Literal translation is: "When you wish(the word is misspelt) enough/quite/wish/contentedly(the word has lots of meanings) to steal genuine/real the best".
_At least_ two orders of magnitude. 62 millions of people killed by the State in Russia is just a pure nonsense.
Russia lost 30 millions people in WWII and this number is still quite visible - almost every family here (I live in Russia) has a relative who was killed during WWII.
There's a little problem with 100 million people killed by communism - total number is several orders of magnitude lower. Authors of this site were smoking crack.
Solzhenitsin ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solzhenitsin ) makes distinction between local government (of your city, region, county, etc.) and the state government. Local government is much more important because its actions directly affect day-to-day lives while actions of the state government usually affect us only inderectly.
Local democracy is the founding stone for the democratic state government. It doesn't work the other way round.
Both UK and USA still have strong and vocal local democracies. So I think that current problems with democracy in US/UK are only temprorary hurdles.
The problem is in unique properties of carbon. No other chemical element can form so wide a variety of molecular chains.
Silicon is close (after all, it's in the same group with carbon in the Periodic Table), but sylicon-hydrogen compounds are very unstable. Silane (SiH4), for example, explodes in air at room temperature while methane's (CH4) flash temperature is about 400C.
And you also need some methods to extract energy, oxidation of hydrocarbons works just fine, because it's neither explosive nor slow as a glacier.
Yes, there were no reasons not to apply for a warrant. Contrary to popular believes, KGB usually worked within law. 'Disappearances' were extremely rare (after Stalin's death, of course).
I have the opposite expirience with dollar bills, they are very easy to tear (no dollar bill has survived more than two days in my pocket:) ). The dye used to print dollars can survive laundry washer but the paper can be easily teared.
And I agree that counterfeiting combat is a valid reason to make dollars less durable.
For example, we have 10 roubles bill in Russia (about $0.3) and it has 3 years lifetime. Next bills are 50 roubles and 100 roubles and they are MUCH more durable than dollar bills. I usually carry money in my pocket (along with my keys and driving license) without wallet and it doesn't cause any problem.
Well, this is a good reason to install a 'dead man switch' - a special script which will destroy everything it can reach if you don't perform some 'keep-alive' action during a month.
Because of some obscure effects of general relativity, and not because of gravity waves as some people think. I can write you differential equations of, but I'm not going to write them here in ASCII art.
These effects are extremely weak in our Solar System, but they can be observed in perihellion precession of planets ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precession#Precession _of_planetary_orbits ). Right now Gravity Probe B ( http://einstein.stanford.edu/ ) is in the final stage of experiment which aims to check the gravitomagnetic effect which is another manifestation of GR (and is partially responsible for decay of black hole orbits).
So what? These places can be easily localized and decontaminated. But you can't decontaminate coal plant's wastes because they are spread over very large territory.
Radiation exposure for European countries also was not that fatal. Current estimate of cancer cases affected by Chernobyl disaster is about 5000.
Well, I have relatives who live near Chernobyl's exclusion area. So I know a little more about the disaster, and it's not as bad as the press says. The actual number of casualities is 'only' 56 and estimated number of people with Chernobyl-related illnesses is about 5000.
That's bad. But not as bad as the number of lung cancers caused by soot from coal or oil powerplants.
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Literal translation is: "When you wish(the word is misspelt) enough/quite/wish/contentedly(the word has lots of meanings) to steal genuine/real the best".
Actually it is something like "When you wish good steal real the best" - VAX designers never cared to learn Russian :)
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And as far as I remember, Soviet Union was never much interested in VAXen.
Yes, of course.
But RIAA can give you a license to play music during one hour a day on one CD player. And at a very affordable price!
Can anybody explain me this joke? I just don't get it.
PS: English is not my native language.
_At least_ two orders of magnitude. 62 millions of people killed by the State in Russia is just a pure nonsense.
Russia lost 30 millions people in WWII and this number is still quite visible - almost every family here (I live in Russia) has a relative who was killed during WWII.
There's a little problem with 100 million people killed by communism - total number is several orders of magnitude lower. Authors of this site were smoking crack.
Sigh...
Solzhenitsin ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solzhenitsin ) makes distinction between local government (of your city, region, county, etc.) and the state government. Local government is much more important because its actions directly affect day-to-day lives while actions of the state government usually affect us only inderectly.
Local democracy is the founding stone for the democratic state government. It doesn't work the other way round.
Both UK and USA still have strong and vocal local democracies. So I think that current problems with democracy in US/UK are only temprorary hurdles.
Well, LHC is called "Last Hadron Collider" in physicists' black humor :)
Does it matter? :)
Russian engineering school prefers simple and effective solutions, even if they are results of defects or some accidental side-effect.
You forget that the North Korea was never our enemy (I live in Russia) and our relations with Iran date back to the time of the Russian Empire.
So we don't really have insane enemy countries near our border. So in the case of war between US and Korea/Iran we can keep neutrality.
And let's face it, Iran is fully justified in its goal of obtaining nuclear weapons because Israel _alredy_ has them.
IMHO, it will be MUCH better if Russia and US both tried to disarm N.Korea _and_ Israel.
http://google2084.ytmnd.com/
Well, do you know how flash memory or CCD sensors work? Or even how simple transistors work?
If you know then try to imaging a way to explain child what is 'volume charge' or what p-n-p means.
It's so much easier to explain how vacuum tubes work.
The problem is in unique properties of carbon. No other chemical element can form so wide a variety of molecular chains.
Silicon is close (after all, it's in the same group with carbon in the Periodic Table), but sylicon-hydrogen compounds are very unstable. Silane (SiH4), for example, explodes in air at room temperature while methane's (CH4) flash temperature is about 400C.
And you also need some methods to extract energy, oxidation of hydrocarbons works just fine, because it's neither explosive nor slow as a glacier.
Not really. Scandinavia is affected by the Atlantic ocean and most of population live in southern parts of Scandinavian countries.
Of course it depends on one's point of view, -20C may be "supercold" for you but here in Ural mountains we routinely have -40C.
What??? Someone really _drinks_ Coke?
Yes, there were no reasons not to apply for a warrant. Contrary to popular believes, KGB usually worked within law. 'Disappearances' were extremely rare (after Stalin's death, of course).
I have the opposite expirience with dollar bills, they are very easy to tear (no dollar bill has survived more than two days in my pocket :) ). The dye used to print dollars can survive laundry washer but the paper can be easily teared.
And I agree that counterfeiting combat is a valid reason to make dollars less durable.
May be you should print more durable bills?
For example, we have 10 roubles bill in Russia (about $0.3) and it has 3 years lifetime. Next bills are 50 roubles and 100 roubles and they are MUCH more durable than dollar bills. I usually carry money in my pocket (along with my keys and driving license) without wallet and it doesn't cause any problem.
Technically it was neccessary. In practice all required warrants were received retroactively.
PS: Yes, I live in Russia.
Well, this is a good reason to install a 'dead man switch' - a special script which will destroy everything it can reach if you don't perform some 'keep-alive' action during a month.
I remember a Slashdot story ( http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/12/ 12/1549216&from=rss ) about a similar hack. But it used a touchscreen from TrollTouch.
Almost everyone knows that 127.0.0.1 is a loopback address.
:)
But it is not widely known that ANY 127.x.x.x address is loopback. So you can have a lot of fun asking to attack, say 127.3.44.165
Because of some obscure effects of general relativity, and not because of gravity waves as some people think. I can write you differential equations of, but I'm not going to write them here in ASCII art.
n _of_planetary_orbits ). Right now Gravity Probe B ( http://einstein.stanford.edu/ ) is in the final stage of experiment which aims to check the gravitomagnetic effect which is another manifestation of GR (and is partially responsible for decay of black hole orbits).
These effects are extremely weak in our Solar System, but they can be observed in perihellion precession of planets ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precession#Precessio
So what? These places can be easily localized and decontaminated. But you can't decontaminate coal plant's wastes because they are spread over very large territory.
Radiation exposure for European countries also was not that fatal. Current estimate of cancer cases affected by Chernobyl disaster is about 5000.
Well, I have relatives who live near Chernobyl's exclusion area. So I know a little more about the disaster, and it's not as bad as the press says. The actual number of casualities is 'only' 56 and estimated number of people with Chernobyl-related illnesses is about 5000.
That's bad. But not as bad as the number of lung cancers caused by soot from coal or oil powerplants.