Crap!.. When I saw that it was 'near Notre Dame' I thought that it's in Paris and I could fly there to attend, but then I noticed prices in dollars.. Apparently I'll never fulfill my dream of sitting through one of those events, feeling superior just because I attended primary school...

True.

I'm very sorry that it is this way, but it's absolutely true.

Russian police is the worst criminal organisation in the country - no exceptions since they "police" their ranks very efficiently and you do not get higher than a trainee cadet if your superiors sense some moral backbone in you.

I know this because I have a friend who has an elder brother working in Moscow police.

Sad..

While reading through suprisingly ignorant comments on _new_ tech of launching an ICMB from submerged position (this is slashdot, we are all supposed to be armchair warriors with underdeveloped muscle tissue and oversized brains filled with data on weaponry we would never, ever see unless its on youtube) and replies of ppl putting the record straight I just want to add this little nugget of information here:

In 199something (don't remember, but it was a crappy year in Russia - lost of bad news, the story got lost and resurfaced only in 2002 I think) Russian submarine has successfully launched ITS ENTIRE PAYLOAD in quick succession (as in several seconds between missiles) from submerged position - quite a feat of technology as well as personel training, since when launching more than one ICBM in quick succession one must take into account subs' weight change after the first missile leaves (it begins to surface), uneven wight distribution as pumps begin to fill ballast tanks with water to compensate just when the second missile fires, actual RECOIL begins to matter too - it's not much of a problem when you fire just once, but it becomes one if the sub's being shaken just as another missile is attmepting its launch..

So all in all - ICBMS from under water = old news.

Cheers

I'm not being too serious here, but, even though these are just ants, wouldn't it be wrong to assume that I didn't arrive home with my legs cut off beneath the knee because of the resulting leg length?

I mean even though ants a just insects they are really complex mechanisms and there might be some form of damage reaction other than shorter steps after a partial limb loss - like general weakness and reduced desire to go anywhere at all?

Still, desert-roaming ants on stilts (I'm guessing that's how they've increased leg length) sound very much like new overlords we should better bow to ASAP..