Rogel @ October 31, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I was reading today a fascinating article about the debate that shaped the US foreign policy after WWII. It is extremely interesting to note how relevant the different opinion are today, and how the warnings become reality. Watching the Presidential debates, and how dismissive are the GOP candidates to the policy of non-intervention, I can imagine the reaction toward […]
Rogel @ October 30, 2007 # 3 Comments
Watching the DNC Presidential debate leaving a very uneasy impression. The conventional wisdom of all the trailing candidates leads them to launch an all out attack on Hillary Clinton. However since she is, as should have been obvious to all of them, hold her own the results are the she is singled out as the clear DNC nominee.
If […]
Rogel @ October 30, 2007 # 4 Comments
During the campaign the different candidates trying to identify, and address, the issues that matter the most for voters. Through polls, focus groups and many other methods the candidates try to isolate the core issues - would it be the war in Iraq? or maybe what will rally the voters this time be universal health […]
Rogel @ October 29, 2007 # No Comment Yet
We often read a strong criticism about user generated content, it is shallow badly written and its amateur approach compromises its credibility and reliability. Obviously in a world flooded with millions of blogs this criticism has high degree of accuracy. However, among the many "not worth it" sources (this blog included), one can find real gems - rewards for […]
Rogel @ October 28, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Like many other you might feel a little bit confused about the almost collapse of the sub-prime mortgages market. Many of the terms and processes, mostly those involve logic, might seems unclear. Here is a comprehensive explanation of the crisis, much clearer by the way than most of the usual news sources…
(Via QandO)
Technorati Tags: Subprime Mortgage, […]
Rogel @ October 28, 2007 # 2 Comments
This post is a translation from Hebrew from a popular Israeli blog
Is might seem as a technical problem, but I feel it may teach us something about the way Google behaves.
Introduction: it started with a story in Israel’s channel 2 news, describing a Star of David that has been engraved into the Dahniye airport runway, […]
Rogel @ October 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet
About a week ago we went to see Aaron Sorkin’s new play “The Farnsworth Invention”. It was amazing, and sad, to see how almost everybody, during the brake and obviously on the way out, couldn’t turn away from their cellphones. I’m sure that some people were waiting for an important message, and some were really […]
Rogel @ October 27, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I’m used for OS upgrade and pretty much loath them. I can’t recall even one Windows upgrade that went well, at the end I always needed to format the hard drive and install the new version of Windows on clean system. It is also took several months until everything that use to work in the previous version […]
Rogel @ October 26, 2007 # No Comment Yet
I am not familiar with this organization, and I don’t know how much budget they have to run this TV ad. It is very powerful TV ad, it doesn’t cost Ron Paul’s campaign anything, and I hope it will get a lot of exposure.
UPDATE: it seems like the movie isn’t available. I’m sorry about it
(via the LRC […]
Rogel @ October 26, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Earlier this week the congress passed, in overwhelming majority, a bill name the Violent Radicalization and Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act of 2007. Reading the proposed Bill made me rather confused and worried.
The definitions sections defines Violent Radicalization as:
The term `violent radicalization’ means the process of adopting or promoting an extremist belief system for the purpose […]