Once again the War on Freedom (drugs, terror, etc) spreads its casualties in the strangest ways. The largest danger a heroin addict poses is to himself.
No, the largest danger a heroin addict posses is to his community. Because the heroin addict is going to be stealing and do whatever to keep it's habit going.
The best thing a heroin addict could do is OD and die.
MPP is a byproduct of sloppy meperidine synthesis, NOT heroin. Meperidine is "Demerol."
To be fair, A lot of Demerol addicts turned to heroin since it's cheaper and easier to get. Then if someone produces a "cheaper" Demerol type drug, they would be all over it.
If Scott Adams really cared about his fathers suffering, he would of pulled the plug and let him die. Laws be damned. What did he do about his fathers suffering? Nothing but bitch about it online.
If my father was terminal and suffering, I've have the decently to pull the plug for him, just as I wish someone would do that for me.
Sure, I know this is crass and most of you are probably going to be offended, but I'm speaking truth here. What Scott Adams wanted was the balls to do it himself, and since he didn't have it, cried foul.
Do nothing, like Scott Adams did, changes nothing. Now if Scott had the balls and pulled the plug on his father, then has a big trial about it, that is how people realize that laws like this are futile and inhumane. You bring big attention to it. This isn't bring attention to anything.
Now though, he blew his chance at getting change done. Way to go Scott, hope you are proud of doing nothing and being part of the problem you claim to detest.
The only person who needs telephones or internet is you. Great strawman, but the word used was 'communication'. That would be mail, telegraph, smoke signals, or sending a servant round to get an immediate reply.
Fucking idiot.
I understand you are so stupid you can't log in, but le tme clue you. The NSA can't stop me from talking to someone, or passing them a note. They can't spy on that. What can they spy on? The internet & telephones. So who is the idiot?
Communication doesn't require internet or telephones. But you can bet that without some form of communication, you will not be able to win a war, much less know when the war is has been won.
Yes, because somehow we lost our ability to talk, or to write down message on paper.
Nations usually act on a single motivating factor: self-interest.
Given that we're asking this question on a US forum we can take it as granted that 60% of the readers couldn't find either country on a map and that 90% have zero knowledge of their political and historical position. So about 90% will be ill-equipped to understand where Singapore's and South-Korea's self-interests might lie. But now that the question is asked, we can remedy that.
...
Wrong forum, most the people here are college educated.
Hollywood accounting is essentially lying about profits so that the producers don't have to pay "percent of profit" agreements.
If you can show me a writer's contract that says "percent of profit," I'll surrender my account.
The entire "Hollywood Accounting" narrative was invented by the lawyers of disgruntled writers.
Here you go:
Winston Groom's price for the screenplay rights to his novel Forrest Gump included a share of the profits; however, due to Hollywood accounting, the film's commercial success was converted into a net loss, and Groom received nothing.[7] That being so, he has refused to sell the screenplay rights to the novel's sequel, stating that he "cannot in good conscience allow money to be wasted on a failure".
Stan Lee, co-creator of the character Spider-Man, filed a lawsuit after the producers of the movie Spider-Man (2002) did not give him a portion of the gross revenue.[8]
The estate of Jim Garrison sued Warner Bros. for their share of the profits from the movie JFK, which was based on Garrison's book On the Trail of the Assassins.[9]
Art Buchwald received a settlement after his lawsuit Buchwald v. Paramount over Paramount's use of Hollywood accounting. The court found Paramount's actions "unconscionable", noting that it was impossible to believe that a movie (1988's Eddie Murphy comedy Coming to America) which grossed US$350 million failed to make a profit, especially since the actual production costs were less than a tenth of that. Paramount settled for an undisclosed sum, rather than have its accounting methods closely scrutinized.
The film My Big Fat Greek Wedding was considered hugely successful for an independent film, yet according to the studio, the film lost money. Accordingly, the cast (with the exception of Nia Vardalos who had a separate deal) sued the studio for their part of the profits. The original producers of the film have sued Gold Circle Films due to Hollywood accounting practices because the studio has claimed the film, which cost less than $6 million to make and made over $350 million at the box office, lost $20 million.[10]
Hollywood accounting is not limited to movies. An example is the Warner Bros. television series Babylon 5 created by J. Michael Straczynski. Straczynski, who wrote 90% of the episodes in addition to producing the show, would receive a generous cut of profits if not for Hollywood accounting.[citation needed] The series, which was profitable in each of its five seasons from 1993–1998, has garnered more than US$1 billion for Warner Bros., most recently US$500 million in DVD sales alone. But in the last profit statement given to Straczynski, Warner Bros. claimed the property was $80 million in debt. "Basically," says Straczynski, "by the terms of my contract, if a set on a WB movie burns down in Botswana, they can charge it against B5's profits."[11]
Peter Jackson, director of The Lord of the Rings, and his studio Wingnut Films, brought a lawsuit against New Line Cinema after "an audit... on part of the income of The Fellowship of the Ring". Jackson stated this is regarding "certain accounting practices", which may be a reference to Hollywood accounting. In response, New Line stated that their rights to a film of The Hobbit were time-limited, and since Jackson would not work with them again until the suit was settled, he would not be asked to direct The Hobbit, as had been anticipated.[12] Fifteen actors are suing New Line Cinema, claiming that they have never received their 5% of revenue from merchandise sold in relation to the movie, which contains their likeness.[13] Similarly, the Tolkien estate sued New Line, claiming that their contract entitled them to 7.5% of the gross receipts of the $6 billion hit.[14] Overall according to New Line's accounts the trilogy made "horrendous losses" and no profit at all.[15]
According to Lucasfilm, Return of the Jedi despite having earned $475 million at the box-office against a budget o
Right, I mean with that Harry Potter statement, the word "profit" appears nowhere on it. Net participants don't get "profit," they get "proceeds," as you can clearly see there.
Movies can be very profitable, and studios, where publicly traded, report their profits pursuant to completely legitimate GAAP standards (which suck and are gamed by all corporations, not just "Hollywood studios").
Explain to me how me downloading a copy of Hurt Locker, which I wouldn't never spend money to watch, own, or rent, is going to affect your bottom line?
Then tell me exactly how much money you would of made off me if I had seen it in a movie theater? How much if I bought a DVD of it? Or let's say I bought a blueray of it?
Nothing, because the way they write up the contracts, the movie makes a loss for everyone, but the main studio. But in this case, Hurt Locker sucked so bad, even the main studio lost money.
So cry and bitch all you want to us, but most of us are laughing at how stupid you are and how you try to defend the system that is robbing you.
Information wants to be free for me, but not for thee.
Was AFP wrong to take the images because it violated the profoundly-honored institution of copyright, which everyone on Slashdot naturally adores (heh), or because they're a rich corporations, and rich corporations are always wrong compared to "working men"?
I eagerly awate assemblerex's demand for Voltage Pictures to be compensated millions of dollars for the bittorrented distribution of The Hurt Locker. I bring this up as someone who was employed on that film, and note that that money pays my salary on the next film...
I'm going to point out that due to Hollywood accounting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting that any money you were promised on sales of the movie, you were never getting anyways. In fact, the Hurt Locker sucked so bad, no one wanted to pay to see it in the theaters and no one wants DVD's or Bluerays of it.
Rest of your comment is typical of people who don't understand how corporations are raping the public domain in the name of profit.
Handily, there's a name for your post. It's called the Genetic Fallacy.
While it is true that the person starting the publication was roundly dismissed for her "science" (and for that matter, roundly dismissed by mainstream Christianity for her "Christianity")... that is completely irrelevant to the quality of the publication today. In spite of, or perhaps even attributable to extra scientific caution in a "defensive" reaction to that history, it is now quite highly-regarded for the scientific soundness of its articles.
Henry Ford was virulently antisemitic. Do you attack acquaintances today who own Ford cars? No need to answer. If (when) we reviewed your daily life, we'd undoubtedly find there is one and only one issue to which you apply this "logic"--religion.
If Ford called his cars Jew Haters then you'd have a point. But Ford didn't include his beliefs in his choice of car names. Christian Science Monitor title states it has something to do with a religion, hence the Christian part. If it has nothing to do with the christian religion, then maybe they should go by Science Monitor. or a new name. But thinking people shouldn't associate it with Christians is stupid, as that is part of it's name.
And when I think of Christians and science, I think of the idiots who think this earth is 6k years old.
It's reasonable to expect every intelligence agency to spy on anyone they can.
Perhaps as regards governments the hypocrisy should be dropped, and caught spies simply traded for other caught spies as was Cold War custom. Business IS business, and trusting anyone, even "allies" (whatever that means) can be childish especially if they are penetrated by enemy operatives.
How much we wish to restrain internal spying is another matter.
Probably. You have to remember that the government has different standards for others than for us. We don't care if we violate international law. We only care if others violate the rules we set (be they laws we set or otherwise).
I've been playing EQ2 for 7 or so years. Of all the MMO's i've played, none seem to as in depth as EQ2 is. Classes have 20+ spells/abilities, all useable and you need to actually learn them to play your class decently. On top of that, you have other ways to refine your toons for better tanking/healing/dpsing.
Much more to the game, of course, but I'm not trying to sell it to you. But if you are looking for a fantasy MMORPG that isn't a 2 button click fest, requires a brain, and has content, then check out EQ2.
...that they don't have to play "Go Fish" in my arm every time I get an IV in, I'm all for it, unintended consequences be damned.
Had to go into the hospital for the first time in ages the other day, and it took about five or six sticks -- including the kind where you can see them feeling around for anything once the needle's already in you -- before they hit the vein. And I'm skinny, as well, at least in the places where they stick me. Can't begin to imagine what it's like if your veins are invisible.
I have very hard to find veins. 2 hours of poking and prodding is about how long it takes them to decide to take my blood from an artery. I tell them before hand, but they never listen. Of course, it will still probably be 2 or 3 years before hospitals get this sort of tech, let alone little clinics.
Try managing 150000+ files on Winamp and tell me how it goes. Now try that again with Foobar.
I've been using winamp since i discovered it in the early 2000's and I still prefer to use my own directory setup to any file/music management interface a player has.
Sorry to see it going, but then I always use the free version, so I'm part of the problem I guess.
I'm more surprised that Aol is still around honestly.
In Australia it is called a 'Booze Bus'. They don't take blood, but they do the rest and it is 100% involuntary. They will block off freeways to test everyone and park cop cars in all the side streets.
Personally I am mostly OK with this. The next morning when you see the huge line of cars left behind because the drivers were drunk justifies it to me.
I really dont have answers regarding how to make all of this better. Short of just doing away with copyright. The fact that the easy media transfer genie is out of the bottle really should just put the media industry on notice... their time is short, there is no way they can legislate this problem away and the whole "lets just flood them with takedown notices to annoy them" will only work for so long as well. Eventually ISP's just end up ignoring the complaints and those of us handling them move on to get paid a lot more doing things a lot more interesting;-)
I know how to fix it. Charge to process DMCA notices. Say a small fee for correct info and a large fee for incorrect info. Or just a fee for any incorrect DMCA notices/links given.
Soon the companies will start hiring people to check the DMCA notices they send out, if they are being charge a fee for incorrect notices.
Child abuse isn't new, hasn't sprung up since the 90's, so why is it a sudden concern that child abusers are using the internet to what, communicate? So what, now child abusers have websites they hang out at? That they brag about how they locked their kid in the closet for 10 hours?
Child abuse happens, it's not researched or studied, it's an anger issue.
So instead of actually stopping child abuse, or helping children that were abused, they rather do some grandstanding gesture that does nothing to stop child abuse.
"we -aren't- planning on attacking the Russians, are we?" Of course we are. Just like we have plans for 100's of military moves. Whether or not we implement those plans is another question.
"The days of Red Baiting should be over" Putin is doing his best to bring it back. His moves really seem to be to bring back a single power* and muscle his way around. He's entrenching a theocracy, arresting minor dissenter, and undoing all the democratic gain over the last 30 years. His moving to control certain oil interests
errr. I didn't' want to imply it was the same single power, just a centralized power.
So you are saying Putin is trying to make Russia into America?
... And if it improves the accuracy of their weapons, does that mean that they're more likely to blow up a military base than the local YMCA? That's good, isn't it?
Except the Pentagon & CIA would rather have the weapons hit the YMCA instead of the Military Base since the military does the fighting and the YMCA only has civilians.
Slashdot Mirror
Once again the War on Freedom (drugs, terror, etc) spreads its casualties in the strangest ways. The largest danger a heroin addict poses is to himself.
No, the largest danger a heroin addict posses is to his community. Because the heroin addict is going to be stealing and do whatever to keep it's habit going.
The best thing a heroin addict could do is OD and die.
MPP is a byproduct of sloppy meperidine synthesis, NOT heroin. Meperidine is "Demerol."
To be fair, A lot of Demerol addicts turned to heroin since it's cheaper and easier to get. Then if someone produces a "cheaper" Demerol type drug, they would be all over it.
Back in the 90s, I had a job teaching MS Office to people. One class I was hired for was to teach a bunch of local judges how to use Word.
While discussing how to change fonts, one of the judges says, "Huh! Anal font, what the hell is an ANAL font!"
Maybe it is the same judge!
Wait till that judge discovers the goatse font...
If Scott Adams really cared about his fathers suffering, he would of pulled the plug and let him die. Laws be damned. What did he do about his fathers suffering? Nothing but bitch about it online.
If my father was terminal and suffering, I've have the decently to pull the plug for him, just as I wish someone would do that for me.
Sure, I know this is crass and most of you are probably going to be offended, but I'm speaking truth here. What Scott Adams wanted was the balls to do it himself, and since he didn't have it, cried foul.
Do nothing, like Scott Adams did, changes nothing. Now if Scott had the balls and pulled the plug on his father, then has a big trial about it, that is how people realize that laws like this are futile and inhumane. You bring big attention to it. This isn't bring attention to anything.
Now though, he blew his chance at getting change done. Way to go Scott, hope you are proud of doing nothing and being part of the problem you claim to detest.
The only person who needs telephones or internet is you. Great strawman, but the word used was 'communication'. That would be mail, telegraph, smoke signals, or sending a servant round to get an immediate reply.
Fucking idiot.
I understand you are so stupid you can't log in, but le tme clue you. The NSA can't stop me from talking to someone, or passing them a note. They can't spy on that. What can they spy on? The internet & telephones. So who is the idiot?
Communication doesn't require internet or telephones. But you can bet that without some form of communication, you will not be able to win a war, much less know when the war is has been won.
Yes, because somehow we lost our ability to talk, or to write down message on paper.
There is no "us" if the people can't communicate. ...
hmm, i wonder how we manage to have a revolution back in the 1700's since we didn't have telephones or the internet.
fucking idiot.
Nations usually act on a single motivating factor: self-interest.
Given that we're asking this question on a US forum we can take it as granted that 60% of the readers couldn't find either country on a map and that 90% have zero knowledge of their political and historical position. So about 90% will be ill-equipped to understand where Singapore's and South-Korea's self-interests might lie. But now that the question is asked, we can remedy that.
...
Wrong forum, most the people here are college educated.
If you can show me a writer's contract that says "percent of profit," I'll surrender my account.
The entire "Hollywood Accounting" narrative was invented by the lawyers of disgruntled writers.
Here you go:
Winston Groom's price for the screenplay rights to his novel Forrest Gump included a share of the profits; however, due to Hollywood accounting, the film's commercial success was converted into a net loss, and Groom received nothing.[7] That being so, he has refused to sell the screenplay rights to the novel's sequel, stating that he "cannot in good conscience allow money to be wasted on a failure".
Stan Lee, co-creator of the character Spider-Man, filed a lawsuit after the producers of the movie Spider-Man (2002) did not give him a portion of the gross revenue.[8]
The estate of Jim Garrison sued Warner Bros. for their share of the profits from the movie JFK, which was based on Garrison's book On the Trail of the Assassins.[9]
Art Buchwald received a settlement after his lawsuit Buchwald v. Paramount over Paramount's use of Hollywood accounting. The court found Paramount's actions "unconscionable", noting that it was impossible to believe that a movie (1988's Eddie Murphy comedy Coming to America) which grossed US$350 million failed to make a profit, especially since the actual production costs were less than a tenth of that. Paramount settled for an undisclosed sum, rather than have its accounting methods closely scrutinized.
The film My Big Fat Greek Wedding was considered hugely successful for an independent film, yet according to the studio, the film lost money. Accordingly, the cast (with the exception of Nia Vardalos who had a separate deal) sued the studio for their part of the profits. The original producers of the film have sued Gold Circle Films due to Hollywood accounting practices because the studio has claimed the film, which cost less than $6 million to make and made over $350 million at the box office, lost $20 million.[10]
Hollywood accounting is not limited to movies. An example is the Warner Bros. television series Babylon 5 created by J. Michael Straczynski. Straczynski, who wrote 90% of the episodes in addition to producing the show, would receive a generous cut of profits if not for Hollywood accounting.[citation needed] The series, which was profitable in each of its five seasons from 1993–1998, has garnered more than US$1 billion for Warner Bros., most recently US$500 million in DVD sales alone. But in the last profit statement given to Straczynski, Warner Bros. claimed the property was $80 million in debt. "Basically," says Straczynski, "by the terms of my contract, if a set on a WB movie burns down in Botswana, they can charge it against B5's profits."[11]
Peter Jackson, director of The Lord of the Rings, and his studio Wingnut Films, brought a lawsuit against New Line Cinema after "an audit... on part of the income of The Fellowship of the Ring". Jackson stated this is regarding "certain accounting practices", which may be a reference to Hollywood accounting. In response, New Line stated that their rights to a film of The Hobbit were time-limited, and since Jackson would not work with them again until the suit was settled, he would not be asked to direct The Hobbit, as had been anticipated.[12] Fifteen actors are suing New Line Cinema, claiming that they have never received their 5% of revenue from merchandise sold in relation to the movie, which contains their likeness.[13] Similarly, the Tolkien estate sued New Line, claiming that their contract entitled them to 7.5% of the gross receipts of the $6 billion hit.[14] Overall according to New Line's accounts the trilogy made "horrendous losses" and no profit at all.[15]
According to Lucasfilm, Return of the Jedi despite having earned $475 million at the box-office against a budget o
Right, I mean with that Harry Potter statement, the word "profit" appears nowhere on it. Net participants don't get "profit," they get "proceeds," as you can clearly see there.
Movies can be very profitable, and studios, where publicly traded, report their profits pursuant to completely legitimate GAAP standards (which suck and are gamed by all corporations, not just "Hollywood studios").
Explain to me how me downloading a copy of Hurt Locker, which I wouldn't never spend money to watch, own, or rent, is going to affect your bottom line?
Then tell me exactly how much money you would of made off me if I had seen it in a movie theater? How much if I bought a DVD of it? Or let's say I bought a blueray of it?
Nothing, because the way they write up the contracts, the movie makes a loss for everyone, but the main studio. But in this case, Hurt Locker sucked so bad, even the main studio lost money.
So cry and bitch all you want to us, but most of us are laughing at how stupid you are and how you try to defend the system that is robbing you.
Information wants to be free for me, but not for thee.
Was AFP wrong to take the images because it violated the profoundly-honored institution of copyright, which everyone on Slashdot naturally adores (heh), or because they're a rich corporations, and rich corporations are always wrong compared to "working men"?
I eagerly awate assemblerex's demand for Voltage Pictures to be compensated millions of dollars for the bittorrented distribution of The Hurt Locker. I bring this up as someone who was employed on that film, and note that that money pays my salary on the next film...
I'm going to point out that due to Hollywood accounting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_accounting that any money you were promised on sales of the movie, you were never getting anyways. In fact, the Hurt Locker sucked so bad, no one wanted to pay to see it in the theaters and no one wants DVD's or Bluerays of it.
Rest of your comment is typical of people who don't understand how corporations are raping the public domain in the name of profit.
Handily, there's a name for your post. It's called the Genetic Fallacy.
While it is true that the person starting the publication was roundly dismissed for her "science" (and for that matter, roundly dismissed by mainstream Christianity for her "Christianity")... that is completely irrelevant to the quality of the publication today. In spite of, or perhaps even attributable to extra scientific caution in a "defensive" reaction to that history, it is now quite highly-regarded for the scientific soundness of its articles.
Henry Ford was virulently antisemitic. Do you attack acquaintances today who own Ford cars? No need to answer. If (when) we reviewed your daily life, we'd undoubtedly find there is one and only one issue to which you apply this "logic"--religion.
If Ford called his cars Jew Haters then you'd have a point. But Ford didn't include his beliefs in his choice of car names. Christian Science Monitor title states it has something to do with a religion, hence the Christian part. If it has nothing to do with the christian religion, then maybe they should go by Science Monitor. or a new name. But thinking people shouldn't associate it with Christians is stupid, as that is part of it's name.
And when I think of Christians and science, I think of the idiots who think this earth is 6k years old.
Just saying.
Maybe those billionaires didn't go to college, or even school, because anyone who did knows teachers aren't in charge of enrollment, the school is.
So this is to punish teachers for something they can't control?
It's reasonable to expect every intelligence agency to spy on anyone they can.
Perhaps as regards governments the hypocrisy should be dropped, and caught spies simply traded for other caught spies as was Cold War custom. Business IS business, and trusting anyone, even "allies" (whatever that means) can be childish especially if they are penetrated by enemy operatives.
How much we wish to restrain internal spying is another matter.
Nothing the NSA has been doing is reasonable.
Probably. You have to remember that the government has different standards for others than for us. We don't care if we violate international law. We only care if others violate the rules we set (be they laws we set or otherwise).
Yes, The "Do as I say, not as I do" standard.
I've been playing EQ2 for 7 or so years. Of all the MMO's i've played, none seem to as in depth as EQ2 is. Classes have 20+ spells/abilities, all useable and you need to actually learn them to play your class decently. On top of that, you have other ways to refine your toons for better tanking/healing/dpsing.
Much more to the game, of course, but I'm not trying to sell it to you. But if you are looking for a fantasy MMORPG that isn't a 2 button click fest, requires a brain, and has content, then check out EQ2.
Before smartphones, cyclist still managed to get around fine. And back then they had *gasp* paper maps. ya, I know, how did they manage?
thanks to craigslist, mystery humans still spice up my sex life.
(just kidding, I'm too fat to get laid)
...that they don't have to play "Go Fish" in my arm every time I get an IV in, I'm all for it, unintended consequences be damned.
Had to go into the hospital for the first time in ages the other day, and it took about five or six sticks -- including the kind where you can see them feeling around for anything once the needle's already in you -- before they hit the vein. And I'm skinny, as well, at least in the places where they stick me. Can't begin to imagine what it's like if your veins are invisible.
I have very hard to find veins. 2 hours of poking and prodding is about how long it takes them to decide to take my blood from an artery. I tell them before hand, but they never listen. Of course, it will still probably be 2 or 3 years before hospitals get this sort of tech, let alone little clinics.
Try managing 150000+ files on Winamp and tell me how it goes. Now try that again with Foobar.
I've been using winamp since i discovered it in the early 2000's and I still prefer to use my own directory setup to any file/music management interface a player has.
Sorry to see it going, but then I always use the free version, so I'm part of the problem I guess.
I'm more surprised that Aol is still around honestly.
In Australia it is called a 'Booze Bus'. They don't take blood, but they do the rest and it is 100% involuntary. They will block off freeways to test everyone and park cop cars in all the side streets.
Personally I am mostly OK with this. The next morning when you see the huge line of cars left behind because the drivers were drunk justifies it to me.
In America we call it Harassment.
Since that is what it is.
...
I really dont have answers regarding how to make all of this better. Short of just doing away with copyright. The fact that the easy media transfer genie is out of the bottle really should just put the media industry on notice... their time is short, there is no way they can legislate this problem away and the whole "lets just flood them with takedown notices to annoy them" will only work for so long as well. Eventually ISP's just end up ignoring the complaints and those of us handling them move on to get paid a lot more doing things a lot more interesting ;-)
I know how to fix it. Charge to process DMCA notices. Say a small fee for correct info and a large fee for incorrect info. Or just a fee for any incorrect DMCA notices/links given.
Soon the companies will start hiring people to check the DMCA notices they send out, if they are being charge a fee for incorrect notices.
Child abuse isn't new, hasn't sprung up since the 90's, so why is it a sudden concern that child abusers are using the internet to what, communicate? So what, now child abusers have websites they hang out at? That they brag about how they locked their kid in the closet for 10 hours?
Child abuse happens, it's not researched or studied, it's an anger issue.
So instead of actually stopping child abuse, or helping children that were abused, they rather do some grandstanding gesture that does nothing to stop child abuse.
Way to go Google & MS, fucking wankers.
"we -aren't- planning on attacking the Russians, are we?"
Of course we are. Just like we have plans for 100's of military moves. Whether or not we implement those plans is another question.
"The days of Red Baiting should be over"
Putin is doing his best to bring it back. His moves really seem to be to bring back a single power* and muscle his way around. He's entrenching a theocracy, arresting minor dissenter, and undoing all the democratic gain over the last 30 years. His moving to control certain oil interests
errr. I didn't' want to imply it was the same single power, just a centralized power.
So you are saying Putin is trying to make Russia into America?
... And if it improves the accuracy of their weapons, does that mean that they're more likely to blow up a military base than the local YMCA? That's good, isn't it?
Except the Pentagon & CIA would rather have the weapons hit the YMCA instead of the Military Base since the military does the fighting and the YMCA only has civilians.