yes I keep on hearing about terrorists and yet the majority of reports of civilian deaths till now are associated with actions of Ukrainian military and support units (whether that were National Guard or right wing militia is impossible to tell from outside of the country). If I look at other news where terrorism is mentioned this makes me think unholy things like Kiev government is hell bound on getting its rights back whatever the cost. Bottom line by calling these people terrorists for more than a half a year I consider claims of terrorism just for what it most likely is i.e. propaganda.
you mean traffic controllers sending civilian planes over to a place where military planes are regularly shot down is quite out of responsibility? I think Russia and Russian rebels face a massive PR disaster but do not carry full responsibility for the deaths. Come to think of it one can get to unholy thoughts.
or as Ukraine admitted some time ago rebels just took it from army stores. This is a land where not all military was convinced about sense infighting with people that were determined to get their objective. This is also one of the reasons Ukrainian military was changing commanders so often and on the ground is supported by affiliated forces of national guard, right wing militias and as German intelligence seems to be believe US company that used to be called blackwater. This is not an excuse for anybody but if a country slips into civil war it usually also means no full control of its armed forces and depos. The question also remains how the fuck it was possible that in view of rebel possession of BUK the no-fly zone was limited to 9km or so and what serious airline would chose to fly over such a zone in view of shooting of airplanes by rebels.
which if they have any sense they would be claiming in the open - as they have no control over air space other then shooting things randomly, pushing the responsibility to traffic control that allows flying over war zone and airlines saving money on shortest route. Even if this were an Ukrainian provocation this is a better PR strategy then anything else. Anything else and this will be a PR catastrophe bigger than anything Russia and separatists can handle now. After all shooting of Iranian planes by US navy over Persian gulf is a fair deal is it not...
apparently there is a no-fly zone there but it ends at 9750m or so - the planes are flying just above the zone which is just a silly and as we see it has consequences.
this should not be a such a big surprise - rebels have the weapons that they got from Ukrainian army and possibly also from across the border (although direct involvement of of Russian military or in general government is unproven till now.
They are also the only ones there under air assault (from Ukrainian air force) so any shooting into planes is done done by rebels who also happened to have the BUK which is good enough. The question is why with all this knowledge civilian airplanes were allowed there and why airlines knowing very well about the situation still accepted to fly just above the no fly zone. Either stupidity or provocation or both as this always works best.
did not bother to look it up we are on/. after all but if other bills are anything to go by there are probably hunderds of pages to sift trough and after that a clerk in congress can add, modify or remove parts of the text before it gets published. Sometimes I wonder why US was ever an example of functioning democracy.
I am very aware that human trafficking exists. I am also relatively certain that the callgirls whose services I occasionally enjoyed, were not more oppressed than I am. What one-percent do you mean?
As for fetish niche - I am not into it but who knows what the future will bring.
I do not know whether that is the reason but pirates have notoriously bad campaigns. One may say - typical for a socially impaired that the big part of them are. That is a pity as the general elections are a good point of time to pass message to the masses.
I suppose they do but I still prefer the old fashion or traditional way if you will and so do many others. It may have something to do with quality and price but whichever which way an old fashion befriended hooker is better than any technological solution to this problem yet. She is better than any of my exes too. I suppose the ultimate challenge would be the magic VR implant.
I suppose Gaza is a good approximation of such development- high technology protecting the reach and cheap means used to protest in an extensive way (if I am not mistaken for 4 dead Israeli there are 200 dead and 1400 wounded Palestinians). If our societies deteriorate into such situation some big change will happen. In history that was always associated with bloodshed. We will see how that goes this time.
Every country has its moments - some go up only to go down, some stay down for long time. We will see what the future will bring. EU (which is not whole Europe) is being charged by waves of immigrants from Africa now which it tries to stop by building modern versions of roman walls. We know how it ended back then - destruction of empire and dark ages. These were followed by Enlightenment and wars and massive destruction in 20th century followed by growth etc. So yes we lost part of our energy in Europe. Look at US and you will see that the country lost part of its energy too. Big advantage US always had was to be a magnet of immigrants. This is changing for many reasons. There are other factors. You are right of course about the raise of new powers. Yet the history is never linear.
The winds of change are blowing - this much is true.
It is always good to have one scape goat guilty of the biggest evil etc. That is why results of neither Milgram experiment nor Stanford Prison experiment are valid for US citizens who are holly angels.
Is that not a perception game? People think - this president he can do all why is he not helping me and my uncle Fred? At the end the guys can end marines here and there but that is expensive. He can try to propose some laws but that is ineffective - just look at your lawmakers. He cannot even appoint judges properly, it seems. So you confront expectations of (often perceived as evil) power which in fact is not as big as people think. As for evil - it often helps to look in the mirror first when one looks for people guilty of things. He may have acted differently but if that would bring anything is doubtful. He is just a sign on the wall that US political system has some problems.
As a friend of mine who is a physician likes to emphasize: if you push hard enough shit comes out - different people have different levels at which this happens. What I wanted to say is this: some of these stasi agents were coerced into doing this, some of them believed what they did was good for the society. What good is coming out of knowing that stasi had enough muscle to force your ex-lover to file mostly meaningless reports on you? We in Europe are not as vindictive as US people seem to be. I like to attribute that to culture but the bottom line is - in countries that pushed their secret service people too hard after change of system, these secret service people started building quite effective mafias.
I do not know that many Germans that are seriously pissed off about that spying. Most of them do not even understand what the hell is going on - you can try to explain what metadata is or what it can be used for and see how far you get with that. Even for tin foil brigade the Snowden revelations were a bit of a shock, I am sure. Media are having field day after day of course and opposition parties have their fun too. Still, the way our, that is US and German, citizens' rights are twisted and reinterpreted is even more damaging. What the government is doing is what it is supposed to do: they found some spies they show them/us their anger and how strong they are and expel some 'diplomats'. The actual meaning of this is most likely hidden. I wonder how did they got these guys and if there were barely pawns sacrificed to achieve some other goal.
and 'working directly with NSA' involves what - bombing them with modern day equivalent of V2? How exactly should one work with an agency that is apparently out of control - or do you still think that US authorities (being government and/or congress) have any control over NSA?
it is actually about moral high ground as this is normally achieved by public show of how evil somebody else is. It helps if everybody already expected it anyway and it adds additional moments of joy if the side whose moral stand is being maimed is a pack of useless but nuclear armed fuckwitts.
I saw a documentary about solar panels in west Africa where main problem seemed to be cleaning those f. panels from dust. Guest what substance was used to remove the dust off the panels' surface.... To give you a hint - it is a drinkable liquid and there is not enough of it on a desert.
well thought out? I mean they can build there what the fuck they want - it is t heir money. Still why people live in such places and what is the purpose of this exercise is not clear to me. However I can think of building there a huge set of nuclear plants so that inevitable accidents affect limited space - that would make sense.
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yes I keep on hearing about terrorists and yet the majority of reports of civilian deaths till now are associated with actions of Ukrainian military and support units (whether that were National Guard or right wing militia is impossible to tell from outside of the country). If I look at other news where terrorism is mentioned this makes me think unholy things like Kiev government is hell bound on getting its rights back whatever the cost. Bottom line by calling these people terrorists for more than a half a year I consider claims of terrorism just for what it most likely is i.e. propaganda.
you mean traffic controllers sending civilian planes over to a place where military planes are regularly shot down is quite out of responsibility? I think Russia and Russian rebels face a massive PR disaster but do not carry full responsibility for the deaths. Come to think of it one can get to unholy thoughts.
or as Ukraine admitted some time ago rebels just took it from army stores. This is a land where not all military was convinced about sense infighting with people that were determined to get their objective. This is also one of the reasons Ukrainian military was changing commanders so often and on the ground is supported by affiliated forces of national guard, right wing militias and as German intelligence seems to be believe US company that used to be called blackwater. This is not an excuse for anybody but if a country slips into civil war it usually also means no full control of its armed forces and depos. The question also remains how the fuck it was possible that in view of rebel possession of BUK the no-fly zone was limited to 9km or so and what serious airline would chose to fly over such a zone in view of shooting of airplanes by rebels.
perfect PR spectacle which in turn may give us a reason to speculate (on whose side were traffic controllers who allowed flying over a war zone etc).
which if they have any sense they would be claiming in the open - as they have no control over air space other then shooting things randomly, pushing the responsibility to traffic control that allows flying over war zone and airlines saving money on shortest route. Even if this were an Ukrainian provocation this is a better PR strategy then anything else. Anything else and this will be a PR catastrophe bigger than anything Russia and separatists can handle now. After all shooting of Iranian planes by US navy over Persian gulf is a fair deal is it not...
apparently there is a no-fly zone there but it ends at 9750m or so - the planes are flying just above the zone which is just a silly and as we see it has consequences.
this should not be a such a big surprise - rebels have the weapons that they got from Ukrainian army and possibly also from across the border (although direct involvement of of Russian military or in general government is unproven till now. They are also the only ones there under air assault (from Ukrainian air force) so any shooting into planes is done done by rebels who also happened to have the BUK which is good enough. The question is why with all this knowledge civilian airplanes were allowed there and why airlines knowing very well about the situation still accepted to fly just above the no fly zone. Either stupidity or provocation or both as this always works best.
I think they still can - the ban is on tax if they introduce a fee this is allowed then. Problem solved.
did not bother to look it up we are on /. after all but if other bills are anything to go by there are probably hunderds of pages to sift trough and after that a clerk in congress can add, modify or remove parts of the text before it gets published. Sometimes I wonder why US was ever an example of functioning democracy.
As for fetish niche - I am not into it but who knows what the future will bring.
I do not know whether that is the reason but pirates have notoriously bad campaigns. One may say - typical for a socially impaired that the big part of them are. That is a pity as the general elections are a good point of time to pass message to the masses.
I suppose they do but I still prefer the old fashion or traditional way if you will and so do many others. It may have something to do with quality and price but whichever which way an old fashion befriended hooker is better than any technological solution to this problem yet. She is better than any of my exes too. I suppose the ultimate challenge would be the magic VR implant.
I suppose Gaza is a good approximation of such development- high technology protecting the reach and cheap means used to protest in an extensive way (if I am not mistaken for 4 dead Israeli there are 200 dead and 1400 wounded Palestinians). If our societies deteriorate into such situation some big change will happen. In history that was always associated with bloodshed. We will see how that goes this time.
are not very easy to offshore and demand is not going away either.
The winds of change are blowing - this much is true.
It is always good to have one scape goat guilty of the biggest evil etc. That is why results of neither Milgram experiment nor Stanford Prison experiment are valid for US citizens who are holly angels.
Is that not a perception game? People think - this president he can do all why is he not helping me and my uncle Fred? At the end the guys can end marines here and there but that is expensive. He can try to propose some laws but that is ineffective - just look at your lawmakers. He cannot even appoint judges properly, it seems. So you confront expectations of (often perceived as evil) power which in fact is not as big as people think. As for evil - it often helps to look in the mirror first when one looks for people guilty of things. He may have acted differently but if that would bring anything is doubtful. He is just a sign on the wall that US political system has some problems.
As a friend of mine who is a physician likes to emphasize: if you push hard enough shit comes out - different people have different levels at which this happens. What I wanted to say is this: some of these stasi agents were coerced into doing this, some of them believed what they did was good for the society. What good is coming out of knowing that stasi had enough muscle to force your ex-lover to file mostly meaningless reports on you? We in Europe are not as vindictive as US people seem to be. I like to attribute that to culture but the bottom line is - in countries that pushed their secret service people too hard after change of system, these secret service people started building quite effective mafias.
I do not know that many Germans that are seriously pissed off about that spying. Most of them do not even understand what the hell is going on - you can try to explain what metadata is or what it can be used for and see how far you get with that. Even for tin foil brigade the Snowden revelations were a bit of a shock, I am sure. Media are having field day after day of course and opposition parties have their fun too. Still, the way our, that is US and German, citizens' rights are twisted and reinterpreted is even more damaging. What the government is doing is what it is supposed to do: they found some spies they show them/us their anger and how strong they are and expel some 'diplomats'. The actual meaning of this is most likely hidden. I wonder how did they got these guys and if there were barely pawns sacrificed to achieve some other goal.
and 'working directly with NSA' involves what - bombing them with modern day equivalent of V2? How exactly should one work with an agency that is apparently out of control - or do you still think that US authorities (being government and/or congress) have any control over NSA?
it is actually about moral high ground as this is normally achieved by public show of how evil somebody else is. It helps if everybody already expected it anyway and it adds additional moments of joy if the side whose moral stand is being maimed is a pack of useless but nuclear armed fuckwitts.
I thought the gold was stolen by east Germans and moved to Canada or should I have watched die hard 3 till the end?
Assuming you have the means why the hell would you want to go there from all other places? Security? Isolation from the rest of the (poor world)?
I saw a documentary about solar panels in west Africa where main problem seemed to be cleaning those f. panels from dust. Guest what substance was used to remove the dust off the panels' surface.... To give you a hint - it is a drinkable liquid and there is not enough of it on a desert.
well thought out? I mean they can build there what the fuck they want - it is t heir money. Still why people live in such places and what is the purpose of this exercise is not clear to me. However I can think of building there a huge set of nuclear plants so that inevitable accidents affect limited space - that would make sense.