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| bio | website | quantdev.blog.co.uk |
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| age | 33 | |
| visits | member for | 1 year, 7 months |
| seen | May 13 at 16:40 | |
| stats | profile views | 7 |
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Nov 25 |
suggested | suggested edit on What kind of heavy horses did the Manchu use? |
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Nov 25 |
answered | Were sailing ships of the line understaffed with gunnery crews so that there were not enough for 2 broadsides? |
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Nov 23 |
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How well can cavalry fight infantry? "Heck, simply being hit by a horse is a Bad Thing." I know this personally - a horse startled by something hit me with its head and broke my collar bone once. And it didn't even have time to gain momentum (starting position was 1m from me). If it was in a battle, I'd be incapacitated immediately. |
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Nov 22 |
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What historical situation is comparable to what Europe is currently facing? @Rory Look up Article 18 of Italian labour code. Is that right-wing to you? |
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Nov 22 |
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What historical situation is comparable to what Europe is currently facing? Spain had a property bubble as well. |
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Nov 21 |
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What historical situation is comparable to what Europe is currently facing? The EU is not "the only power opposing USA world dominance". Russia and China are much more actively anti-USA than the EU. Most of the EU countries follow USA's lead on global scene most of the time (the Iraq war being a major exception, but even then a lot of European countries did participate, openly or behind the scenes). The comparison of the USSR's economy to the current EU is just plain ridiculous. Evne the argument that the most socialist countries in the EU fared the worst doesn't hold water --the first countries to suffer were the UK and Ireland, paragons of neoliberalism in the EU. |
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Nov 21 |
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About Naval Formations? I'd go on and say that modern missiles have made large warships obsolete in general. A 1 million USD missile can sink a 1 billion ship. |
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Nov 21 |
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Why are many African nations poor? @DVK I'm not the one with an ideological axe to grind here. |
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Nov 21 |
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When and how did the idea of a “class-less” society originate in the United States? @DVK I would like to discuss this with you but this is not a good place. Rest assured that every capitalist country has class divisions, they arise from the dynamics of the system. Americans just choose to be in denial about it. |
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Nov 21 |
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Why are many African nations poor? @DVK It wasn't a "small portion", it was millions of people (academic.udayton.edu/race/02rights/slave04.htm). And its effect went beyond depopulation, as the domination of Europeans over Africa prevented the development of political culture there, with the sad effects we see till today. |
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Nov 19 |
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What Are the Dynamics of A “Forced March?” Let's just say that I had to vent somewhere my distaste for the overuse of military rhetoric in business. |
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Nov 19 |
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What Are the Dynamics of A “Forced March?” The dynamics of a forced march: management cuts the deadline, programmers work overtime and on weekends, people quit and the product delivered is shoddy. Oh wait, wrong SE site... |
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Nov 19 |
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How Did Modern Weapons Change the Dynamics of City Fighting? @TomAu Yes, that's what I meant -- Berling's forces (under Soviet command) tried to relieve the Uprising and failed. |
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Nov 18 |
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How Did Modern Weapons Change the Dynamics of City Fighting? @TomAu Berling's Army did try to relieve the uprising by launching an attack across the Vistula River. It was a failure. |
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Nov 18 |
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How Did Modern Weapons Change the Dynamics of City Fighting? I wouldn't count the Warsaw Uprising among successful city defenses (if we consider the Hom Army to be the defending side). |
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Nov 14 |
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How unfavorable were the terms of Germany's “surrender” in WW1? @WladimirPalant I don't think Germany ever felt fully at home in the annexed Wielkopolska. There would be no need for Kulturkampf, otherwise. |
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Nov 12 |
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How unfavorable were the terms of Germany's “surrender” in WW1? Germany didn't really "lose" much territorry to Poland - it rather relinquished control over the parts of Poland it annexed in the end of the XVIIIth century. |
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Nov 9 |
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How would slaves have addressed their masters in Ancient Greece? @Noldorin youtube.com/watch?v=IIAdHEwiAy8 :) |
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Nov 4 |
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Why was the Cuban Revolution (1953-1959) ultimately successful? oh my :( what an embarassing error... |
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Oct 31 |
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Why did Jews not immigrate to the Muslim world? They did. There was a stream of Jewish emmigration from Europe to Palestine beginning, I think, in the end of the XIXth century. |
