My research reveals no evidence (other than the bible) that the Egyptians ever had Hebrew slaves.
The typical Christian response amounts to, "The Egyptians were so ashamed of their loss of face to Moses that they destroyed all the evidence. And besides, the bible is enough evidence for anyone!"
Seriously, though, all settlements leave distinctive trash middens. I doubt that even the most humiliated Egyptian would go to the trouble of eradicating every bit of trash that might point to the existence of 600,000+ Hebrews in Egypt.
Egyptian history makes no mention of the miracles of Exodus, such as a stranger performing magic tricks in the Egyptian court and bringing down curses. This does not surprise me, as I am not interested in evidence for the supernatural phenomenon described in Exodus. I am only interested in whether Egyptians kept Hebrew slaves.
When two cultures exist alongside each other, even when one is as insular as that of the Jews, they share ideas and influence each other. I would accept even this as evidence that the Egyptians kept Hebrew slaves. There is no indication that this happened.
I would welcome any links to evidence for the historical authenticity of Exodus's main plot point: That Hebrews ever lived in Egyptian slavery.
If we can't trust our sensory input, then we can't attribute any of the phenomena thereby experienced to magic, either.
Hence, when discussing whether or not a given phenomena is magical, "THE BUN IS IN YOUR MIND!" is not a germane contribution. In fact, you will find that "reality can't be proven to exist" is seldom relevant to any conversation.
Wandering far off topic here, but I don't get a chance to hold forth on Go-Bots every day...
While you're correct that Go-Bots will always be inferior to Transformers by most measures, they do surpass their Cybertron brethren in one important way: Transformers toys were made of molded plastic, while Go-Bots were made of die-cast metal.
This had two important results:
1. Go-Bots toys always won any fight against Transformers.
2. When you hit your little brother in the head with Cy-Kill, he stayed down until the paramedics showed up.
If the purpose of prison is rehabilitation, not revenge, why is nothing done to prevent inmates raping other inmates? I don't mean a token gesture, either, I mean a commitment to ending it.
If the purpose of prison is rehabilitation, why is there capital punishment at all?
These rhetorical questions are asked with the intent of shedding light on the true purpose of the penal system.
It says, "I run Mac OS X, so I don't have to worry about your spyware and viruses."
I suppose the argument could be made that the commercial meant that the person running OS X didn't have to worry about anyone's spyware and viruses but his own (due to the word "your"), but only someone who was already on guard against Apple's duplicitous salesmanship would interpret the commercial in that way.
**** BEGIN PEDANTRY DETERRENCE **** **** REASONABLE READERS MAY DISREGARD ****
Also, because the Mac representative has spent the previous entirety of the commercial scoffing at the PC representative's paranoia, there is a much more obvious and likely meaning of "your spyware and viruses", as in, "Take your average virus, for example. It doesn't worry me." This usage of "your" does not convey possession (by the PC representative), and thus does not distinguish between viruses and spyware by platform.
**** END PEDANTRY DETERRENCE ****
The commercial clearly suggests that Mac OS X boasts some special resistance or protection (immunity, perhaps?) against spyware and viruses that saves its users the trouble of worrying about same.
You are as correct here as you are irrelevant, since I was replying to a post that only mentioned "malware".
Since you have decided to play the pedant, I might also point out that the target audience for the Apple advertisement is unlikely to make the fine distinction between trojans and viruses.
Who says Mac users claim they don't get malware?... It comes up every time, so the only people who seem to perpetuate the myth of the technology-literate Apple user who claims immunity from security threats are the ones seeking to mock the Reality Distortion Field and the users of Apple software as clueless.
Here is an Apple commercial that claims that Macintoshes don't get viruses. It is part of a series of commercials that make it seem as though there is some special feature of Apple hardware that makes it less susceptible to viruses.
I would say that the "people perpetuating the myth of the technology-literate Apple user who claims immunity from security threats" are... Apple.
If it's anything like the cocaine vaccine, then your concern is unwarranted.
The cocaine vaccine causes your immune system to regard cocaine as invasive and makes it impossible for you to get high, no matter how much cocaine you consume.
I read an article in Discover about it; it mentioned cases of people attempting to do just what you described. They tested with levels of cocaine thousands of times higher than normal users and did not experience any high.
I would like to be a fly on the wall in a room where cokeheads are frantically trying to snort enough to feel a buzz, and failing.
My concern is that such vaccines will eventually be administered to children at birth, for their own good, leading to a world where demand for ganja decreases to such an extent that I have to grow my own.
I eat low fat ranged beef, with habanero sauce. Good stuff. And absolutely nothing bland about that. Of course, I have seen that most veggi dishes are about as bland as it gets.
In case my typography was not clear enough, how do you rationalize using a vegetable to provide flavor to your meat, and then immediately generalizing vegetable dishes as bland?
In general, vegetables are more flavorful than meat, since meat does not want to be eaten. Many plants have a game plan of "trick the animals into eating me, then fertilizing my seeds when they crap them out." If faced with a false dichotomy of an all meat or all vegetable diet, there is no question which would be the more nutritious and the better tasting- especially considering that most seasonings other than salt are themselves vegetables.
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Cut them some slack, CNN is pretty good.
"How much someone is being paid to say something seems like an important factor when weighing what is being said."
That got scrambled between brain and NIC. It's been a long night, what can I say.
Display how much was paid to air the ad as a watermark in a corner of the screen when the ad is aired.
How much someone is being payed to say something seems like an important factor when to weigh when considering what is being said.
Obviously, you have failed to seek with sufficient ardor and/or rigor.
Complaining to others regarding the inadequacy of your search results is a sure sign of this.
My research reveals no evidence (other than the bible) that the Egyptians ever had Hebrew slaves.
The typical Christian response amounts to, "The Egyptians were so ashamed of their loss of face to Moses that they destroyed all the evidence. And besides, the bible is enough evidence for anyone!"
Seriously, though, all settlements leave distinctive trash middens. I doubt that even the most humiliated Egyptian would go to the trouble of eradicating every bit of trash that might point to the existence of 600,000+ Hebrews in Egypt.
Egyptian history makes no mention of the miracles of Exodus, such as a stranger performing magic tricks in the Egyptian court and bringing down curses. This does not surprise me, as I am not interested in evidence for the supernatural phenomenon described in Exodus. I am only interested in whether Egyptians kept Hebrew slaves.
When two cultures exist alongside each other, even when one is as insular as that of the Jews, they share ideas and influence each other. I would accept even this as evidence that the Egyptians kept Hebrew slaves. There is no indication that this happened.
I would welcome any links to evidence for the historical authenticity of Exodus's main plot point: That Hebrews ever lived in Egyptian slavery.
In my experience, very few games do pixel-perfect collision, and instead use hitboxes to speed things up.
These hitboxes are more likely to be tuned to be forgiving to the player, since hitting what you aim for is more fun than missing it.
Also, I see no benefit to doing internal rendering at a higher res than will be displayed. What games do this?
In this case, searching "unity scrollbars" produces an obvious solution in the first five results.
As a general rule, "see and ye shall find".
If we can't trust our sensory input, then we can't attribute any of the phenomena thereby experienced to magic, either.
Hence, when discussing whether or not a given phenomena is magical, "THE BUN IS IN YOUR MIND!" is not a germane contribution. In fact, you will find that "reality can't be proven to exist" is seldom relevant to any conversation.
P.S. There are four lights.
There's a distinction to be made between:
The Mouse that Roared, a best-selling cold war satirical novel by Leonard Wibberly, and
The Mouse that Roared: Disney and the End of Innocence, a more recent book about Disney's effect on culture.
Vatican City's age of consent is 12.
So yes, there are some countries where 12 year olds are fair game, but 11 year olds are forbidden fruit.
Wandering far off topic here, but I don't get a chance to hold forth on Go-Bots every day...
While you're correct that Go-Bots will always be inferior to Transformers by most measures, they do surpass their Cybertron brethren in one important way: Transformers toys were made of molded plastic, while Go-Bots were made of die-cast metal.
This had two important results:
1. Go-Bots toys always won any fight against Transformers.
2. When you hit your little brother in the head with Cy-Kill, he stayed down until the paramedics showed up.
Don't forget your PIN number.
How, prey tell, does a police dog lie about smelling pot?
The same way a horse lies about knowing math, I suspect.
The whole point of the prison system as it stands today is to rehabilitate criminals and release them back into society as free men.
If that is the case, then why is it that so many states have laws that prevent felons from voting even after they have served their sentence and been released?
If the purpose of prison is rehabilitation, not revenge, why is nothing done to prevent inmates raping other inmates? I don't mean a token gesture, either, I mean a commitment to ending it.
If the purpose of prison is rehabilitation, why is there capital punishment at all?
These rhetorical questions are asked with the intent of shedding light on the true purpose of the penal system.
Also, under XP, you can right-click any item in the start menu and choose "Sort by name", and the Start menu organizes itself.
Uncertain if Windows later than xp have this functionality.
Police officers are required to enforce all the laws, not just the ones they agree with.
Therefore, any police officer can be no better than the worst law.
No environmental impact.
You know, they call it "dead tree format" for a reason...
At which point, they're no longer rich, right?
Also, I've heard the "eye of a needle is figurative" argument before- what is the evidence that it wasn't intended literally?
I mean, presumably they had needles with eyes at the time, or else they wouldn't have used the name for the walled city's door.
That commercial did not, in fact, make the statement that "Macs are immune to viruses."
It did say that there were "114,000 known viruses for PCs" to which the Mac replies "PCs. Not Macs."
What about this one?
It says, "I run Mac OS X, so I don't have to worry about your spyware and viruses."
I suppose the argument could be made that the commercial meant that the person running OS X didn't have to worry about anyone's spyware and viruses but his own (due to the word "your"), but only someone who was already on guard against Apple's duplicitous salesmanship would interpret the commercial in that way.
**** BEGIN PEDANTRY DETERRENCE ****
**** REASONABLE READERS MAY DISREGARD ****
Also, because the Mac representative has spent the previous entirety of the commercial scoffing at the PC representative's paranoia, there is a much more obvious and likely meaning of "your spyware and viruses", as in, "Take your average virus, for example. It doesn't worry me." This usage of "your" does not convey possession (by the PC representative), and thus does not distinguish between viruses and spyware by platform.
**** END PEDANTRY DETERRENCE ****
The commercial clearly suggests that Mac OS X boasts some special resistance or protection (immunity, perhaps?) against spyware and viruses that saves its users the trouble of worrying about same.
You are as correct here as you are irrelevant, since I was replying to a post that only mentioned "malware".
Since you have decided to play the pedant, I might also point out that the target audience for the Apple advertisement is unlikely to make the fine distinction between trojans and viruses.
Who says Mac users claim they don't get malware? ...
It comes up every time, so the only people who seem to perpetuate the myth of the technology-literate Apple user who claims immunity from security threats are the ones seeking to mock the Reality Distortion Field and the users of Apple software as clueless.
Here is an Apple commercial that claims that Macintoshes don't get viruses. It is part of a series of commercials that make it seem as though there is some special feature of Apple hardware that makes it less susceptible to viruses.
I would say that the "people perpetuating the myth of the technology-literate Apple user who claims immunity from security threats" are... Apple.
Reading Microsoft manuals in their outdated help app is a pain.
Behold, a Firefox extension for reading CHM files. :)
If it's anything like the cocaine vaccine, then your concern is unwarranted.
The cocaine vaccine causes your immune system to regard cocaine as invasive and makes it impossible for you to get high, no matter how much cocaine you consume.
I read an article in Discover about it; it mentioned cases of people attempting to do just what you described. They tested with levels of cocaine thousands of times higher than normal users and did not experience any high.
I would like to be a fly on the wall in a room where cokeheads are frantically trying to snort enough to feel a buzz, and failing.
My concern is that such vaccines will eventually be administered to children at birth, for their own good, leading to a world where demand for ganja decreases to such an extent that I have to grow my own.
I eat low fat ranged beef, with habanero sauce. Good stuff. And absolutely nothing bland about that. Of course, I have seen that most veggi dishes are about as bland as it gets.
In case my typography was not clear enough, how do you rationalize using a vegetable to provide flavor to your meat, and then immediately generalizing vegetable dishes as bland?
In general, vegetables are more flavorful than meat, since meat does not want to be eaten. Many plants have a game plan of "trick the animals into eating me, then fertilizing my seeds when they crap them out." If faced with a false dichotomy of an all meat or all vegetable diet, there is no question which would be the more nutritious and the better tasting- especially considering that most seasonings other than salt are themselves vegetables.
Your generalization, too, says a lot.
I keep hearing about this "gay marriage"... is there some other kind?