Comment Way to go, China (Score 5, Interesting) 63
Only? 2M informants is no more than 0.2% of the population.
Compare that to the East German Stasi, who had ~0.5% full time on their payrolls (about 100k of 16M ppl), plus ~3% of unpaid whisperers...
Only? 2M informants is no more than 0.2% of the population.
Compare that to the East German Stasi, who had ~0.5% full time on their payrolls (about 100k of 16M ppl), plus ~3% of unpaid whisperers...
Yes, lignite. Insane as it seems, there are still villages being razed in Germany for lignite strip mining.
As it is, Vattenfall is the most destructive Swedish force in Germany since Gustav Adolf.
That's the 'noble primitive' myth. It's only a myth.
I wasn't talking about the idea that people in smaller tribes were inherently more moral people (which is what the noble primitive myth deals with), but that crime is low because of social pressures in small groups (where everyone knows everyone, and it is harder to get away with crime) or for other reasons. My point was that crime rate is smaller in a smaller social group, but more and more people prefer to live in/around cities.
depends on the type of crime, i guess.
i know that at least homicide is much lower in today's "western" society (about one in a hundred thousand per year) in comparison to contemporary hunter-gatherer tribes (one in a hundred to one in three thousand).
Video blocked in Germany. Im starting to hate it when ppl upload vids with unrelated music copyrighted to big labels
Wow. Thanks.
Seriously: This mishmash of Xs, Ws, Qs, plusses and whatnot, all appended by -GA, is highly ridiculous. Who in all the fcking world wants to learn as many acronyms as there are combinations of width, height and color depth?
abandoning != suspending
Has the timeline been changed by better archaeology or dating, or reclassification of remains? when I was at school (only 2 decades ago, in the UK) I was taught that the last Neanderthals died out around the time of the construction of the Pyramids in Egypt, no more than 6000 years ago
Just asked my sis (who sports a B.A. in prehistoric archaeology )... according to her, you must've had a very strange teacher -- historically, the figure for "how long ago did they die out" has been creeping down as more and more recent specimen were found. At no time did people think it was just 6ka ago.
Neanderthal were still plentiful in Europe around 7K to 5K BC
... or is that just me and the people I know?
I try the same every spring whenever we switch to DST (which for me is UTC+2), but I give up after a week or so because it gets confusing with different web services (calendars, bug trackers etc) and my own devices being in different time zones
... after Mr Guttenberg had to quit as Defence Minister because of plagiarism, it seems to have become a sport to topple politicians this way. It's a fun thing to watch.
So... all those pre-historic women loving the mysterious stranger with the blue eyes? Interesting.
"This gene does something good for people
So it seems.
It makes them have more kids.
Might be. Alternatively, it may also let more kids survive or make the kids more aggressive towards others, or... whatever, we dont seem to know really.
... also, I use different distros for different purposes.
Ignoring that, this is what my timeline looks, sorted by first use of each distro:
fli4l suse gentoo ubuntu debian arch
2.4 statute miles of surgical tubing at Yale U. = 1 I.V.League
