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I think his point was, that due to actions by the "Man" approximately 6% of 1,342,100,000 Chinese might seek redress from local Chinese Blizzard/Activision support.
Using your number Nominal support being 2000 personal to address the average volume in the Wow Commiseration Chat rooms.

The game has 9 million "subscribers". Blizzard's Chinese partner, the9, stated on May 22nd that over 7.5 million of the 9 million total are Chinese accounts.
Although it's likely that a couple million Chinese accounts regularly lapse.

So upwards of 83% 1660 of 2000 of customer service agents may receive a severe spike in support calls when their Chinese over lords start to clamp down.
This will effectively DOS all support.


References
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_of_Warcraft
http://askville.amazon.com/Americans-play-World-Warcraft-daily-basis/AnswerViewer.do?requestId=19244488

True.. some successful business people even thought so... for example ... http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0453009212?ie=UTF8&tag=chsbl04-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0453009212

It is, but oddly enough that does not bind the expansion. Space can be expanding faster than c and I believe the inflationary theory says just that.

It did so for a VERY short while following the big bang: a period of superluminal expansion known as the Inflationary Epoch.

Physicists like to separate notable periods in time on a logarithmic scale, referring to each as the "Whatever" Epoch. As novel as the system itself is, what's most novel is how tiny of a portion of it our planet will be around for.

Recommended reading for the curious.

Homepaths still use mercury. Of course, they dilute it to the point that they're basically just selling water.

Obligatory reference: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_i_0_21?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=radioactive+boy+scout&sprefix=radioactive+boy+scout The Radioactive Boy Scout

Story of a Thorium Reactor.

http://www.amazon.com/Collected-Stories-Arthur-C-Clarke/dp/0312878605 - get yourself this. It's got that story in it and practically all of Clarkes short stories and short novellas. Food of the Gods is about 3 pages long to be honest, although there's one in there thats about 3 paragraphs.

Noo. Optima.

They sell them on amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/Optima-Plated-Electric-Strings-010-046/dp/B003JJG5UI

Monster would charge you $200 for non gold plated. Optima charge you $30 for gold plated, but they last a very long time because they don't rust with your finger sweat.

now he's going to cut my finger off as well.

Cut off fingers won't be able to activate a proper fingerprint scanner, because they won't have a thermal signature that at all resembles a finger.

So the perp stores your cut off finger in his ass crack until it's needed....
checking for pulse and O2 levels is a better bet than just temperature and it's been checked at the finger tip for a long time.

According to TFA, he created a model that assumes the presence of a religiosity gene or genes

That's the way science works, each article has to start by assuming something rather than starting from scratch every time. Otherwise science books would keep getting longer and longer :)

But nowhere is there any further mention of what those genes may be or any evidence for them, or even past research on the subject.

Was TFA we read the same? In my version the first six references, all mentioned in the first paragraph, address this very point. For the lazy, here are links to the first three.

According to TFA, he created a model that assumes the presence of a religiosity gene or genes

That's the way science works, each article has to start by assuming something rather than starting from scratch every time. Otherwise science books would keep getting longer and longer :)

But nowhere is there any further mention of what those genes may be or any evidence for them, or even past research on the subject.

Was TFA we read the same? In my version the first six references, all mentioned in the first paragraph, address this very point. For the lazy, here are links to the first three.

I use this for any sticker that goes on my car (that I apply) - mostly because I hate having to take a razor blade to the nasty gunk that's left over.

The various sticker providers might not like it, but frankly unless I go the extra step and actually do something to defraud them, I don't care.

If you get a chance: read The Starcrossed by Ben Bova,

You may just want to buy my ebook too!

And FF threw a JS unresponsive error on load. ...the purpose of doing this was what? Out-trending who? Was ANY usability testing done? Anyone think of skimming "Don't Make Me Think"? [ link ] Yuck.

My species is blind you insensitive clod. :)

Then your species has built its radio receivers to produce sounds or smells or tastes or tactile warming or *sauce* to *taste*. We're not going to send stuff out in any medium other than radio waves, so we're going to rely on the aliens to change our radio pulses into something they can experience. Hopefully they don't directly experience radio waves, else we might have a big problem down the line: http://www.amazon.com/Blonde-Bombshell-Tom-Holt/dp/0316086991

I'm sure it exists, but I've never been able to find it; there's something that would really help: An up-to-date complete treatise of all the basic evidence that demonstrates the foundations of evolutionary theory. Observations of microevolution in the lab, sequences of fossils and how they were dated and how we're certain that they're from the same lineage, numerous clear examples, multiple convergent lines of evidence (fossils vs. dna), etc.

You're looking for Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale.

Now go ahead and prove evolution by creating life from scratch in the lab.

I'd be happy to oblige. Now all you need to give me are a planet much like what earth was like about 4 billion years ago and a few hundred million years time to run trillions of biochemical experiments. Then I think it might be quite easy.
Ongoing evolution on the other hand is another story.
Evolution can be seen for example in the DNA of all living things. It can be simulated on a computert. Observed in bacteria in almost real time and traced in the fossil record. It is after all a very simple concept that only requires variation and selection. I highly recommend Relics of Eden a book written by a christian. Anybody who read that would have a really hard time to deny that humans are the outcome of an evolutionary process.

"Free market is not the prerequisite for democracy. "

Who said it was? Where in my post did I even utter the words "free market"?

But the ability to communicate with peers, and belief in freedom of speech and association, upward class mobility, fundamental human rights, and a desire to oppose corruption rather than join it, *are* prerequisites for democracy. And America's communications devices and pop culture *do* embody those beliefs. Yes, even the ones directed by Michael Bay.

"Read a book sometimes"

I read lots of books. Right now I'm reading "Being Wrong" by Kathryn Schultz, which you might benefit from. But to believe that nothing can be learned or gained from mass media and pop culture is pompous, arrogant, and short-sighted. If I should "read a book sometime", you should listen to Bob Dylan.

I recently purchased the Space Quest collection at Amazon, which contains the six Space Quests for half the price I found them in GOG.com

Bullshit. The reason those bacterial infections can grow without being disturbed is precisely because your immune system is inactive during stressed periods. See Sapolsky's work, e.g., Why Zebra's don't get Ulcers., or his recent splendid TTC series Stress and your body.

Patronizing a business is not "signing a contract". There were no contractual obligations between Amazon and Wikileaks. There MAY have been contractual obligations between MC/Visa and the local Icelandic company that handled processing for them - and if there is, I'm sure a suit for breach of contract will help them recoup their losses and damages.

Let's also be very clear about this: Wikileaks violated at least the copyright clause of the Amazon Web Services Terms of Use. The leaked documents are not the property of Wikileaks, and they do not own the copyrights to those documents. They violated the terms of use in uploading and distributing them. As such, Amazon reserves the right to terminate service to people who violate their terms of use.

The MC/Visa issue is also not going to go far. This is politicians making a lot of noise to make some political points. It happens everywhere there's politicians. If a court rules that MC & Visa *must* do business with people they don't wish to, then you're opening up a hugely problematic precedent that will not stand for long because it will create consumer abuse nightmares. A broad "you can't refuse to provide services to anybody who demands it" ruling simply isn't sustainable.

Thanks for the David Drake suggestion. I don't especially recall reading anything by him, though I have "The World Turned Upside Down" which he helped edit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Drake
Anyway, I'll have to look through my sci-fi collection. I can guess I've read similar things though. Maybe his stuff might be similar to themes in the Bolo (honor) or Beserker (survival) series? Or stuff like by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, like in The Mote in God's Eye (and the sequel someone mentioned to me recently, where biogenetic change of the Mote's was a theme)? Jack L. Chalker's Well World series also talks about the interplay of genetics, environment, and culture.

The non-fiction book (and DVD) called "The Pleasure Trap" by Doug Lisle (and a coauthor) talk about a human brain adapted for scarcity and not abundance (and the obesity epidemic being an example of things going wrong).
"The Pleasure Trap: Mastering the Hidden Force That Undermines Health & Happines"
http://www.amazon.com/Pleasure-Trap-Mastering-Undermines-Happiness/dp/1570671508
http://www.healthpromoting.com/Articles/articles/PleasureTrap.htm
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/article16.aspx

Another similar book (but with less good advice, but more general):
"Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpos"
http://www.amazon.com/Supernormal-Stimuli-Overran-Evolutionary-Purpose/dp/039306848X

Also related on how people may turn to compulsive addictive-seeming behaviors in stressful environments:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park

Anyway, how we express our genes is still related to environment and mind. So, even if there is a potential for violence, we have options as to what we do with out feelings.

Gregory Clark has a theory of evolution related to capitalism, btw (I'm not saying I agree, but it relates to your point):
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/science/07indu.html?pagewanted=print
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Clark_(economist)#A_Farewell_to_Alms
"A Farewell to Alms (the book's title is a non-rhotic pun on Ernest Hemingway's novel, A Farewell to Arms) discusses the divide between rich and poor nations that came about as a result of the Industrial Revolution in terms of the evolution of particular behaviors originating in Britain. Prior to 1790, Clark asserts, man faced a Malthusian trap: new technology enabled greater productivity and more food, but was quickly gobbled up by higher populations. In Britain, however, as disease continually killed off poorer members of society, their positions in society were taken over by the sons of the wealthy, who were less violent, more literate, and more productive. This process of "downward social mobility" eventually enabled Britain to attain a rate of productivity that allowed it to break out of the Malthusian trap."

However, that does not explain the Haudenosaunee. In general, "sexual selection" can drive a lot of evolution, as can just random changes, or other non-obvious things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_selection

Do whales and dolphins kill each other off? Still, I'm not saying humans don't have various different proclivities. But even then, environment and culture can shape how they are expressed. James P. Hogan's Voyage from Y

Thanks for the David Drake suggestion. I don't especially recall reading anything by him, though I have "The World Turned Upside Down" which he helped edit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Drake
Anyway, I'll have to look through my sci-fi collection. I can guess I've read similar things though. Maybe his stuff might be similar to themes in the Bolo (honor) or Beserker (survival) series? Or stuff like by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, like in The Mote in God's Eye (and the sequel someone mentioned to me recently, where biogenetic change of the Mote's was a theme)? Jack L. Chalker's Well World series also talks about the interplay of genetics, environment, and culture.

The non-fiction book (and DVD) called "The Pleasure Trap" by Doug Lisle (and a coauthor) talk about a human brain adapted for scarcity and not abundance (and the obesity epidemic being an example of things going wrong).
"The Pleasure Trap: Mastering the Hidden Force That Undermines Health & Happines"
http://www.amazon.com/Pleasure-Trap-Mastering-Undermines-Happiness/dp/1570671508
http://www.healthpromoting.com/Articles/articles/PleasureTrap.htm
http://www.drfuhrman.com/library/article16.aspx

Another similar book (but with less good advice, but more general):
"Supernormal Stimuli: How Primal Urges Overran Their Evolutionary Purpos"
http://www.amazon.com/Supernormal-Stimuli-Overran-Evolutionary-Purpose/dp/039306848X

Also related on how people may turn to compulsive addictive-seeming behaviors in stressful environments:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rat_Park

Anyway, how we express our genes is still related to environment and mind. So, even if there is a potential for violence, we have options as to what we do with out feelings.

Gregory Clark has a theory of evolution related to capitalism, btw (I'm not saying I agree, but it relates to your point):
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/07/science/07indu.html?pagewanted=print
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Clark_(economist)#A_Farewell_to_Alms
"A Farewell to Alms (the book's title is a non-rhotic pun on Ernest Hemingway's novel, A Farewell to Arms) discusses the divide between rich and poor nations that came about as a result of the Industrial Revolution in terms of the evolution of particular behaviors originating in Britain. Prior to 1790, Clark asserts, man faced a Malthusian trap: new technology enabled greater productivity and more food, but was quickly gobbled up by higher populations. In Britain, however, as disease continually killed off poorer members of society, their positions in society were taken over by the sons of the wealthy, who were less violent, more literate, and more productive. This process of "downward social mobility" eventually enabled Britain to attain a rate of productivity that allowed it to break out of the Malthusian trap."

However, that does not explain the Haudenosaunee. In general, "sexual selection" can drive a lot of evolution, as can just random changes, or other non-obvious things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sexual_selection

Do whales and dolphins kill each other off? Still, I'm not saying humans don't have various different proclivities. But even then, environment and culture can shape how they are expressed. James P. Hogan's Voyage from Y

Glad you liked that part.

I agree that the USA in general might have been a lot better place if it had borrowed more sooner from the Haudenosaunee, whether economics and common land/infrastructure ownership:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economy_of_the_Iroquois
or more aspects of their democracy and culture:
http://www.tuscaroras.com/graydeer/influenc/page1.htm
"In order to accept the premise that the Haudenosaunee had a profound influence on the founding fathers' thoughts on what would later become the United States Constitution, two important steps need to be taken. First, one needs to step back in time and examine what was influencing the founding fathers during their era. Secondly, one must relinquish ethnocentric prejudices of native peoples being "uncivilized" and in need of assimilation because of the stereotypical belief that they were "too simpleminded to engage in effective social and political organization." (2)
In this paper, the Great Law of Peace (also known as the Iroquois Constitution) will be discussed through the perspective of a Haudenosaunee to show how the Confederacy functions. The influence that the Great Law of Peace had on the founding fathers and on the United States Constitution, as well as the interaction between the great Mohawk orators and the founding fathers, will be discussed. This paper will add an Haudenosaunee perspective, and will hopefully make suspect the judicial framework on which federal-Indian policy and Indian law is built, which in an ethnocentric way falsely stereotypes native peoples as savage, uncivilized, and in need of assimilation."

That said, no one is perfect (and a standard of perfection itself is in the eye of the beholder). The book "The Walking People: A Native American Oral History"
http://www.amazon.com/Walking-People-Native-American-History/dp/1879678101
talks about the eventual decision by the People (some of whom become the Oneida) near the end of the book to study both diplomacy and war. I had never really understood before the notion of there being a "war path" (as in, "going on the war path" when I was growing up was lampooning native anger), as a "path", and as a choice compared to a path of peace and diplomacy. Anyway, you might find that book (at least the last parts) of some interest.

I quote Leon Shenandoah here, in my trying to give thanks for the many positive forces in my own life (and his book was one of them):
http://www.oscomak.net/giving_thanks.html

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So the new quote [related to the OSCOMAK project I am doing on and off] is from Tadodaho Chief Leon Shenandoah (from the book To Become A Human Being by Steve Wall, pg. 24).

"The thing wrong with the world is that people don't have instructions." -- Tadodaho Chief Leon Shenandoah

He might be called "Iroquois" but the term people with those roots used for themselves was "Haudenosaunee" which simply in a sense means "human beings", like us all. (Even those sentient AIs reading this in the future. :-) The Haudenosaunee ideals informed the better parts of the US Constitution, which might have been a better document IMHO if even more had been borrowed. :-)

I include the beginning ... here, and also to make clear that, as with "adult education", "have instructions" is not about being told what to do, but in finding help in the human quest for meaning. At your own pace.

The thing wrong with the world
is that people don't have instructions.
We were told almost three hundred years ago
that people would be coming to us and asking for our instructions,
We were told that back in the 1700s
that there'd be a day whe

From their website:
http://aws.amazon.com/ses/#functionality

"Verify Email Addresses: Before you can send email via Amazon SES, you need to verify that you own the email address from which you’ll be sending email. To verify an email address, make an API call with the email address as a parameter. This API call will trigger a verification email, which will contain a link that you can click on to complete the verification process."

So, what's all this talk about Amazon needing great content filters etc? Sounds to me if anyone is getting an email through this service, they approved it and they can unsubscribe anytime. Am I missing something?

... just because you have a lot of smart people does not mean they will be put to use.

A lot of ideas from the mythical man month also apply to clever people and large intellectual projects from various sectors. That being one largely of scalability.

http://www.amazon.com/Mythical-Man-Month-Software-Engineering-Anniversary/dp/0201835959/

This book is more about forming an incident response team than actually DOING incident response or forensic analysis. Since most slashdotters are going to lean towards wanting to know how to do things, I'd recommend Incident Response & Computer Forensics by Kevin Mandia as Real Digital Forensics: Computer Security and Incident Response, both of which are quite good.

This book is more about forming an incident response team than actually DOING incident response or forensic analysis. Since most slashdotters are going to lean towards wanting to know how to do things, I'd recommend Incident Response & Computer Forensics by Kevin Mandia as Real Digital Forensics: Computer Security and Incident Response, both of which are quite good.

This is totally, 100% wrong. "best effort" refers to the fact that in packet-switched networks, there are NO GUARANTEES whether a packet will reach its destination. This is in contrast to connection-oriented networks, like the phone network, where guarantees can be made once a connection has been established. Wikipedia's entry on best effort delivery is also wrong: "best effort" is the upper bound on packet-switched networks. Every packet that enters a connectionless network has some probability of reaching its destination, but there is no guarantee, which is why TCP has a retransmission mechanism. If you are willing to accept occasional lost packets (because in some applications, recovering that lost data is not worth the cost), you use UDP.

Anyone who says that they can deliver "better than best effort" on a packet-switched network is blowing smoke.

It's also important to recognize that the "pooled" nature of packet-switched networks is by design, and that its loss characteristics were deemed to be an acceptable tradeoff (the advantages being cost and network neutrality).

This book has a good history on the Internet, by a person who worked on the early ARPAnet networks.

The creative damage from the Comics Code persists to this day. If you look at the whole history of comics, it immediately split what was a thriving, creative market producing interesting and creative comics, into two, and drove and dictated the entire creative approach in each of the two: (1) An 'above-ground' over-sappy, over-cleaned-up, over-family-friendly market segment - which (2) then spawned an underground of "alternative" comics, which because they were in essence a reaction to this, polarized in the opposite direction and tried to be about as dark and modernist/nihilist and non-family-friendly as you can get.

Neither were all that appealing, frankly.

If you're interested in comics, this is one of the most awesome books ever: http://www.amazon.com/Smithsonian-Collection-Newspaper-Comics-Blackbeard/dp/0874741726

If you read that from start to finish, you can actually see these trends unfold. You'll be amazed at some of the comics of the 30's and 40's, which have really creative and interesting and amazing and neither-too-childish-nor-too-adult work - even the highly creative Mickey Mouse stories from Floyd Gottfredson. After the Comics Code changed the industry, only then did Mickey Mouse become such a watered-down piece of crappy over-cleansed family sap, to the point that "Mickey Mouse" even became an idiom for something watered-down and weak.

Of course, there were other trends driving the above too .. e.g. overall modernism/nihilism, and the rise of other forms of entertainment ... but the Comics Code definitely left a seriously ugly mark on comics as a field of art and expression for decades. Basically only the advent of webcomics in the 1990s saw the beginning of the rise of more interesting and positive creativity again, and only now is it coming into its own again.

A pentalobular screwdriver designed to fit the screws for the iPhone 4 is available at amazon.com for $6.99. Better hurry though, only one left! http://www.amazon.com/Pentalobe-Screwdriver-iPhone-generation-Silverhill/dp/B004IU9EDM

I was going to mod you funny until until I did it

You jackasses:

http://www.amazon.com/Pentalobe-Screwdriver-iPhone-generation-Silverhill/dp/B004IU9EDM

One of the popular Dremel attachments is a thin abrasive disc that can be used to put a new slot in a screw head that has become rusted, stripped, or otherwise impossible to remove.

http://www.amazon.com/APPLE-iPHONE-3GS-REPAIR-TOOLS/dp/B004B21E12

If that's not the right one, Google "screwdriver" with your make / model of Apple device.

It isn't the right one, because the screw head is using a patented design.

Pardon, I hadn't read that it was an expired patent. But still, wrong tool kit in the link.

http://www.amazon.com/APPLE-iPHONE-3GS-REPAIR-TOOLS/dp/B004B21E12

If that's not the right one, Google "screwdriver" with your make / model of Apple device.

It isn't the right one, because the screw head is using a patented design.

http://www.amazon.com/APPLE-iPHONE-3GS-REPAIR-TOOLS/dp/B004B21E12

If that's not the right one, Google "screwdriver" with your make / model of Apple device.

While I can't entirely join in with those who claim that Assange is a media whore, Ellsberg's low-key style in releasing the Pentagon Papers certainly makes him look all the more respectful. I'd recommend reading his memoirs for a portrait of a truly committed and sincere American citizen.

Sadly, as I've gotten older, I've come to realize that American history isn't a straight path of progress, but a cycle of ups and downs. The gains we got in the late 1960s and early 1970s in weakening undemocratic power structures are pretty much all gone now.

Using highly redundant storage, my 100GB image library would cost $14 per month. Using the reduced redundancy storage, I'd be looking at $9.30 per month.

Pricing from Amazon S3

...For consumer use, the Samsung Goflex 1TB (the 2.5" version) is around $100, widely available, and works great in my experience...

GoFlex is a Seagate line. Seagate has nothing to do with Samsung.

In your case, since it sounds like you don't create that much data, you'd probably be fine picking up a couple of portable USB drives (2.5" drive, powered over USB = tiny). For consumer use, the Samsung Goflex 1TB (the 2.5" version) is around $100, widely available, and works great in my experience. Buy two. Use one as your master repository, one as a backup of that, and keep the second in a water-proof container (hint: try rubbermaid containers, they're waterproof and cost about $4), locked in an inexpensive fire safe, safety deposit box, or at a nearby friend's or relative's house. If you aren't needing to store more than 64GB of material then you could substitute "thumb drive" or "CF/SD card and reader" for portable USB drive ... solid state media will be 'safer' for long-term storage but obviously afford less space-per-dollar.

A better option, but beyond what you wanted is a SAN/NAS. Drobo makes some decent products, and I currently have a DroboFS at my home, loaded with 2TB drives. This gives me a little over 7TB of RAID storage to backup all my footage, images, documents, and so forth. It's network addressable, so any of the several machines in my house (both Mac and Windows) can access it. The total cost (Drobo + drives) was around $1100 or $1200 iirc. The downside to the FS is that its max transfer speed is around 20MB/sec, but they do offer other models with transfer speeds that are better suited to live editing — I only use the FS for backup, I have 4TB [in the machine I am posting from now] dedicated to live editing. The Drobo is nice, imo, because it's a consumer-oriented appliance (with RAID built in) that can take any SATA drive, will allow you to mix and match drive capacities on the fly, and they offer 'Time Machine' style automated backups (along with other apps) if you want that sort of thing. Beyond the Drobo, I also do separate backups to portable drives and keep them offsite (as I mentioned above), just as an extra level of paranoia in case my house burns down. If you are really paranoid or into safety, LTO would be a better way to go for this.

Actually, given how little data you (the original poster) might need to backup, an old LTO machine bought on craigslist (LTO 1 will do 100GB, 2 does 200GB) might be the solution. The tapes are relatively cheap, and the format is both open and reverse-compatible for a few generations (so when your LTO 1 craigslist machine dies you can buy an LTO 2 or 3 machine from the same venue and still access your content (and then migrate it forward to LTO 2 or 3)).

if the author has to pimp their own story.

It has already been proven that just because you bring a website online it doesn't mean anyone will find it. Without some sort of creative marketing it's hardly likely anyone will find the website. Volumes and volumes have been written about online marketing. And I bet every one of them says to start with self-promotion.

Falcon

Please note that if you are reading this over anything other than an audiophile quality ethernet cable you will not be able to understand it properly and will therefore think its all nonsense. Please try a better quality cable to understand properly.

Would this do?

It is an attempt to save the Genesis account of creation at any cost, because if they don't, there's no original sin for Jesus to be sacrificed for rendering the whole of Christianity meaningless.

The Christian account of sin entering the world does not depend on a literal understanding of Genesis. See Richard Swinburne's Responsibility and Atonement (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989) for an argument that it matters little whether "Adam" was the literal figure in Genesis or simply one of our hominid ancestors. Also, the belief of Jesus' crucifixion as purely sacrificial is a late (Anselmian) idea that resonated with the Protestants but is alien to much of patristic thought.

If there are 10.000 laws in the US

There are well over 10,000 laws in the US. Last year alone over 31,000 laws were passed across the country. In 2009 over 40,000 new laws were passed.

which everyone is breaking 5 times a day without knowing, it shouldn't be that hard to name a few so us average Joes can learn to avoid breaking that law

Well, there are some books on it (both of these are on my to-read list):

Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target The Innocent

Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything

in the first place and/or organize a petition to get rid of them.

You think they really care about petitions? It is very difficult to repeal laws and scale back power.

If there are 10.000 laws in the US

There are well over 10,000 laws in the US. Last year alone over 31,000 laws were passed across the country. In 2009 over 40,000 new laws were passed.

which everyone is breaking 5 times a day without knowing, it shouldn't be that hard to name a few so us average Joes can learn to avoid breaking that law

Well, there are some books on it (both of these are on my to-read list):

Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target The Innocent

Go Directly to Jail: The Criminalization of Almost Everything

in the first place and/or organize a petition to get rid of them.

You think they really care about petitions? It is very difficult to repeal laws and scale back power.

I disagree with your position. In my opinion, there are plenty of profoundly religious people that embrace science, art and theology as faces of the same truth (just like past, present and future are all faces of time). The problem is when theology claims scientific results and scientists make theological assumptions. If you want to know more about the root of this historical debate there's a very good, affordable reading: http://www.amazon.com/Evidence-Things-Not-Seen-Orthodoxy/dp/B000SB5N4O The author is versed in science (particle physics among other disciplines) and a retired archbishop.

This reminds me of a couple books which I read decades ago... the first was a Red Scare book about the dangers of transferring technology, science, and business methods to the Soviet Union. It's still in print, probably a favorite of some of the talk radio crowd. The book took its title from a passage from an Elizabethan era political writer:

"Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason"

- Sir John Harrington

The other was a "Yankee Scare" book written by a Frenchman who sounded the alarm about American corporations buying their way to massive influence across Western Europe. "We are paying them to buy us", I remember the author saying.

This reminds me of a couple books which I read decades ago... the first was a Red Scare book about the dangers of transferring technology, science, and business methods to the Soviet Union. It's still in print, probably a favorite of some of the talk radio crowd. The book took its title from a passage from an Elizabethan era political writer:

"Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason?
Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason"

- Sir John Harrington

The other was a "Yankee Scare" book written by a Frenchman who sounded the alarm about American corporations buying their way to massive influence across Western Europe. "We are paying them to buy us", I remember the author saying.

This has been known for a while