I'd argue that the Thirty Years' War doesn't fit the mold of a standard dynastic war, being based so heavily on religion. And the dynasties managed to capture a bit of the nationalism spirit by the end - otherwise calls for conscription would have led to revolution, not joining up (which they eventually did). Of course, this is a Slashdot comment, not a thesis, so expect it to be a little broad.
Normally, I don't bother with trolls, but since there might be impressionable youngsters around, you might wish to examine the Napoleonic Wars, the American Civil War, the Great War (aka World War I), and World War II, all of which involved conscript armies fighting for national pride rather than volunteer armies fighting for the narrow interests of their paymasters. Compare body counts.
Really? In what European country did conditions resemble what you see in, say, Nigeria, where the ruling elite will actually try to run down the country in order to steal more? Nobles had a vested interest in keeping their properties well-maintained, if only to be sure that they were giving their children and grandchildren better properties.
People look at Versailles and think that Louis XIV was a thieving bastard. And it's true, in the same fashion that taxation is still theft today. After all, we still give up a not inconsiderable portion of our paycheck to pay for our rulers. But it's also true that Louis wanted to give his family the best possible chance, and the best possible France, because only by having France grow richer and richer could his little cut off the top get bigger. That's not the case with a republic or a democracy.
This is more or less the basic case for monarchy. As it was put to me once: there were good leaders, and there were bad leaders, in dynastic Europe, and there were an awful lot of wars. But none of them systematically raped own their countries in order to enrich themselves (as has happened in much of the post-colonial third world), nor did their martial ambitions wreak one tiny fraction of the havoc that was released upon their countries once war was in the hands of the people.
Good point. I'd rather eat greens than offal. However, if you want, it's actually quite easy to find. Try ethnic markets and small places that slaughter their own. I know of places in the rural south where you can get this stuff if you ask, so it's not that hard to find.
Happy to help. Buy the book, it has a lot of good info. In eight workouts totaling maybe ninety minutes I've had a 50% increase in my leg press and maybe 10-20% in upper body.
Well, you don't buy those novels because you expect them to be different. Look at Terry Pratchett. I love his work, but it was the way he told a story that was his special sauce - the stories themselves were mostly cconsciously derivative.
So cops are free to kill anyone who has the audacity to arm themselves in response to a home invasion? Even if they show better trigger discipline than the invaders? That is a military mentality. Police are supposed to be peace officers. Put some surveillance on your suspect and nab him when he leaves. If this is some mega mob boss with a compound he doesn't leave, then bring out the military tactics with a special crew made up of military vets who do this all the time, not a couple of small town cops who like to play soldier on the weekends so they can out macho their buddies.
The USA stopped vaccinating for smallpox in 1972. You may remember those diseases as minor, but measles in the US had a 0.3% death rate over 1987-2000 and a 0.1% rate of encephalitis, of whom "33% of survivors have lifelong neurological sequelae, including severe retardation, motor impairment, blindness, and sometimes hemiparesis". These are not harmless illnesses.
Be honest. Andrew Wakefield committed scientific misconduct that led directly to these illnesses. The bastard should go on trial for manslaughter for everyone who dies.
The number of criminals who are actually willing to open fire on the police is minuscule. In a tiny minority of cases, SWAT is justified - but small towns and sheriff's departments shouldn't ever be doing those raids. There should be specialized teams that do nothing but this. They should consist of military veterans with experience, not pudgy county mounties playing soldier and killing innocents with their ignorance and inexperience. Most states should one or two such teams, period. No more.
The quotation is from the Bhagavad Gita, which Oppenheimer had read in Sanskrit. "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" is how he phrased it in English.
As if the kind of calories you consume cannot affect either your basal metabolic rate or how your body processes the calories it consumes...
Yes, eventually you do have to burn more than you absorb in order to lose weight, but that doesn't mean that all effects are on the intake side of the equation. And that has everything to do with being low in carbs. I've done low-fat restricted-calorie diets. One of them got me the thinnest I've ever been - I was eating 800-1000 calories a day, no alcohol, and at least an hour a day of walking plus thirty minutes on an elliptical. It was hell. Today, my waistline is about half an inch thicker than it was then. OTOH I downed thirty chicken wings for dinner tonight, as I do most Sunday nights, and I'm having a glass of bourbon on the rocks. I work out once a week for about ten minutes (try bodybyscience.net). And I'm adding muscle and losing fat. I've never felt better in my life. I'm just pissed I had to be 37-38 years old before I found out about this. I could have spent the last twenty years feeling this great.
Dude, let go of the HFCS hate. It's no better or worse for you than sucrose. They're both awful for you. But there's nothing about HFCS that makes it worse, other than it's cheap.
Yes, the majority of what's on sale in the supermarket is processed. That's not always a bad thing; if you're a prepper, you need stuff with long shelf lives, and in that context a little bit of BPA or partially hydrogenated oil is probably a much smaller concern than whatever horrific event you're going to be recovering from as you eat those supplies. We can all agree, I think, that partially hydrogenated oils - trans fats - are deleterious to health, no? And they are EVERYWHERE. As are refined carbohydrates.
I think the concerns over things like sodium benzoate producing benzene by decomposition are overblown, but OTOH if I can get something that doesn't have it, why not? I agree that there is an awful lot of woo out there. But just because crazy people espouse a particular viewpoint doesn't make that viewpoint wrong. So, when I can, I opt for foods that have fewer preservatives. And I don't shop for food in the middle of the grocery store, at all. The only time my food is processed is by me, right before I eat it.
The Atkins diet can be quite healthy. You need to read up on Vilhjalmur Steffanson; he lived among the Inuit eating meat almost exclusively for over a year, and then replicated the experience in New York under medical supervision.
I have eaten very low-carb, typically under 20 g/day and essentially always under 50 g/day, for over a year. Lost a bunch of weight, no difficulty keeping it off. I'm going to eat (unbreaded) chicken wings for dinner tonight, had a nice salad with bacon and homemade ranch dressing for lunch. Aside from the aftermath of a scheduled cheat day every couple of months, and the very occasional cheat week (hey, I was in Paris), I've been in ketosis the entire time. I feel much better in ketosis than out of it. Eat plenty of salad greens, they're nutritious and (via dressing) a great way to up your fat intake.
Most of what I eat is paleo-compatible as well. Essentially the paleo people put enough fences around vegetable products that there are very few high-carb veggies in the paleo menu - sweet potatoes, really. So relax, enjoy your new life, and know that it's incredibly easy to eat this way essentially forever.
Also, you don't need fiber. Fiber was prescribed as a way of getting people to eat less refined flour and more actual vegetables, but just adding fiber won't do anything for you. You've already done the right thing by getting rid of starches, which are what will actually bind up the bowels anyway.
But why does the IRS need its own SWAT team? We already have the DEA, BATFE, and FBI to deal with federal crimes. Surely they can handle the actual mechanics of arresting someone?
After the SWAT team killed that military guy in the Southwest and the after-action review showed that he had never pulled the trigger... what else did you need? They went into a house, guns blazing, and shot a completely innocent man to death - a man who was a military veteran and armed private citizen who did not shoot back even as they were killing him, because he saw they were cops. And people seriously argue that it's the guns in private hands that are the problem?
Nearly everything that distinguishes Europe and the USA on climate is explained by the fact that warming in Europe has been during the summers - previously mild, now hot - and the warming in the USA has been in the winters - previously brutal, now milder.
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You haven't heard of it because AC made it up. Amusing story, though.
I suspect this guy doesn't actually exist.
And to think that at one time this was believed to be paranoia. (Lard's "Can God Fill Teeth?" - an Al Jourgensen/Jello Biafra project)
I'd argue that the Thirty Years' War doesn't fit the mold of a standard dynastic war, being based so heavily on religion. And the dynasties managed to capture a bit of the nationalism spirit by the end - otherwise calls for conscription would have led to revolution, not joining up (which they eventually did). Of course, this is a Slashdot comment, not a thesis, so expect it to be a little broad.
Normally, I don't bother with trolls, but since there might be impressionable youngsters around, you might wish to examine the Napoleonic Wars, the American Civil War, the Great War (aka World War I), and World War II, all of which involved conscript armies fighting for national pride rather than volunteer armies fighting for the narrow interests of their paymasters. Compare body counts.
Really? In what European country did conditions resemble what you see in, say, Nigeria, where the ruling elite will actually try to run down the country in order to steal more? Nobles had a vested interest in keeping their properties well-maintained, if only to be sure that they were giving their children and grandchildren better properties.
People look at Versailles and think that Louis XIV was a thieving bastard. And it's true, in the same fashion that taxation is still theft today. After all, we still give up a not inconsiderable portion of our paycheck to pay for our rulers. But it's also true that Louis wanted to give his family the best possible chance, and the best possible France, because only by having France grow richer and richer could his little cut off the top get bigger. That's not the case with a republic or a democracy.
This is more or less the basic case for monarchy. As it was put to me once: there were good leaders, and there were bad leaders, in dynastic Europe, and there were an awful lot of wars. But none of them systematically raped own their countries in order to enrich themselves (as has happened in much of the post-colonial third world), nor did their martial ambitions wreak one tiny fraction of the havoc that was released upon their countries once war was in the hands of the people.
Good point. I'd rather eat greens than offal. However, if you want, it's actually quite easy to find. Try ethnic markets and small places that slaughter their own. I know of places in the rural south where you can get this stuff if you ask, so it's not that hard to find.
Happy to help. Buy the book, it has a lot of good info. In eight workouts totaling maybe ninety minutes I've had a 50% increase in my leg press and maybe 10-20% in upper body.
Well, you don't buy those novels because you expect them to be different. Look at Terry Pratchett. I love his work, but it was the way he told a story that was his special sauce - the stories themselves were mostly cconsciously derivative.
So cops are free to kill anyone who has the audacity to arm themselves in response to a home invasion? Even if they show better trigger discipline than the invaders? That is a military mentality. Police are supposed to be peace officers. Put some surveillance on your suspect and nab him when he leaves. If this is some mega mob boss with a compound he doesn't leave, then bring out the military tactics with a special crew made up of military vets who do this all the time, not a couple of small town cops who like to play soldier on the weekends so they can out macho their buddies.
The USA stopped vaccinating for smallpox in 1972. You may remember those diseases as minor, but measles in the US had a 0.3% death rate over 1987-2000 and a 0.1% rate of encephalitis, of whom "33% of survivors have lifelong neurological sequelae, including severe retardation, motor impairment, blindness, and sometimes hemiparesis". These are not harmless illnesses.
Be honest. Andrew Wakefield committed scientific misconduct that led directly to these illnesses. The bastard should go on trial for manslaughter for everyone who dies.
The number of criminals who are actually willing to open fire on the police is minuscule. In a tiny minority of cases, SWAT is justified - but small towns and sheriff's departments shouldn't ever be doing those raids. There should be specialized teams that do nothing but this. They should consist of military veterans with experience, not pudgy county mounties playing soldier and killing innocents with their ignorance and inexperience. Most states should one or two such teams, period. No more.
The quotation is from the Bhagavad Gita, which Oppenheimer had read in Sanskrit. "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds" is how he phrased it in English.
As if the kind of calories you consume cannot affect either your basal metabolic rate or how your body processes the calories it consumes...
Yes, eventually you do have to burn more than you absorb in order to lose weight, but that doesn't mean that all effects are on the intake side of the equation. And that has everything to do with being low in carbs. I've done low-fat restricted-calorie diets. One of them got me the thinnest I've ever been - I was eating 800-1000 calories a day, no alcohol, and at least an hour a day of walking plus thirty minutes on an elliptical. It was hell. Today, my waistline is about half an inch thicker than it was then. OTOH I downed thirty chicken wings for dinner tonight, as I do most Sunday nights, and I'm having a glass of bourbon on the rocks. I work out once a week for about ten minutes (try bodybyscience.net). And I'm adding muscle and losing fat. I've never felt better in my life. I'm just pissed I had to be 37-38 years old before I found out about this. I could have spent the last twenty years feeling this great.
Dude, let go of the HFCS hate. It's no better or worse for you than sucrose. They're both awful for you. But there's nothing about HFCS that makes it worse, other than it's cheap.
the majority of food you buy in the supermarket
Yes, the majority of what's on sale in the supermarket is processed. That's not always a bad thing; if you're a prepper, you need stuff with long shelf lives, and in that context a little bit of BPA or partially hydrogenated oil is probably a much smaller concern than whatever horrific event you're going to be recovering from as you eat those supplies. We can all agree, I think, that partially hydrogenated oils - trans fats - are deleterious to health, no? And they are EVERYWHERE. As are refined carbohydrates.
I think the concerns over things like sodium benzoate producing benzene by decomposition are overblown, but OTOH if I can get something that doesn't have it, why not? I agree that there is an awful lot of woo out there. But just because crazy people espouse a particular viewpoint doesn't make that viewpoint wrong. So, when I can, I opt for foods that have fewer preservatives. And I don't shop for food in the middle of the grocery store, at all. The only time my food is processed is by me, right before I eat it.
The Atkins diet can be quite healthy. You need to read up on Vilhjalmur Steffanson; he lived among the Inuit eating meat almost exclusively for over a year, and then replicated the experience in New York under medical supervision.
I have eaten very low-carb, typically under 20 g/day and essentially always under 50 g/day, for over a year. Lost a bunch of weight, no difficulty keeping it off. I'm going to eat (unbreaded) chicken wings for dinner tonight, had a nice salad with bacon and homemade ranch dressing for lunch. Aside from the aftermath of a scheduled cheat day every couple of months, and the very occasional cheat week (hey, I was in Paris), I've been in ketosis the entire time. I feel much better in ketosis than out of it. Eat plenty of salad greens, they're nutritious and (via dressing) a great way to up your fat intake.
Most of what I eat is paleo-compatible as well. Essentially the paleo people put enough fences around vegetable products that there are very few high-carb veggies in the paleo menu - sweet potatoes, really. So relax, enjoy your new life, and know that it's incredibly easy to eat this way essentially forever.
Also, you don't need fiber. Fiber was prescribed as a way of getting people to eat less refined flour and more actual vegetables, but just adding fiber won't do anything for you. You've already done the right thing by getting rid of starches, which are what will actually bind up the bowels anyway.
Currently a waiting list several years long for renouncing citizenship.
Just ask Sal Culosi.
Fully automatic weapons require a class 3 license, and no they're not common. Quit lying.
But why does the IRS need its own SWAT team? We already have the DEA, BATFE, and FBI to deal with federal crimes. Surely they can handle the actual mechanics of arresting someone?
After the SWAT team killed that military guy in the Southwest and the after-action review showed that he had never pulled the trigger... what else did you need? They went into a house, guns blazing, and shot a completely innocent man to death - a man who was a military veteran and armed private citizen who did not shoot back even as they were killing him, because he saw they were cops. And people seriously argue that it's the guns in private hands that are the problem?
Nearly everything that distinguishes Europe and the USA on climate is explained by the fact that warming in Europe has been during the summers - previously mild, now hot - and the warming in the USA has been in the winters - previously brutal, now milder.