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Keldoclock posted:As always, there is a relevant xkcd. Hopefully linking those isn't going to get me banned. I, uh, would rather strongly recommend that you rehost the image on imgur or something.
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Image leeching is only allowed from your own sites. While image linking from Wikipedia is allowed, you shouldn't do it because it's a donation based site. So basically always use Imgur, it takes just a few seconds. And never post Xkcd because it's a poo poo comic made by a pompous rear end. "Former Nasa roboticist" = a trainee for a few months. Maybe I'll start calling myself a veteran because I've been a peacetime conscript.
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Jul 11, 2015 19:52
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Hogge Wild posted:Image leeching is only allowed from your own sites. While image linking from Wikipedia is allowed, you shouldn't do it because it's a donation based site. So basically always use Imgur, it takes just a few seconds. And never post Xkcd because it's a poo poo comic made by a pompous rear end. "Former Nasa roboticist" = a trainee for a few months. Maybe I'll start calling myself a veteran because I've been a peacetime conscript. Thank you for your service.
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Jul 11, 2015 19:55
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Hogge Wild posted:Image leeching is only allowed from your own sites. While image linking from Wikipedia is allowed, you shouldn't do it because it's a donation based site. So basically always use Imgur, it takes just a few seconds. And never post Xkcd because it's a poo poo comic made by a pompous rear end. "Former Nasa roboticist" = a trainee for a few months. Maybe I'll start calling myself a veteran because I've been a peacetime conscript. Hegel called me that. It's totally ok if you're an american. Veteranus.
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Jul 11, 2015 20:05
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Hogge Wild posted:Image leeching is only allowed from your own sites. While image linking from Wikipedia is allowed, you shouldn't do it because it's a donation based site. So basically always use Imgur, it takes just a few seconds. And never post Xkcd because it's a poo poo comic made by a pompous rear end. "Former Nasa roboticist" = a trainee for a few months. Maybe I'll start calling myself a veteran because I've been a peacetime conscript. Hi grover
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Jul 11, 2015 20:08
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Imgur tips: if you want to post an online image: right-click the image you want, choose copy image address, go to Imgur and click ctrl-v if you want to post a cropped image from your computer: open the image with Paint, use select tool, ctrl-c, go to Imgur and click ctrl-v
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Jul 11, 2015 20:10
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Hogge Wild posted:Image leeching is only allowed from your own sites. While image linking from Wikipedia is allowed, you shouldn't do it because it's a donation based site. So basically always use Imgur, it takes just a few seconds. No this is super outdated. It's been kosher to directly link images from Wikipedia and other very large sites for years. A particularly popular SA thread is only a blip on Wikipedia's hosting bills, and the primary reason to rehost from it or other sites is if you want to ensure the original site won't change it or delete it. It's not 2004, an SA thread causing 1000 megabytes of transfer from any major site no longer means you cost someone a bunch in bandwidth overages or temporarily take down the site. If you feel guilty about it, toss Wikipedia a 25 cent donation to cover 100,000% of the cost of the bandwidth.
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Nintendo Kid posted:No this is super outdated. It's been kosher to directly link images from Wikipedia and other very large sites for years. A particularly popular SA thread is only a blip on Wikipedia's hosting bills, and the primary reason to rehost from it or other sites is if you want to ensure the original site won't change it or delete it. I asked that last year from some mod and the answer was that you shouldn't really link to Wikipedia images. Eh, looks like that the mods didn't know.
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Hogge Wild posted:Imgur tips: Or get the SALR extention, which will rehost your image on Imgur directly.
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Jul 11, 2015 20:39
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Any site that crashes cuz an image there got posted SA deserves to do under imho hth parola oli perseest
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Jul 11, 2015 20:49
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Arglebargle III posted:One thing that came up at lunch was which came first: milk consumption or pastoralism? There are other reasons to herd sheep and goats than milk production, for example. If pastoralists lived with milk-bearing animals without exploiting their raw milk as food, there may have been a selection pressure for lactase persistence within those populations. I'm speculating here but my bet is definitely pastoralism before direct milk consumption. There are a whole slew of ways to process milk to make it more palatable to lactose intolerant people. From butter to yogurtthe wonderful energy richness of milk can be accessed in many ways. You have examples of a slew of methods across the world like say Mursik in Kenya which involves the natural souring of milk in specially treated gourds. Being able to drink milk straight is obviously a huge advantage given its evolutionary success but lactose intolerance is not a total barrier to the exploitation of milk.
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Jul 12, 2015 04:20
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No website is getting crashed by this dead gay forum.
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Jul 12, 2015 04:48
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How effective were messenger systems in the ancient world? If you were a dude in Roman Spain and you wanted to send a letter to someone in Jerusalem, how often would the letter be waylaid/lost? How about sending messages during, say, the reign of Alexander the Great or under Cleopatra?
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cheerfullydrab posted:I thought in this episode they were talking about going to Macedonia, which was definitely the middle of nowhere. Also, if I recall, while Greece had all sorts of history it was never, ever a particularly rich part of the ancient world compared to, say, Egypt or Persia. Standards of living were a bit Spartan, if you will 
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On the whole milk debate, much more interesting is who ever thought up Cow Blowing first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_blowing Basically: blow air up a cow's vagina or anus to stimulate more milk production. We know this happened all the way up to the 19th century in some places but certainly from near the start of bovine domestication. Also, why do many sub-saharan pastoralists have shitloads of cows but mostly drink their blood rather than their milk? edit: reading a bit more, it does seem that more milk than I thought was also used by sub-saharan people but again, more mixed with blood. Probably disregard that question then, I think: answer seems pretty obvious. Just other ways of extracting rich nutrition. NLJP fucked around with this message at 23:10 on Jul 12, 2015 |
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Rollofthedice posted:How effective were messenger systems in the ancient world? If you were a dude in Roman Spain and you wanted to send a letter to someone in Jerusalem, how often would the letter be waylaid/lost? How about sending messages during, say, the reign of Alexander the Great or under Cleopatra? Augustus organized the cursus publicus, which was a state system for transporting mail and officials around the empire. It had regularly spaced stations with horses, the same idea as the Mongol system or the Pony Express except Romans had good roads. However you're asking about just being a normal dude. There was not a public postal service that we are aware of. If you had money and influence I would bet you could use the cursus publicus. If you wanted to send a message you'd have to hire a courier, or find someone (likely a merchant/sailor) going there already and get him to bring it. I'd guess most merchant ships and caravans were carrying mail as well, seems like an easy way to make a little extra money. As for how reliable, I don't think anyone knows. The cursus publicus I'd guess was quite reliable when the empire was in good shape. Merchants, depends on if something happens to them. If you're talking like 100 AD there aren't bandits or pirates everywhere so environmental hazards would be your only real problem.
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Maybe it was easier for soldiers to send mail? Eg. this guy had sent many letters: http://www.livescience.com/43900-ancient-egyptian-soldier-letter-deciphered.html
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Does anyone know of any good sources to go to regarding the structure of Roman politics and law?
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Star Man posted:Does anyone know of any good sources to go to regarding the structure of Roman politics and law? Lily Ross Taylor's various books (Party Politics in the Age of Caesar, Roman Voting Assemblies, The Voting Districts of the Roman Republic, etc) have a lot about the structure of the Roman political/voting system and are a tolerable read in terms of style, assuming you're a weirdo like me and get excited about electioneering rules from two thousand years ago.
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Tao Jones posted:Lily Ross Taylor's various books (Party Politics in the Age of Caesar, Roman Voting Assemblies, The Voting Districts of the Roman Republic, etc) have a lot about the structure of the Roman political/voting system and are a tolerable read in terms of style, assuming you're a weirdo like me and get excited about electioneering rules from two thousand years ago. Well, even though I've taken three semesters of Latin and am registered for an upper-division class this autumn called "Rome and the Caesars", I would like to know what the gently caress I'm talking about when I base characters in fiction around the Roman political system.
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NLJP posted:On the whole milk debate, much more interesting is who ever thought up Cow Blowing first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cow_blowing So basically there was one adventurous dude in antiquity who one day asked himself "I wonder what would happen if I blow in this cow's rear end in a top hat."
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Hogge Wild posted:Maybe it was easier for soldiers to send mail? Eg. this guy had sent many letters: http://www.livescience.com/43900-ancient-egyptian-soldier-letter-deciphered.html There would've been constant travel to and from the legions by merchants and military, so I would guess finding someone to carry mail was easier for soldiers, yeah.
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Alhazred posted:So basically there was one adventurous dude in antiquity who one day asked himself "I wonder what would happen if I blow in this cow's rear end in a top hat." Never underestimate the ideas that bored people with access to farm animals might get. DECANUS! WE NEED OLIVE OIL AND A CORNU!
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Hm... Bessy is producing a lot more milk recently... I wonder what happened... *Quintus starts shuffling his feet awkwardly*
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my dad posted:
 Well, I certainly didn't drink too much wine and started to blow Bessy's vagina like she was a loving balloon animal!
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Wonder if it works on humans too?
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Jul 13, 2015 16:28
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You are reading my mind.
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I've been told that it can cause a fatal embolism, so don't try that.
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Oh. I just had a hunch that some dude blew air up his farm wives vag and she noticed her mams tingling the next day. So the obvious conclusion would be to blow air up ol dried up Betsy the cow.
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cheerfullydrab posted:I thought in this episode they were talking about going to Macedonia, which was definitely the middle of nowhere. Wasn't Macedonia one of the richest provinces? I know that politicians wanted to land Macedonia as their governorship for that sweet, sweet tax income so they wouldn't get shanked by their lenders for the massive debt they were in thanks to the wonders of the Roman political process
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Halloween Jack posted:I've been told that it can cause a fatal embolism, so don't try that. I think SA has a thread for these types of questions.
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Jul 13, 2015 17:44
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LingcodKilla posted:Oh. I just had a hunch that some dude blew air up his farm wives vag  Baby, I don't think this is what they mean with the word blowjob
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Alhazred posted:bowjob
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Jul 13, 2015 21:08
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Thx, but no.
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Jul 13, 2015 21:39
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JaucheCharly posted:Thx, but no. Hey man, blow into a fish and maybe more glue???
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Jul 14, 2015 01:10
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I'll ask the dude in Bulgaria. If we're lucky he'll think that we have a language problem.
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Question 1. Why did Romans seem to love building giant gaudy tombs? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_of_Cestius https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_of_Eurysaces_the_Baker Question 2. Are there any other big stupid Roman tombs?
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Why do you know who Marcus Eurysaces was?
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Ghetto Prince posted:Question 1. Why did Romans seem to love building giant gaudy tombs? Why did/does pretty much everyone seem to love building giant tombs or gaudy memorials? It's hardly a thing that's exclusive to Romans, or even the ancient world.
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PT6A posted:Why did/does pretty much everyone seem to love building giant tombs or gaudy memorials? It's hardly a thing that's exclusive to Romans, or even the ancient world. I noticed this when I visited Westminster Cathedral. Lots of people buying elaborate tombs for themselves and their loved ones. I assume it's driven by rich, influential people who have spent their lives being important and celebrated facing their own mortality and becoming terrified that they'll be forgotten by history. Which they were, of course. Nobody cares who the 4th Duke of North Umberland was.
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