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2009-12-28, 17:34 | Link #5243 | |
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But since most crimes' primary motivation is money, it could be due to the paradigm that "What is the use of robbing someone else? We, even our victims, are all broke." Now that is a smart way of thinking.
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2009-12-28, 18:13 | Link #5244 | ||
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I think he was planning on getting one up on Liu Bei and invade Yizhou before the latter could when he got sick and died. Unite the South, face the North kind of plan. |
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2009-12-28, 18:44 | Link #5245 | |
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Looks like the saying "Speak of the devil" in Chinese (direct translation would be "Speaking of Cao Cao, here he comes.") really has its true sense to it after all these years of people discussing the Three Kingdoms.
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2009-12-28, 18:44 | Link #5246 | |
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The South to get more political power through census
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2009-12-28, 18:53 | Link #5247 | |
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2009-12-29, 00:11 | Link #5248 | ||
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But I was talking about what the historical records actually said, however. And the chroniclers of the time acknowledged Zhou Yu as the overall commander of the whole affair, while Zhuge Liang apparently played only a minor diplomatic role. In other words, Zhou Yu's victory. Rather, Zhuge Liang's genius would be shown after the victory at Chibi, when the Liu camp swept in and rapidly occupied Jingzhou while Sun Quan's forces were bogged down fighting Cao Cao's lieutenants. Suddenly the refugee warlord with little resources became the master of one of China's richest provinces, well-populated and far less war torn than the bloodied North, and this time Cao Cao was in no shape to uproot them. So I guess in a way you would be right -- Zhou Yu won the battle; Zhuge Liang took the spoils and gave Liu Bei a lasting base of power. Now, the reason why Wei -- or technically its successor Jin -- achieved unification was Cao Cao's genius. When you consider in context how governments in far better circumstances fared so much worse, Cao Cao's brilliance as an administrator was absolutely astonishing. The novel didn't pay much attention to it at all, but what Cao Cao "inherited" (i.e. wrested from one rival warlord after another) were regions with probably millions of displaced refugees suffering from decades of constant warfare and repeated natural disasters. It wrote him as the archetypal villain, but even so it couldn't make him out to be anything less than brilliant to be able to do all that he did and restored order and economic prosperity to the heartlands and cementing Wei's eventual dominance. Quote:
Your very usage of the proverb shows how much it meant to Chinese civilization after all. When Luo Guanzhong wrote it down during the Ming Dynasty he was relying on far more than just the historical records, he had centuries' worth of popular literature to rely on -- dramas and plays, oral legends, etc. |
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2009-12-29, 19:43 | Link #5249 |
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Why So Many Terrorists Get Their Start as Engineers
The crotch bomber was an engineer. So were eight of the 25 terrorists involved in 9/11. In fact, half of all known "violent jihadists" reach higher education, and 44 percent of them are engineers. Uh, that looks like a pattern |
2009-12-29, 19:51 | Link #5250 | |
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2009-12-29, 20:02 | Link #5251 | |
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The crotch bomber is certainly a "dickhead" to begin with (pun unintended). Sure you can drill him all the maths and science it takes to be an engineer, but I don't think he is smart enough to question his own religious motives.
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2009-12-29, 20:31 | Link #5252 | |
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Do those with a terrorist agenda get an engineering degree or training because they feel that it will give them a better toolset to be a better terrorist? Or do those that are inclined to get engineering training have a psychological profile that is conducive to following a terrorist path? More to the point, Engineers have to deal with mathematics, physics, laws, formulas and other rigid factors when engineering things, etc. When they suddenly have to comprehend the insane drivel of our society, political correctness, politics, trade agreements, embargos, and the like, it could set off a synaptic reaction that leads towards violence. Engineers like order. Action/reaction... a + b = c. Social interaction precludes logic and an engineer may very well conclude that instead of trying to fix it, you nuke it all and start over from scratch. In America, we look at the rest of the world knowing that if they really ,really, really pissed us of, we could glassify their homeland and be done with the lot of them. Knowing that probably does much to diffuse the anger and disgust engineers have with society. Other countries, however, don't have the luxury of possessing the 'ultimate solution', so their engineers have to resort to other means to satisfy their disgust or anger with America. Hence, Terrorism |
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2009-12-29, 20:43 | Link #5253 |
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I used to know a GEOPHYSICIST that worked for oil... who was a creationist/fundamentalist. Somehow he managed to compartmentalize all the facts in front of him in his daily work with the idea of a 5000 year old Earth.
No, it never made sense to me either.
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2009-12-29, 23:38 | Link #5254 |
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Free TV in trouble...
...The business model is unraveling at ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox and the local stations that carry the networks' programming. Cable TV and the Web have fractured the audience for free TV and siphoned its ad dollars. The recession has squeezed advertising further, forcing broadcasters to accelerate their push for new revenue to pay for programming... |
2009-12-29, 23:46 | Link #5255 | |
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2009-12-30, 02:18 | Link #5256 |
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Tonight.. for the first time I can remember.... a commercial broadcast station carried a program that had originally aired on PBS a few days before. That's one sign of the spiraling crash of commercial broadcast tv, my wife remarked -- well, its a lot better than an infomercial but good grief.
... the other is the hours and hours of infomercials, the evening news sponsored by Bass-omatic Ronco Turnip Twaddlers only sold on TV, the failure to capture even important local sports events, the hundred variations on the exact same CSI/L&O theme. I won't exactly miss commercial tv, but I grew up when variety shows and comedy sketch shows were king -- I'd rather pull up a few hours of classic Carol Burnett or Dean Martin than watch the pathetic shadows I see now. Actually, I'd rather play a good RPG, a board game, or read a book.
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2009-12-30, 05:27 | Link #5257 | |
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I never liked watching television. Pity it is the largest form of entertainment in the world.
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2009-12-30, 10:05 | Link #5258 | ||
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2009-12-30, 11:46 | Link #5259 | ||
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However, for those who rely on tv, if there's no tv there's always spend more time with family (those who have family.) |
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2009-12-30, 12:13 | Link #5260 | |
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the economic side is different althought a good trade off is no more political ads.
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