They "chose" to leave in 1948? Most were fleeing with good reason. The Irgun Stern (Stern-gang) alone was responsible for killing hundreds of man, women and children when they didn't want to leave. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Yassin_massacre . The news of the massacre caused a lof of other people to flee (and probably rightly so). Considering this to be voluntary is... well, I'd do a comparison with the Kristallnacht but that would be a Godwin violation. I think you get the picture.
Displacing people isn't genocide. Look up the definition.
That having said... the acts commited by the Irgun Stern during that time, however, were war crimes pure and simple. Sabra and Shatilah, same thing. The shelling of refugees hiding around a UN outpost, perfectly well known to the commanders that opened fire with artillery - same thing. Shelling civilians with white phosphorus - another one.
Not genocidal, no - don't make the stupid mistake of confusing a war crime with an act of genocide. But they are war crimes, without a doubt.
I don't need a degree in psychology to see you have issues.
You post (and respond to my post with) an incoherent and rambling post that looks like a "stream of consciousness" posting from a consciousness that isn't very coherent. That's a warning sign for trouble if ever I saw one. Especially the use of bold and capitals.
If you want people to actually read your post and take it serious, stop using weird interpunction, bold, and capitalization. Try to write a few coherent sentences with a start, an end, and an actual point.
For instance, you could have replied to me like this: "Hey, you're not a licensed psychiatrist so leave your comments somewhere else, 'kay?". That's short, concise and to the point. Your post... is not.
I don't keep anything in the same left side pocket as my phone. It's a Motorola RAZR so it folds shut. No accidental phonecalls. Also, no damage to the screen since it's closed when pocketed.
And even if it wasn't, I'd still carry it there. I'd pretty much rather lose my phone than ever carry it on the outside. I'm not 70 yet.
Your statements in both posts are seriously out of date and out of touch with reality. The idea that you need to handcode everything, is about as outdated as the dinosaurs. It reminds me of the Luddites.
Are there people who depend on the tool because they can't write things manually? Certainly. I wouldn't know where to start if I had to write a.Net app in notepad. I'm not doing daily stuff in.Net so I rely on the syntax-checks and everything. Who cares - it's not as if.Net is all I know, it's just one more tool to abstract the Turing Machine underlying everything.
What matters is that I deploy working applications within days of starting and can spend most of my time doing the things that really matter: gathering requirements and designing the database - as opposed to writing reams of code that have been done a few thousand times before me. Anyone wasting his or her time using notepad (or emacs or vi) writing standard code for standard stuff when there are tools that are available to automate the process is just being silly (and expensive).
As an illustration, I actually had a client last year that wanted me to write all the ETL for their datawarehouse in Oracle PL/SQL because that way "they could see if using an ETL tool was really necessary". Well, after 6 months guess what the verdict was. That little joke cost them a lot of money. Although for staging the data to the DataVault is was actually pretty effective to use PL/SQL:)
Now one thing I *do* agree upon: people who have never used anything BUT a single tool... are not really what I'd consider IT experts. Deriding the tool because of the competence of the userbase, however, is like blaming a hammer for hitting your finger: it may relieve frustration but it doesn't make you look smart.
It really irritates the heck out of me - as freelancer I don't use most of the specific Enterprise features, nor the Ultimate features (for Vista at least) but whoever thought Bitlocker should be left out of the business edition is an idiot. All freelancers who tote around their laptop all day to customers could use it.
They came earlier, when there wasn't anyone around, as far as we can tell. It does make a difference if you have to clear out the previous folks with bulldozers, or not.
20 hours of community service after publically threatening to shoot everyone at a high school? What a joke.
20 hours is a bit short, but we're not talking about the US where typical children have easy access to guns and are anti-social enough to go through with it. What WOULD be a good punishment for a kid who made an idle threat on the internet?
We should utterly ruin him with mandatory jailtime, break his spirit, prevent him from getting an education and make sure he never becomes a productive member of society, but instead a psychopathic basketcase that will murder several people when running amok before getting killed himself, so we can claim we need more police to prevent this type of trouble. That would guarantee my party would get more votes, and it would only kill a few people I'd probably never know anyway.
At least, that seems to be the modus operandi of the local Dutch politicians lately. I'm happy to see a reasonable judge at work.
I remember that abomination. We looked at it, shuddered, and decided that *that* was going to be seriously banned in our company. We never regretted that.
Most revolutions are violent. I don't recall the Continental Army sticking flowers in British guns.
Where Marx's theory always collapses is at the point of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, that period when Marx figured the revolution needed to be centrally run before the workers "got it" and started being proper Communists. Of course, what actually happens is the revolution gets stuck at the Dictatorship and never moves one inch forward. In fact, in China, just about everything else even vaguely Marxist has been swept aside, except the Dictatorship part.
Marx didn't figure that, Stalin figured that and claimed that he merely implemented Marx's ideas. It's sort of like Microsoft implementing the HTML 1.0 standard and claiming their extensions are improvements. You can say HTML is broken because of IE4, or you can point the finger at Microsoft.
China never was socialist. They had a revolution by intellectuals who lead a peasant army. By the time they won, most communists were already killed by the Guomindang (see the Shanghai Commune). The remaining few told the workers to "keep working" when they entered the big cities, and the peasants never trusted them. It was a very succesfull contender in the old Chinese "peasant uprising" category, but it was not, in no way, shape or form, a workers revolution. What it was, was a highly centralized industrializing mono-capitalist. State capitalism avant la lettre, very much like Japan after 1945 under the MITI guidance. Except with a different flag, mostly for propaganda purposes.
Most communist revolutions are a revolution by the working masses to remove the landed gentry from positions of power and control.
That is patently false. Most revolutions are by the children of the moneyed class who have too much time on their hands (usually the younger children who are not being groomed to take their parents' place in the power structure).
[Citation needed]
Point out one example of a revolution, not a palace coup, please, where that was the case? There haven't been all that many revolutions lately (which means a complete change in the power structures, and entire classes of people getting involved instead of just parts of the ruling clique exchanging light weapons fire).
Off-topic... This is often stated, based on it being utterly ridiculous to concieve sexual orientation is some sort of medical condition that can be altered at will. I wonder what the ethics would be in the hypothetical situation where there is some sort of pill that could switch humans to being attracted to males/females/both/none/poodles/etc.
I'll take the poodle-pill. It sounds much cheaper and easier than being attracted to women.
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Ah... you miss the point of the name Freedom Watch. You see, he's just Watching out so you don't get too much Freedom. :)
They "chose" to leave in 1948? Most were fleeing with good reason. The Irgun Stern (Stern-gang) alone was responsible for killing hundreds of man, women and children when they didn't want to leave. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deir_Yassin_massacre . The news of the massacre caused a lof of other people to flee (and probably rightly so). Considering this to be voluntary is... well, I'd do a comparison with the Kristallnacht but that would be a Godwin violation. I think you get the picture.
Displacing people isn't genocide. Look up the definition.
That having said... the acts commited by the Irgun Stern during that time, however, were war crimes pure and simple. Sabra and Shatilah, same thing. The shelling of refugees hiding around a UN outpost, perfectly well known to the commanders that opened fire with artillery - same thing. Shelling civilians with white phosphorus - another one.
Not genocidal, no - don't make the stupid mistake of confusing a war crime with an act of genocide. But they are war crimes, without a doubt.
And to continue in that vein, Glenn Beck did the real screwing when he raped and killed a girl.
I don't need a degree in psychology to see you have issues.
You post (and respond to my post with) an incoherent and rambling post that looks like a "stream of consciousness" posting from a consciousness that isn't very coherent. That's a warning sign for trouble if ever I saw one. Especially the use of bold and capitals.
If you want people to actually read your post and take it serious, stop using weird interpunction, bold, and capitalization. Try to write a few coherent sentences with a start, an end, and an actual point.
For instance, you could have replied to me like this: "Hey, you're not a licensed psychiatrist so leave your comments somewhere else, 'kay?". That's short, concise and to the point. Your post... is not.
They may be more trustworthy than Comodo or Verisign. Problem is, you can't tell.
Errrr... did you forget your medication or something?
Go away, Troll. The sun's coming up.
Make them pay a big fine if it's damaged when they return it. Make the reward for participating higher so they will still join up.
I don't keep anything in the same left side pocket as my phone. It's a Motorola RAZR so it folds shut. No accidental phonecalls. Also, no damage to the screen since it's closed when pocketed.
And even if it wasn't, I'd still carry it there. I'd pretty much rather lose my phone than ever carry it on the outside. I'm not 70 yet.
My god, did he use bedsheets for that? Or did he use the entire roll? Inquiring minds want to know :)
Your statements in both posts are seriously out of date and out of touch with reality. The idea that you need to handcode everything, is about as outdated as the dinosaurs. It reminds me of the Luddites.
Are there people who depend on the tool because they can't write things manually? Certainly. I wouldn't know where to start if I had to write a .Net app in notepad. I'm not doing daily stuff in .Net so I rely on the syntax-checks and everything. Who cares - it's not as if .Net is all I know, it's just one more tool to abstract the Turing Machine underlying everything.
What matters is that I deploy working applications within days of starting and can spend most of my time doing the things that really matter: gathering requirements and designing the database - as opposed to writing reams of code that have been done a few thousand times before me. Anyone wasting his or her time using notepad (or emacs or vi) writing standard code for standard stuff when there are tools that are available to automate the process is just being silly (and expensive).
As an illustration, I actually had a client last year that wanted me to write all the ETL for their datawarehouse in Oracle PL/SQL because that way "they could see if using an ETL tool was really necessary". Well, after 6 months guess what the verdict was. That little joke cost them a lot of money. Although for staging the data to the DataVault is was actually pretty effective to use PL/SQL :)
Now one thing I *do* agree upon: people who have never used anything BUT a single tool... are not really what I'd consider IT experts. Deriding the tool because of the competence of the userbase, however, is like blaming a hammer for hitting your finger: it may relieve frustration but it doesn't make you look smart.
I take it you also find using a hammer is "cheating" and drive in the nails by bashing them with your forehead really long and hard?
Also in the enterprise versions.
It really irritates the heck out of me - as freelancer I don't use most of the specific Enterprise features, nor the Ultimate features (for Vista at least) but whoever thought Bitlocker should be left out of the business edition is an idiot. All freelancers who tote around their laptop all day to customers could use it.
They could stop the shipping of mail from said webshop to US addresses at the border. That has been done before.
learn the truth, you xenophobic american morons
I love your way with words. I do fear however that this isn't the best way to convince people of your arguments :P
They came earlier, when there wasn't anyone around, as far as we can tell. It does make a difference if you have to clear out the previous folks with bulldozers, or not.
I think you forgot to take your pills today. Seriously.
20 hours of community service after publically threatening to shoot everyone at a high school? What a joke.
20 hours is a bit short, but we're not talking about the US where typical children have easy access to guns and are anti-social enough to go through with it.
What WOULD be a good punishment for a kid who made an idle threat on the internet?
We should utterly ruin him with mandatory jailtime, break his spirit, prevent him from getting an education and make sure he never becomes a productive member of society, but instead a psychopathic basketcase that will murder several people when running amok before getting killed himself, so we can claim we need more police to prevent this type of trouble. That would guarantee my party would get more votes, and it would only kill a few people I'd probably never know anyway.
At least, that seems to be the modus operandi of the local Dutch politicians lately. I'm happy to see a reasonable judge at work.
+1 for excellent use of irony :)
I remember that abomination. We looked at it, shuddered, and decided that *that* was going to be seriously banned in our company. We never regretted that.
Most revolutions are violent. I don't recall the Continental Army sticking flowers in British guns.
Where Marx's theory always collapses is at the point of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat, that period when Marx figured the revolution needed to be centrally run before the workers "got it" and started being proper Communists. Of course, what actually happens is the revolution gets stuck at the Dictatorship and never moves one inch forward. In fact, in China, just about everything else even vaguely Marxist has been swept aside, except the Dictatorship part.
Marx didn't figure that, Stalin figured that and claimed that he merely implemented Marx's ideas. It's sort of like Microsoft implementing the HTML 1.0 standard and claiming their extensions are improvements. You can say HTML is broken because of IE4, or you can point the finger at Microsoft.
China never was socialist. They had a revolution by intellectuals who lead a peasant army. By the time they won, most communists were already killed by the Guomindang (see the Shanghai Commune). The remaining few told the workers to "keep working" when they entered the big cities, and the peasants never trusted them. It was a very succesfull contender in the old Chinese "peasant uprising" category, but it was not, in no way, shape or form, a workers revolution. What it was, was a highly centralized industrializing mono-capitalist. State capitalism avant la lettre, very much like Japan after 1945 under the MITI guidance. Except with a different flag, mostly for propaganda purposes.
Most communist revolutions are a revolution by the working masses to remove the landed gentry from positions of power and control.
That is patently false. Most revolutions are by the children of the moneyed class who have too much time on their hands (usually the younger children who are not being groomed to take their parents' place in the power structure).
[Citation needed]
Point out one example of a revolution, not a palace coup, please, where that was the case? There haven't been all that many revolutions lately (which means a complete change in the power structures, and entire classes of people getting involved instead of just parts of the ruling clique exchanging light weapons fire).
or the cure for being Gay...
Off-topic...
This is often stated, based on it being utterly ridiculous to concieve sexual orientation is some sort of medical condition that can be altered at will.
I wonder what the ethics would be in the hypothetical situation where there is some sort of pill that could switch humans to being attracted to males/females/both/none/poodles/etc.
I'll take the poodle-pill. It sounds much cheaper and easier than being attracted to women.
They're on the side of the country that got hit by the Tsunami. Hard to miss the maps on that one. But they're on the east coast.