You might really like the Pinker book. It is a long and deep read, but very rewarding.
Thank you for this. It's great. Really puts things into perspective.Wodan wrote: ↑ http://www.fallen.io/ww2/
Have to check out the video.Wodan wrote: ↑http://www.fallen.io/ww2/fohat wrote: ↑ It is as if a large number of people took a giant regressive step backwards since then.
We're basically living in total peace ...
It's just that today's conflicts are under a magnifying glass ... and progress much slower, they are just so ... present.
Omaha beach took more American lifes in one day than the 13 years War on Terror in Afghanistan.
German arms exports ... really?Menuhin wrote: ↑ But that these magnified reports are quite convenient for the current direction of international policy.Spoiler:
Totally relevant:Wodan wrote: ↑German arms exports ... really?Spoiler:
I mean ... can you please start a new discussion if you must? This just comes across as the most desperate attempt to bash German arms exports out of nothing.
Can someone please link some global warming charts and a picture of Fukushima?
Well, the earliest (original 2-doors) 3-series were all with 4-cylinder engines.Wodan wrote: ↑How can BMW make a 330i with a four cylinder engine?
These traitors should be shot and dragged behind said 330i ...
That's 27 years ago, in 1980s, I was nine when that happened, things really took off in recent 20 years, do you still judge England by what happened when the Iron lady was Prime minister of UK? In1950s U.S. had racial segregation, by 80s, Micheal Jackson became the King of pop, a national idol, and then one Afrian American became President of U.S. you see many things chould change as time elapses... Update your info and break the stereotypcial notion about Mainland China please.
How could one not be relaxed and joyfull typing on IBM Buckling Spring keyboard, it just makes me want to type more and faster...kbdfr wrote: ↑Aha.Mr.Nobody wrote: ↑[…] In fact I got missunderstood a lot according to people's reaction. People asssume I had been expressing in a rather aggressive way. In fact I am typing in a rather relaxed mood.
"bunch of losers"
"lunatics"
"retarded"
"despicable parochial separatists"
"moles and traitors"
Just out of curiosity: how does it look like when you're not "typing in a rather relaxed mood"?Spoiler:Spoiler:
Relax! that's exactly the funny part... maybe this thread could be moved to Off-topic subforum, I didn't know... otherwise I would have posted there at the first place. I am a newbie on DT.chzel wrote: ↑Why? Nothing is too off-topic!
Oooh, Borgward! Last I heard of them (assuming I'm remembering the right old brand) they were hoping to resurrect the brand with a super-luxury car. Looks like the financial situation has encouraged them to sell in China instead, or else they've got some Chinese investment. The original company was made bankrupt in 1961 and there were no Borgwards made from then until the modern rebirth (some were made under another name in South America).Mr.Nobody wrote: ↑Since you guys mentioned automobiles...I wonder is this brand famous in Germany, it's just launched it's very first new Car here, and I've seen the car in person, well-balanced-rather-cleancut-design.love it, and the price is an utter surprise, really competitive pricing strategy, but this brand is completely a stranger to Chinese consumers...
Yes - there's nothing quite so smooth and well-balanced as a straight-six, unless it's a V12. I never really felt the same about Jaguar after they lost their V12 - a totemic engine like BMW's six. By the comments on websites some Americans felt the same when Ford discontinued the last of the traditional body-on-frame RWD cars. But car manufacturers aren't interested in our romantic notions, any more than keyboard manufacturers are - you can have all the enthusiasts you want in the customer base, but it'll have no effect at all if the management aren't enthusiasts.Wodan wrote: ↑Well I have gotten over the creative use of the former engine displacement related number ...
But having not a single naturally aspirated 6 cylinder engine in the 3-series lineup really breaks my heart. The 330 engine use to be the heart of the BMW engine program. From the 130i to the 730i, this engine was available in every model and anyone who ever drove it has to agree that it was a piece of art. Check out the sound samples in this article:
http://www.spiegel.de/auto/fahrberichte ... 72464.html
Ok, so let's update out info about China from a couple of news articles.Mr.Nobody wrote: ↑Update your info and break the stereotypcial notion about Mainland China please.
Shit...Looks even worse now...The Chinese government tightly restricts freedom of expression through censorship and punishments.
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In January 2015, Education Minister Yuan Guiren told universities to ban teaching materials that promote Western values and censor speech constituting “attack and slander against the Party.”
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The government restricts religious practice to five officially recognized religions and only in officially approved religious premises.
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China continues to allow United Nations rapporteurs to visit on a highly selective basis; the rapporteurs on the freedom of religion, freedom of peaceful assembly and association, human rights defenders, health, extrajudicial executions, independence of judges and lawyers, and the freedom from torture all continue to await a response to their requests to visit.
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See the large picture, all in all it's for the general benefits of the majority of its people and the means the government is using is no worse than any other governments' at all. Internationally China's existence keeps the wolrd powers in balance, and at least Chinese goverment dosen't export unnecessary wars to other nations on the other side of the planet.chzel wrote: ↑Ok, so let's update out info about China from a couple of news articles.Mr.Nobody wrote: ↑Update your info and break the stereotypcial notion about Mainland China please.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... cial-media
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-china ... SKBN1441GK
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/ ... tate-media
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-south ... SKBN1441DE
Blimey, they censor their population and threaten military action against Taiwan, and try to expand their territories a bit slyly!
Doesn't look so good...
But wait, these are capitalist controlled media. China can't be over-controlling and repressive, I mean at least people can invest in whatever they want, right?
http://english.gov.cn/policies/latest_r ... 852846.htm
Maybe not in unapproved projects...
Let's see how it does on the human rights front.
https://www.hrw.org/world-report/2016/c ... -and-tibetShit...Looks even worse now...The Chinese government tightly restricts freedom of expression through censorship and punishments.
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In January 2015, Education Minister Yuan Guiren told universities to ban teaching materials that promote Western values and censor speech constituting “attack and slander against the Party.”
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The government restricts religious practice to five officially recognized religions and only in officially approved religious premises.
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China continues to allow United Nations rapporteurs to visit on a highly selective basis; the rapporteurs on the freedom of religion, freedom of peaceful assembly and association, human rights defenders, health, extrajudicial executions, independence of judges and lawyers, and the freedom from torture all continue to await a response to their requests to visit.
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And I'm sure Thatcher is an open sore in part of the British for various of her policies (Falklands and S.A. relations included), and no, we don't judge them by that, or the Germans for their Austrian Fuehrer, but we don't forget. We try to remember our past for things to look up to and things to avoid.
If I want to go to the central square and shout "Fuck this country and it's government" I can do it and live to tell the tale.
Can you?
), but to compare wikileaks of ACTUAL government secrets with the blanket censorship of GENERAL information to citizens is a remarkable stretch at best. A government needs some level of "entitled information" about itself (even corporation's enjoy that luxury), but governments don't have the right to control the information not pertaining to "trade secrets" (aka... Big Brother).
do you tell 5 years old kids that Santa Clause is not real? Of course he is not real and the kids will know that in due course, but is it necessary to tell them when they are 5 to deprive them of some imgination and expectation of childhood? The truth is truth, but the question is always " WHAT to expose to WHO and WHEN " Some truth is literally mental burden to those who don't want to know, and to those who do want to know they will know it anyway. When goverments cover up something to general public, sometimes there IS a conspiracy going on indeed but most of the time it is for no selfish or evil reason. Even an ordinary individual has secrets and skeleton in his closet, let alone huge organizations or goverments, is this so unacceptable? It is ALWAYS for a selfish or evil reason, otherwise why hide it?Mr.Nobody wrote: ↑
sometimes there IS a conspiracy going on indeed but most of the time it is for no selfish or evil reason.
huge organizations or goverments, is this so unacceptable?
fohat wrote: ↑It is ALWAYS for a selfish or evil reason, otherwise why hide it?Mr.Nobody wrote: ↑
sometimes there IS a conspiracy going on indeed but most of the time it is for no selfish or evil reason.
huge organizations or goverments, is this so unacceptable?
The US government was created as: "of the people, by the people, and for the people" and anyone preventing that from occurring is committing the ultimate act of treason, in my opinion. And in another opinion, I believe that violating the spirit of the law is as heinous as violating the letter of the law.
