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Comment Re:Funny (Score 1) 523

Typing is faster except if you're writing a mathematical text or anything that is NOT simple plain text. Even simple diagrams are complicated to do on a computer. And from a personal experience - if you write something down you remember it better than if you type it.

Comment Funny (Score 2) 523

In the xUSSR countries not being able to write cursive is considered a sign of illiteracy. Is English cursive really so horrible? I never learned it formally and I use a bastardized version of cursive and block letters when I need to jot something down quickly. As a result, I can write significantly faster than most native English speakers when they use block letters.

Perhaps the cursive script itself should be revised? Also, cursive writing really helps to develop fine motor skills which are linked with higher cognitive functions. I don't know if there's a causal relationship between two of them, but I won't be surprised.

Comment Re:uh, no? (Score 1) 340

You call Ukraine non-peaceful, you call it ultra-nationalistic.

How is it related to the question of ultra-nationalism being endemic in Ukraine? Or perhaps you forgot the famous: "Who's not jumping is a moscal"? Or maybe "knife all moscals"? Both happened long before the Russian invasion.

Yeah, there's no nationalism in Ukraine. Not at all. No whiteboards proclaiming that "SS protected Ukrainian independence" and no children in schools screaming that they hate Russians. Iryna Farion doesn't exist. Everything is perfect!

Yet it's not Ukraine that invaded Russia, it's Russia that invaded Ukraine. It's not Ukraine that supports the far-right, on the contrary, they got a pathetic few % in the elections, whilst in Russia you have 10s of thousands of far right ultra nationalists celebrating for a day.

How many ultra-nazis are in the Russian parliament? Hint: the answer is "zero".

Comment Re:I call bullshit (Score 2) 140

Your post is so fucking full of lies...

First of all, the transfer made no sense. Crimea has NEVER been a Ukrainian territory.

Second, at the time of transfer Crimea had been a USSR tourist hub, well known throughout the country and with a good infrastructure. Billions of Soviet roubles were spent to construct water supply and build reliable infrastructure on the Crimean peninsula.

Third, Ukraine's population has pretty much recovered by the time of the Crimean transfer. It was more deeply damaged by the WWII than by Stalin's holodomor.

And yes, if Kuban' wants to return to Ukraine then I have no objections. But having been in Kuban' too many times to count - their citizens would riot if anybody tried to give their land to Ukraine.

Comment Re:So basically (Score 1) 445

Yes, the plan drafted by him years earlier

Not _drafted_, but agreed with Iraq government. Or do you want the US to violate its foreign treaties?

Hah! You lie, but that's a good example, thank you! USSR invaded Afghanistain [wikipedia.org] in 1979, when Jimmy Carter was is office — another example of a weak "it is all America's fault" excuse for a President. But even he imposed sanctions against USSR. And the whole world boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympics.

And then Reagan lifted most of the sanctions by 1984 (after Brezhnev's death and the right noises in Poland about democracy). See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1... , http://www.csmonitor.com/1984/... and so on.

Yes, which is an embarrassment for Obama.

Moving goalposts, are we? I did say that Obama is a mainstream Republican by his actions, so naturally he expanded the policies of his predecessors.

On top of that you got Reagan's reaction to USSR's invasion exactly backwards, which demonstrates the level of ignorance so deep, I'm unlikely to respond again...

When the facts contradict your ideology, you damn the facts.

Nonsense. You have no leg to stand on in this argument — the extrajudicial killing of bin Laden (ordered by Obama) defeats your point by itself

Don't worry, Republicans _love_ extra-judicial killings. As witnessed by their support of Bush's war and Israel.

Comment Re:So basically (Score 2) 445

Oh, no you don't... You keep him. A Republican would not have withdrawn all troops from Iraq

Bush drafted the pullout plan...

A Republican [politifact.com] would not have encouraged Putin to invade Ukraine by lifting all sanctions [washingtonpost.com] imposed over a similar invasion into Georgia.

You mean, like Reagan did with the USSR and Afghanistan invasion?

A Republican would've continued to detain terrorist suspects [theguardian.com] — in Guantanamo or elsewhere — rather then order extrajudicial killings [commondreams.org] — most infamously one of Osama bin Laden [theatlantic.com] himself.

1) Gitmo is still open. 2) Drone strikes were started by Bush.

No, Obama is an Illiberal Democrat through and through. But such people — yourself included — are famous for inability to recognize each other — so far are their deeds from their proclaimed ideals.

So far you've listed exactly the things that Republicans do.

Comment Re:Facile nonsense (Score 1) 445

So don't be fooled. Corporatists are NOT Libertarians. If they claim they are, show them where the Libertarian philosophy actually supports free competitive markets, not corporatism. They are not the same things.

They are very demonstrably the very same thing. That's why Sherman Antitrust Act has been enacted loooong time ago.

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