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A poll by an institute critised for its links with AIPAC. Really? Although it treats with different questions, I think this is very informative (and m...

For me it's a matter of principle and it's a good question as to the practical effect. I'm not sure. Speaking of principle, I should mention that the ...

The 7% was privately owned before 1948, nothing additionaly was sold since then as far as I know (or at least nothing significant to change that perce...

Who and who?

Maybe we can think of other ways. How about this; cordoning off the entire area that no weapons can enter Syria any more (it's after all not that big)...

At the very least they'll miss, right? Unless we're collateral damage... hmmm. Damn, you're right.

It's a false dichotomy to suggest there's only military intervention or nothing.

I would be perfectly fine with this, if it weren't for the fact that the JNF is seriously intertwined with the Israeli government and has first right ...

That 93% can be sold to Jewish Israelis but not to non-Jewish Israelis. I did say buy not rent or lease. So the statement was indeed inaccurate but I ...

Ah.. Now I get it. Seems NATO doesn't think we spend enough. So in all fairness, we are contributing! I think that's neither here nor there though sin...

I agree up to the sentence "the former is exclusionary..." provided these cultural norms aren't institutionalised through law. It's one thing to say "...

Ah, at least we're safe from being bombed then. :P

Shmik, you're from the old forum and I've set out those laws time and again. If you don't care to remember them or at least the thrust of it then why ...

That would be true if a lot of other laws didn't tie into this one and its definition of Jew and then continue to reserve rights for Jewish Israelis o...

Persuasive definitions of course, one of which was codified into law in Israel. Just pointing out that apparently a lot of Jewish Israelis in 1970 tho...

Yet the high court in Israel did. A Jew who converted to Christianity lost rights only reserved for Jewish citizens of Israel.

Sure. There might be an apology forthcoming if I knew what it was about though.

That was actually on purpose. X-) Let's just say I have a very rich emotional life behind my piano and it stops when I stop playing.

Generalized label - Rawlsian Form of government - direct democracy, more decentralised in its political decision making but centralised in the perform...

My list only has the following people on it to whom I have been an asshole at some point in time: Hanover Gassendi1 Endomorphian peter rabbit Neither ...

So, now we know that different things evoke different emotions. Kind of obvious. However, I bet that in almost every discussion most of us either assu...

Hmmm... Interesting. I find heart break quite a powerful motivator to do something so in that sense I don't feel "bogged down". It's also informative ...

I wanted you to share. That was another observation after I asked people to share. What do you think it says? Maybe it says "I'm not responsible becau...

Mongrel: Is it me, or is that just a tad contradictory?

If that's how you feel. Personally, I don't think it's a waste of time to understand other points of view. The better I understand others, the more ad...

As far as I know, I'm a virtue ethicist. I try to be kind but also fair and responsible. Fairness is not always kind to everyone. Sometimes I need to ...

(Y) I remember a thread on the Dutch Zwarte Pieten when you opened my eyes to that prejudice in me and around me. Thank you for that.

I was only pointing out a possible logical exception to the reasoning jamalrob forwarded. Obviously, the weakness in all these formulations are the pr...

Or question whether that's the only way to live in harmony with others.

I didn't mean this thread to be anything else than to share situations that break your heart. Whatever else that has been read into it, was projection...

I'm just amazed at how good we (people in general) are at abstracting away "little" incidents like this. "Ooh, it's his parents fault for staying in A...

I couldn't have said it better myself m-theory and thank you for sharing that link.

Without actionable intelligence a government won't know who to target. Currently the goal is combating terrorism. Once it was socialists and gays. And...

Wrong. I WILL download it, only to have the satisfaction to then delete it! >:)

That! Thank you. I wonder how big PF is though... before I run out of diskspace. But at least this way, current PF will be saved for posterity. For th...

Thanks but I was thinking about the entire website. If google can cache stuff, there should be some way to download it completely right? Or at least, ...

Is there any way of downloading the website? As an archive PF already has a ton of value to me.

Low standards. Over 2 years that's an average of 3.6 GB in a lawfirm. That means mostly text documents. That's huge and should've been noticed, which ...

One of the reasons we're not seeing much US persons in the Panama Papers: Delaware. And what a shitty IT unit at MF. How can you not notice a transfer...

Not "very nice" though...

What Darwinian aspects? Her ethics is based on teleological biology from Aristotle. Paraphrased, the main rule in her ethics is that every function of...

Maybe an exchange of family members would be the way forward then. Like how they used to do it in the middle ages. Take his children as "proteges" and...

You implied it by discussing open marriage, which is a private agreement between spouses, as opposed to polygamy. Usually, people's choice of words is...

Assad was the epitome of reasonableness in this interview with Dutch news recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-q9_Dsb2OE The fact that he's cla...

There's a large difference between open marriages and allowing polygamy. Why shouldn't the latter be legally recognised? Both polygyny and polyandry a...

Governments that promote monogamy should be sued to repeal those laws because it directly impacts my right to family life (however I should wish to fo...

If you look closely, you'll see that that's mostly cosmetic. It appears "airy" because they covered the inner courtyard that used to be open with a gl...

There's some progress being made in the field of converting carbondioxide directly to fuels via catalytic processes. Feasible under lab conditions alr...

The Dutch Ministry of Finance is housed in a brutalism building. At one point it became very old and the decision was to restore (and change drastical...