Listen here, dumbass -- I am not a Christian fundamentalist. I don't even know where the hell you got that idea from. I majored in Mediterranean Studies in college, and your Discovery Channel knowledge frankly doesn't impress me. I know the origins of the biblical stories you just quoted, and only about half of them are really derivative. The other half just represent archetypes that show up in stories all over the world.
So please, don't try to troll someone who knows more than you.
Much of the Bible was written by people who had lived in Summaria, then left, perhaps because they felt that civillization was wrong.
Whoa, slow down there, Sparky. First of all, none of the Bible was actually written until, at the very earliest, the 10th century BCE.
Secondly, even if by "written," you really meant "composed [orally]," it's hardly "much of the Bible." Casting aside the unsubstantiated migration from Sumeria theory, more than 90% of the material in the Old Testament describes events that took place after these people lived, so they hardly could have written it.
Thirdly, as far as migration out of Sumeria is concerned -- it's totally tangential to your point. The fertile crescent was crisscrossed by trade roads, so there's no reason to assume that the only way the Hebrews had contact with Mesopotamian legends was through having lived there and left.
There is also no country (in the "western" world anyway) which I am aware of which is as insular and generally unaware of the outside world as the US.
Don't be an idiot. I am really sick of Europeans who think "awareness of the outside world" means "can point to my hometown on a map." Jesus Christ. What, you know more about France than most Americans? Fantastic. I know more about Mexico than most Europeans. Big fucking deal. Can you all just get your head out of your collective asses and realize that the world does not revolve around you and your oh-so-important history and culture?
And by the way, this is coming from a person with a degree in Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies who visits Europe as often as his budget allows.
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You are so clueless I don't know whether to laugh or cry. SDI in the Reagan era was about the pipe dream of stopping an all-out Russian nuclear attack. Missile defense now is about shooting down 2 or 3 missiles fired by a rogue nation. What happens if Pakistan and India try to start a nuclear war with each other? Will you think those billions have been wasted when a nuclear weapon headed for Bombay gets incinerated in midair by a US space weapon? Or is preventing the death of millions of people not even enough motivation for you to see past your myopic class jealousy and conspiracy theories?
sorry kodak - but this does not inspire me to go out and buy more film and take more pictures. unless you have a lot of beautiful naked girls that would like me to photograph them....
If this isn't typical/., I don't know what is. "Photography is boring. Except pr0n, obviously."
Would it hurt to get your facts right? First of all, the suit in America was against McDonalds, not Starbucks. Second, it wasn't decided by a judge, it was decided by a jury, making your entire point moot. If you're going to accuse someone of not being smart, at least get your story straight.
No, you have a choice, and it's to not listen to shitty mainstream radio. Listen to college radio, or if you don't have it, one of the myriad indie internet radio stations. The fact that you can't be bothered to find alternatives does not mean there is no choice.
I would really appreciate it if all the people who whined about the RIAA all the time would stop paying for their legal departments by buying crappy over-produced cds for $20 a pop.
My apologies for the split infinitive, but I think I'm right on the double negative accusation. Using two negatives in a sentence is not necessarily a double negative.
That's what really gets my goat. They get all high and mighty about resources, time, etc. costing money, so subscribe, but they can't even be bothered to fucking use ispell. Taco -- you're always blabbing on about Debian (rightly so, cos it rocks), so here's a tip: apt-get install ispell. Jesus Christ, it's not that hard. If you want me to pay for your site, I'm not even asking for you to research your articles for blatant falsehoods, I JUST WANT YOU TO SPELL CORRECTLY! It wasn't acceptable to not know how to spell in third grade, and it isn't now.
Those linguistic studies you're referencing to give the 25k year date are very suspect. The linguistic classification and history of the Americas is subject to intense debate, and at this point, I would not put enough faith in them to supercede established archaeological evidence.
And just what sort of disease would "Trail of Tears" be? Or "Wounded Knee?"
All the intentional wartime/peacetime atrocities committed by Europeans in the Americas put together don't even add up to 1/100th the amount of Native Americans killed by foreign diseases. Not even close. It doesn't excuse them, but the Europeans were no more guilty of genocide than, say, the English in the Hundred Years' War.
You, sir, are a fucking idiot. You just made up three paragraphs of comments without a single shred of evidence to back it up. Do you always make up stories, or is this your first? Nothing you said had any basis in reality. Jesus Christ, do you even read the paper, or did you just hear some big words on TV last night and decide to repeat them?
Of course it's technically possible, the question is whether or not it's their responsibility. Their case is that because all the infringement taking place does so on other people's machines, it is not. Technical feasability isn't the question. In the case of Napster, they couldn't solve the problem technically, so they were forced to shut down until they could.
So, you needed this statement to find out KaZaa is out to make money? What did you think they were, a non-profit charity? I really don't think this changes anything.
I don't think that comparison is valid. It's like saying, well, Sony COULD come into your house and destroy any illegal tapes you made with their VCR, right? The point with Napster was that the indexing was taking place on servers they ran -- with FastTrack, the indexing is going on on individual users' machines.
Not only that, but pulling a dog-eared, bookmarked, highlighted copy of K&R off your bookshelf has the panty-removing power of playing your band's seven inches or flashing the keys to your '57 Corvette.
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Listen here, dumbass -- I am not a Christian fundamentalist. I don't even know where the hell you got that idea from. I majored in Mediterranean Studies in college, and your Discovery Channel knowledge frankly doesn't impress me. I know the origins of the biblical stories you just quoted, and only about half of them are really derivative. The other half just represent archetypes that show up in stories all over the world.
So please, don't try to troll someone who knows more than you.
Whoa, slow down there, Sparky. First of all, none of the Bible was actually written until, at the very earliest, the 10th century BCE.
Secondly, even if by "written," you really meant "composed [orally]," it's hardly "much of the Bible." Casting aside the unsubstantiated migration from Sumeria theory, more than 90% of the material in the Old Testament describes events that took place after these people lived, so they hardly could have written it.
Thirdly, as far as migration out of Sumeria is concerned -- it's totally tangential to your point. The fertile crescent was crisscrossed by trade roads, so there's no reason to assume that the only way the Hebrews had contact with Mesopotamian legends was through having lived there and left.
Don't be an idiot. I am really sick of Europeans who think "awareness of the outside world" means "can point to my hometown on a map." Jesus Christ. What, you know more about France than most Americans? Fantastic. I know more about Mexico than most Europeans. Big fucking deal. Can you all just get your head out of your collective asses and realize that the world does not revolve around you and your oh-so-important history and culture?
And by the way, this is coming from a person with a degree in Classics and Ancient Mediterranean Studies who visits Europe as often as his budget allows.
You are so clueless I don't know whether to laugh or cry. SDI in the Reagan era was about the pipe dream of stopping an all-out Russian nuclear attack. Missile defense now is about shooting down 2 or 3 missiles fired by a rogue nation. What happens if Pakistan and India try to start a nuclear war with each other? Will you think those billions have been wasted when a nuclear weapon headed for Bombay gets incinerated in midair by a US space weapon? Or is preventing the death of millions of people not even enough motivation for you to see past your myopic class jealousy and conspiracy theories?
If this isn't typical
Hate to break to you, dude, but Enterprise is going suck no matter what channel you watch it on.
"Islamist" is distinct from "Islamic" or "Muslim," is usually used to denote fringe extremist groups.
Perl 6 will be painful? What about Perls 1-5?
My eyes glaze over.
Seriously, I can't get halfway through a Katz paragraph without halving my attention span.
How is this not a contradiction?
Would it hurt to get your facts right? First of all, the suit in America was against McDonalds, not Starbucks. Second, it wasn't decided by a judge, it was decided by a jury, making your entire point moot. If you're going to accuse someone of not being smart, at least get your story straight.
No, you have a choice, and it's to not listen to shitty mainstream radio. Listen to college radio, or if you don't have it, one of the myriad indie internet radio stations. The fact that you can't be bothered to find alternatives does not mean there is no choice.
I would really appreciate it if all the people who whined about the RIAA all the time would stop paying for their legal departments by buying crappy over-produced cds for $20 a pop.
Most of the misspellings that appeared originally have been corrected. An example - "challanging" for "challenging."
My apologies for the split infinitive, but I think I'm right on the double negative accusation. Using two negatives in a sentence is not necessarily a double negative.
That's what really gets my goat. They get all high and mighty about resources, time, etc. costing money, so subscribe, but they can't even be bothered to fucking use ispell. Taco -- you're always blabbing on about Debian (rightly so, cos it rocks), so here's a tip: apt-get install ispell. Jesus Christ, it's not that hard. If you want me to pay for your site, I'm not even asking for you to research your articles for blatant falsehoods, I JUST WANT YOU TO SPELL CORRECTLY! It wasn't acceptable to not know how to spell in third grade, and it isn't now.
Hey, fuck you, pal! And get the hell out of my way, I don't get a three-hour lunch break, you know!
Those linguistic studies you're referencing to give the 25k year date are very suspect. The linguistic classification and history of the Americas is subject to intense debate, and at this point, I would not put enough faith in them to supercede established archaeological evidence.
All the intentional wartime/peacetime atrocities committed by Europeans in the Americas put together don't even add up to 1/100th the amount of Native Americans killed by foreign diseases. Not even close. It doesn't excuse them, but the Europeans were no more guilty of genocide than, say, the English in the Hundred Years' War.
You, sir, are a fucking idiot. You just made up three paragraphs of comments without a single shred of evidence to back it up. Do you always make up stories, or is this your first? Nothing you said had any basis in reality. Jesus Christ, do you even read the paper, or did you just hear some big words on TV last night and decide to repeat them?
Of course it's technically possible, the question is whether or not it's their responsibility. Their case is that because all the infringement taking place does so on other people's machines, it is not. Technical feasability isn't the question. In the case of Napster, they couldn't solve the problem technically, so they were forced to shut down until they could.
So, you needed this statement to find out KaZaa is out to make money? What did you think they were, a non-profit charity? I really don't think this changes anything.
I don't think that comparison is valid. It's like saying, well, Sony COULD come into your house and destroy any illegal tapes you made with their VCR, right? The point with Napster was that the indexing was taking place on servers they ran -- with FastTrack, the indexing is going on on individual users' machines.
You'd be wrong to assume that, they do provide source. Someone else already posted a link in this thread.
Not only that, but pulling a dog-eared, bookmarked, highlighted copy of K&R off your bookshelf has the panty-removing power of playing your band's seven inches or flashing the keys to your '57 Corvette.
Just think about that phrase for a minute.