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In your opinion, how important is the printed book in the 21st century?
Keep in mind these points:
>Technological alternatives
>Practical advantages
>Educational issues
Books>alternatives.
http://www.fastcodesign.com/3048297/evidence/everything-science-knows-about-reading-on-screens
I honestly think books will be entirely phased out in 50 years. There's just such an advantage to e-book readers and electronic storage. I can store literally 100,000 books on my harddrive, and already such a harddrive is every mans property. Universities and schools will just issue every student an e-book reader, or similar device, instead of books.
>>876311
>http://www.fastcodesign.com/3048297/evidence/everything-science-knows-about-reading-on-screens
I just skimmed that article.
The war on drugs: Is it a genuine public health crusade or an attempt to carry out what author Michelle Alexander characterizes as "the New Jim Crow"?
A new report by Dan Baum for Harper's Magazine suggests the latter. Specifically, Baum refers to a quote from John Ehrlichman, who served as domestic policy chief for President Richard Nixon when the administration declared its war on drugs in 1971. According to Baum, Ehrlichman said in 1994 that the drug war was a ploy to undermine Nixon's political opposition — meaning, black people and critics of...
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Well, this will be an interest-
>Vox
wew lad.
>>876277
The article mentions Harper's Magazine. A very reputable magazine.
http://harpers.org/archive/2016/04/legalize-it-all/
And about Harper's Magazine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harper's_Magazine
I know Henry VIII is supposed to be the vision of a strong king, but has there been a king anymore beta than him when it comes to women?
Consider his wives...
1. Catherine of Aragon... was supposed to marry the older brother until he died. Oh well, any Tutor son is as good as the next.
2. Anne Boleyn... wouldn't put out until he married her. Henry went for it, even though it meant killing off his most loyal friends and setting the country up for decades of violence.
3. Jane Seymour... finally a wife that gave him a son, but she dies off a few...
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He wrote a song called Pastime with Good Company, which is very catchy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YcDFOu6qWw
>>875583
I didn't know he was the Justine Beiber of his day.
From what I read, this was written when he first landed on the throne.
I'd hate to see the song he would write near the end.
>>875572
Henry allowed his feeling for women to define everything about him, including how he governed his state and his personal faith. Its the most beta shit I've ever heard of. Anne Boleyn was the most successful beta hunter of all time ... other then the beheading thing.
How do filthy continentals recover after reading the below greentext? Zizek? BTFO! Hegel? BTFO! Nietzsche? BTFO!
Even Stirner, who I like, wrote a big fat boring book that could have been two pages long at most.
Why does the government give money to those sneaky conniving continentals? False analogies, over-extrapolation, appeals to authority, flowery and dense and incoherent language, over-abstraction, not speaking English, 100% unfalsifiable assertions, disgusting pseudo-scientific use of scientific concepts, the use of fiction / jokes in order to create false analogies, complete ignorance of empirical data... is there no length the Eternal Continental will not go to in order to gain followers and a juicy book deal with Verso or their alternative publisher of choice?
>What you’re referring to is what’s called “theory.” And when I said I’m not interested in theory, what I meant is, I’m not interested in posturing–using fancy terms like polysyllables and pretending you have a theory when you have no theory whatsoever. So there’s no theory in any of this stuff, not in the sense of theory that anyone is familiar with in the sciences or any other serious field. Try to find in all of the work you mentioned some principles from which you can deduce conclusions, empirically testable propositions where it all goes beyond the level of something you can explain in five minutes to a twelve-year-old. See if you can find that when the fancy words are decoded. I can’t. So I’m not interested in that kind of posturing.Žižekis an extreme example of it. I don’t see anything to what he’s saying. Jacques Lacan I actually knew. I kind of liked him. We had meetings every once in awhile. But quite frankly I thought he was a total charlatan. He was just posturing for the television cameras in the way many Paris intellectuals do. Why this is influential, I haven’t the slightest idea. I don’t see anything there that should be influential.
He's got a point but maybe insists on it a bit too much. I don't think continental philosophy says 'nothing,' but what it says, it says with an extreme lack of clarity that's kind of annoying. It's closer to the arts than to the sciences in that it develops 'themes' and 'motifs' moreso than testable hypotheses, but that doesn't mean there's no reason to study it.
>actually not understanding the coffee without milk or dusty balls jokes
>Why does the government give money to those sneaky conniving continentals
They don't. Continental philosophy has almost no impact on academic philosophy. It's sold in art galleries and Waterstones to pretentious teenagers, and remains largely unread even by them. These people are hardly a dominating force in academic, hoovering up all the research grants.
The main effect of continental philosophy is to make laymen think that philosophy is bullshit.
>Walk into India
>Completely destroy local civilization
>Fail to set up your own for some hundreds of years
May anyone tell me what's the matter with all these people on here who are claiming to be the purest Indo Europeans around (Like nordicists)
>>875380
The IVC was already dead when the Aryans arrived. The Aryans were pretty impressive for their oral religious culture, whether Iranian Zoroastrianism or Indian Vedas. The way thousands of Vedic hymns and mantras as well as the entire Avesta were preserved entirely by memory for thousands of years is pretty incredible.
You're right in that they had no real civilization for their first millennium in India (while the Iranians adopted it from Elam/Mesopotamia).
>what's the matter...
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>>875380
there was no Aryan invasion
stop clinging onto myths perpetrated by half learned 19th century orientalists
>>877208
t. pajeet
I'm out of the loop. Has this idea been abandoned? Are people still trying to make it happen? What does /his/ think?
Why is starting a language over from scratch considered a good idea? If you want an neutered, unchanging language can't you just learn French? How is it efficient for two people to each master a third language instead of studying each others and meeting halfway, if not simply asking one to accommodate for the other?
Even besides that, doesn't Esperanto take almost every part of grammer and structure from existing European languages,...
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>>875350
>What's the appeal?
Pic related.
Esperanto is the product of pure buttautism.
>>875350
If I recall right, learning Esperanto is really fucking easy.
>>875350
Even more confusingly, there are several rivals for Esperanto and no one really knows which language will become the standard in the end (if ever.) Esperanto is the one most people heard of (even if they've never heard it spoken), but a single marketing campaign could turn that around.
On the flip side, Esperanto has official divine approval from a Japanese deity, so if you're a weeb it's an easy choice.
>tfw you'll never serve under the greatest general of all time, Subutai, and BTFO the entire of Russia with a mere scouting force despite being betrayed, starved and half frozen
anyone else know this feel?
Do you think Subutai and friends would have taken the HRE if Ögedei hadn't died and all the Khan's had to pull back to hold a kurultai to elect a new Khagan?
>>874892
Yes.
>>874892
probably
Was Jesus a mushroom?
>>874786
so is this book any good? Is it suggesting that Jesus was just an hallucination from a mushroom? Or is it just trying to demonstrate a connection between two religious traditions?
>>874786
Lenin was.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI_CSKSshWg
>>874795
/thread
Did NASA tone down the official story?
>>874163
they burned alive because they thought it would be cool with 100% oxygen pressurized atmosphere, velcro everywhere and 100000 small thingies that could give off sparks at any second. they even ignored all warnings.
if that's the toned down version, what really happened?
Official conclusion is that they were asphyxiated within about half a minute of fire breaking out. Rumours from technicians present have involved a cable whipping around and almost decapitating someone, for instance.
