Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuously Run Libraries
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Re: Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuously Run Libraries
#2Can we crowdfund a militia to protect and secure archives for digitizing in conflict zones? We are losing too much priceless history to fools over ego.
Re: Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuously Run Libraries
#3Can we crowdfund a militia to protect and secure archives for digitizing in conflict zones? We are losing too much priceless history to fools over ego.
There was an Indiegogo campaign a while back to do this for books in Timbuktu. (I chipped in.) Well, not a militia technically.
Re: Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuously Run Libraries
#4Can we crowdfund a militia to protect and secure archives for digitizing in conflict zones? We are losing too much priceless history to fools over ego.
Crowdfund to pay mercenaries to guard books? That's... something.
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#5Can we crowdfund a militia to protect and secure archives for digitizing in conflict zones? We are losing too much priceless history to fools over ego.
This is very interesting. I've thought several times fantasized about setting up a Kickstarter to fund hiring blackwater for things like this. I wonder though if this isn't what we originally created government for. Does the fact that people are thinking about this "hack" say more about where technology has gotten or about the state of politics?
Re: Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuously Run Libraries
#6Can we crowdfund a militia to protect and secure archives for digitizing in conflict zones? We are losing too much priceless history to fools over ego.
This is very interesting. I've thought several times fantasized about setting up a Kickstarter to fund hiring blackwater for things like this. I wonder though if this isn't what we originally created government for. Does the fact that people are thinking about this "hack" say more about where technology has gotten or about the state of politics?
Probably the state of politics. I suspect crowdfunding would never raise enough for the likes of Blackwater.
Re: Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuously Run Libraries
#7Can we crowdfund a militia to protect and secure archives for digitizing in conflict zones? We are losing too much priceless history to fools over ego.
in the first Gulf War, the UN Coalition forces (mostly the US) carpet bombed parts of Iraq that contained a lot of yet-to-be-excavated ancient villages (they looked like mounds in the sand by the 1990s).
we lost of a bunch of priceless history then, too.
i'm not trying to make statements about the equivalences or non-equivalences of various war participants over there, but, there's so much ancient history being destroyed by military operations nowadays.
who the hell knows what's being lost in Yemen right now?
and there are also ethical questions. i mean, suppose we could pay Blackwater to lead a team of archaeologists to make digital copies of some stuff -- but they had to kill a few dozen people in the process? would anyone still feel good about donating to that campaign? would it have been worthwhile?
Re: Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuously Run Libraries
#8Can we crowdfund a militia to protect and secure archives for digitizing in conflict zones? We are losing too much priceless history to fools over ego.
in the first Gulf War, the UN Coalition forces (mostly the US) carpet bombed parts of Iraq that contained a lot of yet-to-be-excavated ancient villages (they looked like mounds in the sand by the 1990s). we lost of a bunch of priceless history then, too. i'm not trying to make statements about the equivalences or non-equivalences of various war participants over there, but, there's so much ancient history being destr…
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Re: Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuously Run Libraries
#9Can we crowdfund a militia to protect and secure archives for digitizing in conflict zones? We are losing too much priceless history to fools over ego.
in the first Gulf War, the UN Coalition forces (mostly the US) carpet bombed parts of Iraq that contained a lot of yet-to-be-excavated ancient villages (they looked like mounds in the sand by the 1990s). we lost of a bunch of priceless history then, too. i'm not trying to make statements about the equivalences or non-equivalences of various war participants over there, but, there's so much ancient history being destr…
Re: Lost Languages Discovered in One of the Oldest Continuously Run Libraries
#10Hmm. There are people alive today who claim to speak Caucasian Albanian (they number in the 100s and are called Udi). Also random fact: out of this nano-ethnicity, one became a tech executive in the US and is a cofounder of Evernote.
It would be interesting to compare modern Udi with the discovered Caucasian Albanian text to see if there is any resemblance.