It's not easy, of course. But there's way to figure out.
* Reading review at Amazon, Goodread, forum etc at first. This really help me.
* When reading some first chapters, it could be easily spot stupid errors, or dull expressions, that you would doubt that professors at e.g. MGU could wrote this, and their student could accepted.
Download a Russian versions (easily to find and download Russian books), base on chapter, section number, use Google translate and dictionary. Frankly, for a proof, or short paragraph, this help.
Also, I agree, some *old* books by US authors were good, then the 5th, or 15th received very bad reviews in Amazon, because of *deleting* chapters, *striped* exercises to make new versions so that students must buy them.
I think there are reason why maths textbooks in Soviet were good. In '80s, Kolmogorov was head of education program. He introduced "advanced maths" teaching for highschool, and the textbooks were written by some of the best mathematicians of the country. I think that why, by these practice, their style must be clear, simple enough, so the highschool pupils could understand.
Initially, the project considered adapting Soviet math books, but quickly realized that it needed an American curriculum that embodied this country's values, he said
Not all Russian books translate to English are good, because of the translators.
BEWARE of the 'so-called' translator Richard A. Silverman. He not translated, but edited - literal, destroyed - the original books, even Google translator does better job than him. His 'translated' books problems are not typos, as I said, he typically make 'new version', such as the A. N. Kolmogorov, S. V. Fomin - Introductory Real Analysis 1st _1975 - ISBN 0486612260. There is not such book published by the authors.
When go to "advanced" level, it is variant, depend on what reader need. But "introduction" levels are the same.
Here SOME "good" (European/Russian) books at this level:
A. N. Kolmogorov, S. V. Fomin - Elements of The Theory of Functions and Functional Analysis _ Vol 1. Metric and Normed Spaces 1963 - B0000EGKT5
A. N. Kolmogorov, S. V. Fomin - Elements of The Theory of Functions and Functional Analysis _ Vol 2. Measure, the Lebesgue Integral, Hilbert Space 1961 - 9998063787
Note: Unfortunately, these translations base on old Russian versions. I heard that the newer publication of Russian ones are much better.
Vladimir A. Zorich - Mathematical Analysis I _1st _2004 - 3540403868
Vladimir A. Zorich - Mathematical Analysis II _1st _2004 - 3540406336
N. Piskunov - Differential and Integral Calculus 1969 (MIR)
L.V. Tarasov - Calculus Basic Concepts for High School 1982 - 0828522782
Miklos Bona - A Walk Through Combinatorics. An Introduction to Enumeration and Graph Theory
Note: Better at combinatorics, pretty light at graph theory.
B. V. Gnedenko - The Theory of Probability (AMS Chelsea) 1962 - 082183746X
Note: Chelsea version is better than MIR version at translation
B. V. Gnedenko, Ya. Khinchin - Elementary Introduction to the Theory of Probability - B000SJJPE0
Note: Example of highschool level introduction to probability
Yes, there are more of other books, but when may be I like those books, I've read them partially, don't know the rest of content good or not, so I don't post here.
I know it's a sarcasm;), but this just example how complicated things today when one comes to real 'advanced programming'. This (mine) is NOT the "ontopic" post, I reply the ShanghaiBill (739463) post, which reply the "advanced maths" post.
Yes, programming may not require (advanced) maths, but when ever you solve complicated problems, you implicitly/explicitly require maths: at least, logic.
My experience base on reading different maths textbooks:
USA:
Books aim at advanced students, (not all but almost) are likely encyclopedia. It's not that the material is hard, but the structure of the books is hard to follow, or not explain very well.
Books for novice, for the masses, the "introduction/dummy" type. To describe this type of book: wordy and dumb. Endless explanations of trivial things, and strip, dump down necessary, important one to make it 'easy'. Beside of that, some 'favorite' authors like to write useless jokes in textbooks (It may be good thing if they do it when they lecture in a class)
Soviet/European (mostly Soviet textbooks): maths books should be.
Also, Soviet textbooks for novice are drastically different from USA ones. They use highschool level maths to explain advanced maths. The books are almost black and white, no jokes inside, but interesting read.
When I was in hobby programming, I was advised that Combinatorics is necessary for learning (at least basic) algorithms, but combinatorics require some set theory, linear algebra, and group theory.
Computer graphics, I thought linear algebra is enough. But modern CG requires also calculus, digital signal processing, etc. Digital signal processing require mathematical analysis, probability, calculus.
Computer vision requires knowing statistical mathematics, but to understand statistic, one must understand probability, which requires at least mathematical analysis.
Well, Opera is declining in their traditional market, when they "betrayed" them, but are gaining market from Asia countries like Indonesia, India, etc, where people who happy with using Chrome, never like/heard of Presto Opera before, mainly think Facebook is the Internet, love the fancy GUI, they love new ChrOpera.
I believe that Alice's smart, but in this case she's not.
Like everyone to be fool enough to click on "Install me" ads randomly on Internet without knowing what ever it does with their systems.
Surely, it's from Microsoft, people tend to trust them as they are using their products, you can't get virus from Microsoft. But install new OS without doing some research, by clicking "Install me" is likely eat everything branded "Eat me" without reading its ingredient.
* Donating money to opensource projects
* If I have enough money, buy some interesting commercial projects and make them opensource
* Donating money to books (scientific, education one) sharing community
* Buy rare books, expensive books, valuable books and upload for every one
Hmm, think again:
* Hire some talents to write softwares for me
* Buy companies that could make me more wealthy
* Buy major publishers and rise the price of books (when they are all owned by me)
Hmm, I want more:
* Hire some talent to build terminators for me
* Buy oil, weapons firms that could make me more powerful
* I don't read book anymore.
You tend to campaign in black and white. You tend to govern in gray,” Richard N. Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, who has worked for four presidents, most recently Mr. Bush. (2008)
That is what Noam Chomsky in his excellent quotes:
In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party. Both represent some range of business interests. In fact, they can change their positions 180 degrees, and nobody even notices. In the 1984 election, for example, there was actually an issue, which often there isn't. The issue was Keynesian growth versus fiscal conservatism. The Republicans were the party of Keynesian growth: big spending, deficits, and so on. The Democrats were the party of fiscal conservatism: watch the money supply, worry about the deficits, et cetera. Now, I didn't see a single comment pointing out that the two parties had completely reversed their traditional positions. Traditionally, the Democrats are the party of Keynesian growth, and the Republicans the party of fiscal conservatism. So doesn't it strike you that something must have happened? Well, actually, it makes sense. Both parties are essentially the same party. The only question is how coalitions of investors have shifted around on tactical issues now and then. As they do, the parties shift to opposite positions, within a narrow spectrum.
Lenin failed to practice his ideology, but his critics sometimes was right.
This is not problem of Democracy, Lenin explained:
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
and...
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
that is what Slashdotters used to call "corporatism."
Yes, there are "less democracy" countries like, either "totalitarianism/dictatorship/corrupted" governments, which are "hostile" toward "free-world" (China, N. Korea...), or "totalitarianism/dictatorship/corrupted" governments, which are our friends (Mexico, Saudi Arabia...). This is, not problem of Democracy, this is the problem of "ruling method".
Another quote from N. Chomsky:
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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.
It's happened, remember the plane of Bolivia President....
Yes, I tried (at this time), too, but not successful.
But, I think you are right.
There was something about Googlebot in the script or html (I don't remember, it seems to be not there in current CRC page), when I followed the link (likely, if you are bot then your url), they banned my IP. (there is no "wonderland" with a lot of "eat me" things lol)
And, after Google abandoned 'Preview PDF', there is not any result from inside crcnetbase PDFs in search result, eventually in cache.
Anyway, there are not much good books in crcnetbase, or much of them were available somewhere for "free". Yes, I regret I could not "legally" download books there, but not much.
That is! Like most recent comments here, that is the first thing flashes in my head when I see "Google tests... Service".
Google already made users less interested in their "new" services/features. Is that the main reason for failure of G+!?
PS:
Once-useful feature, 'preview PDF' on the search results was removed, despite of requests from users.
It's interesting that I was accidentally discovered, by using 'preview PDF', I could download some (if not many) pdf files from crcnetbase.com. I still wonder how could Google access these files, if CRC does not allow this.
How maths affects your file as developer? (I'm not talking about logical thinking of mathematic but the real knowledge you learned from maths that apply to your programming).
For desktop, many users find out that copy files (large files, bunch of tiny files at one, constantly read/write on HDD) could slow down the computer, eventually unusable.
I must said that I like your straight management style. (But, honestly, I don't know how I feel if I was in these situations, imagine, you are yelling at me (lol). All I know are from pros and cons developers at kernel mails list). So...
1. Do you really comfortable with your style? Say, you would sleep well at night after "correcting" a senior developer? (lol)
2. Everybody is not perfect. Have you ever had mistake (critical one)? If you have, did anyone yell at you (to criticize your work, not your personality) (your wife, your teacher, or co-developers)? And how did you feel about it at this time?
3. Have you ever criticize developer that is your friend?
To be fair, the title is from Wire. But of course, he can change this.
But at least, he quoted the article exactly, especial, the last phrase, in the summary.
It was taken out of context, by the *TITLE* of Wire article, what Schneier said:
I believe that both China and Russia had access to all the files that Snowden took well before Snowden took them because they’ve penetrated the NSA networks where those files reside. After all, the NSA has been a prime target for decades.
This is why I find allegations that Snowden was working for the Russians or the Chinese simply laughable. What makes you think those countries waited for Snowden? And why do you think someone working for the Russians or the Chinese would go public with their haul?
Like, which Snowden and journalists working with him, said trillion times, he kept nothing, everything were handled to journalists, before he went to Russia, but the MSM "accidentally" forget this.
Every time, when something from his documents is debunked, exposed by *journalists*, each time, I see the "innocent" title like "Snowden releases X", "Snowden claims Y", etc...
And, each time, comments like "when Putin get all infos from this traitor, he is doom" get soil to grow!
I don't expect to read such long post!;)
1. My previous post is simple, and my respond for this point is also simple.
All of actions of all sides are known in history, it's just matter if one want to learn from this.
Why I compare Kosovo with Cambodia and Syria? All the Western powers did/do for their own interest, not for people. That why they need (so-called) *allies*, despite how bastard they are.
Look at how Libya become, much worse than Quaddafi era, and they, the "free" medias called this "the path to democracy are not always with roses". More and more people died to seek asylum in Europe, which is the result of Western intervention.
2. I did not assume that the pro-separatists are good, pro-government are bad. When I see young people in both side are going to die, I feel sorry for them.
Yes, I saw videos before, but like Maidan events, the matter of "who did this first" is not important, compare to who shot the policemen, and protesters, in this case, who burnt more than 40 people alive.
After almost year, no one is went to jail for these. Just blaming!
3. In "Great Patriot War" everyone loved Stalin? Not so much, right!?
Every soldier were ready to died for their Motherland? Some of them were not, right!?
Every German Nazis soldier were truly sympathy toward Nazis ideology? No, right!?
If you use "cherry-picking" method, there is countless example for "nazis" on both side.
While pro-separatist are mostly in the East, where is known for many people with Soviet nostalgia, with support of Communists. Many of leftists in Europe support and eventually voluntary fighting side-by-side with the separatists.
I know a Ukrainian of minor ethnic group, lived in the Western Ukraine. When Soviet broke-up, she (was young), there something of "witch-hunt" in there, toward every "non-Ukrainian" group. She moved to USA. I have never heard such thing in Eastern Ukraine.
4. Azov, Right Sector, etc... are official small number. But they are the most active groups.
Remember, or if you don't know, search for action of Oleh Lyashko (funny that Wikipedia lists them as "left-wing" as Democratic Party of U.S.A), and Right Sector illegal captured, beaten oppositions, force officials to resign. They are useful tools, just not need to be the head of nation.
On the other side, despite that Eastern Ukraine was part of Russia, before Lenin change this. I don't think the separatists are right to be independent. But they are right to have their voices on things happened on Maidan, which they did *NOT* have, completely ignored.
Everyone against the "move to the West" were branded "tituska", were public beaten. Search youtube, if you like.
I would support the changes of Ukraine, if like in Myanmar, the woman who fought for people of Myanmar was released, former communist (or socialist), who may not really influenced by the West.
But in Ukraine, there something like "president vows to fight oligarchs" appears frequently in "free" medias like comedy shows. No, I don't swallow this.
And I think if those people, who withstood on days under below zero temperature, to demand "bright future", and "fight like heroes, they would do this right now. But where are they!? Who pay them now? Who send them winter clothes and boot? Who give them cookies now?
Disclaim: Despite my "seem-to-be-pro-Russian" comments, I'm actually not Russian, but there's not much "pro-Russian" views here (right?).
In fact, I like to read both positive and negative reports about things, and I like to read your comments, to know about perspective of a Russian (I was Anonymous Coward:)
it was actively killing those very Albanians.
In very long history, to initiate a war, every powers need (to create) *good reasons*.
I would support NATO if they were good judges.
But in reality, in Kosovo, NATO bombing, and KILLING ordinary Yugo citizens. They are not good either.
When KLA is in power, they suppressed Serbians community, to drag them out. The West was silent.
All the top official figures of Kosovo *ARE* crimes, but whitewashed by their master.
The same were/are happened with Lon Nol/Kherme Rough in Cambodia (e.g) in the past or Syria at the moment.
Yes, Assad is not a good guy, but definitely better than the "moderate" groups, which is actually terrorists.
Meanwhile, nothing of a kind happened in Ukraine.
Odessa massacre, how about this after one year? No one was convicted despite that dozens were burnt alive.
This is just very little of that news came out in Western press:
Two mother and daughter were killed just for be sympathy to rebels. http://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-...
Ukraine use convicts to fight "terrorists", just like KLA: http://www.kyivpost.com/conten... ...And they committed crimes: http://rt.com/news/268105-ukra...
You could search for Ukraine media for that news, too.
Eventually, U.S.A confirmed which Russia loudly claimed long before, https://twitter.com/repjohncon... ..Which ban to support Azov battalion (which is now part of Ukrainian National Guard;)
Also, note that, with *all respect to a dead person*, I must said that Nemtsov suddenly became "greatest enemy" of Putin, or "the person Putin fear most", or something like that.
Nemtsov is the typical "Eltsin's era" politicians, now turn-to-oppositions. His allies, like Mikhail Kasyanov, constantly has interviews in Western media, and also, is portrayed as corruption fighter, was known in Russia as: Misha 2 percent
By killing the enemy with only >2% support of population, Putin achieved nothing but:
1) The demonstration with thousands oppositions get more fuels, motives, and *STILL* happened.
2) The report of so-call "Russians soldiers" in Ukraine was still released on Internet. (Putin's mistaken not to kill everyone)
3) Created symbol of "greatest enemy".
Slashdot Mirror
It's not easy, of course. But there's way to figure out.
* Reading review at Amazon, Goodread, forum etc at first. This really help me.
* When reading some first chapters, it could be easily spot stupid errors, or dull expressions, that you would doubt that professors at e.g. MGU could wrote this, and their student could accepted.
Download a Russian versions (easily to find and download Russian books), base on chapter, section number, use Google translate and dictionary. Frankly, for a proof, or short paragraph, this help.
Also, I agree, some *old* books by US authors were good, then the 5th, or 15th received very bad reviews in Amazon, because of *deleting* chapters, *striped* exercises to make new versions so that students must buy them.
I think there are reason why maths textbooks in Soviet were good. In '80s, Kolmogorov was head of education program. He introduced "advanced maths" teaching for highschool, and the textbooks were written by some of the best mathematicians of the country. I think that why, by these practice, their style must be clear, simple enough, so the highschool pupils could understand.
Some interesting read here, how USA responded to maths development in Soviet that time:
http://articles.chicagotribune...
Initially, the project considered adapting Soviet math books, but quickly realized that it needed an American curriculum that embodied this country's values, he said
Not all Russian books translate to English are good, because of the translators.
BEWARE of the 'so-called' translator Richard A. Silverman. He not translated, but edited - literal, destroyed - the original books, even Google translator does better job than him. His 'translated' books problems are not typos, as I said, he typically make 'new version', such as the A. N. Kolmogorov, S. V. Fomin - Introductory Real Analysis 1st _1975 - ISBN 0486612260. There is not such book published by the authors.
When go to "advanced" level, it is variant, depend on what reader need. But "introduction" levels are the same.
Here SOME "good" (European/Russian) books at this level:
A. N. Kolmogorov, S. V. Fomin - Elements of The Theory of Functions and Functional Analysis _ Vol 1. Metric and Normed Spaces 1963 - B0000EGKT5
A. N. Kolmogorov, S. V. Fomin - Elements of The Theory of Functions and Functional Analysis _ Vol 2. Measure, the Lebesgue Integral, Hilbert Space 1961 - 9998063787
Note: Unfortunately, these translations base on old Russian versions. I heard that the newer publication of Russian ones are much better.
Vladimir A. Zorich - Mathematical Analysis I _1st _2004 - 3540403868
Vladimir A. Zorich - Mathematical Analysis II _1st _2004 - 3540406336
N. Piskunov - Differential and Integral Calculus 1969 (MIR)
L.V. Tarasov - Calculus Basic Concepts for High School 1982 - 0828522782
Miklos Bona - A Walk Through Combinatorics. An Introduction to Enumeration and Graph Theory
Note: Better at combinatorics, pretty light at graph theory.
B. V. Gnedenko - The Theory of Probability (AMS Chelsea) 1962 - 082183746X
Note: Chelsea version is better than MIR version at translation
B. V. Gnedenko, Ya. Khinchin - Elementary Introduction to the Theory of Probability - B000SJJPE0
Note: Example of highschool level introduction to probability
Yes, there are more of other books, but when may be I like those books, I've read them partially, don't know the rest of content good or not, so I don't post here.
I know it's a sarcasm ;), but this just example how complicated things today when one comes to real 'advanced programming'. This (mine) is NOT the "ontopic" post, I reply the ShanghaiBill (739463) post, which reply the "advanced maths" post.
Yes, programming may not require (advanced) maths, but when ever you solve complicated problems, you implicitly/explicitly require maths: at least, logic.
My experience base on reading different maths textbooks:
USA:
Books aim at advanced students, (not all but almost) are likely encyclopedia. It's not that the material is hard, but the structure of the books is hard to follow, or not explain very well.
Books for novice, for the masses, the "introduction/dummy" type. To describe this type of book: wordy and dumb. Endless explanations of trivial things, and strip, dump down necessary, important one to make it 'easy'. Beside of that, some 'favorite' authors like to write useless jokes in textbooks (It may be good thing if they do it when they lecture in a class)
Soviet/European (mostly Soviet textbooks): maths books should be.
Also, Soviet textbooks for novice are drastically different from USA ones. They use highschool level maths to explain advanced maths. The books are almost black and white, no jokes inside, but interesting read.
When I was in hobby programming, I was advised that Combinatorics is necessary for learning (at least basic) algorithms, but combinatorics require some set theory, linear algebra, and group theory. Computer graphics, I thought linear algebra is enough. But modern CG requires also calculus, digital signal processing, etc. Digital signal processing require mathematical analysis, probability, calculus. Computer vision requires knowing statistical mathematics, but to understand statistic, one must understand probability, which requires at least mathematical analysis.
Well, Opera is declining in their traditional market, when they "betrayed" them, but are gaining market from Asia countries like Indonesia, India, etc, where people who happy with using Chrome, never like/heard of Presto Opera before, mainly think Facebook is the Internet, love the fancy GUI, they love new ChrOpera.
I believe that Alice's smart, but in this case she's not.
Like everyone to be fool enough to click on "Install me" ads randomly on Internet without knowing what ever it does with their systems.
Surely, it's from Microsoft, people tend to trust them as they are using their products, you can't get virus from Microsoft. But install new OS without doing some research, by clicking "Install me" is likely eat everything branded "Eat me" without reading its ingredient.
PS: I like the comparison "Install me" of OP.
Ah, in first world, it's called 'lobby', right.
Step 2: Hire someone read it for you
* Donating money to opensource projects
* If I have enough money, buy some interesting commercial projects and make them opensource
* Donating money to books (scientific, education one) sharing community
* Buy rare books, expensive books, valuable books and upload for every one
Hmm, think again:
* Hire some talents to write softwares for me
* Buy companies that could make me more wealthy
* Buy major publishers and rise the price of books (when they are all owned by me)
Hmm, I want more:
* Hire some talent to build terminators for me
* Buy oil, weapons firms that could make me more powerful
* I don't read book anymore.
You tend to campaign in black and white. You tend to govern in gray,” Richard N. Haass, the president of the Council on Foreign Relations, who has worked for four presidents, most recently Mr. Bush. (2008)
That is what Noam Chomsky in his excellent quotes:
In the United States, the political system is a very marginal affair. There are two parties, so-called, but they're really factions of the same party, the Business Party. Both represent some range of business interests. In fact, they can change their positions 180 degrees, and nobody even notices. In the 1984 election, for example, there was actually an issue, which often there isn't. The issue was Keynesian growth versus fiscal conservatism. The Republicans were the party of Keynesian growth: big spending, deficits, and so on. The Democrats were the party of fiscal conservatism: watch the money supply, worry about the deficits, et cetera. Now, I didn't see a single comment pointing out that the two parties had completely reversed their traditional positions. Traditionally, the Democrats are the party of Keynesian growth, and the Republicans the party of fiscal conservatism. So doesn't it strike you that something must have happened? Well, actually, it makes sense. Both parties are essentially the same party. The only question is how coalitions of investors have shifted around on tactical issues now and then. As they do, the parties shift to opposite positions, within a narrow spectrum.
Lenin failed to practice his ideology, but his critics sometimes was right.
This is not problem of Democracy, Lenin explained:
While the State exists, there can be no freedom. When there is freedom there will be no State.
and...
Democracy for an insignificant minority, democracy for the rich — that is the democracy of capitalist society.
that is what Slashdotters used to call "corporatism."
Yes, there are "less democracy" countries like, either "totalitarianism/dictatorship/corrupted" governments, which are "hostile" toward "free-world" (China, N. Korea...), or "totalitarianism/dictatorship/corrupted" governments, which are our friends (Mexico, Saudi Arabia...). This is, not problem of Democracy, this is the problem of "ruling method".
Another quote from N. Chomsky:
Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state.
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.
It's happened, remember the plane of Bolivia President....
Yes, I tried (at this time), too, but not successful.
But, I think you are right.
There was something about Googlebot in the script or html (I don't remember, it seems to be not there in current CRC page), when I followed the link (likely, if you are bot then your url), they banned my IP. (there is no "wonderland" with a lot of "eat me" things lol)
And, after Google abandoned 'Preview PDF', there is not any result from inside crcnetbase PDFs in search result, eventually in cache.
Anyway, there are not much good books in crcnetbase, or much of them were available somewhere for "free". Yes, I regret I could not "legally" download books there, but not much.
That is! Like most recent comments here, that is the first thing flashes in my head when I see "Google tests ... Service".
Google already made users less interested in their "new" services/features. Is that the main reason for failure of G+!?
PS:
Once-useful feature, 'preview PDF' on the search results was removed, despite of requests from users.
It's interesting that I was accidentally discovered, by using 'preview PDF', I could download some (if not many) pdf files from crcnetbase.com. I still wonder how could Google access these files, if CRC does not allow this.
How maths affects your file as developer? (I'm not talking about logical thinking of mathematic but the real knowledge you learned from maths that apply to your programming).
I could say that every countries have nice people, beautiful things. (I don't like to start something like flame-war) But I would know:
Which country you would like to live most?
What is inferior/superior things in life/education/technical environment between Finland and U.S.A?
For desktop, many users find out that copy files (large files, bunch of tiny files at one, constantly read/write on HDD) could slow down the computer, eventually unusable.
Do you think this could be improved/fixed?
I must said that I like your straight management style. (But, honestly, I don't know how I feel if I was in these situations, imagine, you are yelling at me (lol). All I know are from pros and cons developers at kernel mails list). So...
1. Do you really comfortable with your style? Say, you would sleep well at night after "correcting" a senior developer? (lol)
2. Everybody is not perfect. Have you ever had mistake (critical one)? If you have, did anyone yell at you (to criticize your work, not your personality) (your wife, your teacher, or co-developers)? And how did you feel about it at this time?
3. Have you ever criticize developer that is your friend?
To be fair, the title is from Wire. But of course, he can change this.
But at least, he quoted the article exactly, especial, the last phrase, in the summary.
I believe that both China and Russia had access to all the files that Snowden took well before Snowden took them because they’ve penetrated the NSA networks where those files reside. After all, the NSA has been a prime target for decades.
This is why I find allegations that Snowden was working for the Russians or the Chinese simply laughable. What makes you think those countries waited for Snowden? And why do you think someone working for the Russians or the Chinese would go public with their haul?
Like, which Snowden and journalists working with him, said trillion times, he kept nothing, everything were handled to journalists, before he went to Russia, but the MSM "accidentally" forget this.
Every time, when something from his documents is debunked, exposed by *journalists*, each time, I see the "innocent" title like "Snowden releases X", "Snowden claims Y", etc...
And, each time, comments like "when Putin get all infos from this traitor, he is doom" get soil to grow!
I don't expect to read such long post! ;)
1. My previous post is simple, and my respond for this point is also simple.
All of actions of all sides are known in history, it's just matter if one want to learn from this.
Why I compare Kosovo with Cambodia and Syria? All the Western powers did/do for their own interest, not for people. That why they need (so-called) *allies*, despite how bastard they are.
Look at how Libya become, much worse than Quaddafi era, and they, the "free" medias called this "the path to democracy are not always with roses". More and more people died to seek asylum in Europe, which is the result of Western intervention.
2. I did not assume that the pro-separatists are good, pro-government are bad. When I see young people in both side are going to die, I feel sorry for them.
Yes, I saw videos before, but like Maidan events, the matter of "who did this first" is not important, compare to who shot the policemen, and protesters, in this case, who burnt more than 40 people alive.
After almost year, no one is went to jail for these. Just blaming!
3. In "Great Patriot War" everyone loved Stalin? Not so much, right!?
Every soldier were ready to died for their Motherland? Some of them were not, right!?
Every German Nazis soldier were truly sympathy toward Nazis ideology? No, right!?
If you use "cherry-picking" method, there is countless example for "nazis" on both side.
While pro-separatist are mostly in the East, where is known for many people with Soviet nostalgia, with support of Communists. Many of leftists in Europe support and eventually voluntary fighting side-by-side with the separatists.
I know a Ukrainian of minor ethnic group, lived in the Western Ukraine. When Soviet broke-up, she (was young), there something of "witch-hunt" in there, toward every "non-Ukrainian" group. She moved to USA. I have never heard such thing in Eastern Ukraine.
4. Azov, Right Sector, etc... are official small number. But they are the most active groups.
Remember, or if you don't know, search for action of Oleh Lyashko (funny that Wikipedia lists them as "left-wing" as Democratic Party of U.S.A), and Right Sector illegal captured, beaten oppositions, force officials to resign. They are useful tools, just not need to be the head of nation.
On the other side, despite that Eastern Ukraine was part of Russia, before Lenin change this. I don't think the separatists are right to be independent. But they are right to have their voices on things happened on Maidan, which they did *NOT* have, completely ignored.
Everyone against the "move to the West" were branded "tituska", were public beaten. Search youtube, if you like.
I would support the changes of Ukraine, if like in Myanmar, the woman who fought for people of Myanmar was released, former communist (or socialist), who may not really influenced by the West.
But in Ukraine, there something like "president vows to fight oligarchs" appears frequently in "free" medias like comedy shows. No, I don't swallow this.
And I think if those people, who withstood on days under below zero temperature, to demand "bright future", and "fight like heroes, they would do this right now. But where are they!? Who pay them now? Who send them winter clothes and boot? Who give them cookies now?
Oh, they did, but what happened to them:
http://rt.com/news/265648-ukra...
In fact, I like to read both positive and negative reports about things, and I like to read your comments, to know about perspective of a Russian (I was Anonymous Coward
it was actively killing those very Albanians.
In very long history, to initiate a war, every powers need (to create) *good reasons*.
I would support NATO if they were good judges.
But in reality, in Kosovo, NATO bombing, and KILLING ordinary Yugo citizens. They are not good either.
When KLA is in power, they suppressed Serbians community, to drag them out. The West was silent.
All the top official figures of Kosovo *ARE* crimes, but whitewashed by their master.
The same were/are happened with Lon Nol/Kherme Rough in Cambodia (e.g) in the past or Syria at the moment.
Yes, Assad is not a good guy, but definitely better than the "moderate" groups, which is actually terrorists.
Meanwhile, nothing of a kind happened in Ukraine.
Odessa massacre, how about this after one year? No one was convicted despite that dozens were burnt alive.
...And they committed crimes:
..Which ban to support Azov battalion (which is now part of Ukrainian National Guard ;)
This is just very little of that news came out in Western press:
Two mother and daughter were killed just for be sympathy to rebels.
http://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-...
Ukraine use convicts to fight "terrorists", just like KLA:
http://www.kyivpost.com/conten...
http://rt.com/news/268105-ukra...
You could search for Ukraine media for that news, too.
Eventually, U.S.A confirmed which Russia loudly claimed long before,
https://twitter.com/repjohncon...
Glory to heroes!
Don't post that in front of a Polish!
Yeah, also Putin did this with:
Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund
And Lynne Stewart.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Also, note that, with *all respect to a dead person*, I must said that Nemtsov suddenly became "greatest enemy" of Putin, or "the person Putin fear most", or something like that.
Nemtsov is the typical "Eltsin's era" politicians, now turn-to-oppositions. His allies, like Mikhail Kasyanov, constantly has interviews in Western media, and also, is portrayed as corruption fighter, was known in Russia as: Misha 2 percent
By killing the enemy with only >2% support of population, Putin achieved nothing but:
1) The demonstration with thousands oppositions get more fuels, motives, and *STILL* happened.
2) The report of so-call "Russians soldiers" in Ukraine was still released on Internet. (Putin's mistaken not to kill everyone)
3) Created symbol of "greatest enemy".
Eventually, the allies of Nemtsov do not believe that Putin kill him: http://www.washingtonsblog.com...
New Zealand, member of 'Five Eyes'!
When he is living in New Zealand, no need to lure him to any-Balti-more!