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Yeah, it's not like the idea of public libraries is thousands of years old or anything.

Right guy, wrong battle.
"But by the battle of Cannae all Hannibal's elephants had died." from http://www.roman-empire.net/army/cannae.html

Still, extending this back to Nintendo, would that make the Wii controller their elephants?

Isn't it frustrating when no one gets your reference?

The amount of crap this guy has to put up with is more than anyone's fair share! He does a great job of being the benevolant dictator in a difficult product.

I don't get it... I thought Asterix was all about overthrowing dictators

Sol is the sun, which is being pulled via chariot by Apollo, who is the God of the sun.

Depends on who you ask. 1 2. Different authors often wrote conflicting accounts of the same heroes/gods. It's luck as to which ones win out. It's alot like history ;)

That's a good question. Well if we outsource much of our production and harvest much of our resources from other countries, we'll become something of a "soft" economy where the core of our economy is consumer services and products that we don't even make.

Think England, which doesn't have all that many resources, or production, or space, but has ideas and capital that it uses to produce externally. So we'll eventually just be working to provide enough services to sustain the society and working as managers trying to come up with new ideas for our businesses.

The problem is that ideas are renewable, and our arrangement will work only so long as none of our outsourced employees come up with anything.

But I think I've heard of this before, when the Romans grew soft in their power and control, relying on their satellite colonies for certain vital production and everything. Obviously, times were different and the example is slightly different, but I think it still works. But we all know how that ended up.

Blue is the obvious choice to add to our existing red (democrat), white (Republican) and green (Green) parties.

So who's ready to get the Blue party rolling?

Vote Blue: the party for Nerds and Geeks!

I'm an Assistant Professor of Classics at Bates College in Lewiston, Me. and teach in the Department of Classical and Romance Languages and the Program in Classical and Medieval Studies.

Next in line, after the training for marching and fitness, came the training of handling weapons. For this they primarily used wickerwork shields and wooden swords. Both the shields and the swords were made to standards which made them twice as heavy as the original weapons. Evidently it was thought, that if a soldier could fight with these heavy dummy weapons, he would be twice as effective with the proper ones.