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...because I refrain from sex with porcupines and hedgehogs. And I didn't even have to RTFA.

You mean like these 2 Russians

Anton, 32, and Yevgeny, 30, residents of St. Petersburg, were spending their vacation in the United States with a group of friends, Life.ru website reports.

At some point in their journey, the two got hold of a booklet listing the weirdest US laws. Since they were in Florida, their attention was drawn to a Florida law prohibiting sex with porcupines.

After a good deal of whiskey, the Russians felt curious about what might have prompted the law, and went in search of the animal.

Within one hour, a porcupine was found, and Anton and Yevgeny were drunk and brave enough to take off their pants and approach it.

The next morning, both were standing at the Cedars Sinai clinic in Los Angeles, where amazed doctors plucked porcupine needles from their penises.

http://www.mosnews.com/weird/2009/07/07/strongvagina/

to pacify a communist nation, is to export capitalism to it. It worked with Russia.

Errr, excuse me?

Inside Russia:
A KGB leader rules he country, were mafias run rampant, foreigners get killed in the streets, petty wars are fought abroad, and regime-critics get killed.

Outside Rusia:
Blocking resolutions against Iran developing the bomb, providing funds to terrorist group (seems like a good way to keep the West troubled and give free ride to Russia as "it does not matter anymore"), the tactics of cutting gas supplies to neighbours and trying to own strategic European infrastructure and industries. And, of course, killing of disidents abroad with radioactive material.

I say Russia is back as the enemy of the West. And this includes the USofA

Peace!

If you want to hurt Putin, it is easiest to do so bt proxy. Gazprom, the state gas and oil company is effectively an organ of Kremlin policy. The company is publically listed and even allows foreign shareholders, but the Kremlin retains control through their majority holding. They already supply a lot of gas to western europe and they are looking to buy up the supply chain, in particular RWE in Germany and Centrica in the UK. As both companies are publicly owned and Gazprom is run by the Kremlin, I'm sure that any such purchase could be reasonably blocked by their respective governmen ts or even the EU. That's unless Blair or Merkel are looking for a Gazprom directorship like Markel's predecessor.

Gazprom still needs access to foreign capital and expertsie. As a state organ, there is much corruption and it is run very inefficiently, as evidenced by its failure to develop fields. Sure the company makes money, but at the same time, it is losing it, with no outside help, this is likely to continue.

Like this?

and it repaid itself in 2 months,and maybe the dropping of starforce protection helped selling amd earning more ?

http://mosnews.com/money/2006/07/28/mightandmagic. shtml

who blame piracy should be better blame themself, for the crap product or the overexpensive price/requirments

And add to that list the genocide taking place in Chechnya!
More than 200000 people of the ca 1100000 who lived there are DEAD, including 40000 children.

Thank you SB_SamuraiSam for saying what I thought to myself when I read the summary.

Some people have their priorities f*cked up.

I wonder why any issue surrounding NASA and the space shuttle gets a lot of buzz in the US news media. Why? Similar accomplishments by the Russians do not get as much attention, yet they are equally daunting if not more. Is it an American `thing' or what?

I hope the buzz will be generated when Russia begins to produce rare-earth metals on the moon. Have a look at http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/06/06/raremetalsm oon.shtml.

I am an American but have no answer to this. Can a slashdotter enlighten an ignorant fellow?

I hope the buzz will be generated when Russia begins to produce rare-earth metals on the moon. Have a look at http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/06/06/raremetalsm oon.shtml. For now, a slahdotter begs for some answers. Thanx.

just like they do in russia

http://mosnews.com/news/2005/07/25/spammerdead.sht ml

Russian Police Claim Biggest Spammers Murder Solved

The police also examined another lead suggesting that Kushnir could have been attacked by robbers.

On Sunday the Moscow criminal investigation directorate detained a group of young people on suspicion of murdering Kushnir with a view to rob him. The investigators believe that a 15-year-old girl and two boys, 18 and 17 years of age, along with a 27-year-old accomplice had broke into Kushnirs apartment.

One of the boys wielded a baseball bat which he used to beat the man to death. The detainees insist Kushnir had invited them to his place himself where he made passes at the girl by the name of Vika. Her friends tried to stop him, then Kushnir grabbed a knife and the young men hit the man with an empty bottle on the head in order to defend themselves.

http://mosnews.com/news/2005/08/15/kushnirinquiry. shtml

At this point I'm convinced that the only solution is a worldwide series of gory murders of spam kings with "death to spammers" written on the walls at the crime scenes in the spammers' blood.

Be pretty hard to get a murder conviction ... after all, there are literally MILLIONS of people with a motive ... I can picture it now ... the jury is deliberating, and says "the spammer got his skull crushed in ... sounds like he got off too lightly, dah?"

It's been done and spam hasn't stopped.
Russia's Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered in Apartment
Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax reported Monday. He died after suffering repeated blows to the head.

The best way to eradicate spammers would simply be to go after their clients.

No, there's a much better way.

Although it later turned out to be just a simple case of robbery gone bad rather than an irate netizen, Kushnir sure got what was coming!

The Nazis proposed their own "German Science" in reaction to what they called the "Jewish Science" of, among others, Albert Einstein and (the ironically non-Jewish) Werner Heisenberg. The "Jewish Science" was nothing other than modern physics, of course.

And when the Jewish scientists fled Nazi Germany, many came to America to work on the atomic bomb -- a bomb originally intended for use against Germany.

So as the Bush Administration and the Kansas school board repress honest science in America in favor of ideology and religion, ask yourself where we'll be in five or ten or fifty years.

Will any great biologists come out of Kansas if they need, at best, several semesters of remedial training to disabuse them of the lies of "Intelligent Design"? Will the breakthroughs in stem-cell research -- breakthroughs that could cure numerous diseases and extend human life for decades -- happen here, under the Christian eyes of Dr. Frist, or in freer and more open lands like India and Korea?

Or will that not matter at all, as global warming and environmental collapse literally drown America for the profit of the oil companies?

For a hundred years or more, America has been at the forefront of scientific research and development. Scientific leadership has been a pillar supporting our country's wealth and power. Will you let that pillar be chopped down so a few plutocrats can profit while science-hating fundamentalists cheer?

In the next several elections, you'll be voting not just for Representatives or a President -- you'll be voting on the future, or the future decline, of your country. Will you emulate the courage of Dr. Hansen, or will you surrender to an American Lysenkoism of ignorance, ideologically-fettered science, and superstition?

As the saying goes, Let's eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow we die.

HopeSeekr of xMule

I certainly don't agree with your sentiments - Norway feels very much in control of Svalbard with the treaty in hand. The only other issue is of course the conflict with Russia and Iceland over fishing in the waters surrounding Svalbard. Now, establishing the seed bank on Svalbard would not change anything in that regard! Every major and minor nation party to the treaty including Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom (including overseas dominions) and the United States, Russia and Germany recognize Norwegian sovereignty over these islands. It's the sea surrounding it and the territorial limits that we expanded that they don't fully agree with!

Richard Branson and his Virgin brand are English, why should he listen to US rules when they are only binding in USA ?, and since the US is now so broke that it has to depend on the Russians for the ISS how relevent are these rules when the future of space travel is probably with the Chinese or Russians or even Australia.

Personally, I am curious why we don't look for more grand scale technological solutions to environmental problems.

How about this:

Russian Scientist Suggests Burning Sulfur in Stratosphere to Fight Global Warming

Just to give you a quantitative perspective, the amount of sulfur he is proposing to burn is abou half of this little stockpile:

http://www.cuug.ab.ca/kmcclary/sulfur/

Actually, China & Russia have already teamed up.

http://www.flightinternational.com/Articles/2005/1 1/01/Navigation/177/202567/Russia+and+China+to+col laborate+on+Moon+mission.html

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/10/31/spaceexplor ation.shtml

The thing he's wrong about is the causes of these electrical phenomena. It's definitely Russian-made electromagnetic generators operated by the Yakuza. If we really want to harness the power of hurricanes, we simply need to find these generators and either (a) destroy them or (b) sell them to Third World dictators to destroy each other with.

Which is why we should be building nuclear reactors to produce cheap hydrogen *now*, not 10 years from now. Maybe small ones on boats, that could also distill potable drinking water, as well as produce electricity for local consumption. and so why not hydrogen for non-local (fuel) use, too?

Interested? more information here

Haha, Poland, that's rich. Ever hear of this little thing called The Grand Duchy of Lithuania? But I suppose now that the Nazis are back running Estonia, there's bound to be all sorts of historical revisionism.

Many organisations and governments around the world have expressed these sorts of fears about GE.

Not long ago, the operators of Australia's only nuclear reactor expressed concern about GE.

Korea (both north and south) have expressed their concerns about it.

The Dutch have expressed concern.

Even in Russia they are nervous.

So far google has resisted censoring imagery, but how much longer can they hold out?

The /. crowd is one that's all for open-ness (and the public availability of imagery tends to favour this), but politics is not known for making logical decisions. It will probably take one major criminal incident (aka terrorist attack) to occur where there's proof of GE being used, at that point perhaps google will cave.

Personally I hope this never happens, but you can never tell what will happen...

Jeez. This was on the news what 3 day ago? Anyway.. I don't know if this is an up and coming theonion.com but here it is - a pretty twisted article about how the Yakuza & the KGB are behind it. I give the article 4 stars just based on the WTF factor alone.

Their best jails would likely not come up to the level of our worst.

One would think so.

http://www.mosnews.com/news/2005/08/26/prisonsex.s html

And don't miss the exciting epilogue where it is revealed that our Russian spammer was bludgeoned to death by a 15 year old girl.

Perhaps justice will be done eventually, but in Soviet Russia...

Somebody has to put the secret key on the camera, and this somebody could use that same key to sign forged pictures...

The only way this would work is if the camera is in a tamperproof housing, with keys generated inside, and only if the maker of the camera can be trusted... (which is not so obvious because the maker might have the same kind of illicit profit motives that the operator has...)

So, in order to make these cameras trustable, don't put your faith in cryptography, but rather into proper engineering of the financial incentives. It cannot be that entities with the power to manipulate have an incentive to skew the results. Companies and/or city governments operating these should not get a cut of the fines. Government doesn't give policemen a cut of the tickets they write either (or at least I'd hope so...), so why do they give one to the companies that operate speed and red light cams?

Oh, and btw, Ukraine abolished its traffic police and chaos did not ensue...

I think the Russians have the right idea...

Russia's Biggest Spammer Brutally Murdered in Apartment

http://mosnews.com/news/2005/07/25/spammerdead.sht ml

"Vardan Kushnir, notorious for sending spam to each and every citizen of Russia who appeared to have an e-mail, was found dead in his Moscow apartment on Sunday, Interfax reported Monday. He died after suffering repeated blows to the head.

Kushnir, 35, headed the English learning centers the Center for American English, the New York English Centre and the Centre for Spoken English, all known to have aggressive Internet advertising policies in which millions of e-mails were sent every day.

In the past angry Internet users have targeted the American English centre by publishing the Center's telephone numbers anywhere on the Web to provoke telephone calls. The Center's telephone was advertised as a contact number for cheap sex services, or bargain real estate sales.

Another attack involved hundreds of people making phone calls to the American English Center and sending it numerous e-mails back, but Vardan Kushnir remained sure of his right to spam, saying it was what e-mails were for.

Under Russian law, spamming is not considered illegal, although lawmakers are working on legal projects that could protect Russian Internet users like they do in Europe and the U.S."

WAY to easy....

http://mosnews.com/news/2005/07/25/spammerdead.sht ml

This was pretty close too, what would've some other man have done? Maybe even the other guy who was supposed to be on duty?

http://www.mosnews.com/feature/2004/05/21/petrov.s html

http://mosnews.com/news/2005/05/25/chubaiscriminal case.shtml

From the article:

Russian prosecutors on Wednesday opened a criminal case against the management of power monopoly Unified Energy System (UES) after a major power outage in Moscow, agencies reported Wednesday.

The case was opened to investigate possible negligence, the Interfax agency quoted the Prosecutor General's Office as saying.

Russia actually has plenty of spare money - so much that it decided to prepay its debts to the Paris Club ahead of time: Kudrin said Russia would transfer the first tranche of $13 billion to Paris Club members in June.

Liger on Public Display in Siberian Zoo

Any impact yet on this pending legal case: the story I find myself wondering who the "In fact, he says, there are a number of scientists there [in the US] who would be glad to sue NASA.

Now if they found a copy of the Gospel of St. Judas then I'd be amused.

They already did.

A Russian professor has accused the United States of stealing ideas for a "space elevator" from a famous Russian engineer. http://mosnews.com/news/2005/04/13/sibir.shtml

I thought docked shuttles and supply ships were used to adjust orbits.

According to This Story a Russian supply ship was used to move it by 3 kilometers. As long as the shuttles OMS thrusters were working, it should have no problem maintaining its orbit. If the thrusters weren't working, well, they wouldn't be docking in the first place. :)

The Russians seem to have started building their Kliper lifting body space craft.

They should import women from Russia. Since half of Russian women are single, they are in dire need of men. Sounds like a win-win situation for both countries. Women have been one of Russia's main exports lately.

I remembered the guy's name this morning (Rasputin), and armed with that, google erected this page which shows the organ in question. Definitely not for those who are prone to an inferiority complex. :)

Kaspersky is to blame, not Russians in general.

They also predicted "Internet Terrorist Attack" in August.

Muslims don't "hear" from God, the only thing they have to go by is what one man wrote 700 years after Jesus was crucified, and he had to promise virgins and perpetual drunkeness to get people to blow themselves up, which is their real reason for doing it anyway. That and all the heroin.

We are technically at war with North Korea, and have been for 50 years now. The North Koreans are a major source of ballistic missile proliferation as they continue to develop and export a range of sophisticated missiles to nations such as Iran and Yemen. They have tested components for a missile capable of reaching the United States. They either have, or are close to having nuclear weapons. The North Koreas bought 12 decommissioned Soviet submarines and have used them to advance their technology and may deploy weapons on them.

North Korea regularly threatens to attack the United States.

To get a sense of the nature of the North Korean government you can just look at how they treat: orphans, the US deserver who just returned after 40 years, the Japanese they kidnapped to teach their spies, and last, but not least, the victims of their gulag.

The North Koreans could teach lessons to the Iraqi Information Minister. They deny having dug the tunnels into South Korea, some of which are big enough to drive vehicles. (A handy thing if you were of a mind to invade the South, no?) They no doubt also deny their regular attempts to infiltrate groups of agents into South Korea.

The North Korean Army had million soldiers in it in 1992. The North Koreans have been willing to starve the population, significant numbers to death, in order to sustain the army.

North Korea is a designated member of the "Axis of Evil."

They seem like a bunch you might want to protect yourself against.

The Russians seem to have started building their Kliper lifting body space craft.

People in Russia have armed militia groups on the streets with a lack of respect for law and people that makes Al Capone look like an infant. We all now from the recent terrorist attacks how much concern their government shows for the well-being of the anonymous taxpayer (http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/europe/09/07/putin. us/). They torture, rape, and subject to famine and diseases the troops who should help re-establish order even as we speak. (http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2004/s1224628.ht m, http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/04/27/armysuicide .shtml). You think MUSIC PIRACY is a what concerns the average citizen out there?? On their scale, such trivial discussions are laughable.

See this story http://www.mosnews.com/news/2004/07/26/kalashnikov .shtml for Russia's response to the issue of intellectual property piracy. It has some validity. I'm proud to say that my Kalashnikov -- a Saiga-12 (semi-automatic, magazine-fed 12 gauge AK-47 shotgun) -- is the genuine article, made in Russia by Izhmash. So are the 8-round magazines I brought home from my last trip to Russia.

Google is no replacement for memory

Suddenly I'm like Dick Cheney with URLs