Life in Gaza is valued cheaply -- not by the Israelis, but by the Palestinians. A small, but telling, example: Man killed by celebratory gunfire in Gaza. Not to mention the fact that Hamas uses its own citizens as human shields and fires from among civilians; or the fact that Hamas attacks target civilians...

Wow, your grandma runs Skype on Linux?!

Anyone who's ever gone looking for meteors knows the feeling: the people you're with see a great one just as you were looking the other way --- it's almost part of the fun ;) --- so I agree that I don't find this very newsworthy... However, I'm also wondering how much the fact that this was being shot with a Night Vision camera (as the caption on the bottom left seems to imply?) would have affected the visibility of the meteor; in other words, even if the reporter had been looking straight at the meteor, would he have seen it with the naked eye?

I've use Skype-Out on the N900 all the time without any problem. You may need to add the international prefix in order for it to work (starting with a + ). If you still have problems, head over to http://talk.maemo.org/ .

hg transplant

hg qimport has a '-r' option which allows you to "place existing revisions under mq control" (from hg help qimport)

> Why is evacuation of Israeli colonies in the West Bank unrealistic? Israel evacuated their colonies in Gaza,

Because what Israel got in return for its withdrawal from Gaza is that the evacuated area (the entire Gaza strip) was used as a base for increased terrorism against it; because through the border between Egypt and Gaza, from which Israel also withdrew, hundreds of rockets were smuggled into Gaza and then fired at Israeli cities; because after having gradually withdrawn much of its military from the West Bank after the Oslo accords in the 1990s, Israel was finally forced to return its military there in order to halt rampant Palestinian terrorism which resulted in 1000 Israeli *civilian* deaths, in Israeli cities, after September 2000.

So now tell me, if *you* were Israeli, would you support the withdrawal from more area?

I don't know anything about economics, but it seems to me that the real DWL is the fact that these companies have invested the $5000 in something which produced nothing, rather than having invested it in whatever it is they do, and thus actually producing something. So you have one situation in which $10000 were spent, and you have something to show for it, and another situation in which the same $10000 were spent, but there's nothing to show for it. So the real DWL is the "something vs. nothing", not the $10000, which are spent in either situation.