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They want to irradiate or touch our junk, yet they can't find a .40 caliber Glock in an X-ray machine. Why are we going through this every time we travel, again?
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This is how we do it at Check Point.Let me be clear. I will not be arguing that Israel is 'bad'. I will not be arguing that it doesn't deserve to exist. I won't be arguing that it behaves worse than every other country. I will only be arguing that Israel is 'rogue'.
The word 'rogue' has come to have exceptionally damning connotations. But the word itself is value-neutral. The OED defines rogue as 'Aberrant, anomalous; misplaced, occurring (esp. in isolation) at an unexpected place or time ', while a dictionary from a far greater institution gives this definition 'behaving in ways that are not expected or not normal, often in a destructive way '. These definitions, and others, centre on the idea of anomaly – the unexpected or uncommon. Using this definition, a rogue state is one that acts in an unexpected, uncommon or aberrant manner. A state that behaves exactly like Israel.
You have to read this. It will certainly get you thinking. Having been to Israel a few times, I can tell you that it's not nearly as bad as people think it is.
A State Department official warned students at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs this week that discussing WikiLeaks on Facebook or Twitter could endanger their employment prospects.
The official, a former student of the school, called the career services office of his alma mater to advise students not to post links to WikiLeaks documents, nor to make comments on social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, as "engaging in these activities would call into question [a student's] ability to deal with confidential information, which is part of most positions with the federal government," he was quoted as saying in an e-mail sent to students by the career services office on Tuesday.
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The reason we are able to talk about these documents is because someone else leaked them, thus even though the government may have classified them in some way, it really doesn't matter since they are essentially public documents.
Certainly you wouldn't want to brag on Twitter or Facebook that you posted confidential information to the Internet. That would be career-limiting.
