Get real. There are not very many people trapped in Gaza compared with the population of Israel and they have very little in the way of resources. That ghetto is no threat and the current episode of shooting fish in a barrel just happens to coincide with an election, just like the last time.
There is no threat to Israel's survival from that quarter and I find it disgusting that you are insulting everyone's intelligence by spewing propaganda along those lines.

Your extreme example of somehow Hamas magically becoming more powerful than Israel, or even remotely comparable, is an utterly ridiculous fantasy.

Are you claiming that Hamas does not seek the destruction of Israel

I am claiming that Hamas has no hope of destroying Israel no matter how many interested Saudis want to donate to them to so they can feel better about being rich.
You however appear to be pretending that the team down 1000-nil is a real threat. Why exactly?

The anime "Space Brothers" recently had some NEEMO training episodes. They have advisors from NASA and JAXA so I wonder how closely that holds up to the real training.

Tridge owed Linus nothing

Does it matter? What matters is that Tridge fucked around and violated the licence and the fallout hit Linus in the form of having to do a lot of unnecessary work. Being only human this appeared to have made him angry.

I have no idea why you brought the GPL into it

Try reading the above post entire instead of key words then. It's only three lines long. I can wait.
If you use software it's only fair to stick to the licence the creator wished you to use - if you don't like it use something else.

You cannot yank your software if it's free, regardless of what license it's under

If someone violates the terms of your licence of course you can.

Linus blowing up at Andrew Tridgdell for "reverse engineering" the bitkeeper protocol comes to mind.

Since it meant that Linus had to go and spend time writing git after bitkeeper was taken away from him due to that licence violation he had a very good reason to be angry.
Do you think the GPL is the only licence that should be respected?

Let's try an offline example
To welder: That joint is unacceptable.
Welder: laughs - just sign it off loser.
The situation then does not resolve until someone has the guts to try another approach.



Approach 2
To welder: Your weld is fucked. I can stick a fucking ruler 50mm into this enormous fucking crack here.
Welder now gets that the situation is being seen as serious and can not just be fobbed off.

Sometimes you just get ignored if you do not use appropriate language to convey how serious a situation is.

From the standpoint of fighting a war for survival, which the state of Israel is doing

That is how the propaganda frames it. However it's not 1948 any more and there are no serious threats in the region to such a powerful nation. That may change if ISIS unites everyone from Lebanon to Iran and has a decade or two to get their shit together but I can't see that happening outside of their dreams.

Since it's the wrong continent and someone will eventually correct the wikipedia article you are correct, it will go away almost instantly.
The real problem in Africa is a different story but like foot binding before it (in another part of the world obviously) it's been slowly going away as well.

The problem is that any suggestion that the current government of Israel is imperfect is taken as "anti-semitic".

I like Israel, it has a lot of good things going for it. However currently it is run by a bunch of fucking fascists who have timed yet another pogrom into Gaza to coincide with an election. That seems to run contrary to everything Israel is supposed to stand for.

It's still not easy and is still very expensive for the reasons given above. There may be less oxide in the shavings than in rutile or titanium dioxide but you still have to get rid of it before it can be melted down - and with a high melting point plus a need to keep oxygen off it's not that cheap to melt the stuff either. Reducing waste with titanium (or titanium alloys) has more of a cost benefit than just about any other non-radioactive metal since the reprocessing cost is high.

refining Titanium from raw 'ores'.

It's gravity separated out of sand so the mining part is as cheap as mining gets - reducing it from an oxide is the very hard bit.

I'm merely replying to your inaccurate "On the other hand, they oppose building broadband, or anything else" and similar rubbish. Please don't attempt to misdirect away from that to avoid responsibility for your own actions.
In my country the greens are pushing for broadband and the "conservatives" are opposing it because major donor Rupert doesn't want the competition.

"Buss" is not a word

It is actually, meaning "kiss", but a "kiss duct failure" sounds more like supposed plot of "the human centipede" than an engineering problem in Atlanta.

Sadly while it would be "bullshit" with stainless steel it's not so simple with titanium. Recovering metal from the shavings is not as simple as just throwing them in a pot and warming it up, even if you do it in an inert atmosphere.
The entire reason why titanium is expensive despite being made from very plentiful sand is because it's bloody hard to reduce the oxide and those shavings are covered with it.
That very hard to move oxide is why it's so useful in medical applications but it makes it a difficult material to do anything with.

Also using powder directly removes the step of forming the stuff into large blocks. It's vastly easier to make titanium metal in powder form than fully solid ingots with consistent properties.

The machined Ti is reclaimed

It's not easy to reclaim (titanium oxidises very easily so the scrap has to be reduced again, almost as hard as getting it out of sand in the first place) and the consumable costs to machine it are not trivial. Your cutting tools are ripping into titanium oxide, and guess what a lot of the cutting edges of those tools are made of? You can't guess? The answer is stuff like titanium nitride which is not a lot harder, so the tools wear down very rapidly. Using diamond doesn't help much either. It's a very slow and expensive way to do things but used to be better than any other way available.
This development is interesting because now it is available it's a lot easier than your "just mill it out of a block" suggestion which is why it's being discussed at all.

given the inherent porosity of sintered material that give purchase for pathogens

The milled stuff has been treated for years to produce a porous surface to allow bone to grow into it. I heard a paper presented on that in 1999 by some Japanese and Californian researchers and it's apparently become standard practice since.

How big of an advantage is that, though? Melting down metal to reuse it is really easy

Not with titanium. It's a bastard of a thing to work with since it oxidises easily enough that the powder makes far too good an explosive for it to be permissable to ship it by air.