Everyone, please read this article at AIG: 15 Ways To Refute Materialistic Bigotry. It is a very thorough, point-by-point response to contrivances/explanations that evolutionists prop up to try and discount Creationism.
It's good that they're abandoning the naming convention based on Roman gods. However, instead of Quaoar, I think it's most appropriate that we name the planet after the predominant god of our age: Darwinius, the god of evolution.
Google is bombed alright (in a worse sense of the word), and they did it to themselves. I'm not a blogger nor associated with any bloggers, but I agree that Google has been degraded. Last night I was searching for something, and the very first result was a 404. And it wasn't available in the Google cache either. Google turned up other 404s in my searches besides that. That is simply un-Googlian.:)
Their "I'm Feeling Lucky" button needs to be changed to "I'm Feeling Really Really Really Lucky."
Proof that public education has failed. Or that anti-American propaganda has succeeded.
Obviously, a remedial class in Holocaust history is in order. Look carefully at these absolutely horrifying, chilling pictures of mass executions and torture. You are comparing Bush to this, this, and this? All innocent victims, mind you. In the photos from the first link, you see pictures of human medical experiments involving freezing, surgeries, and head-shrinking. Bush is against stem cell research, for crying out loud!
Please read up on Adolph Hitler so you don't embarrass yourself in public again. Hitler's Nazi party is responsible for the deaths of 11 million innocent people. There's simply no legitimate comparison to Bush in any respect whatsoever. Everything about the two men is different: politics, principles, priorities, religion, worldview, philosophies, leadership style, attitude, demeanor, relationships, sociability, values, likes, dislikes, etc, etc, etc.
The closest modern-day comparison to Hitler is probably Saddam Hussein. Arafat would take the title, except that he doesn't have much power anymore.
It is not your place to wonder what aspects of my life would appear suspicious and incriminating. Nor is it the governments place to wonder such things.
All I'm saying is: If you don't want to be accused of being a duck, don't quack like one. If this statement makes you angry, maybe it's because you're quacking.
I am not a citizen of a country which the rest of the world generally looks upon with disdain at this point.
Well, I'm not from Iraq either. I guess we have that in common.;-)
Seriously, given the context, I assume you mean the US. Yes, a lot of coutries have disdain for us. How could I forget the HUGE international protest in front of the White House?;-)
The only people expressing disdain for the US are socialists/communists in Europe and Canada, Neo-Nazis, militant Islamists, Saddam Hussein, and assorted terrorist groups around the world. The day that America is adored by these people is the day that America ceases to exist.
This from a guy with jesus in his.sig, can you say right-wing.
The plagues may very well occur by natural means under God's direction, but they will come in a specified order. The big hailstones are part of the seventh and final plague during the Great Tribulation. Armageddon is the sixth! Have we experienced Armageddon?? Besides, all of the plagues come after the Rapture. Jesus has not bodily returned to Earth again, so this can't possibly be part of any plague prophesied in Revelation.
To my knowledge, not a single person has been killed in these ice incidents. I don't see how this can qualify even as a minor plague, much less one of literally biblical proportions - the final one of the seven-year Tribulation period. Furthermore, the ice blocks, while abnormally large, are still a long way off from 100 pounds.
I do agree with you that this may be a sign of the prophesied things to come. There will be/is much turbulence leading up to the plagues.
How many times is this going to be posted? I feel like the Troll Police this morning. This example of verse-plucking is a gross misrepresentation of the biblical text. To connect these sporadic ice blocks to the events of the seventh plague of the Great Tribulation is laughable. Btw, Armageddon is the sixth plague! Somebody clue me in as to when that happened. Oops, that also means I missed the rapture. I must be Left Behind (tm)!
*yawn* Click on that link, and read the context, people. The hailstones in this verse are to fall during a storm and are one part of the seventh plague to occur after the rapture.
Any preacher who tried to claim that these ice blocks had anything to do with Revelation 16:21, in particular, would be laughed off the pulpit and sacked by the deacons (in a Protestant church).
Context is everything. The hailstones are to be preceded by (or in the midst of) a thunderstorm and an earthquake. And when did the first six plagues happen? Of course, the rapture hasn't even occurred yet. I don't think these ice blocks fulfill any biblical prophecy whatsoever.
Anybody want to try to work Nostradamus into this somehow?;-)
The only downside is that the data file is updated only about once a week, and you have to be careful about which version of the file you get. But I doubt the typical family PC's virus scanner gets updated more than once or twice a year anyway, if ever.
There is a wide middle ground between fascism (typically from totalitarianism) and anarchy. Democracy stands within that ground. It is a balancing act between the somewhat-paradoxical goals of freedom and order.
A government, without the means to enforce its laws and protect its sovereignty, is worthless. Increased threats require increased protection efforts. This is not fascism; it's necessary and reasonable means to fulfilling the duties of our representative government. These actions are for us, and I, for one, am thankful.
One of the fundamental purposes of government is stop people who are disrupting order. This is nothing new in our country. Our enemies have devised new tactics of offense, so we must devise new tactics of defense. The objective remains the same as it always has. The government isn't doing anything fundamentally different than it always has.
The way I see it, there are only three types of people who would proactively oppose the measures being taken: (1) partisan Democrats opposing the measures only until a Democrat is elected president, (2) excessively secretive people (like many libertarians who often appear indistinguishable from paranoid schizophrenics), and (3) people supportive or sympathetic to those who want to destroy us.
If you are personally scared of the tactics used in the war on terrorism (categories 2 & 3), I have to wonder what aspects of your life would appear suspicious or incriminating. Assuming that you are innocent, you can simply let your life prove your innocence. In other words, if you have goodwill for your fellow citizens, then it will be manifested by your conduct and activities. You will be living so that others can easily attest to your good name and corroborate your assertion of innocence. Just follow the sage advice you've probably heard since childhood. Love your neighbors, forgive those who commit offenses against you (don't hold grudges), and help the needy. Support only positive, community-building institutions and organizations. Live blamelessly so that your accusers will become ashamed when they examine your life. May your reputable conduct repudiate their slanderous accusations and decisively prove your innocence.
If you don't want to be a good neighbor and citizen, you're free to pack up and move out. Our "fascist" government is not trapping you here. I don't mean to provoke offense -- just pointing out what should be an obvious option. If you have reason to fear the Feds, it might be in your best interest (and everybody else's) for you to move to another country.
The government is treating everyone as if they are a criminal.
Can you show me an instance of somebody being put in prison because they checked out a book from the library? With nothing more to go on, what judge or jury would convict somebody of a crime?
These articles are just partisan, alarmist Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.
Use some common sense. Books written by conservative authors are primarily read by conservative readers. Books by liberal authors are primarily read by liberal readers. H4X0R FAQs are primarily read by hackers or aspiring hackers. Gaming mags are primarily read by gamers. You can look at many kinds of books and magazines and quite easily profile the kind of reader in your mind. Consider these contrasting pairs of examples: Chicken Soup for the Soul, The Anarchist's Cookbook, Rush Limbaugh: See I Told You So, Rush Is a Big Fat Idiot (that's an actual book).
It doesn't take a great leap of logic to conclude what kind of audience these books have, especially since they are philosophically polarizing. I think this would also be true of anything that might be considered "pro-terrorist" or terrorist-sympathizing literature.
I'm looking over at my bookshelf right now, and it's just amazing how much you could tell about my politics, religion, interests, profession, marital status, approximate age, nationality, income, etc.
If you think this is risky,... OK, well it is. But try it with your own bookshelf. Yeah, you'll get a false positive here and there, especially if you're sharing the bookshelf with a spouse or kids.
I trust that the Feds are smart enough to be wary of false positives and weed them out upon further investigation. On the flip-side, a failure to recognize a false negative could result in a few more thousand or million deaths. It's awfully self-centered to throw a fit about the government knowing what books you check out, possibly at the expense of thousands of your neighbors being blown to bits, gassed, diseased, or nuked.
It is tragically narrow-minded of librarians to think that they are the "losers" in this war. Please tell me what variety of books exist in libraries in Iraq? Iran? Libya? (Do they even have libraries? Does the word "library" exist in their languages?) Can I check out Thomas Paine's Common Sense? Shawn Hannity's recent book, Let Freedom Ring? How about the latest NY Times? Librarians are among the many winners of the war on terror.
If our ways do not prevail in the world, theirs (those countries') will, and there will be no libraries at all. Librarians should stop whining about a petty inconvenience. Nearly all Americans in the 1940s were chomping at the bit to make great personal sacrifices in the effort to defeat peoples that wanted to kill us.
It is in best the interest of everybody (except terrorists and their supporters, fans, and sympathizers) to get as much pertinent information as possible into the hands of top U.S. decision makers. This war is for all of us!
The kind of books you check out may not point to a definitive answer to a particular question, but at least it eliminates some options. I think that's a valuable tool, and again, nobody's going to get thrown in the slammer for reading a book. We go to war with regimes that act like that.
Now that Americans have traded away all their civil liberties
Post-Sep. 11 legislation has had ZERO effect on me or anybody I know.
Do you feel safer?
I feel safer because people who have an interest in subverting the U.S. do feel less safe.
Follow this fool-proof strategy, and you have nothing to fear from the Feds: Don't act like a traitor and you won't be treated like one. I know, it's too simple to grasp. That's how most truths are.
That is funny. Yeah yeah, the grass always looks greener on the other side of the fence, doesn't it?
You need a broader perspective, my friend.
If the U.S. was like said countries and you were a U.S. citizen, you might be receiving a flogging at this very moment for your criticism of your government. That is assuming that you are allowed to access/. in the first place.
In the case of most Westerners, I agree with your sentiments. However, people in non-free countries could have legitimate concerns. You've probably seen the stories here on Slashdot about how the communist government of China had gone so far as to ban Google. As you know, countries run by communists, Muslims, and other types of oppressive rulers persecute people for doing many activities that would be considered perfectly legal and ethical in Western countries. For example, if somebody in [oppressive country] were on the government web site and typed in your link, www.extremehope.org, the government could track it, and that person might get in a heap of trouble just for trying to access such information.
Also, keep in mind that there are lots of people fighting for just causes (various freedoms and rights) that are opposed by the evil ruling powers in their countries (China, Taiwan, Tibet, Zimbabwe, etc.). The Internet can be a powerful tool for garnering outside support for revolution. The most famous example, I think, is the Free Tibet Campaign.
Granted, even without the bug they could track this particular browsing behavior by using other means. This bug really isn't a big deal. I'm just taking you to task that only "bad" people should be concerned about privacy. In the U.S., I generally agree with you. But if someone's ideas, which may be considered "legitimate and vanilla" to us, are frowned on by his corrupt government, he can possibly look forward to having a noose around the neck or a bullet in the head (or worse). And there's usually no trial beforehand, except maybe a kangaroo court). When a totalitarian government wants to end a dispute, it always prefers the gun over the gavel.
NN4 doesn't support <DIV>. It supports <LAYER> instead.
That is only half true. Yes, <LAYER> is Netscape's baby. However, I know that NN4 also supports <DIV> because I use it on my site, and I've tested it. With DOM checking and DHTML, I can make <DIV>s disappear and reappear via mouseOvers in any browser.
<DIV> is nothing more than a generic block container. <LAYER> is basically a propietary form of <DIV>.
Who is this that darkeneth My counsel by words without knowledge?
God sets before every man two options: good and evil. Man is free to choose at his whim.
On September 11, the terrorists chose evil and acted hatefully against other people. However, God preserved the lives of most of the near-victims. (Remember, 50,000 people daily worked in the WTC alone.)
When people are close to death, their values become aligned with God's. That is the whole point of this, I believe. When victims in the towers knew they were going to die, they didn't care about downloading the next Mozilla build. Major political controversies were not given a thought. The project that was due at 11:00 AM didn't matter anymore.
Their minds were transformed. All of a sudden, they valued the precious moments of life as never before. They recognized the truth that people are dependent on God for every breath. Their faith, perhaps long withered away, was revived and strengthened to trust in the Creator as Savior and Lord. They desperately wanted their family to know "I LOVE YOU."
These are the things that matter to God. And if the truth be known, to people too. Not technology, not politics, not entertainment, not science. It's all about getting back to the basics.
Love God with all of your heart, soul, mind.
Love other people as you love yourself.
These are "the greatest commandments" according to Jesus. These are also the lessons of September 11, 2001. When you live as God teaches us to live, you regard life as sacred and you care for your family above all other obligations.
God did allow many people to die, but that is His right. He was not obligated to give anyone life in the first place.
When you were born, did you sign a contract with God that He would give you 80 years of life?
How is it that you think God owes you something?
Are your good deeds so meritorious that God is beholden to your righteousness?
How do you reason that a sinner does not deserve death?
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Everyone, please read this article at AIG: 15 Ways To Refute Materialistic Bigotry. It is a very thorough, point-by-point response to contrivances/explanations that evolutionists prop up to try and discount Creationism.
It's good that they're abandoning the naming convention based on Roman gods. However, instead of Quaoar, I think it's most appropriate that we name the planet after the predominant god of our age: Darwinius, the god of evolution.
So I suppose you wouldn't mind wearing 3-legged pants. :)
The driver of the car probably read it to her.
- God
Their "I'm Feeling Lucky" button needs to be changed to "I'm Feeling Really Really Really Lucky."
Obviously, a remedial class in Holocaust history is in order. Look carefully at these absolutely horrifying, chilling pictures of mass executions and torture. You are comparing Bush to this, this, and this? All innocent victims, mind you. In the photos from the first link, you see pictures of human medical experiments involving freezing, surgeries, and head-shrinking. Bush is against stem cell research, for crying out loud!
Please read up on Adolph Hitler so you don't embarrass yourself in public again. Hitler's Nazi party is responsible for the deaths of 11 million innocent people. There's simply no legitimate comparison to Bush in any respect whatsoever. Everything about the two men is different: politics, principles, priorities, religion, worldview, philosophies, leadership style, attitude, demeanor, relationships, sociability, values, likes, dislikes, etc, etc, etc.
The closest modern-day comparison to Hitler is probably Saddam Hussein. Arafat would take the title, except that he doesn't have much power anymore.
All I'm saying is: If you don't want to be accused of being a duck, don't quack like one. If this statement makes you angry, maybe it's because you're quacking.
I am not a citizen of a country which the rest of the world generally looks upon with disdain at this point.
Well, I'm not from Iraq either. I guess we have that in common. ;-)
Seriously, given the context, I assume you mean the US. Yes, a lot of coutries have disdain for us. How could I forget the HUGE international protest in front of the White House? ;-)
In fact, quite a lot of folks like the US. Maybe you didn't get the memo. Or the updated memo.
The only people expressing disdain for the US are socialists/communists in Europe and Canada, Neo-Nazis, militant Islamists, Saddam Hussein, and assorted terrorist groups around the world. The day that America is adored by these people is the day that America ceases to exist.
This from a guy with jesus in his .sig, can you say right-wing.
What's your point? (seriously)
To my knowledge, not a single person has been killed in these ice incidents. I don't see how this can qualify even as a minor plague, much less one of literally biblical proportions - the final one of the seven-year Tribulation period. Furthermore, the ice blocks, while abnormally large, are still a long way off from 100 pounds.
I do agree with you that this may be a sign of the prophesied things to come. There will be/is much turbulence leading up to the plagues.
Yeshua (Jesus),
A stable,
Bethlehem,
Israel
The address He wants to come to now is [your name]'s heart. You have to invite Him in first, though.
P.S. I'm quite sure that Dubya and Yeshua have already met. Even their names rhyme. :-)
The main thing I need to say is: Read the context!
Look here if you really want to know how biblical prophecy relates to modern times.
Surely, biblical prophecy is being fulfilled today, but the subject of Martinez-Frias' investigation very doubtfully has anything to do with it.
Any preacher who tried to claim that these ice blocks had anything to do with Revelation 16:21, in particular, would be laughed off the pulpit and sacked by the deacons (in a Protestant church).
Context is everything. The hailstones are to be preceded by (or in the midst of) a thunderstorm and an earthquake. And when did the first six plagues happen? Of course, the rapture hasn't even occurred yet. I don't think these ice blocks fulfill any biblical prophecy whatsoever.
Anybody want to try to work Nostradamus into this somehow? ;-)
Other people's failure to live as they should is not a valid excuse for your own failure to live as you should.
AVG 6.0 Free Edition
The only downside is that the data file is updated only about once a week, and you have to be careful about which version of the file you get. But I doubt the typical family PC's virus scanner gets updated more than once or twice a year anyway, if ever.
- Right-click on desktop
- Click Properties from the menu that pops up
- Click Settings tab
- Click Advanced button
- Click Adapter tab
- In the Adapter Information section, you should see Memory Size: XX MB
Since you have a Packard Bell, I would guess that your card probably has 2-4 MBs, or maaaybe 8 MBs.A government, without the means to enforce its laws and protect its sovereignty, is worthless. Increased threats require increased protection efforts. This is not fascism; it's necessary and reasonable means to fulfilling the duties of our representative government. These actions are for us, and I, for one, am thankful.
One of the fundamental purposes of government is stop people who are disrupting order. This is nothing new in our country. Our enemies have devised new tactics of offense, so we must devise new tactics of defense. The objective remains the same as it always has. The government isn't doing anything fundamentally different than it always has.
The way I see it, there are only three types of people who would proactively oppose the measures being taken: (1) partisan Democrats opposing the measures only until a Democrat is elected president, (2) excessively secretive people (like many libertarians who often appear indistinguishable from paranoid schizophrenics), and (3) people supportive or sympathetic to those who want to destroy us.
If you are personally scared of the tactics used in the war on terrorism (categories 2 & 3), I have to wonder what aspects of your life would appear suspicious or incriminating. Assuming that you are innocent, you can simply let your life prove your innocence. In other words, if you have goodwill for your fellow citizens, then it will be manifested by your conduct and activities. You will be living so that others can easily attest to your good name and corroborate your assertion of innocence. Just follow the sage advice you've probably heard since childhood. Love your neighbors, forgive those who commit offenses against you (don't hold grudges), and help the needy. Support only positive, community-building institutions and organizations. Live blamelessly so that your accusers will become ashamed when they examine your life. May your reputable conduct repudiate their slanderous accusations and decisively prove your innocence.
If you don't want to be a good neighbor and citizen, you're free to pack up and move out. Our "fascist" government is not trapping you here. I don't mean to provoke offense -- just pointing out what should be an obvious option. If you have reason to fear the Feds, it might be in your best interest (and everybody else's) for you to move to another country.
Can you show me an instance of somebody being put in prison because they checked out a book from the library? With nothing more to go on, what judge or jury would convict somebody of a crime?
These articles are just partisan, alarmist Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt.
Use some common sense. Books written by conservative authors are primarily read by conservative readers. Books by liberal authors are primarily read by liberal readers. H4X0R FAQs are primarily read by hackers or aspiring hackers. Gaming mags are primarily read by gamers. You can look at many kinds of books and magazines and quite easily profile the kind of reader in your mind. Consider these contrasting pairs of examples: Chicken Soup for the Soul, The Anarchist's Cookbook, Rush Limbaugh: See I Told You So, Rush Is a Big Fat Idiot (that's an actual book).
It doesn't take a great leap of logic to conclude what kind of audience these books have, especially since they are philosophically polarizing. I think this would also be true of anything that might be considered "pro-terrorist" or terrorist-sympathizing literature.
I'm looking over at my bookshelf right now, and it's just amazing how much you could tell about my politics, religion, interests, profession, marital status, approximate age, nationality, income, etc.
If you think this is risky,... OK, well it is. But try it with your own bookshelf. Yeah, you'll get a false positive here and there, especially if you're sharing the bookshelf with a spouse or kids.
I trust that the Feds are smart enough to be wary of false positives and weed them out upon further investigation. On the flip-side, a failure to recognize a false negative could result in a few more thousand or million deaths. It's awfully self-centered to throw a fit about the government knowing what books you check out, possibly at the expense of thousands of your neighbors being blown to bits, gassed, diseased, or nuked.
It is tragically narrow-minded of librarians to think that they are the "losers" in this war. Please tell me what variety of books exist in libraries in Iraq? Iran? Libya? (Do they even have libraries? Does the word "library" exist in their languages?) Can I check out Thomas Paine's Common Sense? Shawn Hannity's recent book, Let Freedom Ring? How about the latest NY Times? Librarians are among the many winners of the war on terror.
If our ways do not prevail in the world, theirs (those countries') will, and there will be no libraries at all. Librarians should stop whining about a petty inconvenience. Nearly all Americans in the 1940s were chomping at the bit to make great personal sacrifices in the effort to defeat peoples that wanted to kill us.
It is in best the interest of everybody (except terrorists and their supporters, fans, and sympathizers) to get as much pertinent information as possible into the hands of top U.S. decision makers. This war is for all of us!
The kind of books you check out may not point to a definitive answer to a particular question, but at least it eliminates some options. I think that's a valuable tool, and again, nobody's going to get thrown in the slammer for reading a book. We go to war with regimes that act like that.
Now that Americans have traded away all their civil liberties
Post-Sep. 11 legislation has had ZERO effect on me or anybody I know.
Do you feel safer?
I feel safer because people who have an interest in subverting the U.S. do feel less safe.
Follow this fool-proof strategy, and you have nothing to fear from the Feds: Don't act like a traitor and you won't be treated like one. I know, it's too simple to grasp. That's how most truths are.
ICQ has an spelling checker too. I don't know if it auto-corrects, though.
I heard that the reason businesses use faux spellings is to avoid trademarking common words.
Lots of them. You're just looking in the wrong places.
Check out the Grassroots Music label. They have good stuff.
You need a broader perspective, my friend.
If the U.S. was like said countries and you were a U.S. citizen, you might be receiving a flogging at this very moment for your criticism of your government. That is assuming that you are allowed to access /. in the first place.
Also, keep in mind that there are lots of people fighting for just causes (various freedoms and rights) that are opposed by the evil ruling powers in their countries (China, Taiwan, Tibet, Zimbabwe, etc.). The Internet can be a powerful tool for garnering outside support for revolution. The most famous example, I think, is the Free Tibet Campaign.
Granted, even without the bug they could track this particular browsing behavior by using other means. This bug really isn't a big deal. I'm just taking you to task that only "bad" people should be concerned about privacy. In the U.S., I generally agree with you. But if someone's ideas, which may be considered "legitimate and vanilla" to us, are frowned on by his corrupt government, he can possibly look forward to having a noose around the neck or a bullet in the head (or worse). And there's usually no trial beforehand, except maybe a kangaroo court). When a totalitarian government wants to end a dispute, it always prefers the gun over the gavel.
That is only half true. Yes, <LAYER> is Netscape's baby. However, I know that NN4 also supports <DIV> because I use it on my site, and I've tested it. With DOM checking and DHTML, I can make <DIV>s disappear and reappear via mouseOvers in any browser.
<DIV> is nothing more than a generic block container. <LAYER> is basically a propietary form of <DIV>.
God sets before every man two options: good and evil. Man is free to choose at his whim.
On September 11, the terrorists chose evil and acted hatefully against other people. However, God preserved the lives of most of the near-victims. (Remember, 50,000 people daily worked in the WTC alone.)
When people are close to death, their values become aligned with God's. That is the whole point of this, I believe. When victims in the towers knew they were going to die, they didn't care about downloading the next Mozilla build. Major political controversies were not given a thought. The project that was due at 11:00 AM didn't matter anymore.
Their minds were transformed. All of a sudden, they valued the precious moments of life as never before. They recognized the truth that people are dependent on God for every breath. Their faith, perhaps long withered away, was revived and strengthened to trust in the Creator as Savior and Lord. They desperately wanted their family to know "I LOVE YOU."
These are the things that matter to God. And if the truth be known, to people too. Not technology, not politics, not entertainment, not science. It's all about getting back to the basics.
- Love God with all of your heart, soul, mind.
- Love other people as you love yourself.
These are "the greatest commandments" according to Jesus. These are also the lessons of September 11, 2001. When you live as God teaches us to live, you regard life as sacred and you care for your family above all other obligations.God did allow many people to die, but that is His right. He was not obligated to give anyone life in the first place.
When you were born, did you sign a contract with God that He would give you 80 years of life?
How is it that you think God owes you something?
Are your good deeds so meritorious that God is beholden to your righteousness?
How do you reason that a sinner does not deserve death?
Who are you to judge God?
Here's where that first line comes from.