Stop using their products!!! You are whining about their tactics but you support them with your cash (and credit likely). Those of you who do not buy their products but use them justifiy their argument that their product has such great value!
You have no need for that mind numbing drivel so stop buying it and don't download it!!! If you people would get together and stop using their products they would be humbled. As long as you keep crawling to them begging them to entertain your putrified minds they will stay the course because they know you are addicted!!
First, these "researchers" should research abit more before spending time and money on yet another fruitless, expensive expidition. If they were really researchers they would have uncovered the following obvious facts:
The Bible does not say the ark landed on Mt. Ararat rather the "mountains of Ararat" (plural, implying somewhere in a mountain range). Genesis 8:4
Mt. Ararat is a volcano. Volcanic activity likely is harmful to wooden boats (if it were there). Mt. Ararat, Turkey
Those two reasons alone are enough to make a thinking person question either competence or the integrity/motive of these, so called, researchers.
Now there are many scoffers of the Bible in this/. crowd. Each of you who scoff at the Biblical account, the more polite of you, calling it myth and mocking those who hold it as truth should at the very least consider that the Bible you are belittleing predicted with accurate detail that you would be scoffing at this very issue. Please see 2 Peter 3:3-10
Furthermore, there is ample evidence that there was indeed a world wide flood if you are honest with yourself. It is that intelectual honesty that most of us have trouble with. As a test of your intelectual honesty I ask you to consider, if you will, whether you hold "scientific" explanations to matters such as the apparent age of the earth, possibility of a world wide flood, etc. to the same level of "proof and evidence" as you do Biblical explanations. When ever you read in your science journal that the age of the universe is 13 billion to 14 billion years old do question the assumptions made or the methods used to determine this? Do you even know what those assumtions and methods are? Are the even resonable? Do they contridict other assumptions or even know facts? Or do you simply point at it and say something along the lines of "See, the Bible would age the Earth at about 6,000 years...but science has proven that it is millions or billions of years old. The Bible is just a myth." (This whole thread has many examples if you are wondering)
I think the honest amoung us would have to say that we never seriously question the science crowd. Oh, we might sometime see if someone else in the scientific community agrees. But even then we will generally dismiss even other scientists if they don't agree with the theory we enspouse. Come on now... fess up... this is how it goes...
Well here is the challenge... give the Bible at the very least the same level of faith you put into so called "scientific" explinations and you may just be supprised at what you might really discover.
This is not a challenge to the squimish amoung you because when you discover the Truth... He might just shake your little world. He has mine and I'll never return the blind faith I once had.
I expect this will be mod'ed down into obscurity. But maybe not.;)
I think M$'s obvious concern over the advance of open source has little to do with their concern over protection of intellectual property. In fact I suspect just the opposite is true. The nature of many open source licensing agreements demands that one license any derivative works based in whole or in part on an open source piece of software be licensed under the same license as the original. M$ has a pretty long history of code theft from proprietary software. How much easier to take something freely available and exploit it? If it were discovered that they have used any open source code in their products and that code was licensed, say as GPL, then that would put M$ in a position of having to place that product under GPL as well. This is indeed cause for alarm in the M$ camp. I suspect that they are more concerned that their exploitation of the intellectual property of others who have generously offered their work and talent to the good of all under a license such as GPL maybe discovered putting the voracity of the almighty EULA in peril. That could spell the end of the empire called M$. Just a thought.
As I recall the Clintons had huge amounts of eMail disappear. The Justice Department under Janet Reno, would not agree with this article. The stuff just plain disappeared.
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Stop using their products!!! You are whining about their tactics but you support them with your cash (and credit likely). Those of you who do not buy their products but use them justifiy their argument that their product has such great value! You have no need for that mind numbing drivel so stop buying it and don't download it!!! If you people would get together and stop using their products they would be humbled. As long as you keep crawling to them begging them to entertain your putrified minds they will stay the course because they know you are addicted!!
- The Bible does not say the ark landed on Mt. Ararat rather the "mountains of Ararat" (plural, implying somewhere in a mountain range). Genesis 8:4
- Mt. Ararat is a volcano. Volcanic activity likely is harmful to wooden boats (if it were there). Mt. Ararat, Turkey
Those two reasons alone are enough to make a thinking person question either competence or the integrity/motive of these, so called, researchers.Now there are many scoffers of the Bible in this
Furthermore, there is ample evidence that there was indeed a world wide flood if you are honest with yourself. It is that intelectual honesty that most of us have trouble with. As a test of your intelectual honesty I ask you to consider, if you will, whether you hold "scientific" explanations to matters such as the apparent age of the earth, possibility of a world wide flood, etc. to the same level of "proof and evidence" as you do Biblical explanations. When ever you read in your science journal that the age of the universe is 13 billion to 14 billion years old do question the assumptions made or the methods used to determine this? Do you even know what those assumtions and methods are? Are the even resonable? Do they contridict other assumptions or even know facts? Or do you simply point at it and say something along the lines of "See, the Bible would age the Earth at about 6,000 years...but science has proven that it is millions or billions of years old. The Bible is just a myth." (This whole thread has many examples if you are wondering)
I think the honest amoung us would have to say that we never seriously question the science crowd. Oh, we might sometime see if someone else in the scientific community agrees. But even then we will generally dismiss even other scientists if they don't agree with the theory we enspouse. Come on now
Well here is the challenge
This is not a challenge to the squimish amoung you because when you discover the Truth
I expect this will be mod'ed down into obscurity. But maybe not.
Have an Excellent day!
Danny
I think M$'s obvious concern over the advance of open source has little to do with their concern over protection of intellectual property. In fact I suspect just the opposite is true. The nature of many open source licensing agreements demands that one license any derivative works based in whole or in part on an open source piece of software be licensed under the same license as the original. M$ has a pretty long history of code theft from proprietary software. How much easier to take something freely available and exploit it? If it were discovered that they have used any open source code in their products and that code was licensed, say as GPL, then that would put M$ in a position of having to place that product under GPL as well. This is indeed cause for alarm in the M$ camp. I suspect that they are more concerned that their exploitation of the intellectual property of others who have generously offered their work and talent to the good of all under a license such as GPL maybe discovered putting the voracity of the almighty EULA in peril. That could spell the end of the empire called M$. Just a thought.
As I recall the Clintons had huge amounts of eMail disappear. The Justice Department under Janet Reno, would not agree with this article. The stuff just plain disappeared.