It's going to take at least 5 years of consistent results before anyone that doesn't already have their mind made up starts noticing, if there does turn out to be a trend, and they will all blame the party they're not a part of anyway and nothing will change. Politics is awesome that way.
I think the OP's point was that why did God go to all the trouble of divinely inspiring the original version, then fall asleep at the wheel during the translation?
Good for Job. How'd that work out for Job's family and the people that loved them?
God merely allowed Satan to bring the trials against Job.... Oh. In that case, let me break out my worshipping pants and head on down for some churchin'.
if you make a system then I think you have the right to create the rules
As long as everyone playing your game is playing voluntarily, sure. If you're going to force people to play, the morality gets a bit trickier (which, Big Guy, is not to say that I don't like your rules. If you could find it in your heart not to smite me, I'd be grateful).
For its time, this was a very enlightend attitude.
And if I ever find myself a few thousand years in the past, I'll encourage people to read it. But for now, I'm going to ask that people watch the much more enlightened "Sesame Street." All the best parts of the Bible, none of that crazy crap about raping people.
Assuming both violent video games and movies are detrimental to the well being of minors, shouldn't society be regulating both, instead of neither?
As soon as the combined death toll from violent games and movies is greater than the number of deaths in plastic spoon accidents, we'll got on top of spending tons of money, hurting the economy, and punishing people who haven't hurt anyone to stop it.
I'm an American that loves to be angry at America. I hate most of what we do in the world, and I hate our arrogance. But in this case, I have to say you can collectively bite us. Some guys over here built a toy. They even freely handed out plans to build it. You want one run the way you want, build one. The US can't be in the business of putting vital infrastructure in the hands of groups whose decisions are completely unpredictable. And yeah, the US isn't entirely predictable, but the scale of the unpredictability is completely different.
well, this is no different than, say, my hard disk crashing, or my PC having bad RAM, or some fool installed some service on my machine when i wasn't looking, or the software is borked.
I've lost one hard disk in my life. I've never had bad RAM, and I don't usually have software gnomes installing things on me. The networks I use die a hell of a lot more often than any of those other problems. Maybe other people's network-failure-to-hard-disk-explosion ratio is lower, but mine's pretty high.
Great, so now the network being down means I can get absolutely no work done.
I'd like this if they sold $20 dumb terminals to use it, but I paid a lot of money for a computer that can run applications locally without constantly going to the network.
And just in case they mentioned that that's not a concern in one of those 40 linked pages, no, I didn't read all the articles, so feel free to yell at me now.
something of this magnitude would be a favorite target of terrorist or anyone looking to make a point
I'm just glad we never built a Sears Tower or an Empire State building or a Golden Gate Bridge. Those kinds of things would get knocked down constantly if they existed. Damn terrorists. Can't hardly go outside anymore.
The lesson I'd take from that data is that no matter which side of the debate the doctors are on, a lot of people will automatically assume they're at fault.
Well, you can take that lesson from that, but it's not the lesson being given. The lesson you'd take if you weren't angry about something is that it's a jerky thing to blacklist malpractice plaintiffs, and it's often (though not necessarily in this case) a jerky thing to sue people for saying bad stuff about you.
And to answer your question, the first 80 times we all had this conversation, we were both clever and nice, but then 81 responses of "God's real, and I'm his favorite-est, and nothing you say can change that," wore us down. Now all we can manage is, "You're an idiot." And most of us would stop, but they keep bringing it up, and they're always so dang smug about it.
"So you will burn in hell." If you were actually wondering why we don't like you, that would be it right there. You're all about fear and condemnation. If you just shut up and lived your own damn life, nobody would ever bother you again.
If you think your party has stuck to the same ideals it had in the 19th century, you're pretty far beyond help. A present-day Lincoln, I imagine, would spit on both parties.
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You're kidding, and you're funny, but I'll say it nicely so someone else doesn't say it meanly:
The GPL is a license to distribute, and not a license for end users. Whether or not there's a legal distinction is beyond the scope of me.
It's going to take at least 5 years of consistent results before anyone that doesn't already have their mind made up starts noticing, if there does turn out to be a trend, and they will all blame the party they're not a part of anyway and nothing will change. Politics is awesome that way.
If you start spouting off about global warming now, on either side, Zonk wins.
It would be better to say that the discovery "rules out the Italians and Arabs," since those cultures post-date these noodles
Best sentence ever.
Says the guy who just got done assuming his ass off that the President is all-knowing.
I wonder if Zonk ever gets tired of posting the same three flamebait stories every day.
We don't need to shoot ourselves in the foot again in our relationship with the UN.
I'm normally a big fan of the UN, but in this case, a few bullet holes in the feet might be warranted.
I think the OP's point was that why did God go to all the trouble of divinely inspiring the original version, then fall asleep at the wheel during the translation?
You, sir, are why the rest of us love Christians so. It's the Christian love. You get near it, and you can't help but feel warmed.
Now, if you don't believe in God, what in the hell are you reading the Bible for?
Most of us were raised Christian. Some of us are able to remember six, sometimes seven months into the past if we try real hard.
Good for Job. How'd that work out for Job's family and the people that loved them?
... Oh. In that case, let me break out my worshipping pants and head on down for some churchin'.
God merely allowed Satan to bring the trials against Job.
if you make a system then I think you have the right to create the rules
As long as everyone playing your game is playing voluntarily, sure. If you're going to force people to play, the morality gets a bit trickier (which, Big Guy, is not to say that I don't like your rules. If you could find it in your heart not to smite me, I'd be grateful).
For its time, this was a very enlightend attitude.
And if I ever find myself a few thousand years in the past, I'll encourage people to read it. But for now, I'm going to ask that people watch the much more enlightened "Sesame Street." All the best parts of the Bible, none of that crazy crap about raping people.
Assuming both violent video games and movies are detrimental to the well being of minors, shouldn't society be regulating both, instead of neither?
As soon as the combined death toll from violent games and movies is greater than the number of deaths in plastic spoon accidents, we'll got on top of spending tons of money, hurting the economy, and punishing people who haven't hurt anyone to stop it.
I'm an American that loves to be angry at America. I hate most of what we do in the world, and I hate our arrogance. But in this case, I have to say you can collectively bite us. Some guys over here built a toy. They even freely handed out plans to build it. You want one run the way you want, build one. The US can't be in the business of putting vital infrastructure in the hands of groups whose decisions are completely unpredictable. And yeah, the US isn't entirely predictable, but the scale of the unpredictability is completely different.
Possibly, but I can't be sure. I stopped reading right after "Posted by Zonk."
well, this is no different than, say, my hard disk crashing, or my PC having bad RAM, or some fool installed some service on my machine when i wasn't looking, or the software is borked.
I've lost one hard disk in my life. I've never had bad RAM, and I don't usually have software gnomes installing things on me. The networks I use die a hell of a lot more often than any of those other problems. Maybe other people's network-failure-to-hard-disk-explosion ratio is lower, but mine's pretty high.
Great, so now the network being down means I can get absolutely no work done.
I'd like this if they sold $20 dumb terminals to use it, but I paid a lot of money for a computer that can run applications locally without constantly going to the network.
And just in case they mentioned that that's not a concern in one of those 40 linked pages, no, I didn't read all the articles, so feel free to yell at me now.
something of this magnitude would be a favorite target of terrorist or anyone looking to make a point
I'm just glad we never built a Sears Tower or an Empire State building or a Golden Gate Bridge. Those kinds of things would get knocked down constantly if they existed. Damn terrorists. Can't hardly go outside anymore.
For those who lived in a cave for a while and haven't been here yet.
The lesson I'd take from that data is that no matter which side of the debate the doctors are on, a lot of people will automatically assume they're at fault.
Well, you can take that lesson from that, but it's not the lesson being given. The lesson you'd take if you weren't angry about something is that it's a jerky thing to blacklist malpractice plaintiffs, and it's often (though not necessarily in this case) a jerky thing to sue people for saying bad stuff about you.
Ah. Sorry for jumpin' on ya, then.
And to answer your question, the first 80 times we all had this conversation, we were both clever and nice, but then 81 responses of "God's real, and I'm his favorite-est, and nothing you say can change that," wore us down. Now all we can manage is, "You're an idiot." And most of us would stop, but they keep bringing it up, and they're always so dang smug about it.
"So you will burn in hell." If you were actually wondering why we don't like you, that would be it right there. You're all about fear and condemnation. If you just shut up and lived your own damn life, nobody would ever bother you again.
Being insulting in addition to being wrong doesn't make you any less wrong. Lincoln was a moderate in most respects.
I'm not sure what the point of your patronizing history lesson is, so please tell me if there is one.
Lincoln was a REPUBLICAN.
If you think your party has stuck to the same ideals it had in the 19th century, you're pretty far beyond help. A present-day Lincoln, I imagine, would spit on both parties.
Well that's just silly... why believe anything that you can prove wrong. ;) (that's 75.345% joking)
Because you haven't been able to yet. (That's for the other 24.655%)