Yeah. I wonder what is the 'serious' message that's worth less than half of his yearly pension, "don't get caught"? Also, the "he didn't disclose it" crap is hilarious, because it is full of unknown unknowns.
The headline is pretty much/. standard, and "Dark Energy" is not all wrong, but just like the aether a century ago -- its discovery is just around the corner.
Yes, it was Russia. The war in Eastern Ukraine was started by a Mr. Igor Girkin, a Russian, allegedly ex-military, a war criminal from the Yugoslavia wars, who also participated in several of Russia's armed conflicts (Chechnya, Georgia, etc.), and who entered into Ukraine across a Russian border, on orders from Russia.
He had done the same thing just two months before that, in Crimea. The only difference between his first and second marches was the changed attitude of the international community, which made Putin reconsider and change his plans.
Along with him came a group of Russian soldiers and officers, allegedly 'on leave' and a lot of serious firepower: large guns, tanks, armored vehicles. The Russian regime has tried to deny this, but the evidence that a huge amount of Russian military equipment and military are pouring through the border is overwhelming, the confessions of Girkin notwithstanding.
Girkin's activities in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine were financed with Russian money, partly by a Mr. Malofeev, a Russian oligarch with ties to the regime, who got his initial capital from state banks.
Mr. Girkin himself addressed your theory about this non-existing local Russian movement long ago. Here are the relevant quotes from his interview in the Zavtra newspaper:
Q: What about the phases of war: A: At first, nobody [neither Ukraine's armed forces nor the separatists] wanted to fight. The first weeks went with the two sides talking to each other, trying to get the other side to change views. In Slovyansk, the separatists and the army were very careful using arms... The Ukrainian army wasn't eager to fight at all.
Q: Your role wasn't only military, you were the source of ideas for establishing a government, right? A: At the time, I understood well that the [regions of] Donetsk and Lohansk can't fight on their own. We went in with the understanding that the Crimea situation will be repeated, and the Russian army will enter [openly]... My task there was not to take the power, my task was to guard the [separatist] republic
Still, it was me who squeezed the trigger of war. If our team hasn't crossed the border [to go into Ukraine], it would have ended like it did in Kharkiv or Odessa, a few people shot, burned or imprisoned. It would have stopped there. The pendulum of war, which is still going was released by us.
in these cases it is less about due process and rule of law and more about a shift in power between rival factions
Not quite, there is a nuance, at least on some levels.
In China, corruption scandals are a tool of power redistribution, because China still has a collective system of government and public opinion matters, albeit not quite like it does in the West. Hence, a systematic corruption fighter is a nuisance, but not an enemy of the state by definition, at least on the face of it.
In Russia, things have gone the other way, towards a very authoritarian regime where the system is based on shameless corruption, by design. Speaking against corruption there is speaking against the system and hence a crime against the 'stability', the Motherland and the 'Russian world', all synthesized in the image of the all-powerful, America-crushing superhero Putin, who provides 'order' and helps the country to 'rise from its knees', where it was put by its eternal enemies -- the evil jews and the Americans -- in the early 90s.
Therefore the institutions of the state (and sources of corruption), the state media and the 'public' opinion are always by definition against the corruption fighter. The latter isn't the occasionally useful nuisance, but an outright enemy that has to be destroyed. Of course, as an enemy, he/she's also in league with the 'foreign enemies' and is on their payroll and so a traitor.
Hence the GP's comment about not wanting a 'revolution' -- the fight against the state of corruption is presented (and apparently perceived by many) as a threat to the government and the order, and this line of thinking has gained a significant traction in Russia, at least on the surface.
We'll see how it will survive the economic hardships that Russia unleashed on itself starting the war in Ukraine.
I didn't realize putting thieves and liars in prison for their crimes is 'revolution'. In my dictionary this is called 'due process' and is a function of a properly functioning government.
Actually, they may even have the money. They just have to put Yakunin in jail and get back what he stole -- for himself, and for his boss. http://navalny-en.livejournal....
Why we ever moved from pocket watches to wrist watches is a mystery to me.
Apparently, they were needed by pilots in the early era of flight. They needed to keep track of time, and at the same time they had to control the aircraft, which, at the time, was a hard physical work. So, wrist watches became a necessity, then cool, then a fashion item.
Our planning horizon is the next paycheck, not millenia, and we'll be long dead by then anyway. And by 'we', I mean the civilization. So, no reason to be concerned.
Call me EU-biased, populist, fourth Reich apologist or whatever, but I don't see how the Euro has been bad for Belgium by looking at its GDP growth. It isn't spectacularly different before/after the Euro, but it seems there is a lot more economic stability after than before.
As for France, the tendency of diminishing growth has been there since at least the oil shocks, nothing in the chart I see that would point to the introduction of the Euro as the culprit.
I want to see how a "financially independent" Greece does, really, except it won't be pretty. If the historical record is any indication, they'll be the third-poorest Balkan nation, ahead of maybe Macedonia and Albania but behind everybody else, with a GDP per capita at a healthy 15-20% of the EU-12 average and an economic growth in the low 50 points of one percent when times are exceptionally good.
Unless they have another coup d'etat or, maybe, get bought wholesale by Istanbul or Moscow with all the expectations of good government that such a deal implies.
No, this dream about the 'new jobs' isn't supported by a lot of evidence. New jobs will likely not be created in the numbers necessary to give jobs to everyone displaced. Actually, not even close, and that'll be true in all sectors. https://ir.citi.com/FItMGwO7Z6...
Even if you don't use it, they probably have your shadow account, managed by the very same kind of machine learning algorithms that automatically tag your pictures, even when you choose 'do not tag'. http://www.digitaltrends.com/s...
Rather, and usually in the context of weight control, the belief appears to be that expending the 32 megajoules will cause your kilogram of flesh to magically disappear.
Actually, that describes what happens in the context of the subject -- weight loss. You use 7700 kCal more than you take in, and about 1 kg of your body mass vanishes. Hardly bones, of course, but fat, proteins and what not.
It is easy to see this loss, and it is often visualized on weird Japanese TV shows about the subject -- people will have a full body MRI scan before/after a diet course and a doctor compare the two scans for the audience. Not very entertaining, but surely educational up to a point.
Also, this isn't magical. The stuff does actually leave your body as CO2, water and other waste products of metabolism of the said 1 kg. It does appear as a 'missing mass' on your weight scale.
Incidentally, losing weight as a result of using more energy than you take in is the reason all those survivors in pictures from Nazi German concentration camps look like fashion models before makeup, they had too little to eat, and too much hard labor, which used up all that body fat they had before Hitler.
There was a reason that anti-monopoly and anti-oligopoly legislation was created. The idea is that if one participant in he market is stronger than everybody else and can impose conditions, the 'free' in 'free market' is gone, and the outcome is bad for everyone except the monopolist. This is especially true in markets where the monopoly isn't natural, but bestowed by a law, like the copyrights. The logic is also true for monopsonies, i.e. buyers' markets.
Too bad that the government doesn't sue large corporations for violating those laws very often.
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Yeah. I wonder what is the 'serious' message that's worth less than half of his yearly pension, "don't get caught"? Also, the "he didn't disclose it" crap is hilarious, because it is full of unknown unknowns.
The headline is pretty much /. standard, and "Dark Energy" is not all wrong, but just like the aether a century ago -- its discovery is just around the corner.
But Perl is still easier to learn and with a significantly larger user base.
My 3D printer doesn't run Javascript yet, you insensitive clod.
. But those days are gone.
Bullshit, Yakunin's offshore companies are syphoning money off the Russian Railways with his blessing as we speak.
It was NOT Russia who began a Donbass war.
Yes, it was Russia. The war in Eastern Ukraine was started by a Mr. Igor Girkin, a Russian, allegedly ex-military, a war criminal from the Yugoslavia wars, who also participated in several of Russia's armed conflicts (Chechnya, Georgia, etc.), and who entered into Ukraine across a Russian border, on orders from Russia.
He had done the same thing just two months before that, in Crimea. The only difference between his first and second marches was the changed attitude of the international community, which made Putin reconsider and change his plans.
Along with him came a group of Russian soldiers and officers, allegedly 'on leave' and a lot of serious firepower: large guns, tanks, armored vehicles. The Russian regime has tried to deny this, but the evidence that a huge amount of Russian military equipment and military are pouring through the border is overwhelming, the confessions of Girkin notwithstanding.
Girkin's activities in Crimea and Eastern Ukraine were financed with Russian money, partly by a Mr. Malofeev, a Russian oligarch with ties to the regime, who got his initial capital from state banks.
Mr. Girkin himself addressed your theory about this non-existing local Russian movement long ago. Here are the relevant quotes from his interview in the Zavtra newspaper:
Q: What about the phases of war: A: At first, nobody [neither Ukraine's armed forces nor the separatists] wanted to fight. The first weeks went with the two sides talking to each other, trying to get the other side to change views. In Slovyansk, the separatists and the army were very careful using arms... The Ukrainian army wasn't eager to fight at all.
Q: Your role wasn't only military, you were the source of ideas for establishing a government, right? A: At the time, I understood well that the [regions of] Donetsk and Lohansk can't fight on their own. We went in with the understanding that the Crimea situation will be repeated, and the Russian army will enter [openly]... My task there was not to take the power, my task was to guard the [separatist] republic
Still, it was me who squeezed the trigger of war. If our team hasn't crossed the border [to go into Ukraine], it would have ended like it did in Kharkiv or Odessa, a few people shot, burned or imprisoned. It would have stopped there. The pendulum of war, which is still going was released by us.
in these cases it is less about due process and rule of law and more about a shift in power between rival factions
Not quite, there is a nuance, at least on some levels.
In China, corruption scandals are a tool of power redistribution, because China still has a collective system of government and public opinion matters, albeit not quite like it does in the West. Hence, a systematic corruption fighter is a nuisance, but not an enemy of the state by definition, at least on the face of it.
In Russia, things have gone the other way, towards a very authoritarian regime where the system is based on shameless corruption, by design. Speaking against corruption there is speaking against the system and hence a crime against the 'stability', the Motherland and the 'Russian world', all synthesized in the image of the all-powerful, America-crushing superhero Putin, who provides 'order' and helps the country to 'rise from its knees', where it was put by its eternal enemies -- the evil jews and the Americans -- in the early 90s.
Therefore the institutions of the state (and sources of corruption), the state media and the 'public' opinion are always by definition against the corruption fighter. The latter isn't the occasionally useful nuisance, but an outright enemy that has to be destroyed. Of course, as an enemy, he/she's also in league with the 'foreign enemies' and is on their payroll and so a traitor.
Hence the GP's comment about not wanting a 'revolution' -- the fight against the state of corruption is presented (and apparently perceived by many) as a threat to the government and the order, and this line of thinking has gained a significant traction in Russia, at least on the surface.
We'll see how it will survive the economic hardships that Russia unleashed on itself starting the war in Ukraine.
I didn't realize putting thieves and liars in prison for their crimes is 'revolution'. In my dictionary this is called 'due process' and is a function of a properly functioning government.
Actually, they may even have the money. They just have to put Yakunin in jail and get back what he stole -- for himself, and for his boss. http://navalny-en.livejournal....
Why we ever moved from pocket watches to wrist watches is a mystery to me.
Apparently, they were needed by pilots in the early era of flight. They needed to keep track of time, and at the same time they had to control the aircraft, which, at the time, was a hard physical work. So, wrist watches became a necessity, then cool, then a fashion item.
My intro to aerodynamics book told a story similar to this one: http://monochrome-watches.com/...
The Club of Rome said total collapse 2040-ish. So far we're on track to get it, apparently ;)
Our planning horizon is the next paycheck, not millenia, and we'll be long dead by then anyway. And by 'we', I mean the civilization. So, no reason to be concerned.
If you can read the opposite of what the charts actually say, it is pointless to talk to you. Go feel sorry about yourself somewhere else.
Call me EU-biased, populist, fourth Reich apologist or whatever, but I don't see how the Euro has been bad for Belgium by looking at its GDP growth. It isn't spectacularly different before/after the Euro, but it seems there is a lot more economic stability after than before.
Belgium:
Before Euro: http://www.tradingeconomics.co...
After Euro: http://www.tradingeconomics.co...
As for France, the tendency of diminishing growth has been there since at least the oil shocks, nothing in the chart I see that would point to the introduction of the Euro as the culprit.
http://www.tradingeconomics.com/charts/france-gdp-growth-annual.png?s=frgegdpy&d1=19500101&d2=20151231
I want to see how a "financially independent" Greece does, really, except it won't be pretty. If the historical record is any indication, they'll be the third-poorest Balkan nation, ahead of maybe Macedonia and Albania but behind everybody else, with a GDP per capita at a healthy 15-20% of the EU-12 average and an economic growth in the low 50 points of one percent when times are exceptionally good.
Unless they have another coup d'etat or, maybe, get bought wholesale by Istanbul or Moscow with all the expectations of good government that such a deal implies.
No, this dream about the 'new jobs' isn't supported by a lot of evidence. New jobs will likely not be created in the numbers necessary to give jobs to everyone displaced. Actually, not even close, and that'll be true in all sectors. https://ir.citi.com/FItMGwO7Z6...
You'll be having interviews with companies you most likely won't want to work for.
Most of the Universe has no people, hence Universe isn't Hell.
There are things outside of this Hell, hence Hell isn't the Universe. Next.
Let's start with a good definition. What is 'Hell'? Please be specific.
Even if you don't use it, they probably have your shadow account, managed by the very same kind of machine learning algorithms that automatically tag your pictures, even when you choose 'do not tag'. http://www.digitaltrends.com/s...
Rather, and usually in the context of weight control, the belief appears to be that expending the 32 megajoules will cause your kilogram of flesh to magically disappear.
Actually, that describes what happens in the context of the subject -- weight loss. You use 7700 kCal more than you take in, and about 1 kg of your body mass vanishes. Hardly bones, of course, but fat, proteins and what not.
It is easy to see this loss, and it is often visualized on weird Japanese TV shows about the subject -- people will have a full body MRI scan before/after a diet course and a doctor compare the two scans for the audience. Not very entertaining, but surely educational up to a point.
Also, this isn't magical. The stuff does actually leave your body as CO2, water and other waste products of metabolism of the said 1 kg. It does appear as a 'missing mass' on your weight scale.
Incidentally, losing weight as a result of using more energy than you take in is the reason all those survivors in pictures from Nazi German concentration camps look like fashion models before makeup, they had too little to eat, and too much hard labor, which used up all that body fat they had before Hitler.
And yes, I Godwined this discussion on purpose.
Yeah, there is a huge difference between 5 companies dominating the market vs 1 company dominating the market.
There was a reason that anti-monopoly and anti-oligopoly legislation was created. The idea is that if one participant in he market is stronger than everybody else and can impose conditions, the 'free' in 'free market' is gone, and the outcome is bad for everyone except the monopolist. This is especially true in markets where the monopoly isn't natural, but bestowed by a law, like the copyrights. The logic is also true for monopsonies, i.e. buyers' markets.
Too bad that the government doesn't sue large corporations for violating those laws very often.
You can't keep your eyes 'on the road' if you're looking at semi-transparent display. These are for the self-driving cars.