"I found that theoldreader site "almost" works in the Opera Mini. However, using Opera mini on Nokia 808, I couldn't change from list view to expanded view. Solved it by changing this preference through browser on PC. In some respect, this view is nicer than Google reader in Opera mini. You load a bit more stuff, and have to scroll more, but then no need to click on separate post to open it. Wonder how it will work with 200-300 unread posts that I regularly meet in reader after 1 day offline. Will Opear Mini freak out, timeout on load, crash? Or will oldreader paginate that list?"
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The Zulu king could have hundreds of wives and do whatever. But once he started to get white hair and wrinkles, his power faded. He would be deemed unfit to be king and killed. It’s hardly a surprise, then, that upon first contact with the British, the Zulu kings were more interested in hair coloring lotion than in anything else.
It’s clear that the scapegoat is extremely powerful. Scapegoats can turn conflict into peace. This makes the scapegoat omnimalevolent; if peace follows his killing, he must have been very bad indeed. Or maybe it’s omnibenevolent, since it trades its life so that others may live in peace. Probably the right answer is that it’s some of both.
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We can speculate that in many cultures, this process became ritualized. People realized the power of the scapegoat and abstracted it away from localized contexts. Instead of waiting for random uncontrolled chaos, sacrifice became planned. Of course, there were probably cultures that never figured this out. They couldn’t systematize the isolation of the scapegoat. So everyone just killed...
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(отсебятинка:) таким образом, можно сравнить периодические демократические выборы с ритуалом поиска козла отпущения, так важным для стабильности общества. диктатор нарушивший этот цикл, вынужден кормить общество более мелкими но зато более частыми казнями-ссылками - предателей, воров, шпионов и прочих опальных приспешников.
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One working theory is that monarchy originated this way. The Aztecs, for instance, would basically crown someone a quasi-god king for a period of time, after which point he would be sacrificed. Kings became scapegoats who had not yet been killed. Every king was a living god. Every god was a murdered king.
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Arguably Egyptian pharaohs started off as scapegoats. Perhaps the first pyramids were the piles of stones that entombed people who were stoned to death. Later, when Pharaohs became powerful kings and it was unthinkable to kill them during their lifetimes, people kept putting increasingly large piles stones on top of them after they died.
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как перевести с английского "circle jerk" (as in "As with any closed-minded circle jerk, the lack of new blood tends to lead to a collapsing in upon itself")? единственное, что приходит на ум - дрочить вприсядку, но это совсем не перевод, просто дурацкая ассоциация.
посмотрел "Bailout: Assault on Wall Street" Уве Болла, про ветерана, чьи сбережения сгорают в кризисе, жена себя убивает, квартиру отбирают, и он пускает в расход около сотни инвестбанкиров.
Then there’s the elevator pitch, which is somewhat ironic given that every building on Sand Hill road is 2 stories max. http://blakemasters.com/post...
Some turn out to be a lot better than others. People tend to underestimate how extreme the differences are because our generally egalitarian society is always telling us that people are essentially the same.
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Startups are like sausage factories. People love eating sausage. But no one wants to watch the sausage get made.
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Young people today tend to be indeterminately optimistic. They iterate, one resume line at a time. They buy into a narrative of never-ending improvement, even if they have no idea what that path might look like.
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одной рукой держу погремушку над
Тео, другой пью запотевшее prosecco.
Пока Вита привезет Беллу из садика,
мы с Тео будем уже на одном уровне
развития. на этом капитан корабля
прощается...
журнальчики в Zinio почитываю в основном, в игрушки редко поигрываю, Bastion на нём прошёл... а так жена с дочкой юзают в большей степени - Пинтерест, сёрфинг, детские игры и мульты на ivi.ru
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спасибо @mbravo за наводку на курс Дэна Ариэли на Корсере. Life-altering experience. Really.
жара до +31 градуса. Из-за высокой влажности вечером туман. сильные дожди с грозами. затопление улиц и подвальных помещений. локальные бури и образование смерчей, крупный град.
Житель американского города Сиэтл в штате Вашингтон Ричард Свонсон, намеревавшийся дойти до Бразилии, пиная перед собой футбольный мяч, погиб в ночь на среду под колесами автомобиля.
мне приснилась темная комната в старой деревенской хате, в углу на полке, вместо иконы, на рушнике стоит включенный айпад, с портретом Стива Джобса. Смотрит на трехлитровый бутылек с водой. Рак вытягивает.