Remember BNP Paribas, was punished for violated sanctions. Yes, Cuba is only sanctioned by one country, the most powerful country which dominates the world's monetary system.
If you don't believe, read "Red brotherhood at wars", which showed after the Vietnam War, Vietnam actively opened the economy and tried to make relations with Western countries, but feared of sanction by USA, only France provide several thousand dollars.
About Mexico, you don't understand? One of the most corrupted government and a capitalist country. OK, can I list other capitalist countries?
About the internet cable, the same sanctioned policy affect here. You can't trade with Cuba.
And, It seems that you don't read the report, or try not to understand. The report claimed Cuba restricts internet connection as a dictatorial country would do, as one knew about the "Iron Curtain".
Forbidden for everyday citizens because they have limited resource or expensive satellite option.
Exactly:
Remind me the critic of Socialist party of Great Britain about Stalin's system in 1936: http://www.worldsocialism.org/...
In the article, it showed Stalin just used "socialism" to cover the system that serve the interest of leaders, and leaded to corruptions.
and another one in 1931, which prove Stalinist system was in fact a capitalist state, which was slave-system that workers served the "communist leaders": http://www.worldsocialism.org/...
The wage-labour system in Russian State industries, like the system here and elsewhere, is a system of Slavery. The spread of piece-work will intensify the slavery ; it will enable the "Communist" rulers to squeeze more surplus-produce out of Russian workers
And, Marx claimed that capitalism has "historical mission" to change system of production, which when at highest level, become 'communism'. (Note: in Marx theory, there is no step 'socialism', it's invented by Stalin).
Hence, the credit system accelerates the material development of the productive forces and the establishment of the world-market. It is the historical mission of the capitalist system of production to raise these material foundations of the new mode of production to a certain degree of perfection.
Every time there's a capitalism vs socialism, each time comparisons like those appear. The problem is they are flawed, likely a fighting between a man with a handcuffed one.
Cuba:
what if Cuba was not sanctioned? How about Cuba's capitalist neighbors if they were in the same situation (be sanctioned) as Cuba. How corrupted Mexico, where cops killed and abducted students, and criminal gangs can kill any one?
The same as the state of Cuba internet, they can't connect to any one except Venezuela or use expensive satellite connection: https://www.newscientist.com/d...
But every time news mention Cuba, they state that Cuba restrict their connection, the fact is, RSF report - even the report tried to blame to Cuba government, but they can't deny: http://www.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/rap...
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.
North Korea:
I don't know what really happens in N. Korea. All I know that I hate Kim Jr Il hair style, his chubby face the same as I hate gangnam-style. But, while some N. Korea stories seem to be a propaganda's productions, the horrible stories about S. Korea are real: they covered mass killings, abuse, for "preparation for Olympic 1988", or disable-slaves in salt farms, which:
Although 50 island farm owners and regional job brokers were indicted, national police say no local police or officials will face punishment, despite multiple interviews showing some knew about the slaves and even stopped escape attempts.
Vietnam:
this country just got out of wars in 1991.
That is why those are CAS.
The fighter plane must be slow and low when your troops and an enemy troops are so closed, and by advantage of CAS you could attack the enemy right after the airstrikes.
At low speed, the CAS airplane could turn around and repeatedly harass the enemy.
That is why when India to choose between Mikoyan and Rafale for their multirole fighters, they choose Rafale because they could flight at slower speed and lower. So, India doesn't need another CAS fighters. (Russians have Su-25 for this, they don't need MiG)
...and it's annoying that, if you be banned your comments' history will be gone also, they are vapored without any warning. I were one of the 'victims'.
And, after that I found out many readers have the same problems with this 'moderation system', no matter they are left or right, and they joke that 'CiF (Comment is Free, is what The Guardian call their comment section), but some comments are freer.
And, their 'community standard' is very obscure, while some personal attacks are still there, some normal debates were deleted. When I demanded they show how I violated the rules (yes, with "please"), they deleted my comment also.
It's not that I'm whining, I'll be fine that I must respect the 'rules', I will be OK if, 'you violated 'Section 1, clause 3', so your comment was deleted', but in The Guardian there is no rule. It's likely the moderators delete comments they don't like.
It was a success because people far more talented than he was were willing to support an idea
How he earned this support? By luck?
a fucking tool for acting like a CEO
What the... with this statement. This man may (of course) not invent everything, he is of course not the most talented, but he definitely know stuffs he put in the kernel, and know how to do this very good (many of Slashdot users seem to agree that such "ruthless" Linus to be, is the reason why Linux is successful). If he such a tool, unlike a company, some other "more talented" people just fork the kernel and many other talents will follow the new ones.
and attempting to take all the credit for the millions of man-hours of work donated by other people.
You could track who has contributed to Linux kernel. How Linus "attempts to take all credits".
Unlike CEOs, who "invented" X, "designed" Y, and no one knows who the fuck actually done for them.
“If one knows how to treasure oneself, one should protect oneself well.”
-The Buddha (Dhammapada)
Secondly, by theory of original Buddhism (Theravada), there is no 'God', of course no 'Saint', you are by what you have done (karma). By that logic, even if one promotes you 'martyr' is nothing, no matter if you kill yourself or kill others.
Those immolated-monks, may be hundreds, but they are no 'Saint', or 'Martyr', they chose this way themselves, "when one’s karmic retribution is not exhausted, death by suicide only leads to another cycle of rebirth"
In Buddhism, there is no 'martyr', that is they don't encourage for 'be ready to die for your religion'.
Monk like the ones mentioned in the article will have karma 'Terrible' and his life will be buried in '-1: Redundant' mod.
Kozen Sampson, a Buddhist monk and co-founder of the Trout Lake Abbey retreat, said he was attacked Monday during a visit to Hood River.
He doesn't remember much, but says a man, who seemingly thought he was Muslim based on his clothing, attacked him for no reason. ....
But instead of anger and hatred towards that man, Sampson said he only feels forgiveness and compassion.
Hospitals in opposition-held parts of Syria are refusing to share GPS coordinates with Russian and Syrian authorities because of repeated attacks on medical facilities and workers, Médecins Sans Frontières and humanitarian workers on the ground have said.
“Given the number of hospitals that have been bombed since the war started, they do not think [giving GPS coordinates] is going to protect them, rather the opposite,” another official said.
Don't let the title fool you. The WHOLE article does NOT have a word, or phrase suggest that they STOP provide GPS coordinates to Russia AFTER the incident. In fact, as the quote, they have never provided the data.
Further details: http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-g...
The charity, also known by its French acronym MSF, says repeated attacks against health facilities during Syria's five-year civil war have led medical staffers to ask the group not to provide the GPS coordinates of some sites. This was the case of the makeshift clinic run by the charity in the Syrian town of Maaret al-Numan, which was hit four times in attacks on Monday, killing at least 25 people.
No, may be your ISP block this site.
Here is their message I received 2 months ago:
URGENT! The blocking of Sci-Hub domains is ongoing. It is very likely that soon sci-hub.io address will stop working.
Yes, we have another addresses to move on. But there is a better solution. You can simply specify 31.184.194.81 as one of your DNS servers in your computer network settings. Any domain will work then regardless of any blocking
How to do this? There is an instruction available for OpenDNS, however you can use it for Sci-Hub too. Just type in 31.184.194.81 instead of 208.67.222.222
'free ticket', 'free food', 'free movies' could not make some poor one become new Einstein but 'free book' does. Imagine every poor kids could have free education, attend the same school as you and perform much more excellent in studying than you (this system exists in.e.g, Scandinavian countries), then the world is much better place.
While some excellent scientists or students from 'third world' are 'pirated' by more wealthy countries, while these home countries paid the cost to train them. Yes, the world is benefited, because of by moving to better places these people could do better for their careers (and the world). You may have no problem with this, don't you?
Otherwise, in 'third world' (foreign) books, documents for studying either very expensive and/or are hard to reach. Not everyone could afford to go abroad to study, not mention rich kids, only the brightest *may* have a chance.
Free eduction, free books,... let people have equal opportunity not something like 'free travel' or 'free hotel' you mentioned.
Yeah, it's true that Assange spread this misinformation, the same Assange convinced Snowden to flee to Russia instead of S. America.
But, it doesn't change the fact that *some one* forced to ground and searched airplane of a PRESIDENT of a country by that information. Assange use this misinformation to prove the fact that (reposted):
The story, by Greg Miller, recounts daily meetings with senior officials from the FBI, CIA, and State Department, all desperately trying to come up with ways to capture Snowden. One official told Miller: “We were hoping he was going to be stupid enough to get on some kind of airplane, and then have an ally say: ‘You’re in our airspace. Land.’ ” He wasn’t. And since he disappeared into Russia, the US seems to have lost all trace of him.
Millions, of course, most of them immigrated after Soviet's breakup. That's about 1 million Jewish-Russians went to Israel.
Now, with the data of 2014: http://imrussia.org/en/analysi...
first eight months of 2014, 203.6 thousand people left Russia
It seems that 200 thousands Russians not just only in Moscow.
The Problem with Statistics
Despite Rosstat’s statistics and heated debates around pro-emigration tendencies in the media, nobody knows the exact number of people leaving Russia. IMR’s discussions with experts have demonstrated that it is impossible to calculate even an approximate number.
Why?
The first problem consists in a lack of accuracy in the methods used. The sudden surge in the number of emigrants recorded by Rosstat was caused by the fact that in 2011, the Federal Migration Service introduced changes to the methodology it uses to count migrants and has since been also counting foreigners who register for a stay of nine months or more (before, foreign citizens were considered migrants if they spent more than twelve months in the country). According to the online newspaper Meduza, the “higher overall number influenced the data on those leaving the country—the Federal Migration Service considers any foreigners whose registration has expired as ‘persons who left the Russian Federation.’ This is why Rosstat [statistics] that use data provided by the Federal Migration Service registered an incredible increase in emigration from 37 thousand to 123 thousand people a year.”
As the parent post pointed out:
They don't have the expertise, technology, or infrastructure. Russia has all of those.
Sanction of course have negative side, the most visible one is the foreign investment. But it's also have positive, just look at the CAD/CAM area, when Russian scientists have done significant contributions to the world, but Russia could not have (competitive) one, even Chinese, did later but better at gaining marketshare:
http://www.3dcadworld.com/russ...
After the sanction, Russian government seriously considers to support domestic vendors (CAD/CAM). The same with stagnated homegrow microprocessors, now they accelerate the industry and introduces several chips, new Elbrus, and Bailkal based on ARM. Robotic and military components project was years without progress, and they made a surprise in Syria. They introduces Kamaz autonomous truck, before the Chinese and Korea. Now what?
When after Soviet was breakup, in 1997, MIR had accident when Progress ship was manually controlled by Tsibliev to dock, hit the station. Because, Russia had no money to pay 2 million $ to Ukraine for autonomous docking system.
This country is doomed.
Russians have already paid dearly for the annexation of Crimea and for the war in Ukraine
The video above was made by Navalny, he is a national populist. He is himself claim that if he is president, Crimea will be part of Russia.
Remind me Masha Gessen, who bashes Putin so much for his 'crony oligarchs' and OTOH, prises the Eltsin's era oligarchs.
The media seem to hype so much about the involvement in Syria and (may be) Ukraine cost the Russia's economy that much, and they love to do that.
In fact, by many sources, all have similar calculation that the airstrike in Syria costs about 1-2 billions a year, and Putin himself said that, it's the cost of training soldiers and now they are just trained in Syria.
You are right about Ukraine, too. It seems that the West don't love Ukraine anymore, it's done:
As a symbolic moment, when Ukraine was the center of events, was the card they need, Poroshenko was gave a honorable welcome, but at Paris last month, no one was at the airport to wait for him, and he was put among the developing Africa national leaders. http://southfront.org/france-p...
and U.S.A don't bother to send usable weapons to them: https://www.washingtonpost.com...
When the EuroMaidan 'revolution' happened, there are about 50-50 supporters for both side, in fact there are no 'revolution' in the South and the East of nation. The Southern and Eastern people had no chance to express their opinions. After the so-called 'revolution', the same old, even worse politicians went to office.
Poroshenko was rated even below previous Yanukovich (when he was president), the corruption is not decreased but higher than ever. Saakashvili in recently meeting in Kiev:
"During all the time I'm here, I haven't met a single person who would say corruption had waned since the times of Yanukovich," Saakashvili noted. "What's more, I'm hearing now and then that the fees today are much higher. I haven't spoken to a single small or medium-sized business owner who wouldn't tell me the situation at present is as bad as it ever was under Kuchma or the 'orange' government or Yanukovich,"
After the incident, Saakashvili immediately gave a press conference at the Presidential Administration, where he said: “From the first minute of his speech, Avakov began to say that I was not speaking emotionally, unlike in a TV show. He insulted me and raised the question of Uralkhim. I do not know this oligarch, I do not know what Uralkhim is, and I have never met this oligarch [although later the Ministry of Interior published a video of Saakashvili meeting with the Russian oligarch Dmitry Mazepin. – Author]
At least, under Yanukovich, there were some 'democracy', parties supported him and others against him. After the 'activists' forced oppositions resigned and/or beat them, the 'lustration' law becomes reality, which bans all the officials under old government participate in the new one to 'clean' the corruption (of course, not the 'revolution' leaders) WITHOUT any judgment. Now all against them be named 'FSB agents'.
Poroshenko is the only one of Ukraine’s 10 richest people to see his net worth actually increase in the past year, and his bank continues to expand while others lose their licenses. One of his industrial compa
You are right too, but not enough. By individuals, Chinese may be very innovative, just like everyone, but if they live and work inside their culture sphere, it's a different story.
I read enough Chinese history and know enough Chinese people to know how they work. I do not deny that Chinese are very intelligent, and someday may be Chinese will have some breakthroughs, but not as large scale as Japanese, American, British, Soviet... in the past. (They copied Soviet model, but could not be Soviet (in science), they copied Japan, but it took Japan much shorter time to bypass the 'copying' status, now they are looking for American model, but America is something very different to China, I doubt that it will work with them.)
Yes, the world would be better IF China can build this stuff cheaper and better.
In reality, their stuffs are cheaper but not better. And, in the recent years their stuffs are also not cheaper too.
E.g. judgment by PC components, Chinese and Taiwanese high-end motherboards usually advertise that they are using Japanese solid capacitors. Chinese and Taiwanese capacitors are crap, I experienced with death motherboards, PSUs, caused by bad capacitors, all are consider mid-range motherboards and high-end PSUs. (You can search for forums, reviews that almost PSUs are crap today, even the SeaSonic, and they used Chinese/Taiwanese capacitors).
Even the old Soviet capacitors (military-grade) are better than Chinese/Taiwanese one.
Like learning process, one must copy first then innovate later. But not everyone is the same at creativeness.
Japanese companies' structures are similar to what their ancestor's handicraft workshops. In fact, some of those workshops become today 'companies'.
That is, the culture of Japan affects how the the 'innovativeness' of Japanese. Overall, the Japaneses want to be respected by their skill of their profession.
Meanwhile, the Chinese want their name be written in history, their highest desire, no matter *how* they achieve this, example: http://www.scmp.com/news/china...
“People die twice. Once, physically, and the second time, when they die from people’s memories,” Fan said. “My museums will be here even after I die. When people talk about the Jianchuan Museum Cluster, they will mention me. In that sense, I gain immortality; I will never die.”
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Remember BNP Paribas, was punished for violated sanctions. Yes, Cuba is only sanctioned by one country, the most powerful country which dominates the world's monetary system.
If you don't believe, read "Red brotherhood at wars", which showed after the Vietnam War, Vietnam actively opened the economy and tried to make relations with Western countries, but feared of sanction by USA, only France provide several thousand dollars.
About Mexico, you don't understand? One of the most corrupted government and a capitalist country. OK, can I list other capitalist countries?
About the internet cable, the same sanctioned policy affect here. You can't trade with Cuba.
And, It seems that you don't read the report, or try not to understand. The report claimed Cuba restricts internet connection as a dictatorial country would do, as one knew about the "Iron Curtain".
Forbidden for everyday citizens because they have limited resource or expensive satellite option.
Remind me the critic of Socialist party of Great Britain about Stalin's system in 1936:
http://www.worldsocialism.org/...
In the article, it showed Stalin just used "socialism" to cover the system that serve the interest of leaders, and leaded to corruptions.
and another one in 1931, which prove Stalinist system was in fact a capitalist state, which was slave-system that workers served the "communist leaders":
http://www.worldsocialism.org/...
The wage-labour system in Russian State industries, like the system here and elsewhere, is a system of Slavery. The spread of piece-work will intensify the slavery ; it will enable the "Communist" rulers to squeeze more surplus-produce out of Russian workers
And, Marx claimed that capitalism has "historical mission" to change system of production, which when at highest level, become 'communism'. (Note: in Marx theory, there is no step 'socialism', it's invented by Stalin).
Hence, the credit system accelerates the material development of the productive forces and the establishment of the world-market. It is the historical mission of the capitalist system of production to raise these material foundations of the new mode of production to a certain degree of perfection.
Cuba:
what if Cuba was not sanctioned? How about Cuba's capitalist neighbors if they were in the same situation (be sanctioned) as Cuba. How corrupted Mexico, where cops killed and abducted students, and criminal gangs can kill any one?
The same as the state of Cuba internet, they can't connect to any one except Venezuela or use expensive satellite connection:
https://www.newscientist.com/d...
But every time news mention Cuba, they state that Cuba restrict their connection, the fact is, RSF report - even the report tried to blame to Cuba government, but they can't deny:
http://www.rsf.org/IMG/pdf/rap...
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.
North Korea:
I don't know what really happens in N. Korea. All I know that I hate Kim Jr Il hair style, his chubby face the same as I hate gangnam-style. But, while some N. Korea stories seem to be a propaganda's productions, the horrible stories about S. Korea are real: they covered mass killings, abuse, for "preparation for Olympic 1988", or disable-slaves in salt farms, which:
Although 50 island farm owners and regional job brokers were indicted, national police say no local police or officials will face punishment, despite multiple interviews showing some knew about the slaves and even stopped escape attempts.
Vietnam:
this country just got out of wars in 1991.
A-10. Low, slow
That is why those are CAS.
The fighter plane must be slow and low when your troops and an enemy troops are so closed, and by advantage of CAS you could attack the enemy right after the airstrikes.
At low speed, the CAS airplane could turn around and repeatedly harass the enemy.
That is why when India to choose between Mikoyan and Rafale for their multirole fighters, they choose Rafale because they could flight at slower speed and lower. So, India doesn't need another CAS fighters. (Russians have Su-25 for this, they don't need MiG)
...and it's annoying that, if you be banned your comments' history will be gone also, they are vapored without any warning. I were one of the 'victims'.
And, after that I found out many readers have the same problems with this 'moderation system', no matter they are left or right, and they joke that 'CiF (Comment is Free, is what The Guardian call their comment section), but some comments are freer.
And, their 'community standard' is very obscure, while some personal attacks are still there, some normal debates were deleted. When I demanded they show how I violated the rules (yes, with "please"), they deleted my comment also.
It's not that I'm whining, I'll be fine that I must respect the 'rules', I will be OK if, 'you violated 'Section 1, clause 3', so your comment was deleted', but in The Guardian there is no rule. It's likely the moderators delete comments they don't like.
It was a success because people far more talented than he was were willing to support an idea
How he earned this support? By luck?
a fucking tool for acting like a CEO
What the... with this statement. This man may (of course) not invent everything, he is of course not the most talented, but he definitely know stuffs he put in the kernel, and know how to do this very good (many of Slashdot users seem to agree that such "ruthless" Linus to be, is the reason why Linux is successful). If he such a tool, unlike a company, some other "more talented" people just fork the kernel and many other talents will follow the new ones.
and attempting to take all the credit for the millions of man-hours of work donated by other people.
You could track who has contributed to Linux kernel. How Linus "attempts to take all credits".
Unlike CEOs, who "invented" X, "designed" Y, and no one knows who the fuck actually done for them.
http://media.kmspks.org/uncate...
“If one knows how to treasure oneself, one should protect oneself well.”
-The Buddha (Dhammapada)
Secondly, by theory of original Buddhism (Theravada), there is no 'God', of course no 'Saint', you are by what you have done (karma). By that logic, even if one promotes you 'martyr' is nothing, no matter if you kill yourself or kill others.
Those immolated-monks, may be hundreds, but they are no 'Saint', or 'Martyr', they chose this way themselves, "when one’s karmic retribution is not exhausted, death by suicide only leads to another cycle of rebirth"
In Buddhism, there is no 'martyr', that is they don't encourage for 'be ready to die for your religion'.
Monk like the ones mentioned in the article will have karma 'Terrible' and his life will be buried in '-1: Redundant' mod.
https://www.rt.com/usa/335132-...
Kozen Sampson, a Buddhist monk and co-founder of the Trout Lake Abbey retreat, said he was attacked Monday during a visit to Hood River.
....
He doesn't remember much, but says a man, who seemingly thought he was Muslim based on his clothing, attacked him for no reason.
But instead of anger and hatred towards that man, Sampson said he only feels forgiveness and compassion.
It seems that, he - that guy has learned a lesson.
PS: Impressive video.
Score:4 Informative, without any information, and full of dis-informations.
Tiger Forces complete the east Aleppo encirclement: 800+ ISIS fighters trapped
https://twitter.com/PetoLucem/...
https://www.almasdarnews.com/a...
Al-Nusra Front Confirms Deaths of 300 Terrorists in Syria's Aleppo
http://sputniknews.com/middlee...
WOW, the title Syrian war: Russian-backed offensive in Aleppo has killed 500 people this month, Observatory says
http://www.abc.net.au/news/201...
But actually, by at least 500 people, including 89 civilians, have been killed since the Russian-backed offensive on Aleppo province began earlier this month
Now, do your homework!
Now seeing the details of these claims: MSF stops sharing Syria hospital locations after 'deliberate' attacks - The Guardian
Hospitals in opposition-held parts of Syria are refusing to share GPS coordinates with Russian and Syrian authorities because of repeated attacks on medical facilities and workers, Médecins Sans Frontières and humanitarian workers on the ground have said.
“Given the number of hospitals that have been bombed since the war started, they do not think [giving GPS coordinates] is going to protect them, rather the opposite,” another official said.
Don't let the title fool you. The WHOLE article does NOT have a word, or phrase suggest that they STOP provide GPS coordinates to Russia AFTER the incident. In fact, as the quote, they have never provided the data.
Further details:
http://news.yahoo.com/syrian-g...
The charity, also known by its French acronym MSF, says repeated attacks against health facilities during Syria's five-year civil war have led medical staffers to ask the group not to provide the GPS coordinates of some sites. This was the case of the makeshift clinic run by the charity in the Syrian town of Maaret al-Numan, which was hit four times in attacks on Monday, killing at least 25 people.
OTOH, the Kunduz hospital was the brightest lit building, with flag were easy recognize AND they provided GPS data, and they repeats the claim that "the strikes continued for half an hour after U.S. and Afghan authorities were told the hospital was being bombed" .
After that, tanks entered and destroyed the evidences.
While no-one know which was Russian or Syrian bombing or "other" airforces (remember the airstrike that killed numbers of SAA soldiers, no one know who did this).
Here is their message I received 2 months ago:
URGENT! The blocking of Sci-Hub domains is ongoing. It is very likely that soon sci-hub.io address will stop working.
Yes, we have another addresses to move on. But there is a better solution. You can simply specify 31.184.194.81 as one of your DNS servers in your computer network settings. Any domain will work then regardless of any blocking
How to do this? There is an instruction available for OpenDNS, however you can use it for Sci-Hub too. Just type in 31.184.194.81 instead of 208.67.222.222
'free ticket', 'free food', 'free movies' could not make some poor one become new Einstein but 'free book' does. Imagine every poor kids could have free education, attend the same school as you and perform much more excellent in studying than you (this system exists in .e.g, Scandinavian countries), then the world is much better place.
While some excellent scientists or students from 'third world' are 'pirated' by more wealthy countries, while these home countries paid the cost to train them. Yes, the world is benefited, because of by moving to better places these people could do better for their careers (and the world). You may have no problem with this, don't you?
Otherwise, in 'third world' (foreign) books, documents for studying either very expensive and/or are hard to reach. Not everyone could afford to go abroad to study, not mention rich kids, only the brightest *may* have a chance.
Free eduction, free books,... let people have equal opportunity not something like 'free travel' or 'free hotel' you mentioned.
I don't know what's really behind the appointment of this guy, but, this is interesting that he owns a torrent site, and is against web-blocking for being piracy, cited the current bad situation of the economy.
But, it doesn't change the fact that *some one* forced to ground and searched airplane of a PRESIDENT of a country by that information. Assange use this misinformation to prove the fact that (reposted):
The story, by Greg Miller, recounts daily meetings with senior officials from the FBI, CIA, and State Department, all desperately trying to come up with ways to capture Snowden. One official told Miller: “We were hoping he was going to be stupid enough to get on some kind of airplane, and then have an ally say: ‘You’re in our airspace. Land.’ ” He wasn’t. And since he disappeared into Russia, the US seems to have lost all trace of him.
First line: 'emigrated', sorry!
Now, with the data of 2014:
http://imrussia.org/en/analysi...
first eight months of 2014, 203.6 thousand people left Russia
It seems that 200 thousands Russians not just only in Moscow.
The Problem with Statistics Despite Rosstat’s statistics and heated debates around pro-emigration tendencies in the media, nobody knows the exact number of people leaving Russia. IMR’s discussions with experts have demonstrated that it is impossible to calculate even an approximate number. Why? The first problem consists in a lack of accuracy in the methods used. The sudden surge in the number of emigrants recorded by Rosstat was caused by the fact that in 2011, the Federal Migration Service introduced changes to the methodology it uses to count migrants and has since been also counting foreigners who register for a stay of nine months or more (before, foreign citizens were considered migrants if they spent more than twelve months in the country). According to the online newspaper Meduza, the “higher overall number influenced the data on those leaving the country—the Federal Migration Service considers any foreigners whose registration has expired as ‘persons who left the Russian Federation.’ This is why Rosstat [statistics] that use data provided by the Federal Migration Service registered an incredible increase in emigration from 37 thousand to 123 thousand people a year.”
As the parent post pointed out:
They don't have the expertise, technology, or infrastructure. Russia has all of those.
Sanction of course have negative side, the most visible one is the foreign investment. But it's also have positive, just look at the CAD/CAM area, when Russian scientists have done significant contributions to the world, but Russia could not have (competitive) one, even Chinese, did later but better at gaining marketshare: http://www.3dcadworld.com/russ...
After the sanction, Russian government seriously considers to support domestic vendors (CAD/CAM). The same with stagnated homegrow microprocessors, now they accelerate the industry and introduces several chips, new Elbrus, and Bailkal based on ARM. Robotic and military components project was years without progress, and they made a surprise in Syria. They introduces Kamaz autonomous truck, before the Chinese and Korea. Now what?
This country is doomed.
Russians have already paid dearly for the annexation of Crimea and for the war in Ukraine
The video above was made by Navalny, he is a national populist. He is himself claim that if he is president, Crimea will be part of Russia.
Remind me Masha Gessen, who bashes Putin so much for his 'crony oligarchs' and OTOH, prises the Eltsin's era oligarchs.
You are right about Ukraine, too. It seems that the West don't love Ukraine anymore, it's done: As a symbolic moment, when Ukraine was the center of events, was the card they need, Poroshenko was gave a honorable welcome, but at Paris last month, no one was at the airport to wait for him, and he was put among the developing Africa national leaders.
http://southfront.org/france-p...
and U.S.A don't bother to send usable weapons to them:
https://www.washingtonpost.com...
When the EuroMaidan 'revolution' happened, there are about 50-50 supporters for both side, in fact there are no 'revolution' in the South and the East of nation. The Southern and Eastern people had no chance to express their opinions. After the so-called 'revolution', the same old, even worse politicians went to office. Poroshenko was rated even below previous Yanukovich (when he was president), the corruption is not decreased but higher than ever. Saakashvili in recently meeting in Kiev:
"During all the time I'm here, I haven't met a single person who would say corruption had waned since the times of Yanukovich," Saakashvili noted. "What's more, I'm hearing now and then that the fees today are much higher. I haven't spoken to a single small or medium-sized business owner who wouldn't tell me the situation at present is as bad as it ever was under Kuchma or the 'orange' government or Yanukovich,"
Note: It's also funny that, Saakashvili is 'gray' as well:
http://www.day.kiev.ua/en/arti...
After the incident, Saakashvili immediately gave a press conference at the Presidential Administration, where he said: “From the first minute of his speech, Avakov began to say that I was not speaking emotionally, unlike in a TV show. He insulted me and raised the question of Uralkhim. I do not know this oligarch, I do not know what Uralkhim is, and I have never met this oligarch [although later the Ministry of Interior published a video of Saakashvili meeting with the Russian oligarch Dmitry Mazepin. – Author]
At least, under Yanukovich, there were some 'democracy', parties supported him and others against him. After the 'activists' forced oppositions resigned and/or beat them, the 'lustration' law becomes reality, which bans all the officials under old government participate in the new one to 'clean' the corruption (of course, not the 'revolution' leaders) WITHOUT any judgment. Now all against them be named 'FSB agents'.
After years of propaganda in the media, such as 'President v oligarch', it likely that the West can't stand with their 'chosen' people: Corruption in Ukraine is so bad, a Nigerian prince would be embarrassed, Poroshenko, Yatseniuk, Avakov... all are even worse than Yanukovich before. Here is just a snippet:
Poroshenko is the only one of Ukraine’s 10 richest people to see his net worth actually increase in the past year, and his bank continues to expand while others lose their licenses. One of his industrial compa
You are right too, but not enough. By individuals, Chinese may be very innovative, just like everyone, but if they live and work inside their culture sphere, it's a different story.
I read enough Chinese history and know enough Chinese people to know how they work. I do not deny that Chinese are very intelligent, and someday may be Chinese will have some breakthroughs, but not as large scale as Japanese, American, British, Soviet... in the past. (They copied Soviet model, but could not be Soviet (in science), they copied Japan, but it took Japan much shorter time to bypass the 'copying' status, now they are looking for American model, but America is something very different to China, I doubt that it will work with them.)
Yes, the world would be better IF China can build this stuff cheaper and better.
In reality, their stuffs are cheaper but not better. And, in the recent years their stuffs are also not cheaper too.
E.g. judgment by PC components, Chinese and Taiwanese high-end motherboards usually advertise that they are using Japanese solid capacitors. Chinese and Taiwanese capacitors are crap, I experienced with death motherboards, PSUs, caused by bad capacitors, all are consider mid-range motherboards and high-end PSUs. (You can search for forums, reviews that almost PSUs are crap today, even the SeaSonic, and they used Chinese/Taiwanese capacitors).
Even the old Soviet capacitors (military-grade) are better than Chinese/Taiwanese one.
Japanese companies' structures are similar to what their ancestor's handicraft workshops. In fact, some of those workshops become today 'companies'.
That is, the culture of Japan affects how the the 'innovativeness' of Japanese. Overall, the Japaneses want to be respected by their skill of their profession.
Meanwhile, the Chinese want their name be written in history, their highest desire, no matter *how* they achieve this, example:
http://www.scmp.com/news/china...
“People die twice. Once, physically, and the second time, when they die from people’s memories,” Fan said. “My museums will be here even after I die. When people talk about the Jianchuan Museum Cluster, they will mention me. In that sense, I gain immortality; I will never die.”
Avakov:
Maidan is being completely discredited, that's what's going on! They are sellingn off Ukraine piece by piece. No doubt this is a Russian FSB project.
Yatsenyuk:
Those who demand to increase social payments and salaries from Ukrainian budget, are FSB agents.
Avakov:
Maidan is being completely discredited, that's what's going on! They are sellingn off Ukraine piece by piece. No doubt this is a Russian FSB project.
Yatsenyuk:
Those who demand to increase social payments and salaries from Ukrainian budget, are FSB agents.