Sounds fair they should go to tender and be fair to all the other tablet pcs and not mention "ipad" directly. Chances are the idea won't fly anyway so there will never be ipads to complain about, people know what an ipad is not a tablet PC this is an election stunt
"I'm as just as capable as being sorry as you are"...
Try telling them that, they still believe they are descendents of Alexander the Great, it's become a madness in the country. The ruling party VMRO are using the whole "we are Alexander's people that conquered Persia the Greeks were our slaves" to a ridiculous level. It seems they have to in order to stop an invasion from Bulgaria and Albania. One quarter of the population are Albanian and Bulgarians claim the FYRMians speak Bulgarian (hell, they even televise their tv shows there an understand it). Greece has no territorial ambitions and only wants the facts to be know.
Fortunately the people who we should leave history to, the historians at well known universities, have stood up and done something about it:
It depends at which point in history you are talking about when you say "historicaly". The Ancient region of Macedon is 90% within Greece. The Romans later redrew the borders and it changed several times until the Ottomans redrew the borders again to what the region is now. So, the current "historical region" is with the Ottoman drawn borders. The Ancient capital has always been Pella in Greece (where Alexander the Great was born).
As for the gentically descended part another nice piece of FYROM propaganda, the far right also claim they invented white people and that Greeks are from Ethiopia. They'll also claim Greeks are Christianised Turks but forget that the entire Balkans was occupied by the Ottomans, must have ommitted that part from the revised school textbooks (fact: they were revised again last week - "Textbook errors shame FYROM schools" http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/analysis/30188/).
Greece has every business to oppose the name, it is within the UN rules for a country to call itself whatever it wants as long as it doesn't offend anyone else, and quite frankly it offends many Greeks for a country having no business with the name "Macedonia". Tito renamed the area in the 40s to start a dispute with Greece to gain access to the Aegean. Communist propaganda goes a long way...
Think about this then, a country that has around 30% of a region, not even the Ancient region (which is 90% within Greece) but with Ottoman drawn borders, calls itself "Macedonia", of which Greece has 50% of that region, and then claims Alexander the Great (names the airport Alexander the Great airport - wtf), plans to build a 30metre statue in the capital Skopje (not even in the Ottoman drawn border region of Macedonian), claims Thessaloniki (they use the Bulgarian name Solun and call it their capital) is occupied by the Greeks (Serbia, Greece, Bulgaria, Ottoman Turkey fought in WWI, where is this "Macedonia" in these battles?), speak a Slavic-Bulgarian dialect, call their language "Macedonian", claim the "Macedonians" were expelled from Greece (were actually Communist traitors, some even Greek and still hold a grudge, for example Prime Minister Gruevski's grandfather fought for Greece and family want their property back after being exiled for being Communist traitors)... the picture that starts to unfold are a lot of people (not all) that use Greece as excuse for their problems much like most of the Middle East use Israel as a root of all evil.
Besides, Greece can wait this out, FYROM, which is 1/4 Albanian can't wait it out forever and when/if the current PM is gone the issue will be resolved.
What are the FYROMians doing with Greece's name Macedonia? Theft is a worldwide pandemic.
Lately? More like always?!
An unmarked police car pulls a guy over and the cop jumps out with a gun... at what point was the motor cyclist supposed to turn off the camera - after the fact he didn't know it was a police car? We don't know the history of the person being pulled over, for all we know he was a person of interest to the cops (his name popped up on the computer after the cop checked the registration of the bike then the cop proceeded with caution by pulling out a gun - maybe the motorcyclist had prior "dangerous" convictions?). Regardless, they might have had nothing on him and are using the "make an example out of him" method making his life hell. How many riots, uproars have happened when someone has video taped a cop? Authorities want to get the message across of don't do it or else this will happen to you... Anyway, if the filming part was so bad why didn't they confiscate the camera? How did the video end up on the internet?
Stop downloading pr0n.
This article appearing on slashdot with user comments is a double-edged kick me sign - for those who post against the chief and for the chief himself.
If you can travel faster than the speed of light you can travel back in time - technically these two options are ambiguous.
The story failed at the first word ""Only one crime was solved for each 1,000 CCTV cameras in London last year"... How many was it supposed to solve? The sentence should start with "One crime was solved...". The original story also does not talk about how many crimes were prevented but mentions it is supposed to make people feel "safer", probably because people think CCTV will act as a deterent.
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