IAALAOBM (I Am A Licensed And Ordained Baptist Minister) and I have to say that I agree with you. I find it amazing that so many people of faith don't seem to understand what faith really is.
Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. (Heb. 11:1)
"things not seen" Faith is not science nor can it be. If we proved everything in the bible through science there would be no faith. The miraculous should be miraculous. For instance, if the crossing of the red sea can be explained by naturalistic processes then all you have done is removed the need for God. Many people who claim to be of faith want science to explain the miracles of the bible so that it would strengthen their faith. Many people who post on this forum want the same thing but only because they think it would disprove, or at least make it less likely, that God exist. The simple truth is that people of faith need to come to realize that science is not bad, but science can not and never will prove God's existence. To prove "God" scientist would have to test and experiment on God. You would have to, in a manner of speaking, put God in a test tube.
Of all the miracles of the bible the second greatest is with out a doubt the creation of everything. Science will do what it does, and try to explain our existence through what is seen. This means that science will and must conclude that the most likely naturalistic process is the best explanation for our existence.
As a person of faith I find it truly remarkable that God created this universe in an orderly fashion and gave us such great intellects that we can study, test, experience, and learn about the world around us.
It's because of poorly raised excuses of humanity like you that we need cops.
I do not think you know me well enough to make this statement
I further wonder if you have ever been pulled over when you were breaking no laws at all. I HAVE. I have been stopped for no other reason than that I was out driving past midnight (I was taking my brother back to college). I watched as the cop walked around my vehicle twice looking for anything he could stick me with. Of course there was nothing so he rudely told me not to speed and sent me on my way.
My licence plate numbers and other personal information went out for anyone with a police scanner on to hear. I had people at work the following day (I worked as an x-ray tech in the local ER) ask me if I got the ticket or not.
During that time I lived a block away form the hospital and would frequently get paged out at all hour of the night to x-ray someone. Because I live so close to my work I would walk to the ER. On multiple occasions while walking only a block to work I would have the local cops stop me and ask my business. Let me be abundantly clear about this. I respect cops when they do "keep the peace". However in my life I have never had a cop around when I felt threatened unless the cop was the reason that I felt threatened.
You may have only have had good experiances with cops. Good for you. But do not dare criticize my upbringing. YOU DO NOT KNOW ME!
Cops ceased to be about protect and serve the moment that they were allowed to ticket people. Now they are just tax collectors/hired thugs who can harass us to raise money for the precinct. On my way home this evening I passed three state troopers/vultures sitting on the side of the road just waiting to give someone a ticket. This is why you see cities extending their city limits well beyond were the actual city exist, tax revenue.Land of the free, yea right.
I would think that the main problem is building a big enough heat sink on the out side of the sphere that you would not simply cook everything inside it, or see the sphere itself melt from the constant heat build up.
Every one filters their world. You should look up what a world view is. I for one would rather have a person who has a Christian world view in office than someone who's world view is kept secret just so he can get votes.
We can hand money back and forth all day long and not improve our livelihood. It is only when you give and receive goods of tangible value for the money that the economy grows. When a person accepts money for a good or service they should expect to be able to receive something of equal value when they spend that money. Anything less will see a reduction in the economy. When the government take money from someone who earned it and spends and give it to someone else to do busy work they are destroying true wealth. It is even worse with the actual broken window analogy. You are not just causing busy work, you are hindering the person who actually does the true generation of wealth. You destroyed his hard earned property and cost him time and labour that he had to spend to fix the window.
This may indeed be true but I would certainly hate to be any where within line of site of the target if it is randomly reflecting 99.99% of the weaponized laser beam.
regulatory agencies will try to push porn everywhere else off the net
What is wrong with that? You seem to think that a change in name equals a change in location. So what if your favorit porn site now ends in xxx instead of com or whatever? This would be a tremendous help to all us parents who do not want porn in our house. And before you say that this is just another "think about the children" reaction you should know that it is already illegal for a minor to be exposed to porn. This would only help us stay in the law better. I for one welcome the day when I can set up my own bind server with all xxx tld sent to 127.0.0.1 or [::1]. Of course this would also be a tremendous help to most businesses who need to avoid sexual harassment lawsuits.
This is not censorship. The government would simply be demonstrating good grouping skills. This seems very much like the unix way. User files are in the home dir, config files are in etc, constantly changing sys files are in var, and your porn is in the.xxx folder. I personally welcome a decently regulated much more expanded top level domain naming system. I think there should be a.home for our private home networks. Perhaps we could have.fire for the local fire department, or.police,.library,.postoffice etc... I think it would be far simpler to type cityname.service or even address.city.state to reach your house.
avoid the BigPharma controlled "MD" system. They don't care about you, they just want your money.
Are you a Troll?
Before you make many comments about people wanting other people's money, perhaps you should ask your chiropractor why he charges money to "keep your nervous system performing at its peak." Here is a hint people need to eat. Health care may be unaffordable, but you should put the blame where it belongs, health insurance, and more specificly government run health insurance programs that by the force of law are aloud to pay usually half of what it cost to provide care. There is a reason that small hospitals who have a high percentage of medicare and medicade patients are dying. Hospitals have to charge as much as five times what something is worth in the hopes of getting payed, and everyone that is self pay or using private insurance is picking up the tab for what our government is doing.
/preach-on
Insurance is like a giant blood sucking leach on the back of health care. Insurance companies do not exist to pay for our health problems. They only exist to make profit for themselves and increase the value of their companies for their shareholders.
You are probably correct. I have never had a reason to file charges against someone, so I simply do not know the prosess. I was cominting based on the fact that I have heard the phrase you should file charges and assumed it was just like that. I wonder if the states attorney general could overrule the DA?
If you look at a lot of the information provided by wikileaks it doesn't make the US look bad
The US is not all that bad. Sure we have our problems (who doesn't), but even in poverty I am able to live resonably well. The kings of old did not have it as good as I do. There may be lots that I can complain about (I wont - it does no good), but their is a reason that illegal imigration is a problem here. That is we have a very high standard of living even for most people who are considered poor.
I do not understand why people expect the US to be bad or evil.
It is true that the DA should be at the very least investigating for criminality in this case, but why don't the parents file criminal charges against those responsible. If they have enough evidence for this lawsuit can't they take their evidence to the cops and pursue the perps without involving the DA.
This sequence will always collapse to 1 when we reach any number that is represented by 2^x. That is to say that when we reach a number whose prime factors are only twos. The entire purpose of 3n+1 is to manipulate the previous number to try to get a number that can be represented by 2^x. Dividing all even numbers by two is just a simple way to test for 2^x. Given enough iterations we will eventually reach a number that can be represented by 2^x. Of course this is only what I concluded years ago and I could be wrong.
the fact is that they are there to do a job of ensuring criminals are dealt the justice they deserve
NO THEY ARE NOT!!!
Justice is for the courts where do process can be served. The police must never be considered the ones who ensure that criminals get what they deserve. This is an alarming thing that cops can destroy evidence, threaten and intimidate eye-witnesses. If I were the family of the person who was killed I would want this to be all over the internet, on the news, in the news papers, and you could even put this on billboards. I would want the public to know what the men and wemon who we entrust to "protect and serve" have done with their authority.
if I see a situation whereby it's clear the police and/or other private citizens have the situation under control, then I will just walk on by
Did you even notice that the police killed the man. What exactly is your deffinition of "control"? You may not care about the lives of those around you. You may be to busy to worry about an insident that shows how the police act above the law. But you really shouldn't judge people who do care.
That noise is the microwave emitor pulsing on and off. The magnetic field is either two large magnets placed above and below you (open MRI), or a coil of super conducting material with a continuous electrical current (doughnut shaped MRI). In either case the magnetic field is never turned off.
In the open MRI the magnets are not that dissimilar to speaker magnets.
It is possible for the cooling to fail in the superconducting magnet. This would stop the magnetic field, but would probably burn out the coils do to the high amperage.
Isn't the iron in your blood molecularly bound making it unaffected by magnetic fields? As I recall this is supposed to be one of the main arguments for why magnetic bracelets and other such jewellery are only as good as a placebo.
I am the customer not the business. I do not engage in interstate commerce buy driving to another state. I do not enter into interstate commerce if I pay someone to drive me to another state. Why does this change just because I get on a plain? Now, the federal government may have a right to regulate the airlines, and I really don't care if TSA wants to grope all the airlines employees (though the airlines might), but I don't work for the airlines and I do not give the federal government the right to remove my right to travel between the states.
Cell phones are safety devices; you can call for help if, say, someone shoots up your school
I realize that this is off topic, but a cell phone will only get people there after the fact. What is really needed is that there be laws in place that require schools to allow sensible, well trained, responsible adults to carry firearms in schools. Nobody likes a shoot out, but if people intent on doing others harm are going to make schools a target then they need to be able to defend themselves.
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IAALAOBM (I Am A Licensed And Ordained Baptist Minister) and I have to say that I agree with you. I find it amazing that so many people of faith don't seem to understand what faith really is.
"things not seen" Faith is not science nor can it be. If we proved everything in the bible through science there would be no faith. The miraculous should be miraculous. For instance, if the crossing of the red sea can be explained by naturalistic processes then all you have done is removed the need for God. Many people who claim to be of faith want science to explain the miracles of the bible so that it would strengthen their faith. Many people who post on this forum want the same thing but only because they think it would disprove, or at least make it less likely, that God exist. The simple truth is that people of faith need to come to realize that science is not bad, but science can not and never will prove God's existence. To prove "God" scientist would have to test and experiment on God. You would have to, in a manner of speaking, put God in a test tube.
Of all the miracles of the bible the second greatest is with out a doubt the creation of everything. Science will do what it does, and try to explain our existence through what is seen. This means that science will and must conclude that the most likely naturalistic process is the best explanation for our existence.
As a person of faith I find it truly remarkable that God created this universe in an orderly fashion and gave us such great intellects that we can study, test, experience, and learn about the world around us.
mod points, mod points, my kingdom for mod points.
It's because of poorly raised excuses of humanity like you that we need cops.
I do not think you know me well enough to make this statement
I further wonder if you have ever been pulled over when you were breaking no laws at all. I HAVE. I have been stopped for no other reason than that I was out driving past midnight (I was taking my brother back to college). I watched as the cop walked around my vehicle twice looking for anything he could stick me with. Of course there was nothing so he rudely told me not to speed and sent me on my way.
My licence plate numbers and other personal information went out for anyone with a police scanner on to hear. I had people at work the following day (I worked as an x-ray tech in the local ER) ask me if I got the ticket or not.
During that time I lived a block away form the hospital and would frequently get paged out at all hour of the night to x-ray someone. Because I live so close to my work I would walk to the ER. On multiple occasions while walking only a block to work I would have the local cops stop me and ask my business. Let me be abundantly clear about this. I respect cops when they do "keep the peace". However in my life I have never had a cop around when I felt threatened unless the cop was the reason that I felt threatened.
You may have only have had good experiances with cops. Good for you. But do not dare criticize my upbringing. YOU DO NOT KNOW ME!
I wish that were true.
Cops ceased to be about protect and serve the moment that they were allowed to ticket people. Now they are just tax collectors/hired thugs who can harass us to raise money for the precinct. On my way home this evening I passed three state troopers/vultures sitting on the side of the road just waiting to give someone a ticket. This is why you see cities extending their city limits well beyond were the actual city exist, tax revenue. Land of the free, yea right.
I would think that the main problem is building a big enough heat sink on the out side of the sphere that you would not simply cook everything inside it, or see the sphere itself melt from the constant heat build up.
I once heard, though I personaly can't verify, that we don't have a food production problem, but rather a distribution and economic problem.
Big Deal
The building blocks of DNA are found all over the earth. Even with perfect laboratory conditions we can not turn them into life.
Call me when they actually discover something living on some rock in space. Now that would be something.
Every one filters their world. You should look up what a world view is. I for one would rather have a person who has a Christian world view in office than someone who's world view is kept secret just so he can get votes.
We can hand money back and forth all day long and not improve our livelihood. It is only when you give and receive goods of tangible value for the money that the economy grows. When a person accepts money for a good or service they should expect to be able to receive something of equal value when they spend that money. Anything less will see a reduction in the economy. When the government take money from someone who earned it and spends and give it to someone else to do busy work they are destroying true wealth. It is even worse with the actual broken window analogy. You are not just causing busy work, you are hindering the person who actually does the true generation of wealth. You destroyed his hard earned property and cost him time and labour that he had to spend to fix the window.
No, the Tea Party seems to be much more like the Easterlings
I am an Easterling you insensitive ...
Seriously, it has been a long time sense I read the hobbit, were there really a people in the book called the Easterlings?
This may indeed be true but I would certainly hate to be any where within line of site of the target if it is randomly reflecting 99.99% of the weaponized laser beam.
regulatory agencies will try to push porn everywhere else off the net
What is wrong with that? You seem to think that a change in name equals a change in location. So what if your favorit porn site now ends in xxx instead of com or whatever? This would be a tremendous help to all us parents who do not want porn in our house. And before you say that this is just another "think about the children" reaction you should know that it is already illegal for a minor to be exposed to porn. This would only help us stay in the law better. I for one welcome the day when I can set up my own bind server with all xxx tld sent to 127.0.0.1 or [::1]. Of course this would also be a tremendous help to most businesses who need to avoid sexual harassment lawsuits.
This is not censorship. The government would simply be demonstrating good grouping skills. This seems very much like the unix way. User files are in the home dir, config files are in etc, constantly changing sys files are in var, and your porn is in the .xxx folder. I personally welcome a decently regulated much more expanded top level domain naming system. I think there should be a .home for our private home networks. Perhaps we could have .fire for the local fire department, or .police, .library, .postoffice etc... I think it would be far simpler to type cityname.service or even address.city.state to reach your house.
Stop caring about it.
The IRS will like to have a talk with you.
avoid the BigPharma controlled "MD" system. They don't care about you, they just want your money.
Are you a Troll?
Before you make many comments about people wanting other people's money, perhaps you should ask your chiropractor why he charges money to "keep your nervous system performing at its peak." Here is a hint people need to eat. Health care may be unaffordable, but you should put the blame where it belongs, health insurance, and more specificly government run health insurance programs that by the force of law are aloud to pay usually half of what it cost to provide care. There is a reason that small hospitals who have a high percentage of medicare and medicade patients are dying. Hospitals have to charge as much as five times what something is worth in the hopes of getting payed, and everyone that is self pay or using private insurance is picking up the tab for what our government is doing.
Insurance is like a giant blood sucking leach on the back of health care. Insurance companies do not exist to pay for our health problems. They only exist to make profit for themselves and increase the value of their companies for their shareholders.
/preach-off
You are probably correct. I have never had a reason to file charges against someone, so I simply do not know the prosess. I was cominting based on the fact that I have heard the phrase you should file charges and assumed it was just like that. I wonder if the states attorney general could overrule the DA?
If you look at a lot of the information provided by wikileaks it doesn't make the US look bad
The US is not all that bad. Sure we have our problems (who doesn't), but even in poverty I am able to live resonably well. The kings of old did not have it as good as I do. There may be lots that I can complain about (I wont - it does no good), but their is a reason that illegal imigration is a problem here. That is we have a very high standard of living even for most people who are considered poor.
I do not understand why people expect the US to be bad or evil.
It is true that the DA should be at the very least investigating for criminality in this case, but why don't the parents file criminal charges against those responsible. If they have enough evidence for this lawsuit can't they take their evidence to the cops and pursue the perps without involving the DA.
This sequence will always collapse to 1 when we reach any number that is represented by 2^x. That is to say that when we reach a number whose prime factors are only twos. The entire purpose of 3n+1 is to manipulate the previous number to try to get a number that can be represented by 2^x. Dividing all even numbers by two is just a simple way to test for 2^x. Given enough iterations we will eventually reach a number that can be represented by 2^x. Of course this is only what I concluded years ago and I could be wrong.
This would be wonderful. When my battery gets low I can just pull out the case light on my kindle and keep reeding. ;)
the fact is that they are there to do a job of ensuring criminals are dealt the justice they deserve
NO THEY ARE NOT!!!
Justice is for the courts where do process can be served. The police must never be considered the ones who ensure that criminals get what they deserve. This is an alarming thing that cops can destroy evidence, threaten and intimidate eye-witnesses. If I were the family of the person who was killed I would want this to be all over the internet, on the news, in the news papers, and you could even put this on billboards. I would want the public to know what the men and wemon who we entrust to "protect and serve" have done with their authority.
if I see a situation whereby it's clear the police and/or other private citizens have the situation under control, then I will just walk on by
Did you even notice that the police killed the man. What exactly is your deffinition of "control"? You may not care about the lives of those around you. You may be to busy to worry about an insident that shows how the police act above the law. But you really shouldn't judge people who do care.
That noise is the microwave emitor pulsing on and off. The magnetic field is either two large magnets placed above and below you (open MRI), or a coil of super conducting material with a continuous electrical current (doughnut shaped MRI). In either case the magnetic field is never turned off.
In the open MRI the magnets are not that dissimilar to speaker magnets.
It is possible for the cooling to fail in the superconducting magnet. This would stop the magnetic field, but would probably burn out the coils do to the high amperage.
Isn't the iron in your blood molecularly bound making it unaffected by magnetic fields? As I recall this is supposed to be one of the main arguments for why magnetic bracelets and other such jewellery are only as good as a placebo.
I am the customer not the business. I do not engage in interstate commerce buy driving to another state. I do not enter into interstate commerce if I pay someone to drive me to another state. Why does this change just because I get on a plain? Now, the federal government may have a right to regulate the airlines, and I really don't care if TSA wants to grope all the airlines employees (though the airlines might), but I don't work for the airlines and I do not give the federal government the right to remove my right to travel between the states.
Cell phones are safety devices; you can call for help if, say, someone shoots up your school
I realize that this is off topic, but a cell phone will only get people there after the fact. What is really needed is that there be laws in place that require schools to allow sensible, well trained, responsible adults to carry firearms in schools. Nobody likes a shoot out, but if people intent on doing others harm are going to make schools a target then they need to be able to defend themselves.
For times like this God gave us tar and feathers.