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GitEmSteveDave_OverSleptThisMorn
07/19/09

In reply to Rumor: Modu To "Soft Launch" This Wednesday
Did anyone else read the headline as "Rumormodo"?
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switchblade saints
07/19/09

@Summermodoin'_GitEmSteveDave: yes i did. I though rumormodu was just Jack getting all fancy with some french or something

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The Lab
07/19/09

In reply to Rumor: Modu To "Soft Launch" This Wednesday
In theory, one could just have a few different phones and switch the SIM card. I've heard this is popular with "the Europeans" but I have yet to see one of my friends actually buy a second handset.

It seems like the advantage here is that it would be cheaper to buy additional "jackets" than additional phones. I would love a small phone for going out, a jacket with big screen and buttons for playing a game on the subway and a third jacket with a physical keyboard.

Also, isn't Nokia owning the non-smart phone market now and reaping the 66%-profit-loss rewards of that move? Have at it Modu, sounds like a juicy piece of market share.
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Violent Pacifist
07/19/09

@The Lab: As a "european", I can promise that very few people do this. I know of people with duel sim phones, but most people with more than one phone have it only because we have a higher reliance on Pay as you go, so can easily take a sim out and swap it into a new phone when we feel like it.
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The Lab
07/19/09

@Violent Pacifist: Good to know. Sometimes you hear people talk about the behavior common to a continent and it is really only their friends. These are also the people who talk about Europe like it is one big country.
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Voyou_Charmant
03/19/09

In reply to Israel Has Nukes, US Army Confirms
What is the opposite of surprise? ummm Yeah, well; that's what this is.
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Serolf Divad
03/19/09

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this may mean the end of US help to Israel.

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha!

Thanks for the good laugh.
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symbiano
03/19/09

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Oh Jesus. Between the unadulterated iphone love and the fear of Israel, you move further and further down my list. Jesus loved everyone, and despite the fact that Christianity forgot that (crusades, inquisition, damning everyone to hell that does not believe in Christ, etc), I love him for it! I wait patiently for him to return to bring peace on earth!
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Striderhayasa - Can we get some damn m/kb support?!
03/19/09

@symbiano: take out Jesus and put in Santa Claus and "his" return would amount to the same...
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OMG! Ponies!
03/19/09

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Oh please. Israel could intentionally sink a US warship and still receive support.
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antitrust311
03/19/09

@OMG! Ponies!: Oh and don't forget that Israel was caught red handed stealing US Nuclear secrets back in the day, What do you think goes on out in the Negev desert after they bulldozed all the Arab towns and kicked out the nomads? They've been building Nukes practically since their inception as a nation.
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OMG! Ponies!
03/19/09

@antitrust311: Hey! Don't badmouth the Negev. Back in college, I spent 8 weeks living in an IDF tent in the Negev, doing a dig on a Chalcolithic site about 40km north of Be'er Sheva. One of my fondest memories.

We were camping right by Kibbutz Lahav, the only Kibbutz that raises pork.

KIBBUTZ LAHAV: WE DIG PIG!
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Hyman Decent
03/19/09

@OMG! Ponies!: How were they able to eat pork? And don't say "with a knife and a fork."
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OMG! Ponies!
03/19/09

@Hyman Decent: The real question was how they raised it.

Under Israeli law, it is illegal to raise pork on Israeli soil. So they built a concrete platform about 6" above the ground and hosed the pigs down throughout the day.

The pig farming was for medical research, as pigs are valuable in testing. A large part of Israel's economy is in pharma and medical devices.

Kibbutz Lahav: Further proof that God likes people who think outside the box.
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Fred Beshara
03/19/09

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And finally the world is starting to see the atrocities that Israel has tried to cover up all of these years. I hope this makes people realize that supporting the Zionist cause is not the answer.
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ZLevee
03/19/09

@Fred Beshara: Yeah, it's real atrocious that Israel has never threatened anybody with the nukes.
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SinisterBill
03/19/09

@Fred Beshara: How dare the defend themselves! What with all the rational peace loving people surrounding them.
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bishara
03/19/09

@SinisterBill: your ignorance proceeds you.

i'm sure israel was defending it self since 1946, palestinians are just a myth.

@ZLevee: i don't think israel is in need of nukes at the time, the american airforce and arsenal will do just fine.

@Fred Beshara: are we related?
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ZLevee
03/19/09

@bishara: First, you seem to have missed my point. Second, to your response to SinisterBill, the idea that Palestinians lost thier "State" IS a myth. Prior to the establishemnt of modern Israel, that area had been controlled by Egypt and other entities ever since the Jews were driven out centuries ago.
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Brandon Gribin
03/19/09

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Why on earth is Gizmodo covering this?
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CoHPhasor
03/19/09

@Brandon Gribin: Last I checked nukes are the craziest gizmos of all time.

Their existence was unknown until now. Isn't that when you want G1/Pre/iPhone news? When it's discovered?

Stop hating on people from a news outlet because there is politics involved.

Politics are ALWAYS involved, even the office place.

Get over it.
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d_r_e
03/19/09

@CoHPhasor:

You're right, except Gizmodo is not a news outlet ... it's a blog. Well, technology blog.
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geekpi
03/19/09

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I'm trying to get all worked up about this, but haven't we known that Israel has had at least 200 warheads since 1980?

The French started helping them in the 1950's with their weaponized nuclear program.

Wikipedia has a very detailed timeline of their nuclear weapons program.
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Geisrud
03/19/09

@geekpi: You can't believe everything you read on Wikipedia.
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suland
03/19/09

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Like no one knew this... It was well known for years (more than ten) that Israel has nukes. Well, not in States maybe, but in Europe - for sure.
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hebrewhammer770
03/19/09

@suland: while i knew long before, an Israeli diplomat actually told me 8-ish years ago. i'm glad that Israel has nukes, they are one of the few countries on earth which needs them.
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Voyou_Charmant
03/19/09

@hebrewhammer770: You should look up the meaning of "need".
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Pope John Peeps II
03/02/09

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Obviously, this is a huge project, but if structurally possible-which looking at the current state of engineering, looks it is-it brings a new way to look at the geography of the two countries, eliminating many of the demands and catering to the needs of the population of both states. It doesn't solve other issues, but at least they solve a big part of them.

I can't believe you even took this seriously in any way. Even as part of your imagination. Maybe you should give this site to OMG Ponies...
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Gann
03/02/09

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This would work if they were split by some geographical divide, and not the fact that they all want to kill each other. It's arrogant to think a pretty rendering would solve this. This monstrosity would only become their new battle ground, which would be kinda awesome since it looks like a Halo map. Until the population below rises up and demolishes it for blocking out their sun.
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citizen024
03/02/09

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the 3rd picture really looks like something outa halo.
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Hello Mister Walrus
03/02/09

@citizen024: Yeah, I was thinking that too.
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Shawn Garringer
03/02/09

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Or Israel could just give the land back, you know, and leave. But I guess that'd be too simple.
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Hello Mister Walrus
03/02/09

@Shawn Garringer: Perhaps Americans should give the land back to the Indians and go back to Europe.
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92BuickLeSabre
03/02/09

@Shawn Garringer: "...and leave."

Yes, how simple.

The world has such a long history of nations just packing up and "leaving."
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Kaiser-Machead
03/02/09

@Shawn Garringer: Simple as you can get.

Amazingly, life never seems to conform to our level of simplicity.
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ninjamurf
03/02/09

@Shawn Garringer: "Or Israel could just give the land back, you know, and leave. But I guess that'd be too simple."

They've been there for 3000+ years? Who should they give it back too, Cro-Magnons? Egyptians? Ottomans? Oh, you mean the Palestinians. Unfortunately there has NEVER BEEN a Palestinian nation. Palestine is what the Brits called their section of land after WWI (which included Jordan.) This was supposed to be the original "homeland" for Jewish settlers since no one else had a formed a "homeland" there since the Jews 2000 years ago. So Palestine was originally JEWISH. Now, there were Arab Palestinians and Jewish Palestinians. The British then separated "Palestine" into an Arab Palestinian state called Jordan and a Jewish Palestinian state called Palestine. They did this by taking 75% of the original area that was supposed to be the Jewish run Palestine and giving it to the Arab Palestinians. That is where Jordan comes from. Palestine was still Jewish mind you. The Jews were happy, the Arabs were not, they wanted it all. That has led to what we see today. (Yes, I know there's much more but I started only wanting to get the fact out that there has never been a Palestinian "nation".)
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ZLevee
03/02/09

@ninjamurf: I'm surprised and impressed soembody else made this point so I didn't have to.
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Tachyon0118
03/02/09

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This will be great, right up until someone starts bombing/shooting rockets at it and it collapses.
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Timothy Michael Lezama
03/02/09

@Tachyon0118: Hopefully they would be smart enough to realize neither of them can bomb or both die in horrible bridge accident.

Then again this may make blockades real easy...cap both ends of the bridge.
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Hello Mister Walrus
03/02/09

@Timothy Michael Lezama: "Hopefully they would be smart enough to realize neither of them can bomb or both die in horrible bridge accident."

What do you think is going on now? Minus the bridge.
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Timothy Michael Lezama
03/02/09

@Hello Mister Walrus: Thats why I said "hopefully". The immediate destruction of both communities on the bridge maybe a better deterrent, but I do know I'm giving both sides a lot of credit to think such a thing.
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Kaiser-Machead
03/02/09

@Timothy Michael Lezama: Mutual annihilation is likely not a concern to suicidal extremists.
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