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Comment Re:Turnkey totalitarianism (Score 1) 249

Very interesting that you consider protecting civilians important, but only Israeli civilians.

Very interesting that you can't dispute what I said, so you lie about it. Very typical of the terrorist sympathizers.

Here's a recap, so you can lie some more:

I said that protecting Israeli civilians is more important than protecting Palestinian civilians to the IDF .

And that international law supports them on this.

And, once again, you have ignored that Hamas is the one committing the war crimes, and has been from the beginning, and continues to do so, and you will continue to do so as well.

You will now like about what I said again, because you can't refute it. You can't stop yourself.

Comment Re:Not with my money. Canceled those clowns. (Score 3, Interesting) 29

To an extent yes. There has been some utter crap. Another Life pops immediately to mind as something so unwatchably terrible that i watched just to see if it could get worse (spoiler: yes! wow... so much yes!)

But that isn't a netflix issue, that's just an issue. From Firefly to The Expanse to Babylon 5 sci-fi especially is hamstrung by its production.

But there's been plenty of good shows to watch too:

I quite liked Fall of the House of Usher recently for example.
Black Mirror, Maniac, Umbrella Academy were good.
I watched the The OA Season 1 and that was good (I skipped part 2 since i knew it was cancelled mid-arc.) Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency was brilliant - especially season 1.

"So, books have always been more my thing. I'm sticking with them."

Sure, I like books too.. but Game of Throne's is a mess that may never be finished and perhaps shouldn't be; and Wheel of Time never was. And even Asimov's foundation is actually better without books 4 and 5, nevermind the Benford books, and Dune ... likewise did not improve with more novels, and also fell off a cliff when other authors kept it going like a zombie corpse. Things that are 'good' always invite 'more' and the 'more' is almost never as good.

These days my favorite books to read are those that are not part of a series, or at most are a trilogy, and have a beginning middle and an end and above all: a point. They don't try to milk the setting or characters endlessly. With each successive book in the series getting longer and longer as less and less editorial control is exercised over an author seemingly paid by the word.

Comment Re:Turnkey totalitarianism (Score 2) 249

Do you think it is IDF's moral responsibility to protect civilians?

Protecting civilians is their entire purpose. Protecting Israeli civilians. The current flare up started when Hamas terrorists killed over 700 Israeli civilians, and took 250 more hostage, after all. But you ignore that, don't you?

Protecting Palestinian civilians is secondary, at best. And when the Hamas terrorists are hiding behind those Palestinian civilians, it is Hamas who is committing the war crime. But you ignore that, as well.

Do you think they are doing reasonable job?

I don't know, and neither do you, since there is zero actual news coming out of either propaganda machine.

But if you believe for one second that IDF personnel are going to protect Palestinian civilians at the expense of Israeli civilians, of their own lives, then you're too stupid to function as an adult, and should be institutionalized for your own - and everyone else's - safety. Seriously. Get help. You need it.

Comment Re: months of coding training and a half-year Web/ (Score 2) 38

months of coding training and a half-year Web/VoTech degree can tech more then an 4 year theory loaded school.

Except for the theory parts, which can come in handy if you want to get past being just a code monkey. There's also plenty of coding done during a 4-year degree program -- at least there was in mine. And I was a grader. My OS class had us simulate an interactive operating system and another class had us write a functional linking loader, both in C. (my concentration, back in the mid '80s, was operating systems design) I also took classes using LISP, Pascal and x86 assembly (on new PCs as the printer for the IBM 370 caught fire and destroyed everything in the room the previous summer) I was also a research assistant doing programming in LISP (on a Xerox 1108) and Prolog for a NASA grant on automated programming techniques -- they wanted a grad student, but couldn't find one with LISP experience. I also ported programs, like the Franz LISP interpreter/compiler, from 4.3BSD on a VAX 11/785 to SunOS on a Sun4 and debugged lpd -- we had BSD source code. I also had a jerk system administrator on those BSD/Sun systems who made us RTFM *and* the BSD source code before he would answer even the simplest question -- and I have to thank him for that very much.

Pretty sure you're not going to get all that at a six-month coding boot camp. People keep dismissing the value of a 4-year CS degree, but a lot of you get out of it is what you're willing to put into it.

Comment Ya, but (Score 1) 38

The business, which claims on its site it will help students land their "dream job" in tech at companies like Amazon, Cisco, and Google, ...

Con or not, some of this is on the students. I mean, those companies aren't really known for hiring people with only a few months of coding training and a half-year Web/VoTech degree. That said, taking advantage of their gullibility and/or desperation isn't cool.

Comment Re:Turnkey totalitarianism (Score 2) 249

But you don't, and won't - ever - talk about that, will you?

I absolutely will. Palestinians elected terrorist government that committed multiple war crimes and have a publicly stated goal of eradicating Israel. Israel is entitled to defend itself by retaliating proportionally. A lot of what happening right now in Gaza is well-deserved "find out" phase.

I would argue that Israel also elected a hard-line government (Netanyahu) that has repeatedly acted towards the Palestinians in a manner intended to subjugate them, limit their right to self-governance, limit their freedom of movement, etc.,.

Perhaps, after over half a century of Palestinians preaching - with guns and bombs - literal genocide, they're tired of it.

Israel has their share of sins to answer for, but the Palestinians begged for this. Many times.

Comment Re:Turnkey totalitarianism (Score 1) 249

Hamas has made not attempt to not hide behind civilian meat shields, which is never OK.

As ye sow, so shall ye reap. Hamas can end this at any time by surrendering. I suspect that if they released the remaining hostages, it would greatly reduce the fury with which Israel is pursuing it. Unless, of course, those hostages have been tortured, raped, and murdered while they were held.

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