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  1. Hmm, some thing not right here in your comment. Did you reply me?
    I sought an example of "blaming Russians", and "don't believe in Russian fakes/propaganda" anytime when someone did something wrong! Here is, Polish nationalist shouted "Kill all Ukrainians", "Death to Ukrainians", etc.
    It's an example of "Fake news is likely to be on the both side" as the OP.
    Oh, if you know history, you must know that Bandera's UPA massacred Polish in WWII, so my comment is reasonable here. It explained the action of Polish nationalists.
    I don't care about Czech did what to Roman women here, are you trolling?

    PS: I don't know why you mentioned Right Sector and LDPR, but by the way, Right Sector is a bandit rather than party. Also, look at another far right "MPs" do their job (this case Svoboda):
    Violent video: Ukraine TV boss beaten up, forced to resign by far-right Svoboda MPs
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
    In this video, the man who beat the TV boss was ironically, the deputy head of Ukraine’s committee on freedom of speech. And, how dare such a small "party" could do this? The general prosecutor at this time was also Svoboda member.
    Meanwhile, Vladimir Zhirinovsky is Russian version of Trump.
    Comparing either Right Sector or Svoboda to LDPR is nonsense!

  2. Fake news is likely to be on both sides.

    That is, things are always NOT simple as black and white, as MSM, and some people here try to paint.
    Recently, the Poles nationalists shouted slogans against Ukrainians, and a day later Poland quickly blamed Russia for this.
    So, Yushchenko pro-Western president in 2004, granted Bandera "Hero of Ukraine", and Poroshenko pro-Western president in 2016, renamed "Moscow Avenue" to "Bandera Avenue", which more or less have raised the long, hidden conflicts between Ukraine-Poland are also Russian hybridwar?

    Note: for another perspective, the difference between Time magazine 2016 and 1996?
    1996: Yanks to the rescue. The secret story of how American advisers helped Yeltsin win

    For four months, a group of American political consultants clandestinely participated in guiding Yeltsin's campaign. Here is the inside story of how these advisers helped Yeltsin achieve the victory that will keep reform in Russia alive.

    2016: Russia Wants to Undermine Faith in the US Election Don't Fall for It

  3. Re:Poor cubans on Google Global Cache Is Coming to Cuba (ap.org) · · Score: 4, Insightful
    Unlike N.Korea, which is a black hole of informations, so everyone can say everything about this country.
    But, for the case of Cuba, there are tons of tourists here, so one want to say somethings must be 'careful'. Even the 'Reporters without border', despite painted Cuba in black color, but could not deny that:
    http://web.archive.org/web/201...

    At the Correos de Cuba and the hotels, you have access to practically all news websites such as lemonde.fr, bbc.com, El Nuevo Herald (a Miami-based Spanish-language daily) and even to dissident sites. This is also the case for government employees with a computer and Internet access.

    “I haven’t opened Granma for years,” says Luis, who works for the culture ministry. “I get my news from Google and the BBC website and I have never had any problem getting to websites operated by government opponents.
    In fact, of all the news stories I wanted to read on the Internet, only one has been blocked.

    I do not say that Cuba has freedom of informations, when it's a totalitarian regime. But, saying that Cubans have limited access Internet because of Chinese-style informations filter is not correct:
    * they don't have this kind of technology. Also, in fact, the Great Firewall does not works perfectly, I used Internet inside this curtain, and it's extreme annoying. That's why Chinese have been paying much money for VPN, proxy for accessing Internet outside.
    * The main reason for this (limited access Internet in Cuba) is the price, the bandwidth.

  4. oil/gas/weapons/prostitute exports

    Update your data, it's outdated!
    Food exports to reached a record $20 billion in 2015, more than the country earned from arms sales.

  5. Re:MS security sucks, dog bites man, water is wet on Microsoft Update Servers Left All Azure RHEL Instances Hackable (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    MS security sucks, dog bites man, water is wet, and the sky is Azure (no clouds) - FTFY

  6. Sounds familiar? on Crowdsourced Volunteers Search For Solutions To Fake News (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1
    2013 - Head of Xinhua says Western media pushing revolution in China

    Western media organizations are trying to demonize China and promote revolution and national disintegration as they hate seeing the country prosper...
    ...reminding state media of its responsibility to promote a "correct political direction"
    China also needed to combat the distorted view the Western media...
    Li called on mainstream Chinese media to refute "untruthful reports"...

    July 5, 2016 - ‘Fake’ News From Social Media Now Banned in China

    The use of social media as a source of news has become a fixture in the United States—scrolling Twitter feeds appear next to news anchors, and tips from Facebook regularly result in television coverage. But not in China.
    The Chinese Communist Party has recently created a new regulation that describes information from social media as “fake news” and “rumors,” effectively banning its use as a source of information, lest serious consequences follow.

    Jul 4, 2016 - China To Crack Down On Fake News From Social Media Amid Rumor-Mongering

  7. Re:Classic over-engineering. on Long-Range Projectiles For Navy's Newest Ship Too Expensive To Shoot (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    the corruption foisted upon them by their pro-Russian "leaders"

    Oh, how coincided that today, Saakashvili resigned, and said something many non-brainwashed Ukrainian people already known:
    https://www.theguardian.com/wo...

    “What difference for Ukrainians does it make who will treat them like dirt: Poroshenko or Yanukovych; what difference who will steal from them?”

  8. Re:Classic over-engineering. on Long-Range Projectiles For Navy's Newest Ship Too Expensive To Shoot (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    limited choice

    Exactly!
    After an election that ended the 'Orange Revolution', Ukrainians had a joke:

    - Hey, there are good and bad news!
    - The good one!?
    - Julia (Tymoshenko) loses!
    - ...and the bad one!
    - Yanukovych wins!

  9. Re:Nice to see the West pulling tricks from the on Russia Today: NatWest To Close Russian Channel's UK Bank Accounts (bbc.com) · · Score: 1

    The announcement to resign of Liz Wahl was lived air, without being interrupted. And, RT claimed that she is a "mole", just staged a plan to show RT is a propaganda network.
    Another reporter, but less of attention is Abby Martin, because she did not resign and RT did not fire her.

  10. Re:Nice to see the West pulling tricks from the on Russia Today: NatWest To Close Russian Channel's UK Bank Accounts (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Talk about CNN, I see funny when CNN edited an interview with RT's Anissa Naouai, in which CNN’s Amanpour definitely planted to show her "guest" is a fool. Forget about "freedom ranking", I saw here is Anissa was much more open, transparent and smarter than Amanpour.

  11. Re:Them on 'Safe' Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Explodes in China (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    Ha ha, in fact, Samsung, and Korea techs companies have history tied with Russian/E.European professionals/scientists. They transformed from low quality outsourcing for Japanese to hightech country with Russian "helps".

  12. Re:Took them long to start building something of f on Vladimir Putin Is Replacing Microsoft Programs With Domestic Software (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1
  13. Re:Let me foresee what will happen... on Vladimir Putin Is Replacing Microsoft Programs With Domestic Software (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Base on RT's article, the replacement is MyOffice, a cloud-based, similar to Office 365, running on browsers or as standalone applications for Window, Android, iOS.

  14. Re:Stealth on Japan Plans To Build Unmanned Fighter Jets (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Of course, the sanction have some effects (such as, some technologies instead of buying/corporation with, e.g. France, now they must develop themselves). But not terrible as media showed, such as, the foods price, or people being starved. Their agriculture booms, and surpassed the weapons industry.
    As I said, some report tried to show that Russians have cut "something" in dollars, not in rouble - which is weaker in recent years.

    If you read Russian (I don't but I read using Yandex/Google translator), I could say that Russian technologies are underrated. Of course, they acknowledged that they are behind Western in many areas, or are "reinventing the wheel", but the progress is very positive.
    China is a different story, Russia is likely, they have know-how but lack of motive (but, not now with sanctions) and money. China have motives and money but lack some key technologies that could not fill without "great leap-forward", such as, they have tried to develop jet engine for more than 30 years but the result is still in doubt.

    About Armata, OK, one of them got glitch. But I see the broader scene, the consequence of Armata is the merger of two famous German and French tank manufactures.

    About PAK-FA, in 80's-90's, not mention the budget of Russia after the collapse of Soviet. The mindset of Soviet airforce was protect the land, they needed super fast fighters, not somethings stealthy enter enemy base and drop bombs. All the Soviet bombers/fighters followed this trend.
    In fact when Russian began to develop "5th" fighter plane, here is what they think:
    1) for protect "motherland", 5th fighters are not needed.
    2) Russia is a #2 arms exporter, they need to keep their market/buyers
    3) does not want to fall behind in technology.

    The deadline of development only move to 2020 for Indian version for mass production. It said that in early 2009 they would introduced three prototype, but then actually in early 2010, by traditional Soviet fighter producing process, it took about 5 years from maiden flight to final product, and they would test with new engine with the prototype when everything is OK.

  15. Re:Stealth on Japan Plans To Build Unmanned Fighter Jets (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Much of Russia's military struggles for funding

    If you count in dollar, not in rouble.
    If Russia could not produce things inside the country, that is the problem with their budget!

    or their struggle to bring tanks like the Armata or planes like the MiG-35 into full production

    Armata introduced last year.
    Mikoyan has problem because Sukhoi has been doing better both on domestic and foreign market. And, MiG is a kind of light fighter, which has less demand today.

  16. Re: Stealth on Japan Plans To Build Unmanned Fighter Jets (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    Hanoi, Hai Phong, Nam Dinh were all destroyed during bombing operators. HCM trail have no civilian target.
    John McCain was shot down while bombing a lightbulb factory.

    It's misleading that Vietnam war was a guerrilla warfare, in fact it's was serial of battles to capture/defense positions, areas, with participation of large number of soldiers and weapons, between U.S and NVA (not VC).
    There's a myth of U.S military won all battles but lost due to politics.
    Also, there's problem with statistic, such as using "body counting" as a measure of "victory".

  17. Re:Why curse? Just codify your style... on Linus Torvalds In Sweary Rant About Punctuation In Kernel Comments (theregister.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    Why wouldn't he simply codify his preferences?

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/Doc...

    Chapter 8: Commenting
    ....
    When commenting the kernel API functions, please use the kernel-doc format.
    See the files Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt and scripts/kernel-doc for details.

  18. Re:Digusting brown nosing by Twitter's managament on Twitter Ignites Censorship Debate After Removal Of Parody Putin Account (thenextweb.com) · · Score: 1, Interesting

    Everyone know they are satire.

    Not everyone, at least Euronews, with screenshot:
    http://www.themoscowtimes.com/...

    Euronews had mistakenly used an image from a fake Twitter account for Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov in one of its TV reports

  19. Not only Sci-hub, libgen (Library genesis) - Iran, China, India, Russia and USA also are the top visitors. But, there is some differences in details (as, I know):

    China: While there are hundreds sites in China for sharing stuffs, but they are not really "free". They are either required real money (of course, less than amount of money you buy "legal" books) or you must earn points to download. So, that is why Chinese prefer sci-hub/libgen.

    Russia: It seems that Russians now more and more like to read English papers/books than before. As I remember, India was in rank #2 before, because Russians have many free sources for Russian stuffs, not just libgen.

    Iran: Always on the top, no matter it's once-famous library.nu (ebooksclub) or libgen.

  20. Re: It's all relative on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Yeah, yeah! You are right! ;)
    You don't know about Vietnam, I do, why? I had visited there.
    You think you know about Cuba. Why? You read USA's news paper.

  21. Re:It's all relative on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1
    Haha, traditional approach, when I ask for references and citations, you quickly change to insulted method.
    All your "definitions" is no where in Marx's books, you don't know about German Socialism, etc. I don't know why I have such patience to talk to you.
    Cash is *special* product. Itself has no value but is agreed that it's acted as a measure of value, as medium of economic exchange (Britannica Concise). How it's a product, as dollar for example, in theory, if USA print more dollars, its *value* (the value it presents, not *its* value) will be devalued. But because dollar dominates the world monetary system, then every bank must buy dollar for exchange. So the demand of dollar is always high.

    Good luck trying to convince some other fool; if you're lucky you'll find somebody ignorant of history, and he'll follow you.

    Good tip! You know it best!

  22. Re:It's all relative on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    Typo:
    ...based on 'trust',...

  23. Re:It's all relative on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1
    No you actually don't know about Marx or Socialism. There are differences between them, there books for you to read.
    German Socialism, before Marx, not National Socialism.

    Marx's socialism was virtually identical to USSR socialism

    Citation is need.

    Second of all, Karl Marx is wrong

    I don't know, you don't either.
    It's practical systems propose by, for example, Stalin was failed.
    The same to say Alan Smith was wrong because there was never "free market" system because who operate capitalistic system was failed to operate this.

    Cash had no value, of course the real value of cash is the material that made it. A banana is a banana, you could trade it to have a banana or equivalent. But once cash was devalued it could be the same as toilet paper. Also, my Mexican example just show that nearly identical workers' products have different value, just show how cash value is affected by government. If there is "one world government", or Mexico is part of USA, suddenly those two workers have the same "value".
    Yes, cash is special product, which means it's also affect by "market", but it is the mostly government controlled.

    Also, the advanced model of 'cash' is credit. Credit is based on 'truth', has value of the thing you are 'trusted' to produce in near future. It has no actual value.

  24. Re: It's all relative on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1
    In the book - Red brotherhood at wars, stated that other countries feared sanctions, so they don't mess with America to do business with Vietnam.
    BNP Paribas proves that if you deal with those countries you have no chance to work with USA.

    they have similar restrictions...

    No, I was there.
    Another slashdoter comment:
    https://tech.slashdot.org/comm...

    Here I've got no issues at all. Almost nothing is blocked and my VPNs are never blocked at all. I can dial into the USA and watch netflix no problem.
    Oh, and I have a person 45mb fiber line for $40 a month. It rocks.

    Your report throws a 404 error and is thus unreadable.

    Webarchive

    Either you fail at English or you fail at logic

    OK, I intended to put in ", quote marks, which quoted your phrase "forbidden".
    The restriction, forget it, you don't read the report.
    The high price: 1 connection, slow, not everyone allows to use this *everyday*, only universities have priority to use this. Or, satellite connection, I said before, expensive.
    When I went to Vietnam, the connection here was *very slow*, they share cdroms which contained contents download from Internet, not because of restrictions.

  25. Re:It's all relative on A Majority Of Millennials Now Reject Capitalism, Poll Shows (washingtonpost.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it is not capitalist. Capitalist means that prices are governed by the forces of supply and demand. Socialism means that everything is decided centrally by the local governing authority, whether that's a dictator or "the community", which means that everybody effectively is a government employee, and the government also decides prices and supply. Just because it has an actual currency doesn't mean it's capitalist; that's a pretty elementary mistake.

    Your definition about socialism is so strange. Which socialism? German Socialism or Marx's Socialism, or other socialism which you mentioned here? If this Marx's socialism, it is communism as Marx's definition, which has no government.
    Also, the author, base on definition of Marx, which prove Soviet was actually capitalistic state, capitalism is organized around the concept of capital - the ownership and control of the means of production by those who employ workers to produce goods and services in exchange for wages. No mater individual or government, who control and own the means of production, who not produce goods - workers, are sights of capitalism.

    Now about your definition about capitalism. Price is about cash. Cash was invented for trading, in which cash has no value itself. A Mexican worker on the border of Mexico-America earns - in peso, less than the immigrated Mexican worker on the American-Mexico border, who earns in dollar. Because cash's value is fixed in Mexico is different to USA, but the *REAL* price of the product these two workers produce are the same, but is different in peso and dollar. That is governments and their center banks *indirectly* or *directly* affect the 'price'.