I think you are remembering the motto of the Roman Legions "Si vis pacem, para bellum". If you want peace, prepare for war.
Your quote really doesn't hold true for a number of times in history, such as the Pax Romana period. Rome had 100 years of uninterrupted peace. They had that peace because they had the strongest and most advanced military in the world. That is why that quote has had such significance over the last few centuries.
And the nationalism versus internationalism debate continues...
The powers that promote internationalism have grown quite strong over the last 80 years. How else can we explain the simple fact that the word "nationalism" immediately holds negative connotations?
Internationalists, including most educators and media types, will never allow any nationalistic sentiment to arise in the US. It won't happen. We have already fought a world war over this, not to mention 50 years of the cold war deciding which form of internationalism would dominate. Can't just give up now.
Send them to die in the streets like Reagan emptying the asylums?
Do you really think the president has any power of asylums? You must wish we lived in a dictatorship...but you got it wrong. The supreme court made impossible to commit anyone into an asylum unless it could be proved they were an imminent threat to society or themselves.
I am not going to bother digging up a link, but do you really think Reagan wanted to see all these crackheads and drunks on the streets? My god... I see the filth on the streets today and I almost wish we had a dictator who could just clean this place up.
XP 64 won't have the 32-bit XP's support for DOS apps at all, nor will it run 16-bit apps (but it should have no trouble with 32-bit software). More important, 64-bit drivers for common hardware, such as printers, will be scarce when the OS debuts."
This is just not true. The beta version contains this functionality and has no trouble at all.
So it doesn't contain the new interface. Just get Object Desktop. Its cooler anyway.
Umm, Watcom? Not only were their compilers the most popular for OS/2, they were the most popular for DOS as well. Remember, they were the ones that released DOS/4GW, which every game was built on for several years.
All I can say, is there were many problems with getting developers, but lack of a good compiler was not one of them.
Btw, watcom is now open source, as Sybase dropped it after acquiring Powersoft, which previous acquired Watcom.
This is so true, I first noticed this when I got a 10 meg hard drive for my Tandy 1000 about 18 years ago. They have always calculated hard drive size in this fashion.
I wasn't afraid of the prostitutes in drug dealers. I just said it was a dirty city.
St. Catherine street was full of condemned buildings, strip joints, and biker bars... Very weird place. I also have seen more albinos on that street than I have in my entire life! I have never seen an Albino once, ever anywhere! But one night, I saw three on rue St. Catherine.
Some parts are nice. St. Denis north of Sherbrooke was very charming. (at least, I think that was north)
Montreal was a weird place, I have never been unusually frightened there... but petty crime and the lack of police does give me concern. As a tourist I don't care. But, if I lived there...
In most western nations, including Canada, it is a felony to question the Holocaust in any way. There are hundreds of people in prison for doing just that. Only in the US and the Netherlands is it not a crime.
Do you have any details on this? I am genuinely curious... In many ways, it is a very beautiful city. How did this happen? It just doesn't make much sense. It doesn't seem Montreal is the same city as it was when the world's fair was held there and their amazing subway system was implimented.
I live in New York. Here, getting searched before going into a dance club is common. Regular bar, unheard of.
I also go to Montreal pretty often. Its a good time, its cheap. The women are beautiful.
At the same time, its an amazingly crime ridden and dirty city. I never have seen a street walking prostitute in Manhattan in ten years. The only street dealers these days are selling tax free cigarettes.
In Montreal, prostitution and drug dealing is out of control. I mean, people exchanging huge 1/4 ounce bags of cocaine on the street at noon.
I also saw very little police presence. I will take New York any day. So we attract some thugs in dance clubs, but at least the city doesn't look like a crackwhore's paradise...
I lived in Chicago for a while. There, the police take your drivers license as bail when you are given a ticket. You get it back when you pay. In the meantime, your ticket is your identification.
Even though you could technically use the ticket to vote or drive, no bar would accept it.
Wow, someone has been in educational land for a little too long.
- personality disorders of various types, including narcissistic, borderline, etc
Personality disorders are highly questionable. For a student who loves to simplify the human condition into a bubble-sheet world of categories, the various personality disorders can help their innately limited minds comprehend the incredible complexity of human life. In the end, psychology is still incredibly limited by the egalitarianism of its believers. They don't seeem to understand that people are different, we don't know why, and that all people have the capacity for violence.
Some (for example, Nietzsche) have argued that all people wish to exert their will upon others. This could be anything from wanting to rise into a leadership position, the adoption of a slave morality, or going and killing your neighbor. More than anything, academics cannot even admit the pleasure they derive from being experts its based on this same concept. Someone who knows more about a given topic is more qualified to make important decisions with that knowledge.
The problem with the egalitarian world we have today is that it inflames those who cannot rise to any position of power. When they are powerless, they will do ANYTHING to feel power, even for a moment. Egalitarianism makes them crave it even more because they feel their lot in life is unjust.
This is life, this is our humanity, it isn't going away any time soon.
- breakdown in social skills and social interactions (interventions by adults or peers)
This is of course, what sociology is about. Once, a society had rules which governed acceptable behavior. These rules were often refined over centuries of cultural development, and later implimented in schools and as laws. The problem is, rules and cultural standards have disappeared in oour egalitarian, cosmopolitan world. Academic sociologists in America and Europe cannot comprehend that you cannot have the multicultural utopia AND uniform code and custom in a nation. Until this is realized, the breakdown will continue as it has now for nearly 40 years.
- media reinforcement of the primacy of the individual over society (which is a bunch of other individuals)
This is true to an extent. But the media (and academics included) resist any attempts at true cultural uniformity. People only work together when they feel there is a sense of community. This is not possible in our cosmopolitan world. Kinship is a prerequisite for your dream.
- media reinforcement of the infantile ideal of instant gratification
This is necessary in a society where the wealth is concentrated in the hands of money lenders. Without this drive, people would be much less inclined to borrow money to buy something immediately. They would rather wish to save their money to buy it later. A certain group of Americans benefits strongly from this trend, and they do control most media outlets. Look for the group involved with media and money lending and you will have your answer. It is not simply the media, being fools however. It serves a very real purpose.
- media reinforcement of violent physical or verbal conflict over negotiation and collaboration
I have noticed no such trend, but again, I believe violence is a part of life.
- social acceptance and reinforcement of social heirarchies based on fascist aesthetics and maintained by violence (e.g. Columbine jocks teasing geeks)
And this of course, is why I am responding to this post. Social Hierarchies always exist. If you don't realize that yet, you have a long road ahead. Egalitarianism is the CAUSE of all that you are complaining about. Here you seem to believe it is the solution. Did any of this occur in the US when we had a more rational hierarchy? No.
Fascist aesthetics? Fascism is very much about cultural preservation through defined style (particularly architecture) but as a poli
Don't mean to burst your bubble, but I used to be able to backup my machine to tape in the background while running two instances of a BBS program and still run Lotus Ami Pro. This was on a 486 DX/2 66 with 16 megs of ram.
Copying files in the background should be no big deal on ANY system... especially one which is bus mastered, like Firewire.
Its not the CD's themselves (ie owning a CD is de facto cool) it is the content of said compact discs.
People want to feel like they belong to a certain group by listening to a certain kind of music.
The post war world has been about fostering this false individualism for profit. Everyone wants to be different, to prove their uniqueness. It has created fucked up music because artists and fans are more concerned with novelty which panders to this desire that artistic expression or even just technical excellence...
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Contrary to what all the damyankees on /. think, most of the deep rednecks switched over to crystal meth several years back...
This is one of the funniest things I have read on slashdot in a while. I dunno if this is a good thing or a bad thing.
I bet Sudafed and the likes are a bitch to find down there though...
I think you are remembering the motto of the Roman Legions "Si vis pacem, para bellum". If you want peace, prepare for war.
Your quote really doesn't hold true for a number of times in history, such as the Pax Romana period. Rome had 100 years of uninterrupted peace. They had that peace because they had the strongest and most advanced military in the world. That is why that quote has had such significance over the last few centuries.
And the nationalism versus internationalism debate continues...
The powers that promote internationalism have grown quite strong over the last 80 years. How else can we explain the simple fact that the word "nationalism" immediately holds negative connotations?
Internationalists, including most educators and media types, will never allow any nationalistic sentiment to arise in the US. It won't happen. We have already fought a world war over this, not to mention 50 years of the cold war deciding which form of internationalism would dominate. Can't just give up now.
Only as far as your password being encrypted. Your messages are still sent as plain text.
Send them to die in the streets like Reagan emptying the asylums?
Do you really think the president has any power of asylums? You must wish we lived in a dictatorship...but you got it wrong. The supreme court made impossible to commit anyone into an asylum unless it could be proved they were an imminent threat to society or themselves.
I am not going to bother digging up a link, but do you really think Reagan wanted to see all these crackheads and drunks on the streets? My god... I see the filth on the streets today and I almost wish we had a dictator who could just clean this place up.
Or at least, an argument of sorts.
They have the nifty wifi support in WinXP.. That doesn't require Microsoft software to function...
XP 64 won't have the 32-bit XP's support for DOS apps at all, nor will it run 16-bit apps (but it should have no trouble with 32-bit software). More important, 64-bit drivers for common hardware, such as printers, will be scarce when the OS debuts."
This is just not true. The beta version contains this functionality and has no trouble at all.
So it doesn't contain the new interface. Just get Object Desktop. Its cooler anyway.
Umm, Watcom? Not only were their compilers the most popular for OS/2, they were the most popular for DOS as well. Remember, they were the ones that released DOS/4GW, which every game was built on for several years.
All I can say, is there were many problems with getting developers, but lack of a good compiler was not one of them.
Btw, watcom is now open source, as Sybase dropped it after acquiring Powersoft, which previous acquired Watcom.
Check it out
Why NEC, if you don't mind me asking? AFAIK, the only controversial things they did was have a hand in the EISA standard and the 'ol Tubro Grafx 16.
You could also move to someplace without reliable television... like Liberia.
Its very simple. The simple fact you feel the need to state you are NOT a white supremacist proves what power the label has over the people.
Its a notch below saying someone likes Hitler. It has the same effect. People are immediately turned off.
A pint isn't 16 ounces?
I thought a 20 ounce pint was an imperial pint...
This is so true, I first noticed this when I got a 10 meg hard drive for my Tandy 1000 about 18 years ago. They have always calculated hard drive size in this fashion.
I wasn't afraid of the prostitutes in drug dealers. I just said it was a dirty city.
St. Catherine street was full of condemned buildings, strip joints, and biker bars... Very weird place. I also have seen more albinos on that street than I have in my entire life! I have never seen an Albino once, ever anywhere! But one night, I saw three on rue St. Catherine.
Some parts are nice. St. Denis north of Sherbrooke was very charming. (at least, I think that was north)
Montreal was a weird place, I have never been unusually frightened there... but petty crime and the lack of police does give me concern. As a tourist I don't care. But, if I lived there...
If the truth was so self evident, why do these laws exist?
In most western nations, including Canada, it is a felony to question the Holocaust in any way. There are hundreds of people in prison for doing just that. Only in the US and the Netherlands is it not a crime.
The ticket is state certified ID valid anywhere. Bars just choose not to honor them.
Honestly it isn't a big deal, most people have passports...
Do you have any details on this? I am genuinely curious... In many ways, it is a very beautiful city. How did this happen? It just doesn't make much sense. It doesn't seem Montreal is the same city as it was when the world's fair was held there and their amazing subway system was implimented.
I live in New York. Here, getting searched before going into a dance club is common. Regular bar, unheard of.
I also go to Montreal pretty often. Its a good time, its cheap. The women are beautiful.
At the same time, its an amazingly crime ridden and dirty city. I never have seen a street walking prostitute in Manhattan in ten years. The only street dealers these days are selling tax free cigarettes.
In Montreal, prostitution and drug dealing is out of control. I mean, people exchanging huge 1/4 ounce bags of cocaine on the street at noon.
I also saw very little police presence. I will take New York any day. So we attract some thugs in dance clubs, but at least the city doesn't look like a crackwhore's paradise...
This not true at all.
I lived in Chicago for a while. There, the police take your drivers license as bail when you are given a ticket. You get it back when you pay. In the meantime, your ticket is your identification.
Even though you could technically use the ticket to vote or drive, no bar would accept it.
Wow, someone has been in educational land for a little too long.
- personality disorders of various types, including narcissistic, borderline, etc
Personality disorders are highly questionable. For a student who loves to simplify the human condition into a bubble-sheet world of categories, the various personality disorders can help their innately limited minds comprehend the incredible complexity of human life. In the end, psychology is still incredibly limited by the egalitarianism of its believers. They don't seeem to understand that people are different, we don't know why, and that all people have the capacity for violence.
Some (for example, Nietzsche) have argued that all people wish to exert their will upon others. This could be anything from wanting to rise into a leadership position, the adoption of a slave morality, or going and killing your neighbor. More than anything, academics cannot even admit the pleasure they derive from being experts its based on this same concept. Someone who knows more about a given topic is more qualified to make important decisions with that knowledge.
The problem with the egalitarian world we have today is that it inflames those who cannot rise to any position of power. When they are powerless, they will do ANYTHING to feel power, even for a moment. Egalitarianism makes them crave it even more because they feel their lot in life is unjust.
This is life, this is our humanity, it isn't going away any time soon.
- breakdown in social skills and social interactions (interventions by adults or peers)
This is of course, what sociology is about. Once, a society had rules which governed acceptable behavior. These rules were often refined over centuries of cultural development, and later implimented in schools and as laws. The problem is, rules and cultural standards have disappeared in oour egalitarian, cosmopolitan world. Academic sociologists in America and Europe cannot comprehend that you cannot have the multicultural utopia AND uniform code and custom in a nation. Until this is realized, the breakdown will continue as it has now for nearly 40 years.
- media reinforcement of the primacy of the individual over society (which is a bunch of other individuals)
This is true to an extent. But the media (and academics included) resist any attempts at true cultural uniformity. People only work together when they feel there is a sense of community. This is not possible in our cosmopolitan world. Kinship is a prerequisite for your dream.
- media reinforcement of the infantile ideal of instant gratification
This is necessary in a society where the wealth is concentrated in the hands of money lenders. Without this drive, people would be much less inclined to borrow money to buy something immediately. They would rather wish to save their money to buy it later. A certain group of Americans benefits strongly from this trend, and they do control most media outlets. Look for the group involved with media and money lending and you will have your answer. It is not simply the media, being fools however. It serves a very real purpose.
- media reinforcement of violent physical or verbal conflict over negotiation and collaboration
I have noticed no such trend, but again, I believe violence is a part of life.
- social acceptance and reinforcement of social heirarchies based on fascist aesthetics and maintained by violence (e.g. Columbine jocks teasing geeks)
And this of course, is why I am responding to this post. Social Hierarchies always exist. If you don't realize that yet, you have a long road ahead. Egalitarianism is the CAUSE of all that you are complaining about. Here you seem to believe it is the solution. Did any of this occur in the US when we had a more rational hierarchy? No.
Fascist aesthetics? Fascism is very much about cultural preservation through defined style (particularly architecture) but as a poli
When did pseudo-html emotion tags become part of the slashdot experience ;)
Ok, so the lame catch word doesn't come from advertising, but one could say it is a fashion that has ended up in quite a few posts.
No offense, I am a hypocrite just the same. In fact, I am probably worse...
If you think the music industry today fosters fucked up, unique music, you must have missed the 80's...and 70's...and 60's...
When people say the "post-war world" they are referring to post-WWII. What war did you think I was talking about, the Gulf War?
The fashion trend I am referring to is the one which began AFTER World War II, including the decades you mention.
Don't mean to burst your bubble, but I used to be able to backup my machine to tape in the background while running two instances of a BBS program and still run Lotus Ami Pro. This was on a 486 DX/2 66 with 16 megs of ram.
Copying files in the background should be no big deal on ANY system... especially one which is bus mastered, like Firewire.
Its not the CD's themselves (ie owning a CD is de facto cool) it is the content of said compact discs.
People want to feel like they belong to a certain group by listening to a certain kind of music.
The post war world has been about fostering this false individualism for profit. Everyone wants to be different, to prove their uniqueness. It has created fucked up music because artists and fans are more concerned with novelty which panders to this desire that artistic expression or even just technical excellence...