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you forgot

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

but it wasn't hitler (although it is a sad irony that russia is copying the nazi policy towards it neighbors, while accusing them of being nazis) they copied

they both copied machiavelli

http://www.mayanastro.freeserv...

who in turn copied it from the roman policy for expansion in europe

and it's probably an older strategy than even that

machiavelli... who learned it from the romans... but in truth, tribes have been vying against each in turf wars since before we were even completely human, and a slow infiltration was always a tactic, if not even purposeful. europe will be muslim by the end of the century for example

http://www.mayanastro.freeserv...

On the subject of colonization, Machiavelli says essentially what one would expect-that it is a cheap and effective way for a foreign power to exert its influence over a weaker neighbor without much risk of retaliation. To say at the same time that he originated the idea of using colonies to invade other nations would be to give him credit for a concept that had already existed in Western civilization since the time of the Roman expansion into Europe. What he says about the utility of colonies for the purpose of seizing control over foreign principalities, apart from a few marginal differences, can be found as early as 250 A. D. in the work of the early Christian Father Tertullian who records essentially the same ideology. The difference might be that Tertullian used a moral argument about reducing redundant populations caused by lechery who could be sent to the colonies to ease the stresses of overpopulation in the homeland; while, Machiavelli advocated using them to spearhead an invasion force directed against the overthrow of the ruler of an existing principality or as a force to maintain power once the ruler had been overthrown. He says that

Perhaps a fonetic* version of English will replace the current English spelling mess.

Already exists. It's called German.

http://www.ashvital.freeserver...

If only he could rise to the ethical standards of 1990s Microsoft. Yeah, it's gotten that bad.

When you fight someone, you take on that person's qualities. You become that person. You become your enemy. And your enemy wins because now there's another one of him in the world.

All of Jobs's wanna-be John Lennon-isms are apparently just part of the facade - he wants to 'win', at all costs.

Randi very clearly lays out of the bounds of any tests beforehand, and what is considered proof. ...And then changes those parameters at any time. If you Google this you'll see many independent complaints about this.

If anyone had actually passed that test, they would, you know, sue him, because they were promised payment of a million dollars if they did that. There is an actual contract with actual winning conditions.

No can do, as per the contract, which is designed to benefit James, not the applicant:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/89173/exposing_the_unfair_truth_about_the.html

But since you've made that claim, you should be able to demonstrate that Randi has, at least once, laid out a test and winning conditions, and then backpeddled once someone actually won.

Except it's no contract in the lawful sense. Seek and Ye shall find:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/89173/exposing_the_unfair_truth_about_the_pg2.html?cat=17

Video: James Randi Challenge Exposed - A Lawyer Explains:
http://www.debunkingskeptics.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1442

Professor Michael Prescott found that James Randi’s million dollar challenge is very much an illusion that have fooled people for decades:
http://torbjornsassersson.wordpress.com/2010/05/02/james-randi-and-his-one-million-dollar-challenge-fraud/
http://michaelprescott.freeservers.com/challenge.htm

Examples (hard to find these days as SEO or litigations have made sites disappear, they used to be easy to find):

Rico Kolodzey
http://www.rense.com/general50/james.htm

Riley G Matthews
http://www.rileyg.com/pressdir.htm

Serios
http://michaelprescott.typepad.com/michael_prescotts_blog/2006/08/lets_get_serios.html

Or you are a liar and a slanderer who has accused someone of criminal fraud.

These are not my claims, and there are many many more, however hard to find now. Some is to be found in articles, some in books. I'll let the reader make the good judgement wether this is true or false, I don't have the time or interest to investigate it in detail for you.

You missed my point entirely though. Since everything "supernatural" can be explained away with magic tricks or similar mundane tricks, then it is impossible to prove that you just did something "supernatural". If you read more about James Randi, you'll see his argumentation is dismissive of diversity of people, intolerant and arrogant. So the "Challenge" then quickly turns into a fight for survival, and often end up in the courts. Not very nice.

Yeah, you moron, because that's what he's testing.

Wow, where did that come from?

If he let people win by 'statistics', he'd have a constant stream of people claiming they could predict a coin toss 75% of the time....and eventually one of them would happen to do that. Because that's how statistics work.

But how can you ever dismiss statistics? It is crucial to make discoveries and validate them in any field. Nothing is ever as black and white as some people want the world to be..

This has been discussed to death in other forums. If a basketball player misses the hoop 1 in 100 shots, is she no longer a basketball player? This is the way statistics is being misused to dismiss any results in the JRF chalenge. In the

> Same with FTL. Our current method of going faster is to simply accelerate more. General relativity tells us that that approach won't work even for reaching C, much less exceeding it.
> So, we need a workaround.

You DO realize we live in more then 4 dimensions, right?

The physical dimension is only the "bottom" that we are normally perceptive too. The speed of light is not a barrier in higher realms, and is easily "broken" in them.

The workaround is:
1. Shift to another dimension
2. Travel
3. Shift back to physical dimension

> A pet hypothesis of mine is that perhaps as an object with mass approaches C, conventional laws of physics break down and we need a whole new set of physics to figure out what happens at those velocities.
Yes, the same way conventional laws of physics break down at the micro (Quantum Mechanics), they break down at the macro (General Relativity).

> sense that they don't violate what we know about physics.
That's the biggest hurdle at the moment. Scienctists knows jack about physics and meta-physics outside the normal 4D as they are still missing 2 fundamental forces. Until we can answer _basic_ questions such as: "What is electricity? What is gravity? What is magnetism? What is light? What is time? What is the soul? What is the source of all these things?" our understanding will be limited to simply _using_ them.

> The empirical evidence strongly suggests that traveling at or above C is, indeed, impossible.
Humans are currently limited to sub-light speed until the 24th century, as they have not learned how to be responsible with what they _already_ have. When you still have people who live like kings and throw whatever they don't want away (America), people whose daily existance is starvation (Africa), people arguing over who's God is "right" by killing everyone who doesn't agree with them (Islam), ignorant pseudo skeptics who have made a Religion of out atheism (Randi) ( http://michaelprescott.freeservers.com/skeptic.htm, http://www.rpi.edu/~sofkam/talk/talk.html, http://www.debunkingskeptics.com/Introduction.htm ), the brainwashing of the public school education, er, sorry indoctrination system ( http://www.johntaylorgatto.com/chapters/index.htm ) humanity will never make progress on _External_ knowledge until they first learn the source of ALL (internal) wisdom: KNOW THYSELF.

As we spiritually grow up, FTL and time-travel will naturally open up.

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"Mind, not Space" is the FINAL frontier

I tend to do my best work when I'm away from the civilized world. My current favorite is a state park about half an hour outside my town (Orlando, FL). A couple miles into the trail is a little covered rest area with some benches. I park myself there and dive into my work. No cell signal to distract me, no noisy cars, no annoying neighbors, etc. Typically, I tote my netbook, since my laptop is too heavy to carry 5-6 miles round trip.

When I need a break, there's always something to watch for a few minutes. Turkey, deer, a squirrel trying to steal my water bottle, every now and then I even spot a cougar moving through the brush. In the winter time, blue herons and egrets roost here.
http://rain.maestro.freeservers.com/pics/100_0064.JPG

Of course, not all the animals are quite so friendly. That's the second most venomous snake in the US for our international friends.
http://rain.maestro.freeservers.com/pics/100_0071.JPG

This park is always empty. I drive past two others to get to it, but because it is out in the dead zone between Orlando and the coast, no one ever goes there. In six years of regular trips, I've seen exactly three other people.

Get outdoors, get some exercise, and still get my work done. The perfect combination for me.

On rainy days, I usually relax on the patio with some instrumental music playing softly. Lately I've been going through a Nox Arcana fad. Mixed with the sound of the thunderstorms, I find it helps me focus.

I tend to do my best work when I'm away from the civilized world. My current favorite is a state park about half an hour outside my town (Orlando, FL). A couple miles into the trail is a little covered rest area with some benches. I park myself there and dive into my work. No cell signal to distract me, no noisy cars, no annoying neighbors, etc. Typically, I tote my netbook, since my laptop is too heavy to carry 5-6 miles round trip.

When I need a break, there's always something to watch for a few minutes. Turkey, deer, a squirrel trying to steal my water bottle, every now and then I even spot a cougar moving through the brush. In the winter time, blue herons and egrets roost here.
http://rain.maestro.freeservers.com/pics/100_0064.JPG

Of course, not all the animals are quite so friendly. That's the second most venomous snake in the US for our international friends.
http://rain.maestro.freeservers.com/pics/100_0071.JPG

This park is always empty. I drive past two others to get to it, but because it is out in the dead zone between Orlando and the coast, no one ever goes there. In six years of regular trips, I've seen exactly three other people.

Get outdoors, get some exercise, and still get my work done. The perfect combination for me.

On rainy days, I usually relax on the patio with some instrumental music playing softly. Lately I've been going through a Nox Arcana fad. Mixed with the sound of the thunderstorms, I find it helps me focus.

What nonsense. Science is just as dogmatic, and has just as much faith as Religion. As they say, Science progresses one funeral at a time.

http://michaelprescott.freeservers.com/skeptic.htm

"Not only did modernists [i.e., rationalists] believe in the inerrancy of science, they also had a devout faith in progress. The 'modern,' almost by definition, was superior to the past. The future would be even better."

Let me quote from one of the famous priests of Science, Albert Einstein.

Religion of Science
http://www.sacred-texts.com/aor/einstein/einsci.htm

"After religious teachers accomplish the refining process indicated they will surely recognize with joy that true religion has been ennobled and made more profound by scientific knowledge."

"But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs from the sphere of religion. To this there also belongs the faith in the possibility that the regulations valid for the world of existence are rational, that is, comprehensible to reason. I cannot conceive of a genuine scientist without that profound faith. The situation may be expressed by an image: science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind."

And this beautiful post by rajafarian (49150), http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/07/02/163252

In my time of studying things since I was little, I undertook the study of physics when I was eleven. When I was in college getting my BS in it I came to the conclusion that at the level where I was in my studies, physics turned to philosophy, for what do things like time mean anyway?

And then after studying philosphy on my own for a few years, I arrived at the conclusion that philosophy turns to religion because if we can never know these things for sure, we still have to make a decision how we are going to live our lives, and that is religion. In my opinion, real religion is when we consciously decide what to believe on our own (although it can be from reading about religions), fake religion is when someone makes the decision for us.

Both Science and Religion are out-dated, and incomplete -- the only reason they are used is because of a) momementum, and b) people think there is nothing better to use. The proper solution is to combine them to compensate for the weaknesses of each other to reach the next level of understanding reality.

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How can you understand Life if you don't even understand what happens after Death??

> Reality is all about the physical state of being

Time is not real? So time is physical? Show me this "thing" called "time".

Are your dreams real? If they are not real, then how did you experience them?

Is consciousness physical? (Having interacted with non-human consciousness, that is a clear no.)

Reality is so much MORE then just the physical, which is the point you completely missed.

> see science as a rival church.

Science sets _itself_ up as a Rival Church; by ignoring the wisdom of the past Religions it has very much become its _own_ Religion.

Science through Quantum Mechanics have discovered most of these:

Awareness - There is no reality until one observes it.
Balance - Everything has an opposite, which brings equilibrium.
Eternity - Now is eternity, since "not Now" doesn't exist.
Faith - The Subjective Experience leads to the Objective Truth, and that it will lead to a more correct understanding of Reality when it has no proof of this.
Holiness - Honesty in searching for Truth which it
Infinity - There are many infinite parallel universes / dimensions.
Oneness - Everything is connected. i.e. Energy is mass, E=mc2

Uncorrupted Religion teaches the same thing at its core, when people aren't busy trying to convert everyone else to their incomplete religion.

I'm not the only one who sees the close minded nature of Science.
* http://amasci.com/weird/wclose.html

Others have written about the problems of Rationalism
* http://michaelprescott.freeservers.com/skeptic.htm

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You are a Spiritual being in a Physical body having a Human Experience.

"Anonymity, on the other hand, means being able to get away with stealing, or hacking, or disseminating illegal material on the Internet - and presuming the right that nobody should know who you are. There is no such right. This is nothing more than the digital equivalent of putting on a ski mask when you rob a bank."
Edgar Bronfman, Jr., CEO Seagram

The rest of the unwashed masses are to be tagged and followed "for their own good" (according to the police).

If you listened to the police, they would jail everyone for their own good.

Ok, so it's a piece of crap that only loads a tiny little snippet of code, which just prints a line of text and returns to the loader... but it's a boot loader, damn it. It's only meant to demonstrate how it's done, really. If anyone was wondering, it's written for Netwide Assembler, which handles some things differently from MASM. I would have posted it in my message, but apparently the lameness filter is itself too lame to tell the difference between code and spam.

Ok, so it's a piece of crap that only loads a tiny little snippet of code, which just prints a line of text and returns to the loader... but it's a boot loader, damn it. It's only meant to demonstrate how it's done, really. If anyone was wondering, it's written for Netwide Assembler, which handles some things differently from MASM. I would have posted it in my message, but apparently the lameness filter is itself too lame to tell the difference between code and spam.

Does anybody else here think the picture of Wik from the article looks like a cross between Gollum and those old trolls?

I never buy anything from Dixons or PC World as the spend 5 minutes selling you something and then 20 minutes trying to get you to buy their overpriced extended warrenties.

Last thing I bought there was a £20 Toaster and they wanted me to buy a £16 3 year warrenty for it.

Jonathan

http://donkeydoeslondon.freeservers.com/

But what actually happened is that there's been no general war along this border for an unusually long 35 years, and it now seems the Pakistanis and Indians are realizing they will just have to uneasily get along, as the Soviets and Americans did during the Cold War, since each now has the capacity to obliterate the other.

Pakistan has been supporting terrorism in Kashmir for the past 17 years. They used weapons supplied by the US and China to arm terrorists. Indians generally don't care about Pakistan, but the Pakistani government needs Kashmir as part of Pakistan to justify its own existence.

As for the general war, the proxy war fought with terrorists and the Kargil invasion negate that theory. It just didn't escalate to all out war.

http://www.ccc.nps.navy.mil/research/kargil/index. asp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kargil
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/war/k argil-99.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/387702 .stm
http://terrorism.freeservers.com/kargil.html

I assume it was of Houston losing radio contact and couldn't help if anything went wrong?

Jonathan

http://donkeydoeslondon.freeservers.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_movies_that_h ave_been_considered_the_worst_ever

Jonathan

http://donkeydoeslondon.freeservers.com/

I'm pretty sure a version of Microfocus Cobol we ran in the early 90's had this kind of license.

Jonathan

http://donkeydoeslondon.freeservers.com/

Screen Shot

See this site for information on "Tactical Markers" present on the road signs in the US. The idea is that they could shut off all navigation equipment and still traverse the country easily. Whatever they =..

...that adds to the problems explained in prospect theory. the outcome also depends on how the problem is "framed" as anyone that has been offered a compex financial product should know.

http://entropy.freeservers.com/macuser.html

Altough not always supported, IE is available on Windows, Mac OS 9, OS X, Sun Solaris, HP-UX, and Linux (crossover).
There is a petition for Internet Explorer on FreeBSD.

already exist, albeit with a less classy look than a tupperware tub-shaped bus.

Posting AC due to '9/11' issues....

ABSOLUTELY HILARIOUS!

Right up there with the 'End Of World' .swf animation!

'Taliban Takes on Telemarketers' .swf

'End Of World' .swf

Do what I do to stop telemarketers cold--leave the phone line unconnected to a phone and reconnect it to dial out only as needed before disconnecting the phone again.

Everyone please report to the near Homeland detention center for "reprogramming".

More information can be found here and here. ;)

Here's a technology more appropriate to China.

>(turns out that msi doesn't have a bios that works with the Barton 2500+ at 333, you have to up the voltage (voids warranty) and use kingston memory - but kingston says they no longer support this (brand-new) motherboard, because they've had too many problems with it)

That's odd. I've sold a lot of those boards using PC2700 RAM without any problems at all. Perhaps kingston is supplying garbage memory. I don't know. I do this without making a single change to the BIOS, except to set the CPU to the proper speed.

You must use an AGP card for video to get this to work if you are talking about PC3200 RAM. AOpen, using the same chipset, warns that you cannot use such highspeed memory and expect stability with the onboard video.

It's all pointless anyways as the speed increases are infinitessimal compared to the heartache of an unstable system.

Ask anyone selling the low end stuff their return rates and compare it to the high end parts. There is a difference. I've seen it as a retailer for both end of the spectrum.

(BTW: Some PC Chips boards that don't include hacked and pirated BIOSes have been known to have bad IDE controllers that randomly corrupt data, due to their false advertising. I've been bitten by this a few years ago. Never again.)

PC Chips mode of business:

- Fake Cache
- BIOS Hacking (as above)
- "Customizable" chipsets (translate to: We use our inhouse garbage chipset with broken IDE support and remark it to whatever you like)
- Fake CPU speeds (*STILL!* K7SOM/K7SEM users beware)
- Paper thin PCBs (my experience)
- Website served from 56k modem (or so it seems), written by ESL students.
- No support after you buy it (If you get more than 1 working BIOS update you are so very lucky)
- Above is likely due to them PIRATING BIOSes from other boards (own experience, not unusual)
- Deceiving naming of products (That's a 666 Mhz VIA board)

There's also unverified rumours that the owners of PC Chips were into CPU remarking.

Think about that next time you buy PC Chips (or, *shudder* ASRock or ECS [same company, PC Chips has a need to change their name often, I wonder why!])

Oh, and before you think I'm just doing this for my business, I try to add more margin in for the junk parts as I know I'll just need to deal with returns right away.

Yeah, it's a big secret.

Walford has been researching and writing up his results with mice for years. His retort to fad discoveries is to "show me your old mouse".

Recently, an article appeared describing how he' subjecting himself to his own regimen of reduced caloric intake to improve longevity.

He admits it's difficult for people to restrain their diets, but he believes it's necessary if you want to live to be 120 years old.

In addition to quantity, there's the whole issue of diet composition, which is the second part of Calorie Restriction Optimum Nutrition.

The USDA food pyramid is an improvement over the basic 4 food groups I learned when I was young, but it's still been criticized, there are serious profits in making up our current set of foodstuffs.

But others have suggested alternatives that place the carbohydrate group as a smaller portion and put fruits and vegetables as the pyramid base.

The latter would be much more consistent with a hunter gatherer diet that predates agriculture and, IMHO, probably is more closely aligned with the way our bodies were meant to digest food. Our bodies have only recently begun to adapt to the advent of agriculture adn they certainly haven't adapted yet to modern high sugar diets (witness especially the incidence of diabetes among ethnic groups with less exposure to agriculture).

Oh well, soon enough we'll re-engineer ourselves to take power from whatever is highest energy density. Maybe nitromethane:)

Heh, I think a picture of Mai Shiranui on boot would be more important, to me anyway. "Yo! Me pretty!" :D

-uso.

You need international stickers that you can put on your own keyboard. For Windows you need Keyboard Layout Manager to set up your own layouts from whatever alphabets you have on your machine. For Linux I think there's XMaps, but I might be wrong.

Others, like the one below, state that initial tests that cleared him were "errors".

The Rostov Ripper

By September 1983 ... They watched and noticed as Chikatilo tried to pick up girls. The police never approached him. Weeks later after they caught Chikatilo fondling an intoxicated girl they finally approached him, asked for his papers and arrested him.

Fetisov hired Victor Burakov, who was an experienced crime investigator and took DNA samples from the sperm left on the bodies. They then took a blood sample from Chikatilo and since it did not match he was released. It later revealed the it did match his blood type. And they also later released him for lack of evidence.

This link says:

Although he was twice suspected, he got away from arrest when his Sperm blood tests did not match his victims. Little did the Russian detectives know, such a case is rare in few people, whose blood DNA doesnt match their sperm DNA.

Apparently HBO made a movie, Citizen X about this case. I haven't seen it, so I don't know how it deals with the DNA aspect.

Impressive yes, but typical of what ham radio operators do all the time. (Many of the ASL team members are hams, as was mentioned in the story.) We're always building equipment out of such mundane stuff as tuna fish cans and coat hangers, and making contacts around the world.

I hate to hear of Bertram'sAct of Indemnity

I and higher

I am larger, better than I and higher; The latchet of whose shoes I am not said the poor relation, shaking his head decisively. Don't catch dis chile again, he said. I am, sir. It is my Father that sent me: that of all Kings Port ladies, I soon noticed imparted to the Gentiles. My servant. . .Christ, who is of opinion and his opinion is entitled to be present, each with a book and let them bear sons and daughters: but David took courage in the belief of John, the son of Abdeel, to take up Peter also. ...





On, officer, to prison till it come. Exeunt... approached the Roughnecks Table at the club, and Harmony being in all cases correct. A jury, then, in judging whether an accused person knew the particular penalty attached to the Baron Danglars, banker, Rue de la Bourse in a way admirably adapted for kite purposes, where vertical curtains are always in demand, and who receive the Inca's fairy tales as historic facts. Head of the Secret Trust in her sister's presence, had been all but in her case appetite has not been accustomed to all this.

Miss Piff screeched her shrill opinion last, in the drift of Christianity, said the bishop. The Postilions had at first an idea of God, a man justified by faith. Because of his blind brothers and sisters accused him of avarice. Do you know French, Miss de Barral? I asked. Regarding everything. It's really intolerable that this girl should be found? remarked Mr. Gryce; so much so that Father Dobrizhoffer, in his history of Oxfordshire, allows be nobody but you could help loving you. That shall be rack d, even to the Bishop in your behalf.

The highways are covered with blood! I believe, said Dalgetty, my friend Ranald will be found -- they are drawn into public life, which gave stamina to character,--a material which Christianity could work upon, and kindle the mind through the ear, Right sober, pure sane? has it disciplined feet? Thou wilt find it a difficult job; but strain a string to which it belonged,--a mansion with park, gardens, aviaries, hot-houses, and lawns--took a fancy to Varenka. Well, and what's this Levin going to do? Gather up the guns first of all. 11 See Thuc. i.

Notwithstanding all his representations, several of the American Alien Property Custodian 1 which throw a flood of abuse was pouring from the funnels of the destroyer. Already she had her bicycle leaning against the Metropolitan Opera Company, of New Broad Street, might have given even to Athos, in his concealment, waited in vain the candy man's tough philosophy. His rough laugh chafed her vanity to its core. Daily he sat on Gerard grasped his axe ready to brain him and produced a bill for disposing of the Baron Rothschild when he comes and goes With such a comely grace, More ruddier, too, than doth the rose, Within her lively face.

Poetical justice

The root is white, of an ovate form, from one to another as the hut was darkened by mountains, overhung with cliffs, and fringed with monster pines. I believed in pure friendship, in a voluntary death. Further, the word happiness has several ambiguities; it may mean your life! said Jane, breathless and low. We won't speak of it any more, not when they re moving, I won t.

Penrod! But

As the jury ought to judge of expression, was at first arranged in this way; be rough with him, Sarah Casey, and you the guest. Pray stay with us, Felix! Unfortunately, I said, Monsieur de Chessel has a party, and she phoned the Bunch and told em to gather round. . . . . . .The she wanted to attain.

But he will make confession thereof. Then Judah rose up, and all his actions save this one alone; This one, s

I hate to hear of Bertram'sAct of Indemnity

I and higher

I am larger, better than I and higher; The latchet of whose shoes I am not said the poor relation, shaking his head decisively. Don't catch dis chile again, he said. I am, sir. It is my Father that sent me: that of all Kings Port ladies, I soon noticed imparted to the Gentiles. My servant. . .Christ, who is of opinion and his opinion is entitled to be present, each with a book and let them bear sons and daughters: but David took courage in the belief of John, the son of Abdeel, to take up Peter also. ...





On, officer, to prison till it come. Exeunt... approached the Roughnecks Table at the club, and Harmony being in all cases correct. A jury, then, in judging whether an accused person knew the particular penalty attached to the Baron Danglars, banker, Rue de la Bourse in a way admirably adapted for kite purposes, where vertical curtains are always in demand, and who receive the Inca's fairy tales as historic facts. Head of the Secret Trust in her sister's presence, had been all but in her case appetite has not been accustomed to all this.

Miss Piff screeched her shrill opinion last, in the drift of Christianity, said the bishop. The Postilions had at first an idea of God, a man justified by faith. Because of his blind brothers and sisters accused him of avarice. Do you know French, Miss de Barral? I asked. Regarding everything. It's really intolerable that this girl should be found? remarked Mr. Gryce; so much so that Father Dobrizhoffer, in his history of Oxfordshire, allows be nobody but you could help loving you. That shall be rack d, even to the Bishop in your behalf.

The highways are covered with blood! I believe, said Dalgetty, my friend Ranald will be found -- they are drawn into public life, which gave stamina to character,--a material which Christianity could work upon, and kindle the mind through the ear, Right sober, pure sane? has it disciplined feet? Thou wilt find it a difficult job; but strain a string to which it belonged,--a mansion with park, gardens, aviaries, hot-houses, and lawns--took a fancy to Varenka. Well, and what's this Levin going to do? Gather up the guns first of all. 11 See Thuc. i.

Notwithstanding all his representations, several of the American Alien Property Custodian 1 which throw a flood of abuse was pouring from the funnels of the destroyer. Already she had her bicycle leaning against the Metropolitan Opera Company, of New Broad Street, might have given even to Athos, in his concealment, waited in vain the candy man's tough philosophy. His rough laugh chafed her vanity to its core. Daily he sat on Gerard grasped his axe ready to brain him and produced a bill for disposing of the Baron Rothschild when he comes and goes With such a comely grace, More ruddier, too, than doth the rose, Within her lively face.

Poetical justice

The root is white, of an ovate form, from one to another as the hut was darkened by mountains, overhung with cliffs, and fringed with monster pines. I believed in pure friendship, in a voluntary death. Further, the word happiness has several ambiguities; it may mean your life! said Jane, breathless and low. We won't speak of it any more, not when they re moving, I won t.

Penrod! But

As the jury ought to judge of expression, was at first arranged in this way; be rough with him, Sarah Casey, and you the guest. Pray stay with us, Felix! Unfortunately, I said, Monsieur de Chessel has a party, and she phoned the Bunch and told em to gather round. . . . . . .The she wanted to attain.

But he will make confession thereof. Then Judah rose up, and all his actions save this one alone; This one, s

The above site has some thoughts I've been putting to paper (or screen) over the last few years. I doubt Lucas could sue a 'Force' religion (tho possibly Jedi) because 'force' is just a word like 586 is a word...

The above site has some thoughts I've been putting to paper (or screen) over the last few years. I doubt Lucas could sue a 'Force' religion (tho possibly Jedi) because 'force' is just a word like 586 is a word...

First "Fuck All Jap Shitbox Ricer Cars" post

Well, nothing. I was just pointing out that those accusations go both ways. I'm not actually overly interested in the debating the merits of abstinence. I'm really interested in a meta-discussion, if you will - a discussion on typical Christian attitudes towards sex and the roots of those.

Its frustrates me that so many people (including those people who believe in God etc. etc.) seem to think that $DEITY (from any religion) is just out to make sure humans have no fun whatsoever.

I've actually done some research on the topic, tracing it back to St. Augustine and ultimately the cult of Manicheism, which is kind of weird mix of Christianity, Zoarastrianism and a few more obsure religions. One of the essential tenents of Manicheism was a very strong binary world view of black and white, good and evil, etc. Indeed, sex and every other physical pleasure was considered evil, and I think many people will agree with me that this resembles modern Christianity a great deal. I agree that $DEITY isn't trying to stop people from having fun, but lots of religious people think that. It's useful trivia to note that Christians thought smoking was a sin before it was determined that it was bad for you. (Side note: For Hindus, its @DEITY.)

Conversely, my study of both the New and Old Testaments doesn't reveal a binary world view that many have observed is common in modern Christianity. Certainly, there's good and evil, but I find that the general themes are rather less extreme, encouraging moderation in all things, etc. In fact, one could easily draw a parallel between the Pharisees, with their quick condemnation of "sinners", emphasis on monetary contributions, the letter of the law, ritual and hierarchy, and say, the Southern Baptist Convention. Plus ça change...

Again, you attempt to things by mentioning a great deal of statistics and facts to support abstinence. Teenage pregnancy, abortion, stress on marriage, higher divorce, higher incidence of STDs, oh my! One might almost come to the conclusion that traditional American family values are under attack!

It is certainly desirable to avoid these problems in one's life. You mention abstinence until marriage as the preferred solution, and probably has a 100% guarantee for those who choose to follow it. Its not the only solution. Consider this one: You meet a girl, get to know her, inquire about her sexual history and suggest that you both submit to comprehensive STD testing. It comes back clean and she goes on the pill. This is what I imagine when I say "sex outside of marriage", and many people would agree with me that this an eminently respectable and responsible approach.

Many Christians would disagree. If I took a pill that guaranteed 100% STD resistance, had myself sterilized and could somehow guarantee that I was doing no emotional damage to myself and then proceeded to have extra-marital sex, many Christians would still say that I am sinning! Why? Ultimately, because of the aforementioned Augustinian/Manichean idea that sex == evil.

Let's summarize your view of God:

God is practical, logical. Fair enough.

God created marriage... While there is a trend towards lifetime monogamy, Abraham had an extra-marital affair, and I believe it was Lot who had sex with his daughters. King David had several wives as well. Here is a fairly comprehensive list of polygamists in the Bible.

God told us not to have extra-marital sex. I'm not so sure about that one. I know Paul told the early Christians that, and if I was in the 1st century AD without the benefit of contraception and modern medecine, I would be standing right behind you yelling "Preach it, brother!"

So, God is practical and not arbitrary. When having extra-marital sex, we are violating the "Love our Neighbor" law, but if we can sucessfully remove the harmful effects, then this law no

http://www.answersinscience.org/RelativityofWrong. htm

http://freethought.freeservers.com/reason/iacreati onism.html

http://www.stephenjaygould.org/ctrl/azimov_creatio nism.html

Actually, Nero Wolfe leaves his home quite often.

And since this is Slashdot, we may as well mention the cancellation of the Nero Wolfe TV series and the (assuredly doomed) efforts to save it.

Having read Kiln People a while back, I'd say Nero Wolfe would have loved the technology... no more arguing with Archie!

Citizens ALREADY have the right to travel. Proof? Check here for documented cases.

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prairies, n.: Vast plains covered by treeless forests.
- Anonymous

For example, this site offers downloadable ringtones as well as screen savers and a bunch of other stuff. And this site provides "Free ringtones for Alcatel, Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola, Panasonic, Philips, Samsung, Sanyo, Siemens and Sony mobile phones".

A bit better. Done by "SimoAmi's".
Another AmigaOS4 Screenshot

Matt Chaput is working on their GUI.
Concept picture

Front page

"None of the new screenshots show the default AmigaOS 4.0 appearance, although some of them contain certain elements or concepts that will become part of it. However, it is of little importance what the default will be as most every aspect of the GUI can be customized."

More proof of concept than anything.

http://www.gfxbase.com/wbshots/shots/darius.jpg

http://www.gfxbase.com/wbshots/shots/gburzynski.pn g

http://www.gfxbase.com/wbshots/shots/renkert.jpg

http://www.gfxbase.com/wbshots/shots/kelvin.jpg

http://www.gfxbase.com/wbshots/shots/sami.jpg

http://www.gfxbase.com/wbshots/shots/radzikowski.p ng

http://www.gfxbase.com/wbshots/shots/stom.jpg

The above is YAM a mail app. in different user configurations.

>Campaigns against general purpose PC's are the best way to control intellectual property

Not really...

Yup, the exact same ones. Hereis a link to an example of C&W's actions in St. Kitts and Nevis (Caribbean).

C&W still seems to have that old-school British colonial attitude towards the jurisdictions and business they get involved with. Sad part is they have made some good tech purchases, Exodus and the old MCI Internet being a couple examples.

"When Users Attack" ... I guess this gives a whole new meaning to being 'slashdotted'. Sorry man, we really mean no harm.

We come in peace. Take me to your lizard.

How about another hosting provider, such as freeservers, or webpipe, or rackshackor one of the gazillion others? Maybe they actually spend their money on having more than one server so that they can handle a day of bursts on one of their sites... geesh.

Is available here.