However, there are quite a few 1984 Mac apps that ran on every MacOS through 9.2, and still ran in Classic mode on the latest PPC Macs. That's survival through 20 years, one major HW architectural shift, and one major and numerous minor OS architecture changes already.
I can still run 1976 Commodore PET programs on my Linux box with an appropriate emulator. That's 30 years of survival!
No one ever seems to talk about exactly why Christians were fed to the lions. Rome at the time was actually quite a tolerant society and people freely practices hundreds of religions and nobody really cared. When Christianity first arrived, it was treated as just another strain of Judaism.
However, unlike most of the hedonistic and polytheistic religions of Rome, early Christians were quite boisterous and disorderly about their beliefs in grace and eternal life and were determined to convert everyone they encountered. Kind of like the nuts who preach on street corners today, but much worse.
The early Christians would show up at other temples and scream at the people there about their worshiping slighting the "one true God" and they would suffer eternal damnation. (This is similar to what Christ himself did and is the reason he was crucified--for being an asshole.) Before too long, their fanaticism had managed to piss off just about everyone else in Rome and it got so bad that the Senate was forced to pass a law outlawing the practice of the religion in order to preserve the peace. (Only two religions were ever outlawed.)
Christianity went underground for about a century and it became known as a weird and psychotic faith practiced by the emotionally disturbed who met secretly and drank blood and ate human flesh ("eat of my body, drink of my blood"). Public sentiment was harsh and the punishment was death. The lions at the coliseum didn't happen till a couple of centuries later and wasn't specifically aimed at Christians, but was simply the means of carrying out punishment for all capital crimes (and entertaining the masses while doing so).
[Hopper, The Heathen's Guide To World Religions]
So there you have it--the early Christians were fed to the lions because they were fanatical assholes who deserved it.
The Easter Bunny?? I've always seen religious types as being children who never stopped believing in Santa Clause and the holy scripture 'Twas The Night Before Christmas.
As for "Intelligent Delivery", as you can see from the following passages [Moore, 1:49-52]:
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work, And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk, And laying his finger aside of his nose, And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;
the Holy Scriptures don't actually say that Santa Clause puts the presents under the tree himself; he only fills the stockings. So, the "middle ground" is that Santa brings the presents to the parents, and they put them under the tree.
What does this mean for Microsoft and its reputation as a company that can eventually ship software? What will this mean for office managers who have to plan upgrades and budgets? Will this make anyone look at OpenOffice.org?
The will stick with Office regardless. MS Office is a system, CowboyNeal. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.
the media at least in the west has essencially become a governmental entity (not ruled by the government, but they have quite a bit of control over the opinions and ideals of the general populace), and as such are just as much power-hungry as the political class
It never stops being funny to hear that Western governments are just as bad as the Middle-Eastern ones. I guess if liberal types didn't use up all of their criticism at home, they might have some left over for Jihadists and autocratic dictatorships.
in that they will exploit most anything in order to gain attention and standing.
"Never forget that the main purpose of the media is to sell advertising."
In my opinion, we should stop worrying about cultural differences and just work to take out the criminals that are harming us all.
That would be almost all of the Middle-Eastern governments, and Dubya is working on it...
Documents that describe how something should work out and the reasons for it, whether in the legal or the engineering realms, necessarily require technical jargon and precise structure, if they are to have predictable results.
The biggest problem that I have when reading legal contracts and the like, as a software developer, is trying to avoid glaring at the enormous holes and more subtle flaws that pepper them. You'd think that such pedantic people would use tighter language, but apparently their feeble language skills are insignificant next to The Source.
Whew! I thought they were coming back tally! Good thing it's shortly!
Is "tally" some kind of Britishism or something? Even after they rebuild the factory and go into production, it will still take nine months for the first episode to roll off the assembly line. Animation is not like producing a reality series.
Low sales in the US are caused by generic Canadian versions of songs coming across the border. The US needs tighter regulatory controls on music to prevent this kind of thing.
To complete the metaphor, Canadian music would need to be manufactured in the US in the first place, which creates a compelling reason to doubt its "safety".
As far as I am aware, Pakistan dictator Musharraf isn't a hard-line Islamist. But, if the Islamists seize power in Pakistan, the West is in a significant amount of trouble.
North Korea has the bomb but they don't have ICBMs.
But NK is desperately working on them. They have sufficient missiles to nuke Tokyo.
And launching an ICBM only nets you a return strike.
This fact acting as a deterrent assumes that you have a rational enemy. NK has a psychotic one-man dictator who may wish to commit suicide at any time, and those in power in Iran believe that this kind of suicide is a one-way ticket to eternal paradise (though I wonder what they do on the 73rd day of eternity). Iranian president Ahmadinejad is quite gleefully vocal about his vision of bringing about Armageddon.
Also, Western nations are so pussified that they may not even give a nuclear response. They might debate it in the UN before delivering a politely-worded letter six months later asking the rogue state to stop nuking them.
All they could try is get a missile to have enough range to reach Israel
Iran already has long-range missiles capable of reaching Israel. They are working on missiles capable of striking central Europe.
but the Patriot system is fairly effective at taking down such missiles
Numerous reports from both gulf wars indicate that the Patriot system is hardly effective at all (which is why the US is working on better ABM systems).
Cheney is warning of "meaningful consequences" for the Iranian government if they don't stop their nuclear program.
That's more than anyone else is doing. Europe and the UN are powerless to stop Iran from getting The Bomb. Only one body has the power to stop it, but I fear it are not prepared to do so.
Iran + Nuclear weapons = Islamic Superpower
Islamic Superpower + Western world = Armageddon
(Never mind those piddling little attacks that kill only 3,000 people.)
Movies now are much more than what they were 20 years ago. You aren't getting the same product.
This is debatable. There's no denying that cars are much better today than they were 20 years ago, but entertainment really isn't about technology; it's mostly about story and characters. The reason that the block-buster model is giving way to indie movies is that they focus on the basics.
Would the average american want to watch a black and white movie, where you can see the strings, and there's only 6 actors, and the director/producer/editor/cameraman/lighting tech/lead actor is all the same person?
I think most people here would like Primer. Budget: $7,000.00. (And it's in *COLOR*!)
Of course, some feel they've got to threaten those who would like to shortcut life, but there's no biblical way to justify it. I could get into the theology of this, but hey, this is/. and I'm already an ignorant blowhole for daring to say I'm a Christian.
On a related note, can anyone explain to me why killing every fundamentalist I encounter would not be considered a good thing by every fundamentalist I encounter? They should all be looking for the quickest ride to paradise. This is the logic that suicide bombers use. I wonder what they do on the 73rd day of eternity.
That one group of Church leaders under the direction of then Roman emperor (Constantine)... whimsically throwing together a collection of writings that they believed were correct according to thier power induced plans of what direction Christianity should go in a full 300+ years after Jesus was dead.
Emperor Constantine had more influence over the process than you indicate. Just ask Arius or Marcius. Jesus's divinity was decided by a non-unanimous majority vote of men.
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It's not like the location of Osams bin Laden or of Saddam's chemical weapons in Syria will be in these documents.
Maybe this is a ploy to allow the public to read about the dirty deals between Iraq and France & Russia.
However, there are quite a few 1984 Mac apps that ran on every MacOS through 9.2, and still ran in Classic mode on the latest PPC Macs. That's survival through 20 years, one major HW architectural shift, and one major and numerous minor OS architecture changes already.
I can still run 1976 Commodore PET programs on my Linux box with an appropriate emulator. That's 30 years of survival!
No one ever seems to talk about exactly why Christians were fed to the lions. Rome at the time was actually quite a tolerant society and people freely practices hundreds of religions and nobody really cared. When Christianity first arrived, it was treated as just another strain of Judaism.
However, unlike most of the hedonistic and polytheistic religions of Rome, early Christians were quite boisterous and disorderly about their beliefs in grace and eternal life and were determined to convert everyone they encountered. Kind of like the nuts who preach on street corners today, but much worse.
The early Christians would show up at other temples and scream at the people there about their worshiping slighting the "one true God" and they would suffer eternal damnation. (This is similar to what Christ himself did and is the reason he was crucified--for being an asshole.) Before too long, their fanaticism had managed to piss off just about everyone else in Rome and it got so bad that the Senate was forced to pass a law outlawing the practice of the religion in order to preserve the peace. (Only two religions were ever outlawed.)
Christianity went underground for about a century and it became known as a weird and psychotic faith practiced by the emotionally disturbed who met secretly and drank blood and ate human flesh ("eat of my body, drink of my blood"). Public sentiment was harsh and the punishment was death. The lions at the coliseum didn't happen till a couple of centuries later and wasn't specifically aimed at Christians, but was simply the means of carrying out punishment for all capital crimes (and entertaining the masses while doing so).
[Hopper, The Heathen's Guide To World Religions]
So there you have it--the early Christians were fed to the lions because they were fanatical assholes who deserved it.
The Easter Bunny?? I've always seen religious types as being children who never stopped believing in Santa Clause and the holy scripture 'Twas The Night Before Christmas.
As for "Intelligent Delivery", as you can see from the following passages [Moore, 1:49-52]:
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;
the Holy Scriptures don't actually say that Santa Clause puts the presents under the tree himself; he only fills the stockings. So, the "middle ground" is that Santa brings the presents to the parents, and they put them under the tree.
But then, maybe it's all metaphors.
What does this mean for Microsoft and its reputation as a company that can eventually ship software? What will this mean for office managers who have to plan upgrades and budgets? Will this make anyone look at OpenOffice.org?
The will stick with Office regardless. MS Office is a system, CowboyNeal. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it.
The fact that Microsoft hired him and he has an (albeit small) team working on this stuff should be at least a sign of goodwill.
Goodwill? This is a GhandiCon Three "know thy enemy" tactic.
the media at least in the west has essencially become a governmental entity (not ruled by the government, but they have quite a bit of control over the opinions and ideals of the general populace), and as such are just as much power-hungry as the political class
It never stops being funny to hear that Western governments are just as bad as the Middle-Eastern ones. I guess if liberal types didn't use up all of their criticism at home, they might have some left over for Jihadists and autocratic dictatorships.
in that they will exploit most anything in order to gain attention and standing.
"Never forget that the main purpose of the media is to sell advertising."
In my opinion, we should stop worrying about cultural differences and just work to take out the criminals that are harming us all.
That would be almost all of the Middle-Eastern governments, and Dubya is working on it...
Documents that describe how something should work out and the reasons for it, whether in the legal or the engineering realms, necessarily require technical jargon and precise structure, if they are to have predictable results.
The biggest problem that I have when reading legal contracts and the like, as a software developer, is trying to avoid glaring at the enormous holes and more subtle flaws that pepper them. You'd think that such pedantic people would use tighter language, but apparently their feeble language skills are insignificant next to The Source.
Good News, Everyone!
No new series! Wait... that's not good news at all!
Whew! I thought they were coming back tally! Good thing it's shortly!
Is "tally" some kind of Britishism or something? Even after they rebuild the factory and go into production, it will still take nine months for the first episode to roll off the assembly line. Animation is not like producing a reality series.
Balanced views: BBC, NPR, PBS, and FOX.
These views are only "balanced" if you puree them all together. The first three are lopsided to the left.
Low sales in the US are caused by generic Canadian versions of songs coming across the border. The US needs tighter regulatory controls on music to prevent this kind of thing.
To complete the metaphor, Canadian music would need to be manufactured in the US in the first place, which creates a compelling reason to doubt its "safety".
If it was during the full moon on April 13th, it wouldn't be ballyhoo but skullduggery.
I call shenanigans on your tomfoolery!
I just think you're disreguarding the fact that you are indeed a majority in every way.
Except, of course, the numerical way.
In a precedent-setting ruling, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has
How can the ruling of a kangaroo court be precedent-setting?
"Wall Street is always the last one to the party, drinks the most, then has a huge hangover."
I only have three wisdom teeth; one was never there. Does this make me more advanced than Homo sapiens?
What makes Iran a Superpower and Pakistan not?
As far as I am aware, Pakistan dictator Musharraf isn't a hard-line Islamist. But, if the Islamists seize power in Pakistan, the West is in a significant amount of trouble.
North Korea has the bomb but they don't have ICBMs.
But NK is desperately working on them. They have sufficient missiles to nuke Tokyo.
And launching an ICBM only nets you a return strike.
This fact acting as a deterrent assumes that you have a rational enemy. NK has a psychotic one-man dictator who may wish to commit suicide at any time, and those in power in Iran believe that this kind of suicide is a one-way ticket to eternal paradise (though I wonder what they do on the 73rd day of eternity). Iranian president Ahmadinejad is quite gleefully vocal about his vision of bringing about Armageddon.
Also, Western nations are so pussified that they may not even give a nuclear response. They might debate it in the UN before delivering a politely-worded letter six months later asking the rogue state to stop nuking them.
All they could try is get a missile to have enough range to reach Israel
Iran already has long-range missiles capable of reaching Israel. They are working on missiles capable of striking central Europe.
but the Patriot system is fairly effective at taking down such missiles
Numerous reports from both gulf wars indicate that the Patriot system is hardly effective at all (which is why the US is working on better ABM systems).
Cheney is warning of "meaningful consequences" for the Iranian government if they don't stop their nuclear program.
That's more than anyone else is doing. Europe and the UN are powerless to stop Iran from getting The Bomb. Only one body has the power to stop it, but I fear it are not prepared to do so.
Iran + Nuclear weapons = Islamic Superpower
Islamic Superpower + Western world = Armageddon
(Never mind those piddling little attacks that kill only 3,000 people.)
"Computers may be twice as fast as they were in 1973 but your average voter is as drunk and stupid as ever." -- Earth President Nixon, Futurama
Movies now are much more than what they were 20 years ago. You aren't getting the same product.
This is debatable. There's no denying that cars are much better today than they were 20 years ago, but entertainment really isn't about technology; it's mostly about story and characters. The reason that the block-buster model is giving way to indie movies is that they focus on the basics.
Would the average american want to watch a black and white movie, where you can see the strings, and there's only 6 actors, and the director/producer/editor/cameraman/lighting tech/lead actor is all the same person?
I think most people here would like Primer. Budget: $7,000.00. (And it's in *COLOR*!)
rather useful things like evolution or Middle East peace talks.
I can see evolution as being useful. End of comment.
Of course, some feel they've got to threaten those who would like to shortcut life, but there's no biblical way to justify it. I could get into the theology of this, but hey, this is /. and I'm already an ignorant blowhole for daring to say I'm a Christian.
So why haven't you taken the shortcut?
On a related note, can anyone explain to me why killing every fundamentalist I encounter would not be considered a good thing by every fundamentalist I encounter? They should all be looking for the quickest ride to paradise. This is the logic that suicide bombers use. I wonder what they do on the 73rd day of eternity.
That one group of Church leaders under the direction of then Roman emperor (Constantine)... whimsically throwing together a collection of writings that they believed were correct according to thier power induced plans of what direction Christianity should go in a full 300+ years after Jesus was dead.
Emperor Constantine had more influence over the process than you indicate. Just ask Arius or Marcius. Jesus's divinity was decided by a non-unanimous majority vote of men.