And again, you don't even attempt to support your viewpoint. You either have no point or lack the intellectual ability to support it. Way to go, loser.
Dude, if he didn't believe that his God is the correct God, why would he worship him? Your own arrogance is really only outshined by the absolute stupidity of your reply.
Your first sentence has nothing to do with your second sentence. Did you have a coherent thought, but failed to reproduce it when you started typing? Or do you just think incoherently?
Your first statement ~"if the poster does not believe in a god, the poster would not worship that god" is a fact. Who would argue with that?
Your second statement ~"you are arrogant and stupid" exists on its own, totally unsupported in your post.
Do you have an argument? Do you have some new definition of the word "arrogance" which does not fit the idea "I am sure that this supernatural claim is correct and every other equally-supported supernatural claim is false"?
Really, I might feel bad if someone of intelligence were to call me stupid. But your post makes no indication that you possess intelligence.
The moral philosophy you are describing is basically Humanism. Humanism is a secular philosophy and does not require supernatural beliefs.
And you have two facts wrong. No christians even attempt to follow the vaguest spirit of many of god's commandments. Also, most christians believe the laws of the OT are, in fact, god's laws--not man's laws.
The funniest part of your post is that you made me a Foe after reading my criticism. Oh no! You better not let yourself hear anything critical of your belief!
Truly, you must have very little confidence in your faith.
Also, your analogy sucks. Christians are people who try only pizza, perhaps smell a few other types of food, then confidently declare that no foods exist other than pizza, and people who don't eat pizza should burn in hell.
Of course, the capitalization joke made by AC above proves the christian arrogance point better than anything else could.
The assumption that religious ideas, unlike EVERY OTHER KIND OF IDEA, should be exempt from criticism, is evil. It is a cancer on the collective human intellect. Thanks for perpetuating it.
If I were to say "it seems fair for all capitalists to be brutally tortured throughout eternity" you would probably think it is OK to criticize that idea.
But when a religious person says "it seems fair for all people who aren't in my religion to be brutally tortured throughout eternity" you would call anyone to criticizes it a "bigot." In fact, all this guy did was compare a christian book to a fairy tale. That is extremely mild and polite criticism, yet you still called him a bigot. You disgust me.
Wow are you ever ignorant. There are 613 commandments in the old testament of the bible. I have never met a Christian who follows them. A progressive christian, like all others, clearly does not live by what the bible says to do.
Christian tolerance teaches me to tolerate people's rights to choose whatever religious belief they want, even if they are wrong. Christian love teaches me to tell people who God is, and how to reconcile relationship with Him, because I want everyone to have the kind of relationship with God that I have.
And Christian arrogance teaches you that your god is the correct god, while all the other thousands of gods and goddesses in the history of the human species are just silly fantasies.
Which vaccination caused brain damage? What was mechanism?
Has the failure in the 1950s production of polio vaccine been corrected since then? And since everyone in the US was vaccinated for polio, and that caused 20% of the population of the US to develop cancer, why hasn't anyone told the trial lawyers about it?
Are your claims of vaccination side-effect related to the vaccines themselves, or just to flawed manufacturing processes? Are those processes still in use?
Forgive me if I am skeptical of your (not-at-all-cited) claims.
Oh, and you know what else causes cancer? Longevity.
I think if it turns out this particular non-fish is essential to human survival, we could probably train the clones to swim around and eat fish. It can't be that hard.
t's not simply pessimism, it's basic freakin' physics. 12 million cubic feet of water falling from 170 feet is a concentrated energy source. Coal, at 24 megajoules per kilogram, is a concentrated energy source. Uranium, at 560 gigajoules per kilogram, is a very concentrated energy source.
You forgot to mention that a lightening bolt has 1.21 jiggawats of power! But we never know where or when one will strike...
The point is so that you can find and patch machines that aren't patched before the hackers/worms find them. Security isn't a boolean value. There is real value to security measures which reduce, but don't eliminate risk.
Incidentally, this technology has been marketed as Network Access Control (NAC) for years by other vendors. It usually isn't DHCP based.
It is possible that he knows those instruments but intentionally used poor technique. There is no way to know for sure.
As a percussionist, it sort-of sounds like he wired those video clips up to different drums in an electric drum set. I have no idea if a non-drummer could have come up with a beat like that on his own.
So starving people in africa and asia are just falling all over themselves to get access to the HPV vaccine... if only it were a little cheaper?
No, I don't see that happening. Most of these people won't get vaccinated unless its free. The type of vaccination required to eliminate a disease entirely will never happen without some serious welfare.
Also, it is important that drug company patents are honored--they fund research into getting new types of drugs! That means 1st world prices for the 3rd world in many cases.
You forgot to remind him to do make bzimage instead of just make. Even with something as simple as that, some people actually forget, believe it or not.
This guy is very skilled at sampling. The computer is his instrument. As a musician, I can tell you that he is unskilled at drums and piano. He doesn't even qualify as an amateur with those instruments.
Who said anything about welfare? You just wanted to gripe or something? I think everyone has heard the parable you're going after;
"Give a man a fire, and you keep him warm for the night. Set a man on fire, and you keep him warm for the rest of his life."
I think Gates is focusing on disease, not on corn-dumping. Your point about donating for economic development being more important than donating for long-term food aid is understood most well-informed people. But we are talking about vaccinating people for disease which are ONLY developed by the most advanced economies. Vaccination is not going to slow the development of a not-even-agrarian economy! If you think so you're cracked--nothing but a ranting partisan extremist.
Well, I don't profess to be more than marginally altruistic. I merely want to point out that refusing great profit is not the act of a great man, but merely the act of a nice guy.
Sorry, but more money in the hands of good people is a good thing. Think about Buffet and Gates. Those guys are putting together a charity which may have the ability to literally wipe contagious disease from the face of the planet*. If they had followed the business philosophy of Craig, well, there would be a whole lot more dead kids out there.
It's like my friend in dental school. She says she doesn't want to make a lot of money, she wants to help people. So when she graduates, she's going to spend a year in south America building houses for poor people. I told her that if she really wanted to help, she would work in the US and use half her salary to hire a dozen workers in her place to work in her place and build many more houses than she could ever build.
*imagine vaccinating everyone on the planet for all diseases which require human hosts at the same time. Craig would be a better man if he capitalized and chipped in to that fund.
I don't think age has so much to do with your chance of getting laid. Your ability to walk up to someone and introduce yourself is probably the biggest factor. Introversion makes for great thinkers, but poor playas.
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And again, you don't even attempt to support your viewpoint. You either have no point or lack the intellectual ability to support it. Way to go, loser.
Your first sentence has nothing to do with your second sentence. Did you have a coherent thought, but failed to reproduce it when you started typing? Or do you just think incoherently?
Your first statement ~"if the poster does not believe in a god, the poster would not worship that god" is a fact. Who would argue with that?
Your second statement ~"you are arrogant and stupid" exists on its own, totally unsupported in your post.
Do you have an argument? Do you have some new definition of the word "arrogance" which does not fit the idea "I am sure that this supernatural claim is correct and every other equally-supported supernatural claim is false"?
Really, I might feel bad if someone of intelligence were to call me stupid. But your post makes no indication that you possess intelligence.
The moral philosophy you are describing is basically Humanism. Humanism is a secular philosophy and does not require supernatural beliefs.
And you have two facts wrong. No christians even attempt to follow the vaguest spirit of many of god's commandments. Also, most christians believe the laws of the OT are, in fact, god's laws--not man's laws.
The funniest part of your post is that you made me a Foe after reading my criticism. Oh no! You better not let yourself hear anything critical of your belief!
Truly, you must have very little confidence in your faith.
Also, your analogy sucks. Christians are people who try only pizza, perhaps smell a few other types of food, then confidently declare that no foods exist other than pizza, and people who don't eat pizza should burn in hell.
Of course, the capitalization joke made by AC above proves the christian arrogance point better than anything else could.
The assumption that religious ideas, unlike EVERY OTHER KIND OF IDEA, should be exempt from criticism, is evil. It is a cancer on the collective human intellect. Thanks for perpetuating it.
If I were to say "it seems fair for all capitalists to be brutally tortured throughout eternity" you would probably think it is OK to criticize that idea.
But when a religious person says "it seems fair for all people who aren't in my religion to be brutally tortured throughout eternity" you would call anyone to criticizes it a "bigot." In fact, all this guy did was compare a christian book to a fairy tale. That is extremely mild and polite criticism, yet you still called him a bigot. You disgust me.
Wow are you ever ignorant. There are 613 commandments in the old testament of the bible. I have never met a Christian who follows them. A progressive christian, like all others, clearly does not live by what the bible says to do.
Your religion is about as spiritually inspiring as an Aerosmith song.
You do have the right to suppress speech of "obscene" things via the US legal system. Yep, it sucks. Should be amended.
And Christian arrogance teaches you that your god is the correct god, while all the other thousands of gods and goddesses in the history of the human species are just silly fantasies.
Which vaccination caused brain damage? What was mechanism?
Has the failure in the 1950s production of polio vaccine been corrected since then? And since everyone in the US was vaccinated for polio, and that caused 20% of the population of the US to develop cancer, why hasn't anyone told the trial lawyers about it?
Are your claims of vaccination side-effect related to the vaccines themselves, or just to flawed manufacturing processes? Are those processes still in use?
Forgive me if I am skeptical of your (not-at-all-cited) claims.
Oh, and you know what else causes cancer? Longevity.
The species which is closest to colonizing space is the fittest. We are the only species with a space program. We are the fittest.
I think if it turns out this particular non-fish is essential to human survival, we could probably train the clones to swim around and eat fish. It can't be that hard.
You forgot to mention that a lightening bolt has 1.21 jiggawats of power! But we never know where or when one will strike...
What? You mean it doesn't support MS DOS 3.0 anymore? BOO FIREFOX!
The point is so that you can find and patch machines that aren't patched before the hackers/worms find them. Security isn't a boolean value. There is real value to security measures which reduce, but don't eliminate risk.
Incidentally, this technology has been marketed as Network Access Control (NAC) for years by other vendors. It usually isn't DHCP based.
It is possible that he knows those instruments but intentionally used poor technique. There is no way to know for sure.
As a percussionist, it sort-of sounds like he wired those video clips up to different drums in an electric drum set. I have no idea if a non-drummer could have come up with a beat like that on his own.
Huh? It's already happened on single-nation basis. We just need to expand the number of nations. You're weird.
So starving people in africa and asia are just falling all over themselves to get access to the HPV vaccine... if only it were a little cheaper?
No, I don't see that happening. Most of these people won't get vaccinated unless its free. The type of vaccination required to eliminate a disease entirely will never happen without some serious welfare.
Also, it is important that drug company patents are honored--they fund research into getting new types of drugs! That means 1st world prices for the 3rd world in many cases.
You forgot to remind him to do make bzimage instead of just make. Even with something as simple as that, some people actually forget, believe it or not.
whoooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooo oooooooooooooosh!
is the sound the joke made as it soared over your head and out of the auditorium.
This guy is very skilled at sampling. The computer is his instrument. As a musician, I can tell you that he is unskilled at drums and piano. He doesn't even qualify as an amateur with those instruments.
Who said anything about welfare? You just wanted to gripe or something? I think everyone has heard the parable you're going after;
"Give a man a fire, and you keep him warm for the night. Set a man on fire, and you keep him warm for the rest of his life."
I think Gates is focusing on disease, not on corn-dumping. Your point about donating for economic development being more important than donating for long-term food aid is understood most well-informed people. But we are talking about vaccinating people for disease which are ONLY developed by the most advanced economies. Vaccination is not going to slow the development of a not-even-agrarian economy! If you think so you're cracked--nothing but a ranting partisan extremist.
Well, I don't profess to be more than marginally altruistic. I merely want to point out that refusing great profit is not the act of a great man, but merely the act of a nice guy.
Sorry, but more money in the hands of good people is a good thing. Think about Buffet and Gates. Those guys are putting together a charity which may have the ability to literally wipe contagious disease from the face of the planet*. If they had followed the business philosophy of Craig, well, there would be a whole lot more dead kids out there.
It's like my friend in dental school. She says she doesn't want to make a lot of money, she wants to help people. So when she graduates, she's going to spend a year in south America building houses for poor people. I told her that if she really wanted to help, she would work in the US and use half her salary to hire a dozen workers in her place to work in her place and build many more houses than she could ever build.
*imagine vaccinating everyone on the planet for all diseases which require human hosts at the same time. Craig would be a better man if he capitalized and chipped in to that fund.
I don't think age has so much to do with your chance of getting laid. Your ability to walk up to someone and introduce yourself is probably the biggest factor. Introversion makes for great thinkers, but poor playas.