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In article , Denyav
writes Another reply from the selective snipmeister, I see. Why 20%? Is that an arbitrary figure? Where are we talking about? 18th century France? 20th century USSR? Whats about 21st century US? Answer the question. I don't want hints, I want a sentence that is structured and comprehensible. English is my primary language, and I find it helps comprehension if it's written sensibly. As far as I know English was also Rhodes' primary language ,so there is apparently a comprehension problem among native English speakers. Its interesting because I am pretty sure that the individuals who use English as second or even third language could immediately understand what Rhodes meant. It's not interesting. The quote you provided was incomplete, ungrammatical and incomprehensible. You obviously don't understand what "Incomprehensible" means. Write it again exactly the way Rhodes said it and we might get somewhere. Or ,is it only a loudspeaker placed inside US and connected to the music source located inside Great Britain? More obscure thinking. No Sir,famous and for some dreaded CFR is nothing but the American Branch or loudspeaker of not so famous British roundtable group. What? No. The Empire educated the people, so they learnt English as they grew up. Empire educated them to be their servants,and education was not in their native language but in English,in empires language, a perfect example of empire building using "cultural assertiveness". What's wrong with that method? Most people had no education at all before that. India had, and still has, so many languages that a common tongue was needed to unify the country. The tactic of Empire was the destruction of existing social structures and the elimination of the elite class in colonized countries as the elites of the colonies,as it happened in colonies in America,could form the nucleus of resistance aganist colonial masters. Existing social structures in India were repressive and exploitative. Foe all its faults, the British ||Empire did improve the lot of the people there. For example in India,Empire tried to terminate elite Brahmin caste all methods. Untrue. Nazis tried to imitatate british tactics in Poland,they tried to liquidate whole Polish elite while they tried pretty hard to be friendly with the peasants,even though polish elite was much closer to the Nazis "Superhuman" picture than peasants. Hardly a valid comparison. Empires do NOT educate the people of colonized countries.Its aganist their nature. Soerry to disappoint you, but look at the number of people around the world who received an education courtesy of Pax Britannica. What you called "education" is a brainwashing program designed de-root colonized people and to make them the obedient servants of their colonial masters. Rubbish. The cultural appeal can't have been that great then. You are wilfully ignoring the question of education. See above Hardly relevant, even if it's true, which I doubt. Your prejudices are showing again. Thats a fact,life for them was very hard in puritan Britain,they could live more freely in colonies . So the only reason people gave up their lives in their homeland was to exercise their perversions overseas? Great reasoning, and untrue. Victorian Britain was not at all puritan behind closed doors. Let's look at that again: the Allies (even before they were the Allies) conspired to put the NSDAP into power in Germany, forced Germany to make war on the rest of Europe, and then spent six years undoing that work? Gotta get some of what you're smoking, it's powerful stuff. Great Nations and their leaderships usualy make projections and plans for 50 years or more,so if you could prevent Germans from becoming worlds dominant power for next centuries with only six years of blood and tears,its pretty good investment. Typical Anglo pragmatism. But you said that the Nazis were set up by tne future Allies in the first place. A war with Germany,armed with nuclear tipped ICBMs and other exotic stuff,would be much more bloodier and even harder,if not impossible,to win What? Well if war started in late 40s ,Anglos had to deal with it. Then why didn't the war start in 1938 at the time of the Munich Agreement? And you do know what's happening? How? If I lived in Anglo homeland ,I would not want to learn that. What? You might do us the courtesy of letting everyone know exactly who they're up against. -- In spite of 1500 years of "dilution" process,they are apparently still in a very good condition. I wonder how good the "less diluted" Anglos are. But WHO ARE THEY??? Despite my attempts at finding out what is behind your bigotry and hatred of these "Anglos" and their alleged world domination, you still refuse to justify your ravings or to tell us what the purpose of this conspiracy is. I see no purpose in my pursuing this topic with you. You ARE the weakest link. Goodbye. -- Peter Ying tong iddle-i po! |
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Peter Twydell wrote:
In article , Denyav writes snip I see no purpose in my pursuing this topic with you. You ARE the weakest link. Goodbye. Took you long enough -- I was beginning to worry about you. Now killfile him like the rest of us, and you'll only see his ravings when some other misguided soul attempts to have a coherent argument with him. Guy |
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In article , Guy Alcala
writes Peter Twydell wrote: In article , Denyav writes snip I see no purpose in my pursuing this topic with you. You ARE the weakest link. Goodbye. Took you long enough -- I was beginning to worry about you. Now killfile him like the rest of us, and you'll only see his ravings when some other misguided soul attempts to have a coherent argument with him. Guy There are two aspects to Denya and his ravings. One is that he's like the mosquito you hear in the middle of the night and can't swat because it's too elusive. The other is accepting the challenge of getting him to justify himself. Not very successfully this time, unfortunately, but it did confirm his irrationality. I only did it as a bit of light relief after several hard days of pretty mind-boggling work when I needed to relieve the stress. I promise I won't do it again. Well, not until the next time anyway. Over on the rec.sport.rugby.union newsgroup (devoted to one of the two greatest sports on the planet), there is the RSRU Shield, a virtual competition between national teams. The first holder was South Africa, who were awarded the Shield after their World Cup win in 1995. The Shield changes hands every time the holder loses a Test match. Funnily enough, South Africa holds it at the moment, having beaten Australia recently. What's he on about, you ask. Well, it struck me that perhaps we could award a similar trophy, to be awarded to the most outrageous loon (lune?) who posts to the NG. Past holders would have included Venik, Kurt Plummer and good ole John Tarver. The current holder would have to be Denyav. The poster of a subsequent outrageously loony posting would be awarded the trophy until the next one. -- Peter Ying tong iddle-i po! |
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![]() "Peter Twydell" wrote in message ... What's he on about, you ask. Well, it struck me that perhaps we could award a similar trophy, to be awarded to the most outrageous loon (lune?) who posts to the NG. Past holders would have included Venik, Kurt Plummer and good ole John Tarver. The current holder would have to be Denyav. The poster of a subsequent outrageously loony posting would be awarded the trophy until the next one. I don't know, Peter. I wouldn't ever have classified Kurt as a loon to begin with: over enthused, yes, maddeningly fond of acronyms, hell yes. But a loon? No, heck it might even be useful for some R&D staff to keep him around for the flow of ideas. |
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John Keeney wrote:
"Peter Twydell" wrote in message ... What's he on about, you ask. Well, it struck me that perhaps we could award a similar trophy, to be awarded to the most outrageous loon (lune?) who posts to the NG. Past holders would have included Venik, Kurt Plummer and good ole John Tarver. The current holder would have to be Denyav. The poster of a subsequent outrageously loony posting would be awarded the trophy until the next one. I don't know, Peter. I wouldn't ever have classified Kurt as a loon to begin with: over enthused, yes, maddeningly fond of acronyms, hell yes. But a loon? No, heck it might even be useful for some R&D staff to keep him around for the flow of ideas. While I agree with you re Kurt not being a loon, I think I'd have to disagree on your R&D group suggestion. Think of the extra overhead involved -- they'd either all have to be sent to the Defense Language Institute at Monterey to learn how to understand Kurt's prose, or else develop a computer translation program to decode all the acronyms and Plummerisms, and constantly update the database as new ones are added. The last item by itself is a full-time job. Granted, familiarity with Kurt's style does help with the decoding, but it's just not worth the investment of time and energy for a small R&D shop. Guy (who doesn't miss having to read and decipher plummerisms such as "Dorito'd" or "Just so the Monkey can push the Pulsar button") |
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In article , Guy Alcala
writes John Keeney wrote: "Peter Twydell" wrote in message ... What's he on about, you ask. Well, it struck me that perhaps we could award a similar trophy, to be awarded to the most outrageous loon (lune?) who posts to the NG. Past holders would have included Venik, Kurt Plummer and good ole John Tarver. The current holder would have to be Denyav. The poster of a subsequent outrageously loony posting would be awarded the trophy until the next one. I don't know, Peter. I wouldn't ever have classified Kurt as a loon to begin with: over enthused, yes, maddeningly fond of acronyms, hell yes. But a loon? No, heck it might even be useful for some R&D staff to keep him around for the flow of ideas. While I agree with you re Kurt not being a loon, I think I'd have to disagree on your R&D group suggestion. Think of the extra overhead involved -- they'd either all have to be sent to the Defense Language Institute at Monterey to learn how to understand Kurt's prose, or else develop a computer translation program to decode all the acronyms and Plummerisms, and constantly update the database as new ones are added. The last item by itself is a full-time job. Granted, familiarity with Kurt's style does help with the decoding, but it's just not worth the investment of time and energy for a small R&D shop. Guy (who doesn't miss having to read and decipher plummerisms such as "Dorito'd" or "Just so the Monkey can push the Pulsar button") Yes, you're both right (how often do you see _that_ in this ng?). My apologies to Kurt Plummer for classifying him as a loon. The common factor is their incomprehensibility, I suppose. Some people get even more obscure the more you ask for clarification. Did you remember those expressions, Guy, or did you look them up? If the former, please get help soon! :-) -- Peter Ying tong iddle-i po! |
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Peter Twydell wrote:
In article , Guy Alcala writes snip Guy (who doesn't miss having to read and decipher plummerisms such as "Dorito'd" or "Just so the Monkey can push the Pulsar button") Yes, you're both right (how often do you see _that_ in this ng?). My apologies to Kurt Plummer for classifying him as a loon. The common factor is their incomprehensibility, I suppose. Some people get even more obscure the more you ask for clarification. Did you remember those expressions, Guy, or did you look them up? If the former, please get help soon! :-) Some things are burned into your brain, and nothing can remove them;-) Guy |
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Guy Alcala writes: While I agree with you re Kurt not being a loon, I think I'd have to disagree on your R&D group suggestion. Think of the extra overhead involved -- they'd either all have to be sent to the Defense Language Institute at Monterey to learn how to understand Kurt's prose, or else develop a computer translation program to decode all the acronyms and Plummerisms, and constantly update the database as new ones are added. The last item by itself is a full-time job. Granted, familiarity with Kurt's style does help with the decoding, but it's just not worth the investment of time and energy for a small R&D shop. I wonder what the Indian Chief from the "Go-Go Gophers" is doing? I think he'd be a perfect translator. "What him say?" -- Pete Stickney A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many bad measures. -- Daniel Webster |
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Peter Stickney wrote:
In article , Guy Alcala writes: While I agree with you re Kurt not being a loon, I think I'd have to disagree on your R&D group suggestion. Think of the extra overhead involved -- they'd either all have to be sent to the Defense Language Institute at Monterey to learn how to understand Kurt's prose, or else develop a computer translation program to decode all the acronyms and Plummerisms, and constantly update the database as new ones are added. The last item by itself is a full-time job. Granted, familiarity with Kurt's style does help with the decoding, but it's just not worth the investment of time and energy for a small R&D shop. I wonder what the Indian Chief from the "Go-Go Gophers" is doing? I think he'd be a perfect translator. "What him say?" Trust you to dredge up a memory that I hadn't accessed for probably 30 years;-) For some reason that one never stuck with me. OTOH, pretty much any Looney Tunes or Jay Ward cartoon is engraved on my memory and will likely stick with me into senility. There we'll all be in the retirement home, dribbling our oatmeal down the front of our clothes while heartily singing along to the theme from SuperChicken, and then giving the punchlines for all the cartoons early: "Cavalleria Rusticana." "Audience?!" And we all croak out "Rigoletto!", followed by a bunch of coughing. It's a scary thought. Guy |
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In message , John Keeney
writes "Peter Twydell" wrote in message ... What's he on about, you ask. Well, it struck me that perhaps we could award a similar trophy, to be awarded to the most outrageous loon (lune?) who posts to the NG. Past holders would have included Venik, Kurt Plummer and good ole John Tarver. The current holder would have to be Denyav. The poster of a subsequent outrageously loony posting would be awarded the trophy until the next one. I don't know, Peter. I wouldn't ever have classified Kurt as a loon to begin with: over enthused, yes, maddeningly fond of acronyms, hell yes. But a loon? No, heck it might even be useful for some R&D staff to keep him around for the flow of ideas. Sorry, but Kurt was a bit of a fanatic on a few issues. We're not talking R&D - there's an office-full of guys next door to me doing just that for "how do we use UAVs at sea?" and actually *using* the kit to learn what it can do rather than just blindly accepting brochure claims. (For example, one US UAV lost its chance for a trial because it was unable to safely be landed aboard a frigate - the sort of trivial detail Kurt sneered at but is crucial to actually *using* the equipment). Kurt would say "Bwahahahahahah! You IDIOTS!" for not already having... er... something in service to do... well... something... but it's a FANTASTIC idea and it's all the fault of SITM BTC dinosaurs that his proposed SOTAMC isn't SIAWU across a WROOWS. "Loon" might be too strong, but he didn't connect closely to reality, or play well with others... and imagination is the easy part. -- He thinks too much: such men are dangerous. Julius Caesar I:2 Paul J. Adam MainBoxatjrwlynch[dot]demon{dot}co(.)uk |
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