Excuse my shortsightedness. Would you be so kind to explain _why_ the fact that british imams condemned the demonstrators showing those placards as being extremists has anything to do with Israel? Do you have any proof about those condemnations being false? Why do you resort to the "guilt by association" fallacy? While we are at it, would you be so kind to point out where is that memo referenced in the link you posted? Which, by the way, doesn't paint Palestinians in too good a light either:

Palestinians who were responsible for the killing of Israeli children after the establishment of the PA in 1993 also benefited from impunity.

Update: I found the reference you pointed out. Great work putting a link that explains next to nothing about your point of contention. Next time, link the document itself.

Why would you post the photos and no the whole article which includes quotes by several muslim heads condemning those placards or asking for that demonstration to be banned? Is reality perhaps more complex than what you want people to think?

Thank you.

I find no information at the Wikipedia entry about luddites complaining about quality. Would you be so kind to reference your assertion about luddism being about quality? Because I can hardly see the relationship in, say, agricultural luddism against mechanical threshers.

Oh, dear, trolls must be starving now. Slashdot is not what it was any more.

The New Horizons mission page states that the probe will fly by Pluto during July 2015. I don't know what the probe's ability to get data from Pluto is, but anything that helps restrict the range of observations is, IMO, a good thing: a month can pass quickly.

...the movie was "Catch me if you can" (no, I didn't read the link- why should I?).

That's strange because you can change your keyboard mappings (and even cycle through them on the fly through Control-Space). I acknowledge it is not a simple procedure to set up, but once you do it you don't need to think too much about it.

It seems the writer of the article hasn't learned there are no "dark sides" to the Moon.

Because you couldn't change the mapping, right? I agree that it's not the most comfortable keyboard ever, but I'm typing quite quickly with it, thank you.

That's what sanitary pads are for, you know.

Titillating idea.

Actually, while reading/watching about innate HIV resistance in subsaharian Africa, there was some information about the bubonic plague resistance being useful against HIV, which has already been mentioned. The same source stated that the genes providing this resistance survived in about 10% of the European population.

So no, most people survived the bubonic plague by not getting infected. Either that or those genes aren't really that useful otherwise.

Yes, if they think they never will make a mistake.

In a democracy the elected member of the government are expandable.

They are usually quite inflated on their own, I don't think they are that expandable.