No, this is a _direct_ _translation_, it's not an interpretation. And yes, I speak Russian and Ukrainian.

And by saying that Bandera was not an antisemite you simply show a total ignorance. Here's his program document: http://ru.scribd.com/doc/17903... in Ukrainian. It clearly says: "[racial slur for Jews] are an alien as individuals and as a group" (on the page 129 of this document). He certainly knew about the "Massacre of Professors" in Lviv, about Volyn' massacre and so on - he orchestrated them.

Well, you're wrong. The first Californian constitution recognized Spanish as an official language, for example. Several states had German as the main language. Fortunately, most states try to accommodate Spanish speakers and provide Spanish translation for lots of documents. For example, my car registration renewal form from the DMV is bilingual.

Bolsheviks were quite willing to build a peaceful society. And they have actually tried to do just this - for several months, at least. They immediately stopped the participation of the (yet-to-be-called-so) Soviet Union in the WWI and even tried to build an army where officers were elected by the enlisted personnel. Of course, that could only last for so long...

Bandera is definitely a criminal. His _official_ party program included a clearly specified that all Jews should be killed. I'm not joking, it stated: "Jews should be stealthily destroyed, with as little disturbance to the general population as possible" (my translation).

And you should note, that Bandera was released by Nazis and they supplied him with weapons - he was definitely a collaborator. His official proclamation of Ukrainian independence read: "Independent Ukraine under the German Protectorate". So yes, he struggled for Ukrainian independence from the USSR (though dependence on Germany was A-OK), you can say that. That doesn't make him a hero or justifies his crimes.

I have actually studied these things and I can gladly provide you with references.

The US has a Constitution that expressly forbids such laws, and that's great. However the fact that it was the VERY FIRST proposed law is a great example of the true colors of the post-revolution government. They can talk all they want about how they are not nazis, but their actions show that they really are.

And if you think that these two examples are exceptions - there is a lot of other such instances. Here's the captured Kiev Administration building: http://vesti.ua/storage/asset/... This portrait hung there only for about a day, a much larger portrait appeared inside the building in about a week (and I think it's still there, I'll go and check tomorrow). If you're wondering, that neurotic individual on the banner is Stephan Bandera ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S... ).

You want something official? Not a problem - here's the envoy of Ukraine in the UN saying that Bandera was a hero ( http://en.itar-tass.com/world/... ).

As for Mexicans in the US - they have a right for self-determination and Spanish should probably be an official language in at least several states.

Why is it impossible? And why are you so sure that people were prevented from voting? The official turnout is 82%!

Lots of foreign media correspondents are in Crimea and they can't find anyone on the streets who doesn't support joining Russia. They see lots of jubilation on the streets, though.

Hail United Ukraine! Hail to Heroes! One country for Ukrainians, whole and indivisible!

Russian is not studied in schools anymore in Western Ukraine. And even in central Ukraine Russian-speaking schools are under constant pressure to change to Ukrainian. This is yet another reason why Russians in Ukraine do not like nazis Kiev.

New Ukrainian government doesn't need ANY help in being portrayed as nazi sympathizers. Do you know what was the VERY FIRST law proposed to the Ukrainian Parliament after the revolution? Try to guess.

Ok, here's the answer - cancellation of the law against the denial of nazi crimes or nazi propaganda. Ultimately, this law was tabled (in Feb 28) but in the very first day the law about the regional language was canceled.

And just yesterday - Ministry of International Affairs said that Russians in Ukraine are not a native nationality but a diaspora, so they don't have any rights of self-determination. Just to assure Crimeans that they made the right choice and ditched that nazi losers in Kiev.

Did you actually read that article? It clearly describes exactly what I said: they use resistors on the data pins to signal the available current. There is no bidirectional negotiation going on. There are no extra pins or wires. The charger just has 4 resistors to create two voltage dividers for the D- and D+ pins.

This is incorrect. There is no bidirectional negotiation between chargers and devices, nor are there any magic extra pins (at least for pretty much all Android and Apple products - dunno about Zune).

What there is is one USB charging standard, that basically says one thing and one thing only (that matters): if the data pins are shorted together (but otherwise not connected to anything), then the port is a Dedicated Charging Port. A DCP must meet certain voltage/current curve ranges and may be engineered to supply anywhere from 500mA to 1.5A (or more), with the voltage dropping as the device exceeds the charger's maximum. Devices are simply supposed to regulate current draw upwards until the voltage drops below a threshold, indicating the charger's capability. No digital negotiation takes place. Devices are limited to 1.5A charging current, which is quite typical for modern devices (and significantly better than the 500mA of a non-charging port).

There is a newer USB Power Delivery specification that is much more recent, supports higher powers, probably uses more complex negotiation (I haven't read it), and nothing implements it yet.

Then there's what Apple does - they have an incompatible implementation that uses resistors on the data pins in the charger to signal its current capability. Different resulting voltages mean different current levels. This is completely incompatible with the USB charging standard. Recent Apple devices (since the iPhone 3G or so) do support DCP chargers (to some extent - some charge more slowly, and I don't know about larger iPads?), but non-Apple devices will only charge at 500mA or worse from Apple chargers.

It's classified as 'developing'.

Dude, M1 went up almost 3 _times_ during the last 4 years ( http://research.stlouisfed.org...). Do you see 250% inflation? I certainly don't. Nor does Billion Prices Project which monitors the cost of "Actual Groceries"(tm)(r).

And I don't care if you define inflation per millisecond or whatever. The end result is the same - there has been no hyperinflation episodes recently, exactly because central banks got quite good at lowering inflation.

M1 changes are meaningless. They are NOT inflation. Inflation in 1947 was 18.13%, according to BLS ( http://www.multpl.com/inflatio... ).

The highest inflation after that was 13.91% in 1980, it was not a hyperinflation by any stretch. And I lived through an _actual_ period of hyperinflation after the USSR breakup.

For one, more plants would just spring up. Even if part of the buyout was "you may never go into coal again," someone else may. The economic structure of energy is why coal is still king, and buying out the current players won't change that.

For two, the cost of shutting that industry down does not cover the cost of starting new energy industries to replace it. Or were we just going to go without 37% of our electricity?

For three, coal works efficiently and predictably at far smaller scale than most energy technologies. Many of the locations coal services today cannot be practically services by other generation methods.

It was not a hyperinflation (which was always defined as 20% or more per year). Inflation in the US has never been more than 13% a year (at least, since 1940).