Gil Braltar is a satirical short story by Jules Verne parodying British colonialism. It was first published together with The Flight to France as a part of Voyages Extraordinaires series (The Extraordinary Voyages) in 1887.
The story is set in British fortress and colony Gibraltar. A man, a Spaniard named Gil Braltar, dresses up as a monkey and becomes leader of a group of monkeys living there (Barbary Macaque). He incites attack on the fortress. The attack, initially successful, is foiled by a British general. This general is so ugly that the monkeys believe he was one of them and obey him when he leads them out. Verne's conclusion is that in the future only the ugliest generals will be sent to Gibraltar to keep the colony in British hands.
So now the occupying forces know how to defeat these Taliban monkeys.
I understood that the difference between wise crowds and stupid mobs is the processes of selection of good results that have become feasible with modern technologies. For example, asking random people is not the best way to know about encyclopedic subjects. Wikipedia works because it has crowds and a process (easy edition, easy correction, talk pages, contributions history,...) that preserves good contributions and rejects bad ones. Same about the Linux kernel, Torvalds' role filters good and bad contributions. In Slashdot, we have moderation that allows me to read the cream of the comments avoiding hundreds of trolls, redundant comments and not very enlightened sentences.
I find it funny that this thread is actually an argument over authority, not whether a Christian government is good or not today but whether some figures long dead were Christians and hence America now should be like them. You behave as if the "Founding Fathers" were some kind of revelating prophets, which sounds quite odd if you claim to follow Jesus or nobody.
Most violance and abuse happens via family members.
Because stranger danger saves us from attacks from strangers.
Or would you prefer if she hugs some well-dressed banker, who wants to sell her some 100% risk free investments?
I understand that these Williams people treat all them the same way. They would be caught unguarded by bankers, homeless AND family members. Do you trust the proverbial used car dealer? She would.
Case in point: your comment is just a 5, insightful comment on Slashdot, but the last line made me cry, because I heard the terrified 13-years-old girl.
Here the jobs dominated by females are the less paid. When a line of business starts to be mostly female-crewed, it means the salaries have gone down enough.
"So you start to f with your sleep schedule. You get up at four AM so you can chat with your friends. You go to bed at nine, 'cause that's when they go to bed. Used to be that it was stock brokers and journos and factory workers who did that kind of thing, but now it's anyone who doesn't fit in. The geniuses and lunatics to whom the local doctrine tastes wrong. They choose their peers based on similarity, not geography, and they keep themselves awake at the same time as them. But you need to make some nod to localness, too--gotta be at work with everyone else, gotta get to the bank when it's open, gotta buy your groceries. You end up hardly sleeping at all, you end up sneaking naps in the middle of the day, or after dinner, trying to reconcile biological imperatives with cultural ones. Needless to say, that alienates you even further from the folks at home, and drives you more and more into the arms of your online peers of choice.
"So you get the Tribes. People all over the world who are really secret agents for some other time zone, some other way of looking at the world, some other zeitgeist. Unlike other tribes, you can change allegiance by doing nothing more that resetting your alarm clock. Like any tribe, they are primarily loyal to each other, and anyone outside of the tribe is only mostly human. That may sound extreme, but this is what it comes down to.
I remember reading "The Cuckoo's Egg" from the Uni library in the 1990s. I don't remember if I managed to read "Silicon Snake Oil" but I think I did. Funny that some weeks ago I was going to mention SSO in a discussion about computers at school and, when I google about it, I found Newsweek's article.
the article was written by journalists with editors
Clifford Stoll was (is?) a hacker, a Physics PhD that was thought a computer expert by physicists and a physicist by computer experts. He wrote a book about his almost single-handed fight against German crackers at the service of the Soviet bloc. And it is a good read, even with Unix commands. So whatever but a "journalist".
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You got me puzzled for a long time until I realized you meant "tale of mammals" instead of "tail of mammals".
So the tragedy of the commons. It's good if you do it. It's bad if everybody does it. :)
Gil Braltar is a satirical short story by Jules Verne parodying British colonialism. It was first published together with The Flight to France as a part of Voyages Extraordinaires series (The Extraordinary Voyages) in 1887.
The story is set in British fortress and colony Gibraltar. A man, a Spaniard named Gil Braltar, dresses up as a monkey and becomes leader of a group of monkeys living there (Barbary Macaque). He incites attack on the fortress. The attack, initially successful, is foiled by a British general. This general is so ugly that the monkeys believe he was one of them and obey him when he leads them out. Verne's conclusion is that in the future only the ugliest generals will be sent to Gibraltar to keep the colony in British hands.
So now the occupying forces know how to defeat these Taliban monkeys.
In a Caribbean island!
Some countries like Japan certainly have the wealth and the technology base to build them, but don't for very deliberate political reasons
Gojira!!
I understood that the difference between wise crowds and stupid mobs is the processes of selection of good results that have become feasible with modern technologies.
For example, asking random people is not the best way to know about encyclopedic subjects. Wikipedia works because it has crowds and a process (easy edition, easy correction, talk pages, contributions history,...) that preserves good contributions and rejects bad ones.
Same about the Linux kernel, Torvalds' role filters good and bad contributions.
In Slashdot, we have moderation that allows me to read the cream of the comments avoiding hundreds of trolls, redundant comments and not very enlightened sentences.
So you fixed that for him!
I find your hint of wearable displays very interesting. e-ink tattoos!
Ancient (rich) Romans had slaves called "nomenclators" who would accompany their masters whispering the names of the people they met.
Didn't Einstein repent later after seeing what Cold War was like?
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Thanks for the story
Petname helps verifying that the SSL certificate is the same you found earlier.
I find it funny that this thread is actually an argument over authority, not whether a Christian government is good or not today but whether some figures long dead were Christians and hence America now should be like them.
You behave as if the "Founding Fathers" were some kind of revelating prophets, which sounds quite odd if you claim to follow Jesus or nobody.
Personality cult? Civil religion? Idolatry?
Most violance and abuse happens via family members.
Because stranger danger saves us from attacks from strangers.
Or would you prefer if she hugs some well-dressed banker, who wants to sell her some 100% risk free investments?
I understand that these Williams people treat all them the same way. They would be caught unguarded by bankers, homeless AND family members. Do you trust the proverbial used car dealer? She would.
Case in point: your comment is just a 5, insightful comment on Slashdot, but the last line made me cry, because I heard the terrified 13-years-old girl.
Here the jobs dominated by females are the less paid. When a line of business starts to be mostly female-crewed, it means the salaries have gone down enough.
In the words of Cory Doctorow:
I remember reading "The Cuckoo's Egg" from the Uni library in the 1990s. I don't remember if I managed to read "Silicon Snake Oil" but I think I did. Funny that some weeks ago I was going to mention SSO in a discussion about computers at school and, when I google about it, I found Newsweek's article.
Good luck.
the article was written by journalists with editors
Clifford Stoll was (is?) a hacker, a Physics PhD that was thought a computer expert by physicists and a physicist by computer experts. He wrote a book about his almost single-handed fight against German crackers at the service of the Soviet bloc. And it is a good read, even with Unix commands. So whatever but a "journalist".
And what if Greek science were right?
The Predators come to Earth to hunt humans. Just like rich Westerners go to Africa to hunt game. They don't really need it but enjoy it.
There are also swastikas.
Actually I read once a Costa Rican address that involved the location of several nearby shops.
And I heard that Tokyo adresses are quite complex.
t NK is not sending money to terrorist groups like Hamas and Al-Queda
There are suspicions that North Korea sent superdollars to the IRA.
I find no link between Al Qaeda and Iran in Wikipedia articles, but since Israel supported Hamas against Fatah, anything is possible.