I've read the chain. Nick brings in Jesus a little weirdly, but the basic point was that "we are legion" is a quote of the "bad guys". You were the one who brought in demons and claimed there couldn't possibly be a connection between the term legion and the Bible.
It's the equivalent of someone saying "work makes you free" and being told that "you probably should think about the origin that phrase".
"We are legion" is a bad-guy quote. If Anonymous wants to be considered good-guys, they might want a better motto.
English wasn't really what we'd consider English before then. Old English (or to be more precise, West Saxon) was spoken from about 800-1100 and formed the basis of what we call English now.
The Gospel of Mark in West Saxon uses "Legio", the actual Latin word, so it would seem that prior to "Anglicization" in 1175, we just used the Latin word directly. The influence of Norman French after the conquest on English caused a lot of Latin words to be merged with their Old French equivalents. So, yes, legion is a direct translation of Legio and had been used in Saxon prior to being "updated" to the French pronunciation.
And if you'd read my post carefully, I showed you that the MODERN usage of legion to also mean "many" is because of the Bible verse. The Romans didn't use the term to mean "many" - its root meaning in Latin was "conscript" from the word legere "to choose". As far as anyone can tell, it was first used as "many" in the Bible. Every etymology of the use of legion to mean "many" points to Mark 5:9 as the reason.
That's even true in French, where they use the phrase "être legion" as a synonym for many and point to scriptural use (one source uses the example "legions of demons") as the reason why.
*I* am being obtuse? Hahahaha. Look up the word "legion", dumbass. It isn't known to have existed until approximately the year 1000 A.D.!!!! And I'm being generous, giving it a good 100 years or more leeway.
OK, even I am getting bored by this, but try to follow this.
When a word like legion has a dictionary entry that says "Origin 1175-1225", that's when the word entered the English language, not when it first popped out of the mouths of humans. Legio (Latin) and Legiwn (Greek) have both existed for well over 2000 years. Legio came to Greece and became Legiwn, came through Old French as Legion and entered English through Old French/Norman. Same word, with slight changes to pronunciation, century after century. And when it came into English, it was used in the sense of a "Roman Legion" (band of soldiers), not as a synonym for "many".
I was pretty clear in my posting that I doubted that Anonymous was purposely quoting the Bible. But you said:
The use of the word "legion" to mean "many" is approximately 1000 years old, and it originally referred to a "legion" of Roman soldiers. It did not come from the Bible at all. Remember that the Bible is a translated work.
Firstly, the book in question (The Gospel according to Mark, 5:9) was written 2050 years ago, a bit longer than your 1000 years.
Secondly, even though it was written in Greek, the author of Mark used the the transliterated Roman term "Legio" (Legiwn in Greek) - the author of Mark was writing for Romans and used the Roman term. Like Anonymous, he was using an allusion that his audience knew.
Thirdly, Anonymous are using English for their motto - so the fact that we're talking about a phrase that was translated into English 500+ years ago hardly makes it likely that they came up with weirdly similar phraseology de novo. I'm not saying Anonymous is a bunch of Bible students - I'm saying they're using phraseology that came from a Biblical source whether they knew it or not simply because it's been used by speakers and authors who were purposely alluding to the Bible for hundreds of years and it has thus entered the popular culture.
Finally, the phrase "We are Legion" pairs a plural subject and a singular noun. It hardly makes sense - try using "We are Battalion" or "We are Patrol" - except as an allusion to the Biblical phrase.
I'm sorry if you are so traumatized by the Bible that the fact that certain phrases and concepts have bled into the popular culture makes you mad. I'm not a huge fan of chunks of it either, but come on - this one is a gimme...
Why? Conservatives have been "going ape shit" over foreign sources of energy for far longer. Drill, baby, drill is their mantra - natural gas is just another thing to drill.
Plenty of conservatives have been pitching the idea of energy diversity, albeit mostly within carbon fuels. Bob Zubrin is a darling among a lot of the conservative set and he's been pushing Energy Victory, his plan for mandated flex-fuel vehicles for years. Zubrin pushes methanol the most, but he's happy with CNG too. There's a whole set of energy-independence conservatives that have pushed for flexible fuels and wind power as a way to defund OPEC among other things.
(I used to write for an alt-energy blog, so I got to know the players on both sides of the political spectrum.)
Please - I'm far from a Christian fanatic, but it's a pretty common literary allusion. That phrase my have leeched into the common culture (who knows, maybe they're big Richard Matheson or Will Smith fans), but the use of the term "legion" to mean "many" is a Biblical allusion. Try to remember that up until probably the 1950s, most literary allusions in the States were Biblical - it was by far the most widely owned and read book in the country. Without a fairly detailed understanding of the Bible, it becomes quite difficult to really understand a lot of 19th century oratory - phrases that just seem odd to our ears were shorthand call outs to scripture.
While a lot of that Bible reading culture has now faded away, bits and pieces like "We are Legion" survive. (I laugh when people think that today's GOP is somehow the most "Christianist" in history - they'd be considered Godless libertines in the 1880s or 1930s.)
And the actual quote is "My name is Legion: for we are many." So "we" and "legion" is part of the real quote.
Sounds like a Super Slow regimen. I did Super Slow at a local gym once or twice a week for about a year - it definitely raises your level of fitness and health.
Don't go into it looking to get buff - it's more about making you strong and healthy than ripped.
Alois. Why I knew that off the top of my head, I can't remember...
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This drivel was rated Insightful +5? You have got to be kidding me. Kennedy's inaugural address is available on Youtube. So is MLK's "I have a dream" speech.
King's "I Have a Dream" speech has rather famously been the source of numerous copyright lawsuits by the King Estate. See here for example.
The PBS special the OP was speaking of was "Eyes on the Prize", which was out of print for years until the producers got nearly $1 million in grants in order to pay off copyright holders after their original five-year rebroadcast rights had expired.
I would think that most everyone here knows that just because something can be found on YouTube doesn't mean that it's there legally. The vast majority of music on that site violates US copyright law.
You are still running 2.0.0.20 because of the "open all bookmarks in tabs" bug?
For those who don't feel like looking up the bug, the issue is that if you perform an "open all bookmarks in tabs" command on a bookmark folder by right-clicking on the folder and selecting from the menu, it will overwrite the active tab. If, OTOH, you do the same thing via a middle-click, CTRL-left-click or by opening the folder and selecting the "open all..." item, the active tab is unchanged.
So - there were known (and easy!) workarounds for this "bug" since 2008. The main reason it wasn't "fixed" is that there was some disagreement as to whether this was a bug - some people preferred the fact that there were two, easily accessed modes - "active tab replaced" and "active tab left alone".
That has to be one of the odder reasons to refuse to upgrade for nearly four years... If you "accidentally replace" tabs so often that it prevents an upgrade but can't do it often enough to remember to use a middle-click or ctrl-left click instead of the right click context menu, you have hit quite the sweet spot of use cases my friend...
Oddly enough, not universally true. I have a Vitamin C intolerance/allergy - have had since childhood. I used to get terrible canker sore outbreaks. My mother read that Vitamin C deficiency was a suspected cause, so she started giving me one children's vitamin C pill a day.
Three days later, I was in a hospital with a 106F temperature that was getting worse and a mouth full of canker sores. No one could figure out why (I didn't seem otherwise ill) when an internist asked what changes to my diet had recently occurred. My mom told him about the vitamin C - it turns out this internist had recently done research on ascorbic/citric acid intolerance and my symptoms matched.
I switched to a low-C diet and my symptoms went away - no more canker sores or weird fevers and rashes. I still require some vitamin C, but I make sure it comes only from food sources and limit the total amount. I mostly get it from limes - don't know why they don't affect me as much, though I suspect it's because I simply don't use enough to push me over the edge. I know I'm getting too low when I start to crave citrus. I really like citrus, but it doesn't like me...
One odd side-effect of the whole deal is that orange juice has a weird "wake-up" effect on me. Caffeine has never really had much of an effect on me, but if I'm really tired and need to stay awake, an 8oz glass of orange juice will wake me up for hours. Then, my skin gets itchy...
That's apparently the reason for creating the Roku thumbdrive in the first place - to separate out the smart from the TV. BestBuy is going to package them with their Insignia TVs and Roku is trying to get other manufacturers to do the same.
When the latest super-duper codec or app comes out that cannot be handled with a simple firmware update, you pitch the old $50 dongle and plug in the new $50 dongle. The $600 TV stays.
It seems like a pretty good idea - its the implementation details that we need to see.
This has been done before with a different knockout gene. Alexandra McPherron and Su Jin-Lee created "mighty mice" by knocking out the MSTN gene back in 1997. Same sorts of effects - doubled muscle mass, increased endurance and the like. There is a lot of hope in the muscular dystrophy arena that these types of knockout effects can be replicated via drug delivery mechanisms.
These sorts of mutations also occur naturally. I have a whippet and a naturally occurring mutation occasionally results in a bully whippet, which looks like the Incredible Hulk of whippets. In this case, the muscles don't just double - these dogs can pack on a whole other dog's worth of weight in added muscle. They are absolute freaks of nature - but with the same docile temperament that normal whippets have.
It's a result of a myostatin mutation. If a dog has one copy of the gene, they are incredibly fast runners with just a slight increase in muscle mass - these are the best racing whippets. If a dog is born with two copies of the mutated myostatin gene, they become "bullies". Forget six-pack abs - these guys have an entire case...
1. Early Judaism didn't so much assume that other gods didn't exist as that they were far inferior to Yahweh and/or evil. Witchcraft = the power of the inferior gods. Other gods are bad, so witchcraft is bad.
2. Early Christianity assumed that there were two spiritual powers - God and Satan. Wicthcraft = the power of Satan. Satan is bad, so witchcraft is bad.
3. Later Christianity assumed that witchcraft was just the nutty worship rituals of non-existent gods. Worshiping non-existent gods diverts you from the proper worship of the real God, so witchcraft is bad.
I have an Airport Extreme (Generation 3) which is supposed to have Gigabit ethernet ports but they never worked - they always connected at 100mbps. I tried everything I could think of - updated firmware, changed network card, changed to Cat6 cable to no avail.
I just got Comcast Digital Voice service which comes with a required SMC cable modem with a built Gigabit router. Plugged it in and gigabit ethernet suddenly worked - it was literally plug and play.
(I have a big Cisco gigabit switch in the basement, so everything else was running at gigabit speeds, but anything going thru the Airport router was 100mbps.)
There are literally dozens of complaints on the Apple support forums about this sort of thing and they are never resolved, so I'm less impressed with the Extreme.
It's pretty simple, really. AGW tends to come with a set of policy prescriptions that ever so conveniently line up with a left cosmopolitan wish list. More centralized control over industry, less consumption of energy, a lower standard of living for the hoi-polloi and the expenditure of vast sums of money by a technocratic elite on a process that has an end goal that's nearly unmeasurable in the near term. When your policy descriptions envision 100 years of rigorous government control of almost all aspects of our personal and professional lives for something that is hard to quantify in your daily life, you're going to get pushback.
It certainly doesn't help that the science is complicated and based on unproven models that have a huge range of outcomes and the fact that the most visible public faces of the movement like Al Gore live carbon intensive lifestyles that mock the set of changes they prescribe for everyone else. No one likes to be told that their yearly trip to Grandma's house is destroying the planet by someone with multiple lavish houses on opposite ends of the country who flies more in a year than they will in a lifetime.
Compare that to CFCs, where the changes were limited to a few industries and required nothing more to the average consumer than buying a different colored can of refrigerant or switching from a spray can to a pump. Some politicians may have been conspicuous users of hairspray, but there was no sense of hypocrisy or personal gain behind the movement to ban CFCs.
And then compare even that to exo-planet discoveries. They require no economic change at all and if you choose to believe or disbelieve the models being used to discover these planets nothing changes other than a small factoid in your head. The only personal gains are extremely short bursts of publicity and some enhanced standing within your field - people are well aware that mistakes or even fraud can arise in these situations, but there's no emotional investment to the general public. If 5 years from now, better instruments and models indicate that that "super-Earth" is really a small gas giant or doesn't exist at all, it will disappoint some astonomy buffs and professionals, but no one else will care.
If AGW was presented in terms of what has already happened (coral is dying, arctic ice pack is melting, growing zones are moving), that future projections weren't consistently presented in apocalyptic terms (climate change can't have solely negative impact), realism in how quickly we can move to post-carbon energy sources and openness to a range policy ideas (including geo-engineering or promoting a wider switch to natural gas) you might not see quite the resistance to the underlying science. Similar things happen on the "left" as well - a lot of resistance to science (heritability of intelligence, low-risk genetic engineering) when it pushes against their cherished beliefs or policy desires.
Just because two species can interbreed does not mean they are the same species.
That has been a part of the functional definition of "species" for quite some time.
But only a part of the definition.
Think about genus Canis, which includes wolves, dogs, coyotes, jackals and dingos. They all can and do successfully interbreed and produce fertile offspring, but are widely considered separate and distinct species (except maybe wolf/dog).
Amazon is partnering with OverDrive, which is the major market leader for library lending. What all those libraries "are already doing" is generally linking with OverDrive (that's what my local library does).
According to one version of the press release, any book currently offered by your library via OverDrive will be available on the Kindle at no additional charge to the library. What is unclear is whether that means that OverDrive will have two copies of each book (in ePub and MOBI/AZW format) and allow you to check out the book in the format of your choice or whether Amazon is quietly adding support for ePub but calling it "library lending". If it's adding ePub to Kindle, I'd bet that they would at least initially limit it to the library feature, as Amazon doesn't want you to buy ePubs from Barnes and Noble and read them on your Kindle. (To be fair, Barnes and Noble doesn't want the converse - it's widely assumed that when the Nook Color app store opens, alternate reader apps like Kindle will not be allowed.)
I really like the Kindle hardware but I chose to get an iPad instead so I could use the eBook reader and format of my choosing. So far, I've been using ePub and Stanza while organizing my library with Calibre - which can convert to/from several formats (and even remove the DRM if you know where to look and don't have a problem with that). Actual ePub support would probably get me to buy a Kindle as well (for more portable reading - I like the weight/eInk Pearl) - but I might pick one up anyway and just use Calibre to reformat.
I don't confuse the two - social behavior obviously can move much faster. Traditional cultures that were dominant within current lifetimes have been supplanted by imported or imposed Western culture nearly overnight. But it's fairly rare for that to be an unqualified success - even countries that have been "Westernized" for a few hundred years but previously had little or no urbanization have not done well adapting to our "foreign" culture. I'm not even saying they should - I happen to like Western culture, but that's because I'm completely adapted to it. I'm pretty sure if I were Maori or San I'd be much less happy living the life I live.
But allele diffusion is much more rapid than most people believe. It really only takes a handful of generations for an especially useful allele to spread throughout a population. This assumes that there is an allele to spread - but if there are certain alleles that select for certain behaviors, and those behaviors are being selected for, they can spread very rapidly. Even plain old mutation-based evolution is faster than expected.
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I've read the chain. Nick brings in Jesus a little weirdly, but the basic point was that "we are legion" is a quote of the "bad guys". You were the one who brought in demons and claimed there couldn't possibly be a connection between the term legion and the Bible.
It's the equivalent of someone saying "work makes you free" and being told that "you probably should think about the origin that phrase".
"We are legion" is a bad-guy quote. If Anonymous wants to be considered good-guys, they might want a better motto.
English wasn't really what we'd consider English before then. Old English (or to be more precise, West Saxon) was spoken from about 800-1100 and formed the basis of what we call English now.
The Gospel of Mark in West Saxon uses "Legio", the actual Latin word, so it would seem that prior to "Anglicization" in 1175, we just used the Latin word directly. The influence of Norman French after the conquest on English caused a lot of Latin words to be merged with their Old French equivalents. So, yes, legion is a direct translation of Legio and had been used in Saxon prior to being "updated" to the French pronunciation.
And if you'd read my post carefully, I showed you that the MODERN usage of legion to also mean "many" is because of the Bible verse. The Romans didn't use the term to mean "many" - its root meaning in Latin was "conscript" from the word legere "to choose". As far as anyone can tell, it was first used as "many" in the Bible. Every etymology of the use of legion to mean "many" points to Mark 5:9 as the reason.
That's even true in French, where they use the phrase "être legion" as a synonym for many and point to scriptural use (one source uses the example "legions of demons") as the reason why.
* I * am being obtuse? Hahahaha. Look up the word "legion", dumbass. It isn't known to have existed until approximately the year 1000 A.D.!!!! And I'm being generous, giving it a good 100 years or more leeway.
OK, even I am getting bored by this, but try to follow this.
When a word like legion has a dictionary entry that says "Origin 1175-1225", that's when the word entered the English language, not when it first popped out of the mouths of humans. Legio (Latin) and Legiwn (Greek) have both existed for well over 2000 years. Legio came to Greece and became Legiwn, came through Old French as Legion and entered English through Old French/Norman. Same word, with slight changes to pronunciation, century after century. And when it came into English, it was used in the sense of a "Roman Legion" (band of soldiers), not as a synonym for "many".
I was pretty clear in my posting that I doubted that Anonymous was purposely quoting the Bible. But you said:
The use of the word "legion" to mean "many" is approximately 1000 years old, and it originally referred to a "legion" of Roman soldiers. It did not come from the Bible at all. Remember that the Bible is a translated work.
Look up the etymology (word origin) of legion. Here's the very first hit from Google.
Which is pretty much all I said. That you continue to get your dander up over it is bizarre...
Crickey, you are obtuse.
Firstly, the book in question (The Gospel according to Mark, 5:9) was written 2050 years ago, a bit longer than your 1000 years.
Secondly, even though it was written in Greek, the author of Mark used the the transliterated Roman term "Legio" (Legiwn in Greek) - the author of Mark was writing for Romans and used the Roman term. Like Anonymous, he was using an allusion that his audience knew.
Thirdly, Anonymous are using English for their motto - so the fact that we're talking about a phrase that was translated into English 500+ years ago hardly makes it likely that they came up with weirdly similar phraseology de novo. I'm not saying Anonymous is a bunch of Bible students - I'm saying they're using phraseology that came from a Biblical source whether they knew it or not simply because it's been used by speakers and authors who were purposely alluding to the Bible for hundreds of years and it has thus entered the popular culture.
Finally, the phrase "We are Legion" pairs a plural subject and a singular noun. It hardly makes sense - try using "We are Battalion" or "We are Patrol" - except as an allusion to the Biblical phrase.
I'm sorry if you are so traumatized by the Bible that the fact that certain phrases and concepts have bled into the popular culture makes you mad. I'm not a huge fan of chunks of it either, but come on - this one is a gimme...
Why? Conservatives have been "going ape shit" over foreign sources of energy for far longer. Drill, baby, drill is their mantra - natural gas is just another thing to drill.
Plenty of conservatives have been pitching the idea of energy diversity, albeit mostly within carbon fuels. Bob Zubrin is a darling among a lot of the conservative set and he's been pushing Energy Victory, his plan for mandated flex-fuel vehicles for years. Zubrin pushes methanol the most, but he's happy with CNG too. There's a whole set of energy-independence conservatives that have pushed for flexible fuels and wind power as a way to defund OPEC among other things.
(I used to write for an alt-energy blog, so I got to know the players on both sides of the political spectrum.)
Please - I'm far from a Christian fanatic, but it's a pretty common literary allusion. That phrase my have leeched into the common culture (who knows, maybe they're big Richard Matheson or Will Smith fans), but the use of the term "legion" to mean "many" is a Biblical allusion. Try to remember that up until probably the 1950s, most literary allusions in the States were Biblical - it was by far the most widely owned and read book in the country. Without a fairly detailed understanding of the Bible, it becomes quite difficult to really understand a lot of 19th century oratory - phrases that just seem odd to our ears were shorthand call outs to scripture.
While a lot of that Bible reading culture has now faded away, bits and pieces like "We are Legion" survive. (I laugh when people think that today's GOP is somehow the most "Christianist" in history - they'd be considered Godless libertines in the 1880s or 1930s.)
And the actual quote is "My name is Legion: for we are many." So "we" and "legion" is part of the real quote.
Sounds like a Super Slow regimen. I did Super Slow at a local gym once or twice a week for about a year - it definitely raises your level of fitness and health.
Don't go into it looking to get buff - it's more about making you strong and healthy than ripped.
Alois. Why I knew that off the top of my head, I can't remember...
King's "I Have a Dream" speech has rather famously been the source of numerous copyright lawsuits by the King Estate. See here for example.
The PBS special the OP was speaking of was "Eyes on the Prize", which was out of print for years until the producers got nearly $1 million in grants in order to pay off copyright holders after their original five-year rebroadcast rights had expired.
I would think that most everyone here knows that just because something can be found on YouTube doesn't mean that it's there legally. The vast majority of music on that site violates US copyright law.
You are still running 2.0.0.20 because of the "open all bookmarks in tabs" bug?
For those who don't feel like looking up the bug, the issue is that if you perform an "open all bookmarks in tabs" command on a bookmark folder by right-clicking on the folder and selecting from the menu, it will overwrite the active tab. If, OTOH, you do the same thing via a middle-click, CTRL-left-click or by opening the folder and selecting the "open all..." item, the active tab is unchanged.
So - there were known (and easy!) workarounds for this "bug" since 2008. The main reason it wasn't "fixed" is that there was some disagreement as to whether this was a bug - some people preferred the fact that there were two, easily accessed modes - "active tab replaced" and "active tab left alone".
That has to be one of the odder reasons to refuse to upgrade for nearly four years... If you "accidentally replace" tabs so often that it prevents an upgrade but can't do it often enough to remember to use a middle-click or ctrl-left click instead of the right click context menu, you have hit quite the sweet spot of use cases my friend...
Oddly enough, not universally true. I have a Vitamin C intolerance/allergy - have had since childhood. I used to get terrible canker sore outbreaks. My mother read that Vitamin C deficiency was a suspected cause, so she started giving me one children's vitamin C pill a day.
Three days later, I was in a hospital with a 106F temperature that was getting worse and a mouth full of canker sores. No one could figure out why (I didn't seem otherwise ill) when an internist asked what changes to my diet had recently occurred. My mom told him about the vitamin C - it turns out this internist had recently done research on ascorbic/citric acid intolerance and my symptoms matched.
I switched to a low-C diet and my symptoms went away - no more canker sores or weird fevers and rashes. I still require some vitamin C, but I make sure it comes only from food sources and limit the total amount. I mostly get it from limes - don't know why they don't affect me as much, though I suspect it's because I simply don't use enough to push me over the edge. I know I'm getting too low when I start to crave citrus. I really like citrus, but it doesn't like me...
One odd side-effect of the whole deal is that orange juice has a weird "wake-up" effect on me. Caffeine has never really had much of an effect on me, but if I'm really tired and need to stay awake, an 8oz glass of orange juice will wake me up for hours. Then, my skin gets itchy...
It's not just Germans - it's specifically competent, old-school German Nazis.
Yes, it does.
That's apparently the reason for creating the Roku thumbdrive in the first place - to separate out the smart from the TV. BestBuy is going to package them with their Insignia TVs and Roku is trying to get other manufacturers to do the same.
When the latest super-duper codec or app comes out that cannot be handled with a simple firmware update, you pitch the old $50 dongle and plug in the new $50 dongle. The $600 TV stays.
It seems like a pretty good idea - its the implementation details that we need to see.
This has been done before with a different knockout gene. Alexandra McPherron and Su Jin-Lee created "mighty mice" by knocking out the MSTN gene back in 1997. Same sorts of effects - doubled muscle mass, increased endurance and the like. There is a lot of hope in the muscular dystrophy arena that these types of knockout effects can be replicated via drug delivery mechanisms.
These sorts of mutations also occur naturally. I have a whippet and a naturally occurring mutation occasionally results in a bully whippet, which looks like the Incredible Hulk of whippets. In this case, the muscles don't just double - these dogs can pack on a whole other dog's worth of weight in added muscle. They are absolute freaks of nature - but with the same docile temperament that normal whippets have.
It's a result of a myostatin mutation. If a dog has one copy of the gene, they are incredibly fast runners with just a slight increase in muscle mass - these are the best racing whippets. If a dog is born with two copies of the mutated myostatin gene, they become "bullies". Forget six-pack abs - these guys have an entire case...
Sort of three answers to that:
1. Early Judaism didn't so much assume that other gods didn't exist as that they were far inferior to Yahweh and/or evil. Witchcraft = the power of the inferior gods. Other gods are bad, so witchcraft is bad.
2. Early Christianity assumed that there were two spiritual powers - God and Satan. Wicthcraft = the power of Satan. Satan is bad, so witchcraft is bad.
3. Later Christianity assumed that witchcraft was just the nutty worship rituals of non-existent gods. Worshiping non-existent gods diverts you from the proper worship of the real God, so witchcraft is bad.
Pick your poison.
I have an Airport Extreme (Generation 3) which is supposed to have Gigabit ethernet ports but they never worked - they always connected at 100mbps. I tried everything I could think of - updated firmware, changed network card, changed to Cat6 cable to no avail.
I just got Comcast Digital Voice service which comes with a required SMC cable modem with a built Gigabit router. Plugged it in and gigabit ethernet suddenly worked - it was literally plug and play.
(I have a big Cisco gigabit switch in the basement, so everything else was running at gigabit speeds, but anything going thru the Airport router was 100mbps.)
There are literally dozens of complaints on the Apple support forums about this sort of thing and they are never resolved, so I'm less impressed with the Extreme.
Now that's what I call a career limiting maneuver.
There should be a Career Darwin Award...
It's pretty simple, really. AGW tends to come with a set of policy prescriptions that ever so conveniently line up with a left cosmopolitan wish list. More centralized control over industry, less consumption of energy, a lower standard of living for the hoi-polloi and the expenditure of vast sums of money by a technocratic elite on a process that has an end goal that's nearly unmeasurable in the near term. When your policy descriptions envision 100 years of rigorous government control of almost all aspects of our personal and professional lives for something that is hard to quantify in your daily life, you're going to get pushback.
It certainly doesn't help that the science is complicated and based on unproven models that have a huge range of outcomes and the fact that the most visible public faces of the movement like Al Gore live carbon intensive lifestyles that mock the set of changes they prescribe for everyone else. No one likes to be told that their yearly trip to Grandma's house is destroying the planet by someone with multiple lavish houses on opposite ends of the country who flies more in a year than they will in a lifetime.
Compare that to CFCs, where the changes were limited to a few industries and required nothing more to the average consumer than buying a different colored can of refrigerant or switching from a spray can to a pump. Some politicians may have been conspicuous users of hairspray, but there was no sense of hypocrisy or personal gain behind the movement to ban CFCs.
And then compare even that to exo-planet discoveries. They require no economic change at all and if you choose to believe or disbelieve the models being used to discover these planets nothing changes other than a small factoid in your head. The only personal gains are extremely short bursts of publicity and some enhanced standing within your field - people are well aware that mistakes or even fraud can arise in these situations, but there's no emotional investment to the general public. If 5 years from now, better instruments and models indicate that that "super-Earth" is really a small gas giant or doesn't exist at all, it will disappoint some astonomy buffs and professionals, but no one else will care.
If AGW was presented in terms of what has already happened (coral is dying, arctic ice pack is melting, growing zones are moving), that future projections weren't consistently presented in apocalyptic terms (climate change can't have solely negative impact), realism in how quickly we can move to post-carbon energy sources and openness to a range policy ideas (including geo-engineering or promoting a wider switch to natural gas) you might not see quite the resistance to the underlying science. Similar things happen on the "left" as well - a lot of resistance to science (heritability of intelligence, low-risk genetic engineering) when it pushes against their cherished beliefs or policy desires.
But only a part of the definition.
Think about genus Canis, which includes wolves, dogs, coyotes, jackals and dingos. They all can and do successfully interbreed and produce fertile offspring, but are widely considered separate and distinct species (except maybe wolf/dog).
I guess this is a sign for me to start updating the old blog again.
Favorite posts (not that there were a lot):
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I'm sensing a pattern here..
Amazon is partnering with OverDrive, which is the major market leader for library lending. What all those libraries "are already doing" is generally linking with OverDrive (that's what my local library does).
According to one version of the press release, any book currently offered by your library via OverDrive will be available on the Kindle at no additional charge to the library. What is unclear is whether that means that OverDrive will have two copies of each book (in ePub and MOBI/AZW format) and allow you to check out the book in the format of your choice or whether Amazon is quietly adding support for ePub but calling it "library lending". If it's adding ePub to Kindle, I'd bet that they would at least initially limit it to the library feature, as Amazon doesn't want you to buy ePubs from Barnes and Noble and read them on your Kindle. (To be fair, Barnes and Noble doesn't want the converse - it's widely assumed that when the Nook Color app store opens, alternate reader apps like Kindle will not be allowed.)
I really like the Kindle hardware but I chose to get an iPad instead so I could use the eBook reader and format of my choosing. So far, I've been using ePub and Stanza while organizing my library with Calibre - which can convert to/from several formats (and even remove the DRM if you know where to look and don't have a problem with that). Actual ePub support would probably get me to buy a Kindle as well (for more portable reading - I like the weight/eInk Pearl) - but I might pick one up anyway and just use Calibre to reformat.
Frederik Pohl beat you to the punch by about 35 years: Man Plus
Just use some steganography software to embed a version of the DeCSS code into your pictures. I prefer the haiku version myself...
I don't confuse the two - social behavior obviously can move much faster. Traditional cultures that were dominant within current lifetimes have been supplanted by imported or imposed Western culture nearly overnight. But it's fairly rare for that to be an unqualified success - even countries that have been "Westernized" for a few hundred years but previously had little or no urbanization have not done well adapting to our "foreign" culture. I'm not even saying they should - I happen to like Western culture, but that's because I'm completely adapted to it. I'm pretty sure if I were Maori or San I'd be much less happy living the life I live.
But allele diffusion is much more rapid than most people believe. It really only takes a handful of generations for an especially useful allele to spread throughout a population. This assumes that there is an allele to spread - but if there are certain alleles that select for certain behaviors, and those behaviors are being selected for, they can spread very rapidly. Even plain old mutation-based evolution is faster than expected.