Liquid pyramids that rearrange their own molecular structure in response to a gravitational field. They're like self-landing rockets, but cooler and cuter.
At the higher level (CEO) no one thought Windows 3.11 will succeed. So much so that even MS thought that OS/2 would do better (and it was technically superior). So neither Lotus nor WP were willing to invest in a windows version prior to the launch.
It was not an inevitable outcome.
I also thought about October '23 but also October '73. Iron Dome made the government (not idf) captive of "conception" and the multi billion dollar fence... The whole system was so fragile. Also the Yom Kippur war and the Bar-Lev line, same belief in powerful defence lines and captive of old concepts.
At least an attack on Hizbollah was out of the box thinking, which gives some credit to the establishment.
That's the cynical take, and it's been said about 9/11 as well. I don't think it's actually true in either case - but it's impossible to say with 100% certainty.
Oct 7th was during an election after Bibi started to directly take power out of Israeli courts.
It makes very little sense for George Bush to try to create a problem so far away from reelection.
That being said, it's a bit conspiracy theorist to blame Bibi without evidence. But if any evidence came up, the timing and overall political environment makes more sense.
Look at the flack they're getting for defending themselves. This was after the scope and scale of that initial Hamas attack, which kicked everything off. Now imagine the flack if they blew up all those pagers (and the associated collateral damage) without a war under way.
I think if the war didn't happen, they would have targeted high-profile people all at once, but with minimal collateral damage, leaving the rest of the pagers un-triggered.
> On the Gaza side the people are protesting against Hamas who are equally evil.
I don't know how any human can look at Israel and Hamas and call them morally equivalent. I suggest your moral compass is badly broken, and that makes the rest of your analysis suspect at best.
They are not morally equivalent but they are both morally deviant for different reasons.
You could say Hamas is more evil in intent though but Israel more evil by measure of death, destruction, displacement, imprisonment, war crimes, since they have the power to function as a free economy unlike Palestine which is occupied by Israel and they get arms and money from US tax payers.
Self defense is not evil. Yes it's war, and wars are horrible, and innocent people die - but Israel didn’t start it. Gaza (that’s what you mean when you say Palestine? You don’t seem educated about the region) was free for the most part with zero occupation for the last twenty years. I support Israel in its right to defend itself.
Israel literally started the war by invading Palestine though? It happened a long time ago and they've been at war ever since. It's a hundred years war. I don't understand why some people think October 7 was the beginning of the war.
You must be referring to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War? That was not started by Israel! You would do well to read up a bit on the history of the region, because "Israel literally started the war by invading Palestine" just doesn't make any sense in a historical context, that never happened.
Where do you want to start? Going back 3000 years it was the state of Israel. Then conquered by various nations, including the Persians, Greeks and the Romans, among others. Move forward a couple thousand years and it was conquered by Arabs. Then in more modern times, the Ottoman Empire, then the British. There have been Jews living there the entire 3000 years.
I suspect you're talking about more recent history, which I'll just copy from Wikipedia here:
"During the Mandate, the area saw successive waves of Jewish immigration and the rise of nationalist movements in both the Jewish and Arab communities. Competing interests of the two populations led to the 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine and the 1944–1948 Jewish insurgency in Mandatory Palestine. The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine to divide the territory into two states, one Arab and one Jewish, was passed in November 1947. The 1948 Palestine war ended with the territory of Mandatory Palestine divided among the State of Israel, the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, which annexed territory on the West Bank of the Jordan River, and the Kingdom of Egypt, which established the "All-Palestine Protectorate" in the Gaza Strip."
"On 14 May 1948, with the termination of the British Mandate and the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel. The following morning, the surrounding Arab armies invaded Palestine, beginning the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. The Egyptians advanced in the south-east while the Jordanian Arab Legion and Iraqi forces captured the central highlands. Syria and Lebanon fought with the Israeli forces in the north. The newly formed Israel Defense Forces managed to halt the Arab forces and in the following months began pushing them back and capturing territory."
Israel has as stronger claim to that land than anyone else, and I want to note the Palestinians had their state in 1947 and gave it up by starting and losing a war. They had a chance to get it back again when Bill Clinton was president, and they turned it down. They want all of it and the Jews dead. They'll keep losing, and keep getting a worse and worse situation for themselves until they can let go of that crazy, evil, and unrealistic idea. They're in the process of losing parts of Gaza now. You don't start a war, lose it, and get to keep your territory. That's rare.
You assume too much. You have no idea what sphere I'm working in. we are so far removed from html that that it will make more sense to us to contribute to the OS/390 kernel if that was feasible
It's also just right up front in the fellowship, he adopts Frodo because he never got around to finding a partner, implied because of his stewardship of the ring.
I'm always up for trying new or old text editors, but they must have certain features that work out of the box for me to even consider them. A few clicks are fine, but I don't want to edit configuration files. In 2025, remote development support is a must for me.
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