Compared to the soviets all the countries you have mentioned were barely touched. And instead of waging an economic war against them USA paid them money for rebuilding. Thus not so curious at all.
You Americans only can have post-soviet style problems if you make Mexico, Iraq and Afghanistan parts of the United States for 70 years, lose 15% of the population and the majority of infrastructure to a war of extermination and have an economic war waged against you by the rest of the developed world, cutting you both from exports and from imports. Then and only then you'd have a point.
Well, the poles have only themselves to blame for that - they have invaded russia in 1919 because their insane nationalists wanted to have a polish empire spanning from the baltic sea to the black sea. Payback's a bitch sometimes.
What kind of blackmail you ask? He threatened to give all refugees Schengen visa. He threatened to demand wartime reparation from Germany even though Greece had received their reparations. He threatened to start a lot of lawsuits if the rest of the Eurozone kicks Greece out of the currency union - and to fine German companies in Greece on corruption charges. Not blackmail enough for a Varoufakis fanboy like you?
Seriously, Greece should not have been in the currency union in first place, but they got their way in not just by cooking the books but by blackmail as well. These bastards are also responsible for the current situation in Macedonia.
He tried to negotiate the way out by basically blackmailing the rest of the Euro zone. Is it surprising that the EU eventually refused to deal with a financial terrorist? Thanks to Varoufakis valuable time was lost and Greece got a worse deal than originally proposed.
SSRI can cause suicides because the way they start to work - it usually takes several weeks for them to begin suppressing the mood part of the depression, but the lack of drive goes away much earlier. Many depressed people, especially younger ones, are only held back from the suicide by the avolition caused by the said depression.
I personally was very lucky - SSRI has worked from day one for me. Although for the first 6 weeks its suppression of my depression was very fragile - as long as nothing triggering it came up I was fine, but if something happened that would hurt my feelings the depression came back in full force. Now, after 5 months, and augmented by a NDRI I just don't give a shit about this kind of stuff anymore.
From my personal experience I also don't think your hypothesis about persons with very low serotonin levels wouldn't be helped with SSRI is wrong. When serotonin levels are low, the sensitivity of serotonin receptors becomes very high, so even a low dose of SSRI can send a person from their depression straight into a hypomania (and yep, that happened to me on the very first day. I was high and giggly on just 25 mg of sertraline, the half of the usual starter dosage).
Of course it does. They are bought everywhere in Germany, put on a trailer, then they go to Rostock where the truck and trailer is put on a ferry and goes to Estonia for example. The reason why they take the ferry is that it is safer than driving through Poland.
The thing is, you are not supposed to buy higher end Audis. They are to be leased for a company fleet for a few years and when a car hits about 100000 km, it is considered old and only good for selling it to East Europe.
It is not quite RISC, just normal microcode to micro-operations translation because hardwiring some seldom used instructions is a waste of silicon and because it is easier to optimise for parallel execution. Besides, the whole CISC vs RISC stuff was only relevant for a short window between 1985 and 1995 and in hindsight the RISC fanboys were mostly wrong.
That is wishful thinking. A drone destroying an engine can result in an uncontained engine failure, and that usually leads to severed hydraulic lines or damaged high lift devices, which can bring even a 747 down.
For me, as a German, the fact that campus police actually exists, already sounds crazy. But what makes it really batshit insane is the fact is that they are increasingly armed with military grade gear.
Dude, I have visited soviet Russia several times in the 1980ies, and yes, there were and still are far worse places to live. In fact, many former soviet republics have lower standards of living nowadays than back then. And don't talk to me about GDR, I think I know it far far better than you do.
Also, you are a bloody demagogue. Your own arguments are fallacious, stating that because USSR wasn't as successful as, say, USA, then USSR wasn't successful at all (perfect solution fallacy, black and white thinking) even though when observing the whole situation in its historical context, the comparative success of the soviets cannot be dismissed.
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Compared to the soviets all the countries you have mentioned were barely touched. And instead of waging an economic war against them USA paid them money for rebuilding. Thus not so curious at all.
You Americans only can have post-soviet style problems if you make Mexico, Iraq and Afghanistan parts of the United States for 70 years, lose 15% of the population and the majority of infrastructure to a war of extermination and have an economic war waged against you by the rest of the developed world, cutting you both from exports and from imports.
Then and only then you'd have a point.
True, but still better than the book.
Yep, because Heinlein only wrote shitty books, but Verhoeven made some pretty good movies (Robocop, Total recall, Flesh and Blood)
Well, the poles have only themselves to blame for that - they have invaded russia in 1919 because their insane nationalists wanted to have a polish empire spanning from the baltic sea to the black sea. Payback's a bitch sometimes.
What kind of blackmail you ask?
He threatened to give all refugees Schengen visa. He threatened to demand wartime reparation from Germany even though Greece had received their reparations. He threatened to start a lot of lawsuits if the rest of the Eurozone kicks Greece out of the currency union - and to fine German companies in Greece on corruption charges. Not blackmail enough for a Varoufakis fanboy like you?
Seriously, Greece should not have been in the currency union in first place, but they got their way in not just by cooking the books but by blackmail as well. These bastards are also responsible for the current situation in Macedonia.
He tried to negotiate the way out by basically blackmailing the rest of the Euro zone. Is it surprising that the EU eventually refused to deal with a financial terrorist? Thanks to Varoufakis valuable time was lost and Greece got a worse deal than originally proposed.
SSRI can cause suicides because the way they start to work - it usually takes several weeks for them to begin suppressing the mood part of the depression, but the lack of drive goes away much earlier. Many depressed people, especially younger ones, are only held back from the suicide by the avolition caused by the said depression.
I personally was very lucky - SSRI has worked from day one for me. Although for the first 6 weeks its suppression of my depression was very fragile - as long as nothing triggering it came up I was fine, but if something happened that would hurt my feelings the depression came back in full force. Now, after 5 months, and augmented by a NDRI I just don't give a shit about this kind of stuff anymore.
From my personal experience I also don't think your hypothesis about persons with very low serotonin levels wouldn't be helped with SSRI is wrong. When serotonin levels are low, the sensitivity of serotonin receptors becomes very high, so even a low dose of SSRI can send a person from their depression straight into a hypomania (and yep, that happened to me on the very first day. I was high and giggly on just 25 mg of sertraline, the half of the usual starter dosage).
Of course it does. They are bought everywhere in Germany, put on a trailer, then they go to Rostock where the truck and trailer is put on a ferry and goes to Estonia for example. The reason why they take the ferry is that it is safer than driving through Poland.
The thing is, you are not supposed to buy higher end Audis. They are to be leased for a company fleet for a few years and when a car hits about 100000 km, it is considered old and only good for selling it to East Europe.
It is not quite RISC, just normal microcode to micro-operations translation because hardwiring some seldom used instructions is a waste of silicon and because it is easier to optimise for parallel execution. Besides, the whole CISC vs RISC stuff was only relevant for a short window between 1985 and 1995 and in hindsight the RISC fanboys were mostly wrong.
In a building, where there are no weight or room constraints, a lead acid battery will do fine.
And that will raise your domestic oil prices even higher since the supply suddenly becomes smaller.
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Oil market is a global market and US is more dependent on cheap oil than anyone else, so yeah, you need Saudi Arabia.
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Cowling doesn't always help.
Stupid people are proud of being stupid and making stupid quips. Thus your description of the jumbotron test only shows that you are with stupid.
That is wishful thinking. A drone destroying an engine can result in an uncontained engine failure, and that usually leads to severed hydraulic lines or damaged high lift devices, which can bring even a 747 down.
Not as freak as you think - you can find several bird strike videos on youtube - even one that crashes a jet.
And this is what is wrong with your police. They act like military. Citizens are not the enemy. All state authority is derived from the people.
Our campuses are under the normal city police jurisdiction. And by military gear I mean this: https://www.universitybusiness...
WTF is wrong with your country if university police not only exists, but also carries assault rifles?
For me, as a German, the fact that campus police actually exists, already sounds crazy. But what makes it really batshit insane is the fact is that they are increasingly armed with military grade gear.
The fact that American universities have their own police.
Dude, I have visited soviet Russia several times in the 1980ies, and yes, there were and still are far worse places to live. In fact, many former soviet republics have lower standards of living nowadays than back then.
And don't talk to me about GDR, I think I know it far far better than you do.
Also, you are a bloody demagogue. Your own arguments are fallacious, stating that because USSR wasn't as successful as, say, USA, then USSR wasn't successful at all (perfect solution fallacy, black and white thinking) even though when observing the whole situation in its historical context, the comparative success of the soviets cannot be dismissed.
Mexico.