Bogdanow

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• Commented on A message from our sponsors: New Book coming!
  If only I wouldn't be so against such world re-use....
• Commented on Worldcon in the news
  @Pyrkon, At least in some years (for example:2014, I mention this specific year simply because I have data handy), Pyrkon was partly financed with money from BOTH city (Poznań) budget and the Poland government (Ministry of Culture)....
• Commented on Same bullshit, new tin
  "Russia has reportedly been drafting legally blind diabetic fifty-somethings: it's hard to imagine them being effective soldiers in a trench war." It works because plenty of them get papers for disabilities via bribing doctors. Also, the Russian Army is, at...
• Commented on The coming storm
  "2024 looks set to be a somewhat disruptive year." Well. That sounds rather terrifying after the last couple of years. Still, I agree, even if I'd prefer not to. Some words from Poland. Poland and South Korea. Two things. First,...
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  @whitroth, "There were no real, common d/b for pcs." The gold standard DB for small computers in that time was dBase. It was running on (mostly) z80 CP/M and x86 DOS. Hence, covering a lot of hardware in that time....
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  33: "The violence associated with the cocaine and meth and narcotics trades is about the money, not the effects of those drugs" The experiment with easy access to opioids didn't end well....
• Commented on I should blog more, but ...
  That is one part I like. The state shall remove addictive products sold by unscrupulous corporations from the market. It's a bit funny overall that is going to be done by Sunak, but still, I support this....
• Commented on Pushing it back
  Sunken steel ships are VERY durable. Also, constructions like roads and railways will be easily detectable for huge amount of time....
• Commented on Summer webcomics
  Questionable Contents. The first time I saw that was over 15 years ago. Then I went back a couple of years ago and read all the strips thru one month. Somehow lost me since robots arch got introduced. I preferred...
• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  Regarding Japan. Not only did the Soviets attack Manchuria, but also in the north of Japan Islands - Sakhalin and Kuril Islands. What is more, Soviet entry into the war put moot all the dreams of using the Soviet Union...
• Commented on Strong and Stable!
  Paul@782: "So I'd like to suggest that if we want to be newbie-friendly we drop the pet names" Valid point. That isn't easy to get sometimes....
• Commented on London Bridge
  @877: "Switzerland is not a NATO country, but all of their neighbors are." Not accurate. Austria is also not a NATO country, same for Liechtenstein....
• Commented on Bad news day
  A voice from Central Europe. The discussion about NATO expansion and Russia treats in very paternalistic and objectifying way nations between Germany and Russia. Not nice at all. That's is more than a hundred million people after all. Nevertheless, in...
• Commented on Starship bloopers
  I have been dreaming for years for Verhoeven's take on The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. ST is one of the very few examples when I prefer a film over a book....
• Commented on So you say you want a revolution
  @Graydon, Rifles/Artillery You are missing machine guns in the picture....
• Commented on Yet another novel I will no longer write
  About the American voting system. There is one thing that gets omitted all the time. In Europe, in most countries, there are 3 to 4 elections (local government, the national parliament, EU parliament, some countries like France or Poland will...