There are many Arabic Jews (a minority, yes, but a lot of them nevertheless), and they are not treated any differently from other Arabs.
In Jordan, Jews that were born there are not eligible to become Jordanian citizens. In Egypt, documentaries claiming the authenticity of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion are transmitted over the national TV. In Iran (OK, not an Arab state, but still belongs to the region), a group of Jews was jailed for spying without any substantial evidence. In Palestinian Authority, Mein Kampf is openly sold and Arafat denies Holocaust.
I wonder what equal treatment means to you.
At last, a sane voice. Agree with you. I'm Israeli (I guess it will build up a tail of racist replies, go on cowards) and I'm disgusted to see both. Is this me or US has changed so much in the last two years?
What's even more pathetic, all those messages are signed by "anonymous cowards". I guess that's what most racists are.
Concerning Mac Office in Hebrew issue, there is a pragmatic reason for that. Israel is mostly Microsoft country (because, sadly, M$ has built the best support for bidi languages), but Mac hardware is still in use in some government offices, and (judging from what some of my government customers say) it is not as upgrade-hungry as PCs. So naturally, they want to keep 'em, but with the new office they won't have any choice.
An urban legend. Check out this.
Here's the quote:
The "spirit is willing" story is a bit amusing, and it really is a pity that it is not true. However, like most MT 'howlers' it is a fabrication. In fact, for the most part, they were in circulation long before any MT system could have produced them (variants of the 'spirit is willing' example can be found in American press as early as 1956, but sadly, there does not seem to have been an MT system in America which could translate from English into Russian until much more recently - for sound strategic reasons, work in the USA had concentrated on the translation of Russian into English, not the other way round).
By the way, the rest of the site (warning: doesn't work in Mozilla), especially the project stuff is interesting as well.
It can be easily understood why the military need this kind of monstrosity. Terrorist attacks worldwide become much more frequent and this tendency is likely to grow.
The question is, why not concentrate the efforts on building a targeted autonomous surveillance drone. Some kind of self-spreading virus-like software, or, better, a piece of hardware tracking every suspicious move and escalating the efforts in all the possible directions. This is no different from manned surveillance, but involves less manpower.
Difficult? Maybe, but much more feasible than building a huge super-expensive network and convincing everybody that the civilians' privacy will not be harmed. Plus, no network can be ubiquitous, so the goal is missed.
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There are many Arabic Jews (a minority, yes, but a lot of them nevertheless), and they are not treated any differently from other Arabs.
In Jordan, Jews that were born there are not eligible to become Jordanian citizens. In Egypt, documentaries claiming the authenticity of The Protocols of the Learned Elders of Zion are transmitted over the national TV. In Iran (OK, not an Arab state, but still belongs to the region), a group of Jews was jailed for spying without any substantial evidence. In Palestinian Authority, Mein Kampf is openly sold and Arafat denies Holocaust. I wonder what equal treatment means to you.
At last, a sane voice. Agree with you. I'm Israeli (I guess it will build up a tail of racist replies, go on cowards) and I'm disgusted to see both. Is this me or US has changed so much in the last two years? What's even more pathetic, all those messages are signed by "anonymous cowards". I guess that's what most racists are. Concerning Mac Office in Hebrew issue, there is a pragmatic reason for that. Israel is mostly Microsoft country (because, sadly, M$ has built the best support for bidi languages), but Mac hardware is still in use in some government offices, and (judging from what some of my government customers say) it is not as upgrade-hungry as PCs. So naturally, they want to keep 'em, but with the new office they won't have any choice.
It can be easily understood why the military need this kind of monstrosity. Terrorist attacks worldwide become much more frequent and this tendency is likely to grow.
The question is, why not concentrate the efforts on building a targeted autonomous surveillance drone. Some kind of self-spreading virus-like software, or, better, a piece of hardware tracking every suspicious move and escalating the efforts in all the possible directions. This is no different from manned surveillance, but involves less manpower.
Difficult? Maybe, but much more feasible than building a huge super-expensive network and convincing everybody that the civilians' privacy will not be harmed. Plus, no network can be ubiquitous, so the goal is missed.
Not necessarily. Try this - looks like these guys are trying to simulate human players.