Putin's denials are convincing enough domestically. For example 65% of Russians still believe that flight MH-17 was shot down by Ukrainian armed forces. I don't know what the percentage who believe that regular Russian armed forces are active in Ukraine, but I imagine it is even higher.
My wife tries to have my son watch all these Soviet-era Russian cartoons. I honestly can't think of anything more namby pamby and insipid as those children's animation, with dreadful production values. There's a reason nobody voluntarily watches that stuff anymore - and it has nothing to do with not being "given a chance".
As I understand it the law, your identity will be public information once you have 3000 hits in a day. In the USA, the NSA might know who all the bloggers, but keeps it private. I imagine that from now on, any blogger in Russia criticizing the government or deviating from the narrative presented by the state-owned media might face consequences.
Yes, I am sure most everyone here does know about Iran Air 655. The Wikipedia page on MH 17 links to a list of commercial passenger planes shot down, that include the USS Vincennes incident. However, we are discussing Wikipedia edits made for the Malaysian Air flight made by a national government. Has the US Government been involved in making edits to that page to shift blame from itself and disseminate false information, or are you just engaging in whataboutism?
It's pretty easy to determine if the Russian government is sharing knowledge as a primary source or knowingly disseminating false information. The edits implicate the government and military of Kiev, replacing statements that implicate the rebels as well as Moscow. So if the Russian side was in fact the truth, you would expect rebels and Moscow bending over backwards to assist with the investigation, and if the Russian side was a Big Lie, you would expect rebels and Moscow doing every to impede the investigation. It seems pretty clear the extent of assistance the investigation is getting.
I like your thinking, but there do seem to be some flaws with the idea: Emergency vehicles will be impeded in getting to where they need to be, and the system would probably not be immune to mechanical failures or power outages.
Or for that matter, what "perfectly adapted" even means. Almost every aspect of physiology I can think of has hard limits and has trade-offs to considered. "Perfect vision" is simply not achievable - not enough photons, number of light detecting cells in an eye, diffraction, etc.
Great book, but might be hard to find. There hasn't even been a copy available on Amazon for at least a year, and on eBay it goes for $120. There was a film version on the Discovery Channel about a year ago, so you might be able to see it on Youtube or somewhere, though I don't think it does much with the narrative and "notes" which were another great feature.
That's presuming that either Snowden intended to help Putin all along, or that he realized that his safety is not guaranteed, no matter what the US says. Either way, the way the US handled his flight was nothing short of incompetent and disgraceful.
I seem to recall reading an article for "curb stomp" in the English Wikipedia, which had a link to "American History X." In the American History X article it looks like "curb-stomp" was linked, de-linked in Feb. 2012, and the term was replaced with a description in subsequent edits.
"Freedom of speech does not mean free from consequences" - I'm sorry but this is a bullshit statement. Speech is free exactly when it is free from consequences. If someone makes a statement against a despotic government and goes to jail for it or if someone makes a statement against popular sentiment and will have to live like a hunted animal after that, the net result is the same, the person is persecuted for it. This is not to say that a society can ever have truly free speech - shouting "fire" in a crowded theater being the canonical example of proscribed speech, but in a civil society the limits to speech should be as narrow as possible, otherwise the society risks sliding towards despotism.
I'm positively sure in parts of NYC the red lights are staggered so that you will have to stop at every single one of them, unless you are going 20 MPH or so above the posted speed limit.
Krushchev was born in Kalinovka, which was and still is in Russia to Russian parents. Brezhnev was born in what was part of the Russian Empire to Russian parents. Try again.
It got tagged troll because STEM education in Russia is about just as bad as in the USA, but the poster was making the claim that Russian high school students had the equivalent of advanced undergraduate students in STEM subjects. This is not borne out in various education indices, such as PISA.
Yes, 34th in mathematics, 37th in science, and 41st in reading, according to the latest PISA results http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PISA_2012_Tests. Sounds like the Russian education system only excels at instilling jingoism.
There is one other fact of human psychology that will get in the way of having robot driven cars sharing roads with human drivers: assertion of dominance. Aggressive drivers will carry out various risky moves to get in front of a more timid driver (or if the 2nd driver is not so timid, he may attempt another maneuver to prevent 1st car from getting ahead). Whoever is the most recklessly aggressive come out the winner. As pointed out in Pinker's _How the Mind Works_, if two drivers are going to play chicken with one another, if one had his steering wheel removed before the contest, he would win. If there are risk avoiding computers driving cars, aggressive human drivers will exploit this greatly.
There is a lot of variability in the USA in cost, convenience, travel time, and availability. Even just commuting isn't the whole picture, as I doubt taking a bus or train is convenient for grocery shopping. In much of the country there is large expanses where public transportation isn't available and wouldn't even make sense to provide it. In NYC, if you live in Brooklyn or Queens and commute to Manhattan, taking a car would take more time than public transit and be prohibitively expensive (mainly for parking); in contrast, taking subways and/or buses is about $120/month.
I really don't see where the articulated cars save will save loading/emptying times. Train cars during rush hour are so packed that most of the time to empty is spent on passengers having to push their way through the crowd to the nearest door. If they are in the space between trains, there are that many more bodies to get past. Also, you would need much more than an 8-10% increase in capacity to see much of an improvement. Train cars still will be sardine cans.
Nonsense. Nearly all the sheet music available for solo cello is edited, containing fingerings, phrasing, dynamics, bowings, etc. And if you play in an orchestra, the principal cellist will provide those for the score part.
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Putin's denials are convincing enough domestically. For example 65% of Russians still believe that flight MH-17 was shot down by Ukrainian armed forces. I don't know what the percentage who believe that regular Russian armed forces are active in Ukraine, but I imagine it is even higher.
It's on Channel 1 http://www.1tv.ru/news/leontie...
Can't get more mainstream Russian media than that, so it's the real deal, not some attempt to smear Russia with a bad photoshop job.
My wife tries to have my son watch all these Soviet-era Russian cartoons. I honestly can't think of anything more namby pamby and insipid as those children's animation, with dreadful production values. There's a reason nobody voluntarily watches that stuff anymore - and it has nothing to do with not being "given a chance".
"there is an overwhelming support for Putin in Ukraine (most Ukrainians are literally Russians in every way that matters)"
Every single Ukrainian I know would tell you to your face you are full of shit.
Unbelievable how you were modded +5 Informative.
As I understand it the law, your identity will be public information once you have 3000 hits in a day. In the USA, the NSA might know who all the bloggers, but keeps it private. I imagine that from now on, any blogger in Russia criticizing the government or deviating from the narrative presented by the state-owned media might face consequences.
Yes, I am sure most everyone here does know about Iran Air 655. The Wikipedia page on MH 17 links to a list of commercial passenger planes shot down, that include the USS Vincennes incident. However, we are discussing Wikipedia edits made for the Malaysian Air flight made by a national government. Has the US Government been involved in making edits to that page to shift blame from itself and disseminate false information, or are you just engaging in whataboutism?
It's pretty easy to determine if the Russian government is sharing knowledge as a primary source or knowingly disseminating false information. The edits implicate the government and military of Kiev, replacing statements that implicate the rebels as well as Moscow. So if the Russian side was in fact the truth, you would expect rebels and Moscow bending over backwards to assist with the investigation, and if the Russian side was a Big Lie, you would expect rebels and Moscow doing every to impede the investigation. It seems pretty clear the extent of assistance the investigation is getting.
I like your thinking, but there do seem to be some flaws with the idea: Emergency vehicles will be impeded in getting to where they need to be, and the system would probably not be immune to mechanical failures or power outages.
Or for that matter, what "perfectly adapted" even means. Almost every aspect of physiology I can think of has hard limits and has trade-offs to considered. "Perfect vision" is simply not achievable - not enough photons, number of light detecting cells in an eye, diffraction, etc.
Also, Lovecraft's "The Colour Out Of Space" dealt with an incomprehensible life-form landing in rural Massachusetts.
Great book, but might be hard to find. There hasn't even been a copy available on Amazon for at least a year, and on eBay it goes for $120. There was a film version on the Discovery Channel about a year ago, so you might be able to see it on Youtube or somewhere, though I don't think it does much with the narrative and "notes" which were another great feature.
That's presuming that either Snowden intended to help Putin all along, or that he realized that his safety is not guaranteed, no matter what the US says. Either way, the way the US handled his flight was nothing short of incompetent and disgraceful.
No it is not. It is nothing more than a single cherry that you picked to fit your narrative.
I seem to recall reading an article for "curb stomp" in the English Wikipedia, which had a link to "American History X." In the American History X article it looks like "curb-stomp" was linked, de-linked in Feb. 2012, and the term was replaced with a description in subsequent edits.
"Freedom of speech does not mean free from consequences" - I'm sorry but this is a bullshit statement. Speech is free exactly when it is free from consequences. If someone makes a statement against a despotic government and goes to jail for it or if someone makes a statement against popular sentiment and will have to live like a hunted animal after that, the net result is the same, the person is persecuted for it. This is not to say that a society can ever have truly free speech - shouting "fire" in a crowded theater being the canonical example of proscribed speech, but in a civil society the limits to speech should be as narrow as possible, otherwise the society risks sliding towards despotism.
I'm positively sure in parts of NYC the red lights are staggered so that you will have to stop at every single one of them, unless you are going 20 MPH or so above the posted speed limit.
Krushchev was born in Kalinovka, which was and still is in Russia to Russian parents. Brezhnev was born in what was part of the Russian Empire to Russian parents. Try again.
It would be awkward, but the cynic in me says that the US and Russia would then find common ground for a mutual extradition.
It got tagged troll because STEM education in Russia is about just as bad as in the USA, but the poster was making the claim that Russian high school students had the equivalent of advanced undergraduate students in STEM subjects. This is not borne out in various education indices, such as PISA.
Yes, 34th in mathematics, 37th in science, and 41st in reading, according to the latest PISA results http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PISA_2012_Tests. Sounds like the Russian education system only excels at instilling jingoism.
There is one other fact of human psychology that will get in the way of having robot driven cars sharing roads with human drivers: assertion of dominance. Aggressive drivers will carry out various risky moves to get in front of a more timid driver (or if the 2nd driver is not so timid, he may attempt another maneuver to prevent 1st car from getting ahead). Whoever is the most recklessly aggressive come out the winner. As pointed out in Pinker's _How the Mind Works_, if two drivers are going to play chicken with one another, if one had his steering wheel removed before the contest, he would win. If there are risk avoiding computers driving cars, aggressive human drivers will exploit this greatly.
There is a lot of variability in the USA in cost, convenience, travel time, and availability. Even just commuting isn't the whole picture, as I doubt taking a bus or train is convenient for grocery shopping. In much of the country there is large expanses where public transportation isn't available and wouldn't even make sense to provide it. In NYC, if you live in Brooklyn or Queens and commute to Manhattan, taking a car would take more time than public transit and be prohibitively expensive (mainly for parking); in contrast, taking subways and/or buses is about $120/month.
I really don't see where the articulated cars save will save loading/emptying times. Train cars during rush hour are so packed that most of the time to empty is spent on passengers having to push their way through the crowd to the nearest door. If they are in the space between trains, there are that many more bodies to get past. Also, you would need much more than an 8-10% increase in capacity to see much of an improvement. Train cars still will be sardine cans.
What about when the jellyfish call in a giant carbon-consuming space jellyfish to consume all the terrestrial biomass?
Nonsense. Nearly all the sheet music available for solo cello is edited, containing fingerings, phrasing, dynamics, bowings, etc. And if you play in an orchestra, the principal cellist will provide those for the score part.