Of course, "tenants stop paying rent, tenants get evicted, new tenants move in" doesn't sound as interesting, does it?

And that is a classic misuse of it's.

That's not so difficult. http://www.youtube.com/t/captions_about

It's not a matter of charging for it. You can charge whatever you want for GPL-licensed software. The issue is the license under which you distribute your derivative work. If you use GPL-licensed code in your product, then if you distribute it, whether free or for a price, it has to be licensed GPL as well.

Or maybe you might learn what "open source" is. It is not necessarily free. It is not necessarily part-time. It merely means that the source code is available. Such a long bout of rabid typing for such a small amount of understanding.

If parents were not using these for electronic babysitters this wouldn't happen. Any parent who's paid any attention at all can tell you that children will use anything to keep from the boring old task of "studying". As long as parents think they can shirk their responsibility to force the children to sit down and study, and at least do their homework, children won't study, and they won't learn, and their grades will go down. Thirty years ago I knew young parents who were totally shocked at their younger children's poor performance in kindergarten and first grade. "But, but..." they'd all stammer, "Johnny has watched Sesame Street three times a day since he was six months old!" He can sing the MacDonald's song just fine, but he doesn't even know how to hold a pencil, let alone write any letters or numbers with it.

Most schools would have this in their music songbooks, so they would be covered. However, I first sang it in 4-H camp in 1963, and we had no books. The camp counselors and a few of the other kids just sang it and the rest of us learned it.

I don't know if this is the same outfit responsible for the Metrorail security as it was when I was working on the UM medical campus and lived in Hialeah. Most evenings when I got to the Hialeah stations the guard was in his car sleeping. I was mugged once, and on the second attempt successfully defended myself, all with no sign of the sleeping beauty in the car parked in front of the turnstiles. On one occasion, at the Martin Luther King station, in broad daylight, I was shoved aside and the young man "of color" went through the turnstile on my card. He went over to the young woman guard who was standing watching the whole incident, they did a "high five", and he went on up the stairs, while she tried to accuse me of lying about having a ticket. Actually I had a monthly pass, which very fortunately her friend hadn't noticed. Then she told me I couldn't let someone else go through on my pass! I had to threaten to call the police myself before she let me through.

I went through this same crap in the fourth grade when I had gone to the teachers to complain about bullying (punching, kicking, tripping, etc). I was a crybaby, a tattletale, and needed to learn to stand up for myself. Of course, when I finally hauled off and smacked one of the bullies that had been harassing me for years I immediately got suspended for fighting. So I'm not at all surprised at this attitude, and am perfectly aware that Israel can do no right. But references were requested, provided, and as expected half-read if read at all, and rejected. I've been amusing myself betting with myself how long it would be before I got a response like this, and how many of them I would get.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Partition_Plan_for_Palestine/
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_1991to_now_campdavid_2000.php/

One of my smart-aleck co-workers was always remarking loudly as I passed his desk on the way back from the ladies room "If you shake it more than twice you're playing with it!" So finally I replied "What else would I possibly want one for if not to play with it?" He never said it again.

True. But then, that's often how a conversation goes; starts on one point and segues to something else. The iPad story is legitimate, and receives its share of conversation. Every post has interesting side channels to the conversation.

Yeah... like how that iconic picture of the 12-year-old Mohammad al-Dura screaming in terror moments before he was brutally murdered was finally proven to be a staged "Pallywood" production. Or driving the Palestinians out of their homes in Jerusalem. Oh, you mean those Jewish homes purchased over 100 years ago, whose owners the Jordanians drove out, renting the homes to Arabs and holding the rent in "escrow" for the legal Jewish owners? Until the Arabs stopped paying the rent and tried to claim the homes as theirs? And finally got evicted for not paying rent for years? Wish I could live in a rental house and then decide to just stop paying the rent and get to claim title to the house.

Or how about building some apartment buildings in a Jewish neighborhood of Jerusalem that in no way expands the borders of said Jewish neighborhood? Well, I guess facts really aren't all that much fun, are they? After all, "thousands of illegal settlements driving the Palestinians off their land" sounds a lot more exciting than "Jews legally building apartments in their own neighborhoods".

Plenty of cheeseburgers. You just have to find the non-Kosher McDonalds. There's one at the central bus station in Netanya.

Add to that the usually ignored fact that it was Israeli land that was occupied by Jordan and Egypt for 19 years before the Jordanian and Egyptian occupation was lifted.

Funny how during those 19 years of Jordanian occupation of the West Bank and Egyptian occupation of Gaza that nobody ever suggested a Palestinian state in those occupied territories. And that during those 19 years (and the 40 years since then) the 400,000 or so refugees from the 1948 war were kept blocked up in the "camps" and not allowed to disperse among their Muslim brethren, nor those from the West Bank area and Gaza allowed to return to their homes in the West Bank and Gaza, as all other refugees from all other wars all over the world do.