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I assume you mean the age that you should assert your needs with your child.
You actually can start it at 2. kids can talk and understand simpler concepts. My 2 1/2 yr old daughter often wants me to carry her, but I don't want to carry her all the time.
you can't expect a 2yr old to leave you alone for a half-hour so you can get some work done, heck I can't even get time alone to get a glass of water oftentimes.
Even simpler, a 2yr old can throw rocks pretty hard, you need him to not throw them at people, or indoors. You can assert your need for them to not throw rocks.
Does that help?
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This guy sounds like a real toxic asshole ... I mean he calls his daughter a "little carpet muncher" and explains away her problem with him as he spanked her once in 3rd grade.
He's put forward some sort of public school, hollywood lefty conspiracy as a reason for his daughter being gay. He's not bothered to be a caring and kind father, he's busy raging on the internet instead of writing a letter to his daughter apologizing for being a colossal asshole and asking her to tell him some more.
I don't think you have anything to gain from engaging with this kind of guy.
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Needless to say the line about ISIS eating babies and thus needing to be immediately bombed back to the stone age makes one immediately skeptical... especially since no reference is being made to how US foreign policy in the middle east plays a large part in the current messes.
Here's a somewhat-detailed brief on the Islamic State that I recently wrote. I include a lot of information that mainstream media typically do not talk about, as well as US involvement and their indirect facilitation of the organization's growth. I also include my independent analysis which makes this more than a journalistic documentation of the organization.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/12vVKen-3fxhLDD7Jg6P3dC3Fq4IDwIly1rR0ft0Iyrg/pub
I'll answer any questions in this thread. Sources included at the bottom of the document.
My VPN connection isn't working these days, and google's services are being blocked in China (along with almost anything interesting or useful it seems). Could you try this: http://www.filedropper.com/ it works through the great firewall.
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We have thought of it.
I mean.. I plan to work ashore again one day. But it's not possible until I get a green card.
But as I reflect on it, the worst thing about his statement is that, he is implicitly trying to tell me to 'give up', and accept it.
That's what he did.
And that's why he married two insanely irrational women.
I'm honestly thinking of making all of them sign a contract, promising to respect my wife and my beliefs.
Her mother actually said she would sneak religious things into our apartment when we weren't looking.
My wife needs their help whilst I'm away though. But she is confident she can keep them in line.
I just feel betrayed. They've been lying to me for years now, saying that they are ok with my beliefs.
Clearly not. snake! danger!
I would try not to put that burden on her as much as I can. Not because she's some kind of shrinking violet but because nobody can stand a full frontal assault from people they depend on all day every day.At this point in their life they are like religion inflicting robots. They want a choice in the matter but they probably don't have that choice anymore. A contract won't be worth the paper it's written on.It is important that you both go into this with eyes wide open knowing that she is going to need your support. Snakes don't do a very good job of biting you if you're looking out for each other and you are aware that they are there.My wife and I have been able to thrive with our daughter without any help from family, but neither one of us has to go away to work and we live in China where we can afford to have some help around the house.-
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Circumstances permitting, I listen to the audiobook while following along in the text, which I find greatly improves my comprehension.
Amazon has a system setup to make that even easier. I think you can have it automatically turrn the pages in the Kindle app on yuor phone while it reads (as long as someone has gone through and done the work to make them work together)... I imagine it's awesome, though I haven't tried it myself.
but, this is excellent advice. It's a common method in second language learning, along with reading or listening to the content in your native language and then reading in the target language. It really improves comprehension when you're already familiar with the material. I've been trying to improve my reading comprehension in Chinese. I find that books I've read (like Harry Potter) I can zip through at a relatively comfortable pace, whereas books I've never read in English are super slow reading in Chinese.
Basically I can read the English version and the Chinese version in less time than it would take to trudge through the Chinese version alone. You should see similar results if you listen to the audiobook first and then try reading the book.
Audiobooks are great, don't be discouraged. I Originally listened to the Hitchhiker's guide books as audiobooks while we were driving to Colorado for vacation, they were like a fever dream, but on going to the library and actually reading the books they made a whole lot less sense
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and I've never broken the law.
See here's your problem right there how can you know the number of times you have broken the law? There so many laws and whether or not you have broken them is generally up to the interpretation of the cop on the spot.You probably broke three laws this afternoon, how would you ever know?But if you don't wants to have a bad interaction with cops try your best to not have interactions with cops.It seems counterintuitive but I feel less worried about cops here in China then I did back when I used to live in the US.If you just focus on the actual likelihood of a bad encounter with police, you most likely to be okay especially if you are white and middle-class. Most white people never have a bad encounter with a police officer and if they do it's because they were doing something stupid or obviously illegal.So don't worry be happy! -
I... your father is nutty crazy... and a super-asshole.
Have you given any thought to defooing and not leaving a forwarding address?
I assume that's not really possible with your wife's family, but as long as they don't circumcise there's probably not much religious harm that can come in the first year or two of life... So maybe you can get things in order so you are taking some of the burden from your wife by that point?
As unpleasent as your father is, he makes a good point that if you are away the people in your family's life will have a bigger influence than you do... So do what you can to get better people, or get the bad people out.
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Kickstarter is full of gaming projects to the point where the community will ignore anything that is not at least 70% complete. Check out this failed kickstarter project. A lot of effort was put in the scam and the makers could've gotten away with it too if it wasn't for their ridiculous funding request. This guy nails it:
Another thing I noticed is that the projects that get funded are the projects that will be completed regardless. People usually ask for extra funding, not the whole funding necessary for the project to be completed in the first place. So my advice is to never rely on an uncertainty. Don't gamble everything on the kickstarter.
Well you certainly make a good point that kickstarter is not always the way to fund a game.If your overall point is that people are more likely to fund a known quantity, whether that be a more complete game or a game with a famous developer attached to it, I certainly agree with that point. I also think the evidence would back up that idea.Good feedback. I'm glad I watched that video. Heck, maybe it would be worthwhile to take some more time and finish up my demo so that people can play it and get excited, that's got to be more useful than all the press in the world.Y'know the more I think about it the more I think I need a gameplay demo. I think my concept is solid, but actually communicating about it is hard...Stabbings as a way to promote yourself on an NAP board?
yeah... well it's actually a game that rewards the player for not stabbing and obeying the NAP.... but that's a secret, don't tell nobody 
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So I'm working on launching a kickstarter for my game.
Like a good objectivist I've been doing it all on my own. But I got to thinking about what Stef says about community, so I've decided to ask for some help.
My game is called Consanguinity. it's like a 2D zelda but much more complicated. All characters in the game are persistent, which means if you talk to them they will remember you and if you kill a character they stay dead (unlike Zelda where you can kill the same bad guy every time you enter a room). The other big element is relationships (thus the name). Every NPC has relationships and they develop new ones and forget unimportant ones. For example if you were to kill an NPC and his family found out then you might have his family members coming after you (this applies to "bad" guys as well)
That's the basic rundown. I think I need to work on my pitch a bit.
so first question: Kickstarter or...?
I know kickstarter and so do a lot of people. Im looking to raise $25k. I think Kickstarter is the best choice, but I don't really know why someone would choose the other crowd-funding platforms, except some allow you to keep the money if you don't meet the goal. I don't think that's something I want because I don't want to feel obligated to still make the game if I only got $2,000. What are your thoughts?
2nd: promotion?
I have a few games journalists in mind who might be interested in covering the game, and I will try to get my friends and family involved as best I can. Beyond that I will send out press releases, have an active twitter and facebook and do what I can. How's that approach sound? Do you have any other ideas of how to promote a kickstarter game?
3rd:
check out this trailer. It's the prototype, the completed trailer will have gameplay instead of hand draw stick figures.
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And you can ignore users. You have to go into your profile to do it, but it's very possible to ignore them.
You are correct, there is an ignore feature!
It's a bit hidden, but if someone is really bugging you it can be done.
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still skeptical
Why should anyone care that you are skeptical of bitcoin?
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a little perspective on the Israeli strategy of retaliation from a Reddit question. http://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/298q8z/how_effective_was_the_german_strategy_of/
How effective was this strategy? Did it actually lead to a noticeable drop in partisan activity due to a reduced willingness to help from the population? Or did it cause a second effect of hate-filled citizens joining the ranks of the resistance?
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There was no widespread, significant resistance in Denmark prior to 1943 ... After 1943 resistance sharply increased with sabotage actions on infrastructure and industrial targets that supplied the Wehrmacht, murders of informants and so on. This led to arbitrary German reprisals, such as massacres on random civilians, murders of celebrities and bombings, which led to an increased resistance amongst the general population and a ramping up of violence.
Perhaps the most famous example of violent reprisals as an effective strategy was Lidice, a Bohemian town murdered as collective punishment for the killing of the acting Reichprotektor, Reinhard Heydrich. On June 10th 1942 the entire adult (15+) male population of Lidice was massacred and the women and children sent to concentration camps. After Lidice there was no significant resistance in Bohemia. The massacre also figured heavily in the Danish government's thoughts regarding resistance, though I do not know to what degree it influenced other countries.
In conclusion, violent collective punishment for partisan attacks had largely counterproductive effects, increasing resistance to German occupation, with the curious exception of Lidice. Perhaps someone more knowledgeable about Czechoslovachia during the war can inform us as to why?
So, perhaps if Israel systematically recreates Lidice for every urban center in Gaza... then someday they might stop the resistance?
I'm just gonna go ahead and throw out a laundry list of similarities to german occupation, for the record:
Germans no doubt felt they were defending themselves when commiting massacres
claimed that they had historical right to the land they invaded
claimed a mission from god
claimed that the people they killed were lesser barbaric people
did, or would have claimed that the resistance was using human shields and were terrorists.
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I think this thread is doing alright for solid advice...
So I'll just give you my experience which is quite opposite yours, but similar :-D
When I was a kid I just devoured books. The library had a reading program where you read some books and got some small prize, and they had a little pamphlet to fill out. it took somewhere around 5-7 books to fill it out, but they had an extra page for the high acheivers which went up to like 30 books. I filled that up almost every summer.
in 4th grade we had to do book reports, but only based on the book length. I didn't like writing that stuff, so I wrote mine on Moby Dick which was exactly 600 pages (we were required to do reports on 6 100pg books or whatever length to get to 600 total pages) I found Moby Dick to be dreadfully boring and so never read it, but Boy's Life had a comic version of the story that I wrote the report from.
in 5th grade everyone was raving about the lord of the rings... I finally read them and wondered what the fuss was about (and they were kinda boring)
In 6th grade I read straight through The Grapes of Wrath (and still didn't get the reference from TMNT)
In 8th grade I found a copy of Atlas Shrugged sitting around our house and read through it (skipping a good chunk of the middle.)
Anyhow. as a kid I read hundreds of books. Since I've become an adult things have slowed down (being busy can do that). I find that I don't have any interest in re-reading books. I also find it hard to find something I want to read. I tried reading "Game of thrones" and found it far too grotesquely violent and statist in the first chapter.
I've wanted to read Les Miserables, but even though I no longer had to cart around a five pound book to read it I just can't motivate myself (I've already seen the movie, and know what happens..) Honestly it's so long... but I guess that's what happens when you pay a wordy writer by the word..
Honestly the last thing that really caught my interest were the works of Phillip K. Dick... and after reading all of them (ok I skipped some longer more boring stuff...) I am desperate for something and I've never trusted popular opinion on adult fiction. It's more interesting to me to read Harry Potter.
the advice I'd give is don't be too proud. read Harry potter or some sci-fi paperback, or a dime-store detective novel... whatever it takes to hold your attention. Ayn Rand was a big fan of Mickey Spillane, and I agree he wrote some fun detective novels.
whatever gets your juices flowing in movies or other media is a great place to start in reading, even if it's just comic books!
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I agree with J William about the mindfulness they can provide. But mostly I remember the wild west days of the fdr boards when a troll thread just expanded to ludicrous proportions. And when the said troll was eventually banned, the uproar resonated for weeks in the community, months sometimes.
Now they either attempt to regain their rep or they slink away.
oh boy those were the days...
I like the settled down atmosphere, and now of course if someone with -30 reputation gets banned it's hard to make the case that people were super interested in what they had to say and they were just shut down by "the man"
yeah, there is this jewish guy who got banned, (of course it was the Gaza/Isreal debate thread where he aquired -26 votedowns)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI9uN4WbOPs#t=13
He told me his account is blocked now and he cant make more posts. ,.., maybe for other reasons then his position in this thread, I read his posts ,i didnt find it trolling , he defended his opinion without any personal attacks.
Anyway,.., the website is Stefs private property and he can do what he wants.., he can take this feedback any which way.
Oh, hey I didn't see this earlier... it's giving me flashbacks to the days of "oh this guy was banned from the board, it's super unfair and we're busy chattering about it.
Also, come on... "without any personal attacks". he repeatedly called myself and others liars without providing solid evidence, he evaded and ignored evidence and arguments. If you look back at my first post in the thread and his response he takes my question and reframes it in a way he likes.
Everything he did was classic trolling. I think your judgement is flawed in continuing to support him and chat with him. But then I guess if you are trying to justify war it's not hard to justify a little trolling too.
a little side note: it seems that much of my negative reputation points from that thread are gone... pretty much confirming he was downvoting me cuz I disagreed. I think it's only just deserts if he got banned for disagreeing with Stef (but I think he got banned for trollin)
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I don't know about censoring yourself... there can be an element of watching how you're saying something, if you're intending to communicate well.
I was posting some stuff over on that thread started by the Israeli guy to defend the genocide in Gaza, and I noticed I had a down vote on a few posts and it caused me to pause for a minute and reflect on whether I was being too hostile. If someone is going down a road of being irrational or hostile, maybe the points can help.
The down votes continued after I decided to limit my hostility and just focus on facts. So pretty much confirming that it was the Israeli guy who was doing the down voting.
Even that I'm not worried about because the system limits the damage that one person can do to your reputation.
Oh, and I wanted the negative threshold to be even higher (lower?) in that thread, because I was tired of seeing defenses of genocide. So an ignore button would be a great addition, but I do like the communal aspect of the point system. I like that I can see my FDR friends are looking out for my sanity by saying "yeah, here's a real nutbar you can safely ignore"
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They leave you feeling disoriented. Like, fish prefer to be near the bottom of the water body or near some sort of structure. It gives them a frame of reference with their environment. In Fowles' books, it seems like he goes out of his way to make the reader doubt any concrete reference points or narrative anchors. You never know which way is up, not even at the end. Instead of having 1 big twist/shift like in Fight Club or Ender's Game, Its one small twist after another.
Ah, perhaps he's one of those wonderful Subjectivists... when they believe in freedom it's not the freedom that you or I want, they want freedom from objective reality. Do you see that in his writing?
I think Ayn Rand called it a cult of death or something, because freedom from objective reality is death. There is no other realm or plane of existence. Anyhow I haven't read any of these books, or indeed know the author, but I think it is endlessly fascinating the worldview that is revealed by what a writer writes and how.
They leave you feeling disoriented. Like, fish prefer to be near the bottom of the water body or near some sort of structure. It gives them a frame of reference with their environment. In Fowles' books, it seems like he goes out of his way to make the reader doubt any concrete reference points or narrative anchors. You never know which way is up, not even at the end. Instead of having 1 big twist/shift like in Fight Club or Ender's Game, Its one small twist after another.
Ah, perhaps he's one of those wonderful Subjectivists... when they believe in freedom it's not the freedom that you or I want, they want freedom from objective reality. Do you see that in his writing?
I think Ayn Rand called it a cult of death or something, because freedom from objective reality is death. There is no other realm or plane of existence. Anyhow I haven't read any of these books, or indeed know the author, but I think it is endlessly fascinating the worldview that is revealed by what a writer writes and how.
They leave you feeling disoriented. Like, fish prefer to be near the bottom of the water body or near some sort of structure. It gives them a frame of reference with their environment. In Fowles' books, it seems like he goes out of his way to make the reader doubt any concrete reference points or narrative anchors. You never know which way is up, not even at the end. Instead of having 1 big twist/shift like in Fight Club or Ender's Game, Its one small twist after another.
Ah, perhaps he's one of those wonderful Subjectivists... when they believe in freedom it's not the freedom that you or I want, they want freedom from objective reality. Do you see that in his writing?
I think Ayn Rand called it a cult of death or something, because freedom from objective reality is death. There is no other realm or plane of existence. Anyhow I haven't read any of these books, or indeed know the author, but I think it is endlessly fascinating the worldview that is revealed by what a writer writes and how.
They leave you feeling disoriented. Like, fish prefer to be near the bottom of the water body or near some sort of structure. It gives them a frame of reference with their environment. In Fowles' books, it seems like he goes out of his way to make the reader doubt any concrete reference points or narrative anchors. You never know which way is up, not even at the end. Instead of having 1 big twist/shift like in Fight Club or Ender's Game, Its one small twist after another.
Ah, perhaps he's one of those wonderful Subjectivists... when they believe in freedom it's not the freedom that you or I want, they want freedom from objective reality. Do you see that in his writing?
I think Ayn Rand called it a cult of death or something, because freedom from objective reality is death. There is no other realm or plane of existence. Anyhow I haven't read any of these books, or indeed know the author, but I think it is endlessly fascinating the worldview that is revealed by what a writer writes and how.
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Oh good, I was about to write an article in "Libertarianism Today" trashing psychology, but I think I now shan't bother.
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...even for childrens:
"The younger son is only 8, we are still not buy a chastity belt. However, we intend to do so. But after a bad experience with the beginnings of the elder son, I want to ask at what age it would be ideal to do so? Whether already in his 8 years, and still need some time to wait, whether yes. So, how long?
The answer is simple: As soon as possible. Ideal for a child aged 3-5 years old silicone from 5-8 years..."
And they view masturbation as root of all mankind sins and even suggest it lead to drugs, such as sniffing toluene:
"In my day, no such phones were. There were only so-called fixed lines, usually one of the village and how we lived. Back then, people not masturbated and behaved decently. It was the golden age. Whoever he began to masturbate usually slid to sniffing toluene and then with him went downhill from there."
(translation fixed a bit)
This seems very religious to me... like these people fell through a time warp from some dark 12th century corner of Christendom.
I'm pretty sure that's not a real product... but perhaps a product that feminists and christians could both get behind.
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I don't think there's much to say about this article... It's just pure cotton candy for lefties to rot their brains.
but if you need a laugh.
From Concorde to the iPhone, state intervention drives technological innovationIf you wanted to radically alter the economy, making a country such as Britain as dynamic as China or Brazil, what would the state have to do? Intervene, obviously, but how?
That has become a hard question to answer since the onset of free-market economics. Much of the old apparatus of state control has been dismantled. Plus, the political culture in which planners, engineers and technical innovators inhabited the same offices has been shattered.
Yup, he thinks that Brazil has a dynamic economy and that state control has been dismantled... There isn't much more to say about that
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Alternatively, women may perceive a responsive man as vulnerable and less dominant.”
So what I take from this is that if you wants to find a good woman you need to do your best to show yourself to be responsive and vulnerable so that you can quickly walk on by the women who just want a bad man or a dominant asshole.I think that's a good lesson to keep your heart safe and out of the shredder.-
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Its physicly impossible to create cost effective (emphasis) integrated circuitry that will last decades, sure you can create durable electronics but never in a cost effective way.
This all has nothing to do with evil corperate greedyness. The price of any basic electrical component (not IC) is just above the base raw material that went into it + energy used to create said component.
Profit margins are incredibly thin in this sector.
This is pretty much the answer right here.This topic is well covered in libertarian circles. I believe Stephan has covered more than once.The lifetime of the device is one of the things which is taken into consideration when designing a device. There are many other considerations which compete, and like all things there are trade-offs. So you could make a phone that would last 20 years but it would be bigger and fatter and more expensive.Most people, especially the sort of people that buy the latest and greatest hardware, do not want a three or four-year-old phone.It doesn't really matter how long the phone lasts because the people paying for the newest and fastest phone don't care how long it lasts as long as it lasts long enough.I saw a phone just the other day that's $15 and can play MP3s and video and even let you chat online. Now that phone is not very good, but it's a lot better than any cell phone you could have bought 20 years ago.I personally use a four-year-old iPhone that works pretty well for me. My wife's father uses my old Nokia phone which is probably six years old, and it works perfectly well.NASA has electronics that will last for 20, 30,40, or 50 years and they spend whole lot of money on those electronics. Those electronics are also not very fast and not very user-friendly.-
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She was part of a recent debate titled something like "Are men still necessary?" (since labor intensive jobs are declining with innovation). She was very much of the opinion that the value men bring is like that of a work horse, cutting wheat in the fields and hauling it off to be stored then processed. And that women are the ones who are best equipped for jobs involving communication since women are obviously (isn't it obvious?) that women are so much more empathetic than men...
I'm really not a fan of Hanna >
Yup, cuz you know men didn't develop the technology that makes it possible.
If all men are good for is MANual labor, then I bet she'd love a world where that's all they did... without any men to maintain the tech infrastructure at least the feminist could burn their bras for something useful, heat!
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I just found a wonderful article for anyone still reading this thread.
This talking point is perhaps most relevant to the current thread..
5) Hamas hides its weapons in homes, mosques and schools and uses human shields.
This is arguably one of Israel's most insidious claims, because it blames Palestinians for their own death and deprives them of even their victimhood. Israel made the same argument in its war against Lebanon in 2006 and in its war against Palestinians in 2008. Notwithstanding its military cartoon sketches, Israel has yet to prove that Hamas has used civilian infrastructure to store military weapons. The two cases where Hamas indeed stored weapons in UNRWA schools, the schools were empty. UNRWA discovered the rockets and publicly condemned the violation of its sanctity.
International human rights organizations that have investigated these claims have determined that they are not true. It attributed the high death toll in Israel's 2006 war on Lebanon to Israel's indiscriminate attacks. Human Rights Watch notes:
The evidence Human Rights Watch uncovered in its on-the-ground investigations refutes [israel's] argument…we found strong evidence that Hezbollah stored most of its rockets in bunkers and weapon storage facilities located in uninhabited fields and valleys, that in the vast majority of cases Hezbollah fighters left populated civilian areas as soon as the fighting started, and that Hezbollah fired the vast majority of its rockets from pre-prepared positions outside villages.
In fact, only Israeli soldiers have systematically used Palestinians as human shields. Since Israel's incursion into the West Bank in 2002, it has used Palestinians as human shields by tying young Palestinians onto the hoods of their cars or forcing them to go into a home where a potential militant may be hiding.
Even assuming that Israel's claims were plausible, humanitarian law obligates Israel to avoid civilian casualties that "would be excessive in relation to the concrete and direct military advantage anticipated." A belligerent force must verify whether civilian or civilian infrastructure qualifies as a military objective. In the case of doubt, "whether an object which is normally dedicated to civilian purposes, such as a place of worship, a house or other dwelling or a school, is being used to make an effective contribution to military action, it shall be presumed not to be so used."
In the over thee weeks of its military operation, Israel has demolished 3,175 homes, at least a dozen with families inside; destroyed five hospitals and six clinics; partially damaged sixty-four mosques and two churches; partially to completely destroyed eight government ministries; injured 4,620; and killed over 700 Palestinians. At plain sight, these numbers indicate Israel's egregious violations of humanitarian law, ones that amount to war crimes.
Beyond the body count and reference to law, which is a product of power, the question to ask is, What is Israel's end goal? What if Hamas and Islamic Jihad dug tunnels beneath the entirety of the Gaza Strip—they clearly did not, but let us assume they did for the sake of argument. According to Israel's logic, all of Gaza's 1.8 million Palestinians are therefore human shields for being born Palestinian in Gaza. The solution is to destroy the 360-kilometer square strip of land and to expect a watching world to accept this catastrophic loss as incidental. This is possible only by framing and accepting the dehumanization of Palestinian life. Despite the absurdity of this proposal, it is precisely what Israeli society is urging its military leadership to do. Israel cannot bomb Palestinians into submission, and it certainly cannot bomb them into peace.
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What name-calling? Pointing out lies and the people who spew them out and calling them barefaced liars?
...snipped cuz it's kinda long...
Both Waleed and J-William are pulling a Red Herring in this thread, by asking whether it's horrible that babies die, rather then who's to blame?
This right here is thee best part of the thread!
First off I'm glad that I'm a liar and I love palestine so much I can't keep my head on straight (if you'll take a glance at my picture over on the left you'll see I'd fit right in there).
better then the previous one! Please wear a t-shirt that says "I'm proud to be gay" and take a walk around Gaza.You changed your T-shirt example. Is that because of incidents like this where Palestinians are getting beat up just for being Arab?
Two Palestinians reportedly assaulted by Jewish mob in JerusalemTwo Palestinian youths were reportedly assaulted by a Jewish mob in Jerusalem on Friday evening.
The two were seriously wounded, and were hospitalized in the Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem in Jerusalem.
The two, Amir Shwiki and Samer Mahfouz, both 20-year-old and from Beit Khanina, were walking to a Light Rail station after the Ramadan dinner to look for Shwiki's worker ID when they were attacked.
"A man came from the direction of Neve Ya'akov (a Jerusalem neighborhood)," Mahfouz told Haaretz. "He said give me a cigarette. I told him I don't have any, and he heard I'm Arab and went away, coming back with his friends, maybe 12 people. They had sticks and iron bars and they hit us over the head," he said.
Or are those just more lies?
You do realize that you actually are saying: "Younger, American non-whites" are on average not well educated.
I'm fully aware of that fact. I'm reporting on what others have found out.
I'm confused as to why you would even mention that. The fact itself isn't new or a focus of the survey I linked to.
My research on ISIS
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Thanks for that.
Holy moley, what a read...
In your opinion, is there any rhyme or reason behind US policy in Libya and Syria? The question could be extended to Iraq as well since it shares a common theme.
I guess I'm just ignorant, but why do the US and Israel treat Iran as the greatest threat in the middle east? If Obama can be buddies with the president of Vietnam while they are still officially communist, why the Iran hate?
This stuff and the US position is awfully confounding... Following the money and oil makes some sense, but man... the thought of innocent people dying in Iraq, Syria, and Libya just so US politicians can enrich their friends and be buddies with Saudi dictators.