I agree, this is beyond evil. I can maybe live with always on internet requirement but this?? I still play 10+ y/o games, x-com, ja, moo series.
Considering I go through a full upgrade cycle once in 1.5 years and frequently swap components between upgrades, this scheme is completely
unacceptable for practical reasons alone.
How was this communist troll ever modded up? Typical commie rhetoric with zero proof of any statements made. This post is exactly an example
of "thought destroying noise".
A business with 15-20 employees that is still running their own server infrastructure is doing it wrong. smb's are now a target
of a very aggressive marketing compaign to the them into the cloud. I expect such cases to disappear within the next 5 years.
No Coke but we had Pepsi plant in Novosibirsk built in the 70s, I remember locally produced glass Pepsi bottles quite well. And Russian cars were exported to Western countries, I hear Lada Niva compact SUV was quote popular in certain countries.
Hi there, I was just a schoolkid during the 80s in Soviet Union. No we did not hate you. In fact we would have these fundraising drives
a few time a year to gather clothes and money for American homeless living in cardboard boxes. (I know now not all Americans were poor and homeless in the 80s) Just like now I do not think ordinary American workers and farmers want to destroy us with nuclear strikes. It's the warmongering politicians in Washington, DC and military industrial complex. It's funny, your politicians want the world to be scared of Iran, when I live 40 kilometers from a Topol-M missile base
and likely have multiple megatons aimed at me at this very moment. If one of your Presidents taking advice on how to rule the country directly
from God decides to fulfill his destiny I could be dead within 30 minutes. Kinda heard to be scared of half-assed Iranian nukes program gives the cirumstrances.
There will be a nuclear Iran. That is unless US interferes, because there is no way Israel can stop (delay by a couple of years, yes) Iranian
nuclear program on it's own. But that would mean dragging US into the conflict which kinda defeats the original purpose of arming them doesn't it?
First, direct answer to your question. As a nation striving to be accepted as a modern democratic society, inflicting collective punishment on civilian Arab population must not be an option, period. Even if it means abandoning near border settlements. Second answer - political will on behalf of Unites States. if Israel knew they could not indefinitely keep the status quo, negotiations for a two state solution would stop being such a sad joke. Arabs are willing to give up a lot. it is Israel that approaches the talks halfheartedly with barely hidden contempt for the Arabs.
You are seriously underestimating the powers of the Queen. The monarchist sentiment is very strong in the armed forces and among a significant
segment of the population. If the Parliament decided to dissolve the monarchy it would likely lead to a bloody civil war.
From "A Study in Scarlet", 1886 by Arthur Conan Doyle
You see,” he explained, “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has difficulty laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
“But the Solar System!” [Dr. Watson] protested.
“What of the deuce is it to me?” he interrupted impatiently: “you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”
I actually lived for some time in the US. My perspective is that US is no dictatorship but neither it is
a modern democracy as defined by the standard set by modern Western European democracies. I find American political
system quite peculiar.
It is quite authoritarian at the federal level, between defacto one party rule (I refuse to consider R and D to be sufficiently different
ideologically to be considered distinct parties, they are more like a liberal and conservative wings of the old CPSU) and absolutely mad lobbyism
there is a real abyss between ordinary people and what is going on in DC. It's almost a total disconnect like in other authoritarian countries like
Russia. It is very different in countries like Norway for instance.
On the other hand below state level it's quite a lively democracy with real political competition and shifting balance of power. And the
whole "legislation by court" is a rather unique American thing not present in other countries.
I'm sorry. but Dave the customer also sounds like an asshole just ready to explode. He starts writing in all caps before the main OM
rant. So his toys got delayed because of manufacturing delays and he was offered a $10 bucks coupon (I agree OM could have handled the original response in a more professional matter with more meaningless weasel words).
In any case Dave's 7+ point rant with sentences in all caps was uncalled for.
1) My Toshiba Portege900 smartphone came out before iPhone and had better specs including full 800x400 screen resolution.
2) 100 billion people can't be wrong.
3) Our company among other things makes Mac version of the product. My impression that genius bar are 100% certified idiots, "they did not find anything wrong with my computer, so they re-installed the os", quote from actual customer. Secondly, Apple users are themselves the whiniest bunch by an order of magnitude.
"Your doc icon is 2 pixels higher then the rest, I want a full refund" or "Your doc icon makes my Macbook pro look cheap", you would never hear such ridiculous complains from customers for other platforms.
Some corrections since it fell near where I live and a lot of people got to observe the fiery trail we thought it was a plane actually)
1) It crashed in Ordyn district of Novosibirsk region, not Tobolsk which is to the west.
2) There is a Cosmanauts street in nearly every Russian town and from what I hear fragments were discovered all over Ordynsk, so
the irony is a bit misplaced here.
I'm too concerned about apparently poor quality control with recent launches. I agree that it's most
likely due to loss of experience due to aging workforce.
If anything *real* hard science, like math and physics and so on is extremely *conservative*. It takes decades for a new idea to becomes
an established hypothesis and even longer to be recognized something worthy of a Nobel prize.
I see communists and socialist sympathizers are out in force today. Tough luck, you will never get any of this and you will
not get to turn America into another social-democratic hell-hole like Norway.
And your sob story just screams masochist, you could've paid you student loans in god forbid 3-4 years
and saved yourself the trouble of living like a miser with you parents.
When Polish government collapsed having not received British support Soviet Union had to enter Poland
to prevent a humanitarian disaster. It's a well known fact. As far as Soviet Union and Nazi Germany beinbg allies - also not true. There was
an non-aggression pact signed by Stalin to buy Soviet Union much needed time to prepare for German attack. That the war with Germany was coming was a known fact to Soviet leadership, they just did not expect it to happen so soon.
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I agree, this is beyond evil. I can maybe live with always on internet requirement but this?? I still play 10+ y/o games, x-com, ja, moo series. Considering I go through a full upgrade cycle once in 1.5 years and frequently swap components between upgrades, this scheme is completely unacceptable for practical reasons alone.
How was this communist troll ever modded up? Typical commie rhetoric with zero proof of any statements made. This post is exactly an example of "thought destroying noise".
A business with 15-20 employees that is still running their own server infrastructure is doing it wrong. smb's are now a target of a very aggressive marketing compaign to the them into the cloud. I expect such cases to disappear within the next 5 years.
It was a perfectly plausible theory at the time. A US sun with hull damage was photographed docked in a Norwegian port shortly after the accident.
No Coke but we had Pepsi plant in Novosibirsk built in the 70s, I remember locally produced glass Pepsi bottles quite well. And Russian cars were exported to Western countries, I hear Lada Niva compact SUV was quote popular in certain countries.
Hi there, I was just a schoolkid during the 80s in Soviet Union. No we did not hate you. In fact we would have these fundraising drives a few time a year to gather clothes and money for American homeless living in cardboard boxes. (I know now not all Americans were poor and homeless in the 80s) Just like now I do not think ordinary American workers and farmers want to destroy us with nuclear strikes. It's the warmongering politicians in Washington, DC and military industrial complex. It's funny, your politicians want the world to be scared of Iran, when I live 40 kilometers from a Topol-M missile base and likely have multiple megatons aimed at me at this very moment. If one of your Presidents taking advice on how to rule the country directly from God decides to fulfill his destiny I could be dead within 30 minutes. Kinda heard to be scared of half-assed Iranian nukes program gives the cirumstrances.
There will be a nuclear Iran. That is unless US interferes, because there is no way Israel can stop (delay by a couple of years, yes) Iranian nuclear program on it's own. But that would mean dragging US into the conflict which kinda defeats the original purpose of arming them doesn't it?
No. If you got robbed while carrying your life saving from the bank it still would not be terrorism.
First, direct answer to your question. As a nation striving to be accepted as a modern democratic society, inflicting collective punishment on civilian Arab population must not be an option, period. Even if it means abandoning near border settlements. Second answer - political will on behalf of Unites States. if Israel knew they could not indefinitely keep the status quo, negotiations for a two state solution would stop being such a sad joke. Arabs are willing to give up a lot. it is Israel that approaches the talks halfheartedly with barely hidden contempt for the Arabs.
Some corrections. 1) Iran and Pakistan have industrial capacity far beyond simple IEDs. 2) Asymmetrical warfare played an important role during WW2.
I'm not a huge fan of Zionism but Jews are also native people of Palestine.
You are seriously underestimating the powers of the Queen. The monarchist sentiment is very strong in the armed forces and among a significant segment of the population. If the Parliament decided to dissolve the monarchy it would likely lead to a bloody civil war.
From "A Study in Scarlet", 1886 by Arthur Conan Doyle
You see,” he explained, “I consider that a man’s brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has difficulty laying his hands upon it. Now the skillful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.”
“But the Solar System!” [Dr. Watson] protested.
“What of the deuce is it to me?” he interrupted impatiently: “you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work.”
Thats ok, I'm the Dragonborn!
I actually lived for some time in the US. My perspective is that US is no dictatorship but neither it is a modern democracy as defined by the standard set by modern Western European democracies. I find American political system quite peculiar.
It is quite authoritarian at the federal level, between defacto one party rule (I refuse to consider R and D to be sufficiently different ideologically to be considered distinct parties, they are more like a liberal and conservative wings of the old CPSU) and absolutely mad lobbyism there is a real abyss between ordinary people and what is going on in DC. It's almost a total disconnect like in other authoritarian countries like Russia. It is very different in countries like Norway for instance.
On the other hand below state level it's quite a lively democracy with real political competition and shifting balance of power. And the whole "legislation by court" is a rather unique American thing not present in other countries.
I'm sorry. but Dave the customer also sounds like an asshole just ready to explode. He starts writing in all caps before the main OM rant. So his toys got delayed because of manufacturing delays and he was offered a $10 bucks coupon (I agree OM could have handled the original response in a more professional matter with more meaningless weasel words).
In any case Dave's 7+ point rant with sentences in all caps was uncalled for.
1) My Toshiba Portege900 smartphone came out before iPhone and had better specs including full 800x400 screen resolution.
2) 100 billion people can't be wrong.
3) Our company among other things makes Mac version of the product. My impression that genius bar are 100% certified idiots, "they did not find anything wrong with my computer, so they re-installed the os", quote from actual customer. Secondly, Apple users are themselves the whiniest bunch by an order of magnitude. "Your doc icon is 2 pixels higher then the rest, I want a full refund" or "Your doc icon makes my Macbook pro look cheap", you would never hear such ridiculous complains from customers for other platforms.
Simply not true. Domestic microchip fab facilities exist, for instance Angstrem facility in Zelenograd.
Some corrections since it fell near where I live and a lot of people got to observe the fiery trail we thought it was a plane actually)
1) It crashed in Ordyn district of Novosibirsk region, not Tobolsk which is to the west.
2) There is a Cosmanauts street in nearly every Russian town and from what I hear fragments were discovered all over Ordynsk, so the irony is a bit misplaced here.
I'm too concerned about apparently poor quality control with recent launches. I agree that it's most likely due to loss of experience due to aging workforce.
Boring, let's just skip to the clubbing baby seals part.
If anything *real* hard science, like math and physics and so on is extremely *conservative*. It takes decades for a new idea to becomes an established hypothesis and even longer to be recognized something worthy of a Nobel prize.
I see communists and socialist sympathizers are out in force today. Tough luck, you will never get any of this and you will not get to turn America into another social-democratic hell-hole like Norway.
And your sob story just screams masochist, you could've paid you student loans in god forbid 3-4 years and saved yourself the trouble of living like a miser with you parents.
I would like you to make more than one epic disaster movie per year. Consider this my formal request to people of America.
When Polish government collapsed having not received British support Soviet Union had to enter Poland to prevent a humanitarian disaster. It's a well known fact. As far as Soviet Union and Nazi Germany beinbg allies - also not true. There was an non-aggression pact signed by Stalin to buy Soviet Union much needed time to prepare for German attack. That the war with Germany was coming was a known fact to Soviet leadership, they just did not expect it to happen so soon.
Karl Marx, really? It's a quote attributed to Vladimir Ilyich Lenin.