I interpreted it as women not having the same rights as men but deserving them? Are there other possible interpretations?

A Third Way Marxist-Leninist anarchafeminist. SatelliteOfLove Member. Oct 26, 6, South Carolina. Shy Banned. Oct 25, 18, I got. I didn't like some of the answers i gave.

KefkaPalazzo Member. I more or less think the government should be expanded and should be in service to the people, religion should be out of politics, but I don't agree capitalism is a failure or that we should abolish money.

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Jan 11, 4, Parthenios The Fallen. Oct 28, 6, I have a political science degree and have no idea what this means lol well, some idea. Seemed far more economy-based than these things tend to.

That should probably be a more straightforward social democracy, which is a result two other people got. I have no idea what you did to trigger Marxism-Leninism or anarchism, but I figured that's what you were about since Third Way is one of the ways to express that position and it was your biggest agree by far.

It might have something to do with what it considers ML. MLs would have considered capitalism a failure-- contrarily, Lenin considered his socialist experiment in Russia to have failed and transitioned into state capitalism.

So depending on how Political sextant reads ML thought, maybe it got some indication of that out of you. Still hilarious though.

KefkaPalazzo said:. Hexa said:. I guess I'll take it. Sure as shit not gonna let it call me a "Classical Marxist" because "the state should do stuff".

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Haha, it says sex in the name. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica Encyclopaedia Britannica's editors oversee subject areas in which they have extensive knowledge, whether from years of experience gained by working on that content or via study for an advanced degree See Article History.

Sextant, brass, by Jesse Ramsden, c. Learn More in these related Britannica articles:. This location is called the ground position GP.

GP can thus be stated in terms of celestial…. Like the Davis quadrant , the sextant allows celestial objects to be measured relative to the horizon, rather than relative to the instrument.

This allows excellent precision. Also, unlike the backstaff , the sextant allows direct observations of stars. This permits the use of the sextant at night when a backstaff is difficult to use.

For solar observations, filters allow direct observation of the sun. Since the measurement is relative to the horizon, the measuring pointer is a beam of light that reaches to the horizon.

The measurement is thus limited by the angular accuracy of the instrument and not the sine error of the length of an alidade , as it is in a mariner's astrolabe or similar older instrument.

A sextant does not require a completely steady aim, because it measures a relative angle. For example, when a sextant is used on a moving ship, the image of both horizon and celestial object will move around in the field of view.

However, the relative position of the two images will remain steady, and as long as the user can determine when the celestial object touches the horizon, the accuracy of the measurement will remain high compared to the magnitude of the movement.

The sextant is not dependent upon electricity unlike many forms of modern navigation or for that matter anything reliant on human-controlled signals such as GPS satellites.

For these reasons it is considered to be an eminently practical back-up navigation tool for ships. All of these instruments may be termed "sextants".

Attached to the frame are the "horizon mirror", an index arm which moves the index mirror , a sighting telescope, sun shades, a graduated scale and a micrometer drum gauge for accurate measurements.

The scale must be graduated so that the marked degree divisions register twice the angle through which the index arm turns.

The necessity for the doubled scale reading follows by consideration of the relations of the fixed ray between the mirrors , the object ray from the sighted object and the direction of the normal perpendicular to the index mirror.

This is the case shown in the graphic alongside. Traditional sextants have a half-horizon mirror, which divides the field of view in two. On one side, there is a view of the horizon; on the other side, a view of the celestial object.

The advantage of this type is that both the horizon and celestial object are bright and as clear as possible. However, one has to sweep the celestial object to ensure that the lowest limb of the celestial object touches the horizon.

Whole-horizon sextants use a half-silvered horizon mirror to provide a full view of the horizon. This makes it easy to see when the bottom limb of a celestial object touches the horizon.

Since most sights are of the sun or moon, and haze is rare without overcast, the low-light advantages of the half-horizon mirror are rarely important in practice.

In both types, larger mirrors give a larger field of view, and thus make it easier to find a celestial object.

In large part, this is because precision flat mirrors have grown less expensive to manufacture and to silver.

An artificial horizon is useful when the horizon is invisible, as occurs in fog, on moonless nights, in a calm, when sighting through a window or on land surrounded by trees or buildings.

There are two common designs of artificial horizon. An artificial horizon can consist simply of a pool of water shielded from the wind, allowing the user to measure the distance between the body and its reflection, and divide by two.

Another design allows the mounting of a fluid-filled tube with bubble directly to the sextant. Most sextants also have filters for use when viewing the sun and reducing the effects of haze.

The filters usually consist of a series of progressively darker glasses that can be used singly or in combination to reduce haze and the sun's brightness.

However, sextants with adjustable polarizing filters have also been manufactured, where the degree of darkness is adjusted by twisting the frame of the filter.