Well, the Dubai thing is actually in-sourcing more than anything. The British company that currently owns the ports (currently being purchased by Dubai) hires American workers to work in them.
The demise of the USSR in '91 hasn't quite dented the Yakov Smirnov quotes yet. As for "frist psot" jokes,/. would first have to find a way to prevent first posts from ever happening. One can only hope.
I wonder how Linux idealists feel about their cute little OS being deployed in machinery of war?
Oh, that's nothing. They'll totally blow a gasket when they find out what the "D" in DARPA stood for. Perhaps a mass boycott of the internet will result.
But is it functional? I wonder to myself, "what will I put on those keys?" Pretty much just things that normally are an Alt-Click away anyways. I don't expect the keyboard of being able to handle serious macros, or anything.
No, WoW just reveals latent gender-identity issues in our youth. Why else would almost all of America's male teenagers want to play a female night-elf?
Russians all da way bro. Best hackers in a world are russian hackers.
Thanks, comrade. And also thank you for the extra bandwidth and hard-drive space. Your zombified box is helping us spread our spam to the proletariate.
Except theology courses are not allowed in modern public schools, unlike previous eras. Growing up unchurched, I found upon graduating high school that I knew more about Greek mythology from my public schooling than Christianity, despite the fact that Judaism and Christianity have far stronger influences in modern culture than Greek mythology does (proximity in time has something to do with this, of course).
Note that I am no arguing for an ID class; I don't want one and there shouldn't be one. But I do think the essential elements of the Christian faith ought to be taught in western schools if nothing else than for the same reason one would teach the tenants of other ancient religions: to better understand modern culture and where it came from.
I had started a huge write-up with a point-by-point refutation. After a while I stopped because almost all of your "contradictions" stem from the fact that the KJV, even when the English was still contemporary, was a bad translation. It was translated from Latin, while modern Bibles are translated from manuscripts dating almost back to the lives of the men that wrote the original books.
If you're genuinely interested, I'll post the point-by-point up. If you don't really care, I'll just save myself the trouble.;)
I'm not trying to prove to you that the Bible is true. That's a different discussion, and one I've never though fruitful for either side of the argument. I'm merely saying that the Bible is internally consistent, and that consistency provides the litmus test the early church used to decide what was canonical or not.
The only set of books that Catholic Bibles have that protestant ones don't is the Apocrypha. These books were left out because they, in many cases contradict other books of the bible (II Daniel, for instance, gives a completely different account of the lion's den event). In the contest between which conflicting books were chosen, the protestants chose the books quoted by Jesus. There's a pretty good reason why the Catholic church always separated those books by themselves.
As for the difference between the Jewish and Christian texts, I think you will find that where we both use the same book, we translate very closely (because Jews and Christians use many of the same original texts). BTW, the Torah is only, and ever has been, only five books. They exist in their entirety in the Christian Old Testament. Many Jewish texts, such as the Talmud, Mishnah, and Zohar, postdate the establishment of the Christian church, and there is no reason to include those texts.
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Well, the Dubai thing is actually in-sourcing more than anything. The British company that currently owns the ports (currently being purchased by Dubai) hires American workers to work in them.
In other words, outsourcing has actually helped our economy and provided new employment opportunities for the displaced
Correlation != causation. There's nothing to say the tech industry wouldn't be even more vibrant without the outsourcing.
Then it should be:
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I think the US congress has more simularities to nazi parlement than the Chinese government.
Brian Sebril thinks man never landed on the moon. These people think the earth is flat. A lot of smart people think a lot of dumb things.
In Soviet Russia,
Intel beats YOU.
Seeing a 5-digit UID post this is a bit like watching one's respected grandfather get drunk at a town-hall meeting and puke all over the podium.
I'd be more suspicious of people who base their morality on hocus-pocus religious mythology.
Heh. Let's say you have to let one or the other hold your ATM card for a week. Who are you going to pick?
Yeah, thought so...
If anything, Christianity is more like Linux:
Except Christianity comes with a user guide, and my grandmother understands it.
The demise of the USSR in '91 hasn't quite dented the Yakov Smirnov quotes yet. As for "frist psot" jokes, /. would first have to find a way to prevent first posts from ever happening. One can only hope.
Something's gonna power it, so in my mind it may as well be Linux.
Yeah, because who's gonna trust Windows on their military equipemnt?
I wonder how Linux idealists feel about their cute little OS being deployed in machinery of war?
Oh, that's nothing. They'll totally blow a gasket when they find out what the "D" in DARPA stood for. Perhaps a mass boycott of the internet will result.
But is it functional? I wonder to myself, "what will I put on those keys?" Pretty much just things that normally are an Alt-Click away anyways. I don't expect the keyboard of being able to handle serious macros, or anything.
On the other hand, if god forbid a male player mentions that he has a boyfriend, he can get a warning for revealing that he's gay
But every day, thousands of gamers on WoW openly broadcast the fact that they are gay.
They do so by playing paladins. *ba-dum-bum-CHHHHH*
Everyone who plays WoW is gay.
No, WoW just reveals latent gender-identity issues in our youth. Why else would almost all of America's male teenagers want to play a female night-elf?
The closest star to ours is ~278,000 AU away. So relatively speaking, yes, 21.5 AU is indeed "close".
Russians all da way bro. Best hackers in a world are russian hackers.
Thanks, comrade. And also thank you for the extra bandwidth and hard-drive space. Your zombified box is helping us spread our spam to the proletariate.
Probably waiting for your monetary/code contribution to finally show up.
I was not aware such classes existed. They were never offered to me before college.
Except theology courses are not allowed in modern public schools, unlike previous eras. Growing up unchurched, I found upon graduating high school that I knew more about Greek mythology from my public schooling than Christianity, despite the fact that Judaism and Christianity have far stronger influences in modern culture than Greek mythology does (proximity in time has something to do with this, of course).
Note that I am no arguing for an ID class; I don't want one and there shouldn't be one. But I do think the essential elements of the Christian faith ought to be taught in western schools if nothing else than for the same reason one would teach the tenants of other ancient religions: to better understand modern culture and where it came from.
I always cry at weddings.
He must be one of those Pink-Boys. We must rally the Church of the Sub-Genius!
I had started a huge write-up with a point-by-point refutation. After a while I stopped because almost all of your "contradictions" stem from the fact that the KJV, even when the English was still contemporary, was a bad translation. It was translated from Latin, while modern Bibles are translated from manuscripts dating almost back to the lives of the men that wrote the original books.
;)
If you're genuinely interested, I'll post the point-by-point up. If you don't really care, I'll just save myself the trouble.
... like a million Chinese dissenters all crying out at once, and then silenced forever.
Yep. I was trying to give a motive to it, too.
I'm not trying to prove to you that the Bible is true. That's a different discussion, and one I've never though fruitful for either side of the argument. I'm merely saying that the Bible is internally consistent, and that consistency provides the litmus test the early church used to decide what was canonical or not.
The only set of books that Catholic Bibles have that protestant ones don't is the Apocrypha. These books were left out because they, in many cases contradict other books of the bible (II Daniel, for instance, gives a completely different account of the lion's den event). In the contest between which conflicting books were chosen, the protestants chose the books quoted by Jesus. There's a pretty good reason why the Catholic church always separated those books by themselves.
As for the difference between the Jewish and Christian texts, I think you will find that where we both use the same book, we translate very closely (because Jews and Christians use many of the same original texts). BTW, the Torah is only, and ever has been, only five books. They exist in their entirety in the Christian Old Testament. Many Jewish texts, such as the Talmud, Mishnah, and Zohar, postdate the establishment of the Christian church, and there is no reason to include those texts.