A good example of this was the recent meteor incident in Russia, where most people were in fact hurt by glass from shattered windows. People went to look at "what was that flash?"
That's interesting, considering that pretty much all of Japanese themselves in fact widely accept that they have a major demographic problem on their hands.
Not when you're an island nation. There is a distinct advantage to being one, that is that many problems that hit the rest of the world can be largely avoided.
Japan, for example, doesn't have much in terms of cheap labour force problem driving unskilled and semi-skilled labour market into the ground.
Every major tunnel like this will have some new interesting engineering challenges. I suspect that one will not be quite as difficult as previous ones.
Russia is interested, at least as much as China. This would massively increase trade between continents. Train freight is far cheaper than shipping. If I remember correctly, they have an offer for several billion USD for any entity that would agree to build such a tunnel.
We get into that in continuation of the discussion, where the same poster that I was replying to tried to pull "but our government is nicer than Russian government in terms of prosecution" card. The whole private/public interests coming together for certain purposes, such as controlling people and creating examples out of people who do not bow to certain worldview is very widespread here in the West in general, and US in particular is essentially our way of subverting many of our ways of measuring just how "free" people are, as these meters are often aimed only at seeing how free people are from governmental intrusion into their freedoms. As a result, outsourcing the intrusion to private institutions with same interests is an easy way to continue to appear "free" while becoming very oppressive.
The alternative is the model before the current situation - where media ownership is so fragmented it cannot present a single line of interests and sensor media based on those interests.
Try to remind yourself that our media was far more free in the 70s, 80s and even 90s. At least here in Europe. Today sensorship over media in US is arguably tighter than in Russia (I can speak the language well enough to read their media and it's full of dissent of varying degrees, far more so than US media I read about as much), while most of European media is significantly more free than any of the other two, mainly due to ownership fragmentation and clear conflicts of interests between owners, which causes many more points of view and sides of conflict to come out to mainstream.
The current conflict in Ukraine serves as an excellent example. US media is by far the most controlled of three, representing only a single front with very little dissent. Russian media is actually fairly close to European - both present a multitude of opinions (in spite of what much of both US and European media likes to paint it as) including many nakedly pro US opinions. Though I personally think that those are allowed for the absurdity factor - these are often so vastly different from the reality on the ground that they have all the smell of Soviet propaganda, and as a result likely cause a significant reaction among those who had to live under Soviet regime. After all, Soviet citizens were notorious for officially believing but privately joking about state propaganda.
European media is fairly pro-US, but many dissenting opinions exist in mainstream.
P.S. How about looking into criminal charges behind Khodovsky instead of paining him as a "Kremlin critic that jot jailed". Because even here in the West, no one claims that he was wrongly jailed. The only complaint is that "he was selectively chosen from many of his equally criminal peers to be prosecuted for his crimes". At the same time, when you try this line in US court, you will be plainly told by the judge that the court case is about you, not your peers. It's that kind of hypocrisy that generally gets US its reputation as the most dangerous state in the world by majority of its population.
Fact is, Khodorovsky, like most if not all of the oligarchs are criminals. The reason is that you could not be law abiding and become an oligarch in 1990s Russia. This is a fact widely quoted by most of the Western financial specialists that were working with Russia in this period to modernise it.
I'm getting a feeling that you're intentionally misunderstanding the issue.
It's a fact that modern crowd control in the West has many tools. To be able to keep those tools (i.e. general populace not rising up against them having these tools) many of them were pushed into private realm or otherwise obfuscated. Media is controlled through private ownership and editorial policy pushed by owners rather than government and legal framework. Public order can be enforced not just by police but by private guards. Punishment can not only be government-based legal action but also private action such as refusal to employ, which can destroy lives and function as a deterrent far more efficiently than jail time.
The separation of private and public tools of population control has often been fuzzy, but rarely as fuzzy as it is today when it comes to maintaining order in USA. Europe is sort of hanging there so far, as people around here have seen two World Wars and Pro-Soviet regimes, and tend to be far more suspicious towards such actions, but they aren't far behind.
It's fairly easy to make any person into a criminal under US law. That's what it's designed for, like laws in most imperial states with need of control over belligerent citizens. All you need to do is locate them and then throw a book at them as the legal experts like to put it.
No, they just pass the information to the police that handles that job.
Look at what happened to all the Occupy members. Funny how all the important people in the movement were found very accurately by police forces across the country.
Previous blog post claimed that there was over 120% voting in Sevastopol. This was based on naked lie by the blogger, who listened to the official audio and decided to mishear "1.5 million total" as "1.7 million total" and draw conclusions based on that.
This was quoted by many Western media outlets, which were left red-faced (but didn't post any significantly noticeable retractions) after original video was pointed out to them by many in their readership who understood enough spoken Russian to point out the obvious lie.
Incorrect. Modern encoding doesn't encode as "each separate frame". Instead it encodes as a "key frame" and then all following frames are data about changes as related to previous frame until the next key frame.
Less bandwidth is achieved by reducing accuracy of "what change has happened" frames, at the cost of reduced image quality.
Because coal plants are not that easy to power up or shut down. It's an operation that takes days to complete. Cooling of the turbine alone can take a day or two.
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In former Soviet countries?
As many as they want. All they need to do is hire additional hands.
A good example of this was the recent meteor incident in Russia, where most people were in fact hurt by glass from shattered windows. People went to look at "what was that flash?"
It's not about spending money. It's about not giving money.
You'd be surprised just how powerful latter is as a tool against capitalists in comparison to the former.
That's interesting, considering that pretty much all of Japanese themselves in fact widely accept that they have a major demographic problem on their hands.
Not when you're an island nation. There is a distinct advantage to being one, that is that many problems that hit the rest of the world can be largely avoided.
Japan, for example, doesn't have much in terms of cheap labour force problem driving unskilled and semi-skilled labour market into the ground.
Every major tunnel like this will have some new interesting engineering challenges. I suspect that one will not be quite as difficult as previous ones.
Not at all. Channel tunnel is over 50km, while Seikan tunnel is at 240m depth.
Engineering problems you're talking about have already been solved.
Russia is interested, at least as much as China. This would massively increase trade between continents. Train freight is far cheaper than shipping. If I remember correctly, they have an offer for several billion USD for any entity that would agree to build such a tunnel.
That depends on your definition of "state".
We get into that in continuation of the discussion, where the same poster that I was replying to tried to pull "but our government is nicer than Russian government in terms of prosecution" card. The whole private/public interests coming together for certain purposes, such as controlling people and creating examples out of people who do not bow to certain worldview is very widespread here in the West in general, and US in particular is essentially our way of subverting many of our ways of measuring just how "free" people are, as these meters are often aimed only at seeing how free people are from governmental intrusion into their freedoms. As a result, outsourcing the intrusion to private institutions with same interests is an easy way to continue to appear "free" while becoming very oppressive.
The alternative is the model before the current situation - where media ownership is so fragmented it cannot present a single line of interests and sensor media based on those interests.
Try to remind yourself that our media was far more free in the 70s, 80s and even 90s. At least here in Europe. Today sensorship over media in US is arguably tighter than in Russia (I can speak the language well enough to read their media and it's full of dissent of varying degrees, far more so than US media I read about as much), while most of European media is significantly more free than any of the other two, mainly due to ownership fragmentation and clear conflicts of interests between owners, which causes many more points of view and sides of conflict to come out to mainstream.
The current conflict in Ukraine serves as an excellent example. US media is by far the most controlled of three, representing only a single front with very little dissent. Russian media is actually fairly close to European - both present a multitude of opinions (in spite of what much of both US and European media likes to paint it as) including many nakedly pro US opinions. Though I personally think that those are allowed for the absurdity factor - these are often so vastly different from the reality on the ground that they have all the smell of Soviet propaganda, and as a result likely cause a significant reaction among those who had to live under Soviet regime. After all, Soviet citizens were notorious for officially believing but privately joking about state propaganda.
European media is fairly pro-US, but many dissenting opinions exist in mainstream.
P.S. How about looking into criminal charges behind Khodovsky instead of paining him as a "Kremlin critic that jot jailed". Because even here in the West, no one claims that he was wrongly jailed. The only complaint is that "he was selectively chosen from many of his equally criminal peers to be prosecuted for his crimes".
At the same time, when you try this line in US court, you will be plainly told by the judge that the court case is about you, not your peers. It's that kind of hypocrisy that generally gets US its reputation as the most dangerous state in the world by majority of its population.
Fact is, Khodorovsky, like most if not all of the oligarchs are criminals. The reason is that you could not be law abiding and become an oligarch in 1990s Russia. This is a fact widely quoted by most of the Western financial specialists that were working with Russia in this period to modernise it.
I'm getting a feeling that you're intentionally misunderstanding the issue.
It's a fact that modern crowd control in the West has many tools. To be able to keep those tools (i.e. general populace not rising up against them having these tools) many of them were pushed into private realm or otherwise obfuscated. Media is controlled through private ownership and editorial policy pushed by owners rather than government and legal framework. Public order can be enforced not just by police but by private guards. Punishment can not only be government-based legal action but also private action such as refusal to employ, which can destroy lives and function as a deterrent far more efficiently than jail time.
The separation of private and public tools of population control has often been fuzzy, but rarely as fuzzy as it is today when it comes to maintaining order in USA. Europe is sort of hanging there so far, as people around here have seen two World Wars and Pro-Soviet regimes, and tend to be far more suspicious towards such actions, but they aren't far behind.
There's no need to. You can just make him unemployable, which is far more scary nowadays.
It's fairly easy to make any person into a criminal under US law. That's what it's designed for, like laws in most imperial states with need of control over belligerent citizens. All you need to do is locate them and then throw a book at them as the legal experts like to put it.
"All the IMPORTANT people".
Emphasis mine.
No, they just pass the information to the police that handles that job.
Look at what happened to all the Occupy members. Funny how all the important people in the movement were found very accurately by police forces across the country.
Previous blog post claimed that there was over 120% voting in Sevastopol. This was based on naked lie by the blogger, who listened to the official audio and decided to mishear "1.5 million total" as "1.7 million total" and draw conclusions based on that.
This was quoted by many Western media outlets, which were left red-faced (but didn't post any significantly noticeable retractions) after original video was pointed out to them by many in their readership who understood enough spoken Russian to point out the obvious lie.
I guess this is take two.
Tools > ghostery > manage ghostery options > unckeck "enable ghost rank".
It's the first god damn check box on the options page. You have to really not want to see it to miss it.
That would also be an "uninhabited" space station at the moment if that were true.
Or you can just uncheck the box?
I'm talking about the fact that noscript blocks too many page elements.
Not that it's taking too many system resources.
Ghostery does it much better with less overkill that noscript tends to be guilty of.
And the sad part is, that this is indeed HD.
It's just overcompressed HD.
Incorrect. Modern encoding doesn't encode as "each separate frame". Instead it encodes as a "key frame" and then all following frames are data about changes as related to previous frame until the next key frame.
Less bandwidth is achieved by reducing accuracy of "what change has happened" frames, at the cost of reduced image quality.
Because coal plants are not that easy to power up or shut down. It's an operation that takes days to complete. Cooling of the turbine alone can take a day or two.