I replied to the "sister comment" on why the "common culture" view is untenable. Please reply there if you wish to talk about that topic more.
I know fundamentalism is not the only view of Christianity, but I've yet to encounter another theistic version of Christianity that makes sense. It is clear that the bible is full of falsehoods. It is fairly clear from Church history that God is incompetent or non-existant. It is fairly clear from infinite sharding of Christianity into smaller groups with different beliefs(that has caused much great bloodshed over the years) that there is no good way of discovering the "correct" doctrines.
I've read Marcus Borg and Spong on post-theism Christianity, but it doesn't really have much to recommend it.
So, where do I go to find the "correct" view of Christianity? Because from the hundreds of books I've read, nobody can agree how to do that.
The greek gives no hints that this is the case. Still, if early writings showed people at the time unambiguously knew Noah was literary, you might have a point. However, that is not the case.
Especially as one of those reference is in Luke, and Luke listed Noah *in his genealogy of Jesus*. (Luke 3:36).
In 1st Peter, Jesus is referenced as going to preach to the spirits of people who died in the time of Noah.
I could go on with other reference (remember the "faith" chapter(Hebrews 11), and 2nd Peter references Noah again), but I think the point has been made.
Clearly, it was not unanimous understood in the time period that Noah was a literary figure. As such, If Jesus wanted to communicate clearly he would have referenced it "as in the story of Noah" or similar.
For Christianity specifically, Jesus references a literal Noah. This isn't "in the story of Noah", this is the supposed words of Jesus talking about a literal event.
Paul's theology depends on Adam. The story of the fall is referenced just as literally as Jesus's death.
Even if you had a good way of splitting the Bible up into story and fact(which no Bible scholar has ever put forth outside of archeology, which says it's almost all story or very over exagerated historical fiction), these passages say you can't discount a literal Noah and Adam without discounting Paul and the Gospels. Without Paul and the gospels, there's pretty much nothing left in Christianity.
In this case, the fundamentalists know what is at stake. They are right in trying to defend the indefensible, because without it Christianity loses all meaning.
I was a Christian for 25 years. I am no longer, largely because looking into this issue led me deep into biblical criticism, in which well supported scholarship and archeology say a VERY different thing about the Bible than what you've heard.
Basically, he is using a simplified model from other climate scientists, and uses inputs that seem to be chosen to get the result he wants, not based on any evidence.
I highly recommend reading the blog, and maybe contacting Johnny. Reading their blog gives a good feel about what tech charity work in Africa can and cannot do, from someone who gave up their career to do it.
For those who want to volunteer closer to home, http://www.nten.org/ has national and local resources. Their local affiliated NCtech4good group seems to be doing good things in my area, I've only found them recently myself.
What version of Chrome are you running? Most people running Chrome have no idea that it's going through major version upgrades all the time.
The curse of Firefox is the extensibility. Chrome has had a more limited, but growing extension system, and it isn't brittle like the one in Firefox.
Jetpack is the project to bring a Chrome like plugin layer to Firefox, which will handle the needs of 95% of addons, and should greatly ease the upgrade pain when developers start switching over to it.
It was only released widely a week ago, so there's still some time before it's ubiquitous, but when it is the upgrade pain for users and developers goes away.
TL;DR: Firefox is doing the right thing, but there will be a bit of pain before things get better.
We care about what we eat too, which is why we want plants that require less herbicide and insecticide, yield more for less water, and feed more people.
These things are necessary for producing enough food to feed our planet.
Please explain how carefully modifying food is worse then random mutation? Careful modification changes food less then traditional techniques of creating new plants for food. Toxins have been added to plants by traditional breeding.
There's not enough land and water for 18th century farming methods without billions starving to death, and any method of modifying foodstuff is dangerous. What you call frankenfood *is the safe, tested, well understood food*. It has to pass many tests traditional breeding does not.
Unfortunately, I've had to think a lot about this recently. In NC, we passed a bill imposing lots of regulation and cost on public ownership of networks, many of which are more onerous then the regulations for the private sector. I fought this, as did many other technologists in the area, as the Internet is really 21 century infrastructure, and giving it wholly to corporations by force of law is a bit... premature at least. The FCC made statements condemning the law, as did many other national spokespeople.
It passed anyway. Fuck you very much Time Warner and the republicans you bought.
Would for profit roads be better for our economy then our present system? Are you against municipal providing of water and sewer services?
Government excels at providing these sort of infrastructure projects. If we took a tiny fraction of the military budget and put it to providing fiber to every home in America, we would be investing in important infrastructure just as we did with roads. It would be a boom for our total economy, instead of a small win for a small fraction of the telecom space only.
The major and minor version has to match, but not the patch level.
That's why Ubuntu has packages for both 2.27.* and 2.32.*. Those are the only versions you're likely to encounter today, but soon 2.40 will be taking over.
These are all major changes, and worth the compatibility split.
I've never had trouble finding compatible versions in any OS that is actively receiving security patches, and the capability and failure tolerance of unison is without equal. I've never lost data in many years of using it in fairly complicated fashions. If they tried to support multiple revisions of the protocol with the same codebase, without much more engineering it would get brittle and data loss would be much more likely.
Nanoc, jekyll, hyde, staticmatic, webby, and webgen all have decent install base and seem to be under development.
The nice thing about them is
1) Nanoc could not change for a long time, and it wouldn't matter to me. 2) it is easy to fix or build your own plugins for. It's a very simple program. 3) It's easy to change from one of these tools to another. For example. one of my sites I built using webby, and switched to nanoc for a few advanced features I was missing. It took me about 5 minutes;-)
This attitude is why software is so bad, lulzsec can go around owning just about any company it wants purely for the lulz.
Good thing we don't treat our bridge builders like we treat our the designers and builders of our software infrastructure. Then people would die instead of just losing millions of dollars.
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I replied to the "sister comment" on why the "common culture" view is untenable. Please reply there if you wish to talk about that topic more.
I know fundamentalism is not the only view of Christianity, but I've yet to encounter another theistic version of Christianity that makes sense. It is clear that the bible is full of falsehoods. It is fairly clear from Church history that God is incompetent or non-existant. It is fairly clear from infinite sharding of Christianity into smaller groups with different beliefs(that has caused much great bloodshed over the years) that there is no good way of discovering the "correct" doctrines.
I've read Marcus Borg and Spong on post-theism Christianity, but it doesn't really have much to recommend it.
So, where do I go to find the "correct" view of Christianity? Because from the hundreds of books I've read, nobody can agree how to do that.
The greek gives no hints that this is the case. Still, if early writings showed people at the time unambiguously knew Noah was literary, you might have a point. However, that is not the case.
Especially as one of those reference is in Luke, and Luke listed Noah *in his genealogy of Jesus*. (Luke 3:36).
In 1st Peter, Jesus is referenced as going to preach to the spirits of people who died in the time of Noah.
I could go on with other reference (remember the "faith" chapter(Hebrews 11), and 2nd Peter references Noah again), but I think the point has been made.
Clearly, it was not unanimous understood in the time period that Noah was a literary figure. As such, If Jesus wanted to communicate clearly he would have referenced it "as in the story of Noah" or similar.
I call bull.
For Christianity specifically, Jesus references a literal Noah. This isn't "in the story of Noah", this is the supposed words of Jesus talking about a literal event.
Paul's theology depends on Adam. The story of the fall is referenced just as literally as Jesus's death.
Even if you had a good way of splitting the Bible up into story and fact(which no Bible scholar has ever put forth outside of archeology, which says it's almost all story or very over exagerated historical fiction), these passages say you can't discount a literal Noah and Adam without discounting Paul and the Gospels. Without Paul and the gospels, there's pretty much nothing left in Christianity.
In this case, the fundamentalists know what is at stake. They are right in trying to defend the indefensible, because without it Christianity loses all meaning.
For more reading, I recommend Spong's Why Christianity Must Change or Die for a Bishops point of view, or The Christian Delusion: Why Faith Fails for people who came out non-Christian at the end. They both say the same thing about the evidence.
I was a Christian for 25 years. I am no longer, largely because looking into this issue led me deep into biblical criticism, in which well supported scholarship and archeology say a VERY different thing about the Bible than what you've heard.
See also The Bible Unearthed, Who Wrote the Bible and Cutting Jesus Down to Size: What Higher Criticism Has Achieved and Where It Leaves Christianity
Or just click around wikipedia for a while if you don't trust my choice of books. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authorship_of_the_Bible
I miss candidate Obama. He was so much closer to my views on this than the guy in the White House now seems to be.
Yeah, this is much more like a Buglabs BUG or Leaf Labs Maple. It's also close to the price of the BeagleBoard, which is much more capable.
Yes, they have.
Basically, he is using a simplified model from other climate scientists, and uses inputs that seem to be chosen to get the result he wants, not based on any evidence.
iPod touch 2g also.
It was still being sold as the 8 gig version less than 3 months before the announced last software update.
The 3g 8gig was being sold around 6 months before the last announced software update.
I understand not getting feature updates, but why can't we get security updates for a device apple was still selling a year ago?
And r/askscience, which is a forum to ask scientists questions. Lots of fascinating stuff in there, not all news, but most of it new to me.
Hackersforcharity.org
I highly recommend reading the blog, and maybe contacting Johnny. Reading their blog gives a good feel about what tech charity work in Africa can and cannot do, from someone who gave up their career to do it.
For those who want to volunteer closer to home, http://www.nten.org/ has national and local resources. Their local affiliated NCtech4good group seems to be doing good things in my area, I've only found them recently myself.
If he's right, and in 6 months to year the streaming library covers more than the DVDs, that would be awesome, and nobody would complain.
I'm highly doubtful, as I've already watched many of my favorite things that were available for streaming get knocked off the service.
What version of Chrome are you running? Most people running Chrome have no idea that it's going through major version upgrades all the time.
The curse of Firefox is the extensibility. Chrome has had a more limited, but growing extension system, and it isn't brittle like the one in Firefox.
Jetpack is the project to bring a Chrome like plugin layer to Firefox, which will handle the needs of 95% of addons, and should greatly ease the upgrade pain when developers start switching over to it.
It was only released widely a week ago, so there's still some time before it's ubiquitous, but when it is the upgrade pain for users and developers goes away.
TL;DR:
Firefox is doing the right thing, but there will be a bit of pain before things get better.
We care about what we eat too, which is why we want plants that require less herbicide and insecticide, yield more for less water, and feed more people.
These things are necessary for producing enough food to feed our planet.
Please explain how carefully modifying food is worse then random mutation? Careful modification changes food less then traditional techniques of creating new plants for food. Toxins have been added to plants by traditional breeding.
There's not enough land and water for 18th century farming methods without billions starving to death, and any method of modifying foodstuff is dangerous. What you call frankenfood *is the safe, tested, well understood food*. It has to pass many tests traditional breeding does not.
Sorry, left out my links:
http://stopthecap.com/2011/04/04/fcc-commissioner-mignon-clyburn-calls-north-carolinas-h-129-a-broadband-barrier/
http://www.wral.com/news/state/nccapitol/blogpost/9345628/
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/05/op-ed-north-carolina-broadband-bill-would-eliminate-level-playing-field.ars
The bill as passed
Unfortunately, I've had to think a lot about this recently. In NC, we passed a bill imposing lots of regulation and cost on public ownership of networks, many of which are more onerous then the regulations for the private sector. I fought this, as did many other technologists in the area, as the Internet is really 21 century infrastructure, and giving it wholly to corporations by force of law is a bit... premature at least. The FCC made statements condemning the law, as did many other national spokespeople.
It passed anyway. Fuck you very much Time Warner and the republicans you bought.
You left out the frankenfooders. That's the only kind of crazy the USA is not at the top of the charts on..
Would for profit roads be better for our economy then our present system? Are you against municipal providing of water and sewer services?
Government excels at providing these sort of infrastructure projects. If we took a tiny fraction of the military budget and put it to providing fiber to every home in America, we would be investing in important infrastructure just as we did with roads. It would be a boom for our total economy, instead of a small win for a small fraction of the telecom space only.
The major and minor version has to match, but not the patch level.
That's why Ubuntu has packages for both 2.27.* and 2.32.*. Those are the only versions you're likely to encounter today, but soon 2.40 will be taking over.
These are all major changes, and worth the compatibility split.
I've never had trouble finding compatible versions in any OS that is actively receiving security patches, and the capability and failure tolerance of unison is without equal. I've never lost data in many years of using it in fairly complicated fashions. If they tried to support multiple revisions of the protocol with the same codebase, without much more engineering it would get brittle and data loss would be much more likely.
Unison is like rsync, but handles 2 way syncing better.
Yes!
Lets make sure professionals can't test their own security, and only people in foreign countries can attack our infrastructure!
This is such a good idea, I wonder how nobody has thought of it multiple times every year for the past 15 years!
Do you know this to be true? Last time I looked into this, they said iPhones were ineligible for gophone service.
Nanoc, jekyll, hyde, staticmatic, webby, and webgen all have decent install base and seem to be under development.
The nice thing about them is
1) Nanoc could not change for a long time, and it wouldn't matter to me. ;-)
2) it is easy to fix or build your own plugins for. It's a very simple program.
3) It's easy to change from one of these tools to another. For example. one of my sites I built using webby, and switched to nanoc for a few advanced features I was missing. It took me about 5 minutes
http://disqus.com/ lets you do comments very well, and is used by many large customers.
This attitude is why software is so bad, lulzsec can go around owning just about any company it wants purely for the lulz.
Good thing we don't treat our bridge builders like we treat our the designers and builders of our software infrastructure. Then people would die instead of just losing millions of dollars.
I would recommend a static site generator instead.
You get the benefits of a CMS without the server side software requirements, updates, and security problems.
I use nanoc and love it, but there's tons of other choices out there.
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/design_hell
That is all.