the available information can be wrong or will change in future,
if there are too many influencing factors, some consequences or dependencies can be overlooked and will become apparent only during execution.
So, often, at some point, the plan doesn’t fit to reality any more. Then, some people prefer to change the plan, and others try to change the reality. And because the real reality is an unapproachable lady that isn’t impressed by human plans, a parallel virtual reality will be created, where the plan is fine and its creator is safe.
Those who do the latter aren’t necesserally idiots or freshly graduated MBAs who don’t know better.
Once upon a time, in a small Russian village with a Tatar name, a baby-girl Natasha was born to a family of farmers. For her parents, Maria and Pyotr, she was the fourth child, and not the last one. They were quite prosperous; they had a good house, and their land was so large and the livestock so numerous that they had to hire several other villagers on full-time.
These were the late 1920-ies, the time of NEP in then young USSR, the New Economic Policy — that strange mixture of economic freedom and communism that also the modern China exhibits.
When Natasha turned eight, communists decided to end NEP in that village. One day, armed people came to their house and declared all their property nationalized, and themselves exiled to Siberia. They weren’t given any time to prepare to the exile, and they were only allowed to take so much each person could bear.
Millions if not ten millions of other prosperous farmers everywhere in USSR were affected by this nationalization. Typically, they were gathered together (concentrated) in concentration camps, and then pushed into railroad waggons not intended to transport people, to be transported without food and water for days and weeks. Nazis repeated that communist trick with Jews twenty years later. What they couldn’t repeat is what happened, when the minority of the railroad transport survivors actually arrived to Siberia.
From time to time, I need to lookup chinese translation in MDBG. And because I’m using IE8 more and more lately, I’ve decided to create an accelerator for that.
After reading Writing IE8 accelerator in 15 minutes, I’ve spent said 15 minutes to create it. All it takes is a very basic knowledge of xml and html. So, here is it, a completely unofficial MDBG accelerator:
Warning: this IE8 accelerator will obviously only work in an IE8+ browser.
@Damir "There are 3 Esprit stores in just one street" I think they do that on purpose, so that finding something feels like geocaching in reply to Damir#
我今年34岁:散,事,死… The former are already happened, praying to escape the latter #
