Chairs and cabin look like on Soyuz space ship.

Recording and analyzing intimate private conversations en masse allows to know what people think, what are they hopes, fears, etc.

I allows to evaluate effectiveness of different media, etc.

Very interesting idea.

President Putin said on the April 24, 2014, that internet is a " CIA project" http://www.theguardian.com/wor...

I invested years, a life, in learning internet technologies. I feel myself diminished and humiliated.

Was I working on the 1984-Machine?

I thought that I was contributing to one of the greatest innovation of human civilization, and suddenly - "a CIA project", a military ploy, a lie,...

Could you, please, convince me back that my life was not spent in vain?

The Trans-Siberian Raylway, the Northern Route, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T... is almost reaching Yakutsk already http://osm.org/go/8_CbR-?m=

It is actively constructed.

Closing cities to all automobile traffic. This is it.

Commuting becomes very fast as bicycles do not need traffic lights.

There are cargo bicycles too for supplying shops. Strangely people will eat less as they move more. Anyone who was on a long distance cycling tour could not to fail to notice it. People overeat due to to an anxiety. And regular physical activity reduces anxiety dramatically.

As a by-product we get that there will be no bad areas in a city due to traffic noise and pollution.

I saw a documentary, there are deers, birds, a lot of large fish in the station's artificial lake, foxes, etc. And also a lot of trees in the Chernobyl area.

Is wild life and plants immune to radiation?

Scientists, who own this project, will not let us see Earth in HD in real time. They are interested in publishing papers, getting Nobel and other prizes, i.e. keeping data to themselves.

This stream video link does not work as expected. And will not work.

What is wrong with using Dutch technology? The Dutch technology is based on the periodic table discovered by Dmitri Mendeleev, as any other technology. It is very difficult to say if a technology is Dutch, German or Russian. The main point is that it works on the real market.

For example, senator McCain has got fourteen luxury houses, but nobody calls him an oligarch. Calling any Russian businessman an oligarch is an obvious smear tactic.

Speaking of butches, - have you ever seen sex tourists from the first world visiting developing countries? They are no better and no worse than any oligarchs.

Natural Gas producers are telling themselves, - use it carefully, do not burn it just because you can. It is a valuable limited resource.

It could be used instead in pharmacology, in plastics production, etc.

What I mean is that geology, natural resources extraction, especially in Siberia, are hi-tech industries in itself. There are a lot of useful minerals there. And there is a large field for innovation in it. Especially as new minerals are needed for production of new generations of computing devices, cars, etc.

Yes, but is not such an attitude a jealousy? The US wants to export natural gas to Europe by ships too.

Actually, the modern natural gas transporting system, or gold producing hi-tech mine-factory are very far from robbing South America civilizations' gold by Spain.

The Russian Federation is becoming the Land of the Free.

The world renown dissidents, Edward Snowden, Sarah Harrson, Bradley Manning, Julian Assange are asking Russia for asylum. What is going on?

How could this happen? What has become with:

I live in the country
Where people are free
And joy is the birth-right
Belonging to me.

Extracting natural resources, transporting and selling them is very far from a trivial task.

What is Democracy? A bunch of slave-owners in ancient Greece were discussing decisions in forums. This is it.

Cannot we do any better?

Cannot we discuss and make decisions via modern systems? Do we really need corrupted representatives? A semi-god president?

I mean a democracy is still much better than a tyranny. Yet, it is not perfect obviously to put it mildly.

Really? Democracy, the end of history?