Because they are not usually watching the game in the actual sanctuary. Obviously your experience with churches is slim, but fellowship halls are a part of the church-going experience. After the worship service is complete, it is not uncommon for the congregation to meet for lunch and continue the fellowship in the other ares of the church. This can include anything recreational that fosters a Christian way of life. I don't understand how you can equate sporting events to blasphemy.
I distinctly remember being a senior in high school and attending "5th Quarter" at the church on Friday nights after the high school football games were over. We'd make a habit of ordering loads of pizza, open up the basketball courts, turn on the big screens, and hold a prayer devotional before the festivities began. Nothing uncommon about that at least where I'm from in the US.
I think we should form a "Fuck Internet Ronin" group on Facebook. Anybody that hates on Deities and accepts Muslim haters needs a hate group of their own. That's some twisted thinking after reading your post. Thanks for firing off my neurons!!
Remember the last time you were in a aviation wreck going Mach 4 and the airbags deployed? I know I remember, and it was stained red all over the cabin interior from every passenger being ripped to shreds, including the airbags. Mars has an atmosphere that is extremely thin, so that's one factor going against using airbags since they wouldn't 'grab' enough of the atmosphere to slow the entry vehicle down to an appreciable speed before biting the Mars red dust. Using thrust burns up incredible amounts of energy and would be cost/energy prohibitive to be carrying that much of a fuel payload a few hundred million miles to Mars, considering more viable options exist.
Those are two "obvious" reasons of many. Once NASA gets everything worked out, they will let you know.
NASA is claiming that they've already won the mattress arms race with their space-age foam technology, and I must concur after testing it out for myself. I saw an infomercial about three months ago with a short guy in white socks jumping on their memory-cell mattress in a mall somewhere. As the experiment went, a glass of red wine sat on top of the bed and ultimately refused to spill over even though he jumped on it as hard as he could.
Well, I finally saved up the cash to try out the miracle properties for myself. No sooner did I get a knee up on my side of the bed to start jumping when my bottle of Yellow Tail wine tipped over right in the middle of the fuckin' mattress. NASA never said in the commercial what would happen if the wine actually spilled, but those micro foam cells completely soaked up all the red wine and scent! I just flipped it over, put a fresh sheet on it, and the wife hasn't noticed the strawberry patch to this day.
Toyota better watch their back.
The cable box sits approximately 300 yards from my house, and yet Cable One refuses to run the broadband/TV capability down my road because they don't believe the cost is worth it despite there being an appeal for broadband by the families living down my road. These cable folks are quite thrifty and dense all the same. It doesn't matter how many times you call them to inquire about broadband, they all have the same answer: Move into the city because it costs to much to branch out any further. We can run telephone lines with 53.3KBPS data throughput (FCC regulated) all around the country, but anything more requires an act of God to wake these people up. Meanwhile, my local cable company has an ad with their tech driving his white van over an extended bridge with the phrase "Watch Us Make You Smile" singing away in the background. Sick, isn't it?
Remember: Almost 45% of this country lives away from the city. So it stands to reason that the growth of broadband companies will always be capped by their own reluctance to grant broadband access to rural America - as if half the US population will suddenly move into the city to save their business model. Many people enjoy the comforts of living away from the sprawl, and if that means ordering fractional T1 access for my home, then so be it.
The church will likely win the lawsuit if it presses forward. SONY sold themselves out by using a house of worship in such a depraved fashion to reap the financial windfall without even consulting the building's owners first. Any atheist programmer on the planet could have come up with that concept, but leave it to a SONY developer to actually implement the idea. They knew the church would object to the radical idea of violence in a church sanctuary, but they decided to press ahead anyway at their own risk. Sony must be in bad shape when they are more concerned with shooting up churches and the legal recourse than actually programming their games worth a damn. The company execs need to realize that the world doesn't revolve around them like it did in 1996. Those days are over.
Really? Isn't most head bangin' heavy metal disseminated by the recording industry?
Nope. Actually, there's a truckload of metal out there that is completely dissociated from the current Top 40 music scene. In many ways, the realm of Top 40 radio hits has been on a dying path for some years. It still persists because it was a convenient way to find good music before the dawn of the digital age, and there will always be those among the masses too lazy to find what suits them best. Top 40 music is consistently available for those people looking for catchy tunes, but I believe you will find a much richer world of music if you look deeper into the lists of independent artists and bands out there. That feeling of discovering a new group with fresh sounds is unsurpassed by the record industry's efforts to pump out "Top Hits" every month.
If you think a record label and great music are exclusively hand-in-hand, then you are short-changing yourself in the world of music that exists today. You can find just about any genre that will blow your ears away from the lyrical depth, passion, and creative quality not found in the work of artists signed by the RIAA. Independent labels are unbound by the chains of corporate earnings and contract clauses that each record label artist must sign upon entering the business. That kind of unbridled freedom to make music is exciting in the mind of this audiophile. That's not to say that the RIAA doesn't have some great bands signed up, but the worldwide music scene has grown larger than the industry itself. You no longer need them to bring you good music when it's already sitting out there.
A black list of ISP's that actively sell out to the MPAA/RIAA companies would be effective. I'd certainly glance at that list before committing to an ISP in my area. In fact, I'd change my provider in a heartbeat if it ended up on that list. Money talks.
Just because an individual has a large brain does not necessarily mean it has increased intelligence. There are various morphological and developmental factors that determine brain size. I would bet the farm that if you measured this "imbecile's" brain, the neuronal density would be quite less than the average brain. Macroencephaly is an example of a brain disease in which a person is born with an enlarged brain. Individuals in the late stages of various neurodegenerative diseases suffer from enlarged brains. So this "imbecile" that you speak of certainly could have suffered from that.
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Because they are not usually watching the game in the actual sanctuary. Obviously your experience with churches is slim, but fellowship halls are a part of the church-going experience. After the worship service is complete, it is not uncommon for the congregation to meet for lunch and continue the fellowship in the other ares of the church. This can include anything recreational that fosters a Christian way of life. I don't understand how you can equate sporting events to blasphemy. I distinctly remember being a senior in high school and attending "5th Quarter" at the church on Friday nights after the high school football games were over. We'd make a habit of ordering loads of pizza, open up the basketball courts, turn on the big screens, and hold a prayer devotional before the festivities began. Nothing uncommon about that at least where I'm from in the US.
I think we should form a "Fuck Internet Ronin" group on Facebook. Anybody that hates on Deities and accepts Muslim haters needs a hate group of their own. That's some twisted thinking after reading your post. Thanks for firing off my neurons!!
Remember the last time you were in a aviation wreck going Mach 4 and the airbags deployed? I know I remember, and it was stained red all over the cabin interior from every passenger being ripped to shreds, including the airbags. Mars has an atmosphere that is extremely thin, so that's one factor going against using airbags since they wouldn't 'grab' enough of the atmosphere to slow the entry vehicle down to an appreciable speed before biting the Mars red dust. Using thrust burns up incredible amounts of energy and would be cost/energy prohibitive to be carrying that much of a fuel payload a few hundred million miles to Mars, considering more viable options exist. Those are two "obvious" reasons of many. Once NASA gets everything worked out, they will let you know.
NASA is claiming that they've already won the mattress arms race with their space-age foam technology, and I must concur after testing it out for myself. I saw an infomercial about three months ago with a short guy in white socks jumping on their memory-cell mattress in a mall somewhere. As the experiment went, a glass of red wine sat on top of the bed and ultimately refused to spill over even though he jumped on it as hard as he could. Well, I finally saved up the cash to try out the miracle properties for myself. No sooner did I get a knee up on my side of the bed to start jumping when my bottle of Yellow Tail wine tipped over right in the middle of the fuckin' mattress. NASA never said in the commercial what would happen if the wine actually spilled, but those micro foam cells completely soaked up all the red wine and scent! I just flipped it over, put a fresh sheet on it, and the wife hasn't noticed the strawberry patch to this day. Toyota better watch their back.
The cable box sits approximately 300 yards from my house, and yet Cable One refuses to run the broadband/TV capability down my road because they don't believe the cost is worth it despite there being an appeal for broadband by the families living down my road. These cable folks are quite thrifty and dense all the same. It doesn't matter how many times you call them to inquire about broadband, they all have the same answer: Move into the city because it costs to much to branch out any further. We can run telephone lines with 53.3KBPS data throughput (FCC regulated) all around the country, but anything more requires an act of God to wake these people up. Meanwhile, my local cable company has an ad with their tech driving his white van over an extended bridge with the phrase "Watch Us Make You Smile" singing away in the background. Sick, isn't it? Remember: Almost 45% of this country lives away from the city. So it stands to reason that the growth of broadband companies will always be capped by their own reluctance to grant broadband access to rural America - as if half the US population will suddenly move into the city to save their business model. Many people enjoy the comforts of living away from the sprawl, and if that means ordering fractional T1 access for my home, then so be it.
The church will likely win the lawsuit if it presses forward. SONY sold themselves out by using a house of worship in such a depraved fashion to reap the financial windfall without even consulting the building's owners first. Any atheist programmer on the planet could have come up with that concept, but leave it to a SONY developer to actually implement the idea. They knew the church would object to the radical idea of violence in a church sanctuary, but they decided to press ahead anyway at their own risk. Sony must be in bad shape when they are more concerned with shooting up churches and the legal recourse than actually programming their games worth a damn. The company execs need to realize that the world doesn't revolve around them like it did in 1996. Those days are over.
Really? Isn't most head bangin' heavy metal disseminated by the recording industry?
Nope. Actually, there's a truckload of metal out there that is completely dissociated from the current Top 40 music scene. In many ways, the realm of Top 40 radio hits has been on a dying path for some years. It still persists because it was a convenient way to find good music before the dawn of the digital age, and there will always be those among the masses too lazy to find what suits them best. Top 40 music is consistently available for those people looking for catchy tunes, but I believe you will find a much richer world of music if you look deeper into the lists of independent artists and bands out there. That feeling of discovering a new group with fresh sounds is unsurpassed by the record industry's efforts to pump out "Top Hits" every month.
If you think a record label and great music are exclusively hand-in-hand, then you are short-changing yourself in the world of music that exists today. You can find just about any genre that will blow your ears away from the lyrical depth, passion, and creative quality not found in the work of artists signed by the RIAA. Independent labels are unbound by the chains of corporate earnings and contract clauses that each record label artist must sign upon entering the business. That kind of unbridled freedom to make music is exciting in the mind of this audiophile. That's not to say that the RIAA doesn't have some great bands signed up, but the worldwide music scene has grown larger than the industry itself. You no longer need them to bring you good music when it's already sitting out there.
A black list of ISP's that actively sell out to the MPAA/RIAA companies would be effective. I'd certainly glance at that list before committing to an ISP in my area. In fact, I'd change my provider in a heartbeat if it ended up on that list. Money talks.
Ooh, I can read your mind.
THEMIS - Either way you say the word, your friends will laugh at you. Try it!
I'd really like to print out my own heart to give to my girlfriend on Valentine's Day. I think it would be bloody sweet.
Just because an individual has a large brain does not necessarily mean it has increased intelligence. There are various morphological and developmental factors that determine brain size. I would bet the farm that if you measured this "imbecile's" brain, the neuronal density would be quite less than the average brain. Macroencephaly is an example of a brain disease in which a person is born with an enlarged brain. Individuals in the late stages of various neurodegenerative diseases suffer from enlarged brains. So this "imbecile" that you speak of certainly could have suffered from that.