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How to boycott Israel properly (satire)
Global Politician ^ | 12/27/2010 | David Storobin

Posted on 12/27/2010 4:59:54 PM PST by ranger99

Arab and leftist radicals are again talking Israel boycott. To assist my fellow man, I decided to create a list of all the products they should immediately stop using.

A. COMPUTERS

1. Do not buy a computer with an Intel chip, by far the most common one.
2. Do not buy a laptop developed in the 20th century because their chips were all invented in Israel.
3. Do not buy any computer with a Windows NP, XP or Vista, as they were developed by Microsoft's Israel division.
4. Do not use the latest version of Microsoft Office.
5. Do not use a computer fire wall or virus protection software, which were invented by the Israel Defense Forces.

...

F. EDUCATION

1. Israel has the highest percentage of its population with PhDs and other graduate degrees.
2. Israel is first per capita in papers published by scientific journals.
3. Israel is first per capita in patents.
4. Israel is second per capita in the number of books published.
5. You get the point. Just avoid education. It's obviously a Zionist trap.

This list is really getting too long. For those interested in boycotting Israel and creating territories free of Jews, it would be best to consult their intellectual forebearers.

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Boycotting Israel is awfully tough.
1 posted on 12/27/2010 4:59:59 PM PST by ranger99
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To: ranger99

Yeah, those Jews have everything (sarc)


2 posted on 12/27/2010 5:01:49 PM PST by ReverendJames (Only A Lawyer And A Painter Can Change Black To White)
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To: ranger99

Oh, and a lot of the drugs that we take for our various complaints and illnesses. Hyzaar and many others.


3 posted on 12/27/2010 5:05:36 PM PST by Twinkie (THE WRONG SHALL FAIL, THE RIGHT PREVAIL . . . .)
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To: ranger99

On the contrary, I think boycotting Israel is remarkably easy. So much so that Israelis should do it as well. It is based on two things that Israel has way too much of, that we, including them, should boycott.

1) The idea that there is some way, any way, that by giving things to Palestinians and other Muslims, they will stop wanting to destroy Israel and take its lands for themselves.

2) The idea that you can debate, argue, discuss, hold endless meetings, and argue some more your way out of having a simple consistent policy towards homicidal maniacs who want to kill you.

The boycott of these two things will immensely improve the situation if everybody just stops doing them.

What will remain is a simple policy. No more giving of anything to Palestinians. If they want something, they earn it. This does not include land. They have all the land they shall ever have, though they may have less. They deserve not a centimeter more.

And every time they attack Israel, they should be rewarded by having less land. So the choice is theirs: stop attacking Israel, or become Egyptian and Jordanian.


4 posted on 12/27/2010 5:24:20 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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To: ranger99
Under US law since the 1970's any compliance with a boycott of Israel is illegal. I have been in the export business for 30 years and know this first hand since Letters of Credit covering export sales from the US to Arab countries used to include a statement of compliance with the Arab Boycott, as organized and administered from an office in Damascus, Syria.

Whenever we received an L/C containing that provision we were required to file a report to an anti-boycott office in DC (administered by the Bureau of Industry and Security in the Dept. of Commerce). If we failed to report it and were found out the fines would be rather steep.

See: http://www.bis.doc.gov/complianceandenforcement/antiboycottcompliance.htm

5 posted on 12/27/2010 5:35:59 PM PST by katana (Republican Politicians: Stupid is only part of what we do)
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To: ranger99

DON’T buy Amazon’s Kindle either.

It’s a surprise to many, but Amazon’s Kindle, one of the hottest up-and-coming gadgets was largely developed in Israel.
Windows; ICQ (known today as AOL Chat); anti-virus software; cell phone technology - you name it and Israel has had a hand in the development, if not the outright invention, of many of the most important tech components of modern life. And Israel’s high-tech brain trust is still brimful of ideas. This may come as a surprise, but one of today’s newest, hottest, up-and-coming gadgets, Amazon’s Kindle, was largely developed in the heart of Israel’s high-tech center in the Herzliya Industrial Zone on the central coast.

http://israel21c.org/201012168618/technology/amazons-kindle-a-made-in-israel-story


6 posted on 12/27/2010 5:52:20 PM PST by MestaMachine (islam - Hostis hvmani generis - Enemy of the human race)
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To: MestaMachine

RIM’s new Blackberry Playbook was initially developed in Israel.


7 posted on 12/27/2010 6:24:25 PM PST by P8riot (I carry a gun because I can't carry a cop.....Eagle Scout since Sep 9, 1970)
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To: ranger99

If Israel truly developed Windows Vista that is enough cause for war right there! If they also developed Windows ME, I say nuke ‘em from orbit ...


8 posted on 12/27/2010 6:44:08 PM PST by ikka
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To: MestaMachine

Just a note about the Kindle, e-ink / e-paper was developed in Boston, Mass. by an MIT researcher.


9 posted on 12/27/2010 6:45:37 PM PST by ikka
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To: AdmSmith; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; bigheadfred; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; Delacon; ...

Thanks ranger99.


10 posted on 12/27/2010 6:55:12 PM PST by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: ranger99

I am BUYcotting Israel ! I have computers all over the house, I am edumacated with a MS Degree ! Those who bless Jacob will be blessed !


11 posted on 12/27/2010 7:09:29 PM PST by CORedneck
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To: ranger99

One thing not to do - don’t walk in front of their bulldozers.


12 posted on 12/27/2010 8:06:23 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
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To: ikka
You may want to read this article first!
13 posted on 12/27/2010 8:42:08 PM PST by papabrody (Proud member of the International Jewish Conspiracy)
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To: ikka
> If they also developed Windows ME, I say nuke ‘em from orbit ...

ITOWTBS

(It's the only way to be sure.)

14 posted on 12/27/2010 9:03:07 PM PST by dayglored (Listen, strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government!)
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To: ikka

Properly attributed to e-ink in the full article.

Amazon’s Kindle: A Made-in-Israel story

By David Shamah
December 16, 2010

They made Java “cool” again by using it to develop a device for reading the Kindle, and once again a major tech invention emanates from Israel.

Windows; ICQ (known today as AOL Chat); anti-virus software; cell phone technology - you name it and Israel has had a hand in the development, if not the outright invention, of many of the most important tech components of modern life. And Israel’s high-tech brain trust is still brimful of ideas. This may come as a surprise, but one of today’s newest, hottest, up-and-coming gadgets, Amazon’s Kindle, was largely developed in the heart of Israel’s high-tech center in the Herzliya Industrial Zone on the central coast.

“Four years ago, Amazon contacted Sun (which was acquired by Oracle last year) in California and said they wanted a small device that could be used to read e-books,” says Lilach Zipory, the leader of the team that helped to develop the Kindle application. “They had already acquired the software to run it, but were looking for the right technical design, and especially a platform to run the software on. My team in Herzliya is in charge of developing Java for small non-cell phone devices, so they gave us the project.” And the rest, of course, is history.

It’s a history that wasn’t well known until recently, since Oracle chose not to reveal too much about its role in the development of the Kindle. Now, however, the company has come clean - and in the process, Zipory’s team is receiving some much-deserved credit.

Israel gets credit for Kindle performance

Not that the team was aware of the far-reaching implications of the project when they took it on. “We see a lot of small devices here, and they’re all very nice. But I would never have expected an e-book reader to take off like the Kindle did,” she confides to ISRAEL21c.

Perhaps that’s because the Kindle was not the first e-book reader, and as a technical expert, Zipory may not have realized the extent of Amazon’s willingness to invest in marketing the device. Still, the Kindle would not have succeeded as it did if it wasn’t such a top-functioning, high-performer. And the credit for that performance success is based on the customized Java platform written in Israel by the Herzliya team.

Zipory’s group has worked on a wide range of devices, from industrial valves to set-top boxes, so they took the Kindle development in stride. One of the main goals was to develop a version of Java that would support the Kindle’s electronic ink, one of the device’s greatest charms, says Eran Vanounou, director of the Oracle development office in Herzliya.

“We were impressed with the business model for the device and the e-ink technology, and we decided to develop a version of Java to specifically support the Kindle,” he says. A flexible platform, Java supports devices of all sorts, including most of the world’s cell phones, PC software, printers, industrial equipment and much more.

Most devices use “off-the-shelf” versions of Java, with programmers applying the components needed to run the device they are supporting, but in the case of the Kindle, several deeper, driver-level adjustments were needed, Zipory says.

“We had to adjust the refresh rate of the operating system software to accommodate grayscale screens, which require more unique refreshing methodology than the normal color screens that most devices use today, and which the most up-to-date versions of Java are designed to support.”

Oracle’s status rises

The Herzliya team worked with Amazon for several years on developing a prototype, and when they were satisfied, manufacturing commenced. “They initially ordered 100,000 pieces, and we were frankly skeptical they would sell all of them,” Vanounou says. “But when they sold out a couple of months later, we realized what we were involved with.”

The success of the Kindle has of course been a source of pride for the Herzliya team - and a boon for Oracle whose Java, first developed by Sun, and now proudly bearing the Oracle brand name - has seen its status rise among developers. “Of course Java was well-known before,” says Vanounou. “But the Kindle gives us something new to show potential customers who are looking for an easy-to-use and develop platform. It’s made Java cool all over again.”

Now when they travel, Vanounou and Zipory proudly look on as passengers on planes pull out their Kindles and start reading. “As a platform technology, Java runs in the background, and it powers many important devices,” Vanounou says. “We know there are many devices out there using our technology. Each device we develop and each partnership brings new successes, and new connections based on those successes. But the Kindle is different, because it’s such a phenomenon.

“I was recently on a flight when a woman told me how her Kindle kept her entertained while she flew,” says Vanounou. “I didn’t let on how much we in Oracle Herzliya were a part of her experience. But when she said ‘I love my Kindle,’” says Vanounou, “I could have sworn I felt a tear in my eye.”
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MIT is awesome. Credit where credit is due.
Do you remember when ICQ was Mirabalis and eSafe with sandbox technology was Aladdin? A little Israeli professor once said that Israel, being such a tiny country, had to become the masters of small. This was during an Ofek launch.


15 posted on 12/27/2010 9:51:22 PM PST by MestaMachine (islam - Hostis hvmani generis - Enemy of the human race)
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To: papabrody

Sorry, papabrody. Replied before I came back to the thread. I had linked the article. I think maybe he was just adding to it? Maybe?


16 posted on 12/27/2010 9:54:49 PM PST by MestaMachine (islam - Hostis hvmani generis - Enemy of the human race)
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