Will@173: The evidence strongly suggests these elections were rigged, at least to some extent. Several parts of regular procedures in Iranian elections were blatantly ignored- for example the Supreme Leader is supposed to wait 3 days after the official announcement of results to confirm them so candidates can appeal the results. People who rig elections don't like UN supervisors peering over their shoulders.
will @138: two points against sucide bombing being any indication- the 1st being what Robert Glaub said, and the 2nd being that he might not have known that he was going to be a suicide bomber- i.e. his instructions were to leave it in place x and the bomb was supposedly timer detonated while it was actually remotely detoneted when he got to the right spot.
Ursula @19, by that logic all of the western world, at the very least, is guilty of atrocities. At least on account of aiding and abetting the Chinese government, if not for various other stuff(say, whatever their intelligence agencies are doing).
In addition, your definition cheapens the guilt of such things- rather then make people who are guilty of atrocities to be exceptions they become the societal norm. And so guilt becomes meaningless as an indicator of people deserving of censure by society.
Serge @39:Yeah, I say the same when people ask me about the 5th season of Babylon 5- no such thing.
As to the browser tricks:if you enter a non-URL word or phrase in the Firefox address bar and then enter it will Google them and either show you the result page or redirect you to the first page result- redirection seems more likely if the phrase/word are a main part of the page's title, but I haven't figured out the exact algorithm yet.
@will: Good point I hadn't thought about on the creation side- I use Open Office for that, but I guess it simply doesn't have the layout options professionals need.The cost can arguably be offset by the fact you need to pay for several hundreds(or thousands) copies less in ink&paper costs, but you people know much more about that then me.
The access point seems bogus to me both because the devices that are used to view them are either multi-use(I read Baen's on my desktop) or can theoretically contain many books.And DRM isn't a requirement of an e-book: Baen aren't using any and they make pretty good money our of their e-books by the accounts I hear.
Earl Cooley, the "high price" assertion rose during a Tor.Com thread about the high costs of e-books, when someone reported it as the reason given by a US publisher during a Frankfurt convention.It sounds highly counterintuitive, which is why I would like to get more info from people with professional knowledge.
Sorry if this breaks the convention of open threads(this is my first), but I have a question nagging me for some time, that some people may be able to answer.I heard some time back, second hand, a claim that e-books are more expensive to make then dead tree books- this sounds strange:is it in the "strange but true" bin or the "rubbish excuses for not pricing stuff lower" bin?and if the first, what makes them so expensive?
Thank you for saving my eyes.Is there any similar option for the marquee tag?
Three things
1.A copy of the older Hebrew translation for "I, Robot"- this is the first SF book I ever read, when I was about 7.5 years old.One of the 2-3 books I own that have too much sentimental value for me to loan to friends.
2.A Chinese wooden box made from the bark of a cinnamon tree, a gift my aunt gave me during my teens- for years when I was down I would open it and inhale the rich smell and find I have more energy then I thought.
3.A drawing really talented friend of mine gave me- the first gift she gave me.I like it so much I pretty much swore that it will hang wherever I live.
@"Pro-Israel"- there is a very big over representation of the Israeli right side of the map in pro-Israeli lobbying.I would check who mostly funds them:I suspect you'll find that the majority is funded by various orthodox communities, which tend to lean toward the right side of the map on the diplomatic subjects.
Over here(I'm an Israeli) everyone who's in the mainstream publicly accept that talking with the Palestinians will probably be what solves the conflict, including people who opposed Oslo with all their might like Netanyahu.The main arguments are "how much?" and whether we can trust the current crop of Palestinian leadership if they sign an agreement(Arrafat has given us good reason to question this), OTOH there seems to be an opposite move in Palestinian public debate, and I really hope that's just an illusion.
I personally think that Obama may do much good, if he's elected and chooses to try and intervene.If the more militant members of our government don't feel they have Washington's unconditional support it will probably shut them up some.
As to the Jews/Israel question:Israel was created, basically, so that Jewish refugees will have one place they can be assured of having shelter(and before you tout Britain and the US check their WW2 records)- in short, if something *real bad* happens and all the French Jews have to flee for their lives they have one place they know they can turn to.One of my friends characterized Israel once as "having the national equivalent of PTSD", and I don't think she's much wrong.
I read it as "Crazy Geek Chair", and was expecting something with more geekosity quotient when I clicked on the link.
I think it was a certain subgroup of Judaism(Qabbalah of one form or another IIRC)- at the very least there are religious Jews I know to hold it.
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