We're getting better at doing anti-missle stuff. Electronics that make the missles go haywire and hit a family home instead of your helicopter will become better in the future.
Air supremacy will always be a key to "controlling" the battlefield. If the Iraqi insurgents had air supremacy we would be out of Iraq by now.
You can talk about wheels all you want, but all you'd be doing is turning a soldier into a Dalek. They have cool laser beams but they're totally defeated by stairs.
The boys over at NASA keep pounding their brains trying to figure out the most efficient, most manueverable designs for roving around Mars. At the end of the day, what they'd really like is something that could walk like a human (or that cool bot from "Red Planet").
The bigger you make something the easier a target it is. $2000 RPGs are 100% capable of neutralizing $10,000,000 dollar apache attack helicopters. This is why they aren't using them so much anymore in Iraq.
What would be FAR more useful are carbon nano-tube suits that you could outfit every soldier with. They would be LIGHT and strong. They would allow our guys to go in with numbers and engage a guerilla enemy on their terms.
On the armor front tanks need to become lighter and faster. The ability to rapidly deploy will become more important in future engagements. Again, carbon nano-tube meshes will be important.
Oh yeah, and a little air conditioning would help those guys in the suits as well.
I service home computers. And I will tell you that your average user does not know how to configure an outbound firewall like ZoneAlarm. Nor do they know how to deal with the popups when a new program comes along.
A universal "outbound" firewall will have to be far more comprehensive in intelligence for home users. Basically, it needs to work automatically. And I'm sure that this would be a major undertaking.
This assumes that a habitabal planet will be found FARTHER away from an energy burst.
You'd be far better off digging a deep whole bunker and stocking it with: food, water, and fuel (nuclear if possible). A cryogenic zoo would also be helpful.
Every time the Trek-heads see justification for outrageous space exploration appropriations, I see justification for Tunnel Boring Machines. Dollar for Dollar... you'll save a LOT more people.
If you can sample, you can get a good idea of density. But we cannot sample because we have not identified a SINGLE earth-like planet (distance from sun and water) outside our solar system.
Perhaps the proposed space inferometer will change the equation and we will be eventually be able to map our galactic "neighborhood". Even then, you have to take into account the probability for life existing and that life becoming intelligent. And that really cannot be measured without a profoundly more sophisticated brand of technology.
The Drake equation is junk science. It has ZERO practical application to the world. We'll know if aliens exist the day they come to take over the earth;-)
Mag stripes are too easy to manipulate. Plus, I'm not sure you could fit a decent photo on a mag stripe.
Think smart card with 128k of memory. Think digital signatures to authenticate the contents and holograms on the outside of the card.
The missing piece here is technology to obscure your transactions from business. Indexing by Soc-Sec # or your Drivers License # should be illegal. The smartcard should push out a unique identifier based on an authenticator's id.
This is what we need to crack down on ID forgery as well as identity theft.
The CHURCH frowns upon divorce. You'll find that individual adherence varies GREATLY!!!
I would personally speculate that the attitudes and perceptions of baptists, catholics, mormons... whatever, faith has little or no impact on ANY of these rates. What MATTERS is the way civil institutions deal with these issues.
In the Bible Belt, it's "abstinence only" education or non at all. Therefore, people are ignorant about sexuality. Therefore, girls get pregnant more often.
In the Bible Belt where "family planning" is considered the devil's work, you're going to have more people going into relationships without realistic expectations of the institution.
There is NOTHING new about teenage promiscuity or teen pregnancy. Society has simply started to ACKNOWLEDGE it rather than resolving the issue with "shotgun marriages" or sending the girl off to "boarding school".
Therefore the Devil is good because he is acting according to god's wishes. Satan was MEANT to rebel. And therefore man was INTENDED to fall under the influence of evil.
Therefore, if you're bad you're good. And if you're good you're good.
See, I can play the broken logic game as well. Just remember that Thomas Aquinas was the all time undisputed master!!!!
change God's revealed will. You can either submit to its authority, or ignore it and follow your own will, rather than God's. The second means that you are not a part of the invisible and universal church that comprises all believers.
Likewise, if the Bible is at odds with nature, than the Bible has to change. Because the works of god are collectively natural revelation. Man and the devil can deceive with words. Only GOD can create!!!!
[i]One of the advantages Christians have in theological debates is that they acknowledge that the Bible is an imperfect transcription of God's will.[/i]
Really ????
Because I got the idea that the fundies wanted us to take this stuff literally. That is, only the passages they choose.
Well, the point here is that our constitution BANNING slavery is in contradiction to gods laws on slavery. VERY FEW people actually choose to believe EVERYTHING the bible says. They just pick and choose what they want to believe in and find the passages that back them up.
If you're FOR fundamentalism, you must be FOR SLAVERY as well.
Flavious Josephus is the only verfiable witness historian of the period between the crucifixion and the destruction of Jeruesalem. Josephus says NOTHING about Jesus.
That does not mean Jesus is not real. It does however mean that the best source of history of the period doesn't support ANY history of Jesus.
... but dating biblical texts hasn't reached the "witness" period yet. That doesn't mean the gospels are lies. It just means the level of proof you're talking about must be accepted on faith.
My suggestion is you should NOT try to prove the Bible. Religion is faith. Proof only undermines the point.
The "risen from the dead" story is nothing new. From a literary standpoint, it appears as if the story was just cooked up to make Christianity acceptable to the Dionysiun sun cult.
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We're getting better at doing anti-missle stuff. Electronics that make the missles go haywire and hit a family home instead of your helicopter will become better in the future.
Air supremacy will always be a key to "controlling" the battlefield. If the Iraqi insurgents had air supremacy we would be out of Iraq by now.
The greatest ATV on earth is a billy goat.
You can talk about wheels all you want, but all you'd be doing is turning a soldier into a Dalek. They have cool laser beams but they're totally defeated by stairs.
The boys over at NASA keep pounding their brains trying to figure out the most efficient, most manueverable designs for roving around Mars. At the end of the day, what they'd really like is something that could walk like a human (or that cool bot from "Red Planet").
The bigger you make something the easier a target it is. $2000 RPGs are 100% capable of neutralizing $10,000,000 dollar apache attack helicopters. This is why they aren't using them so much anymore in Iraq.
What would be FAR more useful are carbon nano-tube suits that you could outfit every soldier with. They would be LIGHT and strong. They would allow our guys to go in with numbers and engage a guerilla enemy on their terms.
On the armor front tanks need to become lighter and faster. The ability to rapidly deploy will become more important in future engagements. Again, carbon nano-tube meshes will be important.
Oh yeah, and a little air conditioning would help those guys in the suits as well.
I service home computers. And I will tell you that your average user does not know how to configure an outbound firewall like ZoneAlarm. Nor do they know how to deal with the popups when a new program comes along.
A universal "outbound" firewall will have to be far more comprehensive in intelligence for home users. Basically, it needs to work automatically. And I'm sure that this would be a major undertaking.
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.net and Java come in. They have built in security that can shield your machine from malicious software.
I think this is where
... so when I screw in a new "super-antannae" to my Linksys wireless gateway, than that would make Linksys liable????
... huh???
I guess we should expect to see proprietary patented antannae interfaces then
No, not really.
They want to make extra money by locking customers into vendor upgrades.
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Does it really MATTER how fast your LAN backbone is in those circumstances???
This is of course given that you only have a few computers on your network that aren't passing VIDEO back and forth amongst themselves.
This assumes that a habitabal planet will be found FARTHER away from an energy burst.
You'd be far better off digging a deep whole bunker and stocking it with: food, water, and fuel (nuclear if possible). A cryogenic zoo would also be helpful.
Every time the Trek-heads see justification for outrageous space exploration appropriations, I see justification for Tunnel Boring Machines. Dollar for Dollar
If you can sample, you can get a good idea of density. But we cannot sample because we have not identified a SINGLE earth-like planet (distance from sun and water) outside our solar system.
Perhaps the proposed space inferometer will change the equation and we will be eventually be able to map our galactic "neighborhood". Even then, you have to take into account the probability for life existing and that life becoming intelligent. And that really cannot be measured without a profoundly more sophisticated brand of technology.
The Drake equation is junk science. It has ZERO practical application to the world. We'll know if aliens exist the day they come to take over the earth
It's hard to believe your other assertions if you cannot distinguish between Big-K and Wally World.
... but at that point the universe will have frozen from entropy. So the point is moot.
How can you quantify something you cannot measure????
Congress does NOT have the authority to bypass the judicial branch. Nor does it have authority to bypass the executive (president).
Hell, the court has ruled that Congress can't even bypass ITSELF (they overturned line item vetoes).
Mag stripes are too easy to manipulate. Plus, I'm not sure you could fit a decent photo on a mag stripe.
Think smart card with 128k of memory. Think digital signatures to authenticate the contents and holograms on the outside of the card.
The missing piece here is technology to obscure your transactions from business. Indexing by Soc-Sec # or your Drivers License # should be illegal. The smartcard should push out a unique identifier based on an authenticator's id.
This is what we need to crack down on ID forgery as well as identity theft.
The CHURCH frowns upon divorce. You'll find that individual adherence varies GREATLY!!!
I would personally speculate that the attitudes and perceptions of baptists, catholics, mormons
In the Bible Belt, it's "abstinence only" education or non at all. Therefore, people are ignorant about sexuality. Therefore, girls get pregnant more often.
In the Bible Belt where "family planning" is considered the devil's work, you're going to have more people going into relationships without realistic expectations of the institution.
There is NOTHING new about teenage promiscuity or teen pregnancy. Society has simply started to ACKNOWLEDGE it rather than resolving the issue with "shotgun marriages" or sending the girl off to "boarding school".
Therefore the Devil is good because he is acting according to god's wishes. Satan was MEANT to rebel. And therefore man was INTENDED to fall under the influence of evil.
Therefore, if you're bad you're good. And if you're good you're good.
See, I can play the broken logic game as well. Just remember that Thomas Aquinas was the all time undisputed master!!!!
change God's revealed will. You can either submit to its authority, or ignore it and follow your own will, rather than God's. The second means that you are not a part of the invisible and universal church that comprises all believers.
Likewise, if the Bible is at odds with nature, than the Bible has to change. Because the works of god are collectively natural revelation. Man and the devil can deceive with words. Only GOD can create!!!!
[i]One of the advantages Christians have in theological debates is that they acknowledge that the Bible is an imperfect transcription of God's will.[/i]
Really ????
Because I got the idea that the fundies wanted us to take this stuff literally. That is, only the passages they choose.
Allegory is for Catholics!!!!
... turn the other cheek.
Well, the point here is that our constitution BANNING slavery is in contradiction to gods laws on slavery. VERY FEW people actually choose to believe EVERYTHING the bible says. They just pick and choose what they want to believe in and find the passages that back them up.
If you're FOR fundamentalism, you must be FOR SLAVERY as well.
[i]7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband. [/i]
By this reading, you state homosexuality is a sin. But that would make priests and nuns fornicators as well.
Flavious Josephus is the only verfiable witness historian of the period between the crucifixion and the destruction of Jeruesalem. Josephus says NOTHING about Jesus.
That does not mean Jesus is not real. It does however mean that the best source of history of the period doesn't support ANY history of Jesus.
My suggestion is you should NOT try to prove the Bible. Religion is faith. Proof only undermines the point.
The "risen from the dead" story is nothing new. From a literary standpoint, it appears as if the story was just cooked up to make Christianity acceptable to the Dionysiun sun cult.