I wonder what he had to give up in the plea deal.

For personal things, computer, phones, etc. Big corpos cover this by a EULA. EULAs also covers forums controlled by the companies. For public places like websites, you can control search engines by using a robot.txt file.

You could argue that’s what industry-millitary complex is already doing. Along with the media.

While I agree with you, at what stage would you find a job just not worth the carnage?

I looked at it and despaired how intertwined Israel is in the global economy. A full boycott will be a real sacrifice. You’d be surprised how wide ranging their influence is.

The real question is do we have enough access to cheap green tech? A further, more probing question is: what are we willing to sacrifice to get it? Potential things on the chopping block:

• sovereignty
• worker rights
• national security
• a resilient economy

As to the last one, as the recent pandemic showed, consolidating manufacturing to one country/area can make the global economy quite fragile to economic, environmental, societal and political shocks.

I was referring to their power base. If there was no cultural pain there, there would be nothing to exploit to remain in power so that they an perpetrate this atrocity.

Also known as “a cycle of violence”. Or " hurt people, hurt people" But at what stage is it someone’s responsibility to break this most vicious of cycles?

Is Talos Principle 2 any good? I got stuck on the latter puzzles in the Road To Gehenna expansion and didn’t want to progress in case TP2 needs knowledge of this expansion.

After watching Nerd Cubed play Coin Pusher Casino, I also got hooked. Bit of a guilty pleasure, that. But, three things to recommend it, though:

1. Realistic physics throughout make it quite a technically advanced game despite it probably all it took was a toggle in Unity.
2. There’s a native Linux port.
3. Other than the initial outlay for the game the only resource you’ll expend is your precious time alive. So, there’s no freemium model where you pay to advance. And no payment for additional unlockable content.

You play tables to get credits, to get perks that make it more pleasurable (not to mention possible) to play tables, to … The very essence of an RPG grind. And a bit of a skinner box.

A few questions:

• How many respondents where there?
• What was the national break down?
• How were the respondents selected? Was it random?
• Were the questions phased universally across nations?

Without these questions answered, it’s hard to make out what to think about this statistic.

As the saying goes: “lies, damned lies, and statistics”.

As it is, It would have been more useful if they allowed respondents a selection of choices. Such as: Don’t Know/Care, Neutral, About Right and Not Enough.

Maybe a meta study would have made a better subject for an article.

Let’s see if the other Republicans can turn it 'round. The recent trajectory of the party has not been promising, though.

I wonder what’s different here. Israel has danced over the US’s red lines before with such alacrity that they may as well have been an invitation. “I wasn’t gonna, but you drew a red line there. Oh I can’t resist.”

I think shooting foreign troops would be seen as an escalation. And I don’t think Europe wants to see where that will go.

I don’t think it’s that empty. GOP will be back in power some day.

It’s only a matter of time and how long can they hold a grudge.

Something’s a bit iffy with this story. Surely, Germany would have made clear the particulars of the ban to Abu-Sitta. If this is the case, is this just a consciousness raising stunt on by Abu-Sitta? If he did know there are ways around the ban. Could it be that he isn’t Schengen banned at all and France is using it as a pretext.

If the Palestinians show anything, no justice, no peace comes to mind. Say Brown does this assuming the fire is still there, people won’t stay silent for long. If a party chooses the path of the authoritarian they need to carry a pretty big stick. And even then, as Israel keeps showing, it doesn’t work.

Then they’ll have a situation no better than Columbia. The deal is we won’t protest if you divest. If either party reneges on that deal we go back to where we were before the deal. That’s the consequence of saying “no”.

I notice you didn’t counter my statement. Just threw a whataboutism in my face.