However it has one critical omission.Actual combat related death in wars are relatively few. With few exeptions, notably the truly appalling slaughter of combatants in the Iran-Iraq war and World War I,the real cost of wars is borne by civilians, usually poor people living in rural areas.
For example, much of the economic devastation in Africa, and America is directly caused by civil wars. These are often the extension of former super-power quarrels in Africa, and US corporate policies in South and Central America.
Note that these wars are often enthusiastically embraced by elements within the countries involved. I do not accept that all would be happiness and light if the USA were to sink beneath the waves, rather the opposite...
Well, actually Lewis was a very committed Christian, and is possibly better known for his writings on Chrisitianity than for the Narnia books.
Tolkien seems less obviously a specifically Christian writer to me.
What Connie Neal (one of those wackos ) said was -
Here's how you do it:
1. Instead of running from their popular culture or leaving them to interpret it on their own, study it and engage it WITH THEM. Read the books to them; never just let them read questionable material on their own. Judge for yourself, don't rely on someone else when God gave you responsibility for your children's spiritual upbringing. When you engage the culture with them, you can use it to teach them to identify practices, choices, and characteristics as good or as evil and potentially dangerous.
2. Give them the absolute measuring line of God's Word, the Bible. Teach them to use it whenever they are trying to figure out if something is permissible for them. For example: Go over Deuteronomy 18:9-14 and teach them that it is always wrong to practice or engage in any of the things listed there; they are never to look to any supernatural power other than God to tell them the future or give them guidance for their lives. They are not to look to the stars for their future but to the One who made the stars, and everything else.
This seems to be me to a very sound response to an aspect of popular culture against which you seek to protect your children. I don't agree with some of Ms. Neal's basic premsises, but I do laud her methods, and her open approach.
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In Ireland we have a broad curriculum up to school leaving age (18). Everyone has to do English, Irish, and Maths. Most people do at least one foreign language, usually French. Most people do three or four more subjects.
In Irish universities a typical undegraduate degree is three or four years. The first year is often quite broad, but only within faculty limits. A physical science student might do chemistry, physics and maths. A biological science student might do several biology topics, chemistry and physics. The course gets more specialised in year 2. Year 3 (and year 4) are essentially single subject in most science courses. Arts courses often have two majors in the last year or two. Vocational degrees like medicine, law, and engineering usually have separate courses, though biological science and medicine overlap to some extent. Our idea of university education is different to yours - not better, not worse, but different.
The end result in medicine is, in my experience, similar enough. Good people are those who can think, and use common sense in applying what they know. Bad people are those who can only regurgitate what we've taught them. Good doctors are primarily those who are good with people.
Of course the 1800's solution involved the massacre of the people living on the land, people who weren't eligible to take part in the lotteries by which their land was distributed.
The squabbles between the settlers were prety brutal too, and seem to have been resolved by murder with monotonous regularity.
Personally I'd prefer to take my chances with WIPO
It is insane to continue shipping Linux distros as presently formulated. No disrespect to projects like Bastille, but ordinary users shouldn't have to do this stuff. Would someone (RedHat are you listening...) like to ship a hardened Linux. I'll buy it.
The statistical results are fascinating. It looks like very simple (therefore automatable...) statistical methods could give a very useful warning of impending doom.
It will probably be possible to make a virus which would require the presence of certain specific DNA elements in order to replicate i.e. to infect a host.
What will be distinctly trickier is to make such a virus and prevent it from mutating, perhaps so as to no longer require such specific DNA elements before replicating. Unlike humans (and complex organisms) which have elaborate machineries for detecting and fixing errors in DNA replication, viruses have none.
The first moral - analogies from computer science only apply to DNA up to a point. After that point they break down badly. Organisms are not Turing machines.
The second moral - the genetically engineered anti-[insert your pet hate group here]-virus is quite likely to turn around and exterminate you.
Before building your bio-weapon read something like Paul Ewald's book on 'The Evolution of Infectious Disease' or this article. Better yet, don't.
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I liked this article a lot.
However it has one critical omission.Actual combat related death in wars are relatively few. With few exeptions, notably the truly appalling slaughter of combatants in the Iran-Iraq war and World War I,the real cost of wars is borne by civilians, usually poor people living in rural areas.
For example, much of the economic devastation in Africa, and America is directly caused by civil wars. These are often the extension of former super-power quarrels in Africa, and US corporate policies in South and Central America.
Note that these wars are often enthusiastically embraced by elements within the countries involved. I do not accept that all would be happiness and light if the USA were to sink beneath the waves, rather the opposite...
Very soppy, but cute!
All the best,
Anthony Staines.
Well, actually Lewis was a very committed Christian, and is possibly better known for his writings on Chrisitianity than for the Narnia books.
Tolkien seems less obviously a specifically Christian writer to me.
What Connie Neal (one of those wackos ) said was -
Here's how you do it:
1. Instead of running from their popular culture or leaving them to interpret it on their own, study it and engage it WITH THEM. Read the books to them; never just let them read questionable material on their own. Judge for yourself, don't rely on someone else when God gave you responsibility for your children's spiritual upbringing. When you engage the culture with them, you can use it to teach them to identify practices, choices, and characteristics as good or as evil and potentially dangerous.
2. Give them the absolute measuring line of God's Word, the Bible. Teach them to use it whenever they are trying to figure out if something is permissible for them. For example: Go over Deuteronomy 18:9-14 and teach them that it is always wrong to practice or engage in any of the things listed there; they are never to look to any supernatural power other than God to tell them the future or give them guidance for their lives. They are not to look to the stars for their future but to the One who made the stars, and everything else.
This seems to be me to a very sound response to an aspect of popular culture against which you seek to protect your children. I don't agree with some of Ms. Neal's basic premsises, but I do laud her methods, and her open approach.
(The hotmail login page) doesn't validate either - and the errors are grotesque, including -
Warnings
* Warning: No Character Encoding detected! To assure correct validation, processing, and display, it is important that the character encoding is properly labeled. Further explanations.
Below are the results of attempting to parse this document with an SGML parser.
Fatal Error: no document type declaration; will parse without validation
I could not parse this document, because it uses a public identifier that is not in my catalog.
You should make the first line of your HTML document a DOCTYPE declaration, for example, for a typical HTML 4.01 document:
Title
Sorry, I can't validate this document.
Source Listing
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In Ireland we have a broad curriculum up to school leaving age (18). Everyone has to do English, Irish, and Maths. Most people do at least one foreign language, usually French. Most people do three or four more subjects.
In Irish universities a typical undegraduate degree is three or four years. The first year is often quite broad, but only within faculty limits. A physical science student might do chemistry, physics and maths. A biological science student might do several biology topics, chemistry and physics. The course gets more specialised in year 2. Year 3 (and year 4) are essentially single subject in most science courses. Arts courses often have two majors in the last year or two. Vocational degrees like medicine, law, and engineering usually have separate courses, though biological science and medicine overlap to some extent. Our idea of university education is different to yours - not better, not worse, but different.
The end result in medicine is, in my experience, similar enough. Good people are those who can think, and use common sense in applying what they know. Bad people are those who can only regurgitate what we've taught them. Good doctors are primarily those who are good with people.
Of course the 1800's solution involved the massacre of the people living on the land, people who weren't eligible to take part in the lotteries by which their land was distributed.
The squabbles between the settlers were prety brutal too, and seem to have been resolved by murder with monotonous regularity.
Personally I'd prefer to take my chances with WIPO
Anthony Staines
Some problems -
It will probably be possible to make a virus which would require the presence of certain specific DNA elements in order to replicate i.e. to infect a host.
What will be distinctly trickier is to make such a virus and prevent it from mutating, perhaps so as to no longer require such specific DNA elements before replicating. Unlike humans (and complex organisms) which have elaborate machineries for detecting and fixing errors in DNA replication, viruses have none.
The first moral - analogies from computer science only apply to DNA up to a point. After that point they break down badly. Organisms are not Turing machines.
The second moral - the genetically engineered anti-[insert your pet hate group here]-virus is quite likely to turn around and exterminate you.
Before building your bio-weapon read something like Paul Ewald's book on 'The Evolution of Infectious Disease' or this article. Better yet, don't.