrorism perpetuated against the Israeli people are equivalent. They aren't. In general, Israel (brutally, yes, and violently) attacks "military" positions of those attacking it. Israel does NOT target hospitals, schools, etc, except to to the extent that the opposing forces use their own populations as human shields and base their operations from those places. I'm not making this up: for the palestinian side, they seem to either win if they kill Israeli's or if the palestinians murder their own civilians by basing operations amongsth them and then using the resulting PR opportunities when those civilians die in the conflict. Make no mistake: the fault for those deaths lies squarely on the shoulders of the palestinians. Frankly, that one aspect of this war makes me sick to my stomach.
Nobody's land was taken for Israel's formation; in fact every tree in Israel has a birth certificate since the entire infrastructure was build up by the Israeli's. As for ancient historical / cultural / religious claims on the land, Israel has as much a right (if not more so, given the significane of Jerusalem to Judaism) to the land!
As for the palestinians having nothing, research this question: what is the history of Lebanon and what % of its population is palestinian? The answer may surprise you.
First, let me say that your entitled to your opinion and I do not want to engage in a flamewar. I'm an American Jew that supports Israel and the attitudes expressed in your post are just baffling to me. So, let me throw my two cents in:
I consider myself a pretty fair guy that understands that for the most part, people want to support their families, feel secure and live decent lives. No sane citizen would want ongoing, pointless, bloody violence. That's the same whether you are a palestinian, Israeli, American or whatever.
So consider Israel's situation. They are as legitimate a nation as any other. There're tons of border and land disputes in the world and Israel is obviously not an exception. But they exist, they have sovereignty and are a democratic, legitimate state.
It is also worth noting: Israel does *not* try to invade and expand into is neighbors for the purpose of getting more land. In fact, since its establishment in 1948, Israel has only responded to its neighbors declaring war on it (sometimes with extreme responses, it is true) but hasn't declared war first itself. Granted, one of those cases was a neighbor closing Israel's access to sea ports, which internationally is recognized as an act of war.
My point is: Israel is fighting for recognition and survival. All of its neighbors that attack it are fighting to kill every israeli man, woman and child. They want its land. They want its people dead. Furthermore, a lot of the violence is carried out by terrorist groups that have no accountability internationally. Israel on the other hand has to answer to the world (or at least, they are a government that makes decisions and the world can hold Israel accountable for them...there is nobody to even negotiate with or hold responsible on the Palestinian side because nobody has any leadership or control over the military apparatus...it is all different factions).
Now, to address the point about U.S. media. Israel is critized ALL THE TIME. In fact, my big complain with NPR is that they always run Palestinian human-interest stories and report on facts as "palestinian sources say" without giving any of the Israelie perspective! CNN is the same way.
The international community certainly (or U.N.0 doesn't seem to be stepping up to say "Israel has the right to exist as a Jewish state; we will defend this right". I mean, you can hate the jews or not but your hatred shouldn't give you the right to kill them and take away their land does it?
I think your guess is wrong actually. I know that, political affiliation or party be damned, I'd vote in a heartbeat for a candidate that made such a statement. If someone honestly committed, in simple language and with the seeming conviction to follow through, to putting us through some immediate pain to get us off foreign oil, I'd vote for them IN A HEARTBEAT.
Can you imagine getting a candidate with that much backbone? Something like JFK and making it to the moon by '69, but related to oil? We just don't get politicians like that anymore.
Parent is snobby but correct.
Theory - Testability = Religion
Remember: legitimate governments derive their power from the people they serve. I'd argue that without elected and constrained leadership, a nation does not in fact have any legitimate rights under the aeigs of "sovereignty".
The world should grant respect and (more importantly) refrain from interfering with their fellow nations to the degree that those nations are goverened by elected leadership and aren't committing atrocious human rights abuses.
Yes, if you are curious, I do NOT consider the U.S. a perfect democracy that would warrant absolute deference and lack of interference from the rest of the world. I'm as pissed off as anybody that these last 6 years have seen a huge erosion in liberty and governmental checks-and-balances.
...reading an article about Beowulf clusters on these things!!?!
(it had to be said)
Heh. And I can't help pointing out that you are most certainly NOT A MARKETER. Can you imagine Trojan or any condom company selling "Extra Small"? Yeah, I'm sure they'd fly right off the shelves.
It would have to be marketed as "Tight-fit Performance Pro" or hidden in with macho words like "Maximum Super-Shrunk Thunderbolt" or something like that!
Actually I'm flattered....and I think an insightful mod actually makes my original post funnier :-)
Ah, Slashdot, your subtle complexities never fail to intrigue and mystify....
As every loyal Pastafarian knows, the Flying Spaghetti Monster considers all things piratical blessed and holy.
Furthermore, it is clearly the case that the decline in pirates over the years has lead to a huge increase in global warming and other distasters. Only by promoting the pirate and his way of life can we hope to save this beautiful planet of ours!
Sit tight, the MPAA agents are on their way. They are your friends. Let them in when they ask politely.
Mod parent +1 ambiguous. I'll choose to read his remark as "I don't even have that small a chance" :-)
If we're bringing TV shows into it, NOTHING CAN BEAT PROF. FRINK!
Lisa: Listen, I can take care of everything, all you have to do is unshrink me.
Little Frink: Unshrink you?! Well that would require some sort of a REbigulator, which is a concept so ridiculous it makes me want to laugh out loud and chortle.. but not at you O holiest of gods with the wrathfulness and the vengence and the bloodrain and the "hey hey hey it hurts me"
Two gallons of owls? I'm sorry, unless you convert that to the Number of Owls in the Library of Congress I won't be able to understand your point.
Zonk must be new here. When I submitted my post I called attention to the best part: "A built-in computer powered by a Pentium chip will make intelligent purchase decisions".
;-)
Pentium? And Intelligent? In the same sentence? My blood turned cold and I new I had to submit the story.
If that isn't -1 Un-funny enough for you, let's just move on to the next most predictable comment: So, can I power Linux computers on this thing or will the Pentium-based "intelligent optimization" features stop them from working
That would be a great way to block the previous generation or two of web analytics providers like DC. These days though, many solutions in that space rely on a first party domain for their data collection, which they use DNS to send to the vendors data collection server. This is easy to set up and requires nothing to be hosted via the website being tracked...they just have to set up their DNS appropriately.
You must be new here if you think that the U.S. military will find it any more difficult to degrade or disable Galileo than it does the U.S. GPS network.
...since I've installed Office but is 80 MB really mammoth? That doesn't phase me. I only get mildly annoyed when I see a 500 MB or greater install, these days. Pretty crazy when you think back to the size of harddrives ten years ago.
Who could possibly understand better than Disney that children are destructive forces??
YOU try walking around the park dressed as Goofey and getting punched in the nads every 3.5 minutes and then come back and tell me how sweet and innocent kids are.