Actually I heard Dell will not replace a TFT screen that has less than 10 dead pixels... most laptop sold on the market today have at least one or two dead pixels.
I'm afraid I don't have any infos on that, I know that it was considered along binary logic when the first computers where designed, but you might find stuff with searches on "trinary computer" around.
Just think about it : 3^16 is almost as large as 2^32, which mean a 16 bit trinary CPU would have about the same power as a same clock speed 32 bit binary CPU... a 64 bit trinary CPU would just kill:)
I just hope if such a thing happen that people will build CPU/software using trinary logic rather than binary (-1, 0 and 1 state). With the same hardware a trinary system would be way more powerfull than a binary system:)
Man pages are good for remembering a function you already know, but they totally suck for learning how to use a function or command. Often the text doesn't even say what the thing does, just that you can pass this or that as parameter... frankly, if Linux people want to spread their favorite OS around, they'll have to make an effort on documentation (and not just howtos, it sucks to open up a browser anytime you just want to do something on the command line)
Hug, I don't know what in the Constitution prevent banning political paid advertisement (not speech, there's a huge difference). You can't advertise cigarets in teenagers magazine, and so far it doesn't restrict Philip Morris speech rights. There's a big difference between advertisement and free speech.
Well, as long as candidate will need to run *billion* dollar advertisement campain to stand a chance to win, they'll need money, and they'll have to give something in return for all this money.
Maybe it's time to do like many other country are doing and ban political commercials on TV or in the press. That would force candidate to gain votes on their real merit (gasp!) and would drastically cut their need for money, hence boosting their independance.
Of course that would mean cutting medias incomes, and since the medias also paid for the politicians that are in place right now...
Working for an OEM, I can tell you the OEM prices are nowhere like 29$. It's more like 20% off the retail price... now maybe huge OEMs like Dell and Compaq are getting those prices, but certainly not smaller shops.
Actually they weren't moroons, they invented and promoted a lot of good stuff that got lost in the dark ages, when they empire died and christians took control of Europe.
Think water aduction, city organisation, freedom of religion (yes, they were very open to religion, except to religions who were trying to force other people to convert like christianity).
Nope that will probably not work, because the hardware drive will be made so that you can't do that without the key. The only (and best) solution is to never save information with the copyright bit set. They have yet to make a device that can make the difference between britney spears singing and my dog barking;)
1) true but the Pentium 200 shipped very quickly afterward, and was favorably compared to the Pentium Pro both in performance and price
2) the Pentium Pro was faster on 32 bit code, unfortunately the only widely available OS at that time was mostly 16 bit code (Windows), and even 32 bit coded video-games were still faster on the Pentium. NT was still confidential, and well, unix benchmark was worthless to 99.9% of potential buyers. And few people knew what Linux was.
3) nope the PPro stayed at 0.35 micron die, which was really not small enough given that it had a big L2 cache on die. Intel simply dropped the Pentium Pro altogether and used the core on the Pentium II (easier and cheaper to manufacture since the L2 cache was not on die anymore). The Pentium II core also had some optimisation to run 16 bit code a little better...
I don't know for games, but because I handle a very large image database (no, not porn !) I need ACDSee to be able to draw thumbnail fast. And even with a 1,2 Ghz CPU it could still go faster, especially when there's 50 thumbnail to create on the fly of pictures that are 3 megapixel each:)
L1 and L2 cache are "small" on the current P4 because the P4 core was designed for 0,13 micron tech. Intel usually does its core with the next die-size in mind, which means version 1.0 of every new Intel CPU is running on an inaddequate die-size. The Pentium Pro also had this problem, when it came out people found it barely faster than a 200 Mhz Pentium. As we have seen with the Pentium III E 1 Ghz, the core can do much much better than a Pentium. It just needs to get a an adequate die-size.
When 0,13 micron fabs are ready Intel will put out a new version of the Pentium 4 with optimized core, large caches, higher speeds and it will also be much cheaper to manufacture. The format will also change (different socket and motherboards).
Yep, but to all people across the world whose speech rights are being taken away (that does also includes the US, don't forget DeCSS !) there's a solution :
FreeNet
The definitive end of all censorship and copyrights !
I used to be a fan of big heavy PCs with huge CRT screens. Then I was forced on day to go for a laptop, so I bought what was a nice and expensive Dell laptop with 14" TFT screen.
Now I have never looked back at desktop PCs again ! My latest work machine is another Dell laptop with a 15" 1400x1050 TFT. The picture is so beautifull and sharp:) Although the resolution seemed to be a little too high for the screen size, it's still much more readable than anything else and provides plenty of screen real-estate. Now going back to work on a CRT, even a good one, is a real pain. Also I like the ability to have one and only one PC at work and at home (no more syncing of files and emails to do)
If it looks sharper on the CRT then it's because you are not using digital plug for the TFT. I've been using both CRT and TFT (on laptops= for some time and good TFT with digital link beat the crap out of any CRT, including the best Sonys out there. Once every pixel is perfectly visible and square, it can't get much sharper:)
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Nice explanations... but the truth is that USA is the country of christian biggotry. While christian are perfectly fine with violence (the very symbol of their religion is a guy nailed alive to a piece of wood !!!), they are sex-phobics.
As for "American dying for the good of the world", you are forgetting that all US military intervention involves sending so called "smart bombs", having all the boys safe in a bunker or high away in a stealth plane. Of course the smart bombs are not smart at all and kill soldiers, women and kids with the same efficacity... all these deads only serve to keep oil prices low and the average American familly (2 kids and a big polluting SUV) happy with cheap gas. Seing how the last elections went, this won't be really necessary anymore as the Man doesn't even need American's votes anymore to put his puppet in the White House.
Ask yourself this, how would Hitler have been stopped in WWII if the only opposition he had was a demand for greater sex ed and free condoms for German youth?
If Hitler had had a steady and healthy sexual life in his life, maybe he would have been less frustrated and had spend his time in the bedroom instead of engaging in this terrible political career we know... a guy that fucks twice a day is as non-violent as you can be:)
Or any other religion for that matter - since no religion on earth has ever proven the reality of what/who it worship, christian, muslims, animist and satanist are all in the same boat. Even atheist have faith, since their faith is that no God exists (which can't be proven either).
As the saying goes, God works in mysterious ways.
That saying exists because there's probably no God, and people needed a way to explain why, in a world they think is ruled by God, nothing work as expected and events happen purely randomly. And the only way to make those random event fit with the God existence is to say that He is not working with any logic. Another dubious explanation to hide most religions usual shortcommings in the way they explain the world.
He wants us to believe in Him so He'll give us a little bit of Him over time
I understand that, but then this is such a little bit than having faith in Him is about as hard as having faith in any other purely imaginary being. Actually more people have reported UFO sightings than God sightings, so all believers would probably spend their time better worshipping aliens. The statistical probably that aliens exists and will come to save us is much higher than God coming down here.
it's not out of His ability just to come back to earth and wipe everyone out, because that's all we deserve
Well if christians think they deserve to be wiped out, fine, but that's certainly not my position. I've certainly done my share of mistakes, but none that deserve death. If someone deserves a blame in this universe, it's the one who introduced pain, injustice, desease, etc... in it. Not those who suffer from it ! And the maker of this all, if there's one, is God. Many christians says that humans are responsible for all these bad things. But if you raise and train a dog to kill peoples, is the dog guilty, or is it the trainer, who willfully "created" a tool of death ? who sends earthquakes and tornadoes, humans or God ? If there's someone to blame, it's certainly not humans. Some christians have created a nice excuse for this ("the devil did it") but that's really a poor excuse, because even the devil is the creation of God himself. If He did everything, then he is responsible for everything. You can't just create the universe and then blame the poor living things in it for all the mistakes you did in your design in the first place.
That is a flawed statement. God can choose when and how He reveals himself to anyone.
Well that's how you see it - but statistically speaking, he reveals himself to populations that are partly made of christian people. There is no "born again christian" in populations that have never heard of the Bible ! Coincidence ??? Obviously that's because he doesn't reveal himself but someone (human) does the work for him instead... I'm sure if you were living deep in the Amazonian forest and never ever seen a white man, you wouldn't be christian either. So much for God reaching directly to your heart... kill all christians, and God is dead. History is full of dead Gods.
This is true, but they aren't 'go do this 5 times a day', or 'to get right with god you must maime and paint this animal', or even 'pray this 2 times to be forgiven'...
Yep, at least christians have less silly rules than other religions.
You can look at the 10 commandments as laws or rules to live on, but you'll live a life of feeling sat on and repressed because you don't have the freedom you want.
OR you could look at them as obvious guidelines for living a safe, happy, comfortable life with everyone else around you.
...knowing that if you disobey them, your take the risk of spending eternal times in pain and flames. Now talk about rules enforcement by fear...
If you're a true Christian, you're not bound by laws and regulations, but morals and ethical principles.
And we touch another problem again : you are not bound by laws and regulations (which make sense for a christian, since obviously, if you take for granted that God exists, then he and his laws are above human laws). And when humans laws and God laws oppose (say, separation of church and state), then believers don't respect humans laws, creating a big mess in the country. Abortion clinics getting bombed, books being burned, etc... are all living proof that once you consider that your religion is above laws, then you are free to not respect laws anymore. Another reason why democracy and religion don't mix well.
Yes, but Nazi's were entirely motivated of selfish greed and pride, not on Godly an biblical principles.
I think this is utterly false. Nazis where, like religious people, convinced they had "a message", a God and principles. Many were greedy, but many religious people are greedy too. They had a leader (Hitler), a holy book (My Kampf), a symbol, missionaries, etc... and where truly convinced they worked for a better world. Of course they were as wrong as it can get. Religions are the same, they think they work the the good but most of them are so "into" their stuff that they don't even see that they are trully evil in their acts. Christians burned whichs and still burn books from time to time, Muslims wants the head of the author of "the satanic verses", Jewish think they have a "holy property right" to the Palestinian ground, etc... as long as religions exists the madness will never stop and the blood will keep flowing. That is not to say religions are the cause of all evils, but they have a big market share of evil.
God's kingdom will never fall to treachery or greed or selfishness, because God is only love.
Well he cursed people and their offspings for generations, burned cities, flooded the earth and killed about everyone, asked human sacrifices, drowned armies, etc... (the Bible is full of murders, genocides, rapes, etc..) If this is his idea of love, then I'm not interested. He just showed the behavior of an immature spoiled brat. I'd rather die for justice and honor than be saved by worshiping and submitting to an evil God.
o how come the 10 commandments are what America was founded on?
First many people will contend that, at least because the American constitution specificly separate church and state, and because the founders were deeply convinced that religion had nothing to do in the country affairs. Of course history is made so that the US were colonized by the most biggots people in the world, as they were even too much religious for Europe (which was rather religious at the time too, so it says a lot about the level of biggotry of the first immigrants). Once those immigrants arrived they preceded to kill most native opposition... not very a christian behavior is it ? During the cold war the country became MORE religious that it ever was by changing the text on money and turning it into "in God we trust".
Christianity is offensive because at the heart, you're called to go out and save others.
(images of Jehovah's wackos knocking on my door on a saturday morning). Well I'd like to save christians from their evil cult too:-) . Actually if God exists, the armageddon comes, and he rejects people who did good but weren't christians, then he is obviously a bad God, and then there's reason to worship him. If your God is as good as you say, then there's no need to worship him to be "a good person" and be saved.
So Christianity is striving to show the truth to the world because the world is just in such a bad place right now.
It would be more efficient to work directly toward making a better world. You can either run around and scream "fire !" and try to save pople, or you can take a bottle of water and douse the fire right away (if there's a fire, which christians don't even know because they just saw someone else scream "fire!", but never even saw the smoke of cigaret themselves;).
Only if that truth affects everyone else. Most religions are about what to do to end up in heaven, and it's an endless struggle, and endless discipline to earn it.
But then we are not 7 anymore, we should be old enough to know what's good and bad have no need of "if you are nice you'll get to heaven, if not to hell" to motivate us. If an atheist helps an old lady cross the road, he does it out of pure kindness. If a christian does the same, he will clame to do it out of pure kindness too, but then he might have done it just to increase his chances of getting to heaven. So we know the atheist is AT LEAST as good as the christian, and maybe even better:)
The US if founded on Christan beliefs, but is no longer looked upon as so. The 'freedom' everyone wants is to have their own way - but that CAN and WILL only lead to chaos and disaster. Christianity is far from free in the US. Too many people are still ridiculed and persecuted because of their faith
Including atheists and agnostics. Many people live in small communities where not going to the church immediately make you suspect. Some teachers even receive death threats when they dare to teach Darwinism. The fight surrounding abortion, prayer in school, etc... just shows that christians are still dreaming of imposing their idea of the world to others, whether they want it or not.
you can take God out of the equation, but that doesn't change the fact that it was given by God.
Actually ethropologists seems to agree that marriage was created in order to allow men to know who their kids were from, and therefor allow them to transmit their belongings to their offsprings. Before marriage you only knew for sure who the mother was, so belongings were transmitted from mother to daughter. That's supposedly how power and money came from the hands of women to men and started the patriarcal society we know. No intervention of God in this process has ever been documented, it's all the idea of humans, like God was not involved in the invention of the Internet (or shall we thank God for TCP-IP every time we log in ?).
If Jesus hadn't died and rose, the world would be a much different place...
Well if didn't existed then you would probably be Jewish:) The crusades would have never existed, Galileo would have written several best-sellers and advanced the astronomy science by 150 years, Salem would be famous for it's nice architecture, etc... maybe the world would be in fact much better. But we will never know:-(
We're not guilty of another's mistake. We are paying the consequence for their decision, there's a difference.
Well if God had kept is garden well walled, the snake wouldn't have entered and all of this wouldn't have happened. When the pig escape out of the barn, you can blame the pig, but you are the one who left the door of the barn oppened.
We're now inherently given what Adam and Eve wanted for themselves (being deceived), and are bound by physical death as punishment.
So what you are saying is that we are not guilty, yet we are punished ? I hope you don't/won't raise your kids the same way... everyone deserves the right to proove him/herself to the world and show how good he/she can be, without paying thru the nose for others mistake. If God is against this, then he doesn't deserve the worship he is getting.
You can cut IE "ombilical link to MS" in the options. First remove the default favorites since they are redirects that report back first to Microsoft before moving you to the destination... then go to the options and uncheck "check for newer IE versions automatically".
How about choosing between starvation and a decent job ? 0.7% of the sale price of a Nike shoe is sweatshop wages... they could easely double that wage, and reduce the PR budget by 0.7% (won't make a difference, it's already over 20% of the price of the shoe).
But of course paying 2 or 3 already overly rich basketball players is really more important than giving a decent life to thousands of workers abroad...
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Actually I heard Dell will not replace a TFT screen that has less than 10 dead pixels... most laptop sold on the market today have at least one or two dead pixels.
I'm afraid I don't have any infos on that, I know that it was considered along binary logic when the first computers where designed, but you might find stuff with searches on "trinary computer" around.
:)
Just think about it : 3^16 is almost as large as 2^32, which mean a 16 bit trinary CPU would have about the same power as a same clock speed 32 bit binary CPU... a 64 bit trinary CPU would just kill
Yep - which, when you reach 32 or 64 "tit" gets a awfull lot more information than with bits :)
I just hope if such a thing happen that people will build CPU/software using trinary logic rather than binary (-1, 0 and 1 state). With the same hardware a trinary system would be way more powerfull than a binary system :)
Man pages are good for remembering a function you already know, but they totally suck for learning how to use a function or command. Often the text doesn't even say what the thing does, just that you can pass this or that as parameter... frankly, if Linux people want to spread their favorite OS around, they'll have to make an effort on documentation (and not just howtos, it sucks to open up a browser anytime you just want to do something on the command line)
You probably would prefer infra-red, x-ray would require emitting dangerous radiations and show what every girl had for lunch !
Hug, I don't know what in the Constitution prevent banning political paid advertisement (not speech, there's a huge difference). You can't advertise cigarets in teenagers magazine, and so far it doesn't restrict Philip Morris speech rights. There's a big difference between advertisement and free speech.
Well, as long as candidate will need to run *billion* dollar advertisement campain to stand a chance to win, they'll need money, and they'll have to give something in return for all this money.
Maybe it's time to do like many other country are doing and ban political commercials on TV or in the press. That would force candidate to gain votes on their real merit (gasp!) and would drastically cut their need for money, hence boosting their independance.
Of course that would mean cutting medias incomes, and since the medias also paid for the politicians that are in place right now...
Working for an OEM, I can tell you the OEM prices are nowhere like 29$. It's more like 20% off the retail price... now maybe huge OEMs like Dell and Compaq are getting those prices, but certainly not smaller shops.
Actually they weren't moroons, they invented and promoted a lot of good stuff that got lost in the dark ages, when they empire died and christians took control of Europe.
Think water aduction, city organisation, freedom of religion (yes, they were very open to religion, except to religions who were trying to force other people to convert like christianity).
Actually they manage to survive like most low-inteligence/low-life expectancy species (insects, rabbits, etc.) : they reproduce in mass quantities...
Nope that will probably not work, because the hardware drive will be made so that you can't do that without the key. The only (and best) solution is to never save information with the copyright bit set. They have yet to make a device that can make the difference between britney spears singing and my dog barking ;)
Actually if only content that has the "secure" bit set is protected, then I guess we will all save our MP3 with the bit NOT set.
End of the problem.
1) true but the Pentium 200 shipped very quickly afterward, and was favorably compared to the Pentium Pro both in performance and price
2) the Pentium Pro was faster on 32 bit code, unfortunately the only widely available OS at that time was mostly 16 bit code (Windows), and even 32 bit coded video-games were still faster on the Pentium. NT was still confidential, and well, unix benchmark was worthless to 99.9% of potential buyers. And few people knew what Linux was.
3) nope the PPro stayed at 0.35 micron die, which was really not small enough given that it had a big L2 cache on die. Intel simply dropped the Pentium Pro altogether and used the core on the Pentium II (easier and cheaper to manufacture since the L2 cache was not on die anymore). The Pentium II core also had some optimisation to run 16 bit code a little better...
I don't know for games, but because I handle a very large image database (no, not porn !) I need ACDSee to be able to draw thumbnail fast. And even with a 1,2 Ghz CPU it could still go faster, especially when there's 50 thumbnail to create on the fly of pictures that are 3 megapixel each :)
L1 and L2 cache are "small" on the current P4 because the P4 core was designed for 0,13 micron tech. Intel usually does its core with the next die-size in mind, which means version 1.0 of every new Intel CPU is running on an inaddequate die-size. The Pentium Pro also had this problem, when it came out people found it barely faster than a 200 Mhz Pentium. As we have seen with the Pentium III E 1 Ghz, the core can do much much better than a Pentium. It just needs to get a an adequate die-size.
When 0,13 micron fabs are ready Intel will put out a new version of the Pentium 4 with optimized core, large caches, higher speeds and it will also be much cheaper to manufacture. The format will also change (different socket and motherboards).
Yep, but to all people across the world whose speech rights are being taken away (that does also includes the US, don't forget DeCSS !) there's a solution :
FreeNet
The definitive end of all censorship and copyrights !
I used to be a fan of big heavy PCs with huge CRT screens. Then I was forced on day to go for a laptop, so I bought what was a nice and expensive Dell laptop with 14" TFT screen.
:) Although the resolution seemed to be a little too high for the screen size, it's still much more readable than anything else and provides plenty of screen real-estate. Now going back to work on a CRT, even a good one, is a real pain. Also I like the ability to have one and only one PC at work and at home (no more syncing of files and emails to do)
Now I have never looked back at desktop PCs again ! My latest work machine is another Dell laptop with a 15" 1400x1050 TFT. The picture is so beautifull and sharp
If it looks sharper on the CRT then it's because you are not using digital plug for the TFT. I've been using both CRT and TFT (on laptops= for some time and good TFT with digital link beat the crap out of any CRT, including the best Sonys out there. Once every pixel is perfectly visible and square, it can't get much sharper :)
Nice explanations... but the truth is that USA is the country of christian biggotry. While christian are perfectly fine with violence (the very symbol of their religion is a guy nailed alive to a piece of wood !!!), they are sex-phobics.
:)
As for "American dying for the good of the world", you are forgetting that all US military intervention involves sending so called "smart bombs", having all the boys safe in a bunker or high away in a stealth plane. Of course the smart bombs are not smart at all and kill soldiers, women and kids with the same efficacity... all these deads only serve to keep oil prices low and the average American familly (2 kids and a big polluting SUV) happy with cheap gas. Seing how the last elections went, this won't be really necessary anymore as the Man doesn't even need American's votes anymore to put his puppet in the White House.
Ask yourself this, how would Hitler have been stopped in WWII if the only opposition he had was a demand for greater sex ed and free condoms for German youth?
If Hitler had had a steady and healthy sexual life in his life, maybe he would have been less frustrated and had spend his time in the bedroom instead of engaging in this terrible political career we know... a guy that fucks twice a day is as non-violent as you can be
Faith is the essence of Christianty.
:-) . Actually if God exists, the armageddon comes, and he rejects people who did good but weren't christians, then he is obviously a bad God, and then there's reason to worship him. If your God is as good as you say, then there's no need to worship him to be "a good person" and be saved.
;).
:)
:) The crusades would have never existed, Galileo would have written several best-sellers and advanced the astronomy science by 150 years, Salem would be famous for it's nice architecture, etc... maybe the world would be in fact much better. But we will never know :-(
:)
Or any other religion for that matter - since no religion on earth has ever proven the reality of what/who it worship, christian, muslims, animist and satanist are all in the same boat. Even atheist have faith, since their faith is that no God exists (which can't be proven either).
As the saying goes, God works in mysterious ways.
That saying exists because there's probably no God, and people needed a way to explain why, in a world they think is ruled by God, nothing work as expected and events happen purely randomly. And the only way to make those random event fit with the God existence is to say that He is not working with any logic. Another dubious explanation to hide most religions usual shortcommings in the way they explain the world.
He wants us to believe in Him so He'll give us a little bit of Him over time
I understand that, but then this is such a little bit than having faith in Him is about as hard as having faith in any other purely imaginary being. Actually more people have reported UFO sightings than God sightings, so all believers would probably spend their time better worshipping aliens. The statistical probably that aliens exists and will come to save us is much higher than God coming down here.
it's not out of His ability just to come back to earth and wipe everyone out, because that's all we deserve
Well if christians think they deserve to be wiped out, fine, but that's certainly not my position. I've certainly done my share of mistakes, but none that deserve death. If someone deserves a blame in this universe, it's the one who introduced pain, injustice, desease, etc... in it. Not those who suffer from it ! And the maker of this all, if there's one, is God. Many christians says that humans are responsible for all these bad things. But if you raise and train a dog to kill peoples, is the dog guilty, or is it the trainer, who willfully "created" a tool of death ? who sends earthquakes and tornadoes, humans or God ? If there's someone to blame, it's certainly not humans. Some christians have created a nice excuse for this ("the devil did it") but that's really a poor excuse, because even the devil is the creation of God himself. If He did everything, then he is responsible for everything. You can't just create the universe and then blame the poor living things in it for all the mistakes you did in your design in the first place.
That is a flawed statement. God can choose when and how He reveals himself to anyone.
Well that's how you see it - but statistically speaking, he reveals himself to populations that are partly made of christian people. There is no "born again christian" in populations that have never heard of the Bible ! Coincidence ??? Obviously that's because he doesn't reveal himself but someone (human) does the work for him instead... I'm sure if you were living deep in the Amazonian forest and never ever seen a white man, you wouldn't be christian either. So much for God reaching directly to your heart... kill all christians, and God is dead. History is full of dead Gods.
This is true, but they aren't 'go do this 5 times a day', or 'to get right with god you must maime and paint this animal', or even 'pray this 2 times to be forgiven'...
Yep, at least christians have less silly rules than other religions.
You can look at the 10 commandments as laws or rules to live on, but you'll live a life of feeling sat on and repressed because you don't have the freedom you want.
OR you could look at them as obvious guidelines for living a safe, happy, comfortable life with everyone else around you.
...knowing that if you disobey them, your take the risk of spending eternal times in pain and flames. Now talk about rules enforcement by fear...
If you're a true Christian, you're not bound by laws and regulations, but morals and ethical principles.
And we touch another problem again : you are not bound by laws and regulations (which make sense for a christian, since obviously, if you take for granted that God exists, then he and his laws are above human laws). And when humans laws and God laws oppose (say, separation of church and state), then believers don't respect humans laws, creating a big mess in the country. Abortion clinics getting bombed, books being burned, etc... are all living proof that once you consider that your religion is above laws, then you are free to not respect laws anymore. Another reason why democracy and religion don't mix well.
Yes, but Nazi's were entirely motivated of selfish greed and pride, not on Godly an biblical principles.
I think this is utterly false. Nazis where, like religious people, convinced they had "a message", a God and principles. Many were greedy, but many religious people are greedy too. They had a leader (Hitler), a holy book (My Kampf), a symbol, missionaries, etc... and where truly convinced they worked for a better world. Of course they were as wrong as it can get. Religions are the same, they think they work the the good but most of them are so "into" their stuff that they don't even see that they are trully evil in their acts. Christians burned whichs and still burn books from time to time, Muslims wants the head of the author of "the satanic verses", Jewish think they have a "holy property right" to the Palestinian ground, etc... as long as religions exists the madness will never stop and the blood will keep flowing. That is not to say religions are the cause of all evils, but they have a big market share of evil.
God's kingdom will never fall to treachery or greed or selfishness, because God is only love.
Well he cursed people and their offspings for generations, burned cities, flooded the earth and killed about everyone, asked human sacrifices, drowned armies, etc... (the Bible is full of murders, genocides, rapes, etc..) If this is his idea of love, then I'm not interested. He just showed the behavior of an immature spoiled brat. I'd rather die for justice and honor than be saved by worshiping and submitting to an evil God.
o how come the 10 commandments are what America was founded on?
First many people will contend that, at least because the American constitution specificly separate church and state, and because the founders were deeply convinced that religion had nothing to do in the country affairs. Of course history is made so that the US were colonized by the most biggots people in the world, as they were even too much religious for Europe (which was rather religious at the time too, so it says a lot about the level of biggotry of the first immigrants). Once those immigrants arrived they preceded to kill most native opposition... not very a christian behavior is it ? During the cold war the country became MORE religious that it ever was by changing the text on money and turning it into "in God we trust".
Christianity is offensive because at the heart, you're called to go out and save others.
(images of Jehovah's wackos knocking on my door on a saturday morning). Well I'd like to save christians from their evil cult too
So Christianity is striving to show the truth to the world because the world is just in such a bad place right now.
It would be more efficient to work directly toward making a better world. You can either run around and scream "fire !" and try to save pople, or you can take a bottle of water and douse the fire right away (if there's a fire, which christians don't even know because they just saw someone else scream "fire!", but never even saw the smoke of cigaret themselves
Only if that truth affects everyone else. Most religions are about what to do to end up in heaven, and it's an endless struggle, and endless discipline to earn it.
But then we are not 7 anymore, we should be old enough to know what's good and bad have no need of "if you are nice you'll get to heaven, if not to hell" to motivate us. If an atheist helps an old lady cross the road, he does it out of pure kindness. If a christian does the same, he will clame to do it out of pure kindness too, but then he might have done it just to increase his chances of getting to heaven. So we know the atheist is AT LEAST as good as the christian, and maybe even better
The US if founded on Christan beliefs, but is no longer looked upon as so. The 'freedom' everyone wants is to have their own way - but that CAN and WILL only lead to chaos and disaster. Christianity is far from free in the US. Too many people are still ridiculed and persecuted because of their faith
Including atheists and agnostics. Many people live in small communities where not going to the church immediately make you suspect. Some teachers even receive death threats when they dare to teach Darwinism. The fight surrounding abortion, prayer in school, etc... just shows that christians are still dreaming of imposing their idea of the world to others, whether they want it or not.
you can take God out of the equation, but that doesn't change the fact that it was given by God.
Actually ethropologists seems to agree that marriage was created in order to allow men to know who their kids were from, and therefor allow them to transmit their belongings to their offsprings. Before marriage you only knew for sure who the mother was, so belongings were transmitted from mother to daughter. That's supposedly how power and money came from the hands of women to men and started the patriarcal society we know. No intervention of God in this process has ever been documented, it's all the idea of humans, like God was not involved in the invention of the Internet (or shall we thank God for TCP-IP every time we log in ?).
If Jesus hadn't died and rose, the world would be a much different place...
Well if didn't existed then you would probably be Jewish
We're not guilty of another's mistake. We are paying the consequence for their decision, there's a difference.
Well if God had kept is garden well walled, the snake wouldn't have entered and all of this wouldn't have happened. When the pig escape out of the barn, you can blame the pig, but you are the one who left the door of the barn oppened.
We're now inherently given what Adam and Eve wanted for themselves (being deceived), and are bound by physical death as punishment.
So what you are saying is that we are not guilty, yet we are punished ? I hope you don't/won't raise your kids the same way... everyone deserves the right to proove him/herself to the world and show how good he/she can be, without paying thru the nose for others mistake. If God is against this, then he doesn't deserve the worship he is getting.
Now was that a long post or what ?
Because windows is incompatible with my page.
Err, IE exists on Mac and Solaris/Irix....
You can cut IE "ombilical link to MS" in the options. First remove the default favorites since they are redirects that report back first to Microsoft before moving you to the destination... then go to the options and uncheck "check for newer IE versions automatically".
Should do the trick.
How about choosing between starvation and a decent job ? 0.7% of the sale price of a Nike shoe is sweatshop wages... they could easely double that wage, and reduce the PR budget by 0.7% (won't make a difference, it's already over 20% of the price of the shoe).
But of course paying 2 or 3 already overly rich basketball players is really more important than giving a decent life to thousands of workers abroad...