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>Putin is not named directly in these papers

yes that's absolutely damning. typical Putin /s

can you share more of your conclusions based on absence of evidence?

i would prefer you start a revolution in the US and the UK. the world will be infinitely grateful to all of you when endless wars, aggressions, support for dictatorships and colour revolutions come to an end.

have you read the article? - no you haven't

"With relatively few sites reporting the radiation increase, identifying its origins is challenging. The RIVM added media reports that it believes Russia is the source are likely based on mistranslations of its Dutch statement, and that "no specific country of origin can be pointed out at this moment."

yet you took the trouble to collect in your post almost every single bad thing you heard about Russia, half of them outright lies, the rest being half-truths, and dump them all here.

that would be the UK government, has nothing to do with the FSB (which is btw ~ FBI of Russia) or NSA.

>It's like the Soviets copying the space shuttle and concorde.

they didn't though, please try again.

technically you are probably correct though I was more replying to the parent's statement that it kills newborns

>The outbreak was first reported on December 31, but no children younger than 15 years old had been diagnosed as of January 22. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine said at the time that "children might be less likely to become infected or, if infected, may show milder symptoms" than adults.

>Since then, doctors have recorded a few one-off cases among children: a 9-month-old girl in Beijing, a child in Germany whose father was diagnosed with the virus first, and a child in Shenzhen, China, who was infected but displayed no symptoms.

>On Wednesday, Chinese authorities confirmed that an infant in Wuhan, China, had tested positive for the virus 30 hours after being born; the baby's mother is a coronavirus patient.

https://www.sciencealert.com/experts-are-puzzled-over-why-so...

no. for this one, no reported infections in children 15yo or younger.

Yes I missed it. My other points still stand.

But they will start shooting when they learn that a conflict has started. You know, if a US attack in the strait begins it will become obvious pretty pretty soon. Also they don't need a sophisticated link from the top to start an attack, just a simple command.

It means they are off the grid and are trained to act independently of the central command.

Your quotes quotes sound impressive but I wouldn't take them at face value and think that the Iranians are unaware of and unprepared to face these threats.

You may want to read articles by this guy for an alternative view on Iran's capabilities.

https://oilprice.com/contributors/Yossef-Bodansky

as a sidenote, some people even believed the US claims that their air defence systems are the best in the world, until a few days ago.

Not likely at all. The Iranian defence structure is highly decentralized.

>time and effort might be key here for your mastery of this subject.

It doesn't have to be this way. If most programming languages were designed like regular expressions they would be unusable. I can spend a year w/o writing a single line of Pascal or C++ and then it would come back immediately. I occasionally found regular expressions useful in my work, but only a couple of times could justify spending time on learning a little bit of it only to forget the next day. In a few other cases I simply googled a solution and used w/o understanding it. Most often I just write code instead, it is verbose but at least it's clear what it does.

In Canada it looks equally expensive if you don't have insurance (e.g. a non resident).

http://www.david-cummings.com/documents/canadian_hospital_ra...

You pay CAD750-800 for an ER visit if they just take a look at you.

what has intelligence and national security to do with the things the CIA is best known for: endless subversive acts, overthrows of governments, creating and enabling terrorists, assassinations, torture programs, extraordinary renditions? if anything it's quite the opposite.

While recounting anecdotes and making witty observations, let's not forget that this man was responsible for bringing incredible misery upon the people of Russia. Not he alone, but he was the main one.

Also a drunkard, a dictator and a darling of the West.

That is just not true

www.unz.com/runz/american-pravda-racial-discrimination-at-harvard/

Ha! That did the trick! Though it gave me these cryptic errors the add-ons are now enabled, thanks!

TypeError: setting is undefined[Learn More] ExtensionPreferencesManager.jsm:90:7 No matching message handler for the given recipient. MessageChannel.jsm:924 1556983316679 addons.xpi-utils WARN Add-on fxmonitor@mozilla.org is not correctly signed.

Edit: another weirdness: i decided to take a look at a different computer (unrelated to this one, at work via remote desktop) which is running exactly the same FF and Windows and all add-on are enabled. it's on 24x7; i didn't do anything to it.

66.0.2 (64-bit), Win 10

TypeError: Components.utils is undefined[Learn More]

what did I do wrong? (It's all Greek to me)

>people read and accept this capability without question

These days most negative statements about Russia are accepted at face value.

Is it in the US? In Canada Costco prescription glasses are horribly expensive.

It's sad for producers of genuine olive oil but as a rather indifferent consumer I always remember that olive oil, honey and I forget what else are the most falsified food products in the world. I would guess that the market of "extra virgin olive oil" will remain, cough, healthy.

What do you expect from a country that Israel has been demonizing for the last 20+ years calling for bombing it and spreading lies about its non-existent nuclear arms programs? A love poem?

>Iran is training proxies in Syria, Lebanon, and Palestine to attack Israel.

while Israel helps ISIS in Syria to destroy the country, bombed Lebanon, annexed the Golans and areas in the West Bank... you really shouldn't be digging up that dead high horse.

That's nonsense, it's not his definition at all.

it's an uphill battle, even the HN audience, at first glance consisting of people capable of independent thinking, is brainwashed and uncritical beyond belief.

Generally it's a pretty basic concept in analyzing any system, 1st step is to use a constant, if it doesn't fit then a linear model, etc. Can use different approximations depending on the circumstance, e.g. you can approximate sin(x) with x around 0...

Is there something special to it in this particular case?

That's about being a Professional Engineer, which legally entitles you to certain actions (e.g. sign off on design docs). Anyone can call themselves engineers of any kind as long as they don't pretend to be P.Engs. I am not sure though that being P.Engs in software means anything in practice, unlike in e.g. structural engineering.

>and yet only in the last 10,000 or so did civilization actually start.

and quickly heading towards self destruction. If this is the norm then living civilizations would be rare indeed.

>glass

In the good old USSR there was a limited number of sizes/styles of glass bottles and jars in circulation. Each one had a deposit value, and if it had no cracks/chips and all labels were removed, it could be returned for direct reuse, i.e. no melting and further manufacturing was involved. I think it worked OK since it had existed for many decades, and energy was cheap in those days.