Mostly because they were the precursors of modern rabbis. Compared to the very conservative and aristocratic sadducees, who tended to take torah literally, pharisees often originally were working class people who have become who they were due to their intelligence and determinations. They were much more flexible in torah interpretation and difficult to argue with.

This is why the bible has such a bitter "take that" against them - it was far too difficult to argue with them in person so the authors had to resort to this kind of straw man arguments.

Having fun killing other people, be prepared for the police. Alas, it is such an imperfect world.

So you are saying the they should rather port Fallout 3 for this?

The kind of drivers that drive drunk would carry that scarlet D as a badge of honour.

Not exactly. USA has grabbed all the top German scientists to design their space technology, USSR had only what was left - some engineers and skilled workers, also some prototype blueprints. This is why Soviet missile designs were very much native after R-2. German engineers have helped with the material sciences, though - an area where USSR was very much lacking.

The thing with the nuclear bomb was Stalin's paranoia. They had a design themselves, but Stalin insisted in building a copy of the American bomb because it was proven to work.

You are completely wrong about the B-29 engine, though. Tu-4 used a heavily modified licensed build of an earlier Wright engine (the one that was used in B-17, not B-29) so the engines of Tu-4 and B-29 share a common ancestor, but are not the same. The engine was, in fact, the largest difference between Tu-4 and B-29.

Mostly processed food. Russia is one of the largest producers of staple foods like wheat, rye, potato, buckwheat, milk, eggs. A famine won't happen.

It is not "fucking stupid", some people just don't want to possess a dozen of vaguely similar devices.

This is precisely the sort of hateful bullying to be expected from a government apologist. "They won't give me their production! They won't follow my orders. KILL! KILL! KILL! "

No. This is actually perfectly consistent with libertarian ideals taken all the way to their logic conclusion: every man for himself. People who think that make themselves fair game. And this is exactly what happened to the libertarian utopia on the Minerva reefs.

They would never have stepped in earlier because they were happy with Hitler being a staunch anticommunist.

This is also why WW2 went on for so long - the allied waited out for Nazi Germany and USSR to destroy each other and only opened the Western front when it was clear that USSR would stay

Macross

It gets even funnier. That "~ski" ending of the family names is actually Polish, not Russian. Pole-ish, get it?

No, it cannot be said.
Certainly not about English, because it would mean that a majority of English speaking population would usually talk mostly using words from a closely related language - that would be what, Frisian? - with English accent and grammar.

That might maybe happen in Scotland, where English and Scots might intermix in this way, but this kind of speaking is far from majority.

It certainly is not the way here in Germany, people won't, for example, speak Dutch using German grammar and accent. They either speak Niederdeutsch or standard German. They might speak more or less in a dialect, but a dialect is not a language, Ukrainian is certainly not just a Russian dialect, they are several grammatical differences like the vocative case which Russian lost half a century ago.

It doesn't work for Russian at all, Russians don't usually mix their language with other closely related languages. Only when they try to learn that closely related language as a foreign language this might happen.

It can come out this way in former Yugoslavia, because the language there is mostly a dialect continuum and the languages are really only separated for political reasons - with the exception of Slovenian (which lies between South and West Slavic languages, that is between, say, Slovak, and Croatian) and Macedonian (which is closer to Bulgarian).

Slavic languages are a hobby of mine so I do know a lot about them and can speak several.

Am I?

Economic theories are not falsifiable, economic theories assume a human model (homo oeconomicus) that has nothing in common with real humans. Economists don't use scientific methods for experiments. Either you can't see it because you are an economist and was brainwashed to believe that economics is a science or you are misguided by applied mathematics used by them.

Windows 7, Cyberlink PowerDVD 13.

The English say yes, the French oui, the Germans ja, the Spanish si, the Russians da, the Japanese hai, the Portugese sim, the Polish tak... is there a value to this?

In fact there is. Because the apparently simple concepts you have listed are not quite the same. Polish "tak" comes, in fact, from the same protoslavic word that means "so (it is)" which exists in every Slavic language in the same or nearly the same form (tak, tako, taka), so a Croat or a Russian or a Czech would understand it as a kind of a confirmation, but other Slavic languages use a different word for a simple affirmation. Czech and Slovak use "ano", which comes, I think, from the protoslavic "that one" and all the rest uses a form of "da", which comes from a protoslavic word meaning something like "in order to". Matter of fact, ancient Czech and Polish had "da" as well, it just fell out of use.

You can already see, I love Slavic languages.

Japanese "hai" doesn't necessarily mean "yes". It often means "I hear you" or "I understand what you are saying".