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I would like to know your opinion about the differences and similarities between the Roman Client-Patron relationship and the vassallage system of the medieval age. The following is an overview of how I see the two system at the top of my (limited) knowledge: In the roman system, a patron was...

When Columbus first reached the "new world", himself and his crew did bring European diseases to the lands he visited. It looks like that the diseases spread faster than explorers and colonists reaching every corner of new world much before the Europeans did. However that was not the very...

After the facts of Paris and having so many people posting images from Charlie Hebdo, The government of Turkey "asked" Facebook to block all pages criticising Islam in Turkey. Failure to comply would mean a block of the service in Turkey...

abcnews.go.com/m/blogEntry?id=22504704 It seems Facebook is going to add some custom gender definitions... I have to admit I understand only a handful of them... Anybody can give a good definition for them? (yes I could use Google but it's more fun to post here and maybe discuss on...

Ladar Levison is the founder of Lavabit a secure email system that was used Edward Snowden (I guess you all know who is this guy). Background (from wikipedia): However Ladar Levison was prevented by a secret court order from revealing anything about the case... even to his own lawyer...

Yesterday I was walking along the Akerselva, the river bisecting Oslo, and there were some open air shows from various artists and amateurs (it's a tradition for the equinox). It's all open, free, and everybody can take photos and videos. I did take videos and uploaded on Youtube. A few...

I don't know if was discussed here already but it's an interesting event I wasn't aware of until recently. location in googlemap: http://goo.gl/maps/95oRg This volcano did not exists before May 28, 2006 and it's now considered a man made Volcano (even if the company who made the drilling...

Summary: EU is working on a new law that will enshrine the "right to be forgotten". Under the draft Regulation individuals would enjoy a qualified 'right to be forgotten'. That right would enable them to force organisations to delete personal data stored about them "without delay"...

From BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20216638 This is really an important precedent for rating companies and associated financial institutions, that may have huge relevance and impact in the rest of the world (Europe and USA especially). If you red the article it seems there...

I came across a very interesting case of DRM abuse ... just that this time is not some downloader but Amazon. The full case is described here: http://www.bekkelund.net/2012/10/22/outlawed-by-amazon-drm/ however is quite simple: A girl has a kindle and little by little legally acquired...

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/03/brighton_bloaters/ Important passages from the article: Is the owner right in banning the two guys or he should honour the implicit contract of "repeat as much as you wish"? To be notice that nowhere is written that you cannot eat more than...

on the 30th of September there was an important anniversary: 50 years since the same day in 1962 when hundreds of federal marshalls and thousands of army and national guards troops intervened to quell resistance against de-segregation laws. The day after, James H. Meredith, their first black...

A Huge Break in the LIBOR Banking Investigation: Barclays agreed to pay at least $450 million to resolve government investigations of manipulation of Libor and the Euro interbank offered rate (or Euribor): $200 million to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, $160 million tothe...

http://www.newsinenglish.no/2012/03/21/nobel-prize-winner-rejects-gay-rights/ Video of her talk with Tony Blair where she expressed her view: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/mar/19/liberia-tony-blair-anti-gay-law-video?INTCMP=SRCH Poor Tony... he was really in a very awkward...

After intense lobbying from frozen pizza makers, and the potato and salt industry, Congress is poised to pass a spending bill whose riders establish that pizza is a vegetable and can be served in school cafeterias in substitute for actual vegetables. We’re not even talking about...

I am currently in Prague for a business trip. Yesterday I met a couple of friends for dinner, and after dinner they wanted to go to play at a casino. I almost never to to casino and I never play or bet (I don't feel the trill for it) but it was still early and I didn't want to look to...

in March the RIAA sued Limewire for the exorbitant amount of 75 BILLION US$ for copyright infringement. We wrote a lot about it in this forum: http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?t=416710&highlight=limewire Finally there was a conclusion to the case...

By chance I got free airplane tickets to Miami. It's not the place where I planed to spend vacations, but having free tickets is a too nice event to waste. This means I will spend the first 2 weeks of September in Florida. Unfortunately I have no idea what would be the best way to spend...

It seems that the Norwegian Islamic Foundation has invited the controversial islamic scholar Yusuf al-Qaradawi to join a seminar/conference or a project "to help Muslims in the far north of the country develop a method for calculating prayer times during seasons of all-day sun and all-day...

http://www.newsinenglish.no/2011/04/13/couch-cruising-along-the-coast/ National broadcaster NRK is mounting cameras on board the coastal voyage vessel Nord-Norge and plans to air a live marathon program filming every minute of the journey from Bergen to Kirkenes. This is not a crappy...