l just don't trust Russia now, don't trust their space program to serve the U.S., never trusted them in the past and Putin's statement show me I can't trust them in the future.
Our legislators need to revisit how they direct and fund NASA. It doesn't mean NASA doesn't need to change, but NASA overseeing plans to keep us in space are a matter of the Federal Government's proper duty under the constitution to protect the U.S.'s interests and protect our borders.
If you hate Russians so much out of a Cold War mentality, why do you even bother to write if you are just going to be waving flags. Seriously, let it go, the war was won already.
I second what the parent post is saying. I kind of thought somebody was trying to hack my accounts or something since I started receiving lots and lots of fake UPS and FedEx emails. In my particular case, the first e-mail I received made me call a company that was sending me a product, since I was already having shipping issues with them. After closer examination of the email I realized it was fake but after that day, I have been receiving 2 or 3 of those fake emails per day with a variety of themes.
I was raised under the metric system and I have to say that the main advantage I saw with inches and foot was that I always had a ruler with me in my finger and foot, so to speak. Believe it or not, I ended up taking measurements in inches and then converting to metric. Maybe that was my way to adapt to the US while I lived there.
I don't know dude, people from English speaking countries get pretty pissed off in World of Warcraft when people in their group start speaking another language.
I would take Singapore from that list. I have a top executive friend living there and he showed my sister, who was visiting, how there is a special room for the housekeeper which the owner of the house locks while the housekeeper is there during the night. There was also a major scandal this week of a guy in the army who had his housekeeper carry his military gear for him. Rent is pretty high in general but otherwise it is pretty good. Singapore was rated the best place in the world to do business by the World Bank. Having said that, I would take Sweden or Norway any day with all the heavy taxation. A lot more quality of life.
Don't fool yourself. Truth is that even democrats approved that war since they didn't want to be seen unpatriotic. This is the reason why you actually elect officials instead of people that can be easily manipulated, but the system doesn't work all the times.
Sure, some people might say, but I voted against it. But ask yourself, what did the party of that person as a whole did in that particular case? Besides, Obama has been ruling for quite a while now and the war still goes on. The fact is that the US is way too militaristic, for better or worse, but hey, you don't get to be a superpower for running circles around issues like the French government is doing with Libya.
Cool, maybe we can send those self-sufficient people to colonize Mars. I cannot think of any country that actually promotes your "ideology" so maybe another planet works. Every single country has some sort of social program in place. I am willing to bet that even if you get elected, you would be willing to help out people somehow, since that, as stupid as it may sound in this day, it still gets you a lot of votes. Ask the early Obama, the community organizer, to see how far that scheme can get you.
Who said anything about public healthcare? Unless you are really poor, here in Venezuela you don't go to public hospitals. They actually work for intensive care units and stuff like that where you would have to spend a long time at the hospital. What I was talking about is that the private "clínicas", as we call them here, offer a better service, even when they try to squeeze the insurance companies. My orthodontist, who got his degree at NYU has clients from Florida who travel to see him. He charges $80 dollars per month while you are under treatment and all the equipment is top of the line (I have been to similar US facilities btw). That also includes emergency checkups and so on.
Look, Chavez has this country upside down and if anything, I am against socialism, but what I'm trying to say is that when you get charged $120 just to get an IV in you, something is seriously messed up with the system.
I would like to second what you said. I'm currently in Venezuela, and the health care here is way better than what I had available when I lived in the US. First of all, it's really cheap, the doctors are top of the line, and maybe the only thing you can complain here is that when they actually see somebody here with insurance they really squeeze them dry, but you still get your medical attention. If you don't have insurance you can still pay the bills since they have a different rate so to speak.
This is without even mentioning that other countries will eventually get ahead because they don't have to carry that excess baggage. It seems to me that the US is suffering from the same problems that the Soviet Union had right before it collapsed: a huge military that was sucking money out of more important things. The US is a federation of powerful states too, and when money runs out, it can become really messy. Out of real national security, I think it is important for the US to scale down military costs to at least 15% of the actual 30%.
Some of those social programs are actually designed to avoid extreme misery to fellow human beings, because you know, after all we are all humans. You might feel mighty and strong now, but I would like to see that you speak with that same tone when you are old, become disabled or sick somehow. Individuality is good but you should change that mentality of not wanting to give anything to help others. It's part of helping your nation helping those who cannot help themselves.
The T-34 was crude. I think you are the one who needs an education. I don't need any books to tell me what I saw in Moscow, even the turret evolution of the T-34 is on display. I was able to touch the surface and they are rough as hell. The imperfections on the cast iron are easily distinguishable. They still keep German tanks in Park Pobedy as well as some military museums and you see that the finish is as good as German stuff today. Even the uniforms of the Germans were something to behold.
True, but all things being said, an M16 is more precise than an AK-47. A Blackhawk is more expensive than a Mi-17 but it has a lower profile, makes less noise and has an extra 20 Km/H in speed. The T-90 is a combination of upgrades for the T-72 and new technologies that make it an extraordinary tank, the Abrams is a beast in armor protection, has really good fire control systems but is a lot more expensive, heavier and it is a gas guzzler, and not your regular kind of fuel either.
So in general, what we are talking about here is like getting an American SUV vs. getting a Land Rover. Both will get the job done and even if the Land Rover is better, it is more expensive. The US economy is by far the largest in the world so you guys can afford such developments.
Plus Russia announced it created a nuclear reactor that was capable of being transported and used in a rocket some months ago. Plus the sun is an infinite source of energy when you are in space, which should make whatever fuel you are going to use last longer.
They use defined areas of operation to avoid allied subs firing each other, even when in battle groups. As far as ships, yeah that is a different story.
Oh and one more thing, submarines are considered "offensive" weapons as well as the doctrines of invading West Germany with huge waves of tanks plus bombing the US with long-range bombers. I don't know where you get the major defensive war from. It would have been an all-out war.
I disagree with you. The Soviets might have been crude in their developments, but as World War 2 proved, even the crude T-34 beated sophisticated German tank designs. Plus they kept expanding their capabilities after World War 2 while most of the Allies started selling surplus stuff. There is also the question of fighting spirit. The Soviets were determined to wipe whoever tried to do the same things the Germans did to them, out of an instinct of survival, Kruschev was in fact hardwired into that kind of thinking. When you combine that with nuclear weapons, plus America's threats to them you certainly have a very dangerous combination.
Well it's their country and they have every right to do so. What makes you think it's ok to wiretap a phone line but it is not ok to intercept emails or other forms of Internet communication? First off Medvedev said that they aren't going to do anything to block them, but my point is, that even if they do, I would hardly call them irresponsibly. I truly believe that authorities should monitor everyone they deem dangerous to the safety of their citizens, that's why they are the government even if such resources can be misused for political purposes, like it was done with some Colombian politicians during Uribe's regime. Those politicians will have to deal with the heat afterwards either from their voters or from the international community.
I don't know if it looks like an attempt to make Americans look better, but it is clearly an attempt to make Russia look bad. First off, it wasn't reported anywhere that Medvedev said that no such measures would come to pass, even if the FSB ends up suggesting it after the end of the "studies". Second, statements like "The FSB (really just a rebadged KGB)" really does not help with objectivity. It's like saying, the French Foreign Legion (the one that was causing havoc in Algeria), or the CIA (America's coup d'etats planners) which already tries to paint those institutions in a bad way.
Also, a sentence like "with an eye possibly toward implementing controls like those in China" was clearly written by somebody who didn't even read the article. What they said is that Russian people were commenting on the Internet, and I quote from the Reuters article: "with many saying Russia could follow China's attempts to limit the Internet".
I have been to Russia and I understand that it must not be easy to just let go of a country that was pointing nuclear weapons towards the US, and probably still does, but to be honest they are more worried about World War 2 history and how they won, than competing with the US. If anything, they want to be friendly with the US but they are very independent by nature, and this gets reflected in the fact that it's hard to spot foreigners in Russia unless at the usual touristic places, that they build a lot of the stuff they use, even stuff like Yandex replacing Google, vKontakte replacing Facebook, Rutube replacing YouTube and so on. So that independent culture only gets more reinforced. It was very curious to see that at the hotel I was staying, I didn't see any foreigner, and we are talking about a hotel complex that has like 4 huge towers.
So really, just let go and report stuff in Russia as if you were talking about the French. Something along the lines "that's silly, but well, they are French, they like to be different".
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l just don't trust Russia now, don't trust their space program to serve the U.S., never trusted them in the past and Putin's statement show me I can't trust them in the future.
Our legislators need to revisit how they direct and fund NASA. It doesn't mean NASA doesn't need to change, but NASA overseeing plans to keep us in space are a matter of the Federal Government's proper duty under the constitution to protect the U.S.'s interests and protect our borders.
If you hate Russians so much out of a Cold War mentality, why do you even bother to write if you are just going to be waving flags. Seriously, let it go, the war was won already.
I second what the parent post is saying. I kind of thought somebody was trying to hack my accounts or something since I started receiving lots and lots of fake UPS and FedEx emails. In my particular case, the first e-mail I received made me call a company that was sending me a product, since I was already having shipping issues with them. After closer examination of the email I realized it was fake but after that day, I have been receiving 2 or 3 of those fake emails per day with a variety of themes.
About as well as the 386s and 486s they use in spaceships. They don't expose the electronics you know.
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I was raised under the metric system and I have to say that the main advantage I saw with inches and foot was that I always had a ruler with me in my finger and foot, so to speak. Believe it or not, I ended up taking measurements in inches and then converting to metric. Maybe that was my way to adapt to the US while I lived there.
I don't know dude, people from English speaking countries get pretty pissed off in World of Warcraft when people in their group start speaking another language.
I would take Singapore from that list. I have a top executive friend living there and he showed my sister, who was visiting, how there is a special room for the housekeeper which the owner of the house locks while the housekeeper is there during the night. There was also a major scandal this week of a guy in the army who had his housekeeper carry his military gear for him. Rent is pretty high in general but otherwise it is pretty good. Singapore was rated the best place in the world to do business by the World Bank. Having said that, I would take Sweden or Norway any day with all the heavy taxation. A lot more quality of life.
Don't fool yourself. Truth is that even democrats approved that war since they didn't want to be seen unpatriotic. This is the reason why you actually elect officials instead of people that can be easily manipulated, but the system doesn't work all the times.
Sure, some people might say, but I voted against it. But ask yourself, what did the party of that person as a whole did in that particular case? Besides, Obama has been ruling for quite a while now and the war still goes on. The fact is that the US is way too militaristic, for better or worse, but hey, you don't get to be a superpower for running circles around issues like the French government is doing with Libya.
Cool, maybe we can send those self-sufficient people to colonize Mars. I cannot think of any country that actually promotes your "ideology" so maybe another planet works. Every single country has some sort of social program in place. I am willing to bet that even if you get elected, you would be willing to help out people somehow, since that, as stupid as it may sound in this day, it still gets you a lot of votes. Ask the early Obama, the community organizer, to see how far that scheme can get you.
Who said anything about public healthcare? Unless you are really poor, here in Venezuela you don't go to public hospitals. They actually work for intensive care units and stuff like that where you would have to spend a long time at the hospital. What I was talking about is that the private "clínicas", as we call them here, offer a better service, even when they try to squeeze the insurance companies. My orthodontist, who got his degree at NYU has clients from Florida who travel to see him. He charges $80 dollars per month while you are under treatment and all the equipment is top of the line (I have been to similar US facilities btw). That also includes emergency checkups and so on.
Look, Chavez has this country upside down and if anything, I am against socialism, but what I'm trying to say is that when you get charged $120 just to get an IV in you, something is seriously messed up with the system.
I would like to second what you said. I'm currently in Venezuela, and the health care here is way better than what I had available when I lived in the US. First of all, it's really cheap, the doctors are top of the line, and maybe the only thing you can complain here is that when they actually see somebody here with insurance they really squeeze them dry, but you still get your medical attention. If you don't have insurance you can still pay the bills since they have a different rate so to speak.
This is without even mentioning that other countries will eventually get ahead because they don't have to carry that excess baggage. It seems to me that the US is suffering from the same problems that the Soviet Union had right before it collapsed: a huge military that was sucking money out of more important things. The US is a federation of powerful states too, and when money runs out, it can become really messy. Out of real national security, I think it is important for the US to scale down military costs to at least 15% of the actual 30%.
Some of those social programs are actually designed to avoid extreme misery to fellow human beings, because you know, after all we are all humans. You might feel mighty and strong now, but I would like to see that you speak with that same tone when you are old, become disabled or sick somehow. Individuality is good but you should change that mentality of not wanting to give anything to help others. It's part of helping your nation helping those who cannot help themselves.
The T-34 was crude. I think you are the one who needs an education. I don't need any books to tell me what I saw in Moscow, even the turret evolution of the T-34 is on display. I was able to touch the surface and they are rough as hell. The imperfections on the cast iron are easily distinguishable. They still keep German tanks in Park Pobedy as well as some military museums and you see that the finish is as good as German stuff today. Even the uniforms of the Germans were something to behold.
I don't know about the Soviets but the 1st Armored Division was stationed in Germany for a reason.
True, but all things being said, an M16 is more precise than an AK-47. A Blackhawk is more expensive than a Mi-17 but it has a lower profile, makes less noise and has an extra 20 Km/H in speed. The T-90 is a combination of upgrades for the T-72 and new technologies that make it an extraordinary tank, the Abrams is a beast in armor protection, has really good fire control systems but is a lot more expensive, heavier and it is a gas guzzler, and not your regular kind of fuel either.
So in general, what we are talking about here is like getting an American SUV vs. getting a Land Rover. Both will get the job done and even if the Land Rover is better, it is more expensive. The US economy is by far the largest in the world so you guys can afford such developments.
That article is a joke. It doesn't even take into consideration very public recent development like http://www.fastcompany.com/1744745/russia-us-plan-a-nuclear-powered-space-rocket-should-we-worry
Plus Russia announced it created a nuclear reactor that was capable of being transported and used in a rocket some months ago. Plus the sun is an infinite source of energy when you are in space, which should make whatever fuel you are going to use last longer.
Wait, what?
They use defined areas of operation to avoid allied subs firing each other, even when in battle groups. As far as ships, yeah that is a different story.
But if they make it to Bespin they can really make money off tibanna gas. That's why it is important to keep funding the Hyperspace Navigator's Guild http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Hyperspace_Navigator's_Guild :P
Oh and one more thing, submarines are considered "offensive" weapons as well as the doctrines of invading West Germany with huge waves of tanks plus bombing the US with long-range bombers. I don't know where you get the major defensive war from. It would have been an all-out war.
I disagree with you. The Soviets might have been crude in their developments, but as World War 2 proved, even the crude T-34 beated sophisticated German tank designs. Plus they kept expanding their capabilities after World War 2 while most of the Allies started selling surplus stuff. There is also the question of fighting spirit. The Soviets were determined to wipe whoever tried to do the same things the Germans did to them, out of an instinct of survival, Kruschev was in fact hardwired into that kind of thinking. When you combine that with nuclear weapons, plus America's threats to them you certainly have a very dangerous combination.
One of the best stories I have read on this site so far. As one of the previous posters said, it's all about the human spirit. May he rest in peace.
Well it's their country and they have every right to do so. What makes you think it's ok to wiretap a phone line but it is not ok to intercept emails or other forms of Internet communication? First off Medvedev said that they aren't going to do anything to block them, but my point is, that even if they do, I would hardly call them irresponsibly. I truly believe that authorities should monitor everyone they deem dangerous to the safety of their citizens, that's why they are the government even if such resources can be misused for political purposes, like it was done with some Colombian politicians during Uribe's regime. Those politicians will have to deal with the heat afterwards either from their voters or from the international community.
I don't know if it looks like an attempt to make Americans look better, but it is clearly an attempt to make Russia look bad. First off, it wasn't reported anywhere that Medvedev said that no such measures would come to pass, even if the FSB ends up suggesting it after the end of the "studies". Second, statements like "The FSB (really just a rebadged KGB)" really does not help with objectivity. It's like saying, the French Foreign Legion (the one that was causing havoc in Algeria), or the CIA (America's coup d'etats planners) which already tries to paint those institutions in a bad way.
Also, a sentence like "with an eye possibly toward implementing controls like those in China" was clearly written by somebody who didn't even read the article. What they said is that Russian people were commenting on the Internet, and I quote from the Reuters article: "with many saying Russia could follow China's attempts to limit the Internet".
I have been to Russia and I understand that it must not be easy to just let go of a country that was pointing nuclear weapons towards the US, and probably still does, but to be honest they are more worried about World War 2 history and how they won, than competing with the US. If anything, they want to be friendly with the US but they are very independent by nature, and this gets reflected in the fact that it's hard to spot foreigners in Russia unless at the usual touristic places, that they build a lot of the stuff they use, even stuff like Yandex replacing Google, vKontakte replacing Facebook, Rutube replacing YouTube and so on. So that independent culture only gets more reinforced. It was very curious to see that at the hotel I was staying, I didn't see any foreigner, and we are talking about a hotel complex that has like 4 huge towers.
So really, just let go and report stuff in Russia as if you were talking about the French. Something along the lines "that's silly, but well, they are French, they like to be different".