Are you sure about the "white raisins" mistake though? I have heard this before, but highly doubt that raisins would have been offered as a reward for martyrdom (even if they were white). white raisins
Christian beliefs: A magical man born of a virgin died on a cross, In the original story Mary was a 'young woman' but was this was mistakenly translated as 'virgin' by the Greeks. A similar mistake was made when translating the Koran where 'white raisins' was thought to mean 'virgins' as a heavenly reward for martyrs. But for some reason neither religion is willing to consider this in their doctrine.
Besides we all know that FSMism is the only REAL religion.
Spanking is a punishment. Breaking your child's bones, or making them bleed, is abuse. So only things that cause physical damage is abuse? Words can be used for abuse and even better they leave no visible marks!
Physically striking anyone is abuse in my book. If you have an employee and he misbehaves can you hit him for punishment? Of course not, you will be charged with assault. Why doesn't this same rule apply to children who are even less able to defend themselves?
I can't tell you which is more accurate...ask me after I have passed on. I have to feel mine is close enough to the facts to get me to the afterlife but I unlike some do not have a problem with anyones religion. The problem is your confusion of myth and facts. That's what makes religious fundamentalism such an ugly and violent thing.
Which version of the Garden of Eden myth are talking about so I know which one is the only true one?? It's hard to tell since there are many religions that claim similar stories. Good point. The Native American tribes all had greatly differing creation myths but did not fight over which one was correct because they understood the place of myth in our lives. It's only because the function of myth has been broken in our society that we get people arguing about who's myth is correct. The plain fact is that they are all correct.
For more on this see Carl Jung and/or Joseph Campbell.
That was one of the most worthless comments I've ever read. Who's more worthless, the original worthless commenter or the person calling the worthless commenter worthless?
I really, really did not appreciate having to replace XP. All you had to do was call Microsoft and they would have validated you over the phone. I know it's a pain but it's better than paying them twice for the same piece of software.
I have seen more than enough science fiction to have seen this application in many forms. How can this initiative be patentable?! You don't even need to go to fiction to find prior art, it's all around us. Visit a old cathedral in Europe or an ancient Egyptian temple. There is much data deliberately stored in these durable physical objects if you know how to read them, and we are only now starting to rediscover this.
If from the beginning people didn't pirate windows, home computer use of windows would have been MUCH less. These people would then have not demanded windows for their work computers. I remember it the other way around, when 3.1 came out we practically had to force it on our users. The home pirating began when users were required to submit things in Word and Excel format and they needed to access these documents from home. Before that most people that had computers seemed perfectly content with Lotus and Wordperfect and if not they got a Mac.
I know of only 3 in the 60 some homes that I am friends with... I have never had a home as a friend and you have 60. How does one become friends with a home?
I don't have to argue. The information is provided in the article I linked to. It's very simple. The average thickness over the entirety of Greenland has increased 54 cm (21 inches) in a recent 11 year period. Is there anything else that you cowards would like to add?
In addition, you could also blame the vast majority of todays Iraqi deaths on:
1) Muslim clerics who continue to stir up the populace. 2) Foreign terror groups who intentionally target civilians. 3) Iran and Syria, for funding the insurgency and the terrorists. 4) Iraqi politicians/clerics who maintain their own personal armies. 5) Corrupt leftovers of the Saddam era regime, who are currently trying to subvert the ING and IP forces to their own purposes.
In other words, war is a complex business, and saying that it's "a single product of a single administration" is so ignorant that it shouldn't even warrant a response. Every reason you gave would mean diddly if our troops were not in Iraq. Who sent the troops there? The current administration.
Although Kubrick does use music over some of the space scenes, his editing actually makes the lack of sound an artistic element, something I don't recall from any other science fiction movie.
Firefly used the silence of space very nicely and Battlestar Galactica at least muffles the sound a bit.
Unfortunately I would be surprised if mankind doesn't kill themselves off in the next couple of hundred years. "I'm guessing you're one of those 'glass is half empty' kinda guys"
The spam problem really has gotten bad. Most of the traditional anti-spam mechanisms are not nearly as effective as they used to be - especially with image spam. Blacklists with spamassassin and greylisting used to get 99% of spam, but the effectiveness has dropped to something like 95% or less, which still leaves an annoying level. Gmail seems to be doing a great job at filtering. Lately I'll get upwards of 400 spam messages a day and they all get caught by the filter, even the image ones. I see a piece spam get around the filter maybe once or twice a week.
Well ehm.. Looking at global impact of America on the world resources today. I could say that 10% of the people of the world. Equals about 1% of those high resource users today..oops. Intrestingly read, as the money part is indeed intresting. The country with the biggest money problem is wel you know it ehm the same country Dont hope the trust in dollars might vaporize with such expensive ideas, it could mean a dollar collapse which would have a big impact on money markets (but will in the end balance). Think its no good to go to mars, another startrek film might cause the same global effects. Just pulpscience for the masses they dontneed to bycicle on red sand. And honestly who cares about life in the universe? I mean would it change the way you live? Would your alarmclock allow you more sleep because there is life out there? no nothing will change. What?!?
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...what were they supposed to think? Exactly, they are supposed to thinkBesides we all know that FSMism is the only REAL religion.
Physically striking anyone is abuse in my book. If you have an employee and he misbehaves can you hit him for punishment? Of course not, you will be charged with assault. Why doesn't this same rule apply to children who are even less able to defend themselves?
For more on this see Carl Jung and/or Joseph Campbell.
Or something like that...
This is a very old idea.
So for the 80% that are preventable, what else other than carelessness is there? And 10 out of 10 wars were preventable.
There's a lot more than carelessness involved.
TOTAL CRIMINALIZATION
Otherwise known as original sin or the sin nature of man. Has worked very well for 2 millenia.
How obedient of you, you deserve a treat.
*pats domesticated ape on the head*
Aww, isn't he cute?
I don't have to argue. The information is provided in the article I linked to. It's very simple. The average thickness over the entirety of Greenland has increased 54 cm (21 inches) in a recent 11 year period. Is there anything else that you cowards would like to add?
There, fixed it for you.
1) Muslim clerics who continue to stir up the populace.
2) Foreign terror groups who intentionally target civilians.
3) Iran and Syria, for funding the insurgency and the terrorists.
4) Iraqi politicians/clerics who maintain their own personal armies.
5) Corrupt leftovers of the Saddam era regime, who are currently trying to subvert the ING and IP forces to their own purposes.
In other words, war is a complex business, and saying that it's "a single product of a single administration" is so ignorant that it shouldn't even warrant a response. Every reason you gave would mean diddly if our troops were not in Iraq. Who sent the troops there? The current administration.
Now go back into your hole, shill.
Although Kubrick does use music over some of the space scenes, his editing actually makes the lack of sound an artistic element, something I don't recall from any other science fiction movie.
Firefly used the silence of space very nicely and Battlestar Galactica at least muffles the sound a bit.
I found a very interesting video talking about exactly what you describe.
Thunderbolts of the Gods