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Comment Re:time to invade (Score 1) 131

No. South-Ossetia and Abkhazia was/is a part of Georgia. They are still only recognised by Russia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Nauru, Tuvalu and Vanuatu (and by partially recognized Transnistria and unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh. And each other).

Georgia tried to use army forces to retake the control of South-Ossetia but was met with Russian forces which entered Georgia proper in fighting.
Separatist forces in Abkhazia have with the help of Russian weapons and forces more or less complete control of Abkhazia.

Regarding Kosovo, as something like 90% of the people was/is Albanians and more or less a war started 1998 between the Serbian army and Albanian rebel forces, a potential risk for homicide was lingering. 2008 declared Kosovo independence. Today is Kosovo recognized by most of the EU country's, USA, Canada, Australia and Japan. Plus a couple of minor country's.

As the former republic of Yugoslavia disintegrated, a war started 1991 between a couple of the former provinces/autonomous regions of Yugoslavia. At this point there were no commonly or at all recognized country in this area.

Comment Re:About time (Score 1) 602

The downside with getting rid of "categorizing" is that the social/legal climate is such that you can in trouble with police due the behavior. With a "diagnose" the police have something to relate to when deciding how to treat a certain situation. I'm *not* talking about a criminal behavior, just e g an awkwardness in the response to the police.

 

Comment This will boost the electric car market (Score 4, Interesting) 198

If you can reuse parts of your electric car for your household for economic benefit (and maybe as backup for blackouts) it makes these high priced cars more valuable and therefore expand the potential market.

This will also potenially create a battery market for house backup for blackouts or accomodation to possible day to night price difference.
Which also will expand the battery market. All this will lower the production unit costs for batteries.
And here the cycle begin again... :)
 

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