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The Web began dying in 2014. André Staltz writes about how and why. In a nutshell, traffic from mobile and tablet devices now surpasses that from regular desktop computers and of that traffic the overwhelming majority goes to either Faecebook or Google. Amazon is also in there. None of them have any interest in defending the open Web any more. Rather the situation is the opposite, they are aiming to carve out a section and establish very isolated walled gardens. Net Neutrality, or the lack thereof, lie at the heart of their plans based on the direction they have moved since 2014.
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You are a fluke of the universe; you have no right to be here.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Sunday November 05 2017, @09:25AM (3 children)
When you find yourself in the cultural orbit of an ancient civilization that is not one of the roots of your own, it behooves you to become at least moderately literate? I, myself, have learned English, much to my Dismay, and Latin, before that. So you cannot look up Sunzi, Art of War, chapter nine? Oh, you tire me, c0lo!
One of the earlier translations, thus out of copyright [mit.edu]:
We are interested in the Last. The Roman strategist Vegetius, in his work De re militari [wikipedia.org], which you may be familiar with, suggested that you always should offer your opponent an easy way out, a "golden bridge", as it were. What you never wanted to do was to back you enemy into a corner, from which they had no way out but to fight. And on the contrary, if you had no other choice, to put your own troops into the "death ground", literally, 有死地, they would have no other way out but to fight their way to victory. This is where we are, my dear c0lo, at the end of the world, with no way out but to continue to punch Nazis in the face, lest they send us to the ovens. I am very clear about this, and I hope some difficulty in languages Nem jut el az úton.
Oh, if you are still too lazy to use the resources of the internets, that last part, in English, is:
Wow, Giles can be wordy in his translation! But I suppose you get my drift. This is the battlefield. If we lose here, we lose everywhere. I am glad to have you as my comrade in arms, and appreciate you misgivings. But this is it. It starts here, with 6000 Soylentils. And once we prevail, the world will be saved.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Sunday November 05 2017, @11:59AM (2 children)
Hooves or behoovs, I found many of them, oh magister, but translations are plenty and not all absolutely convergent.
And no, I don't have enough life in me to learn mandarin, or cantonese, or even pinyin, at least not enough to understand Sun-zi in original.
I'll remain a barbarian, come to that, the best I can is to handle the chop-sticks but not the brush.
I doubt it, magister. You jumped too far into the script, are you sure you tried all you could on the line of "Supreme excellence consists of breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting."?
Are you even sure you identified the generals of the enemy's army and not consume yourself in a useless skirmish?
I mean, look, you are fighting for some years already. May I remind you of "In war, then, let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns."?
Doesn't it sound strange, like you've been played into this position, so that you waste yourself?
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This (to cite a future planet of fighters or an old religious order based on mysticism) is Ghafla [wikia.com] - there may be more than one reason I was asking you to be more (westerny) specific, why did you assumed that one?
It it wise to recognize Ghafla and acquire the discipline to reject it - it should be much easier than Sun-zi, as it is something that may grown in you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Insightful) by aristarchus on Sunday November 05 2017, @12:13PM (1 child)
Ah, but c0lo, what did you think "death ground" could possibly mean? And yes, even Sun-zi was well aware of this. The only winning move, is not to play? Or, one might think, to play a different game than your enemy/partner thinks they are playing? We will carry on, will we not?
(Score: 3, Insightful) by c0lo on Sunday November 05 2017, @12:52PM
Oh, magister, really... do you even need to ask?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford