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Archaeologists Discover Lost City In Cambodian Jungle
First time accepted submitter steve_mark66 writes "Australian archaeologists using remote-sensing technology have uncovered an ancient city in Cambodia that has remained hidden for more than a millennium under dense jungle undergrowth. The discovery of Mahendraparvata, a 1,200-year-old lost city that predates Cambodia's famous Angkor Wat temple complex by 350 years, was part of the Hindu-Buddhist Khmer Empire that ruled much of Southeast Asia from about 800 to 1400 A.D., during a time that coincided with Europe's Middle Ages"
The Age has a story of its own, with video.
... a road built nearby. Maybe I'm just getting old myself, but archaeological sites should be protected, and their destruction really makes me sick at the stupidity of the human race. - HEX
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Isn't this the start of the plot for "Alien Vs. Predator"?
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
They are now hiring more archaeologists for the exploration. Requirements: must be able to run more than 10k meters in Temple Run.
The archaeologists were using Apple Maps - turns out it was actually Phnom Penh.
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No, you're thinking of Mick Jagger!
Hoffa, I think, was killed by the Manson family back in the 80's, when they killed Sharon Stone. I think Charles Manson's daughter Marilyn is still around, I hear she's the singer in some band.
And he neglected to mention that the archaeologists found the city using frikkin' lasers! That would've made the story far more appealing straight away.
lol.. Hoffa was the leader of the teamsters union that allowed the mob to be part of it. It helped in their so called fight against the big corporations to have a little mob backup. The mob would in turn use the retirement funds to launder money.
Anyways, the senate started investigating the mob connections and the unions and Hoffa disappeared without a trace. No one has found a body, he is presumed to be dead. Several mobsters have claimed they killed him and lead investigators on wild trips looking for the body but it has never been found to date. There is a lot more involved and is actually a somewhat interesting story if you find yourself bored one of these days. Hoffa was one of the original anti 1%ers so to say, but he did most of his work attempting to unionize America in the 70's which more or less lead to all the downsizing in the 80's and outsourcing in the 90's. Most of what the unions demanded back then has been codified into laws now making them more or less a bullying arm for wages and benefits.
Wouldn't it have been better if they did NOT announce to the world that they found this new city until they *knew* that the gov't could secure it against looters?
I mean, now that this 'unlooted site' has been announced, isn't it just a matter of time before someone loots it?
The kids these days are really resourceful and will lookup Jimmy Hoffa on wikipedia, then watch a Jimmy Hoffa youtube vid and then berate their peers on Facebook for not knowing who Jim Hoffa is and calling their peers noobs. Kids these days ... you gotta love 'em ...
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Friend of mine grew up in South Chicago. He said that when Hoffa disappeared everyone in his neighborhood stopped buying sausage for a couple of weeks.
"Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin
As for "disposable cogs", "respect", and "dignity" these concepts just nebulous as they always have been — and not because Hoffa failed, but because they simply can not codified into law any more than, say, love or, indeed, respect and dignity can be.
Unions always were — and remain today — (wanna-be) monopolies seeking to maintain and ever increase the prices of what their members are selling (their labor). Plumber Joe and plumber Jim joining a union to be able to get 10% higher prices for their work is not any different than "Joe's Burger" and "Jim's Burger" agreeing to raise their prices on the same day. Unfortunately, America's anti-trust laws apply only in the latter case, even though the former ought to be just as criminal.
In Soviet Washington the swamp drains you.
No, he did most of his work unionizing during the depression, when workers really needed it (when the companies were hiring their own thugs to beat up and shoot picketers). By the 60s Hoffa was just a union boss, and by the mid 70s he was disappeared.
Hoffa was one of the original anti 1%ers so to say, but he did most of his work attempting to unionize America in the 70's which more or less lead to all the downsizing in the 80's and outsourcing in the 90's.
I wish I could log in here because nobody but you will see this comment, but you're spewing misinformation. I was there; I'm 61. You got your history ass-backwards. By the '70s unions were already past their peak and losing power. The downsizing in the '80s and the outsourcing in the 90's had nothing to do with unions. When Reagan jawboned congress to slash the capital gains tax to half of what an ordinary worker paid, there was an orgy of leveraged buyouts by folks like Romney, who would buy up successful companies, fire all the workers and sell off the assets and take home piles of money made on the misery of others. The capital gains tax discourages this behavior.
I was working it Disney from 1980 to 1985 and one of thes vulture capital firms were trying to do it to Disney, buying Disney, selling all its IP and real estate, and leaving all its thousands of employees looking for new jobs. My union then was the Teamsters (worse union I've ever been in, they were in bed with management) and our hours were cut from 40 to 30 for a few months. It really hurt, but not nearly as bad as if the vultures would have succeeded and we'd all been out of work.
The outsourcing was a result of the unions having lost almost all their membership and power; with strong unions, they would not have been able to do all that outsourcing.
Its already got a wiki link under lidar.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lidar#Archaeology