The way I heard it, Lilith was supposed to be Adam's wife, but one of them (I think Adam) rejected the idea. Lilith ended up marrying the Devil.
Not necessarily. According to the Western tradition of Domus Occultae Abelis, Lilith mated with the 'sons of God', possibly fallen angels or other side-creations, and gave rise to the Lilim, who are here identified as demons. Her descendants are fated to play a major role after the Abandonment of Hell. The Domus Occultae also tells us of a third wife, who was wholly rejected by Adam and later destroyed by God.
On the other hand, the Eastern or Shinseiki tradition has Lilith as the true founding mother of humanity; here we are the Lilim, with Eve (or Eva) yet to come. Once she is made from a human source (the rib thing is probably a metaphor for something weirdly evolutionary) we can expect her union with Adam to produce a new genesis and (depending on your intepretation) either transfigure or replace humanity.
They can get AOLTW to be evil for them, thus separating them from the actual evil itself while having the evil done regardless?:D
Hey, if it's good enough for the CIA... If Google has evil it needs doing, it can extraordinarily render it off to AOL to be done. Clean hands all round and nobody gets blamed.
As long as the top jobs in the EU are discreetly decided by powerful, rich white people in remote smoke-filled rooms, without any input by European citizens , that type of bullsh*t will continue. Get mad and get involved.
Right, let's put forward a proposal to abolish the direct appointment of unelected commissioners, increase the importance of the Parliament, and have a directly elected president (as opposed to the joke that the presidency is now, rotating from country to country). Democratise the EU, give the people their say.
Result: popular outcry. Superstate. Federalists. Treason, they're selling out our country! Churchill spinning in grave! Where Hitler Failed They're Succeeding Without A Shot Fired!
The EU is never going to get anywhere this way. At least one country is always going to throw a tantrum if it doesn't get its way, and it'll usually be the same one country. De Gaulle was right from the beginning; for the sake of the union, throw us out, NOW.
Hopefully: soon. The same thing happens with sport: a lot of pubs in the UK show English football on French TV because it's cheaper than Sky. Murdoch is understandably irate about this and has been suing people.
As far as I'm concerned, the single market, being pretty much the founding principle and purpose of the European Union, ought to trump copyrights and licensing. The principle that a European citizen ought to be able to purchase products and services unobstructed from any European member state is one that I, for one, very strongly support.
Does this mean that we in the UK can now pay the same for downloads as our dear friends on the mainland?
As it is, in the UK the usual price is 99 pence, whereas on the mainland the usual price, so I hear, is 99 euro cents. For US readers, a euro is a little bit more than a dollar, while a pount is a lot more than a dollar.
We're getting ripped off out here, and that's contrary to the whole point of the single market. Nice to see something getting done about it.
I still have to see the first voting ballot on which you can actually vote explicitly against one candidate.
Well, at the last election over here I didn't mind much between the Labour and the Liberal and the Green, but I definitely didn't want the Tory, so I put a massive big cross next to his name just to make that clear... That's how it works, right?
How about Verizon just stop crippling their customers and unlock the locked features?
If they did that, then you could easily create your own wallpapers and mp3 ringtones on your PC and transfer them to your telephone by Bluetooth. This is obviously wrong, and the sort of thing only pirates would do. Therefore the phone company locks down the features, and you can then pay a modest sum of money for professionally-created multimedia products of much better quality. Isn't the Company great, looking out for you like that?
If you look in Genesis, there's a bit where it says that there were giants before the Flood, so the creationists would probably tell you that there were clearly dwarfs too, but they were horrible sinful creatures that richly deserved the drowning God sent them.
There were giants, and there were normal humans, right?
Then perhaps the giants survived and the normals died out, leaving behind only fragments of their mythology, and a few bones in Indonesia...
In a similar vein, I wonder if the widespread European mythology of trolls and ogres and suchlike is a result of prehistoric contact with Neanderthals? Such creatures are generally portrayed as larger and stronger than humans. Though intelligent they are not clever, and are usually defeated by trickery by a quick-witted hero.
Now if all geeks understood that not all people dedicated countless hours to learn new systems and therefore aren't able to install an nVidia card in less than 3 hours on Linux, then we might be able to encourage less technical people to switch to a more technical OS.
Less technical people don't install nvidia cards. Less technical people use whatever came with their computer. And anyway, nvidia have done a quite stellar job with their Linux drivers - the only objections I have are ideological. The procedure is simple and the documentation that comes with the download is clear and easy to follow.
The principle is good, but you picked a bad example there... nvidia installation is how it's done right.
Did these tasks involve things like opening a word document and writing in it? Or did they involve things like adding a new printer, or sharing files over a network. Oh, and what about installing? The site didn't seem to say exactly what parts of Linux they were testing. For the former, both Windows and Linux are equally simple, because it's a simple task. For the latter type of task, Linux is substantially more complicated than Windows
Eh... to open, and write into, a word processor: yep, both just as easy.
Sharing files over a network: well, on Windows the hard part is not sharing them. Cheap shots aside, though, Samba is easy to get going on desktop-oriented distributions, not really more difficult than configuring sharing on Windows. Printers: again distro-dependent, but I know where you're coming from there. I've had experiences with cups that drove me to... well, cups. Or rather large glasses of strong drink. I hear scanning's the same, though I don't have one myself.
Installation: Linux is definitely easier these days. Usually the only third-party driver you have to find is nvidia. With Windows? Better fish out all the driver disks that came with the PC, and expect a reboot after each and every one. That's before you start installing the applications, most of which would have been part of your Linux distro from the beginning.
Sure is. gmail's terrific. But when you've had an email account for seven years it's kind of hard to abandon. Everyone knows that address. Including, unfortunately, every spammer on the planet - I posted on USENET quite a lot...
Interface is nice, but man could those banners be any larger. Is Microsoft hard up for money or something.
I've been using Hotmail since 1998. Every so often Microsoft gives it a New Look. Every time they do, there's more advertising.
So, yeah, the banners could be larger. Wait a year or two.
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that particular weapon wasn't suited to non-nuclear use because it can't steer well inside it's bubble and it's so noisy it can't home on a target.
Sure, because missing by 50 yards makes a nuke useless.
You may want to look up the meaning of the phrase 'non-nuclear'.
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That means that soon the whole of NATO will have it, and we all know how good the security measures in the new (eastern) participants are...so expect being shot from a speedboat with one of those fuckers in the near future (like...10 years?). good luck in the middle east/gulf/whatnot, Mr. Supercarrier.
You needn't postulate a security breach. Just assume that the US sells them to a friendly group, and then later on decides that group is in fact the enemy. Remember how the Afghan mujaheddin got all those Stingers?
Why bother advertising products to someone who already uses them? Surely, if there's any purpose in advertising at all, you want to advertise your products to someone who currently uses a competitor's product?
Instead, it's a new kind of matter altogether, substantially different from all known kinds, possibly due to some as-yet undiscovered new elementary particle.
I always thought "dark matter" was a kind of special pleading, an appeal to magic in the face of the unknown.
Dark matter worked once before. The planet Uranus was noticed to be orbiting a little off its predicted course; this was explained by postulating a large body of dark matter which, when found, was named Neptune.
It also failed once before; when Mercury was seen to be off course, some more dark matter called Vulcan was postulated. Turned out that was actually due to general relativity; gravity behaved significantly differently that close to the Sun.
Dark matter I could live with. There could easily be plenty of material in the universe that doesn't shine. Not everything gets to be a star, after all. Dark energy, though... when that got added in, I started smelling phlogiston. I'm fully expecting some paradigm shift fairly soon to tidy up dark matter and energy, and this might be the start of it.
The annoying thing is, though, that Einstein gets the credit again. Accelerating universe, dark energy? Cosmological constant. The old bugger was even right when he was wrong! And now it seems that GR can explain the galactic rotation rates without recourse to dark matter, too. Unfair on modern physicists, I say! Leave us something to do, Albert!
It's like saying you'd sue someone who was spouting crap in speaker's corner - if that were the case what would be the point in speaker's corner?????
I've often wondered, but never actually bothered to look up: what IS the deal with Speakers' Corner? For those who don't know, it's a place in one of London's parks where people with axes to grind traditionally get up on their soapboxes to harangue the passers-by. I seem to remember hearing that there was some old mediaeval law protecting absolutely their right to do so - this from way back when free speech was something of a rarity - but I'm not certain of this.
Basically, is it still slander if you say it at Speakers' Corner? I know that what is said inside Parliament is immune to these laws, and I'm wondering if the same applies here.
Just been reading a brief history of time, 10th anniversary edition today. And i could swear this is spoken about in the book.
It is. Gamma-ray bursts have been observed for a long time: they were first discovered by spysats designed to watch out for nuclear test ban violations. ISTR that it was initially thought that the Soviets were trying to evade the ban by testing in deep space, but it soon became clear that these explosions were from much further afield.
The collision of neutron stars has always been the most popular candidate for the source of these blasts: neutron stars are an already well-known feature of the universe, and given their enormous gravity, a collision between two of them would certainly be sufficiently energetic. However, there has never been any direct evidence that they are the cause - until now, apparently.
But if they want to force the issue, I'm thinking that we should "remind" our foreign allies that a country with our military might cannot and will not be forced.
Oh dear me. What, if the EU decides to establish its own independent root servers, you're going to invade? Very funny.
The UN would "force" them the same way they forced Saddam to disarm. Many years of weakly worded resolutions and loud bellyaching.
Hey, it worked then, didn't it? You notice how he didn't actually have any WMDs, and how the conventional weapons he did have didn't let him put up much of a fight anyway?
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Not necessarily. According to the Western tradition of Domus Occultae Abelis, Lilith mated with the 'sons of God', possibly fallen angels or other side-creations, and gave rise to the Lilim, who are here identified as demons. Her descendants are fated to play a major role after the Abandonment of Hell. The Domus Occultae also tells us of a third wife, who was wholly rejected by Adam and later destroyed by God.
On the other hand, the Eastern or Shinseiki tradition has Lilith as the true founding mother of humanity; here we are the Lilim, with Eve (or Eva) yet to come. Once she is made from a human source (the rib thing is probably a metaphor for something weirdly evolutionary) we can expect her union with Adam to produce a new genesis and (depending on your intepretation) either transfigure or replace humanity.
In whose frame of reference?
Hey, if it's good enough for the CIA... If Google has evil it needs doing, it can extraordinarily render it off to AOL to be done. Clean hands all round and nobody gets blamed.
Which is nice.
Right, let's put forward a proposal to abolish the direct appointment of unelected commissioners, increase the importance of the Parliament, and have a directly elected president (as opposed to the joke that the presidency is now, rotating from country to country). Democratise the EU, give the people their say.
Result: popular outcry. Superstate. Federalists. Treason, they're selling out our country! Churchill spinning in grave! Where Hitler Failed They're Succeeding Without A Shot Fired!
The EU is never going to get anywhere this way. At least one country is always going to throw a tantrum if it doesn't get its way, and it'll usually be the same one country. De Gaulle was right from the beginning; for the sake of the union, throw us out, NOW.
As far as I'm concerned, the single market, being pretty much the founding principle and purpose of the European Union, ought to trump copyrights and licensing. The principle that a European citizen ought to be able to purchase products and services unobstructed from any European member state is one that I, for one, very strongly support.
As it is, in the UK the usual price is 99 pence, whereas on the mainland the usual price, so I hear, is 99 euro cents. For US readers, a euro is a little bit more than a dollar, while a pount is a lot more than a dollar.
We're getting ripped off out here, and that's contrary to the whole point of the single market. Nice to see something getting done about it.
Well, at the last election over here I didn't mind much between the Labour and the Liberal and the Green, but I definitely didn't want the Tory, so I put a massive big cross next to his name just to make that clear... That's how it works, right?
If they did that, then you could easily create your own wallpapers and mp3 ringtones on your PC and transfer them to your telephone by Bluetooth. This is obviously wrong, and the sort of thing only pirates would do. Therefore the phone company locks down the features, and you can then pay a modest sum of money for professionally-created multimedia products of much better quality. Isn't the Company great, looking out for you like that?
There were giants, and there were normal humans, right?
Then perhaps the giants survived and the normals died out, leaving behind only fragments of their mythology, and a few bones in Indonesia...
In a similar vein, I wonder if the widespread European mythology of trolls and ogres and suchlike is a result of prehistoric contact with Neanderthals? Such creatures are generally portrayed as larger and stronger than humans. Though intelligent they are not clever, and are usually defeated by trickery by a quick-witted hero.
Yep. It's also undetectable, unless Netflix start grassing up their best customers. Enjoy.
Less technical people don't install nvidia cards. Less technical people use whatever came with their computer. And anyway, nvidia have done a quite stellar job with their Linux drivers - the only objections I have are ideological. The procedure is simple and the documentation that comes with the download is clear and easy to follow.
The principle is good, but you picked a bad example there... nvidia installation is how it's done right.
Eh... to open, and write into, a word processor: yep, both just as easy.
Sharing files over a network: well, on Windows the hard part is not sharing them. Cheap shots aside, though, Samba is easy to get going on desktop-oriented distributions, not really more difficult than configuring sharing on Windows. Printers: again distro-dependent, but I know where you're coming from there. I've had experiences with cups that drove me to... well, cups. Or rather large glasses of strong drink. I hear scanning's the same, though I don't have one myself.
Installation: Linux is definitely easier these days. Usually the only third-party driver you have to find is nvidia. With Windows? Better fish out all the driver disks that came with the PC, and expect a reboot after each and every one. That's before you start installing the applications, most of which would have been part of your Linux distro from the beginning.
Sure is. gmail's terrific. But when you've had an email account for seven years it's kind of hard to abandon. Everyone knows that address. Including, unfortunately, every spammer on the planet - I posted on USENET quite a lot...
I've been using Hotmail since 1998. Every so often Microsoft gives it a New Look. Every time they do, there's more advertising.
So, yeah, the banners could be larger. Wait a year or two.
Sure, because missing by 50 yards makes a nuke useless.
You may want to look up the meaning of the phrase 'non-nuclear'.
You needn't postulate a security breach. Just assume that the US sells them to a friendly group, and then later on decides that group is in fact the enemy. Remember how the Afghan mujaheddin got all those Stingers?
Why bother advertising products to someone who already uses them? Surely, if there's any purpose in advertising at all, you want to advertise your products to someone who currently uses a competitor's product?
You're not much of a macho man, then? :-)
Dark matter worked once before. The planet Uranus was noticed to be orbiting a little off its predicted course; this was explained by postulating a large body of dark matter which, when found, was named Neptune.
It also failed once before; when Mercury was seen to be off course, some more dark matter called Vulcan was postulated. Turned out that was actually due to general relativity; gravity behaved significantly differently that close to the Sun.
Dark matter I could live with. There could easily be plenty of material in the universe that doesn't shine. Not everything gets to be a star, after all. Dark energy, though... when that got added in, I started smelling phlogiston. I'm fully expecting some paradigm shift fairly soon to tidy up dark matter and energy, and this might be the start of it.
The annoying thing is, though, that Einstein gets the credit again. Accelerating universe, dark energy? Cosmological constant. The old bugger was even right when he was wrong! And now it seems that GR can explain the galactic rotation rates without recourse to dark matter, too. Unfair on modern physicists, I say! Leave us something to do, Albert!
I've often wondered, but never actually bothered to look up: what IS the deal with Speakers' Corner? For those who don't know, it's a place in one of London's parks where people with axes to grind traditionally get up on their soapboxes to harangue the passers-by. I seem to remember hearing that there was some old mediaeval law protecting absolutely their right to do so - this from way back when free speech was something of a rarity - but I'm not certain of this.
Basically, is it still slander if you say it at Speakers' Corner? I know that what is said inside Parliament is immune to these laws, and I'm wondering if the same applies here.
No no no. As far as any historian can tell, walking the plank is a myth, largely thanks to J M Barrie, Hollywood and comics.
Violence and keelhauling, absolutely, but even Edward Teach himself never unlawfully duplicated a song or movie.
It is. Gamma-ray bursts have been observed for a long time: they were first discovered by spysats designed to watch out for nuclear test ban violations. ISTR that it was initially thought that the Soviets were trying to evade the ban by testing in deep space, but it soon became clear that these explosions were from much further afield.
The collision of neutron stars has always been the most popular candidate for the source of these blasts: neutron stars are an already well-known feature of the universe, and given their enormous gravity, a collision between two of them would certainly be sufficiently energetic. However, there has never been any direct evidence that they are the cause - until now, apparently.
Oh dear me. What, if the EU decides to establish its own independent root servers, you're going to invade? Very funny.
Hey, it worked then, didn't it? You notice how he didn't actually have any WMDs, and how the conventional weapons he did have didn't let him put up much of a fight anyway?