It's a not a bad idea to keep disks of diagnostic tools from various manufacturers. For instance, IBM wants you to test stuff using PC doctor before you call in for new parts.
The funny thing about IBM's website is that their floppy disk images for basically all downloads DON'T WORK. I've downloaded self-extracting programs for various diagnosic tools from them, and the program hangs every time without fail. Fortunately, they offer CD images for most models that do work.
Of course, they DO NOT offer CD images for Thinkpad T20, T21, T22, and T23 Laptops. That's ironic, considering the Thinkpad doesn't even come with a floppy drive (you order it separately)! Not only that, but, of course, the disk images are useless, just like all the other disk images, so you can't run diagnostics on Thinkpads (unless you have an older version from before they screwed up the images).
One guy at work called in parts replacements to IBM, and asked them how to get the disk images to work. They didn't know, so the very same people that demand we use diagnostics don't know how to get ahold of them on floppy!
I'd echo the 98 boot disk - especially if you have to reinstall software, and the computer can't boot from CD (rare nowadays, but still). Having a 2000/XP bootdisk is handy for the recovery console.
A great tool to have is an NT password cracker. There's a linux-based one, but I don't have the URL...
I hear a lot of people mentioning Windows OS discs...I'd hope you'd all be using non-warez copies. Some people might take offense if they know that you're using stolen software on their computers.
If it's an IBM 300PL (and some NetVistas), I seriously keep a hammer handy - those cases are a bear to take off/ put back on. Metal tabs are always bending 'n stuff.
If it's a NetVista (new circa 2000-2001), then I'd just go ahead and order the new motherboard and hard drive before I even check the thing. At work, we had 6-8 NetVistas in our computer room that wouldn't work and we didn't know why. One of our help desk guys called IBM for parts, and the guy said that all the motherboards from a particular batch had bad capacitors and would eventually fail. Well, we have 60-80 of those NetVistas at our site, so I guess we're screwed. About half of those PCs had hard drive trouble, too.
I am interning in the IT department at a large manufacturing company, and this sort of thing never happens. Our Windows 2000 images force you to register the machine name with us on about the 4th boot, so, really, a fresh Linux install wouldn't get all that far on the network. Additionally, we only have Windows versions of the production software, so people would have a tough time doing their job.
Not to mention that EVERYTHING is in MS proprietary formats (I've seen like 1.pdf in 3 months)...it's a shame, really...
Heathcliff, Heathcliff no one should
Terrify their neighborhood
But Heathcliff just won't be undone
Playing pranks on everyone
There's a race to be on top
The competition doesn't stop
Mixing it with the ladies man
Being charming debonair
The gang will rein supreme And no one can deny They'll make some history
And always have an alibi
So join in the jubilee
The cats are great, they'll all agree
You'll find in each calamity
The cat's superiority.
Huh, ah oh, oh ah oh, ah uh.
Huh oh ah, ah oh, oh ah oh uh uh. Heathcliff, Heathcliff no one should
Terrify the neighborhood.
But Heathcliff just won't be undone
You should realize he can win it with you!
I'm not sure what the reason was - be it lack technology or just knoledge of what could happen, but 80-odd years ago, nobody thought much about head protection or body armor for batters. In 1920, Ray Chapman became the only major league player to die during a game when he was hit in the head with a pitch.
Today, batting helmets are quite strong and very light. Sure, people get hit in the head with 100 MPH fastballs, and I'm sure it hurts, but nobody really worries about dying anymore because the equipment is so effective.
While helmets are definitely necessary, I sometimes wonder about the benefits of all the body armor that batters wear now. Since virtually every tender surface that is exposed to the pitcher can be protected, hitters are crowding the plate more than ever. This wouldn't make a difference if pitchers could pitch inside like they used to be allowed to, but it seems like the MLB is really discouraging it. I remember in 1999, Indians pitcher Jaret Wright was called into the ML chief disiplinarian's office about his tendancy for hitting pitchers. Sure, Jaret has been injured a lot the last few years, but he never regained the confidence to pitch inside, and has been ineffective since.
I've crashed my Super Nintendo. Quite a bit, actually.
In Final Fantasy III, in the Phoenix Cave, occasionally when I encountered a random battle, the sprites would all become garbled, andthen the game would hang. At first I thought it was a secret, because one of my characters turned into General Leo, but then the game stopped working and I had to reset.
You can also sometimes crash Final Fantasy III by using Relm's "Sketch" command on Gau. What you do is you let Gau use "Leap" to learn a new Rage ability when you're roaming the Veldt, and then when you find him in another battle and sketch him when he appears. I'm not sure if it always crashes the game- I recall that sometimes it gave you tons of extra random items (like 99 daggers, among other things)- but that might be another bug.
Well I Really don't know If it matters at all so, But we try to keep our prices low For records and our shows But is that enough, Or is it that we're not punk enough, Or it that you think ska just sucks, But Johnny Quest, he thinks we're what? Johnny Quest thinks we're sellouts
The best thing about that game is when Ghandi gets really mad at you and refuses to negotiate peace. Even better is when he starts dropping nukes on you...
My brother got me Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past for Gameboy Advance for $35 - I bought the Super Nintendo version for $15 at FuncoLand, then I went to Toys 'R Us traded the GBC version in for Golden Sun and Phantasy Star Collection (the first three games in the series) for $20 each.
So basically, I got about $250 worth games (based on approximate original prices) for $55 by buying each game between 1 and 15 years after each was originally released. Sure, I have to wait awhile, I guess...but I save a lot!
Secondhand CD stores are great, too. I happen to like worship music, and a lot of people happen to not like worship music, meaning that I had a field day in the $1 CD section at one store.:)
Well, I can't refute them ALL now because I have a lot of homework, but I'll try to give you a general picture of what these "contradictions" are made of:
1) As far as discrepancies with numbers are concerned, those are likely just transcription errors. The word of God is perfect, but that doesn't mean human efforts to copy it are. If you've been hand-transcribing thousands of pages, missing a "0" in "40000" once would be an understandable mistake. In Hebrew, numbers are written as combinations of letters, with each letter representing a value, and the sum of the letters' values being the whole number. So, omitting a letter would change a value signifigantly.
2) As for bats not being birds, how would the ancient Israelites know that? In ancient times, odds are, the definition of a bird, especially to laypeople, was "some animal that flies". On the same token, rabbits make a constant motion with thier mouths that looks kinda like they're chewing cud. Again, the Law had to be presented in a context that the ancient Israelites could understand, regardless of whether it was totally anatomically correct.
3) The language of Job is obviously figurative. "He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing" - from space, the earth certainly looks like it hangs from nothing (or suspending). Funny, considering the author of Job probably didn't know very much about space. Of course, the obvious intention of the author is to emphasize that God is the creator of the earth, not that it hung from anything.
4) As far as Jesus's last words are concerned, out of Matt 27:46, 50 , Luke 23:46, and John 19:30, only Luke 23:46 clearly gives the impression that it's quote was his last words.
5) When Judas died, odds are, he hung himself, and his body eventually tore, exposing his bowels. I wouldn't be suprised if that happened to somebody who was hanging dead outside for a few days.
6) All men sin, but Christ was fully man and fully God. That makes him a little different. It's a pretty obvious exception to the rule, and it's pretty appearent that writers of the Bible that wrote "all men sin" were excluding the subset of men that also happen to be God (because they didn't yet know of one).
7) God is wrathful- he detests sin, and we commit it daily. But he's also extremely merciful, because he's gives us tons of chances to repent. He created us. He doesn't owe us anything- he doesn't have to be nice to you just because you think he should. We deserve punishment Yet he offers grace freely, and is merciful.
8) One gospel writer omitting one detail that another included does not count as a contradiction. If I say that President Bush was at the inauguration, but I fail to mention the Dick Cheney was, too, am I a liar?
Hopefully, by now, you get the idea the author Jim Merritt isn't open to any arguments against what he thinks (his preface makes that pretty clear), and that he wrote this for the sake of trying to prove Christians wrong, rather than for the sake of finding truth.
Farrell Till (from your prophecy link) assumes that the Bible is false, which tarnishes all of his further assumptions. The Bible is a historical work which is supported by archaelogical findings and other historical works. People disregard it's legitimacy just because it's also a religious work. That's judging a book by it's cover if I ever saw it.
As far as messianic predictions are concerned, we do have the Dead Sea scrolls, which are dated ranging into BC times. In fact, some parts of Isaiah from the scrolls that deal with messianic prophecy are among the portions that folks are quite certain are the oldest of the lot of the scrolls (around 200 BC).
What about Tyre?
You can argue all you want that my sources are biased, but yours are just as so, if not more.
There's an awful lot of prophecy from the Old Testament that was fulfilled. I don't know about you, but I'd trust a source that can correctly predict the future.
Read Psalm 22. Isn't it interesting how it describes so many events surrounding Jesus's execution, which was a REAL event that ACTUALLY happened some hundreds of years after it was written.
None of the other world religions make such prophecies. And they've been fulfilled time and time again.
If you'd present some "contradictions" from the Bible, maybe we could discuss them and conclude whether or not they really are contradictions.
Most of us believers HAVE questioned, and many Christians have not been raised in the faith. Many of us became Christians only after examining the evidence, and witnessing Christ's impact in our lives and the lives of others. We have thought about it, and we didn't just jump to conclusions, like you appearently have regarding us.
I got VS.NET in a data structures class. The packages said the same thing about being illegal without the license, but we were required to sign a paper when we got the CDs, so maybe that was the "license"?
MS also sponsors a programming contest at my school, and the first x number of attendees for the exhibition get a free copy of XP Pro, with the same warning, but we never got a license.
I'd never teach Visual Basic to anybody who never programmed before. I took my first programming class in VB, and we spent more time customizing objects and labels and textboxes and such, and not enough time programming. Folks should just get used to using a console for I/O before they endure the trouble of making a GUI.
I first learned programming on QBASIC and AppleBASIC, but I really got the bug when I started programming in "TI BASIC", or the BASIC that's included with TI graphing calculators. The language isn't all that powerful, but it's got all of the most basic constructs (no functions, but there are subroutines), you don't have to worry about datatypes, and graphics are really simple. I was making little games in no time. Not to mention that your programs can use all of the mathematical operations that the calculator can use, something that will be useful to kids as they begin taking high school math courses.
I'd probably recommend the TI-86, because it has up to 8-letter variable names, and decent string functions, but the TI-83 is better at some respects as far as graphics are concerned (split-screen between the graph window and the console is really cool!).
I'm a teaching assistant for an introductory college programming course, and we used NQC (Not Quite C) to program the Mindstorm robots during part of the course. It was a cool hand-on activity, but the students picked up a lot of bad habits that became evident when we moved to C++ later in the course. A lot of students seemed to think that all functions had zero parameters and always returned the type "void", and that all variables should be globals.
It was probably more due to the pace of the course, but NQC and the robots kinda messed a lot of students up. I guess it's important to realize that programming the robots is fundamentally different from programming console apps. The Mindstorm robots can help develop basic programming "cause and effect" concepts, but it's not as much help with programming structures like classes and functions.
I agree with this guy's intentions: I mean, if you do the crime, you should do the time, regardless of what it is...but, perhaps the laws should be redone (most likely at the state level) so the first few offenses are misdemeanors, punishable with a fine and possibly a little jail time (in the court system, the possible jail time on misdemeanors is almost never exercised on first or seond tiem offenders). Sharing copyrighted files isn't worth ruining some kid's life over, but it is illegal and should be punished. If you make the fine comparable to a DUS and you enforce it, it'll get a number of folks to stop, I think.
Uh, yeah, the difference is that you need to BREATHE in order to LIVE. You don't need pornography, alcohal, masturbation, nicotine, cocaine, etc, etc, to LIVE. But when a person physically does not feel that they can go on without having one of the aforementioned, then they are ADDICTED.
No, it's not. Addiction is a well-defined condition consisting of tolerance, withdrawl, continued use in the face of strong negative consequences, and repeated failed attempted to quit.
You just described exactly what a lot of people go through with pornography.
www.xxxchurch.com is a good informational site about this sort of condition.
What you have to understand about people that would use NetAccountability is that they desperately want to quit, but, they repeatedly find the temptation to be too great to resist.
The same can be said for alcoholics and drug addicts.
For those of you who look at pornography regularly, I challenge you to try not to look at any for as long as you can. You may experience "withdrawl", one of the symptoms that the above poster mentioned. Then come back and tell us that porn is not addictive.
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It's a not a bad idea to keep disks of diagnostic tools from various manufacturers. For instance, IBM wants you to test stuff using PC doctor before you call in for new parts.
The funny thing about IBM's website is that their floppy disk images for basically all downloads DON'T WORK. I've downloaded self-extracting programs for various diagnosic tools from them, and the program hangs every time without fail. Fortunately, they offer CD images for most models that do work.
Of course, they DO NOT offer CD images for Thinkpad T20, T21, T22, and T23 Laptops. That's ironic, considering the Thinkpad doesn't even come with a floppy drive (you order it separately)! Not only that, but, of course, the disk images are useless, just like all the other disk images, so you can't run diagnostics on Thinkpads (unless you have an older version from before they screwed up the images).
One guy at work called in parts replacements to IBM, and asked them how to get the disk images to work. They didn't know, so the very same people that demand we use diagnostics don't know how to get ahold of them on floppy!
I'd echo the 98 boot disk - especially if you have to reinstall software, and the computer can't boot from CD (rare nowadays, but still). Having a 2000/XP bootdisk is handy for the recovery console.
A great tool to have is an NT password cracker. There's a linux-based one, but I don't have the URL...
I hear a lot of people mentioning Windows OS discs...I'd hope you'd all be using non-warez copies. Some people might take offense if they know that you're using stolen software on their computers.
If it's an IBM 300PL (and some NetVistas), I seriously keep a hammer handy - those cases are a bear to take off/ put back on. Metal tabs are always bending 'n stuff.
If it's a NetVista (new circa 2000-2001), then I'd just go ahead and order the new motherboard and hard drive before I even check the thing. At work, we had 6-8 NetVistas in our computer room that wouldn't work and we didn't know why. One of our help desk guys called IBM for parts, and the guy said that all the motherboards from a particular batch had bad capacitors and would eventually fail. Well, we have 60-80 of those NetVistas at our site, so I guess we're screwed. About half of those PCs had hard drive trouble, too.
I am interning in the IT department at a large manufacturing company, and this sort of thing never happens. Our Windows 2000 images force you to register the machine name with us on about the 4th boot, so, really, a fresh Linux install wouldn't get all that far on the network. Additionally, we only have Windows versions of the production software, so people would have a tough time doing their job.
.pdf in 3 months)...it's a shame, really...
Not to mention that EVERYTHING is in MS proprietary formats (I've seen like 1
Heathcliff!
Heathcliff, Heathcliff no one should
Terrify their neighborhood
But Heathcliff just won't be undone
Playing pranks on everyone
There's a race to be on top
The competition doesn't stop
Mixing it with the ladies man
Being charming debonair
The gang will rein supreme And no one can deny
They'll make some history
And always have an alibi
So join in the jubilee
The cats are great, they'll all agree
You'll find in each calamity
The cat's superiority.
Huh, ah oh, oh ah oh, ah uh.
Huh oh ah, ah oh, oh ah oh uh uh. Heathcliff,
Heathcliff no one should
Terrify the neighborhood.
But Heathcliff just won't be undone
You should realize he can win it with you!
I'm not sure what the reason was - be it lack technology or just knoledge of what could happen, but 80-odd years ago, nobody thought much about head protection or body armor for batters. In 1920, Ray Chapman became the only major league player to die during a game when he was hit in the head with a pitch.
Today, batting helmets are quite strong and very light. Sure, people get hit in the head with 100 MPH fastballs, and I'm sure it hurts, but nobody really worries about dying anymore because the equipment is so effective.
While helmets are definitely necessary, I sometimes wonder about the benefits of all the body armor that batters wear now. Since virtually every tender surface that is exposed to the pitcher can be protected, hitters are crowding the plate more than ever. This wouldn't make a difference if pitchers could pitch inside like they used to be allowed to, but it seems like the MLB is really discouraging it. I remember in 1999, Indians pitcher Jaret Wright was called into the ML chief disiplinarian's office about his tendancy for hitting pitchers. Sure, Jaret has been injured a lot the last few years, but he never regained the confidence to pitch inside, and has been ineffective since.
I browsed ebay. It crashed. I browsed ebay again. It crashed again. No kidding.
A lot of church pastors and other Christian speakers put their sermons online -
Dr. Daniel Harrell
Ravi Zacharias
Alister Begg
RC Sproul
I've crashed my Super Nintendo. Quite a bit, actually.
In Final Fantasy III, in the Phoenix Cave, occasionally when I encountered a random battle, the sprites would all become garbled, andthen the game would hang. At first I thought it was a secret, because one of my characters turned into General Leo, but then the game stopped working and I had to reset.
You can also sometimes crash Final Fantasy III by using Relm's "Sketch" command on Gau. What you do is you let Gau use "Leap" to learn a new Rage ability when you're roaming the Veldt, and then when you find him in another battle and sketch him when he appears. I'm not sure if it always crashes the game- I recall that sometimes it gave you tons of extra random items (like 99 daggers, among other things)- but that might be another bug.
Well I
Really don't know
If it matters at all so,
But we try to keep our prices low
For records and our shows
But is that enough,
Or is it that we're not punk enough,
Or it that you think ska just sucks,
But Johnny Quest, he thinks we're what?
Johnny Quest thinks we're sellouts
Well, you've sure found a good way to get rid of all that rapidly-aquired karma...
The best thing about that game is when Ghandi gets really mad at you and refuses to negotiate peace. Even better is when he starts dropping nukes on you...
I do the same with video games.
:)
My brother got me Legend of Zelda: Link to the Past for Gameboy Advance for $35 - I bought the Super Nintendo version for $15 at FuncoLand, then I went to Toys 'R Us traded the GBC version in for Golden Sun and Phantasy Star Collection (the first three games in the series) for $20 each.
So basically, I got about $250 worth games (based on approximate original prices) for $55 by buying each game between 1 and 15 years after each was originally released. Sure, I have to wait awhile, I guess...but I save a lot!
Secondhand CD stores are great, too. I happen to like worship music, and a lot of people happen to not like worship music, meaning that I had a field day in the $1 CD section at one store.
Well, I can't refute them ALL now because I have a lot of homework, but I'll try to give you a general picture of what these "contradictions" are made of:
1) As far as discrepancies with numbers are concerned, those are likely just transcription errors. The word of God is perfect, but that doesn't mean human efforts to copy it are. If you've been hand-transcribing thousands of pages, missing a "0" in "40000" once would be an understandable mistake. In Hebrew, numbers are written as combinations of letters, with each letter representing a value, and the sum of the letters' values being the whole number. So, omitting a letter would change a value signifigantly.
2) As for bats not being birds, how would the ancient Israelites know that? In ancient times, odds are, the definition of a bird, especially to laypeople, was "some animal that flies". On the same token, rabbits make a constant motion with thier mouths that looks kinda like they're chewing cud. Again, the Law had to be presented in a context that the ancient Israelites could understand, regardless of whether it was totally anatomically correct.
3) The language of Job is obviously figurative. "He stretcheth out the north over the empty place, and hangeth the earth upon nothing" - from space, the earth certainly looks like it hangs from nothing (or suspending). Funny, considering the author of Job probably didn't know very much about space. Of course, the obvious intention of the author is to emphasize that God is the creator of the earth, not that it hung from anything.
4) As far as Jesus's last words are concerned, out of Matt 27:46, 50 , Luke 23:46, and John 19:30, only Luke 23:46 clearly gives the impression that it's quote was his last words.
5) When Judas died, odds are, he hung himself, and his body eventually tore, exposing his bowels. I wouldn't be suprised if that happened to somebody who was hanging dead outside for a few days.
6) All men sin, but Christ was fully man and fully God. That makes him a little different. It's a pretty obvious exception to the rule, and it's pretty appearent that writers of the Bible that wrote "all men sin" were excluding the subset of men that also happen to be God (because they didn't yet know of one).
7) God is wrathful- he detests sin, and we commit it daily. But he's also extremely merciful, because he's gives us tons of chances to repent. He created us. He doesn't owe us anything- he doesn't have to be nice to you just because you think he should. We deserve punishment Yet he offers grace freely, and is merciful.
8) One gospel writer omitting one detail that another included does not count as a contradiction. If I say that President Bush was at the inauguration, but I fail to mention the Dick Cheney was, too, am I a liar?
Hopefully, by now, you get the idea the author Jim Merritt isn't open to any arguments against what he thinks (his preface makes that pretty clear), and that he wrote this for the sake of trying to prove Christians wrong, rather than for the sake of finding truth.
Farrell Till (from your prophecy link) assumes that the Bible is false, which tarnishes all of his further assumptions. The Bible is a historical work which is supported by archaelogical findings and other historical works. People disregard it's legitimacy just because it's also a religious work. That's judging a book by it's cover if I ever saw it.
As far as messianic predictions are concerned, we do have the Dead Sea scrolls, which are dated ranging into BC times. In fact, some parts of Isaiah from the scrolls that deal with messianic prophecy are among the portions that folks are quite certain are the oldest of the lot of the scrolls (around 200 BC).
What about Tyre?
You can argue all you want that my sources are biased, but yours are just as so, if not more.
There's an awful lot of prophecy from the Old Testament that was fulfilled. I don't know about you, but I'd trust a source that can correctly predict the future.
Read Psalm 22. Isn't it interesting how it describes so many events surrounding Jesus's execution, which was a REAL event that ACTUALLY happened some hundreds of years after it was written.
None of the other world religions make such prophecies. And they've been fulfilled time and time again.
If you'd present some "contradictions" from the Bible, maybe we could discuss them and conclude whether or not they really are contradictions.
Most of us believers HAVE questioned, and many Christians have not been raised in the faith. Many of us became Christians only after examining the evidence, and witnessing Christ's impact in our lives and the lives of others. We have thought about it, and we didn't just jump to conclusions, like you appearently have regarding us.
Turn in everybody! 280 million people can't be arrested. Let the law fall through sheer weight of numbers!
Not everybody in America downloads MP3s illegally.
Some of us [gasp] buy CDs! Some of us believe that folks should be reimbursed for the products/services they provide.
And just because a lot of people do something that's illegal does not make it right.
I got VS .NET in a data structures class. The packages said the same thing about being illegal without the license, but we were required to sign a paper when we got the CDs, so maybe that was the "license"?
MS also sponsors a programming contest at my school, and the first x number of attendees for the exhibition get a free copy of XP Pro, with the same warning, but we never got a license.
DUS is "Driving Under Suspension". Duh!
I'd never teach Visual Basic to anybody who never programmed before. I took my first programming class in VB, and we spent more time customizing objects and labels and textboxes and such, and not enough time programming. Folks should just get used to using a console for I/O before they endure the trouble of making a GUI.
I first learned programming on QBASIC and AppleBASIC, but I really got the bug when I started programming in "TI BASIC", or the BASIC that's included with TI graphing calculators. The language isn't all that powerful, but it's got all of the most basic constructs (no functions, but there are subroutines), you don't have to worry about datatypes, and graphics are really simple. I was making little games in no time. Not to mention that your programs can use all of the mathematical operations that the calculator can use, something that will be useful to kids as they begin taking high school math courses.
I'd probably recommend the TI-86, because it has up to 8-letter variable names, and decent string functions, but the TI-83 is better at some respects as far as graphics are concerned (split-screen between the graph window and the console is really cool!).
I'm a teaching assistant for an introductory college programming course, and we used NQC (Not Quite C) to program the Mindstorm robots during part of the course. It was a cool hand-on activity, but the students picked up a lot of bad habits that became evident when we moved to C++ later in the course. A lot of students seemed to think that all functions had zero parameters and always returned the type "void", and that all variables should be globals.
It was probably more due to the pace of the course, but NQC and the robots kinda messed a lot of students up. I guess it's important to realize that programming the robots is fundamentally different from programming console apps. The Mindstorm robots can help develop basic programming "cause and effect" concepts, but it's not as much help with programming structures like classes and functions.
I agree with this guy's intentions: I mean, if you do the crime, you should do the time, regardless of what it is...but, perhaps the laws should be redone (most likely at the state level) so the first few offenses are misdemeanors, punishable with a fine and possibly a little jail time (in the court system, the possible jail time on misdemeanors is almost never exercised on first or seond tiem offenders). Sharing copyrighted files isn't worth ruining some kid's life over, but it is illegal and should be punished. If you make the fine comparable to a DUS and you enforce it, it'll get a number of folks to stop, I think.
Uh, yeah, the difference is that you need to BREATHE in order to LIVE. You don't need pornography, alcohal, masturbation, nicotine, cocaine, etc, etc, to LIVE. But when a person physically does not feel that they can go on without having one of the aforementioned, then they are ADDICTED.
And just why isn't something with "church" in it a reputable source?
Sounds like you're judging a book by it's cover...
No, actually Comerica Park isn't being packed anymore because the Tigers lost 106 games last year.
No, it's not. Addiction is a well-defined condition consisting of tolerance, withdrawl, continued use in the face of strong negative consequences, and repeated failed attempted to quit.
You just described exactly what a lot of people go through with pornography.
www.xxxchurch.com is a good informational site about this sort of condition.
What you have to understand about people that would use NetAccountability is that they desperately want to quit, but, they repeatedly find the temptation to be too great to resist.
The same can be said for alcoholics and drug addicts.
For those of you who look at pornography regularly, I challenge you to try not to look at any for as long as you can. You may experience "withdrawl", one of the symptoms that the above poster mentioned. Then come back and tell us that porn is not addictive.