Because we want to think that we're "cool" I don't know about you, I listen to music in the car because it's boring and tedious without it. It's also pretty much the only opportunity during the day to sit down and listen to music - some of us have jobs, small apartments and kids that need to sleep. Thankfully, driving and listening to music tend to not clash with each other (as opposed to, say, having a phone conversation while driving).
So I prefer my car music to be of the highest quality possible. For example, I am really pissed off at cars such as mine, that have an in-dash CD player that cannot be replaced, does not play anything other than plain CDDA and has no means to connect an external input without taking it apart. An FM broadcaster just doesn't cut it as far as I'm concerned.
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Oh, and I like the x-Bender quotes... too bad nobody can see them:)
Did you read the entry about Yitzhak Rabin? He was one of the terrorist founders of Israel! Did you read the entry? Where exactly does it say he was a terrorist? I do see that he was a prominent member of the Palmach, which was an underground defensive military operation but in no way a terrorist organization.
You also insinuate that Israel was founded by terrorists, when in fact David Ben Gurion and his party, founders of the State, were socialist leftists and were severely opposed to terrorism in general and the Irgun in particular (look up "Altalena"). Leaders of the Irgun (which was a terrorist organization) such as Menachem Begin, who continued into politics, were in the minority for decades.
They don't have to worry about profiling, discrimination, or civil rights. Israel is not a country of equal rights. Israel has given its Arab citizens full civil and social rights since day one, and exempted them from obligations such as the otherwise mandatory military service. There are Arabs in the local Parliament, and a few years ago an Arab, Azmi Bishara, ran for Prime Minister and could theoretically have been voted into office had he not withdrawn a couple of days before the elections.
The different treatment that Arabs receive at Ben Gurion Airport has recently been contested in court and found to be illegal. Exactly how this will change the security measures I don't know, but the last thing you can say about Israel is that they "don't care about civil rights". How you got a +3 Informative is beyond me.
On the contrary, it could theoretically work, as most Arabs would not pass the test because they cannot pronounce the phoneme for "o". It would sound like an "oo" sound. Actually, a better test would be to say the name Peugeot; Arabs cannot usually pronounce any of the phonemes required, and would say "bee-joo" ('j' like a soft 'g').
In practice this method is not used, as someone intending to cheat could simply learn how to say these words properly.
Nonsense. I've seen this in various places on Wikipedia, and there is no such thing. If you ask an Israeli Hebrew speaker what the word "shibboleth" means to them, they will tell you it is a cereal and/or one of the components of nature foods like granola. It is not a means to discover one's origin, and it is not a name for any such means.
You don't need to call anyone. If you had actually read the advisory you may have noticed that "if the battery identification number does not contain 26 characters, it is not subject to this product advisory".
I'm no expert on things like city planning, but I'm sure the various bureaucratic obstacles can be overcome if and when the demand exists. As for the parking meter itself, it could, for example, identify your car via a data link (it won't be just power going through the line connecting to your car) and bill you electronically. An alternative method that would negate this problem (although not relevant for the particular battery leasing model described here) would be a completely different model for supplying energy to the car: gas stations would replace your depleted battery with a fully charged battery (for the cost of electricity and handling), eliminating the need for a car to ever need to be recharged by its owner. This would of course raise other issues (what if a certain gas station gave you a crappy battery, etc).
This is certainly a chicken/egg problem, there may be an initial time period where having such a car is not very convenient and you'd only be able to refill at home, but things would gradually change if and when enough of these are on the road.
Do you think cities are going to put outputs in front of every parking spot in a city? Who is going to pay to install them? Who is paying for electricity used to recharge the cars? You don't have parking meters where you live, do you? You'd have the same thing, but with an electrical outlet. You will pay for the electricity. The city will make money off it, paying for the initial setup.
I know the MD5 algorithm, and I can execute the GetTimeInMillis() call, and I know the range and rate of change. Is that what you do while listening to your music? I air-drum, and I thought I was weird.
It makes no practical difference. Do you avoid death in your daily life? Why? If you knew that you could do something that would appear, from your perspective, to be exactly the same as really dying, but would leave a replica of you living from the perspective of others, would you do it?
You're just arguing about the order in which things occur. It doesn't matter if the original is destroyed along with the creation of the duplicate, or a few seconds after. You're still dead. The duplicate will either be a conscious human or a Philosophical Zombie, there's no way to tell. Your friends and family will still think it's you, but you will have the same experience as a person dying.
I didn't ask for news stories, I asked for headlines. None of the headlines you showed me say that an Israeli woman was killed. Read it to yourself out loud if you need to: "Israeli air strikes kill 5 in Gaza; woman dies in rocket blast". Who's the woman?
On Monday evening a Qassam missile fell in Sderot, killing a woman. Please, find me one single headline, in any non-Israeli newspaper, that mentioned this.
The tomb of the Patriarchs, a holy site to all 3 faiths, is closed to non-Jews. Complete and utter nonsense, there are actualy plenty of places within that Tomb to which Jews may not even enter most of the time. An even more extreme example is the Temple Mount, where a Jewish person may only enter in organized, highly policed groups - and saying Jewish prayers is illegal. If you are seen by a policeman (yes, an Israeli Jewish policeman) doing as much as muttering to yourself under your breath you can get arrested. All in the name of keeping the peace.
Turkey is threatening to invade Kurdistan, citing the reasons Israel gave with its Lebanon war. Go read the second paragraph here. I do not know what is going on between Turkey and the Kurds, but if the latter are shelling the Turks' cities and kidnapping and killing their soldiers, then it's a pretty legitimate reason to retaliate. To be honest I am quite baffled as to what you were trying to say here.
...unilateral strategies and border disputes... Not very familiar with this region's history, are you? For the past 15 years Israel has been trying every conceivable way to disassociate itself from Gaza and the West Bank. With all attempts for a bilateral agreement failing, the recent strategy has been to unilaterally end the occupation of Gaza, destroy every Jewish settlement (throwing thousands of people out of their homes), remove all military presence and relinquish control of the territory to the Palestinians. And they still get electricity, water and employment from us. And for this all we get is... daily missiles on our cities and criticism from people such as yourself. Really, what more do you want?
I'm happy that Israel has so much going for it, but there's still room for criticism. Criticism is a good thing. Please, by all means, criticize a country for its bad actions. You are still avoiding my main question: whenever Israel is criticized, mentioned, or even thought about, the argument will always drag into whether the country has the right to exist. This does not happen with any other country on the planet. For any crime you can think of that Israel has (or allegedly has) committed, I can find you another country that has done ten times worse, but its right to exist is not questioned.
As Bill O'Reilly says, you cant deflect the blame by pointing out others did it. Who's deflecting blame? I did not say that Israel is an innocent sheep that has never committed a crime. What I said is that there are tens of cases of much, much worse atrocities being committed in the world, but no one says anything. Why is Israel not judged on equal grounds?
Israel is a big deal because it's in a strategic area It is the historic homeland of the Jewish people. People don't get up and choose a different place because their home is too "strategic".
and destabilizing the region, Arab governments deflect criticism by pointing to them You got your cause and effect switched around, but correct. Indeed Israel is the scapegoat of all the world's troubles, how convenient!
it's a Holy site for Muslims and Christians and Jews ...and the Jews are in control, which means that everybody gets access to their holy sites. Try that under Arab rule.
Israel is being a bad role model to the developing world, etc. WTF? We are a developed country with a general standard of living not much different to Europe. Our government is democratically elected, we have free press, dirty politicians are quickly brought to justice. Our law system does not discriminate based on race, religion or sex - an Arab citizen may vote and be voted to the Parliament. If you use a laptop, it's likely its CPU was designed (as opposed to manufactured) here. If you consider Israel a "developing" nation, then we are a shining beacon.
they're not everywhere, but they do exist. That could be said for any country on the planet, which is exactly what I meant. In any case Israel is not blamed for media copyright infringement in this report.
So what? Since when are generic drugs considered illegal piracy? I still don't understand why Israel is on the list, we do not have rampant piracy here and there aren't shady stands selling pirated CDs in street corners. I could find no further explanation in TFA nor in the USTR website. Does anyone have any information on this?
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Because we want to think that we're "cool" I don't know about you, I listen to music in the car because it's boring and tedious without it. It's also pretty much the only opportunity during the day to sit down and listen to music - some of us have jobs, small apartments and kids that need to sleep. Thankfully, driving and listening to music tend to not clash with each other (as opposed to, say, having a phone conversation while driving).
So I prefer my car music to be of the highest quality possible. For example, I am really pissed off at cars such as mine, that have an in-dash CD player that cannot be replaced, does not play anything other than plain CDDA and has no means to connect an external input without taking it apart. An FM broadcaster just doesn't cut it as far as I'm concerned.
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Oh, and I like the x-Bender quotes... too bad nobody can see them
You also insinuate that Israel was founded by terrorists, when in fact David Ben Gurion and his party, founders of the State, were socialist leftists and were severely opposed to terrorism in general and the Irgun in particular (look up "Altalena"). Leaders of the Irgun (which was a terrorist organization) such as Menachem Begin, who continued into politics, were in the minority for decades.
The different treatment that Arabs receive at Ben Gurion Airport has recently been contested in court and found to be illegal. Exactly how this will change the security measures I don't know, but the last thing you can say about Israel is that they "don't care about civil rights". How you got a +3 Informative is beyond me.
On the contrary, it could theoretically work, as most Arabs would not pass the test because they cannot pronounce the phoneme for "o". It would sound like an "oo" sound. Actually, a better test would be to say the name Peugeot; Arabs cannot usually pronounce any of the phonemes required, and would say "bee-joo" ('j' like a soft 'g').
In practice this method is not used, as someone intending to cheat could simply learn how to say these words properly.
Nonsense. I've seen this in various places on Wikipedia, and there is no such thing. If you ask an Israeli Hebrew speaker what the word "shibboleth" means to them, they will tell you it is a cereal and/or one of the components of nature foods like granola. It is not a means to discover one's origin, and it is not a name for any such means.
You don't need to call anyone. If you had actually read the advisory you may have noticed that "if the battery identification number does not contain 26 characters, it is not subject to this product advisory".
I'm no expert on things like city planning, but I'm sure the various bureaucratic obstacles can be overcome if and when the demand exists. As for the parking meter itself, it could, for example, identify your car via a data link (it won't be just power going through the line connecting to your car) and bill you electronically. An alternative method that would negate this problem (although not relevant for the particular battery leasing model described here) would be a completely different model for supplying energy to the car: gas stations would replace your depleted battery with a fully charged battery (for the cost of electricity and handling), eliminating the need for a car to ever need to be recharged by its owner. This would of course raise other issues (what if a certain gas station gave you a crappy battery, etc).
This is certainly a chicken/egg problem, there may be an initial time period where having such a car is not very convenient and you'd only be able to refill at home, but things would gradually change if and when enough of these are on the road.
You don't have parking meters where you live, do you? You'd have the same thing, but with an electrical outlet. You will pay for the electricity. The city will make money off it, paying for the initial setup.
The two nations that have put people on the moon
You are of course referring to the United States and America?
What the summary fails to mention is that this growth comes at the expense of XP - not Mac OS - with Windows usage overall remaining constant.
There is, really, nothing to see here. Yawn.
..and what does "loose ground" mean, anyway? Some kind of freak geological phenomenon?
It makes no practical difference. Do you avoid death in your daily life? Why? If you knew that you could do something that would appear, from your perspective, to be exactly the same as really dying, but would leave a replica of you living from the perspective of others, would you do it?
You're just arguing about the order in which things occur. It doesn't matter if the original is destroyed along with the creation of the duplicate, or a few seconds after. You're still dead. The duplicate will either be a conscious human or a Philosophical Zombie, there's no way to tell. Your friends and family will still think it's you, but you will have the same experience as a person dying.
I didn't ask for news stories, I asked for headlines. None of the headlines you showed me say that an Israeli woman was killed. Read it to yourself out loud if you need to: "Israeli air strikes kill 5 in Gaza; woman dies in rocket blast". Who's the woman?
Actually, I'd like to invite you to a challenge.
On Monday evening a Qassam missile fell in Sderot, killing a woman. Please, find me one single headline, in any non-Israeli newspaper, that mentioned this.
...unilateral strategies and border disputes... Not very familiar with this region's history, are you? For the past 15 years Israel has been trying every conceivable way to disassociate itself from Gaza and the West Bank. With all attempts for a bilateral agreement failing, the recent strategy has been to unilaterally end the occupation of Gaza, destroy every Jewish settlement (throwing thousands of people out of their homes), remove all military presence and relinquish control of the territory to the Palestinians. And they still get electricity, water and employment from us. And for this all we get is... daily missiles on our cities and criticism from people such as yourself. Really, what more do you want? I'm happy that Israel has so much going for it, but there's still room for criticism. Criticism is a good thing. Please, by all means, criticize a country for its bad actions. You are still avoiding my main question: whenever Israel is criticized, mentioned, or even thought about, the argument will always drag into whether the country has the right to exist. This does not happen with any other country on the planet. For any crime you can think of that Israel has (or allegedly has) committed, I can find you another country that has done ten times worse, but its right to exist is not questioned.This is a map of recent pirate attacks against boats at sea. What does this have to do with this discussion?
I spoke too soon. The full report is right here (PDF) and indeed refers to Israel's policy on pharmaceutical patent protection.
So what? Since when are generic drugs considered illegal piracy? I still don't understand why Israel is on the list, we do not have rampant piracy here and there aren't shady stands selling pirated CDs in street corners. I could find no further explanation in TFA nor in the USTR website. Does anyone have any information on this?