When I first moved out of my hometown to another city after graduating, my first concern was staying in touch with friends and family without using my phone to save on long distance calls. I also wanted them to be able to call me without extra costs. So here's what I did.
Using my laptop I was able to get a full "voip" line using Skype with the Skype-Out service and getting a phone number through DID Worldwide.
Skype-Out costs around 3$ a month and the DID number costs 5$ a month. This way for approx. 7$ I was able to make and receive calls through Skype.
To go a step further, you could get a Skype Phone so you won't have to carry around a netbook or a laptop.
Since today's monitors that are sold on the market are in majority wide screened, has anyone given thought to having some kind of vertical task bar on either side of the screen? Instead of having the two horizontal bars at the top and bottom in Gnome or the single task bar at the bottom in KDE, I think that would be more appropriate to save screen space for application windows. Also, small icons and applications shown in the task bar have more space if its a little wider and vertical instead of having them all crammed up in a horizontal bar.
I found the the KDE taskbar was more fit for that job than the Gnome taskbar because the KDE one adapts and scales the icons and other applets accoringly where as the Gnome one doesn't.
And what about Windowmaker or GnuStep? With wide screens on laptops and desktop lcd monitors, maybe its time for them to make a comeback and have the dock on the side of the screen!
Please make a difference between the STATEHOOD if Israel and the jewish people. Even though many make that mistake, they are not the same. There are muslims as well as christians living in Israel, which makes them Israelis, but they are not necessarily jewish. Just like there are jewish people living in other parts of the world, but that doesn't necessarily make them Israeli. This is the one biggest mistake you keep making over and over in almost every reply you posted.
One other thing is that when people say that the jewish people who immigrated to Palestine "stole" their land. It all depends on the way you look at it. So they bought the land. Fine so it gives them the right to live there. After that, there was a massive immigration movement where a WHOLE LOT of jewish people moved there. That's okay no problem there, as long as they bought the land, that's cool. And also because of the fact that they had just been badly persecuted in Europe, I think that's a pretty good enough escuse to move somewhere else. But then! They decide to make the land they bought a STATE?!? Now THAT's something that people can see as theft of land. Especially when that new state decides where to draw the line for their territory's border and that line just so happens to surround large pieces of land that didn't belong to them. Oh yeah, and I do believe I saw a documentary about how Israel was built and in it they mentioned that they used military force to expatriate the palestinians that were left in that territory. I think some people may see this as theft of land.
And no I don't think that a palestinian blowing up a bus in a suicide bombing justifies the genocide that Israel is currently doing in Palestine at the moment if that's what you're talking about. Or the fact that a few militants doing an attack justifies the complete anihilation of a whole country's civilian structures. Like I said before, which you so purposefully neglected: I do believe Israel has the right to exist and to defend themselves against any form of attack. But if by defending themselves they destroy the rest of the world until there is nobody else left except them, I don't call that "defending themselves". Oh yeah, if nobody else in the world is left alive, then we are SURE that absolutely NO one will be able to say or do anything against us, so that makes us safe right? Oh except for the US, because they are our main suppliers of weapons.
"Perhaps you carefully skipped around the code word of the "Jewish controlled media"?"
Dude, don't put words into my mouth! Israel's government IS spinning their medias. I'm not saying the JEWISH CONTROLLED MEDIA. Just the media in general!
""you believe that because the jewish people that settled there were victims of crimes against humanity by the nazi movement, it gives them an excuse against any crime they commit towards anyone"
That's not my belief. I never said anything like that. However, this is now "par for the course" considering that you like to make things up. "
Well I'm sorry but that's just what you reflect in most of the things you say.
""I understand some comments sound anti-semite or prejudicial and you are only trying to defend yourself"
So to you the comments like Mr. Naz's one that found the existence of Israelis something to be "questioned", (and the AC who told me that all Israeli civilians are war criminals and must be eliminated) only "sound" antisemitic? "
Yes, some only "sound" anti-semite TO YOU! because you keep twisting everyone's words. In other comments where there IS anti-semitism, you have the right to defend yourself all the way dude, I'm not gonna stop ya! I'm against any form of prejudice. BUT you interpreted Mr. Naz wrong. When talking about the existence of Israel, he's talking about the STATEHOOD. But of course you failed to see that like I said in the start of this comment.
""and you make me sick for being so closed minded"
Yes, I am close-minded against justifications for genocide. I readily admit that. I si
I believe the whole point in all of this is that Krell doesn't make the difference between anti-semitism and criticism. Krell is anti-criticism. Mr.Naz never said Israel doesn't have the right to exist, neither did he say that Israel doesn't have the right to defend itself against acts of violence. He criticises only the strategies used by Israel to defend themselves.
The point is, in the case of Lebanon, Israel used abobinable force on the whole of the country and bombed electric power plants, water purification centers, airports, harbours, UN buildings, etc. and even denied access to rescue ships from other countries who came to pick up their citizens and residents. When in fact their target was a minority group, a sub group of the Hezbollah militia who was responsible for the death and capture of Israeli soldiers.
In this conflict, thousands of innocents died and the cries for those many deaths were heard all over the world by family members in other countries who lost loved ones. And don't you dare give me that bullcrap that the hezbollah militia was hiding behind civilians, because those that weren't even close to the Israeli border and weren't shooting rockets at Israel were busy keeping the peace and helping those in need. Israel, if it wanted to "defend" itself, should instead have concentrated their efforts closer to the border where the real criminals were instead of destroying water and food supplies and electric power plants. The way Israel dealt with this problem led Lebanon into a humanitarian crisis. Also, by destroying the harbours and ariports it created an ecological catastrophe where gazoline and oil was spread all over Lebanon's beautiful beaches. In the end, Israel never got their soldiers back, so was it worth it at all? This only fueled the hate against Israel throughout the middle-east and in some cases around the world. Not hate in the sens that people hate jews, or they believe Israel has no right to exist, but hate in the same way that people around the world hates America, or Russia because of the way that they deal with conflicts in extreme violence and prejudice instead of diplomacy.
In the Palestine conflict, Israel has been accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. All of you probably saw those propagandist anti-Israel videos around the net? I know its propaganda and you can't believe everything you see. Yet, you do see images of Israeli soldiers killing a man with his son in his arms on the side of the street asking for help, killing both for no apparent reason. You do see images of Israeli armored jeeps running over a small boy, then putting it and reverse and running back over him just to make sure he's dead. You do see a lot of hate crimes against palistinian civilians on the part of Israeli soldiers. And this just makes you wonder sometimes of the sincerity of Israel's army and their motive for being there. Because, again, in the end Israel doesn't achieve their objective. There are still people shooting rockets at Israel and there is yet even more hatred towards them.
Now I don't hate Israelis or jewish people. But I do hate the way Israel's leaders are dealing with their problems. Its like "You don't like us? Here's a missile for you!". Some Israeli soldiers and civilians are completely against their government's policy. They are Israeli AND jewish (yes there are Israeli non jewish people too!!!). The fact that they hate their government, does that make them antisemites?
In the end, my dear Krell, I just think you are completely blinded by the pre-chewed spin-doctored propaganda crap that is being shoved into your brain by certain Israeli medias and this makes you fail to build an objective idea of the situation and makes you reject all criticism towards Israel. This is truly sad because nobody will even be able to have an objective unbiased conversation with you about anything Israel related. I have seen your comments posted throughout this article and I can see that there is no hope talking to you because for you, everyone is anti-semite
*Sigh of relief* At last a positive answer. Thanks for directing me to the Wikipedia article. I didn't know all the facts about the July War and this sure helps to be more informed about it.
But most of all, thanks for answering my question. I guess a good use for such a thing would be to explore dangerous areas that would otherwise be life-threatening to explore.
Or how about sending those hornets on Mars?
I hope you're not referring to me as a "zionist basher" or a Nazi. That is really insulting. I don't hate jewish people, or any people for that matter. I have friends from every single ethnic or religious group and they all have given something positive to me in my life and I try to return the gesture as best me can to each and every one of them. It is so insulting to be immediately identified as a anti-semite or a friggin' Nazi the second you speak your mind about Israel's government's actions. You guys really tick me off by doing that.
I don't disagree with the fact that Israel has a right to exist. Trying to make Israel disappear is futile. The surrounding countries should just accept the fact that they are there and just live with it. But what they can't live with is being oppressed by Israel's government. Nor should any other country tolerate that. The UN themselves said that their use of force in the july war and against Palestine was and still is disproportionate. Plus, there is also a lot of abuse on their part on palestinians. But the UN can't do anything about it because Israel is being backed by the world's most powerful country, both military wise and financially wise. And any action against what they are doing could end in a US embargo against any country that wants to go towards that path.
I'm not saying that Palestinians are the only victims here though. I know that there has been a lot of suicide bombings and rocket fire on Israel which resulted in the loss of many human lives. And I'm most certainly not for any of that either. Everyone has the right to live. And YES Israel has the right to defend itself. But it should also stop acting like a friggin' bully to every surrounding country. That might help bring the violence down a bit.
In fact, a lot of israelis are against what their government is doing to palestine and what they did to lebanon. Just like a lot of americans are against the war in Irak. Now don't tell me that a jewish Israeli against its own government is a friggin' Nazi or a Zionist basher. Or that an american against the war in Irak is anti-american. That is totally bogus. Open up your minds people! Try to understand other people's point of view before jumping to conclusions and calling them names!
hmmm... I believe we didn't have the same information as to what triggered the whole july war. What I heard is that the israeli soldier was captured on Lebanon's side of the border. Then Hezbollah milicia fighters found them and attacked them because they did not tolerate the fact that their army was in their country. So they captured a soldier and in exchange for his liberation they asked for israel to release illegally detained prisonners.
But anyway, I don't think it matters who started the whole conflict, the fact is that Israel did reply with disproportioned force and the whole world agrees on that, except for the American government, Israel's government and Canada's prime minister.
I can see that many people will disagree about how it started and who did what and if what one side or the other did was okay or not. With all the 1984-like media spinning that we have today, I don't think anyone will be able to know the truth about what happened and be able to have an unbiased opinion. Whoever side it is, the july war was a sad event and I give my sympathies to anyone, Israeli or Lebanese, that have lost a loved one.
But the question remains, if that technology could be used for a more positive constructive purpose. What would that be?
This is sad. Israel should invest their energy in more important things than weapons. Like working on a strategy to make peace with the palestinians. (Or any other country around them as a matter of fact.)
Besides, we all know how that country's officials use their weapons agains so called "terrorists". We all saw how they misused military technology in Lebanon and destroyed a whole country and achieved nothing but spread sorrow and misery to a country that was just getting back on its feet after a previous attack.
People, I'm sick of hearing news about how countries that have the means to bring a better quality of life to everyone around the world use their resources in finding new ways to bring misery and death to people around the world. What about this: hornets that fly around and give polio shots to people in Africa? Or power gloves that help lift rubble off of people stuck under a crumbled building after a natural distaster strikes? I dunno, they're just wild guesses at finding more positive ways to use that kind of technology.
What do you think they should do with that technology to give it a more positive purpose?
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When I first moved out of my hometown to another city after graduating, my first concern was staying in touch with friends and family without using my phone to save on long distance calls. I also wanted them to be able to call me without extra costs. So here's what I did. Using my laptop I was able to get a full "voip" line using Skype with the Skype-Out service and getting a phone number through DID Worldwide. Skype-Out costs around 3$ a month and the DID number costs 5$ a month. This way for approx. 7$ I was able to make and receive calls through Skype. To go a step further, you could get a Skype Phone so you won't have to carry around a netbook or a laptop.
Have you heard about Scalix? http://www.scalix.com/
Since today's monitors that are sold on the market are in majority wide screened, has anyone given thought to having some kind of vertical task bar on either side of the screen? Instead of having the two horizontal bars at the top and bottom in Gnome or the single task bar at the bottom in KDE, I think that would be more appropriate to save screen space for application windows. Also, small icons and applications shown in the task bar have more space if its a little wider and vertical instead of having them all crammed up in a horizontal bar.
I found the the KDE taskbar was more fit for that job than the Gnome taskbar because the KDE one adapts and scales the icons and other applets accoringly where as the Gnome one doesn't.
And what about Windowmaker or GnuStep? With wide screens on laptops and desktop lcd monitors, maybe its time for them to make a comeback and have the dock on the side of the screen!
What do you think?
EL OH friggin' EL!!!!!! That is so true! There's always an error screen or some system error that pops up on one of those screens...
Please make a difference between the STATEHOOD if Israel and the jewish people. Even though many make that mistake, they are not the same. There are muslims as well as christians living in Israel, which makes them Israelis, but they are not necessarily jewish. Just like there are jewish people living in other parts of the world, but that doesn't necessarily make them Israeli. This is the one biggest mistake you keep making over and over in almost every reply you posted.
One other thing is that when people say that the jewish people who immigrated to Palestine "stole" their land. It all depends on the way you look at it. So they bought the land. Fine so it gives them the right to live there. After that, there was a massive immigration movement where a WHOLE LOT of jewish people moved there. That's okay no problem there, as long as they bought the land, that's cool. And also because of the fact that they had just been badly persecuted in Europe, I think that's a pretty good enough escuse to move somewhere else. But then! They decide to make the land they bought a STATE?!? Now THAT's something that people can see as theft of land. Especially when that new state decides where to draw the line for their territory's border and that line just so happens to surround large pieces of land that didn't belong to them. Oh yeah, and I do believe I saw a documentary about how Israel was built and in it they mentioned that they used military force to expatriate the palestinians that were left in that territory. I think some people may see this as theft of land.
And no I don't think that a palestinian blowing up a bus in a suicide bombing justifies the genocide that Israel is currently doing in Palestine at the moment if that's what you're talking about. Or the fact that a few militants doing an attack justifies the complete anihilation of a whole country's civilian structures. Like I said before, which you so purposefully neglected: I do believe Israel has the right to exist and to defend themselves against any form of attack. But if by defending themselves they destroy the rest of the world until there is nobody else left except them, I don't call that "defending themselves". Oh yeah, if nobody else in the world is left alive, then we are SURE that absolutely NO one will be able to say or do anything against us, so that makes us safe right? Oh except for the US, because they are our main suppliers of weapons.
"Perhaps you carefully skipped around the code word of the "Jewish controlled media"?"
Dude, don't put words into my mouth! Israel's government IS spinning their medias. I'm not saying the JEWISH CONTROLLED MEDIA. Just the media in general!
""you believe that because the jewish people that settled there were victims of crimes against humanity by the nazi movement, it gives them an excuse against any crime they commit towards anyone"
That's not my belief. I never said anything like that. However, this is now "par for the course" considering that you like to make things up. "
Well I'm sorry but that's just what you reflect in most of the things you say.
""I understand some comments sound anti-semite or prejudicial and you are only trying to defend yourself"
So to you the comments like Mr. Naz's one that found the existence of Israelis something to be "questioned", (and the AC who told me that all Israeli civilians are war criminals and must be eliminated) only "sound" antisemitic? "
Yes, some only "sound" anti-semite TO YOU! because you keep twisting everyone's words. In other comments where there IS anti-semitism, you have the right to defend yourself all the way dude, I'm not gonna stop ya! I'm against any form of prejudice. BUT you interpreted Mr. Naz wrong. When talking about the existence of Israel, he's talking about the STATEHOOD. But of course you failed to see that like I said in the start of this comment.
""and you make me sick for being so closed minded"
Yes, I am close-minded against justifications for genocide. I readily admit that. I si
I believe the whole point in all of this is that Krell doesn't make the difference between anti-semitism and criticism. Krell is anti-criticism. Mr.Naz never said Israel doesn't have the right to exist, neither did he say that Israel doesn't have the right to defend itself against acts of violence. He criticises only the strategies used by Israel to defend themselves.
The point is, in the case of Lebanon, Israel used abobinable force on the whole of the country and bombed electric power plants, water purification centers, airports, harbours, UN buildings, etc. and even denied access to rescue ships from other countries who came to pick up their citizens and residents. When in fact their target was a minority group, a sub group of the Hezbollah militia who was responsible for the death and capture of Israeli soldiers.
In this conflict, thousands of innocents died and the cries for those many deaths were heard all over the world by family members in other countries who lost loved ones. And don't you dare give me that bullcrap that the hezbollah militia was hiding behind civilians, because those that weren't even close to the Israeli border and weren't shooting rockets at Israel were busy keeping the peace and helping those in need. Israel, if it wanted to "defend" itself, should instead have concentrated their efforts closer to the border where the real criminals were instead of destroying water and food supplies and electric power plants. The way Israel dealt with this problem led Lebanon into a humanitarian crisis. Also, by destroying the harbours and ariports it created an ecological catastrophe where gazoline and oil was spread all over Lebanon's beautiful beaches. In the end, Israel never got their soldiers back, so was it worth it at all? This only fueled the hate against Israel throughout the middle-east and in some cases around the world. Not hate in the sens that people hate jews, or they believe Israel has no right to exist, but hate in the same way that people around the world hates America, or Russia because of the way that they deal with conflicts in extreme violence and prejudice instead of diplomacy.
In the Palestine conflict, Israel has been accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. All of you probably saw those propagandist anti-Israel videos around the net? I know its propaganda and you can't believe everything you see. Yet, you do see images of Israeli soldiers killing a man with his son in his arms on the side of the street asking for help, killing both for no apparent reason. You do see images of Israeli armored jeeps running over a small boy, then putting it and reverse and running back over him just to make sure he's dead. You do see a lot of hate crimes against palistinian civilians on the part of Israeli soldiers. And this just makes you wonder sometimes of the sincerity of Israel's army and their motive for being there. Because, again, in the end Israel doesn't achieve their objective. There are still people shooting rockets at Israel and there is yet even more hatred towards them.
Now I don't hate Israelis or jewish people. But I do hate the way Israel's leaders are dealing with their problems. Its like "You don't like us? Here's a missile for you!". Some Israeli soldiers and civilians are completely against their government's policy. They are Israeli AND jewish (yes there are Israeli non jewish people too!!!). The fact that they hate their government, does that make them antisemites?
In the end, my dear Krell, I just think you are completely blinded by the pre-chewed spin-doctored propaganda crap that is being shoved into your brain by certain Israeli medias and this makes you fail to build an objective idea of the situation and makes you reject all criticism towards Israel. This is truly sad because nobody will even be able to have an objective unbiased conversation with you about anything Israel related. I have seen your comments posted throughout this article and I can see that there is no hope talking to you because for you, everyone is anti-semite
*Sigh of relief* At last a positive answer. Thanks for directing me to the Wikipedia article. I didn't know all the facts about the July War and this sure helps to be more informed about it. But most of all, thanks for answering my question. I guess a good use for such a thing would be to explore dangerous areas that would otherwise be life-threatening to explore. Or how about sending those hornets on Mars?
I hope you're not referring to me as a "zionist basher" or a Nazi. That is really insulting. I don't hate jewish people, or any people for that matter. I have friends from every single ethnic or religious group and they all have given something positive to me in my life and I try to return the gesture as best me can to each and every one of them. It is so insulting to be immediately identified as a anti-semite or a friggin' Nazi the second you speak your mind about Israel's government's actions. You guys really tick me off by doing that. I don't disagree with the fact that Israel has a right to exist. Trying to make Israel disappear is futile. The surrounding countries should just accept the fact that they are there and just live with it. But what they can't live with is being oppressed by Israel's government. Nor should any other country tolerate that. The UN themselves said that their use of force in the july war and against Palestine was and still is disproportionate. Plus, there is also a lot of abuse on their part on palestinians. But the UN can't do anything about it because Israel is being backed by the world's most powerful country, both military wise and financially wise. And any action against what they are doing could end in a US embargo against any country that wants to go towards that path. I'm not saying that Palestinians are the only victims here though. I know that there has been a lot of suicide bombings and rocket fire on Israel which resulted in the loss of many human lives. And I'm most certainly not for any of that either. Everyone has the right to live. And YES Israel has the right to defend itself. But it should also stop acting like a friggin' bully to every surrounding country. That might help bring the violence down a bit. In fact, a lot of israelis are against what their government is doing to palestine and what they did to lebanon. Just like a lot of americans are against the war in Irak. Now don't tell me that a jewish Israeli against its own government is a friggin' Nazi or a Zionist basher. Or that an american against the war in Irak is anti-american. That is totally bogus. Open up your minds people! Try to understand other people's point of view before jumping to conclusions and calling them names!
hmmm... I believe we didn't have the same information as to what triggered the whole july war. What I heard is that the israeli soldier was captured on Lebanon's side of the border. Then Hezbollah milicia fighters found them and attacked them because they did not tolerate the fact that their army was in their country. So they captured a soldier and in exchange for his liberation they asked for israel to release illegally detained prisonners.
But anyway, I don't think it matters who started the whole conflict, the fact is that Israel did reply with disproportioned force and the whole world agrees on that, except for the American government, Israel's government and Canada's prime minister.
I can see that many people will disagree about how it started and who did what and if what one side or the other did was okay or not. With all the 1984-like media spinning that we have today, I don't think anyone will be able to know the truth about what happened and be able to have an unbiased opinion. Whoever side it is, the july war was a sad event and I give my sympathies to anyone, Israeli or Lebanese, that have lost a loved one.
But the question remains, if that technology could be used for a more positive constructive purpose. What would that be?
This is sad. Israel should invest their energy in more important things than weapons. Like working on a strategy to make peace with the palestinians. (Or any other country around them as a matter of fact.)
Besides, we all know how that country's officials use their weapons agains so called "terrorists". We all saw how they misused military technology in Lebanon and destroyed a whole country and achieved nothing but spread sorrow and misery to a country that was just getting back on its feet after a previous attack.
People, I'm sick of hearing news about how countries that have the means to bring a better quality of life to everyone around the world use their resources in finding new ways to bring misery and death to people around the world. What about this: hornets that fly around and give polio shots to people in Africa? Or power gloves that help lift rubble off of people stuck under a crumbled building after a natural distaster strikes? I dunno, they're just wild guesses at finding more positive ways to use that kind of technology.
What do you think they should do with that technology to give it a more positive purpose?