Hello, Slashdot! Here are a few Christmas-time riddles to keep your holidays bright and cheerful!
Q. How is Jon Katz like a yule log? A.The only useful purpose they serve is causing flames.
Q. What does CowboyNeal have in common with Santa's sleigh? A.Approximate size.
Q. What do John Katz's underpants have in common with a Christmas tree? A.Little kids spend a lot of time playing underneath them.
Q. How is Slashcode like an old set of Christmas lights? A.There's always going to be parts that don't work.
Q. How is the CowboyNeal poll option like a Christmas fruitcake? A.They might seem okay at first, but trust me: it's only because you don't know how old they are.
Q. What does Hemos have in common with a stocking? A.They both spend a lot of time rubbing against tranvestites' legs.
Q. How is Jon Katz like a candy cane? A.They're both curved where it counts, and both get white and sticky after little boys and girls suck on them.
Q. What does VA Software have in common with Christmas decorations? A.You won't be seeing them two months from now.
Q. How is Unix like Kwanzaa? A.They were both invented in the 60's, and both are kept alive by leftists who don't know any better.
Q. What does CmdrTaco have in common with a snowman? A.Spelling ability, lack of genitals, and a simplistic smile which betrays a complete absence of intelligent thought. (Also, both of them usually have a carrot jammed somewhere in their body.)
...and finally...
Q. How is Slashdot like a Christmas wreath?
A.Both wouldn't be the same if it weren't for that big hole!
Merry Christmas from the Roto-Rooter Man, Slashdot! Don't forget... this holiday season, douche someone you love!
UNPRECEDENTED TERRORIST ACT COMMITTED IN NEW YORK Suicide pilots piloting two planes have practically rammed two buildings of International Trade Centre at a height of 85th storey. These two buildings are known to the whole world thanks to film 'King Kong'. That are the buildings over which the big monkey was mounting.
The buildings are seriously ruined. One of the planes blew up just after the attack. At least a dozen of storeys of the sky-scrapers are on fire.
There is no information about number of victims. More than 50 thousand people work in these two buildings, most of them were in office while the terrorist act was being committed.
According to RIA Novosti, the president Bush is informed about the catastrophe in New York. According to some sources cancelled some protocol actions fixed for the nearest future. His comments have not been received yet.
ONE MORE HIJACKED PLANE IN AIRSPACE OVER COLUMBIA. TROUBLES IN COMMUNICATIONS One more piece of information has been received, that one more hijacked plane was being observed in airspace over DC. CNN reports that over 50 thousand people were working there. Thought hopefully that is not the number of victims. Telephone communication in the USA works badly. According to NPR John Hopkins, the USA have not need to be considerate with the terrorists.
SECOND TOWER OF WTC FELL DOWN Recently our correspondent in the USA reported about one more hijacked plane. That was the information of NBC. The second tower of World Trade Centre fell down. NPR compares it with Pearl Harbour.
NEW EXPLOSIONS IN USA One more report has just arrived through international information agencies' channels about new explosions in the USA. Details are not known yet, though it could not be excluded that these ones were results of the hijacked planes ramming the sky-scrapers. PRAVDA.Ru is going on to keep an eye on the events.
USA READY TO DECLARE WAR. EMERGENCY SITUATION IN NEW YORK Emergency situation has been declared in New York. Stock market was closed. Manhattan island encircled by policemen. According to recent information, a new explosion took place in Pentagon building. There is fire in the building of Department of State, people are being evacuated. Pentagon declared the high degree of fighting trim for US Armed Forces what means battle alarm of the army and its readiness to start war immediately. The President Bush addressed to the nation appealing for finding and punishing the terrorists.
US DOLLAR ABRUPTLY FALLEN DOWN According to current bidding, US dollar has fallen abruptly relative to the Euro and to Yena. American stock markets has not started to work yet. Planes are in air to hamper the second plane.
FOURTH PLANE MAKES ITS WAY TO CAPITOL'S BUILDING All tunnels, bridges and the underground are closed in New York. Unconfirmed information reported by CNN: the '747' fell somewhere in Pensilvania, at a distance of 80 miles from Pitsburg. According to NBC, the fourth plane makes its way to the Capitol's building.
POPULATION FROM CENTRE OF CHICAGO EVACUATED. LONDON PANIC STRICKEN At the moment evacuation of people from the centre of Chicago is being carried out. London is panic stricken. Here, office workers of one of London skyscrapers in Second city 'Kennary Wolf' were evacuated, Sky-TV reports. In Great Britain flying planes will be forbidden in the nearest future. It cannot be excluded that Great Britain would be second country in the bloody list of terrorists.
OUR CORRESPONDENT REPORTS: TODAY'S EVENTS IN USA CONNECTED WITH PEARL HARBOUR. WAR? An explosion has thundered near to US Congress building. According to preliminary information, a car filled with explosives blew up. The building is covered with puffs of smoke, it looks like fire has been started in the Congress.
The USA are left without communications, including Internet channels because retransmitters placed on high buildings fell out. Real dimensions of the catastrophe are not known yet. According to the situation with electronic mass media and Internet providers, the catastrophe is more global than information agencies report.
Our correspondent has just reported, that the USA were deprived of telephone communication. According to information spread in the USA, one more airliner was captured in air.
At the same time, some Palestinian sources informed that they were not implicated in the series of terrorist acts, which take place today.
PENTAGON COLLAPSED. LONDON EXPECTING AIR ATTACKS And now one more piece of information from the USA. A part of Pentagon's building has been collapsed. The country is almost completely deprived of telephone communication. Several TV channels do not function. The number of victims of the terrorist act in the building of World Trade Centre is supposed to be from 50 to 60 thousand people. On the whole, the number of victims in the USA could increase by several times.
At the moment, flying of civil US planes are forbidden. US aircraft is lifted up in air. Besides of military planes, only personal plane of the US president is lifted in air. Accompanied with his guard George Bush is flying from Florida to Washington.
According to US mass media, one of the hijacked planes is flying towards Washington. Militaries are watching closely its moving. It is expected to be shaken down while committing threatening activities.
At the same time, London is panic stricken. In British capital people from 'Canary Wharf' are being evacuated. According to RIA 'Novosti' in the nearest future all flights will be forbidden in Great Britain.
These measures are being taken because of apprehensions of London being attacked from air.
PLANE WITH PASSENGERS SHAKEN DOWN According to recent report of PRAVDA.Ru correspondent in the USA, airliner with passengers captured by terrorists which was flying to Washington has been shaken down. The information was spread by some American mass media. At the same time people from the centre of Chicago are being evacuated.
RUSSIAN AIR-RAID DEFENCE IS IN FIGHTING TRIM Russian air-raid defence is ready to repulse possible attacks according to American scenario. That has been reported recently by spokesman for headquarters of Russian Air Forces. "Russian air-raid forces are carrying out and anti-terrorist operation connected with terrorist acts committed in New York and Washington", the headquarters' representative said.
No. Slashdot is strictly a sausage-fest. However, after a few years of seclusion with your computer, you get pretty good at masturbation, assuming you can find your dick beneath the piles of dirty clothes, old computer parts, and Cheetos.
Slashdot only has open source zealots. MS zealots are too busy earning money and being productive members of society to sit around in their parents' basement bullshitting about minor updates of mod_perl.
Who is Noam Chomsky, and why is he seeking to make universities divest from corporations that have ties to Israel? I have known Noam Chomsky for over 30 years. I have written about his zealous anti-Zionism and about his flirtations with neo-Nazi revisionism and Holocaust denial. I was not surprised, therefore, to learn that he is the inspiration behind the immoral campaign for divestiture.
I first debated Chomsky in 1973, several weeks after the Yom Kippur War. Chomsky's proposal at that time was consistent with the PLO party line. He wanted to abolish the state of Israel and to substitute a "secular, binational state" based on the model of binational "brotherhood" that then prevailed in Lebanon, where Christians and Muslims "lived side by side," sharing power in peace and harmony. This was just before Lebanon imploded in fratricidal disaster.
This is what I said about Chomsky's hare-brained scheme in our 1973 debate: "Putting aside the motivations behind such a proposal when it is made by the Palestinian organizations, why do not considerations of self-determination and community control favor two separate states: one Jewish and one Arab? Isn't it better for people of common background to control their own life, culture and destiny (if they so choose), than to bring together in an artificial way people who have shown no ability to live united in peace? I confess to not understanding the logic of the proposal, even assuming its good will."
My counterproposal was that "Israel should declare, in principle, its willingness to give up the captured territories in return for a firm assurance of lasting peace. By doing so, it would make clear what I think the vast majority of Israelis believe: It has no interest in retaining the territories for any reason other than protection."
Chomsky rejected my proposal, characterizing it as a return to the "colonialist status quo." Only the dismantling of the colonialist Jewish state would satisfy the PLO, and only the creation of a secular, binational Palestine in "all of Palestine" would satisfy Chomsky.
My next encounter with Chomsky revolved around his introduction to a book by an anti-Semite named Robert Faurisson who denied that the Holocaust took place, that Hitler's gas chambers existed, that the diary of Anne Frank was authentic, or that there were death camps in Nazi-occupied Europe. He claimed that the "massive lie" about genocide was a deliberate concoction initiated by "American Zionists," and that the Jews were responsible for World War II. Chomsky described these and other conclusions as "findings," and said they were based on "extensive historical research." He also wrote: "I see no anti-Semitic implication in the denial of the existence of gas chambers or even in the denial of the Holocaust." He said he saw "no hint of anti-Semitic implications in Faurisson's work..." including his claim that the Jews were responsible for the war. He wrote an introduction to one of Faurisson's books that was used to market its anti-Semitic lies.
In a subsequent debate at the Harvard Medical School, Chomsky denied having advocated a Lebanon-style binational state for Israel, only to back down upon being confronted with the evidence. He also tried to dispute the fact that he had authorized an essay written in defense of Robert Faurisson to be used as the forward to Faurisson's book, but again had to back down. He took the position that before Faurisson had written the book, he - Chomsky - had had no interest in "revisionist" literature.
When confronted by Robert Nozick, a distinguished philosophy professor who recalled discussing revisionist literature with him well before the Faurisson book, Chomsky first berated Nozick for disclosing a private conversation, and then shoved him contemptuously.
THIS, THEN, is the man who is leading the campaign for divestiture against Israel. He is joined in this ignoble effort by some who would take the money now invested in the Mideast's only democracy and have it sent to Iraq, Libya, Syria, Cuba, the Palestinian Authority and others who support and finance terrorism. These are not people with a long history of neutral support for human rights. They are a motley assortment of knee-jerk anti-Zionists, rabid anti-Americans, radical Leftists, people with little knowledge of the history of the Arab-Israeli dispute, and some of Chomsky's former students.
There is no intellectually or morally defensible case for singling out Israel for divestiture, and I challenge Chomsky to debate me on the morality of this selective attack against an American ally that is defending itself - and the world - against terrorism that targets civilians.
Universities invest in many countries that systematically violate human rights. None of these countries are defending themselves against those who would destroy them and target their civilians. Yet this petition focused only on the Jewish State, to the exclusion of all others, including those which, by any reasonable standard, are among the worst violators of human rights.
This is bigotry pure and simple, and those who signed the petition should be ashamed of themselves.
Who is Noam Chomsky, and why is he seeking to make universities divest from corporations that have ties to Israel? I have known Noam Chomsky for over 30 years. I have written about his zealous anti-Zionism and about his flirtations with neo-Nazi revisionism and Holocaust denial. I was not surprised, therefore, to learn that he is the inspiration behind the immoral campaign for divestiture.
I first debated Chomsky in 1973, several weeks after the Yom Kippur War. Chomsky's proposal at that time was consistent with the PLO party line. He wanted to abolish the state of Israel and to substitute a "secular, binational state" based on the model of binational "brotherhood" that then prevailed in Lebanon, where Christians and Muslims "lived side by side," sharing power in peace and harmony. This was just before Lebanon imploded in fratricidal disaster.
This is what I said about Chomsky's hare-brained scheme in our 1973 debate: "Putting aside the motivations behind such a proposal when it is made by the Palestinian organizations, why do not considerations of self-determination and community control favor two separate states: one Jewish and one Arab? Isn't it better for people of common background to control their own life, culture and destiny (if they so choose), than to bring together in an artificial way people who have shown no ability to live united in peace? I confess to not understanding the logic of the proposal, even assuming its good will."
My counterproposal was that "Israel should declare, in principle, its willingness to give up the captured territories in return for a firm assurance of lasting peace. By doing so, it would make clear what I think the vast majority of Israelis believe: It has no interest in retaining the territories for any reason other than protection."
Chomsky rejected my proposal, characterizing it as a return to the "colonialist status quo." Only the dismantling of the colonialist Jewish state would satisfy the PLO, and only the creation of a secular, binational Palestine in "all of Palestine" would satisfy Chomsky.
My next encounter with Chomsky revolved around his introduction to a book by an anti-Semite named Robert Faurisson who denied that the Holocaust took place, that Hitler's gas chambers existed, that the diary of Anne Frank was authentic, or that there were death camps in Nazi-occupied Europe. He claimed that the "massive lie" about genocide was a deliberate concoction initiated by "American Zionists," and that the Jews were responsible for World War II. Chomsky described these and other conclusions as "findings," and said they were based on "extensive historical research." He also wrote: "I see no anti-Semitic implication in the denial of the existence of gas chambers or even in the denial of the Holocaust." He said he saw "no hint of anti-Semitic implications in Faurisson's work..." including his claim that the Jews were responsible for the war. He wrote an introduction to one of Faurisson's books that was used to market its anti-Semitic lies.
In a subsequent debate at the Harvard Medical School, Chomsky denied having advocated a Lebanon-style binational state for Israel, only to back down upon being confronted with the evidence. He also tried to dispute the fact that he had authorized an essay written in defense of Robert Faurisson to be used as the forward to Faurisson's book, but again had to back down. He took the position that before Faurisson had written the book, he - Chomsky - had had no interest in "revisionist" literature.
When confronted by Robert Nozick, a distinguished philosophy professor who recalled discussing revisionist literature with him well before the Faurisson book, Chomsky first berated Nozick for disclosing a private conversation, and then shoved him contemptuously.
THIS, THEN, is the man who is leading the campaign for divestiture against Israel. He is joined in this ignoble effort by some who would take the money now invested in the Mideast's only democracy and have it sent to Iraq, Libya, Syria, Cuba, the Palestinian Authority and others who support and finance terrorism. These are not people with a long history of neutral support for human rights. They are a motley assortment of knee-jerk anti-Zionists, rabid anti-Americans, radical Leftists, people with little knowledge of the history of the Arab-Israeli dispute, and some of Chomsky's former students.
There is no intellectually or morally defensible case for singling out Israel for divestiture, and I challenge Chomsky to debate me on the morality of this selective attack against an American ally that is defending itself - and the world - against terrorism that targets civilians.
Universities invest in many countries that systematically violate human rights. None of these countries are defending themselves against those who would destroy them and target their civilians. Yet this petition focused only on the Jewish State, to the exclusion of all others, including those which, by any reasonable standard, are among the worst violators of human rights.
This is bigotry pure and simple, and those who signed the petition should be ashamed of themselves.
Only in a Slashbot's dreams. One-sixth as good, tops.
Not that it matters too much around here anyway. Linux users can't use MS Office. Windows and Mac-using Slashdot readers will probably just pirate MS Office. There's no reason to pirate a second-best software suite.
As for all the Ebert bashing going on here, he loved Episode I, and gave it 3.5/4 stars. So you know this one must be simply awful if he's giving it 1/2 star less than he gave The Scorpion King.
Hey, if the government's going to go around collecting books anyway, I'd rather them just go inside, track it down, and snag it rather than ransack my entire house looking for it.
I find it funny that so many geeks are aghast about this kind of thing, but gladly support tracking every gun (the only tool which would be able to topple a government like the one described above).
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Monopolies are only bad when they're abusive monopolies.
Truly spoken like someone with no concept of economics. Congratulations.
Reminds me of an old classic:
...and finally...
Hello, Slashdot! Here are a few Christmas-time riddles to keep your holidays bright and cheerful!
Q. How is Jon Katz like a yule log?
A. The only useful purpose they serve is causing flames.
Q. What does CowboyNeal have in common with Santa's sleigh?
A. Approximate size.
Q. What do John Katz's underpants have in common with a Christmas tree?
A. Little kids spend a lot of time playing underneath them.
Q. How is Slashcode like an old set of Christmas lights?
A. There's always going to be parts that don't work.
Q. How is the CowboyNeal poll option like a Christmas fruitcake?
A. They might seem okay at first, but trust me: it's only because you don't know how old they are.
Q. What does Hemos have in common with a stocking?
A. They both spend a lot of time rubbing against tranvestites' legs.
Q. How is Jon Katz like a candy cane?
A. They're both curved where it counts, and both get white and sticky after little boys and girls suck on them.
Q. What does VA Software have in common with Christmas decorations?
A. You won't be seeing them two months from now.
Q. How is Unix like Kwanzaa?
A. They were both invented in the 60's, and both are kept alive by leftists who don't know any better.
Q. What does CmdrTaco have in common with a snowman?
A. Spelling ability, lack of genitals, and a simplistic smile which betrays a complete absence of intelligent thought. (Also, both of them usually have a carrot jammed somewhere in their body.)
Q. How is Slashdot like a Christmas wreath? A. Both wouldn't be the same if it weren't for that big hole!
Merry Christmas from the Roto-Rooter Man, Slashdot! Don't forget... this holiday season, douche someone you love!
I am targeting unclean vaginas all over the world. Beware, vile cunts!
UNPRECEDENTED TERRORIST ACT COMMITTED IN NEW YORK
Suicide pilots piloting two planes have practically rammed two buildings of International Trade Centre at a height of 85th storey. These two buildings are known to the whole world thanks to film 'King Kong'. That are the buildings over which the big monkey was mounting.
The buildings are seriously ruined. One of the planes blew up just after the attack. At least a dozen of storeys of the sky-scrapers are on fire.
There is no information about number of victims. More than 50 thousand people work in these two buildings, most of them were in office while the terrorist act was being committed.
According to RIA Novosti, the president Bush is informed about the catastrophe in New York. According to some sources cancelled some protocol actions fixed for the nearest future. His comments have not been received yet.
ONE MORE HIJACKED PLANE IN AIRSPACE OVER COLUMBIA. TROUBLES IN COMMUNICATIONS
One more piece of information has been received, that one more hijacked plane was being observed in airspace over DC. CNN reports that over 50 thousand people were working there. Thought hopefully that is not the number of victims. Telephone communication in the USA works badly. According to NPR John Hopkins, the USA have not need to be considerate with the terrorists.
SECOND TOWER OF WTC FELL DOWN
Recently our correspondent in the USA reported about one more hijacked plane. That was the information of NBC. The second tower of World Trade Centre fell down. NPR compares it with Pearl Harbour.
NEW EXPLOSIONS IN USA
One more report has just arrived through international information agencies' channels about new explosions in the USA. Details are not known yet, though it could not be excluded that these ones were results of the hijacked planes ramming the sky-scrapers. PRAVDA.Ru is going on to keep an eye on the events.
USA READY TO DECLARE WAR. EMERGENCY SITUATION IN NEW YORK
Emergency situation has been declared in New York. Stock market was closed. Manhattan island encircled by policemen. According to recent information, a new explosion took place in Pentagon building. There is fire in the building of Department of State, people are being evacuated. Pentagon declared the high degree of fighting trim for US Armed Forces what means battle alarm of the army and its readiness to start war immediately. The President Bush addressed to the nation appealing for finding and punishing the terrorists.
US DOLLAR ABRUPTLY FALLEN DOWN
According to current bidding, US dollar has fallen abruptly relative to the Euro and to Yena. American stock markets has not started to work yet. Planes are in air to hamper the second plane.
FOURTH PLANE MAKES ITS WAY TO CAPITOL'S BUILDING
All tunnels, bridges and the underground are closed in New York. Unconfirmed information reported by CNN: the '747' fell somewhere in Pensilvania, at a distance of 80 miles from Pitsburg. According to NBC, the fourth plane makes its way to the Capitol's building.
POPULATION FROM CENTRE OF CHICAGO EVACUATED. LONDON PANIC STRICKEN
At the moment evacuation of people from the centre of Chicago is being carried out. London is panic stricken. Here, office workers of one of London skyscrapers in Second city 'Kennary Wolf' were evacuated, Sky-TV reports. In Great Britain flying planes will be forbidden in the nearest future. It cannot be excluded that Great Britain would be second country in the bloody list of terrorists.
OUR CORRESPONDENT REPORTS: TODAY'S EVENTS IN USA CONNECTED WITH PEARL HARBOUR. WAR?
An explosion has thundered near to US Congress building. According to preliminary information, a car filled with explosives blew up. The building is covered with puffs of smoke, it looks like fire has been started in the Congress.
The USA are left without communications, including Internet channels because retransmitters placed on high buildings fell out. Real dimensions of the catastrophe are not known yet. According to the situation with electronic mass media and Internet providers, the catastrophe is more global than information agencies report.
Our correspondent has just reported, that the USA were deprived of telephone communication. According to information spread in the USA, one more airliner was captured in air.
At the same time, some Palestinian sources informed that they were not implicated in the series of terrorist acts, which take place today.
PENTAGON COLLAPSED. LONDON EXPECTING AIR ATTACKS
And now one more piece of information from the USA. A part of Pentagon's building has been collapsed. The country is almost completely deprived of telephone communication. Several TV channels do not function. The number of victims of the terrorist act in the building of World Trade Centre is supposed to be from 50 to 60 thousand people. On the whole, the number of victims in the USA could increase by several times.
At the moment, flying of civil US planes are forbidden. US aircraft is lifted up in air. Besides of military planes, only personal plane of the US president is lifted in air. Accompanied with his guard George Bush is flying from Florida to Washington.
According to US mass media, one of the hijacked planes is flying towards Washington. Militaries are watching closely its moving. It is expected to be shaken down while committing threatening activities.
At the same time, London is panic stricken. In British capital people from 'Canary Wharf' are being evacuated. According to RIA 'Novosti' in the nearest future all flights will be forbidden in Great Britain.
These measures are being taken because of apprehensions of London being attacked from air.
PLANE WITH PASSENGERS SHAKEN DOWN
According to recent report of PRAVDA.Ru correspondent in the USA, airliner with passengers captured by terrorists which was flying to Washington has been shaken down. The information was spread by some American mass media. At the same time people from the centre of Chicago are being evacuated.
RUSSIAN AIR-RAID DEFENCE IS IN FIGHTING TRIM
Russian air-raid defence is ready to repulse possible attacks according to American scenario. That has been reported recently by spokesman for headquarters of Russian Air Forces. "Russian air-raid forces are carrying out and anti-terrorist operation connected with terrorist acts committed in New York and Washington", the headquarters' representative said.
I wish Linux would die.
Don't worry. It's already well on the way.
Couldn't have said it better myself. Excellent work.
No. Slashdot is strictly a sausage-fest. However, after a few years of seclusion with your computer, you get pretty good at masturbation, assuming you can find your dick beneath the piles of dirty clothes, old computer parts, and Cheetos.
I think I'll bring soap, to scare everyone else away.
Slashdot only has open source zealots. MS zealots are too busy earning money and being productive members of society to sit around in their parents' basement bullshitting about minor updates of mod_perl.
I can't fault you on the BSD conclusion, however.
I think you'll find that the "live" version of the Slashdot effect is primarily body odor and that orange shit that comes off of Doritos.
And to think they're being undercut by three little letters...
M-P... what's the third letter again???
By ALAN DERSHOWITZ
Who is Noam Chomsky, and why is he seeking to make universities divest from corporations that have ties to Israel? I have known Noam Chomsky for over 30 years. I have written about his zealous anti-Zionism and about his flirtations with neo-Nazi revisionism and Holocaust denial. I was not surprised, therefore, to learn that he is the inspiration behind the immoral campaign for divestiture.
I first debated Chomsky in 1973, several weeks after the Yom Kippur War. Chomsky's proposal at that time was consistent with the PLO party line. He wanted to abolish the state of Israel and to substitute a "secular, binational state" based on the model of binational "brotherhood" that then prevailed in Lebanon, where Christians and Muslims "lived side by side," sharing power in peace and harmony. This was just before Lebanon imploded in fratricidal disaster.
This is what I said about Chomsky's hare-brained scheme in our 1973 debate: "Putting aside the motivations behind such a proposal when it is made by the Palestinian organizations, why do not considerations of self-determination and community control favor two separate states: one Jewish and one Arab? Isn't it better for people of common background to control their own life, culture and destiny (if they so choose), than to bring together in an artificial way people who have shown no ability to live united in peace? I confess to not understanding the logic of the proposal, even assuming its good will."
My counterproposal was that "Israel should declare, in principle, its willingness to give up the captured territories in return for a firm assurance of lasting peace. By doing so, it would make clear what I think the vast majority of Israelis believe: It has no interest in retaining the territories for any reason other than protection."
Chomsky rejected my proposal, characterizing it as a return to the "colonialist status quo." Only the dismantling of the colonialist Jewish state would satisfy the PLO, and only the creation of a secular, binational Palestine in "all of Palestine" would satisfy Chomsky.
My next encounter with Chomsky revolved around his introduction to a book by an anti-Semite named Robert Faurisson who denied that the Holocaust took place, that Hitler's gas chambers existed, that the diary of Anne Frank was authentic, or that there were death camps in Nazi-occupied Europe. He claimed that the "massive lie" about genocide was a deliberate concoction initiated by "American Zionists," and that the Jews were responsible for World War II. Chomsky described these and other conclusions as "findings," and said they were based on "extensive historical research." He also wrote: "I see no anti-Semitic implication in the denial of the existence of gas chambers or even in the denial of the Holocaust." He said he saw "no hint of anti-Semitic implications in Faurisson's work..." including his claim that the Jews were responsible for the war. He wrote an introduction to one of Faurisson's books that was used to market its anti-Semitic lies.
In a subsequent debate at the Harvard Medical School, Chomsky denied having advocated a Lebanon-style binational state for Israel, only to back down upon being confronted with the evidence. He also tried to dispute the fact that he had authorized an essay written in defense of Robert Faurisson to be used as the forward to Faurisson's book, but again had to back down. He took the position that before Faurisson had written the book, he - Chomsky - had had no interest in "revisionist" literature.
When confronted by Robert Nozick, a distinguished philosophy professor who recalled discussing revisionist literature with him well before the Faurisson book, Chomsky first berated Nozick for disclosing a private conversation, and then shoved him contemptuously.
THIS, THEN, is the man who is leading the campaign for divestiture against Israel. He is joined in this ignoble effort by some who would take the money now invested in the Mideast's only democracy and have it sent to Iraq, Libya, Syria, Cuba, the Palestinian Authority and others who support and finance terrorism. These are not people with a long history of neutral support for human rights. They are a motley assortment of knee-jerk anti-Zionists, rabid anti-Americans, radical Leftists, people with little knowledge of the history of the Arab-Israeli dispute, and some of Chomsky's former students.
There is no intellectually or morally defensible case for singling out Israel for divestiture, and I challenge Chomsky to debate me on the morality of this selective attack against an American ally that is defending itself - and the world - against terrorism that targets civilians.
Universities invest in many countries that systematically violate human rights. None of these countries are defending themselves against those who would destroy them and target their civilians. Yet this petition focused only on the Jewish State, to the exclusion of all others, including those which, by any reasonable standard, are among the worst violators of human rights.
This is bigotry pure and simple, and those who signed the petition should be ashamed of themselves.
IIS? But then we wouldn't have the frequent server downtime that gives this site its "character."
Of course, the ugliness of the EU is that France will probably convince the other countries in the socialist superstate to tax the gigabytes as well.
South Africa has been a huge mess ever since they let the monkeys run the zoo.
yeah fuck it
By ALAN DERSHOWITZ
Who is Noam Chomsky, and why is he seeking to make universities divest from corporations that have ties to Israel? I have known Noam Chomsky for over 30 years. I have written about his zealous anti-Zionism and about his flirtations with neo-Nazi revisionism and Holocaust denial. I was not surprised, therefore, to learn that he is the inspiration behind the immoral campaign for divestiture.
I first debated Chomsky in 1973, several weeks after the Yom Kippur War. Chomsky's proposal at that time was consistent with the PLO party line. He wanted to abolish the state of Israel and to substitute a "secular, binational state" based on the model of binational "brotherhood" that then prevailed in Lebanon, where Christians and Muslims "lived side by side," sharing power in peace and harmony. This was just before Lebanon imploded in fratricidal disaster.
This is what I said about Chomsky's hare-brained scheme in our 1973 debate: "Putting aside the motivations behind such a proposal when it is made by the Palestinian organizations, why do not considerations of self-determination and community control favor two separate states: one Jewish and one Arab? Isn't it better for people of common background to control their own life, culture and destiny (if they so choose), than to bring together in an artificial way people who have shown no ability to live united in peace? I confess to not understanding the logic of the proposal, even assuming its good will."
My counterproposal was that "Israel should declare, in principle, its willingness to give up the captured territories in return for a firm assurance of lasting peace. By doing so, it would make clear what I think the vast majority of Israelis believe: It has no interest in retaining the territories for any reason other than protection."
Chomsky rejected my proposal, characterizing it as a return to the "colonialist status quo." Only the dismantling of the colonialist Jewish state would satisfy the PLO, and only the creation of a secular, binational Palestine in "all of Palestine" would satisfy Chomsky.
My next encounter with Chomsky revolved around his introduction to a book by an anti-Semite named Robert Faurisson who denied that the Holocaust took place, that Hitler's gas chambers existed, that the diary of Anne Frank was authentic, or that there were death camps in Nazi-occupied Europe. He claimed that the "massive lie" about genocide was a deliberate concoction initiated by "American Zionists," and that the Jews were responsible for World War II. Chomsky described these and other conclusions as "findings," and said they were based on "extensive historical research." He also wrote: "I see no anti-Semitic implication in the denial of the existence of gas chambers or even in the denial of the Holocaust." He said he saw "no hint of anti-Semitic implications in Faurisson's work..." including his claim that the Jews were responsible for the war. He wrote an introduction to one of Faurisson's books that was used to market its anti-Semitic lies.
In a subsequent debate at the Harvard Medical School, Chomsky denied having advocated a Lebanon-style binational state for Israel, only to back down upon being confronted with the evidence. He also tried to dispute the fact that he had authorized an essay written in defense of Robert Faurisson to be used as the forward to Faurisson's book, but again had to back down. He took the position that before Faurisson had written the book, he - Chomsky - had had no interest in "revisionist" literature.
When confronted by Robert Nozick, a distinguished philosophy professor who recalled discussing revisionist literature with him well before the Faurisson book, Chomsky first berated Nozick for disclosing a private conversation, and then shoved him contemptuously.
THIS, THEN, is the man who is leading the campaign for divestiture against Israel. He is joined in this ignoble effort by some who would take the money now invested in the Mideast's only democracy and have it sent to Iraq, Libya, Syria, Cuba, the Palestinian Authority and others who support and finance terrorism. These are not people with a long history of neutral support for human rights. They are a motley assortment of knee-jerk anti-Zionists, rabid anti-Americans, radical Leftists, people with little knowledge of the history of the Arab-Israeli dispute, and some of Chomsky's former students.
There is no intellectually or morally defensible case for singling out Israel for divestiture, and I challenge Chomsky to debate me on the morality of this selective attack against an American ally that is defending itself - and the world - against terrorism that targets civilians.
Universities invest in many countries that systematically violate human rights. None of these countries are defending themselves against those who would destroy them and target their civilians. Yet this petition focused only on the Jewish State, to the exclusion of all others, including those which, by any reasonable standard, are among the worst violators of human rights.
This is bigotry pure and simple, and those who signed the petition should be ashamed of themselves.
Humans are not worthy enough to hug dolphins. They are much smarter than us, you know.
And a quick look at the map reveals slippery conditions throughout the region.
Only in a Slashbot's dreams. One-sixth as good, tops.
Not that it matters too much around here anyway. Linux users can't use MS Office. Windows and Mac-using Slashdot readers will probably just pirate MS Office. There's no reason to pirate a second-best software suite.
Not trolling, just don't like commies.
What are you doing on this pro-communist website, then?
Also note Rex Reed's excellent review. He calls Ep II "as exciting as a rancid Yoo-Hoo".
As for all the Ebert bashing going on here, he loved Episode I, and gave it 3.5/4 stars. So you know this one must be simply awful if he's giving it 1/2 star less than he gave The Scorpion King.
RMS? Is that you?
Sounds like a bitter excuse-maker who is jealous about the success of others. With a guy like that in charge, no wonder the company failed.
Hey, if the government's going to go around collecting books anyway, I'd rather them just go inside, track it down, and snag it rather than ransack my entire house looking for it.
I find it funny that so many geeks are aghast about this kind of thing, but gladly support tracking every gun (the only tool which would be able to topple a government like the one described above).