I know it's a crazy idea, but maybe if Apple built their own servers, they wouldn't have to worry about that. Maybe they could even sell a few of them to other companies.
Nah. Crazy idea. Forget I mentioned it.
Hell, even that wouldn't necessarily do it. They'd literally have to build every chip in the box AND the entire tool chain starting from the IC designer software (AND the OS/hardware it ran on) in order to get a sterile, trusted base from which to work. They'd have to write their own compilers and every other bit to really know it was clean, and they'd have to build their own IC fabs including the fabrication equipment from scratch to ensure they were producing untainted chips. This would also include most of the software and firmware that runs the fab production line like the masking gear, lithography or ebeam etching machines, etc etc etc.
I think it's damn near impossible to say with any certainty these days that a given chip or IC of any complexity is "clean" or free of a back door.
To be clear, I'm not saying any given chip or processor is tainted or has been subverted, I'm saying it's gone past the point where we can tell.
Amazing how the bible is full of scientific principles and truths that simple sheep herders had know way to know was true back then, nor how all of those independent herders collaborated and had the same exact info.
Lol, name a few if you can.
At the same time, why don't you explain some of the failed prophecies in the bible or some of the blatant mistakes or some of the stuff that's just plain wrong. I'll get you started:
1) The bible states clearly that Nebuchadnezzar would destroy Tyre, but in reality the city is alive and well. God explicitly states that Nebuchadnezzar would completely sack and destroy the city of Tyre and that Tyre's land would never be built upon again. However, this never occurred. Despite being conquered and razed by Alexander the Great 240 years later, Tyre still exists.
2) Lev. 11:6 "And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you." Except neither hares or rabbits "chew their cud". Ask any biologist or look it up on Google.
3) The Book of Genesis begins with two contradictory creation accounts (1:1-2:3 and 2:4-3:24). In the first, God created humans (male and female) after he finished making all of the other animals. In the second, God made one man (“Adam”) and then created all of the animals in order to find a helpmeet for Adam. Which version of this fairy tale is right?
4) When did God divide light from darkness? Was it on the first day of creation, or on the fourth day? Genesis contradicts itself:
Genesis 1:4-5 God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
OR....
Genesis 1:16-19 And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night... to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
It's like they've forgotten the God of Abraham was one mean SOB. He even persuaded one of His main prophets to murder his own son. That's pretty fucked up.
Yes, the God of Abraham was like a sleep-deprived meth addict with anger control issues. Kill 'em all, plunder and pillage, etc etc. And talk about a control freak, that dude set the standard. Don't eat this, don't eat that, here's how you're allowed to cut your hair, take a poop, till your crops, etc etc etc.
And yeah, the whole "murder your own son to prove you're my buddy" is about THE most fucked up thing imaginable. A god that would make such a demand is worthy of contempt, not worship.
The bible quotes would be relevant if there were enough people who followed them to become a global problem today. But there isn't.
Yes, the key word being "today".
Christians happily put loads of "non-believers" to death on a whim back when they could get away with it, and many still pine for those days. Most of the prominent theocratic cranks alive now would be perfectly fine with returning to those days. I could list a dozen right now that would love to see civilization fall back to where they could put people to the sword as a matter of "faith in their beliefs" or for the non-existent crime of "blasphemy". Just channel-surf on Sunday morning and you'll find gobs of them.
Yesterday it was Christianity doing it, today it's Islam. Tomorrow it'll be Scientology or some other crackpot religion.
One of the chief problems confronting scholars interested in the historicity of Jesus, like that of the historicity of King Arthur, is that there are no contemporary records of his life or existence.[3] Like many genuinely historical figures of antiquity, all records of his historicity come from one or more generations after his death, the earliest source being that found in the Epistles of Paul dated to AD 59, who discusses his crucifixion. Other sources such as that of Josephus or Tacitus date even later. Historians interested in the historicity of Jesus are confronted by discussing the nature of these historic records and the intention and points of view of their authors.[4][5]
I mean, really, if you're going to cite Wikipedia, you could look a bit further. ----------------
he trouble is, fewer and fewer idiot fanatics can do more and more damage. How do you control them?
There is no way to control them. The only thing that will put a damper on extremists motivated by crazy-ass religious delusions is for religion to find its rightful place in the dustbin of history.
Again, you and I and billions may agree on religions being fairy tales, but there is a single, specific religion whose followers are quite consistently the ones blowing up others who are not followers of that religion, and incidentally, this given religion has quite specific instructions in their text for doing so.
Yes, no argument there, at least in this present day. "Islam is the mother lode of bad ideas", as someone else has observed.
Point of historic fact, Jesus most likely did exist.
Educate yourself. He never existed, he's an amalgam of previous "holy" figures.
Many mythologies have a Christ like character whose story is set around the same pattern. Osiris, the Egyptian god of the underworld had a very similar life story and the ancient Egyptians celebrated his ‘passion’ with gusto. Osiris’ son, Horus was born to a virgin in a cave with a star overhead. He was visited by shepherds and gods. Horus was said to be the ‘light of the world’. He started to become active aged about 30 and many miracles were attributed to him that also appear in the gospels including walking on water and letting the blind see again.
There is not a single mention of Jesus in ANY records or dispatches back to Rome (surely anyone who could command huge gatherings of people in a potentially disruptive province should be of interest). He is not mentioned in the records of Herod’s court nor is he mentioned in the records of the Temple or by any Priests. Not one single word.
There is not a single mention in writing about him from the time he supposedly existed, nor is there any other shred of evidence. Not one carving, sculpture, drawing, poem, song, nothing- not a single line written ANYWHERE from ANYONE during the time he supposedly existed.
It's inconceivable that no one at the time bothered to write down anything about the most important person in the whole of human history. Writing was common back then. People wrote letters. Historians wrote commentaries on current events. The Romans wrote and kept legal documents about trials. It's considered one of the best documented periods of history. Yet no one wrote anything about this Jesus; no one painted a portrait of this Jesus; no one drew a sketch of this Jesus; no one cast a coin depicting this Jesus; no one made a statue of this Jesus; no one makes any reference whatsoever to this Jesus. The historical evidence is overwhelming—the Jesus of the Bible never existed.
Even the earliest full account of Jesus in the Bible, the Gospel of Mark, is admitted by the Catholic Church to date to at least A.D. 70, a full 40 years after Jesus' alleged death and resurrection. (Mark makes reference to an event that happened around A.D. 70, so it could not have been written any earlier. Modern scholars now date the Gospels as being written near A.D. 170, a full 140 years after the alleged event, since no one makes any reference to a Gospel of Mark, or any other Gospel, prior to this time.)
Face it...he never existed. There's more evidence for unicorns than there is for Jesus.
Besides discounting Jesus on the basis that he 'almost certainly never existed' but taking God for granted
I take neither of them for granted because neither of them ever existed. The entire story is a load of utter bullshit from beginning to end.
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these quotes deal with deserters of the religion.
So what?
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To be honest I'm less concerned with Muslims blowing up ex-Muslims-turned-Jews/Christians than Muslims blowing up everybody else in general, if not for something else, because it's a smaller set, and Muslims aren't leaving behind their religion in droves for Christianity or Judaism.
Again, it means nothing. It's all a load of bullshit, and Jews and Christians killed loads of people back when they could get away with it. The followers of Islam never really grew out of it for whatever reason so they're still beheading people for all sorts of imagined "crimes" against "god".
Jesus almost certainly never existed, but you take God's existence for granted?
Fuck no, they're both fairy tales for the simple-minded.
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Btw. the GP said Jesus. Probably for a reason. For Christianty is not just the Old Testament; the Old Testament is the context and the New Testament is the main course.
Old Testament, New Testament, they're both nothing more than a collection of toxic fairy tales written by ignorant Bronze Age sheep herders, most of whom never traveled more than 10 miles from the spot they were born.
I have no dog in this fight, but you are confusing the Old Testament (the Hebrew scriptures, including Deuteronomy and Leviticus and the passages you cite above) with the New Testament
Oh, you mean God 2.0, the one with all the bug fixes?
You fail the challenge as posed. The Abrahamic God is the same being in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. God does not define Christianity. Jesus does. Christianity only EXISTED beginning with the time of Jesus. It is named AFTER Jesus Christ.
What I hear when you prattle on about this magical bullshit: "Blah blah blah blah blah"
Luke 19:27 is a parable. It wasn't a command given to his believers.
Oh, it's always a "parable" when you don't like what it says or when the content is blatantly hateful or doesn't jibe with your personal interpretation of what you think is right. But the rest is always to be taken literally, right? It's the "literal WORD OF GOD", right? lol
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The other two are NOT Jesus commands to his followers either.
Umm, but Jesus is God, isn't he? That's what your bible says, over and over. That's what all the preachers and priests say. Are they wrong, or are you?
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Be honest, there are plenty of Atheists who would kill religious people if given a chance.
Sure, I'll be honest- I've never known an atheist who says he or she would like to "kill religious people", not one. We would be happy if religion died and took all of its hatred and bigotry with it, but no atheist I know has ever said they'd like to kill religious people.
Not Jesus (who almost certainly never existed) but God himself says it repeatedly:
Deuteronomy 17
If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant; 17:3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; 17:4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel; 17:5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
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Deuteronomy 13: 6 If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, 7 gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), 8 do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them. 9 You must certainly put them to death. Your hand must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people. 10 Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 11 Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again.
12 If you hear it said about one of the towns the Lord your God is giving you to live in 13 that troublemakers have arisen among you and have led the people of their town astray, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods you have not known), 14 then you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly. And if it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done among you, 15 you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. You must destroy it completely, both its people and its livestock. 16 You are to gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. That town is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt.
Or Numbers 31, where God commands the Israelites to attack Midian and kill all the men, all the married women and all the male children but to keep the virgin females as the spoils of war and distribute them among the soldiers. The reason offered for that barbarism? Two Midianite women had allegedly “tempted” two Israelite men to worship other gods.
There are also New Testament passages cited as justification to kill non-believers, e.g.
Luke 19:27: But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
Be honest- there are plenty of Christians who would love to kill non-believers if they thought they could get away with it (like they did for centuries before the modern era). Mod me down all you like- you know it's true (and you'll just be proving my point).
Huh. It's weird for you to have used such strong language to avoid answering the question, which let me boil it down for you was why? Stating that you want it at the bottom isn't an answer. So, no, it wasn't clear enough for us because it wasn't clear at all. Try again and be less vulgar this time.
Because I prefer it there. Hopefully this will clear up your confusion.
Is it really that bad an idea? And for all the times you've seen it, was it between actual coworkers?
Yes, and yes. Don't do it.
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I guess if she turns out to be a psycho and accuses you of sexual harassment when you dump her, but really, the changes of that are probably pretty low.
They aren't as low as you might think...breakups happen, and having an HR department in common can lead to some pretty ugly stuff happening. I've seen vindictive people use this as a way to get revenge and it's never a good thing no matter how it turns out, even if you're totally cleared of any wrongdoing.
Seriously, you're welcome to take your chances but decades of experience have shown me it's usually a bad idea.:(
These people fail to realize that 99% of users care about applications not the OS nor the purity level of its code or APIs.
This is true, and a lot of people don't get this basic fact.
No one buys or installs an OS because of the OS itself, they do it to run applications. The vast majority of people don't care about the underlying OS, they just want to run whatever it is that enables them to get some work done or play games or communicate, etc.
Slashdot Mirror
I don't see what your reference proves or is intended to show. (??)
I know it's a crazy idea, but maybe if Apple built their own servers, they wouldn't have to worry about that. Maybe they could even sell a few of them to other companies.
Nah. Crazy idea. Forget I mentioned it.
Hell, even that wouldn't necessarily do it. They'd literally have to build every chip in the box AND the entire tool chain starting from the IC designer software (AND the OS/hardware it ran on) in order to get a sterile, trusted base from which to work. They'd have to write their own compilers and every other bit to really know it was clean, and they'd have to build their own IC fabs including the fabrication equipment from scratch to ensure they were producing untainted chips. This would also include most of the software and firmware that runs the fab production line like the masking gear, lithography or ebeam etching machines, etc etc etc.
I think it's damn near impossible to say with any certainty these days that a given chip or IC of any complexity is "clean" or free of a back door.
To be clear, I'm not saying any given chip or processor is tainted or has been subverted, I'm saying it's gone past the point where we can tell.
Welcome to our world, Mr Big Corporation, where we used to worry about you monitoring our communications....but now it's your turn to do the worrying.
Yeah, this whole "spy on people" thing ain't so fuckin' cool now, is it?
Alrighty....now that's the kind of innovation and useful technological creativity I've come to expect from the interweb.
brb, off to buy a VR headset
Wait..."Guh-Nome"? Is that how it's really pronounced??
I've always pronounced it "gnome", as in "garden gnome", or like "Nome, Alaska".
Is it really supposed to be pronounced "guh-nome"??
And Gnome has keyboard shortcuts for "some" of the apps? Will these miraculous wonders never cease?
With groundbreaking innovation like this it's like living in 1998 all over again. I mean, keyboard shortcuts, wow. MIND BLOWN!
Amazing how the bible is full of scientific principles and truths that simple sheep herders had know way to know was true back then, nor how all of those independent herders collaborated and had the same exact info.
Lol, name a few if you can.
At the same time, why don't you explain some of the failed prophecies in the bible or some of the blatant mistakes or some of the stuff that's just plain wrong. I'll get you started:
1) The bible states clearly that Nebuchadnezzar would destroy Tyre, but in reality the city is alive and well. God explicitly states that Nebuchadnezzar would completely sack and destroy the city of Tyre and that Tyre's land would never be built upon again. However, this never occurred. Despite being conquered and razed by Alexander the Great 240 years later, Tyre still exists.
2) Lev. 11:6 "And the hare, because he cheweth the cud, but divideth not the hoof; he is unclean unto you." Except neither hares or rabbits "chew their cud". Ask any biologist or look it up on Google.
3) The Book of Genesis begins with two contradictory creation accounts (1:1-2:3 and 2:4-3:24).
In the first, God created humans (male and female) after he finished making all of the other animals.
In the second, God made one man (“Adam”) and then created all of the animals in order to find a helpmeet for Adam.
Which version of this fairy tale is right?
4) When did God divide light from darkness? Was it on the first day of creation, or on the fourth day? Genesis contradicts itself:
Genesis 1:4-5
God divided the light from the darkness. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
OR....
Genesis 1:16-19 ... to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day.
And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night
It's like they've forgotten the God of Abraham was one mean SOB. He even persuaded one of His main prophets to murder his own son. That's pretty fucked up.
Yes, the God of Abraham was like a sleep-deprived meth addict with anger control issues. Kill 'em all, plunder and pillage, etc etc. And talk about a control freak, that dude set the standard. Don't eat this, don't eat that, here's how you're allowed to cut your hair, take a poop, till your crops, etc etc etc.
And yeah, the whole "murder your own son to prove you're my buddy" is about THE most fucked up thing imaginable. A god that would make such a demand is worthy of contempt, not worship.
"Why We Should Fear A Cashless World"
If you have to have this explained to you, you're probably too dumb to understand it.
Yes, it's all about anonymity and autonomy. Every government's wet-dream is to be able to track every transaction no matter how small.
The bible quotes would be relevant if there were enough people who followed them to become a global problem today. But there isn't.
Yes, the key word being "today".
Christians happily put loads of "non-believers" to death on a whim back when they could get away with it, and many still pine for those days. Most of the prominent theocratic cranks alive now would be perfectly fine with returning to those days. I could list a dozen right now that would love to see civilization fall back to where they could put people to the sword as a matter of "faith in their beliefs" or for the non-existent crime of "blasphemy". Just channel-surf on Sunday morning and you'll find gobs of them.
Yesterday it was Christianity doing it, today it's Islam. Tomorrow it'll be Scientology or some other crackpot religion.
As AC wrote below your post:
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Your claims about the content of that article don't rise to the level which you present them.
Or this other one
One of the chief problems confronting scholars interested in the historicity of Jesus, like that of the historicity of King Arthur, is that there are no contemporary records of his life or existence.[3] Like many genuinely historical figures of antiquity, all records of his historicity come from one or more generations after his death, the earliest source being that found in the Epistles of Paul dated to AD 59, who discusses his crucifixion. Other sources such as that of Josephus or Tacitus date even later. Historians interested in the historicity of Jesus are confronted by discussing the nature of these historic records and the intention and points of view of their authors.[4][5]
I mean, really, if you're going to cite Wikipedia, you could look a bit further.
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Hey, you're the one that cited the scriptures. One would hope you can tell the difference between a Christian and a Jew.
I can, but when it comes fundamentalism it's often a distinction without a difference.
he trouble is, fewer and fewer idiot fanatics can do more and more damage. How do you control them?
There is no way to control them. The only thing that will put a damper on extremists motivated by crazy-ass religious delusions is for religion to find its rightful place in the dustbin of history.
Again, you and I and billions may agree on religions being fairy tales, but there is a single, specific religion whose followers are quite consistently the ones blowing up others who are not followers of that religion, and incidentally, this given religion has quite specific instructions in their text for doing so.
Yes, no argument there, at least in this present day. "Islam is the mother lode of bad ideas", as someone else has observed.
Point of historic fact, Jesus most likely did exist.
Educate yourself. He never existed, he's an amalgam of previous "holy" figures.
Many mythologies have a Christ like character whose story is set around the same pattern. Osiris, the Egyptian god of the underworld had a very similar life story and the ancient Egyptians celebrated his ‘passion’ with gusto. Osiris’ son, Horus was born to a virgin in a cave with a star overhead. He was visited by shepherds and gods. Horus was said to be the ‘light of the world’. He started to become active aged about 30 and many miracles were attributed to him that also appear in the gospels including walking on water and letting the blind see again.
There is not a single mention of Jesus in ANY records or dispatches back to Rome (surely anyone who could command huge gatherings of people in a potentially disruptive province should be of interest). He is not mentioned in the records of Herod’s court nor is he mentioned in the records of the Temple or by any Priests. Not one single word.
There is not a single mention in writing about him from the time he supposedly existed, nor is there any other shred of evidence. Not one carving, sculpture, drawing, poem, song, nothing- not a single line written ANYWHERE from ANYONE during the time he supposedly existed.
It's inconceivable that no one at the time bothered to write down anything about the most important person in the whole of human history. Writing was common back then. People wrote letters. Historians wrote commentaries on current events. The Romans wrote and kept legal documents about trials. It's considered one of the best documented periods of history. Yet no one wrote anything about this Jesus; no one painted a portrait of this Jesus; no one drew a sketch of this Jesus; no one cast a coin depicting this Jesus; no one made a statue of this Jesus; no one makes any reference whatsoever to this Jesus. The historical evidence is overwhelming—the Jesus of the Bible never existed.
Even the earliest full account of Jesus in the Bible, the Gospel of Mark, is admitted by the Catholic Church to date to at least A.D. 70, a full 40 years after Jesus' alleged death and resurrection. (Mark makes reference to an event that happened around A.D. 70, so it could not have been written any earlier. Modern scholars now date the Gospels as being written near A.D. 170, a full 140 years after the alleged event, since no one makes any reference to a Gospel of Mark, or any other Gospel, prior to this time.)
Face it...he never existed. There's more evidence for unicorns than there is for Jesus.
Besides discounting Jesus on the basis that he 'almost certainly never existed' but taking God for granted
I take neither of them for granted because neither of them ever existed. The entire story is a load of utter bullshit from beginning to end.
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these quotes deal with deserters of the religion.
So what?
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To be honest I'm less concerned with Muslims blowing up ex-Muslims-turned-Jews/Christians than Muslims blowing up everybody else in general, if not for something else, because it's a smaller set, and Muslims aren't leaving behind their religion in droves for Christianity or Judaism.
Again, it means nothing. It's all a load of bullshit, and Jews and Christians killed loads of people back when they could get away with it. The followers of Islam never really grew out of it for whatever reason so they're still beheading people for all sorts of imagined "crimes" against "god".
Jesus almost certainly never existed, but you take God's existence for granted?
Fuck no, they're both fairy tales for the simple-minded.
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Btw. the GP said Jesus. Probably for a reason. For Christianty is not just the Old Testament; the Old Testament is the context and the New Testament is the main course.
Old Testament, New Testament, they're both nothing more than a collection of toxic fairy tales written by ignorant Bronze Age sheep herders, most of whom never traveled more than 10 miles from the spot they were born.
I have no dog in this fight, but you are confusing the Old Testament (the Hebrew scriptures, including Deuteronomy and Leviticus and the passages you cite above) with the New Testament
Oh, you mean God 2.0, the one with all the bug fixes?
You fail the challenge as posed. The Abrahamic God is the same being in Christianity, Judaism, and Islam. God does not define Christianity. Jesus does. Christianity only EXISTED beginning with the time of Jesus. It is named AFTER Jesus Christ.
What I hear when you prattle on about this magical bullshit: "Blah blah blah blah blah"
Luke 19:27 is a parable. It wasn't a command given to his believers.
Oh, it's always a "parable" when you don't like what it says or when the content is blatantly hateful or doesn't jibe with your personal interpretation of what you think is right. But the rest is always to be taken literally, right? It's the "literal WORD OF GOD", right? lol
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The other two are NOT Jesus commands to his followers either.
Umm, but Jesus is God, isn't he? That's what your bible says, over and over. That's what all the preachers and priests say. Are they wrong, or are you?
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Be honest, there are plenty of Atheists who would kill religious people if given a chance.
Sure, I'll be honest- I've never known an atheist who says he or she would like to "kill religious people", not one. We would be happy if religion died and took all of its hatred and bigotry with it, but no atheist I know has ever said they'd like to kill religious people.
Not Jesus (who almost certainly never existed) but God himself says it repeatedly:
Deuteronomy 17
If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant; 17:3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded; 17:4 And it be told thee, and thou hast heard of it, and enquired diligently, and, behold, it be true, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in Israel; 17:5 Then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, which have committed that wicked thing, unto thy gates, even that man or that woman, and shalt stone them with stones, till they die.
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Deuteronomy 13:
6 If your very own brother, or your son or daughter, or the wife you love, or your closest friend secretly entices you, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods that neither you nor your ancestors have known, 7 gods of the peoples around you, whether near or far, from one end of the land to the other), 8 do not yield to them or listen to them. Show them no pity. Do not spare them or shield them. 9 You must certainly put them to death. Your hand must be the first in putting them to death, and then the hands of all the people. 10 Stone them to death, because they tried to turn you away from the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery. 11 Then all Israel will hear and be afraid, and no one among you will do such an evil thing again.
12 If you hear it said about one of the towns the Lord your God is giving you to live in
13 that troublemakers have arisen among you and have led the people of their town astray, saying, “Let us go and worship other gods” (gods you have not known),
14 then you must inquire, probe and investigate it thoroughly. And if it is true and it has been proved that this detestable thing has been done among you,
15 you must certainly put to the sword all who live in that town. You must destroy it completely, both its people and its livestock.
16 You are to gather all the plunder of the town into the middle of the public square and completely burn the town and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the Lord your God. That town is to remain a ruin forever, never to be rebuilt.
Or Numbers 31, where God commands the Israelites to attack Midian and kill all the men, all the married women and all the male children but to keep the virgin females as the spoils of war and distribute them among the soldiers. The reason offered for that barbarism? Two Midianite women had allegedly “tempted” two Israelite men to worship other gods.
There are also New Testament passages cited as justification to kill non-believers, e.g.
Luke 19:27:
But those mine enemies, which would not that I should reign over them, bring hither, and slay them before me.
Be honest- there are plenty of Christians who would love to kill non-believers if they thought they could get away with it (like they did for centuries before the modern era). Mod me down all you like- you know it's true (and you'll just be proving my point).
So now I'll have to decrypt my spam in order to read it? I feel safer already!
Huh. It's weird for you to have used such strong language to avoid answering the question, which let me boil it down for you was why? Stating that you want it at the bottom isn't an answer.
So, no, it wasn't clear enough for us because it wasn't clear at all. Try again and be less vulgar this time.
Because I prefer it there. Hopefully this will clear up your confusion.
Is it really that bad an idea? And for all the times you've seen it, was it between actual coworkers?
Yes, and yes. Don't do it.
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I guess if she turns out to be a psycho and accuses you of sexual harassment when you dump her, but really, the changes of that are probably pretty low.
They aren't as low as you might think...breakups happen, and having an HR department in common can lead to some pretty ugly stuff happening. I've seen vindictive people use this as a way to get revenge and it's never a good thing no matter how it turns out, even if you're totally cleared of any wrongdoing.
Seriously, you're welcome to take your chances but decades of experience have shown me it's usually a bad idea. :(
These people fail to realize that 99% of users care about applications not the OS nor the purity level of its code or APIs.
This is true, and a lot of people don't get this basic fact.
No one buys or installs an OS because of the OS itself, they do it to run applications. The vast majority of people don't care about the underlying OS, they just want to run whatever it is that enables them to get some work done or play games or communicate, etc.
"Are You Excited About Upcoming 4-inch iPhone or 9.7-inch iPad Pro?"
No, I have a life.