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CIA operatives admit that al-Qaeda is a complete and total fabrication by the CIA. They plainly state that NO SUCH ORGANIZATION HAS EVER EXISTED AT ANY TIME.
Actor Heath Ledger has been found dead in a Manhattan apartment, New York police tell CNN.
Modern day Iraq, along the rivers. See Fertile Crescent. Burgeoning city-states gave rise to monarchies along the rivers. This is the start of civilization as we know it, as people transitioned to farming, aided by irrigation. Monarchies developed, the first permanent governments.
Why Monarchies? It's a combination of war and a need for a strong central government, which was needed to both organize social projects (irrigation) and resolve disputes with the rule of law. In the beginning, that "rule of law" was simply one person. Surpluses allowed for this sort of political system to develop.
But enough theory. Assyria developed from c. 744-623 BCE. Ashur, named after the god of the Assyrians (a god of war), was the capital. Nieveah, another city, reaches 120,000 citizens. Assyria was good at conquering, spreading towards modern-day Turkey and Egypt. The monarchy was "appointed" in antiquity by Ashur, and all claimed to be descended from that first king. Assyrians danced around the idea of apotheosis; the process of becoming a God. For example, they had a specific word for their god or their king, placing them on much the same level. In the end, the king was a proxy of sort for the god. Their statues were in the temples, and were treated in much the same reverence as the god's. It's an important idea.
Access to the king was limited to the extreme to promote reverence. His chambers would be decorated in frescoes about the power of the king, telling of his exploits. The rights of the kings were almost total; all laws were his to hand down, all land was owned by him. There was no higher appeal past the king; in the end, he might as well have been god. Of course, the nobles could have overthrown him, but that's bloody work.
Assyria was not known for its abundance of natural resources. It could grow a nice crop, sure, but that wasn't worth very much. Assyria sat at a natural crossroads, where they could tax anyone coming through. Tribute, as well, was a source of income. Conquered lands had to pay a tribute to the king, who then distributed it to the cities, who used it for public works, which people liked. If, of course, either revenue stream dried up, everyone's out of luck. Eventually, the economies of scale doom the economy. The economy becomes risk-averse because there's no profit in it. Supply-demand economics were sort of broken, because the supplies were related to who they conquered last.
The army was the basic meaning for Assyria's existence. The king led the army as his main job. The army was composed of a small number of professional soldiers, the ILKU (farmer-soldiers), and the "Special Service," the general enlisted man. Archery formed the core of the army, and each archer was protected by one man with a giant shield, and another with a spear. Horse-drawn chariots with archers and archer trios on horses. Effective, but not efficient. And these people could win a siege. Pontoon bridges, scaling walls, tunneling and collapsing walls, battering rams with covers and wheels! And irrigation as a weapon. As in floods. The violent reputation of the Assyrians preceded them. And they liked it that way. Made things easy.
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I’ll never be open again, I could never be open again
And I’ll smile and I’ll learn to pretend
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hey, I went to technical school with a guy named Ashur who was Assyrian.
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You probably didn't know it, but those airplane contrails you see up in the sky are part of the government's plan to infect you with a nasty skin disease. Many Ron Paul supporters have been wise to this government conspiracy for a while now, including Dave Von Kleist (above), who was just added to the bill for the RonPaulapalooza blowout scheduled for this summer.
In addition to composing this truth-exposing anthem about the government's nanomicrobes, Von Kleist has also produced a devastating documentary that lays bare the government's complicity in orchestrating the 9/11 attacks. Von Kleist joins Poker Face on the RonPaulapalooza slate, a band that loves the rock group Boston but hates the "Satanic Jews" who "need to be cleansed from our planet."
As for the Catholic church.. Well since Christ’s death, Ha-Satan has been attacking it at its roots. Today we have at least 40,000 Christian who are actually in a cult. The Catholic Church has always been the biggest impediment to Satan’s plan of destroying this 2nd earth age as he did the first. In my opinion, there are millions of good, God loving people in and involved with the church. But I also believe that Satan finally took over the hierarchy of the church in 1963 with the election of Paul the 6th to the POPE’s throne. I think that the same year a satanic mass took place in Rome as well as The Citadel in South Carolina. That very year was when the ‘Novus Ordo Mass’ was given to the faithful, and the church has never been the same.
Satanists, Communists and homosexuals where headhunted by people like Bella Dodd to infiltrate the church and destroy it from within.
The question is, why are we all sitting at our own respective computers, ‽
Damn why do I use Ctrl-X instead of Delete? It's a very odd habit.
I need some advice on what could be a life changing decision.
I've suspected for some time now that my g/f has been having an affair. The usual signs. Phone rings, I answer, someone hangs up. She started going out 'with the girls' a lot recently although when I ask which girls it is always "Just some friends from work, you don't know them".
I always look out for her ride coming home but she always walks from aroud the corner, I can usually hear a car driving off as she walks towards our house. If it really is a taxi why not just get dropped off in front? I once picked her cell phone up just to see what time it was and she went beserk and screamed that I should never touch her phone again, and why was I checking up on her.
Anyway, I have never approached the subject with my g/f. I think deep down I just didn't want to know the truth but last night she went out again and I decided to check on her. I decided I was going to hide behind my car which would give me a view of the whole street so I could see which car she was getting out of. It was while I was crouched behind my car that I noticed rust on my exhaust tip.
Should I take it to the dealer for replacement, or should I just take the opportunity to buy the aftermarket 3" I've been looking at. Its a big decission so I thought I would ask for your advice. Maybe I'll just try to buff it out.
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Saying that something is more intuitive than something else is all the rage right now. Apple and Apple fans like to use this word a lot. Are Apple products really more intuitive just because they say they are?
First off, what does it actually mean to have an intuitive interface? It means that you can use it by intuition. You don't need to learn how to do it. Now, all humans are born with certain instincts that are built-in to their brain functions. Interacting with a computer is not one of them.
Humans do learn things however. They learn to read words, recognize shapes, move objects, type words on a keyboard, etc. These things can be translated to human-computer interfaces in order to make the computer (and other electronic devices) easier to learn. In other words, we can base learning new things on things we have already learned in order to make them seem inuitive.
Now, easy to learn and easy to use are often two entirely different things. Making something easy to learn may mean simplifying the interface so that you don't have to see a bunch of potentially confusing things at the same time. It may also mean, creating multiple levels of navigation screens which explain to the user each step or creating a hardware interface that gives tactile/audible/visual feedback. And most importantly, it means basing the design on previously learned and widely accepted concepts such as language.
"Easy to use" is another animal. If you want it to be easy to use, you're looking for user interface efficiency. You want to be able to accomplish the tasks you've set out to do with as few steps as possible. This is very important for productivity.
Take a look at the interface for Windows. Up until Windows 2000, if you open a menu you'll notice that certain letters are underlined (they can be turned back on in the Display Properties). Once you understand that typing those letters on the keyboard will activate those commands without you having to move the mouse and point to them, you'll see how much more efficient this interface can be. This same user interface convention has been brought to Windows Mobile. If you open a menu on a Windows Mobile device (and your device has a keyboard or number pad), you'll see either underlined letters corresponding to each command, or numbers for each command. Pressing the corresponding button is much easier and faster than using the directional pad or stylus to select the command you want. If you already know about this user interface convention in Windows, you'll quickly recognize it on Windows Mobile. You’ll also quickly realize how much easier-to-use it is since your eyes and hands have much less work to do.
Does the Apple Macintosh OS have an equivalent for such an efficient user interface convention? Not at all. On all Apple OSes, you actually have to use the mouse to activate commands. While this is easy to learn, it's not easy to use when it comes to productivity and efficiency. Moving the mouse and following it with your eyes takes a lot more time than pressing a key on that keyboard. Sure, most programs implement keyboard shortcuts that are combined with modifier keys, but these are not nearly as discoverable as the underlined letter in the menu on Windows.
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Have you considered all the consequences of your proposition respecting post roads? I view it as a source of boundless patronage to the executive, jobbing to members of Congress & their friends, and a bottomless abyss of public money.
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WELCOME TO THE CENA SHOW AGAIN FOLKS!
Sigh, I would have wanted anybody to win except for Cena. Heel Cena is tolerable, but this Cena who is constantly getting cheered by 14 year old wiggers and fangirls, bleh. Triple H, Undertaker, Batista, HBK, CM Punk, Kennedy, hell even Hornswoggle I would've rather won the Rumble.
So based on the results, the following may be what is in store for us:
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[*]Y2J continues feud with JBL, with a possible Hell in a Cell/Hardcore/any gimmick match looming for them in the future
[*]Undertaker vs. Shawn Michaels (HBK was the one who eliminated the Undertaker)
[*]Kennedy vs Flair (After Flair won his match, Kennedy confronted him backstage and got in each other's faces)
[*]The Big Show still to come
[*]Cena either challenges Edge or Orton (if they won't lose their titles on No Way Out) on Wrestlemania, though it's likely he'll go after Orton since he's got the spinner belt
[*]Triple H will probably win the Elimination Chamber match on No Way Out so that he'll be on the main-event picture come Wrestlemania
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I don't much care for trolls or drama.
It's 2008. We have extremely safe cars. We have practical, efficient nuclear fission (both for peaceful and weapons uses). We have the ability to store 1TB of data on a drive the size of a small cigar box. And don't forget that I can communicate from one side of the world to the other instantly either via fiber or satellite.
As a citizen of the United States, I refuse to believe our country is somehow analagous to this dismal failure of a human being. His grasp of language and speech is abysmal, his politics the very antithesis of what his party is supposed to stand for, his cronies corrupt beyond redemption, his judgement non-existant, and his treasonous actions unforgivable. Like all nations, the United States has a history of good and bad. But for fucks sake we put a man on the moon, developed the nuclear bomb, are kings of computer technology, and now THIS asshole comes along and all of a sudden it's cool to be a Christfag who prays for answers instead of finding solutions?
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LEAVE BRITNEY ALONE! HASN'T SHE SUFFERED ENOUGH?
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>>314 Barbara Walters told her fellow panelists on The View" that Britney Spears' friend-manager-hanger on Sam Lufti called her over the weekend to say that Britney has mental issues, that they are treatable, that she has seen a psychiatrist, and she is in touch with her mother. Then Whoopi made fun of it.
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With Vista bearing a footprint 10 times larger than XP's, even Microsoft officials are expressing concerns about Windows' growing waistline.
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If the USA is the country that beat the Soviets and put a man on the moon, why are modern Americans a bunch of illiterate, whiny, fat-assed hillbilly losers?
because they buy a lot of stuff when they're dumb, which helps the economy, which makes the smart\rich\powerful more rich\powerful.
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>>I don't understand why Western countries are pandering to these third world shitholes?
cuz all the H for europe goes through there. CIA produces it in Afghanistan and send it through turkey to Europe for profits. FREE MARKET
If anyone requests while this sticky is up I'm going to ban them, GLOBALLY, for a fucking week.
Why does the DOJ seem so toothless when it comes to corporations or the ultra-wealthy, yet act like right-stomping psychopaths for small players (to the point of waffling on definitions of torture, or weaseling around the constitution)?
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Obviously at some point Mercury was hollow and covered by an ocean, then an asteroid hits, punctures the surface, and the ocean drains into the center of the planet, creating the channels we see today.
Now, I know there are those who will say "but liquid water cant exist that close to the sun".
Well, to those people I say "Its not called Mercury for nothing".
(CNN) ― In the latest sign that a conservative backlash is starting to build against John McCain, conservative commentator Ann Coulter said Thursday she is prepared to vote for Hillary Clinton over the Arizona senator in a general election match up.
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