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  1. Re:Fragmentation on What's Not To Like About New iPad? · · Score: 1

    It's simple. Instead of having to include a 1024 image on it's own, i need to include a 2048 image as well. The original image in addition to one four times it's size = an app 5 times the size.

  2. Re:part of the confusion on What's Not To Like About New iPad? · · Score: 1

    When plugged into a PC, an iPad clearly displays "not charging" where the battery indicator normally is (although it's lying, it still does trickle charge). Apple is generally careful to make things as clear as possible to users. You are correct, tho, that the iPad charger is indeed a 1000mA charger.

  3. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    The one party that did advocate expelling the Palestinians is banned by law. If support for such an option was as high as you claim I would think there would likely be more political support. Do you have a poll or something ... some solid evidence of such desires being common amongst Israelis? As for MEMRI's accuracy, your friend might claim it not to be, but a coptic Christian friend of mine claims MEMRI is accurate, and I believe her. I also understand enough arabic to understand words like "martyr" and "jew". MEMRI has also translated lots of stuff from Saudi Clerics and I recall MEMRI doing a piece a while back on a Egyptian TV portrayal of the Protocols of Zion, so your assertion they avoid "allies" would seem to be inaccurate.

  4. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    But what if you believe the Mahdi will stop a counterattack? See. I just don't trust the Ayatollas enough to believe them to be rational about this. They're *probably* deterrable, but there is no guarantee of that. Would you want to risk it if you lived in Israel? At the very least a Nuclear Iran would be incredibly belligerent and support for terrorism would shoot through the roof.

  5. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    Oh yeah. Iran is a fucking paradise. Just ask Youcef Nadarkhani, the pastor sentenced to death for leaving the "religion of peace". Or how about the gays in Iran. Or that software developer. And those are just some recent examples of Iranian hospitality. Oh yeah. Oh so friendly. Let's all listen to useful idiots like Sean Stone who blather on about how Ahmadinejad is just so misunderstood. Such a "misunderstood" country. Such a "misunderstood" religion. I wonder why everybody keeps having these "misunderstandings" resulting in so much death. Couldn't be because a holy book inspires such misunderstanding, could it? Nah. It would be intolerant to think such a thing! Phobic, even!

  6. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    Wait 50 years and Islamist freaks may very well be a majority in Europe. Let's start condemning and boycotting Europe right now for what might happen far off in the future. Hooray for future crime.

  7. Re:Back in 2003 ... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    Israel never signed the NPT. It's one of the three countries that refused, India and Pakistan being the two others.

  8. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    It was an accident. Immediately afterwards, Israel contacted the American embassy and explained what happened. Why would Israel want to alienate a potential ally. No conspiracy theory of the event can possibly come up with a good motive. If Israel wanted to blame Egypt, as is often claimed, why would they take responsibility and why would they use their own planes with Israeli markings? Mistakes happen in war. The same day Israel accidentally bombed one of it's own armored columns. Mistakes still happen. Last year we killed 28 Pakistanis accidentally. The only think going on about the Liberty does is make you look anti-semetic.

  9. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    Not sure i'm the one that's brainwashed here, but nobody who is ever knows. Could be me. Could be you. Sure there are different laws for different nationalities in the west bank. It would be apartheid if the separation was racial, but it's not. It's based on nationality. Sure there are security barriers set up. So what? Since doing so suicide bombings have dwindled to a small fraction of what they once were. It's necessary and it works. Yes, ambulances are stopped. Again, that's only necessary because they've been used for bombings... but really why should the jews care what you think. When the Israelis were living in Gaza, you people complained it was "occupied". When they give into demands and leave, you label the resulting separation "apartheid". No matter how much Israel gives up, it will never be enough. Going back to 1968 borders would then result in demands to go back to 1948 borders and so on. If you've ever looked at a "Palestinian" flag you'll notice it includes all of Israel, not just the West Bank and Gaza. That's the end goal here, though the strategy is gradual. Arafat said as much after Oslo, but nobody in the west seems to listen to what he says in Arabic. Oh well.

  10. Re:Back in 2003 ... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    Clearly the IAEA and UN disagree as they're still demanding to inspect.

  11. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    There is a fair amount of evidence to suggest he knew, including the testimony of Nazis. No, it's not 100% conclusive, but nothing really is. Given his public command to "Kill the Jews wherever you find them", it would hardly be a stretch of the imagination. I noticed you ignored the rest of my post. What do you have to say about Palestinian TV teaching kids to kill jews -- glorifying suicide bombers -- or about Saudi Arabia's current school curriculum teaching the Protocols as fact?

  12. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    Why is it convenient? I would think a stable neighbor with which fruitful trade can be made would be a good thing. What you're pushing sounds a lot like a conspiracy theory with Israel convoluted into the position of a villain. I'm sure the PLO's base of operations (82) or those thousands of unguided rockets fired into civilian areas had nothing to do with that. Nah. Those Jews just wanted to keep the poor oppressed Arabs down. Yeah. That's it.

  13. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    You know what they say about broken clocks.

  14. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    Implying that's happened before? Israel warned AGAINST the Iraq war. It was bush, NOT Israel, that cried wolf. Please stop repeating that tired old big lie first conjured up by Arafat.

  15. Re:Back in 2003 ... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    Not all of Parchin was inspected, specifically not the building alleged to be doing the nuclear research. That part of Parchin was not on the tour. To this day Iran is playing games with inspections of that facility, refusing IAEA and UN inspectors full access. Because parchin has not been inspected fully, you can't possibly claim there has never been any nuclear testing done there.

  16. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    They'd nuke Tel Aviv and Haifa without a second thought. As to how holy Jerusalem is in Islam, that's debatable.

  17. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    Israel never signed the NPT, a voluntary treaty. It has no obligation to follow it.

  18. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    They haven't shot at anyone? Why should they need to. They have plenty of puppets for that. Hesbollah, Hamas, etc... Please don't act like Iran is all innocent in all this. Beiruit? Buenos Aires? Please. Iran is a state sponsor of terror. They're too cowardly to engage in direct warfare.

  19. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    What about Khamenei calling israel a "Cancer" that will be "cut out" the other week. Was that misinterpreted too? Surely there must be some misunderstanding. Nobody has ever wanted to kill the jews for no good reason at all?!? /sarc

  20. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    Apartheid? Please. The reason Palestinians in the west bank are treated differently is because they're governed by a different authority. They are not Israeli citizens. In Israel proper, Israeli Arabs have the exact same rights as everybody else.

  21. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 2

    Totally unprovoked, right? Israel is the bad bad guy who beats it's so much smaller neighbors just because, right? Had nothing to do with those thousands of unguided rockets fired into civilian areas, right?

  22. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    Same reason we invaded Afghanistan. They were harboring terrorists. Only difference is Israel left Lebanon in short order.

  23. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 1

    Yes. The witch burnings were before the US was established as a country.

  24. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 2

    Iran just the other week sentenced a Christian pastor to death for apostasy. Seems to me Iran is just as bad.

  25. Re:Today's dose of fearmongering... on Iran's Smart Concrete Can Cope With Earthquakes and Bombs · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Israel is the only "theocracy" in the middle east I can visit with my partner and not get killed. It's also the only theocracy I could serve in the military. Seems that if Israel is a theocracy, it's a pretty liberal one in comparison to the rest of the middle east. They don't even have the death penalty. Non-jews, including Arab muslims have the exact same rights as Jews in Israel and can even be elected to public office. Where is this theocracy you speak of?