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dps

#73320
February 21, 2020, 11:47:55 PM
They do have tenured professors in South Korea, correct, it's just that you're not on a tenure track?  Or are there no tenured positions there?

garbon

#73321
February 22, 2020, 05:58:57 AM
"I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off."

I drank because I wanted to drown my sorrows, but now the damned things have learned to swim.

grumbler

#73322
February 22, 2020, 08:07:58 AM
Quote from: garbon on February 22, 2020, 05:58:57 AM
Interesting piece.

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2020/feb/22/grandmother-sadness-story-hadley-freeman#comment-138383083

Indeed.  Thanks for sharing.  We tend to forget that great events were also events in individual peoples' lives.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Josquius

#73323
February 23, 2020, 05:24:26 AM
A rather awesome old Japanese map of the world

https://www.swaen.com/antique-map-of.php?id=29371
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Admiral Yi

#73324
February 23, 2020, 10:20:06 PM
I just learned that the US broke off diplomatic relations with Sweden in 1972, and that Swedish doctors trained North Vietnamese medics.

Eddie Teach

#73325
February 23, 2020, 10:36:44 PM
Sweden has a consistent record of lame foreign policy.
To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Habbaku

#73326
February 23, 2020, 10:45:09 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 23, 2020, 10:20:06 PM
I just learned that the US broke off diplomatic relations with Sweden in 1972, and that Swedish doctors trained North Vietnamese medics.

Did you also watch the episode of History Matters?
The medievals were only too right in taking nolo episcopari as the best reason a man could give to others for making him a bishop. Give me a king whose chief interest in life is stamps, railways, or race-horses; and who has the power to sack his Vizier (or whatever you care to call him) if he does not like the cut of his trousers.

Government is an abstract noun meaning the art and process of governing and it should be an offence to write it with a capital G or so as to refer to people.
-J. R. R. Tolkien

Admiral Yi

#73327
February 23, 2020, 10:48:17 PM
Yoop

Syt

#73328
February 24, 2020, 06:47:24 AM
Design for an MBT from the 70s ...



https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VT_tank
I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.
—Stephen Jay Gould

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The Brain

#73329
February 24, 2020, 12:15:25 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 23, 2020, 10:20:06 PM
I just learned that the US broke off diplomatic relations with Sweden in 1972, and that Swedish doctors trained North Vietnamese medics.

Not everyone likes ball bearings.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

grumbler

#73330
February 24, 2020, 01:56:33 PM
Quote from: Admiral Yi on February 23, 2020, 10:20:06 PM
I just learned that the US broke off diplomatic relations with Sweden in 1972, and that Swedish doctors trained North Vietnamese medics.

The US didn't break off diplomatic relations with Sweden, but it dd freeze them and recall its ambassador.  The embassy and consulates remained open, and the Swedish ambassador to the US was not expelled.
The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.   -G'Kar

Bayraktar!

Threviel

#73331
February 24, 2020, 03:24:54 PM
Well, the US did some nasty stuff in Vietnam and Sweden had a socialist demagogue for prime minister. I seem to recall under the counter discussions where the Swedish government made clear that the harsh critical language was just an act meant for internal consumption and not meant seriously.

The Brain

#73332
February 24, 2020, 04:23:59 PM
What were you doing under the counter? :perv:
Women want me. Men want to be with me.

Threviel

#73333
February 24, 2020, 04:44:55 PM
Stop that. Back channel discussions then.

The Brain

#73334
February 24, 2020, 04:57:47 PM
Damn you. You're doing this on purpose.
Women want me. Men want to be with me.
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