I'd say, as someone living in Israel (Tel Aviv, specifically) at the moment that its been quite effective on the longer range Fajr-5 Iranian-made missiles that had been fired my way.
Another thing that might be changing the over all statistic is that there are two version of the system out at the moment- The older system which had started to roll out a year or two ago, along with a new generation of hardware. Perhaps the spokesman is only referring to the 'newer' upgraded versions.
I love Star Trek. I am also a roleplayer. The Trek universe offers an amazing opportunity for Roleplay. Brave new worlds, things that spark the imagination. I'm not sure that's possible to capture in an MMO setting. Its/too/ large. It has to many players. I, personally, get my Trek Roleplay Fix on the various Mush games that still exist out there. Good Ole' Telnet. Sure, it birthed the often awful monstrosities that MMOs have become- but the base is still there, still roleplaying and generally still using their imaginations and words to find those brave new worlds and go where only man in his mind can go.
The Dead Sea is of great economic importance to Israel. Tourism, sale of products containing the salt or mud of the dead sea all bring money into a country with almost zero natural resources. But, this is a problem that comes not just from the using of the Jordan river, but a number of other rivers as well- Ein Gedi, a freshwater spring isn't far away from the Dead Sea and its water is used as drinking water (And a popular bottled water!) inside Israel. All the 'sweet water' has been diverted in Israel, as it has in most desert places. As a result, only salty water is being diverted to the Dead Sea. This means, of course, that the sea is shrinking. The Canal from the red sea is not new- I've heard talk of that since 2006, at least, when I was in Israel last. Israel, however, has some of the brightest minds in the world. I'm hoping they'll come up with a great way to make this work.
Apple, Microsoft and every other company in the business seems to do this pretty often. Did Apple sue Microsoft on the Window's GUI way back when- something they both stole from Xerox?
I recently spent the better part of a year in Israel- on a Kibbutz. If you walked out about a mile or so, it was like walking through the most inky darkness. It wasn't frightening, that darkness. It was more like a soft, velvety embrace. Warm, in the desert. I'd look up and realize that part of me had been missing since I was a child, living in rural Connecticut. I saw the stars- and drank deep of the wonder of just looking up. The sky went on forever, I could see the wisps of the Milky Way- things I only really remembered seeing in books during high-school. Things forgotten from childhood. That vision, in the sky, the tiny pricks of brightness in that velvet-softness that wrapped around me was a greater spiritual experience than visiting Jerusalem and the Western Wall for me.
Now, I miss it. I live in Columbia, South Carolina- and the sky here is not so full of stars.
Its a very important question. Place men and women together without proper birth-control (Or even with them refusing it) You might get the situation of the first child born in space, and by the time they got back they'd have grown up in a zero gravity situation. Furthermore, there's a lot that can go wrong with Pregnancy, even among healthy people- and we're certainly not ready for zero-gravity conception, pregnancy and birth. As far as we know there have been no such experiences with humans. Furthermore, what about the relationship dynamic. Stuck with a single man or woman, are you sure those people would really get along. Would they begin to dislike each other? Can you really expect adults to not have sex for over two years? A lot more questions, it seems, are going to need to be answered before we can assure the emotional and mental health of our astronauts.
I'm a player of Eve online, and a player of a particular WoD Game, Wraith. I find both to be absolutely amazing in terms of storylines. Instead of looking at the possible negatives, I think I'll look at the absolutely awesome possibilities. White Wolf has a fairly popular card game, and Eve is just starting one (as in, already has.) It certainly lends itself to Roleplay. And for a game with a single server CCP does a marvelous job supporting its admittedly small Roleplay community. They have a game its hard/not/ to Roleplay in. When you say 'Lets go hunt pirates, or find rats in low sec space- its all in game. It makes it easier for Roleplayers like myself to deal with non-rpers. No. From this I can only hope for the best. CCP seems to know what they're doing, making a more thinking man's MMO. And WW made a more thinking man's roleplaying game. Best of luck, peoples.
I believe you've made a reference to Phrenology. http://pages.britishlibrary.net/phrenology/ Where one would guess the intelligence and metal faculties of a person by the bumps on their head. I'm under the impression that particular school of thought is no longer considered to be 'real science'. Much like Alchemy is to Chemistry, Phrenology is Psychology and Neurology.
This particular type of technology could be extremely important in countries with few water sources. Say such as much of the Middle East. Israel has a single fresh water source for the entire country, the Kinnert (Or Galilee) This same freshwater sea is the water source for a great part of Jordan. Both countries have coasts on the Red Sea- and already there are massive desalinization plants there, on the Israeli side. But, what about Egypt? All the African Countries on the coast that are still pretty dry. This particular technology could also be of great use in the first world, as someone else stated, in places like England. I'm sure they aren't the only country with a water problem.
I had the privledge of talking to some American soldiers in Eliat, Israel. And it seemed to me they were in a similar position to the IDF, when it came to speakers of Arabian. Most of the IDF is taught a basic smattering of Arabic, phrases like 'Stop or I'll shoot', 'Please go the other way.', and 'You're under arrest'. And the majority don't speak Arabic, they speak Hebrew. If you're not in a border patrol, you may not have a speaker of Arabic with you. Even more so if you're not in an area such as Gaza, The West Bank, Or near the Lebonese/Syrian Border: Areas where the need to speak Arabic are much higher then in Eliat, at the southern tip of the country.
My point is: Can you expect Americans, who more then likely do not interact with Arabian people, to learn anything more then a few phrases? No. Israeli's who are exposed to far more Arabic don't, and Hebrew is full of cognates from Arabic even. Even after years of exposure to a language- if you primarily only speak English, that's all you'll pick up.
As for Arabian culture and values, its a bit odd in general: But most culture and values mean absolutly dick in a war-time situation. The siege mentaility begins to pervade everything they do. Personally, I have the feeling that most Iraqis are feeling more like the American's are invaders and occupiers then a liberation force. And most people won't invite their local invader to tea.
This makes sense to me, honestly. Lets face it- Google wants to pull in more business. What's better then getting everyone's sales and stuff on the same search. If I, for instance, Search for 'Wool' and come up with sweaters for sale- as well as what I was looking for, maybe I'll buy a sweater along with my research on Wool.
And No. I won't tell you why I want to search for wool.
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I'd say, as someone living in Israel (Tel Aviv, specifically) at the moment that its been quite effective on the longer range Fajr-5 Iranian-made missiles that had been fired my way. Another thing that might be changing the over all statistic is that there are two version of the system out at the moment- The older system which had started to roll out a year or two ago, along with a new generation of hardware. Perhaps the spokesman is only referring to the 'newer' upgraded versions.
Has science fiction taught us nothing?!
I love Star Trek. I am also a roleplayer. The Trek universe offers an amazing opportunity for Roleplay. Brave new worlds, things that spark the imagination. I'm not sure that's possible to capture in an MMO setting. Its /too/ large. It has to many players. I, personally, get my Trek Roleplay Fix on the various Mush games that still exist out there. Good Ole' Telnet. Sure, it birthed the often awful monstrosities that MMOs have become- but the base is still there, still roleplaying and generally still using their imaginations and words to find those brave new worlds and go where only man in his mind can go.
The Dead Sea is of great economic importance to Israel. Tourism, sale of products containing the salt or mud of the dead sea all bring money into a country with almost zero natural resources. But, this is a problem that comes not just from the using of the Jordan river, but a number of other rivers as well- Ein Gedi, a freshwater spring isn't far away from the Dead Sea and its water is used as drinking water (And a popular bottled water!) inside Israel. All the 'sweet water' has been diverted in Israel, as it has in most desert places. As a result, only salty water is being diverted to the Dead Sea. This means, of course, that the sea is shrinking. The Canal from the red sea is not new- I've heard talk of that since 2006, at least, when I was in Israel last. Israel, however, has some of the brightest minds in the world. I'm hoping they'll come up with a great way to make this work.
Apple, Microsoft and every other company in the business seems to do this pretty often. Did Apple sue Microsoft on the Window's GUI way back when- something they both stole from Xerox?
Those damn dirty apes finally took his rifle from his cold dead hands...
I recently spent the better part of a year in Israel- on a Kibbutz. If you walked out about a mile or so, it was like walking through the most inky darkness. It wasn't frightening, that darkness. It was more like a soft, velvety embrace. Warm, in the desert. I'd look up and realize that part of me had been missing since I was a child, living in rural Connecticut. I saw the stars- and drank deep of the wonder of just looking up. The sky went on forever, I could see the wisps of the Milky Way- things I only really remembered seeing in books during high-school. Things forgotten from childhood. That vision, in the sky, the tiny pricks of brightness in that velvet-softness that wrapped around me was a greater spiritual experience than visiting Jerusalem and the Western Wall for me. Now, I miss it. I live in Columbia, South Carolina- and the sky here is not so full of stars.
Its a very important question. Place men and women together without proper birth-control (Or even with them refusing it) You might get the situation of the first child born in space, and by the time they got back they'd have grown up in a zero gravity situation. Furthermore, there's a lot that can go wrong with Pregnancy, even among healthy people- and we're certainly not ready for zero-gravity conception, pregnancy and birth. As far as we know there have been no such experiences with humans. Furthermore, what about the relationship dynamic. Stuck with a single man or woman, are you sure those people would really get along. Would they begin to dislike each other? Can you really expect adults to not have sex for over two years? A lot more questions, it seems, are going to need to be answered before we can assure the emotional and mental health of our astronauts.
I'm a player of Eve online, and a player of a particular WoD Game, Wraith. I find both to be absolutely amazing in terms of storylines. Instead of looking at the possible negatives, I think I'll look at the absolutely awesome possibilities. White Wolf has a fairly popular card game, and Eve is just starting one (as in, already has.) It certainly lends itself to Roleplay. And for a game with a single server CCP does a marvelous job supporting its admittedly small Roleplay community. They have a game its hard /not/ to Roleplay in. When you say 'Lets go hunt pirates, or find rats in low sec space- its all in game. It makes it easier for Roleplayers like myself to deal with non-rpers. No. From this I can only hope for the best. CCP seems to know what they're doing, making a more thinking man's MMO. And WW made a more thinking man's roleplaying game. Best of luck, peoples.
I believe you've made a reference to Phrenology. http://pages.britishlibrary.net/phrenology/ Where one would guess the intelligence and metal faculties of a person by the bumps on their head. I'm under the impression that particular school of thought is no longer considered to be 'real science'. Much like Alchemy is to Chemistry, Phrenology is Psychology and Neurology.
This particular type of technology could be extremely important in countries with few water sources. Say such as much of the Middle East. Israel has a single fresh water source for the entire country, the Kinnert (Or Galilee) This same freshwater sea is the water source for a great part of Jordan. Both countries have coasts on the Red Sea- and already there are massive desalinization plants there, on the Israeli side. But, what about Egypt? All the African Countries on the coast that are still pretty dry. This particular technology could also be of great use in the first world, as someone else stated, in places like England. I'm sure they aren't the only country with a water problem.
Wait. I got confused. Which is the internet black hole? North Korea or AoL?
I had the privledge of talking to some American soldiers in Eliat, Israel. And it seemed to me they were in a similar position to the IDF, when it came to speakers of Arabian. Most of the IDF is taught a basic smattering of Arabic, phrases like 'Stop or I'll shoot', 'Please go the other way.', and 'You're under arrest'. And the majority don't speak Arabic, they speak Hebrew. If you're not in a border patrol, you may not have a speaker of Arabic with you. Even more so if you're not in an area such as Gaza, The West Bank, Or near the Lebonese/Syrian Border: Areas where the need to speak Arabic are much higher then in Eliat, at the southern tip of the country. My point is: Can you expect Americans, who more then likely do not interact with Arabian people, to learn anything more then a few phrases? No. Israeli's who are exposed to far more Arabic don't, and Hebrew is full of cognates from Arabic even. Even after years of exposure to a language- if you primarily only speak English, that's all you'll pick up. As for Arabian culture and values, its a bit odd in general: But most culture and values mean absolutly dick in a war-time situation. The siege mentaility begins to pervade everything they do. Personally, I have the feeling that most Iraqis are feeling more like the American's are invaders and occupiers then a liberation force. And most people won't invite their local invader to tea.
This makes sense to me, honestly. Lets face it- Google wants to pull in more business. What's better then getting everyone's sales and stuff on the same search. If I, for instance, Search for 'Wool' and come up with sweaters for sale- as well as what I was looking for, maybe I'll buy a sweater along with my research on Wool. And No. I won't tell you why I want to search for wool.
Wouldn't your Wife's Brother's Cousin be your Wife's cousin too?