Exactly. For example, the apologist for the slaughter of all Midianites except the virginal females isn't about using them for marriage or sexual purposes, see? It's because every single non-virginal Midianite woman was engaged in seducing Israelite men for the purpose of leading them from Yahweh!
Hence their murder was justified.
As for the male children and babies, there was no "social relief" in this society, hence they'd have been too much of a burden on the Israelites, so that's why it was better to slaughter them, too....the difficult situation of selecting the 'most humane way' of dealing with the boys.
Now, Christians, if this is the best your apologists can do, look yourself in the mirror and say, "I worship this God because He is good."
So you're suggesting the non-Israelite cultures gang up and exterminate them so they, which are the vast majority of humanity, don't get slaughtered for being in the way, or hassling them? Are they just supposed to roll over and literally die just because God says so? Are you suggesting Hitler did the right thing, but for the wrong reason?
Yes, but if you do not kill innocent babies (after baptism, of course) aren't you exposing them to the possibility of Hell as they grow older? Better to off them as babies to ensure they go to Heaven.
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> because he knows what he's talking about, said it clearly, and explained it
Except that modern Christians also believe their translations were guided by the hand of God as well, so "kill" it is, officially. And burning witches you are. And killing men who lie with other men as they lie with women you shall do.
If a person refuses to pay taxes, or to join the government's health care plan, the government compells them by threatening jail. If they resist jail hard enough, they are killed instead, by the government, i.e. other people. Is that murder? Why not? And don't hide behind the the fraud that murder is only the "unlawful" killing of someone.
Because he likes a challenge, set the game on hard, and solved the problems to get promoted to pilot before you could unrwap the box, install, and go surfing for cheat codes to make you tha winnah.
> Sadly, I"ve seen a lot of examples of someone correctly using > meta-tags and emoticons to convey the intent of a particular > message, and someone still goes off on them.
=D [Good humor = on] 'Cause ya know if Linux was used in hundreds of millions of homes, and hackers began targetting it en masse, it wouldn't stand up even nearly as well as Windows has. =D lol:happyfamily:happyfamily
You young punks don't know how good you've got it.
I remember seeing a Vic 20 in the store and drooling over it -- so cool and yet so impossibly expensive to my 10 year old existence. I would have killed for the "basic" programming cartridge for the Atari (2600). Although I've since learned you got about 10 lines of code before you ran out of RAM.
It did give me a good daisy wheel printer + simple editor package that allowed me to do all my college papers on without having to haul my ass over to the laser printer at the mac center. Which I ended up doing the last 2 years of college anyway because I convinced daddy to get me a Mac Plus at the computer kickoff. Whoo! Only $1400 and it has one megabyte of RAM, expandable to 4 meg! You and your 640k ram limit can suck that, XT!
My brother and I blew our combined $700 from paper routes and Christmas and Birthday savings on a Coleco Adam (plus from money from selling the Colecovision + most of our cartridges.) Should have gotten the Atari 400 after all. Adam'd play the cartridges no problem, but the number of games was few and far between. Sorry to others out there, but this set the world record for Vaporware.
I tried writing a tron-cycle like game using Basic + their built in video hardware, which supported sprites. The game was slow, never worked properly, and was flashey in the bad sense, not the good sense. "This sucks", I said, in mid '80's terminology, since "sucks" wasn't really used back then. "This obviously cannot be the way these games are programmed.
The only alternative was to buy their CPM/Assembly language package, which I did, but never got very far since self-training in a new OS + assembly language, which I had no clue about, was next to impossible, especially since you had little more than a reference manual to the various commands to start you off.
Nah, real programming had to wait for a year later when I switched to computer sci from chemistry.
10th grade, was in "Data Processing" class (at that point, pretty much all computers were useful for was massive amounts of data processing. It was actually a programming class.) We were using Trash 80's, and saved our stuff on a cassette tape. Well, I did anyway because I had typed in a nethack dungeon exploration type of program I got from a Byte printout.
But anyway the next year, they had networked them all and bought a big honkin' next generation Trash 80, which was this gigantic screen, keyboard, and floppy drive all-in-one unit, and it had bays for four, count 'em, four floppy drives right next to the screen. Then we could pop a floppy in there and save that way, over the network.
Anyhoo, I had written a simple program that spit out a command prompt. I even built in a simple parser to take the commands the poor sap would type, and execute them, especially the "load" command. I had it pause for the requisite number of seconds, then spit out some "file deleted" command, even though nothing was actually happening.
Oh, the mirth I must have caused. Never did stick around to see the consequences...
The days when very few had a TV, and the vast majority didn't, and thus could not be sold on supporting the BBC, are long, long over. Just pay it directly out of general funds.
Or get rid of it altogether and make it pay for itself via donations and commercials. I'm sure most people would have much better sex lives if the government paid for prostitutes, but that doesn't make it a government function.
PBS is partially paid for by taxes -- it just comes out of the general funds of Congress, rather than via some specific user or license fee. It's also partially supported by commercials -- corporate sponsors who get something like a 10 second, product-unspecific blurb to boast about what an awesome company they are.
Plus they also have informercials for various self-help gurus, psychics, and what not, who are doing shows there in order to increase their name recognition, i.e. increase book sales. I don't know if PBS is paid to run these, but they might as well be.
And let's not forget the semi-annual begathons, one of which is an auction of donated items, the other of which is very protracted defacto commercials every 15 minutes during a show (which might take 2 hours instead of 1 to run because of this.)
I would say no tax in Britain because:
1. Computers are not primarily TVs
2. The TV stuff people watch on computers are not BBC
And if BBC wants to be payayaid because people on computers are not watching BBC, then they might as well just ask the parliament to pay it directly out of general funds. The days when very few people didn't have a TV, and thus could not be sold on supporting the BBC, are long, long over.
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Exactly. For example, the apologist for the slaughter of all Midianites except the virginal females isn't about using them for marriage or sexual purposes, see? It's because every single non-virginal Midianite woman was engaged in seducing Israelite men for the purpose of leading them from Yahweh!
...the difficult situation of selecting the 'most humane way' of dealing with the boys.
Hence their murder was justified.
As for the male children and babies, there was no "social relief" in this society, hence they'd have been too much of a burden on the Israelites, so that's why it was better to slaughter them, too.
Now, Christians, if this is the best your apologists can do, look yourself in the mirror and say, "I worship this God because He is good."
So you're suggesting the non-Israelite cultures gang up and exterminate them so they, which are the vast majority of humanity, don't get slaughtered for being in the way, or hassling them? Are they just supposed to roll over and literally die just because God says so? Are you suggesting Hitler did the right thing, but for the wrong reason?
Yes, but if you do not kill innocent babies (after baptism, of course) aren't you exposing them to the possibility of Hell as they grow older? Better to off them as babies to ensure they go to Heaven.
This flaming troll brought to you by the letter "logic".
> because he knows what he's talking about, said it clearly, and explained it
Except that modern Christians also believe their translations were guided by the hand of God as well, so "kill" it is, officially. And burning witches you are. And killing men who lie with other men as they lie with women you shall do.
If a person refuses to pay taxes, or to join the government's health care plan, the government compells them by threatening jail. If they resist jail hard enough, they are killed instead, by the government, i.e. other people. Is that murder? Why not? And don't hide behind the the fraud that murder is only the "unlawful" killing of someone.
Because he likes a challenge, set the game on hard, and solved the problems to get promoted to pilot before you could unrwap the box, install, and go surfing for cheat codes to make you tha winnah.
Evidently they broke the mould after you!
One could argue a discrete granulairity on spacial position implies a substructure to space.
Don't laugh. Some of the TV shopping channels sell "genuine faux pearls", or "genuine Diamonique".
Great. two Saturday afternoon movie classic monsters, the robot and the mysterious glob, rolled into one efficient murdering machine!
Meh, it seems like yesterday scientists were crazy-gluing flies to miniscule gliders and having them fly around.
Politician: What good are magnetic devices?
Pithy Scientist: Sir, in 20 years, you'll be taxing them.
Slavish, Hitler-like adherance to "laws" is not appreciated.
Where's the web site with all the Jesus pictures going "lol!" when you need it?
> Sadly, I"ve seen a lot of examples of someone correctly using
:happyfamily :happyfamily
> meta-tags and emoticons to convey the intent of a particular
> message, and someone still goes off on them.
=D [Good humor = on] 'Cause ya know if Linux was used in hundreds of millions of homes, and hackers began targetting it en masse, it wouldn't stand up even nearly as well as Windows has. =D lol
See, this is exactly what the original article is talking about.
:D
Without him saying , you assume he's speaking honestly instead of jokingly. Hence you feel a need to correct him.
And no, it's not "Tom G. Palmer", it's "Tomg Palmer". He's from Hawaii.
Note,
Ahh, a K-Mart worker, eh?
You young punks don't know how good you've got it.
I remember seeing a Vic 20 in the store and drooling over it -- so cool and yet so impossibly expensive to my 10 year old existence. I would have killed for the "basic" programming cartridge for the Atari (2600). Although I've since learned you got about 10 lines of code before you ran out of RAM.
Yeah, but the pr0n was huge and pixellated, roughly the equivalent of a tic tac toe board.
Years later, actually.
It did give me a good daisy wheel printer + simple editor package that allowed me to do all my college papers on without having to haul my ass over to the laser printer at the mac center. Which I ended up doing the last 2 years of college anyway because I convinced daddy to get me a Mac Plus at the computer kickoff. Whoo! Only $1400 and it has one megabyte of RAM, expandable to 4 meg! You and your 640k ram limit can suck that, XT!
My brother and I blew our combined $700 from paper routes and Christmas and Birthday savings on a Coleco Adam (plus from money from selling the Colecovision + most of our cartridges.) Should have gotten the Atari 400 after all. Adam'd play the cartridges no problem, but the number of games was few and far between. Sorry to others out there, but this set the world record for Vaporware.
I tried writing a tron-cycle like game using Basic + their built in video hardware, which supported sprites. The game was slow, never worked properly, and was flashey in the bad sense, not the good sense. "This sucks", I said, in mid '80's terminology, since "sucks" wasn't really used back then. "This obviously cannot be the way these games are programmed.
The only alternative was to buy their CPM/Assembly language package, which I did, but never got very far since self-training in a new OS + assembly language, which I had no clue about, was next to impossible, especially since you had little more than a reference manual to the various commands to start you off.
Nah, real programming had to wait for a year later when I switched to computer sci from chemistry.
10th grade, was in "Data Processing" class (at that point, pretty much all computers were useful for was massive amounts of data processing. It was actually a programming class.) We were using Trash 80's, and saved our stuff on a cassette tape. Well, I did anyway because I had typed in a nethack dungeon exploration type of program I got from a Byte printout.
But anyway the next year, they had networked them all and bought a big honkin' next generation Trash 80, which was this gigantic screen, keyboard, and floppy drive all-in-one unit, and it had bays for four, count 'em, four floppy drives right next to the screen. Then we could pop a floppy in there and save that way, over the network.
Anyhoo, I had written a simple program that spit out a command prompt. I even built in a simple parser to take the commands the poor sap would type, and execute them, especially the "load" command. I had it pause for the requisite number of seconds, then spit out some "file deleted" command, even though nothing was actually happening.
Oh, the mirth I must have caused. Never did stick around to see the consequences...
/s/didn't/did
The days when very few had a TV, and the vast majority didn't, and thus could not be sold on supporting the BBC, are long, long over. Just pay it directly out of general funds.
Or get rid of it altogether and make it pay for itself via donations and commercials. I'm sure most people would have much better sex lives if the government paid for prostitutes, but that doesn't make it a government function.
PBS is partially paid for by taxes -- it just comes out of the general funds of Congress, rather than via some specific user or license fee. It's also partially supported by commercials -- corporate sponsors who get something like a 10 second, product-unspecific blurb to boast about what an awesome company they are.
Plus they also have informercials for various self-help gurus, psychics, and what not, who are doing shows there in order to increase their name recognition, i.e. increase book sales. I don't know if PBS is paid to run these, but they might as well be.
And let's not forget the semi-annual begathons, one of which is an auction of donated items, the other of which is very protracted defacto commercials every 15 minutes during a show (which might take 2 hours instead of 1 to run because of this.)
I would say no tax in Britain because:
1. Computers are not primarily TVs
2. The TV stuff people watch on computers are not BBC
And if BBC wants to be payayaid because people on computers are not watching BBC, then they might as well just ask the parliament to pay it directly out of general funds. The days when very few people didn't have a TV, and thus could not be sold on supporting the BBC, are long, long over.
> 'blond, blue-eyed force of nature' Marissa Mayer
Men are blond. Girls are blonde.
Come on, nerds. Lois Lane and Clark Kent would have known this!