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Edict of toleration

An edict of toleration is a declaration, made by a government or ruler and states, that members of a given religion will not be persecuted for engaging in their religious practices and traditions. The edict implies tacit acceptance of the religion rather than its endorsement by the ruling power. Contents 1 Edicts of toleration in history 1.1 Ancient times 1.2 Middle Ages 1.3 Early modern period 1.4 Late modern period 1.5 20th century 2 See also 3 References 4 External links Edicts of toleration in history Ancient times 539 B.C. – The Cyrus Cylinder, a clay document issued by Achaemenid Persian monarch Cyrus the Great declaring the restoration of the cult of Marduk in Babylon and the restorations of the temples of many peoples, including the Jews. 311 A.D. – The Edict of Toleration by Galerius was issued in 311 by the Roman Tetrarchy of Galerius, Constantine and Licinius, officially ending the Diocletian persecution of Christianity. 313 – Roman Emperors Consta...

How to have an /etc/xdg/autostart/app.desktop service wait for a (systemd) service?

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Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP up vote 1 down vote favorite TLDR: How to have an /etc/xdg/autostart/app.desktop service wait for a systemd service? Long: I have an app started by /etc/xdg/autostart/app.desktop that requires a systemd service to be started first. I would like to avoid some sleep/wait/custom code if there is an existing tool for such purposes. Is there some kind of wait_for_service_to_be_running <service-name> (systemd) command line tool? systemd init-script sysvinit autologin xdg share | improve this question asked Nov 5 '15 at 16:58 adrelanos 313 3 13 37 add a comment  |  up vote 1 down vote favorite TLDR: How to have an /etc/xdg/autostart/app.desktop service wait for a systemd service? Long: I have an app started by /etc/xdg/autostart/app.desktop that requires a systemd service to be started first. I would like to avoid some sleep/wait/custom code if there is an existing tool for such ...

Mediatisation

For communications studies, see Mediatisation (media). In politics and law, mediatisation ( / m iː d i ə t aɪ ˈ z eɪ ʃ ən / ) is the loss of immediacy, the status of persons not subject to local lords but only to a higher authority directly, such as the Holy Roman Emperor. In a feudal context, it is the introduction of an intervening level of authority between a lord and his vassal so that the former is no longer the immediate lord of the latter, but rather his lordship is mediated by another. [1] Although the process had been going on since the Middle Ages, the term "mediatisation" was originally applied to the reorganisation of the German states during the early 19th century. In this case, many states that were immediate vassals of the Holy Roman Emperor became instead vassals of other immediate states so that the total number of states immediately subject to the emperor decreased. Holy Roman Empire Main article: German mediatisation Between 1803 a...

Why don't commercial airplanes carry Earth-observing instruments?

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Clash Royale CLAN TAG #URR8PPP up vote 69 down vote favorite 6 Governments and private companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars to send Earth-observing satellites to capture imagery or scan the terrain with lasers or radars. Meanwhile, commercial planes are constantly flying around the world, and even if they do not offer global coverage, they could still carry Earth-observing instrumentation with almost no additional cost. I'm sure the data they could provide would have many scientific and commercial applications. In some cases they could be even better than satellite observations due to much shorter revisit times, less atmospheric influence and shorter round-trip times for laser and radar signals. For example, some satellites like IceSat and IceSat-2 were designed to repeat laser altimetry observations over the same ground tracks over and over. With much interest in Greenland, the icefields in Yukon/Alaska and Antarctica. Again, in this case, commercial flight...