RSSMany of those “nepalese” groups are part of the larger tibetan race, with sherpa being part of the larger tibetan family, though distantly related due to the inaccessibility of the high himalayas
Why do you constantly spread propaganda? This is Unz, too, not plebbit, so no one cares.
I don't know about that, it's not like there wasn't a significant history of civilization in Persia. But then modern Maya are supposedly quite dumb despite the impressive achievements of their ancestors. Hard to tell.
Iran has an average IQ of 84.
Germans/Nordics were once blond chimps too- all of Europe probably improved their IQ to world class levels through intense selection with declines in formerly more civilized areas
werent the Georgians the least deported people in the ussr?
no. How do you reconcil the diff. between chardal and haredi on observance though? Study of torah, observance, is center of satmar life above all else. Doesn’t shas offer more suitable view with kahane, (though it itself sucks up to litvak, shas members kids go to litvak school)
By not being very observant at all. I'm a believer but not much of a practicer.
How do you reconcil the diff. between chardal and haredi on observance though?
They also don't recognize the abomination that is the secular State of Israel and unlike Religious Zionists, they don't consider secular Jews to be their brothers. I agree with them on both points.
Study of torah, observance, is center of satmar life above all else.
Are you Israeli? You don't seem to know very much about Shas.
Doesn’t shas offer more suitable view with kahane
Greasy, are you litvak. hasid, or sephardi. just curious
expanding on this in a sense, Anatoly, why do you think “low IQ” groups like Scot-Irish, Highlanders, and Cavaliers seem more violent/supportive of force than Slavs(excluding marginal outgroups like Montengrins and Bosnians).
the prussians were actually german speaking, with a strong city tradition and norms similar to northern germany. The manchu were semi-pastoral and warlike, less so than the mongols but different from the Han.
Indeed, even today it's relatively pleasant and sane compared to much of the rest of the country which is descending into ever deeper madness. I'm not confident it can last though.Replies: @guy
Es lebe Bayern!
aren’t the truest germans from the baltic coast(highest rates of red hair, blondism, colored eyes)?
Everything south, I would guess, would have celtic ancestry, or worse, roman introgression
That’s retarded, simply because the chinese can swamp xinjiang with chinese and harvest valuable minerals with authoritarian PRC policy.
How competent is the PRC and Japan compared to other world governments, because it seems european countries are run by idealist idiots comparatively.
..And all three major branches of Romans - Italians, Spaniards and Frenchmen - belong to each other. Not to mention Romanians and Portuguese.
"Hmmm….isn’t Russia large enough for the population it possesses to be able to leave neighboring countries alone?"
Irrelevant. The Ukraine belongs to Russians – all three major branches of Russians – just as surely as does the Republic of Belarus and the Russian Federation.
Nonsense. I'm inclined to agree with Anatol Lieven, who concluded that in an analogy with Britain, Ukraine's relationship to Russia had elements both of a colony (as Ireland) and as a junior partnership (Scotland) with respect to Russia. It wasn't as simple as in Ukrainian and Russian nationalist discourse.
…its colonial (or semi-colonial) past within the former Russian or Soviet empires
There was nothing colonial about the relationship under either Tsarism or the USSR
Even if true, this doesn't prove anything. Some colonies were objects of investment. The Japanese invested in Korea and Manchuria, and Germany invested in East Africa, for example.
The UkSSR was a net recipient of Soviet funds (the RFSR and BSSR were the only donors).
Russian nationalism (that is, Great Russian nationalism as it would be understood in 19th and early 20th century terms) was even more strange and new in those lands.Replies: @guy
… at these photos taken 100 years ago
Sure, the collapse of the old order temporarily brought all sorts of strange new political formations into existence
the prospect of portuguese-spanish unification is still being considered, and german-austrian unification ideas are not dead yet but severely weakened by historical events
If they want to annex the baltics and moldova, why not annex georgia, armenia, and romania too?(not finland) I’m assuming this is done by military conquest because the Russians can handle these areas using their military Quite honestly, the north kazakhstan annexations actually seem the MOST realistic out of all of these, because russian identity is strengthened by being around Kazakhs.
The Baltics have a significant Russian population, while Georgia, Armenia and Romania do not (Armenia is 98% mono-ethnic Armenian). And Russian nationalists do not like southern non-Slavic and non-European people in general.
If they want to annex the baltics and moldova, why not annex georgia, armenia, and romania too?(not finland)
i.e., oil and gas centered ones. 75% of Russia's oil production comes from Khanty-Mansyisk autonomous okrug.Replies: @guy
sparsely populated non-Russian ethnic republics
Maybe the khanty and mansi, who are more docile than the russians themselves, should get some aid, instead of caucasian filth like the chechens and dagestanis
We were discussing Malfrid, remember? Not the other ones.
"The problem is that the more accepted theory is that the Scandinavian name came first and the Slavs made up a Slavic version."That is, the names Jaroslav, Yaropolk, Svyatoslav, etc. are derived from Scandinavian languages? Cool hypothesis. Please give examples of the use of these names by Scandinavians.
The logical conclusion is that whether the name is Slavic or Scandinavian does not determine ethnicity, because Slavs could have Scandinavian names and Scandinavian could have Slavic ones.
As for the names of the rulers:
1. The numerous Waldemars across Scandinavia itself tell us that Scandinavians liked Slavic names.The numerous Olegs, Rjuriks and Glebs among Russian Princes itself tell us that Slavic liked Scandinavians names. For example Rurik Rostislavich Grand Prince of Kiev in XIII century, Oleg Ivanovich Prince of Ryazan XIV century. In such a case, based on your logic, we should assume that all holders of Scandinavian names are Slavs?
Now review what I wrote. When Yaroslav was with his own, Scandinavian people, he went by Jarisleif (see the Sagas). Likewise with Hakon, Helga, Ingvar (Igor), etc.
You do realize that these people also used Scandinavian names when interacting with their own people. Yarosalv was Jarisleif, for example.Jarisleif is not Scandinavian name it is a Slavic name, which was written by Scandinavians. Similarly in Russian chronicles the Scandinavian name Helge turned to Oleg, Hakon in the Jakun, etc.
Since the state they were exiled to (Rus) was a Scandinavian state, why would this make them Slavs? This fact further supports the Scandinavian nature of Rus. Scandinavians felt at home going into exile there. Just as Rus leaders sometimes felt at home going into exile in Scandinavia. And I love how in your Russian svidomism you refer to this state as Russian.
Norwegian King (Olav Trjuggvason, Saint Olav, Magnus Olavsson, Harald Sigurdarson) were in exile in Russia, and regained the throne with the support of Russian Princes. These Norwegian Kings by your logic the Slavs?
While Cnut did use some Polish troops he did not depend on Polish troops nearly as much as did Vladimir and Yaroslav on Norse troops.
The greatest Scandinavian King Cnut the Great was the son of the Danish King, and daughter of a Slavic prince. Against enemies (mostly other Scandinavians) he used Slavic warriors. Cnut the Great by your logic – Slavs?
That's nice. He had to rule over them, after all.
When Slavs in Novogord killed his Norse allies because they had been abusing Slavs, Yaroslav slaughtered the Slavic nobles.And then he begged citizens of Novgorod for forgiveness.
We already discussed names - Scandinavians liked Slavic names and Slavs liked Scandinavian ones. To review, Yaroslav was 100% Scandinavian (likely - but possibly "only" 75% Scandinavian). In various phases of his career he relied on Norse troops in his wars - most of his closest allies were fellow-Scandinavians. He provided a home for Norse exiles. When Slavs rebelled against Yaroslav's Scandinavians, Yaroslav slaughtered the Slavs (but apologized to the survivors). He married a Swedish princess. But strong Russian Svidomite claims Yaroslav was a Slav, and a Russian too :-)
If you think that Yaroslav was a Slav, the Svidomism is strong in you, indeed.Yaroslav’s sons names:
Vladimir
Izyaslav
Svyatoslav
Vsevolod
Vyacheslav
IgorYaroslav undoubtedly was a Slav (though Scandinavian origin)
No originals of Pravda Yaroslava exist - the Ruska Pravda, was completed two generations later, the oldest copy is from 1282. I wouldn't doubt if the law were written in Slavic, given that the population whom the Scandinavians ruled was Slavic. But because the rulers were Scandinavians, the law itself was very Norse in type. It replaced vengeance killing with the collection of weregild, brought about Scandinavian-type jury trials, etc. If Yaroslav was a Slav, why were his laws Norse?Replies: @Guy, @melanf
He, among others, public affairs, amounted to a compendium of laws. Guess what language?
Superstrate influence: the Norse law played an outsized role because many of the druzhina were Norse or of norse descent. Also, Yaroslavs Slavs ancestry does not preclude using Norse troops; Pennisular Scandinavia is a shit land for agriculture and given widespread polygamy, many warriors would flock outwards for better opportunities. The Norse warriors were like Turks; a column to defend against Slavic intertribal conflict, and Yaroslav’s Norse connections made this even easier. The vast bulk of Norse came from Sweden, not Norway, though. However,the Norse warriors had mostly Slav wife’s and concubines, as did Yaroslav. Also AP, as a Ukrainian, your claims of svidomism are strange, though, given that the volyhians and drevylans were very disadvantaged in influence compared to the ilmen Slavs of the northern Slav lands, who were the original supporters of the Rus
Correct, although Yaroslav's wife Ingegerd Olofsdotter was Swedish.
However,the Norse warriors had mostly Slav wife’s and concubines, as did Yaroslav.
For Ukraine will not say, but in Russia the fact that varangians were vikings is quite generally accepted. This is not only written in the textbooks, but also it is common place historical novels, movies, etc.Replies: @guy, @AP
I noticed that if you suggest that the varangians of kievan rus were swedes, both ukrainians and russians get angry.
I would downplay it a bit from the viking conquest narrative, because the varangians had substantial support from the ilmen slavs and ingrians in the north and kryvich slavs in the south since they were able to organize against the khazars, maintain trade routes, and organize very successful raiding expeditions.
Replies: @guy, @Hunsdon
Ukrainians view their nation as one of the oldest in Europe and Asia: with roots in the ancient Trypillian (Cucuteni/Tripolie) civilization that laid the foundation of the Ukrainian nation and culture over 5000 years ago. Other precursors were the Timber grave culture and Proto Indo Europeans. Many unique practices in modern Ukrainian culture and even words date back specifically to these civilizations.
Since then, human life that existed on inhabited parts of modern Ukraine always shared the same collective conscience (the key trait of a nation), from Kyivian Rus to Cossack states...
I noticed that if you suggest that the varangians of kievan rus were swedes, both ukrainians and russians get angry. Is svidomism like your example basically a calmer extension of the balkan/indian/turkish flame war propaganda?
Yes, I would say that that is also svidomism.
I noticed that if you suggest that the varangians of kievan rus were swedes, both ukrainians and russians get angry.
For Ukraine will not say, but in Russia the fact that varangians were vikings is quite generally accepted. This is not only written in the textbooks, but also it is common place historical novels, movies, etc.Replies: @guy, @AP
I noticed that if you suggest that the varangians of kievan rus were swedes, both ukrainians and russians get angry.
I actually thought you were 1/4 laz, so I was confused why you didn’t substitute georgian in for kebab. But does dagestani really count for kebab, since they themselves have high amounts of northern euro descent and distinct caucasian component from the middle eastern component? I mean, even on the 23 and me only part of that ancestry gets mapped to middle eastern.
Extremely telling.
The #NeverTrumpers who oppose mass immigration like Douthat and Frum are probably hedging their bets. They know the tide is turning, but at the same time, they don’t want to lose the power they have currently. So they advocate rejecting Trump and “waiting 4 to 8 years.” Without meaning to sound dramatic, the United States is at the tipping point demographically before it reaches an ANC situation in which the Democrats will rule unopposed — Permanent Liberalism. Trump is the nativist’s last chance to deport millions of illegals who will vote Democrat and MAYBE avoid the demographic Democratization that will happen anyway by restricting legal immigration and increasing economic well-being for family formation among more balanced demographics.
If you wait 4-8 years, after a massive amnesty is pushed through, USA is over.
In reality, this is some actual, relevant cultural appropriation. Maybe instead of protesting and helping Hiliary, this iberian girl should help the Amerind’s that her countrymen still treat like shit. Us Americans help them out more than the Mexicans or South Americans, and we don’t even have any obligation to!(I saw a whole family of midgets yesterday who were clearly indians collecting charity)
They send Hazara afghans- who tend to have afghan birthrates(10 kids to one woman) as their cannon fodder. No one really gives a shit, though
Ovadia Yosef founded shas, not schach
The diseugenic policies of the charedim plus genetic load from inbreeding probably contribute. On a further note, these studies might prove bad for Anatoly’s theory of a high iq breeding reservoir in the ultra-orthodox.
Anatoly started it. He maliciously lied about Russian Jews and then accused me of being "gay" when I called him on it.
Hey man, ease up on the insults, please…
Sadly the secular/traditional (traditional is code for low class Sephardim who are almost never truly secular, there are probably more atheistic Palestinians than working class Sephardim) are not in absolute decline. For some reason nobody can figure out they continue to crank out kids at an above replacement rate despite the fact that the country is already horribly overcrowded. Where the hell do they think we are going to put them?
Anyway, from my understanding, the Haredi (like yourself?) are smaller in number but have lots of kids. (Are you cranking out kids – greasy or not – for the cause?) They are in fairly direct opposition to the secular Jews who are in population decline. Correct so far?
In 2016? No way. You are talking about people where a large percentage of the male population has never even heard of basic things like algebra, a people who essentially don't even know how to get dressed in the morning without first consulting a rabbi. , they def aren't ready to take over running a functional state. Well, the women might be but definitely not the men. In 50 years though, I think so.
OK – now the majority of the scientific, political and military power of the technocratic nation-state structure belongs to those same secular ones who are not having enough kids. Are the Haredi going to take over all this physical and abstract infrastructure? Are they even capable?
Let's put it this way, I'm pretty well versed in Jewish theology and I've never even heard that ruling discussed, so if Rambam ever said as much, it didn't become a part of larger Jewish position.
One more thing; you never gave me a complete answer to an earlier query; Sam Shama had noted that Rambam had stated that Bani Ishamel have as much right to the land as Bani Ishaac. You confirmed the rank of Rambam among the Rabbinical tradition. Is that a valid ruling?
YBT supports civil marriage, supports bringing in more Russian goyim, supports selling pork in Israel and even supports dividing Jerusalem. YBT is for hedonists who hate Arabs AND Judaism. Likud is for hedonists who hate Arabs but make a pretense of respecting Judaism. Likud is bad, but nowhere near as awful as YBT and it is simply a fact that most Russian Jews do not vote for YBT. Saying that they do is a malicious lie. I doubt more than a third of Russian Jews in Israel (not Russian goyim) vote for YBT.Replies: @guy, @Talha, @Talha
You’re completely nitpicking about this YBT vs Likud issue.
YBT is basically a slightly more extreme version of Likud with some russian identity politics thrown in (e.g. civil marriage).
you vote for shas, I assume?
I'm American, not Israeli, so I don't vote in Israeli elections. I'm also Ashkenazi so even were I Israeli a Sephardic nationalist party doesn't have much to offer me. The only thing I like about Shas is their cool name (for our goyish readers, Shas is an acronym for the Sephardic Torah Guardians... I guess in Hebrew that creates the Shas acronym).
you vote for shas, I assume?
Haredi- using the internet? LOL
steve, it might be a bit gossipy, but evidence of a amanda carpenter- ted cruz affair is piling up(she was one of the accused but she is actually obsessed with ted and very suspect evidence she posted on social media is starting to be found.)
Muslims are even lower IQ brownnecks and far-right islamic thought is even more prevalent than far right christian thought in the Islamic world.
You do realize how monumental a figure in anti-cucking Steve is, right? When race aware alt-left communists, far-rightists, and many moderates in between are praising him on his coverage of these issues, the word cuck literally has no relevance when applied to him.
Wouldn’t super eldar be the other result of the endpoint of human evolution? Fix the problems of the eldar and they become demi-gods like the Old Ones.
Isn’t trump half highlander? His mother was Mary Anne McLeod, born in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.
Are you sunni or shia? Just curious
They got a huge boost. al-qaeda in iraq grew massively(remember zarqawi and the surge?) due to the gain of a massive new manpower supply of now marginalized sunni arab tribesmen along with the logistical,strategic, and tactical skills of the ex-baath members, who were instrumental in setting up mostly the islamic state but also al-nusra, who used iraqi al qaeda members to set up the beginnings al-qaeda emirate by use of a revolt against assad.
on a unrelated tangent, I know that the khalkha had been vassalized by the manchu, but why were the oirat and their kalmyk descendents such good fighters against kazakhs, nogai, crimeans, and north caucasians? Russian reports of the kalmyk basically consist of them victoriously raiding nearly everything around them. Was it something cultural or geographical(ie: the climate of dzungaria being extremely poor grazing land,)?
I’m a 0.5%-er. You as, a reasonably intelligent person, should know that most people don’t have the intelligence to act in their own interest, and should have sympathy for them, whether they are neo-con evangelical lovers or lazy college students voting for Bernie. On an unrelated note, I’m glad I don’t live in wussified New England while it gets flooded with Salvadorians and Nicaraguans. Have Fun!
Don't forgot to generously help out the poor panhandler host in the Santa Claus hat.
I’m a 0.5%-er.
Salvadoran and Nicaraguan?? I live in Massachusetts-- no longer in Northern Virginia-- so the illegals I now see are Dominican, Brazilian, and even Chinese. New England (especially MA, CT, and southern NH) is where the intelligentsia reside, so it'll always be the most important part of this country. Over 50% of Republicans in Iowa voted for two creepy candidates who are globalists and will work for the TNR and WSJ view of this country and the world. Fuck that, I'll take 8 more years of Obama rather than just 4 years of a Sheldon Adelson or Paul Singer pool boy.Replies: @Anonymous
On an unrelated note, I’m glad I don’t live in wussified New England while it gets flooded with Salvadorians and Nicaraguans. Have Fun!
Hey Razib, which groups would then have the highest hunter-gatherer/first migration ancestry in the indian subcontinent? Would it still be concentrated in tribal groups and low castes, despite their y-dnas being similar to other populations?
Goths were closer genetically to the romans than these semitic/near eastern invaders are; they were also Christians
ab wheel is another good investment, at usually 5$. The kneeling ab wheel rollout is very hard, but the standing one is even harder, requiring an incredible amount of ab strength, and is probably the best ab exercise. Just adding another suggestion
Muslim groups have far higher rates of inbreeding than their ethnic relatives of different religions, and this could contribute to many of the behavioral problems that we see. However, Islam is the most important factor(if people of African descent are excluded)
Could this be used as precedent by Iran to move it’s troops enmasse to retake Iraq or Russia to move troops into Syria?
They never even mention Israel.Replies: @kaganovitch, @Guy
ISIS hasn’t attacked Israel
There is an ISIS pocket nestled right between the Golan, Lebanon, and FSA/Al Nusra territory that Israel has not touched, and ISIS has mentioned disbanding and destroying Hamas more than it has mentioned Israel.
Syed Farooq’s mother, Rafia Farooq was also connected to Islamists by being member of ICNA(Islamic Circle of North America) which has donor ties to Jamaat-e-Islami which itself has donor ties to the Taliban, Al Qaeda and now ISIS.
Some people do well with carbs, some do well with fat. All do well with high protein, because of the thermogenic loss, role in maintaining muscle and building muscle, and satiety that protein engenders
He is definitely an indian racially, but most pakistanis are, being either punjabi, hindustani or sindhi muslims. She is definitely not indian at all, she is an arab, the facial features definitely point to that.
Isn’t pop dominant in most german, scandi and northern english majority areas?
Ummm..... Corvinus, I do not quite know how to break this to you, but, no, most people here, indeed most Americans, do not do "discourse," at least not knowingly.
Do you understand how discourse even works?
U discourse brah?
While I appreciate Sailer and many of other writings of the Alt-Right, I don’t think they realize that the demographic of their own daughters, young white women, are complicit with other parts of the left and the parts of the right to oppress normal(beta,hardworking) white boys and young men. Peter Frost was the only one who was even able to broach the surface of this subject in
https://www.unz.com/pfrost/young-male-and-single/?highlight=young+boys
Of course the old guys will say its all about sex, but it’s far worse than that. Women have no interest in even relationships anymore, let alone marriage, and infidelity, in my own experiences, is extremely common when these relationships occur, and women don’t want to even be women anymore in their interactions with us.
As an aside, the rise of the younger generation of the alt-right and much of the fitness culture present in the west is due to these phenomena.
Erdogan’s ancestors are from Batumi
Isn’t that asshole the one who is further popularizing attacks on our gun rights?http://www.cbsnews.com/news/sen-chuck-schumer-and-comedian-amy-schumer-team-up-on-gun-control/
Gun control weakens the white native born population of the US against invaders, and you support him?
Not to worry, #blacklivesmatter will reverse the reversal.Replies: @Guy, @Simon in London
Contrary to common perceptions, today both property and violent crimes (with the exception of homicides) are more widespread in Europe than in the United States, while the opposite was true thirty years ago.
Not if the infidel refugees in Europe have anything to say about it.
Or to the dead nogai, tatars, crimeans, and caucasians who thought they could fight the russians.
That dating history list is hilarious.
Seth Mcfarlane has long been rumored (he even joked about his eventual coming our when he hosted the Oscars) to be gay, and a lot of the themes and references in his shows – as well as his flaccid performance next to Charlize Theron in his Western comedy — support that scientific theory.
What you have with him is a cheeky West Hollywood gay guy who is used to thinking of himself as repressed, or at least as part of the non-white New Majority, and so he’s relaxed about making fun of blacks and other taboos because he doesn’t think of himself as a Straight White Man.
So when reviewers like this come after him, it’s their own tone deafness at not seeing that McFarland’s fearlessness is coming from rich gay guy cheekiness.
That would explain a lot--not least the show tunes.
Seth Mcfarlane has long been rumored (he even joked about his eventual coming our when he hosted the Oscars) to be gay
The show the beheader’s picture in the times because it disrupts the “all beheaders are Arabs” narrative. No other reason.
A small note:
The trend in the WORLD economy since the late 18th century is divergence, not convergence, and Maddison’ figures confirmed this when summarized by regional groupings; Imperialism has something to do with this, as well as its new incarnations since the beginning of the cold war in the form of neocolonialism (ie. formal independence but with basic structure of the economy systematically dependent on imperial trade and investment patterns).
But there is a far more important physical reason for this: If you have an income of 15000$/capita, it is relatively easy to set aside 20% (1500$) for investment purposes. You are still left with 13500 per person to vastly satisfy basic needs. However, when you have an income per capita of 1000$, setting aside 20% is extremely difficult. Hence the basic idea: Those with more wealth can afford to invest a large portion of it, while those with little need nearly all of it simply to survive. Hence, Europe can grow quite fast simply because it can set aside much more income for investment; And indeed, this was made much easier by imperial conquests in the early industrial era.
And the interesting part of this kind of idea is that it can be used to explain many of the different economic fates: That western Europe after the war, including the poorest regions, gained an influx of American capital, a fairly liberal technological transfer environment and a coherent government development plan. This is mirrored by the East Asian tigers as well (which were not burdened by high natural resources and hence drew little colonial attention, except in the beneficial form of military protection by the U.S. against the commie threat). The USSR on the other hand was more autarkic, with little to no capital flowing in from the west, however there was some technology transfer, and more importantly, being a huge country with many people, it had large aggregate income that it could draw on for investment in strategic sectors. On the other hand, most of the third world, while many government expressed explicit support for development plans, had poor ability to attract foreign investment and technology transfer (in some sense the colonial structure of the economy remained), but were also very small states, and hence could draw very little aggregate funds for investment (and in fact, they resorted to debt, which was unsustainable when many of their primary commodity prices fell in the 70s).
I recommend this book on Soviet economy:
It is very rigorous in analysis and data gathering.
The contention that the people of the SU territories would have been much richer in 1990 without Stalinist planning of the heavy industrial type (and instead some reformed tsarist system) is shown to be false; (compare compound per capita in the late tsarist era of 1.8 vs. 2.1 from 1917 to 1990 or so. And that is with a 25-27 million people casualty war with associated economic devastation). Further it was a primarily agriarian (wheat and barley) based economy and hence would have suffered economic contraction when grains prices collapsed in the late 20s early 30s.
The reasons for economic slowdown in the book are uncoventional but nonetheless do include the systemic (and this is where he is unconventional) both the circumstantial (wwII cold war),
Something to consider anyways.
Women up to and including Nobelists can and do write much sci-fi, of course, in addition to sports reportage or PUA blogs or anything else. Doesn't mean it will suit every male reader's taste (Margaret Atwood? though "Oryx and Crake" could be shoehorned into about 50% of the posts here), however, readers are predominantly female anyway. The mix of free time and Austenian levelheadedness is beneficial for more & sturdier long-form fiction. I think Steve was just mentioning Neal Stephenson who is better in small doses.
I hear that people are contemplating classifying bigotry a disease. If that ever happens I wonder if the writers of GNXP will be considered to be suffering from some sort of disease. I’m not calling the writers bigots however some would define the writers of this blog as being bigots for their views and if bigotry is ever classified as a disease doctors may share the opinion that the writers are bigots.
When the geeks take over the universities, sports will not be football or basketball but chess , video gaming and puzzle solving. Athletes are only important in the universities because …. Jeez, I cant even think of a reason why athletes should be in the universities.
Why not address why people are leaving in the first place? That seems like a much better policy than regulating either emigration, immigration, or anything at all.
I just wanted to add one thing:
“The interest in intelligent design is partly driven by the fact that there are still phenomena that science and evolution haven’t explained. For example, scientists haven’t yet figured out why the ratio of Phi to 1 — 1.618 — appears in the growth patterns of plants, breeding cycles of rabbits and the spirals of seashells and galaxies. This ratio is also called the “divine proportion.”
This makes some neutral observers wonder whether it’s a war of words: Intelligent-design advocates ascribe the power of natural phenomena such as the Phi ratio to designing forces while scientists says it’s the beauty of nature.”
What is this reporter talking about? Because there is a ratio of anumber to another that appears in certain places is not by necessity divine. I am no mathematician but I am sure that one could devise a ratio of two absolutely random numbers on their own that occured in many different areas of the world/universe. Why is it so hard for people to accept something that bears great evidence when that evidence is not in favor of their (candidate) belief.
First, remember that Stenstrom was a CHICAGO BEARS quarterback. The Bears have started more quarterbacks in the past fifteen years than it seems the Packers ever had. What does this mean? It means that while Stenstrom might be ignorant to begin with, he is no doubt the product of a good bashing to the head. (I specifically remember a game against the Minnesota Vikings where he was sacked, pinned down, and threated as two foreboding linebackers stood above him). What else does this mean? That there is a reason that Stanford always has good athletics.