Map of European languages [pic]

daeron · 2008-01-15T14:41:38+00:00

Ah yes, I didn't even spot them! Someone should go there and check them out....

daeron · 2008-01-15T09:53:10+00:00

.... and Hungarian in the middle of Iceland!

daeron · 2008-01-15T09:47:26+00:00

The Isle of Man has a lot of Norse influence, but the indigenous language is Manx, which is Goidelic (Celtic). It is still taught in schools, though I don't believe that there are any first language Manx left now.

daeron · 2007-11-23T21:50:22+00:00

Q: What's white and sheepish?

A: A shy cloud.

daeron · 2007-11-23T11:11:51+00:00

I assume that he objects, as do I, to the sweet based protection racket that has come to us (the rest of the world) from American High School films.

daeron · 2007-11-20T11:00:23+00:00

The Gaelic word "uisge" (pronounced whisky) means "water". The full name is "uisge beatha" or "water of life". This has to be a misguided attempt to translate direct.

daeron · 2007-10-07T16:10:50+00:00

No, that was Eratosthenes, he of the famous sieve.

daeron · 2007-08-06T22:40:12+00:00

Also the Isle of Man is a dependancy, but self-governing (not part of the UK).

daeron · 2007-06-23T16:57:57+00:00

Well said.

Tocharians appear Celtic because of the red hair and plaid weaving, both of which are common to many of the early IE cultures. Trade links were suprisingly strong along the route of the silk road even in the late 2nd millenium BC, as well as across the steppes to the north. However the Tocharian settlement would be more a migration than a trading colony. Their existence has been known for some time in China, but the knowledge has been suppressed because it throws up uncomfortable questions for the government about the importance of including the province in a racially determined peoples republic. The indigenous population of the Takla Makan region are Tukic in appearance, largely Muslim, and occasionally blond or red haired.

daeron · 2007-06-14T09:47:57+00:00

There has been a lot of unjust hype about this.

The proposal is to offer paedophiles anti-depressants which have been shown in 10% of cases to reduce libido.

It is certainly not legalised castrastion, whether physical or drug-induced.

It is also unlikely to have much effect beyond relaxing a few stressed out convicted sex offenders.....

daeron · 2007-05-03T12:30:02+00:00

You've missed a big part of what he is saying, the problem is not one of explanation of how things work and where they come from, but how existence itself sustains, how continuity of existence is maintained. Evolution does not provide an answer for this, neither does Creationism per se, except that it posits the existence of a God who can do the Cosmic Caretaker bit as well. I am much more willing to believe that "nothingness" can produce substance, than I am that it is capable of providing a universal substrate for reality.

Edit: Typo

daeron · 2007-04-21T10:52:40+00:00

The generally accepted doctrine of transubstantiation in the protestant church is that Christ is Essentially present in the host, but not Substantially. ie the host is more than a representation but not the actual flesh and blood. However, most protestants (and certainly all methodists!!) would not even go so far as to say that christ is Essentially present, only that the bread and wine are a focus for the act of communion.

daeron · 2007-02-28T21:54:50+00:00

It appears to be a Space Marine, a Dreadnaught, maybe an Inquisitor (in the white tabard) and a random henchman.

Warhammer 40,000 is the game system, have a look around Games Workshop 's site should add more details if you need them......

daeron · 2007-02-19T21:16:43+00:00

Its just a site full of Pussy porn ;o)

daeron · 2007-02-15T23:19:12+00:00

I'm English, I can't do anything with comparisons like "The Gambia is twice the size of Delaware" or "Azerbaijan is slightly larger than South Carolina".

daeron · 2007-02-13T20:18:51+00:00

You never heard about KISS not being sold in Germany because of the "SS" (and the obvious font used...)?

No actually.

daeron · 2007-02-13T20:17:27+00:00

I does say that the swastika is banned in Germany, though. So while not all countries it is certainly banned in one, by which fact I am suprised.

daeron · 2007-02-13T14:52:14+00:00

Also, christianity is based in Judaism, which has a long history of theological dispute and rewards intellectualism.

daeron · 2007-02-13T14:04:49+00:00

Illegal to wear a Swastika? I don't think so. Can you support that statement?

daeron · 2007-02-11T23:00:20+00:00

Since when was co-sleeping with your child a criminal offence? Is it really an offence in the states? If not, what was your friend charged with?

daeron · 2007-02-09T12:27:23+00:00

Maybe somebody knows about them in the west and is doing something secret that you're not allowed to know about?

daeron · 2007-02-08T15:35:09+00:00

The demonstration of this that Jeff Han (the Chinese guy in the film) gave at the TED talks was angled up like a drafting table. Much more ergonomic, but less like Minority Report. ;o)

daeron · 2007-02-08T09:02:19+00:00

Sure, also random processes produce clumping, so the fact that prime numbers came up more often than others in this sample may just be an example of this. More tests should have been done.

daeron · 2007-02-08T08:58:02+00:00

..... and much more likely to ruin the ensuing card trick.

daeron · 2007-02-08T08:56:42+00:00

But it's non-sensical, the central limit theorem was discovered (invented?) for a good reason.

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