If I remember correctly, the closest heirs to the ancient Egyptians would be the Ethiopian members of the Coptic Church.
Minor nitpick: Egypt itself still has a sizable minority of Coptic Christians (most of the 10% who aren't Muslims, according to Wikipedia).
But otherwise you're dead on. The Coptic language, used for services in the Coptic church, is the direct descendant of the ancient Egyptian language.
To address the original poster's question, though, there are a number of reasons why modern Egyptians aren't going to complain about archaeologists and other official tomb robbers:
Modern Egpyt earns a fair amount of money through tourism. You mess with archaeology, you might hurt tourism.
Egyptians themselves have been robbing those graves for the past 5000 years.
Modern Egyptians may be proud of ancient Egypt, but Muslim or Copt they all still think the ancient Egyptians were heathens. So no one has any sympathy for the religious beliefs of the ancient Egyptians.
I suspect the percentage of drug-use needles in the garbage is lower than that from, say, hospitals or diabetics. I think drug users are more likely to reuse their needles, too.
Shortly before he died my father was an insulin-injecting diabetic. We gave him an olive jar to put the used needles in when he visited.
When he died, we couldn't figure out what to do with the needles. The only place I could think of where I'd seen a sharps container lately was the men's room in the airport. I had this vision of trying to explain to homeland security why I had taken a jarful of needles into the airport...
We wound up putting them into a sharps container at my doctor's office.
Our waitress at the restraunt was one of the girls who ate the goat dropping candy from the dorm refrigerator.
I suspect the waitress has a good story to tell about what your sister and your family ate after the rehearsal dinner.
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We don't process millions of bank transactions daily by pencil and paper, it's done electronically. So if you're against electronic voting don't bring up the ability to securely process bank millions of transactions as an example since it's really an argument FOR e-voting. Just a thought.
People who use that banking system can go back and verify that their transactions went through. They can look at their bank statements and make sure that they're the only ones spending their money.
People who use an electronic voting system cannot go back and verify that their vote was cast correctly. No one can with any system in use in the US. In a paper system, however, you can go back and recount the original paper votes.
There have been numerous fossils purported to document the evolution of ape to man, but I've yet to hear of one that wasn't disproven (although that never stopped people from referencing them).
Oh, please. Poke around the archives at talkorigins.org and learn a bit about the actual evidence.
Thirty seconds of googling finds mention of the sarinshells on CNN. I suspect they didn't get much play because the shells in question came from an old stockpile.
Remember, before the war Iraq was supposed to have an active and advanced weapons program, and we knew exactly where it was.
I guess I often think of something I heard someone say: "If humans evolved from apes...why are there still apes?"
It's the same magic that allows one half of a family to move to America, and the other half to stay in Europe!
See, it's not all or nothing. Evolution happens to populations. When one population becomes isolated from another population, they will evolve differently given enough time.
Generally if a band is going to give a public performance they will purchase the sheet music (most venues require then actually).
Uh, yeah. How did this get modded informative? Funny I could see, since I did get a good laugh out of it.
Assuming that a band doesn't have a reputation yet, the big requirement is usually that the owner or manager of the venue has heard them (usually through a home-made CD or MP3). Alternately, they know the owner or manager of the venue. Sheet music does not enter into it.
I would have to disagree. The concept of Darwinism as I understand, defines evolution to be mutation and gain in genetic material. If true, then this allows a concept of de-evolution, being the loss of genetic material.
Uh, no. Wikipedia actually has a nice definition: "the change in the heritable traits of a population over successive generations." Nothing whatsoever to do with a "gain in genetic material."
Darwin himself certainly proposed no such thing. Keep in mind that Darwin didn't know anything about genetics or mutations. While Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics, lived at roughly the same time as Darwin, Mendel's paper was largely forgotten until the 20th century.
Playa del Carmen appears to be the European equivalent of Cancun. You can find plenty of Europeans doing the same things Americans do in Cancun, albeit less obnoxiously. It's also just down the road a bit from Cancun. LIke Cancun, Playa del Carmen was built primarily for tourists, and when we were there (spring of 2002) they were building it up pretty quickly.
On that trip to the Yucatan, my wife and I stayed a week in Merida and the surrounding areas (we rented a car), and a week in Playa del Carmen. Personally, I wouldn't go back to Playa del Carmen, but then again I wouldn't go to Cancun, either.
"Large degrees of economic freedom" is not the same as economic freedom "without consideration for others." Rules of law is at least as important. Investors have to trust the market, after all.
For example, economic practices which hurt a country's economy include:
Institutionalized cheating of investors
Corruption
Extortion
Monopolization
Passing false information to investors
Insider trading
All of these are done without consideration for others. All of them hurt a country's economy by preventing the market from working properly or eroding trust in the market.
Although with the "go to North Korea" crap I have to wonder why I bothered to respond.
What this does is to allow customers to switch easily between Flickr and/or its competitors. Let's say you have an account with Flickr and want to move to one of its competitors. The competitor would now have access to Flickr's API, so it could write a script which (with your permission, of course) downloads all of your Flickr photos and puts them into galleries in your account with the competitor. This would be easier for most customers than downloading all their files.
Because they require a reciprocal key from the competitor, this would also allow Flickr to build a script to move your images from the competitor to your new Flickr account.
Which assumes that the bad people won't try to game the system. If security is more likely to search people who fit a certain profile, then security is less likely to search people who don't fit the profile.
So if the bad people want to increase their odds of breaching security, they can recruit members who don't git (or don't seem to fit) the profile. They can also use try to use people who don't fit the profile in order to smuggle items in.
For instance, a few years ago a Palestinian tried to smuggle a bomb onto a plane using his pregnant, Irish girlfriend, who apparently had no idea what was going on. A random search would be more likely to find a bad person who doesn't fit the profile.
Don't forget that al Qaeda changed traditional hijacking techniques pretty radically on 9/11. They were able to bring down the WTC because no one expected them to do what they did.
I'm not suggesting that profiling is worthless. I am suggesting that it's naive to rely on it too heavily.
For a counter-example, look at the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. Despite their Marxist ideology, they surrendered power peacefully when they lost the elections in 1990. The Sandinistas certainly had control of the country and were in position to implement a totalitarian state if they had wanted.
I'd argue that the problem isn't Communism per se. Rather, all the old institutions were destroyed during the formation of the Communist state. So there were no rganizations capable of effective resistance when the Party consolidated power. Whoever ran the Party could do whatever they wanted--and ruthless sociopaths like Stalin or Mao had an advantage in gaining control over the Party.
How did this get modded insightful? Yes, Mike Hunt can be a joke name. Thing is, not everybody gets the joke, and some people give this name to their children. I suspect the incidence of this name will go down as the joke becomes better known.
I've known a number of people named Mike Hunt. Their reactions to the joke ranged from complete obliviousness to mild annoyance.
However, I've never actually met anyone named Heywood Jablome.
Actually, there is such a thing as recurrent mutations. You can measure the rate at which they occur in a population. Depending on what effect a recurrent mutation has, a change in the environment may make a recurrent mutation advantageous. It'd be pretty easy to make predictions about this sort of thing.
The effects of more novel mutations, though, are going to be much less predictable for the reasons you give.
Also note that you've underhandedly switched from the task of implementing security to the task of auditing it, to promote this nonsense argument of yours.
His argument is fine, but his example sucks (for the reasons you stated).
The reason I'd recommend using the quick and sloppy first draft method is simply that, when you're done with the first draft, you have something you can work with. It can be a pain in the ass to correct it, but if you try to make everything right the first time you may not get it done at all.
Obviously not everyone will be able to work that way.
Shred!?!? Dude don't you know that shredded paper is trivial to reconstruct with a scanner and the right software. No, home incinerator is the way to go.
Because it's still beer. Boring and flavorless, yes, but the majority of the grist is still malted grain. Even Guinness uses some unmalted grains (unmalted barley, both roasted and unroasted).
If you turn your nose up at beer made with corn or rice, you'll also turn your nose at many an excellent American craft beers. Why do they use corn or rice? In many cases, the brewer is trying to prevent the beer from becoming too dark or too heavy. Corn also adds its own flavor, which can be desirable.
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Minor nitpick: Egypt itself still has a sizable minority of Coptic Christians (most of the 10% who aren't Muslims, according to Wikipedia).
But otherwise you're dead on. The Coptic language, used for services in the Coptic church, is the direct descendant of the ancient Egyptian language.
To address the original poster's question, though, there are a number of reasons why modern Egyptians aren't going to complain about archaeologists and other official tomb robbers:
Based on the evidence that the original poster presented ("the guy has a Jewish name!"), there's a reason you'd be called a "racist conspiracy nut."
Shortly before he died my father was an insulin-injecting diabetic. We gave him an olive jar to put the used needles in when he visited.
When he died, we couldn't figure out what to do with the needles. The only place I could think of where I'd seen a sharps container lately was the men's room in the airport. I had this vision of trying to explain to homeland security why I had taken a jarful of needles into the airport...
We wound up putting them into a sharps container at my doctor's office.
If their goal is to not sell accounts to people over 70, mission accomplished!
I suspect the waitress has a good story to tell about what your sister and your family ate after the rehearsal dinner.
People who use that banking system can go back and verify that their transactions went through. They can look at their bank statements and make sure that they're the only ones spending their money.
People who use an electronic voting system cannot go back and verify that their vote was cast correctly. No one can with any system in use in the US. In a paper system, however, you can go back and recount the original paper votes.
Oh, please. Poke around the archives at talkorigins.org and learn a bit about the actual evidence.
Remember, before the war Iraq was supposed to have an active and advanced weapons program, and we knew exactly where it was.
It's the same magic that allows one half of a family to move to America, and the other half to stay in Europe!
See, it's not all or nothing. Evolution happens to populations. When one population becomes isolated from another population, they will evolve differently given enough time.
Uh, yeah. How did this get modded informative? Funny I could see, since I did get a good laugh out of it.
Assuming that a band doesn't have a reputation yet, the big requirement is usually that the owner or manager of the venue has heard them (usually through a home-made CD or MP3). Alternately, they know the owner or manager of the venue. Sheet music does not enter into it.
Uh, no. Wikipedia actually has a nice definition: "the change in the heritable traits of a population over successive generations." Nothing whatsoever to do with a "gain in genetic material."
Darwin himself certainly proposed no such thing. Keep in mind that Darwin didn't know anything about genetics or mutations. While Gregor Mendel, the father of genetics, lived at roughly the same time as Darwin, Mendel's paper was largely forgotten until the 20th century.
On that trip to the Yucatan, my wife and I stayed a week in Merida and the surrounding areas (we rented a car), and a week in Playa del Carmen. Personally, I wouldn't go back to Playa del Carmen, but then again I wouldn't go to Cancun, either.
For example, economic practices which hurt a country's economy include:
All of these are done without consideration for others. All of them hurt a country's economy by preventing the market from working properly or eroding trust in the market.
Although with the "go to North Korea" crap I have to wonder why I bothered to respond.
It's loosing its strength against the feeble--oh, never mind. What were you saying again?
What this does is to allow customers to switch easily between Flickr and/or its competitors. Let's say you have an account with Flickr and want to move to one of its competitors. The competitor would now have access to Flickr's API, so it could write a script which (with your permission, of course) downloads all of your Flickr photos and puts them into galleries in your account with the competitor. This would be easier for most customers than downloading all their files.
Because they require a reciprocal key from the competitor, this would also allow Flickr to build a script to move your images from the competitor to your new Flickr account.
Capiche?
The point is to make it easy to transfer one's files from Flickr to a competitor (and vice versa).
I think you've just described every institution of higher learning known to mankind.
Which assumes that the bad people won't try to game the system. If security is more likely to search people who fit a certain profile, then security is less likely to search people who don't fit the profile. So if the bad people want to increase their odds of breaching security, they can recruit members who don't git (or don't seem to fit) the profile. They can also use try to use people who don't fit the profile in order to smuggle items in. For instance, a few years ago a Palestinian tried to smuggle a bomb onto a plane using his pregnant, Irish girlfriend, who apparently had no idea what was going on. A random search would be more likely to find a bad person who doesn't fit the profile. Don't forget that al Qaeda changed traditional hijacking techniques pretty radically on 9/11. They were able to bring down the WTC because no one expected them to do what they did. I'm not suggesting that profiling is worthless. I am suggesting that it's naive to rely on it too heavily.
I'd argue that the problem isn't Communism per se. Rather, all the old institutions were destroyed during the formation of the Communist state. So there were no rganizations capable of effective resistance when the Party consolidated power. Whoever ran the Party could do whatever they wanted--and ruthless sociopaths like Stalin or Mao had an advantage in gaining control over the Party.
I've known a number of people named Mike Hunt. Their reactions to the joke ranged from complete obliviousness to mild annoyance.
However, I've never actually met anyone named Heywood Jablome.
The effects of more novel mutations, though, are going to be much less predictable for the reasons you give.
His argument is fine, but his example sucks (for the reasons you stated).
The reason I'd recommend using the quick and sloppy first draft method is simply that, when you're done with the first draft, you have something you can work with. It can be a pain in the ass to correct it, but if you try to make everything right the first time you may not get it done at all.
Obviously not everyone will be able to work that way.
We call that "the fireplace."
If you turn your nose up at beer made with corn or rice, you'll also turn your nose at many an excellent American craft beers. Why do they use corn or rice? In many cases, the brewer is trying to prevent the beer from becoming too dark or too heavy. Corn also adds its own flavor, which can be desirable.
How was this modded insightful? Funny I'd buy. Still, we install (and use) bash on all our Solaris and AIX systems.