How is saying "From the River to the Sea all people will be free" imply a genocide? You hasbara-spouters always leave off the second half of that phrase. Really, if you spend two seconds thinking about it claiming that the only way that Jews can live in peace is if they eliminate every non-believer in their territory is quite anti-Semitic. In the rest of the world, including places like Iran and Indonesia, Jews live just fine as standard members of society with minimal to no friction. Only in Israel do they believe that everyone else must be exterminated for them to live freely, it's a sick, sick society.

Not all of us are ashamed of our opinions, even the ones we change over time. YMMV

Hope you don't mind if I steal that last line, it's an excellent summary.

And pretty much every macro and function in those dozens of spreadsheets is entirely undocumented.

That was the situation in 1999 among the electricity traders in North America, much of the energy flow was traded back and forth in an enormous and almost entirely undocumented Excel spreadsheet that was swapped back and forth. Fortunately Y2K broke the functions (and even better, no one could figure out how) so the process was entirely revamped. They put the new process in place Thanksgiving weekend of that year, to the relief of grid operators across the continent.

If we had been given the choice (which we weren't in the Puget Sound region) I'd have voted to defund SWAT and the purchase of military war toys entirely, and raise funding for local community policing and have officers who actually walk a beat again. Oh, and get rid of the frelling Israeli contract trainers teaching cops to respond to any resistance with overwhelming violence. (They only had one of those training sessions here, but other places in the country still bring them in regularly.)

I'd recommend you log out of The Daily Caller and Free Republic and never go back. None of that is true.

They have to be careful of their routing for the shipping containers, Hong Kong and Dubai, two of the busiest ports in the world, check 100% of containers. In the US it's still below 5%, or the same percentage as in 2000. This is the reason why most of the illegal drugs entering the country come in cargo containers (plus the almost trivial cost of suborning Customs officers), as well as tens of thousands of immigrants. Put a ton of coke in a container or semi trailer and there's a 95% chance it will be delivered unobstructed. (Bury it in bulk cargo, like ore or petroleum, and that rises to almost 100%.)

Way to tell us you only read the MSM, without just coming out and saying it. I bet you think Russia's economy is about to collapse too.

Now if they had been protesting genocide outside the Israeli embassy they'd be prosecuted to the end of time.

And not really believable, especially since much better domestically manufactured phones are available for 10% of that price.

I have yet to see an "Apple feature" on my wife's iToy which wasn't more of an obstruction than a useful tool, much less one that we would consider "essential". Hell, I just wish the frelling thing would keep the "Don't synch with iCloud" setting that we have to reset every six weeks or so, every time she starts getting spammed with "iCloud out of storage, buy more" we know that we have to redo the setting and delete everything from the stupid cloud account yet again.

Good luck with that, over a quarter of the FBI's agents, and up to 40% in the larger offices, are assigned to arrest those dangerous dishwashers, landscapers and housekeepers who don't have a work permit now. Apparently the Feds are more interested in restoring those high-paying jobs for strawberry pickers and burger flippers to "Real 'MURKINS", since crime is at the lowest level now that it's been in decades.

Well, since you're an AC you could live in Rio de Janiero and claim you live wherever the frack you want. Convenient.

No, this is classic conservative politics, first reduce the budget for services in order to give tax breaks which will get you reelected, then when things go to shit because there's no money blame the liberals for (excuse of your choice).

People as a group are stupid. They elect people who promise to reduce their taxes, then when taxes are lower and the streets are full of potholes and crime is on the rise because there aren't enough attorneys to prosecute offenders they don't understand why.

Taxes are the admission price for living in civilization. Want clean water, food and meds that won't kill you, bridges that don't collapse, reliable electricity, and for your shit to disappear when you flush then you're going to have to pay taxes. Don't want to pay taxes? Go move to Somalia. I personally LIKE civilization, and vote for pretty much every tax hike on the ballot.

Tired of winning yet?