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Their author: Solon Draco? Draco (lawgiver) That's where we get "draconian" from.

I notice that these 10C groupies don't talk about the Sermon on the Mount very much. Could it be that they don't like the idea of loving one's enemies? Jesus Christ's Sins | Internet Infidels Discussion Board - including violating some of the 10C's The Humanist Ten Commitments? | Internet...

I like this. Netanyahu rattled: Israel court rules military must draft ultra-Orthodox men | AP News These men spend all day studying Jewish religious lore, and there is a lot of it. "... their part in protecting the state"? As if they are brigades of sorcerers in the IDF, fighting by casting...

For over a half-century, conventions have essentially been coronations, with the real action being in the primaries. List of Democratic National Conventions and List of Republican National Conventions - the last Democratic one with more than one vote was in 1952, and the last Republican one in...

There is a problem with code like this: unsigned m = 0x7fffffff; unsigned k1 = 2*floor(m*(.5 - sqrt(3)/6.)) + 1; unsigned k2 = 8*ceil(m*atan(1.)/8.) + 5; Calculating that square root and that inverse tangent is computationally costly, and it is best to calculate them in advance...

That's the point - that he is doing his job well, and some people are outraged that he is finding them guilty of traffic violations.

Early computers were binary and decimal, and there was one ternary computer: Setun (1959–1965) Yes, base-3. But after 1960, they were all binary, with some of them optionally supporting decimal numbers. As I'd posted earlier, pre-chip computers had a variety of integer sizes and the three main...

An interesting feature of computer architectures is that pre-chip computers had much more variation in data sizes than chip ones. A chip computer is one with a Turing-complete CPU on a single computer chip. Word (computer architecture) - "In computing, a word is the natural unit of data used by...

Fortunately, there are plenty of other sources other than the New York Post. Justin Timberlake charged with driving while intoxicated in the Hamptons | AP News - 5:59 PM PDT, June 18, 2024 Also Justin Timberlake Released from Custody Following DWI Arrest - June 19, 2024 09:55AM EDT and Justin...

Rookie Sag Harbor cop who arrested Justin Timberlake didn't know singer, known by locals for strict enforcement So they hate cops who are tough on crime when it is them who are committing the crimes. Like So he got angry with this cop for acting so law-and-order on him. Back to Justin...

Justin Timberlake arrested for driving while intoxicated in Sag Harbor - June 18, 2024, 2:36 p.m. ET Justin Timberlake was 'wasted' and drinking other people's drinks: witness - June 18, 2024, 2:36 p.m. ET Justin Timberlake's mugshot reveals singer's bloodshot, glassy eyes moments after DWI...

Why the 10C's? Why not the Sermon on the Mount? Like "Love your enemies and let them abuse you" and "don't do name calling" and "one ought to remove body parts that make one commit sins" and "don't make a big show of your piety" and "you cannot serve both God and money" and "don't have foresight...

Wikipedia has Lexical similarity but its table is poorly sourced and incomplete. I've also found Lexical similarity from Ethnologue. Some data is missing. | Download Scientific Diagram Though I can't find anything in Ethnologue | Languages of the world itself

¿El IDIOMA más FÁCIL si hablas español? 👍[TOP 5] - YouTube The easiest language if you speak Spanish? (top 5) Linguriosa first mentioned the other languages of the Iberian peninsula, languages other than Spanish / Castilian: Portuguese, Galician, Catalan, Asturleonese, and Aragonese. Then she...

I read it, and I've never seen the sorts of opinions on linguistics that author Dorota Zielińska rebuts. Everything I've ever seen on linguistics presents it as an empirical science. Looking at the myths that she cites, some people in academia seem to have simplistic ideas about linguistics...

Delivering Stability—Primogeniture and Autocratic Survival in European Monarchies 1000–1800 | American Political Science Review | Cambridge Core Primogeniture: succession by one's oldest son. A common alternative was agnatic (male-line) succession: succession by one's oldest brother or other...

Part of the decline of monarchy has been the rise of more collective or corporate forms of government, like ruling councils and legislatures. That is evident from the English Civil War and its aftermath. Over the centuries, Parliament grew from being an advisory council to being the supreme...

An important and IMO underappreciated feature of democracy is rule by committee: rule by a council, an assembly, a legislature, a congress, a parliament, ... Rule by committee also extends to subsets of these bodies: legislative committees go back some centuries in some legislatures. There is...

Yes, a monarch can have a lot of soft power, but that depends on the monarch, and that does not seem to be either very heritable or very teachable. Consider Elizabeth II vs. her children and grandchildren and their spouses. She had very few scandals, while her descendants have had oodles of...

Germanic? Dutch: 10 Makkelijkste Talen Om Te Leren Voor Een Nederlander - YouTube 10 Norwegian, 9 Esperanto, 8 Portuguese, 7 Spanish, 6 Swedish, 5 Danish, 4 Frisian, 3 German, 2 English, 1 Afrikaans The Easiest Languages for German Speakers to Learn - YouTube (in German) 5 French, 4 English, 3...