Decomposing plants doesn't release any carbon dioxide overall - what it puts out is matched molecule-for-molecule by what it took in growing the plants.
Plenty of people in the US go without treatment because they can't afford it. The only treatment everyone is entitled to is emergency care, which is generally a bit too late.
Tesla was the genius inventor, but Westinghouse was the business mind that turned inventions into money - and paid for more inventions. Edison was both inventor and businessman, he didn't need to work with anyone.
You can lend money to one party that you borrowed from another. That's close. It's how the whole financial system works. Banks borrow money from people (Everything in a bank account) and lend it in the form of loans at higher interest rates. The middlemen in finance, just as they should be. It's when they start to chase high-risk high-interest loans that problems come.
Perhaps some form of impervious concrete lining? Cheap, and even if it can't stop all the water (The pressures with such a column of water would be an issues) it'll be able to reduce the flow significantly.
Pumps work. The mining industry has a lot of experience of digging deep holes and keeping them dry. You just let the water run down to the deepest point, then pump it out.
They could, and have in existing underground buildings. I've been to one in the southeast UK - former cold-war command centre, now museum. It's built to withstand a nearby nuclear explosion, and does use the shock absorber technique on the whole structure. The US has a similar concept for NORAD, though they use individually isolated building sections on independant shock absorbers rather than a single structure enclosing the whole complex.
I see a flaw though: To a sufficiently devout believer, there is no such thing as a non-religious method. Anything that doesn't support their religion is against it. No room for neutrality.
This is the UK, one of the most politically-correct countries in the world. If they fail the exam, they might sue the university for religious discrimination.
Copyright law sets the term for a copyright on an individually-authored law a the life of the author plus 70 (US) or 50 (Parts of Europe) years. If the bible is accepted as true, then the original author would be God - who isn't dead yet. So it is still copyrighted. Doesn't matter though, as the bible also includes God granting permission for copying. The final chapter of Revelation contains a very strong no-modifications clause.
"If torture doesn't work, then the left, right, and centre should all be able to agree that we shouldn't torture."
If the left say we shouldn't torture, the right will demand we heat up the hot poker and eye-gougers just to be different. Do not underestimate the sheer power of hate that is the political divide in US politics.
And then there is the collective punishment issue. God - in keeping with the values of the society that created the myths - considers family lines to be of vital importance. So much so that he doesn't just punish Adam and Eve, but declares that all of their children, and their children, and their children for the rest of time shall also be punished with suffering and death - even though they didn't even exist at the time of the crime.
When it comes to being evil, God is unparalleled. Not in all of human history nor all of mythology can I find any other character so loathesome, so petty, so violent and so sadistic - and that includes the ones supposed to be evil, who usually have at least some justification for their actions. God is not good at all. God is perhaps the most vile character it is possible to imagine: One who doesn't merely revel in inflicting pain, but demands those he torture worship him for the generosity he shows in not torturing them even more, and who even has the audacity to claim to be the ultimate force for good.
Should the end-times Christians turn out to be right, and the events of revelation happen, and the forces of God and the forces of the Antichrist clash upon that final battlefield... then I may be there, but I will not be on God's side.
Fish are being influenced by selective pressure from fishing... it's pushing them to spawn younger, grow faster and die sooner. Not much can be done evolutionwise to become net-resistant, so they are evolving to breed faster.
They run both. The actual trading system (I recall) runs some form of heavily modified real time linux, because the high-speed traders demand crazily fast speeds - they are trading on the microsecond level now, and growing frustrated by the time it takes for a signal to go down an ethernet cable. The Windows servers will be for things like the frontend interface used by the less-high-speed traders.
Leaving the tree there utterly undefended... what God did is the equivilent of leaving a toddler alone in a room with a bowl of sweets and an order not to eat them, then declaring that the only fit punishment for the inevitable eating of the sweets is execution.
I understand your argument. You are saying that even if God does apparently evil things, they are not evil when God does them because the rules don't apply to him.
Some forms of Christianity say that, in theory. In practice, most of them will just assume anyone who disagrees with the denominations official policies has their moral compass malfunctioning and needs to be corrected. The biggest one, the Roman Catholic Church, still holds that the Church is the exclusive and unquestionable authority on all issues of morality.
You forgot egotistical. The first four of the ten commandments are all variations upon the theme of 'Worship me!' - as is much of the old and new testaments. For an omnipotent being, God is really desperate for attention. As for the descriptions of the throne room... God saw fit to include a choir of angels that does nothing but eternally sing in praise of how great God is.
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Decomposing plants doesn't release any carbon dioxide overall - what it puts out is matched molecule-for-molecule by what it took in growing the plants.
Plenty of people in the US go without treatment because they can't afford it. The only treatment everyone is entitled to is emergency care, which is generally a bit too late.
Tesla was the genius inventor, but Westinghouse was the business mind that turned inventions into money - and paid for more inventions. Edison was both inventor and businessman, he didn't need to work with anyone.
The skin effect at 60Hz isn't really that significant.
You can lend money to one party that you borrowed from another. That's close. It's how the whole financial system works. Banks borrow money from people (Everything in a bank account) and lend it in the form of loans at higher interest rates. The middlemen in finance, just as they should be. It's when they start to chase high-risk high-interest loans that problems come.
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Perhaps some form of impervious concrete lining? Cheap, and even if it can't stop all the water (The pressures with such a column of water would be an issues) it'll be able to reduce the flow significantly.
Medical diagnostics.
Pumps work. The mining industry has a lot of experience of digging deep holes and keeping them dry. You just let the water run down to the deepest point, then pump it out.
They could, and have in existing underground buildings. I've been to one in the southeast UK - former cold-war command centre, now museum. It's built to withstand a nearby nuclear explosion, and does use the shock absorber technique on the whole structure. The US has a similar concept for NORAD, though they use individually isolated building sections on independant shock absorbers rather than a single structure enclosing the whole complex.
Pumps.
Get him to say he'd let a Muslim bleed to death, kick him out for that. What fun will ensue.
I see a flaw though: To a sufficiently devout believer, there is no such thing as a non-religious method. Anything that doesn't support their religion is against it. No room for neutrality.
This is the UK, one of the most politically-correct countries in the world. If they fail the exam, they might sue the university for religious discrimination.
Copyright law sets the term for a copyright on an individually-authored law a the life of the author plus 70 (US) or 50 (Parts of Europe) years. If the bible is accepted as true, then the original author would be God - who isn't dead yet. So it is still copyrighted. Doesn't matter though, as the bible also includes God granting permission for copying. The final chapter of Revelation contains a very strong no-modifications clause.
"If torture doesn't work, then the left, right, and centre should all be able to agree that we shouldn't torture."
If the left say we shouldn't torture, the right will demand we heat up the hot poker and eye-gougers just to be different. Do not underestimate the sheer power of hate that is the political divide in US politics.
And then there is the collective punishment issue. God - in keeping with the values of the society that created the myths - considers family lines to be of vital importance. So much so that he doesn't just punish Adam and Eve, but declares that all of their children, and their children, and their children for the rest of time shall also be punished with suffering and death - even though they didn't even exist at the time of the crime.
When it comes to being evil, God is unparalleled. Not in all of human history nor all of mythology can I find any other character so loathesome, so petty, so violent and so sadistic - and that includes the ones supposed to be evil, who usually have at least some justification for their actions. God is not good at all. God is perhaps the most vile character it is possible to imagine: One who doesn't merely revel in inflicting pain, but demands those he torture worship him for the generosity he shows in not torturing them even more, and who even has the audacity to claim to be the ultimate force for good.
Should the end-times Christians turn out to be right, and the events of revelation happen, and the forces of God and the forces of the Antichrist clash upon that final battlefield... then I may be there, but I will not be on God's side.
Not 'most likely.' It's a certainty. The HDMI licence requires it.
Fish are being influenced by selective pressure from fishing... it's pushing them to spawn younger, grow faster and die sooner. Not much can be done evolutionwise to become net-resistant, so they are evolving to breed faster.
They run both. The actual trading system (I recall) runs some form of heavily modified real time linux, because the high-speed traders demand crazily fast speeds - they are trading on the microsecond level now, and growing frustrated by the time it takes for a signal to go down an ethernet cable. The Windows servers will be for things like the frontend interface used by the less-high-speed traders.
Leaving the tree there utterly undefended... what God did is the equivilent of leaving a toddler alone in a room with a bowl of sweets and an order not to eat them, then declaring that the only fit punishment for the inevitable eating of the sweets is execution.
I understand your argument. You are saying that even if God does apparently evil things, they are not evil when God does them because the rules don't apply to him.
It is complicated, yes. I can't keep track of it all myself.
Some forms of Christianity say that, in theory. In practice, most of them will just assume anyone who disagrees with the denominations official policies has their moral compass malfunctioning and needs to be corrected. The biggest one, the Roman Catholic Church, still holds that the Church is the exclusive and unquestionable authority on all issues of morality.
You forgot egotistical. The first four of the ten commandments are all variations upon the theme of 'Worship me!' - as is much of the old and new testaments. For an omnipotent being, God is really desperate for attention. As for the descriptions of the throne room... God saw fit to include a choir of angels that does nothing but eternally sing in praise of how great God is.