I'm not sure I understand your problem with the fair tax. You didn't give one, other than not wanting to pay a 30% tax. You seem to be missing that with the fair tax you take home your WHOLE PAYCHECK. To anyone that is working a mildly respectable job, this equates to taking home that ~30% of your paycheck that is currently being taken out for federal tax, Social Security, and Medicare.
In the end it equals out, with the exception that congress can no longer write in companies for earmark tax exemptions.
God doesn't need people either. So what's your point? I never said God needed money. Yet he chooses to provide for the clergy through our giving, just like he chooses to provide rain through the clouds.
Why would we? What makes you think we give a damn if you know or not? Timeout for you! Seriously, why do people always escalate things into fisticuffs? He simply said he thinks this story is not/. newsworthy; and I for one and I think several others agree with him. What next? Alpha 5? Then lets have an article on Beta 1, 2, and 3, so that we can all have the same discussion again.
Redundancy and articles aside, is there any reason to be so nasty about it? He sure did inconvenience you with that comment./. would benefit from less PMS.
So is going to that particular church. The Bible commands us to give 10% of our produce to the church so the leaders don't have to have a 40 hour job + 30 hour job coming up with a 30 minute speech every week.
Every pastor I know works far more than that. They spend hours each week teaching bible classes, helping the elderly in the church, family councling, etc... In fact Most work 50-60 hours a week.
Most honest churches have poor pastorial staff. The dishonest ones have the pastor in a $10,000 suit driving a $150,000 mercedes and living in a tiny 7500 sq foot home or the other dishonest ones have the church full of gold, silver and wealth.
The rest use it to help the community. It's expensive to feed families run a homeless shelter and have a emergency medical fund for the destitute. You're right; played it down so nobody could say "well this paster I knew only worked xx hours per week"
More specifically, the drivers for the Broadcomm wireless cards, like the one in my laptop. For the exact same model number (is this the term?), there are multiple hardware revisions. So some peoples' cards work; others like mine don't. I'll have to check it out again see how it is.
Which does the more damage. A greedy bunch of people that extort huge portions of one's personal income to attend events, or sports people who are so full of themselves that they would turn away a viewing audience just because some one might be profiting on their coattails.
One poster commented that the NFL has a hard time making money. Well, from the picture of the church property, it does not appear that the church has that problem. It would be nice if the NFL could scam as well as the average christian churches in America. Selective reading lets then demand a tithe, but forget that Jesus destroyed the temple due to money changers in the church. Have American flags and patriotic paraphernalia in the church, but do everything they can to avoid paying taxes, even on clearly profit making activities. Agree to certain political limitations in exchange for the tax exempt status, and then, like the hypocrite, ignore those limitations as they please.
This is nothing more than a whiny church complaining that once they are being held to rules of civilized society. I know it is a new experience for most churches, having to comply with the rule of law, but it happens. They can buy a smaller screen. They can choose not to have such a secular event in a sacred space, and forgo the tithe that members who are mostly interested in secular events might bring. They can, like most churches, have such secular events outside of the sacred space.
Your perspective is just a little bit skewed. Giving to the church is entirely up to the person. So is going to that particular church. The Bible commands us to give 10% of our produce to the church so the leaders don't have to have a 40 hour job + 30 hour job coming up with a 30 minute speech every week. Now whether or not the people give to the church is entirely up to them and their conscience and God. It's close minded to think "because Scientology extorts money from its members, then all religions do". If you looked at the average salary of a youth pastor, pastor, etc; you'll find it's simply nowhere near enough to attract those in it for the money. There's a few pastors here and there that make a larger portion of money (such as Presbyterian pasters:), and there are the televangelists who say "give ME [specifically ME] money and God will give you more money", but they are nowhere near the majority.
Believe it or not, there are people in the world who have motives other than making the most money possible--such as making money by helping others in the best way they know how. I don't know why people have to ascribe negative motives to people who say they just want to help others. Not everyone else is like you. Just because you don't want to help people doesn't mean there aren't other people who do want to help people in the same way they have found help.
Well hey, at least if that's the case it's clearly a case where they're actively interested in listening to THEIR data; which makes me less concerned that they're interested in me. Then again, I'm not actively organizing protests (or am I?):O
That would leave proof, and that would totally ruin the fun of coming up with some elaborate baseless conspiracy theory. What good is a conspiracy theory if there's a way to disprove it that doesn't require a submarine? It's really not that far fetched seeing as they've already done it in all the major AT&T switching centers-- PBS did a story on an ex-employee of AT&T who figured this out on his own and wasn't under a NDA.
I don't know how much email you have, but consider linking your yahoo account to a Gmail account through POP.yahoo.com(?). Yes, you must give google your yahoo password, but it will then query the yahoo server and proceed to download ALL of your yahoo mails and save them in your Gmail account.
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See, I think this is why people love google so much. Of what marketing use has this feature been before now? Now you can seamlessly migrate all your online emails to another online storage database for free; and you can forgo downloading them to your computer and backing them, etc.
Good for you. Thankfully your church doesn't run the world, so believe whatever is you like. Just as long as you don't decide to create a theocracy or fly planes into buildings, and respect the rights of non-Catholics, go about your business. No one is forcing you to conceive children in this fashion. The pope made a simple statement. Why in the world are you getting all defensive about this?
I've noticed this problem with myself and have realized the key thing I'm missing is simply larger short and medium term-long term memory. It's not that I can't process the information, it's that I have to go back over and refresh it over and over; and if I get interrupted it flushes it out. So I've just recently begun memorizing things like poetry, Psalms/Proverbs if you're a religious person, etc.
If you can simply increase the short term memory capacity and ability for retention, then my guess is things I have trouble with will go a lot faster as when I do get sidetracked every 15 minutes by the latest slashdot article, I can jump right back into what I was working on before. I just started this last week so I can't comment on the effectiveness, however theoretically it should work-- the brain adapts to the task amazingly well. We just need to force it to adapt in the way we need.
Have you been in a nursing home lately? They just lie around and watch TV, or have the same boring conversations with each other over and over. By the time I'm in a nursing home, I expect to have a PC with a large selection of multiplayer online games. I expect games like WoW to take care of a lot of my social and entertainment needs when I'm old. What is more interesting to me is how many of us are 50 years ahead of you on that point.
It's a vicious cycle; and the sooner we break out of it the happier we'll be. Yes, socializing (with non-retard-jocks) is greater than playing WoW or any video game for that matter. I just don't believe it enough to do it yet~
So you are saying the fact that old people die from the flu more frequently than young tells you nothing about their immune system's ability to fight off disease?
No, I'm not. Are you saying that a person's age is genetically determined?
Some people, and animals too, simply have a better immune system.
No, they do not. They have one that's better against a particular set of attacking pathogens. If there was an absolute, perfect, holy grail of immune systems it would have evolved by now. I've not heard of it. There are numerous examples in biology where advantage X comes with disadvantage Y and immunity is no exception. More or less. Telomeres. Cells can only replicate so many times, after that you start dying.
What? So you are saying the fact that old people die from the flu more frequently than young tells you nothing about their immune system's ability to fight off disease? Because that's what it sounds like.
Some people, and animals too, simply have a better immune system. So you clone these to minimize the chance they get severely sick. IE, you clone the more resilient.
I don't think people object to eating cloned meat if that were the only factor. At least, not the people who understand some basic science. I think the larger objection is that this will limit diversity in the gene pool even faster than current breeding already is. And we've seen how well that worked out for the banana in the 50s, when it was effectively cloned by horticultural methods. You're exactly right, but I'll throw it back at you and mention banana's don't have an immune system. If we stay out of the genetic manipulation arena, we can simply stop giving these cows antibiotics and just clone the batches that live the longest (most resilient to disease) and that are the largest. Keep doing this and we'll be eating supercows for dinner, and we won't be building anti-biotic resistant culturing farms.
Seriously, reading shit like this kinda freaks me out. This is a phenomenon only found on/.. Not only does some dude go around remembering that an ancient game had problems with stuff happening left of the city center (which makes me slightly worried regarding his mental health), but someone else comes up with an answer to it (which makes me really worried about his mental health). And this isn't just some kind of "I wanna post, just to post", bullshit, kind of answer, he actually seems to know what the hell his talking about. I think I should change my thesis to discuss this, and name it "Slashdot, we're all freaks, and we have the GPL'd code to prove it". Somehow I imagine you would find the idea less terrifying if it were instead some 60 year olds remembering their favorite football game from 1964.
No, it's more akin to: I go to the grocery store and buy a 5 lb bag of sugar. Now I don't need to use that much sugar so I let the neighbors have some. That's not stealing because I paid for it. You're essentially doing nothing more than what a Starbucks or other cafe does.
However, don't be surprised that companies like Comcast freak out because, while they want you to PAY for all that bandwidth, they don't actually want you to USE it! Actually, it's more like "I pay $50/month for unlimited 5lb bags of sugar. Now, since there's little chance I will use 50lbs of sugar, I give it away. In fact, I give away 200lbs of sugar, or ~$200 worth of sugar."
That's how the internet companies see this.
Who is right? Both really. There will be people who share the internet with 20 other users and only pay one bill. The upload and download is always maxed out 24/7. The internet company makes no money from them. In this case, the internet company was right. But there will also be people who simply like to leave there internet open, because it's awfully nice to go to your grandma's house over Christmas (who doesn't have internet, let alone wireless), and bring your laptop, and to be pleasantly surprised that someone left their network open, so you can still check Slashdot instead of spending time with family.
The solution would be to not force this into a box, but qualify statements: "While we the internet company do not approve of users sharing their internet with 20 different users in an apartment, we see nothing wrong with people in neighborhoods leaving their AP open; because most people aren't going to have a desktop with integrated wireless.
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I'm not sure I understand your problem with the fair tax. You didn't give one, other than not wanting to pay a 30% tax. You seem to be missing that with the fair tax you take home your WHOLE PAYCHECK. To anyone that is working a mildly respectable job, this equates to taking home that ~30% of your paycheck that is currently being taken out for federal tax, Social Security, and Medicare.
In the end it equals out, with the exception that congress can no longer write in companies for earmark tax exemptions.
Could you elaborate on what the problems with Obama are? I'm not familiar with this, I thought he was a good candidate. I must be missing something.
How did parent's post get moderated troll?
God doesn't need people either. So what's your point? I never said God needed money. Yet he chooses to provide for the clergy through our giving, just like he chooses to provide rain through the clouds.
Redundancy and articles aside, is there any reason to be so nasty about it? He sure did inconvenience you with that comment.
Every pastor I know works far more than that. They spend hours each week teaching bible classes, helping the elderly in the church, family councling, etc... In fact Most work 50-60 hours a week.
Most honest churches have poor pastorial staff. The dishonest ones have the pastor in a $10,000 suit driving a $150,000 mercedes and living in a tiny 7500 sq foot home or the other dishonest ones have the church full of gold, silver and wealth.
The rest use it to help the community. It's expensive to feed families run a homeless shelter and have a emergency medical fund for the destitute. You're right; played it down so nobody could say "well this paster I knew only worked xx hours per week"
More specifically, the drivers for the Broadcomm wireless cards, like the one in my laptop. For the exact same model number (is this the term?), there are multiple hardware revisions. So some peoples' cards work; others like mine don't. I'll have to check it out again see how it is.
One poster commented that the NFL has a hard time making money. Well, from the picture of the church property, it does not appear that the church has that problem. It would be nice if the NFL could scam as well as the average christian churches in America. Selective reading lets then demand a tithe, but forget that Jesus destroyed the temple due to money changers in the church. Have American flags and patriotic paraphernalia in the church, but do everything they can to avoid paying taxes, even on clearly profit making activities. Agree to certain political limitations in exchange for the tax exempt status, and then, like the hypocrite, ignore those limitations as they please.
Your perspective is just a little bit skewed. Giving to the church is entirely up to the person. So is going to that particular church. The Bible commands us to give 10% of our produce to the church so the leaders don't have to have a 40 hour job + 30 hour job coming up with a 30 minute speech every week. Now whether or not the people give to the church is entirely up to them and their conscience and God. It's close minded to think "because Scientology extorts money from its members, then all religions do". If you looked at the average salary of a youth pastor, pastor, etc; you'll find it's simply nowhere near enough to attract those in it for the money. There's a few pastors here and there that make a larger portion of money (such as Presbyterian pastersThis is nothing more than a whiny church complaining that once they are being held to rules of civilized society. I know it is a new experience for most churches, having to comply with the rule of law, but it happens. They can buy a smaller screen. They can choose not to have such a secular event in a sacred space, and forgo the tithe that members who are mostly interested in secular events might bring. They can, like most churches, have such secular events outside of the sacred space.
Believe it or not, there are people in the world who have motives other than making the most money possible--such as making money by helping others in the best way they know how. I don't know why people have to ascribe negative motives to people who say they just want to help others. Not everyone else is like you. Just because you don't want to help people doesn't mean there aren't other people who do want to help people in the same way they have found help.
Well hey, at least if that's the case it's clearly a case where they're actively interested in listening to THEIR data; which makes me less concerned that they're interested in me. Then again, I'm not actively organizing protests (or am I?) :O
Gmail gives you a GB of online photo storage; their service has been useful for what I need; but then again I've never used flickr though.
I don't know how much email you have, but consider linking your yahoo account to a Gmail account through POP.yahoo.com(?). Yes, you must give google your yahoo password, but it will then query the yahoo server and proceed to download ALL of your yahoo mails and save them in your Gmail account.
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See, I think this is why people love google so much. Of what marketing use has this feature been before now? Now you can seamlessly migrate all your online emails to another online storage database for free; and you can forgo downloading them to your computer and backing them, etc.
I've noticed this problem with myself and have realized the key thing I'm missing is simply larger short and medium term-long term memory. It's not that I can't process the information, it's that I have to go back over and refresh it over and over; and if I get interrupted it flushes it out. So I've just recently begun memorizing things like poetry, Psalms/Proverbs if you're a religious person, etc.
If you can simply increase the short term memory capacity and ability for retention, then my guess is things I have trouble with will go a lot faster as when I do get sidetracked every 15 minutes by the latest slashdot article, I can jump right back into what I was working on before. I just started this last week so I can't comment on the effectiveness, however theoretically it should work-- the brain adapts to the task amazingly well. We just need to force it to adapt in the way we need.
yes but how many libraries of congress is that
It's a vicious cycle; and the sooner we break out of it the happier we'll be. Yes, socializing (with non-retard-jocks) is greater than playing WoW or any video game for that matter. I just don't believe it enough to do it yet~
What? So you are saying the fact that old people die from the flu more frequently than young tells you nothing about their immune system's ability to fight off disease? Because that's what it sounds like.
Some people, and animals too, simply have a better immune system. So you clone these to minimize the chance they get severely sick. IE, you clone the more resilient.
Your post is nitpicking at best, troll at worst.
That's why they're trying to get rid of the 2nd Amendment first.
There's nothing wrong with being smart.
However, don't be surprised that companies like Comcast freak out because, while they want you to PAY for all that bandwidth, they don't actually want you to USE it! Actually, it's more like "I pay $50/month for unlimited 5lb bags of sugar. Now, since there's little chance I will use 50lbs of sugar, I give it away. In fact, I give away 200lbs of sugar, or ~$200 worth of sugar."
That's how the internet companies see this.
Who is right? Both really. There will be people who share the internet with 20 other users and only pay one bill. The upload and download is always maxed out 24/7. The internet company makes no money from them. In this case, the internet company was right. But there will also be people who simply like to leave there internet open, because it's awfully nice to go to your grandma's house over Christmas (who doesn't have internet, let alone wireless), and bring your laptop, and to be pleasantly surprised that someone left their network open, so you can still check Slashdot instead of spending time with family.
The solution would be to not force this into a box, but qualify statements: "While we the internet company do not approve of users sharing their internet with 20 different users in an apartment, we see nothing wrong with people in neighborhoods leaving their AP open; because most people aren't going to have a desktop with integrated wireless.
Or, there's simply some unused address space?
Everything doesn't have to be powers of two.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_dilemma
Finding this in the parent's post is left as an exercise for the reader.
Glad you posted that video. This puts the story's link to shame. Much more thought put into this display than the story's.