Cohorting with comedians is risky business, especially for politicians when they are trying mighty hard to be politically correct.
Comedian Bernie Mac exactly fits that peg to the T and he got his chance to shock the Obama campaign last night at a high-dollar fund raiser by passing some off-color jokes.
Quite a fancy play with words in there. Anachronism bascially means something that belongs to another time. The word is made of two words - Ana and Chronism. Chronism as we know is greek for time. That should give you a hint about what the word could possibly mean.
Society for Creative Anachronism (usually shortened to SCA) is a historical re-creation and living history group founded in 1966 in California, which attempts to recreate pre-17th century Western European history and culture. The SCA describes itself as a group devoted to the study of the Middle Ages As of December 2007, the Society has over 30,000 paying members
Most likely not. But while trying to help a colleague resolve a Java related issue, we un-installed the existing incompatible version of Java and tried installing the latest one from the net. But this is the error we got while doing it -
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This when we were trying to download and install in New York. OK, the company is part of a German conglomerate so the routers may be based in Germany but even then we shouldn’t be seeing this message. The possibility is still remote, they could be right here in US, in New York.
I am sure countries like Cuba, Syria, Iran etc. would not have the privilege to directly access all this stuff from American company websites but why in heaven’s name should somebody sitting in US get this kind of a response from the website.
