Did Sparta actually fall because Thebes out innovated them on the battlefield?
If so, perhaps an argument _for_ the military industrial complex as a nation’s savior.
Perhaps you are thinking of classical Athens, and its loss to the Greek city-state of Syracuse in Sicily?
>”The team sent a sample from the comb to the University of Oxford's radiometric laboratory, but the carbon was too poorly preserved to accurately date the sample”.
Title a bit clickbait.
Not clear when inscribed, so 3700 years ago is erroneous.
> Title a bit clickbait.
> Not clear when inscribed, so 3700 years ago is erroneous.
I don't know how accurate the date is, but I wouldn't say it's necessarily entirely unclear when it was inscribed just because a sample couldn't be dated. They should be able to make some reasonable guesses by successfully dating other artifacts found at the same site/depth or based on when people would have known about and used the alphabet found on the comb. If ~3,700 years is the best guess based on the available evidence we have is it really clickbait?
Some quotes from another article linked in the first article:
"It came from a level of the site dating back roughly 2700 years but from the style of the writing engraved on the comb, Garfinkel’s team argues this particular artefact is about 1000 years older."
"It isn’t even clear exactly when the alphabet was invented: Many researchers argue for a date around 3800 years ago, but there is some evidence the alphabet was in use as early as 4300 years ago."
"The previous oldest known sentence is about 400 years younger than the one on the comb."
Lol. Was Bobby Seale a ‘ghetto thug’, a ‘bully’, & a ‘thief’? Was Fred Hampton all the above as well?
If Fred Hampton was, then why not just proudly say who in government ordered for him to be assassinated in his sleep?
no I did not say that .. and Huey Newton is complicated by social interactions and media attention over time which changed the man and changed his social surroundings. There is a knee-jerk crowd that rose to his defense at the time, as it is happening now in these comments. "revolutionary" was not a coincidental term. Gun violence is practiced daily in Oakland, California.
I agree. The actual man, the celebrity from media, and the pressure from domestic intelligence agencies would effect anyone.
But, just as there is nuance in understanding Huey P. Newton, surely there is the same nuance for people for whom his message resonated with- beyond being merely 'knee jerk'.
Regular gun violence in Oakland does not make everyone in Oakland a bad person, or a criminal or an accessory to criminal behavior
yes definitely nuance -- his iconic photo is directly styled as Che Guevara if I am not mistaken. Revolutionary Books is still open in Oakland near the MacArthur BART station -- the same stretch of MacArthur that was thick with street prostitutes at that time.
> "Serious students are largely only found in degree programs that have weeder courses".
I am unconvinced by that logic. Serious students are there to learn from competent teachers- i.e. someone that is proficient in the art of conveying knowledge, not merely possessing knowledge or having successfully brought grant monies to their university. Weed out courses are not for serious students, but are a rite of passage that many times are themselves gamed.
> Serious students are there to learn from competent teachers- i.e. someone that is proficient in the art of conveying knowledge, not merely possessing knowledge or having successfully brought grant monies to their university.
These two are largely diametrically opposed.
- Any professor bringing in significant grant money is at an R1 school.
- R1 schools are famous for bad teaching by the tenured faculty, largely because quality teaching doesn’t gain them much.
- Quality teaching can be found, often in abundance, at small colleges. Some of these colleges do not have weeder courses. There are some serious students at these colleges. These are the rare exceptions, imho.
There's weeder courses and then there's weeder courses.
Some courses are just hard because the concepts are hard. If you're not down to clown, you're not going to make it past it.
Some courses are deliberate obstacles. The degree program at the university I attended had a single course that essentially pivoted you from the 200 level courses to the 300 level courses. It was always full due to it being a requirement and having a high failure rate necessitating people to retake it multiple times.
I never got a chance to take it because I ran out of lower level courses and electives to take to maintain full time status. Without full time status, I couldn't maintain my financial aid. Without my financial aid, I couldn't afford college.
A couple of years later, the program was restructured and the "pivot" was removed. As was other bullshit one was forced to take. If I had started the program a year later, I could have actually completed it. Or if I could have just taken the class. I never struggled with the material.
I don't necessarily disagree, but something I didn't consider until later when exposed more to the "sausage making" of academia was the extent to which the course creators are just incompetent at creating material "on level" for those students. Many just assume the material must be hard, when in fact it (often times) moves too fast as well. Also inability to teach complex concepts simply is another huge impediment. This was one of Einstein's pet peeves, and is one of mine as well. Teachers and students alike seem to want to cram/jam as much material into each course as possible, but I think it ultimately does a grave disservice.
Is this in Cali? Pretty sure non-competes are unenforceable there regardless.
Good for you that you actually read the contract.
What is the time frame for these provisions- 1 year, 5 years?
Actually, thank you for posting this question. Before having to step down, the former Attorney General for New York began publicly to take a serious look at provisions like these which he felt were contrary to public policy.
Despite what anyone else will tell you, big companies do seek to enforce these contracts in court from media companies to MLB. So, while this is what the lawyers drafted for them, do you want to be bound to that possibility?
It depends (yes, I really hate that phrase too). A front-end developer working on a geospatial mobile app may not mind at all if his next job is working for an e-commerce site. But for someone who is pursuing a more specialized path, these terms can stifle career goals.
An anonymous tip alone is very likely insufficient probable cause for any judge to sign off on a warrant to execute a guns blazing search inside a home.
The link you posted, and swatting in general, involves a whole lot more than merely an anonymous tip to establish probable cause. Two totally different things.
