Let me say first that I find Scientology repulsive and a particularly greasy form of pyramid scheme. However, compared to the Judeo-Christian-Islamic trinity, they are responsible for much less evil and far fewer deaths. Between those three religions you have tens of millions slaughtered in pointless wars over minor differences in doctrine. You have sexism that runs deep through the dogma of all three. You have churches who have officially sanctioned everything from genocide to sexually abusing children to slavery. This stuff isn't even in the distant past. I can find examples in the last century where each of these religions has committed terrible atrocities.
Scientology is easy to hate because it is so ridiculous, so absurd, and generally unpopular. It's an easier target than Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. But if you really take a step back and look at the doctrine of those three faiths, they are equally as ridiculous.
Her decision that scientology sucks NOW does not negate her decision that scientology was ok back THEN.
Even knowing what we know about CoS, It's hard to believe that anyone actually believes what Scientologists say they believe. Imagine how much harder it would be to believe that someone you care for actually believes that crap, so you rationalize it by imagining that there is some secret knowledge that you will receive because you're special, all that stupid shit is just to keep the ordinary people distracted. Actor and Actresses are almost by definition narcissistic and highly vulnerable to social validation attacks. I suspect that that involuntary resident auditing sessions broke through Miss Holms delusions and denials and made her realize that she had to escape the cult or die in it.
The more important question is: What insane person used Windows on their supercomputer? I honestly wasn't aware that Windows could even use enough CPUs for it to count as a supercomputer...
Microsoft pretty much has to keep at least one machine in the top 500, even if they have to buy it themselves.
And what's the larger point? That a group of technical geniuses used it...therefore it is awesome for the average person? That they found it useful of the power that makes an OS seem broken and difficult to use for the average joe?
Your Average Joe thinks every OS is broken and difficult to use, your Average Joe's cognitive style really isn't suited to using a computer.
There is no raw data anymore, it's all adjusted, it's such a travesty; they don't even know for sure how the data are adjusted to prduce their product.
First they mod you, then they say don't feed the trolls, then you win! All you have to remember is one year Al Gore was warning people about a 20m sea-level rise, the next year he bought a condo with a front door 3 ft above sea-level..
Well they found a new something, it walks like a higgs, it quacks like a higgs, but they have to look some more to see if it looks like a higgs; I'ts pretty improbable that its not a higgs, but they haven't met the burden of proof yet.
Anyhow, screw future generations, I've got mine. They can just adapt to the new normal, they'll never miss what they never had in the first place
" US emissions have now fallen by 430 Mt (7.7%) since 2006, the largest reduction of all countries or regions." Global carbon-dioxide emissions increase by 1.0 Gt in 2011 to record high curse you, rest of the world! Funny how the country the rest of the world trash-talks for not ratifying Kyoto, is the one leading the world in CO2 reduction. Next thing you know somebody will tell you that Anthony Watt drives an electric car, oh wait he does.
What is "sustainable development" anyways, and why should the UN be concerned with it anyways? Most countries that need "development" are festering cesspools of corruption, nepotism and cronyism, and don't see how throwing a bunch of resources at the problem is going to do anything except give the leaders more to pillage from their countries.
What makes you feel that you're entitled to live in Alaska? Are you a native? Why should we pawn future generations' climate for cheap oil so that you can live more comfortably in one of the harshest climates on Earth?
--Jeremy
What makes you feel that you're entitled to live? Why should we pawn future generations' climate so that you can exhale CO2 with every breath.
What are you going to eat, grass clippings city-slicker? Can't grow much wheat in an urban square foot garden; bottom line, you need the hayseeds a lot more than the hayseeds need you.
I don't know how you would cross a cucumber with a salmon, but if your interested in crossing two species of plants, reasonably closely related, with the same number of chromosomes, then Colchicine is what you want to use.
Rats will eat mice, and mice know it, so having a pet rat will pretty much keep your house free of wild mice. Mice can hide from a cat or dog no problem, but a rat can go almost anywhere a mouse can.
They are volcanic Islands, those sandy beaches are maintained by imported crushed coral and don't worry about rat's either, the Wild Pigs think they are mighty taste.
The New Testament equivalent of sheol is hades, which occurs only eleven times. Like its synonym sheol, the King James Version translates the word “hell.” However, the correct translation is hades, or the unseen. The Bible doesn’t use hades exclusively for a place of punishment. Luke 16 pictures righteous Lazarus there. Acts 2.27, 31 says Jesus went there. In I Cor. 15.15, Paul used the same word when he said, “O grave, where is thy victory?” In Rev. 1.18, Jesus said he had the controlling keys of death and hades, the unseen, and in Rev. 6.8, death and hades followed the pale horse. Finally, in Rev. 20.13, 14, death and hades gave up the dead that were in them, and were then cast into the lake of fire. These verses illustrate that hades refers to anything that is unseen. Jesus' Teaching on Hell
The whole of it boils down to one verse of Paranoid delusions, of John of Patmos.
Revelation 21:8 King James Version (KJV) 8 But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
My understanding is the monks during the dark ages needed some additional leverage to maintain the political Status Quo, starving peasants are less likely to tithe to the monastery when they weren't facing eternal damnation, so they borrowed it from the Greeks, Romans and other ancient polytheistic religions. Revelations21:8 supplied one verse to justify the whole scheme.
But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.
Still to my reading, it falls short of eternal damnation, and the authorship of Revelations is in dispute, yet most Fundie Bible colleges must spend a whole year studying it.
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Let me say first that I find Scientology repulsive and a particularly greasy form of pyramid scheme. However, compared to the Judeo-Christian-Islamic trinity, they are responsible for much less evil and far fewer deaths. Between those three religions you have tens of millions slaughtered in pointless wars over minor differences in doctrine. You have sexism that runs deep through the dogma of all three. You have churches who have officially sanctioned everything from genocide to sexually abusing children to slavery. This stuff isn't even in the distant past. I can find examples in the last century where each of these religions has committed terrible atrocities.
Scientology is easy to hate because it is so ridiculous, so absurd, and generally unpopular. It's an easier target than Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. But if you really take a step back and look at the doctrine of those three faiths, they are equally as ridiculous.
So the difference is quantitative not qualitatie?
Her decision that scientology sucks NOW does not negate her decision that scientology was ok back THEN.
Even knowing what we know about CoS, It's hard to believe that anyone actually believes what Scientologists say they believe. Imagine how much harder it would be to believe that someone you care for actually believes that crap, so you rationalize it by imagining that there is some secret knowledge that you will receive because you're special, all that stupid shit is just to keep the ordinary people distracted. Actor and Actresses are almost by definition narcissistic and highly vulnerable to social validation attacks. I suspect that that involuntary resident auditing sessions broke through Miss Holms delusions and denials and made her realize that she had to escape the cult or die in it.
Unless of course it's just a clumsy attempt designed to be caught to distract the targets from the real honeypot.
The more important question is: What insane person used Windows on their supercomputer?
I honestly wasn't aware that Windows could even use enough CPUs for it to count as a supercomputer...
Microsoft pretty much has to keep at least one machine in the top 500, even if they have to buy it themselves.
And what's the larger point? That a group of technical geniuses used it...therefore it is awesome for the average person? That they found it useful of the power that makes an OS seem broken and difficult to use for the average joe?
Your Average Joe thinks every OS is broken and difficult to use, your Average Joe's cognitive style really isn't suited to using a computer.
Nobody has published, that was a press-release, it will take a while to get a publishable paper submitted for review.
3, the trevatron had basically the same results to 2.9 sigma.
There is no raw data anymore, it's all adjusted, it's such a travesty; they don't even know for sure how the data are adjusted to prduce their product.
Which "they", the peace prize committee is a very different animal.
First they mod you, then they say don't feed the trolls, then you win! All you have to remember is one year Al Gore was warning people about a 20m sea-level rise, the next year he bought a condo with a front door 3 ft above sea-level..
they are at 4.9 sigma confidence, they need 5.0 to be an official discovery.
Well they found a new something, it walks like a higgs, it quacks like a higgs, but they have to look some more to see if it looks like a higgs; I'ts pretty improbable that its not a higgs, but they haven't met the burden of proof yet.
You Sir are having a rational thought, which can be very dangerous to your karma around here.
Anyhow, screw future generations, I've got mine. They can just adapt to the new normal, they'll never miss what they never had in the first place
" US emissions have now fallen by 430 Mt (7.7%) since 2006, the largest reduction of all countries or regions." Global carbon-dioxide emissions increase by 1.0 Gt in 2011 to record high
curse you, rest of the world! Funny how the country the rest of the world trash-talks for not ratifying Kyoto, is the one leading the world in CO2 reduction. Next thing you know somebody will tell you that Anthony Watt drives an electric car, oh wait he does.
What is "sustainable development" anyways, and why should the UN be concerned with it anyways? Most countries that need "development" are festering cesspools of corruption, nepotism and cronyism, and don't see how throwing a bunch of resources at the problem is going to do anything except give the leaders more to pillage from their countries.
Where are the canned sites in Python? For that matter where are the canned sites in Perl or Ruby or whatever?
Perl
blosxom Perl Flat-file database 2.1.2 MIT 2008-10-02
Bricolage Perl on mod_perl MySQL, PostgreSQL, Oracle 2.0.1 BSD 2011-02-09
EPrints Perl on mod_perl MySQL, PostgreSQL 3.3.7 GPL 2011-12-10
Exsite Webware Perl MySQL, PostgreSQL 3.7.2 GPL 2011-01-26
Ikiwiki Perl Git (software), Apache Subversion, Mercurial 3.20120203 GPL 2012-02-03
Movable Type Perl, mod perl, FastCGI, w/Php MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQLite 5.13 GPL 2012-03-01[5]
TWiki Perl Plain files (under version control) 5.1.0[6] GPL 2011-08-20
Scoop Perl on mod perl MySQL 1.1.8 GPL 2007
WebGUI Perl on mod perl MySQL 7.10.24[7] GPL 2012-01-16
Python
Django-cms Python/Django PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite 3 and Oracle 3.1.0 BSD 2011-01-27
MoinMoin Python Flat-file database 1.9.4 GPL 2012-02-21
Plone Python/Zope MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Oracle, ZODB, via Zope 4.1.4 GPL 2012-02-27[41]
Ruby on Rails
BrowserCMS Ruby on Rails MySQL, SQLite 3.3.2 LGPL 2011-10-12
Flagship Docs Ruby on Rails MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite 2.0 MIT 2010-02-02
Radiant Ruby on Rails MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, DB2[42] 0.9.1[43] MIT 2010-06-27
Refinery CMS Ruby on Rails MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite 1.0.8 MIT 2011-05-27
Typo Ruby on Rails MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite 6.1[44] MIT 2012-03-17
Oh yeah it makes so much more sense for BP to be drilling in the gulf under Cuban rules and regulations.
What makes you feel that you're entitled to live in Alaska? Are you a native? Why should we pawn future generations' climate for cheap oil so that you can live more comfortably in one of the harshest climates on Earth?
--Jeremy
What makes you feel that you're entitled to live? Why should we pawn future generations' climate so that you can exhale CO2 with every breath.
What are you going to eat, grass clippings city-slicker? Can't grow much wheat in an urban square foot garden; bottom line, you need the hayseeds a lot more than the hayseeds need you.
I don't know how you would cross a cucumber with a salmon, but if your interested in crossing two species of plants, reasonably closely related, with the same number of chromosomes, then Colchicine is what you want to use.
Rats will eat mice, and mice know it, so having a pet rat will pretty much keep your house free of wild mice. Mice can hide from a cat or dog no problem, but a rat can go almost anywhere a mouse can.
They are volcanic Islands, those sandy beaches are maintained by imported crushed coral and don't worry about rat's either, the Wild Pigs think they are mighty taste.
Then why does Jesus discuss Hell multiple times?
Poor translations;
The whole of it boils down to one verse of Paranoid delusions, of John of Patmos.
My understanding is the monks during the dark ages needed some additional leverage to maintain the political Status Quo, starving peasants are less likely to tithe to the monastery when they weren't facing eternal damnation, so they borrowed it from the Greeks, Romans and other ancient polytheistic religions. Revelations21:8 supplied one verse to justify the whole scheme.
Still to my reading, it falls short of eternal damnation, and the authorship of Revelations is in dispute, yet most Fundie Bible colleges must spend a whole year studying it.
Not really true, in Christianity there is no Hell so the stick doesn't work very well and once "saved is always saved" so the carrot only works once.