The rockets don't have to be as big as the V2 bec. the rockets don't have to fly as far (across the english channel.)

Also, the Germans were famous for their "big guns". They wasted a lot of resources on their cannons/rockets, when they should have been developing low-cost and easily-assembled battle rifles (Like the AK-47).

Hamas is making a really fantastic tactical move by devoting resources to these rockets. The rockets are up to 6 feet long and made of sheet metal. Even if the rockets don't explode, they can total a car or traumatize an entire generation.

I don't endorse such evil, but the tactics are brilliant.

Yes! It isn't just the consumer that is "through with it." Many businesses I work with will go to great lengths to GET RID of computers. They just plan a business model that makes computers a minor detail, unlike in the past, where computers in the office were the wave of the future!

Think of it this way: If all the desktop computers on earth stopped working, it would be like 1982! Which is just fine.

I learned as a child, "Don't grow the hay to feed the sheep the coyotes eat." Technology is a self-fulfilling business model that is no longer self-fulling.

Guns do prevent crime.

Americans are a passionate lot. We are twitchy. We practice "road rage". Give us an inch and we try killing someone with that inch, maybe by tying it around their throat. We are not mellow. If we didn't think there might be guns next door, we would all rob and pillage one another.

You want mellow, go to Canada. Some of us here do just that (go to Canada). And sometimes, Canadians come here to America, seeking affordable housing and health care. Blast those Canadians, with their clear accents, tolerance of diversity and polite manners. Bunch of sissies!

And sometimes, people from around the word, from all sorts of different cultures, speaking different languages, with different ethnicities, values and religions, come here. They seek better lives, and a little know thing called FREEDOM and a better way of life. (Listen up, president Bush, you commie bastard who bails out jackass fake banks w/ public money and squandering the birthright of the next generation for a bowl of lentil soup).

Besides, Americans are proud, pompous jerks. Our military is always off "working" on something - if we didn't have a bunch of guns, Canada would raid us. Or that other country across the pond, known as "europe" (which rhymes with syrup). But who knows if that place really exists or not.

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