Hmm, I have a hunch that it probably exists exactly for the reason you posted here.


Are you playing the devil's 'lawyer' here?

Seems Chrome is having problems with uTorrent again, calling it malicious and harmful software. I sympathize: there are better BitTorrent clients out there.

http://torrentfreak.com/chrome-blocks-utorrent-as-malicious-and-harmful-software-140716/

Maybe the code was updated recently, and most other people didn't notice/bother to change the sig? Still, I'm sure that shouldn't be a problem.

Looking at his signature, I think he knows.

But he is mostly right; a fully automated system wouldn't be hard to create - except for the part where the PD campaign still has to verify whether or not the users' posts are constructive. Ritz had no problem with this apparently, and the process was fully automated (at least from our perspective). Let's hope PD manages to get to that point as well.

Seems like you covered just about all the media talking points there; but let me try and expand upon them a little further.

Yes, everyone wants peace. Hell, even Genghis Khan wanted peace - on his own terms; what others wanted was of no concern. Israel also wants peace of course - and also in its own terms. Let's not forget that the Palestinians have been under occupation for half a century, and more recently under cruel and sub-human conditions imposed on them by Israel. Remember, the official Israeli policy towards the population of the occupied territories is to keep them at a level consistent with an humanitarian crisis, while not pushing them over the edge completely - we know this thanks to Wikileaks.

Does this justify extremism among Palestinians? Not in my view; but it's the expected consequence of treating people like animals. It seems to me that the best way for Israel to "defend" itself is to stop beating Palestinians down, and stop the occupation, which in turn will lead to a decrease in the support for extremist tactics.

And then there is this attempt at whitewashing Israel's image by saying that it does everything in its power not to kill civilians - you think that Israel "sometimes harms innocents"? Have you even been following the news lately? I wouldn't call 80% civilian casualties in this conflict "sometimes". But what do you expect when you're bombing a densely populated area with warships, air strikes and artillery? And does Hamas' using their own population as shields justify Israel committing these atrocities, especially when it is the occupying power?

Where I'm from, it's the elders that most blatantly try to jump in front. I'm okay with it if they really need to, and I often let people go first, but the simple fact that they're older isn't much of a justification.

Could it be that Dank was actually right all along?


http://rt.com/news/173128-siberia-giant-crater-mystery/

Let's see if I followed the logic there correctly: so, I'm from Europe, and modern humans came from Africa; does this justify European powers going there to plunder, pillage, kill, take slaves, and form colonies there? Or am I going too far back in time with this?

Banned for losing track of what was going on in the thread, and still posting in it.

Are you really trying to justify the oppression of the Palestinian population on the basis that they didn't have a flag? Should they be treated like animals, on what is basically an open air prison, because they don't have a national anthem? I've posted this many times before, but it's always conveniently ignored: Israel has openly admitted to having a policy towards the occupied territories of keeping the population at a minimal level of survival, just above that of an humanitarian crisis. What effect do you think this has on the population when most live at poverty level, with one meal a day - malnutrition and anemia are common, and some cases end up leading to stunted growth in children - then on top of it, Israel frequently attacks infrastructure, which has lead in some areas to open sewers and contaminated water, spreading diseases, especially among children? Are you saying this is acceptable because they didn't have a currency, and just happened to live in the region?

I'm not sure on what basis you assert that that land was yours before anyone else's. Care to explain? And what of the Palestinian population that lives there?

Still, I don't even think the land is the most important aspect here to Palestinians. Perhaps it's cited as such by extremists, but not to the population in general, as far as I can tell; their human rights seem to be the most important thing to them - not surprising. In this context, let's not forget that Israel has stated their intention to keep the population on the occupied territories (Gaza in particular) on a level just slightly above to that of an humanitarian crisis, as was leaked by Wikileaks, and later officially acknowledged.

Now, I don't really agree with Hamas' violent tactics, but in what meaningful sense is Israel defending itself by oppressing Palestinians? Don't you think this only serves to further radicalize the population, and increase the threat over time? It seems to me that dealing with this first would be the best way for Israel to defend itself, instead of furthering the conflict.

This is true; both people in Europe and in settler colonial societies often forget that much of their progress was gained at the expense of exploiting others for their work, resources, land and lives. But we can't fall into the fallacy of assuming that because these nations did it, that is somehow acceptable and others should do it too; it was always wrong.

If I did the math right, more like 3 months and a week (or rather, 13 weeks). You gain 14 activity points every 2 weeks, and the next activity update is 22 of July.

It wasn't new oceans as such, it was more like "wet rock". Here's an article explaining it: http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25723-massive-ocean-discovered-towards-earths-core.html.

It seems that FastBluff limits the type of posts he considers constructive to English only posts (and by extension, I'm not sure whether or not restrictions apply to posting in local boards). It might be a good idea to add this information to the the miscellaneous section of the campaign, since FastBluff doesn't seem inclined to add it to the campaign OP, and some users might not expect such a restriction.

And how exactly are people supposed to know if you speak Chinese, Italian, French, or any other language they might want to use? You can of course restrict the term "constructive post" to mean a post made exclusively in English (or any other definition you'd like), but people won't be able to guess so unless you tell them.

Those campaigns can pay quite well if you're lucky, but the truth is of course, most won't be. So, at least as far as I've noticed throughout the forum, there aren't many users that take that chance, and most invariably go for a more steady income.

Careful what you wish for; that might indeed happen, but someone only send you a couple of satoshi.

By that logic, one could easily argue that all those resources and lost lives could have easily been used to boost our technology level instead, allowing us to have even more advanced technology now.

It might be a good idea to include that in the OP then; a lot of the other campaigns make no such restrictions and people won't be expecting it. After all, a post can be constructive regardless of whether or not you understand it (provided other local users do, of course).