Well, some people aren't goldfish.

how the hell do you pronounce "thrythswyth"?!

Not using a Pentium 4, I guess.
My core i5-3350p has passive cooling.

More like invading Mexico and then annexing Texas. Sounds familiar?

USD is high against the EUR not because USD is strong, but because the European Central Bank is printing money like there is no tomorrow - for some very strange reason their current president is convinced that the Eurozone has a huge deflation problem.

Not so in central Europe, over here there is more than enough water. I don't think farmers actually ever water their crops where I live.

This is Deus Ex we are talking about so the gameplay is good by definition. Even the shitty Invisible War was better than most of other similar games of the period.

What regression are you talking about? Compared to Yeltsin even Putin looks good.

Nuff said

Captialism is necessary, though not sufficient, for a free society.

And this is utter nonsense. A free society can coexist just fine with a simple barter system or even when everything belongs to the commons, which was one of the ways the tribal societies worked. Economic systems are completely orthogonal to the societies. It takes a completely brain washed person to insist otherwise.

From the train station to home, not from my parents. It is about 10 km away. I think 30 km at once is about my limit when walking - I am unfortunately not as fit as I used to be.

Same for me. But there was a situation when I was visiting my parents who live about 250 km away. I took the train. On my way back it was already so late that the last bus from the station to my home was gone. A rental bicycle would have been perfect for this situation. I had to walk instead, not a problem but it took me almost two hours. Would have been more like half an hour on a bike.

Russia had famines every 10 years or so, the last one was in 1947, though.

Ukraine was not a country before 1991. Just saying ;-)
The USSR started sinking because eastern European countries and most of the union republics were a bottomless drain on the economy, not other way around.

ORLY? Just in January two workers died at the Fukushima power plant.