The most effective way of stopping spam thus far is using IP blacklisting. It should be noted if the net moves to ipV6, that will be the end of blacklist effectiveness for some time.

I'm pretty sure in one of those pictures they show electrical conduit and the caption says they're for cooling the equipment.

I found this essay on Free Will which I tend to agree with. Any time someone deviates from what is considered a normal human desire, that becomes grounds for clinical diagnosis of mental issues, so ultimately the choices people make are extremely predictable and not very "free."

"lefties" don't employ strawmen arguments like the UN being a collection of Jihadist sympathizers and use terms like "extreme lefties" and hide behind the cowardice of anonymity. You're not fooling anyone.

t is only irrelevant because people ignore when Hamas attacks Israel and provokes an attack. Instead, people focus on how Israel is hurting the poor, terrorist loving Palestinians who elected a terrorist group to power and allow them to fire rockets into their bigger, better armed neighbor.

AIPAC talking point #8.

Irrelevent.

The whole chicken-or-the-egg argument is meaningless. It doesn't matter who shot first, Israel has progressively escalated the level of violence. And all of this is brought on by their refusal to follow the original treaties they agreed regarding the sovereignty of Palestinian territory.

Ultimately we should blame the British for starting this mess. They broke their promise with the Arabs and started the conflict, but then Israel invaded the area before an agreement was reached, so basically, Israel was the original aggressor.

It may be politically-correct to support Israel, but Israel is in the wrong here by International law and objective standards of morality. The only people pro-Israel are those that don't know the history and details of the conflict, or have personal interests they're protecting. People such as myself, who have no interest whatsoever in either side, can look at the issue objectively and realize there is a right side and a wrong side.

If the Israeli government seriously wanted to commit genocide it would have gotten it over with by now.

Oh puh-leeze. It's no conspiracy theory. The bottom line is what they are doing is systemmatically driving the Arabs off their own land and killing those that resist or won't move. That is basically genocide. This is exactly what was done to the American indians but of course, it's not called "genocide" by the invading army and their media. But it's the same thing. The winners of the conflict get to frame it however they want, but dead people are still dead.

Know this - Palestine covers an the area today known as Jordan and Israel. Israel composes roughly 10% of that area. Israel is surrounded by countries that have all tried to destroy Israel repeatedly.

AIPAC talking point #11

Irrelevent.

If you bulldoze your neighbor's homes and take over their land, as I said before, it's not unusual for these displaced, oppressed people to want to destroy you. That's human nature to fight an evil, oppressive force.

I still respect the guy for being a POW, no amount of partisanship can take that away from him.

McCain was a traitor and a coward more than he was a P.O.W. You should dive deeper into his personal story and then you find out:

  * He was a crappy soldier who didn't follow orders
  * He crashed 3 airplanes - anyone else would have been drummed out long before him
  * His family's power and influence kept him in the military
  * When he was shot down, he wasn't following the rules which led to his crash
  * The injuries he suffered that many claim was the result of "torture" was not torture but injuries from the crash
  * He lasted TWO DAYS.... TWO DAYS IN CAPTIVITY before he coughed up the fact that his father was the commander of the Pacific Naval Fleet
  * He then became a traitor to America and recorded VC propaganda messages that were broadcast to his own troops in Vietnam

He claims torture doesn't work, but then he claims he was tortured and "broken", then he claimed torture does work and supported Bush's torture of Guantanamo detanees. In addition to being a liar, by his own admission he committed treason. He's a traitor and calling him a "hero" is an insult to virtually every other Vietnam vet who served more honorably and didn't sell out their country.

If the difference between a legitimate military campaign and terrorism is a plan

No. The difference is a matter of perspective and who controls communication resources.

A suicide bomber is merely a poor country's F-16.

*before* the ceasefire ending Hamas fired almost 3000 rockets into Israel. I'd say they broke the ceasefire well before the IDF "provoked" them.

Many others report Israel broke the cease fire - the bottom line is that both sides have continued to fight. It's a red herring to suggest one side acted in an unprovoked manner - that's simply bogus.

Who shot first is irrelevant.

What is relevant is that Israel has been condemned by the United Nations more than 50 times for refusing to follow various agreed-upon conventions. Israel has been systematically driving the Palestinians off their own land and taking it over. That's a fact. That's not something you can accuse the arabs of doing. If you bulldoze someone's house. If you make them have to pass through armed checkpoints and hostile guards to get to work. If you break their cities into little pieces by building an illegal wall around their settlements, you shouldn't be surprise if some of these people react. The irony is that Israel is slowly committing genocide on the Palestinians and nobody's doing anything about it. The United States is funding the genocide to the tune of $6,000,000,000.00 a year now in an elaborate kickback scheme involving military defense contractors and the US's most powerful lobbying group: AIPAC. There's no motivation for Israel to make peace with its neighbors when war is profitable for them and for the American corporations that aid money gets funneled back to.