The Very Many Questions-Not-Worth-Their-Own-Thread Thread ΛΓ

[Live trash can]

The tribe: the intellectual and enlightened elite of France and the US.

But if I consider the thunderous reaction in 1790 of the British Conservative Edmund Burke on the French declaration of 1789: "We are not the converts of Rousseau"
and if you talk about emerging before actual texts..... one could very well say that it emerged in France.

You might just be right!

I had located it to the French revolution and the American independence war and the civil war. Or something. But I believe these were precursors.

I believe it appeared fully fledged first after the second world war.

 

[Hygro]

I have this suspicion he's one of those guys who isn't on your side but you're on his side.

Like if some ideological war broke out he'd live and the winners would celebrate that fact.

 

[Hrothbern]

You might just be right!

I had located it to the French revolution and the American independence war and the civil war. Or something. But I believe these were precursors.

I believe it appeared fully fledged first after the second world war.

Yes
The UN declaration of Human Rights is of 1948 and in there to the general concept are added 30 articles that express the detailed consequences as seen at that time.
Whereby noted that only a minority of the global population lives in countries and has the privilige to live in conditions that are described in those 30 articles.
http://www.un.org/en/universal-declaration-human-rights/

 

[Live trash can]

I am sometimes fascinated by the British, and how they formed an empire in which they developed infrastructure and education and more...

 

[Traitorfish]

Yeah, he's on our side.

Which side are his hundreds of millions of dollars on?

 

[Synobun]

Which side are his hundreds of millions of dollars on?

The right side.

 

[Lexicus]

I have this suspicion he's one of those guys who isn't on your side but you're on his side.

Like if some ideological war broke out he'd live and the winners would celebrate that fact.

Damn this is probably true

Which side are his hundreds of millions of dollars on?

Well, to the extent that his wealth is being invested in communities, it's on our side. Jay-Z may be a capitalist, but socialism is a cross-class construction, rather like capitalism and every other mode of production.

 

[Takhisis]

I am sometimes fascinated by the British, and how they formed an empire in which they developed infrastructure and education and more...

H.L. Havell once wrote that they blundered their way into it.

 

[Traitorfish]

Well, to the extent that his wealth is being invested in communities, it's on our side. Jay-Z may be a capitalist, but socialism is a cross-class construction, rather like capitalism and every other mode of production.

Where do you imagine other capitalists are investing their wealth?

 

[Takhisis]

For one, Floyd Mayweather is investing his in crystal ping-pong tables.

 

[Traitorfish]

Gotta do something when you're not pummeling Irishmen.

 

[Commodore]

You all ready for that Iran-Israel war that's brewing right now?

 

[Mouthwash]

You all ready for that Iran-Israel war that's brewing right now?

This is the first *I'm* hearing about this.

EDIT: Oh, you're talking about Syria. But a proxy war isn't a war (unless you think the Korean War ought to be called the Sino-American War) and pretty much all of the surrounding countries are opposed to Iran. It would hardly be an Iran/Israel dustup.

 

[Lexicus]

EDIT: Oh, you're talking about Syria. But a proxy war isn't a war (unless you think the Korean War ought to be called the Sino-American War) and pretty much all of the surrounding countries are opposed to Iran. It would hardly be an Iran/Israel dustup.

Israel and Saudi Arabia are the leading players on one side, Iran is the leading player on the other. At least, that's how I understand things.

 

[Gori the Grey]

I need a bit of faux-legalese for the mock by-laws of a club I'm forming. There was a previous similar club, so I'm imagining this new club incorporating the old one. So I want the preamble to the by-laws to read: "The ADC, hereafter incorporating all the x, y and functions of the FAC, is committed to . . . " What terms--kind of on the order of "functions"--could I slot into x and y that have a pseudo-legalistic sound to to them? Capacities that one organization has that could be legally taken over by another.

Thanks in advance.

 

[Lexicus]

I would think functions would cover it. Do you want more than one word, or are you just looking for a fancy-sounding word that means the same thing as functions?

 

[Gori the Grey]

I want more than one word. I want three total, so two more besides "functions." B/c legal documents always use little units of three words in situations like that. That's how one gives the sound of legalese: "beneficiary, legatee and assign," from a will, for example.

 

[Lexicus]

Oh, I'm sorry, you do say that in your first post but I didn't read it correctly. I found a couple of bylaw-guides that involve successor organizations.
https://www.nonprofitissues.com/to-the-point/new-organization-“successor”-old

The instructions say you are considered a successor if you have taken over substantially all of the assets and activities of another, have been converted or merged with another, or have the same officers and directors as the other.

Hope that helps.

 

[Gori the Grey]

Ha, ha! "assets" is funny, since neither the old club nor the new had/has any. I'm definitely including that.

 

[Takhisis]

Assets, property, lien…

Always specify possibly categories preceded by ‘including but not limited to’. And a lot of hereafters, heretofore, hereby, henceforth, thus, etc.