your sig, linking to a whacko site about a society that campaigns to "reverse circumcissions" is hysterical! I like the following idea that to restore one's foreskin, they should "tug on the shaft every night!"
So... if what this bullshit site is saying is true... shouldn't every 14 year-old boy have a fully restored foreskin (and then some)?
An often-mistranslated verse in the Bible: "Thou Shalt not Kill." That is an INCORRECT translation from the Hebrew text. The correct verse states "Thou shalt not murder." There are instances where you can kill (war can be justified, other killings, etc.).
G-d also states in the Bible teachings which mirror the Code of Hammurabi: and eye for an eye. If you think this is evil, then that is your opinion.
And nice attempt at a flame with the "Genocidal Maniac" idea. Again, if you want to go that route and assume that any killings are evil (yes I have read Chronicles and Kings many times), then again... you (and I, and everyone else alive today) are "genocidal maniacs" because we value our single life over that of a billion-billion microorganisms... very often simply for convinience sake.
He is, according to the religions, all-powerful. He allows us, however, to make our own decisions, and He makes His own as well. 0 can equal 1 when you're G-d.
I'm such an idiot. Oh geez. I made a typo. Please alert Cornell's Middle Eastern Studies department. Do you need their telephone #? I'd be happy to provide one. Damn - my degree is worthless now.
And technically, to be exact, my degree is in "Near Eastern Studies" - 'middle east' is a term no longer used in academia. (But then again, since i should now lose this degree, the point is futile...)
yes. i'm wildly jealous of them. can't you see the tone in my sarcasm?
a) Cornell is not a "state school." b) There are 7 undergraduate schools at cornell. 3 allow in-state residents to attend for SUNY prices (but the diploma still says "Cornell University."). For the record, having been a middle-eastern studies major, I was in the Arts & Sciences school, which is 100% private. Not that it matters.
ouch. you'd better hope there's no G-d, cuz if there is... you just made a big insult to Him.
G-d, if He exists, doesn't have to live by your 21st century ideals of political correctness. He can kill is He deems it correct (and by definition, it would be correct).
Be careful of instilling universal and eternal codes of morality onto others (including Dieties). Hell, by the 30th century, you could be considered a horrible person, by all the "genocide" you commit everytime you have an infection ("murdering" billions of viruses/bacteria to save your own life). It's an analogy, but one to think about... you are clearly putting your morals onto others.
interesting points, but again... I think we have the choice to change that society. In fact, we did. While we're far from a utopia, Western Europeans chose during what is known as the renaissance that we can have a better society. The French and American Revolutions taught us to choose to give each other rights (the powerful no doubt voluntarily gave up at least SOME power). Emansipation Proclomation and the Civil Rights Movements had us choose to correct ourselves.
Your examples highlight single people. Yes, it is very hard for a single afgan taliban boy to choose to grow up loving everyone, but it isn't impossible either. For all the haters in the 1800s, there was still a Huck Finn, who bucked the trend (fictional but still relevant). And it's easier to grow and choose as a group.
I never claimed G-d was 100% perfect. In fact, neither did He. G-d admits He made a mistake in Genesis after the flood and promised to Man that He would never again attempt to destroy the world. There. Not perfect, or "all powerful." Who the hell knows what "I am... that I am" means? Some Superman/Hulk/Green Lantern supergenius is an idea we made up. It's the only reference G-d makes about himself, except occationally calling Himself (G-d that rescued you from Egypt).
And again, we have free will. According to Genesis (not nec. my belief, but since we're on the subject of the religion), G-d gave us this power, it is in a human's head what to do. We aren't puppets of some Diety.
again, we have free will. things are NOT set in stone. G-d is not perfect/omnipotent. Many people think if they can prove G-d is not their idea of omnipotent (can He make a stone so heavy even He cannot lift it? Ha!) then they have debunked religion.
Look in Genesis... coincidentally, at Noah. G-d admits He made a mistake and promised to Man that He would never again attempt to destro the world. A G-d making promises to lowly humans? See? He's G-d... proper noun. He's not whatever your idea of utopian-perfect, can say 0=1 and can make a math problem so hard even he cannot solve it.
I have an Ivy-League degree in Middle Eastern Studies, and let me tell you, while there are seemingly plot parallels between Gilgamesh:Noah and Enumah Emish: Genesis, the themes are ENOURMOUSLY different. Not to sound snotty, but if you are to believe that religious stories have a point rather than to just tell a story, then these 2 religions' stories are so amazingly different that they are in many ways independent.
I can assume you have not studied ancient babylonian mythology (not to "cool" to say I have!), it is a very valid insight of yours to see these stories as parallel, but they are not. Any decent library with MidEast studies will have countless sources on the matter.
Gilgamesh and Genesis together provide 2 sources of the event. If anything, it strengthens the evidence. They have almost (and in some cases true) identical elements (the raven, dove, arks, etc). They mainly differ on the deities who control the poor "sailor."
As I said... "in america," final fantasy II was released on the SNES. a game called "Final Fantasy IV" was never released in America. what I know of as "Final Fantasy II" is and always was the SNES game, but that is precisely why I said "in america," because I know of the 4/2 6/3 problem...
You're correct, so I'm assuming that games like Street Fighter II (in which you could use any/all 6 buttons almost simultaneously) will not be portable. However, the vast majority of games did not use all 6 buttons closely (if they used 6 at all), so a shift-button will probably work fine.
So just the same way as you can't "emulate" the light gun for the NES, you can't emulate every game for SNES...
No I haven't played any Tomb Raiders since the original, and I only played on the PC. I enjoyed it though. It was a new type of game, at least for me. I'd never played a game like it before, although I'm sure such a game existed...
i AM disagreeing with their post, because I am assuming the parent post implied XCor couldn't beat SC simply because they didn't sign up for the competition, when in fact the reason they won't be eligable for it is because they aren't planning on doinf the X-Prize requirement (2 flights in 2 weeks)
actually, that's an example of a bad videogame movie, but NOT a bad videogame movie idea!
Tomb Raider was a golden opportunity to deliver a straight-up adventure movie, with enjoyable casts and good heroes. Tomb Raider just messed it up. All they had to do was to do a movie "inspired" by Indiana Jones and it woulda been good. "The Mummy" was a great movie based on this idea, IMO...
It'd be interesting if XCor beat Scaled Composites with the first sub-orbital flight but couldn't claim the $10 million prize.
Beating Scaled Composites into sub-orbit is not enough to claim the X-prize. To claim the $10 million, you have to fly the same craft TWICE into sub-orbit within (I believe) 2 weeks.
Capcom may own the code for Street Fighter, but Nintendo owns the code for the "OS" that it's played on, so any emulator of an SNES game would automatically have to use some sort of Nintendo copyright. As you smartly saw, the GBA ports are now a very profitable source of SNES games, so such a system (where games sell for $2 instead of $29.99 carts) will not, and should not, happen for a while.
Can Capcom go an re-write it's SNES Street Fighter game for another handheld OS? Sure. But will it? Probably not...
Funding an ecological study when we need more money for breast cancer research
Throwing a thanksgiving day parade which costs 1 million to clean when the cops are paid too little
Bottom line is that you can do things that aren't the #1 priority. True, the FBI has to fight terrosism/find interstate murderers, but they also have to protect american industries, like they are (in theory trying to) do here.
everyone always suggests this as a possible use of AOL cds, but I've NEVER been able to accurately throw one more than 3 feet before it turns from horizontal to vertical and crashes (and hurts!). Any tips?
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your sig, linking to a whacko site about a society that campaigns to "reverse circumcissions" is hysterical! I like the following idea that to restore one's foreskin, they should "tug on the shaft every night!"
So... if what this bullshit site is saying is true... shouldn't every 14 year-old boy have a fully restored foreskin (and then some)?
You clearly have different ideals. An example...
An often-mistranslated verse in the Bible: "Thou Shalt not Kill." That is an INCORRECT translation from the Hebrew text. The correct verse states "Thou shalt not murder." There are instances where you can kill (war can be justified, other killings, etc.).
G-d also states in the Bible teachings which mirror the Code of Hammurabi: and eye for an eye. If you think this is evil, then that is your opinion.
And nice attempt at a flame with the "Genocidal Maniac" idea. Again, if you want to go that route and assume that any killings are evil (yes I have read Chronicles and Kings many times), then again... you (and I, and everyone else alive today) are "genocidal maniacs" because we value our single life over that of a billion-billion microorganisms... very often simply for convinience sake.
He is, according to the religions, all-powerful. He allows us, however, to make our own decisions, and He makes His own as well. 0 can equal 1 when you're G-d.
I'm such an idiot. Oh geez. I made a typo. Please alert Cornell's Middle Eastern Studies department. Do you need their telephone #? I'd be happy to provide one. Damn - my degree is worthless now.
And technically, to be exact, my degree is in "Near Eastern Studies" - 'middle east' is a term no longer used in academia. (But then again, since i should now lose this degree, the point is futile...)
yes. i'm wildly jealous of them. can't you see the tone in my sarcasm?
a) Cornell is not a "state school."
b) There are 7 undergraduate schools at cornell. 3 allow in-state residents to attend for SUNY prices (but the diploma still says "Cornell University."). For the record, having been a middle-eastern studies major, I was in the Arts & Sciences school, which is 100% private. Not that it matters.
ouch. you'd better hope there's no G-d, cuz if there is... you just made a big insult to Him.
G-d, if He exists, doesn't have to live by your 21st century ideals of political correctness. He can kill is He deems it correct (and by definition, it would be correct).
Be careful of instilling universal and eternal codes of morality onto others (including Dieties). Hell, by the 30th century, you could be considered a horrible person, by all the "genocide" you commit everytime you have an infection ("murdering" billions of viruses/bacteria to save your own life). It's an analogy, but one to think about... you are clearly putting your morals onto others.
interesting points, but again... I think we have the choice to change that society. In fact, we did. While we're far from a utopia, Western Europeans chose during what is known as the renaissance that we can have a better society. The French and American Revolutions taught us to choose to give each other rights (the powerful no doubt voluntarily gave up at least SOME power). Emansipation Proclomation and the Civil Rights Movements had us choose to correct ourselves.
Your examples highlight single people. Yes, it is very hard for a single afgan taliban boy to choose to grow up loving everyone, but it isn't impossible either. For all the haters in the 1800s, there was still a Huck Finn, who bucked the trend (fictional but still relevant). And it's easier to grow and choose as a group.
I never claimed G-d was 100% perfect. In fact, neither did He. G-d admits He made a mistake in Genesis after the flood and promised to Man that He would never again attempt to destroy the world. There. Not perfect, or "all powerful." Who the hell knows what "I am... that I am" means? Some Superman/Hulk/Green Lantern supergenius is an idea we made up. It's the only reference G-d makes about himself, except occationally calling Himself (G-d that rescued you from Egypt).
And again, we have free will. According to Genesis (not nec. my belief, but since we're on the subject of the religion), G-d gave us this power, it is in a human's head what to do. We aren't puppets of some Diety.
again, we have free will. things are NOT set in stone. G-d is not perfect/omnipotent. Many people think if they can prove G-d is not their idea of omnipotent (can He make a stone so heavy even He cannot lift it? Ha!) then they have debunked religion.
Look in Genesis... coincidentally, at Noah. G-d admits He made a mistake and promised to Man that He would never again attempt to destro the world. A G-d making promises to lowly humans? See? He's G-d... proper noun. He's not whatever your idea of utopian-perfect, can say 0=1 and can make a math problem so hard even he cannot solve it.
I have an Ivy-League degree in Middle Eastern Studies, and let me tell you, while there are seemingly plot parallels between Gilgamesh:Noah and Enumah Emish: Genesis, the themes are ENOURMOUSLY different. Not to sound snotty, but if you are to believe that religious stories have a point rather than to just tell a story, then these 2 religions' stories are so amazingly different that they are in many ways independent.
I can assume you have not studied ancient babylonian mythology (not to "cool" to say I have!), it is a very valid insight of yours to see these stories as parallel, but they are not. Any decent library with MidEast studies will have countless sources on the matter.
Gilgamesh and Genesis together provide 2 sources of the event. If anything, it strengthens the evidence. They have almost (and in some cases true) identical elements (the raven, dove, arks, etc). They mainly differ on the deities who control the poor "sailor."
Free will. We can choose to be good or bad - it's our choice, not his. According to the Bible, He gave us this right. It's in Genesis.
No, I'm right, and you confirmed it...
As I said... "in america," final fantasy II was released on the SNES. a game called "Final Fantasy IV" was never released in America. what I know of as "Final Fantasy II" is and always was the SNES game, but that is precisely why I said "in america," because I know of the 4/2 6/3 problem...
joke stolen from a Will & Grace episode from over a year ago:
The last time I went on a date... Bush was president and we were about to go to war with Iraq!
You're correct, so I'm assuming that games like Street Fighter II (in which you could use any/all 6 buttons almost simultaneously) will not be portable. However, the vast majority of games did not use all 6 buttons closely (if they used 6 at all), so a shift-button will probably work fine.
So just the same way as you can't "emulate" the light gun for the NES, you can't emulate every game for SNES...
the cartridges can be found fairly cheaply, relatively speaking. I usually look to pay what I pay for a retail game for one.
are you saying that there are places to get flash carts for ~$30? Where where where?!?!?!?!?!
Final Fantasy I = NES game
Final Fantasy II = SNES game (in America at least)
No I haven't played any Tomb Raiders since the original, and I only played on the PC. I enjoyed it though. It was a new type of game, at least for me. I'd never played a game like it before, although I'm sure such a game existed...
i AM disagreeing with their post, because I am assuming the parent post implied XCor couldn't beat SC simply because they didn't sign up for the competition, when in fact the reason they won't be eligable for it is because they aren't planning on doinf the X-Prize requirement (2 flights in 2 weeks)
actually, that's an example of a bad videogame movie, but NOT a bad videogame movie idea!
Tomb Raider was a golden opportunity to deliver a straight-up adventure movie, with enjoyable casts and good heroes. Tomb Raider just messed it up. All they had to do was to do a movie "inspired" by Indiana Jones and it woulda been good. "The Mummy" was a great movie based on this idea, IMO...
It'd be interesting if XCor beat Scaled Composites with the first sub-orbital flight but couldn't claim the $10 million prize.
Beating Scaled Composites into sub-orbit is not enough to claim the X-prize. To claim the $10 million, you have to fly the same craft TWICE into sub-orbit within (I believe) 2 weeks.
Capcom may own the code for Street Fighter, but Nintendo owns the code for the "OS" that it's played on, so any emulator of an SNES game would automatically have to use some sort of Nintendo copyright. As you smartly saw, the GBA ports are now a very profitable source of SNES games, so such a system (where games sell for $2 instead of $29.99 carts) will not, and should not, happen for a while.
Can Capcom go an re-write it's SNES Street Fighter game for another handheld OS? Sure. But will it? Probably not...
Funding of NASA when there are homeless people
Funding an ecological study when we need more money for breast cancer research
Throwing a thanksgiving day parade which costs 1 million to clean when the cops are paid too little
Bottom line is that you can do things that aren't the #1 priority. True, the FBI has to fight terrosism/find interstate murderers, but they also have to protect american industries, like they are (in theory trying to) do here.
everyone always suggests this as a possible use of AOL cds, but I've NEVER been able to accurately throw one more than 3 feet before it turns from horizontal to vertical and crashes (and hurts!). Any tips?
er... "halfway"