Monday, April 26, 2010

ahem (pt. 2 -- or how Apple further degraded the peaceable existence of the free world)

Now. I don't know and I don't really care that much about how you feel one way or the other about the state of Israel/the Zionist Hegemony/Center of Racism in the World/The Shining Embunkered Jewel in the Middle East Hill. I don't really care. I spent long portions of my childhood (probably on account of a staple of Golan Globus films, most featuring Ninjas playing the part of the Mossad) idolizing them, before maturing to a state of ambivalence. I'm okay with this, which is why I've put it in print.

However, today the news was cast that the same-said state has lifted its ban on the importation of iPads. Sad, yes, but even sadder is this possibility -- so the iPad operates on a frequency that could interfere with other electronic gadgets, which in Israeli-speak means that the iPad could possibly have figured in to some type of terrorist plot. What this really means: if this were to happen, would Apple then be considered a state-sponsor of terror, as it rightly should be? It's already got a lock on the SF Bay Area, which holds its own on several watch lists.

Shame on you, Israel, for not letting this come to pass.