tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post9053155080744939554..comments2024-03-27T18:24:19.683-07:00Comments on Steve Sailer: iSteve: White Male PrivilegeUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger202125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-54154229045166375302012-05-01T11:08:15.494-07:002012-05-01T11:08:15.494-07:00"Were they [Japanese] Westernized only when t..."Were they [Japanese] Westernized only when they did good things such as a progressive view on womens fashion but also when indulged in mass rape, genocide and slavery.Or do you attribute the latter habits to Asiatic savagery alone?Just curious."<br /><br />I don't know. You tell me.<br />While you're at it, dig up any progressive technological and/or human rights sorts of achievements made by Asians of any geographic orientation, east, west, near or south between 1500 and 1900, and dangle them out there. We'll see who bites.<br />Clue: you can find growth of religious and philosophical movements in these places. Putting aside outworn and corrupted religions like Islam and Hinduissm (who had their big day), those are the major contributions of Asian societies pre-mid-20th century.el doradonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-32120596516745655292012-05-01T10:52:12.217-07:002012-05-01T10:52:12.217-07:00"I'm tapped out, but I think the women he..."I'm tapped out, but I think the women here have reasons for offering a dozen (at least) apologies"<br /><br />Look, I said I didn't have anything against the guy, and that I hope he'll figure out how to lead a happier life.<br /><br />All the harsh things said about Knapp's dating prospects and the reasons behind them were not in response to the article. They were in response to the ridiculous assertions that Knapp's assumed romantic/life situation is somehow the fault of a decaying culture rather than his own. From what I can tell, it wasn't women who brought the question of the dude's marriageability into this discussion. <br /><br />Hey, it's rude to call Gabby Sidibe fat out of the blue. But if some femenazi would rant that Sidibe is just as sexy as Megan Fox, and the young men who disagree had been corrupted by the racist, sexist media, there'd be nothing wrong with setting her straight. This is no different.Mayanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-83715243109412289372012-05-01T09:38:54.255-07:002012-05-01T09:38:54.255-07:00"I'm tapped out, but I think the women he..."I'm tapped out, but I think the women here have reasons for offering a dozen (at least) apologies. "<br /><br />LOL, it's funny that it's men that have to apologize for not rolling out the red carpet for women, and then watch in bemusement as the triumph over patriarchy is celebrated once the field has a substantial number of women.<br /><br />Even the few dissenting voices are only defending themselves instead of asking women to be more self-less.<br /><br /><br />"Anyway, the East India Company was a trade monopoly, not Tamerlane bent on rule-by-destruction"<br /><br />and compare that to the much more benevolent USG under which US education system has given <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NK0Y9j_CGgM" rel="nofollow"> america a secret weapon i.e. foreign scientists</a><br /><br /><br />"And I'm not even Christian. I am not "gloating." Just stating a fact. Footbinding in China -- a torture perpetrated on about 80% of Chinese girls by 1910 "<br /><br />a torture perpetrated by their mothers. And how dare a man change what women like to do?! Like FGM in africa.<br />and today women undergo surgery besides breaking their heels in heels. <br />If there were no anaesthetics, how much would those surgery numbers change? It's the social construction of beauty leading these poor dames to silicone!<br /><br /><br />".... and ended infanticide which is still common among orientals.""<br /><br />and gave them abortion, and now are horrified that they are being gender discriminatory!!<br />Orientals are being dragged into the 21st century, alright. Feminism is already making waves, and homo marriages are on the way too.<br /><br />"First of all the university is the product of the middle age Christian europe."<br /><br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nalanda" rel="nofollow">At its peak, the university attracted scholars and students from as far away as Tibet, China, Greece, and Persia.[4] Nalanda was ransacked and destroyed by Turkic Muslim invaders under Bakhtiyar Khilji in 1193. The great library of Nalanda University was so vast that it is reported to have burned for three months after the invaders set fire to it, ransacked and destroyed the monasteries, and drove the monks from the site.</a><br /><br /><br />You might also wanna read this of a <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taxila#Ancient_centre_of_learning" rel="nofollow"> student of an earlier 'university'</a>:<br /><br /><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthashastra#Comparison_to_Machiavelli" rel="nofollow">Truly radical 'Machiavellianism', in the popular sense of that word, is classically expressed in Indian literature in the Arthasastra of Kautilya (written long before the birth of Christ, ostensibly in the time of Chandragupta): compared to it, Machiavelli’s The Prince is harmless.<br />—Max Weber, Politics as a Vocation (1919)</a><br /><br /><br />However, <br /><br /><a href="http://www.thesundayindian.com/en/story/Arthashastra---The-Science-of-Wealth/114/31470/" rel="nofollow">It’s here that we find an ideological divergence between the two schools of thought propounded by Chanakya and Machiavelli. In the Indian tradition, artha or material well-being is always subordinate to dharma, moral well-being, and is a mean to achieve a higher goal in life. Although Chanakya does not mention this categorically, the preeminence of dharma over artha is central to Indian philosophy.</a><br /><br /><br />Anyway, India is a good place to watch how multiculti, multiracial, multiethnic, multireligious utopia plays out with democracy.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87361479113356242542012-05-01T07:12:35.214-07:002012-05-01T07:12:35.214-07:00"I say we should all invest a lot of time in ..."I say we should all invest a lot of time in really criticizing these bozos! On the Internet! That'll show 'em! ;)"<br /><br /><br />That's right the white boys at Walmart and the ones at Apple are all mini Wozniaks, Jobs, and Sam Waltons. Everyone one of them.<br /><br />Whatever. <br /><br />I don't mind whites living in dream world, as long as whites (at least the minority that seem capable) recognize that they live in a dream world. Facilitates communication with the real world. The REAL world which is in fact populated by a large majority of non-whites.Peter Kanghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05998490567229724445noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-69574970126684785522012-05-01T04:44:44.276-07:002012-05-01T04:44:44.276-07:00while most whites thought it was unhealthy to bath...while most whites thought it was unhealthy to bathe and fought over relics of dead saints.<br />... and built cathedrals to house them in that surpass in beauty anything an oriental has done or will ever be able to do. "<br /><br />That is a matter of taste but no one had denied the beauty of the cathedrals.<br /><br />None of this was my point,jeez I thought you white people were rational and logical, when did you become so touchy?<br /><br />... and created universities and scientific method (both based on Christian theology) that surpass anything orientals have done or will be able to do, ever."<br /><br />I guess Europeans had invented the crystal ball too because apparently you can see in to the future!<br /><br /><br />... and created art that surpassed anything orientals have done or will be able to do."<br /><br />Paintings yes...sculptures,monuments...meh<br /><br />.... and ended infanticide which is still common among orientals."<br /><br />And introduced abortion ,a pre emptive infanticde,thanks for that, I guess thats the more "humane" approach.Dr Van Nostrandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-27618249348282548112012-05-01T04:39:53.947-07:002012-05-01T04:39:53.947-07:00el dorado said
Beitbart? Who?
Isnt it ironic tha...el dorado said<br /><br />Beitbart? Who?<br /><br />Isnt it ironic that to get such a response when the original post was about wikipedia!!Dr Van Nostrandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-66369557463324596872012-05-01T04:38:01.127-07:002012-05-01T04:38:01.127-07:00I'll break this to ya: we know that. It is, ho...I'll break this to ya: we know that. It is, however, a well photographed thing and most Indians do hope to get to the sacred river for a dip.<br />Most had to bathe in stagnant ponds, dug for each village."<br /><br />Yes and this contradicts my point, how?Dr Van Nostrandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-2044507342043695762012-05-01T04:35:53.596-07:002012-05-01T04:35:53.596-07:00No. Wikipedia is generally excellent. Covers more ...No. Wikipedia is generally excellent. Covers more subjects, current, and actually great for finding different viewpoints on even political subjects (just read the talk page). And it's FREE"<br /><br />I agree ,many of wikipedias critics are in time warp of 2006-207 where it was the gathering ground crackpots and pranksters.<br /><br />I remember reading something about CERN when all of a sudden a pornographic passage came up!<br /><br />Those days are gone and the quality control and references are as solid as ever.Dr Van Nostrandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-10135970500816022712012-05-01T04:15:40.240-07:002012-05-01T04:15:40.240-07:00One could say the same about the Arabs who dragged...One could say the same about the Arabs who dragged Europeans "kicking and screaming" into the 15th century.<br />I thought you were just trying to 'correct' notions of western superiority, Saul."<br /><br />Who is Saul?And yes I was.<br /><br /><br />Since you're so big on strawmen, you care to provide any documentation of Arabs 'civilizing' us? <br /><br />If you cant see mocking me the original poster claim with the analogy,what good is your superior white brain? <br /><br /><br /><br />This 'middle ages=dark barbaric europe' is leftover (very stale leftovers, by the way) propganda from the Enlightenment/secular humanist movements."<br /><br />Yes,I had defended medieval christianity from this charge as well,please learn to read my posts before jumping to conclusions.<br /><br /><br /><br />I guess you have to avoid reality when it's necessary to keep that world view, much like the NYT does. "<br /><br />I wouldnt know, rarely read the NYT ,I am conservative after all.<br /><br /><br />Are you white or a minority of some sort " Dr Van NOstrand"? <br /><br />I love how anonymous posters getting all huffy with another anonymous posters who use a random nom de plume!Yes,Im a non white if thats so important to you.I wouldve thought you wouldve figured it out already.But then again from your uh "reasoning" , I guess its your demographic who Charles Murray had in mind when he wrote his latest book.<br /><br /><br />If white you're the classic SWPL liberal. If not, you're a walking argument for deportation"<br /><br />Well, I dont reside in the U.S but if I did I probably would be working in a white collar profession in the energy industry but I dont as the taxes are too high and one day I would like to start my own business but its a less than friendly environment.Im sure the Feds would have no problem deporting a guy like me.Never mind "non documented" Mexican thugs go around raping and murdering white women right under your noses.<br /><br />Boy you sure know how to pick your fights! I believe U.S should remain a white majority country,immigration from non white countries should either end or be severely restricted for the next 40 years and H1B visas are killing the U.S job market particularly for engineering majors.And that U.S is Judeo Christian country(sorry paleos for saying Judeo but there it is) and that that the White House has no business celebrating Ramadhan,Diwali and what have you.Also that English should be the national language,learn it or get out.<br /><br />There, I hope your head has exploded by now.Dr Van Nostrandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-62577526899998850322012-05-01T03:59:27.150-07:002012-05-01T03:59:27.150-07:00Oh, may because they weren't."
Boy that ...Oh, may because they weren't."<br /><br />Boy that sure is well reasoned,sound and thougtful response!<br /><br />That comes from a book on Middle Eastern and Islamic history. I cannot remember the author, but he was on the reading list at University and he was a major name in the field, and not at all anti-Arab." <br /><br />Yes, a book whose name and author you cant remember but lets take your word for it-hes not anti Arab!<br /><br /><br />Would it matter if I knew the author's name? You would not agree with him anyway. I read other books on the subject, and most were concurrent. <br />You have given no reason to indicate any advances of "Arabs" (Turks? Persians? Pashtuns?)"<br /><br />What do these people have to do with anything?We are discussing Arabs,not Muslims as whole<br /><br /> were greater than those of Europe after the 14th century. <br /><br />Ugh, once again my point was not that whites are currently inferior to Arabs, it is counter the nonsense that whites were ALWAYS the standard bearers of civilization and no others!<br /><br />I continue to see no evidence that any societal or cultural advances would have taken place in Asian lands without exposure to European influence."<br /><br />Which Europeans?Which Asians?In which eras?You see where I am going with this?<br /><br /><br />Virtually every move towards "progress" as defined by basic human rights, came from European, and in some cases Christian, influence. <br /><br />Last time I checked Christians had transcontinental slave trade while Hindus and Buddhists did not.They had legalized discrimination against a certain pre Christian sect which was far harsher than its Islamic counterparts.<br />Sure a dissident of the state today is better living in the West than in say China or the Middle East but thats not my point.<br /><br /><br />And I'm not even Christian. I am not "gloating." Just stating a fact. Footbinding in China -- a torture perpetrated on about 80% of Chinese girls by 1910 -- persisted for 1000 years despite the attempts of some Chinese and Manchurians to eliminate it, it was that ingrained. "<br /><br />Hmmmm, I have to wonder if North American women wouldnt submit themselves to such torture if it ensured that they could fit into a darling set of Jimmy choos?<br /><br /><br /><br />Only when foreigners exposed the custom, humiliated them with photos of deformed feet, was the custom finally stopped. "<br /><br /><br />I suppose around the same time Western women had no longer had to endure corsets and garters.<br /><br /><br />The Japanese had also tried to stop it when they were in China in the ealy 20th century, but the Japanese by that time were "westernized" in many ways."<br /><br /><br />Were they Westernized only when they did good things such as a progressive view on womens fashion but also when indulged in mass rape, genocide and slavery.Or do you attribute the latter habits to Asiatic savagery alone?Just curious.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /> There were also many negative things brought by European and Christian influence--these are far more popular in most forums. Unfortunately, your choir to whom you preach is not numerous here"<br /><br />Indeed, I intended to preach that whites were not always civilized though they are now(more so than most non white countries).I intended to preach that though whites have done good things in brown countires, their disagreable contributions to those countries has equalled or outweighed the former.<br />Apparently I am not accustomed to preaching to the type of choir which thinks "my white race,right or wrong" and disregards evidence which contradicts that mode of thought.In that you are correct.Dr Van Nostrandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-8494944796587727792012-05-01T03:21:34.612-07:002012-05-01T03:21:34.612-07:00I have no idea what Egyptians considered themselve...I have no idea what Egyptians considered themselves,"<br /><br />Right because no one does.Race did not mean to them what it means to us.<br /><br /><br /> although the DNA of Young King Tut was shown to be more western European than anything. "<br /><br /><br />Egyptians were most likely a mix of Berber,Somali and some sub Saharan African.<br />King Tut couldve had been had DNA from Hyksos(fair skinned Syrians) or Sea Peoples(who were Hellenized Norther Europeans)<br /><br /><br />That means little to me because the great achievements of Egypt occurred long, long before King Tut, who may or may not have been related to the people who actually built the Great Pyramid.<br /><br />The modern day Egyptians retain the blood of Ethiopians,Assyrians,Persians,Greeks,Romans,Arabs,Turks and other invaders who made a significant demographic impact.<br />It is near meaningless to look for the original Egyptians.<br /><br /><br /> But I think we know where the real controversy lies. Were they more related to Louis Farrakhan or Zawi Hawass, Egyptian curator of antiquities, who has his own opinions and they don't make Al Sharpton happy.<br /><br /><br />Hahah!The movie Sadat with black actor Louis Gosset Jr playing the title role as banned in Egypt as they didnt want a black to portray the beloved Egyptian President.Sadat himself was very conscious of his dark skin and sub saharan African features."<br /><br />Race aside, the Egyptians themselves did not know the geometry that went into the Great Pyramid. They did not develop higher mathematics. The ignorance of Egyptians of mathematics is well known in the antiquities field. "<br /><br />But then neither did the Romans, but both knew enough to construct magnificient monuments.<br /><br />The miracle pyramid who nobody can figure out, is the Great Pyramid. It went up long before the Egyptians we all know and love were born.<br />The Greeks did not get their higher mathematics from Egyptians."<br /><br />Not higher mathematics but basic geometry required for construction.<br /><br /><br /> You'd have been more correct citing ancient Veddic texts for that. In any case, they didn't just copy. They used and built on it."<br /><br />The Vedic people and Greeks were a bit of a mutual admiration society , though the Vedic appreciation of Greeks was a bit backhanded.According to the Hindus, if it werent for their contributions to astronomy, the Greeks wouldve remained barbarians!<br />Much of Hindu astrology(astronomy of yore) of today owes much to Greeks.Dr Van Nostrandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-88726278364737655992012-05-01T03:12:04.397-07:002012-05-01T03:12:04.397-07:00Sati. Devdasi, etc, etc."
Embarking on an em...Sati. Devdasi, etc, etc."<br /><br />Embarking on an empire thru piracy and slave trade etc.,do you really want to do this?<br /><br />Talk about strawmen - you're tryingto argue that orientals are more creative and civlized than the west"<br /><br />I wouldnt say "are" but "were"!<br /><br />One could say the same about the Arabs who dragged Europeans "kicking and screaming" into the 15th century.<br />Do you really believe this?<br /><br />No, my point it is as credible as your claim that others were brought kicking and screaming in the 21st century by the white man!<br /><br /><br />First of all the university is the product of the middle age Christian europe."<br /><br />Please tell me that you are not implying that the university didnot exist before medieval Europe.<br />I suppose Nalanda and Taxila are mere figments of Indian imagination!<br /><br />"Under Isabella, Salmanca had a female professor - - any in Islam....uh no.. as unthinkable as a queen ruling."<br /><br />Is having a female professor the alpha and omega of an education?Are you woman studies major by any chance?<br /><br />Christian visual art - do you want to even compare little poorly drawn characters in poorly illustrated porn collections to Gitto, or even a pre-Rennaissance french norman sculture."<br /><br />No because Indians werent as big on painting as the Europeans were and therefore the latter were much better at it.But sculpture on the other hand is a different matter.Most Chola bronzes are easily comparable to the best of European sculpture.And dont be cross on Kamasutra just because you cant practice it!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br />"British who devastated its economy ,industry and culture.<br />Wrong. Where do you get your information? It was the British who preserved hindu temples - muslims destroyed them - I guess if you say the british wiped out sati and thuggee- you're right - they 'devastated' the 'vibrant' culture."<br /><br />More pathetic attempts at moral superiority.Shall we go into the British legal code at the time and check how it dealt with minors?<br /><br /><br />It was the English who first documented Indian history and culture - <br />show me a muslim/moghul who did this:"<br /><br />You seem to be very confused.When did I ever defend the Mughals?<br />I LOATHE the Mughals<br /><br /><br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Tod<br /><br /><br />"I look upon Mewar as the land of my adoption..." <br />-- Lieutenant-Colonel James Tod <br />Annals and Antiquities of Rajasthan (1832).<br /><br />Col. Todd stuff deleted<br /><br />Sure,he had great affection for his loyal slave troops.Aside from that,for every Colonel Todd there were a 100 others like Winston Churchill ("India is a beastly country with a beastly religion"..I dont think the goblin like Churchill should be so free in free in describing some as beastly but whatever)<br /><br />They had managed to introduced some fantastic theories like Aryan and Dravidian races which had devastated Indian and Hindu unity to this day.The British went out of their way to deHinduize Sikhs and thanks to them India had to deal with the Khalistan movement.<br /><br />Their ridiculous martial races had been disproved repeatedly ,esp by Americans during WWII,but cranks like Churchill held on those notions for dear life.<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />and the economy? If india had not had Christian educational systems (mostly english but some portegues) <br /><br />The Portuguese had come bringing the Inquisition though only in Goa.Thanks but no thanks!<br /><br />put in place or absorbed western thought (like Ghandi, though he dressed it up in indian robes) or the railroad, they would be far more backwards than they are today.<br /><br />Haha! Yes If it werent for socialist Luddite Tolstoy pacifist Gandhi we would be backward, this would be news to even the brazen of Congress propagandists!As for the railroad, yes it is just impossible to imagine an independent Indian state importing Western engineers to work on its railroad ,universities and infrastructure,why that is just silly!<br /><br />You're a very silly man."<br /><br />And you prove the dictum that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing.Dr Van Nostrandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-36769380063923819212012-05-01T02:49:02.764-07:002012-05-01T02:49:02.764-07:00These conquerors didn't "devastate" ...These conquerors didn't "devastate" a damn thing, and the Indian decline had set in long before the Moguls. The caste systems and a fatalistic acceptance of what you were born into, did more to "devastate" any forward directed creativity and accomplishment."<br /><br />I hate to embarrass those who think the caste system was bane of Hinduism but what the hell.Hey how come Muslims managed to destroy each and every civilization from North Africa ,Persia,Byzantium(and their rich traditions of egalitarianism no doubt) but India managed to survive and hold on to a great part of its traditions.<br /><br /><br />It probably set in shortly after they invented the zero. In the mists of time, the Veddic teachings did come up with a high level of mathematics, and it was under British rule that a number of brilliant mathematicians emerged. Nobody stopped them from studying or performing."<br /><br />And nobody stopped them of being loyal slaves while they were at it.They were however actively discouraged from claiming that their civilization was worth preserving,they were taught utter falsehoods that Hindus were servile,feeble race(though perhaps they became that way after a 1000 years of fighting Muslims and enduring mass destruction of peoples,cultures and wealth)<br /><br /><br /> Quite the contrary--command of the English language and access to some of the best education in the world, enable a number of world class scholars and theoretical inventors."<br /><br />Which benefited a small slavish Anglophilic elite while the vast majority who had fought employment in the local industries were given the pink slip when manufacturing and textiles was shut and Indians were compelled to buy English cotton and other goods.I love how you paleos whine about a technocratic elite and an near illiterate underclass in your own countries but its suddenly a blessing to another country because whites have done to bring "civilization"!<br /><br /><br /><br />Anyway, the East India Company was a trade monopoly, not Tamerlane bent on rule-by-destruction." <br /><br />There are other ways of destruction than by Tamerlane method-how about unfair trade practice,demolishing industries and such.<br /><br />They meddled with Indian culture very little, except to prohibit suttee (immolation of widows) and forbid child marriage and female infanticide. <br /><br />So that settles that, show those savages who is boss?Say was that about the same time that British were throwing little girls for yeras on end in prison for stealing loaves of bread<br /><br />"Far from destroying Indians, they seem to have caused more to survivie when you consider that. <br />There were whole villages in a few locales of the Rajput where no female babies were raised at all until the infanticide was outlawed.<br />On the negative side, British management of the economy may have exacerbated famines. <br /><br />Love the weasel words ,"British management of the economy" ..surely you mean MISmanagement! "may have",they wholeheartedly had!There is no "may" about it.<br />"excarbated famines" ,nearly six million dead in Bengal alone ,mostly to divert rice and manpower to fight a war in which Indians had no stake.So please spare the uh "claptrap" that Indians owe British anything.<br /><br /><br />But they did not "devastate" the culture."<br /><br />They devastated its economy and whether they saved a few temples means absolutely nothing.<br /><br /> When the British left in 1948, a surprising number of Indian villagers, when asked about it, were unaware the British had ever been there. That's the kind of claptrap that we are countering."<br /><br />Ill tell what kind of claptrap you are producing,of course the British would prefer not to go to the countryside! They had bad experiences with in 1805,1957 and even earlier with the wars with Tipu Sultan where the country dwellers were prone to treat the foreigners with outright hostility and rebellion.Which is why they arranged proxies!Dr Van Nostrandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-87627989869646767682012-05-01T02:31:39.697-07:002012-05-01T02:31:39.697-07:00And too stupid to win a Fields Medal.
And too stu...And too stupid to win a Fields Medal.<br /><br />And too stupid to win a Nobel Prize in Physics or Chemistry.<br /><br />And too stupid to win a Turing Award.<br /><br />And so on and so forth.<br /><br />Too stupid really to do much of anything useful.<br /><br />I mean, why not just get rid of 'em altogether?"<br /><br />Try reading my post again...slowly this timeDr Van Nostrandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57916880486945182682012-05-01T00:26:03.881-07:002012-05-01T00:26:03.881-07:00calling someone a nerd for intellectual interests ...calling someone a nerd for intellectual interests reflects on their intelligence, character, and their lack of knowledge in the art of living. Only the truly educated live fully human lives. I find his broad interests and knowledge a much more productive use of time then someone dedicating themselves to some narrow profession with practical knowledge that benefits society but does nothing for ones own growth and perspective. Money and Status are the only reasons to get a job if you truly are intelligent. The other being you want to contribute to the world, and he is doing much more service because his work reaches the whole world, not just the few people he helps if he held a regular respectable job. <br /><br />I feel someone who dedicates themselves autistically to any pursuit, whether it be bodybuilding, fitness, martial arts, technology, computers, videogames, games, sports, anything, particularly brainless activities, are definitely wasting their time compared to this guy. <br /><br />"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest" - Ben FranklinAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-17144814512786505482012-04-30T21:15:05.787-07:002012-04-30T21:15:05.787-07:00I'm tapped out, but I think the women here hav...I'm tapped out, but I think the women here have reasons for offering a dozen (at least) apologies.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-20891352011232752422012-04-30T20:45:48.692-07:002012-04-30T20:45:48.692-07:00"Anonymous said...
What's in a name?
I ..."Anonymous said...<br /><br />What's in a name?<br /><br />I looked up the name origin:German: occupational name or status name from the German word Knapp(e), a variant of Knabe ‘young unmarried man’. In the 15th century this spelling acquired the separate, specialized meanings ‘servant’, ‘apprentice’, or ‘miner’."<br /><br />Actually "knapp" is german for "scarce".Mr. Anonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-14752491203832276672012-04-30T20:36:25.104-07:002012-04-30T20:36:25.104-07:00What's in a name?
I looked up the name origin:...What's in a name?<br />I looked up the name origin:German: occupational name or status name from the German word Knapp(e), a variant of Knabe ‘young unmarried man’. In the 15th century this spelling acquired the separate, specialized meanings ‘servant’, ‘apprentice’, or ‘miner’.GermanAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-24823981779400900052012-04-30T20:22:45.625-07:002012-04-30T20:22:45.625-07:00All 200 written for free, too, just like Knapp'...All 200 written for free, too, just like Knapp's million edits.Steve Sailerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11920109042402850214noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-58454217942027887162012-04-30T20:19:50.062-07:002012-04-30T20:19:50.062-07:00200 comments would be an apt tribute to Knapp!200 comments would be an apt tribute to Knapp!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-72079138108449052562012-04-30T20:13:27.473-07:002012-04-30T20:13:27.473-07:00"Is this mindset of white males really helpin...<i>"Is this mindset of white males really helping anyone? Really? It seems a spectacular waste to everyone and everything and VENAL as all hell. All for a little sniff of the moral superiority glue."</i><br /><br /><br />You're making it sound so optional and thought-out. Consider the possibility that it just comes naturally, that they enjoy working, that they are workaholics, it's a natural state, they enjoy being in the zone. They'd do it if no one ever knew. Like the proverbial fish that doesn't know about water.<br /><br />This thread hasn't mentioned that this guy is just one of something much bigger than just the wikipedia. No need to go back and look at the middle ages... no need to talk about eligibility...<br /><br />Much of the modern Internet infrastructure, the majority of the web servers that we all use, the Android smart phones, the core of the Max OS X, the Linux systems that are now everywhere (like in Android), the compilers for just about everything today and on and on.... all are "open source" systems. Written by communities of guys (and yeah, it's almost entirely guys) writing software and giving it away. Much of this stuff has been written by guys who never made any money from it at all, never achieved any acclaim, and yet here we are. (You can roughly check the racial composition of many of these communities, and while there are folks from every background, yeah, the vast majority are boring white guys.)<br /><br />I say we should all invest a lot of time in really criticizing these bozos! On the Internet! That'll show 'em! ;)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-57858445566275460682012-04-30T20:10:44.088-07:002012-04-30T20:10:44.088-07:00"Acquiring knowledge should hurt" should..."Acquiring knowledge should hurt" should be the motto of Wikipedia detractors. It still does hurt except guys like Justin Knapp have decided to bear more than their share of the pain. The pain has been socialized. When it evolves into a University, Wiki U will be even more vilified - a lot of people make a hefty sum bilking misdirected students out of a lot of dough (think of every person who checks "some college" on a survey.)<br /><br />I gotta go. I'm desperate to look up The Clock of the Long Now - on Wikipedia.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-79276855424890180692012-04-30T19:23:15.783-07:002012-04-30T19:23:15.783-07:00Zawi Hawass is unpopular with the _art Smell set b...Zawi Hawass is unpopular with the _art Smell set because he won't let them dig under the Sphinx, where they believe a library to rival or surpass that of Alexandria awaits.Darfur Millernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-2889976799325089382012-04-30T19:21:28.120-07:002012-04-30T19:21:28.120-07:00Anonymous who posted at 9:09 on 4/29/12 - I suspec...<i> Anonymous who posted at 9:09 on 4/29/12 - I suspect that the best way to label nuclear waste in the very long term is with as unequivocal a symbol of "death" as possible - probably a skull and crossbones - etched feet deep into whatever protective container and mountainside holds it. It's easy enough to imagine compromised nuclear waste storage sites becoming mythologized as locations of supernatural dread/portals to hell by our remote descendants, or for any other new(ly) intelligent species that come after us.<br /><br /> Virtually none of our current data storage methods have much hope of surviving into the distant future. Even if no apocalypse or dark age does happen, simple decay will erode almost everything. If there's any real collective will to leave even a tiny part of our collective learning to posterity then we would do well to carve as much as we can on the hardest of stone and the least reactive of metals and put it somewhere very safe. Half a million years from now, Mount Rushmore might be the last surviving evidence that intelligent life ever existed on Earth.</i><br /><br /> There have indeed been several efforts to address these problems. The Clock of the Long Now project, for one. <br /><br /> There is no convenient or practical archival digital storage method readily available. Digital data icons such as are used for scanning with mobile devices today and bar codes can be photographed with archival films, but no standards exist nor any convenient hardware marketed. Punched mylar tape in the format used by old school NC machines and Teletype machines is another but the bit density is orders of magnitude too small for modern data sets. A megabyte takes up a good bookcase. A gigabyte would fill a large house. <br /><br /> Properly processed monochrome films and Kodachrome, but not other color films, can last millenia when buried or submerged if properly packaged. But look on the bright side: images of Marilyn Monroe will certainly be around longer than those of Britney Spears or Lindsay Lohan!Darfur Millernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9430835.post-47779535288417631372012-04-30T18:28:01.313-07:002012-04-30T18:28:01.313-07:00"I used to love it when a (happily married) b..."I used to love it when a (happily married) bearded fat man I knew flirted with me."<br /><br />"he was flawlessly groomed, smell wonderful and always wore soft fabrics in beautiful colors."<br /><br />Did you mean to say that he was bearded, or that his wife was "a beard?"Truthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17286755693955361308noreply@blogger.com