No, Faith is the evidence of things unseen (Hebrews 11)
Their excuse is "God did it".
Yup. I like how the how the Heidelberg Catechism puts it: "...without the will of my heavenly father not a hair can fall from my head"
And to be fair, the bible describes the pre-flood earth as place quite different from our current day earth, such as the lack of rain and longer life spans. Having no evidence whatsoever of the pre-flood earth i could hold to a theory that there possibly were not as many species of animals to load on the ark preflood...or whatnot the point is I don't need an explanation, because again faith is the evidence of things unseen.
What has always convinced me of creationism is simply this -- when I view a person, a tree, or a star lit sky and all the amazing incredible intricate parts of it all (which thanks to science I get to know all so much more about) I can't help but question a theory that somehow this all came about with a big bang and a whole lot of chance...it's all to perfect...somebody had to have had a hand in it all.
I disagree with that statement. I believe the problem with America is that everyone wants to blame or make someone else pay for there own stupid mistakes.
It's the same as with the recent fast food law suits...It can be the individuals fault that they got fat. Who the hell doesn't know that fast food isn't good for you. It's your own darn fault...either deal with it or fix, I don't want to hear your bitching.
-Al
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He went back home, and even two years later could still only find work as a help desk operator! This is in a major US city with a supposedly large tech job market. He's making a tiny bit over minimum wage.
That pretty darn low for a big city. I've been work help desk for a law firm for the last couple years downtown chicago for about 40k a year
It may bother you that someone made a lot of money on a simple invention, but the fact of the matter is that he/she did invent it.
IMHO the patent office should exist to protect the little guy. If I invent something really useful I want protection so others more well off can't duplicate my invention and out market and produce me before i even get a chance. In the patent office's current state it seems they are used more often by big corps to bully around anybody who makes anything remotely similar to one of there products.
I think that they need either open up the process altogether allowing anyone comment on the validity of the patent before it is given or to do something like asking competitors to comment on the invention along with researching and base decisions on that.
Something needs to be done before some wacko claims he invented the moon and the USPTO grants the patent.
I haven't had any problems with intergrating everything...mostly because of one great piece of hardware that came from a not so great company...
The MouseRemote from X10...
I have complete control over all my multimedia functions using a third party open source driver (maX10). I can program any key on the remote to send any keyboard command...any program with keyboard shortcuts is useable with the remote.
Honestly without this remote i would have ditched the whole idea of using a PC as an Entertainment center a while ago. I originally did use a wireless keyboard but since getting the remote there's nothing i use the keyboard for anymore i have total control with the remote. The only thing I can't do with the remote that I'd like to is be able to power up with it. Other than that I can launch and use any program i choose to as well as program buttons for shutdown.
As for windows reboot probs. get windows 2k or xp they've been fine for me. I haven't had xp crash yet and it's been a few months.
I agree that their site sucks it's especially a pain in the ass to scroll and read the text, but I don't think the problem is Flash I think the problem is the Design. I've seen some well designed useful sites made with Flash, just not very many.
Anybody else picture Troy McClure saying this in a Simpson's show? Just add the following obligatory lines to the beginning and you're set. "Hello my name is Troy McClure. You may remember me from such other educational films such as 'How to invade Mexico' or 'Why Incest is Bad'..."
The videogame suit is really just another episode of the cultural war that conservatives have been waging since the 70s. They hate homosexuals, Catholics, Jews, Blacks, equal treatment of women and especially the permissive society. They want to wage a war against it but they have been so utterly defeated that they can only voice their true views in private
^ I'm sorry, but that is flamebait ^
I'm one of the few conservatives here, yet I hate none of these groups. What are you suggesting here? That conservatives hate violent video games? or the people that play them? Well I must be a hypocrite for playing "Return of Castle Wolfenstien" all night last night.
I just can't believe that someone would compare the hatred of Jews or Blacks to the hatred of video games!
You know what I hate? The many people on slashdot who seem to make it their life's purpose to blame every problem in the world on conservatives. All that does is turn me off to any idea they pose.
In Chicago we now have a "Take-out tax" that is charged to all take out orders to help pay for all the city workers cleaning up the streets downtown.
So now i get charged extra for my mcdonald's lunch because someone else can't find the garbages cans that are on every sidewalk downtown spaced 50 ft apart.
How about this example...my little brother has been using windows since like 1st grade...he's now much older and he can install windows, download software, setup drivers, install software, etc.
Now I have extra box that is running RH 7.1 that i let him mess around on. He tries to download something...ok that's familiar find the file download it. ok double-click on the downloaded file when it finishes...this window pops up and he's able to install it. OK its installed, but he asks...where'd it get installed? where's the icon to launch it?
This is my problem too...it's nothing for me to install the os and all the apps that are included with the install run nice. But i find me some program that looks cool and I want to install it...constantly problems...if it's a rpm (which are only available for some programs) I install and but it don't tell me where the crap it installed the thing and it didn't ask where to or even put an icon anywhere...now i end up spending a bunch of time searching for the executable that will launch the program and then create a launcher w/ some generic icon cause if the program even had it's own icon i don't know where the crap it is.
So i download the.tgz version. I do Gunzip and untar it read the readme and do the.configure and make install and all that crap only for it to crap out at some part saying some library is missing. Well where the crap is it? If I don't have it why don't go get it or at least tell me where to get it?
Now there are a few programs that install nicely...like star office...but then again that had a "next...next...finish" installer. grrr
I'd like to think that I would at least take the evidence given and consider it, but I can't really conceive anything that would change my mind on the issue. But, then again, I can't conceive that any one could make me think that the Dave Matthews Band sucked either, they're my favorite band and I just can't see that changing. I guess what I'm saying is that you can't really conceive of such things until they happen.
I was born and raised in a very christian, conservative enviroment, so you can imagine that i have not been around the most open minded people most of my life. It's also why have little respect for a lot of the people i grew up with...people who say "No, that's wrong" and when asked why they can't answer, or answer "What's wrong with you? You should know that, It's just wrong."
I find it interesting that my comment saying that i have problems with Christians starting flame wars with evolution topic has been moderated as flamebait.
Believing in God was all you needed to know these 'facts' at different points in history:
The Earth is the centre of the universe.
All the cosmos revolves around the Earth.
The above are never mention in the Bible so it was never necessary for a Christian to believe them.
I am a firm believer in creationism, but at the same time I have problems with all these people who get in huge flame wars thinking that they might actually change someone or that they are doing a "good deed" or something. In effect they are doing quite the opposite and I think its easily seen just by reading this posting as it always ends up being just a bunch of name calling.
I have occasionally gotten into these debates, but usually I steer away. The problem is that you need to believe *first* that there is a God. Why the heck would someone try to prove creationism to someone who does not believe in God is beyond me. Creationism just like any other belief needs believed by faith...like the Bible says "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
Now considering that quote why in the world do you people keep trying to prove creationism to people who don't have faith?!?
When I get pulled into these debates all I will do is offer what I've heard on the topic that *I* think *should* make people question evolution, if it don't, oh well, if it does, great, even if it doesn't change their view at least I know that they are open minded and researched it for themselves...I have alot more respect for people who are open minded.
I agree. I'm distracted enough with out something talking in my ear or pictures flashing in my face from some heads-up display.
I don't see the need in going any further than a palm pilot sized device with some type of broadband connection that I can pull out of my pocket when I *need* it.
On a simalar note if the FBI or whoever don't have the personnel to dedicate to such cases why don't they just offer a bounty? Say like $20K for find incriminating evidence about the author of SirCam. If they had a dedicated team I'm sure it would cost them more than that amount to track things like this with considering how gov spends money, they probably save thousands. Plus the opportunity to be bounty hunter is just too cool:-)
"MS hides them pretty well. I'm still waiting for them to patch Solitaire for W2K. If you simulataneously click both mouse buttons at the same time on a card, several times really fast, it'll crash."
Is this really a problem? How often do you repeatedly click both mouse buttons on a card? What loser spent way too much time to find this out?
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But faith overrides reason.
No, Faith is the evidence of things unseen (Hebrews 11)
Their excuse is "God did it".
Yup. I like how the how the Heidelberg Catechism puts it: "...without the will of my heavenly father not a hair can fall from my head"
And to be fair, the bible describes the pre-flood earth as place quite different from our current day earth, such as the lack of rain and longer life spans. Having no evidence whatsoever of the pre-flood earth i could hold to a theory that there possibly were not as many species of animals to load on the ark preflood...or whatnot the point is I don't need an explanation, because again faith is the evidence of things unseen.
What has always convinced me of creationism is simply this -- when I view a person, a tree, or a star lit sky and all the amazing incredible intricate parts of it all (which thanks to science I get to know all so much more about) I can't help but question a theory that somehow this all came about with a big bang and a whole lot of chance...it's all to perfect...somebody had to have had a hand in it all.
Just my thoughts,
-Al-
I disagree with that statement. I believe the problem with America is that everyone wants to blame or make someone else pay for there own stupid mistakes.
It's the same as with the recent fast food law suits...It can be the individuals fault that they got fat. Who the hell doesn't know that fast food isn't good for you. It's your own darn fault...either deal with it or fix, I don't want to hear your bitching.
-Al
He went back home, and even two years later could still only find work as a help desk operator! This is in a major US city with a supposedly large tech job market. He's making a tiny bit over minimum wage.
That pretty darn low for a big city. I've been work help desk for a law firm for the last couple years downtown chicago for about 40k a year
It may bother you that someone made a lot of money on a simple invention, but the fact of the matter is that he/she did invent it.
IMHO the patent office should exist to protect the little guy. If I invent something really useful I want protection so others more well off can't duplicate my invention and out market and produce me before i even get a chance. In the patent office's current state it seems they are used more often by big corps to bully around anybody who makes anything remotely similar to one of there products.
I think that they need either open up the process altogether allowing anyone comment on the validity of the patent before it is given or to do something like asking competitors to comment on the invention along with researching and base decisions on that.
Something needs to be done before some wacko claims he invented the moon and the USPTO grants the patent.
Just my 2
I haven't had any problems with intergrating everything...mostly because of one great piece of hardware that came from a not so great company...
The MouseRemote from X10...
I have complete control over all my multimedia functions using a third party open source driver (maX10). I can program any key on the remote to send any keyboard command...any program with keyboard shortcuts is useable with the remote.
Honestly without this remote i would have ditched the whole idea of using a PC as an Entertainment center a while ago. I originally did use a wireless keyboard but since getting the remote there's nothing i use the keyboard for anymore i have total control with the remote. The only thing I can't do with the remote that I'd like to is be able to power up with it. Other than that I can launch and use any program i choose to as well as program buttons for shutdown.
As for windows reboot probs. get windows 2k or xp they've been fine for me. I haven't had xp crash yet and it's been a few months.
This is probably just because of the bot having old information but it made me lol.
Human: how high is the sears tower?
SlashWallace: Taller than the World Trade Center.
You think this sucks. I read the headline "Cowboy *Neal*: The Movie." Boy am I relieved.
I agree that their site sucks it's especially a pain in the ass to scroll and read the text, but I don't think the problem is Flash I think the problem is the Design. I've seen some well designed useful sites made with Flash, just not very many.
Anybody else picture Troy McClure saying this in a Simpson's show? Just add the following obligatory lines to the beginning and you're set. "Hello my name is Troy McClure. You may remember me from such other educational films such as 'How to invade Mexico' or 'Why Incest is Bad'..."
I would, but, I just can't stand listening to them muffled underwater recordings :-)
The videogame suit is really just another episode of the cultural war that conservatives have been waging since the 70s. They hate homosexuals, Catholics, Jews, Blacks, equal treatment of women and especially the permissive society. They want to wage a war against it but they have been so utterly defeated that they can only voice their true views in private
^ I'm sorry, but that is flamebait ^
I'm one of the few conservatives here, yet I hate none of these groups. What are you suggesting here? That conservatives hate violent video games? or the people that play them? Well I must be a hypocrite for playing "Return of Castle Wolfenstien" all night last night.
I just can't believe that someone would compare the hatred of Jews or Blacks to the hatred of video games!
You know what I hate? The many people on slashdot who seem to make it their life's purpose to blame every problem in the world on conservatives. All that does is turn me off to any idea they pose.
Wait... does this mean that I can sue the phone company for all telemarketer calls i get?
Actually I feel inclined to throw my trash on the ground now so that i feel like i paid for something useful.
And if this were to happen which OS would have nothing to do with it? Which OS would all the "movie prirate" move to, to get there fix?
hmm...
In Chicago we now have a "Take-out tax" that is charged to all take out orders to help pay for all the city workers cleaning up the streets downtown.
So now i get charged extra for my mcdonald's lunch because someone else can't find the garbages cans that are on every sidewalk downtown spaced 50 ft apart.
How about this example...my little brother has been using windows since like 1st grade...he's now much older and he can install windows, download software, setup drivers, install software, etc.
...now i end up spending a bunch of time searching for the executable that will launch the program and then create a launcher w/ some generic icon cause if the program even had it's own icon i don't know where the crap it is.
.tgz version. I do Gunzip and untar it read the readme and do the .configure and make install and all that crap only for it to crap out at some part saying some library is missing. Well where the crap is it? If I don't have it why don't go get it or at least tell me where to get it?
Now I have extra box that is running RH 7.1 that i let him mess around on. He tries to download something...ok that's familiar find the file download it. ok double-click on the downloaded file when it finishes...this window pops up and he's able to install it. OK its installed, but he asks...where'd it get installed? where's the icon to launch it?
This is my problem too...it's nothing for me to install the os and all the apps that are included with the install run nice. But i find me some program that looks cool and I want to install it...constantly problems...if it's a rpm (which are only available for some programs) I install and but it don't tell me where the crap it installed the thing and it didn't ask where to or even put an icon anywhere
So i download the
Now there are a few programs that install nicely...like star office...but then again that had a "next...next...finish" installer. grrr
I see your point...and it's tough to answer that.
I'd like to think that I would at least take the evidence given and consider it, but I can't really conceive anything that would change my mind on the issue. But, then again, I can't conceive that any one could make me think that the Dave Matthews Band sucked either, they're my favorite band and I just can't see that changing. I guess what I'm saying is that you can't really conceive of such things until they happen.
I was born and raised in a very christian, conservative enviroment, so you can imagine that i have not been around the most open minded people most of my life. It's also why have little respect for a lot of the people i grew up with...people who say "No, that's wrong" and when asked why they can't answer, or answer "What's wrong with you? You should know that, It's just wrong."
-Al-
I find it interesting that my comment saying that i have problems with Christians starting flame wars with evolution topic has been moderated as flamebait.
Believing in God was all you needed to know these 'facts' at different points in history:
The Earth is the centre of the universe.
All the cosmos revolves around the Earth.
The above are never mention in the Bible so it was never necessary for a Christian to believe them.
The Universe was created in 7 days.
I believe in creationism, so ummm...duh
I am a firm believer in creationism, but at the same time I have problems with all these people who get in huge flame wars thinking that they might actually change someone or that they are doing a "good deed" or something. In effect they are doing quite the opposite and I think its easily seen just by reading this posting as it always ends up being just a bunch of name calling.
I have occasionally gotten into these debates, but usually I steer away. The problem is that you need to believe *first* that there is a God. Why the heck would someone try to prove creationism to someone who does not believe in God is beyond me. Creationism just like any other belief needs believed by faith...like the Bible says "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."
Now considering that quote why in the world do you people keep trying to prove creationism to people who don't have faith?!?
When I get pulled into these debates all I will do is offer what I've heard on the topic that *I* think *should* make people question evolution, if it don't, oh well, if it does, great, even if it doesn't change their view at least I know that they are open minded and researched it for themselves...I have alot more respect for people who are open minded.
Anyway, that's my $0.02...
-Al-
Just as long as it don't break Superfly flash movies!
I agree. I'm distracted enough with out something talking in my ear or pictures flashing in my face from some heads-up display.
I don't see the need in going any further than a palm pilot sized device with some type of broadband connection that I can pull out of my pocket when I *need* it.
-Al-
On a simalar note if the FBI or whoever don't have the personnel to dedicate to such cases why don't they just offer a bounty? Say like $20K for find incriminating evidence about the author of SirCam. If they had a dedicated team I'm sure it would cost them more than that amount to track things like this with considering how gov spends money, they probably save thousands. Plus the opportunity to be bounty hunter is just too cool :-)
I hate when I read something like this while i'm drinking something. Now I got to clean of my desk...
"MS hides them pretty well. I'm still waiting for them to patch Solitaire for W2K. If you simulataneously click both mouse buttons at the same time on a card, several times really fast, it'll crash."
Is this really a problem? How often do you repeatedly click both mouse buttons on a card? What loser spent way too much time to find this out?