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Denmark, Sweden, Germany, France, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Portugal, Saudi Arabia, Iceland, and others all practice banning certain baby names. It's just that when China does it it's in the news.

In Iceland, if the name is not on the National Registry's list of approved names parents first have to get approval of the name with Icelandic Naming Committee. About 50% of submitted names get rejected. For example Zoe, Harriet, Duncan, Ludwig... all violate naming requirements and are not allowed.

Some countries ban only names that would be degrading to children like naming them after product names or outright insults like Anus or gibberish names like random string. Others have ban rules based on politics, religion, terrorism, celebreties and so on. You can't name child Binyamin and Linda in Saudi Arabia, Osama Bin Laden and Adolf Hitler in Germany, Elvis in Sweden, Rambo in Mexico, Jimmy in Portugal, Lucifer in New Zealand and so on.

Also known as Stockholm syndrome :)

The Time Paradox by Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd explores different time perspectives and how the affect our lives.

6 min TED talk that covers some of the ideas in the book https://www.ted.com/talks/philip_zimbardo_prescribes_a_healt...

In terms of geography, yes. In terms of population, culture, and history - no. Out of 144 million, 110 live in European Russia and they're predominantly Caucasian (roughly 115 million are ethnic Russian). If you were to draw the border on European continent Russia would end up being the biggest European country, both in terms of population and geography.

They are European nation, but over the centuries they expanded their territory to the East http://i.imgur.com/k0DzmyK.jpg

> two superpowers with nuclear overkill capability glaring at each other but not doing much.

Those glares killed a lot of people in proxy wars around the globe.

> Though it could be attributed to the author as a smaller mistake, as Franz was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist.

Not to nitpick but he was a Yugoslav nationalist. Though he was an ethnic Serb from Bosnia and Herzegovina, at the time occupied by Austria-Hungary.

During his trial he stated: "I am a Yugoslav nationalist, aiming for the unification of all Yugoslavs, and I do not care what form of state, but it must be freed from Austria."[1] He was a member of the Young Bosnia movement which included ethnic Serbs, Bosniaks, and Croats.

The distinction will become important especially during WWII and later during Yugoslavia's breakup in the 1990s, and it's at the heart of the rise and fall of Yugoslavia.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavrilo_Princip#CITEREFDedijer...

I just got urlceptioned back to this page :)

Interestingly enough English was phonemic during the Middle English stage (11th - 15th century)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonemic_orthography

> It is similar in Polish ('country' vs 'edge'/'border'/'region' in Russian) and probably other Slavonic languages.

South Slavs have multiple historical examples of Krajina(s) and they all represented bordering area, edge, (military) frontier. In a broad sense kraj/krai means area, land, place. But krajina(s) were always bordering areas.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krajina

There's also Polish example of Krajna, the bordering region between Greater Poland and Pomerania.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krajna

Of course, linguistics can and do get politicized so...

I don't think it really matters what you call it, and I accept that you may feel differently about it. But in my own personal experience there's absolutely nothing good about shyness. It's crippling and it will make you, well... shy away from many good things in life. It is an emotional inadequacy and it will have a negative effect on your life.

I'm sorry if someone was offended by my previous comment, that was not my intent.

Shyness is a mental disorder and a severe disadvantage.

If I'm not mistaken he created it while working at/for rambler.ru which is one of the biggest Russian websites (it was serving 500 million requests per day at that time).

> I don’t have my money back yet, but the man who stole my site from me doesn’t have it, either, and won’t be getting it, ever.

How did she found out it was a man?

One downside of xkcd style passwords is that they are not accepted everywhere. Many websites have a list of characters you must and must not include in your password.

I see where you're coming from but that war looks unwinnable to me for either side. You have reached a stalemate so further killing kinda seems pointless in light of that. I've seen civil war first hand and how it can be all too easy to rationalize the killing of "them". I'm not passing any judgment just saying. Anyway, we digress too far.

On second thought, the cynic in me is saying you're just laying the groundwork for your next encounter with customs agents in case you have to hand over your online accounts :)

It's a bit sad that such behavior is normalized to the point that such a trivial thing is escalated to someone being locked up. Maybe it's some kind of strange taste for masochism that I don't understand. I'm not trying to be offensive or anything, I really don't understand why is such a hostile, aggressive and demeaning behavior accepted as a norm.

Contrast that to this (6min): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tV-wgZBGfCo

None of those stories are that important in and of themselves, it's the whole normalized atmosphere of fear, guilt and almost agony that I don't understand.

I have to admit some border crossing incidents[1] are what I would imagine entering North Korea would be like, not the US.

[1][10min audio] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDYMw1p8s9M

The scary part is that someone can be jailed indefinitely. I had no idea that was legally possible.[1] But it's CP so it's an easy sell.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indefinite_imprisonment

Black people constitute around 3% of UK population.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_British

For the curious, this is what it looks like when you try to access dailymail.co.uk from Thailand: http://i.imgur.com/Ah1fwPF.png

Translation:

  This site contains inappropriate content and information.
  Suspended by the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society