exactly. tsarist russia also was desperately illiterate (60% of adults couldn't read or write). after the revolution, lenin started a literacy program (likbez), voluntary at first, later forced. the program was very successfull, after 20 years of likbez the literacy was already at 90%, in the fifties soviet union was nearly 100% literate and russia, along along with 10 former soviet republics, hungary, poland, slovenia, cuba and barbados, is still on top of the countries sorted by literacy rate.
barbados is by the way the only non-former-communist country in the top 15.
I doubt it, since the car is built in Cologne, Germany and sells very well. Germans used to prefer small cars, the SUV craze started only two or thee years ago.
Dude, sorry, but you are talking bullshit. First, even a diesel train eats less fuel than an airplane. Second, have you ever heard about a country called Russia? Russia is even larger than USA. Still, railroad works for Russia pretty well. Take for example the trans-siberian railroad. It is over 9000 km long, spanning over 7 timezones.
And lack of long-term planning is exactly the reason for the current crisis. Thanks for perpetuating it.
i used to develop some software for truck board computers so programming and debugging inside a garbage truck was pretty much the worst working condition i had.
i cannot decide, though, what was worse, working in a garbage truck while the driver collects garbage through the city or working in a standing sewage truck with all windows open and the driver eating his lunch.
Well, Putin is the first russian leader for decades who isn't that embarassing. Khrushchev was funny, Brezhnev read out the punctuations of his speeches, Andropov made some conflicts and then died, Gorbachev couldn't even speak Russian properly, Yeltsin was an alcoholic, but Putin... a judo black belt, KGB officer, an unpolite and seemingly honest speaker.
Authoritarian or not, he is the best russian politician for decades, maybe even for centuries.
still it is worth it. i like lots of bright white light, especially in winter. so i use a 85 watt cfl with 5000k colour temperature in my main room. i would need a three 100 watt incandescent bulbs for that. even if the wiring would allow that, they still would be yellowish.
it's not a distaste of mercenaries, after all, a real former mercenary (su-25 pilot) is one of my best friends (and he sais he deserves to burn in hell for what he has done), it is that i don't like hypocrisy. if someone voluntarily becomes a soldier, he should expect the possibility of going to war. otherwise it is a wish of having a cake and eating it, too.
anyway, warning the city populace of an invasion is pretty much useless, most people have nowhere to go. it is not like they could just pack their bits and pieces and move to the next town. every american soldier knew that, their just wanted to wash their hands of it. and this is hypocrisy, too.
yes, a mercenary. in a country without draft every soldier is a mercenary.
99% of the citizens of the US don't give two flying fucks about you, your country, or any other country out there
stay home then.
Do you HONESTLY think we're a nation of cowboys who get off on killing people and blowing shit up?
well, it seems that at least half the nation is. lots and lots of nationalistic rednecks.
I am pretty certain that you're posting from a country that would have been speaking German right about now if it were not IN LARGE part to the heroic effort of the US servicemen and women who came to the aide of most of Europe.
large part? sorry, but russians did the most work back then. and yes, before you mention that if it weren't you yanks, i'd speak russian now, i do speak russian. it is a nice language. and - coincidentally - i do speak german. learning foreign languages helps broadening the horizons.
well, to make caffeine useful again, for example. i dring two cups of tea a day at most (no coffee at all because i don't like the taste) and when i really need a push, a cup of coffee or gyokuro is absolutely sufficient to awake me.
You can also see how fucked Ukraine is now. The government is not functioning, the presidend and the prime minister (former best buddies and orange revolution heroes) are now bitter enemies.
german armed forces in the west and in africa were a fraction of the forces on the eastern front, so there.
also, the thought that stalin wouldn't let the rest of germany remain democratic is wrong. stalin was fine with a democratic germany as long as it stays neutral but then truman started the cold war with his doctrine and the rest is history.
when you say that usa hurts people out of ignorance you are very wrong. usa hurts others everytime it is in their interest. also, it depends what you compare. for example you would be much safer from police brutality in the ussr of 1987 then in the usa of 2007.
while being so self-righteous you have forgotten a couple of things. first of all, the taliban you yanks are hunting now are the same taliban you yanks were funding and calling heroes and freedom fighters 25 years ago.
second, thanks to your intervention in yugoslavia, albanian cutthroats have murdered lots of serbs and tried to invade macedonia.
third, not american military leadership has prevented the nazis, the russians have. americans preferred to sit on their collective arses until it was sure that russians would win the war and then they went in to steal the laurels.
not to mention all other crazy dicatorships you you yanks funded. so yes, please keep your "help" to yourself. because with friends like you, who needs enemies?
a russian and an american a boasting, whose country is more free. the american sais: i can protest against reagan on the street and i wouldn't get arrested for this the russian sais: oh, well, i also can protest against reagan and won't get arrested.
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exactly. tsarist russia also was desperately illiterate (60% of adults couldn't read or write). after the revolution, lenin started a literacy program (likbez), voluntary at first, later forced. the program was very successfull, after 20 years of likbez the literacy was already at 90%, in the fifties soviet union was nearly 100% literate and russia, along along with 10 former soviet republics, hungary, poland, slovenia, cuba and barbados, is still on top of the countries sorted by literacy rate.
barbados is by the way the only non-former-communist country in the top 15.
I doubt it, since the car is built in Cologne, Germany and sells very well. Germans used to prefer small cars, the SUV craze started only two or thee years ago.
sounds rather like standard european social democrat, on the paper.
Well, the Germans call the car Ford Fiasco.
Dude, sorry, but you are talking bullshit.
First, even a diesel train eats less fuel than an airplane.
Second, have you ever heard about a country called Russia?
Russia is even larger than USA. Still, railroad works for Russia pretty well. Take for example the trans-siberian railroad. It is over 9000 km long, spanning over 7 timezones.
And lack of long-term planning is exactly the reason for the current crisis. Thanks for perpetuating it.
yes. this is called "false advertising".
it is not sales tax, it is a value added tax. the difference is that basically b2b transactions are tax-free, only the consumer pays the tax.
anyway, since everyone knows how high the VAT is, there is always a lot of opposition to raising VAT.
here is the answer
maybe they are thinking to reuse all those progress solar panels instead of burning them together with the spaceship.
i used to develop some software for truck board computers so programming and debugging inside a garbage truck was pretty much the worst working condition i had.
i cannot decide, though, what was worse, working in a garbage truck while the driver collects garbage through the city or working in a standing sewage truck with all windows open and the driver eating his lunch.
all in all it was a pretty shitty job.
this is the most realistic idea so far.
Well, Putin is the first russian leader for decades who isn't that embarassing.
Khrushchev was funny, Brezhnev read out the punctuations of his speeches, Andropov made some conflicts and then died, Gorbachev couldn't even speak Russian properly, Yeltsin was an alcoholic, but Putin... a judo black belt, KGB officer, an unpolite and seemingly honest speaker.
Authoritarian or not, he is the best russian politician for decades, maybe even for centuries.
if obama is the same as bush, why republicans are complaining about him, then?
still it is worth it.
i like lots of bright white light, especially in winter. so i use a 85 watt cfl with 5000k colour temperature in my main room. i would need a three 100 watt incandescent bulbs for that. even if the wiring would allow that, they still would be yellowish.
it's not a distaste of mercenaries, after all, a real former mercenary (su-25 pilot) is one of my best friends (and he sais he deserves to burn in hell for what he has done), it is that i don't like hypocrisy.
if someone voluntarily becomes a soldier, he should expect the possibility of going to war. otherwise it is a wish of having a cake and eating it, too.
anyway, warning the city populace of an invasion is pretty much useless, most people have nowhere to go. it is not like they could just pack their bits and pieces and move to the next town. every american soldier knew that, their just wanted to wash their hands of it. and this is hypocrisy, too.
yes, a mercenary. in a country without draft every soldier is a mercenary.
stay home then.
well, it seems that at least half the nation is. lots and lots of nationalistic rednecks.
large part? sorry, but russians did the most work back then. and yes, before you mention that if it weren't you yanks, i'd speak russian now, i do speak russian. it is a nice language. and - coincidentally - i do speak german. learning foreign languages helps broadening the horizons.
well, to make caffeine useful again, for example.
i dring two cups of tea a day at most (no coffee at all because i don't like the taste) and when i really need a push, a cup of coffee or gyokuro is absolutely sufficient to awake me.
You can also see how fucked Ukraine is now. The government is not functioning, the presidend and the prime minister (former best buddies and orange revolution heroes) are now bitter enemies.
Times are changing.
Eichmann never thought he could be tried and executed in Israel. The history proved him wrong.
superiour orders is not a valid defence against war crimes.
even the mighty need to eat something.
i assume you are not up to date, showing me "news" of 1999.
read this
german armed forces in the west and in africa were a fraction of the forces on the eastern front, so there.
also, the thought that stalin wouldn't let the rest of germany remain democratic is wrong. stalin was fine with a democratic germany as long as it stays neutral but then truman started the cold war with his doctrine and the rest is history.
when you say that usa hurts people out of ignorance you are very wrong. usa hurts others everytime it is in their interest. also, it depends what you compare. for example you would be much safer from police brutality in the ussr of 1987 then in the usa of 2007.
while being so self-righteous you have forgotten a couple of things.
first of all, the taliban you yanks are hunting now are the same taliban you yanks were funding and calling heroes and freedom fighters 25 years ago.
second, thanks to your intervention in yugoslavia, albanian cutthroats have murdered lots of serbs and tried to invade macedonia.
third, not american military leadership has prevented the nazis, the russians have. americans preferred to sit on their collective arses until it was sure that russians would win the war and then they went in to steal the laurels.
not to mention all other crazy dicatorships you you yanks funded. so yes, please keep your "help" to yourself.
because with friends like you, who needs enemies?
this reminds me of an old russian joke:
a russian and an american a boasting, whose country is more free.
the american sais: i can protest against reagan on the street and i wouldn't get arrested for this
the russian sais: oh, well, i also can protest against reagan and won't get arrested.