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by marcf 14y ago
Do you support Facebook blocking the developer pages of those who are creating the various AdBlock* browser extensions? Isn't that pretty much the same thing as FB Purity is doing but in a more general sense?
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by marcf 14y ago
They shouldn't be allowed to ban a company from having an account on Facebook for a web extension? Will the developers of all the AdBlock variants need to worry about their accounts being blocked as well (as they surely are against Facebook
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by marcf 14y ago
Can they optimize Skype so that it doesn't require 80MB-130MB just to run in the background? How can it require this much memory to run an instant messenger? Couldn't they delay load some of the features if they aren't yet being used (suc
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by marcf 14y ago
The issue is that there is a dual system of rights in place depending on whether you are Jewish or whether you are a Palestinian Arab and that is deeply wrong. I am not in favor of barring Jews from living in the West Bank (which seems to
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by marcf 14y ago
> If you don't like the security measures then don't go there. But what happens if you are Palestinian like the people in these stories and as a politically aware Palestinian you become active in pro-Palestinian activism because you car
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by marcf 14y ago
Your posts which highlight LGBT rights while completely ignoring the elephant in the room (the 40+ year occupation affecting millions) fits well with what is described in this New York Times editorial as Pinkwashing: http://www.nytimes.com
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by marcf 14y ago
It's weird that you were down voted for being factually correct.
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by marcf 14y ago
I didn't say there is a simple solution but rather that Israeli permanent occupation has become akin to Apartheid South Africa for the non-citizen Arabs and the citizen Jews living in the West Bank. The fact that you didn't mention this as
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by marcf 14y ago
But stamping down such opinions is actually pretty common. These email searches are about preventing people with those opinions from entering Israel. It isn't about terrorist threats but it is about keeping out pro-Palestinian activists w
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by marcf 14y ago
AJ007 wrote: > This just sounds like an attempt to keep individuals of certain backgrounds out of a country. Absolutely correct. The security officials believed that the individuals where pro-Palestinian activists. Here is a quote and
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by marcf 14y ago
Israel does prevent those with sympathy to the Palestinians from entering Israel. I posted this quote/article in response to another comment but it is pertinent here: "The agent, suspecting Tamari was involved in pro-Palestinian activism, w
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by marcf 14y ago
You will notice this isn't about security but about identifying pro-Palestinian activists: Quote: "The agent, suspecting Tamari was involved in pro-Palestinian activism , wanted to inspect her private email account for incriminating evid
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by marcf 14y ago
nyellin wrote: > We also have our warts... But you didn't mention the elephant in the room in your comment, which is pretty strange: Israel also has run a 40+ year occupation that denies non-Jewish residents of rights and freedoms while
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by marcf 15y ago
I am against the occupation
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by marcf 15y ago
The NGO Monitor aims to undermine non-violent actions against the Israeli occupation in order to maintain it. It tries to cut funding to peaceful NGOs because they don't align with Zionist values. NGO Monitor is pro-occupation and pro-Isra
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by marcf 15y ago
You were working without a contract. I would suggest that is the whole reason this experienced sucked, not because of Apress.
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A mediocre man’s great son, a great man’s mediocre son(blogs.discovermagazine.com)
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by marcf 15y ago
I would argue the issue is more about the priorities of the American government and also its economic decline. America has fundamental issues that means it can not longer fund such a mission, but it is likely that other governments and eco
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by marcf 15y ago
Israel's academics are quite good outside the realm of politics. Within the realm of politics, currently departments are being forced to close if they have the wrong views (namely if they are against the occupation.) This is quite unlike
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by marcf 15y ago
I don't believe in censoring the ugliness of Israel's current policy against Arabs within its borders, it is a major component of what Israel is today unfortunately.
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by marcf 15y ago
Very cheap robotics will decimate China's low skilled labor force.
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by marcf 15y ago
At 160 bytes per text and 2T texts per year, there are 800 gigabytes of texts per day. Thus Carrier IQ is monitoring the equivalent of 1% of all texts across all phones. That is still quite significant.
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by marcf 15y ago
I believe that the person you are responding to was being sarcastic.
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by marcf 15y ago
You seem to state that Israel not annexing the West Bank is a desirable thing from the perspective of Palestinian Arabs. Actually real annexation is desirable. Annexing the West Bank and incorporating its Arab residents into Israel proper
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by marcf 15y ago
No, I am saying that Israel runs a two tiered system of rights in the West Bank, one for Jewish Israeli settlers and one for the non-Jewish Palestinian Arabs. I believe it is wrong. Do you feel it is justified?
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by marcf 15y ago
Israel is only a democracy for those included as citizens. There are millions of Arabs in the West Bank who are explicitly excluded as citizens while the Jewish Israeli settlers all around them are considered Israeli citizens. Israel is a
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by marcf 15y ago
Here is a great website that details what can be done and why it is effective to boycott those who are affiliated with the occupation: http://www.whoprofits.org/
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by marcf 15y ago
Both South Africa and Israel were created by European refugees fleeing persecution. Both countries became very militaristic and has Western allies who overlooked the way they treated their natives. Both countries where populated by a peop
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by marcf 15y ago
Now if only all the Arab residents in Israel had rights and freedoms then everything would be okay. Israel is much better for the Arabs who are citizens that it is for the Arabs in the West Bank who don't.
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by marcf 15y ago
Israel runs a two tiered right system. In the West Bank Israeli settlers live under Israeli laws while the non-Jewish Palestinians live under military rule where their land is constantly being confiscated for Jewish settlers. That is wrong

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