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Google News Has Russian Army Invading Savannah, GA
theodp writes "If you checked out Google-wannabe Cuil, you learned that mapping search results to relevant images isn't a trivial task. But even Big Dog Google isn't immune to embarrassing graphics gaffes. Readers of Google News were shown that Russian troops are thrusting into the outskirts of Savannah, Georgia, thanks to the Google Maps graphic accompanying a story about Russian incursions into Georgia — the nation-state in the Caucasus, not the Caucasian-pride-ridden state in the southern US. Yahoo! Answers also had some fun with the GA-Georgia mix-up — 'I live in georegia but i dont see rusia no where not even sound but they says theres tanks should i be worrie' (Google cache) — before a spoilsport deleted the question."
Now I understand where all those references to WWIII are coming from, the Russians are invading Georgia :)
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with the Georgia invasion and some local power outages caused by storms. Unfortunately since its not exactly relevant to Americans it seems that we can make light of such a situation. Needless to say they were talking to some people and lead a few along the lines that Georgia had just shot down two Russian planes and while the power was out in lots of places (it wasn't) they were still on the air "for now".
Got to love Russia's timing on the invasion. I guess we could have expected it from the Chinese if it were hosted elsewhere. Time will tell if the Olympics changes how the Chinese treat their neighbors all in the name of obtaining trust based respect on the world stage or if they use the fact that after the Olympics end they can just whack Taiwan or hit Tibet harder.
* Winners compare their achievements to their goals, losers compare theirs to that of others.
The Russians are on the way to burn Atlanta again. Sherman would be proud.
Are we sure this isn't yet another case of another clueless journalist not doing a damn bit of research, just going to Google Maps and typing Georgia? Guess what comes up when you do that? Yep, good 'ol Georgia, USA.
Erm... There's a war starting and all I see on /. is a joke article about it? This makes me sick. I hope you /.ers are intelligent enough to realize that not everything you're seeing in the news about this conflict is true and that the Russian troops that were first fired upon were there at the behest of the UN. Here's another interesting tidbit: http://english.pravda.ru/hotspots/conflicts/09-08-2008/106046-russia_georgia-0
Who put the humor tag on this story? Where's the outrage against Russia's invasion of a sovereign country?
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Google News Has Russian Army Invading Savannah, GA
so... ummm... russian army works for google?
I guess I should help organize the resistance. WOLVERINES!!! (Wait a minute) BULLDOGS!!! (That's better)
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"Are we sure this isn't yet another case of another clueless journalist..." Or, is this simply a good indicator of the state of modern education?
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Sign on barbecue restaurant in Georgia: Come in today and try our new Russian Dressing.
Yo dude... not to be disrespectful or anything, but I think you guys may be invading the wrong Georgia.
It's wonderful sometimes..
I was looking at a story a few weeks ago, and the accompanying graphic (erroneously) depicted a silicone medical dummy receiving a mock prostate exam.
I would find the image, but alas, I am at work. Hence the anonymous cowardice.
Oddly enough, my captcha word happens to be 'rectum'.
Think "King's Bay."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Russians_Are_Coming,_the_Russians_Are_Coming
If you haven't seen it, give it a shot.
The Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming...again.
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. . . and buried in HOT GRITS. (Wow, that takes me back!)
Why did it take so damn long to get rid of the fucking hicks... good riddance..
This could've been one of those near misses for world war 3...
If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we shoot people for Apollo-related non-sequiturs?
Caucasian-pride-ridden state in the southern U.S
I am actually quite amazed that /. would put such an inflamatory phrase like that into a summary. By using the word "ridden" are you implying that being proud of your race is a bad trait? I do believe that while we are at the olympics, many people are 'proud' of their country, heritage or race. However, in light of the olympics, this is a positive thing as we cheer in the name of sport and friendly competition. The usage in the summary, gives the impression that all Georgian's are Klansman. One should note that Georgia has a higher percentage of African Americans (29%) than the US average http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/13000.html, and I'm sure they are proud of being from Georgia.
Why not describe other countries that are predominantly Caucasian such as Sweden, or Ireland in the same manner?
Other uses that you should try:
Arab-pride-ridden (Iraq)
Jewish-price-ridden (Israel)
Linux-pride-ridden (./)
i don't know where they would be in less danger after dark, downtown Savannah or Effingham
The war in Georgia and the extremely imprecise and brutal way it is waged is precisely what many imagined they saw elsewhere during the last several years. Many used every bad word in the dictionary and then some. Knee-jerk reactions gone viral.
Wake up and smell the stench: you've got no words left for real fascism.
And as usual the rest of the world has no choice but to beg the United States of America to fight the fascism.
I hope it makes you think.
Regards from a non-American
http://tigerhawk.blogspot.com/2008/08/on-prowl-bear-moves-on-south-ossetia.html
This attack seems well-coordinated enough that it had to have been planned for some time. The claimed provocation of Georgia's incursion into South Ossetia -- a breakway province that is, after all, recognized as Georgian territory -- is probably just pretext.
So there is some oil pipeline, some warning to NATO, some indirect linkage to Middle Eastern policy...
Standard international policy gordian knot.
We should send Paris Hilton as an envoy. Because all that hotness would cool things considerably, no?
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
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While my initial reaction to that Yahoo! Answers page was 'LOL dumb American', she doesn't specifically say that she's in the US state - isn't everyone who is laughing at her making exactly the same mistake as they are assuming she is making? Not all internet users are American - she might well have asked the question from the country of Georgia, in which case the Yahoo! Answers are pretty damn useless... it would also explain her tenuous grasp of the English language.
First of all, let's remember that the Georgians and the Russians have been provoking each other for years over this issue. They have both violated the ceasefire and it will probably be a while before we know who violated the ceasefire lines first.
You lament the invasion, and similarly George Bush stated, "Georgia is a sovereign nation, and its territorial integrity must be respected... We have urged an immediate halt to the violence and a stand-down by all troops. We call for the end of the Russian bombings." Mr Putin expressed similar reservations about Iraq in April 2003:
Be sure to watch the media over the next few days - you'll see pictures of dead and wounded, buildings destroyed, and many other realities of war. Now ask yourself why you don't see any of those images from Iraq. Ask why we saw silhouetted shots of helicopters and long views of nighttime explosions instead of what was really happening on the ground.
We can see on both sides that morality is of little importance. Unfortunately, since we have taken Iraq unilaterally, Russia is free to take Georgia unilaterally, and any other province they can get away with. All they have to do is claim that their national security is threatened, which is a more grounded claim. Georgia is on the Russian border, not thousands of miles away, and they are dealing with their own problems in Chechnya.
It is time to give real power to the UN and the ICC in order to avoid more death and destruction. Unless states submit themselves to a common rule of international law, there will never be a chance for peace.
thanks to the Google Maps graphic accompanying a story about Russian incursions into Georgia â" the nation-state in the Caucasus, not the Caucasian-pride-ridden state in the southern U.S
I take it you've never been to Atlanta!
There is no "I disagree" mod for a reason. Flamebait, Troll, and Overrated are not substitutes.
You sir, do not have a clue.
I have lived in Georgia for 14 eyars, having previously spent time in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania. I can tell you that both northern states are by far-and-away more racist than Georgia. In 14 years, not once (NOT ONCE -- for emphasis) have I heard a white person use the N-word, while in both Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, I witnessed not only frequent use of the word, but also blind, entrenched bigotry. Never have I seen whites and minorities live more harmoniously that in Georgia (the ghettoization of minorities in northern cities is NOT "harmony").
While there are white supremacists in Georgia (whom I have never met), I think it's safe to say they are a complete minority. Meanwhile, your own bigotry is available for all to see in the summary.
On a more serious note, yes it's horrible (The United States) Russia is invading (Iraq) Georgia and it could set a nasty precedent for them to do it elsewhere in the (Middle East) former Soviet States. If they get away with this, what would keep them from say, invading (Iran) East Ukraine, which has a high population of (Pro-Islamic) Pro-Russian supporters? Sadly, I don't see any Western Countries comming to the aid of the opposing forces against (The United States) Russia. No one out there seems to want to upset (America) Russia.
Yay perspective!
Russia isn't invading Savannah, Georgia, it's reinforcing peacekeepers in Georgia who've come under fire, and responding to reports of ethnic cleansing by the Georgian state.
I guess this is why Google News is still in beta!
I was welcoming "any" new overlords...
"not the Caucasian-pride-ridden state in the southern U.S."
FUCK YOU slashdot! Go to hell and take your racist elitism with you.
and the russians are now invading Vienna. Sneaky bastards.
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=139586 this is horror. cnn is not showing these.
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so this means I don't need to get out my shotgun? darn...
Russian computer technology is so outdated, they thought the Olympics were in Atlanta this year.
The USSR wasn't dead, it was all a trick by Putin!
They lured the USA into a false sense of security by faking their economy being in ruins and the overthrow of their Communist government by a Democratic one.
Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin weren't even dead, they were in suspended animation via mummification and their mummies just got raised from the dead by Brendan Fraser as he activated an old USSR artifact that started to pump plasma back into their mummified corpses (ala Dr. Phibes) and pump out the embalming fluid and they came back to life and ordered Russian troops to invade Savannah, GA thanks to their sleeper agent there Jimmy Carter, who has a Communist all this time and built houses there for Communist sleeper agents to live in, until they are activated.
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I go to Georgia Tech, you insensitive clod!
ossetia is a resources rich region. russia had north ossetia. since 1.5 2 years, they had been supporting, arming and giving russian citizenship to separatists there, who was wanting to annex to russia. the majority of '70.000 citizens' russia purports that it is protecting are comprised of these.
then suddenly a few months ago these 'separatist' political group started wearing uniforms and acting like a militia. and then proceeded to break away.
naturally, as this is a region in the MIDDLE of georgia, they moved their troops there to assure their territorial integrity.
naturally voila - the MAFIA administration of russia, which had suppressed ANY opposition inside russia by killing its own human rights advocate citizens, opposition members, any dissenters, have suddenly embarked on a PEACEKEEPING mission. and COINCIDENTIALLY, abkhazia, another ethnic region that russia had its eyes on, started attacking georgian troops at the SAME time. what a coincidence.
peacekeeping mission somehow involves bombing civilian buildings in tblisi, georgian capital. totally irrelevant to anything going on.
behold the reality of modern russia - ruled by a mafia, ruled like a mob rules its neighborhood, and attacking other neighborhoods when it has the chance. expect more of this to come, if the u.s. and west keeps licking the mob's boots.
http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/showthread.php?t=139586
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Wolverines!
Then that Korean fuckwit, with enough military power, can blow you up without asking first.
The UN arrives at international consensus all the time, with very reasonable compromises for both sides, that the populations of both sides often are in favor for. For instance, declaring the Middle East a nuclear free zone for everyone - Israel, the US, and Iran. This is supported by everyone, except the governments of US and Israel. The US doesn't join the International Criminal Court because their first subject may be Henry Kissinger, or even GW Bush. Thus you can't expect the current government elite to make any move that could endanger themselves or their friends.
If you don't believe in law, then fine, we can continue to be an outlaw state, burning and pillaging at our whim. But when you are on the receiving end of the bullet, try not to complain.
Black Hats and White Hats?
I think this is definitely a Red Hat problem.
Looking at the user's profile, you can see that they joined today. It's probably just a troll. Unless you think that the first thing someone would do when they hear that their country is being attacked would be to make an account on Yahoo! Answers...
as a turkish, a nato ally of u.s. sure to make a positive effect on my opinion in regard to u.s.
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I'm sorry, but there's no concept of "illegal" wars any more. In fact, there is no concept of what you might think of as international law.
Serbia was bombed without the agreement of the United Nations. Effectively, a group of countries decided that they felt it was right, and bombed.
Kosovo was created in direct contravention of international law. Territorial integrity is a fundamental part of every treaty there is, as well as the UN charter. Even Germany and other Western countries stated directly that what they did in creating Kosovo was not according to any law, however, "it would have been against the _spirit_ of the law not to" (pretty much literally quoted).
Effectively, so long as Russia states it is in the spirit of international law to assimilate South Ossetia and defend them against the Georgians with maximum impunity, there is no moral right, no moral argument, no moral defense that any Westerner can make.
...was the night the lights went out in Georgia.
...considering how many wrong and erroneous summaries they "print" on a WEEKLY basis.
1. Western nations in majority (if you are in a Western nation, that most likely includes your own) decided to bomb Serbia without a UN mandate. They simply sat down and decided that bombing was the right thing to do (justified by XYZ), and bombed. They did not only go for military targets or Serbians directly involved in fighting with the Kosovo Liberation Army, they also bombed civilian infrastructure throughout the entire Serbia.
There was also collateral, civilian deaths as a result of this. As the Prime Minister of Sweden, Italy or the UK has not been prosecuted for war crimes, we can conclude that civilian colleteral deaths is _not_ a war crime even if the bomb was dropped by Putin himself.
2. Western nations created Kosovo in contravention of international law and the UN charter. Nations do not have the right to split up other nations and create governments within them. Yet this was what Western nations did. The arguments in favour of this was numerous and diverse, which they thad to be as international law spoke squarely against them, but on the government level the argument was that it would have been "against the _spirit_ of the law not do to it". Once you start not following written treaties but rather follow the unwritten moral and spiritual laws that you perceive to be behind those, then you have opened a door that cannot be closed again.
After Kosovo, _there is no 'international law'. There is _feeling_, there is _indignation_, there is _defending someone_ and taking armed action as a result of these feelings and sudden neccessities (such as the Russian necessity to defend South-Ossetians).
There is also no legal arguments preventing anything from happening, so long as the state in question feels it strongly should happen. If Russia feels that South Ossetia should be part of them, then they will, and the West has no moral authority to challenge it to the least degree.
"Caucasian-pride-ridden state in the southern U.S."
-----So, Black Pride, Latino Pride, and Asian Pride are O.K., but Caucasian Pride is not?
Knowing Google's lust for data collection, the Soviet Union is still alive and well inside the psyche of Sergey Brin....
"not the Caucasian-pride-ridden state in the southern U.S" Why is Slashdot posting hate speech on its front page!? Would you say or allow: "the black-pride-ridden city of Oakland California" or the "black-pride-ridden media channel, BET" ... or the "black-pride-ridden organization of the NAACP!?"
Your double standards and hate speech is unforgivable. The editor that picked this article should be fired.
cnn showed tblisi being bombed live.
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You don't think middle east is the only place to get oil do you? Nothing funny about this war. This is fucking dangerous.
"South Osetia and Abkhazia were de-facto independent for 15 (fifteen) years - looong before Putin."
Do you realize what "de facto" means? "Existing but not officially recognized or legally established."
So, the reason you refer to it as "de-facto independent" is because it's legally not independent; and as I'm sure you already know, most countries recognize it as part of Georgia.
Just because somebody disagrees with you, it doesn't make them "a typical clueless American."
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In Soviet Russia, Georgia invades you!
I'm from Georgia. I got the joke. It still pissed me off.
I received an essentially free education from one of the best tech schools in the country because of this state. While I do think taking pride in where you were born is stupid, I do get extremely mad when people automatically assume I'm a stupid Bible thumping racist after I tell them where I'm from.
I hope for the Russians' sake they stay away from Dougal County.
For the most retarded thread of this story!
You fight about, who of two sides is the bad one... because all you've learned is that there *must* be two sides, and one *must* be good, while the other *must* be bad.
This is so fuckin' stupid, it's beyond what one can describe with words.
There are M_N sides made of N people, with opinions about P things, overlapping for the part of Q_PN, doing things that are R_S_N (eg bad) for the moral value S_N of those people. The M_N sides are formed of groups of overlappings as seen by N_x.
So your whole thread - from the beginning to the whole stuff that it lead to - is by definition pointless.
It was a great performance! The best I've seen for a long time.
Here is your golden cup... *HandingItOver*
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Seriously, people like you are going to make sure that race is ALWAYS an issue.
Faggot.
I find the racial humor in the posting inappropriate and the humor out of place among educated adults - or educated middle school students, for that matter.
Perhaps the author of the original post will eventually gain sufficient perspective and experience to realize that such statements, even when purportedly intended as a jest, only maintain division and sow further hatred.
HA. Probably the funniest random thing I have seen in years.
I wonder how long it would take for them to start shooting eachother.
This is the first comment I've read about this article that made me go "ohhhhhhhhhhh crap".
I think the US and the West should be _very_ careful with their due dilligence when thinking about how to handle ex-soviet satellites that want into the NATO party.
My opinions are my own, and do not necessarily represent those of my employer.
To those who keep harping on the "inappropriate" humor regarding war, lighten up already. Seeing the lighter side will make this a more enjoyable war for all of us.
Bush apparently has learned about Georgia's oil. This must be the case since he's been all over the news demanding that Russia pull back from Georgia.
Expect in the next week or two for Russia to be renamed by Bush as the pinnacle of his axis of evil, and for the warm of to WWIII to get underway. We already know Russia has real weapons of mass destruction, Bush won't have to lie half as much this time around. ... and we were only a couple months away from Bush's reign of stupidity ending.
George Bush + Linux = "I will not let information get in the way of the fight against Windows"
"I can tell you that both northern states are by far-and-away more racist than Georgia. In 14 years, not once (NOT ONCE -- for emphasis) have I heard a white person use the N-word"
Sorry to hear about your hearing impairment. I hope you are otherwise able to lead a normal, productive life.
In Soviet Russia, Google Maps YOU!
You just regurgitated the majority of well crafted Russian Propaganda that has surrounded this affair. Allow me to cut this Gordian Knot.
South Ossetia is South of the Caucasus Mountains . Even the BBC seem to have gotten their heads out of there asses about this fact, and have finally shown a topographical map of the region. Surprise, surprise. It turns out that the only connection between "North Ossetia" and "South Ossetia" is a the Roki Tunnel constructed in 1957. Yet we are all expected to believe that South Ossetia, has a long rich and deep cultural connection to their northern neighbours, and not with Georgia.
Look at the provence's profile. Most of it lies above 1000m. Total population ~70,000(There are 250,000 Russian's living in London). Do you know what South Ossetia is? It's a mountain slope. I'm a firm believer in self determination, but wars of national liberation over a bushel of villages on a mountain crag is taking it too far. Comparisons to Kosovo are laughable. Kosovo has over 30 times the population and twice the land mass, with most of that actually being below 1000m.
Border populations like the South Ossetian's exist all over the world, and I'm not in favor of national lines being redrawn to accommodate a handful of malcontents. Oppressed populations perhaps, but there is exactly zero evidence of that. Zero. A war over any such region is totally and completely unjustified.
You want to know what South Ossetia really is? It's a mini Sudentenland. Yeah, yeah, Godwin's Law, sue me. It's a good comparison. A very good comparison in fact. South Ossetia is an excuse, and excuse and nothing more, for Russia to put the smack down on Georgia and bring what it regards as a "near-abroad" province back under its boot. And it's not even a very good excuse.
I've been saying the following for a while, with a new sentence getting added every few years or so. The Bear is up. He's out of Hibernation, and has taken a very long piss. He's licked his wounds. He's wolfed down a few morsels. He's been seen marking the trees around his old haunts. He's been heard growling and roaring, and seen pawing the ground. Here's my latest addition:
The Bear has just made his first big kill in a very long time.
The Bear is back, he is On-Form, and the everybody(especially younger types) had better start getting used to it!
May the Maths Be with you!
There is no need for a battle for our hearts and minds in Europe. We are able to make our own judgements based on facts, not on another nation's propaganda campaign. We too have people (diplomats, businessmen, casual visitors etc) in the region and do not need to rely on a third party to tell us what has been happening there, and is actually happening now. Why do you feel that you need to mount a 'media war' in Europe. We are allies but, if this is how you treat your friends, perhaps we would be better off rethinking that deal.
Nit-picking, I know. The country is Great Britain, and its inhabitants are, for the most part, British. There is no 'Brittish' news that I can find. A runaway keyboard, perhaps? :-)
Have a look at soylentnews.org for a different view
As stated, please mod parent up. The GP either cares to forget or is ignorant to point out that one of the greatest examples of racist bigotry existed in Stone Mountain, Georgia. The extreme racist not-so-recent past of Stone Mountain was so relevant that Martin Luther King referred to it in his "I Have a Dream" speech:
Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia.
To the grandparent's credit, there is relevant racism outside of the south. From urban gentrification to the unreported surge brown-on-black violence, strong elements of racism do exist. However, these trends outside of the south cannot be attributed to only Caucasians.
If I should ever contribute a bit of information to the global infrastructure, danger to the Gamma Phi Beta Sorority and University system in the state of Georgia about Nicole Taylor as an invading force which seeks to alter the course of further progression of students.
But Georgia was under Russian rule for well over 200 years. Then it was broken off by separatists and declared itself a separate country. It's kind of like separatists come to power in Texas and declare it a separate country - you wouldn't like it. There were people in Ossetia who didn't like it - after all, Georgia has about as much of a right to Ossetia as Russia, so Ossetians FOUGHT for independence from Georgia FOR YEARS, with a lot of lives lost. They even called that particular war a "patriotic" one. They are not Georgians, most of them speak Russian only and are Russian citizens, why the fuck should they just roll over and spread their butt cheeks to Georgians?
The sequence of events was like this: Georgia flattens a sleeping city, killing a bunch of Russian citizens among everybody else. Russia goes to the UN and asks to intervene. The UN gives it a middle finger. Russia says "fuck it, we'll pwn them then" and proceeds with pwning Georgia on its own.
Finally, there's no "invasion" of Georgia going on. There's bombing of the military bases (watch your tax dollars go up in smoke, US citizens!), to be sure, but there are no troops on the ground. If Russia wanted to, Tbilisi would already be in ruins. But it won't happen, because there are a TON of Russians living in Georgia too.
How THE FUCK is this "Russian aggression" I keep reading about in US media?
>> would have to be responded by all of NATO
It's one thing when you flatten a country with rusty, antique weapons (Iraq) or with practically no weapons at all (Yugoslavia). It's quite another when you go against a country whose ballistic missiles take only 9 minutes to reach Washington DC, who has weapons roughly similar in capability to your own, and whose army would simply dwarf anything NATO will be willing to put forward as it is, and can be boosted to many times its size through conscription within a month or two.
A confrontation between NATO and Russia is simply not going to happen over something as insignificant as Georgia, if at all.
I support the multiracial power movement which supercedes all other movements by integration (calculus?) I the dub Human power. Am I rediculous? yes Am I little bit late? fashionably Are you still confused? I hope so. Will I subjectively rate the originator of the post? No. Have fun. Stop hate. 0rdo novus seclorum.
I especially like the answer in Cyrillic. 'All your base are belong to us!' I laughed until it hurt. xD
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But no, you wouldn't like it if the state where most of your oil is located (yup, Texas) decided to become a separate country, believe me.
http://geology.usgs.gov/connections/blm/energy/o&g_assess.htm
Let alone if it was to become a separate Spanish-speaking country and tell the English speaking US citizens to get the fuck out.
Thank you, but the link doesn't mention a media battle nor propaganda. So your point is?
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you were wondering about the 'british' media... the 'b' in bbc stands for british.
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Eh?
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Neat way to read what I said.
Thinking something is misused/applied is rather different from thinking something is useless (or not "understanding" it) in my book, though.
So unless you consider nationalism/'race'ism a necessary part of one's experience of 'pride', i'm not really sure what it is you are responding to.
The media and political worlds seem to have learned to accept names like Sri Lanka (was Ceylon), Myanmar (was Burma), and even the Congo -> Zaire -> Congo name changes. I've even seen publications use "Brasil" rather than "Brazil". And we've partially accepted the fact that there's no "the" in the name of "Ukraine", since the Ukrainian language doesn't even have a definite article. This shows that we are capable of adjusting our idea of a country's name, to within the limits of English phonology and our illogical spelling system.
So maybe it's time that we learn of the small country whose actual name is "Sakartvelo", and give up on the bizarre "Georgia" misnomer. We should be able to handle the correct name, since it's not terribly difficult to pronounce.
OTOH, it is occasionally useful for this sort of humor. And it's useful over there as an example of the Western world's contempt for insignificant small countries. "They can't even be bothered to learn our name. Oh, well; at least they don't call us by an insulting name, as they do with some other countries."
Another mildly humorous example is what you get if you ask wikipedia about "Sakartvelo".
Those who do study history are doomed to stand helplessly by while everyone else repeats it.
Keep in mind that 90% of all Southern Ossetians hold russian citizenship.
How did they come by this citizenship?
Obviously, many were born in the USSR. So were the ethnic Georgians, but they are now Georgian citizens.
Seems that Russia left this convenient foot in the door for their Everlasting Quest for a warm water port.
Next, Armenians will be declared Russian citizens. Then all inhabitants of any area that was at any time considered part of Greater Armenia. Since this includes Cilicia, they will have their warm water port.
That's easier than declaring all the Turkish people to be Russian citizens. Russia has tried for centuries to control Constantinople, with Cilicia they will not have to.
It doesn't look like their old plan through Afghanistan to Baluchistan is going to happen, and that's George Bush's fault. It will take too long for Iran to crumble enough to give Russia a pretense, so scratch that idea and make Iran an ally.
The Second Great Game is well underway.
Search for "Java, Georgia" - that's not even a village named Java but an address in Hinesville.
Even if I manually zoom in on Georgia (the country) and repeat the search for "Java, Georgia", googlemaps throws me back to the US, with a bunch of even less relevant results. Note that even if Georgia looks like an uninhabited area on googlemaps, there are several entries for the right Java, you just don't get through to them. (I had to use a trick: search for the German name)
Fucking US-centrists. A country name should always be more relevant than a name of a member state of a country. Same goes for everybody who automatically assumed that that girl on yahoo.com posted from Georgia, USA.
While there is no argument that this is a serious war, the fact that everyone here in the United States keeps thinking that Georgia is the state where General Sherman burned Atlanta to the group, now would be a good time to refere to Georgia (the country) by its pronounciation Sakartvelo (SAK-ART-VEH-LOH).
.ge. (Gabon has .ga).
Another problem I have noticed is that the TLD acronym for Georgia (the country) is
The most concerning part about this war is the cyberattacks both from Russia and from Sakartvelo. I am interested to see the report from RIPE NCC about this situation.
Secondly, I am also concerned about how this war will affect neighboring countries of Armenia (south of Sakartvelo), Azerbaijan (east of Sakartvelo), Belarus (which has had some conflicts with Russia), Ukraine (which is also thinking of joining NATO).
The Rapture is NOT an exit strategy.
Did the summary just say that everyone in Georgia, USA is a racist?
Georgia was under Russian rule for well under 100 years.
from wiki:
Georgia became part of the Soviet Union in 1922 and regained its independence in 1991.
"I only speak the truth"
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Non-Hispanic Caucasians, like Christians, are a favorite target these days for the simple fact that they don't generally fight back. It's just not worth the time to try to fight an unwinnable battle. Do what you do, ignore the idiots and move on with life. Incidentally, those who seem to think that everyone in the South is some sort of backwards, ignorant, racist, hick have either never been to the South, or they're trying to perpetuate a cycle of ignorance similar to the one they claim infests the South.
"White flight" isn't really about white people leaving. It's about wealthy and middle class people abandoning neighborhoods and taking their resources with them, leaving only the poor behind.