Since when does "said in Irish folklore" constitute any kind of reliable evidence?
I would imagine that like most forms of history, it has some truth and much fiction.
You said, quote, "being a Celt, I've experienced psychic phenomena myself." What you're saying is that the fact that you're a Celt implies that you would experience psychic phenomena. And I was giving a counter-example.
Actually no, you were merely attemting the reductio ad absurdum.. The fact that I am a Celt means that I am more likely to claim that I have experienced psychic experiences, it has nothing to do with it being a mandatory to all Celts all people of distant Celtic relations like yourself. Throughout history, (and I should add that the Celtic people preserved a great deal of it), Celtic people have had a very strong experience of supernatural phenomena, more so than many modern cultures to my mind.
Belief in a flat Earth is older than the Egyptians. It still doesn't make it true.
I have said that the experience occurs subjectively, I can't really say that psychic phenomena is necessarily true. I have said however, that the experience of it is true. It's a subtle point, but one that I've pointed out sufficiently in this discussion. For me, I have indeed experienced it, whether or not it is emperically true, I can't say, but subjectively I know it to have occured. The Earth is indeed a sphere, and yet we wear flat soled shoes.
Just because a bunch of upper-class Victorian lunatics decided to sit around and cobble together some mystical system from a bunch of apocryphal texts and engage in ridiculous ceremonies doesn't mean they were psychic.
I agree that it doesn't mean that they were psychic, but it does show that they were inclined to believe that they themselves were experiencing psychism.
I know a lot of New Age types like to claim the Druids had amazing supernatural powers, but the evidence is wanting.
As do I and they also are quite lacking, and of course it's very likely wishful thinking, but it is indeed a psychological phenomenon. I can't deny my own experience regardless of your particular beliefs.
This is one of the more ridiculous statements I've seen on slashdot, which is no small feat. You mean that all decendants of the indigenous inhabitants of the British Isles experience psychic phenomena?
The fact that you need me to qualify my statement shows to me that you obviously want to jump to conclusions. The Celts are not in fact the indigenous inhabitants of the British Isles, they travelled there and intermarried with the indigenous population. Those indigenous non-Celts are said in Irish folklore to have the psychic power, and for the ability to be passed in blodlines.
My grandmother was Irish. I must not have inherited her Celtic mutant gene, though, because I haven't had any psychic experiences.
I didn't say that your grandmother did or does have psychic experiences. However, a fair proportion of Celtic people do indeed claim to experience psychic phenomena. I'm not stating that this is an actual genuine event, but I am claiming that people such as myself who are Celts often experience such things. Your arguement has logic flaws, it's the common:
1. My apple is green, 2. Therefore all apples are green.
Just more of this neo-pagan "all Celts are these wise spiritual mystic Stevie Nicks types" bullshit.
Quite often, I find that people who need to resort to swearing or mockery to make a point are far to ignorant to bother replying to. Nonethless, I'll attempt a reply in an attempt to educate you. Celtic mythology and stories of Celtic psychic ability are older than the American and British Empire. Considering Stevie Nicks is an overrated performer from the 1970's, I imagine she's not quite as old. If you're interested, which I imagine you are not, you can read about W.B. Yeats, the mystic, poet and a member of the Golden Dawn, or perhaps about the Druids in Ireland, or perhaps discover why Ireland is called "the haunted Isle".
Oh, and if I had a dollar for every person who claimed to be an authority on the Celts because of their Irish grandmother, I'd be rich. If you know nothing of the Celt history, are not a Celt yourself, and if you're only claim is your long dead grandmother, kindly keep your mininformed opinions to your self.
In my book, ST:First Contact doesn't take precedence over Spock's World, but hey, continuity isn't wonderful with Trek anyhow, even from episode to episode.
I personally cringe every time they start the time travel twist, because it's always a continuity disaster. It's a real shame that Trek writers don't know their own Trek universe enough to get things right. It's also sad that they always seem to veer away from the cool timeline events like the Eugenics war etc - who needs Zafram compared to KAAAHHHHNNN!
Personally, I'd love to see more on the Vulcans barbaric past too - now that would be good. Even some of the psionic ancient Vulcans in the Federation timeline would be good - smashing things up Akira style and killing people just with mind power - now that would be like the good old days of Star Trek.
Instead, we'll probably just get more reversing the polarity from the forward emitter array type stories.
Betazoid, Vulcan psychic mind powers... yeah, Star Trek is 100% science. Perhaps you should take a peek at the authorised novel "Spock's World" - the whole premise of Vulcan psionics is mystically based, and it adds tremendously to the ideas around Vulcan mentality.
I'll spare you the J.B. Rhine and Quantum Physics arguments, but being a Celt, I've experienced psychic phenomena myself. It might very well be some sort of physical phenomena occuring solely in my brain, but it certainly looks like it's genuine phenomena. I've experienced telepathy for instance, where I've literally heard my father's thoughts in my own mind.
I expect that one day that psionics will be a real science, when our understanding is sufficient enough. Until then however, I think it's best to be generally sceptical but not to completely exclude the posibility and do some genuinely scientific investigation from time to time.
After all, they need to save their cash for the money they'll loose when it comes to the countersuits after they loose. All in all, it's great to see SCO planning ahead.
I want first dibs on an official SCO ergonomic chair when the sell off comes around.
Perhaps the Australian police tactical response group are Counterstrike fans too as well as "Cops" fans.
Australian members of the legal bar are dressed just as the characters of "Rumpole of the Bailey". It would be therefore safe to assume, that the entire Australian legal system is based upon the BBC series.
Spam is a very serious economic and technological problem, not so simply an inconvinience to the reciever. It's ruined a great deal about what was good about email and is really a type of sabotage.
It only manifests to the reciever as a nusiance, however it involves theft of resources and has greater finacial damage than just taking bandwidth. It interferes with businesses going about their activities, as well as exposing it's victims to often explicit or illegal content.
You are suggesting that penalties are sufficient to deter spammers, but this is clearly not a sufficient deterrent. In any case, spamming a person is a malicious act and to my mind more along the lines of larceny than that of parking without a ticket.
The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has also been thinking about Linux for while.
The CSA (Child Support Agency), a branch of the ATO has a terrible database, and theirs links into Centrelink's DB. At present Centrelink's systems are very poor indeed.
I'm sorry to sound cynical, but the Australian government often takes the cheapest option, and doesn't put in much in to system design or BPR. It's entirely likely that whether they use Linux or not, their systems will be underfunded, and most likely will have little to no design. Linux might get yet another boost from it's adoption in terms of PR, but I wouldn't want to make a bet on enjoying the end product.
I doubt that the pioneers of the sampling technique, both in Hip Hop and Dub Reggae, ever gave a second thought to any license whatsoever.
Classsical musicians once used to perform variations and improvements on each other's work. Nowadays, if someone tried that, they'd be in court quicker than you can say "Mozart".
Jazz does variations and improvisations - of course nowadays you'd need a team of lawyers first.
There's no mistake in my thinking, but there certainly is with your apologist views on state sanctioned murder. If you want to call yourself a citizen of the world, then why not start living up to your very MINIMAL humanitarian responsibilites and actually look after your citizens in such minor ways as not starving and murdering them. You have no right to call yourself cosmopolitan - you come from a murder state full of a majority of poor. The vast majority of your poor are not cosmopolitan, they're marked for death from their first impoverished breath. Your ruling class are merely their rich exploiters, and the lowest form of scum.
As it is, your upper class are merely parasites living off the first world's technological innovations, and feeding off the misery and labour of your underclass.
There is no reason to do both space development and social justice. Brazil could start changing in such a way that you don't murder, neglect and exploit the VAST MAJORITY of your citizens. It's not a case of one or the other, but it's certainly obvious where your country's priorities lie, and it's not with social justice.
I'd suggest that pissant specialist space projects like this only serve your industrialists and investors. You can argue "flow on effects of an improved economy" all you like, but your already existant vast tourist dollars have done nothing to change the disgraceful state of your country. Your country is a humanitarian disgrace. Your elite lines it pockets while your people are slaughtered like pigs.
The first world expects you to be able to at the very least manage to not endorse state sanctioned murder, torture and neglect of people whose only crime is to be caught under the wheels of your ruling class. We first world citizens have managed to not keep murder squads, and not have five year olds living on the streets prostituting themselves. Why doesn't your upper class get off it's fat arse and change your country for the better. Fix your murder state, AND get a space program - now that would be progress, instead of rationalising your indifference or trying to blur the issue by saying that no country call solve all it's social ills.
I'm not suggesting Brazil create a Utopia, but at the very least, your country could raise itself out of savagery.
Unless of course, you're too busy locking your doors and filling your pockets with tourist money and dreaming of space industry money, while your country's children die in your streets.
If only Brazil could manage to use all this ingenuity and excellence to find a way for their police death squads, and professional hired killers to stop murdering and torturing their street children (aged between 5 to 18 years). Considering that there are estimated between 7 to 17 million children living on their streets, one would think that they would look at the ground occasionally whilst they reach for the stars.
"More than 18% of Brazil's population is illiterate, and 35% of children between ages 7 and 15 are not enrolled in school. In addition, with the exception of Haiti and Guatemala, malnutrition is more prevalent in Brazil than in any other Latin American or Caribbean nation (UNICEF, 1996b). According to official government statistics, 1,000 children die from hunger and malnutrition each day in Brazil. Moreover, Brazil's infant mortality rate in 1993 was 52 per 1,000 live births, one of the highest in Latin America and exceeded only by Peru (88) and Bolivia (98). In the poorest regions of the country and in impoverished areas near industrial centers, 10% of the children are expected to die before they reach 5 years of age (Martins, 1993)."Link here
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for space travel, and I don't agree that the "solve our Earth problems" first applies to first world countries, but surely a third world country like Brazil could at the very least reform their murder state before embarking on a space program.
Thank goodness we have people like those involved in Groklaw who actually know their law and subject matter, and are able to correct this sort of misinformation.
Companies like SCO depend on the poor skills (or the dishonest collusion) of "journalists" so that they can continue their skullduggery.
Personally, I think SCO would do anything, even get a jornalist to lie for them, in the hope that they might just be bought out. SCO is a sinking ship full of desperate liars, but I think they're desperate to appear like they might be worth purchasing. After all, their days are sorely numbered.
She wasn't a feminist, but she could have power and position if she was in the right class.
I'll give you a hint why she wasn't a feminist. Feminism is a modern political movement that began from the Sufferegate movement in the mid 1800's.
Ancient Egypt on the other hand, was an ancient civilisation founded sometime around 3300BC.
Since it's pretty safe to assert that the Ancient Egyptians didn't possess time travel machinery of any kind, so we can quite safely conclude that they didn't know about feminism, and so were not feminists...unless of course you're living in the Stargate universe, and then it get's very complicated.
Where did I ever say that all slaves in Egypt were men?
You didn't, but the fact that some women in Egypt were slaves invalidates your arguement.
However, women *in general* in Egypt were *not* slaves, and were some of the most "liberated" in the ancient world.
In general, many things may or may not said to be true, but Egypt was specifically not a utopia for women. Merely some who were not slaves or poor et cetera, fit your idealised view.
That's absolutely the wrong conclusion to reach. Class/tribe and race was some of the determining issue in Ancient Egypt, not gender. It wasn't the equality of the sexes that determined status, it was social status brought about through other determinators. Therefore, there is no connection between liberation and sex. You're argument is similar to a lot of feminist historical revisionism - if gender was infact not an issue in the country, you can't validly argue it in gender terms without being a historical revisionist.
History doesn't offend me. Distorting history does. Although, has been pointed out here by 2/3 of the posters, this person wasn't from Egypt, so the point is moot.
So it makes your arguement even less valid, as the person's enacted cultural values would differ from your proposed idealised norm. You obviously don't understand what went on in the Ancient World, because it's very likely that one would meet offensive characters like this recreated one. In fact, he sounds mild compared to some of the things that went on throughout the world in that time.
If you want a politically correct womens's utopia, you're unlikely to find it in the Ancient world, including Egypt. Your popular culture ideas and reinterpreatations about the Ancient World are way off the mark.
They weren't "slaves". This is some man projecting his fantasies of enslaved women onto the game. And it's incredibly insulting.
Proposing a feminist utopia isn't very convincing when applied to Egypt. There were indeed slaves in Egypt, and some of them were women. The two were not mutually exclusive, however in many other countries at the time, women were indeed essentially or literally slaves. In any case, Egypt was not an ancient utopia for all women.
You may perhaps find enslaving women incredibly insulting, but an informed person would likely expect to encounter ideas in favour of it in such a historical recreation. This is a great deal of romanticisation regarding Egyptian history, mainly due to the English Romanticism movement, perhaps this "Ægypt" is more prefferable to you than the historical Egypt.
If history offends you, perhaps you should stick to more palatible subjects. Certainly, history will not conform to your tastes.
What would be really interesting if they could do a study to let us know if this high or low amount of technology makes any difference whatsoever in terms of comparitive academic competency and overall education and research.
My Australian based university is full of wireless hot spots, internet cafes, etc and has a very sophisticated online portal, but the actual standards are not improved whatsoever by it.
I would suggest that this sort of technology is a convinience, but doesn't have a relation to educational competence.
Slashdot Mirror
Once again AOL kills a Microsoft competitor, by purchasing it, and then killing the project, despite it's popularity. Netscape all over again.
I bet Microsft will send an extra big Christmas card to AOL this year.
Since when does "said in Irish folklore" constitute any kind of reliable evidence?
I would imagine that like most forms of history, it has some truth and much fiction.
You said, quote, "being a Celt, I've experienced psychic phenomena myself." What you're saying is that the fact that you're a Celt implies that you would experience psychic phenomena. And I was giving a counter-example.
Actually no, you were merely attemting the reductio ad absurdum. . The fact that I am a Celt means that I am more likely to claim that I have experienced psychic experiences, it has nothing to do with it being a mandatory to all Celts all people of distant Celtic relations like yourself. Throughout history, (and I should add that the Celtic people preserved a great deal of it), Celtic people have had a very strong experience of supernatural phenomena, more so than many modern cultures to my mind.
Belief in a flat Earth is older than the Egyptians. It still doesn't make it true.
I have said that the experience occurs subjectively, I can't really say that psychic phenomena is necessarily true. I have said however, that the experience of it is true. It's a subtle point, but one that I've pointed out sufficiently in this discussion. For me, I have indeed experienced it, whether or not it is emperically true, I can't say, but subjectively I know it to have occured. The Earth is indeed a sphere, and yet we wear flat soled shoes.
Just because a bunch of upper-class Victorian lunatics decided to sit around and cobble together some mystical system from a bunch of apocryphal texts and engage in ridiculous ceremonies doesn't mean they were psychic.
I agree that it doesn't mean that they were psychic, but it does show that they were inclined to believe that they themselves were experiencing psychism.
I know a lot of New Age types like to claim the Druids had amazing supernatural powers, but the evidence is wanting.
As do I and they also are quite lacking, and of course it's very likely wishful thinking, but it is indeed a psychological phenomenon. I can't deny my own experience regardless of your particular beliefs.
This is one of the more ridiculous statements I've seen on slashdot, which is no small feat. You mean that all decendants of the indigenous inhabitants of the British Isles experience psychic phenomena?
The fact that you need me to qualify my statement shows to me that you obviously want to jump to conclusions. The Celts are not in fact the indigenous inhabitants of the British Isles, they travelled there and intermarried with the indigenous population. Those indigenous non-Celts are said in Irish folklore to have the psychic power, and for the ability to be passed in blodlines.
My grandmother was Irish. I must not have inherited her Celtic mutant gene, though, because I haven't had any psychic experiences.
I didn't say that your grandmother did or does have psychic experiences. However, a fair proportion of Celtic people do indeed claim to experience psychic phenomena. I'm not stating that this is an actual genuine event, but I am claiming that people such as myself who are Celts often experience such things. Your arguement has logic flaws, it's the common:
1. My apple is green,
2. Therefore all apples are green.
Just more of this neo-pagan "all Celts are these wise spiritual mystic Stevie Nicks types" bullshit.
Quite often, I find that people who need to resort to swearing or mockery to make a point are far to ignorant to bother replying to. Nonethless, I'll attempt a reply in an attempt to educate you. Celtic mythology and stories of Celtic psychic ability are older than the American and British Empire. Considering Stevie Nicks is an overrated performer from the 1970's, I imagine she's not quite as old. If you're interested, which I imagine you are not, you can read about W.B. Yeats, the mystic, poet and a member of the Golden Dawn, or perhaps about the Druids in Ireland, or perhaps discover why Ireland is called "the haunted Isle".
Oh, and if I had a dollar for every person who claimed to be an authority on the Celts because of their Irish grandmother, I'd be rich. If you know nothing of the Celt history, are not a Celt yourself, and if you're only claim is your long dead grandmother, kindly keep your mininformed opinions to your self.
In my book, ST:First Contact doesn't take precedence over Spock's World, but hey, continuity isn't wonderful with Trek anyhow, even from episode to episode.
I personally cringe every time they start the time travel twist, because it's always a continuity disaster. It's a real shame that Trek writers don't know their own Trek universe enough to get things right. It's also sad that they always seem to veer away from the cool timeline events like the Eugenics war etc - who needs Zafram compared to KAAAHHHHNNN!
Personally, I'd love to see more on the Vulcans barbaric past too - now that would be good. Even some of the psionic ancient Vulcans in the Federation timeline would be good - smashing things up Akira style and killing people just with mind power - now that would be like the good old days of Star Trek.
Instead, we'll probably just get more reversing the polarity from the forward emitter array type stories.
Betazoid, Vulcan psychic mind powers... yeah, Star Trek is 100% science. Perhaps you should take a peek at the authorised novel "Spock's World" - the whole premise of Vulcan psionics is mystically based, and it adds tremendously to the ideas around Vulcan mentality.
I'll spare you the J.B. Rhine and Quantum Physics arguments, but being a Celt, I've experienced psychic phenomena myself. It might very well be some sort of physical phenomena occuring solely in my brain, but it certainly looks like it's genuine phenomena. I've experienced telepathy for instance, where I've literally heard my father's thoughts in my own mind.
I expect that one day that psionics will be a real science, when our understanding is sufficient enough. Until then however, I think it's best to be generally sceptical but not to completely exclude the posibility and do some genuinely scientific investigation from time to time.
I think you mean lose, not loose.
Both words are quite different.
Please excuse my error. Shakespeare of course was a terrible speller, so my mistake is merely a humble tribute to the great bard.
After all, they need to save their cash for the money they'll loose when it comes to the countersuits after they loose. All in all, it's great to see SCO planning ahead.
I want first dibs on an official SCO ergonomic chair when the sell off comes around.
He'll probably need an upgrade next year however.
Perhaps the Australian police tactical response group are Counterstrike fans too as well as "Cops" fans.
Australian members of the legal bar are dressed just as the characters of "Rumpole of the Bailey". It would be therefore safe to assume, that the entire Australian legal system is based upon the BBC series.
Thankfully none of the medical equipment is going to be running Microsoft products. Otherwise, people would really get the blue screen of death.
Spam is a very serious economic and technological problem, not so simply an inconvinience to the reciever. It's ruined a great deal about what was good about email and is really a type of sabotage.
It only manifests to the reciever as a nusiance, however it involves theft of resources and has greater finacial damage than just taking bandwidth. It interferes with businesses going about their activities, as well as exposing it's victims to often explicit or illegal content.
You are suggesting that penalties are sufficient to deter spammers, but this is clearly not a sufficient deterrent. In any case, spamming a person is a malicious act and to my mind more along the lines of larceny than that of parking without a ticket.
The Australian Tax Office (ATO) has also been thinking about Linux for while.
The CSA (Child Support Agency), a branch of the ATO has a terrible database, and theirs links into Centrelink's DB. At present Centrelink's systems are very poor indeed.
I'm sorry to sound cynical, but the Australian government often takes the cheapest option, and doesn't put in much in to system design or BPR. It's entirely likely that whether they use Linux or not, their systems will be underfunded, and most likely will have little to no design. Linux might get yet another boost from it's adoption in terms of PR, but I wouldn't want to make a bet on enjoying the end product.
Much more effective than a carbonite chastity belt.
"The plot and setting is right from the game."
I don't know about you, but my games of Doom don't have any plot except 100% slaughter.
Now that's my kind of plot.
I use my rear vision and side mirrors instead.
I doubt that the pioneers of the sampling technique, both in Hip Hop and Dub Reggae, ever gave a second thought to any license whatsoever.
Classsical musicians once used to perform variations and improvements on each other's work. Nowadays, if someone tried that, they'd be in court quicker than you can say "Mozart".
Jazz does variations and improvisations - of course nowadays you'd need a team of lawyers first.
I've already got the Metallica edition.
There's no mistake in my thinking, but there certainly is with your apologist views on state sanctioned murder. If you want to call yourself a citizen of the world, then why not start living up to your very MINIMAL humanitarian responsibilites and actually look after your citizens in such minor ways as not starving and murdering them. You have no right to call yourself cosmopolitan - you come from a murder state full of a majority of poor. The vast majority of your poor are not cosmopolitan, they're marked for death from their first impoverished breath. Your ruling class are merely their rich exploiters, and the lowest form of scum.
As it is, your upper class are merely parasites living off the first world's technological innovations, and feeding off the misery and labour of your underclass.
There is no reason to do both space development and social justice. Brazil could start changing in such a way that you don't murder, neglect and exploit the VAST MAJORITY of your citizens. It's not a case of one or the other, but it's certainly obvious where your country's priorities lie, and it's not with social justice.
I'd suggest that pissant specialist space projects like this only serve your industrialists and investors. You can argue "flow on effects of an improved economy" all you like, but your already existant vast tourist dollars have done nothing to change the disgraceful state of your country. Your country is a humanitarian disgrace. Your elite lines it pockets while your people are slaughtered like pigs.
The first world expects you to be able to at the very least manage to not endorse state sanctioned murder, torture and neglect of people whose only crime is to be caught under the wheels of your ruling class. We first world citizens have managed to not keep murder squads, and not have five year olds living on the streets prostituting themselves. Why doesn't your upper class get off it's fat arse and change your country for the better. Fix your murder state, AND get a space program - now that would be progress, instead of rationalising your indifference or trying to blur the issue by saying that no country call solve all it's social ills.
I'm not suggesting Brazil create a Utopia, but at the very least, your country could raise itself out of savagery.
Unless of course, you're too busy locking your doors and filling your pockets with tourist money and dreaming of space industry money, while your country's children die in your streets.
If only Brazil could manage to use all this ingenuity and excellence to find a way for their police death squads, and professional hired killers to stop murdering and torturing their street children (aged between 5 to 18 years). Considering that there are estimated between 7 to 17 million children living on their streets, one would think that they would look at the ground occasionally whilst they reach for the stars.
"More than 18% of Brazil's population is illiterate, and 35% of children between ages 7 and 15 are not enrolled in school. In addition, with the exception of Haiti and Guatemala, malnutrition is more prevalent in Brazil than in any other Latin American or Caribbean nation (UNICEF, 1996b). According to official government statistics, 1,000 children die from hunger and malnutrition each day in Brazil. Moreover, Brazil's infant mortality rate in 1993 was 52 per 1,000 live births, one of the highest in Latin America and exceeded only by Peru (88) and Bolivia (98). In the poorest regions of the country and in impoverished areas near industrial centers, 10% of the children are expected to die before they reach 5 years of age (Martins, 1993)." Link here
Don't get me wrong, I'm all for space travel, and I don't agree that the "solve our Earth problems" first applies to first world countries, but surely a third world country like Brazil could at the very least reform their murder state before embarking on a space program.
"Refute" is the wrong word.
I'd say instead "Maureen O'Gara evades the article."
There was no apparent humour in the article whasoever, and it was not clear that it was a bold faced lie, therefore, it was deliberately misleading.
Thank goodness we have people like those involved in Groklaw who actually know their law and subject matter, and are able to correct this sort of misinformation.
Companies like SCO depend on the poor skills (or the dishonest collusion) of "journalists" so that they can continue their skullduggery.
Personally, I think SCO would do anything, even get a jornalist to lie for them, in the hope that they might just be bought out. SCO is a sinking ship full of desperate liars, but I think they're desperate to appear like they might be worth purchasing. After all, their days are sorely numbered.
She wasn't a feminist, but she could have power and position if she was in the right class.
..unless of course you're living in the Stargate universe, and then it get's very complicated.
I'll give you a hint why she wasn't a feminist. Feminism is a modern political movement that began from the Sufferegate movement in the mid 1800's.
Ancient Egypt on the other hand, was an ancient civilisation founded sometime around 3300BC.
Since it's pretty safe to assert that the Ancient Egyptians didn't possess time travel machinery of any kind, so we can quite safely conclude that they didn't know about feminism, and so were not feminists.
Where did I ever say that all slaves in Egypt were men?
You didn't, but the fact that some women in Egypt were slaves invalidates your arguement.
However, women *in general* in Egypt were *not* slaves, and were some of the most "liberated" in the ancient world.
In general, many things may or may not said to be true, but Egypt was specifically not a utopia for women. Merely some who were not slaves or poor et cetera, fit your idealised view.
That's absolutely the wrong conclusion to reach. Class/tribe and race was some of the determining issue in Ancient Egypt, not gender. It wasn't the equality of the sexes that determined status, it was social status brought about through other determinators. Therefore, there is no connection between liberation and sex. You're argument is similar to a lot of feminist historical revisionism - if gender was infact not an issue in the country, you can't validly argue it in gender terms without being a historical revisionist.
History doesn't offend me. Distorting history does. Although, has been pointed out here by 2/3 of the posters, this person wasn't from Egypt, so the point is moot.
So it makes your arguement even less valid, as the person's enacted cultural values would differ from your proposed idealised norm. You obviously don't understand what went on in the Ancient World, because it's very likely that one would meet offensive characters like this recreated one. In fact, he sounds mild compared to some of the things that went on throughout the world in that time.
If you want a politically correct womens's utopia, you're unlikely to find it in the Ancient world, including Egypt. Your popular culture ideas and reinterpreatations about the Ancient World are way off the mark.
They weren't "slaves". This is some man projecting his fantasies of enslaved women onto the game. And it's incredibly insulting.
Proposing a feminist utopia isn't very convincing when applied to Egypt. There were indeed slaves in Egypt, and some of them were women. The two were not mutually exclusive, however in many other countries at the time, women were indeed essentially or literally slaves. In any case, Egypt was not an ancient utopia for all women.
You may perhaps find enslaving women incredibly insulting, but an informed person would likely expect to encounter ideas in favour of it in such a historical recreation. This is a great deal of romanticisation regarding Egyptian history, mainly due to the English Romanticism movement, perhaps this "Ægypt" is more prefferable to you than the historical Egypt.
If history offends you, perhaps you should stick to more palatible subjects. Certainly, history will not conform to your tastes.
What would be really interesting if they could do a study to let us know if this high or low amount of technology makes any difference whatsoever in terms of comparitive academic competency and overall education and research.
My Australian based university is full of wireless hot spots, internet cafes, etc and has a very sophisticated online portal, but the actual standards are not improved whatsoever by it.
I would suggest that this sort of technology is a convinience, but doesn't have a relation to educational competence.