actually, we have never recovered aristotle's texts. it's hard to say when they were lost, but it must have been post classical since cicero read aristotle and said he was a master stylist. this is a very technical topic, but all we have are, essentially, lecture notes.
You're wrong. Dark = unenlightened, backwards. Comes from Italian humanism. Do a little bit of research; start with Petrarch. Or, perhaps Mommsen's classic work on the topic: "Petrarch's Conception of the 'Dark Ages'", Speculum, Vol.17, No 2. (Apr.,1942), pp.226-242.
Your claim to have a doctorate in classics does not entitle your bout of revisionism. Unlike our age, some other ages actually thought themselves superior.
the word barbarian comes from the ancient greek word for, more or less, "one who sounds like a sheep" - barbaros. the greeks found the tongue of their neighbours, e.g., the macedonians, to sound like sheep ba-ba-ing.
If you look at that page, there is more about the lawyers who are handling the case than about the case itself. There is even a sales pitch, and an attempt to solicit cases.
I am against the RIAA as much as y'all, but the presentation of this story strikes me as funny...
The article implies that libel laws and laws againt computer-generated child-porn are synonymous with censorship. That's crap, of course. I expect that kind of argument from a high school student, not a paid BBC commentator.
You must be joking. Mainstream right wing party? One that was ruled as rascist by a court in belgium? Perhaps the court was fascist? If you want to argue a distinction between fascist and racist, well, i am willing to debate. But in practical terms... I used to drink with hardcore flemish nationalists. I have seen their marches. To hear the hatred they spew forth...
Oh, in the last election for the Flemish parliament, they got 34 percent of Antwerpen's votes. That was a plurality. That was over 1/3 of the votes. I am sure that you know that it is illegal not to vote in Belgium. Hence, 1/3 of all elegible citizens voted for them. If that does not mean that they control Antwerpen, well, then, I guess nothing will - please note, I did not say govern.
On one further note, they continue, in 2005, to demand amnesty for Belgians who collaborated with the Nazis.
Comparisons to the putative fascism of GWB are most wrong here. The VB is fascist - not simply conservative / right wing.
Yet, the cordon sanitaire against the VB leads to this sort of inanity (ie the podcast affair) - the cordon should be scrapped.
That said, the VB is huge; they control the city of Antwerpen, which has Belgium's largest Jewish community. The VB is a large problem to the freedom of all of us in Belgium, esp. us foreign residents.
The spread of the fake European spirit, as embodied in the EU and EC, as opposed to the true European spirit, found in spontaneous identification, has greatly increased nationalist sentiment, esp. in Belgium.
well, if i want to ftp my nightly backup to a remote server, it's easier to combine these files into one file and then ftp that file - and what a better way than simply to compress a folder? it's either that, or ftp'ing each file independently.
compression can have more uses than simply saving space.
Here is a great travel planner for public transportation in Brussels,, including walking distances. Sorry, but you must know Dutch, or French. There is no Klingon version yet.
I am well aware of the hijacking of the university, and the supression of free research. Curiously, this has gone hand in hand with the increasing ownership of knowledge (don't tell me patents are only for designs and implementations), and the rampant commercialisation of our faculties. Actually, it is not the curious at all. It's called greed, or at least short-sightedness.
And this 'theory' you talk about - well, that's the very basis of the university, and it also contributes to the idea of tenure. Theories are powerful, such as the current theory of justification. This latter theory, however, has the power to destroy the idea of the university.
But that's ok - university education has long been in need of real, as opposed to bureaucratic, reform.
The beauty of a university (even in this age of patents, industrial parks, and spin-offs) is that in theory any problem can be investigated without having to be justified. Who knows if this experiment will go anywhere (pun really not intended), but the ultimate (perhaps, commercial) form of any pure research is quite hard to imagine ab inititio.
I know that you are just asking a question, and indeed a good question. I am simply trying to forestall the opinion that because the advantages are not immediately to be seen, this must be a waste.
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actually, we have never recovered aristotle's texts. it's hard to say when they were lost, but it must have been post classical since cicero read aristotle and said he was a master stylist. this is a very technical topic, but all we have are, essentially, lecture notes.
Your claim to have a doctorate in classics does not entitle your bout of revisionism. Unlike our age, some other ages actually thought themselves superior.
the word barbarian comes from the ancient greek word for, more or less, "one who sounds like a sheep" - barbaros. the greeks found the tongue of their neighbours, e.g., the macedonians, to sound like sheep ba-ba-ing.
If you look at that page, there is more about the lawyers who are handling the case than about the case itself. There is even a sales pitch, and an attempt to solicit cases. I am against the RIAA as much as y'all, but the presentation of this story strikes me as funny ...
although i completely detest the attack on google news, the comparison between what gnews does and what the news media does is specious.
The article implies that libel laws and laws againt computer-generated child-porn are synonymous with censorship. That's crap, of course. I expect that kind of argument from a high school student, not a paid BBC commentator.
proxomitron wiped it too. i thought the banner at the top of the site was the banner in question. god, is it awful!
If you make a webpage, remember that people will judge them quickly.
At any rate, I am sure it will be available on Urge ...
well, my friend, if you want to stick to the issue, you will note in the first post i said the podcast censorship was inane.
moreover, i also called for the cordon to be scrapped.
the rest of your post sounds like it came straight from party hq.
Oh, in the last election for the Flemish parliament, they got 34 percent of Antwerpen's votes. That was a plurality. That was over 1/3 of the votes. I am sure that you know that it is illegal not to vote in Belgium. Hence, 1/3 of all elegible citizens voted for them. If that does not mean that they control Antwerpen, well, then, I guess nothing will - please note, I did not say govern.
On one further note, they continue, in 2005, to demand amnesty for Belgians who collaborated with the Nazis.
Yet, the cordon sanitaire against the VB leads to this sort of inanity (ie the podcast affair) - the cordon should be scrapped.
That said, the VB is huge; they control the city of Antwerpen, which has Belgium's largest Jewish community. The VB is a large problem to the freedom of all of us in Belgium, esp. us foreign residents.
The spread of the fake European spirit, as embodied in the EU and EC, as opposed to the true European spirit, found in spontaneous identification, has greatly increased nationalist sentiment, esp. in Belgium.
compression can have more uses than simply saving space.
this timeline also explains the thanksgiving slump. funny how tfa does not mention that.
Second, I see no indication that yahoo has tried to copywrite/trademark their use of the word.
Good on 'ya. BTW, 365*1.50=$547.50 US.
with proxomitron, i never see ads on /., except for the ones by submitters.
Here is a great travel planner for public transportation in Brussels,, including walking distances. Sorry, but you must know Dutch, or French. There is no Klingon version yet.
Well, it has not made it into the Oxford Compact Dictionary, nor anywhere else on their AskOxford site.
And this 'theory' you talk about - well, that's the very basis of the university, and it also contributes to the idea of tenure. Theories are powerful, such as the current theory of justification. This latter theory, however, has the power to destroy the idea of the university.
But that's ok - university education has long been in need of real, as opposed to bureaucratic, reform.
I know that you are just asking a question, and indeed a good question. I am simply trying to forestall the opinion that because the advantages are not immediately to be seen, this must be a waste.