You are a very bitter person who seems to have a strong desire to engage with complete strangers in straw man arguments. If you don't have the mental capacity to understand the words that I've written, and instead need to build up that straw man tear down an argument I never made, you need some professional help that I am not qualified to provide for you. Besides, you don't know a single damn thing about me or my political leanings or my life experiences. But this is where I say "good day" and let you go back to your bitter trolling.

97% percent of statistics quoted on Slashdot are wholly made up. Got a citation for your claims? It seems that you're more likely to end up middle class if you were born into a middle class or upper class family. It's really damn hard if you are born to a poor family, especially if that is a family that is part of a marginalized group. But you keep believing your meritocracy nonsense. I guess everybody, whether "religious" or not, is entitled to a fantasy.

You go on thinking that this is only about people who made a "crap load of bad choices in life" if that makes you feel better since in reality at least 1/2 of your destiny is truly nothing more than luck.

Nah man, you just fall on the "knows a little and is way overconfident about it" side of Dunning-Kruger. Have a good day, though. You don't really want to listen and learn. You just want to be correct.

President Skroob, Dark Helmet, and Colonel Sandurz would like you to meet... *timpani* MEGAMAID.

You have yet to convince me you know what you are talking about

Yeah, way way more complex than that, and it stretches all the way back to the founding of Islam itself. But I bet you never knew that Jews lived in the city of Medinah in Saudi Arabia back when MuHammad's armies were out busy conquering. The Jews were chased out of Medinah, and some went to Khaybar, and a siege ensued. After the Jews of Khaybar surrendered, they were henceforth made to pay jizya (a special tax). This jizya was applied to ALL non-Muslim Abrahamics, which yes, included Christians. For the non-Muslim Abrahamics, they were Dhimmi, who are basically 2nd class citizens - they do not hold all the same same rights as a Muslim would, but Muslims are also supposed to not kill them or forcibly convert them. Incidentally this story is also reference in the shia-sunni split and fight for dominance. See here for more info.

Funny, I didn't realize I was at war with 1 billion Muslims in the world. But your whole premise is wrong, and you're a fool if you think that just going back to the 1948 armistice lines is going to bring about peace. Let me remind you that the PLO was founded on May 28, 1964. Notice that this is roughly about 3 years prior to the retaking of yehudah and shomron from the Jordanians? Then even before the founding of the modern state of Israel, there was the Farhud in what is now Iraq. And let's not mention that the wars with the Jews in the mideast are more so a sideshow in the whole shia-sunni battle that has been raging ever since muHamad kicked the bucket. I recommend that you keep your "recommendations" to yourself, because you do not have an understanding of the region.

As I stated before, you're terribly ignorant of history. But please, by all means, sit in your comfy chair and spout out about things you don't know from your home far away from the land where the conflict actually is occurring. I've got skin in this game, and it's WAY more complicated than you can even imagine. And it appears that you believe that Jews were absent from the land prior to 1947. There's always been a Jewish presence in the land, even as the vast majority were booted out by the Romans nearly 2000 years ago. I suggest you read some real history about it before you make a fool of yourself claiming that we just up and stole all that land.

I don't know all the ins-and-outs about QUIC, but if my understanding is correct, part of it is to help with sourcing data from multiple locations at once. As for the handshake issue, let's say two systems are 125 ms of latency apart. That can mean 1 second delay to complete the handshake alone. Multiply that over multiple connections, and that can add up.

I work in VoIP and have contributed in the past to FreeSWITCH. The vast bulk of VoIP signalling traffic that traverses the internet at least to-from carrier systems is primarily handled by UDP. It is absolutely true that SCTP comes out of SIGTRAN, and I actually like SCTP myself. But even TCP doesn't get used much for VoIP signalling unless the MTU is exceeded (the rfcs dictate that the connection MUST switch to TCP for that, but SCTP is also allowed), or for when SIP+TLS is implemented. I routinely saw 750-1000 ms handshake times between the initial TCP handshake followed by the TLS negotiation even before we got to the actual initial INVITE message. This was for a company with US-based server presence interoping with a European carrier.

Nah man, if you're going to make incorrect assessments, you need to take ownership of it. I'm not playing the guessing game, least of all with you.

SCTP has a 4-step handshake iirc. I think that one of the goals of QUIC is to reduce the time that is needed to set up the connection in the first place. Weirdly enough I still don't see much carrier-grade interconnects for VoIP traffic using SCTP.

Who is the "they" in your statement?

"Morpheus??"

You don't know your history apparently do you? Jordan conquered East Jerusalem and what is generally known as "the West Bank" in the 1948 war against Israel's independence. They kicked out all the Jews who lived in Jerusalem at the time and let Arabs settle there (thus the decades-long issue of shimOn hatsadiq / sheiH jarraH, as an example). In 1967, Israel recaptured the land from Jordan - which, by the way, was never theirs to claim in the first place.

Also, I'd like to point you to the War of 1812 as far as the history of the USA and Canada is concerned.

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