Keep in mind that VBA is used with MS-Office applications, and VBScript is used on IE designed web pages which are related to Visual BASIC. Learning one, can help you learn the others.
Visual BASIC.NET was a rewrite of Classic Visual BASIC, which added in C++ type error trapping, objects, and other things that many have criticised Classic Visual BASIC for not having. Many VB developers want Microsoft to continue to support Visual BASIC 6.0 or Classic Visual BASIC, but Microsoft wants to move on.
BASIC stands for Beginners All Symbolic Instruction Code, the first word is for beginners. It was not designed to be anything but a learning tool, like Pascal, Pilot, and many other languages were designed to be. Microsoft used it for early Microcomputers, and then made a GW-BASIC version of it for MS-DOS and then later QBASIC or Quick BASIC for MS-DOS 5.0 and above. Many considered GW-BASIC and QBASIC to be free versions of BASIC and developed for them. Microsoft released Visual BASIC 1.0 and many BASIC developers adapted to it. I recall learning MS-Access 1.0 and using a form of Visual BASIC for applications for it, which they called Access BASIC or something.
Borland picked up the Pascal craze, in colleges they taught Pascal for data structures courses. There was UCSD Pascal, but Borland came out with Turbo Pascal and it worked faster than most Pascal compilers. Object Pascal became Delphi by Borland, and it is still popular and a competitor to Visual BASIC. Free Pascal tries to use Object Pascal to be more like Delphi and the Lazarus project uses an IDE with Free Pascal to work like Delphi or Visual BASIC.
I think there is an XBASIC out there that works like Classic Visual BASIC. Someone made a GNOME BASIC. The Novell Mono project has a Visual BASIC.NET language which is used on Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, *BSD Unix, etc.
The whole argument against Visual BASIC is now moot. Classic Visual BASIC lacked proper OOP, but Visual BASIC.NET fixes that, but at the cost of learning new programming methods and syntax for Classic Visual BASIC developers. While designed for beginners, Visual BASIC has extended itself. Visual BASIC.NET uses a compiler very much designed like C# or C++ to compile into IL (Interprited Language) code (which is like assembly language) to run on the.NET Framework, and it is turned into native code in the final compiltion. Visual BASIC.NET no longer has the bottleneck that Classic Visual BASIC had, and as a result it runs faster.
You will be shocked to find that most businesses use Visual BASIC.NET for the same reasons that they used to use COBOL, it is easy to learn, uses English words, and almost anyone can learn it.
Still don't discount C#, C++, Java, Python, Perl, and many others, they can interface with Visual BASIC via the.NET framework. Visual BASIC can be used as a stepping stone to a different language, or it can be used for main development.
Actually most P2P require the user to "share" the file and upload it or parts of it to other hosts. So downloading the file means that the user is uploading it somewhere eventually.
I think what the RIAA and MPAA have cracked down on are those who are uploading large amounts of those files over P2P networks, like 10 or more at a time. Yes innocent teenagers have been caught doing just that, after they download 10 files, they share all of them with the P2P network then the Subpeona targets them after the RIAA or MPAA packet scans the P2P network servers.
What the RIAA and MPAA do not catch are the people who download less than 10 files at a time, and move them out of the file sharing directory before they reach an over the limit amount of uploads that gets them targeted. This is done by simply moving the files out of the shared directory into an unshared one before they number 10 or more.
The horrors will happen when someone uses a P2P file sharing network and decide to share their whole C: or "My Documents" drive or folder and everything they own gets shared, including those watermarked files they paid for, and they have no idea they are sharing them. A lot of people pay for some P2P file sharing networks that claim to offer unlimited download licenses for a small monthly fee, and they are modifications of Kazaa and other file sharing programs. They tend to think that doing so is legal as long as they pay a monthly fee, until the MPAA and RIAA sues them for uploading too many files at once that are copyprotected.
Peter retired, bought a small island somewhere and some works of art. He used to pose in his pink shirt for Norton(TM) series products, but they don't use him anymore.
I suspect Symantec replaced him with a Cylon that looks like him by now.
Then again, one of my friends used to tell me that Peter Norton ran out of ideas, and they froze him like they did Walt Disney and will unthaw him when technology catches up to his ideas and he has more to work with.
Version 1.5? If so, it appears they did a good advancement since I last used ReactOS. I will try to download a new copy of it, if they put it back at SourceForge. Right now, it appears that all of their ISOs are no longer for download.
If ReactOS good enough for the average person to use to web surf and use email using Firefox 1.5 and Thunderbird 1.5 yet with some limited Windows applications other than OSS software?
At least it is not Freedows, anyone remember that vaporware?
Let us hope Microsoft does not sue ReactOS like they did Lindows aka Linspire.
habeus corpus means that warrants have to be issued for wiretapping and searching. I guess you are just ignorant of how our laws work, aren't you?
In cases of national crisis such as invasions or rebellions of the USA, and threats to public safety, the President can ignore habeus corpus and elements of it like warrants needed for wiretapping to prevent threats to the public. Warrants and habeus corpus, are really privilages and not freedoms or rights, according to Section 1, article 9 of the Constitution. Therefore taking away priviliages is not the same as taking away rights and freedoms, to think otherwise goes against the Constitution on issues such as the ones the nation is currently facing.
This was used before in the Whiskey Rebellon, and the Civil War. This is not something new that George W. Bush just invented, our founding fathers put it into the Constitution for issues such as these. As long as terrorists keep making threats of attacking the USA, the national emergancy still stands and George W. Bush is justified in warrantless searches and wiretaps. To say otherwise violates the Constitution.
Ironic that WINE is mostly a recreation of the Win9X APIS, and was not intended to be a NT/2000/XP environment. I've used WINE and found it to be more in lines with WIN9X when I needed NT/2000/XP support.
Why run IE 7.0, why not make ReactOS work with Firefox 1.5 instead? I would think that Firefox is easier to make it work with ReactOS as both are OSS projects and access to the Firefox source code can help them make a ReactOS version of Firefox, possibly Thunderbird.
I mean why try to get commercial MS-Windows software working with ReactOS when there are easier ways to get OSS software working with it? The only commercial software that ReactOS need bother with are the Windows and DOS based games, for the Gameheads that want a Windows type OS that can play their latest games. Which means you need to implement the DirectX, allow software security drivers and DLLs to install so copy protected games will work, and provide some sort of Windows driver model based on more than just NT (perhaps 2000 and XP driver models) or just use Linux drivers and have that interface with the DirectX API calls. By the time you get the commercial games working, chances are a lot of other commercial software will work as well. Yet it seems to make better sense to start on the OSS conversions to at least get a good user base of ReactOS users, before the money can be invested for making commercial software work.
Remember the whole goal of ReactOS is to provide a Windows alternative that can run Windows software.
What if the Windows clone has fewer bugs, fewer security flaws, runs faster, and is a better quality than Microsoft Windows and sells for a lower price? Can they sell it outside of Europe then?
First if you had a brain of your own, and did not follow someone's ideaology version of Christianity, ie Liberal Christianity which is almost Secularism, you might figure these things out for yourself. You also need to form a relationship with God/Jesus rather than use or abuse religion.
Why they celebrate birthdays and not conception days (they're so adamant at trying to control non-believers definitions of "life").
Traditionally one celebrates a birthday and not a conception day, because one cannot figure out the exact conception day even with using scientific equipment.
Ironically Christians do celebrate the day that Mary conceived Jesus, so maybe Christians actually do celebrate conception days? If you were a real Christian, you'd know about that Christian Holiday named Immaculate Conception Day when Jesus was conceived and Good Friday when he died. There is also Assumption Day when Jesus went to Heaven. The fact that you do not know of these Christian holidays throws your Christianity into serious doubt and betrays your ignorance of what it is to be a Christian.
Why they believe one ascends to heaven immediately upon a man saying they are dead.
Huh? I was taught that we do not go into Heaven until Judgement Day at the end of the world when everyone is risen from the dead by Jesus and then judged. If you do not make it to Heaven, you end up in Purgatory until your sins are cleansed and then make it to Heaven, or if your sins are too much you end up in Hell. Anything else goes against Christian Dogma, as far as I know.
Why they believe that one who has no brain activity but body life might still be considered alive on this earth.
Because one does not leave the earth until judgement day and if a body and brain can be brought back to life, the soul will return to it. Did you forget that Lazarus was dead for quite a while before Jesus rose him from the dead? That is Christianity 101. I take it you never actually read the bible, now did you? Lazarus obviously had his brain and body functions cease for quite a while, before being brought back to life.
The answers to all three questions are basically: we shouldn't, we won't, and we will never push our views on non-believers. The Bible is pretty strict about holding other believers accountable for their actions, but we should be leaving the rest of the world alone.
Excuse me, what part of the bible did all of that come from? I thought we were supposed to help out the less fortunate, instead of just leaving the rest of the world alone. Granted we are not pushing our views on other people, but the views you claimed that Christians have, are views that I and many other Christians do not even hold. You seem to be quoting some crack-pipe version of Christianity with Secular roots, which seems to reveal that if that is what you were taught that Christianity was all about, that you are seriously wrong and need to do more research and analysis. I fully support your views and opinions, even if I do think that you are wrong and are a total nutcase and an Anti-Christian and a bigot. Next time I strongly suggest that you know and understand about what you are talking about before engaging such a heated debate. The truth and the facts are apparently things foreign to you, as far as I can tell.
There are other protections that race or religion. There is color, natural origin, and gender for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. There is an act on age discrimination (over 40) and disability as well. In some states and cities sexual oritentation is protected as well.
Yes you can let the courts sort it out, it is a matter of finding the evidence and having good lawyers. If the company only said or did certain things verbally, it is hard to prove unless they are caught in a lie or had documented it in email or memos. Either that or one of the accusers breaks down and confesses to lying.
There are also exceptions, if the company has 15 or fewer employees it is exempt from discrimination. If they can prove that accomodating the employee is an undue hardship, the employee loses the discrimination case.
The law is not useless, I was trying to show one way that a company can dismiss an employee if they have to give a reason to, and they don't truthfully have one.
Another one is to simply say that they had to make budget cuts in their department and randomly chose that employee to cut to save money. Then they hired someone at a lower salary to replace them. That one is harder to disprove than the gross misconduct false charge.
Surely there was great injustices done. One cannot change the past. One can only make changes in the present to affect the future.
Sure my child and myself would feel that opression. I choose to be more like Bill Cosby or Martin Luther King Jr. and not focus on the negative, but focus on the positive. To teach my child positive things, and grow up in a positive environment, and learn how to improve on himself/herself to rise above that opression and prove the bigots and stereotypes wrong. That violence and hate, because of that past opression, is not acceptable things to have or harbor, and that it is just as wrong as that past opression was. That everyone, every race, is equal and nobody and no race is superior to the others. That one day the races will join together in friendship and we can put that opression behind us.
Oh it happens. A company I worked for turned away some African-American friends of mine that I had told about job openings that they were qualified for, only they were turned away. I had some other friends who were white and asian and qualified as well, but they were turned away. The company hired some men, who later I found out were homosexuals after they intorduced me to their life-partners at the company events. They did, because previously they were not qualified for the job, and I had to train them to do their jobs and I had helped them out a lot. The only thing the other men had in common that didn't get hired, was that they were straight. I am not sure why, but later on the men that I trained got promoted to jobs I was told I was qualified for as I had more years with the company and I had more experience and had been training other employees. There was a lot of favortism going on at that company, and it caused a high turnover rate. Later it was found out that some of the managers doing the promotions were homosexual as well and refused to promote straight people to supervisor or management positions. Obvious discrimination, but these days it is hard to prove unless the managers wrote a confession or the court supeona's their email and finds incriminating evidence. I myself do not hold it against homosexuals, as this was a rare case of discrimination and favortism which I am sure does not happen everywhere. Yet it does seem that such laws ought to be able to protect everyone, regardless of sexual orientation, in order to be fair.
I cite this case as one example in which not being gay resulted in being not hired or passed over for promotion. At least that is one way to look at it, proving it in court would be a whole different thing of itself.
It is in the past, I am over it now. I think I am much better off not working in a workplace that practices a form of discrimination.
Oh really? What is to stop the company from giving a bogus reason and then documenting false evidence to show why they fired someone? Say like they don't like a person's religion, and they encourage some of their coworkers to file complaints against them in exchange for better working hours or pay raises? Suddenly that person has bad behavior and unethical conduct, and thus is fired for such and has the documentation to back it up and these people will swear to it in court as well. How can you defend yourself against a dozen of your former coworkers who are testifying against you, and they used to be your best friends?
In the USA some of our states are no-fault states and either the employer or employee can terminate the employment for no reason to be given. Only the employer is the more likely to create false evidence and documentation to make up false reasons to let the worker go, so they can try to avoid unemployment benefits going to the ex-employee.
Trust me, if they have to give a good reason to let someone go, most companies are expert liars and can come up with dirt on anyone and if not they will make stuff up.
That is discrimination against Scientists who are Christians and follow the scientific method. Not every Christian is a fundie, you know. Some Christians believe in evolution and other scientific theories. You would be discriminating against them.
I am a Christian and believe in the bible, but I followed the scientific method when I took college classes to earn my bachelors of science. If I didn't, I would not have passed or earned a 3.91 GPA. If I applied for a job with you, you'd just discriminate against me because I am a Christian, because you are bigoted towards Christians and think that all of us do not follow the Scientific Meathod, because of your stereotyping. Hence the need for such laws to protect certain beliefs like religion.
Could they have had some sort of piracy ring of buying $88,000 worth of equipment, and mostly the DVD movies and CD audio disks to copy and then sell the bootleg copies over the Internet or something? I mean it would make sense that they were putting in 18 hour days to make all of those copies. Chances are they bought some multi-burners for DVD and CD copying. Mostly likely they rented a T1 if not a T3 connection to download more music and movies over the Internet when they could not afford to buy any more media.
Some auditor must have finally caught on to it, or a coworker blew the whistle on them?
I'll bet they cashed in the sales from pirated copies for themselves, but used WV money to buy the media to copy and pirate? Most likely the money is in a Swiss Bank account and they will use it to hire themselves some good lawyers? I heard Bill Clinton will get his license back soon, maybe he can take them on for a case?
Well Microsoft gets a share of the profits of each PC sold if it has Windows or not installed on it. This was one of the issues the DOJ brought against Microsoft.
I would imagine that Microsoft waves this fee to Apple, as long as Microsoft promises not to make Windows work with the Mactel, so Apple can have a monopoly on the OS market for the Mactel systems. This was very much like when Microsoft agreed with Apple to stop making the PPC version of Windows NT.
Oddly geeks and nerds are not protected classes in discrimination laws. Perhaps they should be, but no law that I know of has been passed to protect them.
The word used was sex in the law, but it means sexual gender or gender, male or female. Some people confuse this for sexual orientation and then claim that gender is not covered by the civil right laws. They are mistaken on both counts. The coverage is there can be no discrimination against someone for being male or female the way the law is phrased and worded.
Sexual oritentation protection usually exists at the state or local level for coverage, but it is not covered by the federal civil rights act of 1964. Usually you will find states or major cities having civil rights laws protecting sexual orientation or affinity orientation as it is called sometimes. Regardless it is not right to discriminate against someone for their sexual or affinity orientation anyway. It usually is protected by the state or city/local level, but not by the federal government. Some states and cities lack sexual/affinity orientation protection. These laws, if they exist, protect straight people as well as people of homosexual, transgender, and other sexual/affinity orientations.
Discrimination against white people is still discrimination even if they are the majority. Please read the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it says it is against the law to discriminate against race, religion, creed, color, national origin, and gender. It does not say that only minorities are covered and majorities are not.
Martin Luther King Jr. talked about everyone being equal and everyone being friendly with each other, not just minorities. He said not to judge someone by the color of their skin but as individuals. Discriminating against white people goes against MLK Jr's philosophy, and against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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How about Jack-In-The-Box/Montery Jack/Jack-In-The-Box?
Time/Warner/Turner/Time Warner/Time Warner/AOL/Time Warner?
Micro-Soft/Microsoft?
AT&T/South Western Bell/Bellsouth/SBC/AT&T?
US Robotics/3COM/US Robotics Modems?
Burger Chef/Carl Jr's/Hardees?
I stand corrected. I seem to have missed that, thanks.
Wikipedia has more on BASIC, Visual BASIC Classic, and Visual BASIC.NET.
Keep in mind that VBA is used with MS-Office applications, and VBScript is used on IE designed web pages which are related to Visual BASIC. Learning one, can help you learn the others.
.NET Framework, and it is turned into native code in the final compiltion. Visual BASIC.NET no longer has the bottleneck that Classic Visual BASIC had, and as a result it runs faster.
.NET framework. Visual BASIC can be used as a stepping stone to a different language, or it can be used for main development.
Visual BASIC.NET was a rewrite of Classic Visual BASIC, which added in C++ type error trapping, objects, and other things that many have criticised Classic Visual BASIC for not having. Many VB developers want Microsoft to continue to support Visual BASIC 6.0 or Classic Visual BASIC, but Microsoft wants to move on.
BASIC stands for Beginners All Symbolic Instruction Code, the first word is for beginners. It was not designed to be anything but a learning tool, like Pascal, Pilot, and many other languages were designed to be. Microsoft used it for early Microcomputers, and then made a GW-BASIC version of it for MS-DOS and then later QBASIC or Quick BASIC for MS-DOS 5.0 and above. Many considered GW-BASIC and QBASIC to be free versions of BASIC and developed for them. Microsoft released Visual BASIC 1.0 and many BASIC developers adapted to it. I recall learning MS-Access 1.0 and using a form of Visual BASIC for applications for it, which they called Access BASIC or something.
Borland picked up the Pascal craze, in colleges they taught Pascal for data structures courses. There was UCSD Pascal, but Borland came out with Turbo Pascal and it worked faster than most Pascal compilers. Object Pascal became Delphi by Borland, and it is still popular and a competitor to Visual BASIC. Free Pascal tries to use Object Pascal to be more like Delphi and the Lazarus project uses an IDE with Free Pascal to work like Delphi or Visual BASIC.
I think there is an XBASIC out there that works like Classic Visual BASIC. Someone made a GNOME BASIC. The Novell Mono project has a Visual BASIC.NET language which is used on Windows, Linux, Mac OSX, *BSD Unix, etc.
The whole argument against Visual BASIC is now moot. Classic Visual BASIC lacked proper OOP, but Visual BASIC.NET fixes that, but at the cost of learning new programming methods and syntax for Classic Visual BASIC developers. While designed for beginners, Visual BASIC has extended itself. Visual BASIC.NET uses a compiler very much designed like C# or C++ to compile into IL (Interprited Language) code (which is like assembly language) to run on the
You will be shocked to find that most businesses use Visual BASIC.NET for the same reasons that they used to use COBOL, it is easy to learn, uses English words, and almost anyone can learn it.
Still don't discount C#, C++, Java, Python, Perl, and many others, they can interface with Visual BASIC via the
Actually most P2P require the user to "share" the file and upload it or parts of it to other hosts. So downloading the file means that the user is uploading it somewhere eventually.
I think what the RIAA and MPAA have cracked down on are those who are uploading large amounts of those files over P2P networks, like 10 or more at a time. Yes innocent teenagers have been caught doing just that, after they download 10 files, they share all of them with the P2P network then the Subpeona targets them after the RIAA or MPAA packet scans the P2P network servers.
What the RIAA and MPAA do not catch are the people who download less than 10 files at a time, and move them out of the file sharing directory before they reach an over the limit amount of uploads that gets them targeted. This is done by simply moving the files out of the shared directory into an unshared one before they number 10 or more.
The horrors will happen when someone uses a P2P file sharing network and decide to share their whole C: or "My Documents" drive or folder and everything they own gets shared, including those watermarked files they paid for, and they have no idea they are sharing them. A lot of people pay for some P2P file sharing networks that claim to offer unlimited download licenses for a small monthly fee, and they are modifications of Kazaa and other file sharing programs. They tend to think that doing so is legal as long as they pay a monthly fee, until the MPAA and RIAA sues them for uploading too many files at once that are copyprotected.
Peter retired, bought a small island somewhere and some works of art. He used to pose in his pink shirt for Norton(TM) series products, but they don't use him anymore.
I suspect Symantec replaced him with a Cylon that looks like him by now.
Then again, one of my friends used to tell me that Peter Norton ran out of ideas, and they froze him like they did Walt Disney and will unthaw him when technology catches up to his ideas and he has more to work with.
Version 1.5? If so, it appears they did a good advancement since I last used ReactOS. I will try to download a new copy of it, if they put it back at SourceForge. Right now, it appears that all of their ISOs are no longer for download.
If ReactOS good enough for the average person to use to web surf and use email using Firefox 1.5 and Thunderbird 1.5 yet with some limited Windows applications other than OSS software?
At least it is not Freedows, anyone remember that vaporware?
Let us hope Microsoft does not sue ReactOS like they did Lindows aka Linspire.
habeus corpus means that warrants have to be issued for wiretapping and searching. I guess you are just ignorant of how our laws work, aren't you?
In cases of national crisis such as invasions or rebellions of the USA, and threats to public safety, the President can ignore habeus corpus and elements of it like warrants needed for wiretapping to prevent threats to the public. Warrants and habeus corpus, are really privilages and not freedoms or rights, according to Section 1, article 9 of the Constitution. Therefore taking away priviliages is not the same as taking away rights and freedoms, to think otherwise goes against the Constitution on issues such as the ones the nation is currently facing.
This was used before in the Whiskey Rebellon, and the Civil War. This is not something new that George W. Bush just invented, our founding fathers put it into the Constitution for issues such as these. As long as terrorists keep making threats of attacking the USA, the national emergancy still stands and George W. Bush is justified in warrantless searches and wiretaps. To say otherwise violates the Constitution.
Ironic that WINE is mostly a recreation of the Win9X APIS, and was not intended to be a NT/2000/XP environment. I've used WINE and found it to be more in lines with WIN9X when I needed NT/2000/XP support.
Why run IE 7.0, why not make ReactOS work with Firefox 1.5 instead? I would think that Firefox is easier to make it work with ReactOS as both are OSS projects and access to the Firefox source code can help them make a ReactOS version of Firefox, possibly Thunderbird.
I mean why try to get commercial MS-Windows software working with ReactOS when there are easier ways to get OSS software working with it? The only commercial software that ReactOS need bother with are the Windows and DOS based games, for the Gameheads that want a Windows type OS that can play their latest games. Which means you need to implement the DirectX, allow software security drivers and DLLs to install so copy protected games will work, and provide some sort of Windows driver model based on more than just NT (perhaps 2000 and XP driver models) or just use Linux drivers and have that interface with the DirectX API calls. By the time you get the commercial games working, chances are a lot of other commercial software will work as well. Yet it seems to make better sense to start on the OSS conversions to at least get a good user base of ReactOS users, before the money can be invested for making commercial software work.
Remember the whole goal of ReactOS is to provide a Windows alternative that can run Windows software.
Article I, Section 9:
"The Privilege of the Writ of Habeas Corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in Cases or Rebellion or Invasion the public Safety may require it.
I'd say that terrorists invading the USA to endanger the public safety may require that the Writ of Habeas Corpus be suspended in these cases.
What if the Windows clone has fewer bugs, fewer security flaws, runs faster, and is a better quality than Microsoft Windows and sells for a lower price? Can they sell it outside of Europe then?
12000 pages, all written in Hindi. Modern Windows was offshored. Enjoy!
Don't worry, I covered it, and made the Dr. Evil reference and saved the day. :)
You forgot, Steve Ballmer dressed up as Dr. Evil, putting his pinky to his lips:
....... One Cajillion Dollars! Muahahaahahahahahahahahaah!"
"We shall license the Windows source code, for,
First if you had a brain of your own, and did not follow someone's ideaology version of Christianity, ie Liberal Christianity which is almost Secularism, you might figure these things out for yourself. You also need to form a relationship with God/Jesus rather than use or abuse religion.
Why they celebrate birthdays and not conception days (they're so adamant at trying to control non-believers definitions of "life").
Traditionally one celebrates a birthday and not a conception day, because one cannot figure out the exact conception day even with using scientific equipment.
Ironically Christians do celebrate the day that Mary conceived Jesus, so maybe Christians actually do celebrate conception days? If you were a real Christian, you'd know about that Christian Holiday named Immaculate Conception Day when Jesus was conceived and Good Friday when he died. There is also Assumption Day when Jesus went to Heaven. The fact that you do not know of these Christian holidays throws your Christianity into serious doubt and betrays your ignorance of what it is to be a Christian.
Why they believe one ascends to heaven immediately upon a man saying they are dead.
Huh? I was taught that we do not go into Heaven until Judgement Day at the end of the world when everyone is risen from the dead by Jesus and then judged. If you do not make it to Heaven, you end up in Purgatory until your sins are cleansed and then make it to Heaven, or if your sins are too much you end up in Hell. Anything else goes against Christian Dogma, as far as I know.
Why they believe that one who has no brain activity but body life might still be considered alive on this earth.
Because one does not leave the earth until judgement day and if a body and brain can be brought back to life, the soul will return to it. Did you forget that Lazarus was dead for quite a while before Jesus rose him from the dead? That is Christianity 101. I take it you never actually read the bible, now did you? Lazarus obviously had his brain and body functions cease for quite a while, before being brought back to life.
The answers to all three questions are basically: we shouldn't, we won't, and we will never push our views on non-believers. The Bible is pretty strict about holding other believers accountable for their actions, but we should be leaving the rest of the world alone.
Excuse me, what part of the bible did all of that come from? I thought we were supposed to help out the less fortunate, instead of just leaving the rest of the world alone. Granted we are not pushing our views on other people, but the views you claimed that Christians have, are views that I and many other Christians do not even hold. You seem to be quoting some crack-pipe version of Christianity with Secular roots, which seems to reveal that if that is what you were taught that Christianity was all about, that you are seriously wrong and need to do more research and analysis. I fully support your views and opinions, even if I do think that you are wrong and are a total nutcase and an Anti-Christian and a bigot. Next time I strongly suggest that you know and understand about what you are talking about before engaging such a heated debate. The truth and the facts are apparently things foreign to you, as far as I can tell.
There are other protections that race or religion. There is color, natural origin, and gender for the Civil Rights Act of 1964. There is an act on age discrimination (over 40) and disability as well. In some states and cities sexual oritentation is protected as well.
Yes you can let the courts sort it out, it is a matter of finding the evidence and having good lawyers. If the company only said or did certain things verbally, it is hard to prove unless they are caught in a lie or had documented it in email or memos. Either that or one of the accusers breaks down and confesses to lying.
There are also exceptions, if the company has 15 or fewer employees it is exempt from discrimination. If they can prove that accomodating the employee is an undue hardship, the employee loses the discrimination case.
The law is not useless, I was trying to show one way that a company can dismiss an employee if they have to give a reason to, and they don't truthfully have one.
Another one is to simply say that they had to make budget cuts in their department and randomly chose that employee to cut to save money. Then they hired someone at a lower salary to replace them. That one is harder to disprove than the gross misconduct false charge.
Surely there was great injustices done. One cannot change the past. One can only make changes in the present to affect the future.
Sure my child and myself would feel that opression. I choose to be more like Bill Cosby or Martin Luther King Jr. and not focus on the negative, but focus on the positive. To teach my child positive things, and grow up in a positive environment, and learn how to improve on himself/herself to rise above that opression and prove the bigots and stereotypes wrong. That violence and hate, because of that past opression, is not acceptable things to have or harbor, and that it is just as wrong as that past opression was. That everyone, every race, is equal and nobody and no race is superior to the others. That one day the races will join together in friendship and we can put that opression behind us.
Oh it happens. A company I worked for turned away some African-American friends of mine that I had told about job openings that they were qualified for, only they were turned away. I had some other friends who were white and asian and qualified as well, but they were turned away. The company hired some men, who later I found out were homosexuals after they intorduced me to their life-partners at the company events. They did, because previously they were not qualified for the job, and I had to train them to do their jobs and I had helped them out a lot. The only thing the other men had in common that didn't get hired, was that they were straight. I am not sure why, but later on the men that I trained got promoted to jobs I was told I was qualified for as I had more years with the company and I had more experience and had been training other employees. There was a lot of favortism going on at that company, and it caused a high turnover rate. Later it was found out that some of the managers doing the promotions were homosexual as well and refused to promote straight people to supervisor or management positions. Obvious discrimination, but these days it is hard to prove unless the managers wrote a confession or the court supeona's their email and finds incriminating evidence. I myself do not hold it against homosexuals, as this was a rare case of discrimination and favortism which I am sure does not happen everywhere. Yet it does seem that such laws ought to be able to protect everyone, regardless of sexual orientation, in order to be fair.
I cite this case as one example in which not being gay resulted in being not hired or passed over for promotion. At least that is one way to look at it, proving it in court would be a whole different thing of itself.
It is in the past, I am over it now. I think I am much better off not working in a workplace that practices a form of discrimination.
Oh really? What is to stop the company from giving a bogus reason and then documenting false evidence to show why they fired someone? Say like they don't like a person's religion, and they encourage some of their coworkers to file complaints against them in exchange for better working hours or pay raises? Suddenly that person has bad behavior and unethical conduct, and thus is fired for such and has the documentation to back it up and these people will swear to it in court as well. How can you defend yourself against a dozen of your former coworkers who are testifying against you, and they used to be your best friends?
In the USA some of our states are no-fault states and either the employer or employee can terminate the employment for no reason to be given. Only the employer is the more likely to create false evidence and documentation to make up false reasons to let the worker go, so they can try to avoid unemployment benefits going to the ex-employee.
Trust me, if they have to give a good reason to let someone go, most companies are expert liars and can come up with dirt on anyone and if not they will make stuff up.
That is discrimination against Scientists who are Christians and follow the scientific method. Not every Christian is a fundie, you know. Some Christians believe in evolution and other scientific theories. You would be discriminating against them.
I am a Christian and believe in the bible, but I followed the scientific method when I took college classes to earn my bachelors of science. If I didn't, I would not have passed or earned a 3.91 GPA. If I applied for a job with you, you'd just discriminate against me because I am a Christian, because you are bigoted towards Christians and think that all of us do not follow the Scientific Meathod, because of your stereotyping. Hence the need for such laws to protect certain beliefs like religion.
Could they have had some sort of piracy ring of buying $88,000 worth of equipment, and mostly the DVD movies and CD audio disks to copy and then sell the bootleg copies over the Internet or something? I mean it would make sense that they were putting in 18 hour days to make all of those copies. Chances are they bought some multi-burners for DVD and CD copying. Mostly likely they rented a T1 if not a T3 connection to download more music and movies over the Internet when they could not afford to buy any more media.
Some auditor must have finally caught on to it, or a coworker blew the whistle on them?
I'll bet they cashed in the sales from pirated copies for themselves, but used WV money to buy the media to copy and pirate? Most likely the money is in a Swiss Bank account and they will use it to hire themselves some good lawyers? I heard Bill Clinton will get his license back soon, maybe he can take them on for a case?
Well Microsoft gets a share of the profits of each PC sold if it has Windows or not installed on it. This was one of the issues the DOJ brought against Microsoft.
I would imagine that Microsoft waves this fee to Apple, as long as Microsoft promises not to make Windows work with the Mactel, so Apple can have a monopoly on the OS market for the Mactel systems. This was very much like when Microsoft agreed with Apple to stop making the PPC version of Windows NT.
Oddly geeks and nerds are not protected classes in discrimination laws. Perhaps they should be, but no law that I know of has been passed to protect them.
The word used was sex in the law, but it means sexual gender or gender, male or female. Some people confuse this for sexual orientation and then claim that gender is not covered by the civil right laws. They are mistaken on both counts. The coverage is there can be no discrimination against someone for being male or female the way the law is phrased and worded.
Sexual oritentation protection usually exists at the state or local level for coverage, but it is not covered by the federal civil rights act of 1964. Usually you will find states or major cities having civil rights laws protecting sexual orientation or affinity orientation as it is called sometimes. Regardless it is not right to discriminate against someone for their sexual or affinity orientation anyway. It usually is protected by the state or city/local level, but not by the federal government. Some states and cities lack sexual/affinity orientation protection. These laws, if they exist, protect straight people as well as people of homosexual, transgender, and other sexual/affinity orientations.
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Anyone thought of the privacy issues of storing human DNA in a public database?
I am not a number, I refuse to be processed and let some strangers catalog my DNA into a public database.
Discrimination against white people is still discrimination even if they are the majority. Please read the Civil Rights Act of 1964, it says it is against the law to discriminate against race, religion, creed, color, national origin, and gender. It does not say that only minorities are covered and majorities are not.
Martin Luther King Jr. talked about everyone being equal and everyone being friendly with each other, not just minorities. He said not to judge someone by the color of their skin but as individuals. Discriminating against white people goes against MLK Jr's philosophy, and against the Civil Rights Act of 1964.