definitely local.

I've worked in UK/I, Russia, East Europe and Israel, and such an assumption is never even made

this kind of thing: http://www.troelsjust.dk/wp-content/sticker-fedora.jpg


...and it does :)

that preference was there long before I even considered relocating to Ireland :)
but there are good scotch whiskys, like the Famous Grouse, and the extremely rare Balmoral.

BTW, jbennet, if you...

oirish single malts are what I prefer :)

http://youtube.com/watch?v=BXy6q4cH4pw

that's what the US taxpayer is made to believe. Actually the situation is very much on the opposite side - the US uses the Israeli military to test out their own stuff, or get rid of things they do...

don't forget the reactor in Syria

well, actually, under certain conditions I would know

it was an Israeli journalist, who actually told the US command to start moving by night, using night vision instead of high beams and spotlights. that increased the speed drastically, and reduced...

Israeli army never went into Iraq

don't be ridiculous, it's too large for 5 days. but a couple of months should have been enough, provided there are right orders given. btw, if the right orders were given, the americans could have...

I really don't care whether you guys believe me or not

Just read the news. Summarize the pro and anti articles, read the articles to see how opinionated they are, and you will see.

great, back to the kindergarten now, eh? if you read the whole thread, you will see what I am talking about. And if you take a few years and go live in Israel, you will never say these things again.

wonderful argument. how about proving your words?

yeah, CNN, BBC, Reuters and everyone else is pro-terrorist, and there isn't much to be done about it.

last year, it was the bloggers who raised the noise to remove the badly photoshopped pictures...

jwenting, you wouldn't believe how glad I am to hear this from someone outside of Israel.

I know the IDF very well, it is capable of reducing any opposition to dust, but the orders to do so...

Dragon is right. That is exactly why Israel is still fighting the Palestinians, tolerating terror in the streets and everyday bombings of the cities - they are reluctant to use enough force to bomb...

don't know about Egypt, I only met your border guards - nice guys really, but in the Israeli army, high-educated soldiers usually serve as officers, getting paid more, and except for having to wear a...

not every soldier is doing the shooting

it doesn't take too much to turn someone into a soldier. about a year of proper training is enough

three years in Israel Defense Forces. Combat service, lots of action.
was drafted as an 18 year old kid, came out an adult. not sorry for a second I spent in there - I was doing some REAL things,...

only straight drinks
Preferred stuff - single malt whiskeys like Tullamore Dew or cognac like Hennessy
except for that I can do vodka, but again, only straight up, no mixes

as for beers - mostly...

hedgehogs and whiskey!

LOL! I have to monitor this post :)

and google are hiring, and hiring and hiring some more :)

there are blogs and there are blogs. I have my own (<url snipped>) and I read mostly tech stuff there.

but in the summer of 2006, it was the bloggers who revealed that AP and reuters are forging...

I remember using metacrawler and go.com as well as altavista. even in those days yahoo wasn't any good.
and since google came out everything else just stopped existing.

google. definitely.

diesel if you ask me. the old ones - without the turbo. very cost effective (25km per 1 litre on a 2.0 litre engine is flippin' excellent)

only Russia is nit like that since 1991 :) and Chinese Communism is very close to capitalism. which leaves only cuba - NOT the grandest IT empire, methinks ;)

well, if I paid for something, I will not like others using that same thing for free.

paid by who or what? donations? that's the only free-ish source of immediate income

you seem to be incorrectly assuming that a one and only business model can work everywhere. it cannot. communism, as bright an idea as it was, is nothing more than a utopia. open source works for...

software is not information as such - it is a product. something that was created by people who worked to create it. why shouldn't they get paid for it? would you work for free?

Hny! :)

white. dry white. it is the only truly good and clean wine.

born in the USSR (Georgia to be precise), lived for lots of years in Israel, recently moved to Ireland.

from what I've seen in RoI so far that is quite possible :) but as I mentioned before - I served in the Israeli army intel, not Irish

oh no mate :) I served in the field intelligence in the Israeli army. Ireland was a very recent move