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What part about "strict immigration policy" don't you understand?

Israel's "lot of immigration" has been those very people that their government wants to make up the demographics: Jews. Your "lot of immigration" bears no resemblance to what you advocate for the US.

http://www.oecd.org/migration/internationalmigrationoutlook2...

Permanent migration to Israel - almost all "ethnic" by Jews and their families - was particularly high in the early 1990s.

Israel has seen a lot of deportation and arrests. Deportation, not amnesty, is normal practice there.

Why do you deny that the US citizens have as much right and duty to protect their country for themselves as Israel does? Perhaps the US immigration authorities should look at open borders advocates' motives towards the US and their fitness for residence, in the manner that Israeli authorities do.

Israel, in one month, deports what would be the equivalent of 277,000 US illegal immigrants:

Report: Migrants leaving Israel being sent to Rwanda, Uganda

http://www.jpost.com/International/Report-Migrants-leaving-I...

The state’s policy, including placing new illegal migrants in closed detention for up to one year, but also allows placing up to 4,000 (so far) already in Israel in open detention for an indefinite period, was initiated in mid-December 2013 under pressure from a mid-September 2013 High Court ruling striking down the old policy as unconstitutional.

Since the new policy’s initiation, 3,988 migrants have left the country, including 1,510 in March alone.

Crackdown Begins: 400 Illegal Entrants Arrested

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132548

The special police unit “Oz” has begun a large-scale operation aimed at cracking down on illegal entry to Israel. Over the past three weeks, members of the unit have checked the documents of more than 4,000 workers.

Of those 4,000, 600 were detained for questioning. Four hundred were arrested after police discovered that they had entered the country illegally.

Israel’s Chilly Reception for African Asylum Seekers

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/31/opinion/sunday...

In May, I attended a graduation party in Tel Aviv for Taj Jemy, a 28-year-old asylum seeker from Sudan… The celebration was interrupted by the Israeli police, who burst into the room, scattering the crowd. The partygoers recalling their skills of hiding, ducking and fleeing, spilled onto the street to find it barricaded and surrounded by horses. Seven people were arrested that night for not having their visas with them.

Israel’s policy toward African asylum seekers is to pressure them to self-deport or, as the former interior minister Eli Yishai put it, to “make their lives miserable” until they give up and let the government deport them.

As of Friday, Infiltrators Can't Export Money

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/275652

Interior Minister Gid`on Saar signed regulations, Monday, that make it illegal for someone who illegally infiltrated the country to send money out of the country. The goal of the measures are to make the infiltrators leave with what they accumulated instead of regularly sending it out to their countries of origin.

Milestone: No illegal African migrants enter Israel in August

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=11...

Population and Immigration Authority says August is the first month in which no illegal infiltrators entered Israel through Egyptian border

168 migrants from Sudan and Eritrea leave Israel voluntarily

Interior minister: We are progressing day by day.

Restricted immigration that allows the top talent of various countries is not the same as mass immigration that replaces the host population and culture. Your dream of an open-borders utopia is incompatible with a successful country.

Israel has had a strict immigration policy, far more restrictive than the post-1965 US policy. They don't seem perturbed by your claimed economic requirement of not "exclud[ing] everyone who wasn't smart enough to be born there" (while you've already shown you really mean open borders).

The US prospered with very restricted immigration for decades.

> Keep them out, and they'll concentrate in other places.

Let them concentrate, especially those from the Third World, so their countries have a chance to benefit from their talent and develop. I don't understand why you are against their home countries prospering.

Xenophobia-at-a-distance has no place in modern civilization.

> There's nothing that says you must let immigrants become citizens right away [...]

There's nothing that says you must let immigrants come.

Fixed that for you.

I am amused that you think your feelings about perceived "racism" have any place in this civil discourse.

Well said.

I mean...

This.

This is nice.

It would be helpful to have an RSS feed on the main blog. RSS is still widely used too!

A search for GitCasts gave some results, such as:

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLttwD7NyH3omQLyVtan0C...

nkuttler, don't be a nutter. Stop denying science.

I'm welcome to my own thoughts as well as to point out where you were wrong. It's funny that you talk about things being aggressive for your taste, when the tone of condescension could not be more clear in your original post. But then, I notice many nerds can dish it out but can't take it, especially those nerds so eager when online to act superior in some way.

What you did not catch in the short Forbes article is by no means a footnote. It is the scrubbing of previous references to Ross Ulbricht by the University of Texas at Dallas.

This "memory hole" treatment is further written about here http://blogs.dallasobserver.com/unfairpark/2013/10/ut-dallas...

I initially thought the same thing. However, after reading both articles, I saw that there is some information provided in the Forbes article not present in the San Francisco Magazine article.

Did you spot it?

Be careful about jumping to conclusions that other people are stupid, especially when you didn't even take the time to verify that you understood what you're talking about.

Yep. All in all, minimum wage is a feel good hit. :)

Do you have a source for the claim that the NSA has cracked thirty VPN providers? The only source I've seen so far that makes any similar claim was the cryptome.org document for prosecutors which was a hoax.

Or you didn't read what you are responding to (totalitarian jlgreco).

Not to mention you must be unfamiliar with news of just that happening in Germany.

Perhaps we shouldn't allow YOU to vote, as proposed in this discussion for those who are supposedly seen as having poor critical thinking skills.

And we shouldn't allow you to teach your kids either, nor to have the option to send them to the school of your choice. All under the logic of this discussion. Enjoy.

Inside every liberal is a totalitarian screaming to get out. Congratulations, you are most definitely out.

Unfortunately for your whims, in a free country, parents can decide to school their children however they see fit. More unfortunately for your whims, the fact that homeschoolers are tremendously better prepared for university (or work if they choose) than their peers is the subject of countless news articles over the years. The statistics favor the homeschoolers, and that includes the majority being complained about here that dare to choose Creation over evolution.

There, there, little totalitarian, it will be OK. Just move to China.

They are not merely seeing the proxy address. They claim to see the address behind the proxy.

I wonder how it is legal for a bank to view data obtained by monitoring the Internet on the scale that only the NSA would be able:

  A Palantir user at a bank can, in seconds, see connections between a Nigerian
  Internet protocol address, a proxy server somewhere within the U.S. and
  payments flowing out from a hijacked home equity line of credit, just as
  military customers piece together fingerprints on artillery shell fragments,
  location data, anonymous tips and social media to track down Afghani
  bombmakers.

More reports on one university so far discovered to have a slush fund, the University of Wisconsin:

UW Slush Fund Exposes Hypocrisy of Liberal Group http://mediatrackers.org/wisconsin/2013/04/23/uw-slush-fund-...

UW slush fund insults citizens http://www.beloitdailyneaws.com/opinion/editorial-uw-slush-f...

Outrage grows as University of Wisconsin System admits it 'did not draw attention' to cash http://www.jsonline.com/news/education/outrage-grows-as-uw-a...

I wonder how many more state-run institutions of higher education will have similar scandals in the next few years.

Where does it go? Well, some universities apparently are tempted to put it in a nice slush fund. See the University of Wisconsin as one known example. http://pjmedia.com/instapundit/167425/

It's contrived because his scenario of a conservative business owner firing a liberal employee is something he made up as an example to fit into his worldview.

In reality, the political witchhunts and thought policing are overwhelmingly leftist behaviors.

Yeah, nice false stereotyping with the contrived conservative smearing.

In reality, we all know that the left are far more intolerant than the majority of conservatives. And they are also the ones who get in your face with vile insults, screams, graffiti, vandalism, and any other behavior that passes when one believes their desired ends justifies their means.

It is far more believable that a leftist would be likely to call for and delight in the firing of someone who holds moral values. Conservatives generally just want to be left alone, and they would not in good conscience vindictively fire someone.

And for ends justifying the means, look no further than apologists for murders by folks like Stalin, Lenin, and Guevara. Some actually do say that was what was needed in order for revolution. Disgusting, but that's what they say.

Short, but interesting, article.

  "Litecoin is orders of magnitude more secure than Bitcoin,
  due to its use of a cryptography technique called scrypt,
  which makes it very costly to attack due to the large
  amounts of memory involved."

I'm not sure this is true in terms of Litecoin actually being more "secure." Faster transactions, but I don't know that the hash difficulty makes the network more secure.

This talk about "bugs" in machines makes one wonder if that is related to why Intel was one of the companies mentioned in a recent article. Intel stands apart from the rest of the companies. Google, Apple, Facebook don't specialize in hardware.

Try using those as currency, i.e. in the USA.

This isn't Reddit. Please keep it classy.

Yes, I forgot that the UN has been a champion of the right to bear arms. Don't they subsidize the NRA?

Seriously, I'll trust Rand Paul, the one who actually has experience in politics, including the UN, rather than the one throwing the conspiracy smears.

A corporation doesn't provide its services at the barrel of a gun.

ebbv, who do you not give a second thought to not returning their phone call? Someone from the government, or someone from Microsoft or Ford?

I don't care how common a slogan is. They don't stand on their own as "well considered reasons," as ebbv purported. Even more so with this particular slogan, which leaves out the most important part of the thought - the right to kill the unborn. The slogan would have you believe that choice goes without saying.

Smutticus, if I were to ask you if you think parents should be allowed to kill their one-month-old child, and you responded, "no," under your and ebbv's logic, you are "against the right to choose."

You show you give the issues no real thought, or more likely, choose to coldly ignore the harsh realities.

homosexual "marriage" eh? I guess you like being a useful idiot. http://www.lifesitenews.com/news/homosexual-activist-says-ga...

"It’s a no-brainer that (homosexual activists) should have the right to marry, but I also think equally that it’s a no-brainer that the institution of marriage should not exist. …(F)ighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we are going to do with marriage when we get there — because we lie that the institution of marriage is not going to change, and that is a lie."

If you're so against things that can kill, let's see you call for the complete prohibition of alcohol. Many people die from alcohol-fueled murders, as well as drunk driving, and alcohol is still legal. Alcohol is not NEEDED BY ANYONE. I am making the devil's advocate case. At least with guns, the primary purpose by the majority is for self defense against criminals. It is reprehensible to see the inconsistency of your gun-grabbing position. Even more so in light of your support of women being allowed to murder their unborn children. Like I said above, at least the Gosnell case is opening the eyes of more people to the reality of the abortion agenda.