Most scholars believe[26] that key concepts of Zoroastrian eschatology and demonology influenced the Abrahamic religions.[27][28]
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[26] [author missing] (2012 [last update]). "ZOROASTRIANISM - JewishEncyclopedia.com". jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 23 February 2012. [27] Black & Rowley 1987, p. 607b. [28] Duchesne-Guillemin 1988, p. 815.
I'd add another reference, where I picked up the anecdotes myself. Its first chapter goes through Mazdaism and its relations to local and neighboring beliefs almost exclusively:
guild wars runs okay on a crappy netbook, let alone anyones PC, If you need to OC to play Guild Wars then you are using a Pentium III.
But chances are the same PC is also used to play games that require a lot more resources, and that the user isn't fiddling with his hardware all the time.
More like bronze age, actually. Mideast bronze age ends 1200BC, as opposed to 600BC in Europe... Jewish scriptures changed tremendously during the Babylonian captivity, which indeed occurred around 600BC (it basically blended in ideas from Zoroastrianism, chiefly the ideas of angels, demons, hell, and basically morality and good vs evil; and its final written form got written around then), but the general ideas of judaism had been around for far older than the end of the mideast bronze age.
99% of comments will be ill-informed. You won't be able to identify the 1% which are well informed, unless you're already knowledgeable on the subject. So why bother?
Hold... what would we get to comment on, on slow news days like this?:-)
I hate to be writing this, but if it hadn't been for Firefox fighting a losing war for ogg for the video tag (as in duh, who builds hardware for that when x264 is the de facto standard?!?), this article would likely have appeared on Slashdot a half dozen years ago.
However controversial, the Justice Minister's point seems to make sense from a legal standpoint: issuing a pardon could be interpreted as the UK government accepting liability for these past events, in a similar way that issuing apologies to African countries for the triangular trade might.
The Western Front in WW1 is a pretty good candidate for the worst place in the entire history of the world.
As much as I'll agree that I wasn't in Ypres or Verdun myself, either were an order of magnitude better places to be than Auschwitz, Treblinka, or Rwanda during the genocide for that matter, if you measure things in deaths per day.
+1 this. Fighting a bureaucracy that drags its feet with payments is worse than fighting a trench war, unless you have direct access to a helpful person who can sign the checks.
Also, FWIW, getting paid by a public administration that drags its feet is even harder. Just pass on the RFQs, unless you've a legal department that can strongarm them into paying through court action in the event things do go as planned.
On Android, I can turn off all the "location" services anytime I'm not using GPS. Saves the battery from being eaten by GPS. Does iPhone give this option?
Yeah. You disable location services altogether. And individual apps cannot access your location unless you allow them to -- an alert shows up the first time they try. If you refuse, it's up to the app to figure out what to do without your location; no API will let it find the information.
Admittedly, if you ask Google Maps directions from A to B, Google came make a rather safe assumption that you're heading to B from A, even if you disallow it to access your precise location.
We need to ask whether it is really sensible to power the 21st century by using an antiquated and vulnerable system of copper wires and wooden poles. (...) There is a better way to secure grid independence for our homes and businesses: electricity-producing photovoltaic panels installed on houses, warehouses and over parking lots, wired so that they deliver power when the grid fails.
If a hurricane is over your house, little sunlight is going to reach your panels, and there's a very real possibility that gusts of wind will rip them off of your roof. So this seems like a non-starter, at least for as long as the storm is actually around.
A more practical solution to the "antiquated and vulnerable system of copper wires and wooden poles" is to place those wires underground. It'll make the countryside prettier, too.
NASA is not showing much of a sense of humor here.
On a very personal note, I wish they'd fly it out of the solar system, in the hopes that it might eventually land on a planet somewhere after drifting through space for a few billion years.
Because, who knows... maybe a few bacteria currently contaminate the probe, survive the drift through space, and end up finding their new planet hospitable. Or more fun yet, it could land within the reach of pre-modern civilization somewhere.
The interesting thing would be adjusting it so that pay wasn't impacted (from 40 to 20 hours, but double minimum wage at the same time to compensate). I'm sure 5% of small companies would immediately close their doors and complain it was the labor costs, even if it wasn't. The *only* ones working on margins so thin it would seriously affect them are the hotels, and they'd all be hit equally such that they'd all raise prices together.
What you're describing is, incidentally, precisely what occurred in France when they reduced the work week to 35 hours. It went from 38 to 35 with no pay loss, some companies shut their doors blabber mouthing that it was due to higher wagers, and hotels did indeed increase prices -- though they were far from the only ones, citing the same reason.
Pretty much every culture has its version of the pancake, and has had it or variations of it for millennia. Pancakes in its various iterations is one of the oldest recipes out there (sorry I couldn't find the reference off two minutes of googling, but it's basically contemporary with agriculture itself if memory serves). Thus, you can be pretty sure someone tried pancakes with cheese in an oh-so-unmodern way. It's not exactly pizza, but it's pretty close.
Fair enough. But you know, in my (admittedly convoluted) experience in this kind of stuff, a separate issue is user trust and laziness.
It's one thing to write the above notice to paying customers who you're sending news and updates to; even if users got tricked to subscribed, they trusted the business enough to purchase something, and they're likely to unsubscribe -- even though more than a few actually mark it as spam. It's an entirely different thing to write the above notice to an opt-in list, unless it wasn't double opt-in -- which, insofar as I can tell from TFS/TFA, it isn't. When not, for all you know, you mistakenly gave your email or your email got sold, and you've no clue whatsoever what may happen if you click the link. Will you get even more spam? Will you end up on new lists? And even when it's double opt-in, actually.
Here's a thought: instead of simple or double opt-in, I'd suggest that businesses running mailing lists implement a recurring re-subscription opt-in. By this, I mean send the whole list a quarterly reminder of the lists they're subscribed to. Unless readers click a link to confirm that they wish to continue to receive emails, they automatically get unsubscribed. Never mind that most lists would instantly get trimmed to a notch about zero -- if that -- because the recipients might fail to read that email: the fact of the matter is that you're getting filed under Spam precisely because you're not getting read and you're annoying your audience.
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It's occasionally helpful to pop a wiki page before ranting mindlessly:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism#Relation_to_other_religions_and_cultures
The first sentence of that section reads:
Most scholars believe[26] that key concepts of Zoroastrian eschatology and demonology influenced the Abrahamic religions.[27][28]
(...)
[26] [author missing] (2012 [last update]). "ZOROASTRIANISM - JewishEncyclopedia.com". jewishencyclopedia.com. Retrieved 23 February 2012.
[27] Black & Rowley 1987, p. 607b.
[28] Duchesne-Guillemin 1988, p. 815.
I'd add another reference, where I picked up the anecdotes myself. Its first chapter goes through Mazdaism and its relations to local and neighboring beliefs almost exclusively:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Iran-Empire-History-Zoroaster-Present/dp/014103629X
guild wars runs okay on a crappy netbook, let alone anyones PC, If you need to OC to play Guild Wars then you are using a Pentium III.
But chances are the same PC is also used to play games that require a lot more resources, and that the user isn't fiddling with his hardware all the time.
More like bronze age, actually. Mideast bronze age ends 1200BC, as opposed to 600BC in Europe... Jewish scriptures changed tremendously during the Babylonian captivity, which indeed occurred around 600BC (it basically blended in ideas from Zoroastrianism, chiefly the ideas of angels, demons, hell, and basically morality and good vs evil; and its final written form got written around then), but the general ideas of judaism had been around for far older than the end of the mideast bronze age.
Rule of Acquisition #5: If you can't break a contract, bend it.
Color me puzzled... What are the first four? I thought this was the only one. :-)
99% of comments will be ill-informed. You won't be able to identify the 1% which are well informed, unless you're already knowledgeable on the subject. So why bother?
Hold... what would we get to comment on, on slow news days like this? :-)
I hate to be writing this, but if it hadn't been for Firefox fighting a losing war for ogg for the video tag (as in duh, who builds hardware for that when x264 is the de facto standard?!?), this article would likely have appeared on Slashdot a half dozen years ago.
However controversial, the Justice Minister's point seems to make sense from a legal standpoint: issuing a pardon could be interpreted as the UK government accepting liability for these past events, in a similar way that issuing apologies to African countries for the triangular trade might.
I second that. According to Google, I'm an old, obese dude in desperate needs for new abs and viagra. Go figure.
The Western Front in WW1 is a pretty good candidate for the worst place in the entire history of the world.
As much as I'll agree that I wasn't in Ypres or Verdun myself, either were an order of magnitude better places to be than Auschwitz, Treblinka, or Rwanda during the genocide for that matter, if you measure things in deaths per day.
+1 this. Fighting a bureaucracy that drags its feet with payments is worse than fighting a trench war, unless you have direct access to a helpful person who can sign the checks.
Also, FWIW, getting paid by a public administration that drags its feet is even harder. Just pass on the RFQs, unless you've a legal department that can strongarm them into paying through court action in the event things do go as planned.
On Android, I can turn off all the "location" services anytime I'm not using GPS. Saves the battery from being eaten by GPS. Does iPhone give this option?
Yeah. You disable location services altogether. And individual apps cannot access your location unless you allow them to -- an alert shows up the first time they try. If you refuse, it's up to the app to figure out what to do without your location; no API will let it find the information.
Admittedly, if you ask Google Maps directions from A to B, Google came make a rather safe assumption that you're heading to B from A, even if you disallow it to access your precise location.
http://english.cri.cn/6909/2012/12/15/53s738568.htm
Come on, this is standard for any host provider. It's CYA 101.
I'm not sure I'm getting this... What could possibly be wrong with any of that?
We need to ask whether it is really sensible to power the 21st century by using an antiquated and vulnerable system of copper wires and wooden poles. (...) There is a better way to secure grid independence for our homes and businesses: electricity-producing photovoltaic panels installed on houses, warehouses and over parking lots, wired so that they deliver power when the grid fails.
If a hurricane is over your house, little sunlight is going to reach your panels, and there's a very real possibility that gusts of wind will rip them off of your roof. So this seems like a non-starter, at least for as long as the storm is actually around.
A more practical solution to the "antiquated and vulnerable system of copper wires and wooden poles" is to place those wires underground. It'll make the countryside prettier, too.
NASA is not showing much of a sense of humor here.
On a very personal note, I wish they'd fly it out of the solar system, in the hopes that it might eventually land on a planet somewhere after drifting through space for a few billion years.
Because, who knows... maybe a few bacteria currently contaminate the probe, survive the drift through space, and end up finding their new planet hospitable. Or more fun yet, it could land within the reach of pre-modern civilization somewhere.
No, it isn't anything like silvery or coppery....
British humor at its best. Love it. :-)
TFA notes that sound engineers have trouble getting rid of it. Else, agreed... filter, add a different hum; can't be that hard...
The interesting thing would be adjusting it so that pay wasn't impacted (from 40 to 20 hours, but double minimum wage at the same time to compensate). I'm sure 5% of small companies would immediately close their doors and complain it was the labor costs, even if it wasn't. The *only* ones working on margins so thin it would seriously affect them are the hotels, and they'd all be hit equally such that they'd all raise prices together.
What you're describing is, incidentally, precisely what occurred in France when they reduced the work week to 35 hours. It went from 38 to 35 with no pay loss, some companies shut their doors blabber mouthing that it was due to higher wagers, and hotels did indeed increase prices -- though they were far from the only ones, citing the same reason.
Pretty much every culture has its version of the pancake, and has had it or variations of it for millennia. Pancakes in its various iterations is one of the oldest recipes out there (sorry I couldn't find the reference off two minutes of googling, but it's basically contemporary with agriculture itself if memory serves). Thus, you can be pretty sure someone tried pancakes with cheese in an oh-so-unmodern way. It's not exactly pizza, but it's pretty close.
'nuff said
This debate occurred in the 19th century. It's over. The answer is a resounding no. As in not at at all. Forget it. Give it up.
The only rational questions in the foreseeable future are whether or not we should reduce the work week's duration and increase paid vacation time.
If the deal extends to its owners, who actually do make products, then it may have needs.
Ah, yes... that admittedly is the beauty of law, which holds the only existing single-word oxymoron -- the (legal) short. :-)
Fair enough. But you know, in my (admittedly convoluted) experience in this kind of stuff, a separate issue is user trust and laziness.
It's one thing to write the above notice to paying customers who you're sending news and updates to; even if users got tricked to subscribed, they trusted the business enough to purchase something, and they're likely to unsubscribe -- even though more than a few actually mark it as spam. It's an entirely different thing to write the above notice to an opt-in list, unless it wasn't double opt-in -- which, insofar as I can tell from TFS/TFA, it isn't. When not, for all you know, you mistakenly gave your email or your email got sold, and you've no clue whatsoever what may happen if you click the link. Will you get even more spam? Will you end up on new lists? And even when it's double opt-in, actually.
Here's a thought: instead of simple or double opt-in, I'd suggest that businesses running mailing lists implement a recurring re-subscription opt-in. By this, I mean send the whole list a quarterly reminder of the lists they're subscribed to. Unless readers click a link to confirm that they wish to continue to receive emails, they automatically get unsubscribed. Never mind that most lists would instantly get trimmed to a notch about zero -- if that -- because the recipients might fail to read that email: the fact of the matter is that you're getting filed under Spam precisely because you're not getting read and you're annoying your audience.