This is basically what the ancient Germanic peoples had as well, at least as recently as the Anglo-Saxons. Tolkien used it as the basis for his Elvish calendar.

12 months of 30 days each, 2 extra days for midwinter (Yule) and three or four extra days at midsummer (Litha).

SSH for text editing is an ugly hack to work around the fact that we still can't do file sharing well.

Many of the files I edit via SSH are configuration files in /etc, or relatively large generated files (output files). For the first case I would not want to share /etc with other hosts. For the second I would not want to have to transfer a large amount of data between hosts when it is unnecessary (and probably slow) to do so. For clarification, I could use a pager to view the second case files since I will not typically modify them, but the syntax highlighting is useful in that case.

I wonder whose requirements this targets.

My own requirements are:

• split second loading, saving, editing and searching of large text files
• can log into any host via SSH and just use it
• (nice to have) syntax highlighting and smart indenting

Therefore: vi or vim. Virtually no other editor even comes close with respect to point 2.

Kind of like why Puerto Rico is still a territory of the U.S.

More like why Guantanamo Bay is a territory of the US.

"Let's take a vote! Yes, you too, Private Stevens with the big minigun there, you're an official resident! Do we want to be part of Cuba or not?"

People should decide where they belong

The entire point of this article is that the people didn't decide.

it is not in our best ... interest to weaken Russia further with ... sanctions

Interestingly, I would have agreed with you several weeks ago, when I thought that they would simply be ineffective. However since that time the strong focus of the Kremlin sock puppets on the BBC HYS and other forums trying to question the justification of sanctions has set me thinking the opposite, which is that sanctions will actually be extremely effective at the moment since the Kremlin is very afraid of them.

... defuse the crisis and ... try and repair relations

That doesn't appear to be Lavrov's current tactic.

the major international organizations were invited, but refused to attend

Because the vote was illegal.

Those organizations have not right to determine the legitimacy of people's vote

If the UN doesn't have the right to determine the legitimacy of a vote, I somehow don't think that the Kremlin does.

The major resource in Ukraine is wheat (their flag is a wheat field against a blue sky), which doesn't ship through pipelines very well. However it's still extremely valuable to Russia which doesn't produce enough cereal crops of its own, and wheat's global price is going up and up. Ukraine was the breadbasket of the former Soviet Union.

And, of course, you need wheat to make vodka.