Why Was the Roman Empire so Successful?

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FWIW, the airline cut is devoid of *all* sexual content (to the point of blurring out the slight glimpse of butt-crack visible in the opening credits, as well as losing the Stan Lee cameo), but I dont believe they removed *any* of the violence or swearing. What a country!As for child-appropriateness, it depends on the child. I was OK with my kid seeing the airline cut because he never swears and he doesnt like gory violence (it wasnt too gruesome on my 5 phone screen). Other kids his age may not be able to handle this material. Heck, I know adults who wouldnt do so well with this material

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Did Ronald Reagan do more harm than good?

Im seventy-nine years old.Ronald Reagan was the greatest president of my lifetime.In Reagans reelection in 1984 he won 98% of the electoral votes. (Minnesota and DC were the only holdouts.

)Americans were proud and prosperous.

The average yearly GDP growth under Reagan was 3.5% as opposed to the eight years under Obama with an unbelievably pathetic 1.5%.Understandably, job growth was spectacular. One month the US almost reached 1,000,000 jobs created. During the Reagan years 500,000 figures were common, and this was when our population was 100,000,000 smaller.Economic Record: President ReaganIf you couldnt succeed financially in the 1980s you had to be a total losera screw-up.

The 1980s was a great time to be an American despite what a few liberal malcontents and neer-do-wells on Quora might say

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What if a gay person was elected as the POTUS?

We have already had a gay President. James Buchanan Jr. was the 15th President (18571861) He was a member of the Democratic Party. The only president to remain a bachelor, Buchanan's personal life has attracted great historical interest. Buchanan had a close and intimate relationship with William Rufus King, an Alabama politician. Buchanan and King lived together in a Washington boardinghouse for many years, from 1834 until King's departure for France in 1844. King referred to the relationship as a "communion", and the two attended social functions together. Contemporaries also noted the closeness. Andrew Jackson called King "Miss Nancy" and prominent Democrat Aaron V. Brown referred to King as Buchanan's "better half", "wife" and "Aunt Fancy"

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Do many Chinese people hate Fujianese people?

I don't know where did you get this view. In college, I had a roommate coming from Fujian who is an authentic, courteous, helpful person with lots of computer's knowledge. Every time our computers occur in problems, our first thought is to seek for his help not to go maintenance store straightly because of its expensive charge. There are a few Fujianese. as far as I'm concerned, They all good person through conversation and cooperation.

But, I can't say Fujianese all good people since I had met all good Fujianese. In working with people, The significant thing We need to do is giving our sincere heart to them. Similarly, you will be rewarded for your sowing.

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Why did you leave Hinduism for Islam?

People group or regroup into religion for rudimentary security reasons, not due to any love for a religion.Any person who understands the first alphabet of any religion will know the purpose of religion is to help and serve the society he or she lives selflessly, particularly those who don't follow his/her beliefs and faith has to be served, loved and cared.If someone thinks that his/her religious group is better than the other, it discredit the fundamental first alphabet of the religion.

Islam, Hinduism or any religion in the world, if it is practiced by grouping and subgrouping its practioners, it is deplorably divisive for the society and in general human welfare

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Could we derive energy from gravity in space?

You mean free flowing gravity? Yes. Look at a grandfather clock and see the weights it has to keep it going. Except for dams most of the ways are small but all together make up huge amounts. You could use the same clock system method with a much larger counter weight and just by hand moving it back up daily to the top would generate constant power. In other words you could produce huge amounts of potential power by a little daily hand labor.Now you got me wondering if there is a natural limit it this because it is not being done or that people are just lazy in not doing this

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What is the relation between screen size and RAM of devices? Does bigger screens like tablets consume more RAM or is the performance unaffected by screen sizes?

Theres no relation between them as long as the screen resolution of the tablet and the phone is same.However manufacturers usually put higher capacity and faster RAM modules on tablets than on phones because the tablets have bigger batteries to support bigger and faster RAM modules. Size and speed of RAM does impact the battery life of devices. Large high performance RAM modules tend to consume more battery.Thats why manufacturers usually put large high speed RAM modules on tablets and use smaller capacity and slower RAM modules on phones. If you use the same RAM module as a Nvidia Shield tablet on a phone your phone battery wont last very long.

Thats the reason for the prevalent difference between their RAM modules

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Will Joe Biden be worse than Trump?

Worse at what? I guess it depends on what you value and what you place importance on. If youre a Republican partisan it doesnt matter what Biden does itll be worse than Trump. If youre a Democrat partisan it doesnt matter what Biden does because itll be better than Trump. If youre an independent youll recognize that all Presidents have pluses and minuses. Theyll do things at annoy you and things youll applaud. I didnt vote for Trump in 16 and hes done things I despise and things I applaud. I didnt vote for Obama either time and he did thinks I liked and things I hated

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How when the French were on the back foot and ready to surrender, were they still able to get the better of the Italian army attempting to invade southern France in mid June 1940?

Because there is this think nobody really wants to address for wildly varying reasons: the French Army was on the back foot and ready to surrender only to the Nazis. The conspiracy of the business elite and some high ranking officers of the army wanted the Nazis in order to get rid of the Communists (who were later the better part of the Resistance). The forces on the front received ammunition of the wrong caliber. (Apart from Marc Bloch who, having been part of the secret services exposed this in a posthumous book, lEtrange Dfaite, this was confirmed to me by a good many veterans of 1940). But they wanted to surrender to the Germans, never to the Italian!

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In WW2 during the Battle of France, why did it take so long for France to surrender? Why didn't France surrender earlier?

France waited so that the English could be evacuated from Dunkirk. They held the German back while the small boats could get in and get the boys home. Then they had a resistance to organise not easy when you have a whole lot of tanks running over your toes.

Finally, the Italians decided to pop in for a late entry in the game of conquest so they had them to send packing. Then they surrendered. That is to say the French Government surrendered, the French people on the other hand fought on.If you have ever seen Monty Python and the Holy Grail, you see just how ferocious the French can be in their taunting of opponents.

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What is the nickname of Led Zeppelin's drummer?

It was Bonzo, coined very early in his career before Led Zeppelin. John Bonham, though incredibly famous for his incredible drumming with Led Zeppelin played in other bands before then, most notably with The Nicky James Movement, and the bands Crawling King Snakes and Band Of Joy, both featuring his fellow LZ band mate Robert Plant before the formation of LZ, which in that era was considered a Super-Group since it was he and Robert, and Jimmy Page of the Yardbirds, plus genius bassist John Paul Jones, who'd recorded with many an incredibly popular act, like Donovan, Herman's Hermits and The Rolling Stones.Band Of Joy: "I Got To Find My Baby" (1967)Save Rock and Roll.

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Do the new Apple AirPods headphones work with Android?

Yes, you can pair the Apple AirPods with any Bluetooth device (at least thats been the findings so far). The question is why you would spend the Apple premium when you can get a non-Apple true wireless similar earbud at the fraction of the price? With an Android device you wont be able to access the features you get when using an iOS device.Some other True Wireless earbuds that are not from Apple include Lightsky, Mejor, ZNT and Red2Fire. Like AirPods, there is no wire connection from one earbud to the other.We did some research on about a dozen alternatives (priced about $25 to $50) and you can read the full review / buyers guide at: Best True Wireless Earbuds 2018

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How did the Majapahit Empire get established? Archipelago countries are incredibly difficult to manage even today. How did people in the 1300-1500s govern an island empire that large?

Majapahit was never managed like a "Nation-State", as often thought to be.Southeast Asia had a political structure, called the (Mandala), this was a type of non-Western feudalism.This means that Majapahit had vassals or tributary states, but it never directly controlled or governed them these vassals still had their own rulers who freely governed themselves.

Because of this, Majapahit acted more like a "confederacy" or an "alliance network" rather than a "centralized empire" that managed the entire archipelago.At the time of Dutch contact, this is what Indonesia actually looked like.Mandala | Southeast Asian political unitJames Wu's answer to What country was historically the hegemon of Southeast Asia?Thao Dao, I've seen some of your questions about the Philippines and I would answer them in due time.

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How does the Queen choose the titles she bestows upon her family?

When it comes to Dukedoms, there are a few Royal ones that have been previously used, but are currently extinct and have therefore reverted to the Crown. She usually chooses from one of those for the major title, as with Princes William and Harry, with the Dukedoms of Cambridge and Sussex. However, for their subsidiary titles, they seem to be made up out of thin air, to give new Dukes titles in all countries of Britain.

Similarly with new Earldoms, where the recipient has some say, they are conjured from scratch. The last two have been the Earldom of Snowdon, created for Princess Margaret's husband, Anthony Armstrong Jones, who wanted to honour his Welshness, and Prince Edward, the Earl of Wessex, who presumably wanted to honour his ancient Englishness!

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I have fallen in love with a girl, but she has a boyfriend. What do I do?

That sucks, Anonymous. Since you know what you want...it all comes down to this: are you willing to tolerate the situation indefinitely?Your details indicate that you aren't. So....tell her something like this: "I love you and I think you & I are great together. I need you to commit to us and make this relationship exclusive.

" Let her know that this is an ultimatum, and that if she does not break up with her long-distance boyfriend, you are prepared to leave her. (Be prepared to follow through if she does not do this!)I know this is tough, and I feel for you, but I cannot think of any other option that would work for you (if there had been, you would have thought of that yourself already)