That earlier version sounds much more manageable. I'm a spectacle wearer, so I'm not bothered by having glasses on. If the LEDs illustrated were actually Near-IR LEDs (instead of the violet-emitting ones shown) then I could imagine this working reasonably.
I see enough people walking around with filthy great headphones on that I don't see the power supply being that much of a problem.
The war won't last long, and it won't end well for the surplus population (who, pretty much by definition, won't have access to the powerful weaponry).
When was the last time that a plane had to make an emergency landing or a flight delayed because the plane simply weighed too much due to obese travelers?
On an absolutely regular basis. People get bumped from flights in my experience on a weekly basis. (That's for a typical route of 4 flights per week, 18 seats per flight, with a commonly "large" workforce and most having to carry 20+ kilos of workgear and personal gear on each leg of the trip.)
Which is why all people checking in are weighed along with their baggage, before taking the baggage for the search (nothing flies without being searched), and that has been the case for nearly 20 years.
To pretend that children in decades past havenâ(TM)t been sneaking a look at mucky images, albeit in magazines and newspapers, is naive at best.
... are the sort of genderless, risk averse little shits who wouldn't have the balls (or female equivalent) to actually look at their parent's porn collection.
That sounds a reasonable combination of features. Listening to some of the other whinging from people here, I was mentally putting together a feature list for a device/ spare battery/ charger combo. (My normal reason for needing such is for the camera batteries on a multi-day trip into the hills. Which I solve with a pocket battery and a USB cable.)
By implication from TFS, it's a telephone for people who don't have a telephone.
What fiendish device they have for people who don't know how to use a telephone (e.g. my mother) or who don't want one (e.g. my hill-walking buddy, Tom), I don't know.
Anyway, it's not a job if there's no pay packet - which is what I understand by "internship" instead of "job".
OK, it's not the best of ways to start your relationship with a company, but part of the induction process at the start of employment (oh, sorry, it's an internship, not an employment) is informing the employee (internee) of their employment rights (not an American concept, I know), the procedures for grievances, their obligations (including security, working hours (another un-American concept), and who they report to and are responsible to) etc etc. Oh, and where the fire exits are and that there's a fire drill on Wednesday mornings.
There's a more fundamental issue about cycling back from the pub while drunk. Unless you're some sort of major masochist, you're going to be cycling for few miles at most - up to an hour or so of walking time. (Between my regular pub and the house it's about 45 minutes walk) Much greater distances, you're likely to take a taxi rather than take the bike, because if you can afford a night in the pub instead of drinking supermarket booze at home, then you can afford a taxi.
If I've got too much under my skin to cycle in a straight line, then I just get off the bike and push it until I feel a bit steadier, or I'm home. Simples. No need to go veering off across the road, bouncing off alternating kerbs.
File invention under "solution in search of a problem".
Though ominously the work's computer I'm having my lunch break on is telling me of a compulsory re-boot, which is may mean the decision has been taken out of my hands.
Sorry, still not entrapment - even by booking him, you aren't enticing the driver to do something he wouldn't have otherwise have been willing to do. He would still be taking bookings before and after you,
If you're doing your "entrapment" right, then he's not going to be booking anyone after he's picked you up (hmmm, are all Uber drivers male? I would have thought it would be a good way for hookers to get off the streets and into contact with their customers. But that's a side line.)
Obviously, even if they're unsure if there is a crime being committed, there's an investigation going on. So the driver's phone, passwords, and access to all the phone's apps would be impounded as part of the investigation, along with freezing of the account.
Or, if the driver is still taking bookings after a several hour interview with the police, and he's still got his phone, then I'd be pretty surprised if he's still taking bookings.
I think archeology has generally been too quick to assign non-mundane explanations to whatever is not immediately recognised as something we moderns also do.
You might get that impression from the representations of archaeology on the like of Discovery Channel. It makes a more dramatic story. The reality is quite different.
For an example, a site I was working on exposed over a period of a summer of work a sequence of soil deposits consisting, from surface down, of rare flakes of stones associated with activities in a nearby (5m away) cave ; below that a layer of white quartzite cobbles of size 5-15cm (the cave and surrounds were in limestone ; the nearest quartzite outcrops were 2-3 km away to the east and south-east ("pavements" of quartzite pebbles are common surrounding megalithic sites in this area and of this period, for example at the Clava Cairns. Below that was the "natural" - undisturbed sub-soil, but it's surface was scratched with parallel grooves known as "ard marks" (an ard is a primitive human-powered plough, and elsewhere in the area is clearly seen to be a sign of the first arrival of agriculture). Critically, at this site there is no intervening ploughed-soil layer between the ard-marked sub-soil and the layer of cobbles, so the ground seems to have been ploughed but not cultivated before being covered with white stones brought from some distance away. This was on a flat-laying area of ground of about 10m by 8 beside the entrance to the cave, in which a series of drystone and corbelled walls indicate several stages of repeated activity.
Now, feel free to come up with a description of this site that doesn't include "ritual" activity. I spent a week on the site (exposing the ard marks - why do they change orientation in different parts of the excavated area?), and lunch break activities between lounging in the sun (on Skye! a rarity), swatting midges (on Skye, a normality), admiring the wonderful views of Bla Bheinn (mountain range to the west and NW, on Skye normally invisible in the rain), watching eagles soaring over the site (on Skye - are they the recently re-introduced Sea Eagles? I'll get my binoculars from my tent), and spending hours discussing what the possible motivations for the original builders could have been. We couldn't come up with anything that didn't involve "ritual", but feel free to try. Oh, almost on the last day, I noticed (with my geological eye, these archaeologists couldn't spot a gneiss if you hit them on the head with it)that despite the site having been swept down to bedrock by glaciers from the north-west, one and only one of the metre-scale boulders scattered around the site was gneiss, whose nearest outcrop is around 10km to the SE. Feel free to come up with a non-"ritual" reason for carrying around a half-ton of rock 10km (by sea, in a canoe) to 30km (over land) from a source location to besides a cave entrance. If you saw it in the edited version on Discovery, there would be about a half-second pause of consideration, whereas the reality is more like several hundred hours of thinking by multiple people bringing different perspectives to the question.
My memory was telling me that our petrol tank is 5 gallons, but in hindsight I was remembering the litres-to-gallons conversion factor, not the capacity. I fill to the limit, so I don't actually look at the volume counter, just wait for the -click- as the pump trips out.
So an 11 gallon tank is actually a fairly normal size. I'd check what the car takes to fill, but since we did it a couple of days ago, it'll probably be September before I do it again. Actually, no ; I'll be out of the continent by then, so it may be October before I do it again.
Where's the key to the lockbox? tie him up and club/cut him til he tells you...
Lockboxes - of the portable variety - are several millennia in the future from these bodies. OK - maybe as little as one and a half millennia, for the more recent of them.
Until very recently, few people travelled alone. If they had significant valuta, then they'd also have companions (free or slave) travelling with them. For protection, cooking, fucking and actually carrying the loads.
Not enough money to run your own troop of thugs? Then you band up with other travellers going your way. Did you have the joys of "doing" Chaucer's 'Canturbury Tales' for Eng.Lit? Think for a second about how little comment is made of the fact that these strangers are travelling in company together, mostly for safety.
And now... in a world where the roads really are that dangerous (and they were pretty dangerous - I cite Chaucer's social commentary-en-passant again), then a man who was foolish enough to get stoned while out on the road deserved to get his throat cut. That's why a common theme in ancient tales (all through the Odyssey, for example) is the importance of hospitality to travellers, but simultaneously the importance of the guest obligations of good behaviour to the host.
Which has humanity seen more of, out a long ways between here and there -- ritual murders, or highwaymen? so which seems more likely??
Probably ritual murder. We're talking about a pre-coinage and minimal metal age, so if someone is carrying valuables, then they're probably going to be carrying as much as they physically can. Which means they're carrying as much as you can. Which rather changes the equation of theft.
How are you going to turn the goods into value? There isn't money. Perhaps you can take them to someone and swap the bundle of goods for a cart load of grain... which you've then got to somehow get home to your family. OK, maybe the robbed goods are metal - bronze or copper, say. So you rob the guy, take the goods, and then... the only person who is going to be interested in these goods is likely to be your local chieftain or lord. And when you try to sell them to him, since the only possible way you could have gotten them was by theft, then he's as likely to take them from you, then have you ritually murdered as an example to other possible thieves.
I'm not painting the times as being a paragon of lovely interpersonal relations. Life was nasty, brutish and short. But there were still very strong sanctions against theft, if only because very, very few people ever moved more than a few miles from where they were born. That's why strontium-oxygen isotope analysis is helpful for identifying the relatively rare people who did move more than a few miles.
Outlawry - being outside the law - may sound terribly romantic. But not many people took that path, and those who did tended to end up being caught, then killed under slow torture in the market square pour encourager les autres. I was looking at some Assyrian carvings recently showing how they dealt with people who broke the rules, including the rules against theft. They peeled the malefactors. Slowly. And completely. Becoming a thief was something you thought about carefully.
You use the term "highwayman". They came in with the availability of guns (you'll only find out that you're trying to rob a better swordsman than you once, in the minutes before your painful death), cash money (effectively untraceable), and enough social mobility that you could turn up in a new town and NOT be automatically detained as a runaway serf. It might have been different in your country, but it was only in the last 6 or 7 hundred years that it was legal for most people to leave their village, and real freedom of movement is much newer than that. (My wife was over 35 before she was able to buy a long-distance bus or train ticket without showing her internal passport.)
Anyway, my install of LOv5 has finished, so I'd better get on with some work. [Bloody corporate software is still stopping it from working.]
I do suspect the religious interpretations are overblown, tho (Digging the Weans made a good point!) and in most cases it was just throwing a body in the nearest hole as the easiest way to get rid of it -- no mess, bother, effort, or stink.
Archaeologists are careful to shy away from "religion". It's "ritual" if there's no good reason to do it *that* way instead of/this/ way. For example, a flint mine has good mechanical reason to be a shaft with radiating passages at the level of the flint horizon, but no good reason to have a niche in the wall at the eastern side of the base of the shaft ; so the mine is a mine, but the niche is "ritual".
If you're killing someone - to steal their goods and clothes (remember - hand woven fabric is ALWAYS expensive) - then sticking a knife in them or knocking them on the head is adequate. But many of the "bog bodies" have been stabbed in several places, AND clubbed, AND had their throats slit AND their hands tied behind their backs. It's a process that is called "overkill". The application of multiple wounds, any one of them rapidly lethal, isn't necessary, and that excessive wounding is why many of these people were thought to have been ritually murdered. That is an old argument ; the more recent discovery of traces of hallucinogens, particular herbs (not very tasty ones) in stomach contents adds to the level of "overkill".
throwing a body in the nearest hole as the easiest way to get rid of it
Most people spend most of their time in settlements. If this is the "nearest hole", then there should be evidence of settlement "near" to the bodies (on a statistical level). Since the bodies are frequently being found in hectares of peat being stripped for horticulture, or feeding into power stations (in Ireland), then searching for nearby settlement is relatively easy and they are not found. So we can add the location (a long way from the settlement) to the list of events that are part of the "ritual".
They're a fascinating subject. And they do a wonderful job of showing just how hard archaeology is.
I'm not certain I would hire a person who actually worked to keep his picture off the internet.
It strikes me as being a good sign that he actually has a reasonably good understanding of how various of these technologies work, which is a pretty rare thing amongst the bullshit artists that populate PR. I'm more likely to go postal on a PR department than to recruit one, but as a strategy for getting attention, this works for me.
Car analogy : You're looking for a garage to service your car. Do you consider Joe's Garage, or Pete's Garage next door, which runs a stock car at the local track on Saturday nights? "Pete" is saying "we understand vehicles well enough to be able to do unusual things with them."
I guess it's Earth that's rather bright because of all the H2O being quite reflective.
Liquid H2O has a few percent reflectivity, not that different to the Moon's basalt (more-or-less basalt, some anorthosite too). What makes the difference is the presence of floating aerosols of droplets of liquid H2O in the atmosphere of the Earth, which has a reflectivity up in the 60s and higher of percent.
Phase matters. (And in this case, changing phase involves a lot of latent heat moving in either direction.)
Not denying the interest of the subject, but the cited article didn't really introduce any new science. Perfectly fine summary of what is a complex and subtle subject, but not a news article.
A question occurs to me : while bog bodies are reasonably well known from Ireland, parts of Scotland and rarely in England ; common again on the North European plain (The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Sweden), and this distribution is in large part a reflection of the distribution of peat accumulation and recent excavation, I am not aware of any reports of similar bog bodies from North America. Neither accidental bodies (travellers getting mired and dying) nor ones with complex, multiple injuries suggestive of "ritual" murder. As far as I know. And does anyone on Slashdot know differently?
I don't know much about the archaeology of Native Americans, but by analogy with other "stone age" societies, I'd be slightly surprised if there were no evidence of ritual human sacrifice, and I'd be more surprised at the absence of even accidental deaths (travellers). Given the presence of recent glaciation and a similarly temperate climate, I'd also be pretty surprised if there were no extraction of peat for both fuel and horticultural use (which is how most bog bodies are found in Europe). So I just find the absence of reports of bog bodies in North America to be surprising.
Any North Americans with a working knowledge of your archaeology that knows more on the subject?
Answer : it varied considerably. There was a considerable expansion of boggy ground (more specifically peat bogs ; there are others) from... hmm, I've packed that book away, going from memory... the middle of the second millennium BCE (i.e. 1500 BCE and thereabouts). In the West of Scotland, at low altitudes. The same is true (with some variance of dates) in Western Ireland, but whether the same climatic/ agricultural effects spread into other parts of NW Europe in the same period is a disputed question.
It certainly appears that some of the victims were drowned, but whether that was in standing water, and peat accumulation didn't start until a millennium or two later. The taphonomy of bodies in bogs is simply not well known. It is rather difficult to carry out experiments that take several centuries, and trying to speed things up by heating up the test pieces may introduce changes in the chemical reactions involved.
Someone (else) around here uses a signature like "it's not as simple as that."
( IANA-archaeologist ; but I am a geologist, and I have done volunteer work on archaeology sites, and have done a moderate amount of reading up on this and related subjects. )
Newfoundland and Labrador also does the half-hour thing
Yep ; I had to slap my watch around a bit to get it to recognise that fact, which seemed to have escaped it's Japanese designers. (Though they DID include a way of adding a location and a special time zone, so I just added YYT. Because it uses a solar cell, I don't need to worry about battery changes, though in winter I need to leave it under a lamp from time to time.)
I suppose it might be handy at night, but I don't have any trouble using a key by feel, either.
You can get these little torches that fit on your key ring too. If you can't do it by touch. If you don't have a torch in your normal day-sack anyway (I do ; I'm a caver, I learned that lesson long ago).
Far the bigger use of the remote (by my wife) is locating the car in the car park, because the remote also causes the car to flash it's lights. Then again, it's over 20 years since I had a car stolen or broken into, so my attitude to security isn't particularly paranoid.
write the libraries to implement the entire Windows API
What a joke!!!?!?!? How to do it with no memory leaks? Dream on?!? What even IS the Windows API? Is it even documented anywhere?
What is the API? You can, I'm sure, buy access to the API from Microsoft, for a large amount of cash, use of significant amounts of diplomatic influence (probably up there with the Israeli State Department (equivalent) sending people to Redmond, accompanied by their opposite numbers from the US), and giving M$ reasonable guarantees about need-to-know access, major NDAs etc.
Do it with NO memory leaks? No ; but if you're willing to sacrifice some performance for clarity, you can probably get the memory leak level down below the MS version. If you don't have your leaks in the places that the public version of the programme has them, then you're probably safe from the attacks that are directed against the general version.
Schedule : the OP did say a "good" budget. I'd guess in the billions. We're in spook territory already, so "meh" on the budget. Are there enough programmers, good enough, with OS experience and appropriate citizenship and security clearance? That's a harder question.
Well, at least you self-corrected. Well done! Most people don't even realise that they're making that particular error, and will then queue up to miss their "next greatest homophone" cue.
I used to have an HP all-in-one which I used primarily for scanning documents, and very rarely for printing. Same problem - the cartridges dried up between uses.
What set me frothing at the mouth was that the device would then refuse to work as a SCANNER because it had no working ink cartridges.
I've never brought (or suggested to an enquirer) a HP device since, of any sort.
Maybe my 11 gallon gas tank just isn't big enough for significant savings,
Why such a huge petrol tank? The one in my car (well, the wife's car ; I try to avoid driving when at all possible, which is almost always) is about 5 gallons (a bit over 50 litres ; I'm not sure what the conversion factor is for our gallons and I know it's different for American gallons).
Such a huge fuel tank suggests that you've not made any substantial attempts at fuel economy previously. (My tank will carry me around 400 miles depending on speed. By which point I'm LONG over due for a coffee and piss stop.)
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I see enough people walking around with filthy great headphones on that I don't see the power supply being that much of a problem.
The war won't last long, and it won't end well for the surplus population (who, pretty much by definition, won't have access to the powerful weaponry).
On an absolutely regular basis. People get bumped from flights in my experience on a weekly basis. (That's for a typical route of 4 flights per week, 18 seats per flight, with a commonly "large" workforce and most having to carry 20+ kilos of workgear and personal gear on each leg of the trip.)
Which is why all people checking in are weighed along with their baggage, before taking the baggage for the search (nothing flies without being searched), and that has been the case for nearly 20 years.
You general public travellers get it easy.
... are the sort of genderless, risk averse little shits who wouldn't have the balls (or female equivalent) to actually look at their parent's porn collection.
This is a multigeneration thing, possibly.
That sounds a reasonable combination of features. Listening to some of the other whinging from people here, I was mentally putting together a feature list for a device/ spare battery/ charger combo. (My normal reason for needing such is for the camera batteries on a multi-day trip into the hills. Which I solve with a pocket battery and a USB cable.)
What fiendish device they have for people who don't know how to use a telephone (e.g. my mother) or who don't want one (e.g. my hill-walking buddy, Tom), I don't know.
did you misunderstand?
Anyway, it's not a job if there's no pay packet - which is what I understand by "internship" instead of "job".
OK, it's not the best of ways to start your relationship with a company, but part of the induction process at the start of employment (oh, sorry, it's an internship, not an employment) is informing the employee (internee) of their employment rights (not an American concept, I know), the procedures for grievances, their obligations (including security, working hours (another un-American concept), and who they report to and are responsible to) etc etc. Oh, and where the fire exits are and that there's a fire drill on Wednesday mornings.
If I've got too much under my skin to cycle in a straight line, then I just get off the bike and push it until I feel a bit steadier, or I'm home. Simples. No need to go veering off across the road, bouncing off alternating kerbs.
File invention under "solution in search of a problem".
Though ominously the work's computer I'm having my lunch break on is telling me of a compulsory re-boot, which is may mean the decision has been taken out of my hands.
If you're doing your "entrapment" right, then he's not going to be booking anyone after he's picked you up (hmmm, are all Uber drivers male? I would have thought it would be a good way for hookers to get off the streets and into contact with their customers. But that's a side line.)
Obviously, even if they're unsure if there is a crime being committed, there's an investigation going on. So the driver's phone, passwords, and access to all the phone's apps would be impounded as part of the investigation, along with freezing of the account.
Or, if the driver is still taking bookings after a several hour interview with the police, and he's still got his phone, then I'd be pretty surprised if he's still taking bookings.
You might get that impression from the representations of archaeology on the like of Discovery Channel. It makes a more dramatic story. The reality is quite different.
For an example, a site I was working on exposed over a period of a summer of work a sequence of soil deposits consisting, from surface down, of rare flakes of stones associated with activities in a nearby (5m away) cave ; below that a layer of white quartzite cobbles of size 5-15cm (the cave and surrounds were in limestone ; the nearest quartzite outcrops were 2-3 km away to the east and south-east ("pavements" of quartzite pebbles are common surrounding megalithic sites in this area and of this period, for example at the Clava Cairns. Below that was the "natural" - undisturbed sub-soil, but it's surface was scratched with parallel grooves known as "ard marks" (an ard is a primitive human-powered plough, and elsewhere in the area is clearly seen to be a sign of the first arrival of agriculture). Critically, at this site there is no intervening ploughed-soil layer between the ard-marked sub-soil and the layer of cobbles, so the ground seems to have been ploughed but not cultivated before being covered with white stones brought from some distance away. This was on a flat-laying area of ground of about 10m by 8 beside the entrance to the cave, in which a series of drystone and corbelled walls indicate several stages of repeated activity.
Now, feel free to come up with a description of this site that doesn't include "ritual" activity. I spent a week on the site (exposing the ard marks - why do they change orientation in different parts of the excavated area?), and lunch break activities between lounging in the sun (on Skye! a rarity), swatting midges (on Skye, a normality), admiring the wonderful views of Bla Bheinn (mountain range to the west and NW, on Skye normally invisible in the rain), watching eagles soaring over the site (on Skye - are they the recently re-introduced Sea Eagles? I'll get my binoculars from my tent), and spending hours discussing what the possible motivations for the original builders could have been. We couldn't come up with anything that didn't involve "ritual", but feel free to try. Oh, almost on the last day, I noticed (with my geological eye, these archaeologists couldn't spot a gneiss if you hit them on the head with it)that despite the site having been swept down to bedrock by glaciers from the north-west, one and only one of the metre-scale boulders scattered around the site was gneiss, whose nearest outcrop is around 10km to the SE. Feel free to come up with a non-"ritual" reason for carrying around a half-ton of rock 10km (by sea, in a canoe) to 30km (over land) from a source location to besides a cave entrance. If you saw it in the edited version on Discovery, there would be about a half-second pause of consideration, whereas the reality is more like several hundred hours of thinking by multiple people bringing different perspectives to the question.
Archaeology doesn't go much for "haphazard".
My memory was telling me that our petrol tank is 5 gallons, but in hindsight I was remembering the litres-to-gallons conversion factor, not the capacity. I fill to the limit, so I don't actually look at the volume counter, just wait for the -click- as the pump trips out.
So an 11 gallon tank is actually a fairly normal size. I'd check what the car takes to fill, but since we did it a couple of days ago, it'll probably be September before I do it again. Actually, no ; I'll be out of the continent by then, so it may be October before I do it again.
Lockboxes - of the portable variety - are several millennia in the future from these bodies. OK - maybe as little as one and a half millennia, for the more recent of them.
Until very recently, few people travelled alone. If they had significant valuta, then they'd also have companions (free or slave) travelling with them. For protection, cooking, fucking and actually carrying the loads.
Not enough money to run your own troop of thugs? Then you band up with other travellers going your way. Did you have the joys of "doing" Chaucer's 'Canturbury Tales' for Eng.Lit? Think for a second about how little comment is made of the fact that these strangers are travelling in company together, mostly for safety.
And now ... in a world where the roads really are that dangerous (and they were pretty dangerous - I cite Chaucer's social commentary-en-passant again), then a man who was foolish enough to get stoned while out on the road deserved to get his throat cut. That's why a common theme in ancient tales (all through the Odyssey, for example) is the importance of hospitality to travellers, but simultaneously the importance of the guest obligations of good behaviour to the host.
Probably ritual murder. We're talking about a pre-coinage and minimal metal age, so if someone is carrying valuables, then they're probably going to be carrying as much as they physically can. Which means they're carrying as much as you can. Which rather changes the equation of theft.
How are you going to turn the goods into value? There isn't money. Perhaps you can take them to someone and swap the bundle of goods for a cart load of grain ... which you've then got to somehow get home to your family. OK, maybe the robbed goods are metal - bronze or copper, say. So you rob the guy, take the goods, and then ... the only person who is going to be interested in these goods is likely to be your local chieftain or lord. And when you try to sell them to him, since the only possible way you could have gotten them was by theft, then he's as likely to take them from you, then have you ritually murdered as an example to other possible thieves.
I'm not painting the times as being a paragon of lovely interpersonal relations. Life was nasty, brutish and short. But there were still very strong sanctions against theft, if only because very, very few people ever moved more than a few miles from where they were born. That's why strontium-oxygen isotope analysis is helpful for identifying the relatively rare people who did move more than a few miles.
Outlawry - being outside the law - may sound terribly romantic. But not many people took that path, and those who did tended to end up being caught, then killed under slow torture in the market square pour encourager les autres. I was looking at some Assyrian carvings recently showing how they dealt with people who broke the rules, including the rules against theft. They peeled the malefactors. Slowly. And completely. Becoming a thief was something you thought about carefully.
You use the term "highwayman". They came in with the availability of guns (you'll only find out that you're trying to rob a better swordsman than you once, in the minutes before your painful death), cash money (effectively untraceable), and enough social mobility that you could turn up in a new town and NOT be automatically detained as a runaway serf. It might have been different in your country, but it was only in the last 6 or 7 hundred years that it was legal for most people to leave their village, and real freedom of movement is much newer than that. (My wife was over 35 before she was able to buy a long-distance bus or train ticket without showing her internal passport.)
Anyway, my install of LOv5 has finished, so I'd better get on with some work. [Bloody corporate software is still stopping it from working.]
Archaeologists are careful to shy away from "religion". It's "ritual" if there's no good reason to do it *that* way instead of /this/ way. For example, a flint mine has good mechanical reason to be a shaft with radiating passages at the level of the flint horizon, but no good reason to have a niche in the wall at the eastern side of the base of the shaft ; so the mine is a mine, but the niche is "ritual".
If you're killing someone - to steal their goods and clothes (remember - hand woven fabric is ALWAYS expensive) - then sticking a knife in them or knocking them on the head is adequate. But many of the "bog bodies" have been stabbed in several places, AND clubbed, AND had their throats slit AND their hands tied behind their backs. It's a process that is called "overkill". The application of multiple wounds, any one of them rapidly lethal, isn't necessary, and that excessive wounding is why many of these people were thought to have been ritually murdered. That is an old argument ; the more recent discovery of traces of hallucinogens, particular herbs (not very tasty ones) in stomach contents adds to the level of "overkill".
Most people spend most of their time in settlements. If this is the "nearest hole", then there should be evidence of settlement "near" to the bodies (on a statistical level). Since the bodies are frequently being found in hectares of peat being stripped for horticulture, or feeding into power stations (in Ireland), then searching for nearby settlement is relatively easy and they are not found. So we can add the location (a long way from the settlement) to the list of events that are part of the "ritual".
They're a fascinating subject. And they do a wonderful job of showing just how hard archaeology is.
Hey, I've probably broken Rule 34 :
It strikes me as being a good sign that he actually has a reasonably good understanding of how various of these technologies work, which is a pretty rare thing amongst the bullshit artists that populate PR. I'm more likely to go postal on a PR department than to recruit one, but as a strategy for getting attention, this works for me.
Car analogy : You're looking for a garage to service your car. Do you consider Joe's Garage, or Pete's Garage next door, which runs a stock car at the local track on Saturday nights? "Pete" is saying "we understand vehicles well enough to be able to do unusual things with them."
Liquid H2O has a few percent reflectivity, not that different to the Moon's basalt (more-or-less basalt, some anorthosite too). What makes the difference is the presence of floating aerosols of droplets of liquid H2O in the atmosphere of the Earth, which has a reflectivity up in the 60s and higher of percent.
Phase matters. (And in this case, changing phase involves a lot of latent heat moving in either direction.)
A question occurs to me : while bog bodies are reasonably well known from Ireland, parts of Scotland and rarely in England ; common again on the North European plain (The Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Poland, Sweden), and this distribution is in large part a reflection of the distribution of peat accumulation and recent excavation, I am not aware of any reports of similar bog bodies from North America. Neither accidental bodies (travellers getting mired and dying) nor ones with complex, multiple injuries suggestive of "ritual" murder. As far as I know. And does anyone on Slashdot know differently?
I don't know much about the archaeology of Native Americans, but by analogy with other "stone age" societies, I'd be slightly surprised if there were no evidence of ritual human sacrifice, and I'd be more surprised at the absence of even accidental deaths (travellers). Given the presence of recent glaciation and a similarly temperate climate, I'd also be pretty surprised if there were no extraction of peat for both fuel and horticultural use (which is how most bog bodies are found in Europe). So I just find the absence of reports of bog bodies in North America to be surprising.
Any North Americans with a working knowledge of your archaeology that knows more on the subject?
It certainly appears that some of the victims were drowned, but whether that was in standing water, and peat accumulation didn't start until a millennium or two later. The taphonomy of bodies in bogs is simply not well known. It is rather difficult to carry out experiments that take several centuries, and trying to speed things up by heating up the test pieces may introduce changes in the chemical reactions involved.
Someone (else) around here uses a signature like "it's not as simple as that."
( IANA-archaeologist ; but I am a geologist, and I have done volunteer work on archaeology sites, and have done a moderate amount of reading up on this and related subjects. )
Yep ; I had to slap my watch around a bit to get it to recognise that fact, which seemed to have escaped it's Japanese designers. (Though they DID include a way of adding a location and a special time zone, so I just added YYT. Because it uses a solar cell, I don't need to worry about battery changes, though in winter I need to leave it under a lamp from time to time.)
You can get these little torches that fit on your key ring too. If you can't do it by touch. If you don't have a torch in your normal day-sack anyway (I do ; I'm a caver, I learned that lesson long ago).
Far the bigger use of the remote (by my wife) is locating the car in the car park, because the remote also causes the car to flash it's lights. Then again, it's over 20 years since I had a car stolen or broken into, so my attitude to security isn't particularly paranoid.
What is the API? You can, I'm sure, buy access to the API from Microsoft, for a large amount of cash, use of significant amounts of diplomatic influence (probably up there with the Israeli State Department (equivalent) sending people to Redmond, accompanied by their opposite numbers from the US), and giving M$ reasonable guarantees about need-to-know access, major NDAs etc.
Do it with NO memory leaks? No ; but if you're willing to sacrifice some performance for clarity, you can probably get the memory leak level down below the MS version. If you don't have your leaks in the places that the public version of the programme has them, then you're probably safe from the attacks that are directed against the general version.
Schedule : the OP did say a "good" budget. I'd guess in the billions. We're in spook territory already, so "meh" on the budget. Are there enough programmers, good enough, with OS experience and appropriate citizenship and security clearance? That's a harder question.
Well, at least you self-corrected. Well done! Most people don't even realise that they're making that particular error, and will then queue up to miss their "next greatest homophone" cue.
What set me frothing at the mouth was that the device would then refuse to work as a SCANNER because it had no working ink cartridges.
I've never brought (or suggested to an enquirer) a HP device since, of any sort.
Why such a huge petrol tank? The one in my car (well, the wife's car ; I try to avoid driving when at all possible, which is almost always) is about 5 gallons (a bit over 50 litres ; I'm not sure what the conversion factor is for our gallons and I know it's different for American gallons).
Such a huge fuel tank suggests that you've not made any substantial attempts at fuel economy previously. (My tank will carry me around 400 miles depending on speed. By which point I'm LONG over due for a coffee and piss stop.)