Tiny state, yeah. Homogeneous culture... let me see.
One party (the third-largest) for the immigrants from the Soviet Union (intensely nationalistic, militantly secular), three religious parties (one for the European-descended, one for the Eastern-European-descended, and one for the REALLY crazy ones) one of which is the fifth-largest party, three for the Arabs (two for the urban/agrarian Arabs, one for the Bedouins).
But wait! These are just fringe groups, and the mainstream parties represent a dominant mainstream society!... except that, based on electoral results, that society makes up only about 50-60% of the population. And yet it worked without these subculture-based parties until the disaster of trying to directly elect a prime minister without giving the prime minister actual power, giving these small sectional parties half a decade to establish themselves while the main parties were busy competing for a worthless prize.
Imagine that you have a large sting in your program. You leave your program running for a while and the OS writes this string off the the HDD to save some memory since it isn't being used anyway. When you come back and access the string, the OS automatically pulls the string back into memory and your program can start editing it again.
Ever heard of virtual memory and swapping to hard disk?
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Tiny state, yeah. Homogeneous culture... let me see. One party (the third-largest) for the immigrants from the Soviet Union (intensely nationalistic, militantly secular), three religious parties (one for the European-descended, one for the Eastern-European-descended, and one for the REALLY crazy ones) one of which is the fifth-largest party, three for the Arabs (two for the urban/agrarian Arabs, one for the Bedouins). But wait! These are just fringe groups, and the mainstream parties represent a dominant mainstream society! ... except that, based on electoral results, that society makes up only about 50-60% of the population. And yet it worked without these subculture-based parties until the disaster of trying to directly elect a prime minister without giving the prime minister actual power, giving these small sectional parties half a decade to establish themselves while the main parties were busy competing for a worthless prize.
Imagine that you have a large sting in your program. You leave your program running for a while and the OS writes this string off the the HDD to save some memory since it isn't being used anyway. When you come back and access the string, the OS automatically pulls the string back into memory and your program can start editing it again.
Ever heard of virtual memory and swapping to hard disk?