What annoys me about China is that the PRC is a member of the United Nations Security Council and yet it thumbs it's nose at the United Nations Universal Decleration of Human Rights.
Yes, I'm very aware of this. Problem is, the UN Security Council was created on the basis of countries having nuclear capability. Rediculous, no? Or maybe they think security can be maintained by those who have guns?
Now, on to Scientology and Germany. German courts have ruled that Scientology is not a religon. Yet in Germany Scientologists are not arrested, nor is the worship banned. It is simply not a religon in the view of the state of Germany.
Well, those Christians allowed to practice in China are allowed because their religion was "registered". Not too sure what this means, but I'm supposing you have to have government approval to be recognized. Yes, the Scientologist weren't arrested or banned, but they still called it persecution. What's a country to do? In China's case, I don't know if this or that "Christian" is truely being persecuted because they could simply be stretching the truth, to gain sympathy, using China's terrible reputation to score points. But China's still responsible, in the public eye, if some group were to suddenly commit mass suicide (their choice). Remember the UFO cult from Taiwan that relocated to Texas in 1999? The Taiwanese government sent reps there to make sure the cult didn't plan on committing suicide (would've looked bad seeing how Taiwan "was apathetic" to mass suicide by its citizens). On a related note, when the Solar Temple cult committed mass suicide in California? (or was that the European group, I don't remember clearly), the government got some flack because they couldn't stop it.
Even if the government of China does not want Falun Gong or Christians in the country, because they are a member of the United Nations and the UDHR, they shouldn't be banning a religion.
No, I'm sure they're more worried about incidents like the Taiping Rebellion. I personally know some people who say they practice Falun Gong, and while I can't say they're evil (they're quite nice), looks can be decieving and you don't want Microsoft telling you want comprises excellent software. But, you're right they shouldn't ban religions. Too bad some beliefs are just so unreasonable (read radical Islam).
It's that simple. What goes on in China is documented at Amnesty International. It's not just what I "failed" to mention.
Yes, but "failing" to mention key points could easily cause your argument to be one-sided. One-sided arguments usually lead me to believe the arguer has an agenda to promote. I appologize for sounding rude, but I'm sick of all the same banter about China this and China that. Everyone just seem to use the strawman argument whenever China comes up (geez, I think we need an amend. to Godwin's Law). There's no doubt horrible things are happening there, but I don't think there's a quick fix for all of China's problems, specifically democracy. I'd like to see democracy (yes, in your words Republic or Democratic) there, but it's unrealistic to expect them to suddenly change. There supposedly are democratic elections on the local level there, but news organizations don't like to report on "mundane" topics like that. No, they'd rather talk about "unusual" (our definition, not theirs) topics over there. Heck, there supposedly are elections within the Communist Party, but most people assume it's voting for Happy Jiang or Sad Jiang. It's this cynicism mixed w/ revile that's a cause for concern for me.
Only a punch-drunk leftist with the ethical standards of Mao is incapable of discerning the evil of communism.
Maybe you should take your blinders off. Ideas don't kill people. People kill people. Your tired (and feeble) attempts to make the US into as big and bad a thug as the PRC are a waste of our time and your energy. Save it for your meetings of Sandinistas Anonymous, okay?
Feeble in your eyes because you refuse to listen. I never said the US was evil. All I've stated before was how some people turn a blind eye whenever others commit the same crimes that the PRC has.
In China, and most of the rest of the world, you are not valued for the quality of your product or for how hard you work. You're valued for "who you are" -- the son of a famous general, the brother of a diplomat, the cousin of the President.
Rest of the world including the US, I presume, seeing how if my dad went to Yale and gave them lots of $$$, I'd be able to get myself in too.
In this circumstance, the presence of Jiang in the bidding process was absolutely, positively of influence.
And you know this how? Or did the magical fairy tell you last night?
Jiang's company entered the bidding, Jiang's company won the bidding. The relative merits of Linux, Windows, Open Source, or green tea were immaterial. That's how business is done in China.
And how is this more controversial than Enron being one of Bush's biggest
contributers? Or do you mean this, or this, or this? What about Cheney? I personally think you have a chip on your shoulders by your suggestion Jiang should be prohibited from having business ties while Bush and company can. And by the fact a lot of people know this doesn't mean they were hiding it (or trying to). Like you said, "matter of public disclosure and public record."
So now if you happen to be related to someone in politics, you're not allowed to do anything w/o being accused of nepotism? Guess the President's girls shouldn't be allowed to go into business, or we'd end up with cases like these.
The stuff is practically professionally done - - very detailed CD cases, instructions, etc. He says it's incredibly cheap and incredibly prevalent.
Sounds to me like it was possibly done by a criminal group (mafia or whatnot). Their game is to fool legit customers into buying what they thought was legit software. I've seen student pirated software and they're usually just a [previously] blank cdr w/o instructions.
And I'm guessing your problem with this "communist" China is the fact that you're a Christian trying to promote your religion in a country that doesn't want you to come in.
You don't know how right you are about this. Rev. Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition and the tv show The 700 Club, has been quoted on live national tv (I think it was on CNN) as saying he's backing down on criticising China because he has a "business" going there. If you didn't know, he goes over there to talk about morality and China's need for it in the face of it's growing economy, basically converting them to his ministry. What Wyatt Earp failed to mention was how, in reality, some Christians are free to worship whilst others are actually "persecuted" (god, how overused that term is. I suppose Scientologists are "persecuted" in Germany too). I don't doubt the some of the horrible things going on there, but I wouldn't rely on all of it being true, seeing how it's more a case of he said, she said.
Four dead in Ohio, killed by a few trigger happy National Guardsmen does not compare to the government of a nation crushing a revolt and killing between 200 and 4000 people, and throwing thousands more in prison. There are estimates that more than 240 people are still in Chinese prisons because of thier actions at Tiananmen Square.
While I don't believe Tiananmen could be justified, I don't think this could be either. Politics? Sure, land disputes are political, right? Darn that Andrew Jackson!
You can not compare the organized slaughter at Tiananmen Square to the actions of a few frightened National Guardsmen at Kent State.
How do you know those Chinese soldiers weren't frightened? I'd be frightened if I was outnumbered by screaming protesters too. Or are you taking the liberty to imply those farmboys in the PLA are conditioned murderers?
The Federal Government didn't order the attack at Kent State. The Chinese Government ordered the attacks.
I submit exhibit A and exhibit B. Right, different eras and different context.
Students at Kent State were not put in prison for thier actions, while protesters at Tiananmen Square were thrown in prison.
There's different reasons you can get thrown in prison. 1. Arrest 2. Detainment
The National Guard at Kent State didn't send in Armored units to put down the protests, like the Chinese did at Tiananmen Square. Read the text of Deng Xiaoping's speech to the Martial Law Units from June 9th, 1989.
http://tsquare.tv/chronology/Deng.html
From what I read (no, not published by the PRC), they had officers try to put down the protests, but when the students refused to move, Deng and company got nervous seeing how the country's inability to put down a protest would influence the world's opinion (trail by television). I wouldn't trust a.tv domain even if it spouted stuff I agreed w/.
Those things, coupled with the Chinese oppression of the Fal Lun Gong, Chirstians, Tibet and the 20-40 million that died because of the Great Leap Foreward, give the rest of the world the right to shake our fingers at the Chinese.
Nice, picking out the choice topics. I'm do the same to justify my desire to shake my fingers at people I don't like either. Just like blaming the government for Hurricane Andrew. OTOH, I'd do my own research about said topics before pointing to them. But it's really easy to ignore that, and imply I did, right? btw, don't forget you can create friends and foes lists on slashdot now.
But you also cannot even begin to think that the son of the Chinese President is to be treated as just another vendor. The presence of Red Flag in the bidding guaranteed that Red Flag would win the bidding. That's how business is done in China.
Sorry to disappoint you, but Bush and Cheney are know to have ties to many, if not all, of the major oil companies in the US. I'm not even going to touch on the subject of stock ownership.
Curbing piracy begins when people have more than enough to feed themselves and their family. I just want to point out a few articles here, here, and here. The first two are about Shanghai, being the bastion of capitalism in China and all, and the third about N. Korea possible plans for experimenting w/ capitalism. This is what I prefer to see; allowing countries to make their own decisions and deal with the consequences, instead of telling them what to do.
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You are not expected to accept Euros in Great Britain anymore than US merchants are expected to accept British Pounds. So I am not sure what you're trying to say.
But my local area merchants seem ever more pleased to give my change in Canadian coins:( I don't even live close to the border.
You had to go around a room and shoot canisters, that when you walked up to them showed an icon (there were maybe 20 total?)
Ten, to be exact.
I always had to write them down because remembering pictures is not easy for me to do.
I would have to do the same thing if this was used in real life.. ick.
That's a bad idea. Look at the "symbols" again. Divide each image in half vertically and look at them. Yeah, they're 1,2,3,...,9,0 in exact order. This is an old trick. Have fun with Zillion (I'd like to find some copies of the Anime myself and complete my set of the comics).
I really hate to respond to my own post but I was wrong about Michelle Kwan. I think it was the CNN showing of Time Magazine's Man of the Year interview with AIDS researcher David Ho did they mention something about his dad or uncle being one of the pioneers in Chinese character encoding. The article I just linked to doesn't mention it so I guess it was edited in before broadcast. While doing some digging, I also found this article about displaying Chinese under ASCII code.
Meanwhile, the bulk of China's population are subsistance farmers who aren't allowed to even BE in (let alone conduct business in) China's main citiies.
Well, how would you like it if everyone in NY state packed up and moved into NY city because they thought they'd make more money? Governments do have to care about migration patterns because (1) it can affect vital food and water distribution (2) it can create vast unemployment problems caused by a glut of workers (3) sewage issues (4) crime rates (5) obscene rises in property prices (see Silicon Valley) and a host of other nation-crippling issues.
And don't forget, Chinese characters are available on computers at all because Western corporations decided that they should be - we are being as accomodating as we possibly can!
That is absolute bullshit. The person who initiated work on bringing Chinese characters onto computing was born in Taiwan. I can't remember his name or where I heard about him from, but I think he's somehow related to American iceskater Michelle Kwan. Anyway, it wasn't some western corporation that did it, it was an entrepenuer who say a market that wasn't being fullfilled by said western corporations.
If the Chinese want their own information infrastructure, they are free to create it for themselves - or they can choose to use ours, which we are making available freely.
What do you think the firewall is for? They're building the infrastructure, but realise it's silly to not allow users to interface with other infrastructures.
The reason it's less of an issue in Japan may just be that anime has gotten the country accustomed to the idea, hence it's no big deal.
In the Sega Dreamcast game Phantasy Star Online, the characters called "Newman", or "Numan" from the Genesis games, are genetically engineered people with both human and "monster" genes. They're the equivalent of elves both in the physical and intellectual sense. However, the series tend to have them short-lived, since they're created by humans with imperfect knowledge of genetics. And at least in PSII, the only one (erm, part of the plot involves this issue) numan is said to have been made a social pariah.
I mentioned the Triads, which are pretty much the Chinese Mafia. Not all Chinese people are in the Triads, actually, few are. But these organized crime syndicates are filled with spies who are smuggling information back to China.
That's strange, I always thought that the PRC was cracking down on the Triads since they create most of the problems facing the gov't (some drug-trafficking, trafficking of people into "indentured servitude", organized crime...). Of course, I wouldn't be surprised at this turn in events, considering that the Italian Mafia supposedly worked with our US gov't on various occasions.
I don't have any links, as where I read this information was in a newspaper called The Toronto Sun.
Well, most of us American's don't get or don't bother to read/hear about Canadian newscasts.
And I am not racist at all. I have many friends who are not WASP.
I haven't read the parent post, but I'd like to know why being White Anglo-Saxon and Protestant has to do with racism? Anyway, according to the textbook my old high school used for American History, that acromyn was historically reserved for the ruling elite in the US (Presidents, most or many Congressmen, etc.) and not really those who happen to "fit the profile", though that's probably changing nowadays. For example, Pres. John F. Kennedy was Catholic (Irish-American, too). I have plenty of friends who do "fit the profile" but I surely don't go around calling them that and they have never expressed anything I would consider racist. But then again, my situation may be completely different than yours. Btw, trolls live under bridges, not in caves.
b) Produce an alternate theory to evolution which suggests certain parts of the Biblical story.
I'm no Chrisian, but I'll say this anyway; I took Sociology way back in high school and one of the most important (to me) concepts I got out of it was that people in our society (American, at least) feel that everything (people, object, etc.) has to have a purpose/use. Anything that doesn't would be considered useless or should be removed. How this relates to Christianity is that Christians are afraid that all their devotion are for naught when something dispels the "truth" found within their beliefs. But, when that something is "made compatible" with the beliefs of Christianity, then Christians still serve a purpose/use within society.
I personally dislike this belief that people/objects/etc. *must* serve some purpose because of how some would use this to justify the elimination of whole groups of people that they dislike or see as "useless".
Well, if Black Holes don't exist, we're sorta screwed. Not necessarily screwed, but it does flush about 60 years of decent cosmological physics down the drain.
So, when can we expect all the world's cache of nuclear weapons to suddenly explode?:P OK,OK, so the research for them started a little earlier than those 60 years...
I guess that's happened before.
Oh, you mean the question about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
Correct, it does say "Make your own RDRAM". This is very misleading, however, I think everyone has to look a bit below that, where it states that the article is a translation. I think everyone here who has ever used Babblefish knows what effects translations can do, even if the translator is human.
Yup, and after hours of playing Road Rash, I get the urge to hop on a motorcycle, grap a meter/yard of chain and start attacking other motorists. Outrunning the cops is tricky since the ones around here only ride in their cruisers.
Oh, I almost forgot, I need to find the cyclist with the tazer so I can wreck more havok. Don't even get me started with the pedestrians...
OK, since I'll be going on vacation for the summer, I'm wondering if someone could possibly store the episodes on some ftp account, so us poor slobs could relive our childhoods once again. I would greatly appreciate it since I don't remember a damn ep. or the plotline (other than the fact that the rollercoaster sent them to some DND world), and the only thing I remember is that I liked the show (it introduced me to the 'choose your adventure' books and DND in general).
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Yes, I'm very aware of this. Problem is, the UN Security Council was created on the basis of countries having nuclear capability. Rediculous, no? Or maybe they think security can be maintained by those who have guns?
Now, on to Scientology and Germany. German courts have ruled that Scientology is not a religon. Yet in Germany Scientologists are not arrested, nor is the worship banned. It is simply not a religon in the view of the state of Germany.
Well, those Christians allowed to practice in China are allowed because their religion was "registered". Not too sure what this means, but I'm supposing you have to have government approval to be recognized. Yes, the Scientologist weren't arrested or banned, but they still called it persecution. What's a country to do? In China's case, I don't know if this or that "Christian" is truely being persecuted because they could simply be stretching the truth, to gain sympathy, using China's terrible reputation to score points. But China's still responsible, in the public eye, if some group were to suddenly commit mass suicide (their choice). Remember the UFO cult from Taiwan that relocated to Texas in 1999? The Taiwanese government sent reps there to make sure the cult didn't plan on committing suicide (would've looked bad seeing how Taiwan "was apathetic" to mass suicide by its citizens). On a related note, when the Solar Temple cult committed mass suicide in California? (or was that the European group, I don't remember clearly), the government got some flack because they couldn't stop it.
Even if the government of China does not want Falun Gong or Christians in the country, because they are a member of the United Nations and the UDHR, they shouldn't be banning a religion.
No, I'm sure they're more worried about incidents like the Taiping Rebellion. I personally know some people who say they practice Falun Gong, and while I can't say they're evil (they're quite nice), looks can be decieving and you don't want Microsoft telling you want comprises excellent software. But, you're right they shouldn't ban religions. Too bad some beliefs are just so unreasonable (read radical Islam).
It's that simple. What goes on in China is documented at Amnesty International. It's not just what I "failed" to mention.
Yes, but "failing" to mention key points could easily cause your argument to be one-sided. One-sided arguments usually lead me to believe the arguer has an agenda to promote. I appologize for sounding rude, but I'm sick of all the same banter about China this and China that. Everyone just seem to use the strawman argument whenever China comes up (geez, I think we need an amend. to Godwin's Law). There's no doubt horrible things are happening there, but I don't think there's a quick fix for all of China's problems, specifically democracy. I'd like to see democracy (yes, in your words Republic or Democratic) there, but it's unrealistic to expect them to suddenly change. There supposedly are democratic elections on the local level there, but news organizations don't like to report on "mundane" topics like that. No, they'd rather talk about "unusual" (our definition, not theirs) topics over there. Heck, there supposedly are elections within the Communist Party, but most people assume it's voting for Happy Jiang or Sad Jiang. It's this cynicism mixed w/ revile that's a cause for concern for me.
Maybe you should take your blinders off. Ideas don't kill people. People kill people. Your tired (and feeble) attempts to make the US into as big and bad a thug as the PRC are a waste of our time and your energy. Save it for your meetings of Sandinistas Anonymous, okay?
Feeble in your eyes because you refuse to listen. I never said the US was evil. All I've stated before was how some people turn a blind eye whenever others commit the same crimes that the PRC has.
Rest of the world including the US, I presume, seeing how if my dad went to Yale and gave them lots of $$$, I'd be able to get myself in too.
And you know this how? Or did the magical fairy tell you last night?
Jiang's company entered the bidding, Jiang's company won the bidding. The relative merits of Linux, Windows, Open Source, or green tea were immaterial. That's how business is done in China.
And how is this more controversial than Enron being one of Bush's biggest contributers? Or do you mean this, or this, or this? What about Cheney? I personally think you have a chip on your shoulders by your suggestion Jiang should be prohibited from having business ties while Bush and company can. And by the fact a lot of people know this doesn't mean they were hiding it (or trying to). Like you said, "matter of public disclosure and public record."
So now if you happen to be related to someone in politics, you're not allowed to do anything w/o being accused of nepotism? Guess the President's girls shouldn't be allowed to go into business, or we'd end up with cases like these.
I've heard Singapore called totalitarian, so does that make them totalitarian state capitalists too?
Sounds to me like it was possibly done by a criminal group (mafia or whatnot). Their game is to fool legit customers into buying what they thought was legit software. I've seen student pirated software and they're usually just a [previously] blank cdr w/o instructions.
You don't know how right you are about this. Rev. Pat Robertson, founder of the Christian Coalition and the tv show The 700 Club, has been quoted on live national tv (I think it was on CNN) as saying he's backing down on criticising China because he has a "business" going there. If you didn't know, he goes over there to talk about morality and China's need for it in the face of it's growing economy, basically converting them to his ministry. What Wyatt Earp failed to mention was how, in reality, some Christians are free to worship whilst others are actually "persecuted" (god, how overused that term is. I suppose Scientologists are "persecuted" in Germany too). I don't doubt the some of the horrible things going on there, but I wouldn't rely on all of it being true, seeing how it's more a case of he said, she said.
While I don't believe Tiananmen could be justified, I don't think this could be either. Politics? Sure, land disputes are political, right? Darn that Andrew Jackson!
You can not compare the organized slaughter at Tiananmen Square to the actions of a few frightened National Guardsmen at Kent State.
How do you know those Chinese soldiers weren't frightened? I'd be frightened if I was outnumbered by screaming protesters too. Or are you taking the liberty to imply those farmboys in the PLA are conditioned murderers?
The Federal Government didn't order the attack at Kent State. The Chinese Government ordered the attacks.
I submit exhibit A and exhibit B. Right, different eras and different context.
Students at Kent State were not put in prison for thier actions, while protesters at Tiananmen Square were thrown in prison.
There's different reasons you can get thrown in prison. 1. Arrest 2. Detainment
The National Guard at Kent State didn't send in Armored units to put down the protests, like the Chinese did at Tiananmen Square. Read the text of Deng Xiaoping's speech to the Martial Law Units from June 9th, 1989. http://tsquare.tv/chronology/Deng.html
From what I read (no, not published by the PRC), they had officers try to put down the protests, but when the students refused to move, Deng and company got nervous seeing how the country's inability to put down a protest would influence the world's opinion (trail by television). I wouldn't trust a .tv domain even if it spouted stuff I agreed w/.
Those things, coupled with the Chinese oppression of the Fal Lun Gong, Chirstians, Tibet and the 20-40 million that died because of the Great Leap Foreward, give the rest of the world the right to shake our fingers at the Chinese.
Nice, picking out the choice topics. I'm do the same to justify my desire to shake my fingers at people I don't like either. Just like blaming the government for Hurricane Andrew. OTOH, I'd do my own research about said topics before pointing to them. But it's really easy to ignore that, and imply I did, right? btw, don't forget you can create friends and foes lists on slashdot now.
Sorry to disappoint you, but Bush and Cheney are know to have ties to many, if not all, of the major oil companies in the US. I'm not even going to touch on the subject of stock ownership.
Curbing piracy begins when people have more than enough to feed themselves and their family. I just want to point out a few articles here, here, and here. The first two are about Shanghai, being the bastion of capitalism in China and all, and the third about N. Korea possible plans for experimenting w/ capitalism. This is what I prefer to see; allowing countries to make their own decisions and deal with the consequences, instead of telling them what to do.
This has already been posted here.
But my local area merchants seem ever more pleased to give my change in Canadian coins :( I don't even live close to the border.
Ten, to be exact.
I always had to write them down because remembering pictures is not easy for me to do. I would have to do the same thing if this was used in real life.. ick.
That's a bad idea. Look at the "symbols" again. Divide each image in half vertically and look at them. Yeah, they're 1,2,3,...,9,0 in exact order. This is an old trick. Have fun with Zillion (I'd like to find some copies of the Anime myself and complete my set of the comics).
I really hate to respond to my own post but I was wrong about Michelle Kwan. I think it was the CNN showing of Time Magazine's Man of the Year interview with AIDS researcher David Ho did they mention something about his dad or uncle being one of the pioneers in Chinese character encoding. The article I just linked to doesn't mention it so I guess it was edited in before broadcast. While doing some digging, I also found this article about displaying Chinese under ASCII code.
Well, how would you like it if everyone in NY state packed up and moved into NY city because they thought they'd make more money? Governments do have to care about migration patterns because (1) it can affect vital food and water distribution (2) it can create vast unemployment problems caused by a glut of workers (3) sewage issues (4) crime rates (5) obscene rises in property prices (see Silicon Valley) and a host of other nation-crippling issues.
That is absolute bullshit. The person who initiated work on bringing Chinese characters onto computing was born in Taiwan. I can't remember his name or where I heard about him from, but I think he's somehow related to American iceskater Michelle Kwan. Anyway, it wasn't some western corporation that did it, it was an entrepenuer who say a market that wasn't being fullfilled by said western corporations.
If the Chinese want their own information infrastructure, they are free to create it for themselves - or they can choose to use ours, which we are making available freely.
What do you think the firewall is for? They're building the infrastructure, but realise it's silly to not allow users to interface with other infrastructures.
In the Sega Dreamcast game Phantasy Star Online, the characters called "Newman", or "Numan" from the Genesis games, are genetically engineered people with both human and "monster" genes. They're the equivalent of elves both in the physical and intellectual sense. However, the series tend to have them short-lived, since they're created by humans with imperfect knowledge of genetics. And at least in PSII, the only one (erm, part of the plot involves this issue) numan is said to have been made a social pariah.
I mentioned the Triads, which are pretty much the Chinese Mafia. Not all Chinese people are in the Triads, actually, few are. But these organized crime syndicates are filled with spies who are smuggling information back to China.
That's strange, I always thought that the PRC was cracking down on the Triads since they create most of the problems facing the gov't (some drug-trafficking, trafficking of people into "indentured servitude", organized crime...). Of course, I wouldn't be surprised at this turn in events, considering that the Italian Mafia supposedly worked with our US gov't on various occasions.
I don't have any links, as where I read this information was in a newspaper called The Toronto Sun.
Well, most of us American's don't get or don't bother to read/hear about Canadian newscasts.
And I am not racist at all. I have many friends who are not WASP.
I haven't read the parent post, but I'd like to know why being White Anglo-Saxon and Protestant has to do with racism? Anyway, according to the textbook my old high school used for American History, that acromyn was historically reserved for the ruling elite in the US (Presidents, most or many Congressmen, etc.) and not really those who happen to "fit the profile", though that's probably changing nowadays. For example, Pres. John F. Kennedy was Catholic (Irish-American, too). I have plenty of friends who do "fit the profile" but I surely don't go around calling them that and they have never expressed anything I would consider racist. But then again, my situation may be completely different than yours. Btw, trolls live under bridges, not in caves.
b) Produce an alternate theory to evolution which suggests certain parts of the Biblical story.
I'm no Chrisian, but I'll say this anyway; I took Sociology way back in high school and one of the most important (to me) concepts I got out of it was that people in our society (American, at least) feel that everything (people, object, etc.) has to have a purpose/use. Anything that doesn't would be considered useless or should be removed. How this relates to Christianity is that Christians are afraid that all their devotion are for naught when something dispels the "truth" found within their beliefs. But, when that something is "made compatible" with the beliefs of Christianity, then Christians still serve a purpose/use within society.
I personally dislike this belief that people/objects/etc. *must* serve some purpose because of how some would use this to justify the elimination of whole groups of people that they dislike or see as "useless".
Well, if Black Holes don't exist, we're sorta screwed. Not necessarily screwed, but it does flush about 60 years of decent cosmological physics down the drain.
So, when can we expect all the world's cache of nuclear weapons to suddenly explode? :P OK,OK, so the research for them started a little earlier than those 60 years...
I guess that's happened before.
Oh, you mean the question about how many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
Agreed...read the TITLE tag...
Correct, it does say "Make your own RDRAM". This is very misleading, however, I think everyone has to look a bit below that, where it states that the article is a translation. I think everyone here who has ever used Babblefish knows what effects translations can do, even if the translator is human.
The threat of a small extremist group making a craft that is capable of going into orbit is highly unlikely.
Dude, didn't you see the episode of South Park where Starving Marvin finds the Marglark spacecraft?
Yup, and after hours of playing Road Rash, I get the urge to hop on a motorcycle, grap a meter/yard of chain and start attacking other motorists. Outrunning the cops is tricky since the ones around here only ride in their cruisers.
Oh, I almost forgot, I need to find the cyclist with the tazer so I can wreck more havok. Don't even get me started with the pedestrians...
OK, since I'll be going on vacation for the summer, I'm wondering if someone could possibly store the episodes on some ftp account, so us poor slobs could relive our childhoods once again. I would greatly appreciate it since I don't remember a damn ep. or the plotline (other than the fact that the rollercoaster sent them to some DND world), and the only thing I remember is that I liked the show (it introduced me to the 'choose your adventure' books and DND in general).