Papyrus for writing (as opposed to other uses). You can still buy it as a souvenir in Egypt, but paper superseded it for any other form of writing. Coming to think of it, I haven't seen many clay tablets used lately. Note that parchment is not quite dead - it is still used by Jews for Torah Scrolls.
If we include software as well as hardware, Hieroglyphs and Cuniform are not in use anymore. Neither are a bunch of ancient languages - people still use Latin, ancient Greek, and Hebrew - but most languages used at that time have been abandoned by all except scholars.
We need to wake up and realize that religious fundamentalism of every stripe is the root cause of most of the world's problems, and then effectively deal with it.
The religious impulse seems to be hardwired into most people. It has evolutionary advantages.
Short of a dictatorship of the atheists (enforced by what army), I doubt this is possible. You could pull a USSR and outlaw religion, but then you just get a particularly virulent state religion.
Israel was started predominately by East-European Jews who rejected the religion, and considered Judaism to be an ethnic group. But the religious Jews in Israel are out-breeding the seculars, so I expect in a few decades it will be a religiously Jewish state.
It would be difficult to forge those 1,600 documents.
A much easier propaganda use is to go over the documents you do have, and decide selectively which ones to leak - the ones that make your side look good, and the other side look bad.
In the 1930s, when FDR redefined what a dollar means. It used to be about 1/20th oz. gold. After FDR's redefinition, it became 1/35th oz. gold, and only for foreign governments. Then, Nixon closed the gold window and made the dollar completely free-floating. It might not have been legally a default, but that's like Clinton saying that certain orgasm inducing acts weren't "having sex".
The point is that today most universities are trade schools. The accreditation process is too weak to ensure the learners actually learn something. So they might as well use standard exams.
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Not to mention that while peace would be better for Israelis and Palestinians, it is not necessarily better for sub-groups of those populations, such as the Hamas leadership.
No. If 9 make $1k, then the median income, the one for the "in the middle" earned, is $1k. If the first guy's income doubles and the other nines' are halved to $500, then the median is now $500.
You're right about the mean and total, which is the reason the median is more representative. But the median is more representative.
And all the money has been captured by the wealthy, never to be distributed again until they either start spending most of it or it gets re-captured by higher taxes and spent on public projects like our crappy infrastructure.
Not exactly. Even if the wealthy put the money in the bank, the bank loans it out. Unfortunately, recent practice has been for banks to loan the money out for consumption by the non-wealthy instead of for capital for productive enterprises.
I think the anonymous coward claimed that North Africa was mostly black prior to the Muslim conquest in the 700s, except for Carthage and Tripoli. Both of these were Phoenician settlements.
I couldn't find any evidence what the Berbers looked like at the time, so I can't judge it one way or the other.
The Carthaginians were the descendants of immigrants from Phoenicia (= Lebanon). That's why their city was called, literally, "New City". So the fact they were Caucasoid does not mean the rest of North Africa was populated by Caucasians.
I still don't think the anonymous coward is right, but Carthage isn't evidence of that.
A thousand kilometers is approximately the distance between western Iran and Israel. It may be a coincidence. Or, it may have been the design specifications.
I bet on the second, for roughly the same reason as Saddam sending Scuds over Israel during the first gulf war.
Gotta love the human generosity symbolized by weaponry.
Actually, that does make sense. Arguably, by nuking Israel, Iran would be generous towards the Palestinians. Never mind that they'll get a full share of fallout.
I'd say Socialists are a proper subset of Progressives.
Progressives tend to be not just in favor of progress towards a better world, but in favor of government policies that will make a world they consider better.
There are two ways to give the government power to enact such policies: government ownership (Socialism) and government regulation. Socialism has a bad rap these days, so people who seek to make the government stronger tend to work for more regulation, such as the recent healthcare reform.
However, the difference is cosmetic. If the government decides what will be offered and at what price, it would not matter if the company officially has shareholders and calls itself private.
This is true. But it depends on what is excessive. Companies don't hire ideal candidates for jobs, they hire the best available. If most competent people had a few excess drinks when they were in college, then you have to hire one of those or do without the role.
The US could, even more easily, "leak" US papers on Afghanistan. After some senior Taliban commanders appear as collaborators with the US, the Taliban will stop trusting wikiLeaks.
The only people credulous enough for that argument are American voters.
I wonder why people in the US are so credulous as to believe they can be attacked by what appears to be civilians, rather than a regular military force. Maybe because last time the rate was approximately 150 casualties on our side, to each one of theirs?
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Papyrus for writing (as opposed to other uses). You can still buy it as a souvenir in Egypt, but paper superseded it for any other form of writing. Coming to think of it, I haven't seen many clay tablets used lately. Note that parchment is not quite dead - it is still used by Jews for Torah Scrolls.
If we include software as well as hardware, Hieroglyphs and Cuniform are not in use anymore. Neither are a bunch of ancient languages - people still use Latin, ancient Greek, and Hebrew - but most languages used at that time have been abandoned by all except scholars.
A single state solution is what Lebanon has. It didn't work out very well (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lebanese_Civil_War).
We need to wake up and realize that religious fundamentalism of every stripe is the root cause of most of the world's problems, and then effectively deal with it.
The religious impulse seems to be hardwired into most people. It has evolutionary advantages.
Short of a dictatorship of the atheists (enforced by what army), I doubt this is possible. You could pull a USSR and outlaw religion, but then you just get a particularly virulent state religion.
Israel was started predominately by East-European Jews who rejected the religion, and considered Judaism to be an ethnic group. But the religious Jews in Israel are out-breeding the seculars, so I expect in a few decades it will be a religiously Jewish state.
It would be difficult to forge those 1,600 documents.
A much easier propaganda use is to go over the documents you do have, and decide selectively which ones to leak - the ones that make your side look good, and the other side look bad.
Just imagine how free we would all be if the continental army had followed this in the 1770s.
In the 1930s, when FDR redefined what a dollar means. It used to be about 1/20th oz. gold. After FDR's redefinition, it became 1/35th oz. gold, and only for foreign governments. Then, Nixon closed the gold window and made the dollar completely free-floating. It might not have been legally a default, but that's like Clinton saying that certain orgasm inducing acts weren't "having sex".
The point is that today most universities are trade schools. The accreditation process is too weak to ensure the learners actually learn something. So they might as well use standard exams.
The accreditation would work like WGU's IT degrees. The degree will include a bunch of certification exams from trusted vendors.
In this day and age, no one comes out and says they want to engage in genocide.
Hamas Charter, article 13.
Not to mention that while peace would be better for Israelis and Palestinians, it is not necessarily better for sub-groups of those populations, such as the Hamas leadership.
Surprisingly, companies are in business to earn money, not to provide employment.
No. If 9 make $1k, then the median income, the one for the "in the middle" earned, is $1k. If the first guy's income doubles and the other nines' are halved to $500, then the median is now $500.
You're right about the mean and total, which is the reason the median is more representative. But the median is more representative.
And all the money has been captured by the wealthy, never to be distributed again until they either start spending most of it or it gets re-captured by higher taxes and spent on public projects like our crappy infrastructure.
Not exactly. Even if the wealthy put the money in the bank, the bank loans it out. Unfortunately, recent practice has been for banks to loan the money out for consumption by the non-wealthy instead of for capital for productive enterprises.
Even nerds that go to private schools pay taxes.
I think the anonymous coward claimed that North Africa was mostly black prior to the Muslim conquest in the 700s, except for Carthage and Tripoli. Both of these were Phoenician settlements.
I couldn't find any evidence what the Berbers looked like at the time, so I can't judge it one way or the other.
The Carthaginians were the descendants of immigrants from Phoenicia (= Lebanon). That's why their city was called, literally, "New City". So the fact they were Caucasoid does not mean the rest of North Africa was populated by Caucasians.
I still don't think the anonymous coward is right, but Carthage isn't evidence of that.
A thousand kilometers is approximately the distance between western Iran and Israel. It may be a coincidence. Or, it may have been the design specifications.
I bet on the second, for roughly the same reason as Saddam sending Scuds over Israel during the first gulf war.
Gotta love the human generosity symbolized by weaponry.
Actually, that does make sense. Arguably, by nuking Israel, Iran would be generous towards the Palestinians. Never mind that they'll get a full share of fallout.
I'd say Socialists are a proper subset of Progressives.
Progressives tend to be not just in favor of progress towards a better world, but in favor of government policies that will make a world they consider better.
There are two ways to give the government power to enact such policies: government ownership (Socialism) and government regulation. Socialism has a bad rap these days, so people who seek to make the government stronger tend to work for more regulation, such as the recent healthcare reform.
However, the difference is cosmetic. If the government decides what will be offered and at what price, it would not matter if the company officially has shareholders and calls itself private.
Too bad this is an entitlement generation who don't feel they should face any consequences for their actions.
Don't worry, that's going to go away with the next major economic disaster.
This is true. But it depends on what is excessive. Companies don't hire ideal candidates for jobs, they hire the best available. If most competent people had a few excess drinks when they were in college, then you have to hire one of those or do without the role.
The US could, even more easily, "leak" US papers on Afghanistan. After some senior Taliban commanders appear as collaborators with the US, the Taliban will stop trusting wikiLeaks.
A more interesting question is whether any documents on wikiLeaks are already fakes donated by agents of one government or another.
The only people credulous enough for that argument are American voters.
I wonder why people in the US are so credulous as to believe they can be attacked by what appears to be civilians, rather than a regular military force. Maybe because last time the rate was approximately 150 casualties on our side, to each one of theirs?