“Journalist and best-selling author Sebastian Junger discusses his book, “War,” an account of his time with a US Army platoon on the battlefields of Afghanistan. For one year, in 2007–2008, Sebastian Junger accompanied 30 men–a single platoon–from the storied 2nd battalion of the US Army as they fought their way through a remote valley in eastern Afghanistan. Over the course of five trips, Junger was in more firefights than he could count, as men he knew were killed or wounded and he himself was almost killed. This lecture contains graphic language.”
Is there any evidence that someone involved in a competitive sport or game has a mental state substantially different from that of a soldier in combat?
Jim: A government is merely the paramount corporation. A king of one hundred has more in common with a king of one hundred thousand than he does with his own viceroy. Once you’ve organized yourself out of a wet paper bag (your email job), be sure to let me know. I’ll congratulate you on your successful absconsion from another man’s corporate plantation to find safe harbor on your own corporate plantation, and I’ll mean it, too.
Freddo: “If you took reading seriously and read a book a week (approximately an hour or two of reading a day), that’s just 3 months of reading. Half a semester to understand much of an entire field. That is unreasonably effective.” The bureaucratic-educational complex exposed. Or he needs to update his definition of “understand” to “you can outsmart 90% of journalists at the science desk”.
Pseudo-Chrysostom: “priesthood investigates priesthood misdeeds; find merchants at fault” News at 11.
Jim: What got it started in the first place was public school. Schools are for slaves. I don’t mean this derogatorily, I mean this clinically. It is essential to understand that school by its very nature breeds (heh) the social dysfunctions characteristic of slave populations. Some varieties of school are more dissolutive than others, but all in greater or lesser inculcate the same slavish tendencies of personality. The most explicit admission of this is to be found in the General Education...
Mike in Boston: ”It spreads from one to another, healthy and infected” It has been said that the sexual revolution didn’t start with the Pill, that the Pill only kicked things up a notch, but what got it started in the first place was antibiotics.
Pseudo-Chrysostom: Well you know what they say, feds of a feather oft flock together.
Pseudo-Chrysostom: “This explanation helps us understand why Unix was successful and Multics was not. Naively, you would have expected Multics to succeed. After all, whereas Multics was developed by dozens of researchers across MIT, Bell Labs, and General Electric, Unix was created by a single person looking for something to do while his wife was out of town.” In other words, the main difference between the former cases and the latter case, is that Ken was a king in his own kingdom, however small it may...
TRX: K&R C, the original standard, was extremely barebones, and implementations varied drastically across vendors. ANSI C added a boatload of commands to the basic language, and vastly expanded the “runtime library”, which technically isn’t part of the C language, but is integral to any useful C program. Then came all the modern impedimentia, and C++.
McChuck: So, the average Pulitzer winning novel is something almost nobody has read.
Adar: “Brothels are advertised with pictures of prostitutes hung at the door, the price of one night written up with the furnishings required for revelry . . . and this is the state of even the Muslims in these parts!” Shia and the practice of temporary marriage??
Freddo: Bob, computers process assembly language, which is crazy detailed and error-prone for human programmers, so some smart people invented programming languages such as C so humans can program in a more abstract languages and then a compiler program can do the crazy detailed hard work of translating our C program into an assembly program. C and its cousin C++ are very powerful languages that allow you to stick in your fingers with the engine running. So very suitable for writing an Operating System...
Adar: Those persons able to write innovative code and operating systems no longer exist in the USA? Gone to foreign shores and for good?
Bob Sykes: So, today Macs run on Unix, which itself sits on C, and Windows machines run on C. Is that the takeaway?
Faze: Few Ohioans know of the terrible battles and massacres that took place in their placid state during the late 18th century. Not only the famous battles, like Fallen Timbers and Pickawillany, but the hideous Gnadenhutten massacre and others. Indians also committed unspeakable atrocities on random whites. It was a squalid trail of psychosis leading from the Ohio River, through the Dayton area to Sandusky.
Jim: Per La Wik, “Morse” was Nicholas Morse, the great-grandson of the inimitable Oliver Cromwell. Very cool.
Related: Why Men Love War by William Broyles.
Also Junger, War in Afghanistan (47 min):
“Journalist and best-selling author Sebastian Junger discusses his book, “War,” an account of his time with a US Army platoon on the battlefields of Afghanistan. For one year, in 2007–2008, Sebastian Junger accompanied 30 men–a single platoon–from the storied 2nd battalion of the US Army as they fought their way through a remote valley in eastern Afghanistan. Over the course of five trips, Junger was in more firefights than he could count, as men he knew were killed or wounded and he himself was almost killed. This lecture contains graphic language.”
Is there any evidence that someone involved in a competitive sport or game has a mental state substantially different from that of a soldier in combat?