Some of the Nazis (like Georg Strasser and Ernst Roehm) were socialists. They were all butchered by Hitler in 1934.. Hitler was an absolute anti-socialist and anti-communist, this is why he was supported by all the big business in first place.
Well, in that case, why don't you take all your countrymen back to where they belong? I mean, "Yankee go home" is still as valid today as it has been 60 years ago.
That flight was, in a way, lucky, because it was curising at low altitude due to the flight being very short. The pilots probably wouldn't even have needed oxygen masks to reach safe altitude.
Intelligent people who know about nuclear power much more than you oppose it. The argument about steel and concrete is laughable because neither is consumed continuously and at the end of the life time both can be recycled - with the exception of nuclear power plant, that stuff is contaminated. Looks like you are the one who is both ignorant and stupid.
The intercity still takes 4 hours 38 minutes, the flight only one hour plus one hour - worst case - for going through the airport security, boarding and so on. How is that even close to "about the same time"? My experience is exactly two years old and it looks like nothing has changed. The only thing that is about the same would be the price of a first class IC ticket and a second class airplane ticket. Ukraine would need to install railroad like this to make your wishful thinking come true - that kind of railroad supports speeds over 300 kph but costs almost a million EUR per km.
Talking about cherry-picking your examples. Ukraine is only geographically in Europe. It uses a different gauge and its railway tracks probably weren't maintained since the 1980ies. Even their fastest train (Hyindai Intercity) runs about as fast as German commuter trains stop every two minutes. If you want to go to Kharkov, use an airplane from Kiev. It is an old B737, but at least it is fast. Trust me, I speak from experience. Besides, the only reason to go to Kharkov in first place would be for using it as a time machine - it still feels very much like USSR - but if you want that particular experience, Tiraspol would probably be more authentic.
Except that FSB has inherited only a part of the former KGB duties, hence nowadays it is basically the same as FBI, but with additional border and coast guard duties. Espionage is the responsibility of SVR.
Maybe you're wrong about this. I'm on the Internet since the mid 90s and joined/. for the first time in 1998
Yep, longer than you it is. Had I registered immediately, I'd have a three digit UID.
But this alone does not explain the (measurable) posting anomalies and the extreme spikes in posting frequency here and on many other forums.
Come on, what do you expect in topics that are explicitely about Russia? Russian diaspora is quite large, it is no surprise they would react to a topic about their former home.
There were even posts like "I like Putin, because he's a strong leader" in the beginning of the Ukraine crisis, before they realized that this may be too obvious for German readers
My best guess is, they are simply Russlanddeutsche, and Putin is actually quite popular amongst them - they are far enough away so they don't feel the bad things the current Russian government does. And even the majority of people who do feel the every day corruption still support Putin, if only because he is not Yeltsin. Seriously, he has more than enough honest-to-god fanbois. The PR trolls post on Russian language sites, citizens of Russia are their target group and there is no reason for them whatsoever to write on Slashdot or on any other foreign website. This is why I've called you paranoid.
Besides, that Russia employs paid trolls is also hardly a secret, in fact there are credible and well-researched documentaries about the infamous St Petersburg 'troll fabric' which even include interviews with former employees.
Anybody who has read Slashdot for more than ten years knows very well that it has been taken over by Russian trolls.
I've been on Slashdot for way more than ten years - longer than you for sure - and I say that you are paranoid. I've been accused being a Russian troll myself just because I harbor some sympathy for Russians going way back to the 1980ies, speak the language fluently - with a German accent some Russians tend to make fun of, but nevertheless fluently - and, having visited Ukraine in the recent past, have an opinion about that country, that differs from the opinion that normal people, who get their news from the usual sources, have.
And then there are people like you who throw around baseless accusations just because they can't comprehend that there are different opinions out there and not everyone, who has a different opinion, is a paid shill.
While on the subject of dumbfuckery, got any evidence yet of a Russian invasion that wasn't collected from a Ukrainian neo-nazi Facebook page or twitter feed? It's been years now and not a single U.S. satellite photo or drone footage to be had of Russian forces moving across the border.
There are enough OSCE documents showing proof of Russian army hardware in Ukraine, for example tanks that clearly are T-72B3 which Ukraine never had, their latest T-72 version have been T-72B. That being said, it doesn't mean that Russia has invaded Ukraine - there is no official state of war between the two countries - but it is an open secret that the Russian government supports the Donbass separatists with hardware and manpower.
Then, of course, even if Russia had invaded Ukraine, it would only be a million times more justified than any U.S. intervention you can name, given the fact that the U.S. overthrew the democratically elected government of Ukraine.
Neither is justified. I mean, I understand the Crimea situation, the people there wanted to be a part of Russia ever since 1991, but Ukraine's government violently suppressed all independence movements. The way it happened was a dickish move, but it was bloodless and what the majority of Crimean population wanted anyway. The whole civil war in Donbass is a whole different league. Volunteers I get, after all there were Ukrainian volunteers on the Chechen side in the two wars there, who just wanted an opportunity to kill some Russians, but there was absolutely no good reason whatsoever to continue fuelling the civil war in Ukraine using Russian army. Their current government has discredited itself so much, it would be gone by the next election period anyway, but now, thanks to the war, that won't happen. And it still gets thousands of people killed.
It's not like the U.S. would just sit by with its thumb up its ass if the KGB overthrew the elected government of Mexico and started making moves to bring the country into the Warsaw Pact.
True, but two wrongs don't make a right (three lefts do, though). Just because this war has a lower body count that any war that USA has started, doesn't mean it is justified.
EU is not a federal government, it is a confederation with limited federal powers. This is the reason why your question doesn't make sense. Thinking of EU being anything like the US federal government leads to a lot of misunderstanding.
Each EU nation state is ruled by its respective government, EU directives are not laws, they serve as guidelines to national laws. EU regulations look similar to laws, but in reality they are international treaties and mostly are concerned about common standards in the EU market. Saying that the Donald Tusk is the "president of the European Union" is like saying that Donald Trump is the president of the USA, Canada and Mexico because the other two countries are members of NAFTA.
How very nice of you to leave the most important part out of that quote: "The post does not have executive powers like presidents in presidential systems such as the President of the United States of America."
Like I said, there is no such thing as a president of the EU. Hence your question is moot. Besides, the EU is not a nation state.
'no social policies can ever work because the soviet union' -argument which is utter BS
Even more bullshit because the only social safety net USSR had was meant for disabled people. Every able-bodied person had the duty to work and earn a wage. Oh, and the current European social safety nets were established in the late 19th century, several decades before the Soviet Union was created.
Universal basic income is about as high as the lower end unemployment benefits. It is literally a basic income, it covers only basic needs. I have been unemployed for about a year during the great recession and received the (quite generous in my case) German unemployment benefits. Honestly, if I had a choice, I'd rather work and be able to afford at least some luxury.
And it is not surprising, since air conditioning is always on, hence if the air conditioning is inside a car or a truck, the engine might even be even left on overnight because gas is so cheap, they don't even advertise the prices at the gas station. The cars are also either very old and inefficient (that would be the cars of all the guest workers from india and thailand) or really large (at least from European perspective). Desalination is also a very energy hungry way to get water. All that leads to the air quality in Doha being really shitty - I hated every minute being there (that, and the heat).
We had two pebble bed reactor here in Germany. Both didn't work - the pebbles cracked and broke - and one of them is now the most contaminated site in Germany. The operator failed to clean up and now the government has to do that. The second one was probably the most expensive German reactor ever built and it operated only for four years with the best availability of 40% - a total failure. The reactor wasn't closed by the government, it was closed by the operator because operating cost was so high that it almost killed the operator. The original manufacturer of the reactor was more intelligent and left the project even before the reactor was completely built. Basically there are either old and unsafe designs that can be operated at high, but bearable cost, newer and not that much better designs that are prohibitively expensive to manufacture and operate and new awesome reactors that only exist on paper, without knowing that the design would actually work in real life, or, at best, they are research reactors that probably won't scale and would have to be operated by actual scientists to be safe. Might just as well wait for fusion.
GDP is only indirectly related to productivity - US government only has to print dollars like there is no tomorrow and the GDP will go up because it is measured in this currency. Also a large part of US GDP belongs to the financial sector - that is vastly overblown, most certainly isn't productivity and has zero relevance to CO2. Imaginary property and entertainment are also not that much relevant, but industrial output of tangible goods is, and there China shines.
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Wrong.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wik...
Let me get that straight: you are fine with killing hundreds of thousands people and bombing countries into the stone age, but annexatios are evil?
And then it will be received by some chaos lord who really hates "metal bawkses".
Some of the Nazis (like Georg Strasser and Ernst Roehm) were socialists. They were all butchered by Hitler in 1934.. Hitler was an absolute anti-socialist and anti-communist, this is why he was supported by all the big business in first place.
Well, in that case, why don't you take all your countrymen back to where they belong? I mean, "Yankee go home" is still as valid today as it has been 60 years ago.
Encoding data in the space between bits makes perfect sense
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
You forgot the colour so it is more like 650 bytes.
That flight was, in a way, lucky, because it was curising at low altitude due to the flight being very short. The pilots probably wouldn't even have needed oxygen masks to reach safe altitude.
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Intelligent people who know about nuclear power much more than you oppose it. The argument about steel and concrete is laughable because neither is consumed continuously and at the end of the life time both can be recycled - with the exception of nuclear power plant, that stuff is contaminated.
Looks like you are the one who is both ignorant and stupid.
The intercity still takes 4 hours 38 minutes, the flight only one hour plus one hour - worst case - for going through the airport security, boarding and so on. How is that even close to "about the same time"? My experience is exactly two years old and it looks like nothing has changed. The only thing that is about the same would be the price of a first class IC ticket and a second class airplane ticket. Ukraine would need to install railroad like this to make your wishful thinking come true - that kind of railroad supports speeds over 300 kph but costs almost a million EUR per km.
Why not? I mean, APK appears in every discussion somehow related to ad blocking or Poland.
Talking about cherry-picking your examples. Ukraine is only geographically in Europe. It uses a different gauge and its railway tracks probably weren't maintained since the 1980ies. Even their fastest train (Hyindai Intercity) runs about as fast as German commuter trains stop every two minutes. If you want to go to Kharkov, use an airplane from Kiev. It is an old B737, but at least it is fast. Trust me, I speak from experience. Besides, the only reason to go to Kharkov in first place would be for using it as a time machine - it still feels very much like USSR - but if you want that particular experience, Tiraspol would probably be more authentic.
Except that FSB has inherited only a part of the former KGB duties, hence nowadays it is basically the same as FBI, but with additional border and coast guard duties. Espionage is the responsibility of SVR.
Yep, longer than you it is. Had I registered immediately, I'd have a three digit UID.
Come on, what do you expect in topics that are explicitely about Russia? Russian diaspora is quite large, it is no surprise they would react to a topic about their former home.
My best guess is, they are simply Russlanddeutsche, and Putin is actually quite popular amongst them - they are far enough away so they don't feel the bad things the current Russian government does. And even the majority of people who do feel the every day corruption still support Putin, if only because he is not Yeltsin. Seriously, he has more than enough honest-to-god fanbois. The PR trolls post on Russian language sites, citizens of Russia are their target group and there is no reason for them whatsoever to write on Slashdot or on any other foreign website. This is why I've called you paranoid.
Every large government pays for PR. Or if you want something in English, even Faux News writes about that:
http://www.foxnews.com/politic...
I've been on Slashdot for way more than ten years - longer than you for sure - and I say that you are paranoid. I've been accused being a Russian troll myself just because I harbor some sympathy for Russians going way back to the 1980ies, speak the language fluently - with a German accent some Russians tend to make fun of, but nevertheless fluently - and, having visited Ukraine in the recent past, have an opinion about that country, that differs from the opinion that normal people, who get their news from the usual sources, have.
And then there are people like you who throw around baseless accusations just because they can't comprehend that there are different opinions out there and not everyone, who has a different opinion, is a paid shill.
There are enough OSCE documents showing proof of Russian army hardware in Ukraine, for example tanks that clearly are T-72B3 which Ukraine never had, their latest T-72 version have been T-72B. That being said, it doesn't mean that Russia has invaded Ukraine - there is no official state of war between the two countries - but it is an open secret that the Russian government supports the Donbass separatists with hardware and manpower.
Neither is justified. I mean, I understand the Crimea situation, the people there wanted to be a part of Russia ever since 1991, but Ukraine's government violently suppressed all independence movements. The way it happened was a dickish move, but it was bloodless and what the majority of Crimean population wanted anyway. The whole civil war in Donbass is a whole different league. Volunteers I get, after all there were Ukrainian volunteers on the Chechen side in the two wars there, who just wanted an opportunity to kill some Russians, but there was absolutely no good reason whatsoever to continue fuelling the civil war in Ukraine using Russian army. Their current government has discredited itself so much, it would be gone by the next election period anyway, but now, thanks to the war, that won't happen. And it still gets thousands of people killed.
True, but two wrongs don't make a right (three lefts do, though). Just because this war has a lower body count that any war that USA has started, doesn't mean it is justified.
Is it now? The very same people cheered Bush for invading two countries. It is difficult to be more dickish than that.
EU is not a federal government, it is a confederation with limited federal powers. This is the reason why your question doesn't make sense. Thinking of EU being anything like the US federal government leads to a lot of misunderstanding.
Each EU nation state is ruled by its respective government, EU directives are not laws, they serve as guidelines to national laws. EU regulations look similar to laws, but in reality they are international treaties and mostly are concerned about common standards in the EU market. Saying that the Donald Tusk is the "president of the European Union" is like saying that Donald Trump is the president of the USA, Canada and Mexico because the other two countries are members of NAFTA.
How very nice of you to leave the most important part out of that quote: "The post does not have executive powers like presidents in presidential systems such as the President of the United States of America."
Like I said, there is no such thing as a president of the EU. Hence your question is moot. Besides, the EU is not a nation state.
That has nothing to do with the US education, most nationalists like populist rhetorics very much and consider themselves patriots.
Even more bullshit because the only social safety net USSR had was meant for disabled people. Every able-bodied person had the duty to work and earn a wage. Oh, and the current European social safety nets were established in the late 19th century, several decades before the Soviet Union was created.
Universal basic income is about as high as the lower end unemployment benefits. It is literally a basic income, it covers only basic needs. I have been unemployed for about a year during the great recession and received the (quite generous in my case) German unemployment benefits. Honestly, if I had a choice, I'd rather work and be able to afford at least some luxury.
And it is not surprising, since air conditioning is always on, hence if the air conditioning is inside a car or a truck, the engine might even be even left on overnight because gas is so cheap, they don't even advertise the prices at the gas station. The cars are also either very old and inefficient (that would be the cars of all the guest workers from india and thailand) or really large (at least from European perspective). Desalination is also a very energy hungry way to get water. All that leads to the air quality in Doha being really shitty - I hated every minute being there (that, and the heat).
We had two pebble bed reactor here in Germany. Both didn't work - the pebbles cracked and broke - and one of them is now the most contaminated site in Germany. The operator failed to clean up and now the government has to do that. The second one was probably the most expensive German reactor ever built and it operated only for four years with the best availability of 40% - a total failure. The reactor wasn't closed by the government, it was closed by the operator because operating cost was so high that it almost killed the operator. The original manufacturer of the reactor was more intelligent and left the project even before the reactor was completely built.
Basically there are either old and unsafe designs that can be operated at high, but bearable cost, newer and not that much better designs that are prohibitively expensive to manufacture and operate and new awesome reactors that only exist on paper, without knowing that the design would actually work in real life, or, at best, they are research reactors that probably won't scale and would have to be operated by actual scientists to be safe.
Might just as well wait for fusion.
GDP is only indirectly related to productivity - US government only has to print dollars like there is no tomorrow and the GDP will go up because it is measured in this currency. Also a large part of US GDP belongs to the financial sector - that is vastly overblown, most certainly isn't productivity and has zero relevance to CO2. Imaginary property and entertainment are also not that much relevant, but industrial output of tangible goods is, and there China shines.