you mean the crusades against the very much christian russians and czech? and since when were livonian peasants conquerors who's land had to be retaken?
3. Soviet communism is what trainwrecked most of eastern europe and several asian countries whose preexisting regimes favored heavy handed states anyway. Then there's the self-loathing cultures it created in places like sweden. I hardly call any of this a success.
Along with pushing literacy from 24% to 99.8%, sending a man into space, advancing the technology level from being more than 50 years behind the rest of the developed world to being maybe 10 years behind and doubling the life expectancy. No sir, totally not a success.
Well duh. But naked force has started more conflicts than any other course in history. All of them, in fact. There are many reasons why I don't like Heinlein's works, and his condescending jingoism is one of them. The sad thing about it is that the only reason for his attitude was that he was scared shitless of Russians.
Actually, English is one of the more difficult languages to read because of all the irregularities. Even French is easier.
Estonian is, by the way, one of the easiest languages to read. No diacritic salad like in Czech, or letter clusters for a single phoneme like in Polish, French and German, no irregularities, long vocals are marked as a double vocals, which makes the most sense, double consonants are exactly that. Everything is written as you would say it. And in contrast to Finnish or German the words are usually much shorter. Everything else in Estonian is, unfortunately, absolutely hostile to would-be learners.
This is nothing special and works with many languages. I have heard this kind of conversations in German and in Russian as well. As long as both parties speak a common language, even if it is broken, they can get their message across as long as they don't try to use idioms. These almost never work the same way, if at all.
The difference is that there are many more ships than aircraft. Also more difficult to enforce because the majority of ships are registered in Liberia. The fact that ships are built in much smaller series so there are many more different ships than different airplanes doesn't help it either.
if you are genuinely curious, try this book for starters. It is a bit superficial, but to understand how christianity was born you have to understand the then common sects of judaism and the political realities.
Or this one for a much more in-depth research on pharisees.
That is the thing of it, the description of pharisees in the bible is contrary to all the historical evidence. In judaism, pharisees had the most progressive and honest school of thought and ultimately were responsible for survival of judaism after the Romans threw the Jews out of Israel. For early christianity, judaism was a competitor so of course the description of the last surviving kind of judaism in the bible is slanderous. In reality, the behaviour of Jesus, as described in the bible, would be not that much different from the contemporary pharisees. Like I already said, then-pharisees are now-rabbis.
Mostly because they were the precursors of modern rabbis. Compared to the very conservative and aristocratic sadducees, who tended to take torah literally, pharisees often originally were working class people who have become who they were due to their intelligence and determinations. They were much more flexible in torah interpretation and difficult to argue with.
This is why the bible has such a bitter "take that" against them - it was far too difficult to argue with them in person so the authors had to resort to this kind of straw man arguments.
Not exactly. USA has grabbed all the top German scientists to design their space technology, USSR had only what was left - some engineers and skilled workers, also some prototype blueprints. This is why Soviet missile designs were very much native after R-2. German engineers have helped with the material sciences, though - an area where USSR was very much lacking.
The thing with the nuclear bomb was Stalin's paranoia. They had a design themselves, but Stalin insisted in building a copy of the American bomb because it was proven to work.
You are completely wrong about the B-29 engine, though. Tu-4 used a heavily modified licensed build of an earlier Wright engine (the one that was used in B-17, not B-29) so the engines of Tu-4 and B-29 share a common ancestor, but are not the same. The engine was, in fact, the largest difference between Tu-4 and B-29.
This is precisely the sort of hateful bullying to be expected from a government apologist. "They won't give me their production! They won't follow my orders. KILL! KILL! KILL! "
No. This is actually perfectly consistent with libertarian ideals taken all the way to their logic conclusion: every man for himself. People who think that make themselves fair game. And this is exactly what happened to the libertarian utopia on the Minerva reefs.
They would never have stepped in earlier because they were happy with Hitler being a staunch anticommunist.
This is also why WW2 went on for so long - the allied waited out for Nazi Germany and USSR to destroy each other and only opened the Western front when it was clear that USSR would stay
No, it cannot be said. Certainly not about English, because it would mean that a majority of English speaking population would usually talk mostly using words from a closely related language - that would be what, Frisian? - with English accent and grammar.
That might maybe happen in Scotland, where English and Scots might intermix in this way, but this kind of speaking is far from majority.
It certainly is not the way here in Germany, people won't, for example, speak Dutch using German grammar and accent. They either speak Niederdeutsch or standard German. They might speak more or less in a dialect, but a dialect is not a language, Ukrainian is certainly not just a Russian dialect, they are several grammatical differences like the vocative case which Russian lost half a century ago.
It doesn't work for Russian at all, Russians don't usually mix their language with other closely related languages. Only when they try to learn that closely related language as a foreign language this might happen.
It can come out this way in former Yugoslavia, because the language there is mostly a dialect continuum and the languages are really only separated for political reasons - with the exception of Slovenian (which lies between South and West Slavic languages, that is between, say, Slovak, and Croatian) and Macedonian (which is closer to Bulgarian).
Slavic languages are a hobby of mine so I do know a lot about them and can speak several.
Economic theories are not falsifiable, economic theories assume a human model (homo oeconomicus) that has nothing in common with real humans. Economists don't use scientific methods for experiments. Either you can't see it because you are an economist and was brainwashed to believe that economics is a science or you are misguided by applied mathematics used by them.
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you mean the crusades against the very much christian russians and czech? and since when were livonian peasants conquerors who's land had to be retaken?
Along with pushing literacy from 24% to 99.8%, sending a man into space, advancing the technology level from being more than 50 years behind the rest of the developed world to being maybe 10 years behind and doubling the life expectancy. No sir, totally not a success.
You forgot Poland *scnr*
Eh, not quite. The world revolution rhetoric died with Lenin and was definitely buried with Stalin for good.
Well duh. But naked force has started more conflicts than any other course in history. All of them, in fact.
There are many reasons why I don't like Heinlein's works, and his condescending jingoism is one of them. The sad thing about it is that the only reason for his attitude was that he was scared shitless of Russians.
Really? Wake me up when they stop watering their lawns and start wearing stillsuits.
Actually, English is one of the more difficult languages to read because of all the irregularities. Even French is easier.
Estonian is, by the way, one of the easiest languages to read. No diacritic salad like in Czech, or letter clusters for a single phoneme like in Polish, French and German, no irregularities, long vocals are marked as a double vocals, which makes the most sense, double consonants are exactly that. Everything is written as you would say it. And in contrast to Finnish or German the words are usually much shorter.
Everything else in Estonian is, unfortunately, absolutely hostile to would-be learners.
This is nothing special and works with many languages. I have heard this kind of conversations in German and in Russian as well. As long as both parties speak a common language, even if it is broken, they can get their message across as long as they don't try to use idioms. These almost never work the same way, if at all.
The difference is that there are many more ships than aircraft. Also more difficult to enforce because the majority of ships are registered in Liberia. The fact that ships are built in much smaller series so there are many more different ships than different airplanes doesn't help it either.
if you are genuinely curious, try this book for starters. It is a bit superficial, but to understand how christianity was born you have to understand the then common sects of judaism and the political realities.
Or this one for a much more in-depth research on pharisees.
That is the thing of it, the description of pharisees in the bible is contrary to all the historical evidence. In judaism, pharisees had the most progressive and honest school of thought and ultimately were responsible for survival of judaism after the Romans threw the Jews out of Israel. For early christianity, judaism was a competitor so of course the description of the last surviving kind of judaism in the bible is slanderous. In reality, the behaviour of Jesus, as described in the bible, would be not that much different from the contemporary pharisees. Like I already said, then-pharisees are now-rabbis.
Mostly because they were the precursors of modern rabbis. Compared to the very conservative and aristocratic sadducees, who tended to take torah literally, pharisees often originally were working class people who have become who they were due to their intelligence and determinations. They were much more flexible in torah interpretation and difficult to argue with.
This is why the bible has such a bitter "take that" against them - it was far too difficult to argue with them in person so the authors had to resort to this kind of straw man arguments.
Having fun killing other people, be prepared for the police. Alas, it is such an imperfect world.
So you are saying the they should rather port Fallout 3 for this?
The kind of drivers that drive drunk would carry that scarlet D as a badge of honour.
Not exactly. USA has grabbed all the top German scientists to design their space technology, USSR had only what was left - some engineers and skilled workers, also some prototype blueprints. This is why Soviet missile designs were very much native after R-2. German engineers have helped with the material sciences, though - an area where USSR was very much lacking.
The thing with the nuclear bomb was Stalin's paranoia. They had a design themselves, but Stalin insisted in building a copy of the American bomb because it was proven to work.
You are completely wrong about the B-29 engine, though. Tu-4 used a heavily modified licensed build of an earlier Wright engine (the one that was used in B-17, not B-29) so the engines of Tu-4 and B-29 share a common ancestor, but are not the same. The engine was, in fact, the largest difference between Tu-4 and B-29.
Mostly processed food. Russia is one of the largest producers of staple foods like wheat, rye, potato, buckwheat, milk, eggs. A famine won't happen.
It is not "fucking stupid", some people just don't want to possess a dozen of vaguely similar devices.
No. This is actually perfectly consistent with libertarian ideals taken all the way to their logic conclusion: every man for himself. People who think that make themselves fair game. And this is exactly what happened to the libertarian utopia on the Minerva reefs.
They would never have stepped in earlier because they were happy with Hitler being a staunch anticommunist.
This is also why WW2 went on for so long - the allied waited out for Nazi Germany and USSR to destroy each other and only opened the Western front when it was clear that USSR would stay
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It gets even funnier. That "~ski" ending of the family names is actually Polish, not Russian. Pole-ish, get it?
No, it cannot be said.
Certainly not about English, because it would mean that a majority of English speaking population would usually talk mostly using words from a closely related language - that would be what, Frisian? - with English accent and grammar.
That might maybe happen in Scotland, where English and Scots might intermix in this way, but this kind of speaking is far from majority.
It certainly is not the way here in Germany, people won't, for example, speak Dutch using German grammar and accent. They either speak Niederdeutsch or standard German. They might speak more or less in a dialect, but a dialect is not a language, Ukrainian is certainly not just a Russian dialect, they are several grammatical differences like the vocative case which Russian lost half a century ago.
It doesn't work for Russian at all, Russians don't usually mix their language with other closely related languages. Only when they try to learn that closely related language as a foreign language this might happen.
It can come out this way in former Yugoslavia, because the language there is mostly a dialect continuum and the languages are really only separated for political reasons - with the exception of Slovenian (which lies between South and West Slavic languages, that is between, say, Slovak, and Croatian) and Macedonian (which is closer to Bulgarian).
Slavic languages are a hobby of mine so I do know a lot about them and can speak several.
Am I?
Economic theories are not falsifiable, economic theories assume a human model (homo oeconomicus) that has nothing in common with real humans. Economists don't use scientific methods for experiments. Either you can't see it because you are an economist and was brainwashed to believe that economics is a science or you are misguided by applied mathematics used by them.
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