Well, I just made a journal entry a few days ago pertaining to this... (very short entry)
I was in a discussion a week or two ago where people started finding articles to counterargue me - only their articles only supported my arguments... Which they didn't themselves notice... My point with the last paragraph being that I agree that calling BS is completely necessary.
That reminds me of an old term
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Debt slave.
Back in ancient Rome, they had debt slaves - people who were forced to stay where they were because they owed money. Funny thing, really... Do you know why slavery was abolished in Scandinavia? (Some time in the middle ages) It was cheaper to arrange things differently... There was laws pertaining to how you could treat your slaves, but free men (and women) had to look out for themselves.
Here, we have to register our address - which is also linked to our free medical insurance*. Therefore, come election time, the authorities know where to send the voting card. If your voting card gets lost in the mail, you can still vote. This is how it works: On election day, I realize my room is a mess, and give up finding my voting card. I then take some picture ID (Passport) and my medicare card to the local voting place. I then wait in line with the other fools that have lost their cards. When I get to the front of the line, they verify that I'm me and look me up in a big register they have of local voters. All voters in the district have been distributed among tables in the voting hall, and they tell me which table to go to (from looking at the register) and give me a new voting card. I take the voting card to the table, and they verify that I'm me (again), and then gives me a (paper) ballot. Cut to me entering a voting booth.
Very simple to do, very long and tedious to describe.
*(we get to choose a local doctor, whose name and number is then printed onto our medicarecard, so that if the hospitals need quick information about their new patient, they know who to call)
I find the GDS very useful - yeah, it has glitches, but it's free (on the Windows platform - that's not something which happens too often to useful stuff)... I'm glad they put it out in beta form as there's no free alternative to GDS (AFAIK).
They should learn from the Duke Development Team... Don't send anything out until you're absolutely, positively, unwaveringly sure that there's nothing that needs fixin'...
Are you it had nothing to do with the moon? For some reason Hammurabi and his countrymen (who lived in what is now the rabbles of Iraq) counted in dozens, and they were there a bit before those roman guys...
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Well, I just made a journal entry a few days ago pertaining to this... (very short entry)
I was in a discussion a week or two ago where people started finding articles to counterargue me - only their articles only supported my arguments... Which they didn't themselves notice...
My point with the last paragraph being that I agree that calling BS is completely necessary.
I stopped reading exactly at 'Excavation campaigns'.
I apologize for wasting your time.
Maybe I'm just skimming too much. Could you please show me where in the link you provided I can read something that supports your comment?
Plausible explanations are not the same as actual events. For every event there are thousands of plausible explanations.
Getting your history lessons from someone who can't even spell their own domain name properly is not a good idea...
Not only that - they'll demand that anything not conforming with their vision/version of Atlantis be destroyed or altered...
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Debt slave.
Back in ancient Rome, they had debt slaves - people who were forced to stay where they were because they owed money.
Funny thing, really... Do you know why slavery was abolished in Scandinavia? (Some time in the middle ages)
It was cheaper to arrange things differently... There was laws pertaining to how you could treat your slaves, but free men (and women) had to look out for themselves.
... sounds quite similar to Finnish conditions.
Here, we have to register our address - which is also linked to our free medical insurance*.
Therefore, come election time, the authorities know where to send the voting card. If your voting card gets lost in the mail, you can still vote.
This is how it works:
On election day, I realize my room is a mess, and give up finding my voting card.
I then take some picture ID (Passport) and my medicare card to the local voting place.
I then wait in line with the other fools that have lost their cards.
When I get to the front of the line, they verify that I'm me and look me up in a big register they have of local voters. All voters in the district have been distributed among tables in the voting hall, and they tell me which table to go to (from looking at the register) and give me a new voting card.
I take the voting card to the table, and they verify that I'm me (again), and then gives me a (paper) ballot. Cut to me entering a voting booth.
Very simple to do, very long and tedious to describe.
*(we get to choose a local doctor, whose name and number is then printed onto our medicarecard, so that if the hospitals need quick information about their new patient, they know who to call)
How about replying to pointless things on /.? :p
I find the GDS very useful - yeah, it has glitches, but it's free (on the Windows platform - that's not something which happens too often to useful stuff)...
I'm glad they put it out in beta form as there's no free alternative to GDS (AFAIK).
I'll second his statement.
Plus it garbles the typed-in address, so if you type just one letter wrong you can't just correct that one letter.
Palm phones are - sadly - not as widely distributed in Europe. Well, Denmark, at any rate.
And neither do you!
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They should learn from the Duke Development Team... Don't send anything out until you're absolutely, positively, unwaveringly sure that there's nothing that needs fixin'...
Erm. Errr. I can't see your comment being any less idiotic.
"Your side is stupid because you called the other side stupid"
Right.
That was what I said.
The reason they counted in dozens was most likely this division of the seasons...
Some states almost have, and one has.
Ugh.
Are you it had nothing to do with the moon? For some reason Hammurabi and his countrymen (who lived in what is now the rabbles of Iraq) counted in dozens, and they were there a bit before those roman guys...
A bit pricier, but you get what you pay for:
External harddrives
(sorry if the link is bogus)
OTOH it proves the credibility of SCO and how one should trade with them (both eyes open and a taperecorder running)...
Very true...
On top of that, I haven't paid a penny for my gig account - which is totally kick-ass... Whereas a non-optimal MS-OS is... not cheap.
TANSTAAFL
/. is main stream.
If you would at least read the summary, by the way, you'd notice these words:
Useful as a cautionary tale about out-of-context quoting (..)
You could even go as far as to RTFA which has the title:
"Eliminate the Positive (or "The Only Negative Review of Halo 2 You're Ever Likely To Read")
Add the ability to abstract thought into the reading of these things and you might detect some attempts at making people laugh and/or smile.