We're All Doomed!™ (the Conquest, War, Famine, and Death Thread)

[Cornuck]

Interesting to read, and it all makes perfect sense - but then sense has no place in today's world.

[BCExpat]

Wow Per - that was a great and interesting history lesson. Thanks for taking the time to post that.

[Carl Yagro]

This wall of text I did read.

Good stuff, Per. Now I know where Bluetooth came from. Give me a good pair of wired speakers any day over that crap.

[Per]

Who knew at my age that I would be back in class getting history lessons on the internet.

Per you missed your calling, you should have been a History Prof.

Thanks. I have two great passions beside hockey - history and linguistics.
By writing about history in a second language on a god damned hockey bulletin board I can enjoy all three at once!

I read more history books than fiction these days, and I prefer the really old stuff. Paleolithic, mesolithic, neolithic, bronze age, early iron age, medieval. After that it starts getting boring. I’m not a huge fan of WW1 or WW2 stuff. But hey, basically any history is fine, but as with expensive wines - the older the better.

Books about neanderthals or Ötzi the ice man are really up my alley, but I don’t have anything against the viking or medieval stuff either.
Both of my parents were teachers, and I think I would have enjoyed teaching as a career, but it felt like the easy way out, so instead I studied International Economics and got an MBA. Did a semester abroad at the University of Valencia. My Spanish is pretty decent, but I think I’m better at English and German. My French, Russian and Finnish skills are pretty rudimentary, but I get by. Just don’t expect me to be able to discuss politics or philosophy in them.

[Cornuck]

My Spanish is pretty decent, but I think I’m better at English and German. My French, Russian and Finnish skills are pretty rudimentary, but I get by. Just don’t expect me to be able to discuss politics or philosophy in them.

I promise not to discuss philosophy in Russian if you don't.

[Per]

This wall of text I did read.

Good stuff, Per. Now I know where Bluetooth came from. Give me a good pair of wired speakers any day over that crap.

Yeah, bluetooth technology was developed in Scandinavia by Ericsson in the 1990’s, albeit the lead developer, Hartseen, who is usually credited with the invention, was actually Dutch. Ericsson worked closely with Nokia and Intel to create a universal standard for wireless communication and it was actually some Intel executive that suggested the bluetooth name as a placeholder for the project until marketing could come up with something better.

Guess they’re still working on it.

[Per]

My Spanish is pretty decent, but I think I’m better at English and German. My French, Russian and Finnish skills are pretty rudimentary, but I get by. Just don’t expect me to be able to discuss politics or philosophy in them.

I promise not to discuss philosophy in Russian if you don't.

I’ll drink to that!