Neither are "inalienable rights bestowed by the creator", by the fact alone that the said creator doesn't exist. But they also have no force of law at all outside the US jurisdiction (and had not much force of law inside that jurisdiction for quite a while either, hence slavery). There is no such thing as a natural right, and peophe who believe otherwise are deluded. All rights are purely legal creations enforced by the government.
And my right to privacy begins again once my time was served, period.
If you want to be like that, fine. Tesla cars are steered by drivers, not pilots, hence the autopilot name is wrong. Also driving a Tesla car doesn't require a type rating, which makes the comparison even more nonsensical.
You do realise that the Baltic fleet is headquartered in Kaliningrad, right? Invading Estonia would not make the fleet any less bottled up and besides all the Soviet naval facilities in Paldiski are long gone.
Well, gee, I speak Russian really well, too (and I am actually fluent, my Russian is not much worse than my English) and I have spent some time in the Ukraine as well, exactly three years ago, as it is.
Why exactly do you think that your understanding of the region is better than mine? Especially since I do realise that the main thing that broke up the USSR were the numerous ethnic conflicts, hence it would not make any sense whatsoever to reacquire as much of the former USSR as possible, but you, on the other hand, seem to consider Putin a some kind of a comic book villain.
And as for any undermining - like I said, it is more like a pissing contest, or like unpleasant neighbours annoying each other at every opportunity. All four sides are equally guilty of being dicks, with one dick naturally being much larger, but the other three trying really hard to compensate.
Well, if you don't want to believe what I have seen (mina olen saksa, aga... well, I nevertheless still remember some Estonian from my extensive travels there about twelve years ago, the only place I haven't visited was Hiiumaa), here you are:
Most Russians were being treated like second class citizens, only worse - they weren't able to get an actual Estonian citizenship because one of the requirements for the naturalisation was to speak Estonian better than many actual Estonians were able to. Things have changed somewhat for the better since then, though.
Estonia, on the other hand, is a stable country that had no civil war, no real rebellion and no real reason for rebellion as well - even though they treat their minorities like crap, their standard of living is still the best among the former Soviet republics, which sort of balances it out.
And as for being blind on both eyes, I actually had the opportunity to visit some of the places you've mentioned and was able to see things with my own eyes and talk to actual people, instead of relying on hearsay. Three cheers to the GDR education.
Russia won't invade Estonia - the country is simply not important enough. But there has been a political pissing contest between Estonia and Russia for over two decades, so Russia hacking Estonian systems for the sole purpose of annoying the Estonian government is a perfectly realistic scenario.
Wrong, civil wars happen perfectly fine with more than two sides and without any particular ideology because many, and maybe most civil wars are not wars for something, but against something. This kind of war unites vastly different groups with changing the status quo being their only common goal.
What the fuck do you think is happening in Syria right now?
It is not that simple. Service contracts with the manufacturer are fine, but usually slow. This is why companies who need repairs quickly often use third party service contractors, who can, if required, even perform repairs on site as they come. I am one such part time contractor for a major airline. They used to use Windows CE handhelds for their onboard duty free sales, I used to repair their handhelds. I am not officially qualified to do so, all I know about repairing phones, tablets and so on comes from my love of tinkering, youtube repair manuals and sites like ifixit. Anyway, that airline recently switched to iPads and they are not happy with these - I can't repair them anymore, the manufacturer service contract is slow so they have to buy many more spare units if they don't want to lose sales. This is why one of their daughter airlines that still uses the old CE handhelds, will continue doing that as long as I can keep the handhelds running (which is not indefinitely, many of them are close to a decade old, have been disassembled more than a dozen times, have cracks in the housing and screen backlights that are getting too dim to be readable) and their replacement will definitely be something repairable as well, not an Apple device.
Look, this is simply mi. He is a far right lunatic from the ukraine who frequently abuses slashdot as a platform against whatever he considers left wing or russian, whether it makes sense (very seldom) or not (most of the time). There is no point to use logic when talking to crazy people because whatever they use for their internal logic is highly idiosyncratic and doesn't even have to be consistent.
Antonov is Ukrainian FYI. And given the sorry state of their aircraft production (the overwhelming majority of An-148s was built in Russia, not in the Ukraine) the only Antonov computers that could get hit by WannaCry would be the laptop of the managing director and the workstation of his typist.
How come Airbus manages the distributed manufacturing just fine then? Boeing simply grew fat and lazy on defence contracts and reiterating the 707, that's all.
Hey, genius, oil is a commodity that is sold on global markets. If a supply in Bumfuckistan is gone, the oil price will go up worldwide. Remember the embargo in 1973? Yep, despite the USA pumping more oil back then than ever before (and reaching the same level again only a year ago). You do fight wars for oil, very much so, together with your vassals. But only Poland was ever honest about it.
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Neither are "inalienable rights bestowed by the creator", by the fact alone that the said creator doesn't exist. But they also have no force of law at all outside the US jurisdiction (and had not much force of law inside that jurisdiction for quite a while either, hence slavery).
There is no such thing as a natural right, and peophe who believe otherwise are deluded. All rights are purely legal creations enforced by the government.
And my right to privacy begins again once my time was served, period.
Libel laws are just laws, a right to privacy is a human right.
Probably written in yellow colour.
If you want to be like that, fine. Tesla cars are steered by drivers, not pilots, hence the autopilot name is wrong. Also driving a Tesla car doesn't require a type rating, which makes the comparison even more nonsensical.
You do realise that the Baltic fleet is headquartered in Kaliningrad, right? Invading Estonia would not make the fleet any less bottled up and besides all the Soviet naval facilities in Paldiski are long gone.
Well, gee, I speak Russian really well, too (and I am actually fluent, my Russian is not much worse than my English) and I have spent some time in the Ukraine as well, exactly three years ago, as it is.
Why exactly do you think that your understanding of the region is better than mine? Especially since I do realise that the main thing that broke up the USSR were the numerous ethnic conflicts, hence it would not make any sense whatsoever to reacquire as much of the former USSR as possible, but you, on the other hand, seem to consider Putin a some kind of a comic book villain.
And as for any undermining - like I said, it is more like a pissing contest, or like unpleasant neighbours annoying each other at every opportunity. All four sides are equally guilty of being dicks, with one dick naturally being much larger, but the other three trying really hard to compensate.
Well, if you don't want to believe what I have seen (mina olen saksa, aga... well, I nevertheless still remember some Estonian from my extensive travels there about twelve years ago, the only place I haven't visited was Hiiumaa), here you are:
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
https://web.archive.org/web/20...
Most Russians were being treated like second class citizens, only worse - they weren't able to get an actual Estonian citizenship because one of the requirements for the naturalisation was to speak Estonian better than many actual Estonians were able to. Things have changed somewhat for the better since then, though.
Do yourself a favour and go educate yourself a little bit to see what actually happened.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Estonia, on the other hand, is a stable country that had no civil war, no real rebellion and no real reason for rebellion as well - even though they treat their minorities like crap, their standard of living is still the best among the former Soviet republics, which sort of balances it out.
And as for being blind on both eyes, I actually had the opportunity to visit some of the places you've mentioned and was able to see things with my own eyes and talk to actual people, instead of relying on hearsay. Three cheers to the GDR education.
Russia won't invade Estonia - the country is simply not important enough. But there has been a political pissing contest between Estonia and Russia for over two decades, so Russia hacking Estonian systems for the sole purpose of annoying the Estonian government is a perfectly realistic scenario.
What is so improbable about it? There are LGA2011 gaming motherboards out there. My gaming CPU is a E5-2665
Except in a proxy war there are two clearly defined sides. In Syria not so much.
The golden rule is just an indirect iron rule.
Wrong, civil wars happen perfectly fine with more than two sides and without any particular ideology because many, and maybe most civil wars are not wars for something, but against something. This kind of war unites vastly different groups with changing the status quo being their only common goal.
What the fuck do you think is happening in Syria right now?
It is not that simple.
Service contracts with the manufacturer are fine, but usually slow. This is why companies who need repairs quickly often use third party service contractors, who can, if required, even perform repairs on site as they come.
I am one such part time contractor for a major airline. They used to use Windows CE handhelds for their onboard duty free sales, I used to repair their handhelds. I am not officially qualified to do so, all I know about repairing phones, tablets and so on comes from my love of tinkering, youtube repair manuals and sites like ifixit.
Anyway, that airline recently switched to iPads and they are not happy with these - I can't repair them anymore, the manufacturer service contract is slow so they have to buy many more spare units if they don't want to lose sales.
This is why one of their daughter airlines that still uses the old CE handhelds, will continue doing that as long as I can keep the handhelds running (which is not indefinitely, many of them are close to a decade old, have been disassembled more than a dozen times, have cracks in the housing and screen backlights that are getting too dim to be readable) and their replacement will definitely be something repairable as well, not an Apple device.
Because the Russian post is a government organisation.
It's not the middle ages anymore, no matter how much you wish it to be otherwise. Food is a global commodity.
No argument about your second sentence - I have witnessed that myself. Worst country in Europe.
Look, this is simply mi. He is a far right lunatic from the ukraine who frequently abuses slashdot as a platform against whatever he considers left wing or russian, whether it makes sense (very seldom) or not (most of the time).
There is no point to use logic when talking to crazy people because whatever they use for their internal logic is highly idiosyncratic and doesn't even have to be consistent.
Antonov is Ukrainian FYI.
And given the sorry state of their aircraft production (the overwhelming majority of An-148s was built in Russia, not in the Ukraine) the only Antonov computers that could get hit by WannaCry would be the laptop of the managing director and the workstation of his typist.
How come Airbus manages the distributed manufacturing just fine then? Boeing simply grew fat and lazy on defence contracts and reiterating the 707, that's all.
He has skipped bail once. I doubt he would get another chance at bail ever again.
Hey, genius, oil is a commodity that is sold on global markets. If a supply in Bumfuckistan is gone, the oil price will go up worldwide. Remember the embargo in 1973? Yep, despite the USA pumping more oil back then than ever before (and reaching the same level again only a year ago). You do fight wars for oil, very much so, together with your vassals. But only Poland was ever honest about it.
Aircraft safety sucked in the seventies. Planes that were knowingly defective were released and killed people.
Being an attention whore is the real American spirit?
Sounds about right, come to think about it.
Idealism, for example. Or religious values. Or seeing the profit just as a means to an end.