Well, the fact that this does complex math and PalmPilot/WinCE doesn't creates quite a large market. I know you could add some type of math software to a pocket computer but I would be quite difficult to input math commands quickly. I've become so used to using RPN on my 28S and 48GX that I don't even need to think about it anymore. And now I have something I can actually graph with too! Graphing was so horrid with the 48 with its slowass boxes and scrolling. How i never have to pick up a TI again.
I just love watching debates like this. Seemingly intelligent people show how truely silly their views really are. Now, I would first like to say that I am Catholic, and fairly strict in my Catholicism. I also consider myself fairly 'open-minded.' I have several gay friends, I don't try and 'convert' then or 'tell them they are going to hell' ect. So, I feel that I am fairly unbiased towards each side. Both sides are often wrong, and much misinformation is spread by both sides.
I see alot of people on here talking about how hipocritical Christians are. But, by that very statement, are they not being hipocrites themselves? To group a large population of any race, creed, original, philosophy and say that they are all the same is a very dangerous proposition indead. I feel almost as if many of these people who say this are in fact guilty of discriminating because of religion. These same people talk about rights and how racism is bad, but yet they embark on their own 'holy war' (pardon the pun) against religious groups. This is quite disturbing to me. I don't care what your beliefs on religion are, but when you group in the the Christian 'catch all' and tell me that because I am Christian and Pro-Life that I am somehow THE SAME as the idiots who kill abortion doctors. This makes me quite angry.
Somehow, the media seems to play upon the news about abortion-doctors being murdered. And they sure love to emphisize the fact that the murderers were Pro-Lifers. Yet, do you not think that the people who do this have some deep psychological problems not associated with religion at all? These same people would murder someone or another without religion. Religion did not 'cause' them to murder. They murdered because they are FUBAR. Please, do not group me or Pro-Lifers into this catagory because of what a few extremist did. BTW, many of these "pro-lifers" are hardly even Christian. They say they are, but they aren't. They are wrong, the Christian belief is not.
Next, onto my beliefs on abortion. I actually try and call myself a Pro-Logic supporter more than Pro-Life simply because of the stigma spread by the media about Pro-Lifers. When I was thinking about this issue logically one day, I asked myself the question "When do we consider something to be a human?" The standard definiation would be at birth (Pre-20th century?). Yet now with modern technology we can save a baby that is months premature. So, we cannot put the cutoff 'human-point' at birth. Now it seems to be at the 'late-term' abortion point. But, is that fetus any less human one day before that? Or one day furthur before that? We keep going back like this until we reach the only real place at which we can draw any conclusive like:conception. Any other means of placing a point upon which a human is defined would be completely archaic and abstract. There is also the fact that, most likely, if you did not abort that fetus, then a human being would develope. Thus, you in a sense killing a thing that, in a short time, would grow into a human being this all the rights and privilages awarded to any other citizen under the constitution. I am sure that if someone invented a 'time machine' and traveled back in time and killed the father of his enemy before he was born, people would be outraged. That fetus will become if human, even if you don't believe that it is one at the time. I see this as the only logical way of looking at the issue. Notice I didn't rattle of biblical references? I don't see the point when the people you are debating don't believe in it anyway (for the most part).
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Well, the fact that this does complex math and PalmPilot/WinCE doesn't creates quite a large market. I know you could add some type of math software to a pocket computer but I would be quite difficult to input math commands quickly. I've become so used to using RPN on my 28S and 48GX that I don't even need to think about it anymore. And now I have something I can actually graph with too! Graphing was so horrid with the 48 with its slowass boxes and scrolling. How i never have to pick up a TI again.
Noehre
TI IS DEAD. LONG LIVE RPN
It is like Ayn Rand, you eventually outgrow
it when you become wise and experienced.
I just love watching debates like this. Seemingly intelligent people show how truely silly their views really are. Now, I would first like to say that I am Catholic, and fairly strict in my Catholicism. I also consider myself fairly 'open-minded.' I have several gay friends, I don't try and 'convert' then or 'tell them they are going to hell' ect. So, I feel that I am fairly unbiased towards each side. Both sides are often wrong, and much misinformation is spread by both sides.
I see alot of people on here talking about how hipocritical Christians are. But, by that very statement, are they not being hipocrites themselves? To group a large population of any race, creed, original, philosophy and say that they are all the same is a very dangerous proposition indead. I feel almost as if many of these people who say this are in fact guilty of discriminating because of religion. These same people talk about rights and how racism is bad, but yet they embark on their own 'holy war' (pardon the pun) against religious groups. This is quite disturbing to me. I don't care what your beliefs on religion are, but when you group in the the Christian 'catch all' and tell me that because I am Christian and Pro-Life that I am somehow THE SAME as the idiots who kill abortion doctors. This makes me quite angry.
Somehow, the media seems to play upon the news about abortion-doctors being murdered. And they sure love to emphisize the fact that the murderers were Pro-Lifers. Yet, do you not think that the people who do this have some deep psychological problems not associated with religion at all? These same people would murder someone or another without religion. Religion did not 'cause' them to murder. They murdered because they are FUBAR. Please, do not group me or Pro-Lifers into this catagory because of what a few extremist did. BTW, many of these "pro-lifers" are hardly even Christian. They say they are, but they aren't. They are wrong, the Christian belief is not.
Next, onto my beliefs on abortion. I actually try and call myself a Pro-Logic supporter more than Pro-Life simply because of the stigma spread by the media about Pro-Lifers. When I was thinking about this issue logically one day, I asked myself the question "When do we consider something to be a human?" The standard definiation would be at birth (Pre-20th century?). Yet now with modern technology we can save a baby that is months premature. So, we cannot put the cutoff 'human-point' at birth. Now it seems to be at the 'late-term' abortion point. But, is that fetus any less human one day before that? Or one day furthur before that? We keep going back like this until we reach the only real place at which we can draw any conclusive like:conception. Any other means of placing a point upon which a human is defined would be completely archaic and abstract. There is also the fact that, most likely, if you did not abort that fetus, then a human being would develope. Thus, you in a sense killing a thing that, in a short time, would grow into a human being this all the rights and privilages awarded to any other citizen under the constitution. I am sure that if someone invented a 'time machine' and traveled back in time and killed the father of his enemy before he was born, people would be outraged. That fetus will become if human, even if you don't believe that it is one at the time. I see this as the only logical way of looking at the issue. Notice I didn't rattle of biblical references? I don't see the point when the people you are debating don't believe in it anyway (for the most part).
Yours truly,
The Noehre