You don't get it. In the USA, football is Serious Business. People spend hours a day training and practicing, even at the high-school level. This is the underlying reason for the dichotomy: you can't play high-school, college, or professional football without using time for training that you otherwise could have used for studying. So while many people have the talents for both football and academics, it takes someone extra-gifted to get great at both in the time constraints.
It's a problem of values. Americans, actually less so among the young generation now, tend to be anti-intellectual and revere anyone who can entertain them. What we need to do is remove our culture's obsession (including its sexual obsession) with the entertainment industry, which all too often traces back to the entertainment industry just flagrantly masturbating. How many movies exist about musicians, writers, and actors? How many songs are about music and dance? Too many. How many movies or songs deal with technology, science, or engineering other than the ones about "tell NASA to assemble our hottest astronauts" Hollywood Science? Not at all that many.
Comparable, certainly. The USA, the UK, France, Sweden, Switzerland, and Sealand are all comparable to Iran. They implement the Comparable interface;-).
Of course, when one runs Israel.compareTo(Iran) it tells you that Israel > Iran, but I feel sure that the Iranians will sooner or later fix that by finally upgrading to the "human rights", "democracy" and "civil liberties" patches.
Nobody said Islamic terrorists were particularly smart. If they had the level of smarts you're implying they would have managed to destroy Israel by now.
I'm sorry, where the fuck did you go in Israel? East Jerusalem with the blackhat Jewish fundies and Muslim nutters? Israel definitely does have extremely bad, nearly-uncivilized areas that a tourist should not enter. Why did you go there without a security accompaniment?
As for Ben Gurion Airport getting bombed, don't blame the Israelis for the fact that some jackass Arab decided to bomb the airport.
I suppose that it's possible that this kid just happened to run into a quack, but it's more likely that he was violent with others and possibly even himself.
Since when does violence in a three-year-old indicate any kind of disorder? To me it indicates that that the three-year-old is most likely male and knows people they don't like.
Finally, all you fake monotheists admit that you never really believed in God in the first place. Return to the barbarism of your roots, that we may finally destroy you with all your idol-worship!
I believe that there is no reasonable definition of "race" that accords the term to Jews - or to Arabs for that matter.
No shit, since we both belong to the Semitic racial group. Of course, Ilan Pappe is not exactly an unbiased or reliable historian on the matter of Jewish civilization in Israel. It doesn't help that Benny Morris, a fellow of his "New Historian" school in Israel, has recently reversed his old positions right back to the old Zionist lines (and even before then criticized Pappe for his gullibility).
Dear fucking God, Knesset, do you have any valid security reason for this? Everyone already has to carry a teudat zehut around 24/7 and submit to searches at every major building entrance. How will biometrics in a huge database no-doubt built by some friend of yours in the hi-tech industry prevent a suicide bombing or a rocket attack?
If the Knesset wants to do something about Israel's security they could try just about anything that's not such a blatant kick-back to industrial friends.
Yeah, except that if the Israeli government tried to round up just about anyone (possibly including themselves, inshallah), they'd find the IDF and Mishtarat Yisrael ("Israel Police") in open revolt against them. They can't even manage to occupy the territories or dismantle settlements nowadays without some wingnut soldier putting himself in jail for insubordination, so what makes you think they could go full Godwin and people would let them get away with it?
Have you not noticed that hundreds of extremely cantankerous Anonymous Cowards suddenly want to debate Palestinian rights whenever a story about Israel shows up on Slashdot? We could have "Windows 8 Beta Defaults to Hebrew by Accident" due to the efforts of the Israeli Microsoft branch, and someone would mod up jackasses trying to debate whether or not to have an Israel.
I gotta say, achi, you're dead right. Israel really ought to have separate Knessot for security and for domestic policy, because the country winds up going to elections based on only one thing at a time and then finding the Knesset and the government acting like ridiculous idiots or even malicious towards the Israeli population in the domain they never really stood up about during the campaigns.
And an Ironic anecdote: Palestine is an Arab mispronunciation of the Hebrew word Plishti, which in English means "Invader".
No it doesn't, Plishti means "Phillistine". It referred to the specifically Phillistine/Phonecian invaders who took over a small strip extending from Gaza up to modern-day Ashdod and ran a small trading society there. Since they were, after all, invaders, the Israelites hated them.
But anyway, I'm guessing you're Israeli or Jewish, right? I've never met anyone who knows our history so well and interprets it with such a Zionist view and doesn't belong;-). For one thing, you spotted that the noun "Ben Yisrael" that described the Israelites in ancient times would today be translated into English as "Israeli".
Not at all. Jews are the natives of Israel. Many countries, as you said, killed or enslaved their natives, but only in Israel must the natives defend themselves from outside invasions and PR campaigns designed to paint us as an outside invasion. It's rather ironic, really.
What did happen though was a bunch of racist "palestinians" who hated the Jews so much that they got up and left voluntarily.
No, they left to get out of the way of the invading Arab armies. They feared themselves caught between an Arab extermination machine and belligerent Zionists. Of course, the ones who had learned to get along with Jews became today's Israeli Arabs -- who sadly receive far more discrimination from Jewish racists than they deserve due to their association with their violent cousins over the Green Line.
they were elected mainly because the previous group who did not support direct violence fell out of favour because Israel refused to negotiate with them
Actually, Fatah fell out of favor because they were corrupt as... well... words do not come easily to describe how extremely, extremely corrupt they were.
Yeah, sod Japanese food. I was in Israel. Chick peas and bread formed one of our main snacks (hummus + pita), and practically every main or side dish anywhere included a healthy dose of veggies. Pretty tasty too, you just had to remember to eat red meats, spinach, and broccoli a decent amount of the time to keep up the body's iron supplies. They've got plenty of meat nowadays, but it's still mostly poultry or lamb instead of beef.
The really funny thing is that while it's definitely more expensive to eat a Medi-style diet here in the States, it's not prohibitively expensive. I can get eggplants, peppers, onions, tomatoes, chickpeas, lemons, spices, etc. at perfectly reasonable prices (compared to the dirt-cheap prices in Israel). The hard thing is really knowing the recipes and having the time to follow them rather than being able to afford a healthier diet.
I've been trying to push it on my family, and so far they have decided they like harif sauce, or as they call it "pepper mush".
Are you entirely sure about that? I've been home a couple of weeks from a trip to a country with a much healthier diet than that of the USA, and I've been craving their food (mostly vegetables, beans, and wholeish grains) ever since I got back.
OK, which bitter Internet Nice Guy mods to 0,Flamebait for telling men they should behave decently and affectionately to women instead of manipulating them?
Slashdot Mirror
You don't get it. In the USA, football is Serious Business. People spend hours a day training and practicing, even at the high-school level. This is the underlying reason for the dichotomy: you can't play high-school, college, or professional football without using time for training that you otherwise could have used for studying. So while many people have the talents for both football and academics, it takes someone extra-gifted to get great at both in the time constraints.
It's a problem of values. Americans, actually less so among the young generation now, tend to be anti-intellectual and revere anyone who can entertain them. What we need to do is remove our culture's obsession (including its sexual obsession) with the entertainment industry, which all too often traces back to the entertainment industry just flagrantly masturbating. How many movies exist about musicians, writers, and actors? How many songs are about music and dance? Too many. How many movies or songs deal with technology, science, or engineering other than the ones about "tell NASA to assemble our hottest astronauts" Hollywood Science? Not at all that many.
Comparable, certainly. The USA, the UK, France, Sweden, Switzerland, and Sealand are all comparable to Iran. They implement the Comparable interface ;-).
Of course, when one runs Israel.compareTo(Iran) it tells you that Israel > Iran, but I feel sure that the Iranians will sooner or later fix that by finally upgrading to the "human rights", "democracy" and "civil liberties" patches.
Nobody said Islamic terrorists were particularly smart. If they had the level of smarts you're implying they would have managed to destroy Israel by now.
I'm sorry, where the fuck did you go in Israel? East Jerusalem with the blackhat Jewish fundies and Muslim nutters? Israel definitely does have extremely bad, nearly-uncivilized areas that a tourist should not enter. Why did you go there without a security accompaniment?
As for Ben Gurion Airport getting bombed, don't blame the Israelis for the fact that some jackass Arab decided to bomb the airport.
I suppose that it's possible that this kid just happened to run into a quack, but it's more likely that he was violent with others and possibly even himself.
Since when does violence in a three-year-old indicate any kind of disorder? To me it indicates that that the three-year-old is most likely male and knows people they don't like.
I don't have mod points, so I'll just friend you instead.
No duh? You know, in the same vein as the post suggesting we return to the worship of pagan gods?
Finally, all you fake monotheists admit that you never really believed in God in the first place. Return to the barbarism of your roots, that we may finally destroy you with all your idol-worship!
Am Yisrael chai! Od avinu chai! Mavet la'paganim!
I believe that there is no reasonable definition of "race" that accords the term to Jews - or to Arabs for that matter.
No shit, since we both belong to the Semitic racial group. Of course, Ilan Pappe is not exactly an unbiased or reliable historian on the matter of Jewish civilization in Israel. It doesn't help that Benny Morris, a fellow of his "New Historian" school in Israel, has recently reversed his old positions right back to the old Zionist lines (and even before then criticized Pappe for his gullibility).
Dear fucking God, Knesset, do you have any valid security reason for this? Everyone already has to carry a teudat zehut around 24/7 and submit to searches at every major building entrance. How will biometrics in a huge database no-doubt built by some friend of yours in the hi-tech industry prevent a suicide bombing or a rocket attack?
If the Knesset wants to do something about Israel's security they could try just about anything that's not such a blatant kick-back to industrial friends.
Yeah, except that if the Israeli government tried to round up just about anyone (possibly including themselves, inshallah), they'd find the IDF and Mishtarat Yisrael ("Israel Police") in open revolt against them. They can't even manage to occupy the territories or dismantle settlements nowadays without some wingnut soldier putting himself in jail for insubordination, so what makes you think they could go full Godwin and people would let them get away with it?
Have you not noticed that hundreds of extremely cantankerous Anonymous Cowards suddenly want to debate Palestinian rights whenever a story about Israel shows up on Slashdot? We could have "Windows 8 Beta Defaults to Hebrew by Accident" due to the efforts of the Israeli Microsoft branch, and someone would mod up jackasses trying to debate whether or not to have an Israel.
I gotta say, achi, you're dead right. Israel really ought to have separate Knessot for security and for domestic policy, because the country winds up going to elections based on only one thing at a time and then finding the Knesset and the government acting like ridiculous idiots or even malicious towards the Israeli population in the domain they never really stood up about during the campaigns.
Not really; it's just a brand-name adopted by a successful independent insurgency for prestige.
And an Ironic anecdote: Palestine is an Arab mispronunciation of the Hebrew word Plishti, which in English means "Invader".
No it doesn't, Plishti means "Phillistine". It referred to the specifically Phillistine/Phonecian invaders who took over a small strip extending from Gaza up to modern-day Ashdod and ran a small trading society there. Since they were, after all, invaders, the Israelites hated them.
But anyway, I'm guessing you're Israeli or Jewish, right? I've never met anyone who knows our history so well and interprets it with such a Zionist view and doesn't belong ;-). For one thing, you spotted that the noun "Ben Yisrael" that described the Israelites in ancient times would today be translated into English as "Israeli".
Not at all. Jews are the natives of Israel. Many countries, as you said, killed or enslaved their natives, but only in Israel must the natives defend themselves from outside invasions and PR campaigns designed to paint us as an outside invasion. It's rather ironic, really.
What did happen though was a bunch of racist "palestinians" who hated the Jews so much that they got up and left voluntarily.
No, they left to get out of the way of the invading Arab armies. They feared themselves caught between an Arab extermination machine and belligerent Zionists. Of course, the ones who had learned to get along with Jews became today's Israeli Arabs -- who sadly receive far more discrimination from Jewish racists than they deserve due to their association with their violent cousins over the Green Line.
they were elected mainly because the previous group who did not support direct violence fell out of favour because Israel refused to negotiate with them
Actually, Fatah fell out of favor because they were corrupt as... well... words do not come easily to describe how extremely, extremely corrupt they were.
Yeah, sod Japanese food. I was in Israel. Chick peas and bread formed one of our main snacks (hummus + pita), and practically every main or side dish anywhere included a healthy dose of veggies. Pretty tasty too, you just had to remember to eat red meats, spinach, and broccoli a decent amount of the time to keep up the body's iron supplies. They've got plenty of meat nowadays, but it's still mostly poultry or lamb instead of beef.
The really funny thing is that while it's definitely more expensive to eat a Medi-style diet here in the States, it's not prohibitively expensive. I can get eggplants, peppers, onions, tomatoes, chickpeas, lemons, spices, etc. at perfectly reasonable prices (compared to the dirt-cheap prices in Israel). The hard thing is really knowing the recipes and having the time to follow them rather than being able to afford a healthier diet.
I've been trying to push it on my family, and so far they have decided they like harif sauce, or as they call it "pepper mush".
Are you entirely sure about that? I've been home a couple of weeks from a trip to a country with a much healthier diet than that of the USA, and I've been craving their food (mostly vegetables, beans, and wholeish grains) ever since I got back.
OK, which bitter Internet Nice Guy mods to 0,Flamebait for telling men they should behave decently and affectionately to women instead of manipulating them?
Yeah, that too. I think they were the same drugs, actually.
Nice to see Firefly coming true, you know?
Just asking about your sig really, but who is Eloi and why are you asking why they did something from a s-b-ch root to you?
But the chance is minuscule! Why worry about a probability so small?