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Comment useless buzzword for marketing only (Score 2) 309

"Web programming language is a buzzword that I heard before since 1994-1995 over and over and over and over and over again. Here is one joke about one of the "Web programming languages" from that era:

--Knock knock!
--Who is there?
--... (wait one minute before replying... And then:) Java!

But for some reason, every declared "web programming language" seem to not having universal adoption.
Question is: Why, and why are they talking about it again and again?

Comment Re:Space programs as a crowbar? (Score 1) 522

Physical relocation is indeed not the way, although it was done successfully before (India - Pakistan partition) The problem is not ethnic in general. The problem is that the South Eastern Ukraine is a kleptocracy -- a state within a state powered by the oligarchs controlling the local government, markets, people, coal mines, factories, banks, shops, markets, etc.,etc.,etc.) These oligarchs (such as the ethnic Tatar Rinat Akhmetov) are fighting to preserve their former way of life. They know full well that they can not maintain this state in a fully-democratic country powered by the technocrats who are bend-over EU memberships and reforms. (BTW, the fact that he is a Tatar has nothing to do with what he is doing. He could care less about the suffering of his ethnic brothers -- Tatars, his religious brothers -- Muslims or his civic brothers -- Ukrainians. All this man cares about is money and he is willing to kill and torture an entire state to achieve that.)

Comment Re:Space programs as a crowbar? (Score 1) 522

Please don't forget the enormous ethnic cleansing program of Holodomyr -- an artificial famine brought by the Soviet government in order to ethnically cleanse Ukrainian population out of the Central and Eastern Ukraine. Estimates varies on the number of dead, from 2.4 to 7.5 million people. The affected areas (Kyiv, Dnipropetrivsk, Odessa, Kharkiv, Donesk ) were later settled in the newly "open" houses and spaces by ethnic Russians.

Comment Re:What is an "AIDS denialist"? (Score 1) 268

Her child, Eliza Jane Scovill died from AIDS-related complications on May 16, 2005. Christina Maggiore died from AIDS-related complications on December 27, 2008. I am wondering, if the idea is dangerous, and the propagandists of that idea literally cause death, can we shut them up for public safety sake? Or sue them into oblivion and charge them with endangering the public?

Comment Good invention... Sellable Product. Bad Ethics. (Score 1) 664

but one has to remember that there are such things as ethics. Just because a sick idea came to your mind one has to remember that it might be quite unethical to unleash it on the world. Hitatchi being an electronics company did it for business and money sakes hoping to capitalize on various businesses in Japan or for example on outsourced remote employees. But they should have known it is wrong. Thanks, Hitatchi. I used to own a TV from you few years ago, a VCR many years ago, and number of other items. Never again will I ever buy your products.

Comment Intelligent Design and its opponents (Score 1) 1010

I don't mean to imply that I am an opponent of the theory of evolution... But why is that many of those who are either atheists or believers in evolution (deniers of intelligent design) are so eager to embrace the concept of an the aliens causing life on Earth? (I've read theories about a life alien DNA landing on Earth, aliens artificially putting life cells or DNA on the planet)? After all, to those atheists, what is the difference between an alien cooking Primordial Soup vs God cooking Primordial Soup?

Comment Re:Freedom of thought (Score 1) 392

It is a lot more complex than that. One can not define governing philosophies in a single-dimensional space. I would say even Political Compass (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_compass) is quite a bit simplified concept, political spectrum had a wide viriety of research. In my personal opinion, Nazis are economically to the left, socially to the far right. Comminists (Stalinist and Maoists) were also economically to the far left, socially to the far right. I personally think that a line of nationalistic tendencies is the last invisible measurement of the Political Spectra where actually Nazis and Communists are differ. Nazis were extreme chauvinistic nationalists. Communists were inherently internationalists. Also Nazis allowed private property (although the plan for the final Greater Germany called for the full nationalization of the world wealth for the benefit of the German nation.)

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