It's also well known that the buses targeted by suicide bombers were being used by uniformed members of the IDF for transportation. Did that make them valid military targets?
U.S. spending on defense is not that far off the world average if you compare against GDP
Are you comparable to a Saudi oil sheik worth tens of billions of dollars because you spent a similar percentage on your income on your Honda Accord as he did on his fleet of Bentley's and Bugattis? Probably not. How is the GDP comparison any more valid?
No guidance systems. And by Israeli logic, any target near anyone who works for any part of the government, or any kind of "militant", is fair game.
with shrapnel-heavy warhead that is designed specifically to cause death to as many unarmored "soft" targets in the area as possible - basically, to maximize civilian casualties.
So maximized they hadn't killed a single person in almost three years. Try again.
Hamas is a race now?
Hamas is trying to steal land from people on another continent now?
That's funny... last I checked, they are internationally recognized as a terrorist organization.
That's funny, since Hamas was created by Israel to oppose Fatah. Like the wingers that complain about Iran's theocracy, racist Zionists and their supporters need to start with the nearest mirror.
Which other countries have been created by superpowers, for the benefit of wannabe settlers not even from said superpowers? Australia might have been created by the British, from lands stolen from Aboriginees, but it wasn't done so the Romani could have a homeland of their own.
Speaking of the Romani, they were also slaughtered by the Nazis in the Holocaust. Where's their homeland?
The victims of land theft can make it stop any time by giving into the occupiers and, as Mitt Romney put it, self deporting? Thanks, it's rare for you racist colonists to be so honest in your pursuit of ethnic cleansing.
There seems to be a bit of a disconnection here. I simply pointed out the problem where some Iranians and Saudis are sending weapons just like that dickhead who used to run the NSA sent money to the IRA
Disconnection: not looking at the billions in free military hardware given by the U.S. to an apartheid state, turning it into one of the world's top military powers, to focus on gunpowder rockets with the finest unguided missile technology available from the 14th century, given to the oppressed.
Israeli airstrikes are a response to Palestinian aggression. Were it not for the rocket attacks, Israel would not have launched air strikes.
Every racist colonialist nazi shitbag motherfucker throughout history has excused their aggression and genocide by pretending to be the victim. English colonialists did it to the Peqout indians, the Dutch did it to the Zulu tribes, and European Zionists have been doing it to the Palestinians for over 70 years.
The entire thing started because Israeli teenagers were kidnapped and murdered.
Not when the IDF straight up murdered two Palestinian kids the month before? But okay, lets start your timeline with the three Israeli teens kidnapped in the West Bank. Why then, did Israel start arresting people and bulldozing homes in Gaza? Speaking of, why aren't you demanding that Hamas be allowed to arrest anyone they want in Tel Aviv as well as bulldoze hundreds of Israeli homes for the Palestinian kid that was burned to death?
Hamas is committed to the death of all Jews - it's right in the Hamas charter.
Why don't you try reading it some time, as no such stipulation exists. The propaganda you tried to whip out is calling for the end of the Zionist regime, which the victims of land theft and occupation are entitled to do. But while you're reading the Hamas Charter, read the Likud Charter while you're at it, which lays claim to all of the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Israel may not be perfect, but let's not pretend that the Palestinians are just innocent victims in all this.
Serves them right for being on Zionist land before they got there, right? You are supporting racist colonialism and Apartheid.
Why do you feel you have to defend yourself against accusations like this? Have they been leveled at you? Perhaps if they have, you should "defend" yourself by knocking that shit off?
Well, AC, the answer to that question entirely depends on when you stopped beating your wife.
Smallpox sent in soldiers to burn crops and kill women and children in villages? Wiped out entire tribes or forced them to travel hundreds of miles on death marches?
I trust you'll be relieved to read this paper: Did the U.S. Army Distribute Smallpox Blankets to Indians? Fabrication and Falsification in Ward Churchill's Genocide Rhetoric
Reading? How'd you manage to take all those propaganda electives at Imperialist Psychopath High School without nailing down basic reading comprehension? Nobody's talking about infecting tribes with smallpox but you and your fellow genocide excuser, HornWumpus. Smallpox wasn't paying bounties on the scalps taken from natives with a "discount" for children under the age of 12. Smallpox didn't send the cavalry off to massacre tribes that had been allies, much less ones that fought back in response to having their land and lives taken by force.
And which "holocaust" was that? You'll have to be more explicit about which faÃade you are referring to.
Doubling down on insulting your own intelligence as well as mine? The formation and expansion of the United States was impossible without the organized mass slaughter of any native tribe that dared to try and hold onto their lands in the face of colonialist aggression.
Are you perchance "rabidly anti-Zionist"? You certainly seem to have a sort of European slant to your thinking on these matters.
You mean you'd like to deflect from your racist colonialism and imperalism. Too bad, as I am always for the oppressed: the Seminoles that were first slaughtered by the Spanish and then English settlers; the Africans taken as slaves, the Jews that were forced into ghettos by the Popes; the Palestinians murdered by Zionists wanting their lands. I am always against the oppressor: the rich taking all the land and charging rent from the poor; the slavemaster; the Inquisition; the IDF occupation that has even used starvation as a collective punishment alongside it's many many other crimes against humanity.
Which is why I have a problem with you, cold fjord: you are one evil fuck who makes it his personal business to defend the worst actions of humanity.
by exaggerating the cost of every single externality beyond all logical bounds
You mean "count them at all". Every penny in solar must be counted, from mining materials through installation. But the side effects of fossil fuels - ones that have been with us for some time now, not future hypotheticals - are discounted. Floods, droughts, fires, famine, pollution - are not allowed into the storyline.
As I said, I'm talking about other people that have kids, Slick. People that use "because I said so" at the end of the conversation instead of at the beginning, because they know they're raising kids and not robots.
Which (gasp) didn't exist when I was a child and yet somehow we managed without.
And (gasp) cars only got 15 mpg back then so why would anyone (gasp) want something with (gasp) higher mileage today? Gasp gasp gasp gasp!
The first vehicles recognizable as a modern minivan came on the market in 1984 and I was close to driving age by then.
And for thousands of years people got around by horseback. WYFP.
We owned an econoline van when
Yuppie snobs for not driving a bus, which predate the ecoline by decades!
A minivan is a convenience for hauling a family, not a necessity.
Your choices for hauling more than 5-6 people with gear are a van, a three row SUV, or two vehicles. But maybe taking two 30 mpg cars instead of a single 25 mpg vehicle makes more sense in this willfully obtuse bubble of snobbery you've constructed.
A tip usually isn't enough for a search warrant....which would require an arrest warrant, with an even higher burden of proof, and a prosecutor that thinks they can make a case on more than just a few pictures of you not even taken in your house. That's not very Scottish, either.
Except cops and prosecutors do worse than that, with less evidence to start with, on a regular basis. With "tips" based on information the cops either made up or acquired illegally, and the judge signs off on the warrant using the "confidential informant" excuse.
Which (gasp) you don't need to do if you have, say......a minivan. And it's still odd that you chuckle at people saying they need a van immediately after laying out reasons why some people need a pickup instead of an SUV.
netflix listened to customer feedback when they tried to spin off their disc rentals to another company. so call them and give them feedback. they are easy to reach by phone. if you dont complain to them please dont whine on slashdot
Whining about whining. It's not likely that Netflix is announcing this degradation in service with a great deal of fanfare or customer notification, so at least a portion of those customer service phone calls will not happen without said Netflix customer reading about this change from a different source.
A Jeep Grand Cherokee with the diesel option will get around 30mpg on the highway and seat up to 7.
Unfortunately, a third row seat is not an option on the Cherokee, so the max seating is five. Unfortunate because the engine provides good towing capacity in addition to mileage, so it would be nice if Chrysler made it an option for the Durango, which does have a third row.
I kind of laugh when I hear people say they "need" a minivan. Amazing how those of us who predate minivans somehow managed to survive. They're a great tool but hardly a necessity. The car my family had when I was growing up was a sports coupe. We took all the family trips and got all our gear in it too.
Do you do said laughter right after highlighting the different capabilities of trucks and SUV's, as you just did above? You weren't hauling 7 people plus gear in that sports coupe, at least not safely.
It always seems like you're on the side of the government, whether it's the NSA or what have you.
Often, yes. You see, I actually understand the design of the US government. It's built to continually revise and improve, and it's been doing so for over 200 years.
Sounds like a statist. But having secret laws, secret courts, and vast portions of the government operate outside the consent of the governed isn't an improvement, it's anti-ethical to a democracy.
How would your neighbors feel about it, knowing that you could be seen kidnapping their children, and the police could do nothing because they wouldn't know what room they're being held in? Sure, the examples are hypothetical
Example isn't Scottish. Let's fix it: a nosy neighbor reports you to the police for luring the underaged to your house, and so the cops get a warrant and search it. You produce the receipt for your recently purchased Girl Scout cookies, footage from the CCTV camera installed at your front door, and the girl's mother verifies your story: Sally was there to give you your Thin Mints and never set foot inside your house.
But they had a warrant! So they remove all your photo albums and find the pictures of you sitting on a couch made out of bags filled with marijuana, and bring you up on drug charges. Case is dismissed after you prove the photos were taken in Amsterdam three years ago, but by then your house and possessions were sold under asset forfeiture laws.
The White House should respond by providing links to state and federal representatives if they want the law changed.
And I would respond that state and federal representatives aren't leaders of the Democratic Party - Obama is. The president is also free to submit any legislation he wants to Congress, and then use the bully pulpit - only held by the sitting president - to urge it's passing.
Or if he wants to play hardball, threaten Congress that he'll start vetoing legislation until he gives in or they do. It's one of the ways Bush pushed telecom immunity through Congress when said immunity was deeply unpopular with the public.
That is a very simplistic view of a very complex subject.
Just because you want to dismiss it out of hand doesn't mean it's inaccurate.
That would mean that anything that is produced out of state would be federally regulated and that is completely untrue.
The trading of said goods can be regulated by the feds, that's the entire purpose of the Commerce Clause. To prevent states from screwing around blocking trade across state lines for petty protectionist reasons....like states blocking direct sales of cars to consumers.
For example California has certain emission standards and they are applied to all vehicles sold in California.
Standards set by California, not the feds. And no, that's not a petty protectionist reason, but a technical one. Still, the feds could step in and tell California that they'll take their smog and like it - but they've chosen not to.
Seeings as where just about any politician that mentions the free market gets dismissed by the mass media and folks like you as fringe and dangerous? I don't know, where do you expect them to be.
This isn't hard...the average elected Republican no more gives a shit about having a "free market" than he cares about banning abortion - it's the same hot air for the base. You can see this any time the Free Market Fairy starts to pose a danger to corporate profits, as Republicans rush to pass laws to support the monied interests that own the party.
And no, I don't expect your average Democratic governor to be better on this issue than Chris Christie, who moved to protect the fiefdoms of the dealers. They are bought as well, but at least they don't spend the rest of their time beating their chests about how much they love the Free Market Fairy.
Minis and the iTrash aren't a substitute for a rack mounted server with redundant power supplies. Apple, it would be couch money for you to continue this product as well as a 17" laptop line, even if they aren't big sellers.
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It's also well known that the buses targeted by suicide bombers were being used by uniformed members of the IDF for transportation. Did that make them valid military targets?
Are you comparable to a Saudi oil sheik worth tens of billions of dollars because you spent a similar percentage on your income on your Honda Accord as he did on his fleet of Bentley's and Bugattis? Probably not. How is the GDP comparison any more valid?
Disproportionate response is a war crime.
No guidance systems. And by Israeli logic, any target near anyone who works for any part of the government, or any kind of "militant", is fair game.
So maximized they hadn't killed a single person in almost three years. Try again.
Hamas is trying to steal land from people on another continent now?
That's funny, since Hamas was created by Israel to oppose Fatah. Like the wingers that complain about Iran's theocracy, racist Zionists and their supporters need to start with the nearest mirror.
Which other countries have been created by superpowers, for the benefit of wannabe settlers not even from said superpowers? Australia might have been created by the British, from lands stolen from Aboriginees, but it wasn't done so the Romani could have a homeland of their own.
Speaking of the Romani, they were also slaughtered by the Nazis in the Holocaust. Where's their homeland?
The victims of land theft can make it stop any time by giving into the occupiers and, as Mitt Romney put it, self deporting? Thanks, it's rare for you racist colonists to be so honest in your pursuit of ethnic cleansing.
Disconnection: not looking at the billions in free military hardware given by the U.S. to an apartheid state, turning it into one of the world's top military powers, to focus on gunpowder rockets with the finest unguided missile technology available from the 14th century, given to the oppressed.
Every racist colonialist nazi shitbag motherfucker throughout history has excused their aggression and genocide by pretending to be the victim. English colonialists did it to the Peqout indians, the Dutch did it to the Zulu tribes, and European Zionists have been doing it to the Palestinians for over 70 years.
Not when the IDF straight up murdered two Palestinian kids the month before? But okay, lets start your timeline with the three Israeli teens kidnapped in the West Bank. Why then, did Israel start arresting people and bulldozing homes in Gaza? Speaking of, why aren't you demanding that Hamas be allowed to arrest anyone they want in Tel Aviv as well as bulldoze hundreds of Israeli homes for the Palestinian kid that was burned to death?
Why don't you try reading it some time, as no such stipulation exists. The propaganda you tried to whip out is calling for the end of the Zionist regime, which the victims of land theft and occupation are entitled to do. But while you're reading the Hamas Charter, read the Likud Charter while you're at it, which lays claim to all of the West Bank and Jerusalem.
Serves them right for being on Zionist land before they got there, right? You are supporting racist colonialism and Apartheid.
WHOOOOOOOOOSH
Well, AC, the answer to that question entirely depends on when you stopped beating your wife.
Reading? How'd you manage to take all those propaganda electives at Imperialist Psychopath High School without nailing down basic reading comprehension? Nobody's talking about infecting tribes with smallpox but you and your fellow genocide excuser, HornWumpus. Smallpox wasn't paying bounties on the scalps taken from natives with a "discount" for children under the age of 12. Smallpox didn't send the cavalry off to massacre tribes that had been allies, much less ones that fought back in response to having their land and lives taken by force.
Doubling down on insulting your own intelligence as well as mine? The formation and expansion of the United States was impossible without the organized mass slaughter of any native tribe that dared to try and hold onto their lands in the face of colonialist aggression.
You mean you'd like to deflect from your racist colonialism and imperalism. Too bad, as I am always for the oppressed: the Seminoles that were first slaughtered by the Spanish and then English settlers; the Africans taken as slaves, the Jews that were forced into ghettos by the Popes; the Palestinians murdered by Zionists wanting their lands. I am always against the oppressor: the rich taking all the land and charging rent from the poor; the slavemaster; the Inquisition; the IDF occupation that has even used starvation as a collective punishment alongside it's many many other crimes against humanity.
Which is why I have a problem with you, cold fjord: you are one evil fuck who makes it his personal business to defend the worst actions of humanity.
False.
You mean "count them at all". Every penny in solar must be counted, from mining materials through installation. But the side effects of fossil fuels - ones that have been with us for some time now, not future hypotheticals - are discounted. Floods, droughts, fires, famine, pollution - are not allowed into the storyline.
As I said, I'm talking about other people that have kids, Slick. People that use "because I said so" at the end of the conversation instead of at the beginning, because they know they're raising kids and not robots.
And (gasp) cars only got 15 mpg back then so why would anyone (gasp) want something with (gasp) higher mileage today? Gasp gasp gasp gasp!
And for thousands of years people got around by horseback. WYFP.
Yuppie snobs for not driving a bus, which predate the ecoline by decades!
Your choices for hauling more than 5-6 people with gear are a van, a three row SUV, or two vehicles. But maybe taking two 30 mpg cars instead of a single 25 mpg vehicle makes more sense in this willfully obtuse bubble of snobbery you've constructed.
Except cops and prosecutors do worse than that, with less evidence to start with, on a regular basis. With "tips" based on information the cops either made up or acquired illegally, and the judge signs off on the warrant using the "confidential informant" excuse.
Except that was the point to begin with: warrants are limited in scope for a reason.
Which (gasp) you don't need to do if you have, say......a minivan. And it's still odd that you chuckle at people saying they need a van immediately after laying out reasons why some people need a pickup instead of an SUV.
Whining about whining. It's not likely that Netflix is announcing this degradation in service with a great deal of fanfare or customer notification, so at least a portion of those customer service phone calls will not happen without said Netflix customer reading about this change from a different source.
Like Slashdot.
Every time some authoritarian parent is questioned about their actions, the first thing out of their mouths is "well, do you have kids?"
Or they assuredly have, which is why they can tell that the three year old isn't necessarily the one being childish, stubborn, selfish or petty.
Unfortunately, a third row seat is not an option on the Cherokee, so the max seating is five. Unfortunate because the engine provides good towing capacity in addition to mileage, so it would be nice if Chrysler made it an option for the Durango, which does have a third row.
Do you do said laughter right after highlighting the different capabilities of trucks and SUV's, as you just did above? You weren't hauling 7 people plus gear in that sports coupe, at least not safely.
Sounds like a statist. But having secret laws, secret courts, and vast portions of the government operate outside the consent of the governed isn't an improvement, it's anti-ethical to a democracy.
Example isn't Scottish. Let's fix it: a nosy neighbor reports you to the police for luring the underaged to your house, and so the cops get a warrant and search it. You produce the receipt for your recently purchased Girl Scout cookies, footage from the CCTV camera installed at your front door, and the girl's mother verifies your story: Sally was there to give you your Thin Mints and never set foot inside your house.
But they had a warrant! So they remove all your photo albums and find the pictures of you sitting on a couch made out of bags filled with marijuana, and bring you up on drug charges. Case is dismissed after you prove the photos were taken in Amsterdam three years ago, but by then your house and possessions were sold under asset forfeiture laws.
And I would respond that state and federal representatives aren't leaders of the Democratic Party - Obama is. The president is also free to submit any legislation he wants to Congress, and then use the bully pulpit - only held by the sitting president - to urge it's passing.
Or if he wants to play hardball, threaten Congress that he'll start vetoing legislation until he gives in or they do. It's one of the ways Bush pushed telecom immunity through Congress when said immunity was deeply unpopular with the public.
Just because you want to dismiss it out of hand doesn't mean it's inaccurate.
The trading of said goods can be regulated by the feds, that's the entire purpose of the Commerce Clause. To prevent states from screwing around blocking trade across state lines for petty protectionist reasons....like states blocking direct sales of cars to consumers.
Standards set by California, not the feds. And no, that's not a petty protectionist reason, but a technical one. Still, the feds could step in and tell California that they'll take their smog and like it - but they've chosen not to.
This isn't hard...the average elected Republican no more gives a shit about having a "free market" than he cares about banning abortion - it's the same hot air for the base. You can see this any time the Free Market Fairy starts to pose a danger to corporate profits, as Republicans rush to pass laws to support the monied interests that own the party.
And no, I don't expect your average Democratic governor to be better on this issue than Chris Christie, who moved to protect the fiefdoms of the dealers. They are bought as well, but at least they don't spend the rest of their time beating their chests about how much they love the Free Market Fairy.
Minis and the iTrash aren't a substitute for a rack mounted server with redundant power supplies. Apple, it would be couch money for you to continue this product as well as a 17" laptop line, even if they aren't big sellers.