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I do hope you're right, although it looked pretty grim when I got "kernel errors" and "unmountable boot volume".
I have had both of those error messages when a power supply is failing. Basically the hard drive isn't getting enough juice to read/write properly which causes those errors.
How old is the computer (power supply specifically)? Also, if you have an older house you run the risk of having 'dirty power' that's not voltage regulated properly which can flux, putting a strain on the power supply.
I've had this happen to me twice
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And if anybody is interested in how this find fits into the big picture of wine history, look HERE
All in all, not to suprising but a great find nonetheless
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LW, since I didn't want to go off topic in that 'other place'
let me just say that if its working randomly again you may be lucky in that it's not your hard drive but your power supply. -
1) Was Scythia really in the area of the Cimmerians, or elsewhere?
In 4.11, Herodotus talks about the Massagetae (A tribe from roughly modern Kazakhstan whom he talks about in Book 1) pushing/pressuring the Scythians west and across the Araxes (Volga not Aras) river into
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What do you already know?
When Antiochus had advanced to attack Ptolemy in order to possess himself of Pelusium, he was met by the Roman commander Gaius Popilius Laenas. Upon the king greeting him from some distance, and holding out his right hand to him, Popilius answered by holding out the tablets which contained the decree of the Senate, and bade Antiochus read that first: not thinking it right, I suppose, to give the usual sign of friendship until he knew the mind of the recipient, whether he were to be regarded as a friend or foe.
On the king, after reading the despatch, saying that he desired to consult with his friends on the situation, Popilius did a thing which was looked upon as exceedingly overbearing and insolent. Happening to have a vine stick in his hand, he drew a circle round Antiochus with it, and ordered him to give his answer to the letter before he stepped out of that circumference. The king was taken aback by this haughty proceeding. After a brief interval of embarrassed silence, he replied that he would do whatever the Romans demanded. Then Popilius and his colleagues shook him by the hand, and one and all greeted him with warmth. The contents of the despatch was an order to put an end to the war with Ptolemy at once. Accordingly a stated number of days was allowed him, within which he withdrew his army into Syria, in high dudgeon indeed, and groaning in spirit, but yielding to the necessities of the time. - Polybius 29.27
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What exactly are the modern parallels that are allegedly conveyed through the movie?
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"Democracy" doesn't describe Rome at all to me.
I think Segestan is confusing what we moderns often consider 'Democracy' (i.e representative democracy which is a much more republican system and closer to the Roman one) for true Greek democracy
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Hope this year proves to be one of your best yet!
Happy Birthday you ole Republican marplot
Here's your present because I know how much you love them! :blowup: :stretcher: :horse: :hang: :boxing: :bash:
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Wow, what a load of nationalist hoohaa
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Am I still a Consul?
Oh much better that that My Liege!
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Hope this day is exceptional and that this year proves to be one of your best yet!
Happy Birthday Chris! :notworthy:
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So it wasn't just a very sill Monty Python sketch?
Cleese: Shut up! It's a hold-up, not a Botany lesson. Now, no false moves
please. I want you to hand over all the lupins you've got.
Jones: Lupins?
Cleese: Yes, lupins. Come on, come on.
Idol: What do you mean, lupins?
Cleese: Don't try to play for time.
Idol: I'm not, but... the *flower* lupin?
Cleese: Yes, that's right.
Jones: Well we haven't got any lupins.
Girl: Honestly.
Cleese: Look, my friends. I happen to know that this is the Lupin Express.
Jones: Damn!
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Happy Birthday Viggen, & hope all is well with you!!!!
:beer:
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Here's one just for the guys...
Nephele, that one is indeed extremely opprobrious!
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Its funny, here in Nebraska, in the cities (big towns) like Omaha and Lincoln the people talk with the standard flat unaccented Midwestern dialect,
I assure you from the ears of a Southerner that Midwestern is a definitely a discernable accent.
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Have you read him? Could you recommend?
Back in 2002 I was returning from a business trip in the Netherlands and picked up Ends of the Earth in Schiphol. I enjoyed what I started reading but pulled a stupid move and left it on the plane when I made a connecting flight in Paris...
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What are anybody's thoughts on Valerio Massimo Manfredi?
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I have (but have not yet read) Renault's The King Must Die. Any particular suggestions?
The King Must Die & Bull from the Sea are superb. The Augusta is correct, M. Renault did a great job with her research in bringing the Theseus myth to life. When she deviated or invented she explains very well in her notes why. It is indeed totally immersive
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Another good example for why youngn's should be taught the Greeks plays along side Shakespeare...
Very good article, thanks for sharing MPC
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As a son of Poseidon it's my duty to acknowledge one most of you land lubbers probably have never heard about; it's also one of the worst as far as I'm concerned... Keelhauling
A line was passed from one end of the main yard under the ship and up to the other end, and the victim was secured to one end with a deep sea lead tied to his feet, dropped and hauled under the ship and up the other side (sometimes from bow to stern). If you didn't drown, you were often severely cut up by the barnacles & what not on the keel... :whip:
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Pantagathus as far as telling me to drop it, i was making a point from Antiochus of Seleucia comment how the southern slave expansionists wanted to annex cuba and i mentioned how the south has never spoken for the entire United States and then i mentioned various modern people to support my claim, i wasn't trying to turn this into a big political argument,
Unfortunately SFG it would have become one.
You have a decent point that can be made (as you have) without dragging disreputable modern figures into the discussion.
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I get the distinct impression that the people who are most likely talking to the reporters in some of these stories are the student and volunteer diggers.
Seriously...
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The main building was a hollow square with a rock-cut reservoir in the center. The building had 12 rooms *probably shops* and a small temple with an open-air altar
OMG, please tell me that statement wasn
Where were the Scythians?
in Historia in Universum
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My main point in regards to bringing up central Asian history was to highlight the endless waves of peoples from the east pressuring people of this region west (& northwest & southwest) into Eastern Europe & Asia Minor... So yes, there are bound to be some decendants of the Scythians there but *probably* more are to be found now in the Ukraine, Moldavia, Romania, Bulgaria, etc... Does that make sense?