Do you say that ALL journalists have already been murdered in Russia?
I can't really remember the last big event in Russia which was not covered by western news agencies (which work freely in Russia, BTW). So it's not like there's no reliable information coming from Russia.
Well, if 90% of crime happens from to occur in Poland - why not ban Poland import altogether? After all, Russian is a sovereign country and can impose import bans at will. Don't like that and don't have strong political allies? Well, tough luck.
US pulls such tricks all the time - just remember 'steel vs. poultry' trade wars.
PS: what a coincidendce - I'm anti-Ukrainian-revolution and anti-Yanukovich at the same time.
Finland war had a real objective - to move border from Leningrad (Saint-Petersburg) and secure some important territories.
Poland at that time was _occupying_ parts of USSR, so Stalin was merely liberating lands of USSR.
TU-4 story happened in 1944, the outcome of war was pretty clear at that time. BTW, do you want to talk about atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Maybe about relation of crushing defeat of Kwantung army and Russians moving closer to Japan?
"The Red Army in WWII marched on US bread" - stupid. Ally help was less than 2% of USSR industrial output during WWII.
Stalin did want to support Czechoslovakia which was later occupied by Gitler. Western countries choose to support Gitler (so called 'appeasement' policy). Stalin understood that he's on his own so he tried to win USSR some time with Molotov-Ribentrop pact (and it was partially successful). I don't see anything laughable in that.
Poland did not really exist prior to WWI as a separate entity. And they did not really behaved well after gaining independence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinsk_massacre - for example.
Georgia wines were found to contain large doses pesticides. And a lot of wine was counterfeit.
WTF, even a Georgian _minister_ said that: 'One could sell even fecal masses in Russia'.
I surely googled and yandexed (Yandex.ru - a Russian search engine) - there WERE well-known problems with Polish meat. I remember a couple incidents when meat from England (during BSE scare) was rebranded in Poland and exported to Russia.
Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement#Reac tions about reasons of Molotov-Ribentrop pact. In short, western democracies ceded Czechoslovakia to Gitler - Stalin was ready to send army to support Chechs, but Poland had not allowed them to pass. Stalin was a realist and he did not believe that USSR and Nazi Germany could coexist.
Also, Poland occupied parts of USSR (yes, you read correctly - in was Poland who occupied parts USSR) in 1921 and Stalin merely liberated USSR territory. Besides, Poland destroyed about 80000 of captured Red Army soldiers and officers...
Also, for 'allied victory' - USSR was the biggest 'ally' in size and manpower.
BTW, Russia's past is indeed glorious. Let's see: 1) USSR won in WWII (destroying 80% of German military manpower). 2) USSR was the first country to launch a satellite. 3) USSR was the first country to launch a man into space. etc.
It's Estonia that is like a small dog barking at a great elephant.
Georgia's wines were CRAP. 90% of it was counterfeit made from 'wine-containing liquids' (the rest 10% was really good, though). The same goes for Polish meat.
Of course, decision to 'notice' that was political.
Oh, ans as we speak about global economics - why can't Poland sell their meat to other countries. Maybe because it substandard?
Actually, pure unmineralized water is not very good in combating thirst - your body loses salts with sweat so unmineralized water causes electrolyte imbalance.
I don't know. Pure math (like Fermat theorem proof) definitely should not be patented.
But some areas of applied math may be eligible for patents. For example, mathematicians are not very interested in these scheduling algorithms. Basically, scheduling algorithms consist of a large number of heuristics and pattern recognition. There's nothing interesting and exciting in them - and not much incentive to develop them as a result.
A typical CD costs about $5 in Russia (including licensed CDs from Western artists). Generally, CD contains about 10 songs, so it's 50 cents per song (notice, it's less expensive than AoMP3). One usually gets less than 10% from actual CD price, so artists in Russia can get more from ROMS than from actual CD sales.
There ARE 'patentable' algorithms (i.e. algorithms which DESERVE to be patented).
For example, we've licensed a scheduler-planner algorithm (it's a trade secret and not patented), it's VERY hard (reference implementation is about 500kb of C++ code) and it took several years for the company to develop. It certainly is not one-click-buy type of algorithm.
Unfortunately, such algorithms are exceedingly rare.
Two hard drives can fit 1Tb of data now (1Tb hard drives are also available), so 15Pb can fit on 'just' 30000 hard drives. A large number, but manageable.
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Yes, and all this was just a small fraction of total USSR industrial output: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Front_(World_ War_II)#Industrial_output
RLA and its Ukrainian counterpart is a different story. Their goals might have been noble, but their methods were disgusting.
Do you say that ALL journalists have already been murdered in Russia?
I can't really remember the last big event in Russia which was not covered by western news agencies (which work freely in Russia, BTW). So it's not like there's no reliable information coming from Russia.
Well, if 90% of crime happens from to occur in Poland - why not ban Poland import altogether? After all, Russian is a sovereign country and can impose import bans at will. Don't like that and don't have strong political allies? Well, tough luck.
US pulls such tricks all the time - just remember 'steel vs. poultry' trade wars.
PS: what a coincidendce - I'm anti-Ukrainian-revolution and anti-Yanukovich at the same time.
Finland war had a real objective - to move border from Leningrad (Saint-Petersburg) and secure some important territories.
Poland at that time was _occupying_ parts of USSR, so Stalin was merely liberating lands of USSR.
TU-4 story happened in 1944, the outcome of war was pretty clear at that time. BTW, do you want to talk about atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki? Maybe about relation of crushing defeat of Kwantung army and Russians moving closer to Japan?
"The Red Army in WWII marched on US bread" - stupid. Ally help was less than 2% of USSR industrial output during WWII.
Really?
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Europe has its own share of problems with meat smuggling:
http://www.deutsche-welle.de/dw/article/0,2144,18
http://www.eubusiness.com/Food/bonemeal-foodwatch
Also, not only Russia banned Polish meat:
http://english.people.com.cn/200611/10/eng2006111
Stalin did want to support Czechoslovakia which was later occupied by Gitler. Western countries choose to support Gitler (so called 'appeasement' policy). Stalin understood that he's on his own so he tried to win USSR some time with Molotov-Ribentrop pact (and it was partially successful). I don't see anything laughable in that.
Poland did not really exist prior to WWI as a separate entity. And they did not really behaved well after gaining independence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pinsk_massacre - for example.
Yes, and all European agencies are paragons of reliability. Just look at Faux News as an example...
I don't recall that minister suing anybody for slander. He did say that very words (in Russian).
I can't find good references in English. Lots of links in Russian. Here are few about meat smuggling in Europe: http://www.eubusiness.com/Food/bonemeal-foodwatch. 92/
http://www.deutsche-welle.de/dw/article/0,2144,180 8099,00.html
Besides, Russia is not in WTO and have all rights to ban import of some goods for whatever reasons. US does this for Russian steel (heavy tariffs), for example.
Yes, I remember Soviet reality.
I don't say that communism was all roses. I'm saying that Russians do have things to be proud of.
Hmm...
I thought it was United States and Britain Empire who invented modern genocide.
What 'audit'? Have auditors checked all Polish farms?
Russia offered Poland to create mixed auditor teams to certify each farm in Poland. Poland refused.
And I repeat my question: why can't Poland export meat, say, to Germany or France?
Georgia wines were found to contain large doses pesticides. And a lot of wine was counterfeit.
WTF, even a Georgian _minister_ said that: 'One could sell even fecal masses in Russia'.
I surely googled and yandexed (Yandex.ru - a Russian search engine) - there WERE well-known problems with Polish meat. I remember a couple incidents when meat from England (during BSE scare) was rebranded in Poland and exported to Russia.
Ah, typical western ignorance about WWII.
c tions about reasons of Molotov-Ribentrop pact. In short, western democracies ceded Czechoslovakia to Gitler - Stalin was ready to send army to support Chechs, but Poland had not allowed them to pass. Stalin was a realist and he did not believe that USSR and Nazi Germany could coexist.
Read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Munich_Agreement#Rea
Also, Poland occupied parts of USSR (yes, you read correctly - in was Poland who occupied parts USSR) in 1921 and Stalin merely liberated USSR territory. Besides, Poland destroyed about 80000 of captured Red Army soldiers and officers...
Also, for 'allied victory' - USSR was the biggest 'ally' in size and manpower.
BTW, Russia's past is indeed glorious. Let's see:
1) USSR won in WWII (destroying 80% of German military manpower).
2) USSR was the first country to launch a satellite.
3) USSR was the first country to launch a man into space.
etc.
It's Estonia that is like a small dog barking at a great elephant.
Georgia's wines were CRAP. 90% of it was counterfeit made from 'wine-containing liquids' (the rest 10% was really good, though). The same goes for Polish meat.
Of course, decision to 'notice' that was political.
Oh, ans as we speak about global economics - why can't Poland sell their meat to other countries. Maybe because it substandard?
How are you going to peer from NY with a server in Germany? Or with a server in California?
"To steal from one author is plagiarism, if you steal from many, it's research." :)
Actually, it has been done: see Jikes RVM (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jikes_RVM)
Juices are also OK if drunk in moderation.
Actually, pure unmineralized water is not very good in combating thirst - your body loses salts with sweat so unmineralized water causes electrolyte imbalance.
I don't know. Pure math (like Fermat theorem proof) definitely should not be patented.
But some areas of applied math may be eligible for patents. For example, mathematicians are not very interested in these scheduling algorithms. Basically, scheduling algorithms consist of a large number of heuristics and pattern recognition. There's nothing interesting and exciting in them - and not much incentive to develop them as a result.
Yes, ROMS's English site sucks.
I can read Russian, so I've read their contract: http://www.roms.ru/download/authors/1.doc It says that you can collect fees retroactively.
A typical CD costs about $5 in Russia (including licensed CDs from Western artists). Generally, CD contains about 10 songs, so it's 50 cents per song (notice, it's less expensive than AoMP3). One usually gets less than 10% from actual CD price, so artists in Russia can get more from ROMS than from actual CD sales.
There ARE 'patentable' algorithms (i.e. algorithms which DESERVE to be patented).
For example, we've licensed a scheduler-planner algorithm (it's a trade secret and not patented), it's VERY hard (reference implementation is about 500kb of C++ code) and it took several years for the company to develop. It certainly is not one-click-buy type of algorithm.
Unfortunately, such algorithms are exceedingly rare.
Actually, any artist can collect fees from Russian music collecting agency. And Russian collecting agency is also a non-profit organization.
Actually, it's not that much data.
Two hard drives can fit 1Tb of data now (1Tb hard drives are also available), so 15Pb can fit on 'just' 30000 hard drives. A large number, but manageable.
Well, you can afford to buy http://www.artlebedev.com/everything/vilcus/ :)