I looked up the shipwrecks statistics of recent years and I do not see that there is an issue with the hull strength.

Besides, the modular design could be as rigid and strong as necessary. Instead of torch cutting the old ships they could be disassembled, and the separate modules could be used as houses. In about the same way as old shipping containers are already being used in construction.

I saw how they break ships in a documentary. It is not a ecologically safe process. There is a lot of oxy-fuel cutting, burning, dumping, etc.

I watched and thought: "This is wrong. Why not use some module architecture?"

Ship breaking is very tedious process:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ship_breaking

Why no to build-in capabilities for a ship to break itself easily?

You are right. But there is also a good reason in the Commerce Secretary's position.

Here is the short paper by Jospeh Reagle "Free as in sexist. Free Culture and the Gender Gap" :

http://journals.uic.edu/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4291/3381
mirror:
http://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/4291/3381#author

Very interesting.

The journalist was there and made only these two dark small close-up photos? And that's it?

Was it a problem to shoot 7 - 10 HD photos from different viewpoints at this great excavation site and publish them together with the text?

Still he was called terrible, not awesome. And he was indeed in a way terrible from today's viewpoint, but no more terrible than Charles IX.

I do not want leave an impression that I am trying to bash the USA. Far from that. There are similar problems with border crossings everywhere. Take Mediterranean Sea, or the English Channel, etc.

A lot of human tragedies are going on there right now. But they will not attract so much attention as the Berlin Wall crossings' tragedies.

I heard on the radio that there is a racial issue in this problem too.

But I do not know exact statistics about the reasons why people are in prisons. And it was not my point.

What I wanted to say is that by pure political reasons some figures are given much more importance than the others.

For instance, 136 people died while crossing Berlin Wall, we all know it. And I regret it, certainly. Even one was one too many.

But hundreds of people die each year on the Mexican-US border. And nobody even know about it. And does not want to know. I regret it too. And I hope that it will change.

But again it was not my point. I am talking about political influence on historical science.

Historical claims related to the Soviet Union or Russia are often exaggerated or blown out of proportion.

Another example of this phenomena, in addition to the one, which I mentioned in my previous post, - the Tsar Ivan the Terrible executed during his reign of half a century less people than were executed during the St. Bartholomew's Day(!) massacre. Still he is called the Terrible, but not Catherine de' Medici or the King Charles IX.

The highest number of prisoners in the Soviet Union's GULAG was less than 2 million http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G...

In the USA nowadays there are 2.5 million prisoners http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I...

Even one political prisoner or an innocent person in prison is too much. But I just wanted to say that USSR's prisons were not like on Star Wars scale, not the largest in the world.

Almost everybody has an HD photo-camera nowadays. Why not make some images from the excavation site and publish them together with the text about the discovery?

Drawings are OK, but nothing can substitute an HD JPG image.

It is quite common in Europe to speak two or three languages fluently. If there are 2 - 3 engineers who speak 2 - 3 languages fluently then most of the major languages are covered.

By the way, it is often just a stereotype that all people are drunk here or there. Brazil economy grew 2.5% in 2013, it is certainly achieved by hard working people.

Then at least she could avoid blaming a carnival, and concentrate more on her linguistic skills. Or hiring Portuguese speaking engineers instead of non technical interpreters to run a computer system in Brazil.

Many people around the world speak English at different levels. Sometimes it is just Globish or an Airport English. But Brazil is an enormous country where people do speak Portuguese. No way around it.

She works with a whole system in Brazil via an non technical interpreter? Did it ever occur to her to learn Portuguese language?