It may be, when the market forces basically demand sexism.

Her complaint is rather that the brutal depictions of violence against woman in video games always seem to have clear sexual subcontext, while violence against men does not.

Which I think is a valid point, but then isn't this also the case in real life? So she's complaining that the games accurately reflect how things are (in many cases that she's referring to, in fact, to draw attention to that problem even)?

It was actually an exchange of territories. While USSR got Crimea, RSFSR got a bunch of land from across its southern border with the former, too.

Luckily, US leaders after WW2 were not idiots, and understood that this was a war they had no guarantee of winning - and that regardless of the outcome, whatever was still left of Europe would burn to the ground in the process.

The Russia military build-up is still miles behind what the USSR has been.

It's convenient when racists openly identify themselves as such.

Well, the setback that it suffered is in a region (Novoazovsk and Mariupol) that was previously completely outside of the war zone, with a very fair distance. So either the rebels have come up with technology to teleport several dozen tanks across enemy lines, or they came from the Russian border (which is very close to that area).

In addition, the rebels have been consistently losing ground to Ukrainian forces for the last two months, which can be seen even in their own propaganda (just look at the maps they publish). And now all of a sudden they mount a massive counter-attack, with heavy use of artillery and tanks, taking back large swaths of territory, and striking new ground (again, this is all from rebels' own propaganda!). Do you think they just broke out their stimpacks, or is it that they've got assistance that they previously didn't have?

About half of all of Ukraine's power is generated by nuclear power plants. And those all date back to Soviet days, and are "dual use" (meaning that they can be used to produce plutonium). What they lack is the reprocessing capability to do so, but that is much easier to build up.

That doesn't make any sense. The agreement was with a country, not with a particular government, and not tied in any way to the duration of said government. They can "not recognize" the current one many times over, but crossing the border with armed troops is still a violation.

There was no USSR in 1918.

Both in Korea and in Vietnam, there were plenty of Soviet advisors in the communist forces, and in some cases they were troops actively engaged in fighting - in particular, fighter pilots were often Soviets. So yes, US and Soviet troops did actually shoot directly at each other as part of Cold War.

Where you are right is that it hasn't been official, largely because, when one side had an officially declared presence, the other always denied the same. In Korea and Vietnam, US had the official presence, and Soviets unofficial one. In Afghanistan, the other way around.

Now if you look at Ukraine today, Russia is officially not invading it. All those armored columns of tanks? Rebels captured them, duh. Russian paratroopers taken prisoner? They were "patrolling the border and got lost". And so on. So if US troops were physically present and fighting in Ukraine, they would be fighting Russians in practice, but officially it would be just like Vietnam.

The important part is that you urged them to get rid of the nukes that they had, providing some security guarantees in exchange for that. And those guarantees are apparently all reneged on now.

If Ukraine remains standing at the end of this, they will restart their nuclear program for sure - there's already wide popular support for this measure. And why shouldn't they, given where they ended up?

Ukraine is in a much worse shape than Russia, economically speaking. Steamrolling over Ukraine is not hard. Steamrolling over Europe is much more complicated.

... but, hey, we've got this major feature: you can now multiply two constants, and the result is also a constant! It's almost like C had in, what, 1985? Except that you don't actually need it because this is a dynamic weakly typed language, but who cares. PHP! PHP!

There are other similar expressions that are still not working, though. If you read their todo list for the next major release, cleaning up the parser to allow for arbitrary expressions like that is a major work item. Apparently, they don't even have an AST.

There was a story a few months back about a suburb of LA instituting a 100% camera policy and finding that the number of police brutality complaints dropping precipitously. The reasons for the drop were not as cut and dried as people will have you believe. A lot of complaints were dropped after the complainant was confronted with video and audio of the incident after the fact. Also, the officers were able to calm many situations down by simply stating that the entire incident was on camera and could be used as evidence in court.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04...

Actually, the handover of USSR's stockpile of nuclear weapons in the Ukraine wasn't in exchange for defense, but rather in exchange for a promise from Russia that Russia will never use its military weapons to attack or intimidate the Ukraine. (See the Budapest Memorandum, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B... )

Clearly, that agreement has been broken by Russia. Of course, I doubt any powers are going to try to exacerbate the situation by either providing the Ukraine with nuclear weapons or suggesting that Ukraine should acquire nuclear weapons, but based on my understanding of the Budapest Memorandum, Ukraine is well within its rights to do so now that Russia has breached the agreement.