What books should ultimately be saved

[borg69unimatrix]

Is it inevitable that talk of book burning leads to conversation on socialism?

 

[Alnitak]

Is it inevitable that talk of book burning leads to conversation on socialism?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stream_of_consciousness_(psychology)

 

[otters]

I suspect you have a better standard of welfare recipients in your country than the lazy spongers in Britain and my country.

Ugh. The cost of living in society. Just ask Dick Proenneke.

Fair enough — one could say, in my country prevails a mild socialism for the rich, and a not so hard capitalism for the poor.

 

[JohnnyAnger]

Is it inevitable that talk of book burning leads to conversation on socialism?

Well it seems it was my fault for being around and getting into a slight disagreement* with Belamo a page ago - somehow Pat thought it was pertinent to bring up out of the blue.

* Bel - we are not in disagreement at all, take your scorn and pointless snobbery elsewhere darling. Posturing like you don't think I know the homophobic idea that there is a link between the deviance of paedophile and the deviance of homosexuality......

 

[pat grimshaw]

Well it seems it was my fault...

Fair enough. There's time for evolution.

Leon Trotsky went to Mexico and evolved.

 

[Alnitak]

Australia is slightly more developed and has a higher nominal GDP per capita than the United States, while both measures for Canada are one rank below the US. In other words, it doesn't appear as though the magnitude between different political philosophies in practice have a measurable impact on a macroeconomic scale. However, the quality of life for the average person may be slightly less in the United States owing especially to health care costs and inequalities. Whether that means the top wage earners should be made to sacrifice for utilitarianism is a matter of value placement.

 

[pat grimshaw]

^ I read the complete text but I couldn't understand the first five words.

 

[otters]

Australia is slightly more developed and has a higher nominal GDP per capita than the United States, while both measures for Canada are one rank below the US. In other words, it doesn't appear as though the magnitude between different political philosophies in practice have a measurable impact on a macroeconomic scale. However, the quality of life for the average person may be slightly less in the United States owing especially to health care costs [caused by private insurance, etc.] and inequalities. Whether that means the top wage earners should be made to sacrifice for utilitarianism is a matter of value placement.

(amended)

@Pat: would the raw data help you? Or CIA factbook e.g.?

 

[frankfrank]

The Wit and Wisdom of Kim Jung-Il
SEQUEL: The Wit and Wisdom of Kim Jung-Un
The Octopus In My Ear
Cereal Killers: The Growing Presence of HFCS In Our Food (Well, if it exists, it should be saved...)
Scrabble, Vacuum Cleaning, and Thermonuclear Warfare (I'm actually referencing something here. Anybody "get" it?)
The Day I Walked From Mars to Jupiter
Hydraulic Fracking In the Byzantine Empire: A History
Two Plus Two Plus Two Equals Six
Please Let Me Carry Your Aircraft Carrier

 

[pat grimshaw]

...@Pat: would the raw data help you? Or CIA factbook e.g.?

I will think on that as well as re-reading #126.

 

[star-warrior]

Charred scrolls from the library of Pompeii are now just beginning to yield their 2000 y.o. secrets using modern science.

http://time.com/3674934/scrolls-pompeii-science/

These should ultimately be saved, and hopefully shed light on reading and writing of that age.

 

[IamNoah]

Do academics still say Byzantine Empire? I haven't heard the Eastern Roman Empire referred to that way since I was like 6.

 

[borg69unimatrix]

Charred scrolls from the library of Pompeii are now just beginning to yield their 2000 y.o. secrets using modern science.

http://time.com/3674934/scrolls-pompeii-science/

These should ultimately be saved, and hopefully shed light on reading and writing of that age.

That is freakin' awesome!

 

[Alnitak]

Do academics still say Byzantine Empire? I haven't heard the Eastern Roman Empire referred to that way since I was like 6.

Eastern Roman Empire in my mind recalls the division of the Empire after the Crisis of the Third Century until Latin declined in official use some centuries later.

 

[belamyi]

That is freakin' awesome!

Yes, every now and then, you get whole verses of Psappho popping out here and there, so exciting..: like her poems were now just fresh of her mind.

 

[IamNoah]

Eastern Roman Empire in my mind recalls the division of the Empire after the Crisis of the Third Century until Latin declined in official use some centuries later.

It called itself the Roman Empire until 1452. And believe it or not ethnic Greeks were calling themselves Romans until the 19th century.

 

[SLOPPYSECONDS]

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no worry no 1 a weed

 

[belamyi]

It called itself the Roman Empire until 1452. And believe it or not ethnic Greeks were calling themselves Romans until the 19th century.

That the empire was officially called "Roman Empire" is the reason why they identified and called themselves with the appellation "Romaioi", as much as they called themselves "Greek" too.

 

[belamyi]

Which has only been the most sophisticated for about the last five centuries, compared with five millennia of recorded history when that title was borne by Sumer, Egypt, China, Islamic Caliphates, the Greeks having plumbing while Anglo-Saxons were still shitting in huts, and not to mention two hundred thousand years of human existence.

In any case, you do not even need to go so far: in the Golden times of glorious Elizabeth I, the Anglos were globally filthier and less sophisticated than the Turkish empire that was the real greater power in Europe, holding sway even over the great Western power in Spain.

 

[kallipolis]

In any case, you do not even need to go so far: in the Golden times of glorious Elizabeth I, the Anglos were globally filthier and less sophisticated than the Turkish empire that was the real greater power in Europe, holding sway even over the great Western power in Spain.

The Ottomans...for a short time....held the military advantage in Eastern Europe...but their sophistication, as you call it...was nothing more than their "acquisition" of Byzantine culture, dressed up in their Ottoman custumes.....The Ottomans in no way challenged the supremacy of Spain...that would be left to the English barbarians....and their infernal "pirates" such as Francis Drake...