Funny you said that
>because after you die your opinions won't matter much anyways.
Except for a few billion people who worship you as the prohet/messiah of the religion you established.
I'm not sure what you are talking about? All the agricultural land here has been privatized, and available for purchase, with some exceptions such as land in border areas cannot be sold to foreigners. The problem is that there is no interested in being a farmer in a country thats overflowing with petro-dollars.
So, what are you trying to say here? That your friend and you don't have any principles? That you are a spineless who just talks the talk but ready to give up what you believe in when it gets tough? Do you know there are people who will fight for your rights even there were planes crashing into buildings every day?
Don't get me wring, I believe in technological progress and I'm amazed at how much graphical and computing power is available now at consumer level, hell I play moo in basilisk2 on my macbook because the mac68k port just looks better than the dos version! Ditto for the Amiga XCOM version.
But I also believe in such thing as "Golden age", you can see analogies running through any form of art whether paining, music, film or video games, Time after time we can trace how depth of form and creativity has been replaced by lushness and shallownesses. The golden age of video games lasted through mid 90s and it was the time when a creative team could produce a financially succesful game on a relatively small budget.
There is lots of land, but the cost of laying down new communications is really high and skyrockets the cost of any new developments. I'm only writing this because I live in a small town in Siberia:)
I laugh my ass off every time someone wastes big $$ to buy a new computer that has enough power to be called a supercomputer a few years ago and now is barely capable of being a glorified word processor (thanks MS, thanks MS OFFICE!). I have 2 computers - an Atari 800XL, I use it to type up some texts and run statistical simulation (I'm a research mathematician) and a Powermac 7100 av I got for free from the university (hate the damn thing but have to use it to access the Internet). I prefer to work in the country side but sometimes I go the city to pick some atari software (there is a lovely scene in Helsinki, hi Mikko!)
This is just not true anymore, I live in Akademgorodok and a well known Moscow based corporation (RosEvroDevelopment)
has signed the investment agreement in 2006 and next month will start the construction. Obviously they are hoping to make a good profit on the deal. And you wouldn't believe how much money is being invested in Russia now including by foreign companies. Again, here there are factories, business centers and huge shopping malls sprouting everywhere.
Someone who likes math? And why would anyone go to college in the first place when they can learn "web design and basic programming" from a book in less than a year?
In American school, even if you kid is "only" average or even below average (but not a retard) THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in the school program that can't be mastered at an A level with enough hard work.
And what's a "real" Jew anyway? The State of Israel itself doesn't care if you follow Judaism or not as long as you have a Jewish mother. (and she doesn't have to be religious either, a perfect example of recursion). Just like the parent I have plenty of secular Jews as friends/coworkers and they laugh at Torah and criticize Israel but the funniest thing they are welcome to immigrate to Israel any time they want. Hundreds of thousands of secular Jews , who hadn't the faintest idea about the religion or language and culture (bit the had Jew as their nationality stamped in the soviet passports) immigrated from the former SU in the 90s just because Israel was the country with a moderately high standard of living. Now tell me that Jews/judaism and zionism are inseparable. Maybe in the minds of ultra-orthodox rabies.
Please do some research first. Iran has a vibrant legally protected jewish community, the largest in the ME outside of Israel. Anti-zionism which is a part of Iranian foreign policy nq antisemetism.
All our accountants use 333 mhz celerons with 256 megs of ram to run a single accounting applications. Once you switch to classic interface and turn off unnecessary services it actually runs faster than win2k on the same hardware, and it is the kind of hardware win2k was mean to run on. Needless to say we are not planning to switch to Vista!
Please add Killer Bees to your list. I hear they are coming any moment now. Bowling for Columbine was correct on one thing - you Americans are scared of everything, the sad part you are trying to infect the rest of the world with you fear, of terrorists, of bird flue, sars, whatever.
The same water lubing mechanism seems to behind the rapid disappearing of Greenland glaciers.
Ans now it's starting to look like universal mechanism accelerating the melting of land based ice. The article says that the changes the used to think took decades now are observed happening in MONTHS. And it's starting to look we may see the horrific consequences of our actions in our lifetimes.
We need more teachers here. Because of the winter coming so late this year the bears didn't go into hybernation and hungrily roamed the countryside getting many village school teachers. There have also been many http://news.ngs.ru/more/24841.php brutal fox attacks in our area too.
The alternatives you offered are not as effective. Jewelry? A mugger grabs it ans then stabs you.
And what use would be a tatoo for paramedics if you get seriously burnt?
Is it just another hi-tech gadget to shield yourself from the reality of war? Please, just stop and take you soldiers home, our president Putin is right that the US has overstepped it's national boundaries. Starting wars on tampered evidence, fueling the new nuclear arms race and destroying the MAD balance with missile defense programs. I'm serious, please make your government stop this descent into madness.
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Funny you said that >because after you die your opinions won't matter much anyways. Except for a few billion people who worship you as the prohet/messiah of the religion you established.
Let me guess, you forgot to set you watch forward after flying east?
I'm not sure what you are talking about? All the agricultural land here has been privatized, and available for purchase, with some exceptions such as land in border areas cannot be sold to foreigners. The problem is that there is no interested in being a farmer in a country thats overflowing with petro-dollars.
So, what are you trying to say here? That your friend and you don't have any principles? That you are a spineless who just talks the talk but ready to give up what you believe in when it gets tough? Do you know there are people who will fight for your rights even there were planes crashing into buildings every day?
Don't get me wring, I believe in technological progress and I'm amazed at how much graphical and computing power is available now at consumer level, hell I play moo in basilisk2 on my macbook because the mac68k port just looks better than the dos version! Ditto for the Amiga XCOM version. But I also believe in such thing as "Golden age", you can see analogies running through any form of art whether paining, music, film or video games, Time after time we can trace how depth of form and creativity has been replaced by lushness and shallownesses. The golden age of video games lasted through mid 90s and it was the time when a creative team could produce a financially succesful game on a relatively small budget.
There is lots of land, but the cost of laying down new communications is really high and skyrockets the cost of any new developments. I'm only writing this because I live in a small town in Siberia :)
I laugh my ass off every time someone wastes big $$ to buy a new computer that has enough power to be called a supercomputer a few years ago and now is barely capable of being a glorified word processor (thanks MS, thanks MS OFFICE!). I have 2 computers - an Atari 800XL, I use it to type up some texts and run statistical simulation (I'm a research mathematician) and a Powermac 7100 av I got for free from the university (hate the damn thing but have to use it to access the Internet). I prefer to work in the country side but sometimes I go the city to pick some atari software (there is a lovely scene in Helsinki, hi Mikko!)
Wow, have you tried reading? (books)
This is just not true anymore, I live in Akademgorodok and a well known Moscow based corporation (RosEvroDevelopment) has signed the investment agreement in 2006 and next month will start the construction. Obviously they are hoping to make a good profit on the deal. And you wouldn't believe how much money is being invested in Russia now including by foreign companies. Again, here there are factories, business centers and huge shopping malls sprouting everywhere.
You're right and it's rarely even below 25 here. -40 C is definitely not a normal temperature, we are in SOUTH western Siberia after all!
Artificial diamonds made cheaply in a lab has been old news for decades. Put they are not pretty.
Someone who likes math? And why would anyone go to college in the first place when they can learn "web design and basic programming" from a book in less than a year?
Wait, I thought 14 year old potheads used macs??
In American school, even if you kid is "only" average or even below average (but not a retard) THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING in the school program that can't be mastered at an A level with enough hard work.
Wait, I'm pretty sure there was a story about a demon hat flew out of the hole, and there is even a sound file somewhere.
And what's a "real" Jew anyway? The State of Israel itself doesn't care if you follow Judaism or not as long as you have a Jewish mother. (and she doesn't have to be religious either, a perfect example of recursion). Just like the parent I have plenty of secular Jews as friends/coworkers and they laugh at Torah and criticize Israel but the funniest thing they are welcome to immigrate to Israel any time they want. Hundreds of thousands of secular Jews , who hadn't the faintest idea about the religion or language and culture (bit the had Jew as their nationality stamped in the soviet passports) immigrated from the former SU in the 90s just because Israel was the country with a moderately high standard of living. Now tell me that Jews/judaism and zionism are inseparable. Maybe in the minds of ultra-orthodox rabies.
Please do some research first. Iran has a vibrant legally protected jewish community, the largest in the ME outside of Israel. Anti-zionism which is a part of Iranian foreign policy nq antisemetism.
All our accountants use 333 mhz celerons with 256 megs of ram to run a single accounting applications. Once you switch to classic interface and turn off unnecessary services it actually runs faster than win2k on the same hardware, and it is the kind of hardware win2k was mean to run on. Needless to say we are not planning to switch to Vista!
Please add Killer Bees to your list. I hear they are coming any moment now. Bowling for Columbine was correct on one thing - you Americans are scared of everything, the sad part you are trying to infect the rest of the world with you fear, of terrorists, of bird flue, sars, whatever.
The same water lubing mechanism seems to behind the rapid disappearing of Greenland glaciers. Ans now it's starting to look like universal mechanism accelerating the melting of land based ice. The article says that the changes the used to think took decades now are observed happening in MONTHS. And it's starting to look we may see the horrific consequences of our actions in our lifetimes.
We need more teachers here. Because of the winter coming so late this year the bears didn't go into hybernation and hungrily roamed the countryside getting many village school teachers. There have also been many http://news.ngs.ru/more/24841.php brutal fox attacks in our area too.
Dunno, how deep are they implanted?
The alternatives you offered are not as effective. Jewelry? A mugger grabs it ans then stabs you. And what use would be a tatoo for paramedics if you get seriously burnt?
Nothing wrong with it if you do it voluntarily. I for one dont care id someones knows where I go, takes a video, posts it on youtube, etc.
Is it just another hi-tech gadget to shield yourself from the reality of war? Please, just stop and take you soldiers home, our president Putin is right that the US has overstepped it's national boundaries. Starting wars on tampered evidence, fueling the new nuclear arms race and destroying the MAD balance with missile defense programs. I'm serious, please make your government stop this descent into madness.