yes, Gandalf was tempted by it, Galadriel was tempted by it, but they both resisted - why couldn't Faramir?
A) He's a human, and as said in the prologue, men, above all the other races, desire power, and B) he did resist in the end, so what's the problem?
If you watch the documentaries on the extended DVDs they explain the changes to Faramir pretty well. The main problem is that after spending hours beating it into the audience's head that the Ring is the most evil thing ever created, and then to have a character say, as in the books, "I would not take it if I found it by the wayside" just sucks all the power out of the Ring.
You should be asking, in the books, why wasn't Faramir even tempted?
by definition 1 liter of pure water weights 1kg (== 1000g) at sea level.
Nope, not true. The kilogram is still defined by a metal cylinder kept in a vault in Paris. And you can't just say "sea level"; you'd need to define a standard temperature and pressure too.
The mass of a liter of water is very close to 1kg, but it's not exact.
I call BS. In this year's rankings, DC is #19, behind cities like Memphis, Trenton, and Kansas City. DC has improved greatly since the handgun ban was passed.
Yeah, and before women got the vote we didn't have the threat of nuclear war.
Logical fallacy: post hoc ergo propter hoc
Just because one thing happens after another thing does not mean the second thing was caused by the first.
Evolution doesn't even qualify to be a theory, at least not if you follow the Scientific Method. The creation of new species through evolution has never been observed
Think through the consequences of the belief system to their logical conclusion. In a Darwinian world, what right does anyone have to make and enforce laws? Where does the authority to say what is right and wrong come from?
What does any of that have to do with the theory of biological evolution?
If you say the masses, then what about when the masses (such as in other countries) promote strapping a bomb to their chest and blowing up innocent people? What about when the masses promote cannibalism? Or theft?
What about it? It's bad. And has nothing at all to do with Darwin, evolution, or the price of tea in China.
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Darwin was not a Christian.
Darwin was on the verge of becoming a minister in the Church of England before we went on the Beagle.
You cannot reject the Bible, or any portion of it, and claim to be Christian.
Sure you can. All you have to do, like many sensible Christians have already done, is realize the Bible is not meant to be taken word-for-word literally. Even the Pope admitted that evolution happens, unless you want to say the Pope isn't Christian?
it was to point out the *consequences* of that belief.
And why, oh why, did the building not topple to the south when it finally did collapse, as it must have if a quarter of its support on that side had long since vanished?
Yet there was no significant damage visible to witnesses on the ground or in still or video images we have of the building, and fires were visibly minor.
This is completely untrue. There was significant damage to the south side.
And we know that the explosion and resulting damage to the Pentagon looks absolutely nothing whatsoever like what we've repeatedly seen when a 757 hits a building.
When have we ever seen a 757 hit a building except for WTC 1 and 2, which were built totally differently than the Pentagon?
And that any camera pointed in the right general direction will very clearly show a plane hitting a building.
Unless it didn't take a frame at the moment the plane hit. Hint: The plane was travelling something like 500 mph on impact. What was the frame rate of the camera and how far would the plane have traveled between frames?
And that those same defenses, designed to protect the building in the event of attack from the evil Russkies, completely and utterly failed to even sound the alarm--let alone fire off anti-aircraft, anti-missile, anti-whatever defenses--even when the people in the building were supposedly coordinating our response to an air attack
Who ever said the Pentagon had any kind of defense system anything like that?
That's all I'm saying. The facts are quite clear
Yes, they are. Two planes hit WTC 1 and 2, which later collapsed, damaging WTC 7 enough that it also collapsed. Another plane crashed into the Pentagon creating a large hole and leaving debris.
And as one of the posters above pointed out, the enemy declared war first. You only need one side to decide that a war has begun. Radical Islam has made that decision.
How can a concept (radical Islam) declare war?
And regardless, you are incorrect. "They", whoever "they" are, may have decided they are at war against us, but untill Congress passes something that says, "A state of war exists between the United States of America and ________________", then we are not at war with "them".
It is very likely that no human has ever thrown any artifact farther than the Voyagers. But are these also the fastest artifacts humans have ever produced? 1 million miles per day is about 11.6 miles per second, so I'm thinking these are the fastest things ever built on Earth?
The President has express constitutional powers allowing him to handle foreign matters and matters of national security.
I keep seeing this, but I have a copy of the Constitution right here, and I can't see anything in there about foreign matters (except "he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers") or national security. Can you cite the appropriate section?
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I come from Denmark but am staying in Minneapolis for a year. In Denmark you can walk to a nearby mall
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That's because Denmark is roughly the same size as one of our malls.
yes, Gandalf was tempted by it, Galadriel was tempted by it, but they both resisted - why couldn't Faramir?
A) He's a human, and as said in the prologue, men, above all the other races, desire power, and B) he did resist in the end, so what's the problem?
If you watch the documentaries on the extended DVDs they explain the changes to Faramir pretty well. The main problem is that after spending hours beating it into the audience's head that the Ring is the most evil thing ever created, and then to have a character say, as in the books, "I would not take it if I found it by the wayside" just sucks all the power out of the Ring.
You should be asking, in the books, why wasn't Faramir even tempted?
How many cubic inches make up a gallon?
Why do you need to know?
by definition 1 liter of pure water weights 1kg (== 1000g) at sea level.
Nope, not true. The kilogram is still defined by a metal cylinder kept in a vault in Paris. And you can't just say "sea level"; you'd need to define a standard temperature and pressure too.
The mass of a liter of water is very close to 1kg, but it's not exact.
I call BS. In this year's rankings, DC is #19, behind cities like Memphis, Trenton, and Kansas City. DC has improved greatly since the handgun ban was passed.
Yeah, and before women got the vote we didn't have the threat of nuclear war.
Logical fallacy: post hoc ergo propter hoc
Just because one thing happens after another thing does not mean the second thing was caused by the first.
Evolution doesn't even qualify to be a theory, at least not if you follow the Scientific Method. The creation of new species through evolution has never been observed
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Try again.
For example can you tell me what the ration of carbon 14 to carbon 12 ration was in the yeer 50000000 b.c.e?
It doesn't matter because you don't use carbon dating for things that old.
Now go out and play and later we might have ICE CREAM!
It doesn't have to prove itself, it's already done that for thousands of years
Really? Wow! What's this amazing proof of the existence of God that I've been missing all these years?
(Hint: "Well, a lot of people believe it" is not a proof)
So we get story lines about mommies and babies. Spare me.
The "mommies and babies" story line has been there from at least the second episode of the first season. Remember Boomer and Helo?
Nobody wants to watch a bunch of losers, it isn't very inspiring.
To each his own. I think it's great.
IMHO the BSG writers totally jumped off the deep end in this season, I can hardly watch it anymore.
So don't watch it.
Character development is all fine and good, but I don't want to watch a soap opera, I want to watch an action show.
I don't want to watch an [all] action show. I want character development.
Think through the consequences of the belief system to their logical conclusion. In a Darwinian world, what right does anyone have to make and enforce laws? Where does the authority to say what is right and wrong come from?
What does any of that have to do with the theory of biological evolution?
If you say the masses, then what about when the masses (such as in other countries) promote strapping a bomb to their chest and blowing up innocent people? What about when the masses promote cannibalism? Or theft?
What about it? It's bad. And has nothing at all to do with Darwin, evolution, or the price of tea in China.
Darwin was not a Christian.
Darwin was on the verge of becoming a minister in the Church of England before we went on the Beagle.
You cannot reject the Bible, or any portion of it, and claim to be Christian.
Sure you can. All you have to do, like many sensible Christians have already done, is realize the Bible is not meant to be taken word-for-word literally. Even the Pope admitted that evolution happens, unless you want to say the Pope isn't Christian?
it was to point out the *consequences* of that belief.
Evolution is not a belief.
There is only one basis to believe God exists, or to disbelieve evolution:
You don't have to disbelive in God to accept the overwhelming evidence for evolution.
GOD SAID SO.
Prove it.
And where in there does it say, "The United States of America declares War on the nation of Iraq"?
And why, oh why, did the building not topple to the south when it finally did collapse, as it must have if a quarter of its support on that side had long since vanished?
Sigh. It did.
Yet there was no significant damage visible to witnesses on the ground or in still or video images we have of the building, and fires were visibly minor.
This is completely untrue. There was significant damage to the south side.
And we know that the explosion and resulting damage to the Pentagon looks absolutely nothing whatsoever like what we've repeatedly seen when a 757 hits a building.
When have we ever seen a 757 hit a building except for WTC 1 and 2, which were built totally differently than the Pentagon?
And that any camera pointed in the right general direction will very clearly show a plane hitting a building.
Unless it didn't take a frame at the moment the plane hit. Hint: The plane was travelling something like 500 mph on impact. What was the frame rate of the camera and how far would the plane have traveled between frames?
And that those same defenses, designed to protect the building in the event of attack from the evil Russkies, completely and utterly failed to even sound the alarm--let alone fire off anti-aircraft, anti-missile, anti-whatever defenses--even when the people in the building were supposedly coordinating our response to an air attack
Who ever said the Pentagon had any kind of defense system anything like that?
That's all I'm saying. The facts are quite clear
Yes, they are. Two planes hit WTC 1 and 2, which later collapsed, damaging WTC 7 enough that it also collapsed. Another plane crashed into the Pentagon creating a large hole and leaving debris.
They can, but why bother? Mars is much more geologically interesting than the moon.
This would be a good time to take more pictures of Cydonia
The ESA already did. It's just a bunch of rocks.
It would be interesting to find out who build these vast cities and pyramids and if they have a connection with earth.
The connection is that we also have rocks on Earth! Isn't that weird?!
I guess you were.
Not that they were ever really unsafe, statistically speaking. It's just that they are much more safe now.
Yes, but not on mother fucking planes.
HTH.
And as one of the posters above pointed out, the enemy declared war first. You only need one side to decide that a war has begun. Radical Islam has made that decision.
How can a concept (radical Islam) declare war?
And regardless, you are incorrect. "They", whoever "they" are, may have decided they are at war against us, but untill Congress passes something that says, "A state of war exists between the United States of America and ________________", then we are not at war with "them".
I would hazard to guess that Voyager 1 is basically in one highly elliptical orbit; and may come back in say 50 years or so.
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No, it's going fast enough to escape the Sun's gravity, so it's on a one-way trip to the interstellar void.
It is very likely that no human has ever thrown any artifact farther than the Voyagers. But are these also the fastest artifacts humans have ever produced? 1 million miles per day is about 11.6 miles per second, so I'm thinking these are the fastest things ever built on Earth?
The New Horizons probe is much faster.
The President has express constitutional powers allowing him to handle foreign matters and matters of national security.
I keep seeing this, but I have a copy of the Constitution right here, and I can't see anything in there about foreign matters (except "he shall receive Ambassadors and other public Ministers") or national security. Can you cite the appropriate section?
as well as 5 incidents (2 in Sacramento, 3 in Phoenix) of police officers with guns pulled on people in cars
Odd that. I'm American, 35 years old, and I've NEVER seen an incident of police officers with guns pulled on people in cars.
It seems the Hollywood Blockbuster is dying out slowly and this summer has been thoroughly disgraceful.
Pirates of the Caribbean 2 has grossed $358,372,000 just in the US so far. I woudn't nail shut the Hollywood Blockbuster coffin just yet.