Since browsers now all support IRIs, this is likely going to be a big problem when someone registers something like gоv.uk or pоlice.uk (note that 2nd letter in each case is not 'o' but CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER O: U+043E) and starts sending out "official" directives.
In the UK you can just run over a pedestrian and kill them and it's treated much more leniently than armed robbery even if you killed nobody.
Now you'll get life imprisonment for hacking GreedCo's computer and showing that they paid the CEO more in a day than all the lowest ranked employees put together earned in a year.
Actual humans? Meh. But some fat cat's profits? They must be protected at all costs.
This is basically what the ancient Germanic peoples had as well, at least as recently as the Anglo-Saxons. Tolkien used it as the basis for his Elvish calendar.
12 months of 30 days each, 2 extra days for midwinter (Yule) and three or four extra days at midsummer (Litha).
SSH for text editing is an ugly hack to work around the fact that we still can't do file sharing well.
Many of the files I edit via SSH are configuration files in/etc, or relatively large generated files (output files). For the first case I would not want to share/etc with other hosts. For the second I would not want to have to transfer a large amount of data between hosts when it is unnecessary (and probably slow) to do so. For clarification, I could use a pager to view the second case files since I will not typically modify them, but the syntax highlighting is useful in that case.
I think that no matter how much he tries to dress up his new empire in back-in-the-USSR clothes, it will always be run behind the scenes by a bunch of capitalist oligarchs. Not that this makes it any better for you, I'm afraid.
Interesting times, as the Chinese say. My sincere condolences, but what do you mean by "neo-communist" - surely the Putin regime is north-north-east on the political compass, where Marx and Engels are due west?
it is not in our best... interest to weaken Russia further with... sanctions
Interestingly, I would have agreed with you several weeks ago, when I thought that they would simply be ineffective. However since that time the strong focus of the Kremlin sock puppets on the BBC HYS and other forums trying to question the justification of sanctions has set me thinking the opposite, which is that sanctions will actually be extremely effective at the moment since the Kremlin is very afraid of them.
... defuse the crisis and... try and repair relations
Even if he "high ball"ed the numbers, the absolute maximum that could have been achieved is a 30% vote. Which is not a 96.77% vote, which is what was "counted". Therefore the vote was totally bogus and its results are not valid, even if it had been legal.
The major resource in Ukraine is wheat (their flag is a wheat field against a blue sky), which doesn't ship through pipelines very well. However it's still extremely valuable to Russia which doesn't produce enough cereal crops of its own, and wheat's global price is going up and up. Ukraine was the breadbasket of the former Soviet Union.
It was a part of the Ottoman Empire for considerably longer than it was part of the Russian Empire (1485-1783 = 298 years versus 1783-1954 = 174 years).
there was just a violent overthrow of a legitimate government
There hasn't been anything legitimate about the Ukrainian government since before the Orange Revolution, and the main thing that was violent about it was the president ordering his troops to open fire on unarmed civilian demonstrators.
That kind of takes the wind out of your casus belli, right? But don't let the facts get in the way of a good fascist dictatorship. The "brilliant" Putin isn't going to.
Ukrainian new unelected leadership is more like Hitler.
And yet, they aren't the ones shutting down websites that disagree with their leader's propaganda. They aren't the ones passing laws against free speech and discriminating against homosexuality.
Russia has no choice but to get involved.
You (by which of course I mean Kremlin sock puppets) keep saying that. But nothing you have said so far actually implies it in any way.
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Since browsers now all support IRIs, this is likely going to be a big problem when someone registers something like gоv.uk or pоlice.uk (note that 2nd letter in each case is not 'o' but CYRILLIC SMALL LETTER O: U+043E) and starts sending out "official" directives.
The killing people with a car touches a nerve.
In the UK you can just run over a pedestrian and kill them and it's treated much more leniently than armed robbery even if you killed nobody.
Now you'll get life imprisonment for hacking GreedCo's computer and showing that they paid the CEO more in a day than all the lowest ranked employees put together earned in a year.
Actual humans? Meh. But some fat cat's profits? They must be protected at all costs.
In fact arguably setting up such a secret court is actually a larger attack on our nation than any conceivable act of terrorism.
Because "attack by something I don't understand" is much more scary than "attack with a physical weapon".
Since with loopback you can make any file into a virtual block device, there's no reason you can't use LUKS/cryptsetup with files.
This is basically what the ancient Germanic peoples had as well, at least as recently as the Anglo-Saxons. Tolkien used it as the basis for his Elvish calendar.
12 months of 30 days each, 2 extra days for midwinter (Yule) and three or four extra days at midsummer (Litha).
Indeed. "This is a virus that totally uploads all your stuff to Google."
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/05/16/cloud_computing_is_fail_and_heres_why/
I suppose beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but to this beholder it looks like something that would drive property values down, not up.
I think it would be quite fun to make a complete simulation of the events in Genesis. That'll make sure they were true!
Many of the files I edit via SSH are configuration files in /etc, or relatively large generated files (output files). For the first case I would not want to share /etc with other hosts. For the second I would not want to have to transfer a large amount of data between hosts when it is unnecessary (and probably slow) to do so. For clarification, I could use a pager to view the second case files since I will not typically modify them, but the syntax highlighting is useful in that case.
I wonder whose requirements this targets.
My own requirements are:
Therefore: vi or vim. Virtually no other editor even comes close with respect to point 2.
I think that no matter how much he tries to dress up his new empire in back-in-the-USSR clothes, it will always be run behind the scenes by a bunch of capitalist oligarchs. Not that this makes it any better for you, I'm afraid.
More like why Guantanamo Bay is a territory of the US.
"Let's take a vote! Yes, you too, Private Stevens with the big minigun there, you're an official resident! Do we want to be part of Cuba or not?"
Interesting times, as the Chinese say. My sincere condolences, but what do you mean by "neo-communist" - surely the Putin regime is north-north-east on the political compass, where Marx and Engels are due west?
The entire point of this article is that the people didn't decide.
Interestingly, I would have agreed with you several weeks ago, when I thought that they would simply be ineffective. However since that time the strong focus of the Kremlin sock puppets on the BBC HYS and other forums trying to question the justification of sanctions has set me thinking the opposite, which is that sanctions will actually be extremely effective at the moment since the Kremlin is very afraid of them.
That doesn't appear to be Lavrov's current tactic.
Even if he "high ball"ed the numbers, the absolute maximum that could have been achieved is a 30% vote. Which is not a 96.77% vote, which is what was "counted". Therefore the vote was totally bogus and its results are not valid, even if it had been legal.
Because the vote was illegal.
If the UN doesn't have the right to determine the legitimacy of a vote, I somehow don't think that the Kremlin does.
The major resource in Ukraine is wheat (their flag is a wheat field against a blue sky), which doesn't ship through pipelines very well. However it's still extremely valuable to Russia which doesn't produce enough cereal crops of its own, and wheat's global price is going up and up. Ukraine was the breadbasket of the former Soviet Union.
And, of course, you need wheat to make vodka.
It was a part of the Ottoman Empire for considerably longer than it was part of the Russian Empire (1485-1783 = 298 years versus 1783-1954 = 174 years).
You should read before you post twaddle.
First rule of propaganda - claim that the other side is doing exactly what you're doing, but that they started it first.
There hasn't been anything legitimate about the Ukrainian government since before the Orange Revolution, and the main thing that was violent about it was the president ordering his troops to open fire on unarmed civilian demonstrators.
That kind of takes the wind out of your casus belli, right? But don't let the facts get in the way of a good fascist dictatorship. The "brilliant" Putin isn't going to.
And yet, they aren't the ones shutting down websites that disagree with their leader's propaganda. They aren't the ones passing laws against free speech and discriminating against homosexuality.
You (by which of course I mean Kremlin sock puppets) keep saying that. But nothing you have said so far actually implies it in any way.