The Off Topic Topic

[Admiral Yi]

And the effect of income on real estate prices is another segregating factor.  People of moderate income just can't afford to live in San Francisco or Manhattan.

[garbon]

They say that a person's income will gravitate toward the median of that of the people with whom he regularly associates over time. I wonder if simply moving to a place full of rich people would have a similar effect.

Why not if you can get one of those rich people to get you a job?

[garbon]

And the effect of income on real estate prices is another segregating factor.  People of moderate income just can't afford to live in San Francisco or Manhattan.

Though on the flipside, a good cross-section of companies have to pay more so that their workers can afford to live in commuting distance to work / pay for basic things like food.

[alfred russel]

So Lettow, any word how your paper was received?

[Ideologue]

I've met all of them, but I was just a kid. I'm from the lefty side of the family, so I doubt they'd listen to me.

I visited Søren's brother - Steen - last time I was in Denmark, but we didn't discuss politics at all. He is all into obscure Danish military history; which is reasonably fascinating

Overwhelming Prussian and German military victories aren't that obscure, are they?

[Jacob]

That would make for an incredibly intense and incredibly short conversation.

You'd be surprised. There's plenty of obscure Danish military history. It's the non-obscure stuff that's hard to come by.

He's spent years writing and collecting facts about a minor British invasion of a small island (on which the family used to vacation, actually) some hundred and fifty years ago or so. It was something like one ship and a handful of marines, but confusion and the stout resolution of the defenders saw them off... or something, I don't even remember, but it was an interesting conversation for an hour. And the subject was perfect for skirmish level war gaming too, I thought.

[Syt]

I've met all of them, but I was just a kid. I'm from the lefty side of the family, so I doubt they'd listen to me.

I visited Søren's brother - Steen - last time I was in Denmark, but we didn't discuss politics at all. He is all into obscure Danish military history; which is reasonably fascinating

Remember Hemmingstedt!

[Liep]

He's spent years writing and collecting facts about a minor British invasion of a small island (on which the family used to vacation, actually) some hundred and fifty years ago or so. It was something like one ship and a handful of marines, but confusion and the stout resolution of the defenders saw them off... or something, I don't even remember, but it was an interesting conversation for an hour. And the subject was perfect for skirmish level war gaming too, I thought.

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[Zanza]

Possibly related to the thieves that stole the strategic Maple Syrup reserve of Canada:
Thieves Make off with Five Tons of Nutella in Germany
http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/04/09/thieves-make-off-with-five-tons-of-nutella-in-germany/#ixzz2PyAPi0qC

[Jacob]

He's spent years writing and collecting facts about a minor British invasion of a small island (on which the family used to vacation, actually) some hundred and fifty years ago or so. It was something like one ship and a handful of marines, but confusion and the stout resolution of the defenders saw them off... or something, I don't even remember, but it was an interesting conversation for an hour. And the subject was perfect for skirmish level war gaming too, I thought.

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More obscure than that: http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaget_om_Anholt

(and apparently it was a British victory)

[Phillip V]

"Ever wonder why a pirate wears patches? It's not because he was wounded in a sword fight," says Dr. Sheedy. Seamen must constantly move between the pitch black of below decks and the bright sunshine above.

Smart pirates "wore a patch over one eye to keep it dark-adapted outside." Should a battle break out and the pirate had to shimmy below, he would simply switch the patch to the outdoor eye and he could see in the dark right away—saving him 25 minutes of flailing his cutlass about in near blindness.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323646604578404581544768850.html

[Syt]

Isn't that old news? Even the MythBusters did that a few years ago.

[mongers]

He's spent years writing and collecting facts about a minor British invasion of a small island (on which the family used to vacation, actually) some hundred and fifty years ago or so. It was something like one ship and a handful of marines, but confusion and the stout resolution of the defenders saw them off... or something, I don't even remember, but it was an interesting conversation for an hour. And the subject was perfect for skirmish level war gaming too, I thought.

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More obscure than that: http://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slaget_om_Anholt

(and apparently it was a British victory)

And the irony of that is there are probably quite a few 'Danish' invasions/landings in Britain that are all but unexamined by a historian.
Hell even something as significant as the wars with the Dutch and are only know by a tiny percentage of the population, and I'd be surprised if more than 1% knew about the Dutch landings on the Kentish coast, which were more than just a few dozen soldiers. 

Some of it might be, popular history likes to make a point of having only been invaded one in 1000 years, Hastings, so everything else of a amphibious variety gets redefined,1688 for instance, or forgotten about. 

[PDH]

Maybe under the 'bad ad placement' thread would be better:

[garbon]