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Offline Dowding

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« Reply #15 on: March 27, 2003, 01:57:50 PM »
I thought Ukraine was in the SW of the old USSR... then again my geography of that region is as good as CNNs.
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« Reply #16 on: March 27, 2003, 02:00:52 PM »
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a what?


This is a destroyer project, translated simply as "modern" or "contemporary". And it's spelled "Sovremenniy" (современный), not "sovernemy" :)
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« Reply #17 on: March 27, 2003, 02:02:01 PM »
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I thought Ukraine was in the SW of the old USSR... then again my geography of that region is as good as CNNs.


Sure. Ukraine is where Baltic republics on that map, and Chechnya is in Crimea, Ukraine, according to Forbes :)
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« Reply #18 on: March 27, 2003, 02:05:32 PM »
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And it's spelled "Sovremenniy" (современный), not "sovernemy"


I copied and pasted from you, or thought I did ;)
but thanks for the info.

btw, I can only see gibberish characters on my screen when you type in Russian.. (assuming that's what you're typing)
« Last Edit: March 27, 2003, 02:07:34 PM by Wlfgng »
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« Reply #19 on: March 27, 2003, 02:10:30 PM »
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I copied and pasted from you, or thought I did ;)
but thanks for the info.

btw, I can only see gibberish characters on my screen when you type in Russian.. (assuming that's what you're typing)


I spelled it in a traditional "translit" substituting Cyrillic characters with Latin. Then I wrote it in Cyrillic KOI-8 encoding, using the second type-set on my KBD. Then I copied and pasted what Hang wrote, definetly meaning Sovremenniy :)
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« Reply #20 on: March 27, 2003, 02:43:04 PM »
Can't find Germany on that list, thought Bush never forgets to retaliate :D


Regards Blitz



This war is unjust, dishonest, ugly and sad.

The pope says it's an "Angriffskrieg
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« Reply #21 on: March 27, 2003, 02:49:18 PM »
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Hang, Russian "mafia" is another fine myth.

Funny to see how intelligent people repeat all that crap.


Clearly you haven't tried to do any "real" business in Russia.

One of our clients considered it...but he was a bit "put off" by the need for armed guards with machine guns when he attended meetings there to discuss the proposal.  He politely declined and grabbed the next plane home.
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« Reply #22 on: March 27, 2003, 02:50:38 PM »
OMG look where the balkan states are !

Reminds me of a nice dialogue a buddy of mine had in the US:

"Where are you from ?"

"Germany."

"So, you got a car ?"

"Sure I got a car."

"How long did it take you to get here ?"

"Well, about 10 hours."

"That must have been one hell of a drive."

ROTFL
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« Reply #23 on: March 27, 2003, 03:28:48 PM »
I love 15.
the US works to destbalise the elected goverment of that country and then it is at risk because its destablised.
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« Reply #24 on: March 27, 2003, 03:37:54 PM »
it would be a cold day in hell before the japanese seek nuclear weopons. forbes is a joke.
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« Reply #25 on: March 27, 2003, 03:58:26 PM »
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Hang, Russian "mafia" is another fine myth.



I dunno. I spent 15 days in Moscow in '96 and we HAD to pay the local mafia for protection to keep our flat safe. The word was that if you didn't pay the flat would be burgled or have an invasion type of robery weekly until you did.

It wasn't a bad thing though, with the protection money they'd pay a guy to hang on your street corner with an automatic weapon to keep an eye on his block....and some old babushka to sweep the sidewalk with what looked like a witches broom.

Unlike Moscow the Kome Republic and specificaly Usinsk < sp >, where my job was there weren't any outward signs of the mafia.

But hey, maybe it wasn't a real mafia, they had the crooked noses and all but none that I saw drove Mercedes or had their own show on HBO.
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« Reply #26 on: March 27, 2003, 04:06:40 PM »
You fools! Dont you know there is no crime in the Soviet Union!!!!
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« Reply #27 on: March 27, 2003, 04:08:39 PM »
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I love 15.
the US works to destbalise the elected goverment of that country and then it is at risk because its destablised.


That's a tautology.
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« Reply #28 on: March 27, 2003, 05:29:49 PM »
"On to Paris......."
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« Reply #29 on: March 27, 2003, 06:13:28 PM »
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That's a tautology.


dont make me pull out a dictionary Mike.
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