The frame is nowadays of pretty minor importance when it comes to the weight of the bike - even cheap ones generally weigh less than 1.5 kg. And the cheap bike shocks aren't. They are just coils without any damping. A decent shock will cost more than the whole $200 bike.
You give Ronnie far too much credit. Economy being in the toilet was certainly not a reason for the USSR breaking up - after all, North Korea is still around. Easing pressure on nationalists in the late 1980ies was - ethnic conflicts destroyed the union.
And as for being bogged down in Afghanistan, USA has been failing to pacify Afghanistan for over a decade and that with the help of several European countries and without a third party arming the Taliban with modern weapons and funding them.
It is not about extra speed, it is about knees, wrists and spine that won't hurt after even a short ride, it is about functioning brakes derailers, about straight wheels with hubs not full of rust and last but not least about being light enough to carry if needed.
Nope, it won't unless it's a total and probably not even then. Even a stolen one would rather be disassembled for parts - the wheelset alone would be worth more than $50 on eBay.
Still, what you are doing is moving the goalposts. I have stated that many German government officials consider American interests more important than interests of German citizens and you try to switch the topic to imprisonment. And by the way, East Germany and USSR didn't imprison every critic. I know - I am originally from Rostock.
This description of Earth describes your provincialism, not the actual planet. There is a shitload of places where there are basically no earthquakes (and if there are, then they are rare and so weak they wouldn't even wake you up), no tornadoes and no hurricanes. Well, and other places without rain, but it kind of sucks having no water available.
And I seriously have no idea why you bother thinking about "the other 7+ billion idiots". Most of them are elsewhere anyway.
Look, I am German and I do think that our government kisses American arses. Many of our politicians, especially of our conservative party, have explicitly stated that they consider USA being the best friend of Germany, American interests being more important than concerns of German citizens and that anybody who thinks different just hates the US.
Just to nitpick, if you actually say "borscht" to a Russian, they wouldn't understand you immediately. You see, that particular Cyrillic letter at sounds as "sht" only in Bulgarian. Ukrainians pronounce it as "shch", which would sort of work in Russian, as it is the same in some dialects. In Russian proper that letter sounds like a very soft (Russian is more or less the softest of all Slavic languages) sh, sort of like in the word "sheep", but still softer. Imagine the word "sheep" as said by a very camp gay, that "sh" would sound close.
And this nationalism is the reason why Ukraine is a failed state.
I have been in Kiev. It is fugly and dirty. And most people were arseholes calling me churka because they never heard a German accent before. Also the worst drivers I have ever experienced, worse than Arabs. Prague is beautiful, Tallinn is mostly beautiful, Lwow is bearable, even though the people suck. But Kiev is ugly.
The Nagorno-Karabakh War was a Soviet civil war which started in 1988, as was the South Ossetia war that started in early 1991. Learn some history, dude.
Oh, I know history well, thank you. What you have linked was just about Sudetenland, I talk about the later invasion and splitting the Czechoslovakia into the Moravia-Bohemia protectorate and the Slovak fascist republic. This was the point where the Czechs would have been perfectly able to stop the Wehrmacht - they had a decent army and very good military equipment. But they didn't do anything and so all their military equipment was then used in the war against the USSR.
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My killer app was the sleep cycle alarm clock. Before a smartwatch I have never owned a watch.
The frame is nowadays of pretty minor importance when it comes to the weight of the bike - even cheap ones generally weigh less than 1.5 kg. And the cheap bike shocks aren't. They are just coils without any damping. A decent shock will cost more than the whole $200 bike.
You give Ronnie far too much credit. Economy being in the toilet was certainly not a reason for the USSR breaking up - after all, North Korea is still around. Easing pressure on nationalists in the late 1980ies was - ethnic conflicts destroyed the union.
And as for being bogged down in Afghanistan, USA has been failing to pacify Afghanistan for over a decade and that with the help of several European countries and without a third party arming the Taliban with modern weapons and funding them.
Pretty much the same, but with a politically correct description.
http://www.foxnews.com/politic...
http://www.independent.co.uk/n...
Russian efforts are small potatoes compared to that.
It is not about extra speed, it is about knees, wrists and spine that won't hurt after even a short ride, it is about functioning brakes derailers, about straight wheels with hubs not full of rust and last but not least about being light enough to carry if needed.
Nope, it won't unless it's a total and probably not even then. Even a stolen one would rather be disassembled for parts - the wheelset alone would be worth more than $50 on eBay.
With that kind of a bicycle I'd rather walk. A more or less decent bike starts at $700.
If it is that easy, why don't you build a reprocessing facility?
Russian occupied Georgia and Ukraine? Seriously? By that logic Mexico is occupied by the USA because Americans have annexed Texas.
And yep, some critics have been indeed imprisoned
http://hrlc.org.au/preventive-...
Still, what you are doing is moving the goalposts. I have stated that many German government officials consider American interests more important than interests of German citizens and you try to switch the topic to imprisonment. And by the way, East Germany and USSR didn't imprison every critic. I know - I am originally from Rostock.
No currently flying 737 has fly by wire controls. Future 737 will have electronically controlled spoilers but that would be it.
This description of Earth describes your provincialism, not the actual planet. There is a shitload of places where there are basically no earthquakes (and if there are, then they are rare and so weak they wouldn't even wake you up), no tornadoes and no hurricanes. Well, and other places without rain, but it kind of sucks having no water available.
And I seriously have no idea why you bother thinking about "the other 7+ billion idiots". Most of them are elsewhere anyway.
Look, I am German and I do think that our government kisses American arses. Many of our politicians, especially of our conservative party, have explicitly stated that they consider USA being the best friend of Germany, American interests being more important than concerns of German citizens and that anybody who thinks different just hates the US.
Just to nitpick, if you actually say "borscht" to a Russian, they wouldn't understand you immediately. You see, that particular Cyrillic letter at sounds as "sht" only in Bulgarian. Ukrainians pronounce it as "shch", which would sort of work in Russian, as it is the same in some dialects. In Russian proper that letter sounds like a very soft (Russian is more or less the softest of all Slavic languages) sh, sort of like in the word "sheep", but still softer. Imagine the word "sheep" as said by a very camp gay, that "sh" would sound close.
And this nationalism is the reason why Ukraine is a failed state.
I have been in Kiev. It is fugly and dirty. And most people were arseholes calling me churka because they never heard a German accent before. Also the worst drivers I have ever experienced, worse than Arabs. Prague is beautiful, Tallinn is mostly beautiful, Lwow is bearable, even though the people suck. But Kiev is ugly.
He sure is, but that was nevertheless a non-sequitur.
Sucks to be you - Kiev is really ugly.
The Nagorno-Karabakh War was a Soviet civil war which started in 1988, as was the South Ossetia war that started in early 1991. Learn some history, dude.
Nope. One is just a subset of the other.
There is no real difference between xenophobia and racism.
Oh, I know history well, thank you. What you have linked was just about Sudetenland, I talk about the later invasion and splitting the Czechoslovakia into the Moravia-Bohemia protectorate and the Slovak fascist republic. This was the point where the Czechs would have been perfectly able to stop the Wehrmacht - they had a decent army and very good military equipment. But they didn't do anything and so all their military equipment was then used in the war against the USSR.
There is nothing advanced about Mistral - it is basically a modified ferry.
Since Russian is the second official language in Belarus, it still works.
You mean it belongs to the Belarus government?
Not one of these launchers is man-rated yet. Russia has two man-rated launchers right now.