I don't get it? The history of autopsy is like at least 500 years old. Are you telling me, that all these years no doctor was interested in this part of female body that they had to use MRI to make this stunning discovery???
I'm astonished and horrified nobody made a reference to the Slacker movie.
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First: what has "war in Russia" to do with Ukraine and Baltic states? Now, Soviet Union is a whole different story, as is Western Ukraine, which prior to 1939 was a part of Poland. People in there also welcomed Soviets in September 1939. And as you said, "that didn't last too long, either". Welcoming o Germans was even shorter story, since the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists declared independence of Ukraine on the day German troops entered the city of Lviv and the day after their leaders where imprisoned and spent their days in concentration camps till end of the war.
I read history books, but do you?
I read history books, but do you?
A. Ukrainians didn't welcome Germans as liberators. Maybe some did, but you have collaborators under any regime, that doesn't make it "welcoming".
B. IT'S Ironic and awesome in so many ways. Sending billions of strays of love to the guys that did that. I'm yet to wait and see the day when the same would be possible in Ukraine.
The message here is not about whether liberation should in quotes or not and what was it under totalitarian regime like. It's about a glorification of war per se and creating archetypal heroic imagery from people who basically go around and shoot other people for no particular reason. And it's very illustrative that the re-branding of the soviet military icons into comic-book heroes went so well and easy. The difference is: the latter ones are actually 100% fiction, but the other ones are distorted images of real-life prototypes, that shouldn't be in any ways appealing.
I do realize why that would make many people offended, but they are believing in outdated things of the past. Buy all means they should get offended and abandoned rusty icons of the past. Obviously, stealing a slave from the slave-trader in mid-14th century probably made him angry and offended, but it doesn't mean it should stay this way.
B. IT'S Ironic and awesome in so many ways. Sending billions of strays of love to the guys that did that. I'm yet to wait and see the day when the same would be possible in Ukraine.
The message here is not about whether liberation should in quotes or not and what was it under totalitarian regime like. It's about a glorification of war per se and creating archetypal heroic imagery from people who basically go around and shoot other people for no particular reason. And it's very illustrative that the re-branding of the soviet military icons into comic-book heroes went so well and easy. The difference is: the latter ones are actually 100% fiction, but the other ones are distorted images of real-life prototypes, that shouldn't be in any ways appealing.
I do realize why that would make many people offended, but they are believing in outdated things of the past. Buy all means they should get offended and abandoned rusty icons of the past. Obviously, stealing a slave from the slave-trader in mid-14th century probably made him angry and offended, but it doesn't mean it should stay this way.
Oh, come on guys!! What's there to talk about? It's chupacabra, duh!
True story: there are very strong rumors, that Oleg Lyashko is gay. He personally denies this, but it's quite natural - Ukrainian society is still rather conservative and coming out of the closet for a politician would be equal to suicide.
And Adam Martynyuk is a member of communist party, which is generally despised.
So people where making jokes, that it was "too faggots, caught in a fight".
And Adam Martynyuk is a member of communist party, which is generally despised.
So people where making jokes, that it was "too faggots, caught in a fight".
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World is celebrating 50th anniversary of the man's triumph in Space and Russian Novaya Gazeta published recently released secret data about Yuriy Gagarin's rewards, after successful completion of the mission.
The decree was issued exactly 50 years ago (19 April, 1961) and was signed by Nikita Khrushchev himself.
Decree acknowledged it to be necessary to provide Gagarin and his family with a house, a car and a 4-room apartment.
It also contains explicit addendum, cantoning list of rewards, beside the apartment. Here is my translation:
1. Furniture for bedroom, dining room, children room, kitchen, kabinet.
2. "Volga" automobile
3. "Rubin" TV
4. "L'uks"radio
5. Washing machine
6. Refrigerator
7. Carpet runners
8. Vacuum Cleaner
9. Piano
10. bed linen - 6 sets
11. Blankets - 2 sets
Second addendum lists personal equipment for Yuriy Gagarin:
1. Overcoat
2. Light (summer) overcoat
3. Raincoat
4. Two sets of business suits (light one and black one)
5. Two pairs of shoes (again, light ones and black ones)
6. White shirts - 6 pieces
7. Underwear - 6 sets
8. Handkerchief - 12 pieces
9. Ties - 6 pieces
10. Gloves - one pair
11. Hats - two pieces
12. Socks - 6 pairs
13. White silk underwear - 6 sets
14. Electric Razor
15. Two sets of uniform (one for special occasions, one for everyday use)
16. Two suitcases
Gagarin's two brothers and the sister received 1000 rubles each. I can't quantify exactly, but this amount was pretty significant at the tame, equal approximately to more then average soviet citizen's year income.
Hope, you'll find this info interesting :) #tips
World is celebrating 50th anniversary of the man's triumph in Space and Russian Novaya Gazeta published recently released secret data about Yuriy Gagarin's rewards, after successful completion of the mission.
The decree was issued exactly 50 years ago (19 April, 1961) and was signed by Nikita Khrushchev himself.
Decree acknowledged it to be necessary to provide Gagarin and his family with a house, a car and a 4-room apartment.
It also contains explicit addendum, cantoning list of rewards, beside the apartment. Here is my translation:
1. Furniture for bedroom, dining room, children room, kitchen, kabinet.
2. "Volga" automobile
3. "Rubin" TV
4. "L'uks"radio
5. Washing machine
6. Refrigerator
7. Carpet runners
8. Vacuum Cleaner
9. Piano
10. bed linen - 6 sets
11. Blankets - 2 sets
Second addendum lists personal equipment for Yuriy Gagarin:
1. Overcoat
2. Light (summer) overcoat
3. Raincoat
4. Two sets of business suits (light one and black one)
5. Two pairs of shoes (again, light ones and black ones)
6. White shirts - 6 pieces
7. Underwear - 6 sets
8. Handkerchief - 12 pieces
9. Ties - 6 pieces
10. Gloves - one pair
11. Hats - two pieces
12. Socks - 6 pairs
13. White silk underwear - 6 sets
14. Electric Razor
15. Two sets of uniform (one for special occasions, one for everyday use)
16. Two suitcases
Gagarin's two brothers and the sister received 1000 rubles each. I can't quantify exactly, but this amount was pretty significant at the tame, equal approximately to more then average soviet citizen's year income.
Hope, you'll find this info interesting :) #tips
Naaah. I've tried to explore the possibility of doing this before. Google Reader is great and starring items in the reader to read later is exactly what I do. But honestly, it works well only for the subscribed feeds.
What if I want to read just this article, on the site which might not even have an RSS feed, or I defnitely don't want to add the whole feed to the reader.
You can actually add the post to the google reader by highlighting the text you want to read.
But that's where I prefer to use Instapaper - it does the same thing with just one click.
Now, i think it might be possible to get the same result in Google Reader through writing your own command in Quix (text is formatted automatically with instapaper javascript bookmarklet and then sent to GReader).
But I'm too lazy to do it right now and still not sure how to make Reader select the whole text automatically.
What if I want to read just this article, on the site which might not even have an RSS feed, or I defnitely don't want to add the whole feed to the reader.
You can actually add the post to the google reader by highlighting the text you want to read.
But that's where I prefer to use Instapaper - it does the same thing with just one click.
Now, i think it might be possible to get the same result in Google Reader through writing your own command in Quix (text is formatted automatically with instapaper javascript bookmarklet and then sent to GReader).
But I'm too lazy to do it right now and still not sure how to make Reader select the whole text automatically.
Not so much a tip, but more of an advice for all of those, who are running blogs and private sites:
Don't forget to include "print button" option with all your posts/articles.
It's pretty common to have these on news sites / magazines. This way it is assumed that what is written there requires immersed, deep reading and therefore person may need to print out the article to read it later and/or pass it on to somebody else.
Opposite to that, blogs have a tendency to avoid this feature. Very bad, since
1) it automatically creates image of the temporal and fleeing importance of an article.
2) may simply result in reader skipping the post.
It's not at all about saving the rainforests. Print button doesn't mean that one is going to physically print it out on paper.
But with advancement of ebook readers and rss-agregators, this button developed new meanings and uses.
Sites like Instapaper benefit a lot from this feature, since it allows them to have a clear, stripped view of the text, pure content to process.
Much of the ebook reader software acts the same way (and some ebooks with Internet connectivity as well).
So please, for the sake of your readers and deep attentive reading, don't forget to include "print" button to all your posts. And it's not that difficult!
Otherwise, you're just perpetuating the idea that reading these days is becoming shorter-span activity and the future is with tweets and abridged content skimming. #openthread
Don't forget to include "print button" option with all your posts/articles.
It's pretty common to have these on news sites / magazines. This way it is assumed that what is written there requires immersed, deep reading and therefore person may need to print out the article to read it later and/or pass it on to somebody else.
Opposite to that, blogs have a tendency to avoid this feature. Very bad, since
1) it automatically creates image of the temporal and fleeing importance of an article.
2) may simply result in reader skipping the post.
It's not at all about saving the rainforests. Print button doesn't mean that one is going to physically print it out on paper.
But with advancement of ebook readers and rss-agregators, this button developed new meanings and uses.
Sites like Instapaper benefit a lot from this feature, since it allows them to have a clear, stripped view of the text, pure content to process.
Much of the ebook reader software acts the same way (and some ebooks with Internet connectivity as well).
So please, for the sake of your readers and deep attentive reading, don't forget to include "print" button to all your posts. And it's not that difficult!
Otherwise, you're just perpetuating the idea that reading these days is becoming shorter-span activity and the future is with tweets and abridged content skimming. #openthread
of course there is. but when you have mobile device integrated into your daily routine you wouldn't want to spend time goofing around unconvincingly retyping passwords for email accounts, facebook and whatever are the other services you'd be using.
"Push" functions by definition can't work without your email password stored somewhere on your device.
So you deliberately sacrifice your security for your mobility and comfort.
Well, it's not only about dictionaries. As I said: the language is non-latin based, which means that they also need to come up with an effective transliteration algorithms. And I'm quite sure that's not so easy. I can instantly come up with 12 ways to write my surname in English. And that's only without password strengtheners.
"Push" functions by definition can't work without your email password stored somewhere on your device.
So you deliberately sacrifice your security for your mobility and comfort.
Well, it's not only about dictionaries. As I said: the language is non-latin based, which means that they also need to come up with an effective transliteration algorithms. And I'm quite sure that's not so easy. I can instantly come up with 12 ways to write my surname in English. And that's only without password strengtheners.
I feel lucky to be native in another language, other than English. Moreover, a language with non-latin alphabet, which creates necessity for transliteration, which, as we know can be done in many different ways. It does make passwords random, and yet I can still apply some mnemonics to memorize them. Of course, one day someone will develop algorithms for those as well but so far it provides me with some sort of leverage.
Secondly, with passwords I'm actually quite a bit paranoid with mobile devices. i think the easiest way to compromise online security is to have and ipad or iphone stolen. Those devises essentially have all the data in there. And many times burglar wouldn't even need to bother with cracking even the basic security, since it's all in there already: logged and stored in cookies, etc.
Secondly, with passwords I'm actually quite a bit paranoid with mobile devices. i think the easiest way to compromise online security is to have and ipad or iphone stolen. Those devises essentially have all the data in there. And many times burglar wouldn't even need to bother with cracking even the basic security, since it's all in there already: logged and stored in cookies, etc.
Discussion of new Lady Gaga clip winded down in rather interesting observation, almost unrelated to the original topic.
What are the fat / obese iconic sci-fi characters? I can't think anybody other than Jabba Hutt. And even he wasn't the main hero of the story...
Then there were number of rather obese character in Babylon 5... and that really does it for me. Can't think of anybody else. #getorthogonal
What are the fat / obese iconic sci-fi characters? I can't think anybody other than Jabba Hutt. And even he wasn't the main hero of the story...
Then there were number of rather obese character in Babylon 5... and that really does it for me. Can't think of anybody else. #getorthogonal
I think it's important to point out that the book is particularly interesting only because of venture into non-typical cultural background. In all other aspects historical speculative fiction is mainly only historical speculative fiction. We don't really know what would have happened "if".
Well, I won't be surprised at all to see her with fat extensions in some future videos. We can already start speculating what kind character would it be: Jubba the Hutt? Wonder Woman's fat sidekick?
Yes, it does, and the similarity and reference is conscious and intentional.
Increasing screen space on Windows netbooks and laptops.
Small and very simple tip for guys working on laptops and netbooks, which generally tend to have a problem of a limited screen space. At the same time, these days most of them are wide-screen formatted. Therefore, you can make use of this by moving Windows taskbar to the left or right. Since screens are wide, it doesn't really constrain the horizontal space (it would hardly make the area available smaller than standard 1024 pixels), but will add more to the vertical space. #tips
Small and very simple tip for guys working on laptops and netbooks, which generally tend to have a problem of a limited screen space. At the same time, these days most of them are wide-screen formatted. Therefore, you can make use of this by moving Windows taskbar to the left or right. Since screens are wide, it doesn't really constrain the horizontal space (it would hardly make the area available smaller than standard 1024 pixels), but will add more to the vertical space. #tips
It only seems to be working faster in Chrome. Secondly, lot's of bugs, especially with a sidebar - it doesn't seem to be very responsive currently.
Oh well, I am browsing io9 through Google Reader most of the time anyways. So why bother...
Oh well, I am browsing io9 through Google Reader most of the time anyways. So why bother...
Eeeek. All of them except the 6 photo look sort of disgusting.
It's a false alarm, false news-worthy event. As it was pointed out already, tours to the site have been provided for years now.
What's being reported about here is simply another example of government corruption. It seems like someone is a government or with ties in it wants to abuse the position and monopolize the market and hype from the Euro 2012 publicity.
Just use google FCS! [www.google.com]
What's being reported about here is simply another example of government corruption. It seems like someone is a government or with ties in it wants to abuse the position and monopolize the market and hype from the Euro 2012 publicity.
Just use google FCS! [www.google.com]
@Edfire77: Well, I happened to be present at few autopsy's. Nasty experience, but it's eyeopening how tender and feeble human body is.
Opening scull or ribcage is a matter of seconds.
Cutting through a limb would be more difficult, but not by far. And it seems that he actually cut it through the joint - so it's actually even easier.
Opening scull or ribcage is a matter of seconds.
Cutting through a limb would be more difficult, but not by far. And it seems that he actually cut it through the joint - so it's actually even easier.
