As I mentioned, I have told God I was willing to be a follower of Jesus, with NO conditions, and I was NOT taken at my word, I was NOT shown anything, I was NOT assigned a path. You can either believe that I was sincere and unanswered or not. I don't care, I know I was sincere, and I know I was not answered with ANYTHING. I don't mean to burst your bubble, but I am a counter example to your claims.
Now Buddha, on the other hand, when asked definitely showed me some signs, sent me a teacher, and set me up with a path. That was after Jesus completely let me down. As far as personal evidence goes, I have never had any personal evidence that Jesus is anything more than a dead prophet. Maybe your savior answered your prayers, but he hasn't done jack squat for me and I'm kind of pissed at him for making me an offer he wasn't prepared to make good on. That's false advertising in my book.
Not so sure I understand the reason for some of the other mentioned terms of the auction (anonymous? I know our government has some corruption, but so bad that a non-anonymous auction would give the existing players an unfair edge?)
If you know whether a bid is made by an outsider intent on challenging your revenue stream, or an insider willing to play along, you know whether to outbid them or not. If most outsiders can be outbid, the current players can raise their prices on service as much as they like to make up for the cost.
The human mind assumes a creator because it creates. The most complex things it knows, it has created. It assumes that things need a creator. You most likely believe that the creator exists without itself having a creator. Isn't it possible that the rest of reality could exist without a creator, too?
Positing a creator answers no questions at all. It is unimportant whether or not there is a creator. If it was important for me to know, the creator could have let me know in a manner that a human couldn't fake. All we have are the writings and sayings of humans, why should I believe them? And before you ask, yes, I have opened my heart and asked to be shown, and I got jack squat. Obviously, if there is a creator, he doesn't give a rat's ass whether I believe in him or not.
What? What are you talking about, just look at her, she's got HUGE volcanoes, man! I'd motorboat the hell out of those mountains. She's got the deepest gash of any planet in the freakin' solar system dude! I'd totally hit the Valles Marineris.
That isn't how reputation should be done. You can't just assign a simple numerical rank. You need a ranks associated with a particular group assigning that rank. Perhaps your rank on that conspiracy site would go down, but that fact could actually increase your rank on sites that chose to reverse the rankings provided by the conspiracy site. Supporting Bush would simultaneously lower your rank on hundreds of sites all over the Internet, while raising it at the few sites that still housed large numbers of Bush supporters.
You are in violation of the Conservation of Nostalgia act of 2002. As you may know, we are rapidly running out of past to be nostalgic about. We all fondly remember the days when we were nostalgic about things that happened ten years or more ago. Nowadays, we are frequently nostalgic for things that happened a year or two ago. At this rate, we will run out of past before 2012. Your blatant use of the word retro in a context referring to an original posted only hours ago is a blatant violation of the act, and represents a serious squandering of the past that all American share.
Yes, but you don't measure the heat difference AFTER the heat has been removed! The Carnot efficiency depends on the heat differential BEFORE the heat has been pumped, yes?
That's exactly what I was going to say. I believe that most solar cell manufacturing processes would scale well, so they could be made cheaply if there was enough demand to justify scaling production up. Where could that demand come from? What if the Federal Government mandated that all Federal buildings had to be solar powered? The rest of us would reap the benefits of economy of scale. Now, if we could only figure out some way for the oil companies to reap massive profits from such a scheme, I'm sure it would happen in no time.
I'm a big nasty troll, and I eats Hobbitses! I've been here since before the karma cap, you can't touch my karma you filthy little Hobbitses. Mod me down and I shall... oops, wrong movie.
What I mean by that is that most of western literature is influenced by the Bible. If you don't know the stories, you won't catch half the references in most of the more important writings of the last 2,000 years.
Say what? I'm sorry, was it the "I'm not a Christian" line? Should I have said, "I'm not a Christian, Muslim, or Jew" instead? I know you're just trying to troll, but you're confusing me.
Ahhh, but he didn't actually split anything. The imposter didn't care, but the real mother did and said, "No, I'd rather you give the child to the other woman," and that's how Solomon knew who the real mother was. Yes, I'm being pedantic. No, I'm not a Christian. I just read the Bible for its literary value.
In the dead of night A shimmewin' wight Gweem of a bwade And dah devew was paid When dah axe comes down A chiwin' sound Steew against dah head Anothaw Hobbit's dead I'm a Hobbit swayer A guitaw pwayaw With a nasty habbit
Nerf the Hobbit!!! (hah hah hah) AhhhaahooOhhh Be vewy vewy qwiet! I'm wookin' fo Hobbits...
I'm a mean mistweetah A Hobbbit feastah And I pwedict A bwoody Eastaw A scuwowing shadow And dah shadow was dis Hobbit And dah night aiwah echoes Nerf dah Hobbit!!! Nerf dah Hobbit!!! Nerf dah Hobbit!!! Nerf dah Hobbit!!! Nerf dah Hobbit!!! Nerf dah Hobbit!!! Nerf dah Hobbit!!! Nerf dah Hobbit!!!
Ohhhh...and dayah won't be any mow Hobbits awound No mow Frodo Hobbit No mow Bilbo Hobbit And no mow gay sidekick Hobbits! Ah ha ha ha ha Be vewy vewy cawhafo
I live in New Mexico and can tell you. The money goes to all the government labs here like Los Alamos and Sandia. Sure, some of that ends up circulating in the local economy, but a lot more is used to buy big ticket research items built elsewhere. New Mexico has the largest concentration of government labs in America.
You can even see why it tends to happen the way it does, because both rich and poor states each have two senators. So rich and poor states both have as much say in the budget. Even though rich states pay more in taxes, they are likely to receive about two senators worth of budget. Thus the discrepancy. And I'm not counting the House because, well, they're the House.
They don't have to. They have so many other ways they can fuck him over. Tyranny isn't always "men with guns" telling you what to do. Sometimes it's men with dollars. The pen that signs the million dollar checks is mightier than the sword, you know.
You know, that's not a brain hurting paradox, it's a cold hard fact of freedom. You have to give some up to have some. Want the freedom to walk down the street without getting punched in the face? You've got to give up the freedom to just swing your arms any old way. Freedom is a contract between individuals, nothing more. You give something to get something.
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As I mentioned, I have told God I was willing to be a follower of Jesus, with NO conditions, and I was NOT taken at my word, I was NOT shown anything, I was NOT assigned a path. You can either believe that I was sincere and unanswered or not. I don't care, I know I was sincere, and I know I was not answered with ANYTHING. I don't mean to burst your bubble, but I am a counter example to your claims.
Now Buddha, on the other hand, when asked definitely showed me some signs, sent me a teacher, and set me up with a path. That was after Jesus completely let me down. As far as personal evidence goes, I have never had any personal evidence that Jesus is anything more than a dead prophet. Maybe your savior answered your prayers, but he hasn't done jack squat for me and I'm kind of pissed at him for making me an offer he wasn't prepared to make good on. That's false advertising in my book.
If you know whether a bid is made by an outsider intent on challenging your revenue stream, or an insider willing to play along, you know whether to outbid them or not. If most outsiders can be outbid, the current players can raise their prices on service as much as they like to make up for the cost.
They tried to teleport the name of the source directly into the summary and it got scrambled. Cut them some slack, it's a new technology.
The human mind assumes a creator because it creates. The most complex things it knows, it has created. It assumes that things need a creator. You most likely believe that the creator exists without itself having a creator. Isn't it possible that the rest of reality could exist without a creator, too?
Positing a creator answers no questions at all. It is unimportant whether or not there is a creator. If it was important for me to know, the creator could have let me know in a manner that a human couldn't fake. All we have are the writings and sayings of humans, why should I believe them? And before you ask, yes, I have opened my heart and asked to be shown, and I got jack squat. Obviously, if there is a creator, he doesn't give a rat's ass whether I believe in him or not.
I paid $399 for Vista Ultimate. I thought it would net me beau coup geek cred. Now everyone's laughing at me!
What? What are you talking about, just look at her, she's got HUGE volcanoes, man! I'd motorboat the hell out of those mountains. She's got the deepest gash of any planet in the freakin' solar system dude! I'd totally hit the Valles Marineris.
That isn't how reputation should be done. You can't just assign a simple numerical rank. You need a ranks associated with a particular group assigning that rank. Perhaps your rank on that conspiracy site would go down, but that fact could actually increase your rank on sites that chose to reverse the rankings provided by the conspiracy site. Supporting Bush would simultaneously lower your rank on hundreds of sites all over the Internet, while raising it at the few sites that still housed large numbers of Bush supporters.
You are in violation of the Conservation of Nostalgia act of 2002. As you may know, we are rapidly running out of past to be nostalgic about. We all fondly remember the days when we were nostalgic about things that happened ten years or more ago. Nowadays, we are frequently nostalgic for things that happened a year or two ago. At this rate, we will run out of past before 2012. Your blatant use of the word retro in a context referring to an original posted only hours ago is a blatant violation of the act, and represents a serious squandering of the past that all American share.
We could tune it to the brown note!
The thing I want to know is the number of the hot chick who invented this. Yowza!
Yes, but you don't measure the heat difference AFTER the heat has been removed! The Carnot efficiency depends on the heat differential BEFORE the heat has been pumped, yes?
That's exactly what I was going to say. I believe that most solar cell manufacturing processes would scale well, so they could be made cheaply if there was enough demand to justify scaling production up. Where could that demand come from? What if the Federal Government mandated that all Federal buildings had to be solar powered? The rest of us would reap the benefits of economy of scale. Now, if we could only figure out some way for the oil companies to reap massive profits from such a scheme, I'm sure it would happen in no time.
(in Cartman voice) Sweeeeet!
Your sig made me laugh, too.
I'm a big nasty troll, and I eats Hobbitses! I've been here since before the karma cap, you can't touch my karma you filthy little Hobbitses. Mod me down and I shall... oops, wrong movie.
What I mean by that is that most of western literature is influenced by the Bible. If you don't know the stories, you won't catch half the references in most of the more important writings of the last 2,000 years.
I'm a troll now, am I? Was it the "gay sidekick Hobbits" line? Hobbits get mod points now?
Say what? I'm sorry, was it the "I'm not a Christian" line? Should I have said, "I'm not a Christian, Muslim, or Jew" instead? I know you're just trying to troll, but you're confusing me.
Ahhh, but he didn't actually split anything. The imposter didn't care, but the real mother did and said, "No, I'd rather you give the child to the other woman," and that's how Solomon knew who the real mother was. Yes, I'm being pedantic. No, I'm not a Christian. I just read the Bible for its literary value.
(to the tune of "Kill the wabbit")
In the dead of night
A shimmewin' wight
Gweem of a bwade
And dah devew was paid
When dah axe comes down
A chiwin' sound
Steew against dah head
Anothaw Hobbit's dead
I'm a Hobbit swayer
A guitaw pwayaw
With a nasty habbit
Nerf the Hobbit!!! (hah hah hah)
AhhhaahooOhhh
Be vewy vewy qwiet!
I'm wookin' fo Hobbits...
I'm a mean mistweetah
A Hobbbit feastah
And I pwedict
A bwoody Eastaw
A scuwowing shadow
And dah shadow was dis Hobbit
And dah night aiwah echoes
Nerf dah Hobbit!!!
Nerf dah Hobbit!!!
Nerf dah Hobbit!!!
Nerf dah Hobbit!!!
Nerf dah Hobbit!!!
Nerf dah Hobbit!!!
Nerf dah Hobbit!!!
Nerf dah Hobbit!!!
Ohhhh...and dayah won't be any mow Hobbits awound
No mow Frodo Hobbit
No mow Bilbo Hobbit
And no mow gay sidekick Hobbits!
Ah ha ha ha ha
Be vewy vewy cawhafo
I live in New Mexico and can tell you. The money goes to all the government labs here like Los Alamos and Sandia. Sure, some of that ends up circulating in the local economy, but a lot more is used to buy big ticket research items built elsewhere. New Mexico has the largest concentration of government labs in America.
You can even see why it tends to happen the way it does, because both rich and poor states each have two senators. So rich and poor states both have as much say in the budget. Even though rich states pay more in taxes, they are likely to receive about two senators worth of budget. Thus the discrepancy. And I'm not counting the House because, well, they're the House.
They don't have to. They have so many other ways they can fuck him over. Tyranny isn't always "men with guns" telling you what to do. Sometimes it's men with dollars. The pen that signs the million dollar checks is mightier than the sword, you know.
You are so wrong, and I have the data to prove it.
California and New York both receive $0.79 in Federal funds for every dollar in federal taxes paid.
He calls TestDriven.NET "illegal" quite a bit. He knows enough about law to know it is illegal, but not enough to know why? That makes no sense.
You know, that's not a brain hurting paradox, it's a cold hard fact of freedom. You have to give some up to have some. Want the freedom to walk down the street without getting punched in the face? You've got to give up the freedom to just swing your arms any old way. Freedom is a contract between individuals, nothing more. You give something to get something.
I think the correct phrase here is, "English, motherfucker. Do you speak it?"