Spain was far from the only front against the Caliphates and Islam, there was also constant pressure on the east. If you think the crusades had a patch on what Islamic forces had been doing before and continued to do afterwards you're sorely mistaken. As for Constantinople, that was the doing of a crafty old Doge of Venice who had a long standing grudge against the city.
The real problem here is people start pointing at the crusades as an example of Christian warmaking as if they were something special, if you read the history of the times pretty much everyone was kicking the shit out of everyone else and kept at it right up until the middle of the 20th century. There's nothing unique or even notable about the crusades, Genghis Khan was causing much bigger problems for Islamic civilisation as he tore through it from the opposite direction. And that's before we start looking at warring between Islamic states after the reconquista.
Eh it happens because one male can impregnate many females, therefore ensuring maximum population survivability. Nothing to do with relative toughness, except by accident.
Absolute bollocks. From around 1998 to 2004 the country experienced a massive influx of sub Saharan Africans, for the first time ever people were actually immigrating here. Almost immediately after that, the country's population increased by about 15% over the course of three years due to Eastern European economic migrants.
Race riots? None. Right wing parties emerging? None. Public unrest and disturbances, widespread racist incidents? None. Actually there was one "secret" right wing neo nazi rally but that runed out to be some Polish lads.
Show me another developed western country that can say the same.
The kids playing happily together outside my window come from every corner of the planet, and their parents get along fine too. So spare us the slurs like a good (wo)man.
I found that comment to be as ridiculous as anything else he'd said. Ireland is possibly the least racist country on earth, and has been for a long time. This weird impression a lot of Americans have of Irish people being racist, as opposed to say the English, seems to arise from the way Irish immigrants were treated in the US, ie worse than black people. To distinguish themselves they appeared to have "gone native".
5) They could just be really frickin alien. Who knows why a lipid in methane based life form with thought processes that take years to complete would ignore us.
Yeah, except most of the universe is missing from our theories and nobody can figure out where it went.
Yup, we've got it allll wrapped up with a bow tie on top.
Anyway the speed of light isn't a major barrier to interstellar exploration. Antimatter engiens, perfectly possible, could get us to the nearest star in maybe a decade or so. Even if we don't harness those kinds of energies, there's no reason to believe that human lifespans in the future will be going anywhere but upwards.
Cha the last week alone I had to uninstall Chrome from three seperate machines, it was crashing and opening multiple windows with no good explanation why, and no fix that actually worked.
Antimatter engines which can bring us to a significant percentage of the speed of light are an engineering problem, there's nothing theoretically impossible about them.
Space has lots of good stuff. Those millions of inhospitable cold rocks are chock full of easily extractable metals of all sorts. The millions of inhospitable cold rocks are often also covered in ice, which can be turned into lots of things. And luckily someone left a giant nuclear reactor sitting in the middle of it all that we can use to take advantage of this insane abundance. Also, nobody cares about pollution in space.
Marxist communism fails wherever it is tried (and saw to the murders of over 100 million innocent people) because it's fundamentally broken. It lacks any of the value indicators that are essential to any economic system.
Marx believed firmly in the labor theory of value, and as such all economic power derived from human labor, not from mechanical power and as such almost completely ignores the value of intellectual work, the guy who figures out the right way to apply labor to raw materials is fantastically more effective than the one who does it the wrong way.
Communism is also terrible at effectively allocating resources since it lacks the price signals that bundle cost and relative value and communicate them in a way that enables efficient allocation of resources to maximize what people collectively perceive as good, which is why communist economies always fail, and will always fail, even in the presence of automated systems that produce and distribute all of the essentials of life to everyone equally.
"All basic necessities of life will be for free and accessible to all members of said society + a few extras brought up by civilization. The list went --> basic necessities are air, water, food, shelter, warmth [energy] and clothing. The extras were child-care, education and medicine."
And yet that's very much what exists in the social welfare systems of most western countries today, with a few exceptions. They focus, quite rightly, on trying to get people back to work, but for the most part nobody starves by the roadside. Simultaneously they harness the desire for self improvement and reward it, creating an incentive for advancement.
As to the rest to be honest it just looks like a lengthy paranoid misanthropic screed.
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"it marks the end of a world where broad knowledge of computers and being willing to create solutions instead of reuse them was valuable"
No, it pretty much just marks the end of Dr. Dobb's. Them young whippersnappers are quite capable of their own innovations.
Yeah they tried this before, it didn't work. Magda should perhaps stick to marketing.
Spain was far from the only front against the Caliphates and Islam, there was also constant pressure on the east. If you think the crusades had a patch on what Islamic forces had been doing before and continued to do afterwards you're sorely mistaken. As for Constantinople, that was the doing of a crafty old Doge of Venice who had a long standing grudge against the city.
The real problem here is people start pointing at the crusades as an example of Christian warmaking as if they were something special, if you read the history of the times pretty much everyone was kicking the shit out of everyone else and kept at it right up until the middle of the 20th century. There's nothing unique or even notable about the crusades, Genghis Khan was causing much bigger problems for Islamic civilisation as he tore through it from the opposite direction. And that's before we start looking at warring between Islamic states after the reconquista.
"Fact of the matter is weaker males is probably easier explained by the lack of redundancy of the X chromosome."
That's about as factual as the moon being made of green cheese.
Eh it happens because one male can impregnate many females, therefore ensuring maximum population survivability. Nothing to do with relative toughness, except by accident.
Simple, really.
Come one...
Seriously, we're such ideologues on this issue that we're going to believe that there's some massive, industry wide conspiracy to cover this up?
What like Apple, Google, Microsoft etc conspiring to not poach workers from one another and hence keep wages down?
Nooo that would never happen.
Noted and filed.
Absolute bollocks. From around 1998 to 2004 the country experienced a massive influx of sub Saharan Africans, for the first time ever people were actually immigrating here. Almost immediately after that, the country's population increased by about 15% over the course of three years due to Eastern European economic migrants.
Race riots? None. Right wing parties emerging? None. Public unrest and disturbances, widespread racist incidents? None. Actually there was one "secret" right wing neo nazi rally but that runed out to be some Polish lads.
Show me another developed western country that can say the same.
The kids playing happily together outside my window come from every corner of the planet, and their parents get along fine too. So spare us the slurs like a good (wo)man.
I found that comment to be as ridiculous as anything else he'd said. Ireland is possibly the least racist country on earth, and has been for a long time. This weird impression a lot of Americans have of Irish people being racist, as opposed to say the English, seems to arise from the way Irish immigrants were treated in the US, ie worse than black people. To distinguish themselves they appeared to have "gone native".
Widely accepted only among braindead yanks, who seperate the world into black, white, brown, yellow, and the race of Islam.
I've read the comments and even, blasphemously, the article, and I still have no clear idea what's going on here.
Leftists quit because the publication was going right wing?
Talented editors quit because whatever (gawker?) wanted to turn into clickbait?
Nobody seems to talk about what actually happened here.
"loves to manufacture "facts" or omit actual facts when it suits them"
And you've just described feminism.
Antimatter is relatively straightforward to produce close to a star.
And don't forget
5) They could just be really frickin alien. Who knows why a lipid in methane based life form with thought processes that take years to complete would ignore us.
Yeah, except most of the universe is missing from our theories and nobody can figure out where it went.
Yup, we've got it allll wrapped up with a bow tie on top.
Anyway the speed of light isn't a major barrier to interstellar exploration. Antimatter engiens, perfectly possible, could get us to the nearest star in maybe a decade or so. Even if we don't harness those kinds of energies, there's no reason to believe that human lifespans in the future will be going anywhere but upwards.
Interstellar exploration is very feasible.
This is gibberish, just build antimatter production stations near the sun. We're drowning in energy.
Cha the last week alone I had to uninstall Chrome from three seperate machines, it was crashing and opening multiple windows with no good explanation why, and no fix that actually worked.
You can always go back to IE I guess.
Plus he has a net worth of over $12 million, he'd get more from the interest than all the rest of that stuff put together.
It's about time. Google has become the de facto gatekeeper for the web and have no real competition. That makes Google a problem.
Also hahaha at the people saying Europe should be blacklisted, in other news, Google just lost access to a market of a half billion wealthy consumers.
Antimatter engines which can bring us to a significant percentage of the speed of light are an engineering problem, there's nothing theoretically impossible about them.
Space has lots of good stuff. Those millions of inhospitable cold rocks are chock full of easily extractable metals of all sorts. The millions of inhospitable cold rocks are often also covered in ice, which can be turned into lots of things. And luckily someone left a giant nuclear reactor sitting in the middle of it all that we can use to take advantage of this insane abundance. Also, nobody cares about pollution in space.
Where does Bennett stand on the MyCleanPC vs telemarketer controversy...?
The plot thickens.
Marxist communism fails wherever it is tried (and saw to the murders of over 100 million innocent people) because it's fundamentally broken. It lacks any of the value indicators that are essential to any economic system.
Marx believed firmly in the labor theory of value, and as such all economic power derived from human labor, not from mechanical power and as such almost completely ignores the value of intellectual work, the guy who figures out the right way to apply labor to raw materials is fantastically more effective than the one who does it the wrong way.
Communism is also terrible at effectively allocating resources since it lacks the price signals that bundle cost and relative value and communicate them in a way that enables efficient allocation of resources to maximize what people collectively perceive as good, which is why communist economies always fail, and will always fail, even in the presence of automated systems that produce and distribute all of the essentials of life to everyone equally.
"All basic necessities of life will be for free and accessible to all members of said society + a few extras brought up by civilization. The list went --> basic necessities are air, water, food, shelter, warmth [energy] and clothing. The extras were child-care, education and medicine."
And yet that's very much what exists in the social welfare systems of most western countries today, with a few exceptions. They focus, quite rightly, on trying to get people back to work, but for the most part nobody starves by the roadside. Simultaneously they harness the desire for self improvement and reward it, creating an incentive for advancement.
As to the rest to be honest it just looks like a lengthy paranoid misanthropic screed.
Oh I suspect her money is very safe indeed.
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