Not room for a slew of videos on 64*G*? Where are you getting these 32G movies, and does the digital production house know you have copies?:>
Most 1-hour videos I'm seeing are 350-700M; there's room for a lot, in there.
What entrigues me is the.5W power use, since I'm looking at vehicular systems these days. I found out last night my 15" CRT is taking more out of the battery than the P3 CPU I'm using! (I knew it was a hoggy, but I didn't know it was that much)
There's always a spun-down 250G raid device you could use, if you wanted to put hundreds of videos in reach- I think the 'lower power mode' can be turned on with hdparm --something, so when they're not in use they're cheaper.
Another thing I like about the solid state drive is the higher reliability and the vibration insensativity; again, useful in a mobile application as well as in laptops.
"Hideously off-topic"? Are we not talking about the level of hatred involved in blogging? You actually believe that people would make death threats based *solely* on the controversy of Java?
Pan out; look at the bigger picture. This is going on, everywhere.
It's *amazing* how well the media has turned so many people into hateful bots. No, before you post...this isn't a matter of ideas, it's a matter of programming. To wit:
1. The unreasonable hatred of Carl Rove and Donald Rumsfeld: these people have never killed anyone, never escaped from a wreck and hid it, have never set anyone or anything on fire, there's no reason for the typical college student to hate them with the kind of anger that kills...yet they do. Ask one: they'll say "he's not for America" and "He's an evil man!" yet they have not one instance for their hatred.
2. The bogus mindset that world peace isn't worth even one military life. In Vietnam men were shooting themselves in the leg to go home; Kerry could have been one of those. In Iraq they're voluntarily signing up for repeat tours. While the million-plus members of the military lost a typical 1023 men in 2002 (before the war) from suicides, drug overdoses and various other reasons, a mere 800 in a war is "horrific" and "disasterous". Never mind the 600 dead bodies returning home each week from Vietnam.
There are dozens of ideals like this, each with no validity, are being foisted onto the barely-paying-attention youth, and making them crazy. They'll even claim to be "moderate" or "independent" and "never watch CNN" while spewing the exact same headlines posted there.
Something's up. This isn't normal. What would suspend these people's autonomy just to change results of the election?
It's just the way it works, folks. The RIAA (and others) try to make the music scarce so people will pay for it. But in many cases they take it too far.
How cool would it be to have jukeboxes in your local tavern or party house show the *videos* along with the music? Why hasn't this been made widely available? Before videos, jukebox manufacturers would go to all kinds of lengths to make the thing noticed- videos would really do the trick!
And I've seen a LOT of old music out there ya just can't find. But because it won't sell enough to justify a batch of plastic getting squeezed out, they don't bother.
Make anything people want/need scarce, and the price will go up AND the pirating does, too. That's why you lower the price and make'em easily available. The RIAA working in the other direction is putting them out of business.
It's a breakrhrough; but we've seen hundreds posted; we're still in silicon, not-light, no amoebas on our chips...has anyone seen a post on Slashdot of something anyone's actually taken to market?
(It reminds me of the reports of flying cars in the early 60's...)
It's not like we don't have the space to increase production...how high the upper end is, I don't know...but we've been paying people to NOT plant corn for decades now, aye?
Sounds like it's time to take out the artificial market settings like taxes, etc and make room for the increased demand...I'm with you.
There are Technomads...not the speakers, the people. In fact, it where I got my handle. (There are thousands of "kilroys", there is only one WheelDweller- I got lucky.)
There is a measurable traffic across the Panama Canal by foot- people *walking* from NYC to the Cape and back. The modern equivelant of climbing a mountain, I suppose. If they venture with computers, they're Technomads.
Like Almitra the Photogypsy. She's a woman, walking alone, across the planet. She's crossed the Australian desert, Vietnam, Laos, China several times, WALKED UP TO the Dhali Lama...all on foot. Through war-zones and cannibal tribes. See http://www.photogypsy.org./
Steve Roberts is probably the best-known of our informal clan; he was on Donahue ("The View", circa 1970's) talking about his pedaling across the USA with a recombant bike, pulling a trailer sponsored by Sun Microsystems. He's at http://microship.com./ These days he's captaining a shipful of computers off the shores of America's Northwest. (SeaDweller, though he doesn't use the name...):)
But we know only those that come to us; there are thousands of people in various modes of travel, using computers, that we've never seen. Truck Drivers, Celebs, lucky retirees...
They're pretty good folks, too.
My own journey's about to start. I'm building a 14' trailer to live in, full time, travelling across the USA. But right now I have to take care of Mom (76) until she no longer needs me.
In America, you have the concerned citizens- not just those who care about a topic, but watch for it on the news, take action if needed, and get involved. These people take time to listen to policical debate, listen to various news sources and spot propoganda. This would be the Conservatives.
The rest seem only to read headlines, assume the news they listen to is correct, and go the way they express it. They don't have time for news, they don't research a lot, they only have time for themselves. So, they *hate* Donald Rumsfeld, to the point of spitting when they have to say his name, yet they have *no idea why*. I know, because I ask college kids all the time; they don't know. They don't understand that Afganistan was a tactical move (to actually get the hijackers) and Iraq is an opportunity to change the heart of the Arab world.
This is why Air America didn't work, and won't work- Liberals prefer to have their news spoon-fed to them, to have someone else do the analysis. In computers, isn't that what Microsoft does for users? (And, in politics, isn't that what the legacy-news people do to the Liberals?)
It's frustrating...all that passion, and no information. No sense of history. They don't realize supply-side economics has worked FIVE TIMES so far, not just when it was called Reganomics. (3rd time). Nor do they realize that their party has a HISTORY of siding with tyrants, despots, and generally anyone who means us harm.
Their heros? Castro: runs a police state. People are DYING to get out of Cuba, literally. Stalin: starved 11 million of his own in 1937, cause they pissed him off. Killed nearly as many people as Hitler. Communist Russia: Remember the no-nukes movement? Funded by the KGB. Chaves: making dependents of working people, so as to have ultimate power there. And let's not forget Jane Fonda sitting on an anti-aircraft gun during the Vietnam war. An enemy gun, used to kill our own troops.
I just wish they wouldn't vote, if passion is all they bring to the table. It's not about "drowning polar bears" in their latest tale-of-doom....it's about freedom. We don't *really* want to live in a country run by their heros.
Well, didn't I *tell* you that you wouldn't believe it? Did you think that one day a sign would show up, telling you these things, pointing the way out?
The signs are here. Starting with a document that's survived several thousand years, been found on 5-6 continents, and then (with the Dead Sea Scrolls) a copy from 1,000 years later, yet only typo-like issues remain. In it you'll find a very early mention of the shape of sea-going vessels, a guide to happy living, and for those who care to _actually_read_it_ a sense of what God's like.
The document provided information to the Jews on healthy living; no scavengers (sharks, catfish, pigs) no blood (the cow is almost 100% 'kosher' other than a vein that has to be drained) and all kinds of guidelines that kept their "ignorant" and "backward" race alive from ghetto to ghetto while the rest of use were still peeing in the city streets...without mentioning the word "germ".
Is there any other document that can make such claims?
Followup, scorn, disbelieve, whatever you like. It's just my job to share the truth.
No, as a security guard, taking apart sounds while you're out on rounds is a part of the job. In fact, in the new bank building it was kinda fun. But consider closely the signal content: bristles on the inside of cardboard, dirt under the box, and all this just FEET away in a dead-silent, no one else is here situation. This isn't a distant noise like limbs of a tree brushing against a house; this is sound so close it couldn't be faked by a stereo system.
I've been a skeptic for 41 years. I've dedicated a good part of my life trying to understand the unknown. Like:
Ghosts. Why do they only remain when there's a good story to tell? Does rain check before it falls, if the way is clear? No! It's math and physics; the teardrop shape is because of how air and water interact at speed. There's no inheirant intelligence, it just falls. Every living thing dies. So why does it matter if there's a story involved? Either *every* time a death occurs it leaves a ghost, or it *never* does. If the first were true, we'd be shuffling dead members of Napoleon's ranks out of the way to go to the bathroom. It just doesn't happen; it's a distraction.
No information is ever gathered from ghost watching. If Custer's ghost appeared, you might aske'em about Little BigHorn, but you'd get nothing that wasn't already known about him. It's always some "nobody" that died under peculiar circumstances, perhaps someone important to a king or princess that the history books ignore. It's a blind alley.
UFOs are similar. Look at the hours over which some people toil in their pursuit. I'm not saying they're out of the question, but if they've travelled 44 light-years to find the planet, why would they need crop-circles to return to a known point? Why huge thunderbirds on the desert floor? Why hide where they can't be confirmed? Do you realize how far they'd have to come to get here? 90% of the stars in the sky are only gas; almost all that remain are insanely cold or insanely hot. A "warp drive" or somesuch would be needed; I don't think they'd have to slip-in among us to learn the language- they could hide a ship and start watching TV. It's another distraction.
The people around Loch Ness watch Americans with amazement. When people arrive there, they're hoping to see a big snake-or-something. The people that live there know it's a farce...but that doesn't stop them from selling souvineers and grinning at tourists.
The Bermuda Triangle was debunked a decade or two ago as a land deal. How else could some planes/ships go missing, yet airlines who count on their incomes keep sending planes? It too, is farce.
But there comes a time when all you know has been eclippsed and the unexplained isn't scary...it's actually beneficial. When you receive salvation, you'll know by three signs:
1. Answer to prayer. In my case, a prayer that I get taken off the Freshwater Plant duty. The next morning, before my eyes were all the way open, I got a phone call that I was being moved.
2. A permanent change. I'm a Gemini; I enjoy things for a while, then change to other things. I just don't "do" permanent. But this is a permanent change: instead of turning past the station when I hear a sermon on the radio, I actually tune in. Like someone bringing me a new Sony PS3, I'm hungry to learn more about this information. That's very, very new to me.
3. "White paranormal". When I was five years old, I tried to hang myself from a tree; I was a troubled kid, with no discernable reason. I've considered suicide hundreds of times, attempted it a handful. But now I have no "bad" days; it's not an option. It just never comes up. I have days with disgust (usually from watching too much TV, etc) but never a "why am I here" day. Never a "why is life so long" day. This, like the rest, is very new.
But understand that a lot of people bring this news with a goofy, barely understandable "Donny and Marie" style; I'm one of you. A hacker, a guy that needs proof; a guy that works in IT. I just took the intent
This is going to sound crazy; I'm sure to be marked a "troll" and all that, but the truth...just so you can hear it...is that *almost* all these anomalies are demons. Some are just the unknown, but most are much more.
Yeah, I know; I felt the same way when I heard the concept. Fairy tales, nonsense and bullshit. I've learned differently.
I think it was 1996-97 or so, my buddy and I were working late a Lee Lumber. I forget the task at hand, but we'd come downstairs to "the floor" where we could smoke, maybe we had eaten, I don't remember. But I DO remember the sound of a Christmas tree in a cardboard box, being pulled across a tiled floor with dirt on it. Very crisp sound; very genuine. Being the only ones there at 3AM, and being in a the large city of Chicago, we called the police. They brought dogs...I remember learning that night that a German Sheperd CAN, in fact, bite through a commercial-quality doorknob, 'cause he hung there by his tooth, and hole is probably still in that doorknob.
Hearing sounds like that isn't unusual; it happens, rarely. Eventually I forgot.
In 2005 I was guarding a bank building, a new one, here in Evansville. Several guys did it, but again, only two people in the building when I heard this noise in a stairwell. I considered steam pipes, thermal expansion, *everything* that could make that noise...the Christmas tree in a cardboard box...but what was making the noise was just above me, on the the other side of the concrete landing. Something made the noise. Repeatedly. And it would quit before I got to it, every time.
I talked to one of the guys there; most of us were ex-military and such- a good team. Jerry was a Navy surgeon, knew an astronaut...a joy to talk with. He's also a Chaplain now. When I told him about the anomaly, he told me, as if prescribing a way to get barnacles off my boat: "Oh, well the next time you see that, say this: 'In the name of Jesus Christ, I rebuke you!'. I didn't believe it, but it was worth a shot.
A week or so later I'm in the stairwell again and I hear the noise. I was nervous and trying to THINK the words to say, and the noise stopped. Hmm. Fluke?
Another week or so, in a similar situation, I remembered the words well enough to say'em. When I did, before the words could echo completely off the walls, the sound stopped. I got chills.
I got chills because, if this were some "natural" means, like steam, or heat-expansion or whatever, it would have stopped on that second, anyway. But there are 86,400 seconds per day; what are the chances of me doing this twice, at the same time? (86,400x86,400) 7,464,960,000 to 1.
I asked Jerry why this happened. How can *words* do anything about an anomaly? It turns out that just as angels are here, there are demons, too; neither side can break out into the open, or it violates the test. The "test" is why we know nothing about the day before our birthday- nothing to sway us toward, or away from God. It's gotta be fair. And using His name gets his immediate attention, which is why it's bad to use as an expletive.
Since then I've seen other demons, figuratively. Idea outside my character, suggestions of things to do, that aren't me. Sure, there's things I like, but there are things I'd NEVER consider, yet the idea pops into my head...very seductive. This is how we'er led into misery.
So throw your stones, call me an unenlighted bigot homophobe misanthrope...but these things are true. And they exist to distract your attention from the ONE THING THAT MATTERS in this life: finding your way to God. Ever notice how much time people spend chasing UFOs? Ghosts? The Bermuda Triangle? These distractions are called "the occult"- that which distracts from your intended fate.
Find your way home. That's why we're here. And I hope you do.
Extended Time Continum; that's where the driver was supposed to go for the improbability drive...but the flying car carrying the portable black hole never arrived.:)
It's "et cetera", a miscellaneous category. Anyone telling you different is selling something.
...is probably from the moon. Anyone ever got their flying car? We could maybe take it to the orbiting station and catch a shuttle....no, wait...all that was hype.
If you make something scarce, it develops a "black market". If you could get the sonds you want, in good quality, maybe with a little artwork or something for $1US, you wouldn't waste time trying to find it on the net, now, would ya?
How do people forget supply and demand so easily? See also: Minimum wage. DRM is an artificial market force, and one that is, or soon will be, broken to allow everyone on the black market to have it.
What I know about it is that the particular site in Bali is an American hangout...and a lot of people died there. Personally, I'm against it. And I've seen a *lot* of conspiracy theories that go nowhere and only cause people to kill MORE people. I was born months before the granddaddy of conspiracies- the JFK administration.
One thing's certain: 10% of the Muslims are causing a great deal of pain, and nothing else. For 50 years they've blown people up at random and walked away from the very peace conditions they were advocating. Saudi Arabia's per-capita income has dropped from $20,000 to only $7,000, and that makes for a VERY unhappy populace...one that's about to revolt, normally. Calling the Isrealis names and sending bombers just takes away the attention from the hell in which they live.
Anyone who loves peace knows this has to stop. It doesn't move an agenda, it just kills a lot of people.
Sure! The invented zero, for example. Back in the day, the Arab world was something special. In fact while 'wandering' in the desert, one of the first places they came to, thinking they'd DIE in the desert, was a huge, lush compound owned by Ishmael.
Now that the populace is starving, poor, and unhappy, they've gone into the bomb-making business, as if that's going to change anything. 10% of their population makes the 1% of the evangelical-wackos look like kids on a field trip. They kill at random (Like in Bali) and disturb the chances to EVER get their communal lives back to normal, like it was once before. It's a shame what the oil money did to them....more reason to get off the oil standard, ASAP.:(
You misunderstand the role of this reality: it's blind-testing. This isn't the reward. Things can happen here. If THIS were the best there was, what point would heaven have?
Each person is born with no previous knowledge; they must chose his own fate. How he reacts to challenges like these is part of the equation.
Neither. Death isn't a punishment, it's just an end of a state. Accidents just happen.
This is part-n-parcel of the "Why do bad things happen to good people" question, an ajunct of the idea that "God must hate us- he makes bad things happen" diversion.
Jesus was asked about that; in one of the gospels someone said the scaffold over in Judea fell, killing a bunch of people- people who had been keeping the law. They asked, "What did those people do?" The answer is that they did nothing. Death isn't punishment. The fact they got the chance to live, and to be judged neutrally, was the benefit.
This is the exception; most of the misery we know is our own doing. Got the video yet?
Then we're getting close to the crux of your problem: you don't read/understand/revere the Bible. It was the Bible that said "Let there be light" long before Oppenheimer/Einstein and others supposed it to be. The Greek supposed the Earth was on the shoulders of Atlas, the Bhuddists thought it was on the back of a fish. The Bible says the Earth is suspended from nothing, and the north pole points to the center of the galaxy.
It shows LONG before the rest of the world the proportions of a sucessful sea-going vessel. It talks about surgery back in a time when surgery was considered witchcraft. And the Jews were kept alive through all their misery following the Kosher rules, which, without knowing about germs or plastics, kept them away from things that would kill them. It's just been right too many times.
All this is in the "Does God Exist" series.
>>So we should tear down all our houses, dismantle all our cars, and return >>to living in roving tribes? After all, very little of what we do now is >>what was "intended" for us.
Yeah, actually. The same offer was given to the Jews in Leviticus 25; (Paraphrasing) "Follow my commandments, and the rains will always come at the right time. Follow...and you'll be reaping wheat until it's time to reap grapes. Discard my commandments and this land will puke you out like the last civilization." (After 490 years ("Seventy times Seven" in other documents) they were cast out as Titus slaughtered thousands in AD70.
This world was intended to be Eden, and stay there...we got distracted.
And yeah...thousands of babies die of congenital defects...that didn't used to happen. An estimated 40 MILLION have been discarded in abortions. Not even animals kill their own for convenience. Having children with problems sends a message, and if you don't cower from it, can show the power of God. (Yeah, I know- it's sounds insane, but it's true.)
Do yourself a favor; get the "Does God Exist" series. It starts at the basics, compares other religions, and uses honest scientific techniques to show how accurate the Bible actually is. No dogma. Once you understand this (which gets past the obligatory "believe this 'cause I tell ya so" stuff the Pastor might ask of you) you'll see how everything fits in.
Well, here's one more example.
Ever hurt yourself painfully? I used to be johnny-hotshot on staircases because I spent so much time on one in my own home. Then one day I fell badly. Nowdays I can't step blindly onto stairs. Try as I might, either my eyes touch the step, or my feet don't.
Same goes for getting shocked, or cut in some ways- there's a tendency for the nerve-net, not necessarily the brain, to remember the pain. It's a built-in. Even Scientologists use this as an example of life-challenging dynamics.
A woman is born with a hymen; a virginity. The first man that violates that, tears the membrane in a painful way that's followed quickly by a new, special pleasure. This changes the way she sees THAT man, permanently. A woman never forgets her first, and will always treat him differently, even if she doesn't talk about it.
All this is "nature". Provable. Public knowledge.
So is the dynamic of marrying a woman that's not a virgin, and spending your life under her rule. How many comedians remark about "You were fun until we got married- now I can't see my poker buddies!"? It's a classic. It's also caused by pre-marital sex.
This is called "The curse of Eve" and it's in Genesis.
And how long would it take, for a monogamous couple that started as virgins, to get to the point they need a goat and a midget in the room to get off? Such weirdness only comes from being with more experienced partners leads you there.
It's just so darned easy to see the Bible as "quaint" because that's what the media and culture are suggesting. Religious people are marked as dupes and rubes, but they're fooling themselves.
PLEASE, find out for yourself. And mail me: Brian@Fahrlander.net, as you progress. (It'd be easier...)
Yeah, I keep hearing the empty promise that single mothers are a wonderful thing. They must be: ask any single mother if she'd rather have a husband. Or having two dads. Or sharing a room with an albino water buffalo. It's just not the same. There are a lot of people trying to excuse themselves of their misbehaving right now. There is, has been, and always will be a method of living that has the *actual* success. (Sucess being happy, healthy, and meaningful existance for all involved.)
But see, there was a day that those microbes didn't exist- AIDS for example. There's a lot of conjecture in this arena, but if every man had one woman, and no one screwed a monkey, there'd never be a mutation of these bugs into what we have today.
Take sex for instance: no contraceptive is 100% sure, just abstinence.
It all goes back to man's pride, which makes him think he's actually going to do what he plans, and it's going to go the way he intends. How many times have you PERSONALLY known this to be untrue? Ever thrown a paperwad at a basket and missed? Ever made love to a woman and...didn't?
Adam, Noah, Moses and others lived over 900 years.
And the idea that someone not involved gets an STD? Sometimes sin is communal. Take some benzene and pour it out. The dog drinks it, and gets lukemia. It's the same thing. Our intended life doesn't NEED benzene.
Look at all you know; cheating on a wife...lying..."what comes around goes around"...isn't it clear almost all suffering is done at our own hands?
We were given the choices, not locked into a single course of action. We can choose to be kind, to be faithful to a wife, to care about our children. When we do, our life is better.
Check out that "Does God Exist" torrent that's at least on mininova.org. Good, scientific proofs of God in plain terms with equations where necessary. It's free and could improve your life.
Yes, you see the proper view of mankind; key to the understanding is the word "fallable". The point was that, unlike the Blue Jay that must stay in the trees or be eaten by larger predators, and unlike the tiger that sleeps all the time unless it's to get meat, man isn't stuck in any one role.
It's because of our intellect; by having no single physical advantage that we can go anywhere and do anything.
And of course there's a natural order; it's observed in lots of anecdotal ways. Single mothers. The need for police forces. The fact that man lives only 10% of his intended time. "Sin", the deviation from our intended roles is the cause of our problems.
We always think we'll "make it". We truly don't know the outcomes of our actions. If we did, no one would have STDs or unplanned children. Cars wouldn't have brakes, pencils no erasers.
God didn't create _evil_; he created freedom of choice. He allows us to follow the prescribed path, and if we vary, we pay in human terms. We get to either chose to be with him, now, in our short time here, or be without him forever. It's not about "being good" or "being naughty"; it's about making the effort to connect with our maker. Being good after that is easy.
We're broiling in our own misery- not one preferred by God. He's given us a way out, spoken in any toungue, at any time, in any place. Just make contact.
For a view of proofs of God, scientifically, see "Does God Exist" on your favorite torrent site. John Clayton shows where science and faith intertwine, supporting each other, not fighting.
Well, I've been where you are; at ages 6, 9, and 15 I made the attempts- nothing. And, like you I was disillusioned. Meanwhile, not realizing the crux of mankind's problem, I drove my life all over the road.
Satan's problem, the "eternal point" was that:
1. Mankind, unlike all other animals in nature has no special tools- no claws, scales, wings, etc. It's the most incapable design in the animal world. Unlike the creation of all the other animals, he wasn't going to cheer.
'Cause Satan could just *whisper* into the man's mind and cause him to leave the operational role; animals are hard-coded into doing a certain thing.
2. Satan said, "I'd make a better God than you". Well, that went over well, but in the end, God didn't just ZAP! him into nothingness like he was never there, he sent'im to Earth, saying "Prove it". Realize they'd surely known each other for perhaps trillions of years..
So we live on, being given the information about what our role is, and following it leads to happiness. Not because God will snap his fingers and make everything better, but for mechanical reasons that stand alone.
Use a gun to go grocery shopping....jail, feds, death.
Have sex randomly...babies, disease, sex-that-means-nothing: unhappy.
"Sin" is when we deviate from the role, that's all. When we act as if the information doesn't exist, we get ourselves in all kindsa crap.
Now, I'm not gonna bang your head to get you to look again- you'll do that whether I want you to or not...I'm just saying, when you stop, take the time, and ask, he'll be answering.
As to proof, you'll have to deal with one of those "body of evidence" things. Search mininova.org for "Does God Exist"; it's all in there.
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Not room for a slew of videos on 64*G*? Where are you getting these 32G movies, and does the digital production house know you have copies? :>
.5W power use, since I'm looking at vehicular systems these days. I found out last night my 15" CRT is taking more out of the battery than the P3 CPU I'm using! (I knew it was a hoggy, but I didn't know it was that much)
Most 1-hour videos I'm seeing are 350-700M; there's room for a lot, in there.
What entrigues me is the
There's always a spun-down 250G raid device you could use, if you wanted to put hundreds of videos in reach- I think the 'lower power mode' can be turned on with hdparm --something, so when they're not in use they're cheaper.
Another thing I like about the solid state drive is the higher reliability and the vibration insensativity; again, useful in a mobile application as well as in laptops.
"Hideously off-topic"? Are we not talking about the level of hatred involved in blogging? You actually believe that people would make death threats based *solely* on the controversy of Java?
Pan out; look at the bigger picture. This is going on, everywhere.
It's *amazing* how well the media has turned so many people into hateful bots. No, before you post...this isn't a matter of ideas, it's a matter of programming. To wit:
1. The unreasonable hatred of Carl Rove and Donald Rumsfeld: these people have never killed anyone, never escaped from a wreck and hid it, have never set anyone or anything on fire, there's no reason for the typical college student to hate them with the kind of anger that kills...yet they do. Ask one: they'll say "he's not for America" and "He's an evil man!" yet they have not one instance for their hatred.
2. The bogus mindset that world peace isn't worth even one military life. In Vietnam men were shooting themselves in the leg to go home; Kerry could have been one of those. In Iraq they're voluntarily signing up for repeat tours. While the million-plus members of the military lost a typical 1023 men in 2002 (before the war) from suicides, drug overdoses and various other reasons, a mere 800 in a war is "horrific" and "disasterous". Never mind the 600 dead bodies returning home each week from Vietnam.
There are dozens of ideals like this, each with no validity, are being foisted onto the barely-paying-attention youth, and making them crazy. They'll even claim to be "moderate" or "independent" and "never watch CNN" while spewing the exact same headlines posted there.
Something's up. This isn't normal. What would suspend these people's autonomy just to change results of the election?
It's just the way it works, folks. The RIAA (and others) try to make the music scarce so people will pay for it. But in many cases they take it too far.
How cool would it be to have jukeboxes in your local tavern or party house show the *videos* along with the music? Why hasn't this been made widely available? Before videos, jukebox manufacturers would go to all kinds of lengths to make the thing noticed- videos would really do the trick!
And I've seen a LOT of old music out there ya just can't find. But because it won't sell enough to justify a batch of plastic getting squeezed out, they don't bother.
Make anything people want/need scarce, and the price will go up AND the pirating does, too. That's why you lower the price and make'em easily available. The RIAA working in the other direction is putting them out of business.
It's a breakrhrough; but we've seen hundreds posted; we're still in silicon, not-light, no amoebas on our chips...has anyone seen a post on Slashdot of something anyone's actually taken to market? (It reminds me of the reports of flying cars in the early 60's...)
It's not like we don't have the space to increase production...how high the upper end is, I don't know...but we've been paying people to NOT plant corn for decades now, aye?
Sounds like it's time to take out the artificial market settings like taxes, etc and make room for the increased demand...I'm with you.
There are Technomads...not the speakers, the people. In fact, it where I got my handle. (There are thousands of "kilroys", there is only one WheelDweller- I got lucky.)
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There is a measurable traffic across the Panama Canal by foot- people *walking* from NYC to the Cape and back. The modern equivelant of climbing a mountain, I suppose. If they venture with computers, they're Technomads.
Like Almitra the Photogypsy. She's a woman, walking alone, across the planet. She's crossed the Australian desert, Vietnam, Laos, China several times, WALKED UP TO the Dhali Lama...all on foot. Through war-zones and cannibal tribes. See http://www.photogypsy.org./
Steve Roberts is probably the best-known of our informal clan; he was on Donahue ("The View", circa 1970's) talking about his pedaling across the USA with a recombant bike, pulling a trailer sponsored by Sun Microsystems. He's at http://microship.com./ These days he's captaining a shipful of computers off the shores of America's Northwest. (SeaDweller, though he doesn't use the name...)
But we know only those that come to us; there are thousands of people in various modes of travel, using computers, that we've never seen. Truck Drivers, Celebs, lucky retirees...
They're pretty good folks, too.
My own journey's about to start. I'm building a 14' trailer to live in, full time, travelling across the USA. But right now I have to take care of Mom (76) until she no longer needs me.
In America, you have the concerned citizens- not just those who care about a topic, but watch for it on the news, take action if needed, and get involved. These people take time to listen to policical debate, listen to various news sources and spot propoganda. This would be the Conservatives.
The rest seem only to read headlines, assume the news they listen to is correct, and go the way they express it. They don't have time for news, they don't research a lot, they only have time for themselves. So, they *hate* Donald Rumsfeld, to the point of spitting when they have to say his name, yet they have *no idea why*. I know, because I ask college kids all the time; they don't know. They don't understand that Afganistan was a tactical move (to actually get the hijackers) and Iraq is an opportunity to change the heart of the Arab world.
This is why Air America didn't work, and won't work- Liberals prefer to have their news spoon-fed to them, to have someone else do the analysis. In computers, isn't that what Microsoft does for users? (And, in politics, isn't that what the legacy-news people do to the Liberals?)
It's frustrating...all that passion, and no information. No sense of history. They don't realize supply-side economics has worked FIVE TIMES so far, not just when it was called Reganomics. (3rd time). Nor do they realize that their party has a HISTORY of siding with tyrants, despots, and generally anyone who means us harm.
Their heros?
Castro: runs a police state. People are DYING to get out of Cuba, literally.
Stalin: starved 11 million of his own in 1937, cause they pissed him off. Killed nearly as many people as Hitler.
Communist Russia: Remember the no-nukes movement? Funded by the KGB.
Chaves: making dependents of working people, so as to have ultimate power there.
And let's not forget Jane Fonda sitting on an anti-aircraft gun during the Vietnam war. An enemy gun, used to kill our own troops.
I just wish they wouldn't vote, if passion is all they bring to the table. It's not about "drowning polar bears" in their latest tale-of-doom....it's about freedom. We don't *really* want to live in a country run by their heros.
Well, didn't I *tell* you that you wouldn't believe it? Did you think that one day a sign would show up, telling you these things, pointing the way out?
The signs are here. Starting with a document that's survived several thousand years, been found on 5-6 continents, and then (with the Dead Sea Scrolls) a copy from 1,000 years later, yet only typo-like issues remain. In it you'll find a very early mention of the shape of sea-going vessels, a guide to happy living, and for those who care to _actually_read_it_ a sense of what God's like.
The document provided information to the Jews on healthy living; no scavengers (sharks, catfish, pigs) no blood (the cow is almost 100% 'kosher' other than a vein that has to be drained) and all kinds of guidelines that kept their "ignorant" and "backward" race alive from ghetto to ghetto while the rest of use were still peeing in the city streets...without mentioning the word "germ".
Is there any other document that can make such claims?
Followup, scorn, disbelieve, whatever you like. It's just my job to share the truth.
No, as a security guard, taking apart sounds while you're out on rounds is a part of the job. In fact, in the new bank building it was kinda fun. But consider closely the signal content: bristles on the inside of cardboard, dirt under the box, and all this just FEET away in a dead-silent, no one else is here situation. This isn't a distant noise like limbs of a tree brushing against a house; this is sound so close it couldn't be faked by a stereo system.
I've been a skeptic for 41 years. I've dedicated a good part of my life trying to understand the unknown. Like:
Ghosts. Why do they only remain when there's a good story to tell? Does rain check before it falls, if the way is clear? No! It's math and physics; the teardrop shape is because of how air and water interact at speed. There's no inheirant intelligence, it just falls. Every living thing dies. So why does it matter if there's a story involved? Either *every* time a death occurs it leaves a ghost, or it *never* does. If the first were true, we'd be shuffling dead members of Napoleon's ranks out of the way to go to the bathroom. It just doesn't happen; it's a distraction.
No information is ever gathered from ghost watching. If Custer's ghost appeared, you might aske'em about Little BigHorn, but you'd get nothing that wasn't already known about him. It's always some "nobody" that died under peculiar circumstances, perhaps someone important to a king or princess that the history books ignore. It's a blind alley.
UFOs are similar. Look at the hours over which some people toil in their pursuit. I'm not saying they're out of the question, but if they've travelled 44 light-years to find the planet, why would they need crop-circles to return to a known point? Why huge thunderbirds on the desert floor? Why hide where they can't be confirmed? Do you realize how far they'd have to come to get here? 90% of the stars in the sky are only gas; almost all that remain are insanely cold or insanely hot. A "warp drive" or somesuch would be needed; I don't think they'd have to slip-in among us to learn the language- they could hide a ship and start watching TV. It's another distraction.
The people around Loch Ness watch Americans with amazement. When people arrive there, they're hoping to see a big snake-or-something. The people that live there know it's a farce...but that doesn't stop them from selling souvineers and grinning at tourists.
The Bermuda Triangle was debunked a decade or two ago as a land deal. How else could some planes/ships go missing, yet airlines who count on their incomes keep sending planes? It too, is farce.
But there comes a time when all you know has been eclippsed and the unexplained isn't scary...it's actually beneficial. When you receive salvation, you'll know by three signs:
1. Answer to prayer. In my case, a prayer that I get taken off the Freshwater Plant duty. The next morning, before my eyes were all the way open, I got a phone call that I was being moved.
2. A permanent change. I'm a Gemini; I enjoy things for a while, then change to other things. I just don't "do" permanent. But this is a permanent change: instead of turning past the station when I hear a sermon on the radio, I actually tune in. Like someone bringing me a new Sony PS3, I'm hungry to learn more about this information. That's very, very new to me.
3. "White paranormal". When I was five years old, I tried to hang myself from a tree; I was a troubled kid, with no discernable reason. I've considered suicide hundreds of times, attempted it a handful. But now I have no "bad" days; it's not an option. It just never comes up. I have days with disgust (usually from watching too much TV, etc) but never a "why am I here" day. Never a "why is life so long" day. This, like the rest, is very new.
But understand that a lot of people bring this news with a goofy, barely understandable "Donny and Marie" style; I'm one of you. A hacker, a guy that needs proof; a guy that works in IT. I just took the intent
This is going to sound crazy; I'm sure to be marked a "troll" and all that, but the truth...just so you can hear it...is that *almost* all these anomalies are demons. Some are just the unknown, but most are much more.
Yeah, I know; I felt the same way when I heard the concept. Fairy tales, nonsense and bullshit. I've learned differently.
I think it was 1996-97 or so, my buddy and I were working late a Lee Lumber. I forget the task at hand, but we'd come downstairs to "the floor" where we could smoke, maybe we had eaten, I don't remember. But I DO remember the sound of a Christmas tree in a cardboard box, being pulled across a tiled floor with dirt on it. Very crisp sound; very genuine. Being the only ones there at 3AM, and being in a the large city of Chicago, we called the police. They brought dogs...I remember learning that night that a German Sheperd CAN, in fact, bite through a commercial-quality doorknob, 'cause he hung there by his tooth, and hole is probably still in that doorknob.
Hearing sounds like that isn't unusual; it happens, rarely. Eventually I forgot.
In 2005 I was guarding a bank building, a new one, here in Evansville. Several guys did it, but again, only two people in the building when I heard this noise in a stairwell. I considered steam pipes, thermal expansion, *everything* that could make that noise...the Christmas tree in a cardboard box...but what was making the noise was just above me, on the the other side of the concrete landing. Something made the noise. Repeatedly. And it would quit before I got to it, every time.
I talked to one of the guys there; most of us were ex-military and such- a good team. Jerry was a Navy surgeon, knew an astronaut...a joy to talk with. He's also a Chaplain now. When I told him about the anomaly, he told me, as if prescribing a way to get barnacles off my boat: "Oh, well the next time you see that, say this: 'In the name of Jesus Christ, I rebuke you!'. I didn't believe it, but it was worth a shot.
A week or so later I'm in the stairwell again and I hear the noise. I was nervous and trying to THINK the words to say, and the noise stopped. Hmm. Fluke?
Another week or so, in a similar situation, I remembered the words well enough to say'em. When I did, before the words could echo completely off the walls, the sound stopped. I got chills.
I got chills because, if this were some "natural" means, like steam, or heat-expansion or whatever, it would have stopped on that second, anyway. But there are 86,400 seconds per day; what are the chances of me doing this twice, at the same time? (86,400x86,400) 7,464,960,000 to 1.
I asked Jerry why this happened. How can *words* do anything about an anomaly? It turns out that just as angels are here, there are demons, too; neither side can break out into the open, or it violates the test. The "test" is why we know nothing about the day before our birthday- nothing to sway us toward, or away from God. It's gotta be fair. And using His name gets his immediate attention, which is why it's bad to use as an expletive.
Since then I've seen other demons, figuratively. Idea outside my character, suggestions of things to do, that aren't me. Sure, there's things I like, but there are things I'd NEVER consider, yet the idea pops into my head...very seductive. This is how we'er led into misery.
So throw your stones, call me an unenlighted bigot homophobe misanthrope...but these things are true. And they exist to distract your attention from the ONE THING THAT MATTERS in this life: finding your way to God. Ever notice how much time people spend chasing UFOs? Ghosts? The Bermuda Triangle? These distractions are called "the occult"- that which distracts from your intended fate.
Find your way home. That's why we're here. And I hope you do.
Extended Time Continum; that's where the driver was supposed to go for the improbability drive...but the flying car carrying the portable black hole never arrived. :)
It's "et cetera", a miscellaneous category. Anyone telling you different is selling something.
...is probably from the moon. Anyone ever got their flying car? We could maybe take it to the orbiting station and catch a shuttle....no, wait...all that was hype.
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Nevermind.
If you make something scarce, it develops a "black market". If you could get the sonds you want, in good quality, maybe with a little artwork or something for $1US, you wouldn't waste time trying to find it on the net, now, would ya?
How do people forget supply and demand so easily? See also: Minimum wage. DRM is an artificial market force, and one that is, or soon will be, broken to allow everyone on the black market to have it.
What I know about it is that the particular site in Bali is an American hangout...and a lot of people died there. Personally, I'm against it. And I've seen a *lot* of conspiracy theories that go nowhere and only cause people to kill MORE people. I was born months before the granddaddy of conspiracies- the JFK administration.
One thing's certain: 10% of the Muslims are causing a great deal of pain, and nothing else. For 50 years they've blown people up at random and walked away from the very peace conditions they were advocating. Saudi Arabia's per-capita income has dropped from $20,000 to only $7,000, and that makes for a VERY unhappy populace...one that's about to revolt, normally. Calling the Isrealis names and sending bombers just takes away the attention from the hell in which they live.
Anyone who loves peace knows this has to stop. It doesn't move an agenda, it just kills a lot of people.
Is that so? Well how cool is that? Good to know.
Sure! The invented zero, for example. Back in the day, the Arab world was something special. In fact while 'wandering' in the desert, one of the first places they came to, thinking they'd DIE in the desert, was a huge, lush compound owned by Ishmael. Now that the populace is starving, poor, and unhappy, they've gone into the bomb-making business, as if that's going to change anything. 10% of their population makes the 1% of the evangelical-wackos look like kids on a field trip. They kill at random (Like in Bali) and disturb the chances to EVER get their communal lives back to normal, like it was once before. It's a shame what the oil money did to them. ...more reason to get off the oil standard, ASAP. :(
None of it made sense? Watch more than one. They're sequential and the first one's kinda boring.
You misunderstand the role of this reality: it's blind-testing. This isn't the reward. Things can happen here. If THIS were the best there was, what point would heaven have?
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Each person is born with no previous knowledge; they must chose his own fate. How he reacts to challenges like these is part of the equation.
Still didn't get the video, didja?
Neither. Death isn't a punishment, it's just an end of a state. Accidents just happen.
This is part-n-parcel of the "Why do bad things happen to good people" question, an ajunct of the idea that "God must hate us- he makes bad things happen" diversion.
Jesus was asked about that; in one of the gospels someone said the scaffold over in Judea fell, killing a bunch of people- people who had been keeping the law. They asked, "What did those people do?" The answer is that they did nothing. Death isn't punishment. The fact they got the chance to live, and to be judged neutrally, was the benefit.
This is the exception; most of the misery we know is our own doing. Got the video yet?
Then we're getting close to the crux of your problem: you don't read/understand/revere the Bible. It was the Bible that said "Let there be light" long before Oppenheimer/Einstein and others supposed it to be. The Greek supposed the Earth was on the shoulders of Atlas, the Bhuddists thought it was on the back of a fish. The Bible says the Earth is suspended from nothing, and the north pole points to the center of the galaxy.
It shows LONG before the rest of the world the proportions of a sucessful sea-going vessel. It talks about surgery back in a time when surgery was considered witchcraft. And the Jews were kept alive through all their misery following the Kosher rules, which, without knowing about germs or plastics, kept them away from things that would kill them. It's just been right too many times.
All this is in the "Does God Exist" series.
>>So we should tear down all our houses, dismantle all our cars, and return
>>to living in roving tribes? After all, very little of what we do now is
>>what was "intended" for us.
Yeah, actually. The same offer was given to the Jews in Leviticus 25; (Paraphrasing) "Follow my commandments, and the rains will always come at the right time. Follow...and you'll be reaping wheat until it's time to reap grapes. Discard my commandments and this land will puke you out like the last civilization." (After 490 years ("Seventy times Seven" in other documents) they were cast out as Titus slaughtered thousands in AD70.
This world was intended to be Eden, and stay there...we got distracted.
And yeah...thousands of babies die of congenital defects...that didn't used to happen. An estimated 40 MILLION have been discarded in abortions. Not even animals kill their own for convenience. Having children with problems sends a message, and if you don't cower from it, can show the power of God. (Yeah, I know- it's sounds insane, but it's true.)
Do yourself a favor; get the "Does God Exist" series. It starts at the basics, compares other religions, and uses honest scientific techniques to show how accurate the Bible actually is. No dogma. Once you understand this (which gets past the obligatory "believe this 'cause I tell ya so" stuff the Pastor might ask of you) you'll see how everything fits in.
Well, here's one more example.
Ever hurt yourself painfully? I used to be johnny-hotshot on staircases because I spent so much time on one in my own home. Then one day I fell badly. Nowdays I can't step blindly onto stairs. Try as I might, either my eyes touch the step, or my feet don't.
Same goes for getting shocked, or cut in some ways- there's a tendency for the nerve-net, not necessarily the brain, to remember the pain. It's a built-in. Even Scientologists use this as an example of life-challenging dynamics.
A woman is born with a hymen; a virginity. The first man that violates that, tears the membrane in a painful way that's followed quickly by a new, special pleasure. This changes the way she sees THAT man, permanently. A woman never forgets her first, and will always treat him differently, even if she doesn't talk about it.
All this is "nature". Provable. Public knowledge.
So is the dynamic of marrying a woman that's not a virgin, and spending your life under her rule. How many comedians remark about "You were fun until we got married- now I can't see my poker buddies!"? It's a classic. It's also caused by pre-marital sex.
This is called "The curse of Eve" and it's in Genesis.
And how long would it take, for a monogamous couple that started as virgins, to get to the point they need a goat and a midget in the room to get off? Such weirdness only comes from being with more experienced partners leads you there.
It's just so darned easy to see the Bible as "quaint" because that's what the media and culture are suggesting. Religious people are marked as dupes and rubes, but they're fooling themselves.
PLEASE, find out for yourself. And mail me: Brian@Fahrlander.net, as you progress. (It'd be easier...)
Yeah, I keep hearing the empty promise that single mothers are a wonderful thing. They must be: ask any single mother if she'd rather have a husband. Or having two dads. Or sharing a room with an albino water buffalo. It's just not the same. There are a lot of people trying to excuse themselves of their misbehaving right now. There is, has been, and always will be a method of living that has the *actual* success. (Sucess being happy, healthy, and meaningful existance for all involved.)
But see, there was a day that those microbes didn't exist- AIDS for example. There's a lot of conjecture in this arena, but if every man had one woman, and no one screwed a monkey, there'd never be a mutation of these bugs into what we have today.
Take sex for instance: no contraceptive is 100% sure, just abstinence.
It all goes back to man's pride, which makes him think he's actually going to do what he plans, and it's going to go the way he intends. How many times have you PERSONALLY known this to be untrue? Ever thrown a paperwad at a basket and missed? Ever made love to a woman and...didn't?
Adam, Noah, Moses and others lived over 900 years.
And the idea that someone not involved gets an STD? Sometimes sin is communal. Take some benzene and pour it out. The dog drinks it, and gets lukemia. It's the same thing. Our intended life doesn't NEED benzene.
Look at all you know; cheating on a wife...lying..."what comes around goes around"...isn't it clear almost all suffering is done at our own hands?
We were given the choices, not locked into a single course of action. We can choose to be kind, to be faithful to a wife, to care about our children. When we do, our life is better.
Check out that "Does God Exist" torrent that's at least on mininova.org. Good, scientific proofs of God in plain terms with equations where necessary. It's free and could improve your life.
Glacier. Tropics. Shouldn't it be melting quickly?
Yes, you see the proper view of mankind; key to the understanding is the word "fallable". The point was that, unlike the Blue Jay that must stay in the trees or be eaten by larger predators, and unlike the tiger that sleeps all the time unless it's to get meat, man isn't stuck in any one role.
It's because of our intellect; by having no single physical advantage that we can go anywhere and do anything.
And of course there's a natural order; it's observed in lots of anecdotal ways. Single mothers. The need for police forces. The fact that man lives only 10% of his intended time. "Sin", the deviation from our intended roles is the cause of our problems.
We always think we'll "make it". We truly don't know the outcomes of our actions. If we did, no one would have STDs or unplanned children. Cars wouldn't have brakes, pencils no erasers.
God didn't create _evil_; he created freedom of choice. He allows us to follow the prescribed path, and if we vary, we pay in human terms. We get to either chose to be with him, now, in our short time here, or be without him forever. It's not about "being good" or "being naughty"; it's about making the effort to connect with our maker. Being good after that is easy.
We're broiling in our own misery- not one preferred by God. He's given us a way out, spoken in any toungue, at any time, in any place. Just make contact.
For a view of proofs of God, scientifically, see "Does God Exist" on your favorite torrent site. John Clayton shows where science and faith intertwine, supporting each other, not fighting.
Well, I've been where you are; at ages 6, 9, and 15 I made the attempts- nothing. And, like you I was disillusioned. Meanwhile, not realizing the crux of mankind's problem, I drove my life all over the road.
Satan's problem, the "eternal point" was that:
1. Mankind, unlike all other animals in nature has no special tools- no claws, scales, wings, etc. It's the most incapable design in the animal world. Unlike the creation of all the other animals, he wasn't going to cheer.
'Cause Satan could just *whisper* into the man's mind and cause him to leave the operational role; animals are hard-coded into doing a certain thing.
2. Satan said, "I'd make a better God than you". Well, that went over well, but in the end, God didn't just ZAP! him into nothingness like he was never there, he sent'im to Earth, saying "Prove it". Realize they'd surely known each other for perhaps trillions of years..
So we live on, being given the information about what our role is, and following it leads to happiness. Not because God will snap his fingers and make everything better, but for mechanical reasons that stand alone.
Use a gun to go grocery shopping....jail, feds, death.
Have sex randomly...babies, disease, sex-that-means-nothing: unhappy.
"Sin" is when we deviate from the role, that's all. When we act as if the information doesn't exist, we get ourselves in all kindsa crap.
Now, I'm not gonna bang your head to get you to look again- you'll do that whether I want you to or not...I'm just saying, when you stop, take the time, and ask, he'll be answering.
As to proof, you'll have to deal with one of those "body of evidence" things. Search mininova.org for "Does God Exist"; it's all in there.