No wonder the Catholic Church is in the mess it is, if "for the record, that the average Catholic is taught that the Pope is infallible"
The doctrine of Papal Infallibility was of the driving forces behind the (First) Vatican Council in 1870, and the wedge that split off the 'Old Catholic' Church. The teaching is that when the Pope speaks ex cathedra or "from the seat" on matters of Faith and Morals. Generally, such pronouncements are made only after a lot of colsultation and debate among Theologians, and are VERY rare. About the only instance of this doctrine being used that I can recall off-hand is the declaration of the Dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Pope Pius XII in 1950.
Most don't believe it but that's another matter.
Be careful there, friend. Every denomination that has split from the Catholic Church has split because they didn't choose to accept one or another of the Church's teachings. Remember that refusing to accept even one article of faith is enough to seperate you from the Church.
You might be a confirmed something but not a Catholic.
This is the same reason I won't shop ANYWHERE (Best Buy, CompUSA, etc) that insists on looking at my receipt and sticking their grubby hands in my shopping bag(s) even after they've jsut seen me making a purchase and the bags filled by a sales clerk not 20 feet away.
It's really insulting, the way they treat paying criminals like criminals. Every time I go to a new store and they try this, I make a point of sending a very nasty letter to the store afterwars. Then I never bring my business back to them.
Especially in the examples given above, there are too many other choices (including on line purchases) for me to bother with them ever again.
They DID hack into a commercial system and disrupted business.
They DID interfere with paying customers.
Just because they are hacking into a game today and you're willing to let them get qaway with it, what will you say when they're hacking into your bank account tomorrow?
So, GM decides to partner with NexTel and market a fleet tracking solution, and this bozo thinks it's the end of seperate PDAs and cel phones?
The application is hardly new. My company uses NexTel phones and web site in conjunction with an in-house application to track a fleet of trucks. Several other companies (@Road?) offer GPS based truck tracking solutions.
I kept seeing posts on the rumor sites that the 15" PowerBook was to be updated "real soon now." Finally, fed up with waiting (I could be enjoying one instead, after all), I went ahead and bought one of the current models.
It doesn't matter which PowerBook you get: get the one that fits your needs best. They ROCK.
I haven't had this much fun with a computer in 20 years!
FINALLY!
I thought I'd never find someone willing to talk about the hardware part of Apple's announcement. It's hard to hear over the shrill whine of the usual suspects bitching about the price/selection/DRM of Apple's new online music service.
Bottom line: Apple's hardware continues to kick ass, Their new music service is going to revolutionize music distribution. More windows users filled with apple envy. Film at 11.
Interesting... my experience has been exactly the opposite. I'm using a MAG XJ700T that I bought about 4 years ago, and have absolutely no problems with.
On the other hand, my company has been deploying 21" ViewSonics (over 150 in the past year) and is seeing a failure rate of about 30%, including units DOA.
Depending on where you live, I'd recommend talking to your count agricultural extension office. They usually can do soil testing for free/dirt cheap;) and they can always give advice on planting in your region.
Where I live, they offer a "Master Gardener" program , which lasts about 9 weekends. The cost is basically buying the book for the class and helping tend some public gardens for 1 or 2 weekends.
Another good resource is a locally owned garden center or nursery. Don't expect the people at places like Lowe's/Home Depot to know anything.
i've tried hydrogen and oxygen to improve my engine performance, but ended up having to get the water cleaned out of my fuel lines!
Damn cheap gas stations....
I already have it. It's schweeet.
My digital cable as well as my high-speed internet come in on it. If I wanted to, my phone line and alarm monitoring could come in too, all in a nice bundle.
The high speed internet is great... I regularly get faster speeds than my friends with DSL or cable modem.
The other important thing to consider is cost: Mayor Lee P. "Out Of Town" Brown, with his toy train on Main St. and other foolish projects, is running a HUGE budget deficit. Anything that can be done to shave expenditures, HAS to be done, and paying the leeches in Redmond WA is not the answer.
-- Which is why most LARGE companies generally do not maintain their own backup data center for their business continuity plan, but lease space/capacity from companies like SunGard, which provide offsite storage & backup data centers.
Even with scheduling regular business continuity plan tests & sending people offsite for a week or so, these plans are cheaper than maintainig a 2nd data center.
A co-worker at my last contract gig told me about a trick used when he was in the Air Force. After about 24 hours, coffee simply won't work. At that point, they would drink a beer, and then the coffee would work for a few more hours.
People like you disgust me. Nobody says ANYTHING about how much he already gives to charity (let's face it... with THAT much money, he's GOT to have every tax shelter he can find). All you can do is whine about how much he spends on his other pursuits. If he's making that much money, he's also creating wealth for others who have jobs because of him. Yes, he's a grandstanding bastard. Like you, I'm probably a bit envious of his success. But, I'm not going to waste my time whining because he has it and i dont: I'm going out and getting my own!
I would argue that the other thing a sound card needs is an amplifier.
I run my Sound Blaster Live into my old stereo's amplifier and out the speakers, and the sound is WAY better than the $50 set with subwoofer I bought for my wife.
In Harris and the surrounding 7 (?) counties (Houston, Texas), we recently reduced our freeway sped-limits from 70 to 55 because the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC, "train wreck") estimated that this would eliminate something along the lines of 12.3 tons of NOx pollution air per day.
Even the Harris County DA said that they would have a difficult time making speeding tickets stick, since a speeding ticket says that the vehicle was being operated at an unsafe speed. Given that the state had already posted a 70 mph speed limit, the state would then have to prove that >55mph is unsafe.
The latest word is that the model used to come up with the pollution reduction was flawed, and that based on the same levels (something like 5.8 tons per day), the same results can be obtained by Tx DOT burning only emulsified Diesel.
Now, one month after the last 55mph speed limit sign went up (the first went up in february), the speed limit is returning to 70.
Do we feel better now that we've got that knee-jerk reaction out of out system?
Having worked in systems for one of the major oil companies for 13 years, I can tell you that your weekly fill-up is NOT what's filling their coffers. The fact is that due to the competitive nature of selling gasoline, the margin per gallon is mere pennies.
Where they REALLY make the money is specialty products (lubricants, etc) plastics, and petrochemicals.
Even if Shell, BP/Amoco, ExxonMobil and the rest never sold you another gallon of gasoline they would STILL make money hand-over-fist because of these products, and possibly even more, since the expense of exploration and production would decline with the decline in demand.
There is also the lost city of Indianola, on the upper Texas coast. The city was washed away by a hurricane in the early part of the 20th century (or was it late 19th century?). Nothing but a few foundations remain as far as I know. The few who survived left to settle elsewhere.
An interesting anecdote related to this is that in St. David's Episcopal Church in Austin, Texas, is a stained glass window of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians. The organist at the time had never been to the coast, and decided to take a vacation. She told people that if anything happened to her, she wanted a stained glass window.
She was one of those lost at Indianola.
Actually, I'd prefer to have something other than my local (Houston) PBS channel. The national feed is OK, but I'm a die-hard British comedy junkie -- the only TV I watch is what's on PBS Saturday nights.
The British comedy lineups in Austin and Dallas are awesome, while Houston keeps playing the same crap over and over.
And while we're on the subject, I'd LOVE to have feeds of all the BBC channels from the UK, so I can see what's on NOW instead of what was on 2 years ago.
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No wonder the Catholic Church is in the mess it is, if "for the record, that the average Catholic is taught that the Pope is infallible"
The doctrine of Papal Infallibility was of the driving forces behind the (First) Vatican Council in 1870, and the wedge that split off the 'Old Catholic' Church. The teaching is that when the Pope speaks ex cathedra or "from the seat" on matters of Faith and Morals. Generally, such pronouncements are made only after a lot of colsultation and debate among Theologians, and are VERY rare. About the only instance of this doctrine being used that I can recall off-hand is the declaration of the Dogma of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary by Pope Pius XII in 1950.
Most don't believe it but that's another matter. Be careful there, friend. Every denomination that has split from the Catholic Church has split because they didn't choose to accept one or another of the Church's teachings. Remember that refusing to accept even one article of faith is enough to seperate you from the Church.
You might be a confirmed something but not a Catholic.
This is the same reason I won't shop ANYWHERE (Best Buy, CompUSA, etc) that insists on looking at my receipt and sticking their grubby hands in my shopping bag(s) even after they've jsut seen me making a purchase and the bags filled by a sales clerk not 20 feet away.
It's really insulting, the way they treat paying criminals like criminals. Every time I go to a new store and they try this, I make a point of sending a very nasty letter to the store afterwars. Then I never bring my business back to them.
Especially in the examples given above, there are too many other choices (including on line purchases) for me to bother with them ever again.
Only if its a lemon dish washer detergent.
They DID hack into a commercial system and disrupted business.
They DID interfere with paying customers.
Just because they are hacking into a game today and you're willing to let them get qaway with it, what will you say when they're hacking into your bank account tomorrow?
So, GM decides to partner with NexTel and market a fleet tracking solution, and this bozo thinks it's the end of seperate PDAs and cel phones?
The application is hardly new. My company uses NexTel phones and web site in conjunction with an in-house application to track a fleet of trucks. Several other companies (@Road?) offer GPS based truck tracking solutions.
I kept seeing posts on the rumor sites that the 15" PowerBook was to be updated "real soon now." Finally, fed up with waiting (I could be enjoying one instead, after all), I went ahead and bought one of the current models.
It doesn't matter which PowerBook you get: get the one that fits your needs best. They ROCK.
I haven't had this much fun with a computer in 20 years!
FINALLY!
I thought I'd never find someone willing to talk about the hardware part of Apple's announcement. It's hard to hear over the shrill whine of the usual suspects bitching about the price/selection/DRM of Apple's new online music service.
Bottom line: Apple's hardware continues to kick ass, Their new music service is going to revolutionize music distribution. More windows users filled with apple envy. Film at 11.
Interesting... my experience has been exactly the opposite. I'm using a MAG XJ700T that I bought about 4 years ago, and have absolutely no problems with.
On the other hand, my company has been deploying 21" ViewSonics (over 150 in the past year) and is seeing a failure rate of about 30%, including units DOA.
Depending on where you live, I'd recommend talking to your count agricultural extension office. They usually can do soil testing for free/dirt cheap ;) and they can always give advice on planting in your region.
Where I live, they offer a "Master Gardener" program , which lasts about 9 weekends. The cost is basically buying the book for the class and helping tend some public gardens for 1 or 2 weekends.
Another good resource is a locally owned garden center or nursery. Don't expect the people at places like Lowe's/Home Depot to know anything.
Did it involve a crystal and a cat whisker?
i've tried hydrogen and oxygen to improve my engine performance, but ended up having to get the water cleaned out of my fuel lines!
Damn cheap gas stations....
I already have it. It's schweeet.
My digital cable as well as my high-speed internet come in on it. If I wanted to, my phone line and alarm monitoring could come in too, all in a nice bundle.
The high speed internet is great... I regularly get faster speeds than my friends with DSL or cable modem.
The other important thing to consider is cost: Mayor Lee P. "Out Of Town" Brown, with his toy train on Main St. and other foolish projects, is running a HUGE budget deficit. Anything that can be done to shave expenditures, HAS to be done, and paying the leeches in Redmond WA is not the answer.
-- Which is why most LARGE companies generally do not maintain their own backup data center for their business continuity plan, but lease space/capacity from companies like SunGard, which provide offsite storage & backup data centers.
Even with scheduling regular business continuity plan tests & sending people offsite for a week or so, these plans are cheaper than maintainig a 2nd data center.
Whatever you say, fishbulb....
He may have been assimilated by the Disney collective, but he was created by A. A. Milne.
Finally, a way to get prople to read the article before posting!
A co-worker at my last contract gig told me about a trick used when he was in the Air Force. After about 24 hours, coffee simply won't work. At that point, they would drink a beer, and then the coffee would work for a few more hours.
People like you disgust me. Nobody says ANYTHING about how much he already gives to charity (let's face it... with THAT much money, he's GOT to have every tax shelter he can find). All you can do is whine about how much he spends on his other pursuits.
If he's making that much money, he's also creating wealth for others who have jobs because of him.
Yes, he's a grandstanding bastard. Like you, I'm probably a bit envious of his success. But, I'm not going to waste my time whining because he has it and i dont: I'm going out and getting my own!
I would argue that the other thing a sound card needs is an amplifier.
I run my Sound Blaster Live into my old stereo's amplifier and out the speakers, and the sound is WAY better than the $50 set with subwoofer I bought for my wife.
In Harris and the surrounding 7 (?) counties (Houston, Texas), we recently reduced our freeway sped-limits from 70 to 55 because the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC, "train wreck") estimated that this would eliminate something along the lines of 12.3 tons of NOx pollution air per day.
Even the Harris County DA said that they would have a difficult time making speeding tickets stick, since a speeding ticket says that the vehicle was being operated at an unsafe speed. Given that the state had already posted a 70 mph speed limit, the state would then have to prove that >55mph is unsafe.
The latest word is that the model used to come up with the pollution reduction was flawed, and that based on the same levels (something like 5.8 tons per day), the same results can be obtained by Tx DOT burning only emulsified Diesel.
Now, one month after the last 55mph speed limit sign went up (the first went up in february), the speed limit is returning to 70.
Do we feel better now that we've got that knee-jerk reaction out of out system?
Having worked in systems for one of the major oil companies for 13 years, I can tell you that your weekly fill-up is NOT what's filling their coffers. The fact is that due to the competitive nature of selling gasoline, the margin per gallon is mere pennies.
Where they REALLY make the money is specialty products (lubricants, etc) plastics, and petrochemicals.
Even if Shell, BP/Amoco, ExxonMobil and the rest never sold you another gallon of gasoline they would STILL make money hand-over-fist because of these products, and possibly even more, since the expense of exploration and production would decline with the decline in demand.
There is also the lost city of Indianola, on the upper Texas coast. The city was washed away by a hurricane in the early part of the 20th century (or was it late 19th century?). Nothing but a few foundations remain as far as I know. The few who survived left to settle elsewhere.
An interesting anecdote related to this is that in St. David's Episcopal Church in Austin, Texas, is a stained glass window of St. Cecilia, the patron saint of musicians. The organist at the time had never been to the coast, and decided to take a vacation. She told people that if anything happened to her, she wanted a stained glass window.
She was one of those lost at Indianola.
Actually, I'd prefer to have something other than my local (Houston) PBS channel. The national feed is OK, but I'm a die-hard British comedy junkie -- the only TV I watch is what's on PBS Saturday nights.
The British comedy lineups in Austin and Dallas are awesome, while Houston keeps playing the same crap over and over.
And while we're on the subject, I'd LOVE to have feeds of all the BBC channels from the UK, so I can see what's on NOW instead of what was on 2 years ago.