When I was younger I might have engaged with you and explained the reason that christians do not follow that particular OT law and how it fits with Jesus teachings, but I've been on the internet long enough to suspect you might not be sincere in wanting discussion.
So I'll ask you straight up: are you actually curious / looking for an answer, or just looking to ridicule?
That whole 'degrading of an OS' thing does not occur on unix based systems!
Thats the most handwavy OS-elitist thing I've ever heard.
There is nothing about "unix-based systems" as opposed to NT-based or Linux-based that makes it not "get slower over time". Getting slower over time could be caused by one of several factors:
* Fragmentation (on non-SSDs).
* Buggy drivers
* Viruses
* Unneeded applications running at startup
The first one is an aspect of filesystems, not OSes (OSX doesnt use a "unix-based" filesystem, it uses HFS+ which AFAIK is proprietary Apple). It could be argued that NTFS doesnt do as good of a job as preventing fragmentation as other filesystems, but it really hasnt been an issue in about 7 years. Im not sure about HFS+, but my understanding is that the FS is quite old at this point and I wouldnt be surprised if it had its share of issues.
The next two can affect any OS; buggy drivers tend to affect microkernels and hybrid kernels like NT more than monolithic kernels, but "Unixy" OSes have had their share of buggy driver problems (I've seen FreeBSD 8.3 boot hangs due to dell USB keyboards, for example). OSX itself has had a number of buggy drivers recently (or so it seems-- with the hardware issues in iOS 8.x). Viruses absolutely affect OSX, and Unix offers no protection here.
That just leaves startup apps, and as I recall that was a major feature added to Mountain Lion. And certainly as a userland feature, startup applications have zero to do with the kernel on the backend.
The whole "its unix and therefore magical" thing makes really good marketing material, but isnt based in anything resembling reality.
Generally agree, but the accounting of righteousness come straight from Romans and several other NT books; see Paul's argument that Abraham did not earn righteousness, but he believed and it was credited to him as righteousness.
. if they're biblical literalists(which is silly, if you read the fucking book) then yeah, aliens are a problem
This makes me think you havent read the book. I cannot off the top of my head think of a single thing that would make aliens problematic, whether taken literally, metaphorically, or otherwise. It simply doesnt speak on the topic.
Id also push back that theres almost noone (certainly noone Ive ever spoken to) that thinks everything in the bible must be taken literally, though they may use that term as shorthand. Generally whats being meant is that its inerrant, and should be taken at face value-- though noone would argue that all of the language in (for example) psalms or song of songs is "literal". Certainly noone thinks the psalmist is ACTUALLY a deer, even when he says "As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God."
We understand this is simile, and that there are other places that use metaphor, and many that are simply to be read literally. How can you tell the difference? The same way you do in every day conversation: Context.
The bible makes the call. The categories are clear, you just have to look at what the bible says characterizes a christian. I'd start with Romans 4-10, James 2, and Jesus teachings in Matthew.
The illogic being that if you do not embrace Jesus, you cannot possibly do right.
Actually, thats a misunderstanding. The proper view is provided by the bible: Romans 3:10 None is righteous, no, not one; 11 no one understands;
no one seeks for God. 12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.
Whats said is that if you appeal to Christ's sacrifice, then you are accounted as righteous in the court of God's justice.
Personally, I dont accept any view of the multiverse as coherent unless it can provide evidence of one that is neither an infinite regression nor an appeal to "what else could it be".
I know plenty of Christians that believe in reincarnation
Either
* You dont understand the definition of reincarnation, and how it is different than what christians believe
* They dont understand the definition of reincarnation, and how it is different than what christians believe
* Or, they arent christians.
You do realize that there are actual categorical boundaries for "christian", right? Calling yourself a communist and espousing the free market means you arent a communist; calling yourself christian and subscribing to a view of reincarnation means you arent christian.
You seem to be under the impression that humans are robots; with that hypothesis you would be 100% correct that none of the things listed would be an issue. But just to look at a single point you made:
Even if the US changed every single speed limit sign tomorrow to from MPH to KPH, how hard is it to match a number on a guage in front of you to the sign posted on the road?
Dealing only in KPH is sufficiently hard for someone like myself raised with MPH that even if i switch my GPS / speedometer to KPH, I still have to do the mental conversion back into MPH to get a feeling for "how fast is that". 96kph doesnt mean anything to me except that I remember that its equivalent to 60mph.
Geeks have a terrible time with issues like these because they think in terms of computers and procedures and equivalences; but when you're dealing with humans there are these things called "habits" and "patterns" and you cant just wish them away.
If you consume anything with high fructose corn syrup over time, it has a cumulative effect including the buildup of yellow fat around the internal organs... it starts getting really nasty
This is pseudoscientific nonsense.
The chemical difference between sucrose and HFCS is generally that the sucrose gets cleaved into what is essentially HFCS inside your body by sucrase prior to being digested. Lets look at the two side by side:
* HFCS is generally a nearly 50-50 mix of glucose and fructose
* Sugar is a glucose joined to a fructose by a single atomic bond which is severed in the body, resulting in... a 50-50 mix of fructose and glucose.
Of the two primary mixtures of HFCS out there, one of them has more glucose (the "healthy" sugar) than fructose, while sugar is ALWAYS a 50-50 mix. In terms of purity, keep in mind that cane sugar requires processing and can have contaminants or byproducts in it just like HFCS.
There is absolutely zero evidence that there is a measurable difference between HFCS and sucrose in the body. There was a single study in Yale that was widely ridiculed for its terrible experimental design and lack of controls, which is perhaps where you're getting this misconception.
Financial advisors dont have to be the paid sort. They can be an older, wiser friend. I was just stressing that a bank account executive who's trying to sell you a financial instrument is not a good one to use as your advisor.
Its hillarious to spend a weekend with folks from actual oppressed countries who are here on asylum and then cap the weekend with self-entitled slashdotters whining about how bad we have it here in the US.
Dont worry about the fresh shot of perspective, its on the house.
If you have a 17 year old daughter who wants to wear a low-cut top and short shorts and wander around the bronx unaccompanied, what would you say to her?
Please tell me it isnt "I dont see anything wrong with that, its certainly your right."
Its like anticipating a discussion thread that occurs every single time a vulnerability on any OS is ever announced on slashdot.
If you want I can link you fine examples of the insanity from past IE11 bugs, past Pwn2Own competitions, the Heartbleed thread, OSX virus announcements, and so on and so forth. Slashdotters seem to revel in their ignorant OS partisanism.
And Im telling you in the situation you are in every financial advisor will tell you that getting a loan to get a car is a REALLY bad idea likely to cause you a lot of medium and long term problems. If you get sick, or fired, or anything else happens, your car gets taken and / or you rack up huge amounts of interest, and kill your credit score for years.
In that situation the correct thing to do is tighten down your budget to the absolute minimum and start saving. Do NOT take a loan-- and if this is a situation you are in I strongly recommend you talk to a non-interested financial advisor about this (ie, NOT a bank official). We're in a thread here about the problems that happen when people take out "predatory loans"-- that is, EXACTLY the type of loan you are describing.
DONT DO IT. Please. Its not just a "it hurts the economy" thing, its a "this might ruin your life" thing.
"Illegal parking" is a civil offense (and thus not "illegal"), just like breach of contract. Not a lawyer, but I believe in some cases that "breach of contract" could be elevated to a criminal offense (fraud)
And clearly we have a crisis because hundreds of thousands of people all had a 1-in-a-million happen to them. Too bad there arent that many people in the world.
Its like saying "its not my fault I was late, X and Y happened." Heres a tip: 99.99% of the time if is your fault because you didnt leave enough leeway.
Solution: Dont buy stuff you cant afford, and avoid the "economic slavery"
Incidentally, its really lame to compare your situation to that of actual slaves. Take a look at the migrant workers in Qatar and see what slavery actually looks like. It doesnt generally involve independence and owning a car.
What you're talking about is theft by another term: you're taking someones money with an agreement to repay it, and then not repaying it. Please dont try to justify it with "im really poor", because if you live in the US you are way richer than 95% of the rest of the world.
Maybe you simply dont need a lot of the things you think you do. Maybe that car and that smart phone arent necessities.
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When I was younger I might have engaged with you and explained the reason that christians do not follow that particular OT law and how it fits with Jesus teachings, but I've been on the internet long enough to suspect you might not be sincere in wanting discussion.
So I'll ask you straight up: are you actually curious / looking for an answer, or just looking to ridicule?
That whole 'degrading of an OS' thing does not occur on unix based systems!
Thats the most handwavy OS-elitist thing I've ever heard.
There is nothing about "unix-based systems" as opposed to NT-based or Linux-based that makes it not "get slower over time". Getting slower over time could be caused by one of several factors:
* Fragmentation (on non-SSDs).
* Buggy drivers
* Viruses
* Unneeded applications running at startup
The first one is an aspect of filesystems, not OSes (OSX doesnt use a "unix-based" filesystem, it uses HFS+ which AFAIK is proprietary Apple). It could be argued that NTFS doesnt do as good of a job as preventing fragmentation as other filesystems, but it really hasnt been an issue in about 7 years. Im not sure about HFS+, but my understanding is that the FS is quite old at this point and I wouldnt be surprised if it had its share of issues.
The next two can affect any OS; buggy drivers tend to affect microkernels and hybrid kernels like NT more than monolithic kernels, but "Unixy" OSes have had their share of buggy driver problems (I've seen FreeBSD 8.3 boot hangs due to dell USB keyboards, for example). OSX itself has had a number of buggy drivers recently (or so it seems-- with the hardware issues in iOS 8.x). Viruses absolutely affect OSX, and Unix offers no protection here.
That just leaves startup apps, and as I recall that was a major feature added to Mountain Lion. And certainly as a userland feature, startup applications have zero to do with the kernel on the backend.
The whole "its unix and therefore magical" thing makes really good marketing material, but isnt based in anything resembling reality.
The problem is people install applications which offer to install a startup widget.
Thats not a technical problem that can be solved with technical means unless you mean to remove the end user's ability to set up startup applications.
Generally agree, but the accounting of righteousness come straight from Romans and several other NT books; see Paul's argument that Abraham did not earn righteousness, but he believed and it was credited to him as righteousness.
. if they're biblical literalists(which is silly, if you read the fucking book) then yeah, aliens are a problem
This makes me think you havent read the book. I cannot off the top of my head think of a single thing that would make aliens problematic, whether taken literally, metaphorically, or otherwise. It simply doesnt speak on the topic.
Id also push back that theres almost noone (certainly noone Ive ever spoken to) that thinks everything in the bible must be taken literally, though they may use that term as shorthand. Generally whats being meant is that its inerrant, and should be taken at face value-- though noone would argue that all of the language in (for example) psalms or song of songs is "literal". Certainly noone thinks the psalmist is ACTUALLY a deer, even when he says
"As the deer pants for streams of water,
so my soul pants for you, my God."
We understand this is simile, and that there are other places that use metaphor, and many that are simply to be read literally. How can you tell the difference? The same way you do in every day conversation: Context.
The bible makes the call. The categories are clear, you just have to look at what the bible says characterizes a christian. I'd start with Romans 4-10, James 2, and Jesus teachings in Matthew.
The illogic being that if you do not embrace Jesus, you cannot possibly do right.
Actually, thats a misunderstanding. The proper view is provided by the bible:
Romans 3:10 None is righteous, no, not one;
11 no one understands;
no one seeks for God.
12 All have turned aside; together they have become worthless;
no one does good,
not even one.
Whats said is that if you appeal to Christ's sacrifice, then you are accounted as righteous in the court of God's justice.
Personally, I dont accept any view of the multiverse as coherent unless it can provide evidence of one that is neither an infinite regression nor an appeal to "what else could it be".
I know plenty of Christians that believe in reincarnation
Either
* You dont understand the definition of reincarnation, and how it is different than what christians believe
* They dont understand the definition of reincarnation, and how it is different than what christians believe
* Or, they arent christians.
You do realize that there are actual categorical boundaries for "christian", right? Calling yourself a communist and espousing the free market means you arent a communist; calling yourself christian and subscribing to a view of reincarnation means you arent christian.
Theyre also a really small country.
You seem to be under the impression that humans are robots; with that hypothesis you would be 100% correct that none of the things listed would be an issue. But just to look at a single point you made:
Even if the US changed every single speed limit sign tomorrow to from MPH to KPH, how hard is it to match a number on a guage in front of you to the sign posted on the road?
Dealing only in KPH is sufficiently hard for someone like myself raised with MPH that even if i switch my GPS / speedometer to KPH, I still have to do the mental conversion back into MPH to get a feeling for "how fast is that". 96kph doesnt mean anything to me except that I remember that its equivalent to 60mph.
Geeks have a terrible time with issues like these because they think in terms of computers and procedures and equivalences; but when you're dealing with humans there are these things called "habits" and "patterns" and you cant just wish them away.
We do it with currency and somehow we make that work.
Ideally it would be metric but there are huge conversion costs that you cant just handwave away.
If you consume anything with high fructose corn syrup over time, it has a cumulative effect including the buildup of yellow fat around the internal organs... it starts getting really nasty
This is pseudoscientific nonsense.
The chemical difference between sucrose and HFCS is generally that the sucrose gets cleaved into what is essentially HFCS inside your body by sucrase prior to being digested. Lets look at the two side by side:
* HFCS is generally a nearly 50-50 mix of glucose and fructose
* Sugar is a glucose joined to a fructose by a single atomic bond which is severed in the body, resulting in... a 50-50 mix of fructose and glucose.
Of the two primary mixtures of HFCS out there, one of them has more glucose (the "healthy" sugar) than fructose, while sugar is ALWAYS a 50-50 mix. In terms of purity, keep in mind that cane sugar requires processing and can have contaminants or byproducts in it just like HFCS.
There is absolutely zero evidence that there is a measurable difference between HFCS and sucrose in the body. There was a single study in Yale that was widely ridiculed for its terrible experimental design and lack of controls, which is perhaps where you're getting this misconception.
Financial advisors dont have to be the paid sort. They can be an older, wiser friend. I was just stressing that a bank account executive who's trying to sell you a financial instrument is not a good one to use as your advisor.
Its hillarious to spend a weekend with folks from actual oppressed countries who are here on asylum and then cap the weekend with self-entitled slashdotters whining about how bad we have it here in the US.
Dont worry about the fresh shot of perspective, its on the house.
If you have a 17 year old daughter who wants to wear a low-cut top and short shorts and wander around the bronx unaccompanied, what would you say to her?
Please tell me it isnt "I dont see anything wrong with that, its certainly your right."
Im struggling to wrap my brain around the "why" of that, but in any case is this a common thing?
Except OSX is also vulnerable, and any other OS that uses bash.
Its like anticipating a discussion thread that occurs every single time a vulnerability on any OS is ever announced on slashdot.
If you want I can link you fine examples of the insanity from past IE11 bugs, past Pwn2Own competitions, the Heartbleed thread, OSX virus announcements, and so on and so forth. Slashdotters seem to revel in their ignorant OS partisanism.
And Im telling you in the situation you are in every financial advisor will tell you that getting a loan to get a car is a REALLY bad idea likely to cause you a lot of medium and long term problems. If you get sick, or fired, or anything else happens, your car gets taken and / or you rack up huge amounts of interest, and kill your credit score for years.
In that situation the correct thing to do is tighten down your budget to the absolute minimum and start saving. Do NOT take a loan-- and if this is a situation you are in I strongly recommend you talk to a non-interested financial advisor about this (ie, NOT a bank official). We're in a thread here about the problems that happen when people take out "predatory loans"-- that is, EXACTLY the type of loan you are describing.
DONT DO IT. Please. Its not just a "it hurts the economy" thing, its a "this might ruin your life" thing.
Thats actually wrong and nearly backwards.
"Illegal parking" is a civil offense (and thus not "illegal"), just like breach of contract. Not a lawyer, but I believe in some cases that "breach of contract" could be elevated to a criminal offense (fraud)
And clearly we have a crisis because hundreds of thousands of people all had a 1-in-a-million happen to them. Too bad there arent that many people in the world.
Its like saying "its not my fault I was late, X and Y happened." Heres a tip: 99.99% of the time if is your fault because you didnt leave enough leeway.
Solution: Dont buy stuff you cant afford, and avoid the "economic slavery"
Incidentally, its really lame to compare your situation to that of actual slaves. Take a look at the migrant workers in Qatar and see what slavery actually looks like. It doesnt generally involve independence and owning a car.
What you're talking about is theft by another term: you're taking someones money with an agreement to repay it, and then not repaying it. Please dont try to justify it with "im really poor", because if you live in the US you are way richer than 95% of the rest of the world.
Maybe you simply dont need a lot of the things you think you do. Maybe that car and that smart phone arent necessities.
Coke doesnt cause obesity any more than chocolate cake does. Consuming a lot of those certainly might cause obesity, however.