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When someone says "I am Macedonian" people aren't going to stop and think; "Oh, you're a Slavic descendant of people that migrated into the southern Balkans 500 odd years A.D.?". No, they're going to think they mean they are speaking about a cultural and linguistic background th...

Unlikely I would think, as this would hit the rest of the EU pretty hard as well - it would be a case of cutting their nose to spite their face. Let's hope we don't get to find out. Not really. Most of the eastern Member States had a higher impact from the imposition of sanctions on Russia then the...

That's their problem, not ours. If the refugee situation gets bad enough in those countries that the conditions get as bad as Middle Eastern refugee cqmps, then it might be worth considering taking refugees off them. Until that happens, they can keep them. You see, this attitude is why Hungary and ...

1. Do you know anyone whose done an MsC thesis, on the basis of previously published articles? (I'm trying to argue use of my own material from my articles). (Currently I can't simply cut & paste) You cannot copy/paste anything of yours already published, that's self-plagiarism and a big no-no....

As far as CGI goes, it actually holds up quite well I think. I've rewatched it recently and had no trouble enjoying it (the fact that I like space opera sci-fi and that there is a maddening lack of it on TV since nBSG finished probably aided that). Especially when you consider that it was the foreru...

Maybe. But Steam has a nine year headstart, and odds are that the vast majority of PC gamers have a library of games that, assuming they even bother to upgrade to Windows 8 in the first place, they won't be in a hurry to drop. Unless Microsoft manage to do something truly amazing with the integrate...

I've been using Windows 8 on my laptop for months now and I vastly prefer it to the point that even if I'm mainly going to be gaming I'll use my laptop instead of my desktop running 7 with hardware entirely better than my laptop unless I want to play a game not installed on my laptop (equivalent SS...

General Croatian law. As I said, most of the time, the neutral parties are some friends the person who is getting served calls over (the witnesses must not be closely related to the person being served and must not be residents of the same apartment/house), so the neutrality is a bit questionable, b...

Reminds me of the time I was woken up by ringing and yells of "Police". Wasn't a full tactical team outside, just two detectives; they needed a civilian witness for the execution of a search warrant (around here police need two civilian non-resident witnesses as a theoretical neutral party...

It might not be a classic pirate though - Professional is the version given out (or sold heavily discounted, depending on school and program) to students on MSDNAA/Dreamspark and some other similar discount programs. All of those licences are non-transferable! Even if otherwise legit (unlikely), you...

What is your Mac model? What is the graphics card in the Mac? On Windows, ATI cards have an issue of doing underscan and weird refresh rates by default over HDMI when they detect that a TV is connected so you have to tweak display settings (digital display or some such section) in order to get a nor...

Reading it a bit less sinisterly, a practical work/internship requirement is nothing new for vocational schooling. As is it not being paid or being minimally paid or profits split with the school. The only really troubling aspect here is that schools from non-related fields are forced to do so - tha...

You don't. But if you are unable to run Prophecy in Windows 7 environment, the GOG release would take care of that. That's not everything. Many of the titles that we release also contain expansions, additional content, director's cut, better hi-res movies (which were sometimes part of special limit...

On the topic of morality bars - I do think Bioware has perfected that mechanism, as flawed as it is do principally to its binary nature, in SWTOR; while the consequences are, at best, an in-game mail message, the decisions have become interesting a lot of the times, compared to KOTOR and other Biowa...

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Total Recall, the series, is pretty much nearly spot on for what you're proposing. It tanked, even though it was pretty decent.

I had just gotten home from school and was flipping channels on the TV. CNN had something about a plane hitting the WTC, it seemed like a pretty big incident but still fell mentally into the "plane crashes, media are vultures" category so I flipped over to the next channel. In the end, I l...

I've played the leaked preview on my decidedly underpowered in today's terms laptop (5400rpm HD, Radeon 3650 GPU) and as far as loading times go, they weren't instant or something like that, but they weren't that long - I've done the no kills thing for a mission and the loading times did not seem to...

"It's not that the situation has gotten worse, but that KFOR troops have been very active and the commander considers the troops need to be relieved." No, no, the situation hasn't gotten worse; those exchanges of fire between KFOR troops and protesters, small arms fire being opened at Cro...

You know what I would at least give another shot. A show about the two female characters minus most of the government and all of the conspiracy crap. One of them is hot, the other cute and their powers could work pretty well for pulling jobs or something. A better show would just be the hot one and...

If you just want to trade stuff with yourself and friends, use Dropbox . Makes more sense and is more reliable then some home-cooked thing. For platforms with native clients it syncs using the LAN if two clients are present on the LAN. Other then that, if you specifically need file-serving over http...

The thing is, the charges on plastic and glass bottles really do help tremendously with both recycling and keeping littering down. We used to have a problem with parks being littered with 0.5L plastic bottles and even more so broken glass ones. Nowadays? Not a single one. Why? Because each can be so...

In that vein, you really should consider some sort of minimal data package with a modern smartphone. Pretty much every application that does something useful expects an Internet connection. Most of them don't use up much traffic (I have a 512mb package and rarely do more then 200mb a month with ligh...

More to the point, the author's obvious ignorance of the topic he's writing about is showing. First off, DDOS means distributed denial of service - the exact opposite of direct - the entire metodology is that you distribute the attacks among many sources (usually compromised computers in a botnet) s...

If you turn people over to forces who are known to kill or torture prisoners, that is a war crime. If you do not act on trustworthy sources (which seeing it with your own eyes count), you are guilty of a war crime. If you offcially put in place policies whose aim it is to stop the investigations of...

Over 20 fire-fighting aircraft from the area have arrived or will arrive today to help - planes from Greece, Turkey and Cyprus have already arrived, while planes from Egypt, Jordan, France, Croatia, Russia, Spain, and Romania are on the way. And Germany, apparently. EDIT: its interesting to just con...