If it's such a good idea, you go first. No, actually, if culling is so humane, I'd like to see you do it with your bare hands.

I'm sorry to inform you that you appear to be an extremist lunatic. It's OK, I once had some similar opinions about population control, and about "engineering-style" solutions to geopolitical problems.

When I realised that I wouldn't be able to bring myself to actually implement those ideas myself, but rather prefer to stand at the side cheering "Way to go, guys!" I realised I was an opinionated coward.

So, before you go publicly recommending death, starvation and natural disasters on hundreds of thousands of people, you may want to go stand in front of a mirror and repeat "Who the fuck do I think I am?". Don't take this personally, I am frightened of the short step between "this would be a great solution" and "Yes, Sir, we'll get right on it".

Er, then they'd be out of a job. Would turkeys vote for an early Christmas?

They have trans-mog-rified!

The Chinese are smart. Our year 2010 is the Chinese year 4707. They have an ANCIENT culture.

Ergo, all Chinese people pre-date modern western history and all of them know, agree upon and recall perfectly all political games played there.

Nah and it probably won't even get investigated. You'll be lucky getting anything out of the army unless there's a media furore or a governmental tribunal. I don't think they give a shit about being sued for damages.

Main news items are about Iran's new long range missile tests, Palestinian groups trying to arrest senior government officials in countries which exercise Universal Jurisdiction, settlers fighting with cops stopping them from building new houses, prospects of peace with Syria and Hamas threatening to attack Israel with Hezbollah if Iran nuclear facilities are attacked by Israel i.e. just another day in the Middle East (just randomly re-arrange the names of the players in the stories and you'll have next weeks news, and next years...).

This kind of stuff goes on every day at border crossings - my feeling is that this one only got reported as the girl has a blog.

Given that:
1) the ISP situation is completely wacko in this country you pay first for a physical line connection (from Phone Monopoly or from Cable Monopoly) and then extra for a completely separate ISP (who are the ones investigated here) where both need extra payment for faster connections
2) the physical line companies are upgrading their infrastructure to give 50 mbps level speed and movie/TV content service and/or also provide VOD services

I would be surprised if this is NOT happening.

Israeli telecoms/utilities companies are not renowned for good value for money and there are plenty of IP-traffic related companies looking for cheap pilot installations which they can leverage as references when they go to sell in global markets.

Aside from Israelis not liking to pay for anything unless they have to, there are few legal purchasing outlets for digital content and if you want music/movies your choice is pretty much:
1) buy a CD (remember them!)
2) download it from P2P
3) have a credit card and bank account in a foreign country that does have an iTunes Music Store (for example)

Anyone know what they call pole dancing in Warsaw?

Hope they're not hoping to sell many tickets for performances just yet.

Unless you can't be bothered to wait at the restaurant :-P

Your first paragraph is particularly ill-informed:
- the village of Kfar Etzion was completely overrun by the Jordanian Legion and destroyed. That was in military fighting, women and children had been evacuated.
- Have you not read about the Hebron Massacre ,the Arab Revolt of the 30's, or the abandonment of the (now rebuilt) Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem's Old City in 1948?
- even today , there are the remains of trucks sent to break the Arab seige of Jerusalem left as a memory on the main road into West Jerusalem (where, and in answer to your next post about Israelis bulldozing, you will see the intact and abandoned village of Lifta). The convoys of food, water and of course arms, were routinely attacked by the villages in the Jerusalem corridor - not armies, armed villagers. Those villages were destroyed.

Highly recommend you read "One Palestine, Complete" by Israeli "New historian" Tom Segev

sometimes-manned.

"Guys, I had to parachute down to get some more water supplies and left the thing running at 20,000 feet. How do I get back up?"

Better get used to those needles coz soon you'll have to buy offset credits!

I get the feeling that it's a little late for that now. The fact is that they didn't and now have 1400 production servers.

Why destroy relationships with key customers, when your key customers can destroy themselves! Yay, go Bankers!

Absolutely spot on. It's just changing the usage & interface that we have of maps.