As opposed to the nonsense you hear John Gibson spew which has been independently judged to be failing to observe "respect for truth", which you can read about here.
Don't believe the stories? Well check out the pictures here and tell me with a straight face that this is not typical of America, especially given the treatment of detainees at Guantanimo bay that was introduced into Abu Ghraib by General Geoffrey Millar here
If you write your code structures correctly then its a fair chance that a modern compiler like VC 7 or the latest intel compilers will produce either better or only slightly worse assmbly than an experienced assembly coder. OK you probably need to know a minimum of assembler to know and understand how to write good code structures, but 99.9% of the time hand coding is overkill and potential source of seriously evil bugs.
A new study shows that getting off the couch has a 100% mortality rate. The same study also reports the shocking news that eating food and breathing are equally as lethal.
Just because CNN is less right wing than some, and supports some worthy causes it doesn't follow that it is not a right wing organisation.
Frankly, I'm not going to waste any more energy on you because you are clearly convinced of your own and the USA's rightiousness that no amount of evidence to the contrary would convince you.
In the future look for other mideast countries to be cleansed of dangerous idiots.
yes, I hear all non-essential americans are being sent home, and I don't think George Bush is too welcome in the region either. My only hope is that the first dangerous idiot on the hit list is Arial Sharron. That man is a murderous bastard who is quite happy to kill innocent women and children without shedding a tear, and has no respect for international law, regularly flouting UN security council resolutions. Not surprising then he's a natural ally of George Bush.
Seriously though, get over yourself!! Not all arabs are evil, and there are plenty of Americans, some in the current administration, who are as evil as almost anyone else. The difference is that they know how to be clever about it.
CNN is pure right wing propaganda that would make himler proud. In a democracy we are ALL guilty of any crimes carried out in our name, and make no mistake, there were many carried out by coalition forces, including murder of unarmed civilians, destroying purely civilian infrastructure, failure to protect people from looting. All of these things are defined to be war crimes under the geneva convention, but Bush has apparently decided that the rules of war only apply to "bad guys" and therefore not him (obviously). As commander in chief ultimate responsibility falls on him, and as the electorate guilt rests on everyone. Therefore, yes, I think we do have the right to demand that the truth is revealed as to why we went to war.
There are many terrorist organisations on earth, many of whom have enjoyed us patronage and various times including the IRA, the taliban and hezballah. The people we are now hunting in afganistan were at one time armed and trained by the US against the USSR. Saddam Hussain was an uneasy informal ally during the Iran-Iraq war and was visited in 1983 by Donald Rumsfeld, at President Reagan's bidding, then employed by a chemical company, in an apparent attempt to restore full diplomatic relations between the two nations at a time when Iraq was using chemical weapons daily.
There was a fabulous article on voting machines in the british newspaper "The Independent" some months ago. Sadly now I think it is in the subscription section only.
read my lips. There was no connection at all between Saddam and Bin Laden. Bin Laden considered Saddam only slightly less evil than the US and was supporting an anti-saddam militia prior to the war.
Donald Rumsfeld was the guy who sold Saddam all his chemical weapons (which was why they were so certain he had them), not the democrats.
While never actually saying that Saddam was reponsible for 9/11 the Bush administration did a fantastic job in getting the two linked in the minds of the american people by just mentioning them in the same breath.
The point is, if Microsoft can patent things like the double click (its actually rather more specific than that), and this automated TODO list, then so can NPCs like EOLAS. Comparing EOLAS to microsoft quickly leads us to one being a parasitic swarm of lawyers looking to get rich of sueing companies that invest in R+D, and the other, rather surprisingly, is Microsoft, who have aparently never filed a patent violation case.
to an extent, you can mix it with borosilicate (pyrex) to create a kind of radioactive glass. In that form it should never leak into groundwater and it is a nice compact way of storing high level waste
On the other hand, if fuel was taxed to provide an anti-polution incentive, as it is here, then perhaps people would have to travel less, and it would become economic to provide more local facilities. Or to put it another way, if things were built closer together then you might not use so much fuel. Alternatively the automotive industry would be forced to innovate and produce more efficient vehicles. Either way, if you as a nation want to survive once the oil runs out you're going to have to find a way to live without oil, and the sooner, the better for the rest of the world which just chokes on your smoke.
You pay a fraction of what everyone else pays for fuel. Here in the UK we're now paying 0.82/L which is roughly $5.2 a US gallon. Now if that were the price of gas in the US THEN you would start to see a reduction in SUV usage.
I think the point about cell phones is that when they ring there is an opportunity for a spark, which could ignite the vapours. IIRC on the old style mobiles back in the early 90's the manual used to suggest you shouldn't use them if you're carrying explosives in the car, which was obviously an issue in Ireland at the time.
Umm, I would just like to point out that a kernel which changes every few weeks can hardly be described as a stable platform, and the absence of evidence regarding the changelog of the NT kernel doesn't mean it isn't changing. After all, it is closed source.
One good source of information and windows kernel mode apps is Sysinternals. If you want to know more about native NT API's, NT source tree layout, NTFS etc, thats the place.
I agree completly, and my experience of life is that I have felt the hand of God on my shoulder. Just a few short months ago he made me get up from my PC and walk into a church. A few weeks ago he stopped me getting into my car and made me go back inside. Two weeks after that I fought a physically tough battle against God as I refused to accept Him. It actually hurt. The next day I chose to make a small step towards Jesus, and he washed through my life like a flood, changing every aspect of who I am over the course of 3 days.
But hey, you can dismiss it and call me mad. I KNOW it is real.
The divinity or otherwise of Jesus lives and dies by the resurection. Over 500 people claimed to have seen him after he died, many of who are otherwise pretty credible witnesses.
Saul, a roman citizen and pharisee, once a man who hunted down, tortured and killed followers of Jesus must have had something pretty astonishing happen to him to turn him into Paul, the arch evangeliser.
The other thing to say is that if the evidence was incontrivertable, then that would be tantamount to God taking away our free will to accept or deny him. It is, after all, a matter of faith.
I would say that a few months ago I would have agreed with you, but God does amazing things if you just listen and ask questions.
"Thou shalt not kill" is a rule because to do so you are assuming the power of God, and that is a dreadful sin. Life is not the be all and end all. For God to kill someone is like someone cutting short an interview for a flatmate. They're perfectly entitled to do so, and it might be because you've already done enough to get the room. I really don't think this life is more than a pale shadow of what is to come, and it's timely passing not something to be mourned.
. No, but you can discredit evidence. This is how the defence in a court case works when faced with aparantly good evidence.
You would also have to establish motive as to why the people who wrote the gospels conspired to create seemingly accurate accounts of something that never happened, and then died for it.
Umm, either he killed all the first borns AND is God, or it didn't happen. If it happened, then you have no right to say whether or not it was good, because by definition, it was. The point is that life here on earth is not the be all and end all and so if God decides to end mine right here, right now, then so be it. It doesn't matter whether or not it is good by our standards because He is not God so he can serve our needs while we live on Earth, but we are here so we can learn to be more like him, know his love and do his will.
I don't want to go into the authenticity of the Gospels and the other books of the new testament because, although I'm told by biblical scholars I know and trust that they are believed to be real. Actually I don't know because I've not had time to look into it, but I believe they are the truth.
I wasn't threatening you. I was just stating that I believe that the way to eternal life is a simple matter of making the right choice. I understand that it is a difficult choice to make becuase you have to realise that you're own pride stands in your way. I know mine did for a very long time up until only 2 months ago.
It's only by accepting that you are not in charge of your life that you can see who really is, and it's an almost impossible barrier to cross if you've been taught all your life that should bow down before no-one, as we all are in modern western society.
If you don't belive in God, then you don't believe in hell either, so there is no problem is there. My "threat" is an empty one. But if I am right, then only you can decide what to do.
Don't get confused. God is not what is done in His name, because what is done in his name is done by imperfect humans with the exception of Jesus.
That Jesus lived is accepted historical fact. That he rose from the dead was witnessed by over 500 people many of whom were tortured and killed for saying that they had seen him. Would they really do that if it was a conspiracy?
How many people do you know who have been excecuted, buried, and then a couple of days later ate a meal with friends? Not many I'll bet.
The evidence of his resurection would probably stand up in a court of law today, indeed many professional non-christian lawyers and criminal investigtors have set out to disprove that it happened, but failed, and many have been converted by their quest, so why do you deny that it happened?
It really is a matter of life and death so the challenge I set to you is this. Prove with documentary evidence that is didn't happen. If you fail, then you must accept that there is a God and he loves you, if you succeed than you will be the most famous man alive. Until then you're just another man who is too afraid of what you might find, and what it might mean to your life.
Tough isn't it, this question. I've been praying about this and the answer I came up with is that the torture of hell is the inevitable consequence of free will, which was God's greatest gift to us.
I suspect that when we die and meet our maker one of two things will happen. Firstly you see God for what he is, and become instantly aware or all that you have done that was wrong. Now either you know that God loves you and has forgiven you, in which case you can exist happily in his presence, or you fear His wrath in which case you flee.
I'm sure I'm way off, but it makes sense to me.
As for Hitler, IF he was devine then, yes slaughtering jews would be good, but I'm not aware of much evidence that would demonstrate Hitlers divinity.
Our modern standards of what is good and what is evil could be said to come from conscience, which could also be said to be Gods law written on our hearts, as Jesus promised. The problem is that we have a tremendous capacity for self delusion and can convince ourselves that almost anything can be justified.
I should point out that I only really became a christian a couple of months ago so my thoughts may not be fully formed or consistent, but what I can say with certainty is that in that short time I have seen God work miracles in my life and that getting to know his goodness is a simply amazing experience. He is real, He does love us, and he know what is best for us.
The point is that He loves us so much that in order that we could get to know Him, He gave us the free will to reject him. It's the old story of "If you love someone, set them free". This is why there is pain and suffering in the world. It is the ineviable consequence of people turning there back on God and placing themselves above Him.
Once you accept Jesus as you personal Lord and saviour the inevitable consequence if you really mean that is that you will start trying to be more like him. In fact, what you want from life gets closer to what God wants from you. Usually that means turning up to church late one evening to clean it, or taking food to drug addicts and prostitutes. Jesus himself got down on the floor and washed the feet of his apostles. The moral is that those who put themselves above aother people, and more importantly above God, which is what you are doing by saying he is wrong, cannot really know who God is. If you really believe, you simply cannot "Half Ass" it. You may fail miserably all the time, but so long as its not willful thats OK. And even then you can repent as many times as you have to. God sets no limit on his forgiveness until the day you die.
I recommend reading Job for this kind of question. After God lets the Devil kill Jobs animals and wife and children, Job says (and I'm going from memory here)
"I entered the world naked and I will leave it naked. The Lord gives and the Lord takes away. Praise be the name of the Lord".
The reason he can do this is that life is essentially a gift from God, but equally meaningless to him, because what is important to Him is that in the time you have you choose Him and spend eternity with Him in heaven.
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As opposed to the nonsense you hear John Gibson spew which has been independently judged to be failing to observe "respect for truth", which you can read about here.
You want evidence? OK how about This and this
Don't believe the stories? Well check out the pictures here and tell me with a straight face that this is not typical of America, especially given the treatment of detainees at Guantanimo bay that was introduced into Abu Ghraib by General Geoffrey Millar here
All optimisation is premature.
If you write your code structures correctly then its a fair chance that a modern compiler like VC 7 or the latest intel compilers will produce either better or only slightly worse assmbly than an experienced assembly coder. OK you probably need to know a minimum of assembler to know and understand how to write good code structures, but 99.9% of the time hand coding is overkill and potential source of seriously evil bugs.
A new study shows that getting off the couch has a 100% mortality rate. The same study also reports the shocking news that eating food and breathing are equally as lethal.
Just because CNN is less right wing than some, and supports some worthy causes it doesn't follow that it is not a right wing organisation.
Frankly, I'm not going to waste any more energy on you because you are clearly convinced of your own and the USA's rightiousness that no amount of evidence to the contrary would convince you.
yes, I hear all non-essential americans are being sent home, and I don't think George Bush is too welcome in the region either. My only hope is that the first dangerous idiot on the hit list is Arial Sharron. That man is a murderous bastard who is quite happy to kill innocent women and children without shedding a tear, and has no respect for international law, regularly flouting UN security council resolutions. Not surprising then he's a natural ally of George Bush.
Seriously though, get over yourself!! Not all arabs are evil, and there are plenty of Americans, some in the current administration, who are as evil as almost anyone else. The difference is that they know how to be clever about it.
CNN is pure right wing propaganda that would make himler proud. In a democracy we are ALL guilty of any crimes carried out in our name, and make no mistake, there were many carried out by coalition forces, including murder of unarmed civilians, destroying purely civilian infrastructure, failure to protect people from looting. All of these things are defined to be war crimes under the geneva convention, but Bush has apparently decided that the rules of war only apply to "bad guys" and therefore not him (obviously). As commander in chief ultimate responsibility falls on him, and as the electorate guilt rests on everyone. Therefore, yes, I think we do have the right to demand that the truth is revealed as to why we went to war.
There are many terrorist organisations on earth, many of whom have enjoyed us patronage and various times including the IRA, the taliban and hezballah. The people we are now hunting in afganistan were at one time armed and trained by the US against the USSR. Saddam Hussain was an uneasy informal ally during the Iran-Iraq war and was visited in 1983 by Donald Rumsfeld, at President Reagan's bidding, then employed by a chemical company, in an apparent attempt to restore full diplomatic relations between the two nations at a time when Iraq was using chemical weapons daily.
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
There was a fabulous article on voting machines in the british newspaper "The Independent" some months ago. Sadly now I think it is in the subscription section only.
mod parent -1 gullible dumbass.
read my lips. There was no connection at all between Saddam and Bin Laden. Bin Laden considered Saddam only slightly less evil than the US and was supporting an anti-saddam militia prior to the war.
Donald Rumsfeld was the guy who sold Saddam all his chemical weapons (which was why they were so certain he had them), not the democrats.
While never actually saying that Saddam was reponsible for 9/11 the Bush administration did a fantastic job in getting the two linked in the minds of the american people by just mentioning them in the same breath.
I think you're wrong.
The point is, if Microsoft can patent things like the double click (its actually rather more specific than that), and this automated TODO list, then so can NPCs like EOLAS. Comparing EOLAS to microsoft quickly leads us to one being a parasitic swarm of lawyers looking to get rich of sueing companies that invest in R+D, and the other, rather surprisingly, is Microsoft, who have aparently never filed a patent violation case.
What, like this
my ISP is planning that, within a few months or so, all SMTP connections to its mail server will have to be authenticated.
Your ideas intrigue me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter...
to an extent, you can mix it with borosilicate (pyrex) to create a kind of radioactive glass. In that form it should never leak into groundwater and it is a nice compact way of storing high level waste
On the other hand, if fuel was taxed to provide an anti-polution incentive, as it is here, then perhaps people would have to travel less, and it would become economic to provide more local facilities. Or to put it another way, if things were built closer together then you might not use so much fuel. Alternatively the automotive industry would be forced to innovate and produce more efficient vehicles. Either way, if you as a nation want to survive once the oil runs out you're going to have to find a way to live without oil, and the sooner, the better for the rest of the world which just chokes on your smoke.
You pay a fraction of what everyone else pays for fuel. Here in the UK we're now paying 0.82/L which is roughly $5.2 a US gallon. Now if that were the price of gas in the US THEN you would start to see a reduction in SUV usage.
I think the point about cell phones is that when they ring there is an opportunity for a spark, which could ignite the vapours. IIRC on the old style mobiles back in the early 90's the manual used to suggest you shouldn't use them if you're carrying explosives in the car, which was obviously an issue in Ireland at the time.
You could alway try to beat yourself to death with a wireless mouse.
Umm, I would just like to point out that a kernel which changes every few weeks can hardly be described as a stable platform, and the absence of evidence regarding the changelog of the NT kernel doesn't mean it isn't changing. After all, it is closed source.
One good source of information and windows kernel mode apps is Sysinternals. If you want to know more about native NT API's, NT source tree layout, NTFS etc, thats the place.
I agree completly, and my experience of life is that I have felt the hand of God on my shoulder. Just a few short months ago he made me get up from my PC and walk into a church. A few weeks ago he stopped me getting into my car and made me go back inside. Two weeks after that I fought a physically tough battle against God as I refused to accept Him. It actually hurt. The next day I chose to make a small step towards Jesus, and he washed through my life like a flood, changing every aspect of who I am over the course of 3 days.
But hey, you can dismiss it and call me mad. I KNOW it is real.
The divinity or otherwise of Jesus lives and dies by the resurection. Over 500 people claimed to have seen him after he died, many of who are otherwise pretty credible witnesses.
Saul, a roman citizen and pharisee, once a man who hunted down, tortured and killed followers of Jesus must have had something pretty astonishing happen to him to turn him into Paul, the arch evangeliser.
The other thing to say is that if the evidence was incontrivertable, then that would be tantamount to God taking away our free will to accept or deny him. It is, after all, a matter of faith.
I would say that a few months ago I would have agreed with you, but God does amazing things if you just listen and ask questions.
"Thou shalt not kill" is a rule because to do so you are assuming the power of God, and that is a dreadful sin. Life is not the be all and end all. For God to kill someone is like someone cutting short an interview for a flatmate. They're perfectly entitled to do so, and it might be because you've already done enough to get the room. I really don't think this life is more than a pale shadow of what is to come, and it's timely passing not something to be mourned.
You would also have to establish motive as to why the people who wrote the gospels conspired to create seemingly accurate accounts of something that never happened, and then died for it.
Umm, either he killed all the first borns AND is God, or it didn't happen. If it happened, then you have no right to say whether or not it was good, because by definition, it was. The point is that life here on earth is not the be all and end all and so if God decides to end mine right here, right now, then so be it. It doesn't matter whether or not it is good by our standards because He is not God so he can serve our needs while we live on Earth, but we are here so we can learn to be more like him, know his love and do his will.
I don't want to go into the authenticity of the Gospels and the other books of the new testament because, although I'm told by biblical scholars I know and trust that they are believed to be real. Actually I don't know because I've not had time to look into it, but I believe they are the truth.
I wasn't threatening you. I was just stating that I believe that the way to eternal life is a simple matter of making the right choice. I understand that it is a difficult choice to make becuase you have to realise that you're own pride stands in your way. I know mine did for a very long time up until only 2 months ago.
It's only by accepting that you are not in charge of your life that you can see who really is, and it's an almost impossible barrier to cross if you've been taught all your life that should bow down before no-one, as we all are in modern western society.
If you don't belive in God, then you don't believe in hell either, so there is no problem is there. My "threat" is an empty one. But if I am right, then only you can decide what to do.
Don't get confused. God is not what is done in His name, because what is done in his name is done by imperfect humans with the exception of Jesus.
That Jesus lived is accepted historical fact. That he rose from the dead was witnessed by over 500 people many of whom were tortured and killed for saying that they had seen him. Would they really do that if it was a conspiracy?
How many people do you know who have been excecuted, buried, and then a couple of days later ate a meal with friends? Not many I'll bet.
The evidence of his resurection would probably stand up in a court of law today, indeed many professional non-christian lawyers and criminal investigtors have set out to disprove that it happened, but failed, and many have been converted by their quest, so why do you deny that it happened?
It really is a matter of life and death so the challenge I set to you is this. Prove with documentary evidence that is didn't happen. If you fail, then you must accept that there is a God and he loves you, if you succeed than you will be the most famous man alive. Until then you're just another man who is too afraid of what you might find, and what it might mean to your life.
Tough isn't it, this question. I've been praying about this and the answer I came up with is that the torture of hell is the inevitable consequence of free will, which was God's greatest gift to us.
I suspect that when we die and meet our maker one of two things will happen. Firstly you see God for what he is, and become instantly aware or all that you have done that was wrong. Now either you know that God loves you and has forgiven you, in which case you can exist happily in his presence, or you fear His wrath in which case you flee.
I'm sure I'm way off, but it makes sense to me.
As for Hitler, IF he was devine then, yes slaughtering jews would be good, but I'm not aware of much evidence that would demonstrate Hitlers divinity.
Our modern standards of what is good and what is evil could be said to come from conscience, which could also be said to be Gods law written on our hearts, as Jesus promised. The problem is that we have a tremendous capacity for self delusion and can convince ourselves that almost anything can be justified.
I should point out that I only really became a christian a couple of months ago so my thoughts may not be fully formed or consistent, but what I can say with certainty is that in that short time I have seen God work miracles in my life and that getting to know his goodness is a simply amazing experience. He is real, He does love us, and he know what is best for us.
This is a realy good thread. I didn't expect to see this kind of discussion on /.
Nice post btw.
The point is that He loves us so much that in order that we could get to know Him, He gave us the free will to reject him. It's the old story of "If you love someone, set them free". This is why there is pain and suffering in the world. It is the ineviable consequence of people turning there back on God and placing themselves above Him.
Once you accept Jesus as you personal Lord and saviour the inevitable consequence if you really mean that is that you will start trying to be more like him. In fact, what you want from life gets closer to what God wants from you. Usually that means turning up to church late one evening to clean it, or taking food to drug addicts and prostitutes. Jesus himself got down on the floor and washed the feet of his apostles. The moral is that those who put themselves above aother people, and more importantly above God, which is what you are doing by saying he is wrong, cannot really know who God is. If you really believe, you simply cannot "Half Ass" it. You may fail miserably all the time, but so long as its not willful thats OK. And even then you can repent as many times as you have to. God sets no limit on his forgiveness until the day you die.
I recommend reading Job for this kind of question. After God lets the Devil kill Jobs animals and wife and children, Job says (and I'm going from memory here)
"I entered the world naked and I will leave it naked. The Lord gives and the Lord takes away. Praise be the name of the Lord".
The reason he can do this is that life is essentially a gift from God, but equally meaningless to him, because what is important to Him is that in the time you have you choose Him and spend eternity with Him in heaven.