(I made this into a blog entry since I got positive feedback immediately when I posted it in the forums.) As was mentioned many times before, the evolution of one species into two can be observed in the lab. I believe they usually use fruitflies. The theory of evolution says that what works in the lab explains what happened in the real world as well. There is no reason to assume that fruitflies (or any animal) stop reproducing just before two populations stop being compatible enough to int...
Steve Jobs throws a fit when somebody gives him a piece of "free" car wash software that refuses to wash his car unless he buys a "car wash subscription". Previous News from the Future: http://citizenleauki.joeuser.com/article/304727/News_from_the_Future_I
Steve Jobs throws a fit when somebody gives him a piece of "free" car wash software that refuses to wash his car unless he buys a "car wash subscription". Previous News from the Future: http://citizenleauki.joeuser.com/article/304727/News_from_the_Future_I
The Progressive Union for the Advancement of Minorities of Ethnicity, Gender, and Religion are stunned when an orthodox Jewish man is elected president of the USA.
The Progressive Union for the Advancement of Minorities of Ethnicity, Gender, and Religion are stunned when an orthodox Jewish man is elected president of the USA.
Lately I have been reading more articles about the Arab clans and their leaders, who apparently don’t support the PLO and their plans for a state. I am now tending towards working something out with the sheiks and handing the rest over to Jordan, perhaps as a separate country sharing the same monarch. Why force the Arabs in the West Bank to live under PLO or Hamas rule? The people of East-Jerusalem are signing up for Israeli passports lately, they obviously don’t want PLO rule ...
Three types of anti-Semites^H^H^H^H^H^H^HZionists: 1. Self-proclaimed "Muslims" who never read the Quran and base theiropinion largely on urban legends. They live in the west and have accessto facts but don't use it. 2. Muslims from other places whodon't have easy access to facts. They usually change their mind oncethey find out the truth. They are usually not willfully ignorant. But some of them are and don't. (Those that don't eventually join radical Muslim or Arab nationalist parties.)
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Imagine a household of three. Imagine a household of three 20-something year olds sharing a flat. Imagine the flat has three rooms, a big one, a small one, and a mid-sized one. (The big one has also the nicest view.) Imagine the three 20-something year olds work: Peter is a software developer and works full-time. He makes the most money of the three. Paddy is a part-time call-center clerk and works 20 hours a week. He makes less money per hour than Peter. Paul is an office dron...
In response to the article by the Guardian I sent the following email to the author: "Some fear that the risk would be too great, that there's no guarantee that even civilian protesters bursting through a military border would not end up facing gunfire." Well, they would in any other country in the world. Only Israel is assumed maybe not to fire on people who invade. It is only Israel where using women and children as human shields might work. Hizbullah tried ...
After some consideration I have decided to support Kosovo'sindependence. Serbia's choice of allies and Kosovo's attitude towardsAmerica and Israel contributed to my decision. It will be interesting to see how the Muslim world reacts to a country that a) was carved out of another country and is the result of occupation of parts of that country c) has seen refugees leave the country who would probably be entitled to a “right of return” d) and has the support of America and wins ...
I have nothing much to say about the Blakerig blog other than that Drima linked to it. But the article about Israel triggered a short conversation. A Sudanese named Kizzie wrote the following: I have lots of opinion on the Israeli -Sudanese relations. I don’t want to write a long incoherent paragraph about it so, here you go 1- As a Sudanese raised in the Middle East, I was taught to hate Israel at an early age. When I grew up I learned how to make a distinction between Israel...
The land that was originally the kingdoms of Israel and Judaea became in 63 BCE a client kingdom Judaea under Roman control. In 6 CE it became a province Judaea. After several revolts the Romans, bent on destroying the association of the land with the people of Israel and their god, renamed Judaea "Syria Palestina" and Jerusalem "Aelia Capitolina". The first name, "Palestine", stuck. And even today there are those who call the land "Palestine" and who, at the same time, deny the connection of...
Every morning I check one German news site, n-tv.de , the German version of CNN. I do so for two reasons. One is that I do want to know what is going on in the country where my parents live. The other is that n-tv is less anti-American than most English news sites. They also have Ulrich Sahm , one of the few European journalists who actually knows something about Israel other than what the Nazis and later the PLO said about Jews and who actually lives in Jerusalem. But when it comes t...
A Finish (?) blog showed an interesting map a few months ago. I found it on on the Strange Maps site . It's well done, but I thought I want to add a few points. 1. Morocco and Algeria would for several decades fight their VichyFrance overlords and, assuming Vichy France would remain a ruthlessregime with German support, the rebellion would be fought violently. 2. Libyia would remain an Italian colony. (Why is Italy two countries?) 3. The British would have lost Egypt to local nationa...
What if the press of today had existed back then? The Daily Extrablatt (This is hosted in Germany. I hope I get away with the anti-Semitism contained in it. Today's media do.)