Note that this article is from three days ago. There’s still only one F-16 destroyed.
Note that this article is from three days ago. There’s still only one F-16 destroyed.
I’m surprised that Hamas apparently did not retrieve the corpses (which are still valuable to them) for six months. My understanding is that information about where hostages are kept is deliberately decentralized to prevent any single leak from letting Israel know all their locations. Did everyone who knew that these hostages were there die? Or maybe the tunnel ventilation system was either insufficient or damaged and the air in that tunnel was unbreathable this whole time?
Edit: Also I’m not seeing this information on www.ynetnews.com which is the Israeli newspaper that OP’s article claims as its source.
I’m not trying to be pedantic, but I thought a ceasefire always meant a temporary pause in hostilities, as opposed to a peace treaty which would be permanent.
WD, Seagate
Has Seagate improved? After having multiple Seagate drives fail, I did some research on failure rates and Seagate was way worse than every other brand. Since then I have only been buying enterprise-grade WD drives. However, I did my research almost ten years ago and a lot could have changed since then.
The five-minute piano solo is dedicated “to the journalists of Gaza,” according to D’Netto.
The MSO said it does not condone the expressing of political opinions onstage and apologised for the comments.
Comments of that sort would be clearly unprofessional in the context of a more “ordinary” job, but I suppose a musician might feel that his performance is not just work for pay but also a form of self-expression. Clearly the orchestra disagrees, although perhaps they would have tolerated something more anodyne like “world peace”.
Governments do have the option of simply buying the patent from the drug company (no communism necessary) but Americans have rejected socialized medicine for Americans. I don’t expect that they would want to subsidize medicine for poor Africans.
By that logic, the profit on software (which is free to copy) is infinite. You need to look at revenues minus costs for the whole company, not for the specific act of manufacturing a pill.
In that scenario, why would drug companies bother to develop drugs that deeply impart public health? They already prioritize drugs for smaller numbers of rich people rather than drugs for larger numbers of poor people (e.g. antibiotics). If they can’t make a large profit off of developing an AIDS vaccine, they’re going to work on something like weight-loss drugs instead.
I think many people dramatically overestimate how profitable drug companies are. The average net profit for a brand-name drug manufacturer is actually less than 30% (source). They’re about as profitable as tech companies.
That’s still quite profitable, but I suspect that if you were to limit them to 30% net profits on their most successful blockbuster drugs, their overall net profits (which have to compensate for the R&D that goes into failed drugs) might not even be positive.
The dolphin was diagnosed only a few weeks ago, but it died over two years ago in March 2022.
If I recall correctly, when trade is considered to be zero-sum, the net exporter gains and the net importer loses. Therefore if what’s bad for Israel is what’s good for Turkey and vice versa, this is worse for Turkey.
Maybe I’m wrong - I wasn’t very good at macroeconomics.
It sounds like it’s worse for Turkey than for Israel.
The summoning circle is broken! You’re free!
I’m not saying that the US will attack Iran - I’m saying that the US will send ships to patrol the waters where this happened. There won’t be violence unless Iran messes with them, but I don’t see what Iran has to gain either from capturing a single freighter or from an increased buildup of American forces in the region.
I think it’s the other way around - the US is having a hard time suppressing the Houthis because there’s nothing in Yemen that’s worth blowing up other than the missile launchers themselves, which are mobile and easy to hide. Iran, on the other hand, has lots of valuable infrastructure.
This move keeps the U.S. out of the conflict
I’m not sure why you think so. The US usually treats freedom of the seas as a pretty big deal. I don’t think that there will be violent retaliation solely for seizing this ship, but I do expect American naval patrols in the region with authorization to fire on Iranians that try something like this again.
I don’t necessarily disagree with you, although I think Iran has a lot more ambition to expand its sphere of influence than the other Middle Eastern theocracies do and this would naturally bring it into conflict with the USA even if there wasn’t a historic enmity between the two countries. (Consider Russia as an example of a country that the USA had no particular hostility towards, despite the Cold War, but now actively opposes due to its ambitions.)
As the article states, a war with Iran would not be good for anyone but it would be worse for Iran than for the USA. If the USA and Iran were purely rational agents, the USA would push back against Iranian influence and Iran would back down - its options would be to lose without a fight or to lose even more if it fought a war.
Of course in the real world rulers are often irrational, or more concerned about domestic affairs than foreign ones. (Maybe it’s better to rule an Iran battered by war than to be overthrown in an Iran that passively accepts containment.) Even rational rulers can miscalculate or underestimate their enemies.
Still, I think much of Iran’s recent success in growing its influence is due to a lack of political will in the USA for any sort of foreign intervention after Iraq and Afghanistan, rather than to a deliberate decision that allowing Iran to expand its influence is in America’s best interests.
I don’t know about Oregon, but I see how people ride their e-bikes here in NYC and it makes me suspect that most e-bike/car collisions are the e-bike’s fault.
I don’t understand why browsers support this “functionality”.