kutakbash

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by kutakbash 13y ago
Politkovskaya case is attributed to her activity in Chechnya, which falls under 'provincial oligarchs' rubric I mentioned upthread. That's pretty bad, but that's not the government still.
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by kutakbash 13y ago
So somehow Russian government is unworthy of presumption of innocence? Or it is guilty as long as dominant discourse asserts it is? Once again, Russian government is not responsible for murdering journalists, there is no firm evidence it is
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by kutakbash 13y ago
Yeah, I see that link come up pretty often. First off, does it really make sense to attribute to government each and every journalist who was killed, for whatever reason? Including sports reporter, including the guy from press service of th
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by kutakbash 13y ago
It's not really proven that Russian government murders journalists. Though. Which is the whole premise of my comment.
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by kutakbash 13y ago
>which runs a sideline business in murdering inconveniently critical journalists Not trying to defend Russian govt (which is without a doubt pretty sinister), but this 'journalist murdering' thing that pops up every time Wester
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by kutakbash 13y ago
Truth be told, you won't be able to call them 'communists' (evil or good) regardless.
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by kutakbash 13y ago
Why on Earth do they need to tap athletes? Mr. Putin heard about NSA and thought Russia needs some surveillance as well to look cool?
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by kutakbash 13y ago
The curl part is also pretty shoddy btw. Would you really use curl to setup a server running behind TOR? I don't have adequate 'training and experience', but it seems natural that website working through TOR should use normal
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by kutakbash 13y ago
Is it really? If you look past Western Europe and North America it is definitely not. And even there you can see things, like that spike in Bay Area. Except for population size, there seem to be at least two more major factors at play: weal
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by kutakbash 13y ago
Strangely, this is not so different from Belarus as you would imagine.
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by kutakbash 13y ago
Is it really a norm? Most of online stores don't attempt to 'validate' your CC number in this way. Entire reshipping businesses are built on this premise.
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by kutakbash 13y ago
Sometimes these arbitrary pseudo-technical restrictions are just infuriating. Once I came across an online store that wouldn't let you ship to one country and pay with credit card of another one (say, you try to order something to the
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by kutakbash 13y ago
I see your point, but nowadays English is not merely yet another foreign language, in a way it belongs to people of all over the world by right of their contribution to universal English-speaking culture (think Vladimir Nabokov or Linus Tor
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by kutakbash 13y ago
This, pretty much. "Cancel" is always going to stay [kuh-ntseh-l], "OK" [oh-k] and "Delete" [deh-leh-t].