They'll get there when "no one needs system administrators" and as soon as one of the non-computer business units actually suceede. Besides, it's always the *next* release of the OS that'll end viruses. (Been hearing that one since Win31 or so...)
Having Microsoft screw up the cellphone industry is something we really, really need. Viruses, more reasons to pay just to keep the phone clean, ah, yes...paying for mediocrity is the best of all worlds.
Don'tcha get tired of this? Ignore it all ya like, but there have been dozens of real, dangerous terrorist attacks thwarted locally. Get over it; there are bigger problems than a Republican in the White House.
Each of the instances metioned have a large base of customer interaction.
In the case of Linux, anyone who has it, can start writing code,
In the case of Apple, they're almost the only thing the company cares about: making and keeping customers happy. It's also why, though I find their interfaces child-like, you won't hear me demeaning Apple, because they make good hardware and keep users happy.
Microsoft rules by brute force; new computers on the shelf are cheaper than Apple, there are repair depos everywhere, so they are the default, so they rule. Most people grow up on Mom and Dad's computer and feel they've conquered something, so they're not likely to give that up. Then, the masrketting kicks in. When they write "standard" things (Like TCP, for example) they support it in a way that makes THEM look good, and anything non-Microsoft look lame. This is the nature of this beast.
No other alternative can do this; it's a fraction of the market from the start- whatever's different isn't going to grow, in percent of market, very fast. Linux is making huge strides in this direction, and is probably the only thing that can "make it" as a real competitor; it has no one company to be bought, not single man to be killed, and people see it grow fanstastically over time. And, let's face it: when you don't waste 30% of your time fighting viruses and holes intentionally left in the system, you can get a lot more done.
No, Microsoft doesn't have a cult following; just a following of the brainwashed and those not willing to try anything new. Linux, especially Ubuntu's Dapper Drake, is easier to install, easier to install packages on, and the only time it seems to give you trouble is when there's a genuine problem- not every month, in hopes of you paying someone.
For many, many years they were content to just keep the dead accounts out there, I suppose to show investment bankers how much theorhetical money they could make...and if this was part of that process, maybe it's good.
Or someone missed the syntax of an SQL statment, and the server room's on FIRE.:)
True; "wasting" is the wrong term. Maybe I sould have said "sacrificing".
My intent was to convey that, for that generation, parties with the girls back home were trades for battles with some real, hard troops...and women they night never see again. They had to grow up very, very quickly. If they grew up at all.
Their sacrifice was huge; and in this propganda war, it's refreshing to be called on such a typo!
In these crazy days, doesn't it seem like there's a lawyer somewhere just WAITING for the first time a journalist writes the headline, "Lost in Space" so they can get copyright infringement?
Maybe I'm too cynical.:>
Seriously though; "Scotty" was a huge hero even before Star Trek. One of his previous roles was on June 6th, 1944: he was one of them attacking Fortress Europa. His efforts, and the efforts of thousands of other guys wasting their childhood fighting Nazi Germany is why we're free. Why the show could air; why the benefits of freedom are so available. I liked'em before, but upon learning that, I'm his biggest fan.
My dad came behind the push at Anzio, he got a late start. Dad is why I know this was such a huge accomplishment. Thanks so much, "Scotty".
I lived through the dot-bombs; I remember very clearly hearing, "We're going to make our product, a better brand X, than Brand X."
Ya might want to adjust your strategic portfolios accordingly. Any time someone has an idea that's trying to be someone elses, it obviates the concept that they're not a new idea, and that they have shortcomings. No matter how many 'power meetings' and 'paradigm shifts' they go through, the miming partner hits the skids.
I'm not anti-Sun; they've provided great hardware for a long time. I'm no particular fan of proprietary OSs, but Solaris and company could have sucked more. I just wish they'd pay more attention to their business (i.e. customers) and less time trying to run it like they were told in business school.
Anyone remember them paying Kodak $90M without a fight? I wonder if their soul is gone for good, this time?
But I just have a hard time relating to Windows-centric projects. I've spent decades trying to keep DOS/Windows boxes from getting ravaged by their own insecurity; I'll be dammed if I'll downgrade and put up with all that noise again.
There's a rumor there is a way to deal with it from Linux, but the process seemed kinda Frankenstien-like...but I have other things to do, if they're going to overlook Linux. I have plenty to do, and plenty I've been putting off.
We're using too much toilet paper and our industry is setting the world on fire!:)
(Seriously, though, the huge amount we're spending on "Global Warming" and the tiny amount we're spending on NASA [as a percentage of GDP] is just incredible. Ever notice all global warming *must* come from our capitalist system, though most of the current "heat" came from before industry? And no one every figures-in the sun...)
The lion's share of IT is Microsoft; it's the default. We can't count on them to secure it (see also a host of AV/antispam software, as well as their history) and the silly little dance we do swings between trusting Microsoft ('cause they don't know any better) to hiring a sysadmin to do all manner of stupid things in hopes of nailing it down.
Yeah, I'd like to see an actual, honest-to-goodness security company who does constant monitoring and attempting intrustions, but these days it's hard to push a service that, when it works, nothing happens. And when it doens't work, the whole place goes to hell.
Business tries to spend as little on security as they feel comfortable with; so until everyone's running Linux with a part of their tribe always watching over every step and releasing patches, it'll be this way.
There's also an incovenient truth to the IT industry: selling MS solutions will keep you on the jobsite. Here, I've seen a dozen sites that need Linux help once a year, and someone's literally on site each and every month for some kind of problem related to Microsoft. We have to be aware of the "Maytag repairman" aspect of Linux; some people don't want to push it, because they LIKE their expensive cars and vacations.
Ugly to say, I know...but it's true.
And as long as there are third parties with promises, and security-contractors have what seem to be large bills, you won't see a change anytime soon.
Anti-Islam? That's not a charge I'd have guessed would be leveled. Unlike most Christians, I'm anti-zionist; that's an Arab viewpoint.
Yeah, it kinda looked like what I see so much here, any time I try to chime in on secularist programming gone awry. "Hate" was a little strong, and I'm sorry...I couldn't think of the next level below it.
Now sure, there's times where the Jews were directed to kill other races; one that comes to mind was one where genocide was called for. In that case, the parents of that clan were killing (sacrificing) and then EATING their own children. But things were different under Mosaic law.
By non-racist, I mean in it's redemption. Nothing in there for example, says that dark-skinned peoples need to be punished. Age-old thoughts that 'the mark of Caanan' means negro is just ill-guided. But there's been a lot of this sort of thing from Christianity.
Capernicus is a good example; for the 'crime' of suggesting the Earth isn't the center of the universe (though it certainly seems to be the center of attention) he spent the last 8 years of his life confined to his house. That was just dumb.
Similarly, thinking that the world is only 6,000 years old from a crude, literal reading of Genesis and Numbers (without in-depth understanding of the books and the style of the text) is so easily defeated by commonly available evidence. But Christians seem slow to correct themselves. My original post was intended to illuminate that the 6,000 figure is wrong, and we should stop saying it.
Anti-Islam? I thought that realizing the culture of hate, preventing them by law to find redemption was one of the saddest things in the world. I'm no more anti-Islam than I'm anti JW or Mormon. Like so many times, it's not the people, but the organizational limitations. I'm for *everyone* finding their maker...not just people whose language I share...
Sure, a lot of that goes on. But understand that reading the Bible with the intent to find fault will find one every time. Anyone can make a half-assed attempt at understanding something (sendmail, for example) and call it crap.
So on that basis the Bible (and sendmail) are crap?
The revelation of which I speak comes from Hank Hannigraff; he has the entire Bible, not to mention the books of Mormon, Jehova's Witnesses, and about a dozen other books not accepted into the canon in his _head_. For him, answering any question takes only the time to say the response- he's an expert on the subject.
And, unlike so many people before him, rather than giving a summary of the apocalyptic writings, he gives you the tools to read and understand what you're reading to make your *own* decisions. This is a very important point.
Check out some of his things- his site is http://equip.org/ and his book is The Apocalypse Code in bookstores, now.
He also does a lot of over-the-radio stuff; it's *amazing* to hear callers with questions, and with no keyclicks and no page-turning, he explains the text, with how it relates to the other books and passages.
He's a very humble guy...and only wants to get to the truth. He's a big fan of comparing scripture-to-scripture. He doesn't like mentally filling in gaps with ideas.
If you really want to know what I know, to understand it legitimately for yourself, this guy can help you. He has a "Bible AnswerMan vol 1 & 2" that you can scan at the bookstore; see if you don't think he's as fairminded about this stuff as people can be. I've been listening to him for about 2 years now.
Well, when I saw the original post, I quickly determined it to be one of two things: 1) A goofball like the one that posted the GPL, or 2) a Christian spreading around the kind of crap that makes people like you hate Christianity. Either way, I wanted to set the record straight.
There are a great many mistruths that abound about Christianity; assumptions by people who've never really read the Bible and want to denegrate it read snippets out of context and share it with the world because, if they actually read it like they where meant to, they'd feel guilty about the things they do to other people.
The Bible is, in fact, mono-racist; references to Isreal are about the people with a relationship to God, not a scrap of terra firma that inspires great pain these days. At the well....seems like it was in Matthew, a Samarian woman sat with Christ, just days before his crucifixion. He said "Soon no one will make sacrifices in those temples." He also said, "You will destroy this temple (me) and I will raise it back up again in 3 days".
God isn't a God, unless he's here for everyone. Why would he care, Jew versus Greek, slave versus free? These are minor differences, many we assign ourselves.
Leviticus 26 has the patent for the Promised Land; it also tells the Jews how to live there, and flourish. It also says "Ignore my laws, and the land will vomit you out [like the Caananites before you]." Another old-testament scripture warns of there being 490 years of living there before judgement is given them, and they were brutally savaged, about 2/3 of them. THIS is the tribulation spoken of in Revelation, not some future time.
Christians mean well, but moving as many Jews as possible back there, with the intent of setting up altars for animal sacrifices again (and having 2/3 of them killed) is just not how the Bible reads. Why would Christ die on the cross, in complete redemption of our sins, and then have those that ignore his sacrifice start with animals again? It's just wrong.
The Jews had 490 ("7*70") years in which to live in the Promised Land, with a chance to keep the Mosaic law, and they didn't. Jews, like the rest of the world, need to find Him.
What's sad is that the Muslims are not permitted to address their God at all; perhaps in fear that they might actually find the real one. There's just these millions of people, living in misery, by the sword, who'll never know the articulate genious of a loving God. And how so many people simply ignore Him completely and throw stones at those who know Him.
There's no way it's 6,000 tops, and I'll tell ya why.
A well-meaning, and very solidly-scientific priest named Usher in 1532 looked into the book of Numbers, made some assumptions, and did the math. Unfortunately every one of his five assumptions were wrong.
In the old days, the days of the old testament, telling one's family tree was done in a special way; and a very human way, at that. When telling how someone relates to Adam, they skip generations: generations no one ever heard of. Not to mention that people used to live sometimes *much* more than the 30-40 years as man has for most of it's time, and much more than the 70 expected years, these days.
Ya see, the Bible isn't intended as forensic data; it has a message to tell. You won't find the 16,900,000 species of mammals in there, 'cause it's just not important. It'd make the final work a house, not a book. And it distracts from the point. However the description of the development of plants does match the fossil records.
There's an important message in the Bible; a book written like Shakespeare with it's different language and different style of speaking, but it's heavily cross-referenced with multitudes of layers all pointing to a single truth:
One world: Earth
One race: Human
One nation: Isreal*
One purpose: Recovery from misery
Nothing in the Bible suggests racism; this isn't only for Jews or Caananites or any one particular kind of person. And it's intended to bring us joy, harmony, and a better life for those who follow it. He makes every effort to keep the message passed down from generation to generation, as well as from continent to continent with only typeo-style differences, even across 1,000 years when paper wasnt an easy option.
You can choose to look for that single message of acceptance and good, or you can ridicule it, ignore it, and find yourself no longer bothered by Him for eternity....and Isreal? It's a relationship to God, not a stretch of stinkin' sand. We're wrong to suggest the Jews go back to there...they need the new Jerusalem. But then, everyone does.
Has anyone noticed every other release of Windows, how "industry cool to (new release" and then "Is (new relese) in trouble?"
No, it's not. Wait a couple of months and it'll be everywhere.
And while you guys are throwing away your "obsolete" heardware, I'm gonna be going to the surplus outlet and upgrading my Linux boxes with absurdly-overpowered hardware, cheap.
This is that part where someone mentions, "those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it". This is just one small example.
Yeah, I knew the shooter was Asian, but outside of Arabia proper, the largest clump of mulims are in Indonesia (no requirement to be Arab). But the same is true of black men, for example; they have a historical link to that scene, as evidenced by the "Nation of Islam" (which no Arab seems to cliam) and so-called 'black leaders' like Molique Shabazz. (He was probably Fred Smith until he learned how to shake-down people over race.)
The black man needs no voice; he can speak for himself, just like the other demographic bunches of people like the Irish, Spanish, Polish, etc...these guys are now in the business of hate-for-pay, as is evidenced in the Duke LaCross case, for example, and hundreds of other scams.
Understand that America is anything but casual about guns; hundreds of laws exist about guns including waiting periods, extra jail-time for gun-related crimes, it's a real zoo. And I'm all fine with that: it's an important and deadly tool. Just keep in mind that, if "all guns" are outlawed, criminals will still have them in the same way they have illegal drugs, booze, and anything else they can pay the black market for. Outlawing guns just makes it easy for criminals.
These are days that a single busybody can make a phone call to the pipeline of the New York Times and their pipeline, and it all gets published as truth without review (as is evidenced by the reporter they fired, and got his face on magazines, for making up stories.) So you'll find evidence on both sides of most issues. The truth is out there....it's probably not on TV.
And can you really tell me that this sounds like "a crackpot with a gun"? The official story is a domestic dispute...but with shooting 50+ people? That's not a domestic dispute, that's terrorism. Just like the DC sniper, just like 20-30 other events where people leave a mosque and start killing, over the last year or two.
They're covering it up...but we're at war, and have been for a couple of decades.
Yep, it's true. A gun, by itself doesn't kill. Like a cresent wrench or a drill press, it requires a person to use it for good or ill. It's a liberal fantasy that "wherever guns are, people die", and now there's a lot of solid proof: Australia decided to remove all the guns. Crime shot up, causing more misery. (See Google)
Despite thousands of bloggers and the legacy media, it's just not true. And armed society is a polite society.
Bowling for Columbine was an interesting use of this mantra; these people deal with guns as commonplace. They also build strategic nukes. [Your own insecurites were to fill in the blank, "So they will kill us all".] Best propoganda I've seen in years, but an ugly mug to take to the Oscars, etc.:)
Yeah, I have to agree; I was programming 1702's to act as address decoders WAY back in 1978- probably the lowest-rung of programmable hardware. These devices are great, but hardly a breakthough.
Like that other poster, I just always assumed it meant they PAID Microsoft, not that it certified anything. I wasted THREE HOURS getting a simple Creative Webcam 3 working on Win98; I took the thing upstairs on a Linux box, and it had created the device, and was waiting on me to open the video! Sometimes they didn't get/keep all the.DLLs on those Compaqs...
Just another hoax, move along. We've seen them before.
The population bomb.
The coming ice age.
The killer bees.
The ozone hole.
Please; this is like the brand-new Corvette that a man died in, off the road; you could buy it for a mere $400, but you have to get the smell out. (See Snopes.com)
It's not that there isn't a change, it's not that there won't be changes to human population. It's that there's nothing we can do, and we'll just deal with it. Remember that Greenland was once called that because it USED TO BE GREEN.
No jumping out of windows, guys. This, too, will blow over.
And just so ya know- Revelations is not going to be as bad as many (LeHay, Lindsey) say it's going to be. Miserable, yes, but not that bad.
It's usually the non-US countries that actually do these ridulous things? Like when Britain put a dead man on the stand...as if he would answer questions.
But, if 'the world is an accident' and 'there is no right or wrong', I suppose you could get tricked into doing just about anything.
I thought I recently heard that the 'huge blocks' were an early form of concrete?
I've also been told that, in order to place these stones in the lifetime of the pharoh associated with it, they'd need to be dropped into place every 8 seconds.
Is is safe to assume we're going to get contradictory stories about them for just a few more years?:)
Nah, not really; remember Rove is a political, not DoD admin. My point behind the original post is how creepy it is that every DNC target becomes a person hated by 1/2 the populace, and yet they have no reason- they can't tell you why, but they've considered shooting them (in their minds).
Every response I've gotten is from one of these people, who misunderstand how TINY the losses have been in the war, why we're there, and why it's stupid to repeat Vietnam when we're making such progress.
The TV is not your friend; trust me. Time and again the modern media has shown to be propaganda, not reporting....the end result...and the original point...is that people in the blogosphere are getting the brunt of it. Even in innoculous Java-related blogs, the angst is still there, and carries over. This is far from the only report of death threats amongst non-celebrities, they're happening every day.
You're missing the point; Iraq, while it's no 'vacation' destination like Germany, is *SO* very different from the one the "media" paints. Besides- in times of war, _shouldn't_ there be a reward for keeping already-trained soldiers in the field? It's a job, and a noble one, no matter what your TV tells you. What your TV *doesn't* tell you is also telling.
3300 "deaths in the Iraq war" also includes accidents state-side. Car wrecks, heart attacks, dog-bites, whatever. The number is actually 10-15% smaller. After 5 years of occupation, only 3,300? We usually lose this much, just getting started.
At the same time, how many people have died in Afganistan. Aren't we fighting there, too? Isn't that the tactical avenue, directly in response to 9/11? Ask your news man how many losses have happened there. The news takes no joy in the sucess in Afganistan, so it won't tell you.
Remember when the Dow broke 11,000 for the first time under Clinton? Parades; the "media" was just shivering with joy. Every broadcast and all cable-news outlets ran the story. The other day we broke 12,000, and Fox, not ABC/CBS/NBC reported it on-air. A handful of newspapers mentioned it.
This is why I call it propoganda. They don't care about America, they want the socialists installed. You might call'em Democrats, Progressives, but it's the same people.
And on the subject of these people, why support them? Because child molesting is good? (Remember they support NAMBLA) Do they love freedom? (Not when they idolize Stalin, openly, a guy who starved 11,000,000 in the Ukraine in 1937...Castro who runs a police-state, and Chavez just another leader who kills thousands of his own).
It's not that Democrats are wrong, it's that liberals are wrong. Historically wrong. They perpetrate hoaxes using guilt to grow their power:
The coming Ice Age, Acid Rain, Overpopulation, the Ozone Hole, now (man-made) climate change...all designed with help from the media to make you vote for them.
Did we overpopulate? Did Acid Rain kill our children? Did we have any power in solving the Ozone Hole? Did we get plagued with Killer Bees? No, but we've put a lot of people with policies you're going to hate, into power.
Take a history class- there *is* a cost to not watching the news, and watching it from several different sources. Ask questions, and don't rely on bloggers who have an agenda and PhotoShopped photos. If you're not paying attention, you'll wake up in a Communist state.
Bold statement? Did you know under Hilary's healthcare, a patient visting a doctor out of their plan AND the doctor in question would be held on federal charges.
Slashdot Mirror
They'll get there when "no one needs system administrators" and as soon as one of the non-computer business units actually suceede. Besides, it's always the *next* release of the OS that'll end viruses. (Been hearing that one since Win31 or so...)
Having Microsoft screw up the cellphone industry is something we really, really need. Viruses, more reasons to pay just to keep the phone clean, ah, yes...paying for mediocrity is the best of all worlds.
[Gimme a break!]
Don'tcha get tired of this? Ignore it all ya like, but there have been dozens of real, dangerous terrorist attacks thwarted locally. Get over it; there are bigger problems than a Republican in the White House.
Each of the instances metioned have a large base of customer interaction.
In the case of Linux, anyone who has it, can start writing code,
In the case of Apple, they're almost the only thing the company cares about: making and keeping customers happy. It's also why, though I find their interfaces child-like, you won't hear me demeaning Apple, because they make good hardware and keep users happy.
Microsoft rules by brute force; new computers on the shelf are cheaper than Apple, there are repair depos everywhere, so they are the default, so they rule. Most people grow up on Mom and Dad's computer and feel they've conquered something, so they're not likely to give that up. Then, the masrketting kicks in. When they write "standard" things (Like TCP, for example) they support it in a way that makes THEM look good, and anything non-Microsoft look lame. This is the nature of this beast.
No other alternative can do this; it's a fraction of the market from the start- whatever's different isn't going to grow, in percent of market, very fast. Linux is making huge strides in this direction, and is probably the only thing that can "make it" as a real competitor; it has no one company to be bought, not single man to be killed, and people see it grow fanstastically over time. And, let's face it: when you don't waste 30% of your time fighting viruses and holes intentionally left in the system, you can get a lot more done.
No, Microsoft doesn't have a cult following; just a following of the brainwashed and those not willing to try anything new. Linux, especially Ubuntu's Dapper Drake, is easier to install, easier to install packages on, and the only time it seems to give you trouble is when there's a genuine problem- not every month, in hopes of you paying someone.
For many, many years they were content to just keep the dead accounts out there, I suppose to show investment bankers how much theorhetical money they could make...and if this was part of that process, maybe it's good.
:)
Or someone missed the syntax of an SQL statment, and the server room's on FIRE.
True; "wasting" is the wrong term. Maybe I sould have said "sacrificing".
My intent was to convey that, for that generation, parties with the girls back home were trades for battles with some real, hard troops...and women they night never see again. They had to grow up very, very quickly. If they grew up at all.
Their sacrifice was huge; and in this propganda war, it's refreshing to be called on such a typo!
Thanks for improving my day!
In these crazy days, doesn't it seem like there's a lawyer somewhere just WAITING for the first time a journalist writes the headline, "Lost in Space" so they can get copyright infringement?
:>
Maybe I'm too cynical.
Seriously though; "Scotty" was a huge hero even before Star Trek. One of his previous roles was on June 6th, 1944: he was one of them attacking Fortress Europa. His efforts, and the efforts of thousands of other guys wasting their childhood fighting Nazi Germany is why we're free. Why the show could air; why the benefits of freedom are so available. I liked'em before, but upon learning that, I'm his biggest fan.
My dad came behind the push at Anzio, he got a late start. Dad is why I know this was such a huge accomplishment. Thanks so much, "Scotty".
(Quote from Samuel Clemens)
I lived through the dot-bombs; I remember very clearly hearing, "We're going to make our product, a better brand X, than Brand X."
Ya might want to adjust your strategic portfolios accordingly. Any time someone has an idea that's trying to be someone elses, it obviates the concept that they're not a new idea, and that they have shortcomings. No matter how many 'power meetings' and 'paradigm shifts' they go through, the miming partner hits the skids.
I'm not anti-Sun; they've provided great hardware for a long time. I'm no particular fan of proprietary OSs, but Solaris and company could have sucked more. I just wish they'd pay more attention to their business (i.e. customers) and less time trying to run it like they were told in business school.
Anyone remember them paying Kodak $90M without a fight? I wonder if their soul is gone for good, this time?
But I just have a hard time relating to Windows-centric projects. I've spent decades trying to keep DOS/Windows boxes from getting ravaged by their own insecurity; I'll be dammed if I'll downgrade and put up with all that noise again.
There's a rumor there is a way to deal with it from Linux, but the process seemed kinda Frankenstien-like...but I have other things to do, if they're going to overlook Linux. I have plenty to do, and plenty I've been putting off.
We're using too much toilet paper and our industry is setting the world on fire!
(Seriously, though, the huge amount we're spending on "Global Warming" and the tiny amount we're spending on NASA [as a percentage of GDP] is just incredible. Ever notice all global warming *must* come from our capitalist system, though most of the current "heat" came from before industry? And no one every figures-in the sun...)
(Let me guess- I spelled that wrong?)
The lion's share of IT is Microsoft; it's the default. We can't count on them to secure it (see also a host of AV/antispam software, as well as their history) and the silly little dance we do swings between trusting Microsoft ('cause they don't know any better) to hiring a sysadmin to do all manner of stupid things in hopes of nailing it down.
Yeah, I'd like to see an actual, honest-to-goodness security company who does constant monitoring and attempting intrustions, but these days it's hard to push a service that, when it works, nothing happens. And when it doens't work, the whole place goes to hell.
Business tries to spend as little on security as they feel comfortable with; so until everyone's running Linux with a part of their tribe always watching over every step and releasing patches, it'll be this way.
There's also an incovenient truth to the IT industry: selling MS solutions will keep you on the jobsite. Here, I've seen a dozen sites that need Linux help once a year, and someone's literally on site each and every month for some kind of problem related to Microsoft. We have to be aware of the "Maytag repairman" aspect of Linux; some people don't want to push it, because they LIKE their expensive cars and vacations.
Ugly to say, I know...but it's true.
And as long as there are third parties with promises, and security-contractors have what seem to be large bills, you won't see a change anytime soon.
Anti-Islam? That's not a charge I'd have guessed would be leveled. Unlike most Christians, I'm anti-zionist; that's an Arab viewpoint.
Yeah, it kinda looked like what I see so much here, any time I try to chime in on secularist programming gone awry. "Hate" was a little strong, and I'm sorry...I couldn't think of the next level below it.
Now sure, there's times where the Jews were directed to kill other races; one that comes to mind was one where genocide was called for. In that case, the parents of that clan were killing (sacrificing) and then EATING their own children. But things were different under Mosaic law.
By non-racist, I mean in it's redemption. Nothing in there for example, says that dark-skinned peoples need to be punished. Age-old thoughts that 'the mark of Caanan' means negro is just ill-guided. But there's been a lot of this sort of thing from Christianity.
Capernicus is a good example; for the 'crime' of suggesting the Earth isn't the center of the universe (though it certainly seems to be the center of attention) he spent the last 8 years of his life confined to his house. That was just dumb.
Similarly, thinking that the world is only 6,000 years old from a crude, literal reading of Genesis and Numbers (without in-depth understanding of the books and the style of the text) is so easily defeated by commonly available evidence. But Christians seem slow to correct themselves. My original post was intended to illuminate that the 6,000 figure is wrong, and we should stop saying it.
Anti-Islam? I thought that realizing the culture of hate, preventing them by law to find redemption was one of the saddest things in the world. I'm no more anti-Islam than I'm anti JW or Mormon. Like so many times, it's not the people, but the organizational limitations. I'm for *everyone* finding their maker...not just people whose language I share...
[And yeah, off-topic, now...let's let it go.]
Sure, a lot of that goes on. But understand that reading the Bible with the intent to find fault will find one every time. Anyone can make a half-assed attempt at understanding something (sendmail, for example) and call it crap.
So on that basis the Bible (and sendmail) are crap?
The revelation of which I speak comes from Hank Hannigraff; he has the entire Bible, not to mention the books of Mormon, Jehova's Witnesses, and about a dozen other books not accepted into the canon in his _head_. For him, answering any question takes only the time to say the response- he's an expert on the subject.
And, unlike so many people before him, rather than giving a summary of the apocalyptic writings, he gives you the tools to read and understand what you're reading to make your *own* decisions. This is a very important point.
Check out some of his things- his site is http://equip.org/ and his book is The Apocalypse Code in bookstores, now.
He also does a lot of over-the-radio stuff; it's *amazing* to hear callers with questions, and with no keyclicks and no page-turning, he explains the text, with how it relates to the other books and passages.
He's a very humble guy...and only wants to get to the truth. He's a big fan of comparing scripture-to-scripture. He doesn't like mentally filling in gaps with ideas.
If you really want to know what I know, to understand it legitimately for yourself, this guy can help you. He has a "Bible AnswerMan vol 1 & 2" that you can scan at the bookstore; see if you don't think he's as fairminded about this stuff as people can be. I've been listening to him for about 2 years now.
Well, when I saw the original post, I quickly determined it to be one of two things: 1) A goofball like the one that posted the GPL, or 2) a Christian spreading around the kind of crap that makes people like you hate Christianity. Either way, I wanted to set the record straight.
There are a great many mistruths that abound about Christianity; assumptions by people who've never really read the Bible and want to denegrate it read snippets out of context and share it with the world because, if they actually read it like they where meant to, they'd feel guilty about the things they do to other people.
The Bible is, in fact, mono-racist; references to Isreal are about the people with a relationship to God, not a scrap of terra firma that inspires great pain these days. At the well....seems like it was in Matthew, a Samarian woman sat with Christ, just days before his crucifixion. He said "Soon no one will make sacrifices in those temples." He also said, "You will destroy this temple (me) and I will raise it back up again in 3 days".
God isn't a God, unless he's here for everyone. Why would he care, Jew versus Greek, slave versus free? These are minor differences, many we assign ourselves.
Leviticus 26 has the patent for the Promised Land; it also tells the Jews how to live there, and flourish. It also says "Ignore my laws, and the land will vomit you out [like the Caananites before you]." Another old-testament scripture warns of there being 490 years of living there before judgement is given them, and they were brutally savaged, about 2/3 of them. THIS is the tribulation spoken of in Revelation, not some future time.
Christians mean well, but moving as many Jews as possible back there, with the intent of setting up altars for animal sacrifices again (and having 2/3 of them killed) is just not how the Bible reads. Why would Christ die on the cross, in complete redemption of our sins, and then have those that ignore his sacrifice start with animals again? It's just wrong.
The Jews had 490 ("7*70") years in which to live in the Promised Land, with a chance to keep the Mosaic law, and they didn't. Jews, like the rest of the world, need to find Him.
What's sad is that the Muslims are not permitted to address their God at all; perhaps in fear that they might actually find the real one. There's just these millions of people, living in misery, by the sword, who'll never know the articulate genious of a loving God. And how so many people simply ignore Him completely and throw stones at those who know Him.
Nope; as a Christian, I have to step in:
...and Isreal? It's a relationship to God, not a stretch of stinkin' sand. We're wrong to suggest the Jews go back to there...they need the new Jerusalem. But then, everyone does.
There's no way it's 6,000 tops, and I'll tell ya why.
A well-meaning, and very solidly-scientific priest named Usher in 1532 looked into the book of Numbers, made some assumptions, and did the math. Unfortunately every one of his five assumptions were wrong.
In the old days, the days of the old testament, telling one's family tree was done in a special way; and a very human way, at that. When telling how someone relates to Adam, they skip generations: generations no one ever heard of. Not to mention that people used to live sometimes *much* more than the 30-40 years as man has for most of it's time, and much more than the 70 expected years, these days.
Ya see, the Bible isn't intended as forensic data; it has a message to tell. You won't find the 16,900,000 species of mammals in there, 'cause it's just not important. It'd make the final work a house, not a book. And it distracts from the point. However the description of the development of plants does match the fossil records.
There's an important message in the Bible; a book written like Shakespeare with it's different language and different style of speaking, but it's heavily cross-referenced with multitudes of layers all pointing to a single truth:
One world: Earth
One race: Human
One nation: Isreal*
One purpose: Recovery from misery
Nothing in the Bible suggests racism; this isn't only for Jews or Caananites or any one particular kind of person. And it's intended to bring us joy, harmony, and a better life for those who follow it. He makes every effort to keep the message passed down from generation to generation, as well as from continent to continent with only typeo-style differences, even across 1,000 years when paper wasnt an easy option.
You can choose to look for that single message of acceptance and good, or you can ridicule it, ignore it, and find yourself no longer bothered by Him for eternity.
Has anyone noticed every other release of Windows, how "industry cool to (new release" and then "Is (new relese) in trouble?"
No, it's not. Wait a couple of months and it'll be everywhere.
And while you guys are throwing away your "obsolete" heardware, I'm gonna be going to the surplus outlet and upgrading my Linux boxes with absurdly-overpowered hardware, cheap.
This is that part where someone mentions, "those who don't learn history are doomed to repeat it". This is just one small example.
Yeah, I knew the shooter was Asian, but outside of Arabia proper, the largest clump of mulims are in Indonesia (no requirement to be Arab). But the same is true of black men, for example; they have a historical link to that scene, as evidenced by the "Nation of Islam" (which no Arab seems to cliam) and so-called 'black leaders' like Molique Shabazz. (He was probably Fred Smith until he learned how to shake-down people over race.)
The black man needs no voice; he can speak for himself, just like the other demographic bunches of people like the Irish, Spanish, Polish, etc...these guys are now in the business of hate-for-pay, as is evidenced in the Duke LaCross case, for example, and hundreds of other scams.
Understand that America is anything but casual about guns; hundreds of laws exist about guns including waiting periods, extra jail-time for gun-related crimes, it's a real zoo. And I'm all fine with that: it's an important and deadly tool. Just keep in mind that, if "all guns" are outlawed, criminals will still have them in the same way they have illegal drugs, booze, and anything else they can pay the black market for. Outlawing guns just makes it easy for criminals.
These are days that a single busybody can make a phone call to the pipeline of the New York Times and their pipeline, and it all gets published as truth without review (as is evidenced by the reporter they fired, and got his face on magazines, for making up stories.) So you'll find evidence on both sides of most issues. The truth is out there....it's probably not on TV.
And can you really tell me that this sounds like "a crackpot with a gun"? The official story is a domestic dispute...but with shooting 50+ people? That's not a domestic dispute, that's terrorism. Just like the DC sniper, just like 20-30 other events where people leave a mosque and start killing, over the last year or two.
They're covering it up...but we're at war, and have been for a couple of decades.
Unless you vote Democrat.
Yep, it's true. A gun, by itself doesn't kill. Like a cresent wrench or a drill press, it requires a person to use it for good or ill. It's a liberal fantasy that "wherever guns are, people die", and now there's a lot of solid proof: Australia decided to remove all the guns. Crime shot up, causing more misery. (See Google)
:)
Despite thousands of bloggers and the legacy media, it's just not true. And armed society is a polite society.
Bowling for Columbine was an interesting use of this mantra; these people deal with guns as commonplace. They also build strategic nukes. [Your own insecurites were to fill in the blank, "So they will kill us all".] Best propoganda I've seen in years, but an ugly mug to take to the Oscars, etc.
Yeah, I have to agree; I was programming 1702's to act as address decoders WAY back in 1978- probably the lowest-rung of programmable hardware. These devices are great, but hardly a breakthough.
Just try bootlegging it and see! :)
.DLLs on those Compaqs...
Like that other poster, I just always assumed it meant they PAID Microsoft, not that it certified anything. I wasted THREE HOURS getting a simple Creative Webcam 3 working on Win98; I took the thing upstairs on a Linux box, and it had created the device, and was waiting on me to open the video! Sometimes they didn't get/keep all the
Just another hoax, move along. We've seen them before.
The population bomb.
The coming ice age.
The killer bees.
The ozone hole.
Please; this is like the brand-new Corvette that a man died in, off the road; you could buy it for a mere $400, but you have to get the smell out. (See Snopes.com)
It's not that there isn't a change, it's not that there won't be changes to human population. It's that there's nothing we can do, and we'll just deal with it. Remember that Greenland was once called that because it USED TO BE GREEN.
No jumping out of windows, guys. This, too, will blow over.
And just so ya know- Revelations is not going to be as bad as many (LeHay, Lindsey) say it's going to be. Miserable, yes, but not that bad.
It's usually the non-US countries that actually do these ridulous things? Like when Britain put a dead man on the stand...as if he would answer questions.
But, if 'the world is an accident' and 'there is no right or wrong', I suppose you could get tricked into doing just about anything.
I thought I recently heard that the 'huge blocks' were an early form of concrete?
:)
I've also been told that, in order to place these stones in the lifetime of the pharoh associated with it, they'd need to be dropped into place every 8 seconds.
Is is safe to assume we're going to get contradictory stories about them for just a few more years?
Nah, not really; remember Rove is a political, not DoD admin. My point behind the original post is how creepy it is that every DNC target becomes a person hated by 1/2 the populace, and yet they have no reason- they can't tell you why, but they've considered shooting them (in their minds).
...the end result...and the original point...is that people in the blogosphere are getting the brunt of it. Even in innoculous Java-related blogs, the angst is still there, and carries over. This is far from the only report of death threats amongst non-celebrities, they're happening every day.
Every response I've gotten is from one of these people, who misunderstand how TINY the losses have been in the war, why we're there, and why it's stupid to repeat Vietnam when we're making such progress.
The TV is not your friend; trust me. Time and again the modern media has shown to be propaganda, not reporting.
You're missing the point; Iraq, while it's no 'vacation' destination like Germany, is *SO* very different from the one the "media" paints. Besides- in times of war, _shouldn't_ there be a reward for keeping already-trained soldiers in the field? It's a job, and a noble one, no matter what your TV tells you. What your TV *doesn't* tell you is also telling.
3300 "deaths in the Iraq war" also includes accidents state-side. Car wrecks, heart attacks, dog-bites, whatever. The number is actually 10-15% smaller. After 5 years of occupation, only 3,300? We usually lose this much, just getting started.
At the same time, how many people have died in Afganistan. Aren't we fighting there, too? Isn't that the tactical avenue, directly in response to 9/11? Ask your news man how many losses have happened there. The news takes no joy in the sucess in Afganistan, so it won't tell you.
Remember when the Dow broke 11,000 for the first time under Clinton? Parades; the "media" was just shivering with joy. Every broadcast and all cable-news outlets ran the story. The other day we broke 12,000, and Fox, not ABC/CBS/NBC reported it on-air. A handful of newspapers mentioned it.
This is why I call it propoganda. They don't care about America, they want the socialists installed. You might call'em Democrats, Progressives, but it's the same people.
And on the subject of these people, why support them? Because child molesting is good? (Remember they support NAMBLA) Do they love freedom? (Not when they idolize Stalin, openly, a guy who starved 11,000,000 in the Ukraine in 1937...Castro who runs a police-state, and Chavez just another leader who kills thousands of his own).
It's not that Democrats are wrong, it's that liberals are wrong. Historically wrong. They perpetrate hoaxes using guilt to grow their power:
The coming Ice Age, Acid Rain, Overpopulation, the Ozone Hole, now (man-made) climate change...all designed with help from the media to make you vote for them.
Did we overpopulate? Did Acid Rain kill our children? Did we have any power in solving the Ozone Hole? Did we get plagued with Killer Bees? No, but we've put a lot of people with policies you're going to hate, into power.
Take a history class- there *is* a cost to not watching the news, and watching it from several different sources. Ask questions, and don't rely on bloggers who have an agenda and PhotoShopped photos. If you're not paying attention, you'll wake up in a Communist state.
Bold statement? Did you know under Hilary's healthcare, a patient visting a doctor out of their plan AND the doctor in question would be held on federal charges.
Think about it; don't take things at face value.