Aw - the religious bigot xian is all mad because I made fun of the wiggly man on a stick being a bastard.
Tough shit.
Simple facts:
Superstitions have been with us as long as people have been telling stories around the fire
They have NEVER panned out, but people still keep falling for them
There is no proof whatsoever that the current round of religions over the last couple of thousand years are any different from what was going on 10 - 30 thousand years ago - quite the contrary - the jewish myths are traceable to earlier religions
You're free to believe what you want - if you want to believe in some religion, that's your right. Doesn't make you any less a fool than the guy who says he's Napolean, or Michael Jackson thinking he's Diana Ross
No matter how you slice it, Jesus WAS a bastard. And next time, maybe they should use Wilson's Nails. Anyway, have fun arguing with yourself for the next week, because I'm moving and will be too busy to bother with something as foolish as God or "faith-based religion".
Now if you could show me a religion that wasn't faith-based, you'd have something. But you can't, so you have nothing. That's not being bigoted, just realistic.
Your post furthers my comment about "cafeteria christians" who pick and choose what parts of "the word or God" are legit and what parts aren't. Pretty impotent god if he/she/it/whatever can't even get their message straight to his/her/its own people...
It is not important to me that you choose to disbelieve a bunch of superstitious rot... quite the contrary, I wouldn't have it any other way - it separates the wheat from the chaff, in this case the chaff being anyone gullible enough to believe what would pass for a really bad TV movie-of-the-week script.
Wanna buy a bridge? After all, you've already bought a "stairway to heaven", sight unseen.
If ( when ) they think they can get away with it, they will start sending letters to every project on the globe ( where they have jurisdiction that is ) and shut the project down. Including anyone who houses it ( like sourceforge ) or just distributes ( countless number of mirrors ), and perhaps even end users.
Its not about a 'tax', its about destroying competition.
Good idea! After all, look at how many companies dropped linux after SCO sent out just 1500 demand letters...
If Microsoft really wants to piss off everyone, their current customers included, that's the way to go. I for one would love to see them try it. Heck, the minute they do, I'll load up on Apple stock and short Microsoft.
Why would I want to ban the bible? As hate literature, it should be studied as an example of what small-minded delusional psychotics will cling to to justify their fantasies of self-importance and significance. After all, it was written by people who were seriously out of touch with reality.
Humans have been superstitious for tens of thousands of years, long before the bible. Why should this new god be any different? Oh, right - he's not - its the same old fables and promises with the names and places changed.
The purported virgin birth - there is no proof whatsoever that such was possible, and a lot of evidence that it never happened. For example, the chromosomes would have to come from somewhere... or are you implying that Jesus only had chromosomes from his mother, similar to "virgin births" for reptiles that have parthenogenesis under stressful conditions - which would have made him a female... (no y chromosome donor)...
My claim isn't that God is a fornicator, but that God doesn't exist, and that he would be a fornicator by the definition of the bible, which is a ridiculous book. Lets face it, if someone today gave birth to a kid and said it was a virgin birth, you wouldn't believe it... in those days, they were a lot more ignorant about such things. No sex education in the schools. No tv. No dirty magazines.
You're the one who strayed the argument from the bible as a whole to Jesus. Also, as I pointed out in the first quote, Jesus made it plain that fornicators don't go to heaven. Period. "Easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle" and all that.
So, you're another one of those "cafeteria christians" who picks and chooses what they want to believe... why not just admit its all a fraud?
OK, I'm going to need you to quote me the place where Jesus said that.
The bible says worse - they're all going to hell. Whee!!!:
Matthew 5:20 For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 19:16 And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?
17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
18 He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
1 Corinthians 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,
10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.
Galatians 5:19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,
21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
Ephesians 5:5 For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.
Personally, I'd rather rule in hell than serve in heaven.
For more info, try looking up the origins of the practice of excommunication by the early church, why they did it, and what the bible says aboit it - not to keep company with your brothers and sisters who "fuck around", or "live in sin" or whatever you choose to call it.
Obviously, a virgin birth via the Holy Spirit is not the same as sexual relations.
... except you don't have any proof that the so-called holy spirit ever existed, or that its possible to give birth to a male child w/o having sex (even the egg spontaneously dividing would result in a female child - 2 x chromosomes). You're not much on science - keep pushing those fries with every order.
... would they be doing this if they didn't believe? Then they're "good people." If they're doing it only because they believe, then even their own bible condemns their actions as being hollow.
I know, its "more complicated than that." But no, really, it isn't.
The whole chrisitian religion is as full of logical holes as any other one. For example:
fornicators are to be shunned
Mary was Joseph's wife, not God's
God is a fornicator and Jesus a bastard
And don't bring out the "God didn't have sex with that woman!" line. It didn't wash with Clinton and his blow job, it doesn't wash with God knocking up some teen-ager. Or is oral sex now not classified as sex in the New New New Revised King James Version For Pedophile Preachers?
Either:
God is a fornicator, and you worship the bastard whelp of a fornicator,
or God isn't a fornicator, in which case Jesus is not the son of God,
or there is no god
Now really, would you even trust someone who goes around cuckolding someone else, never mind worshiping them and their bastard kid? That's some opiate of the masses there - more like crack.
Collectively these atheist tyrants murdered more than 100 million people
... and you're next on the list, buddy!
Actually, we just have to sit back and watch the various religions kill each other off ("my god is the real god" "no, mine is" "no, mine is - die, infidel!") And if you think that's limited to the middle east, you didn't look too closely at Ireland, among other places and times.
Religion isn't the opiate of the masses... more like crack cocaine.
A pox on all your houses.
Unless you are very good the average lifespan of a programmer is about 10 years and age discrimination starts very young like around 36.
Shit, that means I'm WAYYY beyond my "best-before" date.
Yes, its true that age discrimination starts around 36, but if you stay on top of things (READ READ READ CODE CODE CODE) you'll be better at 50 than you were at 25.
I buy a bunch of cheap sponges (12 in a pack at the local Dollar Store), and pack them in that. Thenk keep the box they ship the return drive in for next time...
Exactly. I can buy OEM 320-gig hard drives with a 5-year warranty for $20 LESS than the same drive with a 1-year warranty from Future Shit. The only reason people buy retail is they don't know any better. Go to your local beige-box builder and he'll be glad to give you the same deal.
(Three-year warranty? Yeah, right. Like anyone does buy HDs at that kind of premium. Unless they're Raptors, but then you don't even need a warranty.)
Buy your hard drives OEM from your local beige-box builder instead of from a retailer like Future Shit or Worst Buy, and you get a 3 t 5 year OEM warranty instead of the stupid 1-year warranty, and you pay a bit less.
Nice strawman arguments. Of course, it totally ignores my point... which is why you trotted out the "straw man wookie look at this hand"...
Basic math skills would have avoided some very costly mistakes. Of course, if the US had gone metric along with pretty much everyone else in the world, again, this mistake wouldn't have happened...
The article you quote bears me out... it was an error in failing to do a conversion between standard and metric units.
The conversion factor from pound-seconds to newton-seconds was buried in the original equation and not immediately identifiable, and so it was not included in the updated equation.
Teach them not to use the good old "hogsheads to the furlong" measuring system. The excuses don't wash. Neither the "1 solar panel" nor the "not using ground tracking" were "unforseen events". They screwed up. Specifically:
Thus, the ground software reported calculated "impulse bits" which were a factor of 4.45 too large (1 pound force = 4.45 newtons). Subsequent processing of the calculated impulse bit values from the AMD file by the navigation software underestimated the effect of the thruster firings on the spacecraft trajectory by this factor.
This mixup was exacerbated by two factors:
The lack of end-to-end testing of the AMD data flow before launch
The lack of an independent navigation algorithm to cross-check the AMD-based algorithm in flight
Note my original post, where I said that one of the problems is people not being able to recognize errors that are one or more magnitudes in size from the correct answer...
There isn't any real news. Don't you realize it yet. Stories are generated and fed to the media by the PR departments of the various interests. How it works is a bunch of 'journalists' sit in a room and generate feel good stories about the establishment and negative ones about whoever we happened to be currently at war with.
Don't laugh - I knew a guy who worked for one of the weekly tabloids (hint - they encouraged people to subscribe by giving away 50-cent lottery tickets way back when), and they had to come up with goofy stories every week, so they made them up. Improbable stories... They made up one of a 90-year-old woman giving birth to a baby, stuck a random name and state on it... and sure enough, there actually WAS a 90-year-old woman by that name in that state. She sued, they delayed the lawsuit ("Hey, she'll die before we get to court..." and when she stubbornly refused to just lay down and die, they had to settle a decade later.
So yes, a lot of the stories you see "in the news" at the checkout counter are pure fiction.
Also solving recurences, and proving them is invaluable. There are some other things that are very usesfull on a day to day basis, like linear algebra (spesifically coding theroy), geometry, graph theroy,
... I guess spelling isn't one of those things you find "very usesfull on a day to day basis"...
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Aw - the religious bigot xian is all mad because I made fun of the wiggly man on a stick being a bastard.
Tough shit.
Simple facts:
No matter how you slice it, Jesus WAS a bastard. And next time, maybe they should use Wilson's Nails. Anyway, have fun arguing with yourself for the next week, because I'm moving and will be too busy to bother with something as foolish as God or "faith-based religion".
Now if you could show me a religion that wasn't faith-based, you'd have something. But you can't, so you have nothing. That's not being bigoted, just realistic.
Awww ... is the fundie all upset because people think that religion is stupid?
Too bad, but religion is just plain dumb. Always has been. Always will be. Just like all superstition.
It sjust that I've been there, done that, saw the lies and wilful ignorance, and figured that being an atheist was at least intellecutally honest ...
The same thing will happen ... people will go "yeah? We've been down this road before with your sock puppet SCO. Show me. Of fuck off and die."
Microsoft doesn't get how pissed people are about their crappy products.
Two points:
Wanna buy a bridge? After all, you've already bought a "stairway to heaven", sight unseen.
Good idea! After all, look at how many companies dropped linux after SCO sent out just 1500 demand letters ...
If Microsoft really wants to piss off everyone, their current customers included, that's the way to go. I for one would love to see them try it. Heck, the minute they do, I'll load up on Apple stock and short Microsoft.
Why would I want to ban the bible? As hate literature, it should be studied as an example of what small-minded delusional psychotics will cling to to justify their fantasies of self-importance and significance. After all, it was written by people who were seriously out of touch with reality.
Humans have been superstitious for tens of thousands of years, long before the bible. Why should this new god be any different? Oh, right - he's not - its the same old fables and promises with the names and places changed.
The purported virgin birth - there is no proof whatsoever that such was possible, and a lot of evidence that it never happened. For example, the chromosomes would have to come from somewhere ... or are you implying that Jesus only had chromosomes from his mother, similar to "virgin births" for reptiles that have parthenogenesis under stressful conditions - which would have made him a female ... (no y chromosome donor) ...
My claim isn't that God is a fornicator, but that God doesn't exist, and that he would be a fornicator by the definition of the bible, which is a ridiculous book. Lets face it, if someone today gave birth to a kid and said it was a virgin birth, you wouldn't believe it ... in those days, they were a lot more ignorant about such things. No sex education in the schools. No tv. No dirty magazines.
You're the one who strayed the argument from the bible as a whole to Jesus. Also, as I pointed out in the first quote, Jesus made it plain that fornicators don't go to heaven. Period. "Easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle" and all that.
So, you're another one of those "cafeteria christians" who picks and chooses what they want to believe ... why not just admit its all a fraud?
The bible says worse - they're all going to hell. Whee!!!:
17 And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God: but if thou wilt enter into life, keep the commandments.
18 He saith unto him, Which? Jesus said, Thou shalt do no murder, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not bear false witness,
Personally, I'd rather rule in hell than serve in heaven.
For more info, try looking up the origins of the practice of excommunication by the early church, why they did it, and what the bible says aboit it - not to keep company with your brothers and sisters who "fuck around", or "live in sin" or whatever you choose to call it.
I'll go further. The bible is hate literature.
You call it magic - I call it stupidity. Magic, just another word for stupid superstitions.
I know, its "more complicated than that." But no, really, it isn't.
The whole chrisitian religion is as full of logical holes as any other one. For example:
And don't bring out the "God didn't have sex with that woman!" line. It didn't wash with Clinton and his blow job, it doesn't wash with God knocking up some teen-ager. Or is oral sex now not classified as sex in the New New New Revised King James Version For Pedophile Preachers?
Either:
Now really, would you even trust someone who goes around cuckolding someone else, never mind worshiping them and their bastard kid? That's some opiate of the masses there - more like crack.
Actually, we just have to sit back and watch the various religions kill each other off ("my god is the real god" "no, mine is" "no, mine is - die, infidel!") And if you think that's limited to the middle east, you didn't look too closely at Ireland, among other places and times.
Religion isn't the opiate of the masses ... more like crack cocaine.
A pox on all your houses.
Better watch it ... in the Soviet "wireless web wired to your brain" Universe, WAN pwnes YOU!
Because with artificial intelligence, all your inbox will belong to p3n15-3n14rg1ng spam from drive-by browser hitchhikers.
Unless you are very good the average lifespan of a programmer is about 10 years and age discrimination starts very young like around 36.
Shit, that means I'm WAYYY beyond my "best-before" date.
Yes, its true that age discrimination starts around 36, but if you stay on top of things (READ READ READ CODE CODE CODE) you'll be better at 50 than you were at 25.
I've returned a few, and never had a problem.
I buy a bunch of cheap sponges (12 in a pack at the local Dollar Store), and pack them in that. Thenk keep the box they ship the return drive in for next time ...
Exactly. I can buy OEM 320-gig hard drives with a 5-year warranty for $20 LESS than the same drive with a 1-year warranty from Future Shit. The only reason people buy retail is they don't know any better. Go to your local beige-box builder and he'll be glad to give you the same deal.
Why not just switch to FireFox? Built-in as-you-type spell checker.
Nice strawman arguments. Of course, it totally ignores my point ... which is why you trotted out the "straw man wookie look at this hand" ...
Basic math skills would have avoided some very costly mistakes. Of course, if the US had gone metric along with pretty much everyone else in the world, again, this mistake wouldn't have happened ...
The article you quote bears me out ... it was an error in failing to do a conversion between standard and metric units.
Teach them not to use the good old "hogsheads to the furlong" measuring system. The excuses don't wash. Neither the "1 solar panel" nor the "not using ground tracking" were "unforseen events". They screwed up. Specifically:
Note my original post, where I said that one of the problems is people not being able to recognize errors that are one or more magnitudes in size from the correct answer ...
Don't laugh - I knew a guy who worked for one of the weekly tabloids (hint - they encouraged people to subscribe by giving away 50-cent lottery tickets way back when), and they had to come up with goofy stories every week, so they made them up. Improbable stories ... They made up one of a 90-year-old woman giving birth to a baby, stuck a random name and state on it ... and sure enough, there actually WAS a 90-year-old woman by that name in that state. She sued, they delayed the lawsuit ("Hey, she'll die before we get to court ..." and when she stubbornly refused to just lay down and die, they had to settle a decade later.
So yes, a lot of the stories you see "in the news" at the checkout counter are pure fiction.