Well you've never been to continental Europe then.
Off the top of my head I can recall ordering beer in sizes: 200ml, 250ml, 300ml, 400ml, 500ml, 1000ml
Metric is based on the meter (length), which is based on the speed of light in a vacuum. Volume and mass are defined based on a cube (length^3) of water and its specific gravity. Doesn't sound too specific to our planet.
Except for the fact that the meter, while defined with respect to the speed of light, is based on the circumference of the earth.
Well it's way too late to posting anything you want anyone to actually read, but I remember my grandparents had a brochure in their car from some gas station that was titled "America's Switching to Metric!" and explained how the gas station was switching to selling gas in liters and how that didn't affect the price of gas, etc. etc.
Honeycomb is a shipping product. Windows 8 is not a shipping product.
Re:This is not the logic you are looking for
on
Is Sugar Toxic?
·
· Score: 5, Insightful
He's only really calling fructose toxic, and only when it isn't ingested with enough fiber to blunt its absorption. (So an orange is fine, but pulp-free orange juice will slowly kill you.)
In fact, I suspect the drinking of pulp-free orange juice over a span of 80-90 years is responsible for the near 100% mortality over that time span.
With the Flash Player installed, however, all those ads suddenly appear where once there were none, their animated graphics leaping and scuttling under your fingertips like cockroaches on a dinner tray
Oh so that's what everyone means when they say flash lets you see "the whole web".
The Catholic Church teaches that any person can receive forgiveness directly from God by making an act of perfect contrition. But this is difficult, because it requires complete detachment from sin and contrition springing solely from love of God and hatred of sin and not for other reasons, such as fear of punishment or desire for reward.
Sacramental confession is the ordinary means of forgiveness afforded to the human race. The Catholic priest continues the ministry of Christ on Earth and forgives sins explicitly and verbally just as Christ himself did. Jesus Christ conferred this power directly upon His Apostles with the words "Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained."
There is no reason to believe that Jesus Christ would confer this power on his Apostles if it were unnecessary or of no value. Accordingly it is a necessary power. Being necessary, this power was conferred also upon the successors of the Apostles, and their successors, the ordained Priesthood of the Church.
What do you mean? Good DID release Gingerbread for existing phones. They released it to the OEMs.
Oh, your OEM declined to make it available to you? Too bad...
Are you speaking of some sort of inner feeling of guilt for not having given money? Because the priest in the confessional certainly isn't going to tell you to be sure to bring your wallet to Mass.
Instead of having a personal relationship with the Father through the Son, we have various middlemen. Catholics are trained to confess their sins to a priest, who then instructs them to mostly repeat canned prayers to Mary.
In Catholic theology, the true minister of confession is Jesus Christ. When you confess to a priest, you confess to Christ through the priest. The priest is empowered by Christ to give absolution as He said to His apostles "Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained."
The penances given are a token, to show contrition and the desire to be reconciled.
Redemption still comes from God, and repentance comes from real works and change
This is Catholic theology.
not from repeating canned prayers or praying to deceased humans.
Prayers to the dead are not a source of redemption. Catholics do not ask the saints to forgive their sins. They ask the saints to pray for them.
I was taught at Sunday school that the only intercessor needed between man and God was Christ - it was a personal relationship without the interference of Mary, Rome, Pope or priest.
I wonder if anyone in your church at that time ever asked a friend to pray for them. If so, were they banished from the church for presuming to usurp the role of intercessor?
The church purposely kept the bible away from the masses by keeping it in latin and in limited distribution.
The Church forbade the reading of unapproved translations of the Bible, knowing that it would be possible for poorly educated or malicious translators to mislead Catholic with erroneous translations of the Bible. The first approved Catholic bible in English was published in 1582, before the King James translation was even started. Before this time, yes one would have to learn Latin to read the Bible, but before this time, most people who could read at a sufficiently advanced level to be able to read the Bible could also read Latin anyway.
Johannes Gutenberg got in trouble with the church by publishing a readable translation of the Bible
I would not doubt that some priests did, in fact, purport to grant indulgences in exchange for cash (notwithstanding the fact that only the Pope can grant indulgences) but the sale of access to the sacraments and to indulgences has always been condemned by the Church. Most outside observers seem to have a difficult time separating the actions of individuals in the Church (including priests, and even popes) from the official teachings of the Church.
Interestingly enough, another other reason was the fact you needed a priest to intercede for you with the creator.
The idea you could pray directly to God was blasphemy back then.
This is completely untrue. In fact, even the most ignorant and uneducated Catholics have always been taught the Our Father, which is a prayer directly to God.
Slashdot Mirror
Well you've never been to continental Europe then. Off the top of my head I can recall ordering beer in sizes: 200ml, 250ml, 300ml, 400ml, 500ml, 1000ml
In metric you would have 120cm wide sheets with 40cm studs. Not a big problem.
Metric is based on the meter (length), which is based on the speed of light in a vacuum. Volume and mass are defined based on a cube (length^3) of water and its specific gravity. Doesn't sound too specific to our planet.
Except for the fact that the meter, while defined with respect to the speed of light, is based on the circumference of the earth.
Weight is measured in kg, force in Newton. There is a difference between the two, you know.
No actually there's not. Weight is force. That's why you "weigh less" on the moon.
Well it's way too late to posting anything you want anyone to actually read, but I remember my grandparents had a brochure in their car from some gas station that was titled "America's Switching to Metric!" and explained how the gas station was switching to selling gas in liters and how that didn't affect the price of gas, etc. etc.
That must have been from the mid-70s sometime.
May I just take this opportunity to say that I don't like Attachmate. Thanks.
Honeycomb is a shipping product. Windows 8 is not a shipping product.
He's only really calling fructose toxic, and only when it isn't ingested with enough fiber to blunt its absorption. (So an orange is fine, but pulp-free orange juice will slowly kill you.)
In fact, I suspect the drinking of pulp-free orange juice over a span of 80-90 years is responsible for the near 100% mortality over that time span.
Didn't Windows copy the Lisa & Mac "trade dress"? How did that turn out Apple?
With the Flash Player installed, however, all those ads suddenly appear where once there were none, their animated graphics leaping and scuttling under your fingertips like cockroaches on a dinner tray
Oh so that's what everyone means when they say flash lets you see "the whole web".
Seems like Sen. Durbin didn't like the way Amazon treated his state. Now we'lll all get to pay tax on everything. Thanks a lot Amazon.
Nah, he's just a big chicken.
Scrum of the earth?
Actually people in Paris love tourists.
The focus should of been to just get to 1080 like the XOOM.
Xoom has a 1280x800 display. So how does it "get to 1080"?
Sun obviously regarded Apple as a value play, and as the business client for client/server computing, in competition with Microsoft and IBM.
It's interesting that you find that "obvious" when Scott McNealey states int he article that "we had no idea why, but we were going to buy Apple".
The Catholic Church teaches that any person can receive forgiveness directly from God by making an act of perfect contrition. But this is difficult, because it requires complete detachment from sin and contrition springing solely from love of God and hatred of sin and not for other reasons, such as fear of punishment or desire for reward. Sacramental confession is the ordinary means of forgiveness afforded to the human race. The Catholic priest continues the ministry of Christ on Earth and forgives sins explicitly and verbally just as Christ himself did. Jesus Christ conferred this power directly upon His Apostles with the words "Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained." There is no reason to believe that Jesus Christ would confer this power on his Apostles if it were unnecessary or of no value. Accordingly it is a necessary power. Being necessary, this power was conferred also upon the successors of the Apostles, and their successors, the ordained Priesthood of the Church.
What do you mean? Good DID release Gingerbread for existing phones. They released it to the OEMs.
Oh, your OEM declined to make it available to you? Too bad...
Are you speaking of some sort of inner feeling of guilt for not having given money? Because the priest in the confessional certainly isn't going to tell you to be sure to bring your wallet to Mass.
Oops.... http://bible.cc/james/5-16.htm
Instead of having a personal relationship with the Father through the Son, we have various middlemen. Catholics are trained to confess their sins to a priest, who then instructs them to mostly repeat canned prayers to Mary.
In Catholic theology, the true minister of confession is Jesus Christ. When you confess to a priest, you confess to Christ through the priest. The priest is empowered by Christ to give absolution as He said to His apostles "Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained."
The penances given are a token, to show contrition and the desire to be reconciled.
Redemption still comes from God, and repentance comes from real works and change
This is Catholic theology.
not from repeating canned prayers or praying to deceased humans.
Prayers to the dead are not a source of redemption. Catholics do not ask the saints to forgive their sins. They ask the saints to pray for them.
I was taught at Sunday school that the only intercessor needed between man and God was Christ - it was a personal relationship without the interference of Mary, Rome, Pope or priest.
I wonder if anyone in your church at that time ever asked a friend to pray for them. If so, were they banished from the church for presuming to usurp the role of intercessor?
The church purposely kept the bible away from the masses by keeping it in latin and in limited distribution.
The Church forbade the reading of unapproved translations of the Bible, knowing that it would be possible for poorly educated or malicious translators to mislead Catholic with erroneous translations of the Bible. The first approved Catholic bible in English was published in 1582, before the King James translation was even started. Before this time, yes one would have to learn Latin to read the Bible, but before this time, most people who could read at a sufficiently advanced level to be able to read the Bible could also read Latin anyway.
Johannes Gutenberg got in trouble with the church by publishing a readable translation of the Bible
Gutenberg published a Latin Bible.
I would not doubt that some priests did, in fact, purport to grant indulgences in exchange for cash (notwithstanding the fact that only the Pope can grant indulgences) but the sale of access to the sacraments and to indulgences has always been condemned by the Church. Most outside observers seem to have a difficult time separating the actions of individuals in the Church (including priests, and even popes) from the official teachings of the Church.
Interestingly enough, another other reason was the fact you needed a priest to intercede for you with the creator. The idea you could pray directly to God was blasphemy back then.
This is completely untrue. In fact, even the most ignorant and uneducated Catholics have always been taught the Our Father, which is a prayer directly to God.