Fusiform gyrus Kool-Aid Background[edit] Jonestown Massacre[edit] On November 18, 1978, faced with exposure of the truth about Jonestown by several defectors who had chosen to leave the commune with a visiting congressman from San Francisco, Jones ordered that members of the congressman, U.S. Representative Leo Ryan's party be killed. Jim Jones, the leader of the Peoples Temple, who had persuaded followers to move to Guyana and found the commune of Jonestown then ordered the residents to commit suicide by drinking a flavored beverage laced with potassium cyanide. Despite its reputation of being a mass suicide, the events of November 18, 1978 were a murder-suicide. It is most likely that both were used in the mass murder-suicide. Earlier usage[edit] Use[edit] In 1984, a Reagan administration appointee, Clarence M. The widespread use of the phrase with its current meaning may have begun in the late 1990s. See also[edit] References[edit] ^ Jump up to: a b Higgins, Chris (8 November 2012).
British and Irish Legal Information Institute Lagniappe A lagniappe (/ˈlænjæp/ LAN-yap) is a small gift given to a customer by a merchant at the time of a purchase (such as a 13th doughnut when buying a dozen), or more broadly, "something given or obtained gratuitously or by way of good measure."[1] The word entered English from the Louisiana French adapting a Quechua word brought in to New Orleans by the Spanish creoles. It derived from the South American Spanish phrase la yapa (referring to a free extra item, usually a very cheap one). The term has been traced back to the Quechua word yapay ('to increase; to add'). The word is chiefly used in the Gulf Coast of the United States, but the concept is practiced in many places, such as Southeast Asia, North Africa, rural France, Australia and Holland. History of the American English word[edit] Before the Spanish conquered the Inca Empire certain Quechua words entered the Spanish language. The Spanish occupation never became more than a conquest. See also[edit] References[edit] External links[edit]
the free encyclopedia False friend The term should be distinguished from "false cognates", which are similar words in different languages that appear to have a common historical linguistic origin (whatever their current meaning) but actually do not. Implications[edit] False friends can cause difficulty for students learning a foreign language, particularly one that is related to their native language, because students are likely to identify the words wrongly due to linguistic interference. A particularly problematic case with false friends occurs when one of the two words is obscene or derogatory (a cacemphaton,[4] Greek for "ill-sounding"[5]). Causes[edit] From the etymological point of view, false friends can be created in several ways. Shared etymology[edit] Actual, which in English is usually a synonym of real, has a different meaning in other European languages, in which it means 'current' or 'up-to-date', and has the logical derivative as a verb, meaning 'to make current' or 'to update'. Homonyms[edit] Homoglyphs[edit]
List of people indicted in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia This is a list of people indicted in the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia along with their ethnic origin, rank or occupation, details of charges against them and the disposition of their cases. Overview[edit] In total 161 people were indicted by ICTY.[1] Since the arrest of Goran Hadžić on 20 July 2011, there are no indictees remaining at large.[2] As of 17 September 2013[update], 132 cases have been completed and 29 have remained uncompleted.[3] The ICTY has 4 cases undergoing trial (Goran Hadžić, Radovan Karadžić, Ratko Mladić and Vojislav Šešelj)[3] and 25 cases on appeal.[3] 13 defendants were transferred to other courts,[3] with 11 being convicted, one of them, Rahim Ademi, acquitted, and another, Vladimir Kovačević, has been ruled as mentally unfit to stand trial since 2004 and has yet to undergo a trial. List of indictees[edit] References[edit] Notes[edit]
Word up | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited Do you use HRT? More and more people do these days. All over the world, in fact - in the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand - and it's on the increase over here, too. Naturally, it's mainly young people that use HRT: teenagers, of course, but more and more pre-teens are doing it as well. Excuse me? Strictly speaking, uptalk is not brand new. It's a cute theory, but one "doctor" who has studied the phenomenon is Steven Pinker, professor of psychology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston. "But I wouldn't be surprised if it went global," says Pinker. But where did uptalk actually begin? According to a 1995 piece in the Houston Chronicle, "It began as a feature of valley speak, the adolescent argot native to the San Fernando Valley and immortalised by the valley girl. I encountered my first real-life uptalker three years ago, when I interviewed the Vancouver-based writer Douglas Coupland. But if Californian uptalk comes from down under, what's the evidence?
Intertwingularity Intertwingularity is a term coined by Ted Nelson to express the complexity of interrelations in human knowledge. Nelson wrote in Computer Lib/Dream Machines (Nelson 1974, p. DM45): and added the following comment in the revised edition (Nelson 1987, p. DM31): Hierarchical and sequential structures, especially popular since Gutenberg, are usually forced and artificial. References[edit] Nelson, Theodor (1974), Computer Lib: You can and must understand computers now/Dream Machines: New freedoms through computer screens—a minority report (1st ed.), South Bend, IN: the distributors, ISBN 0-89347-002-3 Nelson, Theodor (1987), Computer Lib/Dream Machines (Rev. ed.), Redmond, WA: Tempus Books of Microsoft Press, ISBN 0-914845-49-7 External links[edit] See also[edit]
Garbage In, Garbage Out Garbage in, garbage out (GIGO) in the field of computer science or information and communications technology refers to the fact that computers, since they operate by logical processes, will unquestioningly process unintended, even nonsensical, input data ("garbage in") and produce undesired, often nonsensical, output ("garbage out"). History[edit] It was most popular in the early days of computing, but applies even more today, when powerful computers can produce large amounts of erroneous information in a short time. The first use of the term has been dated to a 1 April 1963 syndicated newspaper article about the first stages of computerization of the US Internal Revenue Service.[1] The term was brought to prominence as a teaching mantra by George Fuechsel,[2] an IBM 305 RAMAC technician/instructor in New York. On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Uses[edit] Digitizing The term can also be used as an explanation for the poor quality of a digitized audio or video file. Trust Usenet
SNAFU SNAFU is a military slang acronym meaning "Situation Normal: All Fucked Up". Snafu may also refer to: Chronogram In the ancient Indonesian Hindu-Buddhist tradition, especially in ancient Java, chronograms were called chandrasengkala and usually used in inscriptions to signify a given year in the Saka Calendar. Certain words were assigned their specific number, and poetic phrases were formed from these selected words to describe particular events that have their own numerical meanings. For example, the candrasengkala "sirna ilang kertaning bumi" ("the wealth of earth disappeared and diminished") (sirna = 0, ilang = 0, kerta = 4, bumi = 1) corresponds to the year 1400 in the Saka Calendar (1478 CE), the date of the fall of the Majapahit Empire. Roman numerals[edit] The practice originated in the late Roman Empire and was particularly popular during the Renaissance, when chronograms were often used on tombstones and foundation stones to mark the date of the event being commemorated. Chronogram at statue near church in Dolany (Czech Republic).In honoreM InsIgnIsatheLea DIVI fLorIanI IneXstrVg 1629
小ネタ 小ネタ 2007-019 iPhoneでアプリを作ってみる - 開発環境準備 iPhoneがhackされて勝手アプリが作れてしまうというので、試してみることにした。 もう既に先行している開発者はだいぶ進んでいるようで、特にこのアプリとか凄いと思った。 自分でもやってみたいネタがあったので早いうちにiPhoneを入手していたが、勝手アプリの開発環境を準備するのに手間取ってかなり時間がかかった。 まだいろいろ試行錯誤中で、よくわかってないことが多いので、あやふやな記述や間違っている記述があるかもしれない。 実際にやってみた手順は以下のとおり。 現時点(2007年12月)での結論は以下のような感じ。 1. iPhoneを入手する 日本では未発売なので、海外からネットオークションを通じて購入した。 正規に契約してアクティベーションを済ませてから解約した状態のiPhoneというのがあり、自分はこの状態のものを入手した。 これ以外にも、各種hackツールにより中身を書き換えて強引にロック解除して起動できるようにされた状態のものも出回っていたようだが、詳しくは不明。 2. iPhoneをjailbreakする iPhoneにはプロテクトが掛かっていて、それを解除するとiPhone内のファイルシステムの全部にアクセスできるようになる。 jailbreak用のソフトは多数あり、うまくいかないことが結構多かった。 ・FW 1.0.0は、当時いろいろな方法を試したがうまくいかなかった。 iTuneでファームウェアの更新ができるのだが、不用意に更新するとプロテクトがきつい新FWになってしまうので、いろいろと必要なhackツールが新FWに対応して出回るまでアップデートは避けるのがよさそうだ。 3. iPhoneにファイル転送する 3.1 iPhoneとPC等とを接続してファイル転送できるようにする 基本的には、iPhoneの中のUNIX由来のリモートコンソールのソフトを使ってSSH等でiPhoneとPC等を接続してファイル転送できる。 iPhoneのアプリは、/Applicationフォルダ内にXXX.appという拡張子appのアプリ用フォルダがあり、そのフォルダ内にアプリのバイナリとplistファイルとアイコンデータファイルや画像などのデータファイル一式が入っている。 GUI式の便利なファイル転送用のツールが存在する。