And just for the record...

...there is a reason I avoid the major news outlets as much as possible on TV at least.

Pallywood, a short documentary showing simple proof that often the 'sight-bites' as they call them, are manufactured. True warfare from Israel is something we've only recently begun to truly see. Any centralized news source is subject to this effect, even the folks that made Pallywood. But it does show proof that the sheer quantity of major news-agency supplied camera's in the area dramatically changes the reality of what actually happens. It turns news agencies into propeganda machines. Not news machines.

And sadly, I believe that the progress towards a 'peace accord' in that area, or whatever term they feel like using, is merely capping a pwoder keg again. For better or worse, this is a fire that will, some day, need to burn itself out. The sheer fact that one side has claimed to only use 20% of their 12500-rocket supply despite 'shock and awe' style rocket barrages says so to me. Both sides are physically tiny, and whenever one side gets enough stockpile they'll risk the other side's wrath just to burn off the surplus before it goes out of date if nothing else. And thus the powder keg regenerates it's charge.

And on a much happier note...

...the human body may well be at a sort of 'optimal power point' in the hyper-dimensional intersection of hundreds of interelated curves of power, speed, and adaptability. The sheer fact that some extreme examples of our kind can learn echolocation to a good degree says volumes to me.

Then I realize... granting exceptional hearing to a deaf person is volumes easier than granting exceptional sight to a blind person. Yet we're unlikely to ever put the research into granting this because, while it could grant them full functionality, that functionality would be so markedly different and 'outside the norm' it would be rejected out of hand.