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What do you think Germany's position is going to be on English refugees? Well, IIRC the EU's current stance, that they will welcome British people to move to the EU post Brexit. Especially if they are highly educated. Of course, we'll see how the talks will go on it too. Oh and finally the banking ...

I never understood what the problem was of Windows coming with IE, that was like criticising a car company of using its own brand of engine. Microsoft responded to that charge by creating a browser choice tool, for those users seemingly incapable of installing the likes of Firefox on their own :lol...

- the government party running one of the worst campaigns in history I trimmed it to this one because I find it the most interesting detail. I can't for the life of me work out why they called the election years before it was necessary if the candidate was going to be nigh-invisible anyway. It's no...

What? No. OpenSSL has a handful of developers and is badly underfunded. The company, yes, but I meant a lot of programmers I know tend to look at source code of things they work with or similar to their projects as hobby or means of learning. OpenSSL's code is not something people will look for to ...

Also why not just cut her up for salvage? Cutting her up in place, half-submerged, risks spilling crap into the sea that will be very bad for the local sea life. They still have booms in place to guard against things like fuel and oil leaks, but remember how huge the ship is. Just the on-board cont...

I'm not entirely sold on the notion that Fukushima was somehow entirely a produce of irresponsibility and gross negligence. Yes, it was an old and dated design, there were problems, but at least some of them were a legacy of being a relatively early design. Absolutely we can and do build them bette...

Yeah, I would imagine that there'd at least be some forward-thinking modern banks amongst the bewildering number around in the USA. Most likely the bigger banks don't care about it (if it works, why fix it? Better squeeze the customers more mentality) and the smaller ones don't have the resources t...

Also, Benedict antipope? Seriously? We got these only because grand powers of the day were willing to invest political capital into one to get their own Church figurehead, plus, in these days some cardinals were men of the kings, so you could get some of them to stand behind your antipope. What sta...

Not much with the Red Sludge. Finest parts of the cleanup never been attempted by the government so all the dredged hazmat from the river Marcal has been sitting on the riverbank last summer and the sides of Route 8 around Devecser had a distinct reddish color. Otherwise a hugeass dam has been built...

FSTargetDrone wrote:Also, whatever the people in the car are saying, they seem remarkably calm.

Watch some russian dashcam compilations on youtube. An interesting atmospheric effect far away is less dangerous then the next dumbass doing something really stupid on the road.

I suggest puppy linux. Boots from a CD, and is able to operate on a very wide variety of graphics cards. Booting from a CD is less useful on an EEEpc which doesn't have a CD drive... On the other hand, I'm not sure how much you'll get out of a 901, it will basically run like a bag of ass no matter ...

Even if we did what he was suggesting, wouldn't the irradiated area only be lethal for a couple of weeks, tops? Or is this part of some larger plan to get the government to develop cobalt bombs? Yeah, it's effects supposed to be mostly gone, except the limited amount of fallout. As far as I know, y...

Could it be said that people are better with basic resources, but lousy the more layers you stack onto it? For example, if a hunter-gatherer tracks a deer, I figure he knows exactly how much food that represents. It's a direct relationship between the size of the animal and his awareness of how muc...

Do other royal families still do this much? I admit I only really ever see the House Windsor in the news, but I wonder about the rest. What, for example, does the Japanese imperial family do with their time? Since their political situation isn't even remotely comparable, who cares? You might as wel...

Even if he did "drive home in his jaguar to his palace for caviar" that would not in any way diminish his skills as a pilot or the real risks he runs in flying some of those SAR missions. Yes, he comes from a privileged background but rather than sit on his ass and do nothing, or get into...

LaCroix wrote:Wouldn't it be great if such stuff could be solved by a "Your momma" style contest?

Or <insert current favourite FPS> team deathmatches. Heck, with TeamSpeak and similar VoIP programs, you can combine the two together...

You can argue that they were killed for the cause, not just for the sheer thrill of it. Now that the cause is dead and RAF itself gone, they have no actual reason to go back killing people. EDIT: Also "you have served your sentence, so we have to let you go" does not mean that the security...

Because computer cords are far safer? Yes, if they are shortened enough* to be useless for anything else than their original function. With a laptop with wifi, you only need the power cord. They are also nearly impossible to take apart without tools or breaking them and contain very few parts that ...

Or Russian prison colonies.

ray245 wrote:Well, the Persians have a history of hiring Greek Mercenaries, so I do not think that they are unfamiliar with Greek Hoplites.

Wasn't that practice started after the Greco-Persian wars? Although the Persians conquered the Greek cities in Asia Minor before...

Yes, because that is so equivalent to murder of an accredited ambassador. I am sorry, but that somehow fails to impress me as an argument, particularly when the idea of sanctity of the lives of emissaries dates back to Hammurabi (or possibly before Sargon), and was merely codified at Vienna. Oh, th...

Sort of both, but I just find the current example ridiculously audacious. It's as if they expect the western countries not to know Hungarian. They practically ignore the outside reactions of their actions and abuse the IMF's and the EU's pretty mandatory apolitical standpoints. This is rather damni...

Well, it's one better than what he did by outright lying what the IMF asked/reccomends Hungary to do to make a deal (Órbán claimed that the IMF wants stuff like pension cuts, eradicating bank-taxes and so on). Then the goverment calls the letter sent by the IMF "secret". Only for the IMF ...

Hopefully he gets a deal with Azerbaijani petrochemicals to replace Russian petrochemicals, if it comes to that..... Maybe, really big maybe. But since the Hungarian petrol company (which bought back by the government last year at a few hundred million USD loss) quit Nabucco project this April, shi...

People do seem to be a bit more angry that after the Lockerbie bomber got released a few years ago. People would be angry even without the precedent of the Lockerbie bomber. Because the Hungarian Government willfully stirred up tensions in a volatile region for even less gain that BP had in Libya, ...