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  1. Re:Best Sci Fi Ever? Nah! That would be: Firefly! on Babylon 5 Movie Starts Filming in April · · Score: 1

    the b5 start wasn't exactly bad, but very very slow.

  2. Re:Let's anti-protest! on Lone Activist Group Submits 99.8% of FCC Complaints · · Score: 1

    well, for kaufland it quite works. it is quite large (although not as large as walmart) and their prizes are very good.

  3. Re:That may no longer be the case. on Getting an IT Job in Europe as an American · · Score: 2, Insightful

    bullshit.
    after 8 years of living in germany you can apply for a sitizenship.

    got mine that way.

    also people born here can obtain german sitizenship.

  4. Re:Been There, Done That on Getting an IT Job in Europe as an American · · Score: 1

    no, sorry.
    some like us-americans, many of us are at most neutral.

    face it, the image of us-americans is quite bad.
    and living conditions in eastern europe can be great, if you can afford it.

  5. Re:Anobody notice the BASIC reference on FairUCE - the Smart Email Proxy · · Score: 1

    could also be algol/pascal/modula/oberon

  6. france undeveloped? on Human Activity to Blame For 2003 Heatwave · · Score: 1

    france is as developed as any other european country (which is very high)

    besides, i wouldn't call a country capable of designing and building a 4th generation fighter aircraft (rafale) undeveloped.

  7. Re:Seeing your work used "for evil" on Military Robots Get Machine Guns · · Score: 1

    as i already have written. russian defence contractors (they are a bad example anyway, because they were always very weak - a soviet legacy) get more profit in selling weapons to iraq than in a war against iraq because russia just hasn't got money for buying new weapons.

    you are constantly tampering on a bad example - my former home.

  8. Re:Seeing your work used "for evil" on Military Robots Get Machine Guns · · Score: 1

    has it ever occured to you that countries don't make allies just because they all are happy friends but for profit?

    russia sold weapons and hightech to iraq. it was a nice profit. a couple of russians i know still own some iraqi dinars because they have worked in iraq

    starting a war against the usa because of iraq wouldn't be profitable at all (a lost war is costly)
    starting a war against iraq with the usa wouldn't be profitable either because usa would claim the whole profit.
    either way russia would lose in the iraq war.
    the only way to keep losses low was to do nothing.

  9. Re:Seeing your work used "for evil" on Military Robots Get Machine Guns · · Score: 1

    depends on which statements you exactly mean.

    the history... well, read up in history books who funded hitler. krupp, stinnes, thyssen, general electrics (AEG), ig farben and more.

    first world war: hugo stinnes had huge defence contracts and very interesting plans about annecting land in the war. he was actually the representative of the german industry and after the first world war he nearly became a minister (was too radical for this position)

    alfred krupp - his company was for a while the biggest company in europe - started the european arm race which ended in the first world war. krupp weapons were very widely used in that war. krupp family was strongly tied to the german emperor.

    all i have listed were huge defence contractors

    btw funny thing... i used to live in the same town stinnes and thyssen were born. krupp was born in the neighbour town :-)

    as for the russia... no facts on paper myself, just know some people in russian special forces and so on. but if you dig a bit deeper into the background of the chechnya conflict you will find out the same thing.

  10. Re:Seeing your work used "for evil" on Military Robots Get Machine Guns · · Score: 1

    maybe you should more carefully read what i have written.

    there was no profit for the rest of the world in an iraqi war, mainly because usa has grabbed all the profit by itself.

    russia didn't participate in iraq because iraq was an ally.

    the war in chechnya goes on for the exactly reason i have stated. it russia just couldn't afford to let it escape the war would be already finished for years and chechnya would be a desert. it is not about the russian defence contractors in that war anyway but about high ranked militaries, drug dealers and such.

    but all this i have written already. just read more carefully next time.

  11. Re:M249 on Military Robots Get Machine Guns · · Score: 1

    no, sorry. an ordinary modern assault rifle weights around 3.5 kg without ammo or underbarrel grenade launcher.

    light machine guns aren't much heavier than assault rifles and in some cases they are nothing more than assault rifles with a heavier and longer barrell, a bigger magazine and a folding bipod (for example rpk or rpk-74)

  12. Re:Seeing your work used "for evil" on Military Robots Get Machine Guns · · Score: 1

    wars happen if some people with enough influence to start one, found out that they would profit of it.

    defence contractors share good profits of wars.
    first and second world wars were practically started by german steel and defence contractors.

    most of bombing usa does happen for the pretty same reason.

    the war in chechnya is still ongoing for an alike reason (in this case not the defence contractors but the high rank militaries and drug dealers profit from the war)

  13. Re:Launch dreams and orbital wishes on Energia Reveals New Russian Spacecraft · · Score: 2, Interesting

    they look alike, but in fact they are quite different.

  14. Re:Pascal comment on Developing Applications With Objective Caml · · Score: 1

    yep. the string problem has been solved for years. and it was practically the only real problem with the pascal strong typing

  15. Re:Protest on Former Turkish DMOZ Editor Draws 10 Months In Jail · · Score: 2, Informative

    it is forbidden to use some symbols in a non-historical context.

    history books or films are perfectly ok

  16. Re:Turkey in the EU on Former Turkish DMOZ Editor Draws 10 Months In Jail · · Score: 2, Interesting

    have you seen this site? this is the site where chechen terrorists brag about their "holy war" and where you can download videos on which the same chechen terrorists cut some russians their heads off. as far as i know snuffs are illegal.

  17. Re:Old known in Europe on ZAP Smart Car Approved for Sale in the US · · Score: 2, Informative

    the original design is from swatch, but daimler benz has changed too much and swatch pulled out.

  18. Re:This is what's new on HP Will Ship Systems With Novell Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    i see.

    i am actually from europe and the company where i work also sells hp desktop pcs. some of them still come with mandrake - for the internal use, because we have more than enough windows licenses.

  19. nothing really new on HP Will Ship Systems With Novell Linux Desktop · · Score: 1

    you can buy hp desktops with mandrake for a while already.

  20. Re:any ideas why this on the Latvian army site? on Soviet Space Battle Station Images Published · · Score: 2, Informative

    the owner of the site is a 20 year old russian living in latvia. and a quite nationalist one. i used to talk with him for a while (i own a small military site about russian special forces myself).

    99% of his materials are shamelessly copied from other sites.

  21. Re:All I want on Digital Music Player Overview · · Score: 1

    buy a pocketpc then

    there are lots of mod players for it.

  22. Re:So why the US don't follow Canada's steps... on NYT on EA Games · · Score: 1

    so imagine all the companies move overseas and everbody loses their jobs.

    so who the companies are going to charge all the premium prices? where are they going to earn the money if everybody is laid off and noone has money?

  23. Re:Religious radicals? on The Worst Jobs in Science: The Sequel · · Score: 1

    eat more shit, people. after all, millions of flies cannot be wrong.

  24. Re:I think PalmOne is right on Filesystem Problems with the Treo 650s · · Score: 1

    lots of them, actually.

    htc wallaby (o2 xda, t-mobile mda)
    htc himalaya (xda 2, mda 2)
    htc blue angel (xda 3, mda 3)
    htc magician (mda compact)
    yakumo omikron
    some siemens (don't remember the name)
    hp ipaq rw6100
    hp ipaq h6300
    hp ipaq h6340
    trium mondo (bad, old and ugly)
    sagem wa3050 (also bad, old and ugly)

    and then also a lot of smartphones

  25. Re:he is absolutely not a troll on Filesystem Problems with the Treo 650s · · Score: 1

    well, it gets 3-4 days standby or half a day working time. it is too short for my taste, but with that display it is understandable.

    and the possibility to play monkey island, doom, duke3d and some other good old games is very nice