tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post2078830443366479393..comments2024-03-15T20:52:26.967-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: Richard Lynn's "The Chosen People"Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger160125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-58477209252396604712011-11-08T12:11:38.242-08:002011-11-08T12:11:38.242-08:00"If this were so, Nazi Germany would have bee..."If this were so, Nazi Germany would have been a haven for great writers. Not so. <br />And I think you judge literary value on race. If Shakespeare were Jewish, you'd probably say his plays all sucked."<br /><br />Yeah, some here probably would. Actually in the Merchant of Venice, the Jewish daughter ends up marrying the Christian protaganist, obviously converting and this is seen as a good thing, unlike the black/white marriage he wrote about, that ended in murder.<br /><br /> Snarkiness towards other cultures is common to most people (except Gentile whites nowadays, who aren't allowed). <br />A Jewish lady once reviewed Riverdance a bit dismissively saying, "anybody could do it." Except anybody didn't. Even with the updates, Irish dance is recognizably Irish dance and only recently has "anybody" else started doing it much--now they have it in places like eastern Europe (excellent btw, The Serbian Orthodox Celts and the Avalon dancers in Prague)) and Mexico (v. good also.) There's a youtube featuring an Israeli folkdance troupe doing Siamsa and they were v. good. Yes, some of the steps are universal to traditional dancing that moved from the EurAsian steppes through Europe,<br /> so anybody can do it, but not anybody could have invented it as we know it now. It grew from the culture and then when other cultures copied it, they did so in a way that is just a bit changed. They can't help it. Russians have a looser step--they're not tight like the Irish tradition. The Czechs are doll-like and graceful, and the Orthodox Celts guys were sexier. That's how culture spreads. Nothing wrong with it, just give credit where credit is due.<br /><br />I don't think "Nazi Germany" lasted long enough to create its own culture. People were certainly whipped up by a lot of stirring speeches and pagentry, and of course by relentless propaganda, not to mention genuine grievances; but that couldn't have lasted too long. Hitler got pretty exhausted after his speeches--observers said he seemed to become de-possessed after them, a kind of spent force.<br />If the damn bankers had just left well-enough alone, nobody would have had enough money to do a WWII. The German economy was picking up. But no, they see a way to make money off both sides with war, as Berthold Brecht tried to explain in his play, Mother Courage.<br />In the early 19th c., Germans were thought to be the mystical, poetic race. Think Goete and Schiller; Beethoven (tho a Jewish guy once tried to tell me he B. was black); I didn't totally buy it despite being v. young.Charlottenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-32890101838371479122011-11-08T07:58:12.911-08:002011-11-08T07:58:12.911-08:00Armour-piercing, discarding-sabot
Armour-piercing...<i>Armour-piercing, discarding-sabot<br /><br />Armour-piercing, discarding-sabot (APDS) was developed by engineers working for the French Edgar Brandt company, and was fielded in two calibers (75 mm/57 mm for the Mle1897/33 75 mm anti-tank cannon, 37 mm/25 mm for several 37 mm gun types) just before the French-German armistice of 1940. <b>The Edgar Brandt engineers, having been evacuated to the United Kingdom, joined ongoing APDS development efforts there, culminating in significant improvements to the concept and its realization. British APDS ordnance for their QF 6 pdr and 17 pdr anti-tank guns was fielded in March 1944.</b><br /><br /> For a given caliber the use of APDS ammunition can effectively double the anti-tank performance of a gun.<br /><br />...<br /><br />Armour-piercing, composite rigid<br /><br />Armour-Piercing, Composite Rigid (APCR) is a British term, the US term for the design is High Velocity Armour Piercing (HVAP) and German, Hartkernmunition. The APCR projectile is a core of a high-density hard material such as tungsten carbide surrounded by a full-bore shell of a lighter material (e.g. an aluminium alloy). Most APCR projectiles are shaped like the standard APCBC shot (although some of the German Pzgr. 40 and some Soviet designs resemble a stubby arrow), but the projectile is lighter: up to half the weight of a standard AP shot of the same calibre. The lighter weight allows a higher velocity. The kinetic energy of the shot is concentrated in the core and hence on a smaller impact area, improving the penetration of the target armour. To prevent shattering on impact, a shock-buffering cap is placed between the core and the outer ballistic shell as with APC rounds. However, because the shot is lighter but still the same overall size it has poorer ballistic qualities, and loses velocity and accuracy at longer ranges. The APCR was superseded by the APDS which dispensed with the outer light alloy shell once the shot had left the barrel.<br /><b>The Germans used an APCR round ( but not an APDS round --DD ), the Panzergranate 40 (Pzgr.40) "arrowhead" shot, for their 5 cm Pak 38 antitank guns in 1942, and it was also developed for their 75 and 88 mm antitank and tank guns</b>, and for anti-tank guns mounted in German aircraft. Shortages of the key component, tungsten, led to the Germans dropping the use of APCR (and reverting to less effective armor piercing -- DD) tank gun ammunition ) during late World War II because it was more efficiently used in industrial applications such as machine tools. ( or because tungsten bcame unavailable as the Wehrmacht retreated.-- DD )<br /><br />...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.absoluteastronomy.com/topics/Shell_%28projectile%29" rel="nofollow">Armor-piercing Anti-tank Shells</a></i><br /><br />...<br /><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jt5bJQOkI1g&feature=related" rel="nofollow">Pershing vs Panther Cologne 1945</a><br />Pershing vs Panther Cologne 1945David Davenporthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03315090179595817174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-11139362339625850412011-11-07T23:25:34.795-08:002011-11-07T23:25:34.795-08:00>"Galton, Pearson, Fisher and Wright in th...>"Galton, Pearson, Fisher and Wright in the fields of statistics and population genetics -- will this list never end?" <<br /><br />Statistics has be the worst possible example for anyone trying to demonstrate Anglo/Euro/Christian pre-eminence.<br /><br />Galton and Fisher did get it started (though of course there was a long earlier tradition of European actuarial science). After that, I don't have a census of the field ready to cite, but am fairly sure that if the development since World War II was not dominated by Jews such as Neyman and Wald, then Jews were, at a minimum, represented at rates as high as in theoretical physics. There was also a black American mathematician (that is, a descendant of slaves) who was one of the early luminaries of the field, with the thematically appropriate surname "Blackwell", and a large number of swarthy subcontinental statistical savants from India. <br /><br />Which again shows how much demographic distortion there is in these prize and invention counts. India has had a prestigious institute of statistics for some time, and therefore produces a large number of statisticians.<br />It is a relatively cheap subject to teach, and maybe was considered useful in agriculture or medicine or government. Subjects that are more capital intensive did not see as high a representation of Indian academics.Ivy League Bastardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-29573144790768343262011-11-07T10:17:19.374-08:002011-11-07T10:17:19.374-08:00I suspect that Mr. Brandt, who departed France for...<i>I suspect that Mr. Brandt, who departed France for Angleterre in 1940, was Jewish. Brandt's APDS ammunition was the special sauce that gave the Brtish 76mm 17 pounder gun its potency. The NAZI's didn't have APDS.</i> <br /><br /><br /><br />He wasn't Jewish. And the Nazi's made the best anti-tank guns during WWII.<br /><br />And guess what? Isaac Singer was not Jewish either.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-91353959969663717532011-11-07T06:29:34.502-08:002011-11-07T06:29:34.502-08:00@ "Actually the Ice Man's background is p...@ "Actually the Ice Man's background is pretty rare in Europe and isolated to Sardinia:"<br /><br />I was (am) assuming his toolkit was not atypical for that kind of harsh, unforgiving environment. By contrast the Hebrew/Jewish stock survived on commerce in a much more civilized matrix not only for the last 2000 years, but from as far back as Abraham (Hebrew words for fairness and honesty being derived from the description of a fair balance beam ("straight") and honest weights ("whole"). And even that branch of West Semitic stock has a 2000 year old background in ancient Mesopotamia. I don't think environment of evolutionary adaptation faced by Germanic Europeans was remotely like that.Luke Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290760894780619646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-42136734516384449612011-11-06T22:46:07.005-08:002011-11-06T22:46:07.005-08:00It's in their genes, most likely, as they are ...<i>It's in their genes, most likely, as they are of the same basic stock as Ice Man, whose survival kit was astonishing.</i><br /><br />Actually the Ice Man's background is pretty rare in Europe and isolated to Sardinia:<br /><br />http://racehist.blogspot.com/2011/09/otzis-y-dna-haplogroup-g2a4.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-85708181763756461822011-11-06T19:45:59.775-08:002011-11-06T19:45:59.775-08:00@ syon said... That remark about Haber was since...@ syon said... That remark about Haber was sincere. Obviously an invention that multiplies the world's food supply several fold is of the first importance. Period.Luke Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290760894780619646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-30673209002236083572011-11-06T19:08:48.675-08:002011-11-06T19:08:48.675-08:00Luke Lea:"BTW, that guy Haber who discovered ...Luke Lea:"BTW, that guy Haber who discovered how to mass-produce synthetic fertilizer: now that was a major, earth changing invention, as big as any ever made and right up there with the steam engine, textile machinery, metal milling machines and machine tools in general, interchangeability of parts, the Bessemer furnace, electric motors and generators, radio and the telegraph, the internal combustion engine, plastics, the airplane, the transistor, and the integrated circuit. <br /><br />Let's give recognition where recognition is due."<br /><br />Actually, snark aside, Haber's work on extracting nitrogen was quite important, assuming that people like to have food to eat. People have a tendency to discount discoveries that relate to food production, despite the fact that this is a need that has to be addressed before all others.syonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04764206921202174601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-44237009084432681392011-11-06T17:59:47.501-08:002011-11-06T17:59:47.501-08:00Two more Jewish inventors:
Isaac Singer
From Wiki...Two more Jewish inventors:<br /><i><br />Isaac Singer<br />From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<br /><br />Born October 27, 1811<br />Pittstown, New York<br />Died July 23, 1875 (aged 63)<br />Paignton, Devonshire<br />Nationality United States<br /><br />Institution memberships Singer Sewing Machine Company<br />Significant advance sewing machine<br /><br />Isaac Merritt Singer (October 27, 1811 – July 23, 1875) was an inventor, actor, and entrepreneur. He made important improvements in the design of the sewing machine and was the founder of the Singer Sewing Machine Company. Many had patented sewing machines before Singer, but his success was based on the practicality of his machine, the ease with which it could be adapted to home use, and its availability on an installment payment basis.[1]</i><br /><br />...<br /><br />There's also Edgar Brandt, who invented discarding-sabot artillery armor piercing munitions. Everybody's tanks guns nowadays use Armor Piercing Discarding Sabot solid shot made of either tungsten or depleted uranium.<br /><br />I suspect that Mr. Brandt, who departed France for Angleterre in 1940, was Jewish. Brandt's APDS ammunition was the special sauce that gave the Brtish 76mm 17 pounder gun its potency. The NAZI's didn't have APDS. <br /><br /><i><br />Edgar Brandt<br />From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<br /><br />...<br /><br />Edgar William Brandt (1880 – 1960) was a French ironworker, prolific weapons designer and head of a company that designed 60mm, 81mm and 120mm mortars that were very widely copied throughout and subsequent to World War II. He also invented discarding-sabot artillery shells[1], and contributed substantially through his development of HEAT rifle grenades to the development of effective HEAT-warhead weapons for infantry anti-tank use.<br /><br />His company was nationalised in 1936, and subsequently it purchased several engineering companies including the société Mécanique Industrielle de Précision (MIP) at Tulle in 1938. The same year, Brandt opened a major facility at La Ferté-Saint-Aubin which became the company's headquarters.<br />In 1956 Hotchkiss et Cie merged with établissements Brandt to form the Hotchkiss-Brandt company, which ten years later merged with Thomson and became Thomson-Brandt Armements. After further evolutions, the company is now called TDA Armements SAS and is a part of the Thales Group.<br />[edit]Products<br /><br />....<br /><br />He also was a very fine artist. He made things out of metal like his very fine Firescreen he created for a fireplace. ...</i><br /><br />Singer, Brandt, and non-Carthagenian telegraph inventer Samuel Morse were artists as well as inventors and technologists. Mulit-talented men like that don't seem to be happening these days.David Davenporthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03315090179595817174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-58195298607371847482011-11-06T13:37:11.041-08:002011-11-06T13:37:11.041-08:00On the other hand Home Depot itself was a quintess...<b>On the other hand Home Depot itself was a quintessentially Ashkenazi idea. As was WalMart -- which makes it all the more surprising that Sam Walton wasn't of East European descent. Has anybody investigated that?"</b><br /><br />The British didn't exactly have tons of Jews while building their empire, yet they managed to do fine. The Nazis didn't do a bad job of taking on the world, either, despite sidelining (to put it mildly) their own Jewish population.<br /><br />Believe it or not, some gentiles are able to walk and play Angry Birds on our iPhones at the same time. There is nothing "quintessentially Ashkenzi" about a really big store. A gentile, Clarence Saunders, invented the first modern grocery store, for example. There have been plenty of non-Jewish retail giants in the history of this and other countries.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-84870719223452106662011-11-06T11:48:13.011-08:002011-11-06T11:48:13.011-08:00Ivy League Bastard said...
Did Yukawa ever achi...Ivy League Bastard said... <br /> <br /><i>Did Yukawa ever achieve the world celebrity status of Einstein, or Einstein's rank among physicists, or make the discovery of the century?</i><br /><br />No, he was Japan's top theoretical physicist. Not in the same league as Einstein - heavens no - but brilliant Nobel Prize material nevertheless.<br /><br /><i>Did he appear much in the Japanese press, in the way that Einstein with his grandfatherly eccentric charisma was constantly lionized in the Western media?</i><br /><br />That is a very significant difference.<br /><br /><i>Did Japanese kids post WW2 have much choice of profession compared to American Jews?</i><br /><br />Post-"GPW" Russia produced many physicist and other scientists. Did Russian kids of that era have much choice of profession? Russia and Japan were both horribly devastated in WW2, and had food supply problems, and industries geared towards reconstruction.<br /><br /><i>Did the environment in Japan foster the production of Nobel prizewinners, or did said kids (if they got enough food to eat) have to study day and night for college entrance exams, then go to universities where social drinking took precedence over studies</i><br /><br />That's a litle unfair; many post-secondary American institutions also glorified drinking, partying, and jocking.<br /><br />Mind you, if you mean that the Japanese / Asian way is work your ass off in high school, then slack off in college (the reverse of the western model), then you do have a point.<br /><br /><i>The postwar Japanese had the highest national IQ scores ever recorded. To the extent that is a predictor of future Nobel prizes, that "human capital" went into manufacturing, not physics.</i><br /><br />So very true...<br /><br />I'll also mention that Yukawa, even though apolitical, was a product of Imperial Japan - which had a surprisingly good national science program, given its military focus and lack of materials.<br /><br />It was Modern Japan, "Japan Inc." that neglected non-industrial-R&D science even in the 1970-1990 boom.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-53333230428455993792011-11-06T07:44:12.915-08:002011-11-06T07:44:12.915-08:00Who discovered superconductivity?Who discovered superconductivity?Luke Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290760894780619646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-31039989353506753062011-11-06T07:43:22.252-08:002011-11-06T07:43:22.252-08:00I didn't mention the automobile and the humble...I didn't mention the automobile and the humble bicycle. But who invented the mobile phone? The liquid crystal display? The laser? I honestly don't know.Luke Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290760894780619646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-76822018751908724512011-11-06T07:41:31.595-08:002011-11-06T07:41:31.595-08:00Pasteur and Fleming -- though let us frankly admit...Pasteur and Fleming -- though let us frankly admit that in the field of medicine Ashkenazis have made more than their share of advances. Credit where credit is due!Luke Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290760894780619646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47215047124187846992011-11-06T07:37:37.089-08:002011-11-06T07:37:37.089-08:00Galton, Pearson, Fisher and Wright in the fields o...Galton, Pearson, Fisher and Wright in the fields of statistics and population genetics -- will this list never end?Luke Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290760894780619646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-86052198936749932512011-11-06T07:36:02.212-08:002011-11-06T07:36:02.212-08:00Speaking of the genome, is Craig Venter gentile?Speaking of the genome, is Craig Venter gentile?Luke Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290760894780619646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-72281629089617543902011-11-06T07:33:50.663-08:002011-11-06T07:33:50.663-08:00How many of the objects on the tool aisle at Home ...How many of the objects on the tool aisle at Home Dept were developed by Ashkenazi? Very few I would hazard. <br /><br />On the other hand Home Depot itself was a quintessentially Ashkenazi idea. As was WalMart -- which makes it all the more surprising that Sam Walton wasn't of East European descent. Has anybody investigated that?<br /><br />We truly live in the age of the genome.Luke Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290760894780619646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-79619595190298051862011-11-06T07:26:37.502-08:002011-11-06T07:26:37.502-08:00Shall I add Wikipedia, a most unlikely development...Shall I add Wikipedia, a most unlikely development if ever there was one?Luke Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290760894780619646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8972057083886326902011-11-06T07:22:56.250-08:002011-11-06T07:22:56.250-08:00Also forgot the railroad, steamship, and all those...Also forgot the railroad, steamship, and all those gadgets Thomason Edison discovered, to say nothing of such mundane inventions as clothes washers and dryers, central heat and air, the automatic dishwasher, the electric range . . .<br /><br />Who invented the microwave? The graphical user interface? Berniers Lee invented the WWW.<br /><br />The list goes on and on and I think the few exceptions merely prove the rule: pragmatic empiricism is a largely northwestern European tradition, Scotch and English especially. <br /><br />It's in their genes, most likely, as they are of the same basic stock as Ice Man, whose survival kit was astonishing.Luke Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290760894780619646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-44856402832995715882011-11-06T07:13:32.780-08:002011-11-06T07:13:32.780-08:00I forgot the discovery of Watson and Crick.I forgot the discovery of Watson and Crick.Luke Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290760894780619646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-19019631484247775762011-11-06T07:11:34.081-08:002011-11-06T07:11:34.081-08:00BTW, that guy Haber who discovered how to mass-pro...BTW, that guy Haber who discovered how to mass-produce synthetic fertilizer: now that was a major, earth changing invention, as big as any ever made and right up there with the steam engine, textile machinery, metal milling machines and machine tools in general, interchangeability of parts, the Bessemer furnace, electric motors and generators, radio and the telegraph, the internal combustion engine, plastics, the airplane, the transistor, and the integrated circuit. <br /><br />Let's give recognition where recognition is due.Luke Leahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11290760894780619646noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-40851367600658531652011-11-05T18:14:44.029-07:002011-11-05T18:14:44.029-07:00Jewish inventors?
What about: The Harvard Prof. W...Jewish inventors?<br /><br />What about: <a href="http://www.bing.com/search?setmkt=en-US&q=napalm+inventor" rel="nofollow">The Harvard Prof. Who invented Napalm </a>?<br /><br />Napalm was first used by US Army Air Forces in France in 1944.David Davenporthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03315090179595817174noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-58657335352292854132011-11-05T17:36:36.770-07:002011-11-05T17:36:36.770-07:00"Spain serves as a counter-example, certainly..."Spain serves as a counter-example, certainly. (The disappointing John Derbyshire mentioned Spain as a riposte to Macdonald.) Spain went into decline after in expelled its Jews, but other factors are relevant there (such as the sad reality that Spaniards are not, ahem, Anglo-Saxons). In any case, the centuries-long history of Spanish Catholic-Jewish acrimony, going back to the Moorish period, probably made harmonious intergration of Jews and their talents into Spanish society impossible."<br /><br />This nonsense again. Spain had it's golden age right after expelling Jews and Muslims and started to decline about 200 years later. It's absolutely ludicrous to suggest that this is evidence that expelling your Jews leads to decline. It would be like saying the economic crisis proves that the US made a mistake by declaring it's independence from Britain.ATBOTLnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17656273711667383722011-11-05T12:28:15.999-07:002011-11-05T12:28:15.999-07:00> "So how come Hideki Yukawa didn't
&...> "So how come Hideki Yukawa didn't<br /> >inspire legions of smart Japanese<br /> >kids to become physicists?<br /><br />Is that a serious question? It answers itself if you give it a moment's thought.<br /><br />Did Yukawa ever achieve the world celebrity status of Einstein, or Einstein's rank among physicists, or make the discovery of the century? Did he appear much in the Japanese press, in the way that Einstein with his grandfatherly eccentric charisma was constantly lionized in the Western media?<br /><br />Did Japanese kids post WW2 have much choice of profession compared to American Jews? Did the environment in Japan foster the production of Nobel prizewinners, or did said kids (if they got enough food to eat) have to study day and night for college entrance exams, then go to universities where social drinking took precedence over studies, and then enter the workforce as engineers for Japan Inc?<br /><br />The postwar Japanese had the highest national IQ scores ever recorded. To the extent that is a predictor of future Nobel prizes, that "human capital" went into manufacturing, not physics. So yes, there might have naturally been more Japanese Nobel prize winners (and therefore a reduction in the Nobel prizes for all other groups), had the environment been different in those times.Ivy League Bastardnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-22739006532594031172011-11-04T23:47:34.566-07:002011-11-04T23:47:34.566-07:00So how come Hideki Yukawa didn't inspire legio...<i>So how come Hideki Yukawa didn't inspire legions of smart Japanese kids to become physicists?</i><br /><br />Hidek...<i>who</i>?<br /><br />See, there's your answer.<br /><br />SilverAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com