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#1
Chit Chat / Re: best clips
Last post by scarface - Yesterday at 11:13 PMQuote from: humbert on Yesterday at 05:11 AMWith respect to the movie about life in Paris circa 1900, was electricity available at the time? I saw those fountains spraying water. To my knowledge that requires a strong electric motor, which in turn requires a grid. The other way to pressurize water like that is to use some sort of water tower. How do you get the water up there without electricity?It's an interesting question but I don't have the answer, so I will let someone else reply.
#2
Chit Chat / Re: best clips
Last post by humbert - Yesterday at 05:11 AMQuote from: scarface on March 18, 2023, 01:40 AMScientists Have Found The Largest Planet In The Universe. What's Wrong With It?
They keep looking for planets in the so-called "goldilocks zone" or for planets that have water on the surface. There's a major problem with this logic: the simple fact that they're thinking in reverse. It's not that life forms exist on earth analogs (if any) but rather that life forms have adapted to the conditions that exist on this planet. One thing we know is that living organisms are extremely resilient and will adapt to just about anything. Ask the extremeophiles.
With respect to the movie about life in Paris circa 1900, was electricity available at the time? I saw those fountains spraying water. To my knowledge that requires a strong electric motor, which in turn requires a grid. The other way to pressurize water like that is to use some sort of water tower. How do you get the water up there without electricity?
#3
Microsoft Windows / Re: Windows 11
Last post by humbert - Yesterday at 04:52 AMQuote from: scarface on March 18, 2023, 09:53 PMNote that new versions of windows 10 & 11 with the latest updates as well as new Nvidia drivers are available on the forum here:
If you mount those ISO's on a virtual disk, do they come with a setup.exe program so you can overwrite and upgrade an existing installation? Or must you necessarily boot from a flashdrive?
#4
Chit Chat / Re: Good comics (and books)
Last post by scarface - March 19, 2023, 09:08 PMToday, I'm going to present the book L'Empire éclaté.
The Exploded Empire is a book by Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, an international specialist of the USSR, and published in 1978 by Flammarion
Its title, and even more the "exploded" image that illustrates it, dramatizes to excess a book that marks both the rigor and the prudence of the historical approach. It appears that the break-up is at most potential. The fact that the explosives have been in place for so long could be, all in all, reassuring about the explosion, if they had not been suddenly reactivated in recent years, and according to a dynamic capable of upsetting the future.
A confirmed historian of the Soviet Union, Mrs. Hélène Carrère d'Encausse excels here in describing the constant design which, since 1917, has animated the leaders, through oppositions, contradictions, twists and turns, the spectacular aspects of which may have deceived the observer ; superficial. At the moment when he opened the "prison of the peoples" that was the empire of the tsars, Lenin seized the opportunity to put the nationalities, about which he cared little, at the service of the proletarian revolution, which was in no way the engine of these uplifted nations. The empire, then, did break up. But Lenin saw in these free and equal nations — including the Russian nation — a necessary stage, however long it would take, towards their spontaneous decline. The future would show what is involved in this withering away, as in that of the State.
On the eve of his death, Lenin had a desperate vision of what was going to be this reality officially called (the revealing word was his) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Dominant nation, total state: the Stalinist enterprise has begun. It will find its crowning moment after the war: the Russian Empire is reconstituted. The author expresses in a pithy way a process which can be clearly read in the evolution of official history: "absolute evil", imperial colonization becomes "relative evil", then "lesser evil", if not necessary evil, to become, by a sudden mutation, an "absolute good". This is the moment when Stalin proclaims the victory of the "Russian people" (and not of the Soviet people) and consents to this grandiose admission that, if he had been a severe judge and not a lenient father, he "should have deported the entire Ukrainian people": forty million individuals.
Violent, brutally constraining, contrary to every socialist principle in its method, it was nonetheless always the unitary thought of Lenin. Khrushchev will take it up again in its initial purity with the theory of the "blossoming" of nations, then of their "rapprochement";, finally of their "fusion": an outcome which is itself confused with the completion of communism.
This ideal vision and this doctrine, taken up by the successors, remain, until today, the official line of power. With this difference that the step-nations, federalism, have become more formal than ever, notably in the Constitution of 1977. The "change of nature" announced by Khrushchev is deemed accomplished, and everything is based on the ceaselessly proclaimed existence of the united and unique "Soviet people". The historian regrets that the "incantation", the insistence of which betrays in those who engage in it the "disarray" and even the "panic", is unfortunately not enough to produce the fact. And she is obliged to see the Soviet peoples, who not only subsist but assert themselves vigorously.
The author focuses on a very thorough analysis of the elements and forces likely to promote integration or strengthen nations. First on Georgia, an old "rebel", to the Georgian people who are shown to us to be resistant to any Russification, and who are characterized by their impulsive mood, a tad anarchist, their "rebellious spirit", their "southern fantasy": in short, the robot portrait of a certain Georgian nicknamed Stalin.
Mrs. Carrère d'Encausse goes to the heart of the problem by questioning peoples whose religion is indissolubly linked to national identity. And if this religion is not only belief and practice, but a way of life and philosophy of existence. Such is Islam indeed. But Soviet Islam, forced to adapt to the strict Soviet rule, instead of allowing itself to be integrated, integrated it itself, in such a way that it made communism a "by-product of Islam". And now, through the still mythical "homo sovieticus",emerges an immutable and new "homo islamicus".
To measure the significance of this phenomenon, it is necessary to read the study of comparative demography on which the book is based. Basically, general decline, in particular of the Russian group, in the face of an accelerated growth of the Muslim group: eighty million in the next few years. If we add the sixty million from Ukraine and the Caucasus, to stick to them alone... "The national question, which Khrushchev said was solved, is now a demographic question. »
Like Soviet dissident Andrei Amalrik in 1970 in "Will the Soviet Union Survive in 1984?" and sociologist Emmanuel Todd in 1976 in "The final fall", Hélène Carrère d'Encausse predicted accurately the near end of the USSR. However, unlike these two predecessors, she writes that the USSR will break under the pressure of the rise of the Asian republics of the USSR with high birth rates, in opposition to the republics of Eastern Europe with low fertility rates. According to this reasoning, the population of Muslim origin would have become the majority in the Soviet Union while the ruling class of the Party, the Army and industry was very largely of Russian origin, therefore of European culture. This distortion would necessarily have posed a problem of legitimacy of political power.
It turns out History invalidated this theory, since the Soviet Union's challenge actually came first from Poland in August 1980 with the creation of the Solidarność trade union, then from the Baltic countries in July 1989, to protest against the German-Soviet pact of 1939, and finally from East Germany in October 1989, which led to the fall of the Wall, on November the 9th.
The Exploded Empire is a book by Hélène Carrère d'Encausse, an international specialist of the USSR, and published in 1978 by Flammarion
Its title, and even more the "exploded" image that illustrates it, dramatizes to excess a book that marks both the rigor and the prudence of the historical approach. It appears that the break-up is at most potential. The fact that the explosives have been in place for so long could be, all in all, reassuring about the explosion, if they had not been suddenly reactivated in recent years, and according to a dynamic capable of upsetting the future.
A confirmed historian of the Soviet Union, Mrs. Hélène Carrère d'Encausse excels here in describing the constant design which, since 1917, has animated the leaders, through oppositions, contradictions, twists and turns, the spectacular aspects of which may have deceived the observer ; superficial. At the moment when he opened the "prison of the peoples" that was the empire of the tsars, Lenin seized the opportunity to put the nationalities, about which he cared little, at the service of the proletarian revolution, which was in no way the engine of these uplifted nations. The empire, then, did break up. But Lenin saw in these free and equal nations — including the Russian nation — a necessary stage, however long it would take, towards their spontaneous decline. The future would show what is involved in this withering away, as in that of the State.
On the eve of his death, Lenin had a desperate vision of what was going to be this reality officially called (the revealing word was his) Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Dominant nation, total state: the Stalinist enterprise has begun. It will find its crowning moment after the war: the Russian Empire is reconstituted. The author expresses in a pithy way a process which can be clearly read in the evolution of official history: "absolute evil", imperial colonization becomes "relative evil", then "lesser evil", if not necessary evil, to become, by a sudden mutation, an "absolute good". This is the moment when Stalin proclaims the victory of the "Russian people" (and not of the Soviet people) and consents to this grandiose admission that, if he had been a severe judge and not a lenient father, he "should have deported the entire Ukrainian people": forty million individuals.
Violent, brutally constraining, contrary to every socialist principle in its method, it was nonetheless always the unitary thought of Lenin. Khrushchev will take it up again in its initial purity with the theory of the "blossoming" of nations, then of their "rapprochement";, finally of their "fusion": an outcome which is itself confused with the completion of communism.
This ideal vision and this doctrine, taken up by the successors, remain, until today, the official line of power. With this difference that the step-nations, federalism, have become more formal than ever, notably in the Constitution of 1977. The "change of nature" announced by Khrushchev is deemed accomplished, and everything is based on the ceaselessly proclaimed existence of the united and unique "Soviet people". The historian regrets that the "incantation", the insistence of which betrays in those who engage in it the "disarray" and even the "panic", is unfortunately not enough to produce the fact. And she is obliged to see the Soviet peoples, who not only subsist but assert themselves vigorously.
The author focuses on a very thorough analysis of the elements and forces likely to promote integration or strengthen nations. First on Georgia, an old "rebel", to the Georgian people who are shown to us to be resistant to any Russification, and who are characterized by their impulsive mood, a tad anarchist, their "rebellious spirit", their "southern fantasy": in short, the robot portrait of a certain Georgian nicknamed Stalin.
Mrs. Carrère d'Encausse goes to the heart of the problem by questioning peoples whose religion is indissolubly linked to national identity. And if this religion is not only belief and practice, but a way of life and philosophy of existence. Such is Islam indeed. But Soviet Islam, forced to adapt to the strict Soviet rule, instead of allowing itself to be integrated, integrated it itself, in such a way that it made communism a "by-product of Islam". And now, through the still mythical "homo sovieticus",emerges an immutable and new "homo islamicus".
To measure the significance of this phenomenon, it is necessary to read the study of comparative demography on which the book is based. Basically, general decline, in particular of the Russian group, in the face of an accelerated growth of the Muslim group: eighty million in the next few years. If we add the sixty million from Ukraine and the Caucasus, to stick to them alone... "The national question, which Khrushchev said was solved, is now a demographic question. »
Like Soviet dissident Andrei Amalrik in 1970 in "Will the Soviet Union Survive in 1984?" and sociologist Emmanuel Todd in 1976 in "The final fall", Hélène Carrère d'Encausse predicted accurately the near end of the USSR. However, unlike these two predecessors, she writes that the USSR will break under the pressure of the rise of the Asian republics of the USSR with high birth rates, in opposition to the republics of Eastern Europe with low fertility rates. According to this reasoning, the population of Muslim origin would have become the majority in the Soviet Union while the ruling class of the Party, the Army and industry was very largely of Russian origin, therefore of European culture. This distortion would necessarily have posed a problem of legitimacy of political power.
It turns out History invalidated this theory, since the Soviet Union's challenge actually came first from Poland in August 1980 with the creation of the Solidarność trade union, then from the Baltic countries in July 1989, to protest against the German-Soviet pact of 1939, and finally from East Germany in October 1989, which led to the fall of the Wall, on November the 9th.
#5
Microsoft Windows / Re: Windows 11
Last post by scarface - March 18, 2023, 09:53 PMNote that new versions of windows 10 & 11 with the latest updates as well as new Nvidia drivers are available on the forum here:
https://www.nomaher.com/forum/index.php?topic=14153.msg37204#msg37204
https://www.nomaher.com/forum/index.php?topic=14153.msg37204#msg37204
#6
Chit Chat / Re: best clips
Last post by scarface - March 18, 2023, 01:40 AMTonight, new videos are available for the users of the forum.
Persistent drought and overdevelopment cause record low water levels for the population of Arizona.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NbeB_bqmOg
if you have milk, chocolate and oranges, then you can make this incredibly delicious dessert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlY_5iiMXqU
Scientists Have Found The Largest Planet In The Universe. What's Wrong With It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cVz6y0JDvg
The sense offender was finally found.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBjrQR_1ef8
Persistent drought and overdevelopment cause record low water levels for the population of Arizona.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NbeB_bqmOg
if you have milk, chocolate and oranges, then you can make this incredibly delicious dessert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlY_5iiMXqU
Scientists Have Found The Largest Planet In The Universe. What's Wrong With It?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cVz6y0JDvg
The sense offender was finally found.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBjrQR_1ef8
#7
Microsoft Windows / Re: Windows 11
Last post by Vasudev - March 14, 2023, 09:48 PMQuote from: scarface on March 14, 2023, 08:12 PMMy usual ISO after removing unwanted Appx and then converted to ESD.Quote from: Vasudev on March 12, 2023, 08:35 PMWill be uploading 22H2 versions of Windows 10 and 11 in fewI guess those are the original versions?dayshours.
Edit:I actually forgot I have a faster connection.
#8
Chit Chat / Re: What kind of meat (or chee...
Last post by scarface - March 14, 2023, 08:22 PMTonight, I' going to present a new dish.
Look carefully at the photo below.
I guess that the reactions of the users of the forum are different.
shadow.97 must be thinking that this sausage looks funny. And Vasudev must be licking his chops.
What you see here is a Spanish fuet with a piece of bread, and a glass of beer.
Fuet is Catalan sausage, in other words, from the Catalan region of Spain. It is a wonderful and a thin, dry cured sausage of pork meat. It can be added to a variety of dishes, or eaten on bread. It is often served on a cutting board on the dinner table.
Look carefully at the photo below.
I guess that the reactions of the users of the forum are different.
shadow.97 must be thinking that this sausage looks funny. And Vasudev must be licking his chops.
What you see here is a Spanish fuet with a piece of bread, and a glass of beer.
Fuet is Catalan sausage, in other words, from the Catalan region of Spain. It is a wonderful and a thin, dry cured sausage of pork meat. It can be added to a variety of dishes, or eaten on bread. It is often served on a cutting board on the dinner table.
#9
Microsoft Windows / Re: Windows 11
Last post by scarface - March 14, 2023, 08:12 PMQuote from: Vasudev on March 12, 2023, 08:35 PMWill be uploading 22H2 versions of Windows 10 and 11 in fewI guess those are the original versions?dayshours.
Edit:I actually forgot I have a faster connection.
#10
Chit Chat / Re: best clips
Last post by scarface - March 12, 2023, 08:52 PMTonight, new videos are available for the users of the forum.
Why are gorillas super strong?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXnCCq6dkm8
When no one believes you're from the future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJP76l21dAY
Animal Size Comparison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRfJls03IT4
Adolf Hitler: The Last Days of the Dictator
Through vestiges of history, this film shows the final days of Adolf Hitler. Using documents that were unharmed in the fire ordered by the Führer himself as well as his mistress Eva Braun's letters, other telegrams and transcripts of important conversations, the movie reveals Hitler's thoughts and emotions he had when he was hiding in his bunker during his last days.
Note that this exceptional documentary was already posted on the forum, but it was in French.
If you are wondering: was Hitler playing chess with Blondie? What was he doing with Eva Braun? Those crucial questions are addressed in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEUbbARHv8k
Why are gorillas super strong?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXnCCq6dkm8
When no one believes you're from the future
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJP76l21dAY
Animal Size Comparison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRfJls03IT4
Adolf Hitler: The Last Days of the Dictator
Through vestiges of history, this film shows the final days of Adolf Hitler. Using documents that were unharmed in the fire ordered by the Führer himself as well as his mistress Eva Braun's letters, other telegrams and transcripts of important conversations, the movie reveals Hitler's thoughts and emotions he had when he was hiding in his bunker during his last days.
Note that this exceptional documentary was already posted on the forum, but it was in French.
If you are wondering: was Hitler playing chess with Blondie? What was he doing with Eva Braun? Those crucial questions are addressed in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEUbbARHv8k