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Debate:Does History Matter?

2007-07-19T17:36:05Z

Ugalabuuga:

[[Henry Ford]] said, "I don't know much about history, and I wouldn't give a nickel for all the history in the world. History is more or less bunk. It is tradition. We want to live in the present, and the only history that is worth a tinker's [darn] is the history we make today." [[George Santayana]] said "Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." Who was closer to being right?

==Henry Ford: "history is bunk"==
If ''"...the only history that is worth a tinker's [darn] is the history we make today"'', than who's to say the history we make today will be cared about by our children? ;-). If we don't care about history now, than none of our descendants will care about us. Of course even if we do care about history, there's still a huge chance they still won't care about their past. --[[User:Ymmotrojam|Ymmotrojam]] 18:22, 12 April 2007 (EDT)

==George Santayana: "condemned to repeat"==
The perfect example of this is the nation of Israel. Fortunately though, we've got a good God. Even when Israel was disobeying God and repenting again... over and over again, God was still faithful to His promises. And if we repent and put our trust in Him alone, we can avoid repeating those bad things in history. --[[User:Ymmotrojam|Ymmotrojam]] 18:35, 12 April 2007 (EDT)

==Napoleon Bonaparte: "a lie agreed upon"==
While this is the classic Wikipedia model, I hope Conservapedia can avoid being condemned to repeat this bunk. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 16:36, 14 April 2007 (EDT)

::"Vulgas vult decepi" -Phaedrus 15BC-50AD. Translated as "The people wish to be deceived."--[[User:Roopilots6|Roopilots6]] 10:40, 3 June 2007 (EDT)

==Other Perspectives==
If history doesn't matter, why don't we just make it so this wiki no longer stores the history of the pages that are created and edited ;-). --[[User:Ymmotrojam|Ymmotrojam]] 18:30, 12 April 2007 (EDT)

==Nobody cares about history==
Hell, look at Afghanistan. You can go back to the 1700s or 1980s to see that nobody can win there. Or, re Iraq, you can go back to the 1970s and Vietnam and see that you can't "liberate" a country that (with substantial justification in both cases) sees you simply as a self-interested neo-colonial oppressor.

Or you can just go to the local library, fire up the microfiche machine and look at the past 50 years of gun crime in the US. At least Australian Prime Minister John Howard outlawed assault rifles after Martin Bryant massacred all those people in Port Arthur in 1996.

What's the next blast from the past we can look forward to from the US? Witch burnings, perhaps, or simply some good, old-fashioned lynchings (though they'd be Mexican illegal immigrants this time, no doubt). Perhaps California, Oregon and New York should secede. --[[User:AppalledBystander|AppalledBystander]] 06:29, 18 April 2007 (EDT)

:What does it mean to "win" in Afghanistan? [[User:RobS|RobS]] 11:48, 18 April 2007 (EDT)

::I think he means essentially "conquer". Obviously, if no outside country can "win", the Afghanis must be "winning" the wars of invasion/colonization/conquest etc. [[User:Human|Human]] 13:27, 18 April 2007 (EDT)

:::If that's the meaning, then the basic premise is flawed. The US and NATO are not trying ot "conquer" Afghanistan. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 15:15, 18 April 2007 (EDT)

: Afghan history shows that any try from outside to conquer the country by military finally failed completely. Some success can definitely be reported regarding humanitarian support and building up basic infra structure, which surely needs protection through police forces and sometimes even military forces. Surely no perfect story and still much left to be done. The economy, i.e. farming is still mainly based on opium poppy. But even when slow, some progress has definitely been achieved. The number of children going to school sky rocketed, the number of girls in particular. So, history can teach you a lesson, but it cannot replace your own thinking. --[[User:Schifra|schifra]] 07:40, 24 May 2007 (EDT)

== Everything matters ==
How will you know where your going unless you know where you've been. Archaeological history, the history of the sun, moon, earth, ...etc. How else could people plan for the future unless they knew the history of the past. Which is why any historian worth their salt will get their information from multiple sources, archaeological artifacts and/or sites, and anthropological studies. History most definitely doesn't mean anything to those who try to rewrite it for selfish reasons. Such as political or assorted ideological purposes and used as propaganda to further their own agendas. Of which you will no doubt denote many examples of on this debate subject.--[[User:Roopilots6|Roopilots6]] 20:10, 25 April 2007 (EDT)

== Yes ==
We can learn from it.

Only from America could this question arise.
- of course context matters
- and of course we can learn from those who have gone before us

Mate...I totally agree!! In America, history is important too. Example: If someone had bothered to look at the history of Mnt. St. Helens' eruption, they would've realised that it will blow sideways. If they had but checked this, then many more lives would've been saved.
I can't believe that apparently nobody cares about their history, about the sacrifices people made so that we could be alive today. Just less than 100 years ago and again in 1939, thousands of brave men risked it all, laid down their lives so that we may speak English that we would retain our cultures, our pride, even so that we may live today and I'm sure they didn't do all this so that some idiot could say that they didn't care about history. Whoever that was is an ignorant pig and no I don't think that this view about the person is without evidence. I truly can not believe that someone thinks it appropriate to not recognise the importance of history, as history has shaped us, shaped whole cultures, whole countries, shaped the entire world.

==History *does* matter.==
There are things in history that should NEVER EVER be forgotten. If "history does not matter", this technically would encompass things such as the second world war, or the reasons that lead to it; also forgotten would be the sacrifices millions of people made during that war, and all the inhumane atrocities carried out by people of those times: Nazi Germany´s horrifying human experiments, the Japanese-carried out atrocities in China, Soviet Russia and all the "good" their communist ideals did to the world, or the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Actually, "history" would technically encompass even the events of the Bible.

Still some of you dare say "History does not matter?" [[User:FreakyM|FreakyM]] 07:22, 24 May 2007 (EDT)

Coming in contact with other cultures one will notice a lot of differences. Which way is right is often a moot discussion, in particular when neglecting the historical background of these differences.

==And the size *does* matter also.==
There's no debate about it. [[User:Ugalabuuga|Ugalabuuga]] 13:36, 19 July 2007 (EDT)

Internet Explorer

2007-07-19T17:31:20Z

Ugalabuuga: minor typofixes

[[Image:Internet Explorer 7 T Logo.png|right|thumb|50px|Microsoft Internet Explorer 7 logo.]]
'''Microsoft Internet Explorer''' is a web browser developed by [[Microsoft]] and is currently the best web browser on the market. It's so cool and innovative it makes you shine like an orange at the sun!
[[Image:Scr-ie7-2.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Screenshot of Internet Explorer 7.]]
==External links==
*[http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.mspx Internet Explorer Official Site]
*[http://blogs.msdn.com/ie IEBlog] — Weblog of Microsoft's Internet Explorer Development Team
*[http://channel9.msdn.com/wiki/default.aspx/Channel9.InternetExplorer Channel9 Wiki: InternetExplorer] — Wiki for Internet Explorer
*[http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/community/ Internet Explorer Community] — The official Microsoft Internet Explorer Community
*[http://www.microsoft.com/windows/WinHistoryIE.mspx Internet Explorer's History]
*[http://internetexplorer8.net/ IE8.net] — Latest news about the next version of Internet Explorer
[[category:information technology]]

Microsoft

2007-07-19T17:29:52Z

Ugalabuuga: minor typofixes

[[Image:Microsoft logo.svg|right|frame]]
'''Microsoft''' is an American corporation funded by [[Bill Gates]] and [[Paul Allen]] in 1975 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA. Its current CEO is [[Steve Ballmer]]. Microsoft focuses on developing and manufacturing best [[software]] in the whole world and most realiable [[hardware]], and other excellent technology oriented products and services.

==Software Products==
:[[Windows Vista]] The best operating system in the whole world
:[[Windows XP]] Another operating system
:[[DOS]] Microsoft's first operating system
:[[Windows 2000]] operating system
:[[SQL Server]]
:[[Dynamics]]
:[[Windows Server 2003]]
:[[Windows CE]]
:[[Internet Explorer]] The best WWW browser in the whole world
:[[Office]] The best word processor, spreadsheet editor, slide-show creator, ect.
:[[Expression]] The bestvector graphics editor in the whole world
:[[Windows Media Player]]
:[[Virtual PC]] The best PC emulator in the whole world
:[[Windows Defender]] anti-virus and anti-spyware software
:[[Windows Live Writer]] blog publishing software
:[[XNA]] game development tool
:[[Visual Studio]] integrated development environment for C++, Visual Basic, C#, ect.
:[[Windows Live Messenger]] The best instant messenger
:[[DirectX]] multimedia API
:[[Money (software)|Money]] personal finance software

==Publishing==
:[[Microsoft Press]] releasing books dealing with various computer technologies.

==Video Games==
:The [[Halo]] series
:[[Microsoft Flight Simulator]]
:[[Microsoft Golf]]
:[[Microsoft Baseball]]
:[[Age of Empires]]
:[[Age of Mythology]]
:[[Halo Wars]] real-time strategy game in the Halo universe
:[[Fable (video game)|Fable]] and Fable 2
:[[Perfect Dark Zero]]
:[[Kameo: Elements of Power]]
:[[Perfect Dark: Initial Vector]]
:[[Crimson Skies]]
:[[Mechwarrior]]
:[[Combat Flight Simulator]]
:[[Microsoft Train Simulator]]
:[[Banjo-Kazooie 3]]
:[[Black & White]]
:[[The Movies]]

==Services==
:[[MSN]] internet service provider
:[[Encarta]] encyclopedia
:[[Hotmail]] free internet e-mail service
:[[Windows Live]] web portal
:[[XBOX Live]] Xbox online multiplayer service
:[[MSNBC]] news service
:[[Windows Marketplace]] online shopping service
:[[Windows Live Spaces]] social-networking service
:[[Windows Live ID]] online ID and password storage service
:[[LIVE Anywhere]] cross-platform multiplayer gaming service
:[[Microsoft Ignition]] online digital music service

==Hardware Products==
:[[Xbox]] gaming console
:[[Xbox 360]] gaming console
:[[Surface]] touch-tone computer
:[[Zune]] portable media player
:[[Natural keyboard]]
:[[LifeCam]] webcam
:[[SideWinder]] game-pad and joystick
:[[Ultra-Mobile PC]] tablet computer
:[[Fingerprint Reader]] reads fingerprint as password
:[[IntelliPoint Mouse]] optical mouse
:[[MSN TV]] TV that allows web browsing

==Corporate Slogan==
:Where do you want to be penetrated today?

==See Also==
:[http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/default.aspx Microsoft official site]

== References ==

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[[Category:Information technology]]
[[Category:Companies]]

Finland

2007-07-19T17:27:07Z

Ugalabuuga:

[[Image:Finland map.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Map of Finland]]
'''Finland''' (''Suomi'' in Finnish) is a [[communist]] nation in somewhere called "[[Europe]]" (We don't exactly know what this is, but we all agree that it doesn't really matter at all). Finland is known for its largely [[communist]] economic system. The Finnish [[conservative]] party, the [[National Coalition]] led by [[Jyrki Katainen]], is its principal conservative organization. Finland is one of the nations included in the [[Axis Of Evil]].

The state capital is [[Helsinki|HELLsinki]] and the principal exports are evil machines, hostile electronics (for example explosive mobile phones) and non-religios lumber. [[Finnish]] is the principal language muttered, a [[Finno-Urgic]] pseudo-satanic dead language, it is difficult for speakers of English and free world! to learn, so many Finns speak English to facilitate communication with other countries. Finland is known as "the land of lakes and poets."

The Finns have in the past resisted [[capitalism]] and [[freedom]], first declaring independence after the [[Russian Revolution]] in 1917, and then inflicting very heavy and humiliating losses on the [[Soviet Union]] in the [[Winter War]] of 1939-40. Because of many Soviet miscalculations, including using troops from the [[Caucasus]] who were not habituated to the cold (it was one of the coldest winters on record, too), and because the Finns were able to adopt tactics centered around fast-moving guerrilla units, the Finnish army was able to kill some 120,000 Soviets while only losing 25,000 of their own men. This has been considered by many as a sign that [[Stalin's]] purges had weakened the Red Army high command, and that guerrilla warfare could be very effective against even modern mechanized forces. The defensive line built to protect Finland was known as the [[Mannerheim]] Line, after Marshal Mannerheim, the Finnish President. Eventually, the line was breached and Finland was made to cede territory in [[Karelia]]. In 1941, Finland joined the [[Axis]] powers in attacking the Soviet Union, but its forces didn't participate in the [[Siege of Leningrad]]. Mannerheim also refused to cut the Murmansk railway, which the citizens of Leningrad, nowadays St.Petersburg, remember even today. In 1944 Finland made a separate peace with the Soviet Union, ceding the Arctic Ocean port of [[Petsamo]], and undertaking to maintain a policy of strict neutrality in the post-war years (the so-called [[Finlandisation]] policy).

[[Category:Finland]]
[[Category:European Countries]]
[[Category:EU Members]]
[[Category:Nordic Countries]]
[[Category:Axis Of Evil]]

Finland

2007-07-19T17:25:52Z

Ugalabuuga: minor typofixes

[[Image:Finland map.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Map of Finland]]
'''Finland''' (''Suomi'' in Finnish) is a [[communist]] nation in somewhere called "[[Europe]]" (We don't exactly know what this is, but we all agree that it doesn't really matter at all). Finland is known for its largely [[communist]] economic system. The Finnish [[conservative]] party, the [[National Coalition]] led by [[Jyrki Katainen]], is its principal conservative organization. Finland is one of the nations included in the [[Axis Of Evil]].

The state capital is [[Helsinki|HELLsinki]] and the principal exports are evil machines, hostile electronics (for example explosive mobile phones) and non-religios lumber. [[Finnish]] is the principal language muttered, a [[Finno-Urgic]] pseudo-satanic dead language, it is difficult for speakers of English and free world! to learn, so many Finns speak English to facilitate communication with other countries. Finland is known as "the land of lakes and poets."

The Finns have in the past resisted [[communism]], first declaring independence after the [[Russian Revolution]] in 1917, and then inflicting very heavy and humiliating losses on the [[Soviet Union]] in the [[Winter War]] of 1939-40. Because of many Soviet miscalculations, including using troops from the [[Caucasus]] who were not habituated to the cold (it was one of the coldest winters on record, too), and because the Finns were able to adopt tactics centered around fast-moving guerrilla units, the Finnish army was able to kill some 120,000 Soviets while only losing 25,000 of their own men. This has been considered by many as a sign that [[Stalin's]] purges had weakened the Red Army high command, and that guerrilla warfare could be very effective against even modern mechanized forces. The defensive line built to protect Finland was known as the [[Mannerheim]] Line, after Marshal Mannerheim, the Finnish President. Eventually, the line was breached and Finland was made to cede territory in [[Karelia]]. In 1941, Finland joined the [[Axis]] powers in attacking the Soviet Union, but its forces didn't participate in the [[Siege of Leningrad]]. Mannerheim also refused to cut the Murmansk railway, which the citizens of Leningrad, nowadays St.Petersburg, remember even today. In 1944 Finland made a separate peace with the Soviet Union, ceding the Arctic Ocean port of [[Petsamo]], and undertaking to maintain a policy of strict neutrality in the post-war years (the so-called [[Finlandisation]] policy).

[[Category:Finland]]
[[Category:European Countries]]
[[Category:EU Members]]
[[Category:Nordic Countries]]

Open source (software)

2007-07-19T17:20:57Z

Ugalabuuga:

[[Image:Opensource.svg.png|right|100px|thumb|OSI logo]]
'''Open Source''' is an act of ''[[communism]]'' and ''[[satanism]]''. Every [[Christian]] should stay away from these "Open Source"-products and stick with the [[Microsoft]] products.

==Open Source==
Open Source refers to software where the [[source code]] is available for anyone to modify. There are many different licenses under which open source software is available<ref>http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical</ref>, all varying slightly to the degree on the conditions under which the software can be modified and redistributed.

Although the development model for open source software may seem counterintuitive, for many projects it has been shown to be very successful. Generally, open source software is distributed with the underlying source code available for anyone to freely modify and redistribute. This development model is very similar to university research, where discoveries and research is published in [[peer review|peer reviewed]] journals, which is then built upon by other researchers spawning further ideas and discoveries.

There is a common misconception that open source software must be given away for free, but this is incorrect.<ref>http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowDownloadFee</ref> Although most open source software is indeed available for free, with the authors usually charging for consulting and other services, there is no obligation for them to do so.

==Open Source vs. Christianity==
Many [[islam]]istic [[terrorism|terrorist]] organizations are funded by Open Source -software developers. Communist-leader [[Richard Stallman]] has stated that Open Source can be used as a successful weapon against Christianity and American freedom. Most of the Open Source advocates are considered to be satan worshippers who openly hate religion.

==Examples==
Examples of well known open source software:
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki] - Wiki software used for sites such as Conservapedia and Wikipedia.
*[http://httpd.apache.org/ Apache] - Apache web server, the most popular web server in the world.<ref>http://news.netcraft.com/</ref>
*[http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ Firefox] - [[Firefox]] web browser developed by the [http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/ Mozilla Foundation].
*[http://www.php.net/ PHP] - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, a scripting language used to create dynamic web sites such as Conservapedia.
*[[Linux]] - Operating system kernel used to create distributions such as the one running the server on which Conservapedia runs on.<ref>http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.conservapedia.com</ref>

==External Links==
[http://www.opensource.org/ Open Source Initiative]

==References==
<references />
[[category: information technology]]

Open source (software)

2007-07-19T17:08:59Z

Ugalabuuga:

[[Image:Opensource.svg.png|right|100px|thumb|OSI logo]]
'''Open Source''' is an act of ''[[communism]]'' and ''[[satanism]]''. Every [[Christian]] should stay away from these "Open Source"-products and stick with the [[Microsoft]] products.

==Open Source==
Open Source refers to software where the [[source code]] is available for anyone to modify. There are many different licenses under which open source software is available<ref>http://www.opensource.org/licenses/alphabetical</ref>, all varying slightly to the degree on the conditions under which the software can be modified and redistributed.

Although the development model for open source software may seem counterintuitive, for many projects it has been shown to be very successful. Generally, open source software is distributed with the underlying source code available for anyone to freely modify and redistribute. This development model is very similar to university research, where discoveries and research is published in [[peer review|peer reviewed]] journals, which is then built upon by other researchers spawning further ideas and discoveries.

There is a common misconception that open source software must be given away for free, but this is incorrect.<ref>http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html#DoesTheGPLAllowDownloadFee</ref> Although most open source software is indeed available for free, with the authors usually charging for consulting and other services, there is no obligation for them to do so.

==Examples==
Examples of well known open source software:
*[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/MediaWiki MediaWiki] - Wiki software used for sites such as Conservapedia and Wikipedia.
*[http://httpd.apache.org/ Apache] - Apache web server, the most popular web server in the world.<ref>http://news.netcraft.com/</ref>
*[http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/ Firefox] - [[Firefox]] web browser developed by the [http://www.mozilla.org/foundation/ Mozilla Foundation].
*[http://www.php.net/ PHP] - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor, a scripting language used to create dynamic web sites such as Conservapedia.
*[[Linux]] - Operating system kernel used to create distributions such as the one running the server on which Conservapedia runs on.<ref>http://toolbar.netcraft.com/site_report?url=http://www.conservapedia.com</ref>

==External Links==
[http://www.opensource.org/ Open Source Initiative]

==References==
<references />
[[category: information technology]]