Read around the text. Joseph and heavily pregnant wife apparently turns up in Hicksville, Galilee, rather late in the day. The inn is full, he gets the stables. Now, where do you think the poor people stayed? Hint: not in the inn. The bit about the census is probably untrue, but it's little details like this that make you think. "The inn was full, and she ended up giving birth in the stable", says Joseph. If there had been rooms at the inn, he would have stayed there. So: he could afford to travel and stay at inns, unlike most of his compatriots who could afford neither.
This kind of thing was grist to the mill of advanced 19th century Biblical criticism, which itself derived from the kind of tests historians use to decide if texts are based on actual eye-witness accounts.
Rome was a Republic for the period between the kings and the emperors. Unelected representatives made the decisions. The representatives were, basically, the heads of the families classed as Patricians, so the Government consisted of a load of Mafia Godfathers getting together to parcel up the City. This seems to have been the kind of Government envisaged by the US Founding Fathers, who were very definitely patrician in outlook. So long as only the right sort of people got to make the decisions - white, powerful men - everything would be OK.
So you may be right. If in reality the Senate and the House are not elected by the ordinary people but emerge by agreement of powerful pressure groups, such as rich individuals and large corporations, the US is (just) a Republic. But if, every few years, the ordinary people vote and can remove and replace those senators and representatives - well, that means that the people (demos, in Greek) have political power (kratein, in Greek.) And our word democracy therefore simply means "people power"; it does not define exactly how that power is exercised.
I imagine most Americans at least think their country is a democratic republic.
I'm glad you know so much about 1st century CE Palestine, because there's an awful lot of people who need putting straight.
Sarcasm aside, Jesus's father was a carpenter who could afford to travel. He was a solid middle-class citizen, therefore. And this being in Israel, not the majority of the Middle East, being a solid middle class citizen meant that your son learnt to read. We are talking here about a culture that elevated the printed word to a very high level, not one like Rome that tried to reserve literacy to the Patrician class.
In addition, the NT does not describe Jesus as a god, nor did he claim to be (or the Gospels wouldn't have got written.)
Personally, I'm a complete agnostic theologically, but lazy religion-bashing (with the smallest scent of anti-semitism) still annoys me.
Acorn's roots are in the Cambridge Mathematics Laboratory. It's nice to think that, while the USA overtook the UK rapidly in computer science after our Civil Service fsck-up postwar, the typical low power do it on the cheap approach of British engineering is coming into its own again.
Netbooks have fans, and vent holes. They also use a lot more power per unit of performance than the iPad. Tablets are fanless, and have smaller batteries. That means low power components, high efficiency LEDs, and very clever thermal management. This all costs lots of money.
Apple took a gamble in predicting sales of over 10 million, and decided to amortise development costs and order components based on those volumes. They were right...they could have afforded to be wrong. Motorola and Samsung presumably see tablets as a very niche market, so the "tablet division" is expected to work like a normal product and make money on the usual volume ramp up. They are trying to amortise R&D over maybe a million units, and ordering based on that. That is a triple hit; parts are more expensive than netbooks, serious software development is needed, and economies of scale aren't good enough.
You really shouldn't comment on electronics manufacturing unless you actually know what you're talking about, and I'm afraid you don't.
And you know what will be notable 100 years in the future? I can just imagine some Wikipedian of 600BC deciding to remove an article on the religious beliefs of a small tribe living at the Eastern end of the Mediterranean because nobody would ever be interested, and they would never have any consequences.
Anyone can cite an imaginary textbook, or indeed make up the content of a real one with a limited distribution, just like a Republican senator just misrepresented the content of a report on climate change knowing none of his target demographic would ever read it and find out. That is the problem.
It's a fundamental weakness in the Wikipedia model and I have no idea how it could be addressed. One of the things you want an encyclopaedia for is to preserve the past, but by allowing deletion (which is necessary to get rid of junk) you risk losing exactly what you are trying to preserve. Add into the mix that there's a high probability that many of the people who want to maintain an online encyclopaedia want to do so because there is a particular bit of reality they want to control, and it's a recipe for long term obsolescence.
The other issue with "notability" is copyright of paper documents. I have a number of textbooks dating from the 1920s which are probably by now quite rare. As a result I have noticed errors in some Wikipedia articles - but the textbooks are (a) not on line and (b) still in copyright. It is not possible to cite them.
Wikipedia is an example of why we continue to need printed books, and why the Internet will never be a complete substitute - distributed archiving in an unarguable format. If I have a physical copy of, say, Ricardo's The High Speed Internal Combustion Engine, it is easy to demonstrate that it is real - the binding, paper, ink and so on can all be analysed to show that its claimed publication date is correct, the pages can be viewed to show that they have not suffered alteration. No file can offer that security. But there is no practical way to use it to demonstrate to a Wikipedia editor that an article on engine balancing contains nonsense.
Interestingly, Microsoft has been unable to trademark "SQL Server" as a trademark for an SQL server!
Their mark applies to
computer programs for distributed relational database management and development and user manuals sold as a unit
. In other words, it only applies to the "boxed product". I can still tell you that "Apache Derby is an SQL Server" because I am referring to a downloadable program, not a saleable functional complete product with manuals.
I think this shows you why lawyers and patent agents get paid according to the amount of weasel in their heredity. Clearly someone at Microsoft demanded that SQL Server get trademarked, and the scope got narrowed and narrowed until at last the USPTO rolled over.
Me, I always refer to it as "Microsoft ess queue el server 2008" because i won't play those silly games. As for people who call it "sequel", they need to get off my (IBM-coloured) lawn, because I can remember SEQL!
I'm not even going to apologise for this pedantry, because I was at one time a member of the Royal Institution, before I foresook science for engineering.
In fact Faraday's joke was better than that, It was the Prime Minister (in those days called the First Lord of the Treasury, hence your confusion), and the Government had recently introduced some unpopular taxes. So Faraday's actual reply, "I know not, but I wager one day your Government will tax it" was doubly apposite.
The other one of these Victorian quotes is the response of the inventor of the dynamo when asked what use it was: "What use is a new-born baby?"
Every bit of hydrocarbon we can extract from American soil is one less dollar going to fund terrorism in hostile countries, one less dollar that ultimately will be used to purchase guns and explosives that will be used against us
but I think this guy did, which is why I responded to his post. I don't suffer from paranoia.
Which are these "hostile countries"? Most of them are full of people who would like to live somewhere like the US - but the US has supported dictatorships instead. Attitudes like yours go a long way to explain why there's a problem.
I grew up in the days when factories and offices used to display nudes on calendars and think nothing of it. (That visible aspect of the culture has largely died out, though the old attitudes still remain in many places. ) My suggestion was that this guy, immature or not, perhaps simply hadn't noticed. Yes, that was foolish in the circumstances, but perhaps understandable.
Unfortunately, and I say this with more than 30 years experience to back me up, there isn't actually a lot of connection between social progressiveness and engineering skills. Your own "having a hard time" is itself stereotypical - Richard Feynmann was one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, but his attitudes to women were mixed up and sent some very bad messages. I'd suggest that for someone to want to do the work you describe yourself as doing, you might yourself have some background problems. I imagine most people without serious sexual hangups would find fetishism and so on incomprehensible and boring.
There are a number of people with accounts with variations of my real name, several of whom appear to be grade A sleazebags. As a result, I created a Facebook account in my full name with accurate details, turned everything off and left it empty - purely to deal with this possible situation.
Nokia's cost problem is the old fashioned, traditional, Olly Wight consultants can talk about it till the cows come home, one of far too many products with far too little differentiation. Nokia's hardware offering is fragmented to hell and back. Apple produce one phone at a time. HTC produces only a few.
Calling Germany "business-hostile" - the country with a huge base of small and medium size businesses? Whereas Hong Kong is officially part of the PRC and its political stability is by no means assured. I think you totally fail to understand the difference between the ease of incorporating a company (here in the UK I could have DNS-and-BIND Services Ltd. by the end of today for a few hundred dollars) and the real costs of startup.
As someone married to a specialist small business accountant, I can tell you that the main cause of small business failure is people like you who simply do not allow for nearly enough cash to burn through post-incorporation. (One person IT businesses don't count, they are just a tax avoidance scheme). Fifty thousand euros for a real company suggests a tight budget.
But, well said. The whole "We're under threat so we have to attack our neighbours and steal the land of non-Jews who live in our country" is a complete distortion of one of the world's greatest cultures. In the US and the UK, Jews are doing (for the most part) very well, and deservedly so because of their focus on social cohesiveness, education, and family values. Like Ireland and many Middle Eastern states, Israel has suffered from a succession of piss-poor governments (which are, because of their policies, themselves a threat to the security of Jews world-wide). In today's world, the Zionists are past their sell-by date.
Is the other N900 sitting in a nice, dry box with the battery out. Unless webOS comes good, I have to eat humble pie over everything I've said about HP in the last 5 years, and HP returns to making engineering products for engineers, please.
Good luck with your economy when there is no civil or criminal law relating to it. You may think it is easy to draft a civil law that does not involve some kind of regulation, but the experience of the developed world over the last hundred years or so is that you are wrong. Countries with no tradition of Government-made and enforced civil law - China, Iran - are pretty much shit holes for the great majority of the population. But of course as a "libertarian" you're identifying yourself with the 1-5% whom you think worthy of having liberty.
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This kind of thing was grist to the mill of advanced 19th century Biblical criticism, which itself derived from the kind of tests historians use to decide if texts are based on actual eye-witness accounts.
"utopia" is from the Greek ou, not, topos, place. It means "nowhere". And so it should read "It must be utopia",
So you may be right. If in reality the Senate and the House are not elected by the ordinary people but emerge by agreement of powerful pressure groups, such as rich individuals and large corporations, the US is (just) a Republic. But if, every few years, the ordinary people vote and can remove and replace those senators and representatives - well, that means that the people (demos, in Greek) have political power (kratein, in Greek.) And our word democracy therefore simply means "people power"; it does not define exactly how that power is exercised.
I imagine most Americans at least think their country is a democratic republic.
Sarcasm aside, Jesus's father was a carpenter who could afford to travel. He was a solid middle-class citizen, therefore. And this being in Israel, not the majority of the Middle East, being a solid middle class citizen meant that your son learnt to read. We are talking here about a culture that elevated the printed word to a very high level, not one like Rome that tried to reserve literacy to the Patrician class.
In addition, the NT does not describe Jesus as a god, nor did he claim to be (or the Gospels wouldn't have got written.)
Personally, I'm a complete agnostic theologically, but lazy religion-bashing (with the smallest scent of anti-semitism) still annoys me.
Acorn's roots are in the Cambridge Mathematics Laboratory. It's nice to think that, while the USA overtook the UK rapidly in computer science after our Civil Service fsck-up postwar, the typical low power do it on the cheap approach of British engineering is coming into its own again.
Apple took a gamble in predicting sales of over 10 million, and decided to amortise development costs and order components based on those volumes. They were right...they could have afforded to be wrong. Motorola and Samsung presumably see tablets as a very niche market, so the "tablet division" is expected to work like a normal product and make money on the usual volume ramp up. They are trying to amortise R&D over maybe a million units, and ordering based on that. That is a triple hit; parts are more expensive than netbooks, serious software development is needed, and economies of scale aren't good enough.
You really shouldn't comment on electronics manufacturing unless you actually know what you're talking about, and I'm afraid you don't.
That would be a "Yo momma" joke in Latin.
And you know what will be notable 100 years in the future? I can just imagine some Wikipedian of 600BC deciding to remove an article on the religious beliefs of a small tribe living at the Eastern end of the Mediterranean because nobody would ever be interested, and they would never have any consequences.
Anyone can cite an imaginary textbook, or indeed make up the content of a real one with a limited distribution, just like a Republican senator just misrepresented the content of a report on climate change knowing none of his target demographic would ever read it and find out. That is the problem.
The other issue with "notability" is copyright of paper documents. I have a number of textbooks dating from the 1920s which are probably by now quite rare. As a result I have noticed errors in some Wikipedia articles - but the textbooks are (a) not on line and (b) still in copyright. It is not possible to cite them.
Wikipedia is an example of why we continue to need printed books, and why the Internet will never be a complete substitute - distributed archiving in an unarguable format. If I have a physical copy of, say, Ricardo's The High Speed Internal Combustion Engine, it is easy to demonstrate that it is real - the binding, paper, ink and so on can all be analysed to show that its claimed publication date is correct, the pages can be viewed to show that they have not suffered alteration. No file can offer that security. But there is no practical way to use it to demonstrate to a Wikipedia editor that an article on engine balancing contains nonsense.
Their mark applies to
. In other words, it only applies to the "boxed product". I can still tell you that "Apache Derby is an SQL Server" because I am referring to a downloadable program, not a saleable functional complete product with manuals.
I think this shows you why lawyers and patent agents get paid according to the amount of weasel in their heredity. Clearly someone at Microsoft demanded that SQL Server get trademarked, and the scope got narrowed and narrowed until at last the USPTO rolled over.
Me, I always refer to it as "Microsoft ess queue el server 2008" because i won't play those silly games. As for people who call it "sequel", they need to get off my (IBM-coloured) lawn, because I can remember SEQL!
In fact Faraday's joke was better than that, It was the Prime Minister (in those days called the First Lord of the Treasury, hence your confusion), and the Government had recently introduced some unpopular taxes. So Faraday's actual reply, "I know not, but I wager one day your Government will tax it" was doubly apposite.
The other one of these Victorian quotes is the response of the inventor of the dynamo when asked what use it was: "What use is a new-born baby?"
but I think this guy did, which is why I responded to his post. I don't suffer from paranoia.
Which are these "hostile countries"? Most of them are full of people who would like to live somewhere like the US - but the US has supported dictatorships instead. Attitudes like yours go a long way to explain why there's a problem.
Sorry, it's a very boring day debugging someone else's application.
Unfortunately, and I say this with more than 30 years experience to back me up, there isn't actually a lot of connection between social progressiveness and engineering skills. Your own "having a hard time" is itself stereotypical - Richard Feynmann was one of the greatest physicists of the 20th century, but his attitudes to women were mixed up and sent some very bad messages. I'd suggest that for someone to want to do the work you describe yourself as doing, you might yourself have some background problems. I imagine most people without serious sexual hangups would find fetishism and so on incomprehensible and boring.
Um- perhaps it never occurred to him? Because, you know, a lot of Europeans wouldn't even notice.
There are a number of people with accounts with variations of my real name, several of whom appear to be grade A sleazebags. As a result, I created a Facebook account in my full name with accurate details, turned everything off and left it empty - purely to deal with this possible situation.
Nokia's cost problem is the old fashioned, traditional, Olly Wight consultants can talk about it till the cows come home, one of far too many products with far too little differentiation. Nokia's hardware offering is fragmented to hell and back. Apple produce one phone at a time. HTC produces only a few.
As someone married to a specialist small business accountant, I can tell you that the main cause of small business failure is people like you who simply do not allow for nearly enough cash to burn through post-incorporation. (One person IT businesses don't count, they are just a tax avoidance scheme). Fifty thousand euros for a real company suggests a tight budget.
But, well said. The whole "We're under threat so we have to attack our neighbours and steal the land of non-Jews who live in our country" is a complete distortion of one of the world's greatest cultures. In the US and the UK, Jews are doing (for the most part) very well, and deservedly so because of their focus on social cohesiveness, education, and family values. Like Ireland and many Middle Eastern states, Israel has suffered from a succession of piss-poor governments (which are, because of their policies, themselves a threat to the security of Jews world-wide). In today's world, the Zionists are past their sell-by date.
Is the other N900 sitting in a nice, dry box with the battery out. Unless webOS comes good, I have to eat humble pie over everything I've said about HP in the last 5 years, and HP returns to making engineering products for engineers, please.
Good luck with your economy when there is no civil or criminal law relating to it. You may think it is easy to draft a civil law that does not involve some kind of regulation, but the experience of the developed world over the last hundred years or so is that you are wrong. Countries with no tradition of Government-made and enforced civil law - China, Iran - are pretty much shit holes for the great majority of the population. But of course as a "libertarian" you're identifying yourself with the 1-5% whom you think worthy of having liberty.
It is pissing it down from dark clouds this very moment, which admittedly is a change from snow and hail, and all I can say is, you insensitive clod.
Visit the island of Gozo, near Malta, and prepare to have your credulity stretched beyond breaking point.