Your heart's in the right place, but that doesn't help. What's going to bring down the commies in China is increasing prosperity, which will bring with it improved internal communications. If the protestors in 1989 had been able to communicate with the whole country the way they can today, we'd be reading about China's elections today.
Besides, why is the IDF firing on Palestinian land anyway (which they admitted to), during a ceasefire?
It seems that you subscribe to the same definition of "ceasefire" which the terrorists use, which is to merely say that a ceasefire is in effect, while they continue to launch mortars and rockets at Israeli cities.
So the Isralies were justified in taking Palestinian land by force because....
Clever, very clever, but I'm sure you know as well as I do that the Jews bought the land they live on, over a period of many years before declaring their independence. Many Arabs fled Israel when Israel was attacked, in no small part because the Arab kings and other thugs running the countries all around Israel told them that they'd be considered traitors if they stayed.
There were also a lot of Jewish refugees who fled Arab countries, and unlike the Arabs, the Jews settled them instead of keeping them in squalid camps as a sympathy ploy.
How does the fact that Arabs killing each other absolve Israel's undeniable, verifiable crimes against the Palestinians?
Ooh, you're really good at those questions, Mr. Goebbels. The trouble is, you're ignoring the fact that when IDF troops commit crimes, they actually get tried and punished by Israeli courts. Care to fill us in on the last time an Arab was prosecuted by his own country for committing a crime against a Jew?
BTW, which "undeniable, verifiable" crimes are you talking about? Staged explosions on beaches in Gaza that turn out to be hoaxes don't count, you know.
Your whole point seems to be that Arabs kill each other all the time - so Israel killing some more is no big deal.
Nope. My point is that the palestinians' misery is due primarily to two things: their vicious, insane leaders starting with Arafat and continuing with Hamas, and the other Arabs prodding them to continuously wage a war they can't win. Arafat pissed away their best chance at peace, because he was afraid that if he actually had to run a country, someone might ask him where all the money went.
The Israeli ppl have a govt that has already destroyed the country of Palestine.
Wow, nice try at the spin there, but the fact is that Israel is on a tiny portion of the former British mandate of Palestine. Most of that land is now called Jordan. There already is a "palestinian" state, but its king expelled the arab refugees that it created when it joined with all of Israel's Arab neighbors in an uprovoked attack right when Israel declared their statehood. Look up what "black september" was.
So, the next time you want to make a statement about the actions of the Palestinian terrorists, take some time to read the history
Good advice, that you should follow. Try reading the history of inter-arab fighting while you're at it. Arabs have killed far more of each other than have ever been killed by the IDF.
I read couple of your replies where you reiterate the same falsehoods about what communism is.
Oh, please. Spare me the standard "oh, but you've never seen REAL communism" bullshit. Any ideology that preaches the sacrifice of the individual to the collective, the state, the race, the deity, whatever the hell it is, is fundamentally based on hatred of and contempt for people and the lust for power.
What about the communists who plotted to assassinate Hitler?
It can be good when commies fight amongst themselves, although those battles tend to get a lot of innocent people killed as well. HItler was a communist with a different costume designer than Stalin. If you read his book, you'll see that it was all about surrendering the individual to the state, just like with every other franchise of communism.
If you think communism is some how a bad thing I suggest you look up what communism is, because it isn't a small group of people hording everything and leaving nothing for everyone under them to share.
Tell it to anyone who ever lived in a communist country. If you weren't an appratchik, you were screwed.
"Doesn't recognize the democratically elected palistinian government as being legitimate"
Hold on a second, there. The US government boycotts the current palestinian government because Hamas has disavowed the treaties that Arafat signed with Israel, and continues to attack Israel from Gaza. If the palestinians want a government dedicated to the destruction of israel, that's what they'll choose, but fuck them if they expect us to keep giving them money while they do whatever they damn well please. -jcr
There's a market for Vista vulnerabilities that pays far more than $25K for a zero-day exploit. You can bet than many more have been found, and are in use by zombie-net operators right now.
My claim is that microsoft does a lousy job in making their products securable. Decades of history prove this beyond a reasonable doubt, and all the astroturfing in the world isn't going to change that, sunshine.
I'm at NAB this week, and as it happens, all internet service to the south hall was knocked out today because someone cracked a server in the microsoft booth and DOS'd the show's network. Now, you want to try again to defend them, knock yourself out. I'll just ask you whether MS is paying more than you made at the DMV?
What, are you supposed to be dangerous or something?
I can see why you're in a snit. Trying to stake out an untenable position, (like pretending that Microsoft actually does a good job at security, which history shows is laughable at best) would put anyone in a foul mood.
The engineers who've been lent from other parts of the company to the iPhone project have been working on it for quite a long time. This left their departments short-handed, and what happened yesterday is that the OS X program office took a look at where they were, and where they needed to be on the schedule, did the math, and announced a four-month slip.
After all these years of malware on Windows systems, I think it's high time someone took Microsoft to court and at least charged them with contributory negligence. After the Mellissa virus, they can't claim that they don't know the hazard.
The person to bring this suit would need to be someone who's not a licensee of any MS products, but has suffered losses from their network getting DOS'd by Windows zombies trying to trade copies of the malware of the hour.
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I do not buy anything made in China
Your heart's in the right place, but that doesn't help. What's going to bring down the commies in China is increasing prosperity, which will bring with it improved internal communications. If the protestors in 1989 had been able to communicate with the whole country the way they can today, we'd be reading about China's elections today.
-jcr
Individualists are all selfish misanthropes as well.
Some are, some aren't. Show me an individualist with a body count anywhere close to Stalin or Mao, and you might have a leg to stand on.
Maybe there's a lesson here?
There is, but I'm not holding my breath for you to learn it.
-jcr
Besides, why is the IDF firing on Palestinian land anyway (which they admitted to), during a ceasefire?
It seems that you subscribe to the same definition of "ceasefire" which the terrorists use, which is to merely say that a ceasefire is in effect, while they continue to launch mortars and rockets at Israeli cities.
-jcr
I was wondering when the "anti-semite Nazi" references would start
Shortly after you start arguing the Nazi line, sunshine. Just like always.
-jcr
So the Isralies were justified in taking Palestinian land by force because....
Clever, very clever, but I'm sure you know as well as I do that the Jews bought the land they live on, over a period of many years before declaring their independence. Many Arabs fled Israel when Israel was attacked, in no small part because the Arab kings and other thugs running the countries all around Israel told them that they'd be considered traitors if they stayed.
There were also a lot of Jewish refugees who fled Arab countries, and unlike the Arabs, the Jews settled them instead of keeping them in squalid camps as a sympathy ploy.
How does the fact that Arabs killing each other absolve Israel's undeniable, verifiable crimes against the Palestinians?
Ooh, you're really good at those questions, Mr. Goebbels. The trouble is, you're ignoring the fact that when IDF troops commit crimes, they actually get tried and punished by Israeli courts. Care to fill us in on the last time an Arab was prosecuted by his own country for committing a crime against a Jew?
BTW, which "undeniable, verifiable" crimes are you talking about? Staged explosions on beaches in Gaza that turn out to be hoaxes don't count, you know.
Your whole point seems to be that Arabs kill each other all the time - so Israel killing some more is no big deal.
Nope. My point is that the palestinians' misery is due primarily to two things: their vicious, insane leaders starting with Arafat and continuing with Hamas, and the other Arabs prodding them to continuously wage a war they can't win. Arafat pissed away their best chance at peace, because he was afraid that if he actually had to run a country, someone might ask him where all the money went.
-jcr
The Israeli ppl have a govt that has already destroyed the country of Palestine.
Wow, nice try at the spin there, but the fact is that Israel is on a tiny portion of the former British mandate of Palestine. Most of that land is now called Jordan. There already is a "palestinian" state, but its king expelled the arab refugees that it created when it joined with all of Israel's Arab neighbors in an uprovoked attack right when Israel declared their statehood. Look up what "black september" was.
So, the next time you want to make a statement about the actions of the Palestinian terrorists, take some time to read the history
Good advice, that you should follow. Try reading the history of inter-arab fighting while you're at it. Arabs have killed far more of each other than have ever been killed by the IDF.
-jcr
I read couple of your replies where you reiterate the same falsehoods about what communism is.
Oh, please. Spare me the standard "oh, but you've never seen REAL communism" bullshit. Any ideology that preaches the sacrifice of the individual to the collective, the state, the race, the deity, whatever the hell it is, is fundamentally based on hatred of and contempt for people and the lust for power.
-jcr
The word you're looking for is "totalitarian", not "communist".
Actually, the terminology is incidental. Collectivists are all misanthropes and autocrats, and the stylistic variations between them are trivial.
-jcr
What about the communists who plotted to assassinate Hitler?
It can be good when commies fight amongst themselves, although those battles tend to get a lot of innocent people killed as well. HItler was a communist with a different costume designer than Stalin. If you read his book, you'll see that it was all about surrendering the individual to the state, just like with every other franchise of communism.
-jcr
Communists are a bad thing anytime, anywhere.
-jcr
If you think communism is some how a bad thing I suggest you look up what communism is, because it isn't a small group of people hording everything and leaving nothing for everyone under them to share.
Tell it to anyone who ever lived in a communist country. If you weren't an appratchik, you were screwed.
-jcr
"Doesn't recognize the democratically elected palistinian government as being legitimate"
Hold on a second, there. The US government boycotts the current palestinian government because Hamas has disavowed the treaties that Arafat signed with Israel, and continues to attack Israel from Gaza. If the palestinians want a government dedicated to the destruction of israel, that's what they'll choose, but fuck them if they expect us to keep giving them money while they do whatever they damn well please.
-jcr
So, RMS becomes Castro's latest "useful idiot".
-jcr
There's a market for Vista vulnerabilities that pays far more than $25K for a zero-day exploit. You can bet than many more have been found, and are in use by zombie-net operators right now.
-jcr
My claim is that microsoft does a lousy job in making their products securable. Decades of history prove this beyond a reasonable doubt, and all the astroturfing in the world isn't going to change that, sunshine.
I'm at NAB this week, and as it happens, all internet service to the south hall was knocked out today because someone cracked a server in the microsoft booth and DOS'd the show's network. Now, you want to try again to defend them, knock yourself out. I'll just ask you whether MS is paying more than you made at the DMV?
-jcr
Ah, that would explain the mushroom cloud.
-jcr
It didn't just blow up, it's a rapidly expanding cloud of plasma.
-jcr
What makes you imagine that you could be important enough to be in my "foes" list?
-jcr
last resorts of cowardice.
Cowardice?
What, are you supposed to be dangerous or something?
I can see why you're in a snit. Trying to stake out an untenable position, (like pretending that Microsoft actually does a good job at security, which history shows is laughable at best) would put anyone in a foul mood.
-jcr
The engineers who've been lent from other parts of the company to the iPhone project have been working on it for quite a long time. This left their departments short-handed, and what happened yesterday is that the OS X program office took a look at where they were, and where they needed to be on the schedule, did the math, and announced a four-month slip.
-jcr
Funny how self-referential your comments are.
Funny how poor your reading comprehension is.
-jcr
Believe it or not, they're actually doing an excellent job
Sorry, wishing doesn't make it so.
Quit pretending to be an engineer
And neither does getting snotty.
-jcr
After all these years of malware on Windows systems, I think it's high time someone took Microsoft to court and at least charged them with contributory negligence. After the Mellissa virus, they can't claim that they don't know the hazard.
The person to bring this suit would need to be someone who's not a licensee of any MS products, but has suffered losses from their network getting DOS'd by Windows zombies trying to trade copies of the malware of the hour.
-jcr
I didn't defend anyone, I took a pompous git to task for bitching about a typo.
-jcr
You know, using a word like asymptotic to show off and then pooching the spelling looks really bad.
You know, bitching about a typo makes you look like a pompous ass, even more than defending a broken product does.
-jcr