Comments on: Nifty http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/12/05/nifty.html High-minded, fanatically malthusian perspectives Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:09:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: shane http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/12/05/nifty.html/comment-page-1#comment-18760 shane Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/12/05/nifty.html#comment-18760 <p>Dan,<br /> <br /> I don't think Shlok was making a hit on you, but rather the concept of imperial colonialism. And perhaps his cryptic brevity is explained by how he succumbed to the elements shortly after his "Yuck" post (q.v., "Ugh" on Dec 2nd).<br /> <br /> Of course, this doesn't explain the "irrelevant" tag.... (unless he was channeling some of that Naxalite Rage into shloky.com).</p> Dan,

I don't think Shlok was making a hit on you, but rather the concept of imperial colonialism. And perhaps his cryptic brevity is explained by how he succumbed to the elements shortly after his “Yuck” post (q.v., “Ugh” on Dec 2nd).

Of course, this doesn't explain the “irrelevant” tag…. (unless he was channeling some of that Naxalite Rage into shloky.com).

]]> By: Shlok http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/12/05/nifty.html/comment-page-1#comment-18761 Shlok Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/12/05/nifty.html#comment-18761 <p>Shane nails most of it. In short: a visceral reaction to the idea of - irrelevant - Empires as Sysadmin. <br /> <br /> Logic: My family would have been denied upward mobility for as long as her Her Majesty's empire continued. The village is nice and farming has to be a satisfying lifestyle, but I like my iPod. <br /> <br /> Anyway, I just didn't really feel like getting into all that. Face is on fire and have a lot of deadlines in rapid succession. My bad.</p> Shane nails most of it. In short: a visceral reaction to the idea of – irrelevant – Empires as Sysadmin.

Logic: My family would have been denied upward mobility for as long as her Her Majesty's empire continued. The village is nice and farming has to be a satisfying lifestyle, but I like my iPod.

Anyway, I just didn't really feel like getting into all that. Face is on fire and have a lot of deadlines in rapid succession. My bad.

]]> By: Dan tdaxp http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/12/05/nifty.html/comment-page-1#comment-18762 Dan tdaxp Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000 http://www.tdaxp.com/archive/2007/12/05/nifty.html#comment-18762 <p>The availability of legitimate forms of upward mobility is a good proxy for the developmental state of a country... to the extent that a colonial power provides more of it than local regimes, good. To the extent it doesn't, bad.</p> The availability of legitimate forms of upward mobility is a good proxy for the developmental state of a country… to the extent that a colonial power provides more of it than local regimes, good. To the extent it doesn't, bad.

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