The questions-not-worth-their-own-thread question thread VI

[Mowque]

Does anyone here know much about 1900-1930 Central Asia history?

 

[cardgame]

All I know is that some emperor dynasty collapsed in 1909 after a thousand+ reign...

The place was taken over by Nationalist China IIRC.

 

[Mesousa]

See if this meets your needs:

http://unite.opera.com/

I've know about Unite (long-time Opera user here), but I don't think it's what I'm looking for, since my PC would have to be online 24/7 for the hosted files to be available continuously, and as far as I know it doesn't have a message board feature, which would be the most important thing.

I guess basically I just need a free message board with registration, there are plenty of ways to host files.

 

[Dachs]

Does anyone here know much about 1900-1930 Central Asia history?

One name:

Roman Ungern von Sternberg.

Actually also you'll probably want to read about the Basmachi war too, but the only good source I have on that is a monograph from the US Army Combat Studies Institute, Leavenworth Paper No. 20. Dunno if you can easily acquire that or not.

 

[Mowque]

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Actually also you'll probably want to read about the Basmachi war too, but the only good source I have on that is a monograph from the US Army Combat Studies Institute, Leavenworth Paper No. 20. Dunno if you can easily acquire that or not.

Ran across it via wiki, looks...promising. How useful will that paper be? Care to share highlights?

 

[Dachs]

Ran across it via wiki, looks...promising. How useful will that paper be? Care to share highlights?

Well, it's mostly for purposes of comparison with the (then-nearly contemporaneous) Soviet operations in Afghanistan and their previous operations against Khiva and Bukhara and in the Caucasus, engaging opponents who fought asymmetrically. So it focuses heavily on the military aspect of things, the social conditions in the region insofar as they exacerbated and subsequently relieved the fighting, and the political steps the Soviet Union took to minimize the resistance. Go Frunze

I could excerpt parts for you on request if you have more specific questions.

 

[thetrooper]

I was thinking something along those lines, wiki mentioned Existentialism is a Humanism so I may try that. I'm not sure of what works by Kierkegaard to read, but that's why I'm here! Recommendations, please!

You know which 'social group' to visit and repost your question?

 

[holy king]

Heck yeah.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

What would happen if an earthquake went to 11 on the Richter scale?

 

[cardgame]

They'd use a different scale. Or modify Richter's.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

Why would they change the Richter scale? There's no upper limit to the scale.

 

[Earthling]

Well, no, maybe most blokes could have a scale that just went up to 10, but see, sometimes, when we need that little extra, we can go one bigger all the way to 11.

 

[West 36]

It depends a lot on what you're interested in, and what kind of person you are.

I wouldn't read any Kierkegaard, or they're not good place to start. I'm sure some people disagree with this, but at least I find Kierkegaard tedious to read, and as far as I know, he's considered more as a precursor to existentialism than existentialist. I suppose he's more favoured by religious people and those who have academic interests.

Sartre however is good read for everyone, much of what he writes isn't academic philosophy, but rather to related to how people live their lives. As you seem to be leftist, open mind is recommended because some things he says resmbles very much rightist rhetorics. (For rightists and teenagers some criticality is recommendable).

Unahppily I don't know many English introductions to him. Modern Movements in European Philosophy by Richard Kearney had 20 pages of him, and if I remember correctly, it was quite good (as a contrast to the rest of the book). Existentialism and Humanism is good read too, as are other essays by Sartre too.

I should probably add that I don't know very much about existentialism, and the above is written only from my own limited experiences.

Thanks for your help, I would indeed be open minded when reading, I'm interested as to what exactly the rightist streaks of his may be though. Think I'll be avoiding Kierkegaard. And as to what I'm interested in, well as a whole the philosophy interests me, and what kind of person I am, well, I've been trying to figure that out for quite some time

 

[Fr8monkey]

What would happen if an earthquake went to 11 on the Richter scale?

When the Richter Scale was developed in the 1930's, The number "10" was set as the upper limit. if an earthquake hit a 10, the theory went, it would be felt everywhere on Earth at the same time.

 

[Flying Pig]

Has there ever been a 10?

 

[Brighteye]

One name:

Roman Ungern von Sternberg.

Actually also you'll probably want to read about the Basmachi war too, but the only good source I have on that is a monograph from the US Army Combat Studies Institute, Leavenworth Paper No. 20. Dunno if you can easily acquire that or not.

That was interesting. I know the von Ungern Sternbergs. I'm going to taunt them with this character next time we meet.

 

[Sashie VII]

Has there ever been a 10?

IIRC from my classes, not in recorded history.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

What would happen if an earthquake went to 11 on the Richter scale?

IIRC, the number rating for the Richter scale increases exponentially in power, not linear.

 

[Irish Caesar]

What would happen if an earthquake went to 11 on the Richter scale?

It would be 10 times shakier than a 10 and 1000 times shakier than an 8?

IIRC, the number rating for the Richter scale increases exponentially in power, not linear.

It's a logarithmic scale.

 

[Cheezy the Wiz]

It would be 10 times shakier than a 10 and 1000 times shakier than an 8?



It's a logarithmic scale.

Yeah that. Its not linear, that's my point.