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hommeon Confirmed: Apple and Adobe Collaborating on iPhone Flash

To hell with both of them. Javafx, to be open sourced...

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=javafx+open+source&...

hommeon Evidence emerges of Israeli use of phosphorus weapons in Gaza

These kinds of stories are a magnet for trolls.

And yet...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=438654

So why can't the discussion continue? Why aren't Israel and Hamas's actions viable targets of inquiry?

hommeon Evidence emerges of Israeli use of phosphorus weapons in Gaza

At the very least, rational U.S. taxpayers may start looking askance at why their money is being conscripted to support this slaughter.

I know some here may take exception to my description of what going on here as slaughter, but all I see is the abridgment of human rights and respect of life on the basis of tribalism,mythology, and a past criminal genocide that the victims being attacked here played no part in. This should not be interpreted as hate or anti-semitism, as it is grounded in the basic respect for all human life. I don't wish to start a flame war here, but feel free to post responses.

hommeon A Gaza War Full of Traps and Trickery

No, but I can see how it could be interpreted as such.

Just tired of seeing people killing and being killed for what I feel are absurd reasons. (That comment doesn't even make any sense since the bronze age was before, or at the very edge of, recorded history, but whatever.)*

FYI,

The bronze age in the M.E. is commonly held to have occurred between 3300-1200 BCE, directly overlapping the time period of Moses, who is said to have authored the Pentateuch.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze_age

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moses

homme on A Gaza War Full of Traps and Trickery

What else are they supposed to do? The other side has better weapons.
Sad that humanity is still entralled to degenerate tribalism at the dawn of the 21st century. I wonder if those delusional Bronze and Iron age cult leaders had any idea of the damage they would be inflicting centuries hence.
Laughing in their graves: "Oh, come on, you didn't get it? We thought you could see we were bullshitting!"

homme on A Defense of libertarianism (and response to Zed, etc.)

The realization that Xia might attack will probably not come suddenly but slowly
Just like 9-11, Dec 7, 1941, the anschluss, mongol invasions...the Hitties and Philistines versus the Israelites, yeah, military ops are always telegraphed.

homme on Advice from a once burnt-out programmer

Well said. How offensive is that, that your thinking has been conscripted to someone elses vision?
Another issue may be the social aspect of manual labor. I worked on a plastic assembly factory, with a more natural mix of male and female coworkers than any tech job I've had.
The pay and shifts sucked, but at least it felt...natural. Work your shift, grab a brew, and go out with a few of the mates after the gig. Good times.

homme on A Defense of libertarianism (and response to Zed, etc.)

Moreover, how does it morally confiscate wealth to finance programs from those inhabitants that don't want to pay for said activities?

homme on A Defense of libertarianism (and response to Zed, etc.)

On empty stomachs versus well feed soldiers? Who might be conscripted and organized?

homme on My NSA polygraph experiences

I wonder how much better people would take it high or drunk. Maybe that's why they make you wait 4 hours, to let anything you may have taken to relax you wear off.

homme on Zimbabwe introduces new $50 billion note

You are feeding a troll, a deaded account whose link style, phrasing, and thoughtprints betray him, however:
http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=DabAsteroid

homme on Israeli army's new YouTube strategy may have backfired

Need a new hosting solution though, youtube is not playing fair:
http://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/7n4re/graphic_vide...

homme on Women and Mathematics

Even more interesting; the erudite scholars vanguard inquiry into the nature of a gay germ: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=steve+sailer+gay+ge...
Brilliance. To be cited in Nature, surely.