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This is one of the better images I've seen showing the pure scale of the protests. In the US, we had our "million man march" which questionably had so many people. In Egypt, many millions have been involved over the course of far longer than one day. With relation to their total population, the size of the movement is pretty mind boggling.
Flagged per the guidelines: if it's on TV, it doesn't belong here :-)
This is what the guidelines actually say: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
I have to congratulate AlJazeera for their tremendous coverage of unfolding events. They have been very professional and fearless in their reporting. Western media should take notes.
Who knows what tomorrow will bring but for now Egypt and the entire world can smile wide and celebrate.
Mazal Tov to the people of Egypt!
Mubarak handing power to the army probably means that the regime lives on, Mubarak's just not in charge of it anymore. Egypt's issues aren't settled now, this is only a step and it remains to be seen if real, true, democratic change is going to happen.
Flagged per the guidelines: if it's on TV, it doesn't belong here :-)
Enough users upvoted it to get it in spot #1 on the front page. The userbase thus finds it relevant to them.
Well, now I'm curious to see if pg manually shoves it off again, like he did with the earlier Very Popular Egypt Submission.
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/MB02Ak01.html
In the most fundamental matters, President and Mrs Mubarak are incomparably more enlightened than the Egyptian public.
Flagged per the guidelines: if it's on TV, it doesn't belong here :-)
Enough users upvoted it to get it in spot #1 on the front page. The userbase thus finds it relevant to them.
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This is what the guidelines actually say: "Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic."
This event is covered on TV, moreover it is covered on other sites which are more mainstream such as reddit, digg etc. I come here to read tech and startup news, this is not something I want to read about on HN. It is also a shame that users who try to question the relevancy of HN submissions get downvoted. Even though it has more than 100 upvotes it is still not relevant to what this site is about. Unless the goal i…
I think we can live with 1 spot on the front page for a few hours of one day being used up by the story of a 30 year old dictatorship being overthrown by its people. Especially considering there were about 8 stories this morning about the Nokia/Microsoft partnership of which 3 were basically dups of a press release.
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If you give the people the power, you'll see tomorrow that most of the borders are removed WTF? Have you ever spoken with an actual Arab? If you had, you'd know that nationalism is alive and well. Egyptians are quite cognizant of the differences between themselves and Syrians or Lebanese or Jordanians. They have zero interest in abolishing borders and uniting with other countries. But what do I know, I'm only an Egyp…
I really don't know about you. I'm not saying they want to form a one country and become one nation; but make trade easier, one currency (may be in the future). I was speaking from the financial side. For their support for brothers countries like Palestine, may be you won't support them, but the majority does. And you being an Egyptian doesn't represent what the majority of Egyptians think. Only the future will tell…
Do you have any evidence to support this idea? Anything at all? Or is this just some fantasy you dreamed up?
For their support for brothers countries like Palestine, may be you won't support them, but the majority does.
You need not fabricate beliefs for me regarding Palestine. It is not relevant to the discussion at hand, namely your evidence-free assertions.
And you being an Egyptian doesn't represent what the majority of Egyptians think. Only the future will what their orientations will be.
Of course not, but my direct experience is one data point. So far, you've supplied no evidence, direct experience or otherwise.
