always the safety next if you are unfortunate or do something stupid. The great levelling via education and health is also a bonus. Even work has become more enjoyable, especially since there is more of it and it’s more secure. Some people say that things have moved backwards, but I don...
brings will of corruption and mass manipulation? But really, it's a more general thing: everything is now biased.Everything. As long as the political systems allows for oligarchy, everything will be corrupted by the viewpoint of those in power. And if anything, the hypocrisy of the western...
If (and that is a big “if”) the BCPL compiler is on that tape, and it may be the only copy left anywhere in the world, then I can’t get it off. Without it, I can’t get anything else to work at all and never ever will be able to. Even when I was sitting, doing a ...
Others joined out of fear. In "The Mexican Reader" the author of the selection wrote "I joined the Revolutionary ranks because of the martial law in Morelos, declared by Carranza. If they found you sitting in your house, they would shoot you. If they found you walking, they would shoot...
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 essentially opened the door for Japanese immigration: if the Chinese weren't allowed to come work in America, then the Japanese would. This wave of immigration ruffled the feathers of some Americans, mostly laborers that didn't want to deal with ...
If he is busy try George III. Churchill would be ashamed of this Jacobin mob. This doesn’t feel like a Second America Revolution, it feels like aggression. It seems like what is wrong with Communism (despotism and tyranny) minus aspects of the economic system....
Morale however would be on an ultimate low with the Allies. V1 and V2 rockets soon would have joined in to dampen the mood in England. Clarke’s march on Rome would have been forgotten and it is hard to tell what would have happened there, if the Germans felt they could reinforce that...
The way I look at it though: if I were writing “I like what this person said here”, then linking to them would be okay. But why is it not okay if I’m disagreeing with them, saying that I would never write like example? Why is positive comment okay, but negative comment not?
Let’s see if we can tie this together with a big rope, some bungee cords, a lot of yarn, and perhaps some pretty red ribbon: During WW2 the United States best air ace was Richard Bong (no relation to the marijuana smoking device) who shot down 40 enemy planes in his P-38. Dick...
He was later joined by Doyle E. Carlton and Judge OK Reaves. Carlton would become Governor of Florida during the Great Depression, then rejoin Mabry & Reaves. The law firm of Mabry, Reaves & Carlton was instrumental in the development of early Tampa, including Davis Islands, and eventually ...