Should Muslims Boycott These Companies/Products?

[Demure]

Not just muslims. All 3rd world countries should bycott those MNCs that often get rich off of poor people's blood.

[neocon_2007]

Thats just life u got to deal with it, nothings gonna change

[musika man]

^^^^

do israeli technological businesses contribute either in parts or programs to the p.c's we use or connecting to cyber? it has to be an israeli contribution, i don't have time now, but i will check. if true then will ask arabman to permanently switch off from cyber space and move to the empty cave next to asoma bin laden in tora bora..

[gurey25]

[quote="musika man"]^^^^

do israeli technological businesses contribute either in parts or programs to the p.c's we use or connecting to cyber? it has to be an israeli contribution, i don't have time now, but i will check. if true then will ask arabman to permanently switch off from cyber space and move to the empty cave next to asoma bin laden in tora bora..[/quote]

Musika isreali companies dominate 80% of the market for high tech medical imaging equipment,
like cat scans, MRI's.

even if it is made in germany it will conatin parts from Isreal.
maybe you should suggest that arabman avoids use of all medical imaging equipment and depend on x-rays.

[musika man]

[quote="gurey25"][quote="musika man"]^^^^

do israeli technological businesses contribute either in parts or programs to the p.c's we use or connecting to cyber? it has to be an israeli contribution, i don't have time now, but i will check. if true then will ask arabman to permanently switch off from cyber space and move to the empty cave next to asoma bin laden in tora bora..[/quote]

Musika isreali companies dominate 80% of the market for high tech medical imaging equipment,
like cat scans, MRI's.

even if it is made in germany it will conatin parts from Isreal.
maybe you should suggest that arabman avoids use of all medical imaging equipment and depend on x-rays.[/quote]

^^^

thanks gurey this arab dude wants us to be like saudi graduates who can't even get a job cause they memorized mohamed abulwahab books and are engineers. saudis spent $$$ trillions in education and can't produce a scientist or a technologist. i will check israeli contributions and post it later.

[musika man]

israeli's contribution to technology, health sciences and the environment is so impressive that it makes arabs look like they are living in the dark ages. boycot what arabman?

The cell phone was developed in Israel by Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel.

Most of the Windows NT operating system was developed by Microsoft-Israel.

The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel.

Voice mail technology was developed in Israel.

Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel.

The AOL Instant Messenger was developed in 1996 by four young Israelis.

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Israel, the 100th smallest country, with less than 1/1000th of the world's population, can lay claim to the following:

Israel has the highest ratio of university degrees to the population in the world.

Israel produces more scientific papers per capita than any other nation by a large margin - 109 per 10,000 people - as well as one of the highest per capita rates of patents filed.

In proportion to its population, Israel has the largest number of startup companies in the world. In absolute terms, Israel has the largest number of startup companies than any other country in the world, except the US (3,500 companies mostly in hi-tech).

Israel is ranked #2 in the world for venture capital funds right behind the US.
Outside the United States and Canada, Israel has the largest number of NASDAQ listed companies.

Israel has the highest average living standards in the Middle East. The per capita income in 2000 was over $17,500, exceeding that of the UK.

Israel's $100 billion economy is larger than all of its immediate neighbors combined.

On a per capita basis, Israel has the largest number of biotech start-ups.

Twenty-four percent of Israel's workforce holds university degrees - ranking third in the industrialized world, after the United States and Holland - and 12 percent hold advanced degrees.

Israel has the third highest rate of entrepreneurship - and the highest rate among women and among people over 55 - in the world.

Israel was the first nation in the world to adopt the Kimberly process, an international standard that certifies diamonds as "conflict free."

Israel has the world's second highest per capita of new books.

Israel is the only country in the world that entered the 21st century with a net gain in its number of trees, made more remarkable because this was achieved in an area considered mainly desert.

Medicine... Israeli scientists developed the first fully computerized,no-radiation, diagnostic instrumentation for breast cancer.

An Israeli company developed a computerized system for ensuring proper administration of medications, thus removing human error from medical treatment. Every year in U. S. hospitals 7,000 patients die from treatment mistakes.

Israel's Givun imaging developed the first ingestible video camera, so small it fits inside a pill. Used to view the small intestine from the inside, the camera helps doctors diagnose cancer and digestive disorders.

Researchers in Israel developed a new device that directly helps the heart pump blood, an innovation with the potential to save lives among those with heart failure. The new device is synchronized with the heart's mechanical operations through a sophisticated system of sensors.

Technology... With more than 3,000 high-tech companies and start-ups, Israel has the highest concentration of hi-tech companies in the world (apart from the Silicon Valley).

In response to serious water shortages, Israeli engineers and agriculturalists developed a revolutionary drip irrigation system to minimize the amount of water used to grow crops.

Israel has the highest percentage in the world of home computers per capita.

Israel leads the world in the number of scientists and technicians in the workforce, with 145 per 10,000, as opposed to 85 in the U. S., over 70 in Japan, and less than 60 in Germany. With over 25% of its work force employed in technical professions. Israel places first in this category as well.

The cell phone was developed in Israel by Motorola, which has its largest development center in Israel.

Most of the Windows NT operating system was developed by Microsoft-Israel.

The Pentium MMX Chip technology was designed in Israel at Intel.

Voice mail technology was developed in Israel.

Both Microsoft and Cisco built their only R&D facilities outside the US in Israel.

The AOL Instant Messenger was developed in 1996 by four young Israelis.

A new acne treatment developed in Israel, the ClearLight device,produces a high-intensity, ultraviolet-light-free, narrow-band blue light that causes acne bacteria to self-destruct - all without damaging surroundings skin or tissue.

An Israeli company was the first to develop and install a large-scale solar-powered and fully functional electricity generating plant, in southern California's Mojave desert."
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1600302/posts

Jajah's Israel connection

Internet telephony company Jajah lets users make free or cheap Voice over Internet Protocol phone calls using their regular landline or cellular phones. What's unusual about this start-up, described by Business 2.0 as "one of the 11 most important innovations of the year", is that it was founded in Austria by two non-Jewish entrepreneurs who then decided to set up their R&D center in Israel because of the talent they found there. According to one industry analyst, "Jajah is helping to change the way people think about global communications."

Health | Israeli brother and sister team develop the LuboCollar life-saving device
Israeli physician Dr. Omri Lubovsky had a great idea for a device that could protect the spine of trauma patients and keep the patient's airway open - two of the most critical requirements in the wake of a traumatic injury. He took the idea to his sister, Michal, a mechanical engineer and together they developed a prototype. Today the LuboCollar has already completed a Phase 1 safety study, and an efficacy study is now underway at Hadassah Medical Center. At a time when emergency personnel are trying to reduce unnecessary intubations in the field, the LuboCollar is sparking a great deal of attention. More...

http://israel21c.com/bin/en.jsp?enPage=HomePage

Israeli researchers take first step toward live computer chip
Mary Shelley's Frankenstein might have been unprecedented in its time, but since then popular culture has been clogged with a fascination for the concept of artificial intelligence, from the eerily humanoid robots of The Twilight Zone to films like AI and Robocop. People can't seem to get enough of the idea that advanced technology may one day create sentient life, but at the same time seem to dread the consequences of an apparent transgression against the laws of nature.

It may therefore come as a surprise to find that advances in the field of nano biotechnology are now taking place that have nothing to do with creating monsters. Instead, for Professor Eshel Ben-Jacob and his graduate student, Itay Baruchi of Tel Aviv University's Department of Exact Sciences, the goal is to find treatments for neurological disorders such as epilepsy, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease.

With the use of chemical stimulation, Ben-Jacob and Baruchi discovered that they could trigger a man-made network of neurons to imprint patterns - the same process by which the brain creates memories. This discovery marks an early but crucial step toward the invention of a computer chip with the capability to create and store information the same way our own brains do. By linking the network of neurons to software which reads the neural activity, the network and the computer can work together to carry out tasks of which computers are currently incapable.

Their findings were published in the May issue of Physical Review E, and later made headlines inScientific American.

"Computers don't have cognitive function because they lack plasticity - they are fixed," Ben-Jacob told ISRAEL21c in an office lined with bookshelves where science texts and science fiction novels stand side by side.

"We're therefore thinking of adding features to computers to make them more flexible and adaptable, like human brains."

It's the connection between the computer and the neural network, which would communicate with one another, that creates a new kind of machine. Ben-Jacob elaborates: "The network won't replace the computer but it will do the softer cognitive functions of decision-making, interaction with the environment, and sound recognition."

According to Baruchi, biological computing might also lead to technology that Microsoft has been working to achieve, without success: handwriting recognition, made possible by virtue of the biological system's ability to detect patterns.

"The ability of the regular silicon-based computer to detect patterns is very low, and it needs a very sophisticated algorithm. With the biological system it's very easy, because humans and animals can easily detect patterns," said Baruchi, who has been working with Ben-Jacob for seven years.

In order to conduct experiments, neurons are placed in a Petri dish that is studded with electrodes on its base. The neurons spontaneously form a communicative network, and their activity generates pulses of voltage which are recorded by the electrodes. The electrodes are, in turn, connected to a computer that monitors and records the resulting patterns on its screen.

Scientists have long known that an artificial network of brain cells will create spontaneous patterns of activity, but they had not found a way to add new patterns. The common methods of experimentation on artificial networks of brain cells have been electrical stimulation and chemical stimulation. Baruchi explains that in his work with Ben-Jacob, chemical stimulation made sense because "neurons stimulate one another with chemical cues - so we thought we would [stimulate them] in the same way."

Neurons are divided into two types: Excitatory neurons, which promote neurological activity, and inhibitory neurons, which reduce activity. According to Ben-Jacob, most researchers have tended either to focus on stimulating one or the other by "reward" (in the case of excitatory neurons) and "punishment" (in the case of inhibitory neurons). Baruchi and Ben-Jacob came up with the idea to suppress the inhibitory neurons with an injection of the chemical picrotoxin, which freed the excitatory neurons to create new patterns without hindrance. These new patterns lasted for days and in harmony with the already existing patterns.

"We did something new, we invented teaching by liberation," says Ben-Jacob. "We gave the network the ability to act freely and generate new things by reducing inhibition during the limited time of stimulation. This helps to create a new pattern of firing."

In the foreseeable future, the ability to imprint patterns in an artificial network of brain cells can be developed into various technologies. Ben-Jacob predicts that brain repair will be an important consequence for the treatment of neurological disorders like Alzheimer's and Parkinsons. "Now that we have learned additional secrets [of how the brain stores information] we may be able to take a network, add stem cells and with the right stimulation can convert them into a functioning network," says Ben-Jacob.

An even more long-term vision is to use these ideas for the treatment of epilepsy. Ben-Jacob describes the process by which this might be carried out: a recording of the brain activity of the epilepsy patient would be fed to the networks through a computer. The network would then communicate with the human brain in order to correct the epilepsy.

The science fiction aspect of the discovery rears its head when Ben-Jacob describes other potential advances, such as "cybrids" (cyborg-hybrids) that can learn to carry out specific tasks. His idea is that the networks, which are biological and therefore react as humans do, will be connected with co-evolvable computer software, so that the network and the software can evolve together to learn tasks. Exposing the network to various toxins would produce specific patterns from the neurons, which the computer would then record and learn; a technology which would lead to the creation of machines that are capable of identifying toxins in the environment.

Ben-Jacob sees many potential possibilities, and suggests: "We can connect the network with retina cells so it can detect light, for building a robot that can look and see... a machine that shares similar capabilities with the human brain."

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[*Arabman]

This company I have already mentioned:

News Corporation (20th Century Fox, Sky, National Geographic, New York Post)
http://www.inminds.co.uk/boycott-news-corporation.html

Is owned by Rupert Murdoch. The company owns Fox Broadcasting Company/Fox News Channel, where you watch The Simpsons, 24, American Idol, Geraldo At Large, O'Reilly Factor, etc. Rupert Murdoch also owns 20th Century Fox, the film studio whose notable films are; The Simpsons Movie, Live Free or Die Hard, Borat, X-Men, Fantastic Four, Planet of the Apes, and many more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_20 ... _Fox_films

My fellow Muslim brothers and sisters, it's not an issue of death and life not to watch films/TV series/programs by Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox News Channel and 20th Century Fox.

With regard to the myth of how Jews are smart; they are about the same as others like the Japanese, Indians, Germans, Malaysians, Chinese, Russians, etc. We know who controls the media and who spreads myths; it's natural those who control the media would be biased to their own kind and aggrandize their contributions. With regard to Israelis being geniuses in the technology field; it's another myth. When it comes to being genius in the technology field, perhaps the Japanese are one of the best. When it comes to software development, Indians are one of the best. The top programmers and software developments for Microsoft are Indians. And so forth.

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

"Remember, by buying those products, you are helping the enemy and hurting the Ummah"

Exactly who is the enemy Arabman?

[Grant]

Are you familiar with the Orthodox Jewish community of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem? They come out from time to time to protest noise or business being done near their community on the Sabbath, but otherwise stick to themselves and practice the same cultural traditions their ancestors did in the ghettos of eastern Europe during the Middle Ages.

Of course, they claim to be the only righteous people on the planet, but they are not out to dominate or oppress anyone. They have their Conservative lifestyle and everyone else gets to move on with living in the 21st Century.

If the issue is really lifestyle, it seems to me that conservative Muslims would be best off establishing similar communities or "ummahs", rather than trying to co-opt "ummahs" with other cultural traditions. Sufficiently conservative communities should be able to supply most of their own needs within the community in fairly short order. They do not need to be dependant on Kaffir or Jewish products at all.

[*Arabman]

[Exactly who is the enemy Arabman?]

The primary enemies of the Ummah; the Zionists & Neocons.

[Steeler [Crawler2]]

Well the Zionists are not currently in political control in Israel and the neocons will be out of office in a year and a half. Who will the enemies of the Ummah be then?

[gurey25]

[quote="Grant"]Are you familiar with the Orthodox Jewish community of Mea Shearim in Jerusalem? They come out from time to time to protest noise or business being done near their community on the Sabbath, but otherwise stick to themselves and practice the same cultural traditions their ancestors did in the ghettos of eastern Europe during the Middle Ages.

Of course, they claim to be the only righteous people on the planet, but they are not out to dominate or oppress anyone. They have their Conservative lifestyle and everyone else gets to move on with living in the 21st Century.

If the issue is really lifestyle, it seems to me that conservative Muslims would be best off establishing similar communities or "ummahs", rather than trying to co-opt "ummahs" with other cultural traditions. Sufficiently conservative communities should be able to supply most of their own needs within the community in fairly short order. They do not need to be dependant on Kaffir or Jewish products at all.[/quote]


Grant inspite of our differances,
there is only one ummah, and its at leaset 1.3 billion strong.
and we will never be limited to mere curiosities, small secluded and harmless sects.

inshallah this western disease called nationalism will be cured,
the ummah's immune system will reject and discard it.
and we will be one ummah once more.

[musika man]

^^^

arab dude making indians as heroes to demean israeli's, who are the indians? you are talking about politics not islam. with your politics, you are blind not to see the atrocities committed against 110 indian muslims by the hindus? in your view about islam, they are better than the israeli's. you are right, israel oppresses palestinians majority muslims but also christian palestinians. they are 10% of the indian muslim population. there are many america haters here, who think russia is better than america. did they meet chechniyan muslim? no. the only thing they like about russia is now putin acts likes he is against america. only in america is where muslims are respected if they dont play political games like yours. read the suffering of indian muslims in their own voices. did you hear about the mosque burnt to ground in ayodhya, india?

Atrocities against Indian Muslims

http://www.muslimnews.co.uk/news/index.php?sub=4

http://www.indianmuslim.org.uk/Vol4%20No11.htm

if you were not a political manipulator and u were at heart an honest muslim, instead of posting this topic, you will have posted this petition. or the later link about anoder petition of the burnt mosque in ayodhya. arab muslim politics is more important for you. like the russian lovers you all hate america. american adage, hate it or leave it.

http://www.petitiononline.com/ICLI4/petition.html

http://www.petitiononline.com/HRCBM1/petition.html

mad mac you foking make zionists sympathize with this arab dude when u foking write a sentence on this board.

forgot to add, a black man-lamagodley understanding-a somali is free in the streets of america dan in russia. india has a strategic close relationship with israel. the abu guraib scandal in irak was very bad for america, what about chechniyan? any russian convictions? who wants to move to india and russia?

[gurey25]

@musika

you are right in a way.
compared to the actions of russia, against the afghans in the 80's and the chechens today,
the Isrealis look like humanitarians.


but few have a problem with russia.

[musika man]

^^^

gurey how can we boycot cisco and microsoft and glorify putin and indians? politics not islam.