Vladimir Putin finally acquires satellite collar for his dog
By Darren Murph 
posted October 18th 2008 2:46AM
posted October 18th 2008 2:46AM
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Next, satellite collars for all citizens of Russia.
hey why not? they are already regressing into soviet russia once again...
"they are already regressing into soviet russia once again"
lol good for them. regardless before they ever become a danger the U.S will do what it does best and run more 'Russia is secretly directly or indirectly responsible for EVERY SINGLE terrorist attack in the world' and once again the majority of idiots will go..
"OH NOES VOTE REPUBLICAN LETS SEND SPY DRONES ALL AROUND RUSSIA AGAIN AND FORCEFULLY PROMOTE A COLD WAR"
We need another super power US hegemony is terrible.
Like I'm going to listen to someone who leaves the country and cancels a multimillion dollar TV show just because he got some bad weed.
Vladimir Putin, putin the Vlad in Vladimir Putin!
@ Dave - Yeah, US Hedgemony sucks ass, cause it's all "USA Sucks" until somebody else from some other country starts blowing shit up and we're the only ones who'll do jack shit about it.
Then everyone is all "Yay America! That's right! Action needs taken now! Go get em! We're totally behind you! We'll have this war over in 12 months, even though no real war has ever been that short and this a war on people who use guerrilla tactics, don't care about the innocent civilians living in the same area they do, and don't wear uniforms so you can identify them until after they're already shooting at you. You can handle the "risking life and limb" part, while we constantly refer to this as a war on "insert country here" so we sound like an invading force trying to take over, even though we're only after the terrorists. We'll also compare everything you do to a failed war, run every story we can find about unfounded rumors of the military killing and raping foreign citizens and generally criticize your every move so the other guys can use it for their recruitment ads to keep fighting and know what type of propaganda to make in their fake videos, and when it's time to check for the WMDs, we'll announce it all over the news for 6 months in advance, cause that totally won't be enough time to hide/move/destroy them. Then when we don't find anything, we'll harp on it endlessly and use it as proof that the president is to blame and compare him to hitler. Wow! We're helping!"
@ Grey Acumen
That post, was amazing. Do you mind if I use it on my friends? lol I need something good to shut them up everytime they bring up Bush and the Iraq war.
Gray:
I love how everyone is like "Iraq sucks we did all this shit for them so they could be liberated and now they don't wanna give us their oil to pay for our occupation."
My argument is this: If the most powerful countries in the world (US not included, obviously) decided that Bush was a fuckin' wacko terrorist president and America needed to be liberated from the Christian radicals, came and blew up all our shit killing thousands of civilians in the process like... your wife your daughter your mom your brother, then came to you and said, "So we can keep order in a country where we created disorder and now forcefully occupy, we want you to start paying us and giving us all of your oil from the gulf coast to alleviate high gas prices in western europe and China," you'd be pretty pissed too.
However, Vladimir Putin is wacko imnsho, and I am kinda scared of him.
Valicore would have more of a point if we ever asked for their oil.
Hell, we've got more than enough of our own, you want it? Go right ahead, but you won't just have to deal with the military, you'll have to deal with the environmentalists. They're the only reason we aren't drilling on our own turf, even though it'll seep up out of the ground and into the water, polluting it naturally.
and I'd also refute your other point, but you honestly seem to believe that there's no difference between fighting and fighting back. After all, it takes two people to have a fight, right? yeah, but it only takes one person to beat up someone who isn't fighting back and then hide behind someone else so that if they do try to fight back, it becomes inconvenient for everyone else, despite the fact that nobody else is doing crap about it.
Its spelled GLADos right, not GLONASS?
Great, so you propose we spend the money to drill now for 3% of the worlds oil when we use 25% percent? Not to mention we wont see anything coming off of that drilling for 10 years minimum. And we did start a fight, we started the fight with Iraq, we never finished the war with Afghanistan (which by the way was only able to attack us because we gave them weapons and training in the 80s so they could fight off the soviets, then left when we were done using them). Meddling in other countries business is our specialty: Sure, Pakistan can have nuclear weapons, but not Iran? If we really wanted to solve the problem of power shortages in Iran then we would lift some embargoes so that Iran could build refineries to use their own oil instead of exporting it and having to buy the refined petroleum products from other countries. If we don't want them to have nuclear power stations, then we have to give them an alternative. Just because America has the power to destroy doesn't mean it should. Think about it, we're spending billions of dollars a month on a war when more than 10 percent of people in the US live below the poverty line. Where in the hell is Osama Bin Laden? Where is the troop surge for Afghanistan to help them? THINK about it!
@grey
"run every story we can find about unfounded rumors of the military killing and raping foreign citizens"
And what about the thousands of proven cases.....
Mr. Putin is a super funny guy indeed:
http://9gag.com/entry/728/
Stop the animal experimentation!!!, you can start putting it on the people in your country, without trying it on dogs first... But maybe the people can be tracked by their cellphones, so now all he's missing is animals' tracking.
Seriously, Animal Experimentation?
He just wants to keep tabs on his pet dog. It's for the pet's protection. No "experimentation" on that.
wat
I wouldn't mind having one on my dog. That thing wonders jumps the fence every other day.
Use dog collar to send homing beacon to missile. ;)
But they gave us Tetris.
Wasn't there a time when people used their dogs to track stuff?
Like, say today.
Now people use stuff to track their dogs... what a unique role reversal... the tracker becomes the tracked.
In soviet russia collar dogs tracker!
er, wait...
In soviet russia tracker dogs collar!
no... um...
In soviet russia.... ah screw it, gimme a vodka, in soviet russia, it swallows me!
good point, he just needs another dog to track this dog.
Get out of here Stalker.
Dog needs to be trained to track him, case solved.
IN SOVIET RUSSIA...DOG COLLARS YOU !
Well evidently not... RTFA
Collar dogs you?
Seriously...I've seen numerous movies where dogs left behind by their owners track them down from long distances.
And by the way, isn't this collar a violation of the dog's civil rights?
nope.
I think its more so the owner can find the dog rather than vice versa.
Civil right in Russia??? Your rights are what Putin allows you to do.
Life isnt a bunch of movies.Yes dogs do have the ablity to come back home but only when they have smells to lead them there, otherwise they get lost. But major overhauls of pet returning home in today's world just are not possible, unless someone can prove it to me.
I've seen movies where aliens invade the earth and I've seen movies where american soldiers kill for justice, not for money and power. So don't belive what you see in movies ...
Though, dogs actually are pretty good at tracking, especially their loved ones.
Yeah, but I doubt this particular dog is A) A cute blonde retriever pup, b) has a personal voice actor, or c) a wise cracking bird/cat/fish/little girl to help him along.
damn flashpoint. you beat me to it.
"a K, a G, and a B"
run little doggie, while you still can.
They just better make sure Putin's dog doesn't rear his head into Alaska or there will be hell to pay.
http://img443.imageshack.us/img443/4205/putinrearshisheadkg0.jpg
might get shot by palin in a helicopter...
Where do I get one? I need two for my children.
It's called a leash, buddy.
I once had a teenage mother ask me at my work if I knew where she could get child leashes... when I laughed she glared and told me she wasn't kidding.
I wore a leash as a child. It's the only way my mom could stop me from playing hide and seek in department stores until I was about 6. ADHD is fun =P
I played hide and seek in department stores and yet still managed to live until 28
That's not ADHD. That's childhood curiosity. I used to do it all the time when I was a kid.
Your parents do you the favor of getting you hooked on amphetamines because they couldn't control you?
Is this what you want?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B62G6yDkHD8
I hope bastard Putin gets electric shock while experimenting with his dog and dies right on the spot! There will be one less Evil in this world. I'm sure even Koni the dog will be happy about it.
Putin is evil? When the hell did that happen? Putin managed to pull Russia out of the rut it was in after Yeltsin, get respect for Russia, build a strong economy, and push Russia toward self-reliance again. Just because the US says he's evil doesn't make him evil, he just isn't going to lockstep with everything the US does.
Hooray for our glorious overlord! His vision knows no bounds!!!
Guys, have you read the source article:
"The government has promised to make GLONASS, initially designed for use by the Russian military, available for broad civilian public."
That can be seriously misconstrued...