I do not want leave an impression that I am trying to bash the USA. Far from that. There are similar problems with border crossings everywhere. Take Mediterranean Sea, or the English Channel, etc.
A lot of human tragedies are going on there right now. But they will not attract so much attention as the Berlin Wall crossings' tragedies.
I heard on the radio that there is a racial issue in this problem too.
But I do not know exact statistics about the reasons why people are in prisons. And it was not my point.
What I wanted to say is that by pure political reasons some figures are given much more importance than the others.
For instance, 136 people died while crossing Berlin Wall, we all know it. And I regret it, certainly. Even one was one too many.
But hundreds of people die each year on the Mexican-US border. And nobody even know about it. And does not want to know. I regret it too. And I hope that it will change.
But again it was not my point. I am talking about political influence on historical science.
Historical claims related to the Soviet Union or Russia are often exaggerated or blown out of proportion.
Another example of this phenomena, in addition to the one, which I mentioned in my previous post, - the Tsar Ivan the Terrible executed during his reign of half a century less people than were executed during the St. Bartholomew's Day(!) massacre. Still he is called the Terrible, but not Catherine de' Medici or the King Charles IX.
Even one political prisoner or an innocent person in prison is too much. But I just wanted to say that USSR's prisons were not like on Star Wars scale, not the largest in the world.
Almost everybody has an HD photo-camera nowadays. Why not make some images from the excavation site and publish them together with the text about the discovery?
Drawings are OK, but nothing can substitute an HD JPG image.
... it is just not realistic to learn another language to be able to support them...
It is quite common in Europe to speak two or three languages fluently. If there are 2 - 3 engineers who speak 2 - 3 languages fluently then most of the major languages are covered.
By the way, it is often just a stereotype that all people are drunk here or there. Brazil economy grew 2.5% in 2013, it is certainly achieved by hard working people.
Then at least she could avoid blaming a carnival, and concentrate more on her linguistic skills. Or hiring Portuguese speaking engineers instead of non technical interpreters to run a computer system in Brazil.
Many people around the world speak English at different levels. Sometimes it is just Globish or an Airport English. But Brazil is an enormous country where people do speak Portuguese. No way around it.
Buy a silent mouse, which is used for recording studious. A quality silent keyboards. And most important the best monitor you can afford, and use it as a second display for your notebook.
There are nowadays portable hi-tech rockets capable to fly to very high altitudes with enormous speed and precision. They are obviously very expensive and out of reach of Ukrainian or DNR military.
How do we know that it was a DNR or Ukrainian rocket? It could also be a portable hi-tech rocket smuggled into Ukraine by a 3rd, or 4th, or even 5th party of this conflict.
Or why it is still one large black box, but not, say, 20 orange 64GB flash drives, which fall all over the place?
An aircraft costs hundreds of millions and 20 flash drives cost peanuts. And it is not a problem at all to write to several flash drives simultaneously.
The Russian society is divided in numerous socioeconomic groups, the same as the US or any other society.
These groups have different understanding of security, and completely different interests in general. For some, security means keeping control over their power and billions, for some finding at last a job or starting a modest web-based business.
There are not only Russians, French, Americans, etc., but also socioeconomic groups with very similar interests and aspirations.
I think reaching out to Cuba would do much more good than publicly worrying about its dissidents and freedoms.
It all lacks sincerity, especially after Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Sarah Harrison.
Co-development, sincere equal cooperation would do a lot of good to Cuba and to the USA itself. There are a lot of people and business in the USA who need assistance not less than people and companies in Cuba.
But UK signed the The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It should either follow it, or withdraw its signature. I am not singling out UK or any other nation. Every government, which signed it, should work on compliance.
If there is a criminal activity, then a judge must look into it and give a permission to search the Gmail account of a particular individual. It is as simple as that.
Article 12.The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
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You are right. But there is also a good reason in the Commerce Secretary's position.
Here is the short paper by Jospeh Reagle "Free as in sexist. Free Culture and the Gender Gap" :
http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4291/3381
mirror:
http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4291/3381#author
Very interesting.
The journalist was there and made only these two dark small close-up photos? And that's it?
Was it a problem to shoot 7 - 10 HD photos from different viewpoints at this great excavation site and publish them together with the text?
Still he was called terrible, not awesome. And he was indeed in a way terrible from today's viewpoint, but no more terrible than Charles IX.
I do not want leave an impression that I am trying to bash the USA. Far from that. There are similar problems with border crossings everywhere. Take Mediterranean Sea, or the English Channel, etc.
A lot of human tragedies are going on there right now. But they will not attract so much attention as the Berlin Wall crossings' tragedies.
Most US prisoners are for drug crimes.
I heard on the radio that there is a racial issue in this problem too.
But I do not know exact statistics about the reasons why people are in prisons. And it was not my point.
What I wanted to say is that by pure political reasons some figures are given much more importance than the others.
For instance, 136 people died while crossing Berlin Wall, we all know it. And I regret it, certainly. Even one was one too many.
But hundreds of people die each year on the Mexican-US border. And nobody even know about it. And does not want to know. I regret it too. And I hope that it will change.
But again it was not my point. I am talking about political influence on historical science.
Historical claims related to the Soviet Union or Russia are often exaggerated or blown out of proportion.
Another example of this phenomena, in addition to the one, which I mentioned in my previous post, - the Tsar Ivan the Terrible executed during his reign of half a century less people than were executed during the St. Bartholomew's Day(!) massacre. Still he is called the Terrible, but not Catherine de' Medici or the King Charles IX.
...national suicide really was what the USSR about for its constituent peoples...
The highest number of prisoners in the Soviet Union's GULAG was less than 2 million http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...
In the USA nowadays there are 2.5 million prisoners http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...
Even one political prisoner or an innocent person in prison is too much. But I just wanted to say that USSR's prisons were not like on Star Wars scale, not the largest in the world.
Almost everybody has an HD photo-camera nowadays. Why not make some images from the excavation site and publish them together with the text about the discovery?
Drawings are OK, but nothing can substitute an HD JPG image.
... it is just not realistic to learn another language to be able to support them ...
It is quite common in Europe to speak two or three languages fluently. If there are 2 - 3 engineers who speak 2 - 3 languages fluently then most of the major languages are covered.
By the way, it is often just a stereotype that all people are drunk here or there. Brazil economy grew 2.5% in 2013, it is certainly achieved by hard working people.
Then at least she could avoid blaming a carnival, and concentrate more on her linguistic skills. Or hiring Portuguese speaking engineers instead of non technical interpreters to run a computer system in Brazil.
Many people around the world speak English at different levels. Sometimes it is just Globish or an Airport English. But Brazil is an enormous country where people do speak Portuguese. No way around it.
She works with a whole system in Brazil via an non technical interpreter? Did it ever occur to her to learn Portuguese language?
Buy a silent mouse, which is used for recording studious. A quality silent keyboards. And most important the best monitor you can afford, and use it as a second display for your notebook.
Plus the fiber-optic internet access.
A good chair and a foot-rest will not harm too.
I would expect that the Curiosity with the nuclear power source would blow out of the water all other rovers.
Is it wheels' design that slows Curiosity?
It is a lot. Why car industry does not make cars like this?
It is really funny :o)
Privacy is about getting out. Put on light t-shirt, thin-sole running shoes, light shorts and go with your partner to a park, a stadium, etc.
Or go to a beach for a swim.
Have a meaningful private conversation while running, walking or swimming. Speak in a calm quiet voice, not louder than necessary.
So getting out is good not only for health, but for privacy too. Besides, it is much safer to run together or to walk together.
There are nowadays portable hi-tech rockets capable to fly to very high altitudes with enormous speed and precision. They are obviously very expensive and out of reach of Ukrainian or DNR military.
How do we know that it was a DNR or Ukrainian rocket? It could also be a portable hi-tech rocket smuggled into Ukraine by a 3rd, or 4th, or even 5th party of this conflict.
I wonder if it is possible to prove or disprove a human landing on the Moon irrefutably?
And if yes - how and when?
Or why it is still one large black box, but not, say, 20 orange 64GB flash drives, which fall all over the place?
An aircraft costs hundreds of millions and 20 flash drives cost peanuts. And it is not a problem at all to write to several flash drives simultaneously.
...security for Russians...
The Russian society is divided in numerous socioeconomic groups, the same as the US or any other society.
These groups have different understanding of security, and completely different interests in general. For some, security means keeping control over their power and billions, for some finding at last a job or starting a modest web-based business.
There are not only Russians, French, Americans, etc., but also socioeconomic groups with very similar interests and aspirations.
I think reaching out to Cuba would do much more good than publicly worrying about its dissidents and freedoms.
It all lacks sincerity, especially after Bradley Manning, Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Sarah Harrison.
Co-development, sincere equal cooperation would do a lot of good to Cuba and to the USA itself. There are a lot of people and business in the USA who need assistance not less than people and companies in Cuba.
Later this year the CERN Collider will work for the first time at 100% power:
http://news.nationalgeographic...
Perhaps, we will meet God at last.
And then the new, 100 km in diameter, Collider will be constructed at CERN.
But UK signed the The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It should either follow it, or withdraw its signature. I am not singling out UK or any other nation. Every government, which signed it, should work on compliance.
If there is a criminal activity, then a judge must look into it and give a permission to search the Gmail account of a particular individual. It is as simple as that.
Article 12.The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks.
http://www.un.org/en/documents...
Universal means it is about all humans, not only Anglo-saxons, British or US citizens.