Considering that Pakistan and India are currently fighting a war over the Siachen glacier, no, those geopolitics are not outdated.

I'm tired of hearing this. Ruby is not awful. It's a wonderful language, and Rails is a wonderful framework. The problem is that Rails is designed for a very particular niche (small, fairly CRUD-oriented web applications), and people keep trying to stupidly shoehorn it into places where it doesn't work well (large, enterprise applications that need to do lots of heavy number crunching or querying of enormous databases in the background). Predictably, such projects end in a trainwreck and then people blame Rails, but Rails wasn't the problem.

Either way, GGP's assertion that mass is relevant but weight somehow isn't makes no sense.

Weight is defined as the force of gravity that is acting on an object. When you are in orbit, weight is serving as the centripetal force that is keeping you on a circular orbit. So if an object was weightless, it would fly off in a straight line instead of orbiting. GP is almost right. The weight of the space ship is going to be much greater than the weight of the astronaut inside simply because the spaceship is more massive (and F_g = GMm/r^2, so weight increases linearly with the mass of the orbiting object), but the astronaut feels weightless because he/she has the same acceleration as the space ship.

No, it doesn't.

F_g = GMm/r^2

F_c = mv^2/r

Combine the two, and you get

GM/v^2 = r

So the orbital radius of an object around the sun depends only on the mass of the sun and the velocity of the object. The mass of the object doesn't matter. This is high school level physics, buddy.

Middle East? What in the world are you talking about? Kissinger got the Nobel Peace Prize in 1973 for the American withdrawal from Vietnam. (And ostensibly for brokering peace between North and South Vietnam, but we all know how long that lasted.)

Keep in mind that in 1970, Kissinger was the one who pushed for expanding the Vietnam conflict into Cambodia. Around the same time, he was also working with the CIA to try to overthrow the democratically elected government of Chile. In 1971, he had the US throw its support behind the Pakistani government, even after a US diplomat in Pakistan said that the government engaging in widespread genocide of its own citizens.

Did I think Obama deserve the Peace Prize? Probably not. But at least the committee didn't decide to give it to him while knowing that he was complicit in genocide and active in coup d'etats.

Pervasive surveillance by law enforcement is a bad thing. Pervasive surveillance of law enforcement is a good thing. And that is what these body cams are: They aren't recording anything that police officers aren't already seeing with their own eyes. Instead, these cameras create a record of officers' actions -- a record that keeps them accountable for said actions.

Again with all these conspiracy theories about Western involvement in Ukraine. The thing about conspiracy theories is that they never hold up when you apply common sense.

There is only one major nation for which the situation in Ukraine is of critical importance: Russia. If EU membership led to a flood of Gean, French, and British investment in Ukrainian oil production, Russia would no longer have a monopoly on oil exports to the rest of Europe. This would be a disaster for the Russian oil oligarchs that keep Putin in power. From the perspective of EU businessmen, however, it matters little whether they invest in Ukraine or Russia. Meanwhile, the average American probably wouldn't even be able to point Ukraine out on a map.

So who has the vested interest in interfering in Ukrainian politics? Moreover, who has a history of interfering in Ukrainian politics? That's right, Russia. Are you forgetting that the KGB tried to assassinate Yushchenko in 2014? Of course Russia and their lackey Yanukovych claimed that Yushchenko poisoined and nearly killed himself to win sympathy from voters, because that is something that a sane person would do. (Note the heavy sarcasm.)

So no, the protests in Kiev were not engineered by the CIA; they were grassroots. Just because you read it on RIA Novosti, doesn't make it true.