User talk:AlexSuricata

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Discussion on Humanities Ref Desk

I assure you that there was no intention of uncivility, but on rereading, I worded my response harshly. Please see my further post there. I think my reply was influenced by the fact that reading the report seemed to answer the question intuitively, but as I well know, some people find number crunching and statistical analysis more tricky than I do, so I shouldn't have let that affect my reply... even unwittingly. Please accept my apologies. There's an article on hubris (and I think I actually misworded my comment anyway!) that should explain the concept; it would have been appropriate if, as you say, I hadn't made a false assumption about your nationality. Hoist by my own petard - I'm frequently found castigating people (gently) for assuming all Wikipedians are from the USA. I read your comments as an affronted person wondering why his great country wasn't top of the pile. Actually, that might also have contributed to me snappy remarks. Further apologies. --Dweller 12:49, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for answering and explaining the misunderstanding. I shall remove my comment to yours on the Reference Desk (if I can, I am relatively new to Wikipedia and not too sure how these things work). To further explain: I do and can handle statistical information, and had noted the sectors mentioned such as Electoral Process, Civil Liberties etc. My question referred to how these factors have been perceived by the Economist to getting a lower rating in the USA than - as I mention - Canada and Australia, for example, countries that I do also not personally know. This was the jist of my query. Apology accepted, and thank you again for taking the time to address my question. Alex. --AlexSuricata 13:13, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
EDIT: If I remove my comment, yours makes no sense. Hence, I leave it to your discretion, as editor, to remove all of this "run-in" and so make the page cleaner afterwards. Please edit as you wish, gracias.--AlexSuricata 13:17, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

No worries. I'm happy to leave it there, as a reminder to me to be more gracious. Thank you for your courtesy. --Dweller 16:44, 1 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Alex, wish I had the time to detail more on this right now. The greatest difference, by far, is in federation/unitary nature. The US, Canada and Germany are all federations. Every province/state has a sovereign right to exist, and has powers devolved upon them by the constitution, which is superior to the central government, and which the central government cannot remove, except by constitutional amendment. This is especially difficult process. See the US Constitution Art. 5: 2/3 of Congress and 3/4 of state support is needed. Scotland, Wales and NI only have power because Westminster lets them. That's only power, not sovereignty: which I would say, is the power to grant power. Though the complicating factor with Canada is that not all provinces are equal. Nunavut is only a territory. It is constitutionally inferior to provinces - like Ontario. I think Quebec is different yet again.martianlostinspace 15:04, 17 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Martian, thanks very much for the info here and on the RD, especially on Canada which is where I was most unsure, for example province and territory difference. I´m a lot clearer now - Great stuff, thanks. --AlexSuricata 15:10, 21 May 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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In from the Cold

Just in case you missed it, Alex, I've given an extended response to your question on Ronald Reagan and the end of the Cold War. Regards, Clio the Muse (talk) 00:54, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, thank you; I have read it. I have also seen on another question that you may have a book published this year. I enjoy reading your contributions to other questions a lot and would be interested in obtaining your book and reading further and informing myself. Would it be possible to find out an eventual amazon link (etc.) to buy the book? Also, will you be publishing individual answers here in book form? They make excellent reading; I especially enjoy your answers to WW2 history (which interests me a lot, partly due to family involvement) - does this exist already? Thanks again, --AlexSuricata (talk) 01:10, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

You are very welcome. Alas, Alex, for practical, academic and personal reasons, I have to keep my full identity here secret! Clio the Muse (talk) 01:19, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I understand, that is quite natural. Either way, I hope to read your book one day. Thank you again for your contributions, --AlexSuricata (talk) 01:27, 26 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Your explanation on the Humanitites Ref Desk

Greetings, AlexSuricata! In response to your explanatory remark on your recent query: I believe Milkbreath—who is a Ref Desk stalwart—was writing in good faith to help clarify the tenor of this thread as it's developed. Please accept that in kind, and also thanks for giving us others the background for your query. I imagine its like is possibly being repeated in discussions all over the world, even as we write here for general consideration as well as relating to what you've posted. -- Cheers, Deborahjay (talk) 23:19, 23 February 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Info. storage - autobiography recommendations

Something of Myself, by Rudyard Kipling. DuncanHill (talk) 00:30, 22 January 2009 (UTC) My Life and Hard Times by James Thurber (128 pages in the Harper Perennial Modern Classics edition). Persepolis and Persepolis 2 by Marjane Satrapi. ---Sluzzelin talk 00:40, 22 January 2009 (UTC) Fredrick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. It was a delight: good book. Oh, and I second Sluzzelin's recommendation for James Thurber above; that's quite an entertaining read. Antandrus (talk) 03:19, 22 January 2009 (UTC) Viktor Frankl's book Man's Search for Meaning, while not a full autobiography, is certainly autobiographical in nature, and is somewhat less than 300 pages. -- JackofOz (talk) 04:11, 22 January 2009 (UTC) That's a superb book; in fact, the autobiographical portion of it (just the first half) is only 94 pages in my edition. Antandrus (talk) 04:28, 22 January 2009 (UTC) Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin - Rmhermen (talk) 05:08, 22 January 2009 (UTC) Erwin Schrödinger's My View of the World (Ox Bow Press, 1983) ISBN 0918024307) is titled My Life, My View of the World in the German original. It is quite short and without chronological order. Schrödinger uses brief and distanced reports on his life as points of departure into philosophical excursions. Killing Time, My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla, A Liar's Autobiography ... ---Sluzzelin talk 09:21, 22 January 2009 (UTC) Black Boy by Richard Wright. Friedrich Nietzsche's Ecce Homo. Primo Levi's The Periodic Table (combined autobiography and science writing, with a little fiction, hugely critically adored, and all in 224 pages). Harry Crews's A Childhood is focused on his early life, but under 200 pages. Slightly more dubious The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (it's actually an autobiography of Gertrude Stein). --Maltelauridsbrigge (talk) 11:16, 22 January 2009 (UTC) Ak! the Periodic Table was my first pick. A Season in Hell by Rimbaud is taught enough. On the Road, an autobiographical novel, at 320 pp, is almost there. Five years of waiting is journalled in Zen in the Art of Archery at 107 pp. Julia Rossi (talk) 08:58, 23 January 2009 (UTC) My Early Life by Winston S. Churchill, an autobiography of his first 25 or so years and his most entertaining & readable book. In the U.S.A. it was published as 'A Roving Commission'. AllanHainey (talk) 13:40, 23 January 2009 (UTC)

TV Series

TV recommendations I am looking for recommendations for good TV series from all around the world, *NOT* USA or UK (have already seen many of theirs) and not necessarily in English, from any decade. In particular I would like information about a) comedy sitcoms and b) dramas/thrillers that people have seen and enjoyed and could recommend to try out. Thanks for any info./tips, --AlexSuricata (talk) 01:05, 18 January 2010 (UTC)

What about Canada? Would the English Canadian shows be too close to American or British for you? If not, then some recent good ones are Da Vinci's Inquest, This is Wonderland, and Corner Gas. Maybe you'd think they are just Canadian versions of CSI, Law and Order, and any random American sitcom...and maybe they are, but I think they are a lot better (like, Da Vinci's Inquest seems more believable than CSI, to me anyway). Sometimes Canadian shows are exciting because they are filmed in Toronto and wow, they go to places I go to. Is Flashpoint really a good show or I am just excited that they filmed an episode at Canada's Wonderland? Anyway, what about French Canadian shows? I'd have to think harder about that, but one that springs to mind is Dans une galaxie près de chez vous, which is a really bizarre Star Trek-satire-type-thing. Adam Bishop (talk) 02:56, 18 January 2010 (UTC) From Germany, you could try Das Boot, Heimat and Berlin Alexanderplatz, all of which are long episodic dramas originally intended for cinema release but which have also been shown as TV mini-series. --Richardrj talk email 11:00, 18 January 2010 (UTC) The Decalogue.--droptone (talk) 13:58, 18 January 2010 (UTC) Up Series? (After each episode, they wait 7 years, so this is probably the longest-running "series" ever.) Comet Tuttle (talk) 19:02, 18 January 2010 (UTC) My husband speaks very highly of Spiral (Engrenages in the original French); two series are now available on DVD, I believe. And I can recommend the Swedish Mankell's Wallander TV film series, particularly the second series of films starring Krister Henriksson as Wallander. Karenjc 13:47, 19 January 2010 (UTC) I can second the above mentioned Wallander as worth watching. Astronaut (talk) 09:38, 21 January 2010 (UTC) Mahabharat, Monkey, The Water Margin, all of which have been dubbed into English. --Dweller (talk) 14:35, 19 January 2010 (UTC) Der Bulle von Tölz and Il commissario Montalbano (based on Andrea Camilleri's Salvo Montalbano books). ---Sluzzelin talk 15:20, 19 January 2010 (UTC) Edel und Starck --AlexSuricata (talk) 20:35, 23 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]