when every Israeli Prime Minister says the goal is to have Israel be a jewish only
Yeah, that would be atrocious if any prime minister ever said that. No prome minister of Israel ever said the goal of Israel is to be "jewish only." In factt, israel has given Arabs, including Muslim Arabs, Christian Arabs, and non-religious Arabs, numerous rights including citizenship and the right to vote. Yemenites have an extremely good relationship with the Israeli government and are crucial in their military intelligence
Israel is a state built on cooperation. The problem is there are extremists on both sides that dont want to cooperate. My grandfather and grandmother fought for the independence of Israel (after fleeing from Nazi Europe). My father fought in the six day war, the yom kippur war, and the war of attrition. Despite this, we are by no means patriotic or die hard Israel. We hate the current Israeli government jsut as much as many college liberals. The problem is, Israel is a coalition government where the extremists can either make or break a government. The real war in Israel is between religious jews (who make up less than 5%) and secular jews (who make up the rest). Secular jews are, generally, pro-peace and, inherently, anti-strong religious dogma. Its the religious taht refuse to compromise.
Its not like America where there is a reform, traditional class. Still, though, Israel does not aim to cleanse itself of all Arabs as Hitler did with Jews. Israel has given Arabs better rights than most ARAB coutnries, including Jordan (read: Black September when PLO tried to execute a coup on King Hussein), Syria (who just sends them all to lebanon or to fight israel, mainly cause they dont want refugees in Syria), Egypt (Nassir oppressed palestinians more than any israeli prime minister ever did), etc.
This does not jsutify the ongoing war. Like I said, most secular jews want peace in some form or another. Its the damn extremists (but then again, it always is). I think that winning the six day war was teh worst thing that ever happened to Israel, since its the root of most of the problems today. Its what turned Israel from defender to occupier.
We are an inner-city public school. We had no sponsor, couldn't cough up the $20000 entry fee (or whatever it was), and made our robot for under $200. They waived the entry for our aptly titled "ghetto bot". When wer got there, the number of student built robots were slim to none. Most realyl are built by the engineers that sponsored the school.
An H2O molecule exhibits a hydrogen bond (talking about intramolecular forces, not referring to an actual bond) due to the difference in electronegativity between the two. However, it is by all means covalent. I doubt any chemist would consider H2O ionic. It exhibits similar properties due to the difference in electronegativity, without a doubt. That's basically all your post says --Theres a difference in electronegativity-- In so many words. However, the bonding characteristics are much different. H2O exhibits sp3 hybridization, meaning the orbitals OVERLAP each other. The electron is not transferred from one molecule to another. THe orbitals merely overlap.
No matter how big the difference in electronegativity is, a sigma bond is still covalent.
Good job getting your troll moderated up. Shows that not only is 95% of the total population scientifically illiterate, but so are 95% of the/. moderators. (Not critisizing, just observing).
The correct name is "dihydrogen oxide". Theres no need to put the "mono" on the oxygen. If you dont believe me, you can look at NIST's chemistry webbook...
im sorry, but if you think that piece of plastic costs $10 to manufacture, you are vastly, vastly mistaken. That thing costs no more than $4 delivered to Microsofts headquarters.
Win32 bit assembly (do a google search for MASM32) is actually closer to a HL language than it is to true assembly. Yet, at the same time it still manages to give you direct hooks to win dll's and whatnot.
Otherwise, true x86 assembly is not THAT difficult to understand. People bitch and complain, but it really isn't that hard. Once you understand the concept of registers and interrupts, there really isnt that much more to it besides learning the commands. It really isnt bad at all.
A book is absolutely not freedom of speech. And I'm a liberal (well, mostly). A book is a (usually) commercial attempt to engage our minds, hearts, and wallets through writing. It's a device from which we derive pleasure and which, in turn, provides pleasure to the shareholders of the publishing company which published it, or to the members of the librarian community which did the same, whether through simple good karma or through positive uptick in the value of the library.
It is not a politically expressive act protected by the First Amendment, though it may contain protected speech within it.
it is extrememly significant that the palestenians who fled israel during the war to jordan, syria etc ended up being first class citizens of those countries.
dude, you have no idea what you are talking about. Palestinaians in syria and jordan are treated worse than they are in israel, by far. King Hussein massacred palestinian refugees by the millions (Look up: "black september"). he prompted a palestinian uprising in Jordan because he treated them so poorly. Palestinians in Jordan are anything BUT first class citizens. Syria is the same way: send them all to lebanon and give them weapons to make them happy enough.
Israel treats palestinians as well as any arab country does. Noone wants palestinian refugees. But, unlike jordan, Israel can't just massacre them all and kick them all out because of international pressure. Its sorta funny how King Hussein killed more palestinians in a shotr period of time than Israel would ever dare to, because if they did it would be the end of American aid and any kind of support.
So if I go to your house/car and find that the door is unlocked, I can go in and use your stove to make myself some food, borrow some of your clothes, sit in your car and listen to your radio, etc? Yeah, sure man.
"But you gave me implicit permission to come into your house- otherwise you would have locked the door."
Traditionally, Laviosier (sp?) is considered the "Father of Modern Chemistry," for his quantitive experiments in the 1600's. Boyle is also given a lot of credit. I was looking through my brothers HS text book, and Joseph Black isn't even mentioned. It skips from Laviosier/Boyle -> Dalton -> Thomson -> Milikan -> Rutherford -> Plank -> Einstien (not neccesarily chronological order, but rather grouped based on discovery).
Pretty much any Japanese electronic musical instrument maker has used TRON. Yamaha keyboards run it, or derivatives of it, I've been told. That will change now though, with Yamaha's recent announcement that they'll be using Linux.
I've followed TRON since I was a kid hacker in the early 80's, and have watched its use in the industry with eager anticipation of the day it becomes more widely known about in the tech sector.
When Linux came into existence (I've been a Linux user since *day one* of its existence), I decided I need not stay current with TRON, which is a shame because I think a lot of the goals of TRON (E-TRON, actually, its supposed to be called) are achievable right now with Linux in the embedded world.
If ever there was proof needed of just how destructive Microsoft has been for the computer industry, it is the fact that hardly anyone in the Western Tech sector (sillicon valley) knows about TRON and what this project was supposed to achieve... and, actually, still is capable of achieving... The project is based around shared source, completely open amongst competing hardware manufacturers.
Embedded kernels running in every electronic device known to man, capable of talking to each other discretely and without human interaction, to create a sort of 'Boewulf cluster' of embedded systems capable of sharing loads and processing power.
TRON was a kick ass project. And everything we've wanted to do with TRON, we can now do with Linux. [ Parent ]
just to clarify my post, I was not in any way trying to comment on the article and or ruling itself. I was just pointing out how unjustified michaels rant was. He called the CNN story "propagandistic" (?) because it dealt with voluntary recital. The court case is also dealing with only voluntary recital. Voluntary (do i need to bold it again) recital in public schools is a BIG ISSUE, hence the reason CNN reported on this court case. My comment was directed to why michael went off on a tangent about mandatory recital, which is not at all related to either the case or the article, and why he ranted about the article itself being biased and propagandistic. If the ruling was about mandatory recital, and the article only covered voluntary recital, I could see his rant being justified. But, the ruling is about voluntary recital, and thats what the article talked about. Michael was out of line.
not too mention his statements from the article are totally wrong.
No state has a law prohibiting anyone from reciting the pledge voluntarily, whenever they want to.
Uhmm, except that a simple google search on "voluntary school prayer" immediately showed a third result of This case. From the article:
A 22 word prayer, crafted by the New York State Board of Regents, was read aloud daily in public school classrooms. Student participation was voluntary. On June 25, 1962, the Court ruled the Regents' prayer unconstitutional.
In a public school, I cannot lead a group prayer, even voluntarily. Prayer must be seperate from the school. Then, following the page a whole three links down, there is full text of a bill urging congress to pass a "voluntary prayer" ammendment to the constitution. From the house resolution:
32 WHEREAS, voluntary student prayer formed a part of American public schools
[33] from their origination in 1642 for over three hundred years afterward, until
[34] the U. S. Supreme Court, in a 1962 ruling, which the court said was "without
[35] precedent," struck down what it described as "voluntary, nondenominational
[36] school prayer";[]=line numbers
Despite what the all-knowing michael says, evidently after 0 minutes of research, there ARE LAWS AGAINST VOLUNTARY PRAYER. Of course, he says "no state," and since it was ruled unconstitutional, it would actual be the federal government prohibiting it. Yeah, thats what you must have meant, right michael? "no state has a rule against it, just the federal government." sure... how about doing some research before embarassing youreself. Oh, and you ended your sentence with a preposition.
I use it quite a bit in games and whatnot. Its especially helpful when you don't have a mouse and just use mousekeys (accessibility/mouse). You can sue the arrows to move the pointer, click, drag, etc.
B&M stores believe that they're losing business to internet stores because of they have to enforce taxes while the internet stores don't.
While that is a plausible story, I just don't think that is the reason for people shopping on the internet.
If I want a DVD that is available at Circuit City, I'm not going to order it online just because I don't want to pay tax (especially if they're the same price).
But if I find some equipment for $100+ LESS on the internet... well obviously I'm going to buy that.
B&M stores need to become more competitive with internet stores, not try to rally for sales tax online.
"Digital Rights Management" offers the end user, or consumer no real advantage. They will NOT see more functionality by installing D/RM; in fact they will see less functionality. There is nothing 'broken' with their computer.
I dont understand attitudes like these. I know its microsoft, and we hate microsoft. But we love Apple's iTunes $.99 a song deal, and most of us intellies are probably yearning for such a service for windows/linux. well guess what - that requires DRM. Would such a service somehow lower functionality?? I see people in/. begging for a legal and legit music distribution one second and then cursing D/RM the next... you cant have it both ways. this isnt a bad thing.
dude you just click my computer and then it has a list of all your hard drives and you clikc on which hard drive. 2 steps maximum. And since i have 4 hard drives, im fairly glad idont have four hard drive icons on my desktop. my computer manages it just fine.
One of my closest collegues went into work with the pentagon, working on making a more accurate radar system on helicopters.
Technology such as this would save lives, not destroy them. Im a cruz missile with a perfect radar is fired, there is 0% chance of it hitting a neighboring hospital. If a cruz missile with an ok radar is fired, there is a 30% chance of it hitting a neighboring hospital. I know people like to get all "Ooh, war = bad. weapons = bad." But, believe it or not, we already have enough power to destroy the world. Most of the technology nowadays is based around NOT DESTROYING sorrounding targets: e.g., making a missile to destroy only a certain area and not the residential areas around it.
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when every Israeli Prime Minister says the goal is to have Israel be a jewish only
Yeah, that would be atrocious if any prime minister ever said that. No prome minister of Israel ever said the goal of Israel is to be "jewish only." In factt, israel has given Arabs, including Muslim Arabs, Christian Arabs, and non-religious Arabs, numerous rights including citizenship and the right to vote. Yemenites have an extremely good relationship with the Israeli government and are crucial in their military intelligence
Israel is a state built on cooperation. The problem is there are extremists on both sides that dont want to cooperate. My grandfather and grandmother fought for the independence of Israel (after fleeing from Nazi Europe). My father fought in the six day war, the yom kippur war, and the war of attrition. Despite this, we are by no means patriotic or die hard Israel. We hate the current Israeli government jsut as much as many college liberals. The problem is, Israel is a coalition government where the extremists can either make or break a government. The real war in Israel is between religious jews (who make up less than 5%) and secular jews (who make up the rest). Secular jews are, generally, pro-peace and, inherently, anti-strong religious dogma. Its the religious taht refuse to compromise.
Its not like America where there is a reform, traditional class. Still, though, Israel does not aim to cleanse itself of all Arabs as Hitler did with Jews. Israel has given Arabs better rights than most ARAB coutnries, including Jordan (read: Black September when PLO tried to execute a coup on King Hussein), Syria (who just sends them all to lebanon or to fight israel, mainly cause they dont want refugees in Syria), Egypt (Nassir oppressed palestinians more than any israeli prime minister ever did), etc.
This does not jsutify the ongoing war. Like I said, most secular jews want peace in some form or another. Its the damn extremists (but then again, it always is). I think that winning the six day war was teh worst thing that ever happened to Israel, since its the root of most of the problems today. Its what turned Israel from defender to occupier.
My school competed in this last year...
We are an inner-city public school. We had no sponsor, couldn't cough up the $20000 entry fee (or whatever it was), and made our robot for under $200. They waived the entry for our aptly titled "ghetto bot". When wer got there, the number of student built robots were slim to none. Most realyl are built by the engineers that sponsored the school.
We didnt get last though, so i guess thats good.
I've heard all these "ooh, media player tied to online stores=product tying=illegal." or "ooh, this shows MS doesnt care about antitrust lawsuits."
/. bias at work again.
Doesnt itunes come with every computer purchased with MacOSX? And doesnt itunes, by default, have ITMS (iTunes music store) capability?
So how is MS now including WMP any different than apple always including Itunes+ITMS? It seems like its just the
why is there no link to squeezebox anywehre in teh article so i can actually see what this thing is?
oh yea, fp
An H2O molecule exhibits a hydrogen bond (talking about intramolecular forces, not referring to an actual bond) due to the difference in electronegativity between the two. However, it is by all means covalent. I doubt any chemist would consider H2O ionic. It exhibits similar properties due to the difference in electronegativity, without a doubt. That's basically all your post says --Theres a difference in electronegativity-- In so many words. However, the bonding characteristics are much different. H2O exhibits sp3 hybridization, meaning the orbitals OVERLAP each other. The electron is not transferred from one molecule to another. THe orbitals merely overlap.
/. moderators. (Not critisizing, just observing).
No matter how big the difference in electronegativity is, a sigma bond is still covalent.
Good job getting your troll moderated up. Shows that not only is 95% of the total population scientifically illiterate, but so are 95% of the
IAAC...
o gen+oxide&Units=SI
The correct name is "dihydrogen oxide". Theres no need to put the "mono" on the oxygen. If you dont believe me, you can look at NIST's chemistry webbook...
http://webbook.nist.gov/cgi/cbook.cgi?Name=Dihydr
im sorry, but if you think that piece of plastic costs $10 to manufacture, you are vastly, vastly mistaken. That thing costs no more than $4 delivered to Microsofts headquarters.
but can it filter this post FIREST pots assholes! oh yeah baby!!
"I want to burn in the Sun (or at least the egomaniacal part of me.)"
You should burn in the sun for making such an elementary grammar mistake. Punctuation goes outside of parentheses. It should say "...part of me)."
In soviet Russia, the back pats you.
Win32 bit assembly (do a google search for MASM32) is actually closer to a HL language than it is to true assembly. Yet, at the same time it still manages to give you direct hooks to win dll's and whatnot.
Otherwise, true x86 assembly is not THAT difficult to understand. People bitch and complain, but it really isn't that hard. Once you understand the concept of registers and interrupts, there really isnt that much more to it besides learning the commands. It really isnt bad at all.
triple p
is what it be
the coolest g!
that (w)raps so bad, you probably bought it at the olive bistro!
A book is absolutely not freedom of speech. And I'm a liberal (well, mostly). A book is a (usually) commercial attempt to engage our minds, hearts, and wallets through writing. It's a device from which we derive pleasure and which, in turn, provides pleasure to the shareholders of the publishing company which published it, or to the members of the librarian community which did the same, whether through simple good karma or through positive uptick in the value of the library.
It is not a politically expressive act protected by the First Amendment, though it may contain protected speech within it.
it is extrememly significant that the palestenians who fled israel during the war to jordan, syria etc ended up being first class citizens of those countries.
dude, you have no idea what you are talking about. Palestinaians in syria and jordan are treated worse than they are in israel, by far. King Hussein massacred palestinian refugees by the millions (Look up: "black september"). he prompted a palestinian uprising in Jordan because he treated them so poorly. Palestinians in Jordan are anything BUT first class citizens. Syria is the same way: send them all to lebanon and give them weapons to make them happy enough.
Israel treats palestinians as well as any arab country does. Noone wants palestinian refugees. But, unlike jordan, Israel can't just massacre them all and kick them all out because of international pressure. Its sorta funny how King Hussein killed more palestinians in a shotr period of time than Israel would ever dare to, because if they did it would be the end of American aid and any kind of support.
So if I go to your house/car and find that the door is unlocked, I can go in and use your stove to make myself some food, borrow some of your clothes, sit in your car and listen to your radio, etc? Yeah, sure man.
"But you gave me implicit permission to come into your house- otherwise you would have locked the door."
I'd like some "freedom and choice" with those Brazilian ladies.
Traditionally, Laviosier (sp?) is considered the "Father of Modern Chemistry," for his quantitive experiments in the 1600's. Boyle is also given a lot of credit. I was looking through my brothers HS text book, and Joseph Black isn't even mentioned. It skips from Laviosier/Boyle -> Dalton -> Thomson -> Milikan -> Rutherford -> Plank -> Einstien (not neccesarily chronological order, but rather grouped based on discovery).
Pretty much any Japanese electronic musical instrument maker has used TRON. Yamaha keyboards run it, or derivatives of it, I've been told. That will change now though, with Yamaha's recent announcement that they'll be using Linux.
I've followed TRON since I was a kid hacker in the early 80's, and have watched its use in the industry with eager anticipation of the day it becomes more widely known about in the tech sector.
When Linux came into existence (I've been a Linux user since *day one* of its existence), I decided I need not stay current with TRON, which is a shame because I think a lot of the goals of TRON (E-TRON, actually, its supposed to be called) are achievable right now with Linux in the embedded world.
If ever there was proof needed of just how destructive Microsoft has been for the computer industry, it is the fact that hardly anyone in the Western Tech sector (sillicon valley) knows about TRON and what this project was supposed to achieve... and, actually, still is capable of achieving... The project is based around shared source, completely open amongst competing hardware manufacturers.
Embedded kernels running in every electronic device known to man, capable of talking to each other discretely and without human interaction, to create a sort of 'Boewulf cluster' of embedded systems capable of sharing loads and processing power.
TRON was a kick ass project. And everything we've wanted to do with TRON, we can now do with Linux.
[ Parent ]
just to clarify my post, I was not in any way trying to comment on the article and or ruling itself. I was just pointing out how unjustified michaels rant was. He called the CNN story "propagandistic" (?) because it dealt with voluntary recital. The court case is also dealing with only voluntary recital. Voluntary (do i need to bold it again) recital in public schools is a BIG ISSUE, hence the reason CNN reported on this court case. My comment was directed to why michael went off on a tangent about mandatory recital, which is not at all related to either the case or the article, and why he ranted about the article itself being biased and propagandistic. If the ruling was about mandatory recital, and the article only covered voluntary recital, I could see his rant being justified. But, the ruling is about voluntary recital, and thats what the article talked about. Michael was out of line.
not too mention his statements from the article are totally wrong.
No state has a law prohibiting anyone from reciting the pledge voluntarily, whenever they want to.
Uhmm, except that a simple google search on "voluntary school prayer" immediately showed a third result of This case. From the article:
A 22 word prayer, crafted by the New York State Board of Regents, was read aloud daily in public school classrooms. Student participation was voluntary. On June 25, 1962, the Court ruled the Regents' prayer unconstitutional.
In a public school, I cannot lead a group prayer, even voluntarily. Prayer must be seperate from the school. Then, following the page a whole three links down, there is full text of a bill urging congress to pass a "voluntary prayer" ammendment to the constitution. From the house resolution:
32 WHEREAS, voluntary student prayer formed a part of American public schools [33] from their origination in 1642 for over three hundred years afterward, until [34] the U. S. Supreme Court, in a 1962 ruling, which the court said was "without [35] precedent," struck down what it described as "voluntary, nondenominational [36] school prayer";[]=line numbers
Despite what the all-knowing michael says, evidently after 0 minutes of research, there ARE LAWS AGAINST VOLUNTARY PRAYER. Of course, he says "no state," and since it was ruled unconstitutional, it would actual be the federal government prohibiting it. Yeah, thats what you must have meant, right michael? "no state has a rule against it, just the federal government." sure... how about doing some research before embarassing youreself. Oh, and you ended your sentence with a preposition.
I use it quite a bit in games and whatnot. Its especially helpful when you don't have a mouse and just use mousekeys (accessibility/mouse). You can sue the arrows to move the pointer, click, drag, etc.
B&M stores believe that they're losing business to internet stores because of they have to enforce taxes while the internet stores don't.
While that is a plausible story, I just don't think that is the reason for people shopping on the internet.
If I want a DVD that is available at Circuit City, I'm not going to order it online just because I don't want to pay tax (especially if they're the same price).
But if I find some equipment for $100+ LESS on the internet... well obviously I'm going to buy that.
B&M stores need to become more competitive with internet stores, not try to rally for sales tax online.
"Digital Rights Management" offers the end user, or consumer no real advantage. They will NOT see more functionality by installing D/RM; in fact they will see less functionality. There is nothing 'broken' with their computer.
/. begging for a legal and legit music distribution one second and then cursing D/RM the next... you cant have it both ways. this isnt a bad thing.
I dont understand attitudes like these. I know its microsoft, and we hate microsoft. But we love Apple's iTunes $.99 a song deal, and most of us intellies are probably yearning for such a service for windows/linux. well guess what - that requires DRM. Would such a service somehow lower functionality?? I see people in
dude you just click my computer and then it has a list of all your hard drives and you clikc on which hard drive. 2 steps maximum. And since i have 4 hard drives, im fairly glad idont have four hard drive icons on my desktop. my computer manages it just fine.
One of my closest collegues went into work with the pentagon, working on making a more accurate radar system on helicopters.
Technology such as this would save lives, not destroy them. Im a cruz missile with a perfect radar is fired, there is 0% chance of it hitting a neighboring hospital. If a cruz missile with an ok radar is fired, there is a 30% chance of it hitting a neighboring hospital. I know people like to get all "Ooh, war = bad. weapons = bad." But, believe it or not, we already have enough power to destroy the world. Most of the technology nowadays is based around NOT DESTROYING sorrounding targets: e.g., making a missile to destroy only a certain area and not the residential areas around it.