You may grow the equals. As a result you will not grow bright engineers capable of building a new American Nuclear bomb capable of destroying Commie Ruskies.Being a Commie Ruskie I would be quite glad. And I would be doubleplusglad since it would be the quintessence of Communism in separately taken USA.
Your statement is not politically correct. In Russia you might get 100 hours of social works just for publishing the idea that there is a brainless social group. I think in USA the situation is not much different.
... in 1960-th there was a toy - a metal constructor. It was a big box full of different plates, axes, wheels, nuts, bolts a.s.o. It was relatively cheap (since it was produced basically by the same plants where the nuclear bombs were made). It was needed to have some brains to model something with this toy. There were lots of cheap magazines publishing projects for this toy. Sometimes it was problematic to subscribe for these magazines (it's Russia!!!!1111) but they still were cheap.
About 2010, I needed such a constructor to model some of my ideas before I implement them in full scale metal. I went to the toy shop. And I found that no such constructor is sold now. There was only a Lego. During some more searches I found the old-school metal constructor but it was extremely costly.
So, what do I think about this: 1) It was a deliberate policy of Commie Ruskies to grow bright engineers that would produce the Kuzkina Mat' (H-Bomb) of next generation; 2) It is a deliberate policy of modern Russian (and USA too since Lego is your production) to grow a controllable population.
Wikipedia: The Soviet famine of 1932–33 affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union, leading to the deaths of millions in those areas and severe food insecurity throughout the USSR. These areas included Ukraine, Northern Caucasus, Volga Region and Kazakhstan,[1] the South Urals, and West Siberia.[2][3] The subset of the famine within the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic is called Holodomor or "hungry mass-death." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you look at the map there you could see the hunger hit all the grain producing regions (which supports my theory that potato-producing regions survived). But you remember Ukraine ONLY, not North Caucasus, not Volga region. Why?
Yes, it HAS a say according to Gorbachev's agreement about reunification of Germany.
You may deny that such agreement took place. Then, you should either agree that Cuba has the same right to change allegiance as Baltic countries and Poland and do not suffer US embargo, and that placement of US rocket defense in Baltic countries and Poland is as legal as placement of Russian nukes in Cuba,
or confirm that the US is the only superpower using this fact against the interests of others, and the others have at least moral right to protect theirs interests.
No. Gorbachev agreed to reunification of Germany in exchange to nonproliferation of NATO. Proliferation of NATO occurred well before Putin's rule, in 1999. NATO is simply not trustworthy. Moreover. You Americans told us Russians that we are freed from terrible Bolshevik oppression and are part of Free World. For your internal use, you won in Cold War and coined a medal in commemoration. We Russians tried to be part of your World Economy and quite soon found that our oil money cannot buy anything except consumer goods. It took us about 20 years to understand it. The Chinese have the same problem.
Do you remember Gadhafi? Once he leased European politics quite a lot of money. What did you? You asked us to support the no-flight zone. Imagining ourselves a part of you Free World we agreed like a last idiot. Instead of no-flight zone, you simply bombed Gadhafi out of existence. No Gadhafi - no debt. Are you trustworthy at all?
Remember "Marschal Taburetkin" Serdyukov? He had a task to convert Russian army to money and invest these money to the world economy. Well, he almost killed Russian army but it was you who didn't allow the money to be invested. No problem. Shoygu and Rogozin do what they should. You just taught us the hard way.
If you know the history you should know that the historical Ukraine is the minuscule part of modern Ukraine, while Novorossia and Crimea attached to it by Tsars, Bolsheviks and Khruschev. And the last piece was Sevastopol annexed from Russia in 90-s.
There is a Russian nationalistic joke: Q: Why did the Russians send the Tajik (variant: Moldovian) cosmonaut to ISS? A: To replace the ceramic floors there.
Total USA losses in WWII are 420'000. USSR losses are 20'000'000++. In Vietnam, you lost 280'000 killing 587'000 civilians and only 444'000 soldiers (Wikipedia data). Yes, USA knows how to kill civilians by means of drones. But does it constitute a Honor of Warrior?
If you know history of space exploration you should know that it were Americans who actually bought the Russian technology of long spaceflights, including the space toilet.
1) "Terror" famine in 30-s was EVERYWHERE in USSR. There are some territorial variations of famine but they are depended on structure of agriculture, not on nationality. Being a grandson of kulak I know these facts from my parents. 2) The famine was result of mass exchange of grain to Western industrial technologies, and destruction of peasantry created masses of hungry industrial workers. Both were needed to survive WWII.
Well, the situation in Ukraine isn't the doing of the folks at Roscosmos (I'm guessing mostly scientists, engineers, managers and administrators like Nasa),.
Why? There was a military installation in Ukraine - the rocket testing facility or something. All the personnel was nominally military and really scientific. When all this Ukrainian crisis began all they were to be sent to Donetsk to kill "vatniks" and "kolorads". They plainly refused, were fired and I believe they work for Roskosmos. We Russians are in need of good personnel.
PS. Vatnik is a derogatory term for a person incurably poisoned with Soviet Communist propaganda ("vatnik" was a jacket with cotton heat insulation worn by Soviet soldiers and inmates). Kolorad is a derogatory term for Donetsk rebels due to similarity of their insignia to a back of Colorado beetle.
I'd like to make a BESM-6 emulator with PIC18. But nobody knows it's privileged instructions for now which means that it's impossible to recreate it fully.
Same for me. But you could install a memory rack over the i/o rack in processor box and find a HDD controller instead of removable packet drives. It would give you an usable PDP-11 in a half-height 19-inch rack (Processor/memory, FDD and HDD in it, magtape controller). I fed my PDP-11 from a simple outlet while the electricians invented the special attachment.
When my first PDP-11/70-like arrived I just took a random book from it's dox. After 2 hours of reading I got a terrible headache, threw RSTS away and installed Unix v.6. It was needed to make a binary patch of Fortran-4 compiler to make it understand Russian but we made a really useful system. We had 5 terminals and forgot about the machine time allocation sheets. And students who did the graduation practice printed their graduation works with printers, not with mechanical types. It was a little victory.
The time allocation sheets went back when IBM PC arrived (1988). It was a good eye candy not applicable to anything serious. And only about 1998 IBM PC became powerful enough to replace the PDP-11.
Oh, the paper tape... When I was a Comsomol member there were FS-1500 tape readers made in Chechoslovakia. They were really high speed - 1500 bytes per second. The tape just flew through them nonstop. When the first Western readers arrived (made in Poland by US license), they were slow as snails. But the Western tape punchers were really good.
1. He may be the support personnel. If so he must be available 24/7. The office is not a variant. 2. He may need a remote desktop. If so he needs a low ping. The satellite is not a variant. But the office half mile away where he has a broadband and where he installs a WiFi bridge to his home is a variant.
One of my available providers is a local equivalent of your American Starbucks. It's located half a mile away. No idea about the clear line of sight. I tested a link with a 90-cm dish and Ubiquiti Rocket, then put it aside due to 4 other working uplinks.
Just describe the situation in writing and request them to install either U-verse or DSL according to their own choice immediately. Do it with registered letter with proof of delivery. Correct bureaucracy makes wonders.
No thanks. I've already seen a CXO shipped from Canada to Siberia. He worked OK during the good times but during the bad ones he managed to get rid of half of the critical staff thinking that he would rehire them after the crisis. It didn't happen. He was educated that the workforce is replaceable. It isn't.
So, if Alaskans were facing all (or any?) of those evils, you feel, Russian invasion into Alaska would've been justified?
No. It would be justified only when 1) Kenyans and Havaiians overtake the USA power and begin a real massacre of white Alaskans with slogans such as "Kto ne skache toy eskimos! Eskimyaku na gilyaku!" (The one who does not jump is Eskimo. Hang the Eskimos!) and 2) There is a request from Alaskans for help. You understand that it's a quite fantastic situation.
And BTW. There are afaik no Ukrainian schools in Crimea but there are 20 totally Ukrainian classes in Russian schools. And it's enough for a Russian-speaking region. But Crimean Tatar language is on the rise, with 50 more schools being built. Which is understandable since Russian, Ukrainian and Tatar languages are state languages there. Now compare it with German language in North Dakota.
I'd like to think that there were 3 stages of Russian capitalism: 1) Wild capitalism where everybody wanted to steal. It ended about 2000. 2) The bureaucratic system where the task to sell Russia and transfer money to USA was a priority, and Putin being not an absolute dictator would give bureaucracy a limited right to steal in exchange to loyalty. It ended with Magnitsky affair when USA gave a clear signal that Russians will not be allowed to incorporate their money to the Western economy. We Russians should be thankful to USA for this signal. 3) The bureaucratic system with the task to entrench itself in Russia.
It has been successfully shown that ALL so called "corruption fighters" are not independent entities. All they have got some money from Uncle Sam. They may be innocent old women that fight the corrupt local major and don't know who helps them with some petty money but all these transactions are traced to Uncle Sam.
And the last; Ukraine. It was NOT Russia who began a Donbass war. It was a local Russian movement that falsely believed that Russia will do for them what she did for Crimeans. And Putin possibly had not enough balls to help them with anything except humanitarian convoys. (My opinion is that Putin simply waits the USA-induced transformation of Ukraine goes to the logical end. It's his style).
Have your US federal powers done to Alaskans so much evil that Alaskans should want to secede? You are not required to speak Kenyan or Hawaiian, to serve in army where commands are given in Kenyan, to write official letters in Havaiian, to meet schoolchildren from schools where they are told that their Kenyan-Havaiian ancestors dug the Pacific, and so on (You understand). Why should you invite the polite men?
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You may grow the equals. As a result you will not grow bright engineers capable of building a new American Nuclear bomb capable of destroying Commie Ruskies.Being a Commie Ruskie I would be quite glad. And I would be doubleplusglad since it would be the quintessence of Communism in separately taken USA.
Your statement is not politically correct. In Russia you might get 100 hours of social works just for publishing the idea that there is a brainless social group. I think in USA the situation is not much different.
... in 1960-th there was a toy - a metal constructor. It was a big box full of different plates, axes, wheels, nuts, bolts a.s.o. It was relatively cheap (since it was produced basically by the same plants where the nuclear bombs were made). It was needed to have some brains to model something with this toy. There were lots of cheap magazines publishing projects for this toy. Sometimes it was problematic to subscribe for these magazines (it's Russia!!!!1111) but they still were cheap.
About 2010, I needed such a constructor to model some of my ideas before I implement them in full scale metal. I went to the toy shop. And I found that no such constructor is sold now. There was only a Lego. During some more searches I found the old-school metal constructor but it was extremely costly.
So, what do I think about this: 1) It was a deliberate policy of Commie Ruskies to grow bright engineers that would produce the Kuzkina Mat' (H-Bomb) of next generation; 2) It is a deliberate policy of modern Russian (and USA too since Lego is your production) to grow a controllable population.
Wikipedia: The Soviet famine of 1932–33 affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union, leading to the deaths of millions in those areas and severe food insecurity throughout the USSR. These areas included Ukraine, Northern Caucasus, Volga Region and Kazakhstan,[1] the South Urals, and West Siberia.[2][3] The subset of the famine within the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic is called Holodomor or "hungry mass-death." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
If you look at the map there you could see the hunger hit all the grain producing regions (which supports my theory that potato-producing regions survived). But you remember Ukraine ONLY, not North Caucasus, not Volga region. Why?
Yes, it HAS a say according to Gorbachev's agreement about reunification of Germany.
You may deny that such agreement took place. Then, you should either agree that Cuba has the same right to change allegiance as Baltic countries and Poland and do not suffer US embargo, and that placement of US rocket defense in Baltic countries and Poland is as legal as placement of Russian nukes in Cuba,
or confirm that the US is the only superpower using this fact against the interests of others, and the others have at least moral right to protect theirs interests.
No. Gorbachev agreed to reunification of Germany in exchange to nonproliferation of NATO. Proliferation of NATO occurred well before Putin's rule, in 1999. NATO is simply not trustworthy. Moreover. You Americans told us Russians that we are freed from terrible Bolshevik oppression and are part of Free World. For your internal use, you won in Cold War and coined a medal in commemoration. We Russians tried to be part of your World Economy and quite soon found that our oil money cannot buy anything except consumer goods. It took us about 20 years to understand it. The Chinese have the same problem.
Do you remember Gadhafi? Once he leased European politics quite a lot of money. What did you? You asked us to support the no-flight zone. Imagining ourselves a part of you Free World we agreed like a last idiot. Instead of no-flight zone, you simply bombed Gadhafi out of existence. No Gadhafi - no debt. Are you trustworthy at all?
Remember "Marschal Taburetkin" Serdyukov? He had a task to convert Russian army to money and invest these money to the world economy. Well, he almost killed Russian army but it was you who didn't allow the money to be invested. No problem. Shoygu and Rogozin do what they should. You just taught us the hard way.
If you know the history you should know that the historical Ukraine is the minuscule part of modern Ukraine, while Novorossia and Crimea attached to it by Tsars, Bolsheviks and Khruschev. And the last piece was Sevastopol annexed from Russia in 90-s.
There is a Russian nationalistic joke:
Q: Why did the Russians send the Tajik (variant: Moldovian) cosmonaut to ISS?
A: To replace the ceramic floors there.
Well, let Saakashvili kill 80'000 South Ossetians and Poroshenko make a Crimea-wide massacre similar to Odessa May 2,2014?
Total USA losses in WWII are 420'000. USSR losses are 20'000'000++. In Vietnam, you lost 280'000 killing 587'000 civilians and only 444'000 soldiers (Wikipedia data). Yes, USA knows how to kill civilians by means of drones. But does it constitute a Honor of Warrior?
If you know history of space exploration you should know that it were Americans who actually bought the Russian technology of long spaceflights, including the space toilet.
1) "Terror" famine in 30-s was EVERYWHERE in USSR. There are some territorial variations of famine but they are depended on structure of agriculture, not on nationality. Being a grandson of kulak I know these facts from my parents.
2) The famine was result of mass exchange of grain to Western industrial technologies, and destruction of peasantry created masses of hungry industrial workers. Both were needed to survive WWII.
Well, the situation in Ukraine isn't the doing of the folks at Roscosmos (I'm guessing mostly scientists, engineers, managers and administrators like Nasa),.
Why? There was a military installation in Ukraine - the rocket testing facility or something. All the personnel was nominally military and really scientific. When all this Ukrainian crisis began all they were to be sent to Donetsk to kill "vatniks" and "kolorads". They plainly refused, were fired and I believe they work for Roskosmos. We Russians are in need of good personnel.
PS. Vatnik is a derogatory term for a person incurably poisoned with Soviet Communist propaganda ("vatnik" was a jacket with cotton heat insulation worn by Soviet soldiers and inmates). Kolorad is a derogatory term for Donetsk rebels due to similarity of their insignia to a back of Colorado beetle.
I'd like to make a BESM-6 emulator with PIC18. But nobody knows it's privileged instructions for now which means that it's impossible to recreate it fully.
Same for me. But you could install a memory rack over the i/o rack in processor box and find a HDD controller instead of removable packet drives. It would give you an usable PDP-11 in a half-height 19-inch rack (Processor/memory, FDD and HDD in it, magtape controller). I fed my PDP-11 from a simple outlet while the electricians invented the special attachment.
When my first PDP-11/70-like arrived I just took a random book from it's dox. After 2 hours of reading I got a terrible headache, threw RSTS away and installed Unix v.6. It was needed to make a binary patch of Fortran-4 compiler to make it understand Russian but we made a really useful system. We had 5 terminals and forgot about the machine time allocation sheets. And students who did the graduation practice printed their graduation works with printers, not with mechanical types. It was a little victory.
The time allocation sheets went back when IBM PC arrived (1988). It was a good eye candy not applicable to anything serious. And only about 1998 IBM PC became powerful enough to replace the PDP-11.
Oh, the paper tape... When I was a Comsomol member there were FS-1500 tape readers made in Chechoslovakia. They were really high speed - 1500 bytes per second. The tape just flew through them nonstop. When the first Western readers arrived (made in Poland by US license), they were slow as snails. But the Western tape punchers were really good.
1. He may be the support personnel. If so he must be available 24/7. The office is not a variant.
2. He may need a remote desktop. If so he needs a low ping. The satellite is not a variant.
But the office half mile away where he has a broadband and where he installs a WiFi bridge to his home is a variant.
One of my available providers is a local equivalent of your American Starbucks. It's located half a mile away. No idea about the clear line of sight. I tested a link with a 90-cm dish and Ubiquiti Rocket, then put it aside due to 4 other working uplinks.
Just describe the situation in writing and request them to install either U-verse or DSL according to their own choice immediately. Do it with registered letter with proof of delivery. Correct bureaucracy makes wonders.
No thanks. I've already seen a CXO shipped from Canada to Siberia. He worked OK during the good times but during the bad ones he managed to get rid of half of the critical staff thinking that he would rehire them after the crisis. It didn't happen. He was educated that the workforce is replaceable. It isn't.
So, if Alaskans were facing all (or any?) of those evils, you feel, Russian invasion into Alaska would've been justified?
No. It would be justified only when 1) Kenyans and Havaiians overtake the USA power and begin a real massacre of white Alaskans with slogans such as "Kto ne skache toy eskimos! Eskimyaku na gilyaku!" (The one who does not jump is Eskimo. Hang the Eskimos!) and 2) There is a request from Alaskans for help. You understand that it's a quite fantastic situation.
And BTW. There are afaik no Ukrainian schools in Crimea but there are 20 totally Ukrainian classes in Russian schools. And it's enough for a Russian-speaking region. But Crimean Tatar language is on the rise, with 50 more schools being built. Which is understandable since Russian, Ukrainian and Tatar languages are state languages there. Now compare it with German language in North Dakota.
I'd like to think that there were 3 stages of Russian capitalism:
1) Wild capitalism where everybody wanted to steal. It ended about 2000.
2) The bureaucratic system where the task to sell Russia and transfer money to USA was a priority, and Putin being not an absolute dictator would give bureaucracy a limited right to steal in exchange to loyalty. It ended with Magnitsky affair when USA gave a clear signal that Russians will not be allowed to incorporate their money to the Western economy. We Russians should be thankful to USA for this signal.
3) The bureaucratic system with the task to entrench itself in Russia.
It has been successfully shown that ALL so called "corruption fighters" are not independent entities. All they have got some money from Uncle Sam. They may be innocent old women that fight the corrupt local major and don't know who helps them with some petty money but all these transactions are traced to Uncle Sam.
And the last; Ukraine. It was NOT Russia who began a Donbass war. It was a local Russian movement that falsely believed that Russia will do for them what she did for Crimeans. And Putin possibly had not enough balls to help them with anything except humanitarian convoys. (My opinion is that Putin simply waits the USA-induced transformation of Ukraine goes to the logical end. It's his style).
Real cosmetics.
Have your US federal powers done to Alaskans so much evil that Alaskans should want to secede? You are not required to speak Kenyan or Hawaiian, to serve in army where commands are given in Kenyan, to write official letters in Havaiian, to meet schoolchildren from schools where they are told that their Kenyan-Havaiian ancestors dug the Pacific, and so on (You understand). Why should you invite the polite men?