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by ptaipale 9y ago
Not likely at all unless you have masses of them (which the Kurds don't have), though they may successfully harass attackers and reduce their bombing accuracy. Does Turkey have guided bombs? And will they be re-supplied so that Turkish
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Really? I have walked in some Swedish upper middle class / sprawl areas, didn't notice any particular questioning looks, not to mention antagonism. Har inte gått i faktisk Solsidan dock. The only area in Scandinavia where I met ac
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Yes, NATO as an organisation will hardly support Kurds either, but I can see that individual NATO members as well as other countries will start giving more and more moral and possibly economical support.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I would guess a lot of it is not really inside information, just the ability to read Arabic-language media.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
NATO is hardly going to support Turkey's adventures in Syria so it'll have little relevance for that fight. And while the Turkish have far more firepower and air power than Kurds, the terrain is extremely favourable for a defendin
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by ptaipale 9y ago
What is "occupied Palestine" in your count? Just to clarify if it is Gaza+West Bank, or the usual Arab definition that includes all of Israel, or all of the old Palestine mandate that included also present-day Jordan? Depending on
457.
by ptaipale 9y ago
When someone writes about "a big alliance", which however is not evidenced by any public formal contracts of alliance, that is a fairly good indicator that a theory could be considered conspiratorial.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Disagree with the antagonism, though my sample is of course very small. Coming from North Europe, where it's fairly natural to walk distances of a few hundred meters to do an errand, I and colleagues used to walk from a hotel in Rohner
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by ptaipale 9y ago
And as that page also explains, has restarted some of them, and the long-term policy calls nuclear power "the country's most important power source".
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Originally, gasoline was a byproduct of kerosene (lamp oil) refinement, and simply thrown into waste (even dumped into rivers). The man best known for getting rich by utilizing this byproduct was John D. Rockefeller.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Whether it was their business or not, I'm thankful Americans did it, because it meant that I have been able to live my first 50 years in freedom and peace. Without American support after World War II, also Western Europe would have bee
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by ptaipale 9y ago
If you actually want to do a good job raising those kids, it certainly isn't the easiest way to find fulfillment... But of course, in societies where you (can choose to have) everything (basic) provided for you, there are indeed some w
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by ptaipale 9y ago
As you must be aware, population growth comes from high family size which in turn comes from the need to ensure one's support at old age. In extremely poor societies, where there are no pensions or social security for the old, the best
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by ptaipale 9y ago
No, they had a much larger population to begin with. Life was very hard in North America before arrival of European technology and crops, and populations were small.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
In any case - whether the pre-Columbian population in North America was 2 M or 20 M - the proportion of indigenous population killed by "America", (meaning United States of America) is certainly at most a few percent. Most of indi
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by ptaipale 9y ago
The road out of poverty is through what is called "exploitation" in Marxist theory - particularly, international trade. As British economist Joan Robinson put it :"The misery of being exploited by capitalists is nothing compa
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Pogrom, meaning specifically persecution of Jewish communities, was not a Soviet phenomenon. Otherwise, there were a number of ethnic persecution campaigns in the USSR, with the Holodomor being the largest, but there were also many others.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Yes. We don't like verticality. That is actually true in much of Europe. One reason for this comes from geography: Europe is further away from the equator than most other prosperous areas, e.g. US or China. This means that the sun shin
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I tried to say that it was not so simple. Yes, obviously Multics had the LF line end convention. Some systems saved files internally in a record format so the line end was whatever what the software decided to print out there. But mostly I
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by ptaipale 9y ago
You could surely say that the war with Japan didn't help. Well-known events like the Potemkin mutiny may be dismissed as not impacting industrial output, but there was a large-scale general strike which actually lead to "1905 revo
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by ptaipale 9y ago
That was pre-industrialization, though, and mostly due to things like smallpox for which indigenous population had no resistance, even before actual immigration from Europe.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
I don't understand why you say "it's unlikely the Menshevik republicans would have pulled that off". It's what "Menshevik republicans" i.e. social democrats were doing in much of Western Europe (together w
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by ptaipale 9y ago
If you send it in raw format to a Teletype, it'll print correctly... Other than that, I don't see it being any more right. But it is a convention that is far older than Windows or MS-DOS. I saw it myself first on CP/M but it
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Thanks, that was a good read. Still, as they say in this article, without a tinfoil hat: "There’s no reason someone couldn’t have found this years ago instead of today."
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by ptaipale 9y ago
By the way, can someone tell a reason why these parallel independent discoveries came during the same year as Project Zero? The vulnerability has been there for 20 years, and it is somehow strange that over the past two decades nobody thoug
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Education is generally far more cost efficient than building new infrastructure like roads.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
In a large majority of the remaining cases it is the cyclists who is at fault. There are a few cases where a pedestrian causes a cyclist death, but they are rare. The list includes those cyclists who are run over by a train, for instance, b
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by ptaipale 9y ago
In my country (Finland), the average age of cars used in traffic is 13 years.
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Blocking the view? Strange, I think the views to the road that crosses this one are remarkably open here. Before looking at this, I thought there could be some hedges or such for which England is famous, but I can't think of any excuse
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by ptaipale 9y ago
Likewise, that 2/3 is mostly not due to lack of knowledge. Over here (Finland), driving license training and testing nowadays has increased "attitude" training, as that is seen becoming more important than knowledge of traffi

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