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by doombolt 8y ago
Diablo 2 runs just fine under Wine. They also have Mac version so you're covered.
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by doombolt 8y ago
This would depend heavily on weather. Not everybody is living in California. There are places when you need five different pairs of footwear just to survive a year. Some might last, some won't. Throw someting in to wear indoors.
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by doombolt 8y ago
After reading about millet system, I still do not understand why it corresponds to "a very narrow and exclusive sentiment".
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by doombolt 8y ago
I think being South Sudanese or Eritrean is much better than being murdered for being a separatist, on ethnic cleansing scale. What's with the Ottoman Empire in the late 19th century? You seem to refer of it as of something well-know a
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by doombolt 8y ago
Modern nation-state is a racket and oligopoly. So-called "recognized states" make monumental efforts at disallowing creation of new states and at making citizenship scarce, to help keep their monopoly. This doesn't seem to be
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by doombolt 8y ago
St. Petersburg is one of the finest cities and it will be so without either air conditioning or elevators. It also has 1.5M population capacity walkable urban core so car isn't needed either. I think the same, if not more, can be said
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by doombolt 8y ago
"The last two remaining SovRoms, Sovrompetrol and Sovromcuarţ, were disbanded in 1956" If we're talking about 1950s especially, I can see how this link is relevant. Unfortunately I can't validate any clauses that are the
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by doombolt 8y ago
Why can't they just close the web page as opposed to affect other people's behavior? If that fails, go see a doctor with your own money. E.g. I watch porn and I don't need their efforts on liberating me from it, thank you.
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by doombolt 8y ago
"were nothing like a normal economic relationship" is not a very substantive claim.
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by doombolt 8y ago
Unfortunally we have diverged from economic arguments to purely political ones. And politically, you've got what you've got, especially as a small country. Things could go massively worse. The USSR had complete freedom of action
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by doombolt 8y ago
No, it does. Manufactured goods are not "resources". Those are made for selling, and in modern world markets for goods are considered more of a gift than goods themselves. Are they not? Does USA drain resources from China?
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by doombolt 8y ago
Actually, all of those states had higher standards of living than core USSR and also access to this huge Soviet market. Didn't do much good since communism is so bad, but still. After the collapse of the Bloc most of those countries l
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by doombolt 8y ago
There are other locales other than the US. Anyway, I guess you can eventually vote in such congress that they see their only mission in providing platform for direct democracy & safeguarding its availability. Other than that, what I hav
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by doombolt 8y ago
Paper voting means that you can hold very few elections and the like. This means choosing between representatives who nobody likes, and only discussing major questions. With electronic voting (not the black box kind of course) there's
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by doombolt 8y ago
Your mindset is a prime motivator for Russians to stick with Vlad the Eldercrusher , unfortunately. Georgia tried to overrun ethnic minorities' republics it does not control, you peg it on Russia. https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by doombolt 8y ago
Buying property in Bay Area is a bet. I can imagine scenarios where it won't pay off.
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by doombolt 8y ago
"sanctioned the murder of Germans who sought to escape" I have read a page on capital punishment in Germany, found no such claims. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_in_German...
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by doombolt 8y ago
When an addict tells you that you shouldn't use heroin it doesn't make them narcology expert. WRT "currently", does Guantanamo count?
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by doombolt 8y ago
I don't think we will see any industries with mass employment, and in eithet case, there's no reason why it won't be based near the largest cities. The prospect for remote areas is grim, and that includes even large-ish citie
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by doombolt 8y ago
I think the grim reality is that mono-industry towns are not viable in the long run. The world seems to have a large supply of these and their future is never certain.
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by doombolt 8y ago
There were a lot of trackers where you had rating, which would depend on the range of titles available from you and your prowess at disseminating them. But really, torrents work just fine even without those measures, even for niche content.
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by doombolt 8y ago
I'm not actually arguing about the whole point. But the argument itself might get your idea discarded even before getting tried on its merits. Think of it as of Bayes of ideas.
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by doombolt 8y ago
The teenager argument is sooo stupid. Yes, he wanted X as a teenager, now he isn't and wants Y. It's a different but related personality, rights and wrongs just don't ever enter the picture. Unless he either overcommits as a
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by doombolt 8y ago
France has 1.5x birthrate of that of Italy, because it helps moms to get education and jobs, as opposed to Italy who put the bet on "family values".
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by doombolt 8y ago
But do you have correlation between education availability to girls decreasing and child birth rates increasing? Your primary fallacy here is that you think you can always "mince the meat back". You usually can't. It doesn&#x
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by doombolt 8y ago
> cutting funding for education in ways that result in more children being had Do you have a citation for this? One with "cutting funding" in it and not the generic comparison between Somalia and Germany.
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by doombolt 8y ago
It doesn't really work like that. You can't unmince meat back. Once there is demand for education you can't roll it back by not delivering. Moreover you can't fix anything by cheating on people and/or making their l
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by doombolt 8y ago
This is downpayment for the future taxes by their children. Seems fair to me. But, for some reason, not for you?
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by doombolt 8y ago
Because you can now have your own means of survival as opposed to depending on someone other (such as "state" or "husband") and possibly being booted from time to time from that dependence together with children.
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by doombolt 8y ago
Why refute this? Yes, under communism, doctors are in the same silo as teachers salary-wise. Especially since most of them are general practice. Source: ex-USSR experience.

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