its spread is a function of distance, population density and commercial exchanges.
Tor the most part, yes. The map I linked, however, says that Milan was relatively unaffected, as was Warsaw, or Brugues. Which were important cities (apart from warsaw, okay ^^)
It is certainly plausible that Y. pestis is much more pathologic in a weak, starving host living in awful non hygienic circumstances. This is a testable hypothesis but hopefully no one is ever going to do that experiment.
Forget the "starved". The Black Death got people regardless of wealth. In Hamburg for example, 16 of 21 City Council members died - certainly no poor people.
Also, the pest affected different areas quite differently. See this map (green: no or minor occurrences of the Black Death). As far as I can see, the areas unaffected by the pest were not special in any way (not specially poor or uninhabited or anything) as far as my - admittedly small - knowledge goes.
Maybe someone there got the "hygiene" or "quarantaine" thing correctly, though.
... anyone with numbers about which percentage of Facebook accounts can be considered as active?
My guess would be that it's the same as with G+.
People try it out. Some stay. Others depart. Nothing new.
Question is, to what extent does a "national internet" affect the economy?
I know my productivity at least would drop seriously w/o global communication channels. But then, I'm not Iranian.
To use a domain specific language for tasks it wasn't designed for or is very good at?
JavaScript works very well as something it wasnt designed for every time you use GMail, Meebo or any other application that's running within the browser these days.
There's even a company in Germany trying to get round the ban by selling "heating globes" that happen to emit light and happen to look exactly like an old lightbulb.
'What we really want to do is raise awareness, so that the other parties say 'bloody hell, they've got seven million votes this time out', or one million votes, or enough votes to make them care and seriously think about these issues.'"
In Germany, a recent poll showed a 2% support rate for the pirate party (Piratenpartei).
Crusades are not part of the Christian faith in itself - at least I could not find a licence to kill in Jesus' teachings or biography.
Jihad, the Holy War, on the other hand, is an essential part of Islam. The school of thought that reduces Jihad to a fight within each person is not justified by looking at Muhammad's life.
At all times people have tried to justify violence with whatever religion was dominant where they lived. But there is a difference between Islam and Christianity in the ease with which you can patch together parts of the Qur'an to persecute other faiths.
Although you're technically right (all three religions refer to the god of Abraham as their god), many Christians and many more Muslims would disagree.
Muslims abhor the Christian idea of the Trinity (There is one god), while Christians need only hear the word "jihad" to be convinced Muslims don't worship the God Who Loves Everyone(tm).
Beats me.
I did the same thing - let my gf assemble her own PC. While it was good to teach her there's no secret mysteries to the thing, and made me proud because she did it well (and yes she's cute:P), it was no reason for me to submit the story to Slashdot. Geez.
That this one got admitted only proves that Slashdot is just another place where you can't escape sexism.
After all, what about it?
Women are people too, big deal.
Slashdot Mirror
Also, the pest affected different areas quite differently. See this map
The Green areas should not be green. Data about mortality rates is incomplete. Large unaffected areas are a myth. http://past.oxfordjournals.org/content/211/1/3.full?keytype=ref&ijkey=loGlgExG0zZlz49#F1
its spread is a function of distance, population density and commercial exchanges.
Tor the most part, yes. The map I linked, however, says that Milan was relatively unaffected, as was Warsaw, or Brugues. Which were important cities (apart from warsaw, okay ^^)
But, alas, that wikipedia map is most certainly wrong in that those green areas were not unaffected, but only *relatively* less affected areas. Milan had its share of pest deaths, but not as bad as in other cities Also, east Germany and Poland actually *were* affected
It is certainly plausible that Y. pestis is much more pathologic in a weak, starving host living in awful non hygienic circumstances. This is a testable hypothesis but hopefully no one is ever going to do that experiment.
Forget the "starved". The Black Death got people regardless of wealth. In Hamburg for example, 16 of 21 City Council members died - certainly no poor people.
Also, the pest affected different areas quite differently. See this map (green: no or minor occurrences of the Black Death). As far as I can see, the areas unaffected by the pest were not special in any way (not specially poor or uninhabited or anything) as far as my - admittedly small - knowledge goes.
Maybe someone there got the "hygiene" or "quarantaine" thing correctly, though.
(also, slashdot logs me out a lot. Gr!)
... anyone with numbers about which percentage of Facebook accounts can be considered as active? My guess would be that it's the same as with G+. People try it out. Some stay. Others depart. Nothing new.
... so, nothing new to see here.
Question is, to what extent does a "national internet" affect the economy? I know my productivity at least would drop seriously w/o global communication channels. But then, I'm not Iranian.
To use a domain specific language for tasks it wasn't designed for or is very good at?
JavaScript works very well as something it wasnt designed for every time you use GMail, Meebo or any other application that's running within the browser these days.
Concerning TFA: I guess it pushes only those people over the edge that were close to it anyway.
Apart from that: I hate DST.
If they dont want to waste daylight in summer, people should fix their timetables instead of fiddling with everybody's clocks.
yes, see here
a shipment of those has been confiscated, and the issue is going to the courts (link in German)
... which sprang to my mind when I first heard about "The World": "How do they make sure its not washed away?"
Seems they didnt.
among others, Deutsche Bahn also has as "get-your-car-on-the-train" program, see http://www.dbautozug.de/site/dbautozug/en/start.html
as others have pointed out, it doesnt kill air travel at all.
In Germany, a recent poll showed a 2% support rate for the pirate party (Piratenpartei).
And lo and behold! Suddenly, politicians of other parties are discovering their love for the pirates' topics...
(links in German, and I'm too much a of a lazy ass to translate)
original here:
http://xkcd.com/135/
Crusades are not part of the Christian faith in itself - at least I could not find a licence to kill in Jesus' teachings or biography.
Jihad, the Holy War, on the other hand, is an essential part of Islam. The school of thought that reduces Jihad to a fight within each person is not justified by looking at Muhammad's life.
At all times people have tried to justify violence with whatever religion was dominant where they lived. But there is a difference between Islam and Christianity in the ease with which you can patch together parts of the Qur'an to persecute other faiths.
Although you're technically right (all three religions refer to the god of Abraham as their god), many Christians and many more Muslims would disagree. Muslims abhor the Christian idea of the Trinity (There is one god), while Christians need only hear the word "jihad" to be convinced Muslims don't worship the God Who Loves Everyone(tm).
Beats me. I did the same thing - let my gf assemble her own PC. While it was good to teach her there's no secret mysteries to the thing, and made me proud because she did it well (and yes she's cute :P), it was no reason for me to submit the story to Slashdot. Geez.
That this one got admitted only proves that Slashdot is just another place where you can't escape sexism.
After all, what about it?
Women are people too, big deal.