Honestly, that's my biggest problem with the state too... But they're probably the freest state. No sales tax, they're looking at abolishing the property tax, little dependance on federal funding and shrinking, little enforcement of drug laws, good economy, good tolerance of homeschooling, most of the state-level legislators (state senators, freeholders, etc.) get paid only about $100.00-200.00 a year.
I have a serious problem with the fact that driving is regarded as a privelege. I don't have a choice -- either drive, or lose my job, and default on the mortgage on my house.
I dislike the fact that the state treats driving as a privilege not a right -- I cannot go to work without a car. I can't simply choose not to get a liscence.
The US was originally set up as a loose union of states that agreed to abide by the US Constitution. NH actually has the right to secede from the union in its state constitution. This is the way it should still be.
I agreed, when I signed up for my liscence, to share that information with MY STATE's DMV. Not some other state.
Yes, I have nothing to worry about. So why not put a webcam in my bedroom that any government agent can watch? I mean, I have nothing to worry about -- I don't have sex with goats.
It's a slippery slope argument. The US Federal government now has access to my driving record, along with lots of other things. This conditions us to take the attitude that only dirtbags have something to hide, so all information will be public. I don't support that.
Actually, you'll need a pretty andvanced OS. Each SPE, rather than just having cache, has its own local memory that is managed by software. Scheduling on this will be a unique challenge, and most game developers will be unwilling to write thier and tune own OS schedulers. They're going to want to use high-level libraries (hopefully OpenGL 2 will be available...) so an OS would be needed.
What I have in my trunk is no buisness of yours... but for the purpose of this argument I'll tell you -- I have a sleeping bag, a spare change of clothing, and a donut (spare-tire type), as well as some basic car tools (jack, jumper cables, tire iron, etc.) My driving record is fairly clean -- I've had one ticket in the nine years I've been an adult -- for going 51mph in a 40mph zone in Summit, NJ on Broad Street at about 2 AM sometime last February.
The point is, if I want to share that info, it's cool. But if I don't, I shouldn't have too.
But the states should have a right to keep such law enforcement at the local level if they wish. The federal government has NO authority to do all of the things you outlined above. Read article 1, section 8, as well as the 9th and 10th ammendment.
I, for one, hope that my state will just simply deny the federal highway funding and refuse to co-operate. This is a horrendous violation of privacy. The law enforcement in California shouldn't be aware of my speeding ticket in New Jersey. It's not thier right to know!
And what happens when everything you do is public record? Anyone who wants to can find out what you bought at the grocery store last week, or what you ordered at Denny's 6 years ago? Isn't that a bit creepy? Once all knowledge is public, the government can regulate ANYTHING.
And yes, security through obscurity doesn't work -- all security PROTOCOLS should be volentarily submitted for public scrutiny. It's just pragmatic. However, the contents of the cypher doesn't have to be.
It would take me a lot to switch to a wireless mouse or keyboard. Although the stated battery life is rather impressive, I've never used a wireless input device that didn't have just a tiny delay that drove me absolutely bonkers.
I spent $60 for my buckling-spring PS/2 keyboard that I'm typing this on. I have a PC running Linux, and I certainly want a keyboard that doesn't feel like crap.
I must say, the apple keyboards certainly are a decent step up from the crap Dell ships, and an order of magnitude better than the sub-$10 keyboards sold at best buy, but if I owned a Mac, I'd have to get non-Apple keyboard. I grew up on IBM model-M's, and I won't accept any lesser quality (Unicomp makes comparable keyboards nowadays).
It's not a time period thing... the Gospel of Thomas was said to have been written by the apostle "doubting" Thomas. It was written more than 100 years after his death.
I've read the Gospel of Thomas (I do have a copy) -- it ends by saying that women can't get into heaven, because women are flawed. Christ says he will make Mary male so she can enter heaven.
About 80% of the gospel is legit theology, but that can ALL be found in the three synoptic gospels included in the bible. This gospel was written to justify gnosticism, which is a heresey that stated that all matter was evil, and spirit was good. It also denied the humanity of Christ.
The gospel of Thomas was written 100 years later than the others, to spout heretical gnostic propaganda. The gospel of Mary Magdelane was proven to have been written 300 years later, and likely by a man. Not familiar with the Story of sophia, etc.
The fact is, the bible is complete as the work that it is. That doesn't mean other works can't be written, but if they are, they aren't part of the bible.
On the contrary, Christ said that not one jot would be removed from the law and that he had in fact come to fulfil it.
Yes -- Christ said that the rules still applied until the covanent was fullfilled, and all who violated the law before the covanent was fulfilled would be damned by such a violation. However, when he died on the Cross, the covanent was fulfilled. Thus, the old law was at least partially obsolete. The law was re-written by Christ, and Paul, and Peter, and Clement, and Ignatious of Antioch, and soforth.
The problem with it is that apostolic authority was only granted to those who had seen the risen Christ
Really? Where do you get this? It's not said in scripture, and it's rather contradicted by the fact that Paul only saw the risen Christ in a vision. In addition, the bible wasn't assembled until after the death of all of the original apostles. Who had the authority to infallibly assemble the bible? Why, the See of Rome!
Yes -- we haven't ammended scripture; The Bible is a complete work (the Catholic bible that is; the protestants removed the deuterocanonical books sometime in the 1620's or so), and it is true that no truth can contradict biblical truth. When I spoke of the canon, I was not just speaking of scripture.
Well, in the process you are arguing that the RC view is right, since you're arguing the RC view.
No, I was merely stating the view from the RC perspective. I believe it, but don't necessarily expect you to.
The Chinese, Mongolian, and most of the African nations bear little resemblence to thier cultures from, say, 4000 years ago. Hinduism I touched in another post in the same thread.
Your second statement wasn't a sentence; I don't understand what you are saying.
"Christianity" as a whole is a loose collection of similar faiths that agree on a couple of points and may or may not have Jewish philosophy intermixed. I wouldn't consider "Christianity" a culture or a religion.
I am Roman Catholic, which is a single religion that's existed for roughly 2000 years and we see it as the fullfillment of the Jewish faith. Catholic Culture used to exist, prior to the passing of the second Vatican council, which stripped away like 80% of our common cultural heritage.
Hinduism is a conglomeration of dozens of local religions and customs along with some Buddist philosophy. And I was speaking of entire cultural identities, not just religions. Religion is a factor that defines culture, but not the whole of it.
It's possible there are older cultures I'm unnaware of, but the Jewish culture is, as far as I know, the oldest culture currently in existence. Again, if you have some information that I don't, please share it.
The bible wasn't transcribed by God, but by man. It contains within it an image of the Word of God, but the Bible itself is not the whole of the Word; the whole of the Word is the living Christ. Much of the Bible (such as much of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) is history.
God dictated many laws to the prophets, and some were derived. It was the job of the Aaronic priesthood to determine what meant "clean" and "unclean". As we are imperfect beings, we cannot always discern God's commands perfectly.
DISCLAIMER: this is from a Roman Catholic, not Jewish, perspective. I am not, and have never been a Jew, so I can't speak much on Jewish theology.
Interesting. However, you do not become ritually impure if the blood can be attributed to non-uterine or wound causes, from what I read. You do not become impure if your nose bleeds, for example.
I don't remember any specific references to nosebleeds and the like, but I could be wrong. It probably depends on the cause of the nosebleed (i.e., being punched is a wound, whereas spontaneous nosebleeds may have been).
A woman is also ritually impure from menarche until just before she gets married. If she's contagous, she can pass it to other women, just not men.
Probably just a rule to enforce chastity, which frankly is practical. No chance of pregnancy out of wedlock (unless you are visited by an angel...) and no chance of STD's if you didn't have sex!
There are certainly purity laws that make sense from a hygene point of view. However, these ones are somewhat difficult to justify.
Agreed. But some rituals and customs and rubrics and the like are just for flavor -- for rich tradition. Such as a Catholic woman vieling her head in front of the Blessed Sacrament (still a requirement in canon law -- despite its unobservance, this rule was NEVER abrogated). This rule is largely for a symbolic gesture of humility, but has no real practical side.
Well, even if some rules had some rational causes, the real question is: why still respecting deprecated rules?
The Christians aren't. Christ deprecated the rules. Paul was more clear.
The rules about Homosexuality have been re-stated, however, by Paul in his first letter to the Romans:
Therefore, God handed them over to degrading passions. Thier females exchanged natural relations for unnatural, and the males likewise gave up natural relations with females and burned with lust for one another
--Romans 1:26-27, NAB
As have numerous other rules. I can't speak for the protestant faiths, but the Roman Catholic Church believes that we have inherited the apostles' teaching authority, and thereby the See of Rome can ammend the Canon; we do not believe that the bible alone contains truth. Hence, things like Embryonic Stem Cell research can be addressed specifically.
My point is not to argue that Catholocism is right or not, but to argue that we believe that the Bible is not the only source of truth. Take this however you will.
At least one of the oldest SURVIVING cultures. I don't see anyone identifying themselves as Mesopotamian nowadays... And one can't really say that the Greek or Egyptian cultures have much at all in common with thier ancient counterparts... Not too many are worshipping Zeus or Ra nowadays.
That came from a lack of understanding of science at the time. Hemmoraging was a sign of potentially contageous illness. The secondary effects of a woman's period were, to the casual observer, not much difference.
Studying scripture without a historical context is not very worthwhile, whether from a purely secular and intellectual, or Judeo/Christian spiritual point of view.
I'm going to be making the switch sometime this year myself. Still going to be using Linux serverside, but I'm sick of getting a new piece of hardware, like a Firewire drive, and having to hack/etc/fstab or automount, or whatever. My digital camera took hours to get working. OpenGL apps stopped running without crashing the OS, and I don't have the time to make it work again. I'm also getting into pro audio/video editing, and after playing around with ProTools and Logic, I don't see any Linux equivalents. The ONLY thing I'm going to miss from the switch is OpenOffice.org -- a Mac port exists, but it sucks royally. I actually prefer OO.o to MS Office (I use Win2K at work -- I find myself WAY more productive in OO.o)
As I said, my servers will still run Linux -- they don't need to support an array of removable USB and firewire devices, OpenGL, advanced audio/video stuff. Maybe someone will put together a distro someday that will be as smooth of a user experience as OSX, and pro audio/video apps will be available for the platform, but it's not there yet. The fact of the matter is, I'm more comfortable in a *NIX environment than Windows, and for your average consumer, that means Linux, *BSD, or OSX. When I was a college student, any of the above would be an option, but now my time is a lot more valuable.
1) The XUL toolkit isn't rich enough to build all of OpenOffice.
2) Other cross-platform toolkits that do the job better are already available. Qt, WxWindows, etc.
3) Are you willing to foot the bill for 10,000+ man-hours? Porting OpenOffice.org to a new toolkit is NOT a trivial task.
What really needs to be done is the VCL needs to be re-implemented for Carbon/Cocoa. This is NOT an easy task. It's unfortunately not a priority for Sun, or most of the OO.o volunteers. Honestly, there needs to be a whole crapload more programmers that switch to a Mac (possible, with the new Mac Mini), or some company has to get behind it -- and there's no company with anything to gain by doing so.
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Honestly, that's my biggest problem with the state too... But they're probably the freest state. No sales tax, they're looking at abolishing the property tax, little dependance on federal funding and shrinking, little enforcement of drug laws, good economy, good tolerance of homeschooling, most of the state-level legislators (state senators, freeholders, etc.) get paid only about $100.00-200.00 a year.
I have a serious problem with the fact that driving is regarded as a privelege. I don't have a choice -- either drive, or lose my job, and default on the mortgage on my house.
I dislike the fact that the state treats driving as a privilege not a right -- I cannot go to work without a car. I can't simply choose not to get a liscence.
The US was originally set up as a loose union of states that agreed to abide by the US Constitution. NH actually has the right to secede from the union in its state constitution. This is the way it should still be.
I agreed, when I signed up for my liscence, to share that information with MY STATE's DMV. Not some other state.
Yes, I have nothing to worry about. So why not put a webcam in my bedroom that any government agent can watch? I mean, I have nothing to worry about -- I don't have sex with goats.
It's a slippery slope argument. The US Federal government now has access to my driving record, along with lots of other things. This conditions us to take the attitude that only dirtbags have something to hide, so all information will be public. I don't support that.
Actually, you'll need a pretty andvanced OS. Each SPE, rather than just having cache, has its own local memory that is managed by software. Scheduling on this will be a unique challenge, and most game developers will be unwilling to write thier and tune own OS schedulers. They're going to want to use high-level libraries (hopefully OpenGL 2 will be available...) so an OS would be needed.
http://www.freestateproject.org/
New Hampshire is looking better every day...
What I have in my trunk is no buisness of yours... but for the purpose of this argument I'll tell you -- I have a sleeping bag, a spare change of clothing, and a donut (spare-tire type), as well as some basic car tools (jack, jumper cables, tire iron, etc.) My driving record is fairly clean -- I've had one ticket in the nine years I've been an adult -- for going 51mph in a 40mph zone in Summit, NJ on Broad Street at about 2 AM sometime last February.
The point is, if I want to share that info, it's cool. But if I don't, I shouldn't have too.
But the states should have a right to keep such law enforcement at the local level if they wish. The federal government has NO authority to do all of the things you outlined above. Read article 1, section 8, as well as the 9th and 10th ammendment.
I, for one, hope that my state will just simply deny the federal highway funding and refuse to co-operate. This is a horrendous violation of privacy. The law enforcement in California shouldn't be aware of my speeding ticket in New Jersey. It's not thier right to know!
And what happens when everything you do is public record? Anyone who wants to can find out what you bought at the grocery store last week, or what you ordered at Denny's 6 years ago? Isn't that a bit creepy? Once all knowledge is public, the government can regulate ANYTHING.
And yes, security through obscurity doesn't work -- all security PROTOCOLS should be volentarily submitted for public scrutiny. It's just pragmatic. However, the contents of the cypher doesn't have to be.
It would take me a lot to switch to a wireless mouse or keyboard. Although the stated battery life is rather impressive, I've never used a wireless input device that didn't have just a tiny delay that drove me absolutely bonkers.
I spent $60 for my buckling-spring PS/2 keyboard that I'm typing this on. I have a PC running Linux, and I certainly want a keyboard that doesn't feel like crap.
I must say, the apple keyboards certainly are a decent step up from the crap Dell ships, and an order of magnitude better than the sub-$10 keyboards sold at best buy, but if I owned a Mac, I'd have to get non-Apple keyboard. I grew up on IBM model-M's, and I won't accept any lesser quality (Unicomp makes comparable keyboards nowadays).
It's not a time period thing... the Gospel of Thomas was said to have been written by the apostle "doubting" Thomas. It was written more than 100 years after his death.
I've read the Gospel of Thomas (I do have a copy) -- it ends by saying that women can't get into heaven, because women are flawed. Christ says he will make Mary male so she can enter heaven.
About 80% of the gospel is legit theology, but that can ALL be found in the three synoptic gospels included in the bible. This gospel was written to justify gnosticism, which is a heresey that stated that all matter was evil, and spirit was good. It also denied the humanity of Christ.
The gospel of Thomas was written 100 years later than the others, to spout heretical gnostic propaganda. The gospel of Mary Magdelane was proven to have been written 300 years later, and likely by a man. Not familiar with the Story of sophia, etc.
The fact is, the bible is complete as the work that it is. That doesn't mean other works can't be written, but if they are, they aren't part of the bible.
On the contrary, Christ said that not one jot would be removed from the law and that he had in fact come to fulfil it.
Yes -- Christ said that the rules still applied until the covanent was fullfilled, and all who violated the law before the covanent was fulfilled would be damned by such a violation. However, when he died on the Cross, the covanent was fulfilled. Thus, the old law was at least partially obsolete. The law was re-written by Christ, and Paul, and Peter, and Clement, and Ignatious of Antioch, and soforth.
The problem with it is that apostolic authority was only granted to those who had seen the risen Christ
Really? Where do you get this? It's not said in scripture, and it's rather contradicted by the fact that Paul only saw the risen Christ in a vision. In addition, the bible wasn't assembled until after the death of all of the original apostles. Who had the authority to infallibly assemble the bible? Why, the See of Rome!
Yes -- we haven't ammended scripture; The Bible is a complete work (the Catholic bible that is; the protestants removed the deuterocanonical books sometime in the 1620's or so), and it is true that no truth can contradict biblical truth. When I spoke of the canon, I was not just speaking of scripture.
Well, in the process you are arguing that the RC view is right, since you're arguing the RC view.
No, I was merely stating the view from the RC perspective. I believe it, but don't necessarily expect you to.
The Chinese, Mongolian, and most of the African nations bear little resemblence to thier cultures from, say, 4000 years ago. Hinduism I touched in another post in the same thread.
Your second statement wasn't a sentence; I don't understand what you are saying.
"Christianity" as a whole is a loose collection of similar faiths that agree on a couple of points and may or may not have Jewish philosophy intermixed. I wouldn't consider "Christianity" a culture or a religion.
I am Roman Catholic, which is a single religion that's existed for roughly 2000 years and we see it as the fullfillment of the Jewish faith. Catholic Culture used to exist, prior to the passing of the second Vatican council, which stripped away like 80% of our common cultural heritage.
Hinduism is a conglomeration of dozens of local religions and customs along with some Buddist philosophy. And I was speaking of entire cultural identities, not just religions. Religion is a factor that defines culture, but not the whole of it.
It's possible there are older cultures I'm unnaware of, but the Jewish culture is, as far as I know, the oldest culture currently in existence. Again, if you have some information that I don't, please share it.
The bible wasn't transcribed by God, but by man. It contains within it an image of the Word of God, but the Bible itself is not the whole of the Word; the whole of the Word is the living Christ. Much of the Bible (such as much of Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy) is history.
God dictated many laws to the prophets, and some were derived. It was the job of the Aaronic priesthood to determine what meant "clean" and "unclean". As we are imperfect beings, we cannot always discern God's commands perfectly.
DISCLAIMER: this is from a Roman Catholic, not Jewish, perspective. I am not, and have never been a Jew, so I can't speak much on Jewish theology.
Interesting. However, you do not become ritually impure if the blood can be attributed to non-uterine or wound causes, from what I read. You do not become impure if your nose bleeds, for example.
I don't remember any specific references to nosebleeds and the like, but I could be wrong. It probably depends on the cause of the nosebleed (i.e., being punched is a wound, whereas spontaneous nosebleeds may have been).
A woman is also ritually impure from menarche until just before she gets married. If she's contagous, she can pass it to other women, just not men.
Probably just a rule to enforce chastity, which frankly is practical. No chance of pregnancy out of wedlock (unless you are visited by an angel...) and no chance of STD's if you didn't have sex!
There are certainly purity laws that make sense from a hygene point of view. However, these ones are somewhat difficult to justify.
Agreed. But some rituals and customs and rubrics and the like are just for flavor -- for rich tradition. Such as a Catholic woman vieling her head in front of the Blessed Sacrament (still a requirement in canon law -- despite its unobservance, this rule was NEVER abrogated). This rule is largely for a symbolic gesture of humility, but has no real practical side.
The Christians aren't. Christ deprecated the rules. Paul was more clear.
The rules about Homosexuality have been re-stated, however, by Paul in his first letter to the Romans:
--Romans 1:26-27, NAB
As have numerous other rules. I can't speak for the protestant faiths, but the Roman Catholic Church believes that we have inherited the apostles' teaching authority, and thereby the See of Rome can ammend the Canon; we do not believe that the bible alone contains truth. Hence, things like Embryonic Stem Cell research can be addressed specifically.
My point is not to argue that Catholocism is right or not, but to argue that we believe that the Bible is not the only source of truth. Take this however you will.
At least one of the oldest SURVIVING cultures. I don't see anyone identifying themselves as Mesopotamian nowadays... And one can't really say that the Greek or Egyptian cultures have much at all in common with thier ancient counterparts... Not too many are worshipping Zeus or Ra nowadays.
That came from a lack of understanding of science at the time. Hemmoraging was a sign of potentially contageous illness. The secondary effects of a woman's period were, to the casual observer, not much difference.
Studying scripture without a historical context is not very worthwhile, whether from a purely secular and intellectual, or Judeo/Christian spiritual point of view.
I'm going to be making the switch sometime this year myself. Still going to be using Linux serverside, but I'm sick of getting a new piece of hardware, like a Firewire drive, and having to hack /etc/fstab or automount, or whatever. My digital camera took hours to get working. OpenGL apps stopped running without crashing the OS, and I don't have the time to make it work again. I'm also getting into pro audio/video editing, and after playing around with ProTools and Logic, I don't see any Linux equivalents. The ONLY thing I'm going to miss from the switch is OpenOffice.org -- a Mac port exists, but it sucks royally. I actually prefer OO.o to MS Office (I use Win2K at work -- I find myself WAY more productive in OO.o)
As I said, my servers will still run Linux -- they don't need to support an array of removable USB and firewire devices, OpenGL, advanced audio/video stuff. Maybe someone will put together a distro someday that will be as smooth of a user experience as OSX, and pro audio/video apps will be available for the platform, but it's not there yet. The fact of the matter is, I'm more comfortable in a *NIX environment than Windows, and for your average consumer, that means Linux, *BSD, or OSX. When I was a college student, any of the above would be an option, but now my time is a lot more valuable.
Continuing with your train of thought...
Pentium III is i686 + MMX + SSE
Pentium 4 is RISC on crack cocain
Pentium M is the result of a P4 knocking up a PIII
OO.o is functional, but not NEARLY smooth and slick enough. Look at OpenOffice Writer and put it next to the screenshots of Pages...
Besides, for the Apple name to be on it, they'd want it to be an Apple exclusive product. Like the rest of iLife.
1) The XUL toolkit isn't rich enough to build all of OpenOffice.
2) Other cross-platform toolkits that do the job better are already available. Qt, WxWindows, etc.
3) Are you willing to foot the bill for 10,000+ man-hours? Porting OpenOffice.org to a new toolkit is NOT a trivial task.
What really needs to be done is the VCL needs to be re-implemented for Carbon/Cocoa. This is NOT an easy task. It's unfortunately not a priority for Sun, or most of the OO.o volunteers. Honestly, there needs to be a whole crapload more programmers that switch to a Mac (possible, with the new Mac Mini), or some company has to get behind it -- and there's no company with anything to gain by doing so.