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You do know that, if he existed, he was jewish, right?

Yes, I know that. Israel turned its back on him. The Israelites are God's chosen people (remember Moses leading them to the promised land?)

he never would have said anything about sins etc.

Read the Sermon on the Mount (the Beatitudes) beginning in the Book of Matthew, chapter 5 to read what he said about sin.

Jesus probably never even existed.

You can think what you'd like. I believe he existed and is the Son of Man - the savior for the world.

And, although you didn't directly say that, it is inferred because you have said that that is a sin, and that sinners should burn in hell forever :P

No. I said unrepentant sinners who have not accepted Christ will not have a pleasant afterlife. We're all sinners and we all fall short of the glory of God - therefore we can do nothing to be "good enough" to get into heaven. The only difference is the sinners who have accepted Christ and the sinners who have not. When Jesus died he took on the sins of every sinner that ever lived or ever would live. He is our intercession between us and God.

See you there

I know I'm going to heaven when I die because I've accepted Christ in my heart. I hope you'll read up on the Bible and discover that Jesus loves you - whether you love him or not. The man took a beating and died a painful death just so you could live with him one day. If you don't want to read about it, rent Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" film. It's a pretty accurate depiction of the four gospels from the Garden of Gesthemane to the resurrection.

so you base your life around these two things?

I base my life around three things: Jesus came to this planet as the savior. Jesus died for my sins and Jesus rose on the third day. That's what separates Christianity from all other religions. Mohammed is dead. Buddha is dead. Jesus is alive and he will return one day soon to establish his kingdom on earth.

Let me give you a few points to ponder:

There are some prophecies in the Bible. One is that the city of Damascus would be destroyed. Until this time, Damascus has never been destoyed. The terrorist Palestinians have terrorist headquarters in Damascus. Israel Blames Syria for Suicide Bombing I find it very interesting that a small country like Israel could be in the news so often.

The Bible also says that the east gate of Jerusalem will remain sealed until Jesus returns. To this day, the east gate remains sealed.The Golden Gate

The Bible says that in the end days Israel will be attacked by Russia (known as Gog in the Bible) and Persia (modern-day Iran). Russia Pledges to Finish Iran Reactor

The Bible also says that in the last days there will be earthquakes in diverse places, increasing in frequency and intensity like birth pangs. 2004 Deadliest In Nearly 500 Years For Earthquakes

I firmly believe that Jesus will return soon. In the Book of Matthews, the disciples asked Jesus of the signs of his coming. In the Olivet Discourse, he outlined these signs. I hope you'll take a look at them and see that we are in the season.

Michael

Agreed. Google doesn't stand much of a chance in the long run. Just look at google's Q4 revenue & net income VS. Microsoft's Q4 revenue & net income.

That's about 9.2 times the revenue and 13 times the net income. Microsoft will continue grow its army, penetrate deeply into search and other markets, and blow google out of the water in the long run. This is standard operating procedure folks.

Ah - so the first American president to win the election, both in electoral votes AND popular votes in oh, however many years, is a fuckup?

You may want to sit down for this - the number of votes a politician gets doesn't alter whether or not his policies are successful. Opinions don't magically alter reality.

Even in 2000, it was clear Bush had the reverse Midas touch - everything he'd been involved with had turned to crap. His only success in 'business' involved getting the state of Texas to confiscate land and hand it over to a baseball team.

But you can say that John Kerry (or any of the other candidates) wasn't one?

Actually, they didn't say that. It's pretty clear Kerry did fuck up, in that he lost to arguably the worst US president ever.

If the US is so concerned about the capability to do evil things, when is this administration invading Russia? Or if the issue is actual harm done, what is this administration doing for the 4 million dead and 3 million displaced in the Congo?

The only lists that Saddam was #1 on were:
1: Weak states on top of vast oil reserves
2: Mistakes W felt his daddy made

Repeatedly? Or just once, and you're running on wishful thinking?

No, repeatedly. Every time he feels the need to impress the Christian voters.

And when did he say "my god is better than their god"?

I was mistaken, it was Boykin that said that. But Bush's attitude that his religion supercedes the good of the USA and the world is frightening, especially if he doesn't have re-election concerns.

Here are Bush's exact words, quoted by Haaretz: "God told me to strike at al-Qaida and I struck them, and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did

Where did the wishes of the world or even USA citizens factor into that decision?

Iran supports Bush

I wouldn't guarentee It's made me all that well informed about New Zealand's politics, but when it became obvious to me that the U.S. media were getting absorbed by a few massively corporate owners, I started bookmarking overseas internet news sources for comparison. They can be real eye openers. Even Americans who don't speak any languages save English can use these:

World News Network in Berlin (English feed) -
http://www.worldnews.com/

News from Oz -
http://www.news.com.au/

The Moscow Times (English Feed) -
http://www.themoscowtimes.com/indexes/01.html

And a fine source for Americans who wish they were more informed about New Zealand's politics -
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/

Anyone who knows of particular systemic biases from any of these sites, please post the URLs of their competition.

Owing to the collapse of East Germany, there does not appear to be any copyright holder for this software.

I'm not certain the MAME guys should be so sure of that though. Had it had any commercial value whatsoever, you can bet someone would've claimed it.

There have been cases of rights disputes over Soviet creations, not to mention the big fuss over Tetris back in the day.

After the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and before the start of the military operation in Iraq, intelligence repeatedly received information that the official services of the Saddam regime were preparing terrorist acts against military and civil targets on the territory of the U.S. and beyond.

Blair's assertion is very serious if it's true. But as Sagan used to say, extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof. In my book, this one ranks as an extraordinary claim.

The site seems to be slashdotted already but here's the Moscow Times' take on this (the also broke the story almost three days ago, if I am not mistaken).

But do you honestly thing that US movie companies are going to release movies on EVD without copy-protection? That will never happen.

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"Russia usually does better fighting e-mail viruses than the United States because systems administrators are generally more competent here and install protection quicker"

Though that was a funny quote from this story about the fact the virus was traced back to Russia.

E-mail virus traced to Russia

Perhaps we should take a suggestion from these people.

They have the balls that this country once had.

And Russia: U.S. government-sponsored think tank, has identified five countries of strategic importance that have large populations at risk of HIV infection. Russia is one of those five, along with India, China, Nigeria and Ethiopia.

And India: India's hidden Aids epidemic: virus to infect 25m by 2010

Relevence?

Considering that George W. hasn't ruled out attacking Syria, that he hasn't ruled out some kind of retaliation in regards to France, that he isn't some wimp whose hobbies include "having his penis washed by White House interns", might choose to act on this info (assuming that it is verfied, which as yet it isn't). In short, the Mars trip may be threatened by more than the usual budget issues.

Conclusion?

The geo-political climate of the world is unstable enough that international efforts to reach Mars, or the moon, or even a consensus about countries that harbor terrorism isn't probable. Look for the Mars mission to get cut, and blame to be placed on the budget.

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Free software, not Iraq, because Gates is evil, and Saddam is just misunderstood.

The way I like to look at things is that no one source will ever be the actual truth. "Actual truth" probably can't be written down anyways. I will be looking at sites that are at total opposites of the spectrum. Check out the following eclectic list:

Iran
India
Switzerland
Russia
Saudi Arabia

Hmmm, are we looking forward to another "we need more money or the crew has to leave" every week, like before the service module was launched?

According to the Moscow Times: "Kreidenko said in a telephone interview that a glitch in the software that controls the DM-3 may have caused the failure."

Well, at least the russians don't get inches mixed up with centimeters like *some* space agencies have been known to...

The Moscow times mentions the theft as well (near the bottom of the page). Not nearly as much publicity as it deserves though.

I develop applications for a DSP company, and we've recently switched to using Unicode in our products. Unicode certainly has its quirks, and this is one of the more obvious ones. I fail to see why it has been implemented so widely, without very, very rigorous testing.

Actions like the one described in this article could bring down a company, if a person tried hard enough. Of course, Microsoft could just call Verisign and ask them to remove the Cyrillic domain, with no problems. But, for a small company, it could be hell. An entire user group using the same character set to access a certain website would be sent to a different site. In a worst case scenario, anti-company propaganda might be posted on the spoofing site, and it would deter people from visiting the "real" site in the future.

The only solution I can imagine is to simply prevent the translation of characters among character sets, especially in this sort of environment.

A Russian site, such as The Moscow Times, could have its site spoofed in exactly the same manner, and everyone using the Cyrillic character set (obviously, widely used in Russia, for example) would be sent to some other site, possibly indefinitely, knowing how registrars have been acting lately. This would create havoc for the newspaper and significant hurt revenue.

Can be found here. In the article, Sklyarov comments about copyright laws, the prison system and about his background.

They didn't need to smuggle, they were sent some!

my favorite:

When the Mir crew ran out of alcohol reserves, they would often go on "treasure-seeking" expeditions for more, tearing down interior panels to find bottles hidden by previous crews, said Alexander Poleshchuk, who spent six months on board Mir in 1993.

Well at least the The Moscow Times picked up rueters byline on the event. It might be a few days before the russians have any reporters local to the story to do any homegrown "outrage"....

The article in the Moscow Times mentioned below says this:

"One of the most trumpeted features ... is chatting with other users. Coverage is 50 meters indoors and 100 meters outside, but through a so-called "daisy chain," users can connect to each other over much longer distances."

The article I read in the Australian suggested that the "daisy chain" would work for up to 10 hops.

Is this the same as your relaying concept ?

Here's a Moscow Times article on it

The Moscow Times special report has a few stories that mention another sub in the area. There are lots of other storys off the main pages.

In todays terms (I've even heard the US navy cliam it) flagship has been reduced to the marketing term. Its like which ship is more importaint, the USS New Jersy or the USS Missouri? Both are mostly pointless agasint a real navy but there was a reason that Japan surrendered on the deck of a battleship and not elsewhere.

Did the Kursk carry nukes? According to Janes it could carry 24 .5mT ones. Did it have any at the time? Aparently not. Besides you don't take out a carrier fleet with conventional weapons if your in the middle of a nuke war. Remember thats why these subs exists. They are all part of the "I can nuke you better than you can nuke me" game and part of that is the ability to take out ships that can carry nukes (like big carriers).

Who said anything about an international conspiracy? Every military likes to hide things. Thats as much a fact of life as testing new stuff can go very wrong. I kind of like the pr spin on things. Add that to the buring infastructure pr spin (just as soon as the TVs are back on) and you've got a spin doctors wet dream.