What lies? We aren't even talking about the holocaust. Where did that come from? We are talking about your assertion that Hitler wanted to destroy France, and was only ammeliorated by a rebellious general.
Provide your source. If you studied it academically, that shouldn't be a problem. But of course, you are full of shit and won't provide anything because your life is a fiction, including your bullshit degree.
do you really think I will respond to your post of complete utter bullshit?
How about this, you post a link to a single WEBSITE (no books here) that discusses anything you are talking about. Hint, you won't find one.
Anyway, enjoy your indoctrination. Did you know you will spend one quarter of your life working to pay interest? Maybe if you are smart, you will ask who gets that money.
Nope the stupid move was supporting Japan when they bombed Pearl Harbor, taking on two super powers at once was simply too much.
Finally, an objective post that can look back on history without the ridiculous moral judgements here.
Very true. Interestingly, Germany supported Cheng Kai Chek against the Communists extensively throughout the 1930's. Cheng Kai Check's son was actually educated in a Prussian officer's school. You can be sure there was not a single oriental at West Point until well after WWII ended. Even in 1939, Germany was not completely committed to the Japanese.
It is also unfortunate what happened with the Russians. Initially, a Russian general and his entire division defected to the Wehrmacht. I think everyone involved completley underestimated how many people Stalin was willing to sacrifice. It ended up being many, many millions.
You certainly don't know what actually happened. Germany started the war with a campaign in Poland. During that campaign, there were massive one day aerial assaults on Polish cities, particularly Warsaw. And BTW, that wasn't a war to "reclaim their lost territories" as most of Poland that was conquered by the Germans was never part of Germany, and yes even taking into account the parts that were transferred over the the Soviets.
Have you ever heard of the Polish Corridor? The city of Danzig? now called Gdansk?
and again used massive bombardments of civilian populations to cow the Dutch and Belgians.
Name one city in Belgium. As far as the Netherlands, we are talking about ONE city, Rotterdam, and I would hardly say it was massive. The city was only bombarded in the center to allow a rally point for tanks. It is unfortunate, but it is important to remember that the Dutch themselves obviously felt this was inconsequential because they had the highest enlistment rate in the SS outside of Germany.
All in all, it's clear from the tone your posting that you're either a dupe of pro-Nazi propaganda, or an active agent of pro-Nazi propaganda.
Dude, its 2004. Its been a long time since there were any real Nazis.
but, I would definitely rather be an agent than a dupe, so I pick choice #2
Jews were required to leave so it was OK to kill them? Are you really arguing that?
Please tell me where I am arguing that. The parent poster seems to think those 6,000,000 Jews who were killed were from Germany. Since 6,000,000 is the official number, are you arguing that the Nazis didn't kill any Jews from any other country?
German Jews were often prevented from leaving under the assumption they would take their property with them.
You really don't know what you are talking about. The Jews had their property confiscated. A large collection of mansions in Berlin was converted into a school for the Hitler Youth. Things like artwork were put in national museums.
Germany is coming around and although it exhibits xenophobia to some extent, has a healthy and growing immigrant population.
You say this as if it is a good thing. Why should a tiny country with 85 million people take in immigrants? Do you realize Germany is one of the most densely populated countries on earth? Why don't they go to Poland which is roughly the same size, and has only 38 million people? Better yet, why don't they go to Israel which has a similar population density to Germany? Oh wait, you have to be a Jew to immigrate to Israel...
Israel does have diversity of a sort both in terms of religion and ethnicity. There is a twist in that if one is a Jew he or she is a Jew first not "Black", "White", "Asian"
Well, considering the vast majority of Jews are of Khazarian descent, that would make them from the center of Asia. Also, why are you bringing up race? I didn't bring up race.
Although I do appreciate and respect your great love for Deutschland and her peoples, I am very put off with the thinly veiled tone of anti-Semitism and White Supremacy that is replete throughout your post.
White Supremacy? Where did that come from?
We are talking about Germany during WWII, the same Germany who tens of thousands of Indians, 20,000 Tibetans, tens of thousands of Albanian and Turkish Muslims, and worked extensively with the Japanese. How were they white supremacists? Many non-white people were educated in German military academies all through the National Socialist era. Do you think there was a single non-white person in any military academy in the US?
As far as anti-semitism, I realize that any time a gentile mentions the word "Jew" cries of antisemitism erupt, but I fail to see how anything I have said can be interpretted in that fashion.
So why exactly did my country shoot and V2 and V1 towards London?
Have you ever been to London? Does it look like there was ever a war there? Now take a vacation to Dusseldorf, oer Berlin, or Dresden. Countless German cities were obliterated, while London appears like it did a century ago. Paris doesn't seem to have experienced any war since 1871.
The only reason that Germany did not use poison gas was because of the paranoia over this weapon that Hitler developed when serving in WW1.
Perhaps, but given how much advanced gas was produced, like sarin, you would think a reasonable person, upon hearing of the attrocities committed by the Russian army as they advanced through East Prussia would make you give up that resolve. I mean, you are already about to lose right? But it doesn't matter really, its a hypothetical. Germany didn't take the war to the next level, that of destroying the cultural centers of western europe because his goal was to save Europe, not destroy it.
And what is this BS about most Jews having emmigrated? The once that were able to leave the country were a lucky few
This is what they teach you in Germany these days eh? My god, whole neighborhoods in the US were populated by Jewish refugees. I personally have met more than a few who left the country prior to the war. Not a week goes by we don't hear of some Jew who had their property confiscated trying to sue to get it back. They give speeches at universities all over the country on a regular basis. Hundreds of thousands left, even according to Jewish sources. They even claim 20,000+ went to Shanghai in China!
These are the facts as reported by Jews themselves.
To give the impression that most jewish Germans were able to escape the Holocaust is simply a lie and a disgrace.
So, what were all those Jews doing from the time Hitler was elected in 1933 until the holocaust supposedly happened in 1943? Being worked to death? For a decade?
Duhh, do you even read any of the Holocaust propaganda?
Those 6 million aren't even claimed to be from Germany! Sheesh...
Most of the Jews who were supposedly executed were from Poland, the Ukraine, and other Slavic lands.
The reason for this is simple, starting in 1935 Jews were REQUIRED to leave Germany as soon as possible. That is 8 full years before the holocaust ever was supposedly implemented, and four years before the French and English declared war on Germany, and five years before fighting even began.
GP states the obvious, that had Hitler rallied the Jews to his side, he would have had more workers and more soldiers!
Why don't you sit down and read Mein Kampf someday. Germany was NOT fighting just to fight. They were fighting to create a homeland for their people, just as Israel is fighting to maintain their homeland.
Let the generals run the combat. AFAIK there were several opportunities to either retreat and regroup or to give up ground to assist other units that could have actually won the Eastern Front.
Lets see, a country the size of Texas with little more than twice the population with limited natural resources such as petroleum, was able to fight the WHOLE WORLD for six years. They even lasted nearly a whole year when most of their major cities had been reduced to rubble, inflicting massive civilian casualities the likes of which were unknown in the rest of Western Europe. What would have happened if the moment Britain and France declared war on Germany for reclaiming their lost territory they just gassed London and Paris, and killed everyone there. Or maybe Moscow.
Remember, Germany was able to successfully fight for those six years WITHOUT resorting to massive targetting of civilian population centers.
There were a lot of resources wasted on the Death Camps and other essentially political/sociological obsessions.
What kind of resources? The singular greatest argument against the existence of those death camps as you put is fuel. The only reason fuel is said to have been used was to creamate the victims since mass graves hold 200,000-300,000 dead at the most. The problem is these same people claim the holocaust didn't happen until 1943, AFTER Stalingrad when the fuel shortage was become quite critical. It simply doesn't make sense.
Not only did this limit Nazi Germany's resources, but it limited their access to a large segment of educated people.
What sort of educated people? You mean the Jews? You mean 1-2% of Germany's population? most of whom were forced to emigrate before the war began? I would hardly call that a large segment, and even without them they developed practically every modern weapon of war which even today stands as the founding model. Israel seems to get along today just fine without the help of the 100 million muslims in their neighborhood. When you are pursuing an ethnic state you have to make some sacrifices. Germany made them, and Israel makes them today.
Germany's problem was not lack of educated people, it was lack of workers and lack of soldiers.
Not only that, but the original designer of VisiCalc describes this very issue in the article, and how the uniqueness of the spreadsheet made it very difficult to describe to the public at large. Only through immersion in the technology can you really understand and appreciate it.
Complaining about this, as fashionable as it is, underlines the lack of objectivity when discussing this issue. How someone can defend themselves and their friends being paid vastly overblown salaries (and yes, US salaries are high, even when compared to cost of living) when people in these countries are just as able (which they are - India has schools too, yet Indian society places more emphasis on the importance of studies than American society - which favors athletic prowess), and more needing of the salary. It's being selfish.
1) Your discussion of Indian versus American schooling is deficient on two points. First, you neglect mentioning that the vast majority of Indians are uneducated, and live in a manner barely considered civilized, even by Indian standards. Secondly, you fail to appreciate the value of athletic prowess in fostering comradeship and teamwork, both of which are necessary for a civilized society and for complex work. Without large scale organization, humans would still be living in small tribes wandering aimlessly amongst the earth.
2) You are unable to realize Internationalism is by no means a necessity in this world, and that the United States was most prosperous when it had heavy import tariffs and its industry predominantly supplied US citizens. The US, since International Finance began to dominate it in the fatermath of the Second World War, has been a souless place where track housing has replaced idealized urban planning of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The best solution is let the Indians writh in their filth, and figure out how to meet the demand of their own citizens without worrying about us. The US should do the same.
Almost every single labor market out there works this way. If the workforce demands a higher salary than an alternative workforce, guess what? The work goes somewhere else.
This only happens because we LET it happen. We have merely to enact high import tariffs to offset that trend and we will no longer observe that behavior.
Please folks, I can understand exactly where you're coming from on this one, but no-one moaned when this same phenomenon was working the other way round, and it's just plain immature (and selfish) to complain now.
You are unfortunately quite wrong. As I said previously, internationalism is a new phenomenon, a post- war phenomenon. It is the reason World War II was fought, but the battle certainly did not end in 1945. The Capitalist/Communist false dichotomy did confuse many people about the ultimate goal of the Internationalists, but certainly not all. In reality, there is been a great deal of discontent the last 30 years which relates specifically to this issue.
At no time has internationalism ever been whole heartedly supported. There has always been substantial resistence. The difference is in the depression and pre-war time it was associated with Fascism. The Internationalis financiers decided to go to war over that one, so that descent was silenced by military force. The debate somewhat ended in the 1950's, but then it was associated with Unions. All the union jobs disappeared in the 1980's as the US "eliminated its dependence on manufacturing". So the unions were silenced.
Now we come to today. The world internationalism has now been replaced by "globalism" and the call for stronger nation states has been replaced with the call for stronger communities.
The only real question then, is how are individuals like yourself going to label the new dissent, to continue this myth that rebellion against International Financiers is a new, insane phenomenon?
BTW, Windows 3.1 sitting on MSDOS 6.2 ran like shit of a stick on my old P133. I wonder if/how it would run on a modern system?
I don't know, but I ran Windows 3.1 on top of OS/2 3.0 and on a P133 and it worked perfectly, and its speed was acceptable. It must have run significantly faster on native DOS.
for the simple reason they have over 1 billion people in their country.
It is simply not fair that the Tibetans wish to live their simple, unproductive life while the numerous Chinese are forced to live in squaler.
The situation you describe only exists because these people refuse to learn Chinese, and many can't even read because the Dahli Lama (or whatever) doesn't want his masses to learn how. These are people who are nothing more than feudal farmers.
The most humane thing to do with them, is what the US did with the native Americans. Just move them to reservation, where they can live out there obsolete native ways.
Why knock on Heidegger? The man has some interesting ideas. I know he is a little overrated, but you can blame that on Sartre. If he wasn't Heidegger's student, and didn't right those bullshit plays, we wouldn't have this problem.
While I don't think the people in Cuba are being detained fairly, unfortunately they were explicitly violating the Geneva convention by not openly carrying arms or wearing a distinctive uniform, nor was there a clear leader to whom they answered.
Further, the people in Cuba are being treated a lot more fairly than the German POW's were at the time the Fourth Geneva Convention was ratified, so that should give you some sense of how much that treaty really is significant.
But, I don't think that is how music copyrights work. While it may SEEM that way considering how most "musicians" can't read musical notation, instead they use those guitar chord notations, TIME is an essential part of music.
Every possible combination of actual notes is only a small part of music. You have the time measurement for each note (1/8th note, 1/4 note), you have the dynamic range(forte, piano), you have the style of the note(muted, tremolo, vibrato, staccato), all in addition to a wide range of octaves (10 on a piano for instance), and the use of chords.
When you consider all of these factors, you realize there is a near infinite number of different combinations of music out there. Maybe this is why people still dig it.
Wikipedia has a great page on musical terminology.
SUV owners are subject to supply and demand just like anyone else. As gas prices go up demand for SUV's will drop. I think I read somewhere that it is already happening. Do we need nuclear energy? Well... define "need"
Well, if you read the fucking article, you would realize that supply and demand is completely, utterly IRRELEVEVANT to the story.
There could be an infinite supply of fossil fuels, but the man would still be arguing to adopt nuclear power quickly. It has to do with the environmental impact of fossil fuels, not their projected future scarcity.
Right now, the environmental impact of SUV's is sufficiently abstracted such the average consumer will likely never appreciate their small contribution to the destruction of our planet until it is too late.
Tax oil (BEFORE refining). Try this thought experiment. Tax oil. Consumption goes down (supply/demand etc.). Competing suppliers respond with lower prices barrel prices in an attempt to keep market share. We (as a nation) effectively pay *less* for our oil AND our consumption rate decreases AND new markets are created for energy effiency AND alternative sources of energy become more attractive AND greenhouse gas emmisions decrease.
supply and demand. supply and demand. supply and demand. supply and demand. supply and demand. supply and demand. supply and demand.
You are like a broken record. Like most democractically minded people, you don't understand DEMAND ITSELF IS IRRELEVANT.
The people could demand SPECIFICALLY to destroy this planet, it doesn't mean we should let them. There is a very simple way to eliminate the demand in 99% of cases for fossil fuels: criminalize their possession.
Make it a capital offense, and that will be 99.9%.
PS: and no, i wouldnt stop with this post, i'd love to whip your stupid ass any day of the week...show you what pain is.
"Whether it is hedonism or pessimism, utilitarianism or eudaemonism - all these ways of thinking that measure the value of thing in accordance with pleasure and pain , which are mere epiphenomena and wholly secondary, are ways of thinking that stay in the foreground and naivetes on which everyone conscious of creative powers and an artistic conscience will look down not without derision, nor without pity. Pity with you - that, of course, is not pity in your sense: it is not pity with social "distress", with "society" and its sick and unfortunate members, with those addicted to vice and maimed from the start, though the ground around us is littered with them; it is even less pity with grumbling, sorely pressed, rebellious slave strata who long for dominion, calling it "freedom". Our pity is a higher and more farsighted pity: we see how man makes himself smaller, how you make him smaller - and there are moments when we behold your very pity with indescribable anxiety, when we resist this pity - when we find your seriousness more dangerous than any frivolity. You want, if possible - and there is no more insane "if possible" - to abolish suffering . And we? It really seems that we would rather have it higher and worse than ever. Well-being as you understand it - that is no goal, that seems to us an end , a state that soon makes man ridiculous and contemptible - that makes his destruction desirable." - Friedrich Nietzsche
You see, my hypocritical friend, I love pain. In fact, nothing would please me more than a long, grueling battle to the death with a sanctimonious subhuman like yourself. While I love suffering, I love beauty even more. While I would take no pleasure in slowly ending your life, the mere thought that our polluted could be purified by your death tittles my heart with such great pleasure I can hardly contain myself. You see, I desire your death only because you degrade a beautiful planet and species. You are nothing but a mistake, a smudge on the canvas of life.
You see, your threats and idle ramblings mean nothing to me. Your own words prove you are nothing but a disease amongst our species. A sick, writhing waste of life, one of billions who are slowly but surely degrading our people, and our planet.
I'm married, I just had a baby boy a little over 2 months ago...
People like you should be sterilized, and should have no right to reproduce.
Hopefully this can help someone out. ...just another story to remember when our decadent, decaying civilization collapses due to the rapid reproduction of inferior humans.
Turns out it's because of a low level of serotonin in my brain.
Is that so, and how do you know this? The magical seratonin test?
They don't know why these drugs work, and the truth is ALL psychotropic drugs affect all neurotransmitters. It isn't anywhere near as simple as "low seratonin".
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What lies? We aren't even talking about the holocaust. Where did that come from? We are talking about your assertion that Hitler wanted to destroy France, and was only ammeliorated by a rebellious general.
Provide your source. If you studied it academically, that shouldn't be a problem. But of course, you are full of shit and won't provide anything because your life is a fiction, including your bullshit degree.
do you really think I will respond to your post of complete utter bullshit?
How about this, you post a link to a single WEBSITE (no books here) that discusses anything you are talking about. Hint, you won't find one.
Anyway, enjoy your indoctrination. Did you know you will spend one quarter of your life working to pay interest? Maybe if you are smart, you will ask who gets that money.
Nope the stupid move was supporting Japan when they bombed Pearl Harbor, taking on two super powers at once was simply too much.
Finally, an objective post that can look back on history without the ridiculous moral judgements here.
Very true. Interestingly, Germany supported Cheng Kai Chek against the Communists extensively throughout the 1930's. Cheng Kai Check's son was actually educated in a Prussian officer's school. You can be sure there was not a single oriental at West Point until well after WWII ended. Even in 1939, Germany was not completely committed to the Japanese.
It is also unfortunate what happened with the Russians. Initially, a Russian general and his entire division defected to the Wehrmacht. I think everyone involved completley underestimated how many people Stalin was willing to sacrifice. It ended up being many, many millions.
You certainly don't know what actually happened. Germany started the war with a campaign in Poland. During that campaign, there were massive one day aerial assaults on Polish cities, particularly Warsaw. And BTW, that wasn't a war to "reclaim their lost territories" as most of Poland that was conquered by the Germans was never part of Germany, and yes even taking into account the parts that were transferred over the the Soviets.
Have you ever heard of the Polish Corridor? The city of Danzig? now called Gdansk?
and again used massive bombardments of civilian populations to cow the Dutch and Belgians.
Name one city in Belgium. As far as the Netherlands, we are talking about ONE city, Rotterdam, and I would hardly say it was massive. The city was only bombarded in the center to allow a rally point for tanks. It is unfortunate, but it is important to remember that the Dutch themselves obviously felt this was inconsequential because they had the highest enlistment rate in the SS outside of Germany.
All in all, it's clear from the tone your posting that you're either a dupe of pro-Nazi propaganda, or an active agent of pro-Nazi propaganda.
Dude, its 2004. Its been a long time since there were any real Nazis.
but, I would definitely rather be an agent than a dupe, so I pick choice #2
Jews were required to leave so it was OK to kill them? Are you really arguing that?
Please tell me where I am arguing that. The parent poster seems to think those 6,000,000 Jews who were killed were from Germany. Since 6,000,000 is the official number, are you arguing that the Nazis didn't kill any Jews from any other country?
German Jews were often prevented from leaving under the assumption they would take their property with them.
You really don't know what you are talking about. The Jews had their property confiscated. A large collection of mansions in Berlin was converted into a school for the Hitler Youth. Things like artwork were put in national museums.
Why don't you read up on the Nuhremberg laws to start
Germany is coming around and although it exhibits xenophobia to some extent, has a healthy and growing immigrant population.
You say this as if it is a good thing. Why should a tiny country with 85 million people take in immigrants? Do you realize Germany is one of the most densely populated countries on earth? Why don't they go to Poland which is roughly the same size, and has only 38 million people? Better yet, why don't they go to Israel which has a similar population density to Germany? Oh wait, you have to be a Jew to immigrate to Israel...
Israel does have diversity of a sort both in terms of religion and ethnicity. There is a twist in that if one is a Jew he or she is a Jew first not "Black", "White", "Asian"
Well, considering the vast majority of Jews are of Khazarian descent, that would make them from the center of Asia. Also, why are you bringing up race? I didn't bring up race.
Although I do appreciate and respect your great love for Deutschland and her peoples, I am very put off with the thinly veiled tone of anti-Semitism and White Supremacy that is replete throughout your post.
White Supremacy? Where did that come from?
We are talking about Germany during WWII, the same Germany who tens of thousands of Indians, 20,000 Tibetans, tens of thousands of Albanian and Turkish Muslims, and worked extensively with the Japanese. How were they white supremacists? Many non-white people were educated in German military academies all through the National Socialist era. Do you think there was a single non-white person in any military academy in the US?
As far as anti-semitism, I realize that any time a gentile mentions the word "Jew" cries of antisemitism erupt, but I fail to see how anything I have said can be interpretted in that fashion.
So why exactly did my country shoot and V2 and V1 towards London?
Have you ever been to London? Does it look like there was ever a war there? Now take a vacation to Dusseldorf, oer Berlin, or Dresden. Countless German cities were obliterated, while London appears like it did a century ago. Paris doesn't seem to have experienced any war since 1871.
The only reason that Germany did not use poison gas was because of the paranoia over this weapon that Hitler developed when serving in WW1.
Perhaps, but given how much advanced gas was produced, like sarin, you would think a reasonable person, upon hearing of the attrocities committed by the Russian army as they advanced through East Prussia would make you give up that resolve. I mean, you are already about to lose right? But it doesn't matter really, its a hypothetical. Germany didn't take the war to the next level, that of destroying the cultural centers of western europe because his goal was to save Europe, not destroy it.
And what is this BS about most Jews having emmigrated? The once that were able to leave the country were a lucky few
This is what they teach you in Germany these days eh? My god, whole neighborhoods in the US were populated by Jewish refugees. I personally have met more than a few who left the country prior to the war. Not a week goes by we don't hear of some Jew who had their property confiscated trying to sue to get it back. They give speeches at universities all over the country on a regular basis. Hundreds of thousands left, even according to Jewish sources. They even claim 20,000+ went to Shanghai in China!
These are the facts as reported by Jews themselves.
To give the impression that most jewish Germans were able to escape the Holocaust is simply a lie and a disgrace.
So, what were all those Jews doing from the time Hitler was elected in 1933 until the holocaust supposedly happened in 1943? Being worked to death? For a decade?
Duhh, do you even read any of the Holocaust propaganda?
Those 6 million aren't even claimed to be from Germany! Sheesh...
Most of the Jews who were supposedly executed were from Poland, the Ukraine, and other Slavic lands.
The reason for this is simple, starting in 1935 Jews were REQUIRED to leave Germany as soon as possible. That is 8 full years before the holocaust ever was supposedly implemented, and four years before the French and English declared war on Germany, and five years before fighting even began.
GP states the obvious, that had Hitler rallied the Jews to his side, he would have had more workers and more soldiers!
Why don't you sit down and read Mein Kampf someday. Germany was NOT fighting just to fight. They were fighting to create a homeland for their people, just as Israel is fighting to maintain their homeland.
Let the generals run the combat. AFAIK there were several opportunities to either retreat and regroup or to give up ground to assist other units that could have actually won the Eastern Front.
Lets see, a country the size of Texas with little more than twice the population with limited natural resources such as petroleum, was able to fight the WHOLE WORLD for six years. They even lasted nearly a whole year when most of their major cities had been reduced to rubble, inflicting massive civilian casualities the likes of which were unknown in the rest of Western Europe. What would have happened if the moment Britain and France declared war on Germany for reclaiming their lost territory they just gassed London and Paris, and killed everyone there. Or maybe Moscow.
Remember, Germany was able to successfully fight for those six years WITHOUT resorting to massive targetting of civilian population centers.
There were a lot of resources wasted on the Death Camps and other essentially political/sociological obsessions.
What kind of resources? The singular greatest argument against the existence of those death camps as you put is fuel. The only reason fuel is said to have been used was to creamate the victims since mass graves hold 200,000-300,000 dead at the most. The problem is these same people claim the holocaust didn't happen until 1943, AFTER Stalingrad when the fuel shortage was become quite critical. It simply doesn't make sense.
Not only did this limit Nazi Germany's resources, but it limited their access to a large segment of educated people.
What sort of educated people? You mean the Jews? You mean 1-2% of Germany's population? most of whom were forced to emigrate before the war began? I would hardly call that a large segment, and even without them they developed practically every modern weapon of war which even today stands as the founding model. Israel seems to get along today just fine without the help of the 100 million muslims in their neighborhood. When you are pursuing an ethnic state you have to make some sacrifices. Germany made them, and Israel makes them today.
Germany's problem was not lack of educated people, it was lack of workers and lack of soldiers.
Not only that, but the original designer of VisiCalc describes this very issue in the article, and how the uniqueness of the spreadsheet made it very difficult to describe to the public at large. Only through immersion in the technology can you really understand and appreciate it.
so, you forgot to preface your post with RTFA.
Complaining about this, as fashionable as it is, underlines the lack of objectivity when discussing this issue. How someone can defend themselves and their friends being paid vastly overblown salaries (and yes, US salaries are high, even when compared to cost of living) when people in these countries are just as able (which they are - India has schools too, yet Indian society places more emphasis on the importance of studies than American society - which favors athletic prowess), and more needing of the salary. It's being selfish.
1) Your discussion of Indian versus American schooling is deficient on two points. First, you neglect mentioning that the vast majority of Indians are uneducated, and live in a manner barely considered civilized, even by Indian standards. Secondly, you fail to appreciate the value of athletic prowess in fostering comradeship and teamwork, both of which are necessary for a civilized society and for complex work. Without large scale organization, humans would still be living in small tribes wandering aimlessly amongst the earth.
2) You are unable to realize Internationalism is by no means a necessity in this world, and that the United States was most prosperous when it had heavy import tariffs and its industry predominantly supplied US citizens. The US, since International Finance began to dominate it in the fatermath of the Second World War, has been a souless place where track housing has replaced idealized urban planning of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The best solution is let the Indians writh in their filth, and figure out how to meet the demand of their own citizens without worrying about us. The US should do the same.
Almost every single labor market out there works this way. If the workforce demands a higher salary than an alternative workforce, guess what? The work goes somewhere else.
This only happens because we LET it happen. We have merely to enact high import tariffs to offset that trend and we will no longer observe that behavior.
Please folks, I can understand exactly where you're coming from on this one, but no-one moaned when this same phenomenon was working the other way round, and it's just plain immature (and selfish) to complain now.
You are unfortunately quite wrong. As I said previously, internationalism is a new phenomenon, a post- war phenomenon. It is the reason World War II was fought, but the battle certainly did not end in 1945. The Capitalist/Communist false dichotomy did confuse many people about the ultimate goal of the Internationalists, but certainly not all. In reality, there is been a great deal of discontent the last 30 years which relates specifically to this issue.
At no time has internationalism ever been whole heartedly supported. There has always been substantial resistence. The difference is in the depression and pre-war time it was associated with Fascism. The Internationalis financiers decided to go to war over that one, so that descent was silenced by military force. The debate somewhat ended in the 1950's, but then it was associated with Unions. All the union jobs disappeared in the 1980's as the US "eliminated its dependence on manufacturing". So the unions were silenced.
Now we come to today. The world internationalism has now been replaced by "globalism" and the call for stronger nation states has been replaced with the call for stronger communities.
The only real question then, is how are individuals like yourself going to label the new dissent, to continue this myth that rebellion against International Financiers is a new, insane phenomenon?
BTW, Windows 3.1 sitting on MSDOS 6.2 ran like shit of a stick on my old P133. I wonder if/how it would run on a modern system?
I don't know, but I ran Windows 3.1 on top of OS/2 3.0 and on a P133 and it worked perfectly, and its speed was acceptable. It must have run significantly faster on native DOS.
Yes, that would be a typical communist method.
I'll see you on the battlefield you pinko scum.
Well, of course. Great Britain has technically been overpopulated for centuries.
The Supreme irony is despite even their current overpopulation, the import third world laborers by the hundreds of thousands.
You should be freaked out.
your day is coming, untermensch. Your kind will be exterminated, either through selective, controlled breeding, or due to starvation and anarchy.
But the real question is do you belong to the BNP?
for the simple reason they have over 1 billion people in their country.
It is simply not fair that the Tibetans wish to live their simple, unproductive life while the numerous Chinese are forced to live in squaler.
The situation you describe only exists because these people refuse to learn Chinese, and many can't even read because the Dahli Lama (or whatever) doesn't want his masses to learn how. These are people who are nothing more than feudal farmers.
The most humane thing to do with them, is what the US did with the native Americans. Just move them to reservation, where they can live out there obsolete native ways.
you might kill a hipster.
Why knock on Heidegger? The man has some interesting ideas. I know he is a little overrated, but you can blame that on Sartre. If he wasn't Heidegger's student, and didn't right those bullshit plays, we wouldn't have this problem.
The Geneva convention only applies to nations at war, and the legal forces under their command (ie IN UNIFORM)
Even under geneva convention rules, if you are shot at by someone not in uniform you have the right to execute them on the spot.
You can read the text of the Fourth Geneva Convention Here
While I don't think the people in Cuba are being detained fairly, unfortunately they were explicitly violating the Geneva convention by not openly carrying arms or wearing a distinctive uniform, nor was there a clear leader to whom they answered.
Further, the people in Cuba are being treated a lot more fairly than the German POW's were at the time the Fourth Geneva Convention was ratified, so that should give you some sense of how much that treaty really is significant.
An interesting theory.
But, I don't think that is how music copyrights work. While it may SEEM that way considering how most "musicians" can't read musical notation, instead they use those guitar chord notations, TIME is an essential part of music.
Every possible combination of actual notes is only a small part of music. You have the time measurement for each note (1/8th note, 1/4 note), you have the dynamic range(forte, piano), you have the style of the note(muted, tremolo, vibrato, staccato), all in addition to a wide range of octaves (10 on a piano for instance), and the use of chords.
When you consider all of these factors, you realize there is a near infinite number of different combinations of music out there. Maybe this is why people still dig it.
Wikipedia has a great page on musical terminology.
It's exactly the same mistake they're making with the MiniDisc
Shouldn't this be past tense?
I thought MiniDisc died 5 years ago. I haven't seen a player or the discs since like 1995.
SUV owners are subject to supply and demand just like anyone else. As gas prices go up demand for SUV's will drop. I think I read somewhere that it is already happening. Do we need nuclear energy? Well... define "need"
Well, if you read the fucking article, you would realize that supply and demand is completely, utterly IRRELEVEVANT to the story.
There could be an infinite supply of fossil fuels, but the man would still be arguing to adopt nuclear power quickly. It has to do with the environmental impact of fossil fuels, not their projected future scarcity.
Right now, the environmental impact of SUV's is sufficiently abstracted such the average consumer will likely never appreciate their small contribution to the destruction of our planet until it is too late.
Tax oil (BEFORE refining). Try this thought experiment. Tax oil. Consumption goes down (supply/demand etc.). Competing suppliers respond with lower prices barrel prices in an attempt to keep market share. We (as a nation) effectively pay *less* for our oil AND our consumption rate decreases AND new markets are created for energy effiency AND alternative sources of energy become more attractive AND greenhouse gas emmisions decrease.
supply and demand. supply and demand. supply and demand. supply and demand. supply and demand. supply and demand. supply and demand.
You are like a broken record. Like most democractically minded people, you don't understand DEMAND ITSELF IS IRRELEVANT.
The people could demand SPECIFICALLY to destroy this planet, it doesn't mean we should let them. There is a very simple way to eliminate the demand in 99% of cases for fossil fuels: criminalize their possession.
Make it a capital offense, and that will be 99.9%.
PS: and no, i wouldnt stop with this post, i'd love to whip your stupid ass any day of the week...show you what pain is.
." - Friedrich Nietzsche
"Whether it is hedonism or pessimism, utilitarianism or eudaemonism - all these ways of thinking that measure the value of thing in accordance with pleasure and pain , which are mere epiphenomena and wholly secondary, are ways of thinking that stay in the foreground and naivetes on which everyone conscious of creative powers and an artistic conscience will look down not without derision, nor without pity. Pity with you - that, of course, is not pity in your sense: it is not pity with social "distress", with "society" and its sick and unfortunate members, with those addicted to vice and maimed from the start, though the ground around us is littered with them; it is even less pity with grumbling, sorely pressed, rebellious slave strata who long for dominion, calling it "freedom". Our pity is a higher and more farsighted pity: we see how man makes himself smaller, how you make him smaller - and there are moments when we behold your very pity with indescribable anxiety, when we resist this pity - when we find your seriousness more dangerous than any frivolity. You want, if possible - and there is no more insane "if possible" - to abolish suffering . And we? It really seems that we would rather have it higher and worse than ever. Well-being as you understand it - that is no goal, that seems to us an end , a state that soon makes man ridiculous and contemptible - that makes his destruction desirable
You see, my hypocritical friend, I love pain. In fact, nothing would please me more than a long, grueling battle to the death with a sanctimonious subhuman like yourself. While I love suffering, I love beauty even more. While I would take no pleasure in slowly ending your life, the mere thought that our polluted could be purified by your death tittles my heart with such great pleasure I can hardly contain myself. You see, I desire your death only because you degrade a beautiful planet and species. You are nothing but a mistake, a smudge on the canvas of life.
You see, your threats and idle ramblings mean nothing to me. Your own words prove you are nothing but a disease amongst our species. A sick, writhing waste of life, one of billions who are slowly but surely degrading our people, and our planet.
PS: its spelled Auschwitz - Arbeit Macht Frei!
I'm married, I just had a baby boy a little over 2 months ago...
...just another story to remember when our decadent, decaying civilization collapses due to the rapid reproduction of inferior humans.
People like you should be sterilized, and should have no right to reproduce.
Hopefully this can help someone out.
Turns out it's because of a low level of serotonin in my brain.
Is that so, and how do you know this? The magical seratonin test?
They don't know why these drugs work, and the truth is ALL psychotropic drugs affect all neurotransmitters. It isn't anywhere near as simple as "low seratonin".