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  1. Re:Bad idea on Snowden Reportedly In Talks To Return To US To Face Trial · · Score: 1

    You are confusing Russian with another Slavic language (Ukrainian maybe?). Russian has lost the vocative case centuries ago so there are only 6 grammatical cases.

  2. I just wish you QT devs would finally fix the Wacom bug on Windows. It was supposedly fixed long ago, but is still present in QT5 applications.

  3. Re:Please tell me this is satire on Use Astrology To Save Britain's Health System, Says MP · · Score: 1

    This is UK, they don't really count as European (true Scotsmen usually do, but this MP isn't)

  4. Fuck the playstation on Why Sony Should Ditch Everything But the PlayStation · · Score: 2, Informative

    TFA writer is seriously myopic thinking that his console is more important than anything else. It would be s shame for Sony - for sll their faults they still are a quite impressive manufacturer - to be reduced to a one trick pony. And for what? A bloody game console? Why would anyone need another Nintendo? Besides, consoles cripple games. Deus Ex 2 could have been a much better game if not for consoles. And as for the xperia phones, they are actually decent. ANT+ support and IP55/56 is very handy outdoors.

  5. Re: Big Data on Will Submarines Soon Become As Obsolete As the Battleship? · · Score: 1

    More like because mig-31 was able to intercept it.

  6. Re:This is (sort of) good news for Americans on Russia Seeking To Ban Tor, VPNs and Other Anonymizing Tools · · Score: 3, Informative

    The civil war in Transnistria happened when Putin was just a suitcase carrier for the then-mayor of St. Petersburg.

  7. Re:Can't eat what you don't grow on Free-As-In-Beer Electricity In Greece? · · Score: 2

    He does. You don't.

  8. Re:Can't eat what you don't grow on Free-As-In-Beer Electricity In Greece? · · Score: 2

    No it doesn't make any sense at all. USA and Canada both were much more modern and rich countries in 1917. Russia on the other hand was badly beaten in the first world war, had a civil war, was invaded by foreign armed forces in 1918, was invaded by Poland in 1919 and was almost destroyed in WW2. USA and Canada, on the other hand, weren't, their infrastructure was intact and their human losses in both world wars were ridiculously small. Technologically Russia was at least 50 years behind USA in 1917, the life expectancy was 25 years lower. By 1960 a parity was reached. Soviet Russia started with a 24% literacy and ended with 99.8%. All that is a huge success in my book.
    There were enough people from poorer countries trying to get to USSR because the standards of living there were higher than in their home countries. That is a normal process.
    Basically you comparing a spoiled trust fund baby with somebody who started piss poor and even though that piss poor guy was able to rise quite high, since he wasn't as rich as the trust fund guy at the end, he was a loser in your eyes. That is a very childish view, to be honest.

    Oh, and by the way, speaking of threatening the lives of people trying to run away from it, USA currently incarcerates almost as many people as Stalin had in his worst years. Good job, I say. That is what I call freedom you can be proud of.

  9. Re:Can't eat what you don't grow on Free-As-In-Beer Electricity In Greece? · · Score: 1

    Not false at all. Different countries had completely different starting positions and completely different things that happened to them after. But if you talk like that, why don't we compare USSR to Zimbabwe then?

  10. Re:Can't eat what you don't grow on Free-As-In-Beer Electricity In Greece? · · Score: 1

    Bad comparison. Romania, Lithuania and Bulgaria all were ex-Socialist countries. All real estate there was previously people-owned, so they had the right to privatise their flats for free or almost free in the early nineties.

  11. Re:Can't eat what you don't grow on Free-As-In-Beer Electricity In Greece? · · Score: 2

    What else do you want to compare it with? Every other comparison would be apples-to-oranges. You can only compare it with what came before or what came after. Matter of fact, of all the former soviet republics only one has somewhat higher standards of living than before. Besides, you act as if Stalin was in power 1917-1991. But this sort of delusion is common to Americans, some of them asked me whether Hitler was still the head of state in Germany - in the late nineties.

  12. Re:Can't eat what you don't grow on Free-As-In-Beer Electricity In Greece? · · Score: 1

    Even so
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L...

    75.9% of Greeks own real estate. But only 53.3% of Germans do.

  13. Re:Can't eat what you don't grow on Free-As-In-Beer Electricity In Greece? · · Score: 1

    Matter of fact yes, USSR was very much a success, compared to its predecessor. The backwards Russian empire that was a century behind the developed world was transformed into a comparatively modern country that was finally able to feed itself (the last famine was in 1947, USSR was dissolved in 1991), while Russian empire had famines every 10 years or so. They've put the first man into space for fuck's sake, just 15 years after the most devastating war in the world's history!
    Life expectancy at birth in 1960 was twice (!!!) of the life expectancy in 1900.
    Could have been better if there was no need for fear of yet another foreign invasion.

  14. Re:Freedom Will Not Be Tolerated on Silk Road Drug Dealer Pleads Guilty After Federal Sting · · Score: 1

    Fewer problems? I think you forget the opium wars.

  15. Re:Proof of gun safety? on TP-82: The Gun Cosmonauts Carried On Space Missions · · Score: 1

    I certainly would not mind this kind of requirements.

  16. Re:Kill them all. on FDA Wants To Release Millions of Genetically Modified Mosquitoes In Florida · · Score: 1

    Buddy, and why exactly don't you kill yourself? From what I have seen so far you are a waste of breath and nobody would be worse off if you just cease to exist. Just do it and nothing will ever test your patience again.

  17. Re:Honestly... on Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister · · Score: 1

    Frankfurt will definitely fail if you are in the city centre at +50.1086, +8.6658

  18. Re:Why the atheist mention? on Valve's Economist Yanis Varoufakis Appointed Greece's Finance Minister · · Score: 1

    This - the superstitious element - is, for some reason, very typical for orthodox Christianity. Same thing happens in Georgia (the country, not the state) and Russia.

  19. Re: Change for change's sake on Latest Windows 10 Preview Build Brings Slew of Enhancements · · Score: 2

    And fugly flat looks. Besides, what good is better battery life if you have no battery?

  20. Re: Quality Journalimism on "Mammoth Snow Storm" Underwhelms · · Score: 1

    It is not Timothy, it is the submitter. Just read his comment history, you will see what I mean.

  21. Re:So what will this accomplish? on Uber Capping Prices During Snowmageddon 2015 · · Score: 1

    I think you are confusing value and price. It is not the same thing at all.

  22. Re:grandmother reference on Ubisoft Revokes Digital Keys For Games Purchased Via Unauthorised Retailers · · Score: 1

    So when businesses use the advantages of globalisation, then it is good and fine and harms noone. But when customers do the same, then it is totally evil.

  23. Re:grandmother reference on Ubisoft Revokes Digital Keys For Games Purchased Via Unauthorised Retailers · · Score: 1

    And this is also bullshit. I live in Germany, but I prefer my games in English (or whatever the "native" language of the game was provided I speak that language) since there is always some translation loss.

  24. Re: There are still contingency plans on Plan C: The Cold War Plan Which Would Have Brought the US Under Martial Law · · Score: 1

    Stanley Milgram proved you wrong long ago.

  25. Re:Microsoft would be onto a winner if... on Windows 10: Charms Bar Removed, No Start Screen For Desktops · · Score: 1

    Both is not quite a desktop environment, which exactly was the GP's point. Besides, your use cases are a tiny minority.