The medicine is intended to ease the withdrawal symptoms that appear while trying to abstain from playing your favorite game. Taking it by itself does not make you want to play less; taking it while already trying to play less will make you less depressed.

32 bit? I count 116 bits in your address.

It's a joke. It's very clear from his website (link in the video), as long as you find something specific there - I won't ruin the surprise :)

He was making a pun...

Regarding your subject line: some Israelis would like to be in the EU, some don't. I suspect the majority don't. I don't believe the Israeli government made any official statement about it, and I don't think the EU is particularly interested in that, so most of the discussions about that are hypothetical.

I do recall one idea though, which was for the EU to offer membership to both Israel and a future Palestinian state as an incentive for reaching a solution on the conflict between them. But I don't think such an offer was ever made by an official.

The article only mentions municipal (local) elections, and not parliamentary ones (national).
Like I said, there are issues today with treatments of some communities and minorities - the shitty unrecognized settlement situation, affecting some Bedouin tribes, being one of them (and it's worse than only lack of municipal elections) - but all citizens do have the right to vote in the national elections, which is what I am stressing.

All Israeli citizens are eligible to vote in the parliamentary elections, regardless of sex, religion, ethnicity, etc. There are enough legitimate issues with Israeli-Arabs rights you can complain about without lying.

I disagree. I would say it sometimes takes more courage to wage war than to engage in diplomacy. Diplomacy requires almost nothing - not the amount of resources war requires, certainly not the personal sacrifices taken by soldiers and their family members (and that, in turns, affects the public opinion and thus the politicians). Between having a discussion and getting shot at, there's no doubt what's the scarier activity. But sometimes you just need to take risks and stand up for yourself.

I do agree that once hostilities do commence, diplomacy quickly becomes less popular as people just want plain old revenge, and it takes courage from the leaders to face the public opinion and start negotiation. So I'm not actually saying you're wrong, I'm just stressing that many people prefer diplomacy over warfare, and are willing to risk a lot - maybe too much - for that. Sometimes you need the courage to choose the military option, even when you know it means your son might not come back.

Maybe they do that when their machine is first released. I doubt they do that with each new driver version.

It's true that a few years ago you had to stay close to the cutting edge and now you don't; but I'm pretty sure it's not because graphics cards had outpaced games, but because game developers slowed their pace because they wanted good performance on consoles.

I'm sure game developers could easily overwhelm graphics cards if they wanted to, but that doesn't only block PCs without high-end cards, but also all the consoles. I have to say that as a PC-only gamer, I find the situation very positive. I like not having to upgrade constantly.

I think it's the other way around. I've worked at Intel, and the mindset was more towards "what can we do FOR our customers" (Dell, Apple etc.).
It's true they're leading the market now, but a good method to make sure it stays that way is to keep the customers happy.

First of all, I don't think kids' introduction to programming should be by studying any specific algorithm. I personally taught myself the feeling of programming by playing around in Pascal, trying to just make things happen. In retrospect my code must be horrible, inefficient, non-modular, etc. but it was fun and it really gave me the "hanging" of programming. I'm sure many others around here started much the same. Sure, in high-school we were taught proper CS which we sometimes practiced on paper in pseudo-code, but that came later. Secondly, I don't think this is about "relying on any specific language concept". From my experience switching programming language is not that difficult of a thing to do. Having started my way on Pascal might have made ML, Prolog and Befunge more difficult for me to learn, but I have successfully written code in them. A teenager needs a simple, intuitive environment, in which she can play around. I think something like Basic or Pascal fits that role perfectly.