The institution is, the religion is not. You hold that belief because the institutions have higher visibility in the media and on the political stage than the religion itself does.
Exactly. Most of Protestantism views Catholic teachings with severe skepticism and have derived their own interpretations. One can hardly call something you don't agree with the "trunk" of your beliefs.
I think you mean Catholicism. Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox are the only branches that I know of that strictly follows a canon. Many Protestant branches study other historically significant books of the time (the Apocrypha as the Catholic Church has termed them).
Says the average person watches 5 hours of TV per day.
Weekend for me starts half of friday -> sunday, but even at just 2 days/week, that's 10 hours of TV/weekend, or about 2 hours of advertising per weekend.
300 million people would be 600 million hours of advertising per weekend.
The Church is a political institution, mostly unrelated with the teachings of Christianity. What the Church does has little influence on the religion or its values. It has influence on the culture of the people that it tries to influence, but not the religion itself. After all, it only represents one branch of hundreds, most of which disagree with what it (the Church) does.
I think part of the cause, especially with shooters, is the deviation from catering to normalcore gamers to casual gamers. Sure the market is expanded, but it also desensitizes you to the community.
A comparison that I like to use (partly because I played so much of it when I was younger) is with Jedi Knight, Jedi Academy and Tribes. In both of these games, stats weren't tracked, there was no emphasis on winning or scoring points, the servers had a lot of sandboxing features, the chat system was fairly dynamic (you could chat with everyone, your team, target other people to chat, write in colors, make chat bindings, etc).
What that meant was that there was a fine balance between action (fighting, scoring points) and just idly sitting around and shooting-the-bull. I met a lot of interesting people, and met someone new just about every time I logged in. Because the combat system was so deep and dynamic, I learned not only names/personalities, but also appreciated the nuances that made different people play different ways.
Compare that to something like MW2 or BC2, where most of the players are socially retarded rage/flame filled asshats who spend most of their headset/short messages cursing out other players that kill them. I don't blame the generation, I blame the games that are set up for packing as much action into as short a time as possible to keep the casuals entertained without designing the game for some more community oriented depth. This is also one of the reasons why MMO's are so popular.
"...claiming Google systematically thwarts Internet search competition....Microsoft claims Google engages in a "pattern of actions" that unfairly impede competition. Google controls more than 90 percent of the Internet search advertising market in Europe, well ahead of Microsoft's Bing, which is struggling to make inroads into Google's market share."
We're discussing the article. This whole story has nothing to do with any products other than their search engines.
Did you fail to read the article? This complaint is over the internet search competition (from both M$ and one of the companies owned by M$). I don't know how more plain it could be than that, unless you didn't know that the Google search engine was owned by Google, and Bing is owned by Microsoft.
Just imagine the advantage the other players have with FPS and being able to see things faster than I am on older hardware. We each find our own ways to gain an edge. Some of us play with clans that have designated roles and communicate over headset, some of us buy better peripherals, some of us buy better hardware (larger monitors, TV's, etc).
There is never really a level playing field. Take a look into the rapid-fire controllers offered by some manufacturers that turn semi-auto weapons into full auto on consoles.
You say that because you haven't used a better mouse. I use an MX518, and the extra buttons/sensitivity controls are so integral with my gaming that I couldn't imagine not having them.
For example, besides the nice feature of being able to navigate web pages faster with the fwd/back buttons, I've remapped the forward button on the thumb to be the knife button for BFBC2. The ability to react faster than everyone else by having one finger always on the knife button but not affecting movement has proven to be a pretty big advantage on tight urban maps.
I also have the sensitivity controls tweaked so that by hitting the button above the scrollbar, I can greatly increase my sensitivity in when manning a tank or helicopter, allowing me to track faster than most vehicles move. When I hop out, I can just hit the button below the scrollbar to get back to normal gun sensitivity. This has also been a huge advantage, allowing me to shoot down helicopters/ATV's that nobody else can seem to hit because they're throwing their mouse trying to make the less sensitive and slower turning tank keep up.
Same goes for Jedi Knight, Jedi Academy. By tweaking the sen on-the-fly, I can switch back and forth between saber and gun sensitivities without having to scramble to find the equivalent keybinding on a keyboard that is already so macro'ed that there are no longer free keys to bind.
There seems to be tons of comments about the viability of these in houses, but why should they be located there? We don't have petrol pumps in our houses, so why would a high power delivery system be in our house?
It would seem to me that a gas station could be replaced by a high power recharge station, since it also seems that the recharge time is about the same as fuel-up time.
I forgot to log-in before posting this. Quoting for visibility.
The Bible doesn't say you can't be a homosexual, or that you should hide or lie about being homosexual, it just says that you shouldn't have sex with a person of the same gender.
Being a homosexual and having sex with someone of the same gender are not the same thing. One is a preference, attraction, or fascination, the other is an action.
There are a lot of apparent contractions, but it's totally dependent on your knowledge of the text and your interpretation. Taking things out of context and interpreting them in a way that supports your view that the Bible has contradictions will produce contradictions. The opposite is also true.
It's been reported a few times that it is no small coincident that Egypt and Libya, being so close to Tunisia started revolts and riots shortly after the success Tunisia had:
That was true for about an hour, and now has been reversed. Comments rated as trolls are now +4 Insightful, and comments in support at +5 Insightful are now +2/+3.
The more important failing point of his argument is the part where he believes that Manning was disillusioned with Don't Ask, Don't Tell to the point where he released these documents in revenge. Frankly, that argument doesn't make any sense when he knew there was a president that promised to repeal the policy and it was already under pressure to be repealed before he released the documents.
Manning was a whistleblower. He wasn't a vengeful child or traitor.
Why? Because you bought in to sensationalist media that this man actually did harm to someone?
Let's look at the results of his actions: Nobody from the U.S. was physically harmed. A bunch of U.S. politicians were embarrassed for their backroom, undemocratic dealings. People revolting against their corrupt dictatorship governments in Tunisia, which also triggered the revolts in Egypt and Libya.
Looks to me like 3 for Wikileaks, 0 for bullshit fearmongering sponsered by the good ole' gov't of the US of A.
Well, nothing would happen. Nobody is out there to enforce the U.S. paying back those loans. World banking organizations might get pissed off, and some of China's allies might as well, but nobody is going to do anything about it. Hell, if the U.S. wanted to throw it's diplomatic relations to the wind (or if China and the U.S. goes to war), it'd be really easy for the U.S. to say, "we aren't paying those loans back. suck it."
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The institution is, the religion is not. You hold that belief because the institutions have higher visibility in the media and on the political stage than the religion itself does.
Don't confuse the two.
Exactly. Most of Protestantism views Catholic teachings with severe skepticism and have derived their own interpretations. One can hardly call something you don't agree with the "trunk" of your beliefs.
I think you mean Catholicism. Catholicism and Eastern Orthodox are the only branches that I know of that strictly follows a canon. Many Protestant branches study other historically significant books of the time (the Apocrypha as the Catholic Church has termed them).
http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/americans-watching-more-tv-than-ever/
Says the average person watches 5 hours of TV per day.
Weekend for me starts half of friday -> sunday, but even at just 2 days/week, that's 10 hours of TV/weekend, or about 2 hours of advertising per weekend.
300 million people would be 600 million hours of advertising per weekend.
I can't tell if his math is wrong by an order of magnitude or if he's saying that US citizens spend most of their weekend not working intellectually.
I suppose both are true.
Try the work of Mitnick and the thousands of exploits in the 90s during the .com bubble. Media calling hackers bad guys isn't exactly a recent trend.
I think it is good that he clarified. I mean, just look at the first line in the FA. If he hadn't, the media would have had a field day.
The Church is a political institution, mostly unrelated with the teachings of Christianity. What the Church does has little influence on the religion or its values. It has influence on the culture of the people that it tries to influence, but not the religion itself. After all, it only represents one branch of hundreds, most of which disagree with what it (the Church) does.
Software engineers are paid to build things in software. Hackers build things for ideological reasons. Crackers break things.
Also, it has nothing to do with IT.
I think part of the cause, especially with shooters, is the deviation from catering to normalcore gamers to casual gamers. Sure the market is expanded, but it also desensitizes you to the community.
A comparison that I like to use (partly because I played so much of it when I was younger) is with Jedi Knight, Jedi Academy and Tribes. In both of these games, stats weren't tracked, there was no emphasis on winning or scoring points, the servers had a lot of sandboxing features, the chat system was fairly dynamic (you could chat with everyone, your team, target other people to chat, write in colors, make chat bindings, etc).
What that meant was that there was a fine balance between action (fighting, scoring points) and just idly sitting around and shooting-the-bull. I met a lot of interesting people, and met someone new just about every time I logged in. Because the combat system was so deep and dynamic, I learned not only names/personalities, but also appreciated the nuances that made different people play different ways.
Compare that to something like MW2 or BC2, where most of the players are socially retarded rage/flame filled asshats who spend most of their headset/short messages cursing out other players that kill them. I don't blame the generation, I blame the games that are set up for packing as much action into as short a time as possible to keep the casuals entertained without designing the game for some more community oriented depth. This is also one of the reasons why MMO's are so popular.
You're the same moron who posted below.
Let me quote for you:
"...claiming Google systematically thwarts Internet search competition....Microsoft claims Google engages in a "pattern of actions" that unfairly impede competition. Google controls more than 90 percent of the Internet search advertising market in Europe, well ahead of Microsoft's Bing, which is struggling to make inroads into Google's market share."
We're discussing the article. This whole story has nothing to do with any products other than their search engines.
Did you fail to read the article? This complaint is over the internet search competition (from both M$ and one of the companies owned by M$). I don't know how more plain it could be than that, unless you didn't know that the Google search engine was owned by Google, and Bing is owned by Microsoft.
Half the price. When Netbooks were selling well, they were in the 175-200$ range.
The irony is that those sort of tablet computers were the first to be marketed, so maybe we're going in the wrong direction.
http://www.shopfujitsu.com/www/content/products/Tablet-PCS/index.php
Just imagine the advantage the other players have with FPS and being able to see things faster than I am on older hardware. We each find our own ways to gain an edge. Some of us play with clans that have designated roles and communicate over headset, some of us buy better peripherals, some of us buy better hardware (larger monitors, TV's, etc).
There is never really a level playing field. Take a look into the rapid-fire controllers offered by some manufacturers that turn semi-auto weapons into full auto on consoles.
You say that because you haven't used a better mouse. I use an MX518, and the extra buttons/sensitivity controls are so integral with my gaming that I couldn't imagine not having them.
For example, besides the nice feature of being able to navigate web pages faster with the fwd/back buttons, I've remapped the forward button on the thumb to be the knife button for BFBC2. The ability to react faster than everyone else by having one finger always on the knife button but not affecting movement has proven to be a pretty big advantage on tight urban maps.
I also have the sensitivity controls tweaked so that by hitting the button above the scrollbar, I can greatly increase my sensitivity in when manning a tank or helicopter, allowing me to track faster than most vehicles move. When I hop out, I can just hit the button below the scrollbar to get back to normal gun sensitivity. This has also been a huge advantage, allowing me to shoot down helicopters/ATV's that nobody else can seem to hit because they're throwing their mouse trying to make the less sensitive and slower turning tank keep up.
Same goes for Jedi Knight, Jedi Academy. By tweaking the sen on-the-fly, I can switch back and forth between saber and gun sensitivities without having to scramble to find the equivalent keybinding on a keyboard that is already so macro'ed that there are no longer free keys to bind.
There seems to be tons of comments about the viability of these in houses, but why should they be located there? We don't have petrol pumps in our houses, so why would a high power delivery system be in our house?
It would seem to me that a gas station could be replaced by a high power recharge station, since it also seems that the recharge time is about the same as fuel-up time.
I forgot to log-in before posting this. Quoting for visibility.
The Bible doesn't say you can't be a homosexual, or that you should hide or lie about being homosexual, it just says that you shouldn't have sex with a person of the same gender.
Being a homosexual and having sex with someone of the same gender are not the same thing. One is a preference, attraction, or fascination, the other is an action.
There are a lot of apparent contractions, but it's totally dependent on your knowledge of the text and your interpretation. Taking things out of context and interpreting them in a way that supports your view that the Bible has contradictions will produce contradictions. The opposite is also true.
.001 = mS .000001 = uS .000000001 = nS
.0000001 s, not .0001 s.
100 nS =
Wikileaks connection and causation of the Tunisia revolts:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/01/wikileaks-reveal-what-made-tunisians-revolt.html
It's been reported a few times that it is no small coincident that Egypt and Libya, being so close to Tunisia started revolts and riots shortly after the success Tunisia had:
http://www.gospress.com/international/protests-in-egypt-inspired-gain-strength-throughout-the-middle-east.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QAJSX0eHSHM
Anyone else notice the tags change from having "republicans" to having "democrats" in the list?
What is with that?
That was true for about an hour, and now has been reversed. Comments rated as trolls are now +4 Insightful, and comments in support at +5 Insightful are now +2/+3.
Funny business going on.
http://thislandpress.com/09/23/2010/private-manning-and-the-making-of-wikileaks-2/
The more important failing point of his argument is the part where he believes that Manning was disillusioned with Don't Ask, Don't Tell to the point where he released these documents in revenge. Frankly, that argument doesn't make any sense when he knew there was a president that promised to repeal the policy and it was already under pressure to be repealed before he released the documents.
Manning was a whistleblower. He wasn't a vengeful child or traitor.
Why? Because you bought in to sensationalist media that this man actually did harm to someone?
Let's look at the results of his actions:
Nobody from the U.S. was physically harmed.
A bunch of U.S. politicians were embarrassed for their backroom, undemocratic dealings.
People revolting against their corrupt dictatorship governments in Tunisia, which also triggered the revolts in Egypt and Libya.
Looks to me like 3 for Wikileaks, 0 for bullshit fearmongering sponsered by the good ole' gov't of the US of A.
Well, nothing would happen. Nobody is out there to enforce the U.S. paying back those loans. World banking organizations might get pissed off, and some of China's allies might as well, but nobody is going to do anything about it. Hell, if the U.S. wanted to throw it's diplomatic relations to the wind (or if China and the U.S. goes to war), it'd be really easy for the U.S. to say, "we aren't paying those loans back. suck it."