Posts by Dimitrov

Useless unions

Another publication claims the merged company will eliminate overlapping back office, technical and call center staff, as well as retail staff.

Yep, great deal indeed.

GTAIII

There's a joke about Citizens Raging Against Phones somewhere around here...

Opinion by a Eastern European

So basically you took advantage of people who had no knowledge of how much their stuff was worth. Yay to you. Just don't act all surprised when suddently Russia seems to distrust the West. You (collectively) brought the current mess in East-West relations to yourselves.

Yes the Soviet-style communism was an inherently bad system. But by destroying it so abruptly the West actually made things in the East worse, at least for a period of time. This is something the russians and easterners in general find hard to forget.

What's with all the BMW hate?

Do I smell sweet, sweet jealousy?

Hey, now!

"when you consider the original motoring monstrosity that Herpa had to work with"

Hey now, let's not resort to name-calling! The Trabant was cool. Maybe not fast, or safe, or pleasant to drive, but cool nonetheless.

Meh, westerners...

Title

The term "industrial espionage" springs to mind, not to mention they look fugly.

Dumbphones?

"Dumbphone" is an actual word? In English? Wow.

Video games are to blame

I bet she played way too much Fallout 3 and just wanted to try the Exploding Pants thing in real life.

Quick, somebody think of the children!

Oh the humanity!

Oh noes! The results were leaked 15 minutes before the official announcement! Call the tanks, we have a national emergency here!

Please someone explain how this is a problem at all? They didn't rig the election, they just announced what everyone would know anyway in less than a quarter of an hour. Perhaps a slap on the wrist is in order, but a parliamentary investigation and abuse of the -gate suffix? Please...

In the year 2015, there will be only CGI

I wonder if there will even be actors in the movies of the future, or everything will be done in CGI... Kinda sad, when you think about it.

US =/= EU

"Not only has the same case already been adjudicated in the US..."

I've heard rumours that the average american's grasp of geography is loose at best, but surely even they must know that the US and EU are on different continents and are, in fact, independant (well, more or less). Also, the concept that the rest of the world doesn't have to follow the US legal decisions is apparently hard to understand.

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@ Strange law

Sure there is. During a math test for example, you can obviously count in your head, but you're not allowed to use a computer to do it for you.

I can see why the casinos would be pissed about that. But then again I don't gambleq so I don't care either way.

Looks nice, but doesn't do the job

I kinda like the UI, especially the little tabs with the three or so most popular results at the top (yeah, tested it with Paris...)

And searching in different languages isn't as bad as I thought it would be. It still finds results when I enter something in cyrillic, alot less than Google though.

And the images... no need, thanks. Just no. I searched for our prez out here Georgi Parvanov (in cyrillic) and the second result showed the logo of AlliedBarton, a US security guard company apparently. I have no good guess as to why.

Don't worry...

you Brits will get an opt-out of it, just like with 99% of everything else. Your asses - pardon, donkeys - are safe.

Grats!

A "WANTED" sign would be well in place on some of those pics!

Just joking, congratulations guys and girls and keep up the good work!

Boo!

Fear the Eastern Europeans and their superhuman qualities!

Ads

This presents endless oportunities for "smart" advertising. Just looking at a billboard will bombard you with dozens of rubbish info. Oh the joy. The future just became darker.

@TimNevins

Except if the foreigners are russians. Then it's a-ok.

@I don't mind..

Not all of us live in the UK or the US you know. So you say it's really bad for them to kill people in your country, but it's ok to fight abroad? Talk about double standards.

@Andrew Heenan

"After all, my grandmother's broom has been in the family for generations ... it's had three new heads and many new handles - but it's the same broom."

Oh aye, me grampa's Scone of Stone is still the same one as well.

@ Steven

Saying that the mollahs, iranians or all muslims for that matter have no problem dying for their religion is as stupid as saying that the Soviet Politburo had no problem starting a nuclear war with the United States. The argument could go that as communists they believe that the world revolution is inevitable, thus starting a war and dying for the cause wouldn't change anything.

As we all know that didn't happen. The USSR didn't start tossing nukes around the globe just because they had no problem doing so from ideological point of view. People in power are not lunatics, even if they look so. Thus your argument that Iran could become one big suicidal bomber is asinine, to say the least.

Alexa ratings

By the way, according to Alexa, yahoo.com is the most visited site on the internet, followed by google.com. So don't be to hasty to say "why are MS buying something dying".

Thinking before talking

The International Federation of the Pornographic, I'm sorry, Phonographic Industries needs to STFU imo. Their entire statement is incredibly offensive on multiple accounts.

First the Russia thing - so I guess noone in The Land of the Free downloads stuff from torrents, huh? It's only them pesky slavs, with their inherent addiction to stealing honest people's property? I'm not russian myself and I am usually not easily offended by national/ethnic stereotypes, but somehow insulting russians and others typing in that funny cyrillic alphabet by bland generalizations is considered to be OK. Hey, what's the big deal, they are white and christian, so no problem there.

And then the assumption that everyone who uses p2p technology and TPB in particular is a pirate, yarr! I was under the impression that there were legal stuff on those trackers so shutting them down would deprive us of the possibility to get said free stuff.

What a bunch of losers.

Lies

I don't see how this enterprise could succeed. We all know this is the Internet, where men are men, women are men and children are the FBI.

Damn :(

Well, damn. I expected Pratchet's books to allways be around somehow. Sad.

Good news is he isn't dead yet and I hope he won't be for at least 10 or more years.

Wrong

When I smoke, I see the label on the box: "Smokers die younger". Yet, I choose to smoke anyways. The Government isn't forcing companies to remove tobacco from cigarettes because it causes harm. A society where the Man protects me from all harm is a terrible dystopia.

I'm sorry, but if you are afraid of lung cancer, you don't smoke. If you can't play games with flashy lights, you don't. Simple as that. It's terrible, but it's the stone-cold truth.

Soldiers?

"a lifestyle without the internet"

As in - a lifestyle of heavy military training in case the commies from the North invade and you are too soft to stop them? How is turning these people in war-obsessed soldats going to help the South Korean's youth?