Hi Andrey!

Do you change your decision in the New version 1.0?

Best regards

Thank's, i think the login screen is the same for English and Rússia version

It's a strange world where 1 country invades another country and my country gets accused of trying to kill the invading country (by Andrey) and of being an "empire" apparently trying to profit from all this (by mkraska). Guys, I dearly enjoy this software, and I like how users can come together from many different countries to contribute to making some good math software that benefits everyone. But we're not out to kill Russia, and we don't want an empire. Most of us just want to live in peace and not get drawn into another world war like we were the last 2 times countries in Europe started fighting. The sanctions and pressure from the West is just because Russia can't go invading other countries just because it wants to. That's what Hitler did 80+ years ago and nobody wants to see that tragedy played out again, so everybody is trying to apply pressure economically rather than than just going straight to war over it like the last century. Everybody I know here, their heart breaks for the people killed, homes destroyed, schools and hospitals bombed. It's all horrible and so preventable. One of my favorite engineering programs for steel connection design, Idea StatiCa Connection, out of Brno in the Czech Republic, decided to cut off all licenses for their software to Russia, after investing in programming to support SNiP, the Russian design standard. Why? Because they didn't want to even be associated with Russia and they wanted their Russian users to understand the serious significance of the course of action your leader is pursuing. I don't like that private sanctions like that affect fellow engineers in Russia just trying to do their daily design work, or that international sanctions affect SMath donations for you, Andrey, but all the blame for all of this mess rests squarely on Putin's shoulders. But for what it's worth, when he pulls back whatever Russian troops survive this badly executed invasion, and the sanctions are lifted, I'll donate to you. As always, thanks for all the hard work you've put in over the years on this, Andrey. Stay safe over there, my friend.

Jason

I am sure you are right. It is always good to care about the difference between what people want and do and what governments want and do, no matter which country, i.e. no double standards.

As of what the government (or the big money behind it) wants, this reading might be interesting:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_imperialism
It is the first match of 845.000.000 in a google search for "US empire".

Yet, Wikipedia must be read with all due care. It is generally unreliably if it comes to politics (cancel culture, corona lockstep).

In fact, I was born in the Soviet Union. At that time, it didn't matter where you were born. I was born in the ukrainian part of the Soviet Union, but I was brought up in a soviet school.


It's not the same thing. President Putin even explained in his televised address that one should look at the history of the issue. Did you watch his full one-hour historical explanation? What is not clear to you?

Link to full video (rus):


It depends on the question. If they come to the threshold of your house and the question arises of who will die, then you will make your choice. We look at the military bases around Russia and make our choice. What happens near our house is our problem. We don't like the way the US is behaving either, but when did anyone care? I specifically quoted the first sentence in the previous post for you to think before you continue.

30 years have passed and your family is no longer yours in this particular example. One day your family tells you that we are no longer a family. Here is one example of what it looks like (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qv97YeC563Y). Here, a ukrainian teenager explains in russian in the form of a verse that we are no longer brothers and never will be. This is the result of modern education. I lived in Ukraine before she was born and it is impossible to imagine such a thing then. This is a mild example, which I want to show that war is not only hot. There are other ways of waging war on foreign territory. We've had it for 30 years.


I have no doubt that North Korea would have ended long ago if they didn't have nuclear weapons. When did the US stop something? One vial was enough to invade Iraq. I'm not talking about everything else.
Of course, the point is not only in Bandera, his methods and georization. If you are really interested, then you should have read the entire history of Ukraine up to modern times. Further, you need to understand that there are no independent small countries in nature. They simply don't exist. Each such country makes a choice in the person of its elite. If it can't, then this leads to a civil war - as in Ukraine (Crimea, Donetsk, Lugansk). If the government does not want to give up its positions, then it is forced by force (Russia - 1993, Ukraine - 2014). You will understand all this when tanks come to your White House and shoot it down, as was done in Russia.

All these events are directly related to the collapse of the Soviet Union. They are trying to finish us off with the help of the collective West. This story goes on for 1000 years. Russia has always been at war, but the West has been at war for much longer. It is foolish to assume that in the world of money, resources and power, someone will try to make friends. We tried, but it was taken for weakness. Why test our patience?

Russia wants to be accepted as an equal on this planet. And this will have to be done. Either we will be equal or we will be divided and destroyed, as is usually done. This is how this issue is seen in general from our side.

Situations can always be complex and not readily understood by outsiders, but unless I am mistaken, it is the Russian tanks and snipers at the threshold of the Ukrainian houses, is it not? It seems from this side that the Ukrainians are the ones having to ask who will die and make their choice...


That is true. America had the "cold war" with the USSR for many years. But a hot war is always a significant escalation from those alternative means. That's why so many countries have condemned the actions of Russia in this case - an actual invasion and the targeting of civilian population centers in particular is a very hot war that is difficult to justify except as a last resort.


I don't think I understand you when you say there are no independent small countries in nature. There are many small independent countries. Generally any big country started out small and grew either into unpopulated areas, into populated areas at their expense (i.e. by force) or by joining or merging with other areas via confederations, compacts, commonwealths, constitutions, charters, etc.


That is an interesting perspective, but that seems to ignore a lot of very bloody history. I mean, the Soviet Union and Communist China had the 2 worst body counts in the history of the entire world for total number of their own citizens killed by their respective governments. There is a history of persecution there, but the Soviet Union was the persecutor. I was in Kazakhstan a few years ago, and the Kazakhs told me about the forcible removal from homes and relocation while Russians were brought in to take their places to break up the Kazakh identity as a distinct people group. When I was a kid, my mom exchanged letters with a lady in the USSR named Galina who was in prison for several years for being a Christian. Stuff like that from the old Soviet era hopefully never recurs. I like Russian culture and food and I find the Cyrillic alphabet fascinating, and I like you and Andrey (the only Russians I even remotely know), but if Russia as a nation wants to be accepted by others, it simply needs to show that it can can be trusted to get along with other countries and not invade them or threaten them with nuclear missiles and whatnot, and not imprison people or exile them to Siberia or simply kill them for disagreeing with the government as in the past. That's a lot of old baggage to deal with, and invading Ukraine again isn't helping. It's only making Russia look like a reincarnated USSR that everyone needs to fear again, and arm themselves against, and then we're just right back at the same old paranoid cold war we had when I was a growing up. Let's not go back to those days.

Take care, my friend.

Jason

That's horrible. There is no doubt. I condemn it. And I condemned it with the same firmness that I condemn other atrocities, without looking the other way. Do you condemn with the same firmness these other crimes?

From http://nativeamericannetroots.net/diary/1408

According to the Hoover Commission:

“The basis for historic Indian culture has been swept away. Traditional tribal organization was smashed a generation ago. … Assimilation must be the dominant goal of public policy.” ...

Legislation reorganized the Indian Office in 1946. Forty reservation-based offices were eliminated and regional headquarters were established in five cities: Minneapolis, Billings, Portland, Phoenix, and Oklahoma City. On the one hand, this reorganization was justified as a movement to streamline management and to make it more cost-effective. On the other hand, it was a move away from meeting the needs of reservation Indians and a vehicle for accelerating the relocation of Indians from their tribal homelands into urban areas.

The Indian Office was renamed the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) in 1947. At this time, the BIA began an experimental program to relocate single Navajo men to Denver, Los Angeles, and Salt Lake.


I see no sanctions on Canada while these crimes remain unpunished. This video is from BBC.



Best regards.
Alvaro.

it's similar in CHINA. I love people in USA, and a lot of friend there, but NOT the GOV. everybody in every country have the right for better life.

The President Putin signed Executive On Declaring Partial Mobilisation in the Russian Federation.

Links:

1. Обращение Президента Российской Федерации (21 сентября 2022 года 09:00, Кремль, Москва): http://www.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/69390 [RUS] (more complete)
2. Executive Order on partial mobilisation in the Russian Federation (September 21, 2022, 09:00, The Kremlin, Moscow): http://en.kremlin.ru/events/president/news/69391 [ENG]

Edited by user 21 September 2022 11:47:06(UTC)  | Reason: Not specified

Hi Kenny. As far as I understand, to be able to use it for commercial purposes (and I guess academics too) you only need to register it, and not install it with that account on more than 5 computers, as can be read in the green option in https://en.smath.com/view/SMathStudio/pricing



What I do assume is that in each of these installations you need to log in so as not to violate the conditions of your purchase, free but with registration needed.

That is, if you use it without logging in, you can still use it for personal, but not for commercial purposes.

Best regards.
Alvaro.