What Is the Third Estate? is a political pamphlet written in January 1789, shortly before the outbreak of the French Revolution, by the French thinker and clergyman AbbÃ© Emmanuel Joseph SieyÃ¨s. The pamphlet was SieyÃ¨s' response to finance minister Jacques Necker's invitation for writers to state how they thought the Estates-General should be organized. In the pamphlet, SieyÃ¨s argues that the third estate â the common people of France â constituted a complete nation within itself and ...
Cable tie. Assortment of cable ties. A cable tie (also known as a hose tie, zap strap or zip tie, and by the brand names Ty-Rap and Panduit strap) is a type of fastener, for holding items together, primarily electric cables or wires. Because of their low cost and ease of use, cable ties are ubiquitous, finding use in a wide range of other applications.
Anyone who has plugged their computer into a broadband Internet connection such as cable or DSL has used an Ethernet cable. Ethernet cables are the standard cables commonly used to connect a modem to a router, and, likewise, to connect a router to a computer's network interface card (NIC). These thick, flexible cables are all practically indistinguishable to the untrained eye, but not all Ethernet cables are the same.