I can't defend the appalling behavior of your street-corner preacher, for "all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" and "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us."
But C. S. Lewis had a good answer to your question about the square circle (or the more often heard question of "could God make a rock so large that he could not move it.")
"His Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense. There is no limit to His power.
... meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words, 'God can.'
It remains true that all things are possible with God: the intrinsic impossibilities are not things but nonentities. It is no more possible for God than for the weakest of His creatures to carry out both of two mutually exclusive alternatives; not because His power meets an obstacle, but because nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God."
The poll questions, as well as your comments, reveal more about the misconceptions and prejudices of the speaker than about the actual beliefs of the respondents. A thoughtful YEC (Young Earth Creationist) could not answer "yes" to "do you believe humans and other species are unchanged from the beginning of time?" First of all, in the Genesis account of creation living creatures were created on the fifth and sixth days, not at "the beginning of time" (the first day). Second, no one in the YEC community believes that "species are unchanged". YECs allow for natural variation within created "kinds", which roughly correspond to the "family" in scientific classification. For example, a YEC would believe that most Felidae species descended from an original "proto-cat" (my term) through a designed process of limited adaptation. What a YEC does not believe is that inanimate matter plus chance plus time led to the great diversity and complexity of life that we see today.
I wish I had points to mod you up. This is the "Let them eat cake" philosophy of energy development. You can't afford coal? Here, use these expensive, unreliable, and inefficient technologies that only survive in our country due to massive government subsidies instead! (Hydro is an exception, but is not an option in most countries that don't already have it.)
It's just the opposite for me. I see such elegant and ingenious solutions as this, the bacterial flagellum, geared insect legs, octopus cromatophores, etc., as evidence for a brilliant Creator God.
Cutting costs not to go broke? Where have you been the last 40 years? Companies don't "cut costs" to avoid closing. They "cut costs" to appease wall street and the financial sector.
Exactly. What is all this angst about? Did IBM lose money last quarter? No -- they made $3.00 per share (which was in fact an improvement over the previous year) instead of their projected $3.05 a share. And for this they are laying off thousands worldwide. Employees, and even customers, are not a priority anymore. The only thing that matters is the stock price.
No unemployment? No homelessness? So all those people I saw living in tents by the railroad tracks the last time I was in Bs As were there just because... they like trains?
Ignore the trolls. I am a programmer on the reservation system of a worldwide hotel chain that handles millions of transactions a day. Large parts of this system use mysql on a Linux platform. Just yesterday I was working with a mysql table containing 1.3 billion (1,300,000,000) records. mysql is just as reliable as other commercial products that we use.
...the infringer's ISP quickly and easily can identify the computer from which the infringement occurred...
There is another weakness in this statement that I have not yet seen mentioned...
I have an account with my ISP where I am allocated a range of "fixed IP addresses". In other words, there are a number of IP addresses that are permanently assigned to me. This is opposed to "dynamic IP addresses" where a user is assigned a different IP address every time they log in.
However, the way that my ISP's network is configured, I am able to take any unused IP address on their network for myself, simply by making a minor change in my computer's network configuration. For example, say that I am assigned fixed IP addresses 101.1.1.10 through 101.1.1.20. I can just reconfigure my computer to be IP address 101.1.1.50, and if this address is not currently being used by someone else, I can get it for myself. Similarly, someone else could take one of my assigned IP addresses if it is not currently in use.
Any internet connection coming from one of my assigned IP addresses would be assumed by my ISP (and by the RIAA) to be coming from me. But it is almost trivial for someone else on my ISP's network to hijack any of these addresses (if they are not currently in use). Someone could hijack one of my assigned IP addresses, and any illegal activity that they do would be traced to me.
I don't know how widespread this vulnerability is, but it does cast doubt on the generally unquestioned assumption that a specified IP address can be infallibly linked to a particular individual.
It would help if you actually identified the hosting company. One "big, usually decent hosting company" that I am familiar with, that hosts about 3,000 sites per server, had at one time a password-hash file that was readable by anyone with an account on the server. All you had to do was download the file and run a password cracker on it and you could recover a large number of user passwords. I warned them about this 10 years ago. They thanked me and did nothing. It may still be this way.
Then why are kids today listening to 30+ year-old music (Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, etc.) and thinking it's cool? No kids I knew were listening to 1940's music in the 70's.
I have a small, somewhat cramped, home office, and I work with the keyboard and mouse on my lap using a small notebook for a mousepad. When I had a wired mouse I would take a serious fall at least once every week or two when I hastily got up to answer the door or something and tripped over the mouse cord. This also led to short lives for my mice. Then (a couple years ago) I got one of the older models of the Logitech wireless mouse - no more falls. I use rechargeable AA batteries for a lot of things and usually have a couple of them in my charger. With the older mouse I had to switch the batteries about once a week. That mouse finally died a month ago and I got a new Logitech wireless mouse with an optical sensor that emits no visible light. I am still on the original batteries (included with the mouse), using it at least 40 hours a week. I love it.
Kids are socializing in the presence of trained experience professionals who, often times, have seen every nasty, cruel, sneaky trick those kids can think of 100 times over and simply won't fall for it.
> Problem was that the event flew straight in the face of Psalm 119 which reads:
> As it was in the beginning, is now, and always shall be: for ever and ever. Amen.
Problem is, Psalm 119 says no such thing.
Mod me to heck as flamebait, but it never ceases to amaze me that otherwise-intelligent people who would be deeply ashamed to be caught in an error regarding say, the speed of light, have no qualms whatsoever about displaying the most profound ignorance about the most well-known (though obviously not well-read) book of western civilization.
I read nuzak's message three times very slowly and carefully and I didn't see anywhere where he said, or even implied, that the parent was an idiot.
The parent, unfortunately, did not provide enough information to determine the actual problem but nuzak's advice was quite reasonable. Whether it is fair or not, if a significant number of servers are rejecting your email for whatever reason, you are more likely to make progress by changing your own configuration than by trying to get everyone else to change theirs.
Don't be so smug. A crash is often a sign of a potentially exploitable buffer overflow or other programming flaw. FF is just lucky that nobody has bothered figuring out the details for this one. Yet.
I just looked up one of my IP addresses. Thanks to "TrustedSource" I have gained the following insight:
1. My daily average message volume is represented by a single shaded envelope icon (out of a possible 10). I can't find anything that translates this to an actual number of emails sent.
2. Yesterday my average volume was up 1,400%! Sounds serious. What does this mean? Well, I can't tell. Again it shows a single shaded envelope icon, with no hint of what this actually means.
3. Even more worrisome, the little graph in the corner shows that all of my email has "Raised Concern". Again, it does not explain what this means.
So, I see that my email volume increased 1,400% yesterday and that my email has "Raised Concern". Either there is a serious problem occurring on my mail server (taken over by a spambot?), or else these figures are bogus. Without further information, which does not seem to be available, I am leaning towards the second option.
Not to disparage your main point, but Amazon is not knocking out mom and pop booksellers. As an Amazon.com Marketplace Pro Merchant I can attest that Amazon is, in fact, enabling thousands of mom and pop outfits (as well as larger retailers) to compete on the internet. The vast majority of Amazon Marketplace sellers do not have the resources to develop their own ecommerce sites. Even if they did, it is not likely that anyone would ever see them. As it is, anyone with a book to sell can get it listed on Amazon.com right next to Amazon's own copy.
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They sound even better if you run a green magic marker around the edge. Trust me on this.
I can't defend the appalling behavior of your street-corner preacher, for "all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God" and "If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us."
But C. S. Lewis had a good answer to your question about the square circle (or the more often heard question of "could God make a rock so large that he could not move it.")
"His Omnipotence means power to do all that is intrinsically possible, not to do the intrinsically impossible. You may attribute miracles to Him, but not nonsense. There is no limit to His power.
It remains true that all things are possible with God: the intrinsic impossibilities are not things but nonentities. It is no more possible for God than for the weakest of His creatures to carry out both of two mutually exclusive alternatives; not because His power meets an obstacle, but because nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God."
The poll questions, as well as your comments, reveal more about the misconceptions and prejudices of the speaker than about the actual beliefs of the respondents. A thoughtful YEC (Young Earth Creationist) could not answer "yes" to "do you believe humans and other species are unchanged from the beginning of time?" First of all, in the Genesis account of creation living creatures were created on the fifth and sixth days, not at "the beginning of time" (the first day). Second, no one in the YEC community believes that "species are unchanged". YECs allow for natural variation within created "kinds", which roughly correspond to the "family" in scientific classification. For example, a YEC would believe that most Felidae species descended from an original "proto-cat" (my term) through a designed process of limited adaptation. What a YEC does not believe is that inanimate matter plus chance plus time led to the great diversity and complexity of life that we see today.
I wish I had points to mod you up. This is the "Let them eat cake" philosophy of energy development. You can't afford coal? Here, use these expensive, unreliable, and inefficient technologies that only survive in our country due to massive government subsidies instead! (Hydro is an exception, but is not an option in most countries that don't already have it.)
It's just the opposite for me. I see such elegant and ingenious solutions as this, the bacterial flagellum, geared insect legs, octopus cromatophores, etc., as evidence for a brilliant Creator God.
Exactly. What is all this angst about? Did IBM lose money last quarter? No -- they made $3.00 per share (which was in fact an improvement over the previous year) instead of their projected $3.05 a share. And for this they are laying off thousands worldwide. Employees, and even customers, are not a priority anymore. The only thing that matters is the stock price.
No unemployment? No homelessness? So all those people I saw living in tents by the railroad tracks the last time I was in Bs As were there just because... they like trains?
Ignore the trolls. I am a programmer on the reservation system of a worldwide hotel chain that handles millions of transactions a day. Large parts of this system use mysql on a Linux platform. Just yesterday I was working with a mysql table containing 1.3 billion (1,300,000,000) records. mysql is just as reliable as other commercial products that we use.
And whenever I come to work dressed somewhat fashionably I get weird comments, not compliments, they are actually making fun of me I think.
FWIW, AF, I am a male computer guy who would love to work with someone like you. In fact, I'll give you a compliment just based on your description...
<smiles> Hi AF, you look great today! </smiles>
There is another weakness in this statement that I have not yet seen mentioned...
I have an account with my ISP where I am allocated a range of "fixed IP addresses". In other words, there are a number of IP addresses that are permanently assigned to me. This is opposed to "dynamic IP addresses" where a user is assigned a different IP address every time they log in.
However, the way that my ISP's network is configured, I am able to take any unused IP address on their network for myself, simply by making a minor change in my computer's network configuration. For example, say that I am assigned fixed IP addresses 101.1.1.10 through 101.1.1.20. I can just reconfigure my computer to be IP address 101.1.1.50, and if this address is not currently being used by someone else, I can get it for myself. Similarly, someone else could take one of my assigned IP addresses if it is not currently in use.
Any internet connection coming from one of my assigned IP addresses would be assumed by my ISP (and by the RIAA) to be coming from me. But it is almost trivial for someone else on my ISP's network to hijack any of these addresses (if they are not currently in use). Someone could hijack one of my assigned IP addresses, and any illegal activity that they do would be traced to me.
I don't know how widespread this vulnerability is, but it does cast doubt on the generally unquestioned assumption that a specified IP address can be infallibly linked to a particular individual.
Anyone know more about it all?
It would help if you actually identified the hosting company. One "big, usually decent hosting company" that I am familiar with, that hosts about 3,000 sites per server, had at one time a password-hash file that was readable by anyone with an account on the server. All you had to do was download the file and run a password cracker on it and you could recover a large number of user passwords. I warned them about this 10 years ago. They thanked me and did nothing. It may still be this way.
Then why are kids today listening to 30+ year-old music (Led Zeppelin, Hendrix, etc.) and thinking it's cool? No kids I knew were listening to 1940's music in the 70's.
I have a small, somewhat cramped, home office, and I work with the keyboard and mouse on my lap using a small notebook for a mousepad. When I had a wired mouse I would take a serious fall at least once every week or two when I hastily got up to answer the door or something and tripped over the mouse cord. This also led to short lives for my mice. Then (a couple years ago) I got one of the older models of the Logitech wireless mouse - no more falls. I use rechargeable AA batteries for a lot of things and usually have a couple of them in my charger. With the older mouse I had to switch the batteries about once a week. That mouse finally died a month ago and I got a new Logitech wireless mouse with an optical sensor that emits no visible light. I am still on the original batteries (included with the mouse), using it at least 40 hours a week. I love it.
What planet did you go to school on?
As my sig says - professionalism is the last refuge of the incompetent.
> As it was in the beginning, is now, and always shall be: for ever and ever. Amen.
Problem is, Psalm 119 says no such thing.
Mod me to heck as flamebait, but it never ceases to amaze me that otherwise-intelligent people who would be deeply ashamed to be caught in an error regarding say, the speed of light, have no qualms whatsoever about displaying the most profound ignorance about the most well-known (though obviously not well-read) book of western civilization.
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Who Are You Calling "Pirate"?
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/archives/004589.php
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I read nuzak's message three times very slowly and carefully and I didn't see anywhere where he said, or even implied, that the parent was an idiot.
The parent, unfortunately, did not provide enough information to determine the actual problem but nuzak's advice was quite reasonable. Whether it is fair or not, if a significant number of servers are rejecting your email for whatever reason, you are more likely to make progress by changing your own configuration than by trying to get everyone else to change theirs.
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For one thing, they might learn to spell "ColdFusioin" correctly.
Don't be so smug. A crash is often a sign of a potentially exploitable buffer overflow or other programming flaw. FF is just lucky that nobody has bothered figuring out the details for this one. Yet.
"This is the behavior not of scientists but of true believers."
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I just looked up one of my IP addresses. Thanks to "TrustedSource" I have gained the following insight:
1. My daily average message volume is represented by a single shaded envelope icon (out of a possible 10). I can't find anything that translates this to an actual number of emails sent.
2. Yesterday my average volume was up 1,400%! Sounds serious. What does this mean? Well, I can't tell. Again it shows a single shaded envelope icon, with no hint of what this actually means.
3. Even more worrisome, the little graph in the corner shows that all of my email has "Raised Concern". Again, it does not explain what this means.
So, I see that my email volume increased 1,400% yesterday and that my email has "Raised Concern". Either there is a serious problem occurring on my mail server (taken over by a spambot?), or else these figures are bogus. Without further information, which does not seem to be available, I am leaning towards the second option.
Not to disparage your main point, but Amazon is not knocking out mom and pop booksellers. As an Amazon.com Marketplace Pro Merchant I can attest that Amazon is, in fact, enabling thousands of mom and pop outfits (as well as larger retailers) to compete on the internet. The vast majority of Amazon Marketplace sellers do not have the resources to develop their own ecommerce sites. Even if they did, it is not likely that anyone would ever see them. As it is, anyone with a book to sell can get it listed on Amazon.com right next to Amazon's own copy.
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