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Post #222212 - Reply to (#221794) by Odinn
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10:11 pm, Oct 28 2008
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this question might come off ignorant to some people in this site..but i have been wondering about this for a long time...how come Europe and Asia was more advanced then North America South America and Africa around the 1600s??..


what do you mean by advanced? if you mean stone work then the Incas were and still are miles ahead of anyone, if you mean exploration wise like ships and such, they didn't really need to be, same with warfare, who needs gunpowder when pushing them down the mountain works just as well and doesn't weigh half as much, nor blow up in your face. North America was so open there was no need, plus it was mostly desert and still is, so you could walk for months and not see anyone. simply put they didn't need the type of advancement that europe and asia had.


ugh so much explaining to do well im lazy so u can go research for urself but ill tell u some fun facts being that im a history major i think i can clear this up pretty quickly

ah before i start let me clear up this dude i quoted...ill just say ur dumb yep that about covers it hahaha

first of all africa had no need to "advance" as u choose to put it so theyre easy to count of of this question they found a way of life and they stuck to it (and even now many tribes in africa still follow that exact same way of life) im not getting into the reasons because thats half a semmester of anthropology based off years of living with and studying them

also dont group europe and asia true around the 1600s they were about equal but only cause china didnt care (theres a semmester on chinese civ) but to sum it up real quick china invented everything china is the center of the world the most important place and no one else matters because china is the shit and if its not chinese we dont care (that was chinas thought process back in the day) and really they did invent almost everything if they didnt its because they saw no need for it so didnt care because of that view after a certain point they stopped developing where as europe slowly and steadily stole inventions from china...i mean addopted and then made more shit and later on fcked china and asia hard core but thats a whole other story

anyway so back to the main issue north america...yea useless they really did nothing didnt event anything special no great technology they were back in the stone age there was only 1 semi decent civilization and they somehow went extinct and beyond having trade routes and a few large cities (large at the time really they were tiny a few thousand ppl at the most) they had nothing special especially since this was over 10 thousand years after the japanese first created pottery (yea japan had pottery before anyone else) so all north america had was a "rich culture" as some would call it (me im not interested its boring and nothing special whatsoever)(this part is my opinion if ur offended too bad u take 2 semmesters on them and ull realize "o wow i learned nothing cause there was nothing to learn these ppl totally fail"...im bitter) ignorring my rants and getting back to facts....
South america they had some cool shit in very few areas... math good farming good stonework good but still really not that great however theres still a ton we dont know about the native south americans seeing how they had a tendency to disapear and leave us (us being anthropologists and historians) going wtf

hopefully that answered ur question and odinn learn ur facts before ur say weird shit dont deffend ppl based on ur feelings stick to facts not "but they did this"
srry but no one cares cause everyone did that...until they found better ways

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i have another question this might be a little to controversial but i will give it a go...whats the real story of Osama?...i remember in elementary school and middle school the teachers fed us biased opinions of him and now teachers..and other people are saying that he was "framed"..and why the hell would a CIA taction plot against his allies...but what i want to know is what the real story is..and was he really a threat like they said he was when Clinton was still in office?

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Post #222240 - Reply to (#222236) by pumpupthevolume
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Quote from pumpupthevolume
i have another question this might be a little to controversial but i will give it a go...whats the real story of Osama?...i remember in elementary school and middle school the teachers fed us biased opinions of him and now teachers..and other people are saying that he was "framed"..and why the hell would a CIA taction plot against his allies...but what i want to know is what the real story is..and was he really a threat like they said he was when Clinton was still in office?


I doubt your going to get a good answer on this, to be honest.

different people believe different things, and there is proof for all different things if you look hard enough.

Tis a foggy thing.

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@I'll try to answer to the previous question.

Seeing nobody really answered to the question why (or how come).
What i remember from my history class is that it was a combination of factors (well isn't it always).

First are trade and commerce, Europeans traded with different cultures that were at some point equally or more developed then them, like Arabs, Moors or India and China.
They were always willing to take the best things and integrate them (think gunpowder or compass), here i'm talking about technology and science not culture or religion.
Think the Silk Road, after it no longer existed, Europeans tried to come up with another way to the far East (remember Columbus)...thus started the age of great explorations, building of bigger, better ships and at that time in history ships were the most important thing in making yourself an imperial force (all hail Britannia and all laugh )

Another reason is constant waring in Europe, and there's no faster way of developing weapons then when in war. Having to compete all the time with your neighbors, nations would rise and fall, and they needed money for their wars so more colonies were needed and so on...

C./S. American cultures where isolated, they had no trade options or a great enemy they would have to best each and every time, like European countries had.
China on the other hand was a closed society, they needed nothing other countries would offer...if they were continuing to built their great fleets we would probably talk Chinese, not English...so you might say it was the culture for them.

I wanted to say more, but then it would became to big of a post (it already is) and no one would care to read it... dead

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I have a question.

Why do the hearing impaired, who can still hear from one of their ears, still speak with sign language?

Is it because their speech is still effected by the deafness in the one ear?

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I have a question.

Why do the hearing impaired, who can still hear from one of their ears, still speak with sign language?

Is it because their speech is still effected by the deafness in the one ear?


They find it easier? Lips reading take too much concentration and it's somehow limited, if you have people that can both speak and use sign language and you are hearing impaired I think I would use sign language.

Speech isn't affected I think, but sometimes you begin to lose words (you still hear them but can't understand them well).

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I have a question.

Why do the hearing impaired, who can still hear from one of their ears, still speak with sign language?

Is it because their speech is still effected by the deafness in the one ear?



really?..my teacher is deaf in one ear but she doesnt use sign language

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this is just speculation but i think it might be because their hearing isnt perfect and they probably feel some sort of connection to those that cant hear at all so they try to communicate with the hearing and hearing impared as best as possible that and if ur partially deaf who knows when u might not be able to hear at all so might as well prepare just in case

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i have another question this might be a little to controversial but i will give it a go...whats the real story of Osama?...i remember in elementary school and middle school the teachers fed us biased opinions of him and now teachers..and other people are saying that he was "framed"..and why the hell would a CIA taction plot against his allies...but what i want to know is what the real story is..and was he really a threat like they said he was when Clinton was still in office?

Let me try: You would do best to look up more specific information about Bin Laden on Wikipedia and other sources to get a measure of the man himself. The facts as I know them are as such. When the CIA had contacts with Bin Laden in the 80's, I do not think his attitudes about the Americans were very clear to us. What was clear to the CIA was that Bin Laden was opposed to the Russians, who had invaded Afghanistan. The Americans claimed to oppose the Russians because of the invasion and their treatment of the Afghans, though what the US was more concerned about was the expansion of Russian influence through the Middle East and the possibility of them breaking through to the Indian Ocean, which would have been a strategic nightmare.

Since Bin Laden was fighting the Russians in Afghanistan, the Americans helped him. Eventually the Afghans pushed the Russians out. Bin Laden came out of the conflict with experience and resources, and no more Russians to fight. So he decided that he was going to expel American influences from the middle east like he'd helped expel the Russians from Afghanistan.

The 9-11 operation was a lot more complicated than just saying "Lets hijack some planes and run them into buildings." He had the planes strike when they were full of fuel and had them hit in a way to maximise damage. Bin Laden's background is in construction engineering, so he knew exactly what he was doing.

The Americans have him in hiding now in Afghanistan or Pakistan or wherever he's at, but he still has a lot of influence and he probably has at least some ability to make things happen in America. So yeah, he's pretty dangerous.

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Thanks, I feel out of place when I see the previous posts and questions, but I thank you for answering.

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Okay, I have another weird question.

I recall like in high school watching this documentary about these two Volcanologist, who were married and took photographs of erupting volcanoes. I believe maybe their last name was like Kraft or something. Does anyone know their first names? I can't find anything about them. I also believe they may have died in pyroclastic flow.

Now answer me. mad

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Okay, I have another weird question.

I recall like in high school watching this documentary about these two Volcanologist, who were married and took photographs of erupting volcanoes. I believe maybe their last name was like Kraft or something. Does anyone know their first names? I can't find anything about them. I also believe they may have died in pyroclastic flow.

Now answer me. mad

Maurice and Katia Krafft

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Okay, I have another weird question.

I recall like in high school watching this documentary about these two Volcanologist, who were married and took photographs of erupting volcanoes. I believe maybe their last name was like Kraft or something. Does anyone know their first names? I can't find anything about them. I also believe they may have died in pyroclastic flow.

Now answer me. mad

Maurice and Katia Krafft


Thank you. biggrin

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