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  1. Re:A very sad day on UN Intervention Begins In Libya · · Score: 1

    In the link you provided, click "Personal Information" or just google "Oleg Shein"

  2. Re:A very sad day on UN Intervention Begins In Libya · · Score: 1

    And why should I believe this guy over everybody else? Al-jazeera, BBC, and even the individuals using tweeter might have a hidden agenda, but this guy is a Member of the State Duma of Russia, and a declared Marxist revolutionary. That's pretty much as non-neutral as you can get.

  3. Re:Maybe it's because Bush isn't leading it on UN Intervention Begins In Libya · · Score: 1

    Italy does have oil deals with Gaddafi and they are supporting the intervention. Maybe oil is not the unique and absolute answer to life, universe, and everything.

  4. Re:A very sad day on UN Intervention Begins In Libya · · Score: 1

    I'll only address point 1:
    The reporters from all the agencies that I know, including Al-jazeera, BBC, etc. plus some (at leas apparently) independent twitter accounts reported indiscriminate attacks on civil population. It could either be a world-wide conspiracy or it could just be the true. With no facts supporting the first hypothesis, I'll rather believe the latter.

  5. Re:A very sad day on UN Intervention Begins In Libya · · Score: 1

    If Texas decided to secede from the Union peacefully, and the USA responded by bombing the civilians, I would for sure support an intervention if there was a chance of success, like there is in Libya.

  6. Re:A very sad day on UN Intervention Begins In Libya · · Score: 3, Interesting

    And if we look at how we are doing NOTHING when it is happening in Bahrain or Yemen, it simply makes us hypocrits

    Yes, we should help no one just to be consistent. Great proposal.

  7. Re:actually.... on Over Half a Decade, China Closed 130,000 Internet Cafes · · Score: 1

    I recollect that, when a stripling, we were exposed to the internets without the aid of the elder. That's how we become men.

  8. Re:What happens if they're found guilty? on Airbus Faces Charges Over 2009 Rio-Paris Crash · · Score: 1

    It's full of them, and they are armed.
    Now jokes aside, if you imply that it's OK to apply different legal systems to nationals and foreigners you are both reaffirming my point and scaring me.

  9. Re:I agree on Who's Behind the Google-Linux License Ruckus? · · Score: 1

    besides windows 7 itself

    (just joking, I do think windows 7 is a good OS)

  10. Re:What happens if they're found guilty? on Airbus Faces Charges Over 2009 Rio-Paris Crash · · Score: 2

    their legal system is much less innocent until proven guilty than ours

    People in Guantanamo may differ.

  11. Re:glass is better on Pepsi Moving To Bottles Made of Plant Material · · Score: 1

    More or less, but every country has a different standard size for beer bottles. 33cl in Spain, 50cl in Poland, 60cl in Italy, etc.

  12. Re:Invasion of Privacy on Blogger Fined $60K For Telling the Truth · · Score: 1

    #4 : just like in China! They detained over 15 reporters for reporting on an anti-government demonstration, not because it didn't happen, but because it was "done with malicious intentions".
    IANAL, but I hope we don't have this in Europe

  13. Re:So much for the safety of nuclear energy on Nuclear Emergency Declared At 2 Plants In Japan · · Score: 1

    1) I never said this plant used passive safety, nor did you mentioned this plant at any point. You spoke about "a nuclear reactor" in general.
    2) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CANDU_reactor

  14. Re:So much for the safety of nuclear energy on Nuclear Emergency Declared At 2 Plants In Japan · · Score: 1
  15. Re:and so society dies out on Crime Writer Makes a Killing With 99 Cent E-Books · · Score: 1

    Scandinavia has significant oil income

    Only Norway (by the way, the tinniest Scandinavian country in terms of population) has a significant oil income. Sweden even declared they want to be an "oil-free economy" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_phase-out_in_Sweden.

    and has seen growth decline as it's become more socialist

    If anything the opposite is true, since the economy of Sweden started to decline in 2006 after the moderate party, which is centre-right, liberal and conservative, won the elections. Also, post hoc ergo propter hoc.

    It also appears to be a demographic disaster zone.

    why?

    I certainly don't see many Americans queueing up to move there.

    Good for them

  16. Re:For what reason? on Posting AC - a Thing of the Past? · · Score: 1

    I know that's not your point, but bullfighting is not widely accepted in Spain. It is in fact subject of crude debates. 70% of Spaniards said they have no interest whatsoever on bullfighting, which is nonexistent (or in some cases banned) in 22 out of 50 provinces. There are currently about 50 towns which declared themselves to be "anti-bulfighting", and only 7% of the population consider themselves "aficcionados". Also, It was also banned from the public television many years ago.

    sources:
    www.bullfightingfreeeurope.org
    http://www.columbia.edu/itc/spanish/cultura/texts/Gallup_CorridasToros_0702.htm

  17. Re:For what reason? on Posting AC - a Thing of the Past? · · Score: 1

    Just for the record, bullfighting is not legal in all of Spain.

  18. Re:speaking as a Canadian to the USTR on 13 Countries On US "Priority Watch List" For Copyright Piracy · · Score: 1

    File sharing is legal in Spain, that's why.

  19. Re:Cheating? on Bing Is Cheating, Copying Google Search Results · · Score: 1

    The analogy is invalid anyway: the objective of homework is to learn, and by cheating you learn (almost) nothing. The objective of bing is to offer good results, and aggregating data from other search engines can be part of the solution.

  20. Re:Communist china? on Did the Chinese Military Use Top Gun Footage? · · Score: 1
    From the Constitution of the PRC:

    Article 1
    The People's Republic of China is a socialist state of the dictatorship of the proletariat led by the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants. Article 2
    The Communist Party of China is the core of the leadership of the whole Chinese people [...]

    But maybe you know better than their constitution

  21. Re:Like Apple gives a shit on Netgear CEO Says Jobs's Ego Will Bite Apple · · Score: 1

    You are right. I misread your comment.

  22. Re:Like Apple gives a shit on Netgear CEO Says Jobs's Ego Will Bite Apple · · Score: 2

    First, hardware running OSS is not Open Source Hardware at all. OS Hardware is hardware with schematics and other construction info publicly available.
    Second, Darwin is NOT linux. Not even linux-based. It's BSD-based.

  23. Railroads on Ski Lifts Can Could Help Get Cargo Traffic Off the Road · · Score: 1

    Why not railroads? Much less visual impact, much less affected by the wind, technology extensively proved, and efficiency demonstrated (and not made-up or expected as in TFA).

  24. dangerous? on Has China Already Flown a Space Plane? · · Score: 1
    from TFA:

    even more dangerous than atomic bomb

    How is a space plane more dangerous than the atomic bomb?

  25. Re:STEP RIGHT UP FOLKS! on Egypt Shuts Off All Internet Access · · Score: 1

    There are lots of Muslims in Germany, but not enough to make a change in government

    Every individual votes for whatever he/she wants, so being Muslim does not imply voting for a Muslim party. You seem to think that the only way Muslims can change the government is towards a Muslim government. That's not the case. Maybe they *ARE* affecting the government right now: maybe they vote more conservative than most Germans, or maybe more liberal.