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  1. Re:# Guns = c x # Deaths from Guns on Federal Judge Rules Chicago's Ban On Licensed Gun Dealers Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Well, two idiots invaded a home of a pensioned couple. Pushed them around a bit, threatened to beat the seniors up if they don't give them valuables. Took 100 Euros and ran away.

    No firearms, no shootings, not even knives. And Frankfurt am Main is really the most criminal city in Germany, full of drug addicts, shady foreigners, banksters and so on.

  2. Re:# Guns = c x # Deaths from Guns on Federal Judge Rules Chicago's Ban On Licensed Gun Dealers Unconstitutional · · Score: 1

    Don't need to be statistics, really.

    Here is how home invasion looks like in the criminal capital of Germany. I find it highly telling that the google translator translates "two unidentified perpetrators" as "two unidentified gunmen".

  3. Re:maybe its good... on Ancient Pompeii Diet Consisted of Giraffe and Other "Exotic'" Delicacies · · Score: 1

    Well, I've tried durian once. It was the worst thing I've ever tasted.

  4. Re:But we have health care on China: The Next Space Superpower · · Score: 2

    To be honest, I fail to see how invading two countries is internal spending.

  5. Re:time travel is so last millenium on Searching the Internet For Evidence of Time Travelers · · Score: 1

    I recon you haven't read/seen Steins; Gate then. Exactly as desired my arse.

  6. Re:Time travelers not allowed to post prescient in on Searching the Internet For Evidence of Time Travelers · · Score: 4, Funny

    Tell that to John Titor.

  7. Re:Well... on Ask Slashdot: What Are the Books Everyone Should Read? · · Score: 1

    Have you actually read Capital?
    Many things from there are taught in economics courses even now - somewhat reworded, of course.

  8. Re:confusion? on UK Introduces Warrantless Detention · · Score: 1

    Counter is one thing. Nuclear first strike - and this is exactly what I am talking about - is a whole different matter.

    T-34, even the newer T-34/85, was outdated even in the first years of the cold war. In fact, if the Soviet industry was not in such a sorry state, it would have been replaced by T-44 by 1944. M26 Pershing was a match for both, though. The crap tank you mention (M24 Chaffee) was a light tank, PT-76 would be comparable, not the almost twice as heavy T-34.

  9. Re:confusion? on UK Introduces Warrantless Detention · · Score: 1

    Ah, spreading your bullshit again.

    You conviniently left out the fact that USSR had officially pledged "no first use" of nuclear weaponry, while NATO in fact still insists on a preemptive first strike option.

  10. Re:Cumulative? on Brain Function "Boosted For Days After Reading a Novel" · · Score: 1

    That is actually what I miss the most from the school days - enough free time to be able to read a different novel every day.

  11. Re: Not the first time on Battlefield 4 Banned In China · · Score: 1

    No, it is just that I have learned a fair share of different languages through my life - Estonian, Russian, German, French, English, Hebrew and Japanese. I can speak only three of these fluently nowadays, but still.

  12. Re: Not the first time on Battlefield 4 Banned In China · · Score: 1

    And wrong yet again. I've watched about 10 anime titles in my whole 33 years of life.

  13. Re: Not the first time on Battlefield 4 Banned In China · · Score: 1

    And Duke Nukem said "your face, your ass - what's the difference"
    It is not the same thing at all. Which also makes your statement about using letters for sounds totally wrong because neither letters nor phonemes - what you called "sounds" are involved.

    Besides, like I already mentioned, it is even not really r, but actually something between r, l and t. If you listen closely to japanese speech, you can even hear that it sounds more like r, or more like l, even in a same sentence.
    It is a somewhat stupid example, but that is the quickest I was able to found. Listen here at 4:30
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wckZcVFLU24

    It sounds like "anata ga iru kala".

  14. Re: Not the first time on Battlefield 4 Banned In China · · Score: 1

    No, there are none. Japanese only use an alphabet when they write in romaji (latin letters that is). Neither kanji, nor hiragana nor katakana are alphabets because they are not letters. Letters represent phonemes, kanji represents morphemes and words, hiragana and katakana represent moras.

  15. Re:China has a point on Battlefield 4 Banned In China · · Score: 2

    Well, cruise missile democracy should indeed be stamped out of existence.

  16. Re: Not the first time on Battlefield 4 Banned In China · · Score: 1

    um, no.
    there is no japanese alphabet in first place. there are logograms and moras (sort of, but not quite the same as, syllables), not letters. so there are ra, ro, ru, re, ro and rya, ryo and ryu sounds. and even there the "r" is not quite "r".

  17. Re:what kind of box on Prime Minister Wiretapped — Vast Corruption Upending Turkey's Government · · Score: 1

    I actually had one once (was a birthday present). Got rid of it as soon as possible. Never heard the one about "bin Ladens", though.

  18. Re:Short answer: no on Is Ruby Dying? · · Score: 4, Insightful

    The problem with it is that if you learn C as first language, you probably will always write C in any language. With all the ugly hacks and trying to reinvent the wheel time and time again.

    I write in C for a living, but frankly, while I love my job, I don't like the language. It is just a bit more high level than a macro assembler and full of crazy behaviour.

  19. Re:They have a good reason on Upload a Spoof Video, Go To Jail (In Dubai) · · Score: 1

    Same in Qatar.

  20. Re:You'd do the same on Mikhail Kalashnikov: Inventor of AK-47 Dies At 94 · · Score: 1

    Plan Totality
    Operation Dropshot
    Operation Unthinkable

  21. Re:You'd do the same on Mikhail Kalashnikov: Inventor of AK-47 Dies At 94 · · Score: 1

    No, his tank was destroyed by German artillery. Kalashnikov was a T-34 commander.

  22. Re:Unlike the inventor on Mikhail Kalashnikov: Inventor of AK-47 Dies At 94 · · Score: 1

    The barrel is chrome-electroplated inside, also the chamber and the gas operation parts. So no magic there, just good engineering.

  23. Re:American race to the bottom roadshow on Amazon Workers Strike In Germany As Christmas Orders Peak · · Score: 1

    If it is pre-tax then it is still not the same, because a part of the health insurance cost is paid by the employer. And you should not only add the universal health care cost, but also the government pension and the compulsary nursing insurance, which is not a part of the health insurance. It is sort of complicated.

  24. Re:Ungrateful krauts on Amazon Workers Strike In Germany As Christmas Orders Peak · · Score: 1

    Not really cumbersome, but about twice-thrice as expensive.

  25. Re:American race to the bottom roadshow on Amazon Workers Strike In Germany As Christmas Orders Peak · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The difference, of course, is the health insurance.