ZA has frightfully high rates of HIV/AIDS. The notion that you can run out and more or less rape and sodomize whomever you like because that's just how ZA men are, is part of the objection to anything that lends the slightest rehabilitation to rapists.

MoveOn is like the kiss of death in national elections.

And that wasn't enough to motivate Congress to do anything but what Bush asked for. Every single time. So when McCain says "We will fight them in the trenches and in the blah blah unto the final hour...." I think he means it because he believes that we're more or less numb to a permanent state of war already. At 1000 deaths per year, we're on track to stay in Iraq until 2058 to reach the level of carnage of the Viet Nam war or the Korean Conflict.

The prototype in Trondheim is 130 m long and has a gradient of up to 20 %.

The lift is operated with an electronic keycard. The first 4 years the cards were distributed free of charge. Since June 1997 the keycard fee has been 100 NKR per year. There are approximately 4500 cardholders. During 5 years of operation the lift has pushed 145.000 cyclists, corresponding the total population of Trondheim. There have been no accidents and no injuries in the lift.

The lift is open 0700 – 2200 every day, and may also be operated during wintertime as heating cables are installed beneath the track.

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That's about $18.50/yr current xchange rate.

You want to help them? Air drop 15 billion condoms and stop showing me miserable starving babies with flies in their eyes. If there was a way to sterilize an entire region from space it would be a good start.

By 2004 the war in Iraq was 'only' a year in. There was a helluva lot more shooting. Associates of mine talked openly of going over there to fight FOR THE OTHER SIDE. I'm pretty sure at least one did. But seemingly the American polity was not harmed by it. So why should they now?

And being somewhat more mass produced are cheaper and more standardized. They use the same metallurgical process of a soft core with a hard edge like the Japanese blades. They also make a left handed variety. They have a Rockwell hardness in the HRC 60-61 range. Sharpen with a diamond bevel and finish with a ceramic rod. Ceramic knives are a nice addition too.

The Democratic party is nearly officially anti zionist at this point and it hasn't stopped American Jews from voting for them. Perhaps demonization takes a back seat to real issues. After all it's just rhetoric, there's no street thuggery, arson and actual acts of anti Muslim violence in anything more than the tiniest degree.

And it's actually banned in Germany, of all places.

A faltering software company with 60 billion or more in cash, goes after the faltering #2 online company in the midst of internal turmoil. And they pay 60% premium over market to do it. Hard to see how this can work.

Actually Oracle, SAP and CA are way more buttoned down than IBM. In the services arena, Perot, CDC, Lockheed, Accenture are way more anal than IBM.

To their credit, neither MS nor Yahoo are all that good at efficient low cost high reliability online hosting. So together I wouldn't be shocked if they went to a service provider to host everything for them. Google - no one but Google can host Google. But Yahoo is a more traditionally organized data centers operation.

Buuuut - and here's the key point. Fads are fads, excellence is forever. About 8 years ago everyone and their mother, MS, Intel, Netscape, all the phone companies, a few power utilities and 40 other companies thought they could all build data centers and go into the web hosting business. They every one of them failed at it. Including Microsoft, who thought they could run MSN as a front end to every corporate network. So it begs the question - what makes this fad different than any other MS failed at?

What does Redmond get for its $40,000,000,000? Hard to see what the value proposition is.

The ACLU fought long and hard to allow them to march down mainstreet of the largest population of Holocaust survivors in America. "Outrageous" is a relative term.

Mid eastern cultures and societies function best and are happiest as ethnic and religious monocultures. They want, they demand to be essentially 100% Muslim. I say why not? For the few million people it would take, across all of North Africa, the Mideast and West Asia, to remove or relocate it's probably worth it.

We'll watch them burn some buildings down, together.

MicroFord. You get software AND a free car.

No that's only historically true if you go back far enough. Christian and Jewish populations have been chased out to near zero levels in the last 60 years. Druze are at best a tiny minority. Kurds don't live in Arab nations but for the accident of geography of eastern Turkey, northern Iraq. There is, for all practical purposes, zero diversity outside of the intraIslamic animosities and rivalries. Even Bahai are considered apostates under threat of death.

So no, since diversity is not something they can tolerate or live with, and the people who you would insist be allowed to live there under an imaginary notion of diversity would be living under a constant threat, the wisest choice of all is to simply relocate, push out all of those people ahead of the violence that would push them out anyway.

And other similar Jewish legal 'schools'....he'd know that common attribute of all the great Azkenazic Rabbis of the past several hundred years is that they are all 'super ordinary'. They all seemingly memorized the entire Torah at age 5, lead their communities at age 16, became world class Talmudic scholars at 18, married the most wonderful daughter of the most brilliant Rabbi of the day and went on to long flawless perfect careers of genius and piety. What's unusual about this case is that he's not a scholar he's a Chassid.