[Ghostavo]

I'm still trying to grasp how people cheering for Iran to be nuked is somehow OK, but zookeeper's sarcastic reply pointing out the insanity of the whole situation is somehow horrible...

[Flipside]

Well, the problem for me is drawing the line between judging posts by intent or by content. The thing is, Zookeeper was indeed trying to make a point, but the whole methodology of causing attention through controversy is so vastly over-used nowadays that I can often struggle to know who is genuinely trying to make a point and who is simply using the whole 'Poe's law' argument to get away with posting something that they would never, ever get away with if they had not.

There are times when that level of sarcasm is needed to hammer the nail home, but comments like that in a subject when one of our own administrators is an Israeli AND a Father is not the best thought out of courses. The intent was the opposite of the content, but the imagery was poorly chosen.

[zookeeper]

What a mess...

My apologies, my ill-formulated point was to merely point out how obviously sick it is to wish for a country to be nuked, which was exactly what was done in the post previous to mine. Nuking a country will necessarily include a lot of children dying horribly, so I was merely attempting to demonstrate why it's sick to wish for such a thing, by expressing a more irrefutably sick wish which is still only a subset of what nuking a country would necessarily include.

In reality, I'm decidedly against war, nukes and violence of all kinds.

[Sandwich]

Indeed, I did not perceive his post as sarcastic - over-the-top though it may have been - since I have experienced first-hand similar sentiment being expressed with equal viciousness by others who most definitely were not being sarcastic. Without an accompanying emoticon (whose rise in popularity is precisely because of situations like this), it's near-impossible to tell if someone online is being sarcastic or not purely from their written words. Tone of voice and body language are vastly underrated.

What a mess...

My apologies, my ill-formulated point.... *snip*

Apology accepted; glad to hear it was a misunderstanding after all... and I'm personally glad I didn't write certain choice words I was tempted to use...

Dragging this back on topic..

I heard a few years back (don't know if it's true or not) that we (Israel) have anti-missile interception systems that use (presumably) hypersonic velocity missiles, capable of intercepting and destroying a target missile before it leaves the airspace of the country it was launched from.

[Flipside]

There's a few systems of that ilk, I do recall something on the News here of such things being installed in Jerusalem and the surrounding area about 5-10 years ago. I think it was some kind of adaptation of the Sea Wasp missile, that was designed to intercept incoming cruise missiles on larger military vessels.

Edit: Ah, it was the Arrow missile, and, strangely enough, they've just finished upgrading the Radar on them to give them a greater interception range:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/10/israel-missile-defense-system-test_n_1267728.html

[BloodEagle]

Jesus still loves them all. But no further details are necessary.

I laughed. 

[Mikes]

one was an anorexic schizophrenic, the other was a nymphomaniac fat chick who would bone anything that moved.

One might argue whether your "the world must burn ideology" had a slightly beneficial or slightly detrimental effect... or any effect at all...  lol.

Date  them again and keep talking about your newfound love for fluffy bunnies, see what happens?

[The E]

Yeahno.

[Sandwich]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/10/israel-missile-defense-system-test_n_1267728.html

How ironic. Due to my location, I am blocked from watching the video attached to that article.