I am a regular biker — At least three days a week, I cycle to work. Not a great distance, but I end up making ~1hr on the bike every day I use it.
Several years ago, a car hit laterally my rear tire. Quite slowly, fortunately, although it managed to bend the rim ~30 degrees. Of course, cycling at ~20Km/h (~12mph), I fell down to my left.
I stood up right away, scared but not hit. My pants were slightly torn over the pocket where I store my keys. Nothing happened to me, just a scare, right?
When I took my helmet off, it was split in two. Yes, helmets are (and are designed to be) quite more fragile than skulls. Still, I'm very happy I didn't have to land with the side of my head on the road. Were I to be lucky, I'd have an ugly scar on my front left side.
I defend that same point, and of course, my mail address is gwolf@gwolf.org (hey, no point in hiding it, have had it for too long for spambots not to notice!). People's perception is *not* IMO what you say: When I repeat my name after the '@', the most common answer is, "come again?". Some people have even tried to correct me explaining my name can *not* be part of the domain.
Of course, I'm better off not receiving mails from those people...
Not only that, for many people who are NOT from the United States of America, going to college often is an impossible dream.
You might not have heard about it... But we have colleges and universities also outside the USA.
It really saddens me to see so many people see the world with the viewpoint of the FIRST WORLD while most of the world population are certainly not getting to enjoy the many conveniences / privileges the first world people get but never realize.
I do agree that MOOCs offer alternatives for people who cannot -for whatever reason- attend presential courses. However, I can assure you that in most spots of the "third world" it's easier to go to a good university than to own a computer. (Source: I am a teacher at the largest university in Mexico, often ranked as the most reknown in Latin America. Several of my students don't own a computer. And I have reasons to believe this is a generalization I can make.
Actually, I always try to be an anonymous poster. I don't know who this "gwolf" is and why my messages always appear in his name. I think my browser has a cookie addiction.
I am unsure on the precise meaning of your question. However, many independent cultures shared this image — Just as the Greeks had the underworld ruled by Hades (Zeus' older brother) and under the custody of Kerberos, the Summerians had Ereshkigal (Inanna's older sister)... But the Egyptians had the underworld ruled by Osiris (son of Geb and Nut, gods of the Earth and Sky respectively). OK, but we are still talking about the East Mediterranean and Crescent region — Aztecs had the Mictlán (the underworld) ruled by Mictlantecuhtli and Mictlanteccíhuatl (literally, the lord and the lady of the underworld, and contrasting with Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, the lord and lady of either the life or the duality — "ome" means "two" in Nahuatl).
Not only that — Just as the Summerians had their myths of heros/gods descending into the underworld and emerging afterwards, and the relation of it with the agricultural cycle, as Earth seems to die during winter (the story of Inanna with Dumuzi, as well as Gilgamesh's quest to defeat death), Greeks have Hades' kidnapping of Persephone and Heracles' quest to traverse the Underworld without dying... But you also have somewhat the same with the Aztecs (although winter here in Mexico is not as "dead" as it is further North), where Quetzalcóatl and Xolotl enter the Mictlán to steal the old gods' bones in order to create the many races of living beings... Again, forming the life-death-life cycle and linking us living beings with the past.
Anyway, more than provenance of any given culture, these myths talk to us about the fear of death and the hope for an underworld — And the possibility of avoiding death. And, of course, a parallel between our own life and the agricultural cycle.
Canaanites are known to come from Sumerian-Accadian roots (just as Hebrews, later turned Jews). You can look, as an example, as their cosmology. Summerian goddess Inanna (and the whole pantheon around her, being she not the only but a very important goddess — And yes, I know the word pantheon _is_ Greek) is replicated in Canaan. Some Canaanite tribes were known to also worship trees as gods (and that's why the names for many trees in Hebrew include the particle "El" — Ilan, alon, ela, etc.), and that's why the old testament specifically forbids making altars to (the only, Israelite) God "under big trees and in high places".
As for Philistines, there might be some link to Greeks: After all, the main Philistine god was "the lord of the flies" (Baal Zvuv — One of the names of the devil, "Belcebu" stems from it). From the composed name, "Baal" means basically "the lord, and Zvuv has an ethimological closeness to "Zeus". The theology is, however, quite different.
I am surprised it took so many comments for somebody to mention Org Mode.
I am currently about to finish a book written 100% inside Org-mode. With great, easy to read (and write) markup. Equally epxortable to LaTeX and to HTML (for generating PDF, regular Web pages, ePub, etc.)
In fact, I started using LyX back in... 1997 or so?
Not only it is used and looks like a WYSIWYG editor, but actually frees your mind from actually caring how it will render on a page of a given size. Just write what you mean (they call it WYSIWYM — M for Mean), and when previewed/printed it will be beautiful. Why? Because it is LaTeX doing it.
Hey! My friend passed the Operating Systems class by disecting XINU, a lesser-know educational Unix-like system. And if he had XINU to learn from, maybe... He took the course on Operating Syscientology instead?
Because, in the late 1940s, it was basically the only industrial power not deeply into reconstructing their torn economy and infrastructure. Not because any other country recognized the moral supremacy of the USA's national definitions, not because the USA grants anybody guarantees to dissent.
The United Nations is juridically akin to the various embassies. It is international territory, not USA territory. It might be phisically located in Manhattan, New York, but is not because New York is (or ever was) the hippest place to talk freely about the evil bad guys.
You are right, and you only missed a small but important point: As you said, everything of value (in Slashdot) is text. It may look old fashioned. Right. But it looks the way most of us, the UI-retrograds that make up most of the Slashdot demographics, prefer. I'd be happy to know the amount of/. readers who browse the site with Javascript to the minimum (or outright disabled), with ad blockers, and all that things that make modern website designers go mad.
"Biggest selling point"... Right — Probably that's right for us users. But not necessarily for what generates the revenue for Slashdot.
Slashdot's biggest selling point is the amount of eyeballs that, looking for that conversation, end up looking at their advertisements. And, of course, the site admins/redesigners will do their best to have as many eyeballs per ad as possible.
To see that the kind of discussion (and the depth of it, and the arguments raised, and all that yada-yada) are *so* similar to what I read for GNU's 20th anniversary. Or for the 15th anniversary. New kids learn our beloved traditions and repeat our same flames as if they were chanting ancient mantrams.
Indigenous people are not offended by being called Mexican. More often than not, they will recognize themselves at least to be as Mexican as those of us living in urban areas are. Even the most vocal groups claiming for indigenous rights, recognition and differentiation recognize living in Mexico and being Mexicans — But demand a just, fitting government level more aligned to their shared culture than the Country/State/Municipality imposed from "Above"; this different organization level would not even amount to a fourth level, because it does not follow State borders (that were, in many cases explicitly, drawn to divide and weaken identities of the many peoples that form the Mexican nation).
This particular experience is in a small town in Oaxaca. Oaxaca is a very mountainous state, with a great cultural richness stemming precisely from its orography: It is so hard to move around Oaxaca that it went practically unconquered during the 300 years of Spanish rule.
Of course, when you look at the network coverage maps, you will immediately recognize our country is a mess full with mountains and areas where... Lets put it nicely, where people are not in the proper economic situation to enjoy the full benefits of cellular telephony. You can look at the GSM voice and SMS, 3G voice and SMS and 3G internet coverage maps for Telcel, Mexico's leading mobile operator. FWIW, Oaxaca is at the South-East of the map, but a similar argument could be pushed in many other regions of the map.
I doubt this little expereiment will cause even a "blip" in the radars of our regulatory bodies (no FCC has no say in how radio frequencies are handled in Mexico, but we have our own COFETEL), because of this same fact: The country is too complex, and nobody is claiming that bandwidth in that area. Of course, were the experience to start replicating along small communities enough to be noticed in a map, a crackdown would surely follow.
Yes, when I receive toursits here, a mandatory stop is at the local butcher store, to see the hanging pig head (from which delicious although extremely fatty food is made). And yes, some even agree to have "chapulines" (grasshoppers) sold in the market nearby.
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I am a regular biker — At least three days a week, I cycle to work. Not a great distance, but I end up making ~1hr on the bike every day I use it.
Several years ago, a car hit laterally my rear tire. Quite slowly, fortunately, although it managed to bend the rim ~30 degrees. Of course, cycling at ~20Km/h (~12mph), I fell down to my left.
I stood up right away, scared but not hit. My pants were slightly torn over the pocket where I store my keys. Nothing happened to me, just a scare, right?
When I took my helmet off, it was split in two. Yes, helmets are (and are designed to be) quite more fragile than skulls. Still, I'm very happy I didn't have to land with the side of my head on the road. Were I to be lucky, I'd have an ugly scar on my front left side.
Wear a helmet. Always.
I defend that same point, and of course, my mail address is gwolf@gwolf.org (hey, no point in hiding it, have had it for too long for spambots not to notice!). People's perception is *not* IMO what you say: When I repeat my name after the '@', the most common answer is, "come again?". Some people have even tried to correct me explaining my name can *not* be part of the domain.
Of course, I'm better off not receiving mails from those people...
Not only that, for many people who are NOT from the United States of America, going to college often is an impossible dream.
You might not have heard about it... But we have colleges and universities also outside the USA.
It really saddens me to see so many people see the world with the viewpoint of the FIRST WORLD while most of the world population are certainly not getting to enjoy the many conveniences / privileges the first world people get but never realize.
I do agree that MOOCs offer alternatives for people who cannot -for whatever reason- attend presential courses. However, I can assure you that in most spots of the "third world" it's easier to go to a good university than to own a computer. (Source: I am a teacher at the largest university in Mexico, often ranked as the most reknown in Latin America. Several of my students don't own a computer. And I have reasons to believe this is a generalization I can make.
The fact this comment is uttered by an eight-digit user does not make it any less true.
Actually, I always try to be an anonymous poster. I don't know who this "gwolf" is and why my messages always appear in his name. I think my browser has a cookie addiction.
Let me go look for my nerd card so I can turn it in :(
I am unsure on the precise meaning of your question. However, many independent cultures shared this image — Just as the Greeks had the underworld ruled by Hades (Zeus' older brother) and under the custody of Kerberos, the Summerians had Ereshkigal (Inanna's older sister)... But the Egyptians had the underworld ruled by Osiris (son of Geb and Nut, gods of the Earth and Sky respectively). OK, but we are still talking about the East Mediterranean and Crescent region — Aztecs had the Mictlán (the underworld) ruled by Mictlantecuhtli and Mictlanteccíhuatl (literally, the lord and the lady of the underworld, and contrasting with Ometecuhtli and Omecihuatl, the lord and lady of either the life or the duality — "ome" means "two" in Nahuatl).
Not only that — Just as the Summerians had their myths of heros/gods descending into the underworld and emerging afterwards, and the relation of it with the agricultural cycle, as Earth seems to die during winter (the story of Inanna with Dumuzi, as well as Gilgamesh's quest to defeat death), Greeks have Hades' kidnapping of Persephone and Heracles' quest to traverse the Underworld without dying... But you also have somewhat the same with the Aztecs (although winter here in Mexico is not as "dead" as it is further North), where Quetzalcóatl and Xolotl enter the Mictlán to steal the old gods' bones in order to create the many races of living beings... Again, forming the life-death-life cycle and linking us living beings with the past.
Anyway, more than provenance of any given culture, these myths talk to us about the fear of death and the hope for an underworld — And the possibility of avoiding death. And, of course, a parallel between our own life and the agricultural cycle.
Canaanites are known to come from Sumerian-Accadian roots (just as Hebrews, later turned Jews). You can look, as an example, as their cosmology. Summerian goddess Inanna (and the whole pantheon around her, being she not the only but a very important goddess — And yes, I know the word pantheon _is_ Greek) is replicated in Canaan. Some Canaanite tribes were known to also worship trees as gods (and that's why the names for many trees in Hebrew include the particle "El" — Ilan, alon, ela, etc.), and that's why the old testament specifically forbids making altars to (the only, Israelite) God "under big trees and in high places".
As for Philistines, there might be some link to Greeks: After all, the main Philistine god was "the lord of the flies" (Baal Zvuv — One of the names of the devil, "Belcebu" stems from it). From the composed name, "Baal" means basically "the lord, and Zvuv has an ethimological closeness to "Zeus". The theology is, however, quite different.
The guy who complained loudly about his department introducing the requisite to use a password, and stop having account separation based on trust.
I am surprised it took so many comments for somebody to mention Org Mode.
I am currently about to finish a book written 100% inside Org-mode. With great, easy to read (and write) markup. Equally epxortable to LaTeX and to HTML (for generating PDF, regular Web pages, ePub, etc.)
Please, somebody mod PybusJ's comment up.
In fact, I started using LyX back in... 1997 or so?
Not only it is used and looks like a WYSIWYG editor, but actually frees your mind from actually caring how it will render on a page of a given size. Just write what you mean (they call it WYSIWYM — M for Mean), and when previewed/printed it will be beautiful. Why? Because it is LaTeX doing it.
Hey! My friend passed the Operating Systems class by disecting XINU, a lesser-know educational Unix-like system. And if he had XINU to learn from, maybe... He took the course on Operating Syscientology instead?
Because, in the late 1940s, it was basically the only industrial power not deeply into reconstructing their torn economy and infrastructure. Not because any other country recognized the moral supremacy of the USA's national definitions, not because the USA grants anybody guarantees to dissent.
The United Nations is juridically akin to the various embassies. It is international territory, not USA territory. It might be phisically located in Manhattan, New York, but is not because New York is (or ever was) the hippest place to talk freely about the evil bad guys.
Where do you want them deported to? What is their country of origin?
(tip: It would seem "In Soviet Russia..." would make use of it, but no, they had their own. Quite different.)
You are right, and you only missed a small but important point: As you said, everything of value (in Slashdot) is text. It may look old fashioned. Right. But it looks the way most of us, the UI-retrograds that make up most of the Slashdot demographics, prefer. I'd be happy to know the amount of /. readers who browse the site with Javascript to the minimum (or outright disabled), with ad blockers, and all that things that make modern website designers go mad.
"Biggest selling point"... Right — Probably that's right for us users. But not necessarily for what generates the revenue for Slashdot.
Slashdot's biggest selling point is the amount of eyeballs that, looking for that conversation, end up looking at their advertisements. And, of course, the site admins/redesigners will do their best to have as many eyeballs per ad as possible.
To see that the kind of discussion (and the depth of it, and the arguments raised, and all that yada-yada) are *so* similar to what I read for GNU's 20th anniversary. Or for the 15th anniversary. New kids learn our beloved traditions and repeat our same flames as if they were chanting ancient mantrams.
Now, get off my lawn!
I am deeply hurt by your baseless argument and demand a full-out war to be fought to solve this dispute.
Between Armenia and Zimbabwe.
Using an, umm, extension to the world-famous FUFME of yesterdecade.
(Oh, are you a newcomer? Well, their site is long gone, but you can start by reading http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/internet-sites/fufme-com/377859/ to see what it was all about)
Indigenous people are not offended by being called Mexican. More often than not, they will recognize themselves at least to be as Mexican as those of us living in urban areas are. Even the most vocal groups claiming for indigenous rights, recognition and differentiation recognize living in Mexico and being Mexicans — But demand a just, fitting government level more aligned to their shared culture than the Country/State/Municipality imposed from "Above"; this different organization level would not even amount to a fourth level, because it does not follow State borders (that were, in many cases explicitly, drawn to divide and weaken identities of the many peoples that form the Mexican nation).
Mountains.
This particular experience is in a small town in Oaxaca. Oaxaca is a very mountainous state, with a great cultural richness stemming precisely from its orography: It is so hard to move around Oaxaca that it went practically unconquered during the 300 years of Spanish rule.
Of course, when you look at the network coverage maps, you will immediately recognize our country is a mess full with mountains and areas where... Lets put it nicely, where people are not in the proper economic situation to enjoy the full benefits of cellular telephony. You can look at the GSM voice and SMS, 3G voice and SMS and 3G internet coverage maps for Telcel, Mexico's leading mobile operator. FWIW, Oaxaca is at the South-East of the map, but a similar argument could be pushed in many other regions of the map.
I doubt this little expereiment will cause even a "blip" in the radars of our regulatory bodies (no FCC has no say in how radio frequencies are handled in Mexico, but we have our own COFETEL), because of this same fact: The country is too complex, and nobody is claiming that bandwidth in that area. Of course, were the experience to start replicating along small communities enough to be noticed in a map, a crackdown would surely follow.
...Any other country in America?
I mean, any country that actually has a name?
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In a shitty suburb of Liverpool, perhaps? Or is all of Liverpool shit?
Do insects migrate to tastier shit once they have the means to, as the four of them did?
That us Mexicans are not a Western culture?
Yes, when I receive toursits here, a mandatory stop is at the local butcher store, to see the hanging pig head (from which delicious although extremely fatty food is made). And yes, some even agree to have "chapulines" (grasshoppers) sold in the market nearby.
Yummy :-)