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birdwatcher ([personal profile] birdwatcher) wrote2008-08-06 12:18 pm

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1. Майкл Люис о попытке строительстве капитализма во Франции:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=azEdlWcgsj5M

2. Сегодня 63 года со дня смерти 140,000 жителей Хиросимы.

[identity profile] scriptum.livejournal.com 2008-08-06 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
зависть

[identity profile] birdwatcher.livejournal.com 2008-08-07 12:08 am (UTC)(link)
Амишам все тоже завидуют.

[identity profile] scriptum.livejournal.com 2008-08-07 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
где амиши, а где французы

[identity profile] birdwatcher.livejournal.com 2008-08-07 01:26 am (UTC)(link)
Я только голландцам завидую.

[identity profile] scriptum.livejournal.com 2008-08-07 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
я никому не завидую - это автор завидует

[identity profile] averros.livejournal.com 2008-08-07 03:44 am (UTC)(link)
French are dying off, Amish are quickly growing in numbers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_France
http://www.gameo.org/encyclopedia/contents/A4574ME.html

[identity profile] averros.livejournal.com 2008-08-07 09:48 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not cool at all. The sad reality is, in 40 or so years French will be an ethnic minority in France.

[identity profile] scriptum.livejournal.com 2008-08-07 10:00 pm (UTC)(link)
what about Amishes? will they be an ethnic majority in the US?

[identity profile] averros.livejournal.com 2008-08-07 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
No, but they aren't going to lose their country to Muslims, either.

[identity profile] scriptum.livejournal.com 2008-08-07 11:23 pm (UTC)(link)
sorry, you lost me. is it good or bad?

[identity profile] averros.livejournal.com 2008-08-08 12:03 am (UTC)(link)
Depends on your preferences, I guess. If you like being a dhimmi, well, then, you may like having Muslims in majority.

[identity profile] scriptum.livejournal.com 2008-08-08 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
this does not make any sense either: my preference has got nothing to do with this

[identity profile] averros.livejournal.com 2008-08-08 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
"Good" and "bad" are always subjective. So you can only say what is good or bad for you; when you are talking about goodness or badness for other people, you are making presumptions regarding their state of mind.

Some people actually like to be slaves. Who am I to say that this is bad for them?

[identity profile] scriptum.livejournal.com 2008-08-08 01:35 am (UTC)(link)
your first and last assertions are contradictory, so I propose to call it a day.

[identity profile] mi-b.livejournal.com 2008-08-07 11:13 am (UTC)(link)
какая-то бессмысленная статья у Льюиса, мне не понравилось. парадоксально иллюстрировать статью про неправильную жизнь французов историей про, как он не купил какое-то гадкое фабричное печенье в Англии. уж с кондитерскими изделиями-то во Франции все хорошо, гораздо лучше, чем у капиталистических англо-саксонцев ;) и что эффективны они только в бездельи просто вранье...

[identity profile] birdwatcher.livejournal.com 2008-08-07 11:20 am (UTC)(link)
Это фельетон.