All of these "points" are not even points at all, just a matter of personal usage preferences.
Humans have got two hands, why not use them both? I am perfectly able to use my HTC HD2 with one hand only, but I don't do that, because using both hands is - for me - much more comfortable.
Give me a break. I was born in the USSR myself, but lived twice as long there than Brin before moving to Germany. Even if I try hard, I am barely a Russian, even though I speak almost without an accent.
My sister is four years younger and tries much harder, but she is not a Russian either. She cannot even speak Russian properly.
That is beside that your "argumentum ad Putinum" falls flat in the light of the fact, that in modern Russia the gender issue is waaaaaaaaay worse than it was in Soviet times - back then equal rights were very much real. And even that little "man rules" what was there, was frowned upon amongst the intellectuals - basically the only ones that were able to flee the USSR back then.
In the first place, Germany invaded Poland, and it happened after the Molotovâ"Ribbentrop Pact, which arguably is the official start of WWII.
Well, no. In the first place, the USSR tried to negotiate with France and Britain, but the negotiations bogged down and Hitler made a better offer, basically agreeing that the USSR can get back the territories it has lost in 1917 (the Baltic states) and in the 1919-1921 (when Poland invaded the USSR, taking a large chunk of Ukraine and Belarus).
Then Germany occupied Czechoslovakia, and Poland happily took a part in it, only to be steamrolled by the Wehrmacht shortly after.
According to the pact, Stalin was planning to annex his part of Eastern Europe, and already started (and lost) war with Finland. Not exactly "a victim", is he?
The Winter War was basically Stalin trying to get a better strategic position to fight Hitler. And yes, there the USSR was the aggressor. When Germany attacked the Soviet Union, there USSR was a victim. An asshole victim, sure, but in the second war, many victims were asshole victims - Poland first and foremost, but also Britain and France. They set the stage WW2 20 years before.
Red Army had literally only a mob with pitchforks and shovels to defend themselves.
Literally, yes? What about the KV tank? That was literally neither a pitchfork nor a shovel. And what does executing officers have to do with being a victim or not? That particular idiocy is a complete different topic altogether.
Yes, seriously. I've read an interview with a former Strategic Air Command B-52 crewman. He said, if they ever had the order to bomb New York, they would do that.
Maybe you should read it yourself. I mean, it is all there in the text:
Hitler breaks the pact
During the early morning of 22 June 1941, Adolf Hitler broke the pact by implementing Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of Soviet held territories and the Soviet Union that began the war on the Eastern Front.
Well, to be honest, I think GP is not that far from truth. Economics is neither a law, nor a hard science. It is a grossly simplified model of human behaviour, and economists far too often operate on assumptions and even religious-like beliefs.
Morally, you say? That these companies got to own the production by the military conquest in first place is apparently a non-issue for your set of morals?
Oh, how very funny. You see, I never had a flu in my whole life. No homeopathic remedies obviously (because I don't believe in that crap), no other precautions. No flu ever, just the common cold a few times every year.
I got my first ever flu shot three months ago. Still nothing. Not even a cold.
Probably, and much more peaceful, I think. Soviet leaders were scared shitless of American nukes, that was the reason for the totally unneeded arm race which bankrupted the Soviet Union and lead to the Russia of the 1990ies and numerous bloody conflicts. This was also the reason why Khrushchev's peaceful coexistence doctrine ultimately failed and he was ousted, which was, in my opinion, unfortunate - USSR could have started something like perestroika a decade earlier.
Funny thing, that, because the facts disagree with you. USSR have pledged not to use nuclear weapons first, while the commanders of American Strategic Air Command have favoured preemptive nuclear strikes for quite a long time.
Besides, what is wrong with speaking Russian? Every foreign language broadens your horizon.
So the US has an insane foreign policy compared to Saddam's Iraq (invaded, fought, or threatened pretty much every country around them), North Korea (hurl missiles and threats against it neighbors), Iran (covert operations against governments of many countries in region, threaten others, including barely veiled genocide against former ally Israel)?
Well, worded like that it actually not dissimilar to the foreign policy of the United States of America.
Invasion and covert operation against countries in the region? Check (Bay of Pigs, Iran-Contra affair, invasion of Grenada)
Threating others? Check (aw come on, you really need examples for that?)
Including barely veiled genocide against former ally? Check (Operation Dropshot, Plan Totality - basically plans to wipe out three quarters of Soviet citizens).
I also developed for Windows Mobile and was generally fine with the newer WM versions - after the utter crap that was WM5. The only reason I put Android on my WM phone was that WM was not very comfortable to use with a capacitive touch screen.
It worked just fine right after the OS installation. The installing of all the patches that came out in the last four years took so long. Slipstreaming the patches into the install medium would have got it running with the latest patches even faster, but it was late and I didn't bother, just started the Windows update and went to bed.
Now you are talking out of your arse. Better crop yields are the results of better pesticides, better fertilisers and better cultivars. Plants only can use a certain amount of carbon dioxide and this amount is capped by the available amount of sunlight. That, by the way, is also the reason why trying to stop global warming by dimming the skies is stupid.
I actually did exactly that two days ago. Took an old netbook, replaced its harddrive with an SSD, installed Windows 7 RTM on it, and updated everything from the drivers to the SP1 with the latest patches. Took a few hours - an Atom N270 is slow - but worked out fine otherwise.
First you don't run professional applications on Android, only consumer stuff. Second, Android is not really Linux and Android applications do not run on pure Linux.
I was this way a decade ago. Got much better now, but tends to return, when I stop behaving.
By behaving I mean using a split keyboard (Microsoft Natural 4000 right now), a digitizer instead of a mouse (better a Wacom, because a battery in a stylus makes it heavy and cumbersome), and plenty of short breaks (going outside and walking around the building, brewing a pot of tea the proper way).
Hybrid and full-electric cars are very different beasts. The electric motor in the hybrid is there to overcome the shortcomings of the ICE, which functions optimally only over a very narrow RPM range. Acceleration is better with electric motor, deceleration recharges the battery. On the highway, though, ICE is in its optimal mode, but the battery and the electric motor are dead weight.
This is the reason a hybrid is so good in a stop and go traffic.
I neither like the taste of alcohol, nor the feeling I get from it, so I don't drink. Besides, I prefer the taste of alcohol-free Warsteiner or Bitburger to the normal one. Nothing beats Russian kvass, though.
And here is where you are wrong. You see, the kind of economics you and GP worship only work because they conviniently ignore most, and - by shifting production to China - even all of the externalities associated with said production and distribution. If that weren't possible, the "if I cannot make a quick buck, fuck you and your environment" economics would fail at once.
But, alas, the modern economists are convinced that "long-term thinking" means "next quarter", not "next quarter century", and for some reason, this notion has now reached (and proselytised) the proles like you.
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All of these "points" are not even points at all, just a matter of personal usage preferences.
Humans have got two hands, why not use them both? I am perfectly able to use my HTC HD2 with one hand only, but I don't do that, because using both hands is - for me - much more comfortable.
Give me a break. I was born in the USSR myself, but lived twice as long there than Brin before moving to Germany. Even if I try hard, I am barely a Russian, even though I speak almost without an accent.
My sister is four years younger and tries much harder, but she is not a Russian either. She cannot even speak Russian properly.
That is beside that your "argumentum ad Putinum" falls flat in the light of the fact, that in modern Russia the gender issue is waaaaaaaaay worse than it was in Soviet times - back then equal rights were very much real. And even that little "man rules" what was there, was frowned upon amongst the intellectuals - basically the only ones that were able to flee the USSR back then.
Well, no. In the first place, the USSR tried to negotiate with France and Britain, but the negotiations bogged down and Hitler made a better offer, basically agreeing that the USSR can get back the territories it has lost in 1917 (the Baltic states) and in the 1919-1921 (when Poland invaded the USSR, taking a large chunk of Ukraine and Belarus).
Then Germany occupied Czechoslovakia, and Poland happily took a part in it, only to be steamrolled by the Wehrmacht shortly after.
The Winter War was basically Stalin trying to get a better strategic position to fight Hitler. And yes, there the USSR was the aggressor. When Germany attacked the Soviet Union, there USSR was a victim. An asshole victim, sure, but in the second war, many victims were asshole victims - Poland first and foremost, but also Britain and France. They set the stage WW2 20 years before.
Literally, yes? What about the KV tank? That was literally neither a pitchfork nor a shovel. And what does executing officers have to do with being a victim or not? That particular idiocy is a complete different topic altogether.
Yes, seriously. I've read an interview with a former Strategic Air Command B-52 crewman. He said, if they ever had the order to bomb New York, they would do that.
Maybe you should read it yourself. I mean, it is all there in the text:
Hello? Anyone home? It was still Hitler who attacked the Soviet Union in first place. Way to go, blaming the victim.
Well, to be honest, I think GP is not that far from truth. Economics is neither a law, nor a hard science. It is a grossly simplified model of human behaviour, and economists far too often operate on assumptions and even religious-like beliefs.
Morally, you say? That these companies got to own the production by the military conquest in first place is apparently a non-issue for your set of morals?
Oh, how very funny. You see, I never had a flu in my whole life. No homeopathic remedies obviously (because I don't believe in that crap), no other precautions. No flu ever, just the common cold a few times every year.
I got my first ever flu shot three months ago. Still nothing. Not even a cold.
Probably, and much more peaceful, I think. Soviet leaders were scared shitless of American nukes, that was the reason for the totally unneeded arm race which bankrupted the Soviet Union and lead to the Russia of the 1990ies and numerous bloody conflicts. This was also the reason why Khrushchev's peaceful coexistence doctrine ultimately failed and he was ousted, which was, in my opinion, unfortunate - USSR could have started something like perestroika a decade earlier.
Funny thing, that, because the facts disagree with you.
USSR have pledged not to use nuclear weapons first, while the commanders of American Strategic Air Command have favoured preemptive nuclear strikes for quite a long time.
Besides, what is wrong with speaking Russian? Every foreign language broadens your horizon.
That kind of math only works if electrical connectors are the sole reason for possible catastrophic failures that can be blamed on the manufacturer.
Since there are also possible hydraulic failures, wiring fires and so on, the manufacturer certainly needs a buffer larger than one in 36.
Well, worded like that it actually not dissimilar to the foreign policy of the United States of America.
Invasion and covert operation against countries in the region? Check (Bay of Pigs, Iran-Contra affair, invasion of Grenada)
Threating others? Check (aw come on, you really need examples for that?)
Including barely veiled genocide against former ally? Check (Operation Dropshot, Plan Totality - basically plans to wipe out three quarters of Soviet citizens).
I also developed for Windows Mobile and was generally fine with the newer WM versions - after the utter crap that was WM5.
The only reason I put Android on my WM phone was that WM was not very comfortable to use with a capacitive touch screen.
It worked just fine right after the OS installation. The installing of all the patches that came out in the last four years took so long. Slipstreaming the patches into the install medium would have got it running with the latest patches even faster, but it was late and I didn't bother, just started the Windows update and went to bed.
Now you are talking out of your arse. Better crop yields are the results of better pesticides, better fertilisers and better cultivars. Plants only can use a certain amount of carbon dioxide and this amount is capped by the available amount of sunlight. That, by the way, is also the reason why trying to stop global warming by dimming the skies is stupid.
I actually did exactly that two days ago. Took an old netbook, replaced its harddrive with an SSD, installed Windows 7 RTM on it, and updated everything from the drivers to the SP1 with the latest patches. Took a few hours - an Atom N270 is slow - but worked out fine otherwise.
First you don't run professional applications on Android, only consumer stuff. Second, Android is not really Linux and Android applications do not run on pure Linux.
I was this way a decade ago. Got much better now, but tends to return, when I stop behaving.
By behaving I mean using a split keyboard (Microsoft Natural 4000 right now), a digitizer instead of a mouse (better a Wacom, because a battery in a stylus makes it heavy and cumbersome), and plenty of short breaks (going outside and walking around the building, brewing a pot of tea the proper way).
Hybrid and full-electric cars are very different beasts.
The electric motor in the hybrid is there to overcome the shortcomings of the ICE, which functions optimally only over a very narrow RPM range. Acceleration is better with electric motor, deceleration recharges the battery. On the highway, though, ICE is in its optimal mode, but the battery and the electric motor are dead weight.
This is the reason a hybrid is so good in a stop and go traffic.
I neither like the taste of alcohol, nor the feeling I get from it, so I don't drink.
Besides, I prefer the taste of alcohol-free Warsteiner or Bitburger to the normal one. Nothing beats Russian kvass, though.
Well, personally, I like the taste of some alcohol-free beers and I indeed don't like getting drunk.
Eh, wenn the strawman arguments go against "left wing nutjobs" like me, they aren't strawman, they are downright patriotic, didn't you know?
And here is where you are wrong. You see, the kind of economics you and GP worship only work because they conviniently ignore most, and - by shifting production to China - even all of the externalities associated with said production and distribution. If that weren't possible, the "if I cannot make a quick buck, fuck you and your environment" economics would fail at once.
But, alas, the modern economists are convinced that "long-term thinking" means "next quarter", not "next quarter century", and for some reason, this notion has now reached (and proselytised) the proles like you.
You are a denier. Because you put "economics" a.k.a short term profits first. Basically you say "If I cannot earn money polluting, fuck you".
History is full of people like you, screwing with environment for their short term profits, leading to a disaster in long term.