"radical terrorist" is something interesting. That suggests there could be some "moderate terrorist". Anyone encountered that weird kind of terrorist?
That's not what it says though -- it says "radical pro-Israel terrorist". It's an interesting quirk that certain adjectives now appear to be qualifying other adjectives, but it's a perfectly natural phenomenon. Such adjectives are slowly transforming into "bound morphemes" -- almost like prefixes. So "radical" here is a bound morpheme that affects the adjacent word, clarifying that it's non-mainstream pro-Israeli-ism in play.
Bacon is disgusting and hastens your death, Mazel Tov.
Nope, modern preservatives are disgusting and hasten your death. Traditionally cured bacon with no toxic salts is delicious and health. Gura math a theid leat.
The biggest crime of the Jews is the fact of their survival
Seeing that you post here, you're obviously not dead yet, and thus I conclude you've survived so far. Therefore you're guilty of the exact same "crime".
Yes, and the poster is clearly a Jew, and an Israeli. This is what an unfortunately high number of Israelis believe the outside world thinks of them. They have an institutionalised paranoid victim complex. It's sad, and I pity them, but it does not excuse the ongoing and regular atrocities perpetrated by the Israeli government and military.
The biggest crime of the Jews is the fact of their survival, and as such, every person not supporting their demonization, dehumanization, and double standards against Jews and Israel is a terrorist by definition. Truly, how low can those Juice stoop?
What will they think of next...
Calling out Israeli oppression, torture and killing of Palestinians is not demonisation, and it is not dehumanisation. The majority of those who call for the Israeli government and military to be brought before judges in The Hague do not condone the Palestinian suicide bombers, so it is no double standard to say that serving soldiers should not be firing live rounds into school playgrounds.
I feel sorry for the people of Israel, I really do. Prior to World War 2, Europe was a horrible place, defined by xenophobia and division; xenophobia and division that had been managed and manipulated by nation-builders since the Renaissance to create a rabid type of patriotism that medieval kings would have killed for, and which powered the engines of imperial expansion. World War II was the culmination of this philosophy, and the actions of the German Nazi regime shone a mirror on all of us.
World War 2 became a breakpoint, where we had to change, and within Europe we put our energies into building bridges across countries. Before the explosion in mass tourism, town twinning and exchanges were set up so that we would mix across borders and see that people from other countries are human, just like us.
Gradually, over time, we got to the point where countries that had previously been at war practically ceaselessly for centuries were now sitting at a table, putting the final touches onto a plan to share a currency.
The second half of the 20th century was a time of unprecedented peace in Europe, and I feel very lucky to have been born into that.
But unfortunately for the people of Israel, they missed all that. A great many of them left Europe before the reconciliation began, and they have a folk memory that has retained the very worst of the treatment their ancestors received in Europe.
The people of Israel genuinely believe they are reviled by a racist, backward Europe. They believe themselves to be hated with an intensity greater than the animosity shown to (innocent) Muslims in the backlash after the Woolwich attack, an intensity of hate has no currency outside of a few extreme hate groups. They believe this, and they should be pitied for it.
I once heard the Holocaust described as "Europe's dirty little secret." Again, the implication was that Europe hates Jews, and therefore buries this. But the Holocaust is the most widely recognised war atrocities in the world, and one of the most widely discussed features of World War 2. Discussion of the Holocaust centres around the Jews, and what is swept under the carpet is the Gypsies, the Poles, the gays, the disabled... all the other people the Nazis abused institutionally. Oh, and that's not to forget the atrocities committed by the "good guys": the firebombing of Dresden, the looting and pillaging, and the betrayal of the Cossacks at Leinz. The use of nerve agents in WWI, the military tactics that disvalued human life. We have done many bad things and continue to downplay them, but the Holocaust of the Jews is no secret.
So let's get one thing clear: "the Jews" have commited no crime, but the "State of Israel" exists in contravention of international laws, and commits regular atrocities that break those laws. An attack on the State of Israel is not an attack on the Jews.
That said, there is an interesting subcultural twist in certain subsections of American conservatism: they don't necessarily like judaism; but their particular flavor of Christian millennialism requires Jews in order to fulfill assorted 'prophesy' related events shortly before the end times.
Unfortunately this is theologically unsound. The core of this is that the construction of the third template will usher in the Endtimes. But if you believe in the Bible at all, then we are already in the Endtimes, and have been since Jesus "destroyed the Temple and [rebuilt] it in three days" -- Jesus was the third temple.
I think you are part of the problem. If we call everything that is harmful to a civil society terrorism, the word loses its meaning.
However, it has already lost its meaning because white folk are no longer being classed as terrorists. The classic example being Anders Breivik -- when he struck they cried "terrorist". When it turned out he was a white supremacist, the word disappeared.
At first, the Ku Klux Klan focused its anger and violence on African-Americans, on white Americans who stood up for them, and against the federal government which supported their rights. Subsequent incarnations of the Klan, which typically emerged in times of rapid social change, added more categories to its enemies list, including Jews, Catholics (less so after the 1970s), homosexuals, and different groups of immigrants. -- more
Wait... the KKK are anti-catholic?!? Do they not even know their own history? Have they not seen where their outfits come from? Mediterranean Holy Week penitent Catholics....
is this whole thing a joke? why would the terrorists solicit money from jewish organizations? also, doesn't the TSA have similar vans already?
Because they were radical pro-Israel terrorists, perhaps? The real wonder, missing from the summary, is why would they go to the KKK, who are not simply anti-black, but anti-anything-not-caucasian, and therefore quite likely to be anti-Jew...
So no, the jews in this story are not the terrorists, in fact, they are the heroes.
Be careful with that word "heroes", because the summary is incorrect. The article doesn't state that "Jewish organisations" informed the FBI, but "a ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan". Now, are you going to say "the Ku Klux Klan are the heroes"? I hope not.
It lookes like the slashdot editor (samzenpus) is either trying to discredit the jews on purpose or is too stupid to write a decent summary.
If he was trying to "discredit the Jews" he'd hardly have credited them for the KKK's actions in informing the police.
Given the clear amount of hobbyist interest, I find it surprising that the developer SDK isn't free for the EPOC, to encourage development, hence sales. For the EEG, I can understand it -- it's a low volume item, and it's not aimed at consumers.
Are you suggesting that an average Joe wouldn't be able to set up their own massive server farm, crawl the entire internet for huge quantities of data and then serve the results to thousands of users per day? And do this for several years before starting to generate revenue? Are you suggesting this would bankrupt anyone not in a position of privilege to start with?
Eliminating wings is not the way to acheive light weight — reducing the wing weight is. The lightest powered aircraft in the world are paramotors — you can get the full kit at under 20kg (for a light person). Most of that weight (~75%) is the motor — the wing is made of woven fabric. Helicopters are notorious fuel-hogs, because it takes a bucketload of energy to fight gravity by directly generating a counterforce. That means a powerful engine. That means more weight than a wing.
There's a massive amount of work remaining to make direct thrust more efficient than applied aerodynamics, and we're not going to see the results for quite some time....
You think that blowing stuff at a different velocity and volume is different. That's why it's clear you don't know what you're talking about.
Erm.... are you suggesting it isn't? The difference between a legal "firework" and a tightly regulated "explosive" is all down to the velocity and volume of air moved....
The hard part is not getting a bicycle to fly, but to get it to hover with human power.
Well as I haven't learned to trackstand yet, whenever I stop my bicycle I have to place one foot on the ground. If trackstanding is a land-side "hover", most cyclists are used to not having it. I call "unnecessary" and would love to see a production flying push-bike.
the exploiting, the conquering, the war is bad. slavery is none of that. slavery is nothing more than controlling someone else's life. it's often paid, sometimes isn't, and is always optional to both parties. slaves can leave at any time.
I think you're confusing slavery with forced slavery. that's imprisonment and slavery. it's the imprisonment part that's bad.
OK, now you go and write to all the dictionaries, encyclopedias and history books and tell them they're using the word wrong.
I don't think the sentence is any more lenient for unpaid illegal immigrant labour than it is for paid illegal immigrant labour. In most civilisation jurisdictions you can get simultaneously charged with employing illegal/unregistered labour and failure to pay the legal minimum wage. So it's still in your interests to pay.
I too was hoping for something more substantial, like a discussion on the merits of his approach to A.I., etc.
How could we? The interview was without any real substance. I was hoping for something juicy (I've working on some funky NLG-based applications at the moment) but the interview gave no insight into what he's actually doing, and didn't motivate me to look any further.
I like the idea that someone's working on integrating existing command-line apps in novel ways — I wish more people would design their software for an old-school Unix pipes-and-redirects architecture, so that we could play computer Lego instead of fighting with libraries and APIs, but hey-ho....
Here's the lesson to take from this folks: Never listen to the Internet, because no matter what you do, there will be a gigantic dick on the Internet who responds with "meh."
No, the lesson is "If Tim Lord phones asking for an interview, be insulted, because he never interviews anyone interesting or newsworthy."
b) slavery is not a bad thing. your country was built on it. you had a civil war for it too.
Get a grip. You have no idea where I'm from. Clue: my country didn't have a civil war over slavery, but rather over someone dressing inappropriately in church. But yes, my country exploited slaves. My forebearers went overseas and conquered countries and enslaved millions. My country is economically developed because of it, and I have profited from that. But the ends never justifies the means -- slavery is a bad thing.
Yes, they deserve to be paid for their work. Such work is, of course, illegal and they should get deported if caught, and their employers should be jailed. But they should be paid.
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"radical terrorist" is something interesting. That suggests there could be some "moderate terrorist". Anyone encountered that weird kind of terrorist?
That's not what it says though -- it says "radical pro-Israel terrorist". It's an interesting quirk that certain adjectives now appear to be qualifying other adjectives, but it's a perfectly natural phenomenon. Such adjectives are slowly transforming into "bound morphemes" -- almost like prefixes. So "radical" here is a bound morpheme that affects the adjacent word, clarifying that it's non-mainstream pro-Israeli-ism in play.
Bacon is disgusting and hastens your death, Mazel Tov.
Nope, modern preservatives are disgusting and hasten your death. Traditionally cured bacon with no toxic salts is delicious and health. Gura math a theid leat.
And this is relevant how? It sounds dangerously close to apologism....
Seeing that you post here, you're obviously not dead yet, and thus I conclude you've survived so far. Therefore you're guilty of the exact same "crime".
Yes, and the poster is clearly a Jew, and an Israeli. This is what an unfortunately high number of Israelis believe the outside world thinks of them. They have an institutionalised paranoid victim complex. It's sad, and I pity them, but it does not excuse the ongoing and regular atrocities perpetrated by the Israeli government and military.
The biggest crime of the Jews is the fact of their survival, and as such, every person not supporting their demonization, dehumanization, and double standards against Jews and Israel is a terrorist by definition. Truly, how low can those Juice stoop? What will they think of next...
Calling out Israeli oppression, torture and killing of Palestinians is not demonisation, and it is not dehumanisation. The majority of those who call for the Israeli government and military to be brought before judges in The Hague do not condone the Palestinian suicide bombers, so it is no double standard to say that serving soldiers should not be firing live rounds into school playgrounds.
I feel sorry for the people of Israel, I really do. Prior to World War 2, Europe was a horrible place, defined by xenophobia and division; xenophobia and division that had been managed and manipulated by nation-builders since the Renaissance to create a rabid type of patriotism that medieval kings would have killed for, and which powered the engines of imperial expansion. World War II was the culmination of this philosophy, and the actions of the German Nazi regime shone a mirror on all of us.
World War 2 became a breakpoint, where we had to change, and within Europe we put our energies into building bridges across countries. Before the explosion in mass tourism, town twinning and exchanges were set up so that we would mix across borders and see that people from other countries are human, just like us.
Gradually, over time, we got to the point where countries that had previously been at war practically ceaselessly for centuries were now sitting at a table, putting the final touches onto a plan to share a currency.
The second half of the 20th century was a time of unprecedented peace in Europe, and I feel very lucky to have been born into that.
But unfortunately for the people of Israel, they missed all that. A great many of them left Europe before the reconciliation began, and they have a folk memory that has retained the very worst of the treatment their ancestors received in Europe.
The people of Israel genuinely believe they are reviled by a racist, backward Europe. They believe themselves to be hated with an intensity greater than the animosity shown to (innocent) Muslims in the backlash after the Woolwich attack, an intensity of hate has no currency outside of a few extreme hate groups. They believe this, and they should be pitied for it.
I once heard the Holocaust described as "Europe's dirty little secret." Again, the implication was that Europe hates Jews, and therefore buries this. But the Holocaust is the most widely recognised war atrocities in the world, and one of the most widely discussed features of World War 2. Discussion of the Holocaust centres around the Jews, and what is swept under the carpet is the Gypsies, the Poles, the gays, the disabled... all the other people the Nazis abused institutionally. Oh, and that's not to forget the atrocities committed by the "good guys": the firebombing of Dresden, the looting and pillaging, and the betrayal of the Cossacks at Leinz. The use of nerve agents in WWI, the military tactics that disvalued human life. We have done many bad things and continue to downplay them, but the Holocaust of the Jews is no secret.
So let's get one thing clear: "the Jews" have commited no crime, but the "State of Israel" exists in contravention of international laws, and commits regular atrocities that break those laws. An attack on the State of Israel is not an attack on the Jews.
You think the KKK are reasonable people?!? Do you need a hex key, a posidrive or a flat head driver to deal with that loose screw.
That said, there is an interesting subcultural twist in certain subsections of American conservatism: they don't necessarily like judaism; but their particular flavor of Christian millennialism requires Jews in order to fulfill assorted 'prophesy' related events shortly before the end times.
Unfortunately this is theologically unsound. The core of this is that the construction of the third template will usher in the Endtimes. But if you believe in the Bible at all, then we are already in the Endtimes, and have been since Jesus "destroyed the Temple and [rebuilt] it in three days" -- Jesus was the third temple.
I think you are part of the problem. If we call everything that is harmful to a civil society terrorism, the word loses its meaning.
However, it has already lost its meaning because white folk are no longer being classed as terrorists. The classic example being Anders Breivik -- when he struck they cried "terrorist". When it turned out he was a white supremacist, the word disappeared.
At first, the Ku Klux Klan focused its anger and violence on African-Americans, on white Americans who stood up for them, and against the federal government which supported their rights. Subsequent incarnations of the Klan, which typically emerged in times of rapid social change, added more categories to its enemies list, including Jews, Catholics (less so after the 1970s), homosexuals, and different groups of immigrants. -- more
Wait... the KKK are anti-catholic?!? Do they not even know their own history? Have they not seen where their outfits come from? Mediterranean Holy Week penitent Catholics....
is this whole thing a joke? why would the terrorists solicit money from jewish organizations? also, doesn't the TSA have similar vans already?
Because they were radical pro-Israel terrorists, perhaps? The real wonder, missing from the summary, is why would they go to the KKK, who are not simply anti-black, but anti-anything-not-caucasian, and therefore quite likely to be anti-Jew...
So no, the jews in this story are not the terrorists, in fact, they are the heroes.
Be careful with that word "heroes", because the summary is incorrect. The article doesn't state that "Jewish organisations" informed the FBI, but "a ranking member of the Ku Klux Klan". Now, are you going to say "the Ku Klux Klan are the heroes"? I hope not.
It lookes like the slashdot editor (samzenpus) is either trying to discredit the jews on purpose or is too stupid to write a decent summary.
If he was trying to "discredit the Jews" he'd hardly have credited them for the KKK's actions in informing the police.
Given the clear amount of hobbyist interest, I find it surprising that the developer SDK isn't free for the EPOC, to encourage development, hence sales. For the EEG, I can understand it -- it's a low volume item, and it's not aimed at consumers.
Are you suggesting that an average Joe wouldn't be able to set up their own massive server farm, crawl the entire internet for huge quantities of data and then serve the results to thousands of users per day? And do this for several years before starting to generate revenue? Are you suggesting this would bankrupt anyone not in a position of privilege to start with?
Eliminating wings is not the way to acheive light weight — reducing the wing weight is. The lightest powered aircraft in the world are paramotors — you can get the full kit at under 20kg (for a light person). Most of that weight (~75%) is the motor — the wing is made of woven fabric. Helicopters are notorious fuel-hogs, because it takes a bucketload of energy to fight gravity by directly generating a counterforce. That means a powerful engine. That means more weight than a wing.
There's a massive amount of work remaining to make direct thrust more efficient than applied aerodynamics, and we're not going to see the results for quite some time....
You think that blowing stuff at a different velocity and volume is different. That's why it's clear you don't know what you're talking about.
Erm.... are you suggesting it isn't? The difference between a legal "firework" and a tightly regulated "explosive" is all down to the velocity and volume of air moved....
The hard part is not getting a bicycle to fly, but to get it to hover with human power.
Well as I haven't learned to trackstand yet, whenever I stop my bicycle I have to place one foot on the ground. If trackstanding is a land-side "hover", most cyclists are used to not having it. I call "unnecessary" and would love to see a production flying push-bike.
Thank you for the etymology lesson. If we're going to jump into historical linguistics, we're at risk of going even further off topic.
Triple word score.
the exploiting, the conquering, the war is bad. slavery is none of that. slavery is nothing more than controlling someone else's life. it's often paid, sometimes isn't, and is always optional to both parties. slaves can leave at any time.
I think you're confusing slavery with forced slavery. that's imprisonment and slavery. it's the imprisonment part that's bad.
OK, now you go and write to all the dictionaries, encyclopedias and history books and tell them they're using the word wrong.
I don't think the sentence is any more lenient for unpaid illegal immigrant labour than it is for paid illegal immigrant labour. In most civilisation jurisdictions you can get simultaneously charged with employing illegal/unregistered labour and failure to pay the legal minimum wage. So it's still in your interests to pay.
I too was hoping for something more substantial, like a discussion on the merits of his approach to A.I., etc.
How could we? The interview was without any real substance. I was hoping for something juicy (I've working on some funky NLG-based applications at the moment) but the interview gave no insight into what he's actually doing, and didn't motivate me to look any further.
I like the idea that someone's working on integrating existing command-line apps in novel ways — I wish more people would design their software for an old-school Unix pipes-and-redirects architecture, so that we could play computer Lego instead of fighting with libraries and APIs, but hey-ho....
Here's the lesson to take from this folks: Never listen to the Internet, because no matter what you do, there will be a gigantic dick on the Internet who responds with "meh."
No, the lesson is "If Tim Lord phones asking for an interview, be insulted, because he never interviews anyone interesting or newsworthy."
Why do you ask how I feel about the summary and the perl packages?
b) slavery is not a bad thing. your country was built on it. you had a civil war for it too.
Get a grip. You have no idea where I'm from. Clue: my country didn't have a civil war over slavery, but rather over someone dressing inappropriately in church. But yes, my country exploited slaves. My forebearers went overseas and conquered countries and enslaved millions. My country is economically developed because of it, and I have profited from that. But the ends never justifies the means -- slavery is a bad thing.
Yes, they deserve to be paid for their work. Such work is, of course, illegal and they should get deported if caught, and their employers should be jailed. But they should be paid.