Actually, they all have accents, too, as the supposed British accent, called Received Pronunciation or Public School Speech, was made up in the 1760s and is apparently only used natively by 3% of the population. A REAL English accent would be what Hengist and Horsa spoke when they lead the invasion into Britannia, which would sound like Dutch.
Well, the Macedonians WERE considered the wild, uncivilized cousins of the Greeks. Also, the Doric dialect tended to turn the "th" sound into a "d" sound, much like Irish stereotypically does. Certainly from an Athenian perspective, it would make sense. OTOH, Ptolomy I, the narrator played by Anthony Hopkins, was also a Macedonian, wasn't he?
In the latest commercial, they have him speaking in a Saturday Night Live version of the Chicago dialect, even adding a gratuitous "Da Bearss" at the end.
Actually, it *is* the ur-nordic language, and they go to a lot of work to make sure that it stays like Old Norse/Old Danish. Obviously, there has to be a little shifting, since no one had tape recorders back in the 9th Century, but they still make sure that the rhymes in The Head Ransom from Egil Skallagrim's Saga still rhyme, and all the puns in the sagas and Eddas still work, and that no one introduces new words when something from the old days can be repurposed.
No. But I will note that when the UK director Gerry Anderson produced Thunderbirds, for a UK audience, he gave the puppets US accents.
UK productions that are produced to be sold to the US often used a couple of Americans, or more often Canadians, in major parts so as to given us Americans a point of entry. When he made Space 1999 he used the husband-wife pair from (the real, not Tom Cruise) Mission Impossible as the leads and Barry Morse, a Canadian, as the scientist, for this very reason.
I would note that the BBC still uses the idea. Why else have the Lady of Downton Abbey be an American heiress?
BTW, why is it that the Irish cannot manage suspension of disbelief for dramas set in their backyard using backyard accents, when New York audiences *expect* their movie and TV cops and gangsters to have local accents?
Elrond was a native Sindarin speaker, whereas Galadriel grew up speaking Quenya until the Noldor moved back to Beleriand. Therefore, her French would sound like something spoken by Hugh Capet if not like Clovis the Frank King, not modern French like her subjects. I do not know much about French chrono-dialects, but she would certainly sound very antique.
As Robin Hood was a member of the yeomanry, rather than the nobility, he would have spoken something like Old English but with Middle English grammar, and would probably have sounded Dutch to our ears. If he spoke French, it was because he was speaking the foreign language of the nobility, not because he spoke it natively. I expect that he would be as likely to speak French as would the average Russian during the Napoleonic invasions (like Platon, vs. Pierre B., using War And Peace characters).
That is the Department of the Mint's problem, not the Fed. DST is someone else's problem entirely, at least partially each state's (ask Arizona or Hawaii, or once upon a time, Indiana about that).
wasn't there a Spanish ship that was found but had to have it's cargo returned to Spain because it was in the service of the Spanish government?
Well, I am sure that they try that argument every time that anyone finds one of the lost treasure ships with the raped wealth of the Americas aboard. The last that I heard, the Atocha artifacts were mainly in the possession of the salvage company, not the Spanish government. They also tried that with the Amistad cargo, to no avail.
The AC has a problem with anyone but him deciding where to spend money, and expects that the government will have his/her/its priorities.
Seriously, this isn't science, it is treasure hunting for a more recent wreck than usual, but better documentation. To use a nerd analogy, this is buying Sir Alec Guinness's prop light saber hilt that he used in his death scene. Who wouldn't if they had the money? To use a car analogy, he is buying a Lambogini for the US (you CAN race them on closed tracks, or on the Bonneville salt flats, so it isn't completely stupid if you like fast cars).
To use an analogy that I like, he is doing the equivalent of buying one of Sir Earnest Shackleton's whiskey bottles that he left in the Antarctic (which have recently been found and recovered).
Now, if he was going to try to create a working version of Salvage 1, that would be different.
Peace and solving hunger are largely orthogonal, as the 18th and 19th scientific farming in Western Europe demonstrated. In fact, they may well be inversely related; Prussia wasn't a danger to its neighbors until the potato and black (vs white) bread solved its hunger problems, and the Irish Catholics killed few Irish Protestants during the Potato Famine despite the Protestants refusing to serve their grain unless the Catholics read a bit from the Bible in Irish, rather than Latin.
People who insist on peace as a pre-condition to solving other conflicts simply demonstrate that they either do not really want to solve the problem, or else that they want to have the Final Solution to the population problem without the guilt.
Tropical rainforest is usually terrible soil, after the rainforest is removed. The lost cities of the Amazon basin (seen by early Spanish soldiers escaping down the river, and apparently gone by the time that explorers started up the river) apparently had long-term programs to improve the soil in certain areas, but this will not help much if you try growing in large farms rather than individual gardens.
BTW, North America has some of the poorest soils on Earth, as well, if you look in the wrong places (our back yard, for instance:-). The poster is fishing for one-sided comments from a site whose members have to think twice before remembering that corn has kernels, too. Ask at an Ag school, not here.
1 kW per household seems very low. My desktop's PSU alone can draw 0,85 kW on its own. A good hair dryer consumes more than that.
Except that you do not run your hairdryer all day, and probably not even at the same time as everyone else. What are you using your PC for, that it uses 850W on a continuous basis, BTW? Any chance that you are confusing a momentary pulse for its normal usage, or have mis-measured something?
by that same logic, i'm assuming you are happy with incandescent light bulbs, no leds available, no mobile phone...
Well, incandescent bulbs are better when on extension lights while working on the underside of a car (the motto when I was helping Dad was "The job's not over til the bulb breaks"). I certainly would not want CF bulbs for that application, given the likelihood of broken bulbs, and would not want LEDs if they were as fragile, given their price.
Mobile phones now make up a large portion of the total system even in the USA, not just 6% of all calls, and furthermore no phone lines had to be removed to allow mobile phones (just trunks between the local main office and the local BSC). In the good old Banacek days, when mobile phones were essentially equivalent to ham sets in the car, and limited to a few thousand subscribers per state, they were certainly an ignorable tiny fraction.
Since my light bulb analogy didn't impress you, imagine Daylight Savings Time moving the clock forward 10 minutes. Lots of work, but little return.
There was none, until recently when he wrote a story based on Beowulf Shaeffer, Carlos Wu, and their two shared wives moving to Home after the resettlement. Do you have the four new books based around the Puppeteer Fleet Of Worlds (all co-authored with Edward M. Lerner)?
The execution for walking on the grass (the only Terran grass patch on Home, at the time) has been discussed in passing a number of times, however.
I agree that rural electrification has had a major impact, almost as much as the Model T and semi-decent roads (almost as much since my WV great-grandfather electrified his house and barn with his own generator long before the power company got out there), just not nuclear power. Damnit.
It seems to me if– in the presence of an established voluntary organ donation system, a society's organ supply is measurably affected by the withdrawal of killed prisoners' non-consensually harvested organs– that society is so morally bankrupt and dysfunctional, they need to reevaluate why they're bothering to extend lives with medicine in the first place.
Except that they would be too morally bankrupt to bother. Did the Germans end oven cremations because the Greens objected to the air pollution?
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> LotR is the acknowledged beginning of fantasy writing.
If you ignore Lord Dunsany, maybe.
Actually, they all have accents, too, as the supposed British accent, called Received Pronunciation or Public School Speech, was made up in the 1760s and is apparently only used natively by 3% of the population. A REAL English accent would be what Hengist and Horsa spoke when they lead the invasion into Britannia, which would sound like Dutch.
Well, the Macedonians WERE considered the wild, uncivilized cousins of the Greeks. Also, the Doric dialect tended to turn the "th" sound into a "d" sound, much like Irish stereotypically does. Certainly from an Athenian perspective, it would make sense. OTOH, Ptolomy I, the narrator played by Anthony Hopkins, was also a Macedonian, wasn't he?
In the latest commercial, they have him speaking in a Saturday Night Live version of the Chicago dialect, even adding a gratuitous "Da Bearss" at the end.
Written by an Irishman. :-)
Actually, it *is* the ur-nordic language, and they go to a lot of work to make sure that it stays like Old Norse/Old Danish. Obviously, there has to be a little shifting, since no one had tape recorders back in the 9th Century, but they still make sure that the rhymes in The Head Ransom from Egil Skallagrim's Saga still rhyme, and all the puns in the sagas and Eddas still work, and that no one introduces new words when something from the old days can be repurposed.
No. But I will note that when the UK director Gerry Anderson produced Thunderbirds, for a UK audience, he gave the puppets US accents.
UK productions that are produced to be sold to the US often used a couple of Americans, or more often Canadians, in major parts so as to given us Americans a point of entry. When he made Space 1999 he used the husband-wife pair from (the real, not Tom Cruise) Mission Impossible as the leads and Barry Morse, a Canadian, as the scientist, for this very reason.
I would note that the BBC still uses the idea. Why else have the Lady of Downton Abbey be an American heiress?
BTW, why is it that the Irish cannot manage suspension of disbelief for dramas set in their backyard using backyard accents, when New York audiences *expect* their movie and TV cops and gangsters to have local accents?
Elrond was a native Sindarin speaker, whereas Galadriel grew up speaking Quenya until the Noldor moved back to Beleriand. Therefore, her French would sound like something spoken by Hugh Capet if not like Clovis the Frank King, not modern French like her subjects. I do not know much about French chrono-dialects, but she would certainly sound very antique.
As Robin Hood was a member of the yeomanry, rather than the nobility, he would have spoken something like Old English but with Middle English grammar, and would probably have sounded Dutch to our ears. If he spoke French, it was because he was speaking the foreign language of the nobility, not because he spoke it natively. I expect that he would be as likely to speak French as would the average Russian during the Napoleonic invasions (like Platon, vs. Pierre B., using War And Peace characters).
> come on fed, the Canadians
That is the Department of the Mint's problem, not the Fed. DST is someone else's problem entirely, at least partially each state's (ask Arizona or Hawaii, or once upon a time, Indiana about that).
Because someone else owns it, and Bezos cannot buy all of Brazil?
wasn't there a Spanish ship that was found but had to have it's cargo returned to Spain because it was in the service of the Spanish government?
Well, I am sure that they try that argument every time that anyone finds one of the lost treasure ships with the raped wealth of the Americas aboard. The last that I heard, the Atocha artifacts were mainly in the possession of the salvage company, not the Spanish government. They also tried that with the Amistad cargo, to no avail.
The AC has a problem with anyone but him deciding where to spend money, and expects that the government will have his/her/its priorities.
Seriously, this isn't science, it is treasure hunting for a more recent wreck than usual, but better documentation. To use a nerd analogy, this is buying Sir Alec Guinness's prop light saber hilt that he used in his death scene. Who wouldn't if they had the money? To use a car analogy, he is buying a Lambogini for the US (you CAN race them on closed tracks, or on the Bonneville salt flats, so it isn't completely stupid if you like fast cars).
To use an analogy that I like, he is doing the equivalent of buying one of Sir Earnest Shackleton's whiskey bottles that he left in the Antarctic (which have recently been found and recovered).
Now, if he was going to try to create a working version of Salvage 1, that would be different.
Peace and solving hunger are largely orthogonal, as the 18th and 19th scientific farming in Western Europe demonstrated. In fact, they may well be inversely related; Prussia wasn't a danger to its neighbors until the potato and black (vs white) bread solved its hunger problems, and the Irish Catholics killed few Irish Protestants during the Potato Famine despite the Protestants refusing to serve their grain unless the Catholics read a bit from the Bible in Irish, rather than Latin.
People who insist on peace as a pre-condition to solving other conflicts simply demonstrate that they either do not really want to solve the problem, or else that they want to have the Final Solution to the population problem without the guilt.
Tropical rainforest is usually terrible soil, after the rainforest is removed. The lost cities of the Amazon basin (seen by early Spanish soldiers escaping down the river, and apparently gone by the time that explorers started up the river) apparently had long-term programs to improve the soil in certain areas, but this will not help much if you try growing in large farms rather than individual gardens.
BTW, North America has some of the poorest soils on Earth, as well, if you look in the wrong places (our back yard, for instance :-). The poster is fishing for one-sided comments from a site whose members have to think twice before remembering that corn has kernels, too. Ask at an Ag school, not here.
T-Rex would be as bad at dancing as boxing or pushups.
Except that T-Rex would just eat the judges.
Always assuming that the OP wasn't writing about the band of that name, of course.
Well, the odds are that at least a few posters are gay. They can get female friends, sometimes.
Of course, they cannot get dates with persons of their appropriate sex, either.
Alternately, at least one woman posts on slashdot - alas, a declared lesbian.
1 kW per household seems very low. My desktop's PSU alone can draw 0,85 kW on its own. A good hair dryer consumes more than that.
Except that you do not run your hairdryer all day, and probably not even at the same time as everyone else. What are you using your PC for, that it uses 850W on a continuous basis, BTW? Any chance that you are confusing a momentary pulse for its normal usage, or have mis-measured something?
I thought they always used toxic waste. :-)
OTOH, without nuclear fallout, don't we lose most of the classical Japanese monster movies? OK, nuclear WARFARE is majorly significant.
by that same logic, i'm assuming you are happy with incandescent light bulbs, no leds available, no mobile phone ...
Well, incandescent bulbs are better when on extension lights while working on the underside of a car (the motto when I was helping Dad was "The job's not over til the bulb breaks"). I certainly would not want CF bulbs for that application, given the likelihood of broken bulbs, and would not want LEDs if they were as fragile, given their price.
Mobile phones now make up a large portion of the total system even in the USA, not just 6% of all calls, and furthermore no phone lines had to be removed to allow mobile phones (just trunks between the local main office and the local BSC). In the good old Banacek days, when mobile phones were essentially equivalent to ham sets in the car, and limited to a few thousand subscribers per state, they were certainly an ignorable tiny fraction.
Since my light bulb analogy didn't impress you, imagine Daylight Savings Time moving the clock forward 10 minutes. Lots of work, but little return.
There was none, until recently when he wrote a story based on Beowulf Shaeffer, Carlos Wu, and their two shared wives moving to Home after the resettlement. Do you have the four new books based around the Puppeteer Fleet Of Worlds (all co-authored with Edward M. Lerner)?
The execution for walking on the grass (the only Terran grass patch on Home, at the time) has been discussed in passing a number of times, however.
I agree that rural electrification has had a major impact, almost as much as the Model T and semi-decent roads (almost as much since my WV great-grandfather electrified his house and barn with his own generator long before the power company got out there), just not nuclear power. Damnit.
Publishing a list of adversaries, accessible by those listed (either directly/intentionally or via hearsay, etc.) is foolish.
Worst possible result: it becomes a point of pride to be on someone's Enemies List, and a matter of embarrassment for some people NOT to be on it.
Richard M. Nixon had that happen. As many liberals tried to claim being on his list when they were not as were actually on it.
Increasing the supply of waiting organs increases the chance that they will find one for the judges or jurors. It is altruism, or a nasty sort.
It seems to me if– in the presence of an established voluntary organ donation system, a society's organ supply is measurably affected by the withdrawal of killed prisoners' non-consensually harvested organs– that society is so morally bankrupt and dysfunctional, they need to reevaluate why they're bothering to extend lives with medicine in the first place.
Except that they would be too morally bankrupt to bother. Did the Germans end oven cremations because the Greens objected to the air pollution?