Various interesting stuff

Dragatus wrote:

The way I see it we have about a decade or two to become at least millionaires or else we're fucked.

Then at least I will be fucked... But I am not concerned, I like it

Feral wrote:

Dragatus wrote:

The way I see it we have about a decade or two to become at least millionaires or else we're fucked.

Then at least I will be fucked... But I am not concerned, I like it

Well then YOU WILL HAVE TO BE THE GIVER!!!

Jad.3 wrote:

Feral wrote:

Dragatus wrote:

The way I see it we have about a decade or two to become at least millionaires or else we're fucked.

Then at least I will be fucked... But I am not concerned, I like it

Well then YOU WILL HAVE TO BE THE GIVER!!!

I like it too!

Wee! Somebody tackles car computer safety.

https://www.the-parallax.com/2017/12/08/car-hacks-enigma-interviews-2/?utm_source=parallax&utm_medium=toaster-infoad&utm_campaign=q12018

Feral, would you comment on the holocaust law?

The ones that penalizes denying Holocaust or the one that penalizes denying Germans did it and making Poles thes the perpetrators? You know, so Jews from New York who refused to pay for resetelement of their Eastern European cousins when Hitler proposed it may make money on lawsuits against Poland?

I read some news about new law forbidding to say >Polish< camps. You will go to jail if you say Poles had anything to do with jew eradication, it was all germans from now on.

Are you saying that some jews from NY, in 1930's/40's, refused to pay for resetlement of some Polish relatives, so they died in the (not-polish) camps; and now the same jews from NY are suing Poland?
Way to get the inheritance and reparations.

Jad.3 wrote:

I read some news about new law forbidding to say >Polish< camps. You will go to jail if you say Poles had anything to do with jew eradication, it was all germans from now on.

Are you saying that some jews from NY, in 1930's/40's, refused to pay for resetlement of some Polish relatives, so they died in the (not-polish) camps; and now the same jews from NY are suing Poland?
Way to get the inheritance and reparations.

Not even their relatives... Hitler wanted to sell all the Jews to the Allies and focus on USSR. He wanted trucks, gold and other metals. It was supposed to be paid by Western Jews as well as Western governments. Negotiations took time, but come to nothing, in part due to Western leaders (Jewish too) refusal to pay, take Jewish refugees (also after the war, see Kissingers' refusal to bomb the railways leading to concentration camps) or srtrenghten Hitler with war material. This is the main reason the bulk of killing in Holocaust took place after 1942 (Wanesee Conference), even that the camps stoods since 1933 (Dahau and others).
There was even plan to send the Jews to Madagascar, as well as Republic of China volounteerd to take them in, but the British declined even unarmed German transports on the sees. Simply put, for long deportation was seen as a cheaper alternative to extermination.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wannsee_Conference
I cannot for my life find the article on resetelement to Yunnan, but it was on Ciekawostki Historyczne (mostly credible) pages.

And it is not the relatives... My sweet summer childe... The law corporations from New York want all Jewish property from pre war Poland, including that with no inheritors, as well as that one that was bombed, burned, confiscated, looted by Germans or Soviets, etc...
Compensations for bombed out buldings are actually pathetic...

Thank you for the information.
Do you have any comment on the new law I asked about?

Feral wrote:

*stuff*

That's the kind of thing you'd almost never known considering the Allies won

Considering the new laws, it was meant as a defense against the claims and conditioning the Western societies that the camps were Polish. Who should pay for Polish camps? Poles! So not Germans...

I think that wide information campaign, few good movies and the like would work better than laws. It is hearts and minds sort of conflict first, legal one second. Don't even get me started on truth itself...

@Philo: History is written by the victors, no?

By the way, do you do any historical reconstruction groups? I have a friend who reconstrues Confederate troops and goes to Czech Rep. for events.

I don't. A friend of mine does the battle of three emperors, though. I shot his gun a few times

So, what about the truth itself?

Jad.3 wrote:

I don't. A friend of mine does the battle of three emperors, though. I shot his gun a few times

So, what about the truth itself?

What is the truth?

*washes hands*

It is a game of who gains what, where the truth does not matter, that is being played now. Sadly, considering how many people died...

There is no such thing as "the truth". Truth is an individual's interpretation of facts, so there are as many truths as there are people.

Don't ask for the truth. Ask for facts. Then be careful with how you interpret them.

Dragatus wrote:

There is no such thing as "the truth". Truth is an individual's interpretation of facts, so there are as many truths as there are people.

Don't ask for the truth. Ask for facts. Then be careful with how you interpret them.

Unless you go with Aristotle's definition and define the truth as the opinions stated being in agreement with the reality they describe.

Any interpretation of facts will be based on those facts, therefore it's by definition in agreement with the reality it describes, as long as it's based on actual facts and not false information. People can still take the same facts and produce different interpretations.

For example there is this old joke where Khrushchev visits USA and Kennedy suggests they run around a racetrack. American newspapers reported that they took part in a race in which Kennedy came 1st and Khrushchev came last, while Soviet newspapers reported Khrushchev came second and Kennedy came just before the last one.

Dragatus wrote:

Any interpretation of facts will be based on those facts, therefore it's by definition in agreement with the reality it describes, as long as it's based on actual facts and not false information. People can still take the same facts and produce different interpretations.

For example there is this old joke where Khrushchev visits USA and Kennedy suggests they run around a racetrack. American newspapers reported that they took part in a race in which Kennedy came 1st and Khrushchev came last, while Soviet newspapers reported Khrushchev came second and Kennedy came just before the last one.

This example nicely shows how to lie: the facts are only a springboard for a narrative. Americans and Soviets will read all the presented facts and conclude two polar opposites: Americans will think USA won and USSR lost, Soviets will think USSR won and USA lost. There are no two truths here, as those conclusions are logically mutually exclusive. So at least one of them has to be false.
It nicely demonstrates that the best way to lie is to present true facts, but served in such a way so the audience comes to conclusions desired by the publisher. It is stated in less or more vague form in practically any journalism or PR curriculum...

As one general of our Military inteligence put it in an interview: a good lie contains 90% of truth, but served in such a way the other 10% looks most credible and convincing.

Which leads us to simple conclusion, that when there are multiple interpretations of experimental data, usually most of them are simply false or misled at best.

Dragatus wrote:

Any interpretation of facts will be based on those facts, therefore it's by definition in agreement with the reality it describes, as long as it's based on actual facts and not false information. People can still take the same facts and produce different interpretations.

For example there is this old joke where Khrushchev visits USA and Kennedy suggests they run around a racetrack. American newspapers reported that they took part in a race in which Kennedy came 1st and Khrushchev came last, while Soviet newspapers reported Khrushchev came second and Kennedy came just before the last one.

This is manipulation and wordplay. Bullshitting. And there is reason for such behavior: The truth often hurts us, because of our dellusion of ourselves.
There is the truth, and it's beautiful.

https://youtu.be/se4dXWjanlE?t=3m10s

Also, http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5424921/Hero-mountaineer-risks-life-save-two-dogs.html

Okay, maybe that wasn't the best example, but I'm too lazy to bother coming up with a good one.

So here's an article about a space catapult startup instead: https://futurism.com/space-catapult-startup-launch-action/

"able to launch at hypersonic speed ... 4800km/h"
Escape velocity being ten times that I call black hole for money.

Also, party at mines on Easter. You're all welcome.

Double shit posting.

Mr. Lubach explains how 'Green Energy' in Holland works (Zontag met Lubach). We have video, but it's in dutch and with Czech subs, so look elsewhere ( https://videacesky.cz/video/nedele-s-lubachem-zeleny-proud ).

Highlights: Holland claims 69% of its energy is green. That is achieved by purchasing 'green energy certificates.' So it really is 6; And most of is produced by burning biomass (trees from USA). So the forests in the states are decimated so holland can produce more CO2 than by burning coal. But that's ok because the european commission said so. Final number is 2,2%.
Ask Lubach for sources.

Jad.3 wrote:

"able to launch at hypersonic speed ... 4800km/h"
Escape velocity being ten times that I call black hole for money.

Also, party at mines on Easter. You're all welcome.

Wow, Prague in the spring!
No promises, I have no right to get vacation for half year since the beginning of new employement (today), so I may be tied to my kennel...

Yeah, that velocity is off...

That green energy scam is quintessentialy Brusselian...

I applaud the mountaineer, too.

@Draggy: Don't be lazy, be a German