As a matter of fact, yes, I do look to RT among other sources for my news. I positively HATE to get all my propaganda from one source, exclusively. But, I have a suggestion for you. You might browse the wikipedia, to learn something of the history of Crimea. Crimea has never been Ukrainian. France, or Spain, or Italy have about as much claim on Crimea as the Ukraine has. Or, maybe Brazil. I didn't go to RT to learn the history of Crimea - it's available through a number of sources.
But - you don't advance any argument that Ukrainians have any right to dictate what the current population should do. Your points are worthy of notice, but they have no bearing on the current situation.
Something else to keep in mind, is the area under dispute. The Autonomous Republic of Crimea. See, it's not exactly "Ukrainian" at all. It is an autonomous republic. The demographics? 50% Russian, 25% Ukrainian, and the balance are mostly Tatars. How and when did Crimea become "Ukrainian" anyway? Oh - that was an administrative move, made by the old Soviet, which stuck Crimea in with the Ukraine. Administrative. Crimea never has been "Ukrainian". So, if an AUTONOMOUS Republic wishes to remove itself from association with a nation that only has administrative ties to it - why not?
I stand with Crimea and Russia on this issue. The current regime in the Ukraine are a bunch of racist assholes. Among their first actions upon assuming power, was to outlaw the Russian language in any formal or official documents. Crimeans speak Russian, not Ukrainian. Screw the president, and screw the capital - Crimeans decided that they don't want to be "Ukrainian" any longer.
Not very many nations are willing to assist another nation in the suppression of an AUTONOMOUS REPUBLIC.
Something else to keep in mind, is the area under dispute. The Autonomous Republic of Crimea. See, it's not exactly "Ukrainian" at all. It is an autonomous republic. The demographics? 50% Russian, 25% Ukrainian, and the balance are mostly Tatars. How and when did Crimea become "Ukrainian" anyway? Oh - that was an administrative move, made by the old Soviet, which stuck Crimea in with the Ukraine. Administrative. Crimea never has been "Ukrainian". So, if an AUTONOMOUS Republic wishes to remove itself from association with a nation that only has administrative ties to it - why not?
I stand with Crimea and Russia on this issue. The current regime in the Ukraine are a bunch of racist assholes. Among their first actions upon assuming power, was to outlaw the Russian language in any formal or official documents. Crimeans speak Russian, not Ukrainian. Screw the president, and screw the capital - Crimeans decided that they don't want to be "Ukrainian" any longer.
Not very many nations are willing to assist another nation in the suppression of an AUTONOMOUS REPUBLIC.
" is it any safer to transport volatile products like gasoline?"
Both yes and no. The vehicles designed to transport gasoline are engineered to somewhat higher standards, and they are inspected more frequently. Vehicles used for shipment of bulk crude aren't considered to be as dangerous, the standards were lower when they were built, they are aging, and they aren't inspected nearly as often. So, "no" gasoline is no safer to transport, the risks are higher. But, "yes" gasoline is safer to transport because the risks are managed better.
There is something more, that is pretty obvious though.
When an attorney thinks he has something, he goes into a feeding frenzy, making up charges, and piling them on ad infinitum. The theory seems to be, threaten a man with ten thousand years of prison and two executions, and he will confess to jaywalking and accept a mere one hundred years in prison to get out from under all the rest.
"We're from the government, and we're here to help."
"files this Motion to Dismiss Count One and Counts Three through Twelve in the original Indictment and in the Superseding Indictment in the above entitled and numbered cause."
It seems to me that some douchebag(s) decided that free speech should be punished based on bullshit reasons. They just made up bullshit reasons to have him imprisoned, and kept incommunicado. A year and a half on, "Your honor, we want to just dismiss all these charges. They are totally bogus, and we'll never be able to prove any of them."
Yes, this IS very much about the government saying "you are busted for speaking".
I don't think that this is "America", per se. This is more like "A small group of Americans", that small group consisting of Musk, his partners in crime, and his employees, with a few fanbois (like myself) thrown in for good measure. "America" is more concerned with petty nonsense, like appeasing the Muslims, gay marriage, and so-called "reality shows". And, that little freak who escaped protective custody in Canada - what's his name? Beiber?
There is something to that. Women outlive us by a number of years. That has been the case ever since those nasssssssty doctors learned to wash their hands before examining female patients, and before delivering babies, or doing a C-section. Of course, other advances in medicine have helped as well. I've often wondered if it doesn't all balance out in the end. A lot of women work at drudge jobs, but they mostly stay happier, healthier, and live longer lives than us fools who go out and chase our crazy dreams.
My life experience? The women beside me have always made pretty much the same money I have made. Two enlistments in the Navy - an E1 made the same pay as another E1, without respect to age, color, religion, ethnicity, OR gender. An E5 made the same money as another E5, etc. I earned a nice chunk of change for sea pay, which few women had any access to back then - but that has changed today.
As a truck driver, I was paid either percentage of load, or paid by the mile. The women drivers out there made the same percentage, or the same cents per mile - just like any other driver, regardless of age, ethnicity, race, cultural or religious background.
In construction, ditto. A journeyman carpenter draws journeyman carpenter's wages, a first class helper draws first class helper wages, and a master carpenter draws master carpenter's wages, and no one cares about your hairstyle, or what you might wear off the job, or how many kids you have, or whether you delivered those kids yourself.
I've been in the workforce for - uhhhmmm - 42 years now. At no point in time have I ever worked beside a woman who did the same work I did, but made less money than I.
Wait - that's a slightly inaccurate statement. Seniority counts. I've worked beside a number of women who made MORE than I, because they tend to be more stable in their employment. I've often been junior to a woman. She takes a job, she likes it, and she stays on that job for decades. Me? Hell, I've changed careers a number of times. I've never had seniority anywhere. So, yeah, women often make MORE money than I.
The work that appeals to me usually pays better than the work that appeals to MOST women - but I've not seen or been privy to any actual barriers to women doing the same work I do. I have zero desire to be a waiter, only slightly more desire to be a nurse, or nurses' aid, or an orderly. I've cooked, but I don't want to cook anymore. I don't want to work in child care, or senior care. Women often LIKE those jobs, I don't.
I think the world is less sexist than a lot of people THINK it is. Or, the US is less sexist than you claim.
Well, that depends on where you get your numbers. I can build an almost top end desktop for less than the price of a top end tablet, I believe. The power of desktops are still increasing, and the price is still coming down, although not as rapidly as they did in years past.
The wife bought a bargain basement tablet, against the advice of our son who really knows what's what in the tablet world. An underpowered little thing, with no real storage - she was just looking at the price, with little understanding of the features, or lack thereof. I still don't have a tablet, or a smart phone. I can't justify a device like the wife's, nor can I justify spending the money to get the top end devices. My desktop satisfies all my requirements. And, I have storage out the ying-yang! Hell, my "dumb phone" has more storage than her poor little tablet.
That was my thought, exactly. Tablets may be great for on-the-go stuff, but serious computer work? Maybe that post was written from the year 2114, when technology permits you to slip an entire desktop system complete with keyboard and full sized monitor, into a pocket the size of today's tablets. Some kind of molecular compression gadget thingy that will squeeze the stuff all down to a little bitty carry pouch.
Uhhhhh - for the mentally challenged, you can make a good enough approximation by just calling a meter a yard. 7000 yards would be 21,000 feet. 7 kilometers, or roughly 4 miles, since a kilometer is.6 miles. Those who are not mentally challenged can either remember the actual conversion factors, or they can use http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+many+...
The trick is to bring them up over a period of hours, or even days, rather than to reel them in as fast as you can. Let the pressures equalize slowly, and you can get your blobfish aboard all in one piece. Scuba diving classes teach you that much.
I spent a year on Adak, and I flew into Shemya and Attu. From a few thousand feet up in the air, you can look westward, and see land. You did NOT see Soviet land while standing on the ground, due to the curvature of the earth.
I read a story not long ago, about Aleuts from the American islands going to visit kinfolk on the Soviet islands during the Cold War. Nowhere in the story do I remember any implication that they could SEE the islands of one side from the other. It wasn't a thirty minute ride on a fishing boat or anything like that. The visits were days long affairs.
But your article supports my assertion to some degree. Georgia has ethnic problems. And, the asshole who took over Georgia prior to the 2008 war only worsened the problems.
More like the recent confrontation in Georgia. Some ethnocentric asshole took charge of the country, and attempted to reorganize the nation more to his liking, at the expense of ethnic Russians and Russian Nationals. The asshole unbelievably thought that he had the backing of the West. Asshole figured out to late that this supposed "backing" didn't go so far as committing money, troops, or hardware to the oppression of Russian people.
I see the same situation here, today, in the Ukraine. Who elected that chump president, again? More than a hundred thousand Ukes have already fled the Ukraine, seeking asylum in Russia.
Indifferent about everything? WTF? We were only discussing a single company here. Apple is everything? Apple and it's shareholders are everything? Get a grip dude - Apple is one company among many. At present, that company is pretty successful, but it's not very special as companies go. I don't dislike Apple a whole lot, I don't dislike them a whole lot. But, on many other subjects, I'm a very opinionated person. Care to change the subject to Microsoft? Google? NSA? Veterans' rights? Gun rights? Pick a subject, I have a lot of strong opinions, and I love arguing them.
Care to discuss Apple fanbois? I have much stronger opinions about fanbois, than I have about Apple.
Agree with "This has been the first thing Apple has done . . . I might want to own one of their products."
I've never liked Apple very much, but never disliked them very much either. They do some things that I like, they do other things that I dislike, and mostly I don't give a damn about them because their bling is over priced.
But - this really is a huge reason to like them. "If you don't like our policies, don't invest". Blunt and to the point.
I don't even care as much as some people about "green". Green is probably good, but hey, I just can't bring myself to care a whole lot. But, if Apple thinks green is important enough to invest in, so be it. If you don't agree, don't invest. Then, we're all cool!
I remember when Bill Gates said that if software were being pirated, he would prefer that it was HIS software being pirated. He wanted to hook them now, so that he could charge them later.
I guess there aren't enough pirates being hooked, so now they have to give it away gratis.
I suppose that I should stop burglarizing the NSA's offices then? And, the FBI? That just sucks - I guess I'll have to go back to working for a living.
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As a matter of fact, yes, I do look to RT among other sources for my news. I positively HATE to get all my propaganda from one source, exclusively. But, I have a suggestion for you. You might browse the wikipedia, to learn something of the history of Crimea. Crimea has never been Ukrainian. France, or Spain, or Italy have about as much claim on Crimea as the Ukraine has. Or, maybe Brazil. I didn't go to RT to learn the history of Crimea - it's available through a number of sources.
Preposterous. Our American Civil War doesn't have diddly to do with international law.
But - you don't advance any argument that Ukrainians have any right to dictate what the current population should do. Your points are worthy of notice, but they have no bearing on the current situation.
I already posted this above:
Something else to keep in mind, is the area under dispute. The Autonomous Republic of Crimea. See, it's not exactly "Ukrainian" at all. It is an autonomous republic. The demographics? 50% Russian, 25% Ukrainian, and the balance are mostly Tatars. How and when did Crimea become "Ukrainian" anyway? Oh - that was an administrative move, made by the old Soviet, which stuck Crimea in with the Ukraine. Administrative. Crimea never has been "Ukrainian". So, if an AUTONOMOUS Republic wishes to remove itself from association with a nation that only has administrative ties to it - why not?
I stand with Crimea and Russia on this issue. The current regime in the Ukraine are a bunch of racist assholes. Among their first actions upon assuming power, was to outlaw the Russian language in any formal or official documents. Crimeans speak Russian, not Ukrainian. Screw the president, and screw the capital - Crimeans decided that they don't want to be "Ukrainian" any longer.
Not very many nations are willing to assist another nation in the suppression of an AUTONOMOUS REPUBLIC.
Something else to keep in mind, is the area under dispute. The Autonomous Republic of Crimea. See, it's not exactly "Ukrainian" at all. It is an autonomous republic. The demographics? 50% Russian, 25% Ukrainian, and the balance are mostly Tatars. How and when did Crimea become "Ukrainian" anyway? Oh - that was an administrative move, made by the old Soviet, which stuck Crimea in with the Ukraine. Administrative. Crimea never has been "Ukrainian". So, if an AUTONOMOUS Republic wishes to remove itself from association with a nation that only has administrative ties to it - why not?
I stand with Crimea and Russia on this issue. The current regime in the Ukraine are a bunch of racist assholes. Among their first actions upon assuming power, was to outlaw the Russian language in any formal or official documents. Crimeans speak Russian, not Ukrainian. Screw the president, and screw the capital - Crimeans decided that they don't want to be "Ukrainian" any longer.
Not very many nations are willing to assist another nation in the suppression of an AUTONOMOUS REPUBLIC.
" is it any safer to transport volatile products like gasoline?"
Both yes and no. The vehicles designed to transport gasoline are engineered to somewhat higher standards, and they are inspected more frequently. Vehicles used for shipment of bulk crude aren't considered to be as dangerous, the standards were lower when they were built, they are aging, and they aren't inspected nearly as often. So, "no" gasoline is no safer to transport, the risks are higher. But, "yes" gasoline is safer to transport because the risks are managed better.
There is something more, that is pretty obvious though.
When an attorney thinks he has something, he goes into a feeding frenzy, making up charges, and piling them on ad infinitum. The theory seems to be, threaten a man with ten thousand years of prison and two executions, and he will confess to jaywalking and accept a mere one hundred years in prison to get out from under all the rest.
"We're from the government, and we're here to help."
"files this Motion to Dismiss Count One and
Counts Three through Twelve in the original Indictment and in the Superseding Indictment
in the above entitled and numbered cause."
It seems to me that some douchebag(s) decided that free speech should be punished based on bullshit reasons. They just made up bullshit reasons to have him imprisoned, and kept incommunicado. A year and a half on, "Your honor, we want to just dismiss all these charges. They are totally bogus, and we'll never be able to prove any of them."
Yes, this IS very much about the government saying "you are busted for speaking".
I don't think that this is "America", per se. This is more like "A small group of Americans", that small group consisting of Musk, his partners in crime, and his employees, with a few fanbois (like myself) thrown in for good measure. "America" is more concerned with petty nonsense, like appeasing the Muslims, gay marriage, and so-called "reality shows". And, that little freak who escaped protective custody in Canada - what's his name? Beiber?
"And not a fictional character."
Wait - huh - WUT?! Are you implying that Robert wrote FICTION!?!?! I'm not believing it for one second!
There is something to that. Women outlive us by a number of years. That has been the case ever since those nasssssssty doctors learned to wash their hands before examining female patients, and before delivering babies, or doing a C-section. Of course, other advances in medicine have helped as well. I've often wondered if it doesn't all balance out in the end. A lot of women work at drudge jobs, but they mostly stay happier, healthier, and live longer lives than us fools who go out and chase our crazy dreams.
My life experience? The women beside me have always made pretty much the same money I have made. Two enlistments in the Navy - an E1 made the same pay as another E1, without respect to age, color, religion, ethnicity, OR gender. An E5 made the same money as another E5, etc. I earned a nice chunk of change for sea pay, which few women had any access to back then - but that has changed today.
As a truck driver, I was paid either percentage of load, or paid by the mile. The women drivers out there made the same percentage, or the same cents per mile - just like any other driver, regardless of age, ethnicity, race, cultural or religious background.
In construction, ditto. A journeyman carpenter draws journeyman carpenter's wages, a first class helper draws first class helper wages, and a master carpenter draws master carpenter's wages, and no one cares about your hairstyle, or what you might wear off the job, or how many kids you have, or whether you delivered those kids yourself.
I've been in the workforce for - uhhhmmm - 42 years now. At no point in time have I ever worked beside a woman who did the same work I did, but made less money than I.
Wait - that's a slightly inaccurate statement. Seniority counts. I've worked beside a number of women who made MORE than I, because they tend to be more stable in their employment. I've often been junior to a woman. She takes a job, she likes it, and she stays on that job for decades. Me? Hell, I've changed careers a number of times. I've never had seniority anywhere. So, yeah, women often make MORE money than I.
The work that appeals to me usually pays better than the work that appeals to MOST women - but I've not seen or been privy to any actual barriers to women doing the same work I do. I have zero desire to be a waiter, only slightly more desire to be a nurse, or nurses' aid, or an orderly. I've cooked, but I don't want to cook anymore. I don't want to work in child care, or senior care. Women often LIKE those jobs, I don't.
I think the world is less sexist than a lot of people THINK it is. Or, the US is less sexist than you claim.
Well, that depends on where you get your numbers. I can build an almost top end desktop for less than the price of a top end tablet, I believe. The power of desktops are still increasing, and the price is still coming down, although not as rapidly as they did in years past.
The wife bought a bargain basement tablet, against the advice of our son who really knows what's what in the tablet world. An underpowered little thing, with no real storage - she was just looking at the price, with little understanding of the features, or lack thereof. I still don't have a tablet, or a smart phone. I can't justify a device like the wife's, nor can I justify spending the money to get the top end devices. My desktop satisfies all my requirements. And, I have storage out the ying-yang! Hell, my "dumb phone" has more storage than her poor little tablet.
That was my thought, exactly. Tablets may be great for on-the-go stuff, but serious computer work? Maybe that post was written from the year 2114, when technology permits you to slip an entire desktop system complete with keyboard and full sized monitor, into a pocket the size of today's tablets. Some kind of molecular compression gadget thingy that will squeeze the stuff all down to a little bitty carry pouch.
Uhhhhh - for the mentally challenged, you can make a good enough approximation by just calling a meter a yard. 7000 yards would be 21,000 feet. 7 kilometers, or roughly 4 miles, since a kilometer is .6 miles. Those who are not mentally challenged can either remember the actual conversion factors, or they can use http://lmgtfy.com/?q=how+many+...
The trick is to bring them up over a period of hours, or even days, rather than to reel them in as fast as you can. Let the pressures equalize slowly, and you can get your blobfish aboard all in one piece. Scuba diving classes teach you that much.
"They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska"
http://seagrant.uaf.edu/marine...
I spent a year on Adak, and I flew into Shemya and Attu. From a few thousand feet up in the air, you can look westward, and see land. You did NOT see Soviet land while standing on the ground, due to the curvature of the earth.
I read a story not long ago, about Aleuts from the American islands going to visit kinfolk on the Soviet islands during the Cold War. Nowhere in the story do I remember any implication that they could SEE the islands of one side from the other. It wasn't a thirty minute ride on a fishing boat or anything like that. The visits were days long affairs.
This is the one I was referring to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2...
But your article supports my assertion to some degree. Georgia has ethnic problems. And, the asshole who took over Georgia prior to the 2008 war only worsened the problems.
Really? How was that little fiasco in Georgia resolved, again? Oh yeah - Russia ensured the safety of ethnic and national Russians, and withdrew.
Really? I thought she had to at least go to an upstairs window in her house to see Moscow clearly.
More like the recent confrontation in Georgia. Some ethnocentric asshole took charge of the country, and attempted to reorganize the nation more to his liking, at the expense of ethnic Russians and Russian Nationals. The asshole unbelievably thought that he had the backing of the West. Asshole figured out to late that this supposed "backing" didn't go so far as committing money, troops, or hardware to the oppression of Russian people.
I see the same situation here, today, in the Ukraine. Who elected that chump president, again? More than a hundred thousand Ukes have already fled the Ukraine, seeking asylum in Russia.
"utterly indifferent (about everything)"
Indifferent about everything? WTF? We were only discussing a single company here. Apple is everything? Apple and it's shareholders are everything? Get a grip dude - Apple is one company among many. At present, that company is pretty successful, but it's not very special as companies go. I don't dislike Apple a whole lot, I don't dislike them a whole lot. But, on many other subjects, I'm a very opinionated person. Care to change the subject to Microsoft? Google? NSA? Veterans' rights? Gun rights? Pick a subject, I have a lot of strong opinions, and I love arguing them.
Care to discuss Apple fanbois? I have much stronger opinions about fanbois, than I have about Apple.
Agree with "This has been the first thing Apple has done . . . I might want to own one of their products."
I've never liked Apple very much, but never disliked them very much either. They do some things that I like, they do other things that I dislike, and mostly I don't give a damn about them because their bling is over priced.
But - this really is a huge reason to like them. "If you don't like our policies, don't invest". Blunt and to the point.
I don't even care as much as some people about "green". Green is probably good, but hey, I just can't bring myself to care a whole lot. But, if Apple thinks green is important enough to invest in, so be it. If you don't agree, don't invest. Then, we're all cool!
I remember when Bill Gates said that if software were being pirated, he would prefer that it was HIS software being pirated. He wanted to hook them now, so that he could charge them later.
I guess there aren't enough pirates being hooked, so now they have to give it away gratis.
I suppose that I should stop burglarizing the NSA's offices then? And, the FBI? That just sucks - I guess I'll have to go back to working for a living.