Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

@tinyrabbit @Gina

unless we read 100 as binary in which case it was 4 YEARS AGO.

@tinyrabbit @Gina

100 years go ? or did you mean 10?

@markusl @WarNews He can't imprison everyone though can he?

@verge This stops people speaking out surely,

@WarNews

Yeah news is suppressed over there, shame those millions seem to scared to rise up.

@dsfgs @icedquinn

I agree there, the competition between US and Russia (USSR) pushed the space program forward.

It looks like the Rosalind Franklin Mars rover may not now launch, which is a shame as it was a great example of EU / Russia collaboration.

@icedquinn Well when the opposition are oppressed there is little choice.

@icedquinn @LukeAlmighty @Moon

I think it meant more than that:-

http://www.catb.org/esr/jargon/html/H/hacker.html

@icedquinn

Agreed, who does Putin get replaced with?, Have Russians ever known democracy ? They had Tzars, who were overthrown in a revolution, then communism, they know nothing else. So little frame of reference to build on.

Granted communism was replaced with what was mean to be a democracy which didn't quite work out as that.

@LukeAlmighty @Moon

The term 'hacker' implies expertise, as far as I am aware it is bestowed on merit by people with similar expertise in something.

I guess this is a sort of peer review process for skills.

@icedquinn

Do our leaders EVER learn. ?