Well, the alternative is the possibility of doing an inadequate percentage, so... I think I'd rather that people checked, and I'll continue to check myself as well, and learn that way. Good luck to you though.
No. Laser pointers are to BB guns as this is to a frag grenade, because the damage will not be contained to a single point - if it touches off anything reflective(white paint, a chrome car bumper, anything really) it will cause retinal damage to anyone not wearing proper protection. There's no reason for Average Joe to even have one of these, what the hell do you need a laser that stupidly powerful for outside of a controlled lab setting? Seriously. The real problem though is that Joe isn't going to read or care about the manual("Yeah yeah, I accept the terms, *click*"), and when he gets careless, someone else's eyes are fucked. There's no way around it, this is a retarded product to be selling to the general public.
You're mixing time and point of view(or more accurately, time and light's travel time).
you could travel to Procyon (11.4LY away) and watch Shrub take the oath of office on the White House lawn. For us, it happened 11 years ago. For Procyon, it's about to happen.
11 years ago, it happened. Period. It happened here and it happened in Procyon. The fact that Procyon doesn't see it happen til 11 years later doesn't mean it didn't happen 11 years ago, it simply means that Procyon is 11 light years away and can't know it happened until the point that they see it. You see?
If Mary wasn't a virgin? Jesus conceived in the typical fashion? Then the people of the world would have ground to say "This guy's a loon, he's just as human as the rest of us". All of what you've said is rather broken and odd to me. I learned and believed that all scripture was God breathed(2Tim 3:16), and that men were supposed to use that scripture to eat(spiritually[Matt 4:4]), and rejecting any of it seems rather heretical. On top of that, to say "I believe in Jesus" is to say "I believe the word of God"(John 1:1), so to say "I believe in Jesus" and "I believe in parts of God's word" also sounds very contradictory. To clarify what I'm getting at, the whole Quaker method as described here seems like religious dogma in and of itself, and contradictory, and heretical(assuming you accept the entire Bible as truth and the word of God[which I do - though you probably noticed that ^^;]).
I'd also like to ask another question which will probably be as offensive as the rest of what I've said here, but I need to clarify regardless. The pamphlet in the pew says "We emphasize personal experience with God over religious dogma"; is that meant to suggest that the Bible is or is related to dogma?
All I know is what I've read, and here's what I just read in the article...
The San Francisco-based appeals court said the teacher was entitled to immunity because it was not clearly established in the law that a teacher’s expression of hostility to certain religious beliefs in a public school classroom would violate the First Amendment’s establishment clause.
The establishment clause requires that officials act with neither favor nor disfavor toward religion and the religious.
While I do see your point with that satire(and it is a good one!), what's wrong with asking? A professional should be able to tell what he needs to do without asking, sure, but I respect the professional who both knows, and asks to check himself/find better ideas.
I prefer political assailants over people who exaggerate to enforce a weak point.
Let's be straight though. This isn't an attack. A sneaky(also clever) campaign, for sure, and I'm sure it caused some emotional distress. But there was no physical harm, no substantial mental scarring or emotional hurt. If this ingenious and devious advertisement is to be called an attack, it was a harmless one.
Couldn't recent levels of hacking or hacking reports be due to upgraded hacking rather than downgraded security? Maybe I'm wrong, I'm not in the industry, but that seems like basic logic - after Anon, everyone started jumping on the bandwagon. No?
Christian here. I'm answering on the basis that your question is "If humans were created not evolved into, then how do you explain this obvious evolution in humans?" I'd say... I'm no biologist, mechanical is more my thing. You tell me.
While you have a legitimate argument that I agree with, you also have to consider the reasoning behind such a wide range of laws - the sheer number of ways that people skirt the law did a good job of forcing a new law into existence to(try to) prevent it. I think that the various laws people are now complaining about are likely useful to the general populace in original intent, but have since degraded or been abused into something that people see in a bad light(and with reason). Am I wrong?
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I can see clearly that the User was human. No machine would use unusual grammar such as "maths problem", or mix expressions like "5" and "two".
Well, the alternative is the possibility of doing an inadequate percentage, so... I think I'd rather that people checked, and I'll continue to check myself as well, and learn that way. Good luck to you though.
No. Laser pointers are to BB guns as this is to a frag grenade, because the damage will not be contained to a single point - if it touches off anything reflective(white paint, a chrome car bumper, anything really) it will cause retinal damage to anyone not wearing proper protection. There's no reason for Average Joe to even have one of these, what the hell do you need a laser that stupidly powerful for outside of a controlled lab setting? Seriously.
The real problem though is that Joe isn't going to read or care about the manual("Yeah yeah, I accept the terms, *click*"), and when he gets careless, someone else's eyes are fucked. There's no way around it, this is a retarded product to be selling to the general public.
11 years ago, it happened. Period. It happened here and it happened in Procyon. The fact that Procyon doesn't see it happen til 11 years later doesn't mean it didn't happen 11 years ago, it simply means that Procyon is 11 light years away and can't know it happened until the point that they see it. You see?
The thought would never have occurred to me had you not represented it. I'll turn in my geek card.
If Mary wasn't a virgin? Jesus conceived in the typical fashion? Then the people of the world would have ground to say "This guy's a loon, he's just as human as the rest of us".
All of what you've said is rather broken and odd to me. I learned and believed that all scripture was God breathed(2Tim 3:16), and that men were supposed to use that scripture to eat(spiritually[Matt 4:4]), and rejecting any of it seems rather heretical. On top of that, to say "I believe in Jesus" is to say "I believe the word of God"(John 1:1), so to say "I believe in Jesus" and "I believe in parts of God's word" also sounds very contradictory.
To clarify what I'm getting at, the whole Quaker method as described here seems like religious dogma in and of itself, and contradictory, and heretical(assuming you accept the entire Bible as truth and the word of God[which I do - though you probably noticed that ^^;]).
I'd also like to ask another question which will probably be as offensive as the rest of what I've said here, but I need to clarify regardless. The pamphlet in the pew says "We emphasize personal experience with God over religious dogma"; is that meant to suggest that the Bible is or is related to dogma?
Okay, a couple questions. What denomination do you meet with? And how do you call yourself Christian while saying that parts of the Bible are false?
To that, I say "Fair enough."
Explain this. Please.
While I do see your point with that satire(and it is a good one!), what's wrong with asking? A professional should be able to tell what he needs to do without asking, sure, but I respect the professional who both knows, and asks to check himself/find better ideas.
Actually, he mentioned the two possible origins of the universe in a rather interesting way. Either
A) The universe existed infinitely and never began(sound familiar?), or
B) Must have been created at some point, by something, someone, or... itself, which seems to be a logical paradox.
Brasil - Bump Bump Bump? I'll watch that.
Or brilliant.
...I'm kidding, I see your point.
I prefer political assailants over people who exaggerate to enforce a weak point. Let's be straight though. This isn't an attack. A sneaky(also clever) campaign, for sure, and I'm sure it caused some emotional distress. But there was no physical harm, no substantial mental scarring or emotional hurt. If this ingenious and devious advertisement is to be called an attack, it was a harmless one.
But then it would be too easy for them to infect Madagascar!
Mach 20 whoosh.
Interestingly, I do as well. I had no idea that they even deleted accounts for that reason.
Some of you probably won't get that - Americans call it "counterclockwise".
Clockwise if you're American, anticlockwise if not.
You're right, those things might actually happen!
Oh, so they're doing research to the tune of 50 mil before they try anything big. Problem solved.
I, however, am highly entertained by paradoxes.
Couldn't recent levels of hacking or hacking reports be due to upgraded hacking rather than downgraded security? Maybe I'm wrong, I'm not in the industry, but that seems like basic logic - after Anon, everyone started jumping on the bandwagon. No?
Christian here. I'm answering on the basis that your question is "If humans were created not evolved into, then how do you explain this obvious evolution in humans?" I'd say... I'm no biologist, mechanical is more my thing. You tell me.
While you have a legitimate argument that I agree with, you also have to consider the reasoning behind such a wide range of laws - the sheer number of ways that people skirt the law did a good job of forcing a new law into existence to(try to) prevent it. I think that the various laws people are now complaining about are likely useful to the general populace in original intent, but have since degraded or been abused into something that people see in a bad light(and with reason). Am I wrong?
Actually, he never said it needed to be. He said that the US government as a whole should be expanded in certain areas.