The closed-minded isolationist, despite proof of terrorists being found in droves?
The angry, "I must be right because CNN agrees with me mindset"?
The hateful, nearly puke retort?
Nah, you're a troll. I've tried to debate with you before, but you always end (and start, for that matter) with vulgarity that let's me know you don't have an argument you can prove- you must be brutal to enforce your point of view.
Please; don't respond to the irony of calling yourself "open minded" or "enlightened"; you're not.
Oh, hold it bub: You're missing something very important.
1. I wasn't specifying Iran in particular. Russia has a lot of "missing" nukes, not to mention those awaiting us buried in the desert south of our border in case we started the whole thing. There are *dozens* of places who want to blast NYC (or someplace nearby) as the "head of the beast" or somesuch.
2. Iran, in many places wants *precisely* the end of the world. In the one I heard, paraphrasing, "To make such a holy effort against such an adversary would make us shine in the Muslim world, even if there's no Iran left after the attack". (Which made me wonder if his populace heard that in English).
3. Iran calls for the explicit annihilation of Israel in no uncertain terms. Not only do they have no bones about it, they deny the holocaust ever happened.
Iran has little or no intervention, now, thanks to the ever-useless UN. (Don't get me started...) If we stop buying *anything* from them, they always have Russia, and Russia doesn't care, even if it means powering a people who attempt to assassinate their leader. They've always been the source of guns, like China, for the last few decades. And not just guns- after the first half of the Gulf War we found "many" Mig 25 Foxbats buried in the sand. They didn't want to suggest how many had been found for stategic reasons. And let's not forget that this penny-ante dictator was in posession of 8 tons of nuclear material, 2 of which were enriched.
And as to a "supporter of Israel"; I'm not, anymore. There are good reasons for it.
Everything in the Old Testament was about the fall of the 'first Adam', and the sacrifice of the 'second Adam', by which all people of all lands could find redemption, not just those living in that ancient land of Israel. The reason they don't have access to their temples is because, like He said to the woman at the well, "Soon, no one will make sacrifices at Judea and (the other temple)." His point, just like when he said, "You will tear down this temple, and I will rebuild it in three days" he was pointing to himself.
Faithful study of the Bible shows there's no racism in the Bible. One didn't have to be born to a circumcised male and his bald-headed-but-wearing-a-wig wife in order to be in "Israel". Evidence of this are the two non-Jewish ladies in Christ's bloodline. One was even a member of the enemy of the Jews, but was permitted, not because of where she lived, but her relationship to God.
The land there is just a spot of land God pointed Moses to. Other than mineral and historical benefits, there's nothing there to speak of that isn't everywhere else. "Israel" is a relationship to God. It's open to all- Jew, gentile, slave and free.
Fighting to move all the Jews back to Israel is called zionism. It's founded in the dispensational interpretation of a priest named Darby. His reading of scriptures suggest we move them all to Palestine/Israel/Trans-Jordan, where 3/4 of them will be killed. That's not being very supportive.
Think: how horrible it would be to push these people to follow their misunderstanding and misinterpretation of the Bible, when the same reading shows they'll be slaughtered. Beyond this, how horrid is it, considering the "Biblical proportions" of Christ's sacrifice on the cross for the redemption of all people, but to put the Jews back where they were, making *animal* sacrifices as if Christ did nothing!
Hank Hanegraaff has the right reading on it. He runs the Christian Reseach Institute, a clearinghouse for Biblical fidelity. *Proving* biblical truth, dispelling rumors, and making sense of ancient Hebrew poetry by scientific means...and nothing from outside the Bible itself.
I know he's headed the right way; his message distrubs traditional Christians with it's simplicity and reason, and he's having money trouble because (say it with me, children) "There's always money for a heretic!".
Hank wrote "The Apocalypse Code", the same name of Hal Lindsey's book of the end-times. But inst
This is another one of those "Mr Magoo Business School Graduates" that doesn't get it.
SCO had the same kinda leadership, before they sold out to the lawsuit-minded one that has it now. They were charging $1,100 to get the development system (C compiler and tools to help write programs for their OS) and wouldn't back down from it. Imagine: charging people to increase the usefulness of a tool you sell!::must charge for all media shipped::
There was once, long ago, something useful to mankind in SCO, but that time is long past. There isn't a hard-n-fast link between ideas and cost. You can't just amortize a set of ideas, demand a dollar figure and have people come get it. Software (inc. music, movies etc) doesn't work that way.
There have been a lot of these situations; someone is _accused_ and the media adjudicates the case. See also: a host of Republicans indicted, but never proven to have done anything, yet stepping down due to the party conviction. There was the "cold blooded killing of civilians" in Haditha, the "extreme torture" in AbuGraib. And each of these situations don't come CLOSE to reality, but it plays well on the dinosaur media. Personally I'm sick of hearing who's been _accused_, but wake me when someone's been *proven* guilty of something, aye?
Like the Congressman from Louisiana, William Jefferson (D) who was seen wrangling National Guardsmen to rescue his fridge from Katrina, later accused of storing $90,000 in there. Yet he goes to work every day, keeps voting like nothing happened, and I suppose nothing will.
I know there's a lot of paranoia in the demographic here, and ordinarily I'm keeping a watch along side you. But:
a) There's a very real danger now, as terrorists have-or-will-soon-get a nuclear bomb, and it's not a scientific exercise; it's meant for killing....probably a lot of us, in this audience living in NYC. We have to be watching.
b) I'm worn out from the tired old "Bush lied" and "We're starting a theocracy" panic lines I hear over and over. We're nowhere near that, either.
But it's interesting how, despite the fears of an potential American theocracy (from just a moment of silence or Christmas decorations) that a lot of this crowd forgets the *real* and *existing* theocracy that has us in it's sights. And we're making allowances for them- prayer rugs, permission to leave class 5 times a day, etc.
Right....to run newer and newer versions of Windows.
Even if these are made, offered and useful, do you realize how long it will be until they're on someone? If they're produceable in 2015, it'll be another 5 years for the price to be right for mere mortals. The military will get the first shot at them, and possibly outlaw them for a time (since so many will be cracking codes in Columbia). The bottom line is that, like so many things we see released on Slashdot, don't expect to see them any time soon.
Even so; the handheld market isn't held back by processing power; it's held back by 1) the propriety of the Palm handwriting patent and 2) the form factor. And it's complicated by the interoperability which is *just*now* getting useful with things like bluetooth. Remember the Palm Pilot launched around ten years ago.
It's very likely we'll be doing very different things by then.
Ya know, a metal shaving, released from a Chinese satellite (with a Clinton-Gore'94 bumper sticker) moving at 17,000mph or more is a cheap way to supress satelittes, and, it's been done before. I hope it's just the wearing of a part, and not the start of an orbit-war.
See also: flying cars, home grown clothing, and a Democrat who cuts taxes.:)
Think: is a handheld supercomputer going to be cheap? Was the first X-box cheap? How about the first PlayStation 3? If it's not cheap, it's a novelty. And what would you do with that power?
Here's the point: the technology's getting ready to take a jump. But something held in your hand isn't friendly to input, would have (at best) a complex printout. Just try editing your company's mission statement on your cellphone, and you'll see what I mean.
But as a tech-bump? Sure! Why not? But thinking we're going to walk around with 10x the desktop power on a wristwatch is just silly. It doesn't belong there, not yet. Where are the Pentiums and P2's and P3s? Not on our wrists...still on a desk or in a laptop. The form factor doesn't work.
As for tech on the desk...how many of us really use this? A full 90%+ of us on the globe use our computers for email, browsing, document prep and playing media. If we could multiply the power of our CPUs 100-fold, what would we do different? Not much. That's what makes Linux so attractive, that and the no-illegality, no virus stance.
Oh, sure- research organizations could farm it out, no doubt. Even local weather-casters could have their own 'models' too. But until Windows2020, no consumer's gonna have a reason to waste that much power, held in their own hand: this is tech-hype.
The chasm between politicians and geeks just looks narrower today...97% of these people are only good at being elected or chasing ambulances...the other 3% changes at election time. I just have to keep asking; with the myriad failures of this overbloated bureacracy (the stuff of lengends, actually) why do we keep following the shiny pendulum and keep them in power?
Whatever happened to the citizen-statesman? Some of these geezers have been in there 40-50 years!
"This new version of Windows will make things simpler and safer." "Industry shows acceptance of 2k8 slow to start..." "Now get Fred's Antivirus: now for 2K8!" "This'll do us until Longhorn is released."
The code changes, yeah...but don't expect the problems to go away.
And it's interesting how each release requires VASTLY more power, just to sit still, isn't it? And because of that, dual-core P4's will be on the market and give me SO MUCH CPU in Linux I won't know what to do with it all.
Don't you remember- that guy that was claiming to have made a cloning breakthrough, but it wasn't true and his research was faulty, trying to get grant money or somesuch. It's been a few months back, maybe a year?
And wait; cat or sheep?
The point is, when doctors/scientists/"men of reason" go wrong, it annoys the other scientists the way it annoys me when I see "christians" blowing up abortion clinics, etc.
Good points, all; the way I heard it was the "smartass remark" that insulted the pope was somehow tied to the different point of view, but I've never seen the original document.
You and I share the viewpoint that, God doesn't have to use any "David Copperfield" to exert His will. No curtain comes up, no sparks fly, but answers to prayers happen seamlessly and perfectly, when they happen. It actually has to be this way; catching it on tape, providing proof, would deny us the ability to believe without seeing Him.
Personally, I feel that the genetic mutation *is* the work of God. I think the findings of most of the scientific folks agrees now with Genesis 1 and so on, and that in the future the accuracy of the Bible will only get clearer and clearer. And it seems likely that, when the Bible has become "proof", that's when He returns.
But I think the reason SO MANY people have a problem with Christianity is bad works on the part of their practitioners; specific to this case, Roman Catholics, have been valuing tradition over truth for quite a long time. Not to say they're aren't Christian; the organization has just become so large that it has a momentum of it's own now, and causes problems. For example:
1. When Christ 'drops the bomb' on the apostles that he'll be sacrificed soon, and they come to terms with it, one asks, "so how will we pray to you?" And among the first words out of his mouth are "don't recite to me". He wants to know what's in your heart, not the noise of repeated chatter. "Prayer without ceasing" is a constant connection with you; when you 'talk to yourself' he wants to be a part of the conversation. Yet somehow after millions of men slaved away copying the entire Bible over and over and over again before the printing press, no one in the organization seems to have noticed this concept, and sinners are sent away repeating a single prayer meaninglessly like Bart Simpson writing on the chalkboard.
2. Confession of sins to a priest. Except we're to confess our sins to Him, because no one else has any power to reconcile. No other (non-Roman based) Christians confess to our church leaders.
3. Church sainthood. That just says it all, doesn't it? If you've found Christ, and that change of life is taking hold, you're a saint; you're saved. Why would the church think they have the power to do this?
4. Purgatory/Limbo. This really gets my goat. To suggest that God can't decide glares in the face of everything I know about Him. And then to say, "Pay us money, and we'll change His mind." just tightens the screws.
So ya see, there's misapplication, misinterpretation and all that going on. As individuals we need to try better, stop taking someone else's word for it, and find it in the Bible. Hank Hanegraff is VERY good at that.
Oh, that's right; they had the same general idea, but one was 'published' if you will, and paid for it. But things like this are just inexcusable; and my skin crawls every time I hear Christians replaying some of the old myths and misunderstandings- it really just doesn't help the cause.
I'm a Christian; not the "Earth can only by 6,000 years old" type (Young Earther) and I really have no problem with God, as he does with all living things, mutating a humanoid into Adam and Eve. I don't scream at Trick-or-Treaters, and I'm open to learning more about the Bible, and science.
I'm not the guy that goes along with the crowd to church, mindlessly accepting whatever pastor is within driving distance from my house; I've made contact with the actual being. And I know, that's like trying to prove sighting of a unicorn or something, but proof denies faith, and we all have to actually exert an effort to find Him.
What you're citing as 'Religion' is actually errant Christians. Putting Copurnicous on house arrest for his last 8 years of his life, because the Pope didn't like his idea....that was both malicious and stupid. But, a lot of things are like that in the Roman Catholic church.
Just like it's wrong for a Korean to suggest he's cloned a cat doesn't make science a useless endeavor, just because a sect of Christianity is in error doesn't make religion worthless, either.
It's taken me a long, long time and healthy skepticism, but I'm quickly reaching the point where I'm claiming the Bible has no contradictions. You won't get there sniping at Christians on Slashdot, but if you tune into Hank Hanegraff at http://equip.org/ and get his podcast, you'll see just how many of these have actual reasons.
It's not a document of fairy tales. It's not been translated over and over into error. Every translation comes from the original document. Perhaps a million people have studied this for many centuries...this is a document with more structure, more layers, and more detail than the entire works of Shakespeare. And every once in a while, despite all the claims, the Bible's right, anyway.
Like the Hittites; for centuries people claimed they were a figment of the auther's imagination. Then last century someone found the capital city. It was similarly correct when it talked about two leaders of Babylon, despite "known fact" suggested otherwise for a long time.
Now, there are a lot of true sealots out there; we've all met them. But they're the ones that get all the loudest press. (Much, I'm sure the way scientists feel about Frankenstein, Medela and other very-wrong scientists, real or imaginary).
Just don't write off the Book; don't just take your friend's feelings about it as your own decision, think for yourself. The worst think it could do for you is improve your life. Christ doesn't want mindless robots; he wants people who believe for good reason, aren't prone to branching off like the Davidians, (pardon the pun) or worse yet *killing* anyone in his name.
Just look for yourself; Hank is all about resolving issues of faith, not just from the non-believers, but of the church itself. Give'im a listen!
It's not about all this happening on the same day; there's a whole corridor in time where things were specifically related to a single outcome....kinda like today. Keep going; look up everything else I said and tie them together. Annie Oakley's statement was from somewhere about 1910, the Titanic a little after this, and then World War One. But the steps all happened as if they were designed- there's pattern.
(Or, you could feel your job as smartass fulfilled, and not learn anything from this issue...)
Oh, yeah- don't doubt that at all! But the picture of people falling to their slow deaths from several hundred feet up, fleeing a fireball is something that made a HUGE dent in the collective psyche.
Hydrogen's a better lifting agent, but that image is hard to shake; "Oh, the humanity..."
Bell Aerospace was working on re-inventing them, back in 1989; someone filed a huge lawsuit for some reason or other (not related to it) and they canceled the project. But their idea was to use a non-rigid ballon large enough to take 4-5 (or more) containers (from "container trucks") across the USA, freeing the roads a bit, and missing every stoplight along the way.:)
A better idea has been kicked around re-inventing Der Fuhrer's Horton Flying Wing. If the airports could cope with the 150+ft wingspan, they could move maybe a dozen across the sky at a time at a much greater speed. The sticking point is, at 10,000ft-or-less storms remain an issue. But it's just so hard to (properly, over the long term) pressurize something that isn't a cylinder...vibration and the rest of the stresses eventually crack such non-cylindrical shapes in ways they can't cope with, and flying below 10,000 feet means they have to be aware of storms in time.
However...with all these long-range recon vehicles getting automated, who cares? Automate it, ship it, and don't worry about it, aye?
The Horton Flying Wing was pretty cool, not just visibly; removing the fuse removes a lot of drag, and there's no need for an empanage. (Tail section) Also the wings can be like that of the B-36 Peacemaker: wide enough to actually repair an engine in flight! (or carry a bunch of containers...)
"Or maybe you've forgotten the coming ICE AGE of 1977 that froze over NYC and encased it in a block of ice?" Who said that? no credible scientist said that, ever.
Sorry, but yeah. Bunches of them, and about fourty years apart, over the last century. My first encounter (which is 'stuck' in the 'amber' of television history) was an episode of Barney Miller. There was much talk, and much fear.
(And ok, not a *block* of ice, I was using hyperbole) But Algore's prediction of 22-foot waves are just a little out-of-whack with the UN's estimation of 6-7 centimeters, don'tcha think?
The point is, this is group-think. And when you're ten years down the line, you'll feel just like me: another pointless hoax. How many more will people buy? Aren't they scared enough?
Obviously not. Each of these things had no relavance to anything- that's why I said "healed before the ink was dry". It's all a money scam. You chose to believe it, or question it, but when people around you are scared, you'll be scared, too. Remember Y2K?
Follow the money, and find those who seek ultimate power. You might be surprised.
Just to add a little more, here...I've been told, though I've not had it confirmed ( I keep hoping to run across it somewhere) that Germany *had* to use hydrogen; the Allies, in part of the long pissing-contest that lead up to WW1, wouldn't let them have any helium. And you're right on the composition of the covering; I saw the same episode...and it makes good sense.
Before the Duke was shot in his carriage, a lot of other things were involved, too; Germany had a pissing-contest over the 'new' concept of battleships, starting a technology race, and England was keeping the channels blocked to German traffic. The assassination of the Duke was just a precipitator, once all these factors, and doubtless more were in place.
And in this time a skinny little corporal was caught on film at the speech of the Kaiser, not knowing he'd be centrally involved in the next world war. And about this time, Karl Househoefer was in Japan, learning about the Bushido code, the samurai, and getting the keys to the idea of the SS and the idea of a fabled German homeland. Similarly, Annie Oakley wrote in her diary, "Life on the road [in the Wild West Show] was rewarding, but creepy, too: there are all these Germans measuring ropes, trains, and taking down notes." (Paraphrased) They were finding out how to move lots of men and horses by rail....it's almost like the second one was started, before the first one was ended. Still, as a weapon of war, the dirigible wasn't much of a threat, really.
And on a similar tangent:) My brother is a welding-sales guy. He tells me that during some of the seminars to which he went, it was revealed to him hand-crank drills, not cutting torches when they were building those first battleships. So, for every porthole you've seen on them in photos, each was *hand*drilled* through inches of steel, not torch-cut like they are today.
Imagine the huge amount of manual labor that musta been!
(See? Next to me, other people on ADD sound downright linear!):)
Somehow they got someone at the EPA to consider CO2 a "pollutant". That means each and every one of us are polluters. No, not just while farting, any more. So: we all need to hold our breath. Not very long, just 10 minutes or so. Then, we will be in compliance.
Honestly, you guys, with your education, cross-checking, rules-lawyering and all that time on your hands actually *believe* this crap? Maybe you missed the ozone hole that didn't kill us all (or seem to have an effect on anything but the HVAC industry, for that matter, "healing" before the ink was dry!) Or maybe you've forgotten the coming ICE AGE of 1977 that froze over NYC and encased it in a block of ice? Right- that never happened, either.
How about "Sam" from "Cheers", what's his name? He said, "by 1980, school children will no longer be permitted to play outside, thanks to acid rain." Well that was a huge, city-killing unstopable monster, now wasn't it?
Could you guys just take the time to look at a *single* chart on CO2 as it relates to global heat, not the two separate graphs Algore brought out, and notice that CO2 _cools_ not _heats_ the atmosphere, about 800 years after the heat comes?
It's yet another parlor trick of the left; you need to be paniced; you need to send all your money to members of a single party or we're all gonna DIE! Think of the children!
(Please; look at the chart, it's about as clear as a turd in a punchbowl.)
There's a reason the Amish don't have cell phones, and it's not *just* because of religious reasons, though that's a big part of it. The Amish see something like this as getting between people. Face it: how many times have you, in person, been put "on hold" for someone on a cellphone? Basically they don't like what it would do to their community.
In this case, the same is true. Metaphorically like giving a hot rod to a teenage boy, you can't always trust'im to be _wise_ or _polite_ as to the operation of the car....and this is a realization of the same thing, on a grander scale.
In a similar vein, what's the first thing that gets illuminated when you hand a child a flashlight? YOUR face.:>
Yeah, that's probably true; 90% of the people use little more than the basics...except for the megacorporations who have 'overtrained' folks doing the stats for each and every department, hearing the siren-song of the long-promised 'enterprise-connected spreadsheet'. But I've gotta say, Gnumeric is a good, solid piece of code, and only getting better. They report some ~250 Excel plugins/macros cloned and another ~200 that it doesn't have. It's a contender...
Yeah, you're probably right in that regard; Microsoft uses "focus groups", though there are real people that discuss usability in open source, too. Personally I think it's more a matter that, when you work for Microsoft, you're 'puttin' in eight' while open source developers "own" their code, and feel slighted at the idea that anyone could break their code and embarrass them. The motivation of the makers makes a real difference.
And there's also a strategic reason of marketing; Microsoft is all about marketing. Every move they make has that explicit goal. In Linux, we do what we think people will like....because they TELL US.:)
Gutsy is quite good. For many years I've appreciated a handful of things Microsoft does:
1. Printer control (when the DLLs don't go missing/insane/violated by CircusWare 2. Microsoft Flight Simulator 3. Easy networking.
Looks like there's nothing really left, now that Flight Gear is surely coming up to speed!
Nice ploy; pretend to be Republican or Conservative. If you were, you'd know that Limbaugh was wronged in plain sight, in the exact same way any one of us could be. But that doesn't matter; presenting a good slap, does.
"Nematode"..that puts you in 8th grade biology class around this time of day. You probably still think Limbaugh is fat, much less have any concept of anything he's said in 18 years. It's childish to present something without facts. It's deadly to vote that way. Keep that in mind, it'll give you something to do until the bell rings for lunch.
I'm not a huge gamer, but I've done a lot of gaming in my life. I remember Temple of Apshai on the TRS-80, for example, "AE" from Broderbund...my dad actually OWNED a Pong game in the late 70's that he placed into stores.
The game "quality" is a nebulous idea; it can't be said that FPS' are technically less quality, with all the new rendering techniques, but the PLOT of such games is simple, the same cookie-cutter of killing that's actually no different from UT, Quake, Duke Nukem, or others.
BUT I HAVE TO SAY: "Little Big Planet" is a gem.
I don't own a PS3, and I don't expect I will for a decade, by which time I'll be able to get one at a yard sale, but that is one cool little game. No badguys, no explosions except for some popping of lemons, it embodies something very forgotten, probably by all of us: simple fun.
Remember the days of kindergarten when all you had to do was exchange names and ask 'do you want to play'? Remember as a small child where a simple walk through the neighbor's house was an adventure? This game has managed to capture that, with scenes made up from places all over. Ideas from 'opensource'-style groups to creating a long, seemingly never ending road, and it's just you and 4-5 people from all over the world, stumbling along, learning, and having fun. There's something essential about this game. It's a reminder that fun-with-guns only goes so far, ever.
I don't expect it'll go very far, I don't suppose Halo 4 will involve a guns-free mode, nor do I expect anyone on Slashdot to agree, but I think what "Mr Atari" is talking about is found in this game....'simple fun'.
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Wow. Where to start?
The closed-minded isolationist, despite proof of terrorists being found in droves?
The angry, "I must be right because CNN agrees with me mindset"?
The hateful, nearly puke retort?
Nah, you're a troll. I've tried to debate with you before, but you always end (and start, for that matter) with vulgarity that let's me know you don't have an argument you can prove- you must be brutal to enforce your point of view.
Please; don't respond to the irony of calling yourself "open minded" or "enlightened"; you're not.
Oh, hold it bub: You're missing something very important.
1. I wasn't specifying Iran in particular. Russia has a lot of "missing" nukes, not to mention those awaiting us buried in the desert south of our border in case we started the whole thing. There are *dozens* of places who want to blast NYC (or someplace nearby) as the "head of the beast" or somesuch.
2. Iran, in many places wants *precisely* the end of the world. In the one I heard, paraphrasing, "To make such a holy effort against such an adversary would make us shine in the Muslim world, even if there's no Iran left after the attack". (Which made me wonder if his populace heard that in English).
3. Iran calls for the explicit annihilation of Israel in no uncertain terms. Not only do they have no bones about it, they deny the holocaust ever happened.
Iran has little or no intervention, now, thanks to the ever-useless UN. (Don't get me started...) If we stop buying *anything* from them, they always have Russia, and Russia doesn't care, even if it means powering a people who attempt to assassinate their leader. They've always been the source of guns, like China, for the last few decades. And not just guns- after the first half of the Gulf War we found "many" Mig 25 Foxbats buried in the sand. They didn't want to suggest how many had been found for stategic reasons. And let's not forget that this penny-ante dictator was in posession of 8 tons of nuclear material, 2 of which were enriched.
And as to a "supporter of Israel"; I'm not, anymore. There are good reasons for it.
Everything in the Old Testament was about the fall of the 'first Adam', and the sacrifice of the 'second Adam', by which all people of all lands could find redemption, not just those living in that ancient land of Israel. The reason they don't have access to their temples is because, like He said to the woman at the well, "Soon, no one will make sacrifices at Judea and (the other temple)." His point, just like when he said, "You will tear down this temple, and I will rebuild it in three days" he was pointing to himself.
Faithful study of the Bible shows there's no racism in the Bible. One didn't have to be born to a circumcised male and his bald-headed-but-wearing-a-wig wife in order to be in "Israel". Evidence of this are the two non-Jewish ladies in Christ's bloodline. One was even a member of the enemy of the Jews, but was permitted, not because of where she lived, but her relationship to God.
The land there is just a spot of land God pointed Moses to. Other than mineral and historical benefits, there's nothing there to speak of that isn't everywhere else. "Israel" is a relationship to God. It's open to all- Jew, gentile, slave and free.
Fighting to move all the Jews back to Israel is called zionism. It's founded in the dispensational interpretation of a priest named Darby. His reading of scriptures suggest we move them all to Palestine/Israel/Trans-Jordan, where 3/4 of them will be killed. That's not being very supportive.
Think: how horrible it would be to push these people to follow their misunderstanding and misinterpretation of the Bible, when the same reading shows they'll be slaughtered. Beyond this, how horrid is it, considering the "Biblical proportions" of Christ's sacrifice on the cross for the redemption of all people, but to put the Jews back where they were, making *animal* sacrifices as if Christ did nothing!
Hank Hanegraaff has the right reading on it. He runs the Christian Reseach Institute, a clearinghouse for Biblical fidelity. *Proving* biblical truth, dispelling rumors, and making sense of ancient Hebrew poetry by scientific means...and nothing from outside the Bible itself.
I know he's headed the right way; his message distrubs traditional Christians with it's simplicity and reason, and he's having money trouble because (say it with me, children) "There's always money for a heretic!".
Hank wrote "The Apocalypse Code", the same name of Hal Lindsey's book of the end-times. But inst
This is another one of those "Mr Magoo Business School Graduates" that doesn't get it.
::must charge for all media shipped::
SCO had the same kinda leadership, before they sold out to the lawsuit-minded one that has it now. They were charging $1,100 to get the development system (C compiler and tools to help write programs for their OS) and wouldn't back down from it. Imagine: charging people to increase the usefulness of a tool you sell!
There was once, long ago, something useful to mankind in SCO, but that time is long past. There isn't a hard-n-fast link between ideas and cost. You can't just amortize a set of ideas, demand a dollar figure and have people come get it. Software (inc. music, movies etc) doesn't work that way.
There have been a lot of these situations; someone is _accused_ and the media adjudicates the case. See also: a host of Republicans indicted, but never proven to have done anything, yet stepping down due to the party conviction. There was the "cold blooded killing of civilians" in Haditha, the "extreme torture" in AbuGraib. And each of these situations don't come CLOSE to reality, but it plays well on the dinosaur media. Personally I'm sick of hearing who's been _accused_, but wake me when someone's been *proven* guilty of something, aye?
Like the Congressman from Louisiana, William Jefferson (D) who was seen wrangling National Guardsmen to rescue his fridge from Katrina, later accused of storing $90,000 in there. Yet he goes to work every day, keeps voting like nothing happened, and I suppose nothing will.
I know there's a lot of paranoia in the demographic here, and ordinarily I'm keeping a watch along side you. But:
a) There's a very real danger now, as terrorists have-or-will-soon-get a nuclear bomb, and it's not a scientific exercise; it's meant for killing....probably a lot of us, in this audience living in NYC. We have to be watching.
b) I'm worn out from the tired old "Bush lied" and "We're starting a theocracy" panic lines I hear over and over. We're nowhere near that, either.
But it's interesting how, despite the fears of an potential American theocracy (from just a moment of silence or Christmas decorations) that a lot of this crowd forgets the *real* and *existing* theocracy that has us in it's sights. And we're making allowances for them- prayer rugs, permission to leave class 5 times a day, etc.
Right....to run newer and newer versions of Windows.
Even if these are made, offered and useful, do you realize how long it will be until they're on someone? If they're produceable in 2015, it'll be another 5 years for the price to be right for mere mortals. The military will get the first shot at them, and possibly outlaw them for a time (since so many will be cracking codes in Columbia). The bottom line is that, like so many things we see released on Slashdot, don't expect to see them any time soon.
Even so; the handheld market isn't held back by processing power; it's held back by 1) the propriety of the Palm handwriting patent and 2) the form factor. And it's complicated by the interoperability which is *just*now* getting useful with things like bluetooth. Remember the Palm Pilot launched around ten years ago.
It's very likely we'll be doing very different things by then.
Ya know, a metal shaving, released from a Chinese satellite (with a Clinton-Gore'94 bumper sticker) moving at 17,000mph or more is a cheap way to supress satelittes, and, it's been done before. I hope it's just the wearing of a part, and not the start of an orbit-war.
See also: flying cars, home grown clothing, and a Democrat who cuts taxes. :)
Think: is a handheld supercomputer going to be cheap? Was the first X-box cheap? How about the first PlayStation 3? If it's not cheap, it's a novelty. And what would you do with that power?
Here's the point: the technology's getting ready to take a jump. But something held in your hand isn't friendly to input, would have (at best) a complex printout. Just try editing your company's mission statement on your cellphone, and you'll see what I mean.
But as a tech-bump? Sure! Why not? But thinking we're going to walk around with 10x the desktop power on a wristwatch is just silly. It doesn't belong there, not yet. Where are the Pentiums and P2's and P3s? Not on our wrists...still on a desk or in a laptop. The form factor doesn't work.
As for tech on the desk...how many of us really use this? A full 90%+ of us on the globe use our computers for email, browsing, document prep and playing media. If we could multiply the power of our CPUs 100-fold, what would we do different? Not much. That's what makes Linux so attractive, that and the no-illegality, no virus stance.
Oh, sure- research organizations could farm it out, no doubt. Even local weather-casters could have their own 'models' too. But until Windows2020, no consumer's gonna have a reason to waste that much power, held in their own hand: this is tech-hype.
The chasm between politicians and geeks just looks narrower today...97% of these people are only good at being elected or chasing ambulances...the other 3% changes at election time. I just have to keep asking; with the myriad failures of this overbloated bureacracy (the stuff of lengends, actually) why do we keep following the shiny pendulum and keep them in power?
Whatever happened to the citizen-statesman? Some of these geezers have been in there 40-50 years!
No wasting time on History or Civics! :) Did it mention how many of these graduated could find the USA on the map?
"This new version of Windows will make things simpler and safer."
"Industry shows acceptance of 2k8 slow to start..."
"Now get Fred's Antivirus: now for 2K8!"
"This'll do us until Longhorn is released."
The code changes, yeah...but don't expect the problems to go away.
And it's interesting how each release requires VASTLY more power, just to sit still, isn't it? And because of that, dual-core P4's will be on the market and give me SO MUCH CPU in Linux I won't know what to do with it all.
This is *exactly* the healty skepticism of a scientist. Just not of a Global Warming scientist. GoodOnYa!
Don't you remember- that guy that was claiming to have made a cloning breakthrough, but it wasn't true and his research was faulty, trying to get grant money or somesuch. It's been a few months back, maybe a year?
And wait; cat or sheep?
The point is, when doctors/scientists/"men of reason" go wrong, it annoys the other scientists the way it annoys me when I see "christians" blowing up abortion clinics, etc.
Good points, all; the way I heard it was the "smartass remark" that insulted the pope was somehow tied to the different point of view, but I've never seen the original document. You and I share the viewpoint that, God doesn't have to use any "David Copperfield" to exert His will. No curtain comes up, no sparks fly, but answers to prayers happen seamlessly and perfectly, when they happen. It actually has to be this way; catching it on tape, providing proof, would deny us the ability to believe without seeing Him. Personally, I feel that the genetic mutation *is* the work of God. I think the findings of most of the scientific folks agrees now with Genesis 1 and so on, and that in the future the accuracy of the Bible will only get clearer and clearer. And it seems likely that, when the Bible has become "proof", that's when He returns. But I think the reason SO MANY people have a problem with Christianity is bad works on the part of their practitioners; specific to this case, Roman Catholics, have been valuing tradition over truth for quite a long time. Not to say they're aren't Christian; the organization has just become so large that it has a momentum of it's own now, and causes problems. For example: 1. When Christ 'drops the bomb' on the apostles that he'll be sacrificed soon, and they come to terms with it, one asks, "so how will we pray to you?" And among the first words out of his mouth are "don't recite to me". He wants to know what's in your heart, not the noise of repeated chatter. "Prayer without ceasing" is a constant connection with you; when you 'talk to yourself' he wants to be a part of the conversation. Yet somehow after millions of men slaved away copying the entire Bible over and over and over again before the printing press, no one in the organization seems to have noticed this concept, and sinners are sent away repeating a single prayer meaninglessly like Bart Simpson writing on the chalkboard. 2. Confession of sins to a priest. Except we're to confess our sins to Him, because no one else has any power to reconcile. No other (non-Roman based) Christians confess to our church leaders. 3. Church sainthood. That just says it all, doesn't it? If you've found Christ, and that change of life is taking hold, you're a saint; you're saved. Why would the church think they have the power to do this? 4. Purgatory/Limbo. This really gets my goat. To suggest that God can't decide glares in the face of everything I know about Him. And then to say, "Pay us money, and we'll change His mind." just tightens the screws. So ya see, there's misapplication, misinterpretation and all that going on. As individuals we need to try better, stop taking someone else's word for it, and find it in the Bible. Hank Hanegraff is VERY good at that.
Oh, that's right; they had the same general idea, but one was 'published' if you will, and paid for it. But things like this are just inexcusable; and my skin crawls every time I hear Christians replaying some of the old myths and misunderstandings- it really just doesn't help the cause.
Thanks again!
I'm a Christian; not the "Earth can only by 6,000 years old" type (Young Earther) and I really have no problem with God, as he does with all living things, mutating a humanoid into Adam and Eve. I don't scream at Trick-or-Treaters, and I'm open to learning more about the Bible, and science.
I'm not the guy that goes along with the crowd to church, mindlessly accepting whatever pastor is within driving distance from my house; I've made contact with the actual being. And I know, that's like trying to prove sighting of a unicorn or something, but proof denies faith, and we all have to actually exert an effort to find Him.
What you're citing as 'Religion' is actually errant Christians. Putting Copurnicous on house arrest for his last 8 years of his life, because the Pope didn't like his idea....that was both malicious and stupid. But, a lot of things are like that in the Roman Catholic church.
Just like it's wrong for a Korean to suggest he's cloned a cat doesn't make science a useless endeavor, just because a sect of Christianity is in error doesn't make religion worthless, either.
It's taken me a long, long time and healthy skepticism, but I'm quickly reaching the point where I'm claiming the Bible has no contradictions. You won't get there sniping at Christians on Slashdot, but if you tune into Hank Hanegraff at http://equip.org/ and get his podcast, you'll see just how many of these have actual reasons.
It's not a document of fairy tales. It's not been translated over and over into error. Every translation comes from the original document. Perhaps a million people have studied this for many centuries...this is a document with more structure, more layers, and more detail than the entire works of Shakespeare. And every once in a while, despite all the claims, the Bible's right, anyway.
Like the Hittites; for centuries people claimed they were a figment of the auther's imagination. Then last century someone found the capital city. It was similarly correct when it talked about two leaders of Babylon, despite "known fact" suggested otherwise for a long time.
Now, there are a lot of true sealots out there; we've all met them. But they're the ones that get all the loudest press. (Much, I'm sure the way scientists feel about Frankenstein, Medela and other very-wrong scientists, real or imaginary).
Just don't write off the Book; don't just take your friend's feelings about it as your own decision, think for yourself. The worst think it could do for you is improve your life. Christ doesn't want mindless robots; he wants people who believe for good reason, aren't prone to branching off like the Davidians, (pardon the pun) or worse yet *killing* anyone in his name.
Just look for yourself; Hank is all about resolving issues of faith, not just from the non-believers, but of the church itself. Give'im a listen!
It's not about all this happening on the same day; there's a whole corridor in time where things were specifically related to a single outcome....kinda like today. Keep going; look up everything else I said and tie them together. Annie Oakley's statement was from somewhere about 1910, the Titanic a little after this, and then World War One. But the steps all happened as if they were designed- there's pattern.
(Or, you could feel your job as smartass fulfilled, and not learn anything from this issue...)
Oh, yeah- don't doubt that at all! But the picture of people falling to their slow deaths from several hundred feet up, fleeing a fireball is something that made a HUGE dent in the collective psyche.
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Hydrogen's a better lifting agent, but that image is hard to shake; "Oh, the humanity..."
Bell Aerospace was working on re-inventing them, back in 1989; someone filed a huge lawsuit for some reason or other (not related to it) and they canceled the project. But their idea was to use a non-rigid ballon large enough to take 4-5 (or more) containers (from "container trucks") across the USA, freeing the roads a bit, and missing every stoplight along the way.
A better idea has been kicked around re-inventing Der Fuhrer's Horton Flying Wing. If the airports could cope with the 150+ft wingspan, they could move maybe a dozen across the sky at a time at a much greater speed. The sticking point is, at 10,000ft-or-less storms remain an issue. But it's just so hard to (properly, over the long term) pressurize something that isn't a cylinder...vibration and the rest of the stresses eventually crack such non-cylindrical shapes in ways they can't cope with, and flying below 10,000 feet means they have to be aware of storms in time.
However...with all these long-range recon vehicles getting automated, who cares? Automate it, ship it, and don't worry about it, aye?
The Horton Flying Wing was pretty cool, not just visibly; removing the fuse removes a lot of drag, and there's no need for an empanage. (Tail section) Also the wings can be like that of the B-36 Peacemaker: wide enough to actually repair an engine in flight! (or carry a bunch of containers...)
"Or maybe you've forgotten the coming ICE AGE of 1977 that froze over NYC and encased it in a block of ice?"
Who said that? no credible scientist said that, ever.
Sorry, but yeah. Bunches of them, and about fourty years apart, over the last century. My first encounter (which is 'stuck' in the 'amber' of television history) was an episode of Barney Miller. There was much talk, and much fear.
(And ok, not a *block* of ice, I was using hyperbole) But Algore's prediction of 22-foot waves are just a little out-of-whack with the UN's estimation of 6-7 centimeters, don'tcha think?
The point is, this is group-think. And when you're ten years down the line, you'll feel just like me: another pointless hoax. How many more will people buy? Aren't they scared enough?
Obviously not. Each of these things had no relavance to anything- that's why I said "healed before the ink was dry". It's all a money scam. You chose to believe it, or question it, but when people around you are scared, you'll be scared, too. Remember Y2K?
Follow the money, and find those who seek ultimate power. You might be surprised.
Just to add a little more, here...I've been told, though I've not had it confirmed ( I keep hoping to run across it somewhere) that Germany *had* to use hydrogen; the Allies, in part of the long pissing-contest that lead up to WW1, wouldn't let them have any helium. And you're right on the composition of the covering; I saw the same episode...and it makes good sense.
...it's almost like the second one was started, before the first one was ended. Still, as a weapon of war, the dirigible wasn't much of a threat, really.
:) My brother is a welding-sales guy. He tells me that during some of the seminars to which he went, it was revealed to him hand-crank drills, not cutting torches when they were building those first battleships. So, for every porthole you've seen on them in photos, each was *hand*drilled* through inches of steel, not torch-cut like they are today.
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Before the Duke was shot in his carriage, a lot of other things were involved, too; Germany had a pissing-contest over the 'new' concept of battleships, starting a technology race, and England was keeping the channels blocked to German traffic. The assassination of the Duke was just a precipitator, once all these factors, and doubtless more were in place.
And in this time a skinny little corporal was caught on film at the speech of the Kaiser, not knowing he'd be centrally involved in the next world war. And about this time, Karl Househoefer was in Japan, learning about the Bushido code, the samurai, and getting the keys to the idea of the SS and the idea of a fabled German homeland. Similarly, Annie Oakley wrote in her diary, "Life on the road [in the Wild West Show] was rewarding, but creepy, too: there are all these Germans measuring ropes, trains, and taking down notes." (Paraphrased) They were finding out how to move lots of men and horses by rail.
And on a similar tangent
Imagine the huge amount of manual labor that musta been!
(See? Next to me, other people on ADD sound downright linear!)
Somehow they got someone at the EPA to consider CO2 a "pollutant". That means each and every one of us are polluters. No, not just while farting, any more. So: we all need to hold our breath. Not very long, just 10 minutes or so. Then, we will be in compliance.
Honestly, you guys, with your education, cross-checking, rules-lawyering and all that time on your hands actually *believe* this crap? Maybe you missed the ozone hole that didn't kill us all (or seem to have an effect on anything but the HVAC industry, for that matter, "healing" before the ink was dry!) Or maybe you've forgotten the coming ICE AGE of 1977 that froze over NYC and encased it in a block of ice? Right- that never happened, either.
How about "Sam" from "Cheers", what's his name? He said, "by 1980, school children will no longer be permitted to play outside, thanks to acid rain." Well that was a huge, city-killing unstopable monster, now wasn't it?
Could you guys just take the time to look at a *single* chart on CO2 as it relates to global heat, not the two separate graphs Algore brought out, and notice that CO2 _cools_ not _heats_ the atmosphere, about 800 years after the heat comes?
It's yet another parlor trick of the left; you need to be paniced; you need to send all your money to members of a single party or we're all gonna DIE! Think of the children!
(Please; look at the chart, it's about as clear as a turd in a punchbowl.)
There's a reason the Amish don't have cell phones, and it's not *just* because of religious reasons, though that's a big part of it. The Amish see something like this as getting between people. Face it: how many times have you, in person, been put "on hold" for someone on a cellphone? Basically they don't like what it would do to their community.
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In this case, the same is true. Metaphorically like giving a hot rod to a teenage boy, you can't always trust'im to be _wise_ or _polite_ as to the operation of the car....and this is a realization of the same thing, on a grander scale.
In a similar vein, what's the first thing that gets illuminated when you hand a child a flashlight? YOUR face.
Yeah, that's probably true; 90% of the people use little more than the basics...except for the megacorporations who have 'overtrained' folks doing the stats for each and every department, hearing the siren-song of the long-promised 'enterprise-connected spreadsheet'. But I've gotta say, Gnumeric is a good, solid piece of code, and only getting better. They report some ~250 Excel plugins/macros cloned and another ~200 that it doesn't have. It's a contender...
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But good point.
So what's the problem with the 90%?
Yeah, you're probably right in that regard; Microsoft uses "focus groups", though there are real people that discuss usability in open source, too. Personally I think it's more a matter that, when you work for Microsoft, you're 'puttin' in eight' while open source developers "own" their code, and feel slighted at the idea that anyone could break their code and embarrass them. The motivation of the makers makes a real difference.
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And there's also a strategic reason of marketing; Microsoft is all about marketing. Every move they make has that explicit goal. In Linux, we do what we think people will like....because they TELL US.
Gutsy is quite good. For many years I've appreciated a handful of things Microsoft does:
1. Printer control (when the DLLs don't go missing/insane/violated by CircusWare
2. Microsoft Flight Simulator
3. Easy networking.
Looks like there's nothing really left, now that Flight Gear is surely coming up to speed!
Good job, guys!
Nice ploy; pretend to be Republican or Conservative. If you were, you'd know that Limbaugh was wronged in plain sight, in the exact same way any one of us could be. But that doesn't matter; presenting a good slap, does.
"Nematode"..that puts you in 8th grade biology class around this time of day. You probably still think Limbaugh is fat, much less have any concept of anything he's said in 18 years. It's childish to present something without facts. It's deadly to vote that way. Keep that in mind, it'll give you something to do until the bell rings for lunch.
I'm not a huge gamer, but I've done a lot of gaming in my life. I remember Temple of Apshai on the TRS-80, for example, "AE" from Broderbund...my dad actually OWNED a Pong game in the late 70's that he placed into stores.
The game "quality" is a nebulous idea; it can't be said that FPS' are technically less quality, with all the new rendering techniques, but the PLOT of such games is simple, the same cookie-cutter of killing that's actually no different from UT, Quake, Duke Nukem, or others.
BUT I HAVE TO SAY: "Little Big Planet" is a gem.
I don't own a PS3, and I don't expect I will for a decade, by which time I'll be able to get one at a yard sale, but that is one cool little game. No badguys, no explosions except for some popping of lemons, it embodies something very forgotten, probably by all of us: simple fun.
Remember the days of kindergarten when all you had to do was exchange names and ask 'do you want to play'? Remember as a small child where a simple walk through the neighbor's house was an adventure? This game has managed to capture that, with scenes made up from places all over. Ideas from 'opensource'-style groups to creating a long, seemingly never ending road, and it's just you and 4-5 people from all over the world, stumbling along, learning, and having fun. There's something essential about this game. It's a reminder that fun-with-guns only goes so far, ever.
I don't expect it'll go very far, I don't suppose Halo 4 will involve a guns-free mode, nor do I expect anyone on Slashdot to agree, but I think what "Mr Atari" is talking about is found in this game....'simple fun'.