XBox owners don't have any reason to fear losing next weekend services, while PSN users will live the week worrying about.
Oh rly?
Xbox Live Experiencing Issues, PSN Attackers Taking Credit
Europe might still be languishing at a near medieval level of technology
Which was the best in the world at the time and far ahead that of many peoples during the age of conquest.
The GP post was clearly referring to the United States.
I know, funny smartass, but since I also know that in the US there's this little thing: criminal transmission of HIV, I was questioning if the parent post was right or if it was just the usual 'murican screaming "Constitution!!!11!!", when there's something he doesn't agree with.
- fines for not vaccinating your children
Unconstitutional.
Really? In Italy if you don't vaccinate your underage children you'll be fined for sure, because it's regarded a threat to public health. I think you can even lose the "patria potestà" (that is your children are no longer yours) if you refuse to conform.
The 'Ukrainian people' means different things to different people - if you're an ethnic Russian in Crimea you live in Ukraine but probably have much more allegiance to mother Russia than the government in Kiev. If you're a kid in Kiev born post-Soviet era to ethnic Ukrainian parents, different deal. Ethnic Tatar, different again.
I don't want to start a heated debate, so I'll answer only this point: saying that "the 'Ukrainian people' means different things to different people" is the exact mistake that brought them at this point. The Ukrainian people is all the people that dwells Ukraine: Ukrainians, Russians, Hebrews, Romanians, Poles and Tatars. The opposition parties should have been more levelheaded: if they really wanted to keep Ukraine united, they should have tried to keep the people (all of them) united. Instead they let the nationalists take a big part in the whole process, including rejecting a reasonable deal mediated by the EU with a president that was actually democratically elected and had a lot of support in vast areas of the country, taking three seats in the government including ministry of defence, and removing the Russian language from the list of the official languages of the country.
I'm not saying that Russia is right, but that the revolutionaries acted quite stupidly: they should have tried to wheedle ethnic minorities, not stir them up.
The only possible interpretation of any research whatever in the `social sciences' is: some do, some don't. -- Ernest Rutherford