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    Teach me how to fight.

    On Prince level (or below) you can try Warrior rush. Just build 5 Warriors as fast as you can (before any Workers, Settlers, Barracks etc.) and attack your nearest neighbor. Most likely the city will be protected by a single Warrior, sometimes 2. With 5 to 1 (or even 2) you have a real good...
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    Netflix and...Qwikster?

    I don't watch cable TV. I never did and I never will. It's a ripoff. Besides, if I want, like, Disney Family movies on-demand, I'll have to pay an additional $5.99/mo for 10-12 "unlimited and commercial-free" titles. Definitely a deal-breaker for me...
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    Netflix and...Qwikster?

    Comcast asks to subscribe for "XFINITY TV", which is not exactly "free". I only have their Internet, so their on-demand is not an option for me. I'll better stay with Netflix for $8/mo.
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    Netflix and...Qwikster?

    The future of movie business is where I can watch 1) what I want, 2) where I want, 3) now, and 4) for a flat monthly fee. I don't really care if it's gonna be Cloud or Myst or Galactic Dust. Whatever they may invent in the future. So far the best approximation is DVD by mail. It somewhat sucks...
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    Russian 101

    Where did you get 12? I can think of only 3, well, maybe there are 3-4 more, but they are less productive... I suggest a linguistic game. You take 3 most common Russian roots and the full lists of Russian prefixes and suffixes (it's like 40 or 50 each), construct a word out of one of the...
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    Russian 101

    BTW, don't try to use "perfect" verbs such as 'сказать' (=to have said), сделать (=to have done), etc. in the preset tense, they don't have one. The modal forms with 'могу' (=I can)...
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    Russian 101

    I would translate the first one as После того как мы поедим, они умрут (if you mean this to be a single event in the nearest...
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    Russian 101

    I don't get it either. Can you say what you want to say in English?
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    Russian 101

    Try this one: http://www.andrsib.com/rus Unfortunately, no. It kind of sucks, since in a few instances the wrong accent can change the meaning of the word. In the printed materials, such as books, they usually put an accent mark in these few cases, but there is no standard way to type it using...
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    OUTrage! Lies from Religion and History Textbooks.

    You see, we have a little problem here. Normally I am quite normal, but if someone tries to push their silly God disguised as science onto my kids, I'm getting a little nervous, to say the least. Why cannot they just remember that God is behind everything without shouting it aloud? Is that...
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    OUTrage! Lies from Religion and History Textbooks.

    What's so incomprehensible? If you talk about, say, Newton's laws during a physics class, you'd have to mention that God (Orthodox style) is the one behind these laws, then what St. Augustine said about time, space and matter, and finally, how one needs to be spiritual in order to discover how...
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    OUTrage! Lies from Religion and History Textbooks.

    Now you are getting it, aren't you? :lol:
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    OUTrage! Lies from Religion and History Textbooks.

    Here is another one, just for you. In Russian again, sorry. Use BabelFish or ask your parents. "The contemporary science has been created by Catholics and Protestants and therefore is not unique. A different knowledge about the world had ancient Egyptians, Indians, Chinese etc. Is another kind...
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    OUTrage! Lies from Religion and History Textbooks.

    In Canada, maybe. In Russia you can now find all kinds of stuff being taught as "Orthodox Culture".
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    OUTrage! Lies from Religion and History Textbooks.

    Well, they have quite a few things in common. Such an attitude "Recently discovered astounding scientific facts, accurately described in the Muslim Holy Book and by the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) 14 centuries ago."
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    OUTrage! Lies from Religion and History Textbooks.

    That's because you have courage to admit it.
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    OUTrage! Lies from Religion and History Textbooks.

    When did I say I understand it? :) I said it is nonsense. Nothing to "understand" at all.
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    OUTrage! Lies from Religion and History Textbooks.

    If you don't understand it, it's a plus to you, not minus. :)
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    OUTrage! Lies from Religion and History Textbooks.

    I dunno. The correct Russian term is "mrakobesiye", roughly translated as "superstition", but combined with open hostility toward science. There is another, quite different sort of "Orthodox Science", they harshly criticize 7-day creationism, but then babble about how the contemporary...
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    OUTrage! Lies from Religion and History Textbooks.

    No, that was not my point. Physics, Chemistry, and especially Biology (think Darwinism and Evolution) are "Protestant" in the sense they forget to mention God. The Protestants "humanized" Jesus up to the point where He is no longer God, but a mere human. That sort of science is materialistic and...
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