God did not put a "gun" to Eve's head and say "Eat this", and Eve did not put a gun to Adam's head.
The issue is that we have 100% free choice (The FSF, in a perfect respect), and we can choose the path we lead.
You have currently chosen one, others have chosen a different one. You talk about 4000+ years in our terms (the Atrocities of God over that time), however to an omnipotent being which exists in eternity, 4000+ years would be a trivial amount of time for him to make us suffer for our great mistake, and in his mercy he gave us his only begotten Son to give us a second chance through grace, instead of the Law (though Christ did not abolish the law, only fulfilled it).
I do not believe God WANTS us to suffer, I believe he knows that it is the only way for us to learn the truth.
As a parent, I have learned one major fact, as humans we generally only learn "the hard way". Children eventually learn that HOT is a bad thing by actually touching something HOT! I have not come across an individual which just believed their parents when they told them that hot would hurt, they all had to learn for themselves. How much more true is it that God knows that we need to learn the pain of Sin through freedom to experiment with it.
The most common problem with facing the existence of God is that people want to know why he doesn't just Fix everything. This is the same exact mentality which creates the need for censor software, and public schools, so that the Government can "fix" our kids, instead of doing the job we were given (Wow, actually jumped back on topic for a second). The problem is, in a perfect world we would still want freedom, which creates an imperfect world, the eternal Catch-22 which put us where we are. (Eden was perfect, and included perfect freedom).
Perhaps you have never been part of dealings between two large corporations, this type of nit-picking of licenses is just as common, if not more-so in standard dealings between companies.
This is just the Open Source(tm) way of dealing with licenses: Out in the Open, not buried in some room where only 3 people get to figure out what the license should be.
When you have name-recognition (whether or not you LIKE Bruce, you generally know who he is), you can use it wisely, or as Bruce did THIS time, you can use it unwisely, and you lose stature and respect. Open Source/Free Software is not JUST about the source code, it is a new way of doing business, and it should be applied to every aspect of the business, including the licenses.
Uhm, I think that was his point. They have been working on HURD for 16 years, and within 7 years an upstart shows up and screams past them, winning the race (at this point).
It's like running 3/4's of a 4 mile race, then someone else starts, and beats you. (Hey, how'd that happen?)
I guess you never took a literature course. The rule is, build a universe and don't break your own rules. The universe they built had pilgrims which were able to navigate unstable worm-holes. They followed that rule. BTW, computers are still not faster then brains, with the exception of math.
I enjoyed the movie, but also wondered why the hell they didn't get Mark Hammel, heck he doesn't seem to be doing anything else right now. (I can't believe he turned down a chance to get back on the big screen).
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God did not put a "gun" to Eve's head and say "Eat this", and Eve did not put a gun to Adam's head.
The issue is that we have 100% free choice (The FSF, in a perfect respect), and we can choose the path we lead.
You have currently chosen one, others have chosen a different one. You talk about 4000+ years in our terms (the Atrocities of God over that time), however to an omnipotent being which exists in eternity, 4000+ years would be a trivial amount of time for him to make us suffer for our great mistake, and in his mercy he gave us his only begotten Son to give us a second chance through grace, instead of the Law (though Christ did not abolish the law, only fulfilled it).
I do not believe God WANTS us to suffer, I believe he knows that it is the only way for us to learn the truth.
As a parent, I have learned one major fact, as humans we generally only learn "the hard way". Children eventually learn that HOT is a bad thing by actually touching something HOT! I have not come across an individual which just believed their parents when they told them that hot would hurt, they all had to learn for themselves. How much more true is it that God knows that we need to learn the pain of Sin through freedom to experiment with it.
The most common problem with facing the existence of God is that people want to know why he doesn't just Fix everything. This is the same exact mentality which creates the need for censor software, and public schools, so that the Government can "fix" our kids, instead of doing the job we were given (Wow, actually jumped back on topic for a second). The problem is, in a perfect world we would still want freedom, which creates an imperfect world, the eternal Catch-22 which put us where we are. (Eden was perfect, and included perfect freedom).
-- Keith Moore
The funny thing is that people try to rationalize whether or not an all powerful being would be as mean as in the Bible.
Truth is like Immortals in Highlander: "There can be only one".
The merits of the truth are irrelavent if it is the truth.
I'm a Christian, I know the truth.
-- Keith Moore
Perhaps you have never been part of dealings between two large corporations, this type of nit-picking of licenses is just as common, if not more-so in standard dealings between companies.
This is just the Open Source(tm) way of dealing with licenses: Out in the Open, not buried in some room where only 3 people get to figure out what the license should be.
When you have name-recognition (whether or not you LIKE Bruce, you generally know who he is), you can use it wisely, or as Bruce did THIS time, you can use it unwisely, and you lose stature and respect. Open Source/Free Software is not JUST about the source code, it is a new way of doing business, and it should be applied to every aspect of the business, including the licenses.
-- Keith Moore
Uhm, I think that was his point. They have been working on HURD for 16 years, and within 7 years an upstart shows up and screams past them, winning the race (at this point).
It's like running 3/4's of a 4 mile race, then someone else starts, and beats you. (Hey, how'd that happen?)
-- Keith Moore
I guess you never took a literature course. The rule is, build a universe and don't break your own rules. The universe they built had pilgrims which were able to navigate unstable worm-holes. They followed that rule. BTW, computers are still not faster then brains, with the exception of math.
-- Keith Moore
Always good to see people who can't think for themselves. Oh well, that's what we get from public schooling.
-- Keith Moore
I enjoyed the movie, but also wondered why the hell they didn't get Mark Hammel, heck he doesn't seem to be doing anything else right now. (I can't believe he turned down a chance to get back on the big screen).
-- Keith Moore
Thank you, I enjoyed the movie also. And I was glad to bring my 3 year old too. (Okay, I had to cover his eyes for one bed scene).
It was a fun movie that was easy to watch, and wasn't trying to win an Oscar, just entertain some people who liked the games, and maybe 1 other guy.
-- Keith Moore
I think you wanted to go to http://www.microsoft.com/ and got lost.
-- Keith
-- Keith Moore
What, no ZIP Disk?
-- Keith