Indeed. The corruption of our government helps a bit too.
E.g. we've had a few show-off actions on the TV showing frickin' bulldozers destroying CDs and announcing war on software and audio piracy, but I'm yet to see any decline in supply of pirated discs - and it ain't gonna change, business is just too good and demand is stable.
But some people just can't get it I suppose, for example Microsoft with their loonie decision to sell us crippled XP. In Russia. Where you can get Windows 2003 Enterprise for two bucks. Yeah, good idea, way to go.
First of all, this "average monthly wage" you quoted is pretty much as useful as an average temperature of a hospital patient.
The diversity of salaries in Russia is large, even between Moscow and Saint Petersburg it can be twice as much and don't even get me started on the rest of the country. A lot of people can only dream of those five thousand rubles.
Ignoring that, I'm still very interested to know what calculations exactly produced these amazing "adjustments for purchasing power"? Sorry, but this smells like complete bullshit.
For example, food, clothing and consumer electronics cost pretty much the same. I don't know about real estate, but I don't see much people living in their own houses. Come to think of that, I see none. What else did I forget?
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VM for Emacs has virtual folders which are essentially the same thing. Gnus, unfortunately, doesn't.
After all, product activation did a miracle for Microsoft. Stopped those evil software pirates completely, yessir.
Indeed. The corruption of our government helps a bit too.
E.g. we've had a few show-off actions on the TV showing frickin' bulldozers destroying CDs and announcing war on software and audio piracy, but I'm yet to see any decline in supply of pirated discs - and it ain't gonna change, business is just too good and demand is stable.
But some people just can't get it I suppose, for example Microsoft with their loonie decision to sell us crippled XP. In Russia. Where you can get Windows 2003 Enterprise for two bucks. Yeah, good idea, way to go.
First of all, this "average monthly wage" you quoted is pretty much as useful as an average temperature of a hospital patient.
The diversity of salaries in Russia is large, even between Moscow and Saint Petersburg it can be twice as much and don't even get me started on the rest of the country. A lot of people can only dream of those five thousand rubles.
Ignoring that, I'm still very interested to know what calculations exactly produced these amazing "adjustments for purchasing power"? Sorry, but this smells like complete bullshit.
For example, food, clothing and consumer electronics cost pretty much the same. I don't know about real estate, but I don't see much people living in their own houses. Come to think of that, I see none. What else did I forget?