I always thought it a good idea (in some odd way) to have an LCD display on the front/back of a vehicle that displayed the current speed for the vehicle so everyone could see it. Also, I thought it a good idea that brake lights would become brighter the harder a person pressed on the pedal to give vehicles behind the braking vehicle knowledge about how quickly the person in front of them is intending to stop.
No,.mp3 is dying, not dead, its right there with apple, BSD, and our civil rights.. (only 1 seems to be true..)
Aaahh Hahh, I knew it. BSD *is* dead.
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There ought to be a disclaimer before each "article" on sites like those with a warning that - "author is just another schmoe with no real expertise and is prone to make stuff up if it sounds good."
I'm in northern WV and no one I know acts the way you describe people acting in PA but not everyone is the same. Also realize that a small subset of people do not necessarily (and hardly ever) represent the whole.
I understand you aren't telling me I can't pray and I'm not trying to make it so you *have* to pray but there are some groups of people out there who want to make sure that people like me aren't allowed to pray in schools and in the gov't. I'm not trying to, through the gov't, tell you that you have to pray despite what you may think. The very opposite is happening within the gov't where they are saying if someone is praying then it is wrong. That is an example of the gov't respecting a life of no religion which *is* against the 1st amendment. As long as they let any religion be practiced, especially when students in a school initiate it and not the administration for example, then there is nothing wrong with it but when they start banning certain religions activity that is crossing the line. The very people crying foul that they are being offended by the gov't favoring one religion over no religion (despite the gov't not actually forcing non-believers to do something they don't want to do) are causing the people who *are* believers to not be able to practice their religion so it turns the "offended" people into hypocrits.
If you don't like the standards set by a state or the federal gov't the Canadian border isn't too far way.
I don't want sex education taught in schools but I'm not getting my way. I also *want* religion back in the schools but in both cases your standards that are being imposed aren't the norm even though they are the leading standards. Maybe I'll have to move with you.
Passing religious-based laws are perfectly fine in this country due to a keyphrase that you personally mentioned in your own post: without fear of government reprisal. None of the laws that the gov't has wanted to pass or has passed would result in a gov't reprisal if they were broken and therefore they would not be respecting any religion because no punishment would be performed. No one so far (up until religion stopped being allowed in the school systems) has been the target of any gov't reprisal for not joining their class in prayer if they did not believe in the prayer so why would you think that would all of a sudden change? But what is strange is that there is gov't reprisal (not federal necessarily but state/local) for when people do mention any religious statements in a school or other similar institution(the reprisal being that arrests are made or school suspensions are performed or that the people are told to shut their mouths or else). I see a double standard in that.
But anyway, just because the laws are passed doesn't mean you have to become Christian, just like you taking away my religion from the public eye because you don't have one will not turn me into an atheist nor do I feel that I have to. The logical backing you suggest is lacking actually exists in that the majority of the US population is religious and do not mind (and many even welcome, *GASP*) religion being an aspect of their lives with respect to religion being practiced in public. Those who want to remove religion and punish those who want to practice their religion in public fly directly in the face of the first amendment of freedom of religion.
Realize that no one is against you not having a religion but many are against those who do have a religion even if they are not forcing you to conform. I find it ironic that you actually think that Christians actually are holding your lack of any belief system against you when they aren't telling you to do anything because of your lack of beliefs but you sure are adamant about making sure they aren't allowed to practice their beliefs where you can see them. So remind me again exactly who is holding whose beliefs against the other???
To officially teach religion you need either a BS or MS (can't remember which) in something - doesn't matter what. (Yes! Even biology! Just to head that off...) To teach religion at a Church-run university you need a PhD. I have a friend who is getting a PhD in CS just so he can teach religion at BYU.
(No, it's not strange. He happens to be very good at both but finds ancient languages more interesting.)
Sculptures and other types of art aren't created to illicit sexual pleasure or thoughts (whether someone gets them though is a different issue). Pornography by definition is created with the sole intent of illiciting a sexual response from the viewer with the goal of pleasing the viewer. People in the US always complain that other countries don't have the same censorship laws that the US does but other countries don't necessarily focus on sex so much with the intent to treat women as sex objects, that sex is fine with as many partners as you can find, and that selling sex is perfectly fine. The US focuses on sex and women for all those reasons. Yes, sex is a natural occurrence of life but not sex with 5 other guys who cream all over the face of their only female partner. That is just pornography.
Did the original file have a change history in it (you can turn "Track Changes" on and that seems to not only make doc files bigger but slower to maneuver through as well)? If the original doc had that versioning data in it then it is possible that Writer didn't keep it when it did the saving and that's why (one reason at least) the file is smaller.
I've never seen Word take 31 seconds to start unless I'm opening an 8 meg doc file over a really bad network connection. When the network connection is working properly the same 8 meg file can be opened in well under 10 seconds. Something else had to have been running on the reviewer's system to affect Word that much.
The iRiver iFP-899 is solid state or do you prefer to gloss over that to make the iPod look like the better product? The iPod is not solid state and instead uses a hard drive which is more volatile so try comparing apples to apples next time (no pun intended).
That's strange because the same thing can be said of how religion is being removed from society. I should clarify and say only the Christian religion is being removed as some schools are replacing it by teaching Islam but only because of "historical" reasons. Hopefully, little by little, we can get it back so our country is Christian and not atheist/Muslim when it is destroyed in the future.
Every media source is free from fact checking. That includes the Big Media. Hell, if they had done their fact checking then they would have never helped generate as much public support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq as they did.
That's odd (not that they necessarily did it on purpose) considering the Big Media is airing as much bad video as they can to make it look like going there was a mistake and they emphasize every instance of the 5-10 troop killings that occur despite that number being tremendously lower than almost any other war in history. They don't dare compare the numbers or people will realize that the numbers are actually really low. I'm not saying they shouldn't recognize that our guys are falling but they don't ever emphasize the other side is being killed at the same time due to our troops.
Sure, religion changes all the time. It's just that science generally changes in response to *evidence*. Religion changes in response to someone's agenda.
Tell that to the scientists who swear by the theory of evolution as basically being the only way we came into existence and interpret every piece of "evidence" as evidence toward the only theory they want to believe in. That is bias toward a specific agenda of persuading people who may be on the fence about God/evolution that evolution is always having more evidence found in favor of it. Evidence is all fine and dandy as long as there is no bias in interpreting what it means, as well as actually having enough evidence (as in no holes in the evidence chain) to support a theory.
Prove to me there isn't because I got plenty of proof that there is. If you want a preview, look outside at the universe and this Earth and within the human body to see how complex this environment is for it to have to be designed to exist the way it exists.
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I always thought it a good idea (in some odd way) to have an LCD display on the front/back of a vehicle that displayed the current speed for the vehicle so everyone could see it. Also, I thought it a good idea that brake lights would become brighter the harder a person pressed on the pedal to give vehicles behind the braking vehicle knowledge about how quickly the person in front of them is intending to stop.
No, .mp3 is dying, not dead, its right there with apple, BSD, and our civil rights.. (only 1 seems to be true..)
Aaahh Hahh, I knew it. BSD *is* dead.
There ought to be a disclaimer before each "article" on sites like those with a warning that - "author is just another schmoe with no real expertise and is prone to make stuff up if it sounds good."
So where is your disclaimer? ;)
Does this do anything for innovation? The new Airbus A380 is the largest passenger airliner in existence.
1.6 passengers? No it's not.
Although Japan had previously done extensive research towards building a 250-person mach 1.6 passenger jet,
It is not a 1.6 passenger jet, it is a 250-person, mach 1.6 passenger jet. You read it wrong by missing "mach" but they also missed a comma.
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If he is just a figment of my imagination why should you care/worry enough to have to make a signature about it??
if ($nobody==Perfect && god==Perfect) { print 'god = $nobody'; return; }
You are exactly right: God is nobody. God is not a human being and therefore has no body. He is omnipresent and thus exists as nobody.
Jesus christ on a cracker, the mods are fucked up today.
So is your choice of language.
I'm in northern WV and no one I know acts the way you describe people acting in PA but not everyone is the same. Also realize that a small subset of people do not necessarily (and hardly ever) represent the whole.
I understand you aren't telling me I can't pray and I'm not trying to make it so you *have* to pray but there are some groups of people out there who want to make sure that people like me aren't allowed to pray in schools and in the gov't. I'm not trying to, through the gov't, tell you that you have to pray despite what you may think. The very opposite is happening within the gov't where they are saying if someone is praying then it is wrong. That is an example of the gov't respecting a life of no religion which *is* against the 1st amendment. As long as they let any religion be practiced, especially when students in a school initiate it and not the administration for example, then there is nothing wrong with it but when they start banning certain religions activity that is crossing the line. The very people crying foul that they are being offended by the gov't favoring one religion over no religion (despite the gov't not actually forcing non-believers to do something they don't want to do) are causing the people who *are* believers to not be able to practice their religion so it turns the "offended" people into hypocrits.
If you don't like the standards set by a state or the federal gov't the Canadian border isn't too far way. I don't want sex education taught in schools but I'm not getting my way. I also *want* religion back in the schools but in both cases your standards that are being imposed aren't the norm even though they are the leading standards. Maybe I'll have to move with you.
Passing religious-based laws are perfectly fine in this country due to a keyphrase that you personally mentioned in your own post: without fear of government reprisal. None of the laws that the gov't has wanted to pass or has passed would result in a gov't reprisal if they were broken and therefore they would not be respecting any religion because no punishment would be performed. No one so far (up until religion stopped being allowed in the school systems) has been the target of any gov't reprisal for not joining their class in prayer if they did not believe in the prayer so why would you think that would all of a sudden change? But what is strange is that there is gov't reprisal (not federal necessarily but state/local) for when people do mention any religious statements in a school or other similar institution(the reprisal being that arrests are made or school suspensions are performed or that the people are told to shut their mouths or else). I see a double standard in that.
But anyway, just because the laws are passed doesn't mean you have to become Christian, just like you taking away my religion from the public eye because you don't have one will not turn me into an atheist nor do I feel that I have to. The logical backing you suggest is lacking actually exists in that the majority of the US population is religious and do not mind (and many even welcome, *GASP*) religion being an aspect of their lives with respect to religion being practiced in public. Those who want to remove religion and punish those who want to practice their religion in public fly directly in the face of the first amendment of freedom of religion.
Realize that no one is against you not having a religion but many are against those who do have a religion even if they are not forcing you to conform. I find it ironic that you actually think that Christians actually are holding your lack of any belief system against you when they aren't telling you to do anything because of your lack of beliefs but you sure are adamant about making sure they aren't allowed to practice their beliefs where you can see them. So remind me again exactly who is holding whose beliefs against the other???
The Dark Side is strong in this one. Yesss, let your hate flow through you my son....feel better? Now shutup.
To officially teach religion you need either a BS or MS (can't remember which) in something - doesn't matter what. (Yes! Even biology! Just to head that off...) To teach religion at a Church-run university you need a PhD. I have a friend who is getting a PhD in CS just so he can teach religion at BYU.
(No, it's not strange. He happens to be very good at both but finds ancient languages more interesting.)
You mean like Pascal, Ada, and Fortran?
Sculptures and other types of art aren't created to illicit sexual pleasure or thoughts (whether someone gets them though is a different issue). Pornography by definition is created with the sole intent of illiciting a sexual response from the viewer with the goal of pleasing the viewer. People in the US always complain that other countries don't have the same censorship laws that the US does but other countries don't necessarily focus on sex so much with the intent to treat women as sex objects, that sex is fine with as many partners as you can find, and that selling sex is perfectly fine. The US focuses on sex and women for all those reasons. Yes, sex is a natural occurrence of life but not sex with 5 other guys who cream all over the face of their only female partner. That is just pornography.
It better be a joke because I have a use for it and I refuse to be labeled a pirate.
Did the original file have a change history in it (you can turn "Track Changes" on and that seems to not only make doc files bigger but slower to maneuver through as well)? If the original doc had that versioning data in it then it is possible that Writer didn't keep it when it did the saving and that's why (one reason at least) the file is smaller.
I've never seen Word take 31 seconds to start unless I'm opening an 8 meg doc file over a really bad network connection. When the network connection is working properly the same 8 meg file can be opened in well under 10 seconds. Something else had to have been running on the reviewer's system to affect Word that much.
Then do your own objective comparison.
The iRiver iFP-899 is solid state or do you prefer to gloss over that to make the iPod look like the better product? The iPod is not solid state and instead uses a hard drive which is more volatile so try comparing apples to apples next time (no pun intended).
That's strange because the same thing can be said of how religion is being removed from society. I should clarify and say only the Christian religion is being removed as some schools are replacing it by teaching Islam but only because of "historical" reasons. Hopefully, little by little, we can get it back so our country is Christian and not atheist/Muslim when it is destroyed in the future.
Every media source is free from fact checking. That includes the Big Media. Hell, if they had done their fact checking then they would have never helped generate as much public support for the invasion and occupation of Iraq as they did.
That's odd (not that they necessarily did it on purpose) considering the Big Media is airing as much bad video as they can to make it look like going there was a mistake and they emphasize every instance of the 5-10 troop killings that occur despite that number being tremendously lower than almost any other war in history. They don't dare compare the numbers or people will realize that the numbers are actually really low. I'm not saying they shouldn't recognize that our guys are falling but they don't ever emphasize the other side is being killed at the same time due to our troops.
Sure, religion changes all the time. It's just that science generally changes in response to *evidence*. Religion changes in response to someone's agenda.
Tell that to the scientists who swear by the theory of evolution as basically being the only way we came into existence and interpret every piece of "evidence" as evidence toward the only theory they want to believe in. That is bias toward a specific agenda of persuading people who may be on the fence about God/evolution that evolution is always having more evidence found in favor of it. Evidence is all fine and dandy as long as there is no bias in interpreting what it means, as well as actually having enough evidence (as in no holes in the evidence chain) to support a theory.
"You don't need proof if you have faith."
To that I say that whether you have faith or not He still exists. Faith just means that you don't question that He exists.
Prove to me there isn't because I got plenty of proof that there is. If you want a preview, look outside at the universe and this Earth and within the human body to see how complex this environment is for it to have to be designed to exist the way it exists.
We are also teaching our kids that sex is okay as long as they use a condom and that there is no God.