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by berntb 9y ago
Frankly, I trust the US government more than my local ones, to have this information. What I don't trust is the neutrality regarding company sensitive information and competitors. (I still trust the US government more than I would trus
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by berntb 10y ago
OK, thanks. I understand that I over reacted. I have found that I am easily trolled when I have the beginning of allergy troubles. It is better to not comment than to find out the hard way I need anti histamines. Sorry for wasting people&#x
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by berntb 10y ago
I'll add a comment here so DanBC sees it. You have a point, I am easily trolled when people lack arguments and start discussing person. Regarding earlier comments... I got mainly upvotes, until an hour ago. I have argued, a year or two
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by berntb 10y ago
That was just answering a common bad argument in advance. I wrote it INSIDE "()", AS AN EDIT . since that was the only thing you could comment on, sad... EDIT: I used a ":-)" three comments ago as a mark of irony. Well,
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by berntb 10y ago
"just a matter of degree"? OK, let's look at it then: Side A is officially antisemitic in their founding document (Hamas) and TV programs (even for children!); they literally took inspirations from the 3rd Reich. They condo
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by berntb 10y ago
Exactly, reality is boring -- my favorite shooter always was Unreal Tournament. :-) These days I play an undead thief in Dark Souls 3. (But maybe it is realistic, I have no idea how professional thieves live.)
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by berntb 10y ago
Richard Falk worked for UNHRC -- infamous for being shanghaied by dictators that don't criticize each others, but instead complain about democracies. Israel has been literally criticized a hundred times more than e.g. Sudan with a mill
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by berntb 10y ago
So, on one side you have the Nakba in a burning civil war when populations were thrown out (both Jews and Palestinians). Civil wars are horrible. The other side is when the Jews were thrown out of the Muslim countries and their property sto
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by berntb 10y ago
You are not contradicting my point. He is still going to jail. The sympathy for due process of terrorists will wear thin in most democracies. Afaik, most countries with continuous terror problems throw out the law book. This is a quite logi
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by berntb 10y ago
So the basic problem is that the Jews and/or the democratic country are evil? Sigh... :-( Arafat got at least two offers for a Palestinian state (at Camp David and once later), with about 91% of the West Bank iirc. The later offer was
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by berntb 10y ago
What I've read, is that the border to Gaza was open enough for commuting and shopping trips -- until the systematic attacks on civilians. You had no problem with that description in your previous comment. But good references to non par
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by berntb 10y ago
You don't contradict that you were aware of my points..? If e.g. Finland or Estonia started to shoot rocket artilleri towards St Petersburg, the reaction would certainly be much worse than Israel's at Gaza... (And because of Karel
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by berntb 10y ago
As far as I know, the walls came up as security measures because of the second Intifada. Before that, people lived in Gaza and worked in Israel and people travelled between for shopping, etc. (This isolation gave serious economic problems i
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by berntb 10y ago
You can't get 99% of a population to leave their homes where they grew up without hard push factors. Especially since their assets were confiscated...
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by berntb 10y ago
Regarding the killed children -- wasn't the people doing a revenge murder of a Palestinian teenager sentenced to long jail sentences when they got caught? The Palestinian terrorists are declared martyrs, mural paintings are done, their
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by berntb 10y ago
dragonwriter know that Serbia wasn't a stable democracy at the time. He just refuses to discuss it because he is trolling. Also, Croatia/Bosnia/Serbia were civil wars. Anyway, how many free elections had Croatia and Bosnia
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by berntb 10y ago
To start with, 30% of the 2015 asylum seekers in Sweden were from Syria -- so that is not really the reason for the flood wave. The politicians opened the gates, it was possible to get to West Europe. The consensus is that the Assad junta i
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by berntb 10y ago
That was yet another long list of extreme claims without references! Edit: No references in the answer to this, as expected. (I can only blame myself for arguing with what looks like an extra account created to troll people someone don&#x
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by berntb 10y ago
AGAIN: You claim that Yugoslavia was democratic before the civil war, since you claim that exact Balkan war (?) is a counterexample to the claim that democracies don't wage war. How many free elections did they have? :-) How many free
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by berntb 10y ago
I think most people believe their own country's propaganda. :-) In Sweden, since that is the subject, we really used to be naive and trust what we were told. Some of the typical characteristics you saw, all the way back to before writt
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by berntb 10y ago
>> the number of available democracy-democracy pairs is so small compared to thr number of pairs of countries that the expected number of wars between them is, rounded to the nearest integer, zero. There are literally dozens of modern
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by berntb 10y ago
A revolution is scary, the dice are thrown in the air and you have no clue how they fall. It didn't go well in Libya, so far. But mainly Putin and his employees seem to think that it was bad to support an uprising to get rid of the pre
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by berntb 10y ago
>> all the time Uh? What examples [of deposing democracies then invading when the dictator becomes too oppressive] exist after the cold war? Edit: Point is, there was a war of influence in the cold war; dictators played Soviet/We
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by berntb 10y ago
>> sabre-rattling coming, frankly, largely from the West Uh, the Western democracies have started to do wars in Europe for territory? :-) After Soviet fell, the NATO forces (and the neutral countries) in Europe melted away; the US&#x2
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by berntb 10y ago
Regarding Sweden and WW II: If Sweden shouldn't have been a "lapdog" -- which side of the war should it have joined? With Norway or with Finland? Not a simple choice, neither now nor at the time. And regarding USA today: Chec
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by berntb 10y ago
You talk about that Python have just one possible layout standard and so on, I guess? That is a different subject. (And sure, no coding standard is bad for a project, Python removes that discussion to a degree.) I think the real problem wit
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by berntb 10y ago
Interesting. Is this because the Perl ecosystem is more mature or because of the philosophy of backwards compatibility? The "backwards compatibility" philosophy isn't so explicit for the ecosystem, mostly the language? Is the
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by berntb 10y ago
The article discussed finding targets expressed by different cancers. The main problem is that a cancer can be quite heterogeneous. You really need multiple ways of killing a given cancer to be certain all is gone.
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by berntb 10y ago
You are wrong about at least Sweden following a different path. When Sweden had a high growth, the taxes were low and it was much more of a strict capitalist economy. When the taxes were raised to be internationally high in the early 70s, t
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by berntb 10y ago
The Chinese industrialization and growth was mostly based on capitalism. Which is more of a Western economy than the Great Leap. Which was the point you comment on. (At least, compared to the failure before, with just central planning.) If

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