Surenas
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Thanks for the Tolkien link, Corlan :)
Aurasoma, unfortunately my time is fully engaged at the moment. A brief look what you guys have done is all for now.
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Salam, 'mellom'/friend from Harad in the South! Az molaghat e sham khosh vaghtam.
A tabletop RPG, not such a bad thing as evening entertainment with friends, yup.
The Ring Triology movies I've indeed enjoyed, but the Tolkien literature as such is my real field, as is perhaps already signified by the name and aspect of my char. Ba’adan mibinamet, Corlan :)
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The main question is the effective amount of the natural water reservoir in the northern moon craters, far far away from the earlier equatorial landing zone, its valuable utilization for drinking water (presupposition for any living and production in enclaves on the moon) and as cost-effective rocket fuel source, to mention just one possibility. @ Aurelius I have indeed the scholarly tendency to quote in the respective original language of the source, quasi to pepper a text. A matter of training, I guess. And that's the case for ancient authors (like your Herodot) as well as for modern. Thus I beg your pardon. _Hannah
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Guess there is less genetic memory left that does not deal with linear growth of the individual and the preservation (reproduction and the inzest taboo of all hominidae) as well as the environmentally mutability of the species (e.g. loss of body hair, body size and color). Exceptions are perhaps swimming reflecting our origins from the water, fear from the dark, anticipated pain stimulus and aggressive behavior as well as the tendency towards deportation of old individuals as a sign of all hunting species. Our genes have seemingly no ability to learn from history - neither individual nor collective social experiences are to be inherited (e.g war and its losses as well as peace and its advantages, ecological awareness and risk assessment). Possibly the shift from a pure hunter/collector society primarily competing wolves as food competitors towards an all-dominating armed agricultural culture competing primarily each other for land has isolated men from the rest of the living, followed perhaps by a decline in the common mutability compared to other species. just my 2 cts.
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Ssss - my preciousss! Finished our profile site layout is, and we wants it!
Bless us and splash us, my preciousss! I guess it's a choice feast; at least
tasty morsel I'd make us, gollum!
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Depends on whether the jar is to be filled or to be emptied.
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[OT] Hear, hear! Den trettonde krigaren må icke vara en från norr *g* Heysan! A grandiose buccaneer from Vinland on viking. Congratulations ... and skol :woot: On how many vikings and whereto has he participated in the past then? [/OT] http://www.greensmilies.com/smile/smiley_emoticons_unknownauthor_lady.gif Hannah
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Communism v. Socialism v. Capitalism v. Feudalism
Surenas replied to Maxwell the Fool's topic in Debates
Side Note A simple example to prove the actual supremacy of culture and culture lines over secular political systems: The reason why Turkey always remains at the end of the list of possible contenders for EU membership is not founded in human rights problems or alike but in the fact of being an Islamic state. And the Christian Europe doesn't want table fellowship with such a state - so simple is that. Of course diplomacy dresses the rejection in empty words. And the same is true for Australia as white part of the Asian community, Israel as welcome integral part of the Near East or Haiti as part of the Caribbean alliance - pious wishful thinking that fails due to fundamental cultural differences. You can even dispute with a stubborn old-communist over modern civil law - at least your language will be the same. With an Islamist you cannot talk in the matter. And that we know of bloody clashes between radical Hindi and Muslims in India is not a breaking news. -
J.R.R. Tolkien, History of Middle-earth, Synopses and Letters
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Guess there is a difference between a lingua franca and a language of wider communication. So it happens that a language alien to 92% of men is communication language but not lingua franca. The wider communication in English is thus in the hands of just 8% of men, the pool of the intellectual, political and economic elite. And as long as the open Western market is still the Mekka of Asian exports, well of the increase of the Asian gross national product, English will remain the 1st choice for wider communication.
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Communism v. Socialism v. Capitalism v. Feudalism
Surenas replied to Maxwell the Fool's topic in Debates
Don't forget that the social net to field the hosts of losers of the competition is the product of early socialism, its perhaps only but true advantage. Welfare and education for all overshadows thus in a positive sense all political systems since the early 20th century and all culture circles and their organisations of the 21st. The thread title is imo missleading, for it is the old Ptolemaic worldview of history, focused on the genuinely West-European and now Western culture - the minor part of the whole... and the whole turns out to be a 'revenge of God' Democracy in the Western understanding of the term won't work in: - Islamic culture - Sino-culture - Hindu culture and perhaps not even in the South-American culture. The isolated Japanese culture is a thing of its own, as it always was. Moreover, the age of communism is over since the breakdown of the Sovjet Union, and history will see no medium-term remake. Feudalism is history, not to be confused with Islamic patriarchalism or authoritarianism and the preference of the collective over the individual as it is the case in Sino-culture. The question is not 'what do we want?' but 'who are we?' and 'who are they that are not we?' A cultural, not a mere political thread. -
I'd hardly expect a 'Chinese man in the Moon'. Teflon is btw not the product of a voyage to the moon, but the consequent use of an earlier discovery from 1938 for a successful reentry into the atmosphere, thus reflecting orbital aerospace. Though I guess since Amstrong' s Hollywood-style step the age of expensive manned long range space exploration (the modern conquista for the sake of a national or political glory) is over, the time of crisis management at home has come - this includes the orbit and will consume all our financial and technological capabilities. You won't find any drinking water within range in space to satisfy the thirst of mankind. The threatening empty teflon-coated cup is awaiting us ...
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@LorNorkan: 'Peaceful Saturday' on the seventh day of the week for the Jewish calendar - similar to the Christian 'Nice Sunday' :)
@sonk2: My pleasure! :)
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I have not yet seen hypotheses in practice - ummh, they're always just theoretical !
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What about re-terraforming Terra? Should be cheaper, more effective and doesn't lead astray, away from the actual problems. Chinese on the Moon are as good as a burger restaurant on Mars - totally useless humbug.
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At the moment I'm reading the works of Tolkien anew, apparently doing it at gunpoint, succumbed by the siren call of the shadows. And the twilight, ambiguous touch suits Noa so well. That's why the above profile image is the last one from where we stand, the status quo.
Ssss - it's my preciousss! So beautiful it is, it's mine, it is, and We wants it... my birthday present, my preciousss! ;)
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The six dimensions that are for now necessary to understand the new physical phenomenons (guess this is an ongoing process with n dimensions in the end) are relating to particles that to are too small to be of any use for our understanding of tangible existence, we just need four dimensions to be happy. What's beyond doesn't make you happier, nor wiser cos already the fifth is an extrapolation out of the known four - a mathematical construction. If there are really more than this is hard to tell, for a two-dimensional being cannot experience height, thus it will live in a flat world no matter how round it is for a three-dimensional being. We're thus talking about 'auxiliary constructions' beyond our empirical life, of value today, but perhaps already obsolete tomorrow.
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Das Bild ist schön - und ich kann die Figur nicht mal eben so in TES nachbauen. Das meinte ich damit. Nachtiiii :)
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Oh, ganz simpel. Ich bin Spieler - und daher spiele ich auch meine Figur im Bild. Alles was gekonnter aussieht hat meine Wertschätzung (oder wie dat heisst) und wenn's dann noch spielbar ist, dann mach ich eine tiefe Verbeugung :)
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Bedankt :)
Die TES Machine regelt u.a. die Konstruktion der Chars, in der Regel per Schieberegler - und da sind die Grenzen des Machbaren oftmals rasch erreicht. Anime Figürchen sind da erheblich einfacher in der Bauart als die 'echten' und wohl auch populärer bei den kleinen und den grossen Kindern *g*