The Russians only attained their firsts through sheer attrition.
What the fuck does that even mean? Are you such an ignorant hillbilly dumbfuck propagandized American that you think that the Russians only got to space by launching millions of men on giant catapults, hoping a few of them would make it?
Do you even know who Sergei Korolev is, you ignorant dumbshit? He's only, you know, the genius engineer who PUT MANKIND INTO SPACE!!
Do you even know that the Russian space program had almost every first in the space race? First satellite, first man in space, and dozens of others--all done while your American scientists were having to desperately beg some former Nazi to teach them even the basics of astronautics. Did you know that Russians built the first robotic rovers, sent the first space probes to other planets, built and launched the first space station? Probably not, since that's not covered on American Idol or Monday Night Football.
Go back to masturbating to Rambo movies and eating Cheetos, you dumb fucktard. The adults are talking.
Who cares how many years it spans - it's the number of flights that matters.
Yeah, convenient way to ignore the fact that to find the last Russian space fatality you have to go back over 40 years, whereas NASA space shuttles were blowing up as recently as 2003.
Yes, the fact that Russia has had a spotless record for over 40 years is completely irrelevant. What matters is that they had two fatal accidents in the 1960's.That makes them somehow worse, or at least no better than, a space agency that fatal accidents in 1986 and 2003.
The point is that nothing about their survived hours in flight paints a picture of the Russians being wildly more successful in that regard.
No, but the fact that Russia had almost every space first in the 1960's and 70's DOES paints a picture of an agency that has well-earned and deserves respect. You would think that the fact that Americans have to beg Russia for a ride to ISS these days would at least make Americans inclined to treat the Russian space program with a little of that respect. But never underestimate the self-aggrandizing delusion of the average American, or the lingering effect of bullshit Cold War propaganda on that national psyche. In American movies, the U.S. is still the king of space. In real life, you can't even put a human in low earth orbit anymore.
Yeah, those Russians are so shitty at technology. That's why they've had almost every space "first" and are the only nation on earth still consistently capable of sending men into space (and with an almost spotless cosmonaut safety record for the last 40 years, unlike some other nations).
Because, ironically, they function under the assumption that girls and women are so weak-willed and fragile that even the slightest obstacle can forever dissuade them from pursuing their passion. They also have the patronizing assumption that no woman would ever choose to be a programmer unless she's somehow goaded into it.
Yeah, but this browser is robust, and innovative, and refreshing, and exciting, and some other PR buzzwords that are supposed to make us give a flying fuck.
I remember being so blown away by OS2/Warp's ability to multi-task so many applications at once, with such a clean UI. That was in the Windows 3.11 days, before Win95 changed everything. I had a friend who migrated to OS2, and I was seriously considering it myself. But in the end, I decided to wait for Win95. I think if OS2/Warp had come out just a little earlier and gotten more promotion in non-geek circles, it may have become the dominant OS and we would be looking at a very different desktop landscape today.
I see, because he robbed a store, he is automatically allowed to be killed by a fascist pig?
No, he was allowed to be killed because he tried to grab the cop's gun when they struggled in the police car, then charged back at the cop after he initially ran away. All of which is supported quite clearly not only by the cop's testimony, but also by the physical evidence and the testimony of several witnesses (and disputed only by a few other witnesses, some of whom were proven to not have even been there at the time). Unless you think the cop somehow staged a faked fight in the car, faked the clear a blood trail with Michael Brown's actual blood, and staged all the shell cases--and all without a single person seeing him do it in the middle of a public street.
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You're imagining monsters where none exist. The only scary thing here is your paranoid delusions.
Which side are you talking about? Because that could apply to either of them.
Sure, okay. Whatever helps you soothe that American butthurt.
Hey, could you tell Putin that?
Sure, right after you clue in the vast majority of red state Americans--who are still furiously masturbating to their VHS copies of Red Dawn.
Democrats asked for this loophole first... now they want to remove it?
Once it became public the "lobbyist campaign donations vs. potential public backlash" equation changed.
Because idiots need it literally spelled out for them. And since legislators, and most of their constituents, are idiots...
But then how would we get to participate in fake surveys?
Nope. If you're going to go third-party soda, go Cheerwine.
The oxygen slows down the bits.
Go ask Vladimir Komarov about his thoughts regarding the Soviet's concern for cosmonaut safety.
I'm too busy waiting to speak to 14 NASA astronauts since 1986 who seem surprisingly reluctant to talk on the subject of NASA's safety record.
The Russians only attained their firsts through sheer attrition.
What the fuck does that even mean? Are you such an ignorant hillbilly dumbfuck propagandized American that you think that the Russians only got to space by launching millions of men on giant catapults, hoping a few of them would make it?
Do you even know who Sergei Korolev is, you ignorant dumbshit? He's only, you know, the genius engineer who PUT MANKIND INTO SPACE!!
Do you even know that the Russian space program had almost every first in the space race? First satellite, first man in space, and dozens of others--all done while your American scientists were having to desperately beg some former Nazi to teach them even the basics of astronautics. Did you know that Russians built the first robotic rovers, sent the first space probes to other planets, built and launched the first space station? Probably not, since that's not covered on American Idol or Monday Night Football.
Go back to masturbating to Rambo movies and eating Cheetos, you dumb fucktard. The adults are talking.
Who cares how many years it spans - it's the number of flights that matters.
Yeah, convenient way to ignore the fact that to find the last Russian space fatality you have to go back over 40 years, whereas NASA space shuttles were blowing up as recently as 2003.
Yes, the fact that Russia has had a spotless record for over 40 years is completely irrelevant. What matters is that they had two fatal accidents in the 1960's.That makes them somehow worse, or at least no better than, a space agency that fatal accidents in 1986 and 2003.
The point is that nothing about their survived hours in flight paints a picture of the Russians being wildly more successful in that regard.
No, but the fact that Russia had almost every space first in the 1960's and 70's DOES paints a picture of an agency that has well-earned and deserves respect. You would think that the fact that Americans have to beg Russia for a ride to ISS these days would at least make Americans inclined to treat the Russian space program with a little of that respect. But never underestimate the self-aggrandizing delusion of the average American, or the lingering effect of bullshit Cold War propaganda on that national psyche. In American movies, the U.S. is still the king of space. In real life, you can't even put a human in low earth orbit anymore.
Umm, you DO know, don't you, that the Russians lost two capsules full of men in ~120 flights, right?
Umm, you DO know what 40 years is, don't you?
Geez, that's some scary shit. Now *there's* a story actually worthy of being on Slashdot.
Yeah, those Russians are so shitty at technology. That's why they've had almost every space "first" and are the only nation on earth still consistently capable of sending men into space (and with an almost spotless cosmonaut safety record for the last 40 years, unlike some other nations).
'Merica!! USA! USA! USA!!
It annoys me that there were probably some boys out there who REALLY care about programming who didn't get to participate in this contest.
SJW's applaud documentary that shows teenage girls giggling and acting vacuous instead of actually learning and accomplishing something.
Way to advance the cause, dipshits. Now people are SURE to take women coders seriously.
Because, ironically, they function under the assumption that girls and women are so weak-willed and fragile that even the slightest obstacle can forever dissuade them from pursuing their passion. They also have the patronizing assumption that no woman would ever choose to be a programmer unless she's somehow goaded into it.
It's great that some interested girls got to learn some stuff. It's not so great that some interested boys didn't.
post 9/11, a knife would not be an effective weapon for highjacking a plane.
Even a gun wouldn't help a hijacker now, unless you can get into the cockpit.
And Britain's broad anti-slander/anti-libel laws.
Day before release: "Oh I wonder what famous, powerful and influential people will be outed?!?"
Day of release: ".....Wait, this list just looks like a bunch of poor redneck nobodies."
No privacy policy and no adblocker = No sale, chick.
Yeah, but this browser is robust, and innovative, and refreshing, and exciting, and some other PR buzzwords that are supposed to make us give a flying fuck.
I remember being so blown away by OS2/Warp's ability to multi-task so many applications at once, with such a clean UI. That was in the Windows 3.11 days, before Win95 changed everything. I had a friend who migrated to OS2, and I was seriously considering it myself. But in the end, I decided to wait for Win95. I think if OS2/Warp had come out just a little earlier and gotten more promotion in non-geek circles, it may have become the dominant OS and we would be looking at a very different desktop landscape today.
I see, because he robbed a store, he is automatically allowed to be killed by a fascist pig?
No, he was allowed to be killed because he tried to grab the cop's gun when they struggled in the police car, then charged back at the cop after he initially ran away. All of which is supported quite clearly not only by the cop's testimony, but also by the physical evidence and the testimony of several witnesses (and disputed only by a few other witnesses, some of whom were proven to not have even been there at the time). Unless you think the cop somehow staged a faked fight in the car, faked the clear a blood trail with Michael Brown's actual blood, and staged all the shell cases--and all without a single person seeing him do it in the middle of a public street.