You cannot be free without private property.

Post #39,845 by Arkadiy 5/24/02 3:05:13 PM Reply	You cannot be free without private property. I do not know about "personal wealth", but private property is indeed a foundation of freedom. I do not know about "consumption", but hungry people rarely can stay free. In any case, you are confusing cause and effect here, again. Freedom to hold private property causes personal wealth (with all its excesses). Same freedom causes material abundance, that leads to material (over?-)consumption. But private property, or freedom, do not _need_ overconsumption or excesses to exist. (btw, "shto" would be a slightly "vulgar", "hurried" pronunciation. Proper pronunciation for this word is "chto" :-) )
Post #40,219 by mmoffitt 5/28/02 5:13:31 PM Reply	How about "kak?"
Post #40,256 by a6l6e6x 5/28/02 11:26:56 PM Reply	"kak" is "how" while "chto" is "what". Alex "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Post #40,261 by mmoffitt 5/28/02 11:35:23 PM Reply	I know. I was kidding. I don't know the English spellings of Russian words (and my Russian is not what it once was). Like, I can say, "Meenya zavoot Meesha" [My name is Mike] and I can spell it in Russian, but I don't know the "offical" phonetic spellings in English. I think Arkadiy and I have traded posts in the past about my having spent a large part of Grade 4 (Klass Chitiri) in Kiev. Thanks for the clarification though. And, do you know how I can post in Cyrillic font here? Besides, Breshnev always said, "SHHHTO?" :-)
Post #40,265 by a6l6e6x 5/28/02 11:57:45 PM Reply	I tried a cut and paste of Russian from pravda.ru ... but it does not survive the "Preview" in the Subject but can be seen OK (below) in this comment area on my machine. I do have Ukrainian [uk] in addition to English [en] in Preferences \| Navigator \| Languages set up in Mozolla. Below is "Chto hovoryat?": Что говорят? Alex "Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened." -- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Post #40,272 by Ashton 5/29/02 12:50:34 AM Reply	Hmm.. Cyrillic in Moz? Recall vaguely the travails of setting up a friend's machine (in Win 3.1x then), finding fonts all over Europe - so she could read Cyrilic text from Russia (plus prelim Eng. translation), receive ditto in both English and orig. Russian (occasionally Ukrainian?) for cleaning up the syntax in scientific papers. Fonts were for Word6 (which was essential to swap with Russ and also invoke the subtle editing modes available in colors) But the results were .zipped and sent as attachments, then. Now I've forgotten the details.. Noted the option in Moz to switch to Cyrillic - which raises issue of which kb encoding. When I tried to post a Cyrillic character via above switch.. this box got redrawn with smaller characters, but these were in Engrish unchanged. Did you just switch to View\|Character Coding\|Cyrillic (Windows 1251) -- and paste in some Russ text from Pravda? Wondering now, if there's a simple alternative to the sequences we needed back then (using DOS, Unix storage and the PINE e-mail system! to transmit back mostly English editing) ie in Moz - can we type-in Cyrillic via whatever kb map, see it displayed and.. send ? Guess I need to read about "language packs" at Moz for this. Ashton
Post #40,305 by Arkadiy 5/29/02 10:53:44 AM Reply	Brezhnev... would indeed say "shto". Just like Bush keeps saying "nucular". :)

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