Who claims that there is some kind of ideal? Not me, but stop attempting to blur the lines between the truly horrible regimes like Putin's Russia and states that have more liberties.
Unless you're a fool or a (Putin) tool you do not jump from the frying pan into the even hotter fire.
There _are_ those like TheCarp and you that falsely present Russia as freer than the west, but for some of us, Russia is _NOT_ a far off minor danger to our liberties but the nearby aggressive expansionist repressive regime that it really is.
Is Putin's Russia the equal of the fUSSR at the hight of it's power? No, clearly not, but your attempt to present it as just another red scare ignores every repressive step Putin has taken since his accession to power: repression of all dissent, repeated encroachments/annexations, ever-mounting belligerence, etc.
One does not fight pedophilia by complaining about one pedophile and urging people to send victims to even worse pedophiles. That is the mistake that the original poster made and you're defence of the second merely shows that yours sympathies lie with the second pedophile more than in fighting pedophilia.
Stalin had no moral limits, that doesn't mean that he had no material limits. Stalin using the Germans to kill of his future opposition is not proof of any moral limits, just that he judged that it would be a better means to his nefarious ends. But then, it's impossible to reason with the true believers of the dialectic such as you increasingly are proving to be.
Good to know that you think that Stalin's murderous acts upon neighboring countries and everyone else that opposed him were "justified" because they concerned "parts of what had been the russian empire". Yup, everyone else is a serf and must kowtow to whoever controls the Kremlin. Why? Because the Kremlin says so.
Stalin's ambitions were for far more than just those parts of the globe that had once been under kremlin rule. His ambitions were to extend his sway of murder and genocide to all Europe and the rest of the world and had plans to double-cross Hitler that only became moot when Hitler double-crossed him first.
Thanks for the ref. If I ever find the time to plunge back into all my WWII references (Liddle-Hart, Guderian, D'Este, Keegan, etc) I'll add it.
When one is against the sexual exploitation of small children, one is against _all_ pedophiles, not just the one that abused you.
The guy >I replied to whined about the USG while giving Russia a free pass, thus hes's clearly _not_ against governments taking money away or committing acts of heinous torture.
When complaining that one's government policies are unsatisfactory a sane person does not then take as a model one that is _clearly_worse_.
I have many bones to pick with both of the countries of which I am a citizen but am not crazy enough to claim that _Putin's_ Russia is in any way better.
Historically, Stalin was a genocidal maniac with absolutely no self limits on invading and annexing neighbouring states: Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and then through his connivance with Hitler eastern Poland. No-one with any objectivity doubts that Stalin fully intended on betraying Hitler and the only reason Stalin ended up allied to the west is because Hitler struck first.
Stalin didn't "apparently" halt his offense before Warsaw he _intentionnally_ told his forces to wait until the Germans killed off all opposition because a second Katyn massacre would be too hard to swallow even for his hard-core supporters.
This “we must remove Assad at any price club” of yours is only in your mind and in that of other Putin mouthpieces. Even under Obama getting the US, France, Germany, the UK & Israel in agreement on Middle East policy was worse than herding cats. That they all agree that _Putin’s_ policies were oriented on murdering all moderate Syrian opposition before moving on to Daesh merely shows how transparent that lie was.
That _you_ would proffer it and others like “It’s all about _OIL_!” in oil poor Syria merely shows how deep into Putin’s propaganda machine you are.
Some nations, like the USA after WWII and Europe when forming the EEC saw that satisfying their neighbors interests served their interests better than selfishly promoting their own interests to the exclusion of their neighbors. I'll admit that that was awkwardly phrased, but you should be able to understand my meaning unless you're intellectually blindfolded.
If you think you could trust his answer, ask him if he wanted to move to Russia with it's glorious "freedom", His past declarations are that he is not in Russia by choice.
I have traveled to Eastern Europe & Russia, have family in FUSSR countries and have a circle of friends that includes both pro & anti Putin Russian expats. You?
Oh really? Russia's destabilization of eastern europe in their mission to retake their "zone of influence" _hasn't_ impacted my relatives there or defense spending here in western europe & the USA? Clearly, it has and your claims are false.
Add to that Russia's military support of that murderous bastard Assad. That support _didn't_ allow the bastard to gas and bomb any and all that opposed him (but starting by massacring the moderates first) instead of pushing for or even just allowing for democratic changes? That russian support of Assad _didn't_ produce a refugee crisis dwarfing anything seen in Europe since the last days of WWII? That refugee crisis _hasn't caused a growth of hateful far-right parties throughout Europe?
Russia _hasn't_ been looking to cause unrest in the west with their repeated meddling in our elections and support of hate groups?!?
Putin _didn't_ organize the biggest war games in a a 1/4 century based on a scenario separating Poland from Lithuania and annexing a corridor to rejoin Kaliningrad to Belorussia? They _haven't_ been playing chicken with their bombers performing bombing runs on western nations like Norway, Denmark, Germany, The U.K & France?
Russia _hasn't_ been protecting North Korea while they've been acquiring Nukes, Missiles and performing economic warfare over the Internet? They _didn't_ just give North Korea a second Internet access so that they can augment their hacking?
Oh, but they _____HAVE_____ been doing that and more!
The only people who think that Russia _isn't_ a threat to the USA & Europe are the ignorant and the Putin-bought trolls. Which one are you? Ignorant or bought?
_Gifts_ to Russia peaked during WWII when Stalin pretended to be an ally. Gifts ended when Stalin went back on his promises and annexed eastern Europe.
Russia, over the past century has generally preferred to advance it's own interests over that of it's neighbors (often violently) and has thus been an enemy much more often than a friend.
If you truly don't care about Russian aggression and think that the grass is so green over there then you would _emigrate_ to Russia. You'd discover that Russia's treatment of it's drug users, lies to it's population and use of your tax rubles are far far worse than the USAs.
But you wont do that because you prefer whining to acting on it and because deep down you know Russia is worse four it's citizens than the U.S for everyone who isn't in Putin's list of favorites.
Claims != proven facts and a simple google search on "uaw fraud unionizing" will show that UAW has been proven to have stooped to lies and out and out fraud in pursuit of forcing unionization.
Lets save the outrage until fault has been proven and avoid becoming the modern equivalent of whites in the south lynching a black man on trumped up claims, shall we?
One can't expect idiotic Anonymous Cowards to be able to read and comprehend more than 3 consecutive words so It's no use to tell you to reread my post. Besides which, after making _my_ point I amplified the AC's very correct point for the/. readers who read at +2 and wouldn't have seen it otherwise.
Huge numbers of people? You and a few geeks repeating yourselves in an echo chamber != huge. If there was more than a laughably small market for huge battery phones, they would exist and sell in non negligible numbers.
As huge battery phones _don't_ sell, one can only s_n_i_g_g_e_r (underscored because of slashdot's lameness filter) at the twits with their heads up their posteriors who think that _they_ know what is missing on the market.
Slashdot, fix your lameness filter. That word is perfectly innocuous.
Space-X didn't hire generals years ago when they were trying to get into the old mens club of DOD launches and ended up suing the USG to break ULA's monopoly. They're clearly not going to do it now that they've won and ULA and USAF generals admit that ULA cannot compete.
But there is no convincing the blind idiots who can only conceive of ULA style cost-plus contracts, cannot imagine that anyone could successfully land and reuse 1st stages and forward on the unjustified FUD that Space-X is losing money on every launch.
Carburant costs peanuts. The expensive part is the rocket.
Imagine that the air outside was poisonous. You could go outside for a minute or two but you're die doing it because the volume of air in your lungs is insufficient. Now imagine using a tank of clean air so you could go outside, work, come back in, refill the tank and repeat.
Access to space is the same thing and we have been sending rockets up to die for years because they don't have enough carburant to be reusable. By going to bigger rockets, Space-X and BO will bring enough carburant to be reusable.
Then buy a phone with a battery case or just carry around an external battery to charge your phone.
This, "I NEED someone to build a monstrous internal battery phone" that very few people will actually buy comes from people with rigid mentalities that refuse to adapt.
Well when I was a youngster, we had phones with internal batteries that we could change. I could plug those internal batteries into a proprietary charger and thus by turning off my phone and swapping batteries I could have a fully charged phone in 30 seconds.
Using proprietary battery chargers is dumb & those batteries are useless if you need to charge anything else. If you ABSOLUTELY need to have an all in one, use a battery case but I've never found that plugging in an external battery (to devices that use good connectors that don't need babying to connect) to be a hardship.
You are mistaking the ULA Cost+ system (milk the system for everything you can making as much profit as possible and hire retiring generals/Astronauts as lobbyists to keep the gravy train running) for the Space-X system (plough profits back into developing the technologies needed in order to be able to send rockets to mars and colonise it). It's true that Space-X now has lobbyists in D.C., but no ex-generals there either to my knowledge.
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Who claims that there is some kind of ideal? Not me, but stop attempting to blur the lines between the truly horrible regimes like Putin's Russia and states that have more liberties.
Unless you're a fool or a (Putin) tool you do not jump from the frying pan into the even hotter fire.
There _are_ those like TheCarp and you that falsely present Russia as freer than the west, but for some of us, Russia is _NOT_ a far off minor danger to our liberties but the nearby aggressive expansionist repressive regime that it really is.
Is Putin's Russia the equal of the fUSSR at the hight of it's power? No, clearly not, but your attempt to present it as just another red scare ignores every repressive step Putin has taken since his accession to power: repression of all dissent, repeated encroachments/annexations, ever-mounting belligerence, etc.
One does not fight pedophilia by complaining about one pedophile and urging people to send victims to even worse pedophiles. That is the mistake that the original poster made and you're defence of the second merely shows that yours sympathies lie with the second pedophile more than in fighting pedophilia.
Stalin had no moral limits, that doesn't mean that he had no material limits. Stalin using the Germans to kill of his future opposition is not proof of any moral limits, just that he judged that it would be a better means to his nefarious ends. But then, it's impossible to reason with the true believers of the dialectic such as you increasingly are proving to be.
Good to know that you think that Stalin's murderous acts upon neighboring countries and everyone else that opposed him were "justified" because they concerned "parts of what had been the russian empire". Yup, everyone else is a serf and must kowtow to whoever controls the Kremlin. Why? Because the Kremlin says so.
Stalin's ambitions were for far more than just those parts of the globe that had once been under kremlin rule. His ambitions were to extend his sway of murder and genocide to all Europe and the rest of the world and had plans to double-cross Hitler that only became moot when Hitler double-crossed him first.
Thanks for the ref. If I ever find the time to plunge back into all my WWII references (Liddle-Hart, Guderian, D'Este, Keegan, etc) I'll add it.
No. Hell no, you hair splitting Stalin apologist.
When one is against the sexual exploitation of small children, one is against _all_ pedophiles, not just the one that abused you.
The guy >I replied to whined about the USG while giving Russia a free pass, thus hes's clearly _not_ against governments taking money away or committing acts of heinous torture.
When complaining that one's government policies are unsatisfactory a sane person does not then take as a model one that is _clearly_worse_.
I have many bones to pick with both of the countries of which I am a citizen but am not crazy enough to claim that _Putin's_ Russia is in any way better.
Historically, Stalin was a genocidal maniac with absolutely no self limits on invading and annexing neighbouring states: Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and then through his connivance with Hitler eastern Poland. No-one with any objectivity doubts that Stalin fully intended on betraying Hitler and the only reason Stalin ended up allied to the west is because Hitler struck first.
Stalin didn't "apparently" halt his offense before Warsaw he _intentionnally_ told his forces to wait until the Germans killed off all opposition because a second Katyn massacre would be too hard to swallow even for his hard-core supporters.
This “we must remove Assad at any price club” of yours is only in your mind and in that of other Putin mouthpieces. Even under Obama getting the US, France, Germany, the UK & Israel in agreement on Middle East policy was worse than herding cats. That they all agree that _Putin’s_ policies were oriented on murdering all moderate Syrian opposition before moving on to Daesh merely shows how transparent that lie was.
That _you_ would proffer it and others like “It’s all about _OIL_!” in oil poor Syria merely shows how deep into Putin’s propaganda machine you are.
Then, Not like Snowden...
Really? _too_much_ signal and not enough noise is a problem?
Who is it that thinks that?
Thus the danger in assuming that ones anecdotal experience is universal. A claim that I'm not making, just that I have seen movement
Some nations, like the USA after WWII and Europe when forming the EEC saw that satisfying their neighbors interests served their interests better than selfishly promoting their own interests to the exclusion of their neighbors. I'll admit that that was awkwardly phrased, but you should be able to understand my meaning unless you're intellectually blindfolded.
If you think you could trust his answer, ask him if he wanted to move to Russia with it's glorious "freedom", His past declarations are that he is not in Russia by choice.
I have traveled to Eastern Europe & Russia, have family in FUSSR countries and have a circle of friends that includes both pro & anti Putin Russian expats. You?
Oh really? Russia's destabilization of eastern europe in their mission to retake their "zone of influence" _hasn't_ impacted my relatives there or defense spending here in western europe & the USA? Clearly, it has and your claims are false.
Add to that Russia's military support of that murderous bastard Assad. That support _didn't_ allow the bastard to gas and bomb any and all that opposed him (but starting by massacring the moderates first) instead of pushing for or even just allowing for democratic changes? That russian support of Assad _didn't_ produce a refugee crisis dwarfing anything seen in Europe since the last days of WWII? That refugee crisis _hasn't caused a growth of hateful far-right parties throughout Europe?
Russia _hasn't_ been looking to cause unrest in the west with their repeated meddling in our elections and support of hate groups?!?
Putin _didn't_ organize the biggest war games in a a 1/4 century based on a scenario separating Poland from Lithuania and annexing a corridor to rejoin Kaliningrad to Belorussia? They _haven't_ been playing chicken with their bombers performing bombing runs on western nations like Norway, Denmark, Germany, The U.K & France?
Russia _hasn't_ been protecting North Korea while they've been acquiring Nukes, Missiles and performing economic warfare over the Internet? They _didn't_ just give North Korea a second Internet access so that they can augment their hacking?
Oh, but they _____HAVE_____ been doing that and more!
The only people who think that Russia _isn't_ a threat to the USA & Europe are the ignorant and the Putin-bought trolls. Which one are you? Ignorant or bought?
Until "the rest of the world" also decides that Putin cannot be trusted.
Banks and public entities in Europe are also looking to remove Kaspersky products. I've seen it on a number of projects already.
_Gifts_ to Russia peaked during WWII when Stalin pretended to be an ally. Gifts ended when Stalin went back on his promises and annexed eastern Europe.
Russia, over the past century has generally preferred to advance it's own interests over that of it's neighbors (often violently) and has thus been an enemy much more often than a friend.
If you truly don't care about Russian aggression and think that the grass is so green over there then you would _emigrate_ to Russia. You'd discover that Russia's treatment of it's drug users, lies to it's population and use of your tax rubles are far far worse than the USAs.
But you wont do that because you prefer whining to acting on it and because deep down you know Russia is worse four it's citizens than the U.S for everyone who isn't in Putin's list of favorites.
Claims != proven facts and a simple google search on "uaw fraud unionizing" will show that UAW has been proven to have stooped to lies and out and out fraud in pursuit of forcing unionization.
Lets save the outrage until fault has been proven and avoid becoming the modern equivalent of whites in the south lynching a black man on trumped up claims, shall we?
One can't expect idiotic Anonymous Cowards to be able to read and comprehend more than 3 consecutive words so It's no use to tell you to reread my post. Besides which, after making _my_ point I amplified the AC's very correct point for the /. readers who read at +2 and wouldn't have seen it otherwise.
Huge numbers of people? You and a few geeks repeating yourselves in an echo chamber != huge. If there was more than a laughably small market for huge battery phones, they would exist and sell in non negligible numbers.
As huge battery phones _don't_ sell, one can only s_n_i_g_g_e_r (underscored because of slashdot's lameness filter) at the twits with their heads up their posteriors who think that _they_ know what is missing on the market.
Slashdot, fix your lameness filter. That word is perfectly innocuous.
Space-X didn't hire generals years ago when they were trying to get into the old mens club of DOD launches and ended up suing the USG to break ULA's monopoly. They're clearly not going to do it now that they've won and ULA and USAF generals admit that ULA cannot compete.
But there is no convincing the blind idiots who can only conceive of ULA style cost-plus contracts, cannot imagine that anyone could successfully land and reuse 1st stages and forward on the unjustified FUD that Space-X is losing money on every launch.
AC trolls are so dumb...
Carburant costs peanuts. The expensive part is the rocket.
Imagine that the air outside was poisonous. You could go outside for a minute or two but you're die doing it because the volume of air in your lungs is insufficient. Now imagine using a tank of clean air so you could go outside, work, come back in, refill the tank and repeat.
Access to space is the same thing and we have been sending rockets up to die for years because they don't have enough carburant to be reusable. By going to bigger rockets, Space-X and BO will bring enough carburant to be reusable.
Just think about it, lol.
Then buy a phone with a battery case or just carry around an external battery to charge your phone.
This, "I NEED someone to build a monstrous internal battery phone" that very few people will actually buy comes from people with rigid mentalities that refuse to adapt.
Well when I was a youngster, we had phones with internal batteries that we could change. I could plug those internal batteries into a proprietary charger and thus by turning off my phone and swapping batteries I could have a fully charged phone in 30 seconds.
Using proprietary battery chargers is dumb & those batteries are useless if you need to charge anything else. If you ABSOLUTELY need to have an all in one, use a battery case but I've never found that plugging in an external battery (to devices that use good connectors that don't need babying to connect) to be a hardship.
You are mistaking the ULA Cost+ system (milk the system for everything you can making as much profit as possible and hire retiring generals/Astronauts as lobbyists to keep the gravy train running) for the Space-X system (plough profits back into developing the technologies needed in order to be able to send rockets to mars and colonise it). It's true that Space-X now has lobbyists in D.C., but no ex-generals there either to my knowledge.