International Relations: Why do Pakistani passports say "This passport is valid for all countries of the world except Israel"? How can Pakistanis visit Israel if they wish to?
Despite multiple answers, I am surprised that the real technical reason has not been mentioned yet.When a country issues passport to its citizens, it has an obligation to provide them assistance when they are traveling. This is done through diplomatic channels. Hence if a US citizen is arrested in UK, the US embassy will typically help citizen get a lawyer and provide support in any other way possible. Similarly they help with medical treatment, evacuation, and other ways. Government of Pakistan has the same obligations to its citizens, and its foreign missions provide assistance (however little or sparse) when it is needed. However since Pakistan has no diplomatic relations with Israel, it can not provide that support in Israel. This is the major reason that Pakistan has to mention it on the passport. Pakistani people traveling abroad to Israel can receive no assistance while they are in Israel. This may be a fine point, but it can become a major issue when someone ends up getting mugged or imprisoned for any reason.Update:Since this answer gets lots of views, I want to update this with my latest views. I had the opportunity to visit Jerusalm and Al-Aqsa mosque this winter (traveling on US Passport) and it helped me get a new perspective on the situation.I understand and support Pakistan position in supporting the Palestinian people and their right to their land and self rule. However this policy, I now feel, is not helping Palestinian people and hurting Pakistanis in some important ways.Under the current policy Pakistani government has effectively isolated Pakistani people from Palestinians and from the holy places. Pakistanis are not able to visit the holy Al-Aqsa mosque, and are not able to provide help to Palestinian people. There is a lot that Pakistan can offer in Palestine. This is a great loss for Pakistani people (not being able to visit one of the holiest places) and missed opportunity for both Pakistani and Palestinian people to come together.I am not advocating here that Pakistan should establish normal diplomatic relations with Israel, but it should, perhaps with the help of other countries who have diplomatic relations with Israel (e.g. Turkey, China), allow and facilitate travel of Pakistan people to Israel and Palestinian territories.
Why can't countries block just a few pages (of Wikipedia) written by terrorists instead of all pages of Wikipedia?
In most places it' easy to block a website. It' much harder to block just a few pages,
How did the the Internet get started?
Did a lot of people get together and put this all into what it is today or did just one very very smart man think of of this, one day when it was raining out and. This may sound funny but it all had to start from some place! was there a lot of people or was there just one man that did all of this,no matter who did it . it had to be HArd!!
IP Address: Unique to router or computer?
In my understanding, a router assigns a unique IP address to each computer that connects through it. Now, if I use my computer in different states and actually in different countries, does my IP address follow me or am I using an entirely new IP address that is in no way linked with the old one? PURELY HYPOTHETICAL: (Just to make things clearer) If I was hacking into a government agency, or some bank or something from Guam and moved to Nevada or Canada or Europe would people be able to track me down through my IP address because of attacks made from a router in Guam??? Or would my new ISP clear me of being linked to any past events made from the old router? (This is purely hypothetical and I understand that personal information is obtained from every ISP that would be able to assist in locating an actual criminal, my question is purely about locating or being located in a different country solely through IP address). Is this possible? Am I talking in circles?
Should New Zealand ban the US from having nuclear weapons?
As a teenage kid I went out on the lumpy waters of Wellington harbour entrance in 1975 to protest the arrival of USS Truxtun and I also served on the committee of CANWAR with Don Thompson, Dave Tripe, David Gordon, Rachel XX? et al. I joined a 48 Hour vigil at the cenotaph memorial in August 1976 in the rain all night commemorating Hiroshima . We were filmed by a guy called Rod Prosser and his footage must still exist somewhere?When we first started in 1975, I remember polls showed that only 35% of the New Zealand population shared our views. Eight years later in 1987 we had gained so much passionate popular support that most Kiwis by then supported us. Parliament enacted a ban on visits by nuclear powered or armed vessels.The whole point of my comment is this:Nothing is ever hopeless. If you believe in something, then fight for it. One person can change the world.We only changed New Zealand. I hope a new generation will change the world?Even Kim Jong-un has said that North Korea supports global nuclear disarmament, but that as long as the United States threatens his country he feels unable to abandon nukes.Change has to come from ordinary people. Not political leaders.My challenge to a new generation is finish what my generation began. Demand that the whole world gives up this addiction to hatred, killing & warfare.
Whats a passport ? if im a u.s. citizen what do i need ? is my passport my birth certificate?
A passport is a book issued by a country you are a citizen of that says you are legally a citizen of that country and allowed to travel. It's often called a Visa in other countries as well. Unless your country and the country you plan to visit have a treaty set up allowing travel without a passport/visa, you will need one to leave your country legally. It is not the same as a birth certificate. They will usually have a current photograph, your name, age, height, weight, and other details, and an official government seal.
What is it like to not be able to download torrents (if banned in your country or ISP)?
There is a huge difference between 'not being able' and 'not being allowed'. For a brief time, my ISP and some others were forced by court order to ban access to The Pirate Bay, even though downloading (as opposed to uploading) at the time was perfectly legal in my country (the Netherlands). It made absolutely no difference in the number of downloads - other indexing sites quickly jumped in the gap, and provided the completely legal service of pointing to these completely legal torrents.After about a year the ISPs got a reversal of the court order by pointing out that the ban had no effect.Since then the situation has changed: downloading is now also technically illegal. This has not made downloading impossible or even difficult in any sense and loads of people still do it (not me of course, and I never inhaled, anyway).The possibilities to 'go legit', have increased since the formal ban, with both NetFlix and a local video rental outlet providing reasonably priced all-you-can-eat plans, and I hear some people around me are taking these up. Still complaining about that particular series or movie that is not part of the offering, of course.