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Author Topic: Russian TV Station Shut Down Shik Starship database: completed; History of Starfleet: done; website: probably never Member # 343 posted                       Is this the work of a democratic nation? No. Stupid Russians. They need to realize they're still in the 12th century & go back to feudalism to work their way out of it like the rest of us did. -------------------- "The French have a saying: 'mise en place'—keep everything in its fucking place!" Registered: Jun 2000  |  IP: Logged Treknophyle Senior Member Member # 509 posted                       This is what happens when you take a primitive culture and GIVE it advanced technology before the aborigines can socially evolve to cope with the changes. I guess the Prime Directive was right... -------------------- 'One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.' - Lazarus Long Registered: Feb 2001  |  IP: Logged Nevod Member Member # 738 posted                       It's not stupid we, it's our stupid laws. -------------------- Fear is the ultimate enemy.And unreasoning is second that. Registered: Nov 2001  |  IP: Logged capped I WAS IN THE FUTURE, IT WAS TOO LATE TO RSVP Member # 709 posted                       hmmm.. -------------------- "Are you worried that your thoughts are not quite.. clear?" Registered: Sep 2001  |  IP: Logged Harry Stormwind City Guard Member # 265 posted                       Ahh... Democracy, Putin style.. Don't give a damn about your people (*cough*Kursk*cough*). IIRC, in all those years governing Russia, the people had exactly ONE possibility of asking him questions :S. Thankfully he and Bush get along quite normally (but don't feed him pretzels ). Anywayz, it would be cool if mr. Nevod himself gave some inside views on all this . -------------------- Titan Fleet Yards | Memory Alpha Registered: Dec 1999  |  IP: Logged Cartman just made by the Presbyterian Church Member # 256 posted                       Well well, aren't we all considering ourselves superior. Alas, poor Gorbatsjov, we hardly knew ye... [ January 19, 2002: Message edited by: Cartman ] Registered: Nov 1999  |  IP: Logged Da_bang80 A few sectors short of an Empire Member # 528 posted                       Well I admit that Russia is taking a step backwards with this issue. But you have to remember, they have been living under communism since 1917, and they only just recently became a democratic nation. Not only that but they were living under one of the last monarchies in the world. It wasn't until after Czar Nicholas II bit the bullet that the average russian serf could have some rights. and it wasn't until Stalin (not his real name) came to power until Russia started to become an industrialized nation (one of the last in Europe to do so). The Iron Curtan was even worse, no one was allowed to enter or leave the Soviet Union. -------------------- Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change. The courage to change the things I cannot accept. And the wisdom to hide the bodies of all the people I had to kill today because they pissed me off. Remember when your parents told you it's dangerous to play in traffic? Registered: Feb 2001  |  IP: Logged Treknophyle Senior Member Member # 509 posted                       Nice excuse, but they've got every permutation of democracy existing in the world to study and model their new society on - from US 'Republic' to Canadian 'Dominion' to British 'Monarchy'. I know they're Russians, but given a head start by studying other democratic cultures, you'd think they could backwards-engineer a governmental system. Hint to Russians: If you want democracy - get rid of autocracy - and totalitarianism. I know it's genetic - but TRY. -------------------- 'One man's theology is another man's belly laugh.' - Lazarus Long Registered: Feb 2001  |  IP: Logged TSN I'm... from Earth. Member # 31 posted                       "...Nicholas II bit the bullet..." He bit it? I was under the impression he was shot w/ it... Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged The_Tom recently silent Member # 38 posted                       And, to Nixpick history, I believe Lenin emancipated the serfs a few months before Nicholas and the bullet did their thing. -------------------- "I was surprised by the matter-of-factness of Kafka's narration, and the subtle humor present as a result." (Sizer 2005) Registered: Mar 1999  |  IP: Logged

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