I could make it easy for me and go the nationalistic route of any country/culture and say how maybe they just don't want to turn it into a shit-hole which would be anything else than what it is because anything else than what you have is considered a shit-hole.

Anyway, to be fair:
Wikipedia: "According to a poll by the Russian Public Opinion Research Center, 6% of respondents considered themselves Muslims.[2] According to Reuters, Muslim minorities make up a seventh (14%) of Russia's population.[3] Muslims constitute the nationalities in the North Caucasus residing between the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea: Circassians, Balkars, Chechens, Ingush, Kabardin, Karachay, and numerous Dagestani peoples."

My impression from what I've seen lately is that there's quite a bit of Muslims in Russia and if you check RT they write all the time about racism and anti-Muslim movements and such in Europe so I get the impression that they are against that / pro tolerance (because really my impression of RT is that they want to point out how everyone else is bad and Russia is good ..)

On the other hand Russia doesn't buy into the globalism and idea of a country/people not owning their natural resources or not having the right to decide how they want their society to work.

So yeah. Maybe in Russia a Muslim is supposed to accept Russian society and obey to the same laws and maybe if nothing else they want to set their own laws on homosexuals (I live in Sweden and while Sweden is much further on there the fact is that Sweden have just like the very last year or so gone into feminism extreme and last couple of years been extremely pro-immigrants / deny any flaws in such a policy and maybe just for what? two? Decades been more ok with gays and the church less so. The idea of religious freedom is just little over 60 years old. I assume Bible studies was part of the school at least little over 100 years ago, I don't really know. .. so yeah. Russia may be behind there if you think all of that is a good thing but we don't really deserve to be super proud of it and view it as it's something which has always been there because it haven't.
And to be fair didn't USA more or less invented freedom? ;D (No? Someone feel free to write down some points, I'm interested and don't really mean and say that USA was first but I respect it being a thing from the very beginning over there and taken seriously.)
Religious free in writing since 1789(?)
I used to be proud of the freedom of my country but I've lost that belief. And I'm sad for that and don't really know what to do against it (because it's true one have to fight for it but fighting for it put yourself at risk and I don't really feel I deserve or should have to take a risk for the right of being free. I want to take it for granted. It's fucked up.))

From Wikipedia, Khronos group:
"The Khronos Group was founded in 2000 by companies including ATI Technologies, Discreet, Evans & Sutherland, Intel Corporation, NVIDIA, Silicon Graphics (SGI), and Sun Microsystems. It now has roughly 100 member companies, over 30 adopters, and 24 conforming members.[3] Its president is Neil Trevett.

Working Groups[edit]
OpenGL, a cross-platform computer graphics API
OpenCL, a cross-platform computation API.[4]
COLLADA, a file-format intended to facilitate interchange of 3D assets.
OpenGL SC, a safety critical profile of OpenGL ES designed to meet the needs of the safety-critical market
OpenKODE, an API for providing abstracted, portable access to operating system resources such as file systems, networks and math libraries
OpenGL ES, a derivative of OpenGL for use on mobile and embedded systems, such as cell phones, portable gaming devices, and more
OpenVG, an API for accelerating processing of 2D vector graphics.
OpenMAX, a layered set of three programming interfaces of various abstraction levels, providing access to multimedia functionality
OpenSL ES, an audio API tuned for embedded systems, standardizing access to features such as 3D positional audio and MIDI playback
EGL, an interface between Khronos rendering APIs such as OpenGL ES or OpenVG and the underlying native platform window system[5]
OpenWF, APIs for 2D graphics composition and display control
OpenML, an API for capturing, transporting, processing, displaying, and synchronizing digital media
WebGL, a JavaScript binding to OpenGL ES within a browser on any platform supporting the OpenGL or OpenGL ES graphics standards
WebCL, a JavaScript binding to OpenCL within a browser.
StreamInput, an API for consistently handling input devices.
OpenVX, Hardware acceleration API for Computer Vision applications and libraries
OpenKCam, Advanced Camera Control API"

Founded year 2000.

I assume one doesn't necessarily know all that but if nothing else for those who care somewhat I guess they should know they are behind OpenGL at least.

And kinda anyone who cares about computers to any degree of seriousness really should know what Direct X is too.

So basically it says a multi-platform 3D graphics API competitor to Microsoft 3D graphics API announces their competitior against Microsoft newest (and rather hyped possibly "revolutionary step"?) 3D graphics API.

Where DirectX 12 3D-part is supposed to be competition to Mantle which is AMDs API where they lower abstraction and CPU usage in an attempt to get more performance out of the GPU and more CPU power left for others.

DirectX handles more than just 3D graphics though, such as joystick input and sound too.

His/her post was likely about the "relative distance" and "closer."

If it would be X light-years to the center in time and space and the galaxy would be 700 million along in development towards our side (X-n or whatever) "it should had looked 700 million years old" by that time.

Whereas if we looked passed the center it would still be .. oh wait, no, I possibly get it, to be able to see it that far it would had to be even older? .. anyway, the point I wanted to make is that if it was 700 million years along the development but "had moved in the other direction" it would rather had been X+n away and the idea was likely that that would had explained the red shift. .. but I guess the light would have had to travel longer then to reach us and that would possibly had sorted it out. (Is it about variations in red-shift too? Because isn't the red-shift how decide on the distance? Both distance and composition? I assume that would be more than one wavelength?

1) Flood the Netherlands.
2) Have it come up again.
3) ???
4) Profit!

So they sent a death threat.

But what did they REALLY want to say?

Other solutions:
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Or whatever, the http://indiegogo.com/projects/... would be relevant in time.

^ This isn't funny. It's informative.

Or well, without being a question it would be.

(Was never posted back when I wrote it due to cool-down period. Old tab.)

Linux doesn't have to be either.

Assume there's a proprietary Nvidia driver.

Anyway using someone else got themselves to blame.

It's ok to demand specific hardware and software requirements.

I'm not convinced.

Snobs who always have argued they for whatever reason don't need games because supposedly that ruin their creativity / other software somehow blended together with a company which argued about the same and didn't bothered about games.

Most don't run OS X (of course they don't run Linux either but in the case of the desktop the OS X likely is kinda "meh" too.)

Rather humanist.

No need for it to be ignorant and in denial.

Oh trying to decide whatever light-years ahead actually make sense or not when it comes how far one technology is ahead of another one ...

"This must be what quantum physics is all about!"

Is that when the universe is viewed in the perspective of say petunias or when it's viewed by mice?

Them to.

Anyway, it explains why your government needs it.

Tar sand is still worse, better infrastructure and higher availability would likely make things worse because more of it would be consumed, more oil available = lower prices = higher usage.

Denmark:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/new...

Such fucking stupidity it's allowed into Europe.

In the case of France as I've understood it there was no escape plan. Of course there will be others with similar ideas who will still think it was a success and good.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-...

Don't understand why we have to destroy our countries. Guess the good part which can come from it is that more of them actually like the freedom and rather than the agenda they want to pull that "west is struggling to uphold its values" or whatever it will be the Islamic majority countries which will lose their fundamentalistic ways and go secular and humane or whatever.

Who knows.

Crap.