These people are not afraid of punishment. They relish this opportunity to prove their faith because the Bible also proclaims that they will be persecuted.
Actually, yes, you do need to have ground to stand on before you criticize others.
Actually, no, he doesn't. All he needs to do is make an intrinsically legitimate criticism. Between this post and the one about him being a hypocrite it's pretty clear that you are unclear on the rules of debate of any kind. Therefore, most of your whinging is mere splutter.
That's nice and all, but you should keep in mind how lots of places in the U.S. get their natural gas these days. Through phracking.
It's not a good thing. There are huge environmental concerns. Flamable drinking water, Neurotoxins and other poisons in drinking water. There's even a movie about it.
Well, it's about 40,000 square km or 18,000 square miles or.05% of the United States (basically the area of West Virginia). Granted that's all of the energy for the world but it's a lot bigger than, say, my backyard.
Yet another example showing that the Islamic world is still in the Dark Ages that most of the rest of the world emerged from sometime in the 13th century.
and to which Christian fundamentalists want to drag us back.
It's amazing to me how many people have moderated this post as trolling. It's just not. I am very serious. If Christian fundamentalists were in Afghanistan, they would be the Taliban. Fortunately our country's laws protect us most of the time from the most egregious impulses of these fanatics. OTOH, "off-topic" I can understand.
Yep, a little background is probably needed. Lately the italian government has been subject of a much more intense scrutiny from journalists not lined up to the "official truth" and private individuals, due to the reluctance from the main opposition to act (or, more probably, acquiescence to the situation) and the complete subservience of television news services.
This has ended up in some scandals for Berlusconi even more embarrassing than the usual,even for a guy that has been found guilty of Mafia connection with a group that used to liquify the children of their enemies inside vats of acid: Prostitution rings related to the rebuilding of the city of Aquila, Intentional disservices inside Hospitals which refused to give bribes to the Department of Health,the discovery ot the full approval in the past of mafia crimes by some members of the government, you name it.
So lately the main (and basically,the only) italian party has tried to silence such "annoyances that tarnish the image of Italy abroad", as Berlusconi once said, by closing or imposing a strict control to all news services not directly controlled, depriving both the parliament and the magistrature (which, of lately, had taken a more aggressive approach to the situation) of a lot of powers, and lately, a new law that in theory would make illegal any kind of journalistic investigation, any whistleblower revelation, and the publication and achievement of any legally-mandated wirettapping until any investigation is over, basically making a good part of the aforementioned processes a farce.
As you may imagine, I am clearly not impartial to the whole situation, but even the remaining part of the remaining right-wing politicians and industrial groups are more than ashamed with the whole situation. Despite a clear minority of support, the P.D.L.(party of freedom, love the irony) party has used the tactic of saturating the regional election pools with their own representatives, which in turn basically elect the actual government.
Unfortunately, most the population is completely apathetic to situation, as they seems to care only to soccer (most of such laws are being proposed during the world cup, accidentally) and the various local reality shows.
Basically Berlusconi via a proxy, Motti, is using a classic "Think of the children..." argument in order to convince people of the need to remove anonymity from the internet when really he wants to eliminate anonymity to be able to track down political adversaries.
"Track down political adversaries"?? What the hell is that supposed to mean? There are parties, and newspapers, and trade unions, and countless public personalities that daily denounce Berlusconi as the devil's incarnation, and you seriously think he's drafting elaborate plans to find out the real identity and whereabouts of the freedom fighter who wrote "belrusconi scemo!!!11!" under the pen name of goku92 on a videogames forum?
Over-react much? He doesn't care about trivial griping and complaining. He cares about people that leak things that are actually damning via the internet. If you don't believe me, look up some news about Berlusconi and his actions in the courts over the last two years or so.
Basically Berlusconi via a proxy, Motti, is using a classic "Think of the children..." argument in order to convince people of the need to remove anonymity from the internet when really he wants to eliminate anonymity to be able to track down political adversaries. It's classic misdirection. I'm just surprised that he thinks the rest of the world does not see through his ruse, but then again, like Putin, he is a very arrogant man accustomed to acquiescence.
and to which Christian fundamentalists want to drag us back.
Odd, I can't find a community of Christian fundamentalists that is against the education of females, yet there are whole Islamic societies that prevent females from going to school.
One path would seem to want to keep us out of caves, the other path would not. When you try to make all religions look equivalent, you just come out in the end as looking ignorant of religion.
So, Christian fundamentalism is all other religions? WTF are you talking about? I was comparing Christian fundamentalism with Islamic fundamentalism and said nothing about any other religion. There is no relativism here. Hell, if had to pick a best religion I'd have to go with Buddhism. So, exactly who is the ignorant one here?
It's funny how most comments in response to genuine criticism are "bbbbbut the Christians!!!!" instead of responding to the actual issue.
It's funny how most comments by Anonymous Cowards are trolling.
I'm not saying it's Ok for Islam to be barbaric because Christian fundamentalists are barbaric but I am saying that we need to be as wary of Christian fundamentalism as we are of Islamic fundamentalism.
Yet another example showing that the Islamic world is still in the Dark Ages that most of the rest of the world emerged from sometime in the 13th century.
and to which Christian fundamentalists want to drag us back.
But Comcast (or Cox or Cablevision or.....) isn't a free market. It's government-created monopoly and therefore the government needs to regulate the monopoly to ensure it doesn't abuse its power.
"The government is not the cause. The incumbent cable companies are the cause. They would not even serve certain areas unless local governments gave them a monopoly because of the enormous upfront costs. Were the local governments suckers? Sure. But is having cable at all better than having no cable? Now admittedly those monopolies should have sunsetted long ago but the same problem (upfront costs) arises when you want to bring in competitors later except this time you can't offer the carrot of a monopoly because there is already an incumbent provider. Why do you think FiOS isn't in every community? So, yes, local government franchises do prevent you from starting a cable company but the startup costs would be even more of a barrier."
Quoting myself from above because this stupid meme is too pernicious for me to kill if I have to write the same thing over and over again.
You do know that it's government keeping only a few Cable providers available don't you? (ie: I can't start up my own cable company tomorrow and offer service to my neighborhood without going through my local government.) They also sign deals with cable companies to have exclusive rights to areas for certain periods of time (effectively granting a monopoly to said company.)
You want government to fix a government problem by adding more government?
Totally and completely true except it's not. The government is not the cause. The incumbent cable companies are the cause. They would not even serve certain areas unless local governments gave them a monopoly because of the enormous upfront costs. Were the local governments suckers? Sure. But is having cable at all better than having no cable? Now admittedly those monopolies should have sunsetted long ago but the same problem (upfront costs) arises when you want to bring in competitors later except this time you can't offer the carrot of a monopoly because there is already an incumbent provider. Why do you think FiOS isn't in every community? So, yes, local government franchises do prevent you from starting a cable company but the startup costs would be even more of a barrier.
However, even worse, you are arguing from one situation to a completely different one. You can't just lump all government actions into one big ball to hate, at least not rationally.
in engineering. You can always have everything you want. I'm surprised the world hasn't been perfected yet.:-/ Come on, something has to give somewhere. This announcement is worse than vapor. It's vapor that can never exist. Lame.
I'm guessing you'd cause the black hole to eject particles that hopefully would be structured enough to provide us with information about what's happening beyond the event horizon or they might be completely random and tell us nothing. The summary and the article itself seem very confused. They portray the event horizon like it's some kind of shell that surrounds the core of the black hole hiding it from view. The event horizon is more like an asymmetric field that you need to find the right frequency to pass back out of once reflected off the structure of the black hole. I seriously doubt the event horizon would be blown away revealing a naked singularity either. It would just become permeable to a certain stream of particles going out instead of being infinitely internally reflected.
Cory Doctorow is the biggest, most shameless self-promoter on the internet. He's also kind of a tool. He's already hijacked one website to promote his writing. Its called 'boingboing', perhaps you've heard of it?
Wait! I thought Nicholas Negroponte was the most shameless self-promoter on the internet! I demand a face-off!
Or is it Ray Kurzweil? There are so many it's hard to keep track.
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These people are not afraid of punishment. They relish this opportunity to prove their faith because the Bible also proclaims that they will be persecuted.
Aren't self-fulfilling prophecies awesome?
Actually, yes, you do need to have ground to stand on before you criticize others.
Actually, no, he doesn't. All he needs to do is make an intrinsically legitimate criticism. Between this post and the one about him being a hypocrite it's pretty clear that you are unclear on the rules of debate of any kind. Therefore, most of your whinging is mere splutter.
It's a lot of hypocritical bullshit unless he actually says what he's doing different, which he does not.
How so? Since we *don't* know what he's doing we don't know whether he's being hypocritical.
Your sig on the other hand we do know is complete bullshit but that's only relevant within the context of what we do and do not know.
Nice. If I had mod points I'd give them.
If not, someone should get on that...
That's nice and all, but you should keep in mind how lots of places in the U.S. get their natural gas these days. Through phracking.
It's not a good thing. There are huge environmental concerns. Flamable drinking water, Neurotoxins and other poisons in drinking water. There's even a movie about it.
I thought you were talking about something else: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phrack
The Xbox 360 we should have got 5 years ago...
Or in european units, that's about one Switzerland.
Thanks! :-)
Well, it's about 40,000 square km or 18,000 square miles or .05% of the United States (basically the area of West Virginia). Granted that's all of the energy for the world but it's a lot bigger than, say, my backyard.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sahara_Desert_(ecoregion)
Yet another example showing that the Islamic world is still in the Dark Ages that most of the rest of the world emerged from sometime in the 13th century.
and to which Christian fundamentalists want to drag us back.
It's amazing to me how many people have moderated this post as trolling. It's just not. I am very serious. If Christian fundamentalists were in Afghanistan, they would be the Taliban. Fortunately our country's laws protect us most of the time from the most egregious impulses of these fanatics. OTOH, "off-topic" I can understand.
Yep, a little background is probably needed. Lately the italian government has been subject of a much more intense scrutiny from journalists not lined up to the "official truth" and private individuals, due to the reluctance from the main opposition to act (or, more probably, acquiescence to the situation) and the complete subservience of television news services.
This has ended up in some scandals for Berlusconi even more embarrassing than the usual,even for a guy that has been found guilty of Mafia connection with a group that used to liquify the children of their enemies inside vats of acid: Prostitution rings related to the rebuilding of the city of Aquila, Intentional disservices inside Hospitals which refused to give bribes to the Department of Health,the discovery ot the full approval in the past of mafia crimes by some members of the government, you name it.
So lately the main (and basically,the only) italian party has tried to silence such "annoyances that tarnish the image of Italy abroad", as Berlusconi once said, by closing or imposing a strict control to all news services not directly controlled, depriving both the parliament and the magistrature (which, of lately, had taken a more aggressive approach to the situation) of a lot of powers, and lately, a new law that in theory would make illegal any kind of journalistic investigation, any whistleblower revelation, and the publication and achievement of any legally-mandated wirettapping until any investigation is over, basically making a good part of the aforementioned processes a farce.
As you may imagine, I am clearly not impartial to the whole situation, but even the remaining part of the remaining right-wing politicians and industrial groups are more than ashamed with the whole situation. Despite a clear minority of support, the P.D.L.(party of freedom, love the irony) party has used the tactic of saturating the regional election pools with their own representatives, which in turn basically elect the actual government.
Unfortunately, most the population is completely apathetic to situation, as they seems to care only to soccer (most of such laws are being proposed during the world cup, accidentally) and the various local reality shows.
Thanks for providing the context and background.
Basically Berlusconi via a proxy, Motti, is using a classic "Think of the children..." argument in order to convince people of the need to remove anonymity from the internet when really he wants to eliminate anonymity to be able to track down political adversaries.
"Track down political adversaries"?? What the hell is that supposed to mean? There are parties, and newspapers, and trade unions, and countless public personalities that daily denounce Berlusconi as the devil's incarnation, and you seriously think he's drafting elaborate plans to find out the real identity and whereabouts of the freedom fighter who wrote "belrusconi scemo!!!11!" under the pen name of goku92 on a videogames forum?
Over-react much? He doesn't care about trivial griping and complaining. He cares about people that leak things that are actually damning via the internet. If you don't believe me, look up some news about Berlusconi and his actions in the courts over the last two years or so.
Basically Berlusconi via a proxy, Motti, is using a classic "Think of the children..." argument in order to convince people of the need to remove anonymity from the internet when really he wants to eliminate anonymity to be able to track down political adversaries. It's classic misdirection. I'm just surprised that he thinks the rest of the world does not see through his ruse, but then again, like Putin, he is a very arrogant man accustomed to acquiescence.
and to which Christian fundamentalists want to drag us back.
Odd, I can't find a community of Christian fundamentalists that is against the education of females, yet there are whole Islamic societies that prevent females from going to school.
One path would seem to want to keep us out of caves, the other path would not. When you try to make all religions look equivalent, you just come out in the end as looking ignorant of religion.
So, Christian fundamentalism is all other religions? WTF are you talking about? I was comparing Christian fundamentalism with Islamic fundamentalism and said nothing about any other religion. There is no relativism here. Hell, if had to pick a best religion I'd have to go with Buddhism. So, exactly who is the ignorant one here?
It's funny how most comments in response to genuine criticism are "bbbbbut the Christians!!!!" instead of responding to the actual issue.
It's funny how most comments by Anonymous Cowards are trolling.
I'm not saying it's Ok for Islam to be barbaric because Christian fundamentalists are barbaric but I am saying that we need to be as wary of Christian fundamentalism as we are of Islamic fundamentalism.
Yet another example showing that the Islamic world is still in the Dark Ages that most of the rest of the world emerged from sometime in the 13th century.
and to which Christian fundamentalists want to drag us back.
But Comcast (or Cox or Cablevision or.....) isn't a free market. It's government-created monopoly and therefore the government needs to regulate the monopoly to ensure it doesn't abuse its power.
"The government is not the cause. The incumbent cable companies are the cause. They would not even serve certain areas unless local governments gave them a monopoly because of the enormous upfront costs. Were the local governments suckers? Sure. But is having cable at all better than having no cable? Now admittedly those monopolies should have sunsetted long ago but the same problem (upfront costs) arises when you want to bring in competitors later except this time you can't offer the carrot of a monopoly because there is already an incumbent provider. Why do you think FiOS isn't in every community? So, yes, local government franchises do prevent you from starting a cable company but the startup costs would be even more of a barrier."
Quoting myself from above because this stupid meme is too pernicious for me to kill if I have to write the same thing over and over again.
You do know that it's government keeping only a few Cable providers available don't you? (ie: I can't start up my own cable company tomorrow and offer service to my neighborhood without going through my local government.) They also sign deals with cable companies to have exclusive rights to areas for certain periods of time (effectively granting a monopoly to said company.)
You want government to fix a government problem by adding more government?
Totally and completely true except it's not. The government is not the cause. The incumbent cable companies are the cause. They would not even serve certain areas unless local governments gave them a monopoly because of the enormous upfront costs. Were the local governments suckers? Sure. But is having cable at all better than having no cable? Now admittedly those monopolies should have sunsetted long ago but the same problem (upfront costs) arises when you want to bring in competitors later except this time you can't offer the carrot of a monopoly because there is already an incumbent provider. Why do you think FiOS isn't in every community? So, yes, local government franchises do prevent you from starting a cable company but the startup costs would be even more of a barrier.
However, even worse, you are arguing from one situation to a completely different one. You can't just lump all government actions into one big ball to hate, at least not rationally.
Because no government program, started with good intentions, has ever led to making it worse.
You mean like the Constitution?
Dude! No way! Whoa!
in engineering. You can always have everything you want. I'm surprised the world hasn't been perfected yet. :-/ Come on, something has to give somewhere. This announcement is worse than vapor. It's vapor that can never exist. Lame.
The event horizon is like where reality has hit a divide by zero error.
Hey! Who are you calling an error?
... infinitely internally reflected.
Sorry, I meant totally internally reflected.
I'm guessing you'd cause the black hole to eject particles that hopefully would be structured enough to provide us with information about what's happening beyond the event horizon or they might be completely random and tell us nothing. The summary and the article itself seem very confused. They portray the event horizon like it's some kind of shell that surrounds the core of the black hole hiding it from view. The event horizon is more like an asymmetric field that you need to find the right frequency to pass back out of once reflected off the structure of the black hole. I seriously doubt the event horizon would be blown away revealing a naked singularity either. It would just become permeable to a certain stream of particles going out instead of being infinitely internally reflected.
Cory Doctorow is the biggest, most shameless self-promoter on the internet. He's also kind of a tool. He's already hijacked one website to promote his writing. Its called 'boingboing', perhaps you've heard of it?
Wait! I thought Nicholas Negroponte was the most shameless self-promoter on the internet! I demand a face-off!
Or is it Ray Kurzweil? There are so many it's hard to keep track.