The poster is implying Israel is targeting civilians.
No, the poster was stating a simple fact. Or are you suggesting that Israel is not bombing built-up areas?
A dead child distresses the parent whether targeted (e.g. the Americans shooting at an Iraqi wedding) or not (e.g. the Israelis using high explosives in a built-up area).
Making civilians suffer is a means of exerting political influence. That doesn't make it right, and it may not always be effective, but it does have military value.
Hell, it's led to direct Israeli action, which boosts the profile of the Hamas position and the conditions within the Gaza strip.
I haven't exactly seen Israel going out of its way to alleviate the suffering there.
Criminal use of actual firearms is still above the levels prior to the ban.
Not sure how this relates to the movie industry, but your suggestion that the ban worked "exceptionally well" is entirely, completely, irrefutably and dangerously wrong.
Also, here's a nice analogy: They let somebody else do hard work, and then took that, make a copy, which took zero work, and want me to pay for that... Well alright then, I'll take the money made with somebody else's hard work, make a copy (complete with stamp, invalidating it as legal tender), which takes zero work, and will pay them with that.
Hmm. So a major record company lets an artist do hard work, then took that, made a copy (which took zero work) and want you to pay for it? That's their fucking business model.
Well alright then, I'll take the money made with somebody else's hard work, make a copy (complete with stamp, invalidating it as legal tender), which takes zero work, and will pay them with that.
That's exactly what's been alleged to happen. So why the fuck are you bitching that it's happened? Fucking hypocrit.
Creating information is a service, always has been, and always will be.
This is why people are willing to pay for this service. This is why people do pay for this service. This is why the people that consume the service (e.g. by downloading music from the internet) pay the most in return.
Where the whole thing fucking breaks is the greedy cunts like you at the music distribution companies that want more money than people can afford to give, that bribe politicians into passing corrupt laws, that charge asinine prices for decades old music that's already made its creators millionaires.
On a sympathy scale of "oh dear" to "you poor thing" I'm afraid I'm coming in somewhere around the "this baby seal's fur will make me $2 so get the fuck out of my way or I'll club you to death too" level.
She's claimed abuse, yet perpetrates that abuse herself. She's claimed harrassment, yet has engaged in that behaviour. She's claimed loss, yet has stated she's benefited.
It doesn't seem inappropriate that the court would seek clarity on these matters.
I'd rather they demanded "all material" than passwords, and it would also make more sense: I don't know where the cellphone I owned in 2009 _is_, and I did a factory reset on it before I stopped using it. So it has no text messages, no email, etc. on it; giving it to the court is futile.
I just told you I have seen men stalk and masturbate to children walking by with my own eyes! I was prohibited to report it as it would open the school to liability as a lawyer could then argue the schools responsibility for safety now includes the entire walk home and we would be liable for every infraction afterwards etc.
Don't be fucking stupid. Phone in as a member of the public stood near a school who has just seen illegal behaviour that offends you and that you believe is a danger to children.
Fuck all to do with the school, and tell any lawyers that disagree to go fuck themselves - whether employed by the school or not.
My job was to report their ass as soon as any body part touched school property.
If the school doesn't give a shit what people outside its boundaries do, then it wont have the slightest problem with you reporting crime while stood outside of school property.
So stop bitching and fucking do something about it.
Think of it this way-- I imagine a sniper round costs no more than $100 per shot.
Not even close. Throw in training costs, command and control overheads, manufacturing, transport, living and maintenance overheads, clothing and other equipment, precision firearm with scope, support team and intelligence gathering and each shot in action probably costs somewhere approaching $2m
Their stated goal is nothing less than the complete destruction of the Israel and death to all Jews.
Hey, everyone has to have an ambition in life.
The destruction of Israel isn't _that_ hard. If you can build and fire a thousand rockets in a couple of weeks then you can construct WMD and launch those in the rockets. Mustard gas is low tech and kind of nasty in a civilian setting.
Seems to me either Hamas isn't serious about this whole destruction thing, or are incompetent.
(Death to all Jews could be a trickier one. I suspect you'd need some serious genetically engineered biological weapons and a major world outbreak to even get close)
hint to you: israelis just want to be left alone. NOT conquer, NOT convert.
Then they should get out of the West Bank. Remove their illegal settlements. Respect the defined borders. Stop occupying territory belonging to another country. Stop denying aid to the occupied territories.
Until that happens, they're not going to be left alone, and they don't deserve to be.
The Muslims don't want peace, they want the Israeli's gone.
Here was me foolishly thinking it was the Palestinian people wanting a foreign invader to respect their borders. Where the fuck did Islam come into it?
Some of these will undoubtably run on Linux. Until they all do, I'm going to keep booting into Windows because they all run on that OS::
Football Manager 2011 Football Manager 2012 Football Manager 2013 (future Football Manager games) Empire: Total War Borderlands Gratuitous Space Battles Company of Heroes Dragon Age: Origins Mount & Blade: Warband Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planewalkers (and 2012, and 2013) UFO: Afterlight Star Wars: Empire at War Test Drive Unlimited 2 Frozen Synapse Portal 2 Total War: Shogun 2 Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II - Retribution Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising Spellforce DC Universe Online King Arthur - The Role-playing Wargame Star Wolves Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II Supreme Commander 2 Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance FTL Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (four variants of) Air Conflicts: Secret Wars Alpha Protocol Amnesia: The Dark Descent The Binding of Isaac Crusader Kings II Dear Esther Deus Ex: Human Revolution Disciples III: Renaissance Divinity 2: Developer's Cut F1 2010 Gratuitous Tank Battles Half Life 2 (and various episodes) Heroes of Might and Magic V Jade Empire LIMBO Machinarium Majesty 2 NWN2 Portal Psychonaughts Rocksmith S.T.A.L.K.E.R (and sequels) Spellforce Spellforce 2 Victoria: Revolutions Victoria II Wargame: European Escalation X: Beyond the Frontier X2: The Threat X3: Reunion X3: Terran Conflict
There are also a few games I've installed, played a bit and removed, and at least 7 MMOs that have between them clocked up around 8 months of in-game time.
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Of course they can. They merely lack the political and military support to achieve their desired outcomes from that war.
The poster is implying Israel is targeting civilians.
No, the poster was stating a simple fact. Or are you suggesting that Israel is not bombing built-up areas?
A dead child distresses the parent whether targeted (e.g. the Americans shooting at an Iraqi wedding) or not (e.g. the Israelis using high explosives in a built-up area).
These actions have no military purpose
Welcome to asymmetric warfare.
Making civilians suffer is a means of exerting political influence. That doesn't make it right, and it may not always be effective, but it does have military value.
Hell, it's led to direct Israeli action, which boosts the profile of the Hamas position and the conditions within the Gaza strip.
I haven't exactly seen Israel going out of its way to alleviate the suffering there.
Everything Israel does is aimed at implementing Greater Israel - an ethnically pure religious state.
I find this very unlikely. Not least because of the number of different ethnicities living in Israel.
It is a settler land grab.
This, on the other hand, does seem to have a lot of supporting evidence.
I know, it's something that amuses me. Describe the situation without naming the states and it's often difficult to know which one is which.
I'm reading The Gulag Archipelago at the moment. His world did exist; it's pretty fucking horrific.
The drawings of Danzig Baldaev are equally awful, if you're more into pictures than words.
British policemen were mostly unarmed before the ban too.
Criminals in the UK were armed less often before the ban too.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1440764.stm
See the graph on page 12 of this report too:
http://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/opus713/ccjs_gun_crime_report.pdf
Criminal use of actual firearms is still above the levels prior to the ban.
Not sure how this relates to the movie industry, but your suggestion that the ban worked "exceptionally well" is entirely, completely, irrefutably and dangerously wrong.
Also, here's a nice analogy: They let somebody else do hard work, and then took that, make a copy, which took zero work, and want me to pay for that... Well alright then, I'll take the money made with somebody else's hard work, make a copy (complete with stamp, invalidating it as legal tender), which takes zero work, and will pay them with that.
Hmm. So a major record company lets an artist do hard work, then took that, made a copy (which took zero work) and want you to pay for it? That's their fucking business model.
Well alright then, I'll take the money made with somebody else's hard work, make a copy (complete with stamp, invalidating it as legal tender), which takes zero work, and will pay them with that.
That's exactly what's been alleged to happen. So why the fuck are you bitching that it's happened? Fucking hypocrit.
Creating information is a service, always has been, and always will be.
This is why people are willing to pay for this service. This is why people do pay for this service. This is why the people that consume the service (e.g. by downloading music from the internet) pay the most in return.
Where the whole thing fucking breaks is the greedy cunts like you at the music distribution companies that want more money than people can afford to give, that bribe politicians into passing corrupt laws, that charge asinine prices for decades old music that's already made its creators millionaires.
On a sympathy scale of "oh dear" to "you poor thing" I'm afraid I'm coming in somewhere around the "this baby seal's fur will make me $2 so get the fuck out of my way or I'll club you to death too" level.
Wait, there are real people in Wales?
Unless of course you are arguing that the 9 year old girl is the head of a professional illegal distribution network.
She doesn't have to head it up, merely contribute in a non-trivial manner. There are some pretty scary organisations out there!
http://www.girlguiding.org.uk/brownies/index.html
They have such a mechanism, but it requires some kind of LEO action or court order.
You mean, something akin to the court order stating she has to hand over her Facebook password?
Interesting, my interpretation was different.
She's claimed abuse, yet perpetrates that abuse herself.
She's claimed harrassment, yet has engaged in that behaviour.
She's claimed loss, yet has stated she's benefited.
It doesn't seem inappropriate that the court would seek clarity on these matters.
I'd rather they demanded "all material" than passwords, and it would also make more sense: I don't know where the cellphone I owned in 2009 _is_, and I did a factory reset on it before I stopped using it. So it has no text messages, no email, etc. on it; giving it to the court is futile.
I just told you I have seen men stalk and masturbate to children walking by with my own eyes! I was prohibited to report it as it would open the school to liability as a lawyer could then argue the schools responsibility for safety now includes the entire walk home and we would be liable for every infraction afterwards etc.
Don't be fucking stupid. Phone in as a member of the public stood near a school who has just seen illegal behaviour that offends you and that you believe is a danger to children.
Fuck all to do with the school, and tell any lawyers that disagree to go fuck themselves - whether employed by the school or not.
My job was to report their ass as soon as any body part touched school property.
If the school doesn't give a shit what people outside its boundaries do, then it wont have the slightest problem with you reporting crime while stood outside of school property.
So stop bitching and fucking do something about it.
Logic _is_ his religion. It's at least as valid as any other, and so should be equally protected under the constitution.
Anybody arguing otherwise should be forced to prove that their religion has a basis in fact.
I foresee suicide bombings all over israel as that is their last possible act of desperation
Suicide bombings have been happening in Israel as long as I can remember. Israel's ability to stop them is frankly impressive.
Some of Israel's methods, perhaps less so.
To an extent, yes. How better to test key elements of homeland defence than in a real-world scenario?
Think of it this way-- I imagine a sniper round costs no more than $100 per shot.
Not even close. Throw in training costs, command and control overheads, manufacturing, transport, living and maintenance overheads, clothing and other equipment, precision firearm with scope, support team and intelligence gathering and each shot in action probably costs somewhere approaching $2m
Even Israeli media report that he's willing to discuss terms for peace. It's hard to be at peace with a non-existent entity.
Unfortunately he's kind of hung up on this idea that you can't have peace while you're occupied.
"You [Netanyahu] must also choose between settlements and peace, for those who want peace do not think of settlements," said Abbas.
(from http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/23207/Default.aspx )
Seems like he has fairly reasonable expectatios for getting started on this whole peace thing. Israel's call..
Their stated goal is nothing less than the complete destruction of the Israel and death to all Jews.
Hey, everyone has to have an ambition in life.
The destruction of Israel isn't _that_ hard. If you can build and fire a thousand rockets in a couple of weeks then you can construct WMD and launch those in the rockets. Mustard gas is low tech and kind of nasty in a civilian setting.
Seems to me either Hamas isn't serious about this whole destruction thing, or are incompetent.
(Death to all Jews could be a trickier one. I suspect you'd need some serious genetically engineered biological weapons and a major world outbreak to even get close)
In case you don't know - Israel kept occupying Palestinian territories, rockets or not.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11611658
What would Mexico or Canada do if the US kept occupying it?
hint to you: israelis just want to be left alone. NOT conquer, NOT convert.
Then they should get out of the West Bank. Remove their illegal settlements. Respect the defined borders. Stop occupying territory belonging to another country. Stop denying aid to the occupied territories.
Until that happens, they're not going to be left alone, and they don't deserve to be.
The Muslims don't want peace, they want the Israeli's gone.
Here was me foolishly thinking it was the Palestinian people wanting a foreign invader to respect their borders. Where the fuck did Islam come into it?
. It seems anti-semitic propaganda is alive and well in 2012.
That's odd, I thought it was Israel killing the children. Why do you think criticism of Israel is anti-semetic?
There are Christians living in Israel.
There are Muslims living in Israel.
There are people that aren't of the Jewish race living in Israel.
They're all equally culpable for the way Israel treats the Palestinians.
Some of these will undoubtably run on Linux. Until they all do, I'm going to keep booting into Windows because they all run on that OS::
Football Manager 2011
Football Manager 2012
Football Manager 2013
(future Football Manager games)
Empire: Total War
Borderlands
Gratuitous Space Battles
Company of Heroes
Dragon Age: Origins
Mount & Blade: Warband
Magic: The Gathering - Duels of the Planewalkers (and 2012, and 2013)
UFO: Afterlight
Star Wars: Empire at War
Test Drive Unlimited 2
Frozen Synapse
Portal 2
Total War: Shogun 2
Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II - Retribution
Warhammer 40,000 Dawn of War II - Chaos Rising
Spellforce
DC Universe Online
King Arthur - The Role-playing Wargame
Star Wolves
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War II
Supreme Commander 2
Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance
FTL
Warhammer 40,000: Dawn of War (four variants of)
Air Conflicts: Secret Wars
Alpha Protocol
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
The Binding of Isaac
Crusader Kings II
Dear Esther
Deus Ex: Human Revolution
Disciples III: Renaissance
Divinity 2: Developer's Cut
F1 2010
Gratuitous Tank Battles
Half Life 2 (and various episodes)
Heroes of Might and Magic V
Jade Empire
LIMBO
Machinarium
Majesty 2
NWN2
Portal
Psychonaughts
Rocksmith
S.T.A.L.K.E.R (and sequels)
Spellforce
Spellforce 2
Victoria: Revolutions
Victoria II
Wargame: European Escalation
X: Beyond the Frontier
X2: The Threat
X3: Reunion
X3: Terran Conflict
There are also a few games I've installed, played a bit and removed, and at least 7 MMOs that have between them clocked up around 8 months of in-game time.
Hey, nobody said I had a life.
Arrows is one possibility
Sure. Let people shoot 200 grain arrows at 300 feet/s through an urban area.
You're worried about shotguns and instead recommending a weapon capable of killing at 700 metres.