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Re:Washington Post editor resigns after accusing CEO of killing column
on Tuesday March 11, 2025 @01:07AM (#43329315)
Big tech regulation.
Re:Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions
on Saturday March 08, 2025 @09:11AM (#43300389)
ID4's price seems to be $42k in the US? How much is the Model Y? Or did ID4's price decrease to $42k recently?
Re:The Decay of Twitter
on Friday November 06, 2015 @10:29AM (#10519910)
All the Twitter accounts I'd ever want to follow have fairly infrequent status updates so I just add them to my RSS reader and follow them that way instead of having to interact with Twitter's website or application in any way.
Re:Arriving in Berlin – A map made by refugees
on Monday October 26, 2015 @02:02PM (#10453112)
>and while your average syrian immigrant gets 1500euros
That's nowhere close to reality.
Firstly, an "immigrant" will not get anything. They will get deported if they're not deemed a refugee. Most asylum seekers actually don't get asylum.
Secondly, if they end up getting refugee status/asylum, then they will receive about 300-400 euros a month (that's somewhere between 330 to 440 USD a month for the international crowd in here).
Re:Arriving in Berlin – A map made by refugees
on Monday October 26, 2015 @01:57PM (#10453070)
>What about the millions of eastern / central europeans
Have you forgotten about the Yugoslav wars? About half a million of refugees went to Western Europe (mostly Germany and Sweden) in just a couple of years.
Israel Joins EU in Spiking Safe Harbour
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Re:Why Russia’s Alternate History of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Matters
on Friday October 16, 2015 @09:02AM (#10398945)
No. My country was created by the democratic independence referendum of 1991, in accordance with Yugoslavia's constitution.
Altho sadly, after the declaration of independence and its international acceptance, a guy named Milosevic who committed coup d'etats in Montenegro, Kosovo, Vojvodina and attempted a coup d'etat in Slovenia decided that he disagreed with our independence and started a bloody war.
But thanks for trying to teach me history.
Re:Why Russia’s Alternate History of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Matters
on Friday October 16, 2015 @08:40AM (#10398848)
Countries of Eastern Europe are willingly joining NATO because they don't want to be bullied by a certain country in the east.
My country joined NATO because, altho not under direct threat from Russia, Russia supported our enemy (going as far as sending special forces to work undercover) in a very recent conflict and as such I couldn't give a shit if Russia feels that their imperialism is threatened by my security.
No one in NATO has to force any country into joining NATO. Russia's doing it on its won.
Re:The Drone Papers
on Thursday October 15, 2015 @01:19PM (#10394473)
>it counts any unknown males killed in the strike as enemy. It doesn't use that assumption to do the strike.
Imagine for a moment that someone (be it some foreign agency, US police, army or whoever) did the same in America, to American citizens. Would you be outraged by your explanation?
"Hey, it's not like they're targetting them specifically. They're just deciding that they were all enemy combatants post-factum."
Re:Social Media Cracked the Case of MH17
on Thursday October 15, 2015 @10:35AM (#10393366)
Yes. Many news sources reported on it.
As for the actual content in question - here's an archive of a tweet of them boasting about having Buk missile launcher, the tweet was later deleted:
http://web.archive.org/web/20140707150151/https://twitter.co...
Here's a screenshot of the VK account where their (now former) commander and defense minister (and allegedly "ex" FSB member) claimed the downing of a Ukrainian plane, later the content was deleted:
http://i.imgur.com/fi4Zkx6.png
The Wikipedia article covers all that in depth:
Re:Social Media Cracked the Case of MH17
on Thursday October 15, 2015 @08:38AM (#10392733)
Russian/rebel social media also played a role in all this, in a way that's not mentioned in this article.
There are some official and close-to-official social media accounts that are used by the Russian rebels to announce progress (Twitter, Facebook, VK) usually straight from the mouths of commanders and higher ups.
When MH-17 was downed they boasted about shooting down a Ukrainian plane only to find themselves quickly deleting all mention of it several hours later.
Those same accounts also boasted about acquiring a Buk missile launcher weeks earlier, but those status updates were also deleted.
German spy scandal deepens
Re:The Case for Getting Rid of Borders Completely
on Thursday October 15, 2015 @03:53AM (#10391893)
What do you do when a person refuses to identify themselves?
Do they still have this universal right of freedom to move?
Revisiting the Sony Rootkit fiasco
Safe Harbor Was Never Safe. Or: Why It Is Important Where Your Data Is Stored
Biggest German news site Bild.de blocks access to users with adblockers
Re:Islamic State has shifted to Telegram from Twitter
on Sunday October 11, 2015 @07:54AM (#10368987)
>Usually it takes long time for area to be recognized as 'state',
Islamic State has existed since about 2006.
Re:Islamic State has shifted to Telegram from Twitter
on Sunday October 11, 2015 @04:52AM (#10368602)
It's really not clear what point you're trying to make, if any at all.
If you don't like reading about ISIS, then don't. It's as easy as that.
And it'll make you look a lot less pretentious than you are right now.
Re:AWS and EU Safe Harbor
on Saturday October 10, 2015 @03:56AM (#10364854)
>EU bureaucracy is a destructive force.
It's a defensive force in this case.
Have people suddenly forgotten what happens with data in the US?
Re:The Nobel Peace Prize 2015 attributed to tunisian people
on Friday October 09, 2015 @05:33AM (#10358999)
Well, not "people" as a whole but rather the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet which partook in the transition to democracy.
Re:Assange: US Waging 'Lawfare' in Bid to Control the World
on Thursday October 08, 2015 @12:30PM (#10353820)
>It's not about territory control, it's about industry control.
He's talking about application of laws in foreign territories. Naturally, for the benefit of US and its own industry. How is that substantially different from what you're saying?
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Alter Firefox's built-in privacy settings easily with a toolbar panel
Re:America's Military Supremacy Is Fading
on Thursday September 24, 2015 @03:47AM (#10270371)
>suggest the US cannot continue to play the same constructive role
Tell me more about that constructive role in the Honduras coup as late as 2009.
Re:Volkswagen Chief Martin Winterkorn Resigns Amid Emissions Scandal
on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @01:17PM (#10266394)
The emissions would have led to premature deaths of far more than 100 people.
Re:Volkswagen Chief Martin Winterkorn Resigns Amid Emissions Scandal
on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @12:18PM (#10265958)
>He was only in his job for about 5 months
He has been CEO since 2007, before any of the VW models with defeat devices were introduced.
Some of the German analysts and experts who are knowledgeable about the industry itself have said that there is not even the slightest chance that he didn't know this.
There's an interesting talk in German here:
Re:Volkswagen Chief Martin Winterkorn Resigns Amid Emissions Scandal
on Wednesday September 23, 2015 @12:16PM (#10265949)
Somewhat relevant, allegations have come out that the German government was aware of VW cheating on emissions tests
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/volkswagen-scandal-germ...