"really, cut that crap. being occupied by russia for a good 50 years, and seeing what happens at it's borders after the period (georgia, anybody ?) we know quite well what their peacekeeping means."
Well, Georgia shot first. So? I fail to see tanks rolling through the streets of Tbilisi.
"we also have seen the financing from russia working to keep up such local "movements". stop. "
If you have already forgotten, USSR was broke and penniless when local conflicts first flared up in the ex-USSR. That's also when a lot of atrocities were committed by anti-Soviet nationalistic movements.
Also, you should try to read Wiki article you're quoting: ====== On August 31, 1989, the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian SSR adopted Moldovan as the only official language, with Russian retained only for secondary purposes, returned Moldovan to the Latin alphabet, and declared a shared Moldova-Romanian linguistic identity. As plans for major cultural changes in Moldova were made public, tensions rose further. Ethnic minorities felt threatened by the prospects of removing Russian as the de facto official language, the possible future reunification of Moldova and Romania and the ethnocentric rhetoric of the Popular Front. The Yedinstvo (Unity) Movement, established by the Slavic population of Moldova, pressed for the equal status given to both Russian and Moldovan.[73] Soviet symbols are still used in Transnistria
The nationalist Popular Front won the first free parliamentary elections in the Moldavian SSR in the spring of 1990[citation needed], and its agenda started slowly to be implemented. =======
That pattern was repeated several times during the USSR collapse (in Georgia and Armenia). Russian peacekeepers were able to stop these conflicts before they turned into full-scale civil wars.
Also, Transnistria's reputation as a drug haven is exaggerated.
Ohm's law is for wimps. It's just a special case of Kirchhoff's circuit laws which are a special case of Maxwell's equations. Which, of course, are a special case of electroweak theory. Which can be a part of string theory.
For example, banishment of Jews from Spain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Torquemada) and St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Bartholomew%27s_Day_massacre). Not strictly wars, but still genocides/etnocides.
Another prominent example is Aztec Empire which artificially created conflicts with its neighbors to capture victims for sacrifices (for religious purposes).
It contains simple videos of what happens when you fall into a black hole. They are just animated GIFs, because this site existed long before YouTube and Flash movies.
In fact, I first studied programming on a Russian clone of ZX-Spectrum with Russian keywords. It actually worked quite OK since on Spectrum keywords were bound to keys, so it was easy to write programs in mixed encodings.
In Russia we have 1C Enterpise - it's an accounting and ERP/CRM/... system which is widely used.
Its internal language uses Russian syntax, and all its internal names are also in Russian. It all looks very weird.
However, at least 1C has a good reason, since its impossible to concisely translate a lot of Russian accounting terms and using direct transliteration is looks even worse (and sometimes is ambiguous).
I'm Russian, and computer languages with Russian keywords look very awkward to me.
First, there's a problem with grammatical cases ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_case ). A lot of languages with Russian keywords suffer from it (1C, I'm looking at you!).
Second, Russian words are usually longer than their English counterparts.
Third, Russian keyboard layout clashes with some useful characters (keys '', '[', ']', ';', '"' are used for Russian symbols). And I can't remember a language with less letters than English:)
Of course, some of these objections may not apply to other languages.
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"really, cut that crap. being occupied by russia for a good 50 years, and seeing what happens at it's borders after the period (georgia, anybody ?) we know quite well what their peacekeeping means."
Well, Georgia shot first. So? I fail to see tanks rolling through the streets of Tbilisi.
"we also have seen the financing from russia working to keep up such local "movements". stop. "
If you have already forgotten, USSR was broke and penniless when local conflicts first flared up in the ex-USSR. That's also when a lot of atrocities were committed by anti-Soviet nationalistic movements.
Let me guess, you're from Poland?
Russians work as peacekeepers in Transnistria.
Also, you should try to read Wiki article you're quoting:
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On August 31, 1989, the Supreme Soviet of the Moldavian SSR adopted Moldovan as the only official language, with Russian retained only for secondary purposes, returned Moldovan to the Latin alphabet, and declared a shared Moldova-Romanian linguistic identity. As plans for major cultural changes in Moldova were made public, tensions rose further. Ethnic minorities felt threatened by the prospects of removing Russian as the de facto official language, the possible future reunification of Moldova and Romania and the ethnocentric rhetoric of the Popular Front. The Yedinstvo (Unity) Movement, established by the Slavic population of Moldova, pressed for the equal status given to both Russian and Moldovan.[73]
Soviet symbols are still used in Transnistria
The nationalist Popular Front won the first free parliamentary elections in the Moldavian SSR in the spring of 1990[citation needed], and its agenda started slowly to be implemented.
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That pattern was repeated several times during the USSR collapse (in Georgia and Armenia). Russian peacekeepers were able to stop these conflicts before they turned into full-scale civil wars.
Also, Transnistria's reputation as a drug haven is exaggerated.
But you can't torture prisoners, they must be kept at a certain level of comfort and you definitely can't sue them for murder.
Also, once the authorization for use of military power given by Congress is over you won't have legal premises to hold people further.
So, terrorists should be treated as prisoners of war then? Right?
My bad.
You're right. Need more coffee....
Ohm's law is for wimps. It's just a special case of Kirchhoff's circuit laws which are a special case of Maxwell's equations. Which, of course, are a special case of electroweak theory. Which can be a part of string theory.
Earthquakes are very different.
Some earthquakes can be predicted (like the famous http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Haicheng_earthquake ). Some strike without any warning at all.
Just try to use ZFS then. Or NVidia drivers.
I've seen a lot of lockups on Solaris. Also, performance of Solaris sucks in many areas compared to Linux.
It will (assuming you are talking about RAID1). You just need to install MBR on both drives.
You forget about the possibility of adoption.
You forget one thing: virus can very well exploit the phone itself, without any need for AppStore applications.
For example, through a hole in Flash interpreter or exploitable JavaScript vulnerability.
And that's when iPhone monoculture is going to bite you.
Do you use sterilized caps? You know, you might catch an ear infection from dirty caps!
Sorry, but "one dude in a subway with with a bomb in a pizza box" is not 'warfare'. It's terrorism.
Your guys with pizza boxes won't even make a dent in a military power of the USA (or Russia).
It's possible to build gas-cooled (helium) breeder reactors or molten salt reactors.
It's an engineering problem and it can be solved.
Will LLVM help with this? AFAIR, Gallium3D already supports rendering using Cell PPUs and Larrabee is going to look like them.
PS: thanks for your work on Gallium3D!
For example, banishment of Jews from Spain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom%C3%A1s_de_Torquemada) and St. Bartholomew's Day massacre (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Bartholomew%27s_Day_massacre). Not strictly wars, but still genocides/etnocides.
Another prominent example is Aztec Empire which artificially created conflicts with its neighbors to capture victims for sacrifices (for religious purposes).
Crusades are a good example of Christian religious wars. Or maybe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taiping_Rebellion which left 20-30 _millions_ dead.
From the history of my native country, christianization of Russia ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianization_of_Kievan_Rus' ) left several millions dead. Later a conflict between two branches of Orthodox Church ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Believers ) resulted in a few nice little massacres.
You can find a lot more examples, these are just the ones off the top of my head.
There's a nice site about black holes: http://casa.colorado.edu/~ajsh/schw.shtml
It contains simple videos of what happens when you fall into a black hole. They are just animated GIFs, because this site existed long before YouTube and Flash movies.
Also, there's another logical flaw in your argument.
Stalin did not kill people in the name of atheism. He killed people to keep his power.
On the other hand, I can give you many cases when religious people started genocide in the name of their God[s] for religious purposes.
It's funny, but Stalin studied at a seminary. And he also supported the church during the WWII.
I know only ONE truly atheist state. And it's not the USSR, it's Albania.
Nope. I've seen it too.
In fact, I first studied programming on a Russian clone of ZX-Spectrum with Russian keywords. It actually worked quite OK since on Spectrum keywords were bound to keys, so it was easy to write programs in mixed encodings.
Still, it looked somewhat unnatural even then.
In Russia we have 1C Enterpise - it's an accounting and ERP/CRM/... system which is widely used.
Its internal language uses Russian syntax, and all its internal names are also in Russian. It all looks very weird.
However, at least 1C has a good reason, since its impossible to concisely translate a lot of Russian accounting terms and using direct transliteration is looks even worse (and sometimes is ambiguous).
Yet a lot of us work daily with non-English speaking people.
Most of non-English-speaking programmers I know strive to learn at least some language to read documentation.
I'm Russian, and computer languages with Russian keywords look very awkward to me.
First, there's a problem with grammatical cases ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grammatical_case ). A lot of languages with Russian keywords suffer from it (1C, I'm looking at you!).
Second, Russian words are usually longer than their English counterparts.
Third, Russian keyboard layout clashes with some useful characters (keys '', '[', ']', ';', '"' are used for Russian symbols). And I can't remember a language with less letters than English :)
Of course, some of these objections may not apply to other languages.
...and you don't even imagine how computer language with non-English keywords looks awkward and funny to native speakers.