It's not a nuke, it's not an army. It's just a shoulder-launched missile. If someone's pissed off enough and is not afraid to conduct a shopping trip to certain areas of our planet, he/she (I'm talking about just one person here!) can do it. You can't be friendly to anyone at once, especially when they hate each other.
Dude, you missed a lot. We're back in time, but because our Big Brother and his sidekicks like to hang around in Europe we now have a Potemkin's village instead of democracy. Kind of good enough to fool anyone who doesn't speak Russian, but totaly useless for someone who does. Turns out almost nobody does, so it works.
In Soviet Russia (where I live) we have an educational system where people get enrolled in universities / college equivalents on the basis of exams, not their school record. Before any exams take place, females already are absolutely not interesting in any kind of engineering, they're prepping themselfs for non-engineering colleges. Keep in mind, that at this point no selection or aptitude tests were performed and they have not been exposed to how engineering crowd treats women. That's purely a matter of what they like and what they don't like. They don't like engineering. The idea to trick them into the field they don't like doesn't seem sensible to me.
Most people are also blissfully ignorant about the size of the Earth and half-life of isotopes created as a result of nuclear explosions(military boys ignore cobalt bombs - they're bent on blasting missile silos), so not only a great deal of people will survive and return to they normal life after a few months, but also most of the weirdos who build fallout shelters for themselves will survive.
No, I'm not one of them. Reasons for that were covered in recent articles about procrastination:)
When windows took over the world it could hardly be called "Ready For Prime-time". Now that it is ready, people forgot how awful it was. Feature set, stability or whatever properties of software you find important are just a part of equation, not the whole equation.
The lesson's gonna fall on deaf ears. Economical space program would be to outsource the launches (something Russians are good at) but build satellites (something Russians are very bad at, GLONASS included). But congressmen don't seem to think so, they favor protectionism....
A classic example of why Linux can never win
Two words: killer app.
That's how it worked before, and that's how it will work in foreseeable future.
Those customers - surprise, surprise - are asking about windows killer apps. What linux offers them now? Ditch those! Not very good point.
the speed of light is thought to be decreasing
Thought by whom?
That would imply that our matter had exceeded the speed of light to arrive here.
Essentialy, it has
This is all about installing a US-business friendly government in Russia and nothing else
For US - yes. For Kasparov - hardly so. People with different agendas can try to achieve the same goals. For examples, look no farther than Open Source movement.
You can't blame him for the lack of support by locals any more than you could blame Emmanuel Goldstein for the lack of support in Oceania.
As for Litvinenko - well, that's a reputation. When you commit a crime after crime and then your enemy dies from radiation poisoning because he was careless while smuggling radioactive materials, don't be surprised that all fingers are pointing at you.
You might be surprised, but the idea that Hitler's and Putin's rule are very similar is quite popular among those who vote against him. Both of them are(were) leaders who capitalize(d) on resentment about demise of the empire, both blame(d) and supress(ed) minorities.
After his arrival back in Russia Russian TV featured a few interviews with him. The ratings plummeted down to nearly zero. While he's respected by local elite, his chances to get a significant number of votes are nil.
It's true that most Russians want him to be sort of a czar (and some want him to be de-jure czar as well). What is also true is that public opinion was shaped in blatantly orwellian way during recent years.
I've never heard about reaching Mars via gravity assist. I've just checked up - no sites about rovers mention it. Missions to outer planets constantly use gravity assisted manoeuvres, but Mars is just too close to bother. You just wait till Mars gets close and launch directly during launch window, that's all.
Besides, how do you do that? The only celestial body that's closer that Mars is Venus, and it's in the opposit direction (closer to Sun), hardly a good choice. Moon orbits Sun along with Earth, so I don't think you'll add a lot of speed flying close to it.
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It's not a nuke, it's not an army. It's just a shoulder-launched missile. If someone's pissed off enough and is not afraid to conduct a shopping trip to certain areas of our planet, he/she (I'm talking about just one person here!) can do it. You can't be friendly to anyone at once, especially when they hate each other.
where is obligatory pirates and global warming quote?
Dude, you missed a lot. We're back in time, but because our Big Brother and his sidekicks like to hang around in Europe we now have a Potemkin's village instead of democracy. Kind of good enough to fool anyone who doesn't speak Russian, but totaly useless for someone who does. Turns out almost nobody does, so it works.
In Soviet Russia (where I live) we have an educational system where people get enrolled in universities / college equivalents on the basis of exams, not their school record. Before any exams take place, females already are absolutely not interesting in any kind of engineering, they're prepping themselfs for non-engineering colleges. Keep in mind, that at this point no selection or aptitude tests were performed and they have not been exposed to how engineering crowd treats women. That's purely a matter of what they like and what they don't like. They don't like engineering. The idea to trick them into the field they don't like doesn't seem sensible to me.
That's some ancient Russian. It's preved now, krosavcheg!
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog00000000 18.html
Most people are also blissfully ignorant about the size of the Earth and half-life of isotopes created as a result of nuclear explosions(military boys ignore cobalt bombs - they're bent on blasting missile silos), so not only a great deal of people will survive and return to they normal life after a few months, but also most of the weirdos who build fallout shelters for themselves will survive. :)
No, I'm not one of them. Reasons for that were covered in recent articles about procrastination
Which is better: a car or a sheep?
a car
Were nearly quarter of Californians born in India and China? May be this statistic does mean much, if you look more carefully.
American criminals vs Russian criminals. Both, unsurprisingly, are legal :(
When windows took over the world it could hardly be called "Ready For Prime-time". Now that it is ready, people forgot how awful it was. Feature set, stability or whatever properties of software you find important are just a part of equation, not the whole equation.
The lesson's gonna fall on deaf ears. Economical space program would be to outsource the launches (something Russians are good at) but build satellites (something Russians are very bad at, GLONASS included). But congressmen don't seem to think so, they favor protectionism....
Seriously, do they?
A classic example of why Linux can never win
Two words: killer app. That's how it worked before, and that's how it will work in foreseeable future. Those customers - surprise, surprise - are asking about windows killer apps. What linux offers them now? Ditch those! Not very good point.
They just didn't do it right! Pogo the monkey is just engraved into my brain!
the speed of light is thought to be decreasing
Thought by whom?
That would imply that our matter had exceeded the speed of light to arrive here.
Essentialy, it has
This is all about installing a US-business friendly government in Russia and nothing else For US - yes. For Kasparov - hardly so. People with different agendas can try to achieve the same goals. For examples, look no farther than Open Source movement.
You can't blame him for the lack of support by locals any more than you could blame Emmanuel Goldstein for the lack of support in Oceania. As for Litvinenko - well, that's a reputation. When you commit a crime after crime and then your enemy dies from radiation poisoning because he was careless while smuggling radioactive materials, don't be surprised that all fingers are pointing at you.
You might be surprised, but the idea that Hitler's and Putin's rule are very similar is quite popular among those who vote against him. Both of them are(were) leaders who capitalize(d) on resentment about demise of the empire, both blame(d) and supress(ed) minorities.
After his arrival back in Russia Russian TV featured a few interviews with him. The ratings plummeted down to nearly zero. While he's respected by local elite, his chances to get a significant number of votes are nil.
It's true that most Russians want him to be sort of a czar (and some want him to be de-jure czar as well). What is also true is that public opinion was shaped in blatantly orwellian way during recent years.
Dude, they're already back. Just, well, rebranded.
Mod parent insightful!
that's all
I've never heard about reaching Mars via gravity assist. I've just checked up - no sites about rovers mention it. Missions to outer planets constantly use gravity assisted manoeuvres, but Mars is just too close to bother. You just wait till Mars gets close and launch directly during launch window, that's all. Besides, how do you do that? The only celestial body that's closer that Mars is Venus, and it's in the opposit direction (closer to Sun), hardly a good choice. Moon orbits Sun along with Earth, so I don't think you'll add a lot of speed flying close to it.