Malcador Posted October 26, 2017 Posted October 26, 2017 Found this checking to see what monuments to Alexander exist http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/macedonia/8576960/Greece-angered-by-Macedonian-statue-of-Alexander-the-Great.html . Funny fuss over a statue Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Guard Dog Posted October 26, 2017 Posted October 26, 2017 The vast majority of those confederate statues aren't even artifacts of the Civil War though and were put up for a completely different reason than simply memoralizing the Civil War. So, calling them artifacts is dubious unless you put them in the proper context, which isn't the Civil War. And to boot most were put up sixty to seventy years after the war ended. And some of them ended up in odd placed. Statues of Jeff Davis & Lee in New Orleans made no sense to me. Neither had any connection to New Orleans. Leave the battlefields and historical site markers and headstones alone IMO. Do what you will with the rest. "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
smjjames Posted October 26, 2017 Posted October 26, 2017 I think everybody is fine with the historical site markers and battlefield memorials as long as they're in context
Volourn Posted October 26, 2017 Posted October 26, 2017 (edited) 'in context' is 'let the winners decide who is bad or good'. L0L Can you imagine the convos if the South actually won (they had no real chance)? Edited October 26, 2017 by Volourn DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250.
ShadySands Posted October 26, 2017 Posted October 26, 2017 http://money.cnn.com/2017/10/25/pf/insurance/las-vegas-shooting-health-care/index.html Free games updated 3/4/21
Lexx Posted October 26, 2017 Posted October 26, 2017 All this GoFundMe stuff sounds so crazy to me. It is so fkd up that you have to rely on other people donating money to you after some nutjob threw bullets at you. That this is even necessary... that's so Murica. "only when you no-life you can exist forever, because what does not live cannot die."
majestic Posted October 26, 2017 Posted October 26, 2017 (edited) Why did you write "context" like that? Looks like filter-bypassing to me. Assuming "coon" is actually filtered. Let's see... Nope, it isn't. I'm pretty sure it wasn't a typo but Volo making a pun. Co(o)ntext, civil war, slavery, and all that. Edited October 26, 2017 by majestic No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.
Pidesco Posted October 26, 2017 Posted October 26, 2017 It was a typo. Volourn is famous for his typing skills. 1 "My hovercraft is full of eels!" - Hungarian touristI am Dan Quayle of the Romans.I want to tattoo a map of the Netherlands on my nether lands.Heja Sverige!!Everyone should cuffawkle more.The wrench is your friend.
majestic Posted October 26, 2017 Posted October 26, 2017 Aw, c'mon, give Volo some credit. Coontext would be right up his alley. And if it really was a typo it was what Bob Ross called a happy accident. No mind to think. No will to break. No voice to cry suffering.
Malcador Posted October 26, 2017 Posted October 26, 2017 Volo is just being 1337. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
Gfted1 Posted October 26, 2017 Posted October 26, 2017 *looks at keyboard* Yep, O is right next to 0. The high cost of medical care in the US exists regardless of what caused the injury. Roll your car into a ditch and youre still going to get hit in the pocket. The entire system needs to be torn down and rebuilt but that's not going to happen. 2 "I'm your biggest fan, Ill follow you until you love me, Papa"
Guard Dog Posted October 26, 2017 Posted October 26, 2017 (edited) Volo is also the master of sarcasm. So it's ok to wonder if there was a joke and you missed it. If you see typo's in my posts it's not my fault. Speech to test does not always understand my southern drawl. Edit: See??? it happened again! Edited October 26, 2017 by Guard Dog "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Guard Dog Posted October 26, 2017 Posted October 26, 2017 (edited) OK I suspect a story like this is more of interest to someone like me. But public land access, eminent domain, and "forced easements" is a subject I have a lot of interest in since my property borders a State Wildlife Management Area. Until I built a fence on that border (and once after) I've had to order armed hunters off my property. One was standing in my back yard. So I'm somewhat sypathetic to land owners closing access to public lands. Plus in a litigous society such as ours if one of the hikers is injured the landowner finds themselves on the wrong end of a lawsuit. It's also worth noting that access to public land via private is more a matter of convenience than necessity. All public land has public access. And it's always (that I'm aware of) geographically continuous. So you can get to any part from any part. Although not always easily and not always by vehicle. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/this-land-is-no-longer-your-land/ar-AAu3Cko?li=BBmkt5R&ocid=spartanntp Edited October 26, 2017 by Guard Dog "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
ShadySands Posted October 26, 2017 Posted October 26, 2017 (edited) Some interesting numbers and new labels -- Bigger picture: The center is not holding. There is much less overlap in the political values of Republicans and Democrats than in the past. In 2004, 49 percent of Americans took a roughly equal number of conservative and liberal positions on a scale based on 10 questions. That was the same percentage as in 1994. Then, three years ago, 38 percent had a mix of liberal and conservative views. Now it’s dropped to 32 percent. And here's a quiz because those are fun Edited October 26, 2017 by ShadySands Free games updated 3/4/21
Hurlshort Posted October 26, 2017 Posted October 26, 2017 Where is that Spectre1 guy? We've got a cheerleader story in the news. https://www.yahoo.com/sports/campus-anthem-battle-cheerleaders-vs-sheriff-powerful-lawmaker-232611605.html I think the best line is "Why is a sheriff policing cheerleaders?"
Guard Dog Posted October 26, 2017 Posted October 26, 2017 Some interesting numbers and new labels -- Bigger picture: The center is not holding. There is much less overlap in the political values of Republicans and Democrats than in the past. In 2004, 49 percent of Americans took a roughly equal number of conservative and liberal positions on a scale based on 10 questions. That was the same percentage as in 1994. Then, three years ago, 38 percent had a mix of liberal and conservative views. Now it’s dropped to 32 percent. And here's a quiz because those are fun Exactly zero nuance in that quiz. Some questions both answers are true, others neither is. "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Guard Dog Posted October 26, 2017 Posted October 26, 2017 1 "While it is true you learn with age, the down side is what you often learn is what a damn fool you were before" Thomas Sowell
Amentep Posted October 26, 2017 Author Posted October 26, 2017 Where is that Spectre1 guy? We've got a cheerleader story in the news. https://www.yahoo.com/sports/campus-anthem-battle-cheerleaders-vs-sheriff-powerful-lawmaker-232611605.html I think the best line is "Why is a sheriff policing cheerleaders?" An Atlanta Journal-Constitution article has some further background to KSU that might be worth reading for some further context to this incident (I don't think its paywalled) - http://politics.blog.myajc.com/2017/10/24/anthem-kneeling-at-ksu-is-only-part-of-the-tale/ 1 I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
Volourn Posted October 26, 2017 Posted October 26, 2017 (edited) "Why did you write "context" like that?" Looks bad considering the topic, but that was definitely a typo. Not cool. "Coontext would be right up his alley." I may be anti SJW but I'm also anti racist. No way would I write that for giggles unless I was trying to rile up some whiny SJW Nazi not when just trying to post 'normally'. Edited October 26, 2017 by Volourn 1 DWARVES IN PROJECT ETERNITY = VOLOURN HAS PLEDGED $250.
Malcador Posted October 26, 2017 Posted October 26, 2017 https://apnews.com/877ee1015f1c43f1965f63538b035d3f/APNewsBreak:-Georgia-election-server-wiped-after-suit-filed Subtle. Why has elegance found so little following? Elegance has the disadvantage that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it. - Edsger Wybe Dijkstra
smjjames Posted October 26, 2017 Posted October 26, 2017 https://apnews.com/877ee1015f1c43f1965f63538b035d3f/APNewsBreak:-Georgia-election-server-wiped-after-suit-filed Subtle. Someone is definetly trying to hide something.....
Blarghagh Posted October 26, 2017 Posted October 26, 2017 Some interesting numbers and new labels -- Bigger picture: The center is not holding. There is much less overlap in the political values of Republicans and Democrats than in the past. In 2004, 49 percent of Americans took a roughly equal number of conservative and liberal positions on a scale based on 10 questions. That was the same percentage as in 1994. Then, three years ago, 38 percent had a mix of liberal and conservative views. Now it’s dropped to 32 percent. And here's a quiz because those are fun Jesus, you're either Ron Swanson or Leslie Knope.
Amentep Posted October 26, 2017 Author Posted October 26, 2017 I dropped out of the quiz when the first question had only two options. 1 I cannot - yet I must. How do you calculate that? At what point on the graph do "must" and "cannot" meet? Yet I must - but I cannot! ~ Ro-Man
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