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Comment: Re:...Or you could just not go to porn sites (Score 5, Informative) 429

by Imbrondir (#40064753) Attached to: Ultra-Orthodox Jews Rally For a More Kosher Internet

Every bigger religion has had bad apples, that's true. What's unique about Islam is that their leader Muhammed himself raped, enslaved, kidnapped, murdered and at least ordered people to stone in his name. This is pretty well documented in Hadith, an important source of Islamic knowledge for every interpretation of Islam as far as I know.

Comment: Re:Another could say (Score 1) 115

by Imbrondir (#39800487) Attached to: Iran's Oil Industry Hit By Cyber Attacks

For now ignoring your first point. Take a look at the top right map of countries with conscription based military. These include my own country and many Islamic and Arab ones. I strongly refuse the notion that anyone that have or might some day serve in the army should be considered legitimate military targets.

higher chance of being killed [in traffic than by terrorism]

This is correct. I also suspect that traffic is a higher cause of death than murder in any country. Which is again second to heart disease diseases. However I fail to see how this is relevant. Are you suggesting that Israel should stop worrying about terrorism until it's higher than traffic incidents (and vica versa with murders in other countries)?

Any particular reason why [not discuss land ownership]

My reason is that I'm tired of arguing with people that haven't done more historical homework than looking at newspapers. You seem to have gone further, so I'll quickly state my view on it. First a history resume of the british mandate of palestine. As the link is written by Israelis it should be taken with a grain of salt. A key point is that what is now called Jordan were also part of the full cake. Ignoring that point you are right that a majority (55%?) were given to a minority (35%). But most of the land were located in the next to useless Negev desert. It was also calculated a lot of Jewish migration to happen. Yes many from western countries, but also a huge amount from Arab and Islamic countries. So in my view it's a bit like the exchange between Greece/Turkey or India/Pakistan, not simply a foreign invasion. In any case, there were no real negotiations about this. Neighboring Arab countries simply attacked, demanding everything.

Regarding the Gaza blockade issue, what would you do in Israels shoes? Hamas doesn't even bother to hide his intentions of destroying Israel. And with support of Iran or other countries, they pose similar danger as Cuba when the Soviets were transporting missile bases there. They hold a blockade till today (imho now unjustified). Act of war or not, I'd prefer a blockade before an outright invasion. The intents also matters. In the wikipedia article you linked to, the Egyptian president announced before the 6 day war:

Our basic objective will be the destruction of Israel. The Arab people want to fight

Moving on. You answer my question about IDF terror motive with another question. I've spoken to many Arabs that have the idea that the "zionist regime" is a machine that is evil, just for being evil, even at the cost of bad international press. Is this what you're suggesting? And yes, Quassam rockets sucks as a military weapon. So what? I don't know your hometown, but if I came close to it, and started to launch such rockets against it, would you ignore the threath?

The lives, especially civilian lives lost from the King David hotel attack were tragic indeed. But the hotel were the British headquarters. Sounds like military to me. Also key scientists working on building nuclear bombs for a religious fanatical regime that is publicly working to destroy the state might also sound like a military target. I don't think I'd call the bombing of the Pentagon building in 2001 a terrorist attack either.

Comment: Re:Another could say (Score 1) 115

by Imbrondir (#39787773) Attached to: Iran's Oil Industry Hit By Cyber Attacks

Any attacks aiming purely for civilian targets are terrorists in my book. Whether the Judean desert is stolen and occupied is IMHO a big grey area which I don't want to discuss

As for your accusation of the IDF terrorism, I'll have to go for a [Citation needed]. What could the IDF even gain from just massacring a school with no military target as you suggest?

Comment: Re:Any rational programmer is anti-JS (Score 1) 575

Yes it's a definitely a balance. I actually miss the a++ feature in python. It trades brevity and expression for some (minor) readability and newbie friendliness. In the case of lambdas I simply personally favor the readability of the JS solution in front of the Python brevity. Probably a lot due to allowing multi line lambdas also (which is of course another subject if it's good or bad by itself). Attempts to compress useful code down to a one liner often ends up with very hard to read code.

In any case I'm not trying to say the JS solution is overall better. Just simpler and easier to read.

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