So, the worst that could happen is if the poor sod's plane would disintegrate above a populated area, sucking him into one of the engines, and sending his remains downwards on the population in a fine mist?

Sounds like a plan.

Of course, it would be quite ironic if a mishandled case of a deadly disease would accidentally wipe out the USA's foremost expertise center on contagious diseases. And embarrassing. And very bad.

Perhaps Obama is the Antichrist afterall and this is his way of bringing the world to its end! Ebola for everyone, instead of equality for everyone!

I've had some success starting off in US labs. Especially those that keep samples for a longer time. There I made a killing, twice. Once during the original exposure phase, and once about 30 years onward. It was a very fun birthday party, except that all the invitees were dead at the end, which was a bit of a downer.

Perhaps this year I'll be able to make my first transcontinental experience!

Russia is not a communist country anymore (they wish they were!). I have some trouble determining whether your post is sarcastic or not, by the way. Having relatively high taxes on income and sales is not necessarily bad; it allows for better government facilities for citizens (such as a medical system that isn't terribly expensive for the care it provides).

"amazingly measured manner"?

What would consist a "minor" escalation in your world? Nuking a city off the map?

Simple.

The Israeli offensive is a war against terrorism. It aims at the complete destruction of terrorists. Therefore, there is no collateral damage involved. They are killing terrorists, potential terrorists (men), future terrorists (children), terrorist production facilities (women), terror tunnels (tunnels), terrorist protectors and repairers (doctors, hospitals), terrorist shelters (houses), terror-learning centers (schools), terror fuel (power plants), terror exchange facilities (airports - already destroyed a long time ago), and terrorist and antisemitic ideas (any form of criticism of the state of Israel and its actions).

I bet the remaining 95% chemical, biological, and possibly nuclear warhead missiles will be more than enough to lay Israel to waste. You see, with that kind of weapon, only a 100% effective (which isn't possible) defense system will prevent damage. So it's a waste of money anyway.

Or perhaps your parents are deluded by Israeli propaganda designed to make Iron Dome seem effective. Skewing the numbers is, unfortunately, common courtesy when evaluating missile defense systems. Perhaps the military are not including those missiles that landed but hit nothing but the ground in the counts.

When the conflict just started there were some numbers released that Iron Dome had shot down 80% of Palestinian rockets. A day later they released the number of rockets fired and those destroyed at that time: 160 fired, 2 destroyed. That's no 80% of the rockets, instead it amounts to 1.25%...so someone screwed with the numbers there, and I bet it's Israel.

You could swap "Israel" and "Hamas" in your list, and have the exact same list of arguments.

Meanwhile, Israel is isolating itself internationally, committing war crimes right and left, and showing to Muslims worldwide that they are assholes. I'm not denying that Hamas are assholes too, but seeing Israel's excessive use of force (and mass-punishment) Israel will be the loser of this conflict (just like last time...).

Personally, I believe Hamas or any other terrorist organisation will not destroy Israel. Israel will destroy itself instead.

154 Dutch nationals, 27 Australians, 23 Malaysians, 11 Indonesians, six Britons, four Germans, four Belgians, three from the Philippines and one Canadian. All 15 of the crew were Malaysian. Remaining ones yet unknown.

My country will have a day of mourning tomorrow. Personally I am wishing for the fast removal of Putin from the Kremlin, perhaps using a air-ground missile fired from a Boeing 777, for irony.

Damn Rednecks, never doin' the right thing. I tell ya, why aren't they firing BUK missiles at their shooting ranges?

As has been confirmed by Vladimir Putin himself, who has rightfully blamed the Ukrainian government for this tragedy. If those bastards had not attacked the freedom fighters earlier this week, this tragedy could have been avoided!

The black boxes are already in transit to Russia, awaiting their truthful transcription which will show that the Ukranian government scrambled the pilot's transmissions right at the crucial moment, find pictorial evidence showing the Ukranian missile a second before impact, and reveal other incriminating delights!

In other news, the most likely hiding place for that battery of BUK missiles is Vladimir's eminent and firm behind.

Hint: If their primary occupation involves giving living humans concrete foundations (as opposed to statues), they may actually be part of the mafia. Bonus points if they have hobbies such as "listening to the collected symphonies of AK-47" they carry around in a violin case. The AK-47 is not a type of violin, it is a machine gun (which in turn is not construction equipment).

I once had a cowworker (the additional "w" is in there for a reason...) who managed to align her eyes with her cleavage by leaning over for no obvious reason whatsoever while we were talking (she was sitting with me standing opposite to her). I have never felt so uneasy and had to take a step back to be able to look at her face (obviously) without opening myself up to accusations of sexual harassment.

Of course, considering the person in question showed about 90% of the symptoms of a serious personality disorder (borderline, I am told...), it was probably done on purpose and she was just being her manipulative self.