"Probably best".
For what ?
For whom ?
If I find Dilbert funny, am I going to be contaminated by its "dumbness" ?
Are you the ultimate judge of everyone ? Are you the repository of all truth out there ?

Lighten up.

Happy to see someone is able to express arguments, even if I disagree with most of them. A refreshing change in these forums.

A little less of "hypocritical" and "dubious" would be fine though. And putting words in my mouth is very effective but counter-productive in the long-run.

I might take you up on you offer though, maybe we could have productive discussions. Although you're defending Israel and I oppose it and if history is any judge, discussions haven't gotten really far, sadly.

I agree, as I said earlier too, the whole thread is off-topic. It's interesting nonetheless :)

So you basically have low comprehension skills, you are quick to form an opinion with these aforementioned skills (or lack of) and you're prone to insult others in consequence of all that.

What a delight to talk to you !

An SJW criticizing Israel and an anonymous coward shooting himself in the foot. Way to go Mr Rebel :)

Have you noticed that you didn't respond in any way to my post and just thrown an epithet in my face ? Truth be told, I wrote about Israel in a topic about Malaysia, I'm to blame too...

I'm not as much trying to denounce racism as I'm trying to state some facts.

I'm not a "denounciator", that's why the comment above "denouncing" me as a SJW made me laugh. Hard.

For me to denounce Israel, I'd also have to denounce other racist countries ? What's the logic with that ? Israel is racist *because* of the surrounding mulsim slates ? Come on ! They're even racist between themselves ! Talk to a sepharadic jews who is constantly refered to as an "arab" by its ashkenazi brethren...

To be clear, I wasn't denouncing racism, I was describing racism in Israel.

Arabs in the government ? I think Lieberman would be the most virulent opponent to that notion (with Netanyahu and Naftali Benett among many others). Ayoob Kara is an Arab, yes, but check his alliances...

Israelis Jews don't like Arabs in general. Just go in Israel, you'll witness it first hand. If you think USA in the 50's were bad, Israel is a whole another crap hole...

Israel is de facto an apartheid nation (remember that Israel was the last entity working with South Africa when apartheid was in place ?).
A israeli jew, by law (you know about the Torah right ?) cannot sell its property to an non-jew (arab or otherwise), chekpoints for arabs, house destructions, land stealings, separate transportation for each "race", constant humiliation etc.

And the most important thing : the whole state of Israel has been taken by force in 1948 !

Why would you defend such a country ?

A for the comparison between Jordan and Israel ? Are you kidding ? Nobody care about Jordan (Sorry jordanians, I don't intend it to be insulting). Jordan doesn't receive billions from the US for its defense (though it receives money from the US to sustain its economy). The king of Jordan don't go to the US congress to insult the president in place. There's no AIPAC equivalent for Jordan, etc.

PS : you're never wise to post anonymously.

So basically, the founders of Checkpoint have ties through their military service to the Israeli NSA and this is proof that Checkpoint doesn't have any connection whatsoever to Mossad.

You're kidding right ?

Still, this made me laugh.
Classic anonymous, definitive, condescending, semi-violent reply : Slashdot is back !

This is a new low for Slashdot...
What happened to the nerds that were there 15 years ago ? Are they all dead ? How can we communicate with tech-unsavvy people who decided to hang here ?

Hey ! You cannot "hand" Big Pipe to anyone you want.

Unless you're a major shareholder, the CEO or something...

I'm genuinely interested in the fact that you can "modelize" facial traits in 50 bits or so.

Could you point me to a source ? I browsed the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory and QinetiQ corporate websites and came up with nothing...

It should read :

This doesn't have to be this way, and we can at least question this fact OR the consequences of this.

I agree there's more than a little chance he said that for marketing of financial reasons. I don't think you're cynical here, you're basing your opinion on a long serie of CEOs that made the same style of comments before Jobs did.

My post's intent was to only question the tacit presupposition that since porn is a lot more visible than say, 20 years ago, we don't question it any more and consider it as a fact of life.

This doesn't have to be this way, and we can at least question this fact of the consequences of this.

Yes, this comes from a certain moral code I hold, but why does it have to be "archaic" ? :). We can evaluate its value without labeling it, don't we ?

The fact that you don't suscribe to it shows that you hold a "certain moral code" yourself and neither of us is objective. My experience and observations made me believe that porn is quite destructive and I, too, would like to hear from you why you'd think it isn't.

Sorry for my broken english...