It seems from analyzing sourceforge that Java seems to be doing quite all right within the OSS community just as they are. Coming a clear third behind C++ and C is not bad in terms of language use.
There is enough OSS built around Java to keep it alive in the OSS community and popularity as a whole is right across the board.
They do have real concerns about losing control. Usually, without too much hassle, Java can live up to its write once, (test and then) run everywhere. Will this be so if there are forked projects?
It would be great to get the OSS community in on improving Java but I can see why Sun want to remain in control.
Unverifiable sweeping statements on slashdot... inconvcievable.
About the only thing that resembles your 'fact' is the debate over who the nephilim really were. Some people do believe that they may have been fallen angels, which brought about the existence of giants such as Goliath. This is however not widely debated or even known about amongst christian circles.
On the other hand Christians do believe that there are fallen angels/demons who may present themselves to humans in different forms from time to time.
If you could provide any evidence to your claim I will be open to it's possible truth.
If you would have read the whole advertisement on Ebay you would have seen that he clearly states that all the software on the CD is may be freely downloaded off the internet and that this CD is being provided simply as a convenience to those who don't have the time or bandwidth to download them all. And at $6.98 delivered to your door I don't think he's exactly ripping people off.
Theoritically the government only has the rights that the people allow it to. And to a certain extent this is the case here. The PATRIOT Act (it is actually an acronym) gives the government the power to conduct surveillance. Was there a huge uproar when the Act was introduced? Did letters and emails flood Congress opposing the Act? Were representations made to those ellected to represent you?
From a human rights and constitutional point of view certain parts of the Act can and should be challenged, but it seems so far that this has not been pursued vigorously.
Yeah. like the race of the middle eastern hebrews, or the middle eastern persians, or the middle eastern babylonians, or the middle eastern greeks... etc.
all these societies which have flood myths are from the same trading region (the mediterannian sea area). Find me a mayan or native american, or hell, even a chinese/japanese flood story and you get some kind of credibility, but i refuse to believe something to be even a tiny bit believable because all people who lived in a single cultural exchange area believed it.
Would be a whole lot funnier if Arafat was the/had been/ever would be the Hamas leader.
This sort of ranks up there with the popular belief that all Taliban are terrorists, that Iraq was responsible for 9/11 and the George W. Bush is running the country.
All the Old Testement requires for it all to fall into place is one step of faith, that God is who he says he is.
If you are waiting for the absolute proof please don't hold your breathe.
As for the Big Bang theory, it is at best a conceptual model that present day analysis may one day fit (while disregarding data that doesn't), and at worst a fairy-tale that cannot be proven. Funny how scientific attacks on spiritual beliefs can be turned.
Many old civilizations considered burial in boats a high honor. The Vikings were well known for this, but also the Egyptians to a smaller extent (The Nile played a huge role in their lives), and other lesser known civiliazations. A huge boat on top of a mountain is certainly very unusual, but there are other explanations for it other than an ark.
Your point about the Vikings and Egyptians may be correct but think about it for a minute. Vikings lived and died by their boats and to the Egyptians the Nile was a source of life, literally. I would find it hard to argue that ancient Assyrians or who ever inhabited the the land around Mt Ararat would have held boats so sacred that they would cart thousands of logs up a mountain and construct a 450ft boat in a glacier just to bury someone.
There have already been numerous sightings of a boat up the mountain and this may be another one if they are lucky but it will hardly turn a non-believer into a Christian by itself.
But why then does Isaiah 53 mention a servant of God interceding for our transgressions, bearing our sins, even unto death? Does this not suggest that a death penalty for sin exists even though there is forgiveness?
I do not find it preposterous. I actually admire Jews for their determination to keep God's laws. Christians however believe that it is impossible to perfectly keep the law. Have you? Have I? If I try to start keeping the law now do my past transgressions still weigh against me? How much law keeping do I have to do?
Christians are not exempt from works, we just do not rely on it for our salvation. We are saved by God's grace.
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Firstly my post was worded poorly. I'm not trying to say that this is proof of God's existance. In my mind this was a miracle but miracles rarely convince non-believers.
Here's the full story:
My friend (let's call him Bob) grew up as a Satanist. His father is still the head of a Satanic group. Through his girlfriend and eventual wife he became a Christian. He constantly battled Satan's forces both physically, mentally and spiritual. One day he suddenly fell into a coma. The doctor's could not find any reason for it. While in hospital, during visiting hours, a group of Satanists visited him, chanted around his bed for a while before being chased off by one of Bob's friends. Not long after however he died (flatlined and all that). Twenty minutes later, before being taken away he sat straight up and asked if he could go home. Later that day he was on the net telling his story. The next morning milking the cows.
Apparently what I said about historical examples went over your head. I don't quite know where your source for that "widely recognised" "fact" comes from.
Nope, you just never backed them up. And remember, google is your friend.
Reality is what we percieve to be real. That is going to be different from person to person. There is no such thing as one reality.
It's actually not uncommon (especially in the past) for people to appear dead to the casual observer but to actually still be alive and to recover. No gods required, just inadequate health observation abilities.
It was only four years ago, a doctor cannot be considered a casual observer and since he was in a comma in hospital he had every available health monitoring system attached to him. But in saying that I never honestly expected you to believe me.
You of course have documented evidence for this claim, which you will put right here.
Yep! Check out this or read the book, 'The Heavenly Man'. I understand that you may not find the article substantial and will probably never read the book, but do you really expect Communist China to document how one of their Christian prisoners survived with no food or water for 74 days and post it on the net?
Ask me what'll make me not an atheist and you'll get a simple answer: scientific evidence of a god.
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It seems from analyzing sourceforge that Java seems to be doing quite all right within the OSS community just as they are. Coming a clear third behind C++ and C is not bad in terms of language use.
There is enough OSS built around Java to keep it alive in the OSS community and popularity as a whole is right across the board.
They do have real concerns about losing control. Usually, without too much hassle, Java can live up to its write once, (test and then) run everywhere. Will this be so if there are forked projects?
It would be great to get the OSS community in on improving Java but I can see why Sun want to remain in control.
My BenQ MP3 player has 5 buttons but they too do different things depending on the type of 'click'.
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Unverifiable sweeping statements on slashdot ... inconvcievable.
About the only thing that resembles your 'fact' is the debate over who the nephilim really were. Some people do believe that they may have been fallen angels, which brought about the existence of giants such as Goliath. This is however not widely debated or even known about amongst christian circles.
On the other hand Christians do believe that there are fallen angels/demons who may present themselves to humans in different forms from time to time.
If you could provide any evidence to your claim I will be open to it's possible truth.
Why 1 terabyte of hard drive space?
Then I remembered that the dafault is for the OS to handle the pagefile size.
If you would have read the whole advertisement on Ebay you would have seen that he clearly states that all the software on the CD is may be freely downloaded off the internet and that this CD is being provided simply as a convenience to those who don't have the time or bandwidth to download them all. And at $6.98 delivered to your door I don't think he's exactly ripping people off.
Theoritically the government only has the rights that the people allow it to. And to a certain extent this is the case here. The PATRIOT Act (it is actually an acronym) gives the government the power to conduct surveillance. Was there a huge uproar when the Act was introduced? Did letters and emails flood Congress opposing the Act? Were representations made to those ellected to represent you?
From a human rights and constitutional point of view certain parts of the Act can and should be challenged, but it seems so far that this has not been pursued vigorously.
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Yeah. like the race of the middle eastern hebrews, or the middle eastern persians, or the middle eastern babylonians, or the middle eastern greeks... etc.
all these societies which have flood myths are from the same trading region (the mediterannian sea area). Find me a mayan or native american, or hell, even a chinese/japanese flood story and you get some kind of credibility, but i refuse to believe something to be even a tiny bit believable because all people who lived in a single cultural exchange area believed it.
Google is your friend
If you had done some investigation you would see that there are more similarities that just loss of life.
Would be a whole lot funnier if Arafat was the/had been/ever would be the Hamas leader.
This sort of ranks up there with the popular belief that all Taliban are terrorists, that Iraq was responsible for 9/11 and the George W. Bush is running the country.
Accepting the great flood mythology at face value is to believe in magic.
Or as we like to call it, divine power.
In my opinion the "great flood" was perhaps a severe localized flood, something not uncommon to the Tigris and Euphrades river valley.
This localized flood would of course also account for all the flood stories passed down through many different races?
All the Old Testement requires for it all to fall into place is one step of faith, that God is who he says he is.
If you are waiting for the absolute proof please don't hold your breathe.
As for the Big Bang theory, it is at best a conceptual model that present day analysis may one day fit (while disregarding data that doesn't), and at worst a fairy-tale that cannot be proven. Funny how scientific attacks on spiritual beliefs can be turned.
Many old civilizations considered burial in boats a high honor. The Vikings were well known for this, but also the Egyptians to a smaller extent (The Nile played a huge role in their lives), and other lesser known civiliazations. A huge boat on top of a mountain is certainly very unusual, but there are other explanations for it other than an ark.
Your point about the Vikings and Egyptians may be correct but think about it for a minute. Vikings lived and died by their boats and to the Egyptians the Nile was a source of life, literally. I would find it hard to argue that ancient Assyrians or who ever inhabited the the land around Mt Ararat would have held boats so sacred that they would cart thousands of logs up a mountain and construct a 450ft boat in a glacier just to bury someone.
There have already been numerous sightings of a boat up the mountain and this may be another one if they are lucky but it will hardly turn a non-believer into a Christian by itself.
It seems like the main problem with backporting is the lack of documentation of the backport rather than the backport itself.
But why then does Isaiah 53 mention a servant of God interceding for our transgressions, bearing our sins, even unto death? Does this not suggest that a death penalty for sin exists even though there is forgiveness?
I do not find it preposterous. I actually admire Jews for their determination to keep God's laws. Christians however believe that it is impossible to perfectly keep the law. Have you? Have I? If I try to start keeping the law now do my past transgressions still weigh against me? How much law keeping do I have to do?
Christians are not exempt from works, we just do not rely on it for our salvation. We are saved by God's grace.
Firstly my post was worded poorly. I'm not trying to say that this is proof of God's existance. In my mind this was a miracle but miracles rarely convince non-believers.
Here's the full story:
My friend (let's call him Bob) grew up as a Satanist. His father is still the head of a Satanic group. Through his girlfriend and eventual wife he became a Christian. He constantly battled Satan's forces both physically, mentally and spiritual. One day he suddenly fell into a coma. The doctor's could not find any reason for it. While in hospital, during visiting hours, a group of Satanists visited him, chanted around his bed for a while before being chased off by one of Bob's friends. Not long after however he died (flatlined and all that). Twenty minutes later, before being taken away he sat straight up and asked if he could go home. Later that day he was on the net telling his story. The next morning milking the cows.
Yeah, I thought of that later. Not really miraculous or anything though is it :)
LOAD "*",8,1 is not a program.
But
10 PRINT "1 RULZ"
20 GOTO 10
was l33t
But us Gentiles by and large don't even know what the Noachide law requires us to do and how perfectly must we obey the laws once we discover them?
A final addendum: Christians don't believe you go to heaven for keeping a set of laws. An interesting contrast to Judaism, I think.
Apparently what I said about historical examples went over your head. I don't quite know where your source for that "widely recognised" "fact" comes from.
Nope, you just never backed them up. And remember, google is your friend.
Four days without water
Up to 5 days
Reality is what we percieve to be real. That is going to be different from person to person. There is no such thing as one reality.
It's actually not uncommon (especially in the past) for people to appear dead to the casual observer but to actually still be alive and to recover. No gods required, just inadequate health observation abilities.
It was only four years ago, a doctor cannot be considered a casual observer and since he was in a comma in hospital he had every available health monitoring system attached to him. But in saying that I never honestly expected you to believe me.
You of course have documented evidence for this claim, which you will put right here.
Yep! Check out this or read the book, 'The Heavenly Man'. I understand that you may not find the article substantial and will probably never read the book, but do you really expect Communist China to document how one of their Christian prisoners survived with no food or water for 74 days and post it on the net?
Ask me what'll make me not an atheist and you'll get a simple answer: scientific evidence of a god.
Wrong. Only a change of heart will do.
Either way, I fail to see how these examples of yours prove the existence of God.
My point exactly. There is no point trying to gather together a portfolio of proofs that God exists.
A belief in God combines both the head and the heart, science does not.
(BTW: the doctor pronounced him dead, life support turned off and the orderlies were on their way).