First and second proclaimed Republic of Latvia. Third gave independence from from USSR. I would say, it's quite of achievement.

Hah, any country would like to have Internet like we have here in Latvia. http://www.speedtest.net/global.php Don't underestimate developing countries, we don't have legacy infrastructure to rely on.

We already have -20* C now in Riga, for me it is enough.

English is not my mother tongue.

My GF last week infected my computer indirectly but through video. After downloading file from suspicios source and opening it with VLC it showed that it can only be seen through windows media player. When she opened with wmp it asked to download codec to play file. And wolla, what a surprise - codec contained worm or something. I spent whole evening cleaning up the mess.
If I remember correctly it was TrojanDownloader:ASX/Wimad.CN

Dam, and I was giving compliments to M$ regarding this tool. It was like a breeze of fresh air after Nero.

Name one please. To my understanding there is no any communist regime that is not dictatorship for one simple reason, communism is against human nature. You cant force people to give up their material values only by reasoning with them. On other hand grandparent is wrong too. you can have dictatorship without communism. Take a look on modern Russia for example.

Experts say it is not real. Goole translation

Looks authentic to mee

There is one more zero emission option - green fuel (wood) power plants. Don't know about US, but we in our small country (Latvia) are planing to have some. Of course there are emissions, but this is the same CO2 that was absorbed by the same tree not so long time ago.

Am I wrong or something, but I think that at those times you measured the canon by the size / weight of cannon ball not the cannon itself. Did a little calculation. If barrel diameter 4'' and assumption that diameter of ball is almost the same and that cannon presumably will use iron (100% clean) cannon balls I got 1.7 pounds.

Yes, spam is illegal in Latvia.

Information Society Services Act)
Paragraph 9.1 (google translated):
Forbidden to use commercial communication sent into the automatic dialing (terminal) systems that operate without human intervention, electronic mail, or fax machines (facsimiles), which allow a single contact with a recipient if recipient has not previously been given a free and explicit consent .

There is one in Estonia too

Jeah, I'm not a physicist and I know, that I'm spoiling my karma right now, but seams that they just made up some very generic "function" with N attributes and every time result does not match, they say- "Hei, change that attribute" or "Take 8 dimensions instead of 10" or "Fold 5th dimension that way". Come on, even y = ax^2 + bc + c almost match with y=sin(x) in some particular region of x if you set up a's, b's and c's correctly.