Comment Where are the HD photos of the excavation site? (Score 2) 92
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?
Most US prisoners are for drug crimes.
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.
...national suicide really was what the USSR about for its constituent peoples...
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.
... it is just not realistic to learn another language to be able to support them
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.
The moon is made of green cheese. -- John Heywood