And this one seems to be talking about racial purity, a subject I'm sure the modern day Jews are a little touchy about still. It stops short of espousing an ethnic cleansing policy but (unless I am reading this way wrong) is saying don't mix you're good Jewish seed with...well, someone non Jewish. Read and decide for yourself:
English Translation of Some Torah Precepts (Miqsat Ma'ase ha-Torah)
4Q396(MMTc)
Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority (8)
1. until sunset on the eighth day. And concerning [the impurity] of
2. the [dead] person we are of the opinion that every bone, whether it
3. has its flesh on it or not--should be (treated) according to the law of the dead or the slain.
4. And concerning the mixed marriages that are being performed among the people, and they are sons of holy [seed],
5. as is written, Israel is holy. And concerning his (Israel's) [clean] animal
6. it is written that one must not let it mate with another species, and concerning his clothes [it is written that they should not]
7. be of mixed stuff; and one must not sow his field and vineyard with mixed species.
8. Because they (Israel) are holy, and the sons of Aaron are [most holy.]
9. But you know that some of the priests and [the laity intermingle]
10. [And they] adhere to each other and pollute the holy seed
11. as well as their (i.e. the priests') own [seed] with corrupt women. Since [the sons of Aaron should...]
I'm not surprised that the old testament scrolls are good copies of ones made at the same time as they were. For those interested, here's some snippets of the scrolls that we have been allowed to view dead sea scroll. These are very small sections of text in comparison to the monolith that is the new and old testaments. Scrolls like Leviticus would be particularly important since these are the laws of their land and you don't go around scribing those without a good reference.
I just read through much of the 12 scrolls on display and saw very little of the original bible in them. I saw a lot of talk about who was king, how to worship god, some prayers, but very little that relates to the bible as it stands today. Perhaps you can point us all to a link that would support your posting because all I am seeing is stuff like:
The Damascus Document is a collection of rules and instructions reflecting the practices of a sectarian community. It includes two elements. The first is an admonition that implores the congregation to remain faithful to the covenant of those who retreated from Judea to the "Land of Damascus." The second lists statutes dealing with vows and oaths, the tribunal, witnesses and judges, purification of water, Sabbath laws, and ritual cleanliness. The right-hand margin is incomplete. The left-hand margin was sewn to another piece of parchment, as evidenced by the remaining stitches.
In 1896, noted Talmud scholar and educator Solomon Schechter discovered sectarian compositions which later were found to be medieval versions of the Damascus Document. Schechter's find in a synagogue storeroom near Cairo, almost fifty years before the Qumran discoveries, may be regarded as the true starting point of modern scroll research.
That's a damn convenient "get out of jail free card" the Christians always play when they find their psuedo-science mythology fails in the light of modern fact. It was a ummm...miracle, yeh, a miracle. This myth reminds me too much of the Sodom and Gommorah myth. Both are stories which have been collected into a 55 story (not sure exact number) novel. These two stories have the same basic theme, fuck with god and he will smite all and everything. In S&G myth it was the twin cities that were smitten, with only 1 bloke and his family getting out - but whoops, a last minute disobediance to God and there's one less person hitting the trail that afternoon.
In one story God smote with fire, the other with rain, both plentiful elemental forces, leading me to suspect these stories have even older roots than the bible. In both cases God is trying to wipe out the infidel, slay the unbeliever, and reward the faithful. The story teller uses one central character Noah/Lot, in the same way many modern stories do. It's more comprehensible than the many characters of War and Peace. I don't recall any instances of Noah going around asking to find one righteous man, but who knows maybe I missed it or some revisionist scribe removed that part.
These are useful tales for campfire story time, and tell the people an important moral lesson (God is good, don't doubt it or he will smite your ass), they may have some basis in fact even, but they are not literal stories, they did not happen as written, these are parables.
Perhaps you could help me to believe by addressing the key points that are hard to swallow. Personally, I do believe there was a great flood, since there is ample scientific evidence of flooding and there are stories of it in many diverse cultures. What I don't believe is that it covered the entire world wiping out all life except for that bird,that olive tree, and the occupants of the ark. I don't believe all the genetic diversity of both the human and animal kingdom then sprang forth from the handful of survivors. I don't believe they then managed to mass migrate to the entire rest of the world, change skin colour, change genetic disposition to certain dieseases, change hip bone and skull shape, and all the myriad other changes that have supposedly happened in the last 6000 years. These kinds of changes happen over hundreds of thousands of years.
Now, assuming that the whole world was flooded, who rounded up one of every insect, many of which are indigenous only to certain continents? There's millions of types of insect, many with lifespans way shorter than the time it would take to round them up. How did Noah get a pair of Wetas (New Zealand hissing raoch like thing), or the red backed spider? How did lavae with a lifespan shorter than 40 days survive? Didn't the relativity high temperatures and the low humidity bother the polar bears? How did the wheat, grass and other low lyying vegetation survive the salting of the land that would have occured after it was all under the sea? Salting is deadly to soil.
If you or anyone can sensibly, and without "an act of god", explain those questions then I will personally eat the entire Ark when it is excavated. That's right, I will fly to Turkey, climb the mountain and eat the whole Ark. I'll send photos to SlashDot as proof.
I understand plate techtonics (in laymens terms anyway) but those forces take hundreds of thousands of years to millions of years. You are talking about it happening in a few thousand years at best. You can't have Christians claiming the earth is only 6000 years old, then claim the flood happened in that time period, and that there was at least one dinosaur crawling around *after* the flood. It's laughable at best.
I have no trouble believing some crackpot peyote chewing idiot built a really large boat and convinced his family to round up a bunch of animals. This kind of thing happens all the time, just look at Jonestown and Charles Manson for inspiration. What I have trouble believing are:
Earth only 6000 years old
The boat was built of wood and big enough to hold two of *every* animal on earth, dinosaurs included (how did he round them up, those fuckers are big?)
The flood then killed all unbelievers and every other animal
All genetic diversity therefore sprung from a single pair of animals in each case. Noah and his sons then fucked his daughters to spread his DNA. No-one become mongaloid through inbreeding.
Scandanavian's descended from dark skinned orientals, blond hair is recessive
Bah, too much hocus pocus in this fairy tale to list it all. You *really* have to *want* to believe in something to swallow this load.
I find it hard to believe that the world was flooded so much that a ship landed on top of a 17,000ft high mountain. Even assuming it was only halfway up the mountain that is still a water level rise of 8,500 feet. That's maybe 2.5KM of water level raising. I'm sure some smart SlashDotter will be able to work out the cubic volume of water that must have been needed to do that, and I'm guessing it is more water than is available in the entire planet.
You've got to be able to differentiate between the fairy stories and real ones, it's a part of becoming an adult.
Perhaps "the new Wine" was a bad choice of phrase after all;-/ What I meant was that Wine is an implementation of the Win32 API for *nix, thus, not an emulator. Mono is an implementation of the.NET framework for *nix, thus, like Wine in that respect.
t would take one of two things to break this cycle: a large investment from one of our clients to adapt our whole codebase to Linux, or an environment that makes support on Linux almost accidental while maintaining easy access to Windows functionality. Mono is the answer.
This is pretty much the situation at my last workplace and also my current one. If they could get a Linux port out for little or no cost then they might consider chasing those markets - otherwise, it's 100% MS here. Mono is the best hope for lowering those porting costs, since we can't/won't go Java (for many and various reasons).
This is a key point that everyone is missing. Mono is an attempt to harness the power of all those Windows developers (that's me too at present, ubnfortunately). MS will start to churn out all it's products as.NET apps, meaning they *will* run unchanged on Linux. Mono is the new Wine:-) It's also about lowering the barriers of entry to Linux programming. Now, programmers, especially the new generation who seem to do it only for cash, not for the pleasure of it, are just as fearful of change as everyone else it seems. They don't want to learn new langauges or switch to a new OS, they are happy with what they know now. This may seem a harsh characterisation but way too many of the programmers I know are like this.
Mono means they can stay in their comfort zone, but still produce software that will work for people moving to Linux. You're not likely to change the minds of all those Windows programmers who are just doing a job because they are being paid to do it, but you can at least open a path of least resistance towards portability. Go Mono!
The Mono project is an implementation of.NET on other OS's. This means developers *are free* to build any framework they like using the C# language alongside of implementing the MS ones for compatibility. The C# language is highly productive for a programmer, and when coupled with a good IDE can lead to code rates of over 500 lines of code a day (which is roughly what I will pound out on a decent day). By having.NET on Linux I can write an app in Mono on Windows, then easily port it to run on Linux. As long as you stay away from COM and some other proprietry stuff you can enjoy the comfort of the MS IDE whilst producing code for other platforms. Now, how isn't this a win-win for Linux?
is that over the course of my natural life I will have more than 3 PCs, and this technology is only licensing me to have it on 3 PCs. That means that some 6-9 years down the line (I change PC every 2-3 years) I will have used my DRM encrusted music on all 3 PC's that I am licensed to use and will need some way to authenticate it to the next one.
Now, project yourself forward 20 years. Will these same profit chasing record companies be willing to provide infrastructure to allow you to move your DRM encrusted music from PC to PC throughout the rest of your exepcted life, and that of your descendants who will inhereit this media? Sure, they'll be happily putting out more music, but are they protecting your previous investments? In the year 2039 when I should be just about ready to breathe my last breathe will I be able to hear all my old favorite albums or will I cark it listening to gangster rap on the radio because my rightfully paid for music isn't authorised for use on my new funky media player.
This DRM stuff is OK for playing todays tunes, but I worry about the longevity of the media.
So close, but no biscuit, it's called checkmate like in chess, but is actually named after a brand of condoms. It's MS's funny way of implying that you are now fucked, but in this post Aids world they are reassuring you that even thought you are fucked you are not going to get a virus from it.
I'll take mine in PSD format thanks. With layers, text, notes and all sorts of other good stuff there's no reason not to use this format until you're ready to dump out a JPEG or similar. But let's face facts, unless you are scanning in your old photos you are more than likely pulling down a JPEG file from your digital camera. This kinda makes the whole purist "I only use lossless compression" discussion farcical.
I believe Amazon to be the holder of the "Single Wipe" patent #662894. Use two or more wipes to clean your arse or you will find yourself on the end of a long and pointy legal suit.
Anti-trust laws were invented not to prevent companies from attaining 90% control of the market but from abusing that position. An example might be an OS company that singles out one market at a time and uses their dominant position to force the other players out of the market e.g. networking, office software, audio playback, video playback, file system compression, system utilities.
They do this by making a loss in this market until such a time as their competition is forced out of the market, then it's time to start making money. They can do this by using their other sections to provide revenue whilst losing money in the other markets...think XBox for a current example.
Are you sure your friend isn't just clumsy and careless with his CD's? I am pretty careful with my collection, I take them out of the cover, play them, and then drop them back in the cover. At all times I hold them by the edges or with a finger through the inner ringhole (cor, saucy). I recently ripped the entire collection which dates back 20 years now and every single song on every disc ripped cleanly. None of my CD's are scratched and although I suspect some are getting more marginal in quality due to age (not neglect) they still all play on standard consumer hardware.
Just in case though, I now have them all packed away in a box and simply play my.ogg files from my PC. It still sounds terrific as well since I have a Mackie mixer and Event Tria nearfield monitors to listen on:-)
Hahaha, let me tell you about a guy I used to work with. He was also a coder in a small business we were running and he liked to print out the code every so often, hole punch it, and put it on the shelf. When I asked him why he said it was in case the hard drives failed and we lost the code we could always type it back in again. I don't know about you, but I wasn't looking forward to typing in thousands of lines of badly formatted ASCII code. Phew, some people.
Burning at slow speeds is still a good way to ensure more players can read a CD. This technique does work, and I used it again just last night. I burnt an SVCD of a *cough* movie I found umm, somewhere in a cupboard, at the rated speed of my medium which was 10x (rewritable). The DVD player rejected it, unable to read the data. I burnt it again from the same.bin file at 4x and the DVD player read it perfectly. It may not matter when you read it back on the same drive you burnt it on, but it sure can matter when you want to hear it in your car or watch it on your DVD player.
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English Translation of Some Torah Precepts (Miqsat Ma'ase ha-Torah)
4Q396(MMTc)
Courtesy of the Israel Antiquities Authority (8)
1. until sunset on the eighth day. And concerning [the impurity] of
2. the [dead] person we are of the opinion that every bone, whether it
3. has its flesh on it or not--should be (treated) according to the law of the dead or the slain.
4. And concerning the mixed marriages that are being performed among the people, and they are sons of holy [seed],
5. as is written, Israel is holy. And concerning his (Israel's) [clean] animal
6. it is written that one must not let it mate with another species, and concerning his clothes [it is written that they should not]
7. be of mixed stuff; and one must not sow his field and vineyard with mixed species.
8. Because they (Israel) are holy, and the sons of Aaron are [most holy.]
9. But you know that some of the priests and [the laity intermingle]
10. [And they] adhere to each other and pollute the holy seed
11. as well as their (i.e. the priests') own [seed] with corrupt women. Since [the sons of Aaron should...]
I just read through much of the 12 scrolls on display and saw very little of the original bible in them. I saw a lot of talk about who was king, how to worship god, some prayers, but very little that relates to the bible as it stands today. Perhaps you can point us all to a link that would support your posting because all I am seeing is stuff like:
The Damascus Document is a collection of rules and instructions reflecting the practices of a sectarian community. It includes two elements. The first is an admonition that implores the congregation to remain faithful to the covenant of those who retreated from Judea to the "Land of Damascus." The second lists statutes dealing with vows and oaths, the tribunal, witnesses and judges, purification of water, Sabbath laws, and ritual cleanliness. The right-hand margin is incomplete. The left-hand margin was sewn to another piece of parchment, as evidenced by the remaining stitches. In 1896, noted Talmud scholar and educator Solomon Schechter discovered sectarian compositions which later were found to be medieval versions of the Damascus Document. Schechter's find in a synagogue storeroom near Cairo, almost fifty years before the Qumran discoveries, may be regarded as the true starting point of modern scroll research.
In one story God smote with fire, the other with rain, both plentiful elemental forces, leading me to suspect these stories have even older roots than the bible. In both cases God is trying to wipe out the infidel, slay the unbeliever, and reward the faithful. The story teller uses one central character Noah/Lot, in the same way many modern stories do. It's more comprehensible than the many characters of War and Peace. I don't recall any instances of Noah going around asking to find one righteous man, but who knows maybe I missed it or some revisionist scribe removed that part.
These are useful tales for campfire story time, and tell the people an important moral lesson (God is good, don't doubt it or he will smite your ass), they may have some basis in fact even, but they are not literal stories, they did not happen as written, these are parables.
Now, assuming that the whole world was flooded, who rounded up one of every insect, many of which are indigenous only to certain continents? There's millions of types of insect, many with lifespans way shorter than the time it would take to round them up. How did Noah get a pair of Wetas (New Zealand hissing raoch like thing), or the red backed spider? How did lavae with a lifespan shorter than 40 days survive? Didn't the relativity high temperatures and the low humidity bother the polar bears? How did the wheat, grass and other low lyying vegetation survive the salting of the land that would have occured after it was all under the sea? Salting is deadly to soil.
If you or anyone can sensibly, and without "an act of god", explain those questions then I will personally eat the entire Ark when it is excavated. That's right, I will fly to Turkey, climb the mountain and eat the whole Ark. I'll send photos to SlashDot as proof.
I understand plate techtonics (in laymens terms anyway) but those forces take hundreds of thousands of years to millions of years. You are talking about it happening in a few thousand years at best. You can't have Christians claiming the earth is only 6000 years old, then claim the flood happened in that time period, and that there was at least one dinosaur crawling around *after* the flood. It's laughable at best.
dinosaurs and the ark
And all this has happened in the last 3000 or so years? The whole earth was vastly flatter and just got really bumpy in the last few thousands years?
Earth only 6000 years old
The boat was built of wood and big enough to hold two of *every* animal on earth, dinosaurs included (how did he round them up, those fuckers are big?)
The flood then killed all unbelievers and every other animal
All genetic diversity therefore sprung from a single pair of animals in each case. Noah and his sons then fucked his daughters to spread his DNA. No-one become mongaloid through inbreeding.
Scandanavian's descended from dark skinned orientals, blond hair is recessive
Bah, too much hocus pocus in this fairy tale to list it all. You *really* have to *want* to believe in something to swallow this load.
You've got to be able to differentiate between the fairy stories and real ones, it's a part of becoming an adult.
t would take one of two things to break this cycle: a large investment from one of our clients to adapt our whole codebase to Linux, or an environment that makes support on Linux almost accidental while maintaining easy access to Windows functionality. Mono is the answer.
This is pretty much the situation at my last workplace and also my current one. If they could get a Linux port out for little or no cost then they might consider chasing those markets - otherwise, it's 100% MS here. Mono is the best hope for lowering those porting costs, since we can't/won't go Java (for many and various reasons).
Mono means they can stay in their comfort zone, but still produce software that will work for people moving to Linux. You're not likely to change the minds of all those Windows programmers who are just doing a job because they are being paid to do it, but you can at least open a path of least resistance towards portability. Go Mono!
The Mono project is an implementation of .NET on other OS's. This means developers *are free* to build any framework they like using the C# language alongside of implementing the MS ones for compatibility. The C# language is highly productive for a programmer, and when coupled with a good IDE can lead to code rates of over 500 lines of code a day (which is roughly what I will pound out on a decent day). By having .NET on Linux I can write an app in Mono on Windows, then easily port it to run on Linux. As long as you stay away from COM and some other proprietry stuff you can enjoy the comfort of the MS IDE whilst producing code for other platforms. Now, how isn't this a win-win for Linux?
Two words, Debian apt-get.
Now, project yourself forward 20 years. Will these same profit chasing record companies be willing to provide infrastructure to allow you to move your DRM encrusted music from PC to PC throughout the rest of your exepcted life, and that of your descendants who will inhereit this media? Sure, they'll be happily putting out more music, but are they protecting your previous investments? In the year 2039 when I should be just about ready to breathe my last breathe will I be able to hear all my old favorite albums or will I cark it listening to gangster rap on the radio because my rightfully paid for music isn't authorised for use on my new funky media player.
This DRM stuff is OK for playing todays tunes, but I worry about the longevity of the media.
They'd all be tripped up by the Main () function ;->
So close, but no biscuit, it's called checkmate like in chess, but is actually named after a brand of condoms. It's MS's funny way of implying that you are now fucked, but in this post Aids world they are reassuring you that even thought you are fucked you are not going to get a virus from it.
Any manufacturer of knives
Smith and Wesson
General Electric
All car manufacturers
Anyone who makes stockings
Just about any company in fact.
For all the little drug-kiddies out there, the steet you want is on the corner of Haight and Ashbury.
I'll take mine in PSD format thanks. With layers, text, notes and all sorts of other good stuff there's no reason not to use this format until you're ready to dump out a JPEG or similar. But let's face facts, unless you are scanning in your old photos you are more than likely pulling down a JPEG file from your digital camera. This kinda makes the whole purist "I only use lossless compression" discussion farcical.
I believe Amazon to be the holder of the "Single Wipe" patent #662894. Use two or more wipes to clean your arse or you will find yourself on the end of a long and pointy legal suit.
They do this by making a loss in this market until such a time as their competition is forced out of the market, then it's time to start making money. They can do this by using their other sections to provide revenue whilst losing money in the other markets...think XBox for a current example.
Microsoft seems to fit this definition to me.
I can't get the colon to come out.You're just not trying hard enough. Give it another "old college try" like this guy: colon popper
Just in case though, I now have them all packed away in a box and simply play my .ogg files from my PC. It still sounds terrific as well since I have a Mackie mixer and Event Tria nearfield monitors to listen on :-)
Hahaha, let me tell you about a guy I used to work with. He was also a coder in a small business we were running and he liked to print out the code every so often, hole punch it, and put it on the shelf. When I asked him why he said it was in case the hard drives failed and we lost the code we could always type it back in again. I don't know about you, but I wasn't looking forward to typing in thousands of lines of badly formatted ASCII code. Phew, some people.
Burning at slow speeds is still a good way to ensure more players can read a CD. This technique does work, and I used it again just last night. I burnt an SVCD of a *cough* movie I found umm, somewhere in a cupboard, at the rated speed of my medium which was 10x (rewritable). The DVD player rejected it, unable to read the data. I burnt it again from the same .bin file at 4x and the DVD player read it perfectly. It may not matter when you read it back on the same drive you burnt it on, but it sure can matter when you want to hear it in your car or watch it on your DVD player.