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Dr. Guy, I believe it is more visible in Europe, specifically on the continent, that white supremacists are against the war. (At least they act rationally and explain why they side with the gas guy.) I only brought it up to point to the futility of the neo-conservatives equals Nazis analogy. The left have chosen their side and it is the side the white supremacists have been on for a while. And I know the left will say that they are ob
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I was wondering... In an analogy where George Bush is Hitler and the Republicans are the Nazis, who or what is Saddam Hussein? And what about white supremacists like David Duke who are vehemently opposed to the war? The left may explain. I prefer what I think is a more logical analogy: The Americans are the Americans. The British are the British. The French are the collaborators. The dictator wit
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"Who cares, really? He died. Thats it. End of story." I don't believe that Jesus was the son of the highest being, but I would hardly say that his death was the end of the story.
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The article on Wikipedia was the article just before this one. You can find it on my blog site here. I agree that a category 1 can be informative. But there are just too many around. I would prefer living in a world where opinions are based on categories 2 to 4. (In fact, I would like 2 to 5, but that's because I am extremely biased .)
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The debate I had with Mano was not really about my article. At first he seemed to not understand my list and which "source" I was referring to, apparently believing that I meant a specific source. But you are right, Dr. Guy, that I was talking about two separate topics. One is bias, and I think I found a fair method to determine bias. I have in fact used this in a while, rejecting any report as untrustworthy that did not fall into cat
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Why is that question not related to the conflict? Why does the question of compensation to Jewish refugees have to be dealt with separately? My plan makes it possible for all parties to be involved, for the Palestinians to come out as the winners, for the other Arabs to show their support for Palestinians without killing anybody, and for Arabs rather than Jews to determine how much the loss of one's home is worth. You keep sa
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Why won't you tell me why you have a problem with compensation for Jewish refugees? And if you demand equal rights for Palestinians, how will this equality manifest if they get compensation but Jewish refugees do not? Doesn't equality imply equality for both parties? When it comes to compensation for loss of their home, how can Palestinian refugees be treated equally when Jewish refugees do not receive such compensation? For me equal
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"It is a point that has no bearing whatsoever on the Israeli/Palestinian conflict." And that is exactly what I am criticising. People look at the conflict and completely ignore one side. Palestinian refugees acknowledged by the UN, used as a reason for several wars against Israel, and are constantly subject of reporting. But Jewish refugees and what the Arabs did to "help" the Palestinians is not part of the picture. My arguments can
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"That is a totally different unrelated problem" No, it isn't. You cannot demand equal rights for Palestinians and Israelis without also demanding equal rights for Israelis and Palestinians. If Palestinians have been the victims of this conflict because they have fled their homes and do not have the same rights as Israelis, then so are Arab Jews who have fled their homes and did not have the same rights as Arabs. (They were just lucky that Isra
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So when you say that Palestinians should be given the full rights they deserve, you also advocate that Arab Jews should be given compensation from the Arabs and that Israel should be compensated for the wars they have been subject to? Because I think that Palestinians should be compensated for the loss of their homes and that a Palestinian state, should it ever exist as a democratic entity (rather than a Pan-Arabist puppet state like in Nasser's time)
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"and it is?" As my article said the method is to compare a given source to the list. "and the source is??" The source is the given source. I assume the "full rights they deserve" is more than the rights Jews in the Arab world had and have. My article demands the same treatment for Jews and Palestinians. What do you demand?
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I have long wondered whether there is an objective way to measure bias in articles and Web sites about the Palestinian conflict. And I believe I found one. Both sides of the conflict are eager to present their position as based on a just claim to the land of Palestine and thus both sides have an interested in downplaying the role of the others in the region.
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In the past few months I have noticed several rather funny articles on Wikipedia. The humour here lies not in the authors' creativity but simply in the fact that the authors wrote down exactly what happened without adding further words to make it sound more neutral and encyclopedia-like. Sometimes the truth is funny and reporting it makes one sound like a c
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"IT IS WRONG TO BE RACIST AGAINST ISLAM AND YOU SHOULD BE ASHAME!!!" You can't be racist against Islam because Islam is not a race. In contrast to what people thought in earlier times (and some still do now) behaviour and beliefs are not connected to one's genetic make-up. This means that certain behaviour patterns or belief systems do not constitute a defining characteristic for a race. Opposing certain behaviour patterns or
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"IT IS WRONG TO BE RACIST AGAINST ISLAM AND YOU SHOULD BE ASHAME!!!" You can't be racist against Islam because Islam is not a race. In contrast to what people thought in earlier times (and some still do now) behaviour and beliefs are not connected to one's genetic make-up. This means that certain behaviour patterns or belief systems do not constitute a defining characteristic for a race. Opposing certain behaviour patterns or
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IBM killed OS/2 after OS/2 had already failed in the market. It was probably a very sound business decision. Either way, it's not Microsoft's superior marketing. The problem with any operating system is cost. If Apple could not sell their own hardware, they could not afford to develop Mac OS X. Mac OS X development would not be cheaper because they'd have to support more hardware and make less money in a more competitive market. </fon
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"The Assumption was OSX Applications" Define "OSX application". Most Mac OS X applications are Carbonized Macintosh applications and not portable. Porting them to x86 would not be much more trivial than porting to Windows. And since most Macintosh software vendors, and most probably all relevant Carbon Macintosh software vendors already have a Windows version available for x86, they are more likely to get Mac OS x86 users to dual-boot into Win
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"OS2 was fine. I used the latest, Warp 4, just a coupole of years ago. But as you indicate, it suffers from 2 faults. Poor support and no applications." Indeed. "Porting OSX to the Wintel platform would entail bringing all the applications that currently run on it." Saying that the applications can be ported is easy. Getting companies to port them to a platform that has no guaranteed users is different. If a company has to
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"Finally a real alternative to Windows!" There has always been a "real" alternative to Windows. People just never bought it because there were no advantages (for the standard user) but usually fewer applications. OS X on x86 would have even fewer applications than OS/2 and nobody would buy it, except as a curious toy to boot up every few days to look at it. But such users would keep their Windows installation and buy Windows applications. And
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"The latest? Their idea of humor is to call Pope Benedict XVI "Adolph II" and that he is going to change the sign of the cross to "The Father, son and Third Reich"." It is perhaps of note that companies advertise features their products do not have. When you are not sure of something, make it known that you are. Windows is secure, Mac OS has lots of applications, and the French are above German fascism. The French have a sor
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"Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: "Yids, go back to Palestine," so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge shouts at us: "Yids, get out of Palestine." - Amos Oz "A Tale Of Love And Darkness" Had Israel not been founded, had American and British and European Jews (those that survived) not joined the Jews of
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What about re-installing iMovie etc. from their original discs?
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MasonM: That's the point. This didn't happen in Germany. Since I always used a German bank account before, I was entirely unprepared for this. I still use German bank accounts for most things, like credit cards (taxed in Ireland, not in Germany) and important transactions (take 30 seconds in German online banking vs 2 hours in an Irish bank branch office). I can call my German bank to ask them to do something in the morning and g
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