Maktab

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by Maktab 16y ago
This, too, will be my last post. It has been interesting and there are no hard feelings from my side either. >You might want to read this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/12/iraq-invasion-vi... . While very persuasive (and
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by Maktab 16y ago
The legality of the initial invasion is an open question, without any clearly-defined and universally-accepted answer. Without an unambiguous resolution by the UNSC or ruling by the ICJ, a debate on that topic would fill many pages and migh
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by Maktab 16y ago
Let me quote your original post: >Someone, anyone, tell me why the U.S. is still there and under what legal basis. Anyone. I dare you. I quite clearly explained 'why the US is still there and under what legal basis'. Despite what you
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by Maktab 16y ago
Technically, WMDs was only one of a number of casus belli stated officially by the US prior to the war, which included Iraq's non-compliance with the terms of the 1991 ceasefire, its continued hampering of UNMOVIC weapons inspection teams,
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by Maktab 16y ago
I just pointed out that calling them 'foreign occupiers' is not accurate. Although as a practical matter it's difficult for the Iraqis to boot the US out because of the power vacuum that would result, that does not change the fact that unde
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by Maktab 16y ago
Aside from the larger issue being debated here, I think you're guilty of operating under an outdated assumption. The US forces in Iraq have not been 'foreign occupiers' for quite some time. They are there at the will of the democratically e
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by Maktab 16y ago
There is a vast difference between believing that the guy did nothing wrong and believing that he didn't deserve to get his identity made public even though he made a serious mistake. I think most people responding here would understand if
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by Maktab 16y ago
The question is whether naming the guy contributed anything to the story and was in the public interest, or whether it was a purely vindictive action by Gizmodo. Considering the fact that the main story is the existence of the prototype and
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by Maktab 16y ago
Perhaps the parent quote refers to people not being allowed to shirk overtime which they have already agreed to be there for. In other words, signing up to work four hours overtime, leaving after two and getting your friend to clock you out
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by Maktab 16y ago
Bureaucracy. Israel, like my own country, has laws in place which forbid the sale of any RF-capable devices until they have been expensively and painstakingly approved by some central regulatory authority. This sort of thing is common in st
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by Maktab 16y ago
Or Newton OS devices from 1993. This isn't the first time that Apple has tried to build a computer with seamless state persistence and without a traditional exposed file system. That said, neither Palm OS or Newton OS could multitask. Andro
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by Maktab 16y ago
The connection is only encrypted between the web site and Opera's servers, and Opera's servers and your phone. Opera's servers see all the data in its unencrypted form. From their FAQ[1]: Is there any end-to-end security between my handset
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by Maktab 17y ago
Johannesburg, in my case.
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by Maktab 17y ago
Your argument seems to basically be "we can't know what the other helicopter saw, so we have to assume they saw weapons." No. My argument is that we are lacking a huge amount of context by virtue of having only a single narrow view into t
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by Maktab 17y ago
Yes, sorry. I actually meant the early days of its wider (and particularly Western) prominence, when most of the people who frequent HN would have first heard of and formed opinions about it. I had admittedly forgotten about the Palestinian
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by Maktab 17y ago
It's worth noting that Al-Jazeera has improved a lot since its early days in 2002/2003. With the launch of their English news service they made a concerted effort to improve their act and become more impartial. They're still prone to inflam
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by Maktab 17y ago
Maybe they had soldiers spread out and it took a while to call them back and mount up? Maybe one of the vehicles had mechanical problems? Maybe they even decided to hold for a few minutes to wait and see if any more surprises would show up?
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by Maktab 17y ago
Merely halving the time for mounting and assuming a 20km/h travel speed without any stops (bearing in mind this is a combat zone) seems a bit arbitrary. In any case, the radio calls seem to affirm that the ground element was in visual range
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by Maktab 17y ago
The second-to-last photograph [1] taken by Namir Noor-Eldeen shows an American Humvee and the radio calls make it clear that there is a ground force in the vicinity which was reporting a contact with the individuals on the ground, was able
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by Maktab 17y ago
But as I understand it, by 2007 they were not permitted to take those guns out from their houses. This is why the US's rules of engagement pretty much stated that anybody in the street with a weapon who was not part of the Iraqi security se
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by Maktab 17y ago
There are weapons visible at various points in the video and an RPG was found at the scene, these people were not all unarmed. That the journalists were killed is tragic and may very well be due to mistakes or incompetence or even malice, b
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by Maktab 17y ago
Though just to clarify something, this footage was taken in 2007 at the height of the Iraq War. It's not recent and the war is not still raging, at least not at anything close to the 2007 level. But I agree with your main point. Context is
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by Maktab 17y ago
To be clear, both the iPad and iPhone do allow you to listen to music and surf the net or use other apps at the same time, but only if you use the iPod application. The problem has never been that the iPhone and iPad can't support multi-tas
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by Maktab 17y ago
I'm not sure that Steve Jobs has ever indicated that he's against DRM as a concept, only that he thought it was pointless and self-defeating to continue selling <em>music<em> with bundled DRM. Especially with BitTorrent and
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by Maktab 17y ago
I was under the impression that those were all WLAN, GSM and UMTS patents relating to the radio equipment. Hardly 'distinctive features' on the same level as accurate multitouch on a glass screen.
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by Maktab 17y ago
>Yes, when British colonization was happening Britain had outgrown that stage, but perhaps they were able to outgrow it because they were allowed to develop independently as a people? I'm not sure justifying colonization because of peo
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by Maktab 17y ago
Thing is, what you describe ("Merely installing a peacekeeping force, and then concentrating on the reconstruction of those countries -- the building of schools and hospitals, and other infrastructure") is precisely what did happen in the D
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by Maktab 17y ago
For what it's worth, that bit about unlimited data plans isn't entirely true. The standard iPhone voice and data plans from Vodacom in South Africa bundle only 250Mb of data, while I'm fairly sure that Rogers in Canada and Vodafone in Austr
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by Maktab 17y ago
The date on the article is 2008-04-29, so it's likely you came across it soon after it was first posted.
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by Maktab 17y ago
I'm pretty sure that the Symbian Signed initiative was launched a number of years before the iPhone was announced and both RIM and Qualcomm have had paid app signing for the Blackberry and BREW platforms respectively for even longer. While

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