Unlike most Americans, I know a thing or 2 about Russian history (liberal arts colleges with good technical departments *rule*). I've heard all about Nicholas, Alexandra, Rasputin, Lenin, Trotsky, Frunze, Dzerzhinsky, Bukharin, Zinoviev, Stalin, the kulaks, the kolkhozes and the harvests of sorrow, Kandinsky, Malevich, the Reds and Whites, the Purges, the Yezhovshchina, the Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact, Stalingrad, Leningrad, the defense of Moscow, the Berlin Airlift, the Thaw, the Master and Margarita, Gagarin, the Doctors' Plot, Krushchev, etc. etc.
Russia has a fascinating history and has many many interesting people within its borders. And they have many acheivements to their credit (not the least of which is saving the world from unspeakable evil).
But I have to ask: Why is Russian history so.. well.. sad and awful?
By comparison, Irish history reads like a day at the amusement park..
Aha! No wonder I didn't recognize "Saharof". We spell it "Sakharov" over here.
Point well taken. The Russians should be proud of their accomplishments, especially the technical ones.
Then again, as an American, I may be a minority -- I know what the Battle of Kursk was, I've heard of Prof. Kolmogorov (chaos theory dude), and I know who Sergei Federov plays for. 8-)
>Disney is Satan on Earth. The Southern Baptists >have boycotted all Disney related products.
You may wish to distinguish between the SoBaps and the Southern Baptist Convention (official mouthpiece which started the boycott). Many SoBaps are not part of the SBC, and more than a few are happy to have left, now that pig-headed Falwellesque zealots have run the show for 20 years.
And Disney didn't sweat the boycott; it never had to. "Important Southern Baptist market"? That's like saying Folger's is quaking in their loafers over the Mormon disdain for coffee. The SBC is as serious a threat to Disney as Rev. Falwell is to the Teletubbies.
Funny thing, though: one thing that Disney and Apple have in common is the fact that they don't buckle in to pressure from social conservative cop-types so easily. (Remember when Apple built their Austin TX facilities? Some powerful locals were upset about Apple's domestic partners benefits program, and threatened the company with revoking building permits. The response from Cupertino was "okay, go ahead. We can still relocate." The locals saw the light after that.
I have my own problems with the Mouse (a.k.a. "Schmaltz R Us"), but not here. Nice to see someone in corporate America with guts.
Note that Applix is also bundling R5 of LinuxPPC for $129.
I was originally going to just pick up a copy of R5, but this is making me stop & think. We really oughta reward Applix for noticing us PPC Linuxers with a purchase, y'know?
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Good volley. *Thwak!*
Unlike most Americans, I know a thing or 2 about Russian history (liberal arts colleges with good technical departments *rule*).
I've heard all about Nicholas, Alexandra, Rasputin, Lenin, Trotsky, Frunze, Dzerzhinsky, Bukharin, Zinoviev, Stalin, the kulaks,
the kolkhozes and the harvests of sorrow, Kandinsky, Malevich, the Reds and Whites, the Purges, the Yezhovshchina, the Nazi-Soviet Non-aggression Pact, Stalingrad, Leningrad, the defense of Moscow, the Berlin Airlift, the Thaw, the Master and Margarita,
Gagarin, the Doctors' Plot, Krushchev, etc. etc.
Russia has a fascinating history and has many many interesting people within its borders.
And they have many acheivements to their credit (not the least of which is
saving the world from unspeakable evil).
But I have to ask: Why is Russian history so.. well.. sad and awful?
By comparison, Irish history reads like a day at the amusement park..
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Aha! No wonder I didn't recognize
"Saharof". We spell it "Sakharov" over
here.
Point well taken. The Russians should be
proud of their accomplishments, especially
the technical ones.
Then again, as an American, I may be a
minority -- I know what the Battle of Kursk
was, I've heard of Prof. Kolmogorov (chaos
theory dude), and I know who Sergei Federov
plays for. 8-)
(ooh, a smiley. How uncool here. Well, bite me.)
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>And what would Disney do with Apple anyway?
Market the hell out of it.
Apple has one of the most recognized (and
recognizable) names/logos on the planet.
And Disney is, 1st and foremost, a
marketing machine.
I think the whole deal, if true, is dubious,
but not this particular aspect. It
actually make sense from a mktg. viewpoint.
Very spooky.
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>Disney is Satan on Earth. The Southern Baptists >have boycotted all Disney related products.
You may wish to distinguish between the SoBaps
and the Southern Baptist Convention (official mouthpiece which started the boycott). Many
SoBaps are not part of the SBC, and more than
a few are happy to have left, now that pig-headed Falwellesque zealots have run the show for 20 years.
And Disney didn't sweat the boycott; it
never had to. "Important Southern Baptist market"? That's like saying Folger's is quaking
in their loafers over the Mormon disdain for
coffee. The SBC is as serious a threat to
Disney as Rev. Falwell is to the Teletubbies.
Funny thing, though: one thing that Disney and
Apple have in common is the fact that they don't
buckle in to pressure from social conservative cop-types so easily. (Remember when Apple built their Austin TX facilities? Some powerful locals were upset about Apple's domestic partners benefits program, and threatened the company with
revoking building permits. The response from Cupertino was "okay, go ahead. We can still relocate." The locals saw the light
after that.
I have my own problems with the Mouse (a.k.a.
"Schmaltz R Us"), but not here. Nice to see
someone in corporate America with guts.
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Yo, haaz! If yr out there, subj. line sez all. Peace..
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Note that Applix is also bundling R5 of LinuxPPC
for $129.
I was originally going to just pick up a copy of R5, but this is making me stop & think.
We really oughta reward Applix for noticing us
PPC Linuxers with a purchase, y'know?
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Amen. You can replicate this behavior with the following project:
Call 100 random people in the town of
Vandergrift, Pennsylvania (trust me,
languid wills and torpid minds abound
there) and ask these two questions.
Then, you can try this question in big cities
like Williston, South Dakota to compare results.
Stupid Americans abound.
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