Sounds like a cop-out. Are you suggesting that the traditional definition of God, omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent, is like the aforementioned married bachelor?
Or does the contradiction only arise when the tri-omni properties are measured against free will or the reality we observe around us?
I cannot help but trip over the contradiction between the assertion that God is all knowing, knows the future, knows what each of us will choose to do, and that each of us are free to make our own choices. The contradiction between an all knowing, all powerful, benevolent God, who then chooses not to intervene when the interactions of man and nature are certain to lead to great suffering of the innocent. Logic compelled me to throw out at least one of those three omni- assertions.
I fail to see omnibenevolence at work when I look at the effects of Katrina, or the stampede in Iraq, or the Tsunami, or the really bad earthquake that will eventually strike SoCal or NoCal...
I see the belief in an omnibenevolent deity as wishful thinking... "there must be some good in this that we just don't understand..."
Hmmm.... the article cites an officer in an antivirus firm about the security attitudes of those who won't pay for his services.
The article also tries to rank order the "security awareness" of various Operating Systems: Unix > Windows > MacOS. But MacOS is Unix...
"I put apple a few years behind Microsoft in understanding how to manage security for the users. I put Microsoft a number of years behind the Unix community because the first systems that got hurt -- ten or fifteen years ago -- were Unix systems. Microsoft had to fix the security because it had such a bad reputation and to its credit, the company has really turned it around, " said Borrie.
Brilliant? Or Brilliantly Criminal? Across the line far enough to give them an unfair edge over competitors, but not so far across the line that they get punished severly.
I'm in the process of replacing my 2000 iMac with a LInux PC built from 2004-2005ish parts...
The dozen or two Mac viruses (virii?) that existed in the late 1980s and the early 1990s never spread very far. Because the Mac's system architecture channeled creating executable code through a couple of "choke points", and because John Norstad at Northwestern University wrote and gave away a program, Disinfectant, that watched those choke points for activities of known viruses and stopped them. The combination of the Mac's system architecture and the wide deployment of Disinfectant made it very difficult to propagate Mac viruses.
Macro viruses for Microsoft office environments, on the other hand, are clearly a problem for user's of Microsoft's software. Just don't do it.
Because of Microsoft's criminal restraint-of-trade. The government was stupid for a long time, and thought that if Microsoft agreed to reform their activities, that would be sufficient. Microsoft didn't actually reform their activities, so the hearings began again.
They finally became a convicted monopolist, and they bought off the Bush DoJ to get a slap on the wrist.
I don't see a rate cut coming. Energy prices are way up. Food prices are going to go up (_The Oil We Eat_, Atlantic Monthly, sometime late 2004 IIRC). These rising prices _are_ inflation. The rest of the economy can: (a) have prices tumble, to keep inflation low, (b) have prices stay the same for a moderate overall inflation rate and a low core rate, or (c) have prices rise to accomodate increased energy costs. (a) is the only scenario that would not put pressure on Greenspan to raise interest rates.
My guess is that the economy will tend towards (c), and Greenspan will continue raising interest rates, and Bush will be the first President since Carter to have two Recessions on his watch.
90% of the time, the robot autopilot can do a better job (smoother flare and touchdown; closer to the center of the runway etc) landing the plane than a human can.
The last 10%, the unexpected cross/head winds, the emergencies, obstacles on the runway, mechanical problems with the plane... then having the best means the difference between walking away vs being carried off on a stretcher.
There's no way to know, in advance, which flights are going to be absolutely routine and boring and which ones will have cause for excitement. Hence, two pilots on every plane.
Paper still beats electronic displays in flexibility, contrast ratio, color range, usability range (from low to bright ambient light), and user fatigue.
Paper's one drawback is that its content is static, and reuse is cumbersome. Paper's two drawbacks are that its content is staic, reuse is cumbersome, and the ink stains your hands. Paper's three drawbacks are... no, strike that, Amongst paper's drawbacks are...
The research is "very, very young"; they've only been working on it since the 1960s. And controlled fusion power is still two or three decades out, just like it used to be.
But Scotty pulls up the formula for Transparent Aluminum (or Aluminium; he is Scottish, yes?) on a Mac Plus. You need a working Mac Plus to get the formula, so preserve yours now. The future is counting on it!
I just put together a new system. P4 2.8/533, 512 MB RAM (with 3 empty DIMM slots), Intel 865G chip set. $130 out of pocket, plus donated processor, case, and CD-ROM. It's nice having family who want the latest and greatest.
Am I going to shell out $129 for MacOS X Tiger? Or $199 for XP Pro and then more for Office? No. Mandriva 10.2.
The electric motor runs "backward" while braking, generating electricity. The electricity needs to be stored in batteries, for use accelerating the vehicle later.
It would be interesting to have a test for hybrid cars. Have the car coasting at 35 mph (56 kph) with the gas motor off and the batteries at their lowest stored charge. Bring the vehicle to a stop, and then see what speed it can get back to, using only the energy captured by the regenerative brakes.
The problem with privatizing the schools is that some parents will not have the resources or the desires to adequately educate their kids to function in today's society.
You can pay a little bit to assure that everyone has a basic education, or you can pay more than the cost at Harvard to keep them in prison later. Your call. Economists would call this "a large negative externality".
Urban school districts are suffering from a decline in resources, caused by a decline in the industrial base and the flight of the middle class to the suburbs. Neither the educators nor the education system caused this situation.
And the public school systems, on the whole, are not nearly as bad as the media portrays. Test scores show that the private charter schools are no better and frequently worse than the public schools. And private schools can dump the students who are disruptive back onto the public schools, so they don't face all of the costs that the public schools do.
Who is the DUMBASS who thinks 4 year old laptops are worth $750 a piece? Would you really pay that much for a 500 MHz G3 machine with a 12" 1,024x768 screen, 10GB HD, 64MB of RAM and a CD-ROM drive?
Better machines than these, with accessories, are going on eBay for $300.
It all depends on what is important. If giving the up-and-coming challenger to America's dominance in the world (i.e. Communist China) the keys to the fiscal health of America isn't important, then don't worry about the deficit.
China gets dollars by running a trade surplus with the US. They then use those dollars to buy U.S. Government securities. And U.S. companies. Unocal? Each of those dollars floating around outside of US borders represents a claim against the US for goods and services. When those claims are asserted, there will be trouble.
Some wars are defensive, rather than a war of aggressive. E.g. Soviet Union in WWII. They were attacked; they fought back.
At this point in time, I believe that George W. Bush declared war in Iraq to gather political capital. To him and his closest advisors, that was very important.
9/11 was an excuse. "The U.S." didn't intend anything; there was no poll of the 300 million residents. There was an elite group of individuals that conspired with each other and manipulated and cajoled the congress, the media, and the public to go along. In large part, they did this by fixing the intelligence around the policy.
Why, if the goal of the war was very important, has it shifted like the ocean waves. WMDs! No, restructuring the Middle East! No, a liberal democracy! Freedom for half of the Iraqis, and burkas for the other half.
What was the greater purpose for which Casey Sheehan's organization risked and lost his life?
The current account deficit will be reduced. Either because the US is producing more goods that the world wants. Or because the dollar falls relative to other currencies. I am about to place a bet on the latter, by investing retirement funds in European stocks. I'm not comfortable with Hong Kong; that may (or may not; who knows) keep me away from east asian funds.
I remember doing the calculation in College. The really amazing thing is that you could fit all four billion people, each one having a square meter for a chair, in an area only 64 kilometers on a side. With the population increase since then, we're up to a square 77.5 km on a side.
Bonus question: calculate the length of the queue for the bathrooms.
Anyway, making a bunch of assumptions (like everyone jumps a half meter high, and weighs 75 Kg) the earth's recoil is a tenth of the diameter of a proton.
All you need to do is to solve the differential equations: _f_ = _r_ * G * m1 * m2 / (|_r_|)^3.
_a_ = _f_/m.
_a_ = d_v_/dt
_v_ = d_x_/dt.
_f_, _r_, _a_, _v_, and _x_ are three-dimensional vector quantities.
Consider four bodies, Earth, Mars, Sun, and Vehicle. So there are six pair-wise force interactions (Earth - Mars, Earth - Sun, Earth - Vehicle, Mars - Sun, Mars - Vehicle, and Sun - Vehicle).
Initial conditions are left as an exercise to the student.
Ages and ages ago, when I was a high school senior, I took a competitive exam, and then an interview, for a college scholarship. The interviewer asserted that Basic was a terrible language that should never have been invented. It being the only language I understood, I defended it. I think that willingness to stand up to authority is one of the biggest reasons why I ended up with the scholarship (full tuition for 8 semesters at a top-40 private engineering college).
Basic isn't terrible. It isn't stellar. It just is.
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Sounds like a cop-out. Are you suggesting that the traditional definition of God, omniscient, omnipotent, and omnibenevolent, is like the aforementioned married bachelor?
Or does the contradiction only arise when the tri-omni properties are measured against free will or the reality we observe around us?
I cannot help but trip over the contradiction between the assertion that God is all knowing, knows the future, knows what each of us will choose to do, and that each of us are free to make our own choices. The contradiction between an all knowing, all powerful, benevolent God, who then chooses not to intervene when the interactions of man and nature are certain to lead to great suffering of the innocent. Logic compelled me to throw out at least one of those three omni- assertions.
I fail to see omnibenevolence at work when I look at the effects of Katrina, or the stampede in Iraq, or the Tsunami, or the really bad earthquake that will eventually strike SoCal or NoCal...
I see the belief in an omnibenevolent deity as wishful thinking... "there must be some good in this that we just don't understand..."
The article also tries to rank order the "security awareness" of various Operating Systems: Unix > Windows > MacOS. But MacOS is Unix...
I rate the article as Marketing Materials.
Brilliant? Or Brilliantly Criminal? Across the line far enough to give them an unfair edge over competitors, but not so far across the line that they get punished severly.
I'm in the process of replacing my 2000 iMac with a LInux PC built from 2004-2005ish parts...
The dozen or two Mac viruses (virii?) that existed in the late 1980s and the early 1990s never spread very far. Because the Mac's system architecture channeled creating executable code through a couple of "choke points", and because John Norstad at Northwestern University wrote and gave away a program, Disinfectant, that watched those choke points for activities of known viruses and stopped them. The combination of the Mac's system architecture and the wide deployment of Disinfectant made it very difficult to propagate Mac viruses.
Macro viruses for Microsoft office environments, on the other hand, are clearly a problem for user's of Microsoft's software. Just don't do it.
Because of Microsoft's criminal restraint-of-trade. The government was stupid for a long time, and thought that if Microsoft agreed to reform their activities, that would be sufficient. Microsoft didn't actually reform their activities, so the hearings began again.
They finally became a convicted monopolist, and they bought off the Bush DoJ to get a slap on the wrist.
I don't see a rate cut coming. Energy prices are way up. Food prices are going to go up (_The Oil We Eat_, Atlantic Monthly, sometime late 2004 IIRC). These rising prices _are_ inflation. The rest of the economy can: (a) have prices tumble, to keep inflation low, (b) have prices stay the same for a moderate overall inflation rate and a low core rate, or (c) have prices rise to accomodate increased energy costs. (a) is the only scenario that would not put pressure on Greenspan to raise interest rates.
My guess is that the economy will tend towards (c), and Greenspan will continue raising interest rates, and Bush will be the first President since Carter to have two Recessions on his watch.
90% of the time, the robot autopilot can do a better job (smoother flare and touchdown; closer to the center of the runway etc) landing the plane than a human can.
The last 10%, the unexpected cross/head winds, the emergencies, obstacles on the runway, mechanical problems with the plane... then having the best means the difference between walking away vs being carried off on a stretcher.
There's no way to know, in advance, which flights are going to be absolutely routine and boring and which ones will have cause for excitement. Hence, two pilots on every plane.
Paper still beats electronic displays in flexibility, contrast ratio, color range, usability range (from low to bright ambient light), and user fatigue.
...
Paper's one drawback is that its content is static, and reuse is cumbersome. Paper's two drawbacks are that its content is staic, reuse is cumbersome, and the ink stains your hands. Paper's three drawbacks are... no, strike that, Amongst paper's drawbacks are
The research is "very, very young"; they've only been working on it since the 1960s. And controlled fusion power is still two or three decades out, just like it used to be.
But Scotty pulls up the formula for Transparent Aluminum (or Aluminium; he is Scottish, yes?) on a Mac Plus. You need a working Mac Plus to get the formula, so preserve yours now. The future is counting on it!
Chris
I just put together a new system. P4 2.8/533, 512 MB RAM (with 3 empty DIMM slots), Intel 865G chip set. $130 out of pocket, plus donated processor, case, and CD-ROM. It's nice having family who want the latest and greatest.
Am I going to shell out $129 for MacOS X Tiger? Or $199 for XP Pro and then more for Office? No. Mandriva 10.2.
The electric motor runs "backward" while braking, generating electricity. The electricity needs to be stored in batteries, for use accelerating the vehicle later.
It would be interesting to have a test for hybrid cars. Have the car coasting at 35 mph (56 kph) with the gas motor off and the batteries at their lowest stored charge. Bring the vehicle to a stop, and then see what speed it can get back to, using only the energy captured by the regenerative brakes.
Diamond is carbon, but it is neither dirty nor black.
Master Control Program?
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We must fight the Master Control Program for the Users!
The problem with privatizing the schools is that some parents will not have the resources or the desires to adequately educate their kids to function in today's society.
You can pay a little bit to assure that everyone has a basic education, or you can pay more than the cost at Harvard to keep them in prison later. Your call. Economists would call this "a large negative externality".
Urban school districts are suffering from a decline in resources, caused by a decline in the industrial base and the flight of the middle class to the suburbs. Neither the educators nor the education system caused this situation.
And the public school systems, on the whole, are not nearly as bad as the media portrays. Test scores show that the private charter schools are no better and frequently worse than the public schools. And private schools can dump the students who are disruptive back onto the public schools, so they don't face all of the costs that the public schools do.
Who is the DUMBASS who thinks 4 year old laptops are worth $750 a piece? Would you really pay that much for a 500 MHz G3 machine with a 12" 1,024x768 screen, 10GB HD, 64MB of RAM and a CD-ROM drive?
Better machines than these, with accessories, are going on eBay for $300.
It all depends on what is important. If giving the up-and-coming challenger to America's dominance in the world (i.e. Communist China) the keys to the fiscal health of America isn't important, then don't worry about the deficit.
China gets dollars by running a trade surplus with the US. They then use those dollars to buy U.S. Government securities. And U.S. companies. Unocal? Each of those dollars floating around outside of US borders represents a claim against the US for goods and services. When those claims are asserted, there will be trouble.
Read about 1956, Britain, France, and the Suez.
Some wars are defensive, rather than a war of aggressive. E.g. Soviet Union in WWII. They were attacked; they fought back.
At this point in time, I believe that George W. Bush declared war in Iraq to gather political capital. To him and his closest advisors, that was very important.
9/11 was an excuse. "The U.S." didn't intend anything; there was no poll of the 300 million residents. There was an elite group of individuals that conspired with each other and manipulated and cajoled the congress, the media, and the public to go along. In large part, they did this by fixing the intelligence around the policy.
Why, if the goal of the war was very important, has it shifted like the ocean waves. WMDs! No, restructuring the Middle East! No, a liberal democracy! Freedom for half of the Iraqis, and burkas for the other half.
What was the greater purpose for which Casey Sheehan's organization risked and lost his life?
The current account deficit will be reduced. Either because the US is producing more goods that the world wants. Or because the dollar falls relative to other currencies. I am about to place a bet on the latter, by investing retirement funds in European stocks. I'm not comfortable with Hong Kong; that may (or may not; who knows) keep me away from east asian funds.
Not much. Apple licensed Xerox' IP for $10 options on 100,000 shares of Apple stock.
I remember doing the calculation in College. The really amazing thing is that you could fit all four billion people, each one having a square meter for a chair, in an area only 64 kilometers on a side. With the population increase since then, we're up to a square 77.5 km on a side.
Bonus question: calculate the length of the queue for the bathrooms.
Anyway, making a bunch of assumptions (like everyone jumps a half meter high, and weighs 75 Kg) the earth's recoil is a tenth of the diameter of a proton.
Epicycles, shempicycles.
All you need to do is to solve the differential equations:
_f_ = _r_ * G * m1 * m2 / (|_r_|)^3.
_a_ = _f_/m.
_a_ = d_v_/dt
_v_ = d_x_/dt.
_f_, _r_, _a_, _v_, and _x_ are three-dimensional vector quantities.
Consider four bodies, Earth, Mars, Sun, and Vehicle. So there are six pair-wise force interactions (Earth - Mars, Earth - Sun, Earth - Vehicle, Mars - Sun, Mars - Vehicle, and Sun - Vehicle).
Initial conditions are left as an exercise to the student.
Ages and ages ago, when I was a high school senior, I took a competitive exam, and then an interview, for a college scholarship. The interviewer asserted that Basic was a terrible language that should never have been invented. It being the only language I understood, I defended it. I think that willingness to stand up to authority is one of the biggest reasons why I ended up with the scholarship (full tuition for 8 semesters at a top-40 private engineering college).
Basic isn't terrible. It isn't stellar. It just is.
Usage vs. Experience Points.
Sounds like RuneQuest vs. D&D. Mid vs. Late 1970s Role Playing.