I personally know a few people living in Kiev. They hardly get buy, living on $200 per month. Sure, there are a lot of shops selling fancy stuff, but these catering to the rich people since middle class is almost not existant in Ukraine. And if you didn't notice anyone starving on the street, then you have only visited the tourist places, not the back street alleys.
As a former Soviet citizen I can attest that for great many people lives indeed were better back then than they are now. Even with the food and fuel queues. What good is all the abundance if you cannot afford anything? USSR, for some time, was certainly not the worst place to live.
This is not quite right, I guess Putin doesn't care about these. You see, they weren't teenage girls and they have "protested" (personally, I believe them to be simply a bunch of attention whores) numerous times before, their leader even in a group sex session while being pregnant. Nobody cared until they tried to "perform" in the church and the church is a powerful institution in Capitalist Russia.
Either you have no sense of scale or you have totally bought the cold war propaganda. The total Soviet population was around 125 millions at that time. 20 millions died in the WW2, 25 millions were starved by Stalin, another 40 were shot by him. Who was actually left?
You are using the wrong adverb. Not "still", but "again". Soviet people weren't rich, but by the time the space program was working, this kind of poverty did not exist anymore.
It is not really brains, it is the traffic law - you've got to use the rightmost lane possible at a given moment. Passing on the right is also forbidden.
Maybe not, but if people cannot enjoy themselves without being drunk - and exactly this is implied by quite a lot of posts here - then their outcomes are indeed horrible.
And you actually called a Windows Mobile device "useful".
Yep, very much so. It was somewhat user-unfriendly, but there were many useful applications for Windows Mobile even years ago. That was the reason why I used to own a lot of WM devices.
Let's see what the CEO of Microsoft said about Windows Mobile...
Ballmer says a lot of crap every day.
If Windows Mobile was actually a useful tool, then why did it fail.
If you want to ask a question, why don't you use a question mark?
BTW, before you claim that I never used a WinMo/WinCE device. I actually programmed them for three years...
That doesn't mean anything. I develop embedded Linux software for a living but I don't use Linux personally.
Besides, years before both LG prada and iPhone there were many PDA phones, for example HTC Himalaya or Mio A701. They had a touchscreen, they had multitasking, installable applications, copy&paste and many more. In fact I've been using many of them since 2004. The difference was that they weren't a fashion accessory, but tools.
As I said, this way of thinking only raises the dangers on the road. Even worse, because people think that they are safe, they don't even bother to drive in a safe way.
Oh, and about your "if I could": If I could, I would shoot first. If you want a battlefield, you can have it.
And now we head to a special version of the tragedy of the commons. Because everyone thinks the same way you do, everyone buys a brick on wheels so the odds aren't stacked in your family's favour anymore. Actually, they are stacked against it because the energies of a crash also grow.
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It is you. Market cap does not mean much. For example, Nortel's market cap in 2002 was just 1.3% of their market cap in 2000.
Oh, but there are other alternatives. Strasser style, or Rosa Luxemburg style for example.
I personally prefer the latter.
How is this a bad thing? If crazies want to kill each other, let them lest they start killing unrelated people when they have got nothing else to do.
They sort of already do, it is called air bubble system. Conventional icebreakers also use it.
Hehehe :-)
the commuter train coming from Moscow of course
Well, that is something Viol8 just does not get, see the comment about "there were plenty of shops selling electronic equipment and mobile phones".
I personally know a few people living in Kiev. They hardly get buy, living on $200 per month. Sure, there are a lot of shops selling fancy stuff, but these catering to the rich people since middle class is almost not existant in Ukraine. And if you didn't notice anyone starving on the street, then you have only visited the tourist places, not the back street alleys.
As a former Soviet citizen I can attest that for great many people lives indeed were better back then than they are now. Even with the food and fuel queues. What good is all the abundance if you cannot afford anything? USSR, for some time, was certainly not the worst place to live.
This is not quite right, I guess Putin doesn't care about these. You see, they weren't teenage girls and they have "protested" (personally, I believe them to be simply a bunch of attention whores) numerous times before, their leader even in a group sex session while being pregnant. Nobody cared until they tried to "perform" in the church and the church is a powerful institution in Capitalist Russia.
Either you have no sense of scale or you have totally bought the cold war propaganda.
The total Soviet population was around 125 millions at that time. 20 millions died in the WW2, 25 millions were starved by Stalin, another 40 were shot by him. Who was actually left?
I used to be a Soviet citizen. Just FYI.
You are using the wrong adverb. Not "still", but "again". Soviet people weren't rich, but by the time the space program was working, this kind of poverty did not exist anymore.
It is not really brains, it is the traffic law - you've got to use the rightmost lane possible at a given moment. Passing on the right is also forbidden.
Well, if we are talking about German Autobahn here, then this sort of behaviour (tailgating with flashing lights) might very well be a criminal act.
On the other hand HTC made it big time with Windows Mobile.
16 gb of 128kbps mp3 maybe, but not 16gb of flac.
There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark.
So that was the guy who used to wear shoes two sizes too small so he could feel really good when he took them off?
Maybe not, but if people cannot enjoy themselves without being drunk - and exactly this is implied by quite a lot of posts here - then their outcomes are indeed horrible.
Yep, very much so. It was somewhat user-unfriendly, but there were many useful applications for Windows Mobile even years ago. That was the reason why I used to own a lot of WM devices.
Ballmer says a lot of crap every day.
If you want to ask a question, why don't you use a question mark?
That doesn't mean anything. I develop embedded Linux software for a living but I don't use Linux personally.
Moving the goalposts is not a nice method of discussion, but if you want do do it this way, here you are:
iPhone didn't have:
Installable applications
Multitasking
Copy&Paste
Removable storage
Besides, years before both LG prada and iPhone there were many PDA phones, for example HTC Himalaya or Mio A701. They had a touchscreen, they had multitasking, installable applications, copy&paste and many more. In fact I've been using many of them since 2004. The difference was that they weren't a fashion accessory, but tools.
Bob Dylan was detained by the police. His crime: going for a walk without any ID.
Which is not hypersonic. Besides B-1B is not nearly the fastest operational bomber anyway.
As I said, this way of thinking only raises the dangers on the road. Even worse, because people think that they are safe, they don't even bother to drive in a safe way.
Oh, and about your "if I could": If I could, I would shoot first. If you want a battlefield, you can have it.
And now we head to a special version of the tragedy of the commons. Because everyone thinks the same way you do, everyone buys a brick on wheels so the odds aren't stacked in your family's favour anymore. Actually, they are stacked against it because the energies of a crash also grow.