>Just look at the USSR: they had tons of bombs, and their government was toppled, from within. I wouldn't use the word "toppled" in the case of the fall of the USSR. Nobody actively contributed to its fall with the…
>Sorry, then why has the US been involved in a major war every ten years since WW2? Because those countries didn't have nukes. Nukes create peace for those who own them, not those who don't. North Korea will never be…
The biggest guarantor of Germany not invading France again is that France has nuclear bombs and no one ever invaded a country that has the nuclear bomb, which is why people are panicking at the idea of NK having it…
> I full heartedly believe this institution played a major role in retaining the piece after World War 2. Not this canard again. Countries that have known peace within their homeland territory post WW2 were countries…
Propaganda organs like Russia Today already have versions translated in various European languages. They would be absolutely delighted to be the last and only piece of internet news to be available on google. Europe is…
>I really hope that you guys stop indulging your blood lust by invading other countries and killing millions of innocents to make profits for your munitions industry and you as a country become less bloodthirsty That's…
I am french and two of my friends left for the US because very large companies I won't name made them offers that are impossible to match in Europe. There is no lack of produced talents here, they just won't stay…
> One of the differences is that it doesn't even have an option to disable updates Even if you could disable updates it doesn't matter because Skype is a centralized client-server architecture under Microsoft and I've…
>One may not park a car _anywhere_. There are typically laws dictating when, where, and for how long. Whether the laws are respected or enforced are a different matter. The law is broken so often it might as well not…
>To get to A2 you need a real tutor No you don't. I'm French, I dropped out of school at 16 and picked up English later in life without using any formal method of learning. I started by memorizing enough vocabulary to…
>The cynic in me suspects that data science for a game company will involve mostly marketing research, however. Actually, there's a lot of it involved in game design. In the case of MMORPG, what to develop next as…
>that obsessing about eating healthy food is considered a mental illness. Mental illnesses, at least in present times, are defined and diagnosed when they are an impediment to functioning in a normal manner in society.…
Photoshop + Lightroom cost 12 euros. The CS price you mention is for all the apps in the creative cloud, not just the raster image editing bit, so that's unfair to compare $50/month to "alternative to krita or gimp". 12…
> I agree that GIMP is a Linux's Photoshop, not a Linux's MS Paint Photoshop had massive, productivity boosting features like Adjustment Layers, since the 4th release, in 1996!! simple non destructive effects were added…
> That's a pretty obvious clone of MS Word if I ever saw it. Say what you will about patents, but this is egregious copying and I don't think it's wrong of MS to defend themselves here. If you think this shouldn't be…
The pixel isn't even sold in my country, France.
I downgraded from an iPhone 5s to an Honor 8. Best decision I could have done. My Honor 8 is still as fast and snappy as it was on day 1. It doesn't take that long for iPhones to become sluggish. Been there, experienced…
I had to make room on my MBP SSD to install windows through bootcamp and bashed my head against a wall on the same issue. It took me half an hour to find the reason why so much of my hard drive wasn't available despite…
I'm not the person you were answering but I subscribe to similar utilitarian views and must say, if it wasn't shunned by society to the point of risking to take a beating, I wouldn't mind wearing a skirt in summer. In…
Microsoft does not have any way of knowing whether you have an antivirus or not and because the Spectre patch causes a bluescreen on boot if you have an antivirus that's not updated, they require the antivirus set the…
> Why spend billions in R&D? Because it's profitable. Once upon a time, Japan was perceived the way we currently perceive China : a land where cheap, flimsy knockoffs were produced. The first camera made by Canon (which…
> If one is riding without holding the handlebar, one can make the bicycle go to the left or right depending on which way one leans, which in essence changes the center-of-gravity. The handlebar will turn in the…
> At low speeds you can turn right to go right, but any faster and it's you do the opposite to initiate a lean and the lean does the turning. Countersteering works at low speeds too. I don't get where this…
> I guess you have to put more effort into the weight shift on a heavier two wheeled vehicle? No, this is not how you're supposed to turn whether you use a motorcycle or are riding at moderately higher speeds on a…
>Just look at the USSR: they had tons of bombs, and their government was toppled, from within. I wouldn't use the word "toppled" in the case of the fall of the USSR. Nobody actively contributed to its fall with the…
>Sorry, then why has the US been involved in a major war every ten years since WW2? Because those countries didn't have nukes. Nukes create peace for those who own them, not those who don't. North Korea will never be…
The biggest guarantor of Germany not invading France again is that France has nuclear bombs and no one ever invaded a country that has the nuclear bomb, which is why people are panicking at the idea of NK having it…
> I full heartedly believe this institution played a major role in retaining the piece after World War 2. Not this canard again. Countries that have known peace within their homeland territory post WW2 were countries…
Propaganda organs like Russia Today already have versions translated in various European languages. They would be absolutely delighted to be the last and only piece of internet news to be available on google. Europe is…
>I really hope that you guys stop indulging your blood lust by invading other countries and killing millions of innocents to make profits for your munitions industry and you as a country become less bloodthirsty That's…
I am french and two of my friends left for the US because very large companies I won't name made them offers that are impossible to match in Europe. There is no lack of produced talents here, they just won't stay…
> One of the differences is that it doesn't even have an option to disable updates Even if you could disable updates it doesn't matter because Skype is a centralized client-server architecture under Microsoft and I've…
>One may not park a car _anywhere_. There are typically laws dictating when, where, and for how long. Whether the laws are respected or enforced are a different matter. The law is broken so often it might as well not…
>To get to A2 you need a real tutor No you don't. I'm French, I dropped out of school at 16 and picked up English later in life without using any formal method of learning. I started by memorizing enough vocabulary to…
>The cynic in me suspects that data science for a game company will involve mostly marketing research, however. Actually, there's a lot of it involved in game design. In the case of MMORPG, what to develop next as…
>that obsessing about eating healthy food is considered a mental illness. Mental illnesses, at least in present times, are defined and diagnosed when they are an impediment to functioning in a normal manner in society.…
Photoshop + Lightroom cost 12 euros. The CS price you mention is for all the apps in the creative cloud, not just the raster image editing bit, so that's unfair to compare $50/month to "alternative to krita or gimp". 12…
> I agree that GIMP is a Linux's Photoshop, not a Linux's MS Paint Photoshop had massive, productivity boosting features like Adjustment Layers, since the 4th release, in 1996!! simple non destructive effects were added…
> That's a pretty obvious clone of MS Word if I ever saw it. Say what you will about patents, but this is egregious copying and I don't think it's wrong of MS to defend themselves here. If you think this shouldn't be…
The pixel isn't even sold in my country, France.
I downgraded from an iPhone 5s to an Honor 8. Best decision I could have done. My Honor 8 is still as fast and snappy as it was on day 1. It doesn't take that long for iPhones to become sluggish. Been there, experienced…
I had to make room on my MBP SSD to install windows through bootcamp and bashed my head against a wall on the same issue. It took me half an hour to find the reason why so much of my hard drive wasn't available despite…
I'm not the person you were answering but I subscribe to similar utilitarian views and must say, if it wasn't shunned by society to the point of risking to take a beating, I wouldn't mind wearing a skirt in summer. In…
Microsoft does not have any way of knowing whether you have an antivirus or not and because the Spectre patch causes a bluescreen on boot if you have an antivirus that's not updated, they require the antivirus set the…
> Why spend billions in R&D? Because it's profitable. Once upon a time, Japan was perceived the way we currently perceive China : a land where cheap, flimsy knockoffs were produced. The first camera made by Canon (which…
> If one is riding without holding the handlebar, one can make the bicycle go to the left or right depending on which way one leans, which in essence changes the center-of-gravity. The handlebar will turn in the…
> At low speeds you can turn right to go right, but any faster and it's you do the opposite to initiate a lean and the lean does the turning. Countersteering works at low speeds too. I don't get where this…
> I guess you have to put more effort into the weight shift on a heavier two wheeled vehicle? No, this is not how you're supposed to turn whether you use a motorcycle or are riding at moderately higher speeds on a…