Simply untrue. There have been extended periods in Israel's history where as many as 70% of immigrants were recent converts.


They aren't a people.


Conflicts can't be solved by DNA profiling. Nationalism is irrational.

Quite. 100 years ago, Zionism was considered by European Jews to be anti-Semitic. How times change.

And there are, of course, Arab Jews. Jewishness is a religious state, rather than a biological one.

Worth noting that many of the Jews who remained in the Levant became culturally Arabsied and Islamised. So many Palestinians are descended from Jews and Canaanites.

That's certainly true, if one ignores all of the facts.

Military stewardship is not ownership. You're not disagreeing with me, you're disagreeing with the British and the UN. They administered Palestine, they did not own it.

It didn't belong to the British. They were granted the responsibility (by the LoN) to administer Palestine as a class A mandate to bring it into statehood and independence. If you ever take the time to see how the UN surveyed the land when they were considering partition, you will see how much was considered Arab land, and how much was considered Jewish.

If your analogy paints the Palestinians as the historical aggressors, rather than the European immigrants who unilaterally declared Israel to exist on what was, at that time, predominantly Arab land, then your analogy is deeply flawed.

In answer to the question "Is anyone following" - yes.

We have the regional nuclear super power, backed by the global nuclear super power, raining terror down on a defenceless civilian population. The civilian death toll is currently higher (as a percentage) than the Gaza Massacre of 2008/2009, and threatens to be higher in absolute terms by the end.

Israeli propagandists are currently trying (with limited success) to portray Israel as the victim. Hashtag IsraelUnderFire.

Hamas has presented terms for a ceasefire, still waiting to see what will happen there.

Israel has committed numerous, serious prima facie war crimes so far. The correct response from the PA would be to refer Israel's crimes to the ICC, what is actually happening is that the PA is adopting the Israeli line.

My point is that as the length of a BitcoinTalk thread increases, the probability of a quantum computer being mentioned approaches 1.

Avram's law: As the length of a BitcoinTalk thread increases, the probability of a quantum computer being mentioned approaches 1.

Warning - Bryant's data should always carry the warning that it is specifically selected to support his conclusions.

I'd rather pay bank fees and have the bank simply sit on my money, than have "free" banking and have the bank reduce the value of my fiat holdings by artificially inflating the money supply by engaging in fractional reserve banking.

No I didn't. I said they may be correct. They may have been correct since I was about to leave the office and didn't have time to check them. But since they weren't entirely central to my point, it didn't matter too much.


This is where you are wrong. But to be fair, it's a fairly common error. If you're not trained in statistics and probability, you're always going to make these kinds of mistakes. If you wanted to demonstrate that same-sex foster parents were 20 times more likely to sexually abuse children in their care than male-female couples, there is only 1 way to do it: sample a large number of same-sex foster families and a large number of male-female foster families, and compare abuse rates.

The route you're taking is a mixture of inductive error and baseless assumption.

Let me give you an example:


It's actually around a fifth. 1 in 5 girls are the victim of abuse, compared to 1 in 20 boys. But that's irrelevant. What's the assumption/error that you're making here? Anyone spot it?

You're assuming that you are homosexual if you commit a sex crime against a boy. That is simply not the case. But you wouldn't know that because you are cherry picking statistics you like from a homophobic hate site. The simple fact is that most adult men who molest boys do not show any sexual interest in adult men.

I'm not even touching on how you have fallen into the sampling bias heffalump trap.

What you cite doesn't back up what you are saying. It's a pretty poor understanding of statistics.

(1) is correct.

(2) may be correct.

(3) may be correct.

Here's where it gets fuzzy.

(4) Yes, but this doesn't indicate causality, nor does it give any reliable indicator of how likely an adult is to abuse a child.

(5) No content

(6) No content.

You then go on to say:

"And gay couples are 20 times likely to abuse their foster children, compared to the straight parents."

This is simply a poor understanding of statistics.

And furthermore, you cite the FRC. The FRC!! It is the FRC's position that, and I quote, "homosexual conduct is harmful to the persons who engage in it and to society at large, and can never be affirmed", the FRC that spent money trying to block congressional condemnation of the Uganda Anti-Homosexuality Bill, the FRC that has been listed as a homophobic hate group!

Now, there is a valid discussion to be had on same sex foster parenting, but citing the FRC isn't the way to do it. It's like citing Stormfront to illustrate what is wrong with Jews.

Looks interesting. Will see if I can mod that for a Windows/IIS/.Net development stack.

Can anyone recommend a commercial hosting company that hosts Tor hidden services?

I want dedicated hardware, and to pay in Bitcoins.

Even here in the UK, we had a surge in Measels because some idiot decided to make public (and unfounded) claims about links between the MMR vaccine and autism.

Stupidity is an entirely human trait.

The US has been encouraging Islamic extremism in the Middle East for years. Every time the US decides to smash secular nationalism, you can guarantee that something more sinister will take its place. It's like a 5 year old is in charge of US foreign policy.

Indeed.


It currently relies on threats of violence and control of the monetary systems. Without control of the monetary systems, it will rely solely on coercion.

Citations, citations, citations.