The men were ignorant of some things -- that is what puts a stamp of authenticity when the angel asks esdras to measure for me a bushel of wind or show me a day gone by: they couldn't, and esdras couldn't, but its easy today.
But other things -- we are more ignorant of the diseases that they experienced. Nor were they ignorant about the things they dealt with every day -- fishing, for example.
A lot of your rage seems to come out of guilt that can't be dealt with. God has a purpose for that guilt. Read Isaiah 28: he sets it up, no differently than a farmer plows a field, so that you'll be ready to trust the plummet, not yourself. He does it because He wants a harvest of righteousness and kindness (cf Isaiah 5).
When we measure off our own judgements, it's like trying to get a straight measurement from a crumpled metal ruler. We can't succeed. That ends up being destructive to ourselves and others. If He loves us, then he isn't going to want that for us.
Actually, the prophecy of St. Malachy may well be coming to a close; I am happy to hold my breath in anticipation. And I might be inclined to believe in a watchmaker god (but never in no God) if I had not seen and felt his hand. I mighthave some stuff in my journal about that. He is an active God.
And his activity is nowhere more apparent to me than in this: that He empowers us, through His Holy Spirit and His Son to be more than the animals you read about, in the Egyptian protest rapes, or the Indian rapes, or in the behavior of our own leadership. He empowers us to be able to be ordered, instead of disordered, if we will seek Him.
Okay, first, I am 100% against the income tax, flat, graduated , or otherwise: the laborer is worth his wage. So much for me thinking that hard work is a sin.
But I cannot help but notice that the greatest predictor of wealth--individual or corporate-- is not hard work, but how they have positioned themselves to receive from the government, or from others by government decree.
As such, I consider no accumulated wealth in our society to be earned. None of it. In our society, the laborer who earns the wealth is paid enough to get the job done, to live for a time, and to die when no longer useful: he is a slave, and should be the owner. Meanwhile, the actual owners pay unjustly, and earn precious little of what they take.
But I find it extremely evil to not only take the earnings of the laborer, and give it to the bum on wall street, in the CEO office, or in the government job, but also to predicate it on thepromise that you will take more later.
And now, when the poor have been squeezed to the point that they are dying -- my kids' godfather is in cardiac failure as we speak,unable to pay for medical care; two months ago a black man was peeled up from the pavement by our concrete plant where he had jumped (the depression has been worse on poor blacks than any)...
And then to put the blame on the poor?
And then to determine that they need to be squeezed further?
I do not accuse you of this, but this is typical of the Republican establishment for whom I shall never again vote.
It is unspeakably evil, and I can only pray "God, please save us from the pit they have dug for us, their neighbors", and, "Come, Lord Jesus!"
I have no confidence in our political leaders for justice, at all. Or our business leaders. I hve 40 years of experience in that.
The person who makes $5M a year isn't paying back what he earned, by and large. He is paying back what others have earned and he has taken for himself.
Don't wish evil on others? I don't. But I don't consider it evil to see that the wealthy and powerful have dug a pit for the poor, and to pray to God (save us from that pit). Not to the government -- not that I see a increasing tax rate on the wealthy as immoral. I just find it improbable. Wealth represents power. And does someone here think that the powerless will use power to successfully take power from the powerful?
But God is more powerful than that, and He can and does intervene. I will wait on him.
By all means then, increase the tax on the poor, so that we gan repay those bonds of debt to the rich.
Or how about this? Forget the income tax, which taxes the laborer to pay for the protection of the property of the owner (itself an injustice). Make it an assets tax, exponential according to assets posessed (and thus protection recieved), and pay back the debt completely over thirty years, on a reverse-balloon plan: biggest payments up front.
... and left a des(sic)ated husk... There, fixed that for you.
Spelling aside, there is a lot of truth to the post.
But that doesn't mean that a lot of the baby boomers weren't depending on it; and surely there were many, a large minority perhaps, that didn't participate. Oh, there's a mess. A big mess. At time's like this, I am reminded of Gandolf's response to Frodo's statement, "it's a pity Bilbo didn't kill him then."
pity? It was pity that stayed his hand... Surely if any deserved death, it was Gollum. But many die that deserve life.Can you give it back to them? Then don't be too quick to deal out death to those who deserve it, for his life may have a purpose not even understood by the Wise.
I seem to remember researching that in 1992, and I found a STATISTICS OF INCOME article that noted that a large minority of those who die witheless than the value of a house, died before collecting social security, largely by not having access to their money when they desperately needed it.
I know! Maybe we could take CO2, and water, and split off the oxygens -- dump that into the atmosphere, of course.
Then we could chain the carbons together, and terminate the chains with hydrogens!
Plus, it'd give us an extra return on the oil -- so we'd have more fuel to burn.
Some detractors might question the energy efficiency of such a plan, but that's not really the important part. As with corn-based ethanol production, as long as you have enough subsidies to make it economically feasible, and a few laws to mandate its use, then the energy equation doesn't matter, and we can say we are doing our part for the environment.
The problem is companies are more and more using broad range patents to control whole industries. That is NOT how patents are meant to be used.
From Wikipedia, the "History of Patent Law",
England
In England the Crown issued letters patent providing any person with a monopoly to produce particular goods or provide particular services. Apart from the grant to John Kempe and his company mentioned above[4] an early example of such letters patent was a grant by Henry VI in 1449 to John of Utynam, a Flemish man, for a 20 year monopoly for his invention.
This was the start of a long tradition by the English Crown of granting of letters patent which granted monopolies to favoured persons (or people who were prepared to pay for them).[14] Blackstone (same reference) also explains how "letters patent" (Latin "literae patentes", "letters that lie open") were so called because the seal hung from the foot of the document: they were addressed "To all to whom these presents shall come" and could be read without breaking the seal, as opposed to "letters close", addressed to a particular person who had to break the seal to read them.
Point being, I'm not sure that you are correct about that. It seems that under Yee Merrye Olde Englande, there is a fine tradition of squashing whole industries, to better keep the commoners enslaved to the nobility.
Maybe, maybe not. I've heard it said that a good patent lawyer will keep a patent in the application process for as long as possible, because the patent doesn't start until it is granted, and meanwhile the fact that it has been applied for still stifles competition.
Another quote from the same source (though not necessarily originating from him): A patent is a gun that costs $10k to buy, and $100k to shoot.
... which is "rule by capital", and has nothing to do with a free market.
Like most (or all) other isms and capitalism is there to benefit the rulers. Period.
And yes, democracy is also an ism -- proletarianism. So are -- for you few Limbough purists out there -- a democratic republic.
Having said that, I'm going to blow everyone out of the water with my next statement. I actually prefer rule by Christ, because he benefitted the least of those around him, instead of himself. Moreover, he did this more in his days of strength than in his days of weakness. Thus, in my book He is worthy to rule. All other rulers are worthless, or worse.
Then why is vote fraud standard in the Republican primaries?
Yes, they are standard in the Democrat primaries, too: any time you have a unified voice instead of a gaussian distribution of voices, then the voices have been artificially silenced, usually by vote fraud, but sometimes by intimidation, police action, murder, or other means.
I've done t before, but it's not as interesting as uncontrolled dreaming. I've also done multi-path dreaming: multiple dreams at the same time; but only once. I've also dreamed specifically in color once or twice.
I would think that cornering a market would seldom if ever be profitable directly. However, it can be and often will be profitable in the first or second derivative.
Cornering the oil market probably was not directly profitable t to Standard oil. But ever since that time, the Rockefellers have had a prominent politician, and that position has been immensely profitable.
The moreso if being a politician controls armies, because then you are talking about being able to profit off of the losses of the troops, the enemy, the investors, the home front...... in other words, for politicians cornering a market in something else can be extremely profitable.
This article was explicitly about politicians cornering the market in something else.
The new physics model is that when you have data that just absolutely PROVES that neutrinos go faster than light, you publish first in the popular press and then in a journal like NATURE. Only later do you mumble something about how you knew all along it was too good to be true.
My brother (in physics) forecast a major discovery followed by a major scandle 12-31-11, but he's repeating the forecast this year, and it looks like he'll repeat every year on that one.
Vetting is so passe.
Welcome to the brave new world of government funding of science in times of permanent fiscal crisis
I have seen a protracted fungal spike mentioned as an argument against the Permian Triassic extinction being due to a single event [a series of bolide impacts, etc].
However, from what I had seen, that fungal spike appears only in the African karoo, which -- between that and the Hudson -- look to me like ideal candidate locations for de-Meijer/Van Westrenen style georeactor explosions (that, based on rings of kimberlites around both, and what looks like identical-shaped and identical- oriented scars in both the crust and mantle.).
Because a georeactor explosion would flood the area with neutrons and contaminate the Pb/Pb dating, I am wondering: is the fungal P-T spike found elsewhere, or only in those two regions?
You really missed the boat. Whenever an artle headline asks a question, the answer can be given in a single word.
The book asks the question, in a world where web services can make real-time data accessible to anyone, how can the government leverage this openness to improve its operations and increase citizen participation and awareness?
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The crucifixion was right in the middle of the passover, and vice versa: they were integral together.
http://webpages.marshall.edu/~trimbol3/4thcup4.htm
The men were ignorant of some things -- that is what puts a stamp of authenticity when the angel asks esdras to measure for me a bushel of wind or show me a day gone by: they couldn't, and esdras couldn't, but its easy today.
But other things -- we are more ignorant of the diseases that they experienced. Nor were they ignorant about the things they dealt with every day -- fishing, for example.
A lot of your rage seems to come out of guilt that can't be dealt with. God has a purpose for that guilt. Read Isaiah 28: he sets it up, no differently than a farmer plows a field, so that you'll be ready to trust the plummet, not yourself. He does it because He wants a harvest of righteousness and kindness (cf Isaiah 5).
When we measure off our own judgements, it's like trying to get a straight measurement from a crumpled metal ruler. We can't succeed. That ends up being destructive to ourselves and others. If He loves us, then he isn't going to want that for us.
I, for one, wish to welcome our new Anonymous overlords...
Actually, the prophecy of St. Malachy may well be coming to a close; I am happy to hold my breath in anticipation. And I might be inclined to believe in a watchmaker god (but never in no God) if I had not seen and felt his hand. I mighthave some stuff in my journal about that. He is an active God.
And his activity is nowhere more apparent to me than in this: that He empowers us, through His Holy Spirit and His Son to be more than the animals you read about, in the Egyptian protest rapes, or the Indian rapes, or in the behavior of our own leadership. He empowers us to be able to be ordered, instead of disordered, if we will seek Him.
Okay, first, I am 100% against the income tax, flat, graduated , or otherwise: the laborer is worth his wage. So much for me thinking that hard work is a sin.
But I cannot help but notice that the greatest predictor of wealth--individual or corporate-- is not hard work, but how they have positioned themselves to receive from the government, or from others by government decree.
As such, I consider no accumulated wealth in our society to be earned. None of it. In our society, the laborer who earns the wealth is paid enough to get the job done, to live for a time, and to die when no longer useful: he is a slave, and should be the owner. Meanwhile, the actual owners pay unjustly, and earn precious little of what they take.
But I find it extremely evil to not only take the earnings of the laborer, and give it to the bum on wall street, in the CEO office, or in the government job, but also to predicate it on thepromise that you will take more later.
And now, when the poor have been squeezed to the point that they are dying -- my kids' godfather is in cardiac failure as we speak,unable to pay for medical care; two months ago a black man was peeled up from the pavement by our concrete plant where he had jumped (the depression has been worse on poor blacks than any)...
And then to put the blame on the poor?
And then to determine that they need to be squeezed further?
I do not accuse you of this, but this is typical of the Republican establishment for whom I shall never again vote.
It is unspeakably evil, and I can only pray "God, please save us from the pit they have dug for us, their neighbors", and, "Come, Lord Jesus!"
I have no confidence in our political leaders for justice, at all. Or our business leaders. I hve 40 years of experience in that.
The person who makes $5M a year isn't paying back what he earned, by and large. He is paying back what others have earned and he has taken for himself.
Don't wish evil on others? I don't. But I don't consider it evil to see that the wealthy and powerful have dug a pit for the poor, and to pray to God (save us from that pit). Not to the government -- not that I see a increasing tax rate on the wealthy as immoral. I just find it improbable. Wealth represents power. And does someone here think that the powerless will use power to successfully take power from the powerful?
But God is more powerful than that, and He can and does intervene. I will wait on him.
By all means then, increase the tax on the poor, so that we gan repay those bonds of debt to the rich.
Or how about this? Forget the income tax, which taxes the laborer to pay for the protection of the property of the owner (itself an injustice). Make it an assets tax, exponential according to assets posessed (and thus protection recieved), and pay back the debt completely over thirty years, on a reverse-balloon plan: biggest payments up front.
... and left a des(sic)ated husk...
There, fixed that for you.
Spelling aside, there is a lot of truth to the post.
But that doesn't mean that a lot of the baby boomers weren't depending on it; and surely there were many, a large minority perhaps, that didn't participate. Oh, there's a mess. A big mess. At time's like this, I am reminded of Gandolf's response to Frodo's statement, "it's a pity Bilbo didn't kill him then."
pity? It was pity that stayed his hand... Surely if any deserved death, it was Gollum. But many die that deserve life.Can you give it back to them? Then don't be too quick to deal out death to those who deserve it, for his life may have a purpose not even understood by the Wise.
I seem to remember researching that in 1992, and I found a STATISTICS OF INCOME article that noted that a large minority of those who die witheless than the value of a house, died before collecting social security, largely by not having access to their money when they desperately needed it.
I know! Maybe we could take CO2, and water, and split off the oxygens -- dump that into the atmosphere, of course.
Then we could chain the carbons together, and terminate the chains with hydrogens!
Plus, it'd give us an extra return on the oil -- so we'd have more fuel to burn.
Some detractors might question the energy efficiency of such a plan, but that's not really the important part. As with corn-based ethanol production, as long as you have enough subsidies to make it economically feasible, and a few laws to mandate its use, then the energy equation doesn't matter, and we can say we are doing our part for the environment.
No, I won't keep that in mind. I don't think anybody should need money that badly.
But... I wonder, if the unemployed could sue for fraud, and demand penalties based on back wages?
The lawyer who could work that into class action lawsuits... compare skill sets, then sue first company A... then B... then C...
Bring mass production to the class action lawsuit. The justice would be amazing.
Of course, it'll all hit us with the worst, in the end. But ooh, the satisfaction until that point.
The problem is companies are more and more using broad range patents to control whole industries. That is NOT how patents are meant to be used.
From Wikipedia, the "History of Patent Law",
England
In England the Crown issued letters patent providing any person with a monopoly to produce particular goods or provide particular services. Apart from the grant to John Kempe and his company mentioned above[4] an early example of such letters patent was a grant by Henry VI in 1449 to John of Utynam, a Flemish man, for a 20 year monopoly for his invention.
This was the start of a long tradition by the English Crown of granting of letters patent which granted monopolies to favoured persons (or people who were prepared to pay for them).[14] Blackstone (same reference) also explains how "letters patent" (Latin "literae patentes", "letters that lie open") were so called because the seal hung from the foot of the document: they were addressed "To all to whom these presents shall come" and could be read without breaking the seal, as opposed to "letters close", addressed to a particular person who had to break the seal to read them.
Point being, I'm not sure that you are correct about that. It seems that under Yee Merrye Olde Englande, there is a fine tradition of squashing whole industries, to better keep the commoners enslaved to the nobility.
Maybe, maybe not. I've heard it said that a good patent lawyer will keep a patent in the application process for as long as possible, because the patent doesn't start until it is granted, and meanwhile the fact that it has been applied for still stifles competition.
Another quote from the same source (though not necessarily originating from him): A patent is a gun that costs $10k to buy, and $100k to shoot.
... which is "rule by capital", and has nothing to do with a free market.
Like most (or all) other isms and capitalism is there to benefit the rulers. Period.
And yes, democracy is also an ism -- proletarianism. So are -- for you few Limbough purists out there -- a democratic republic.
Having said that, I'm going to blow everyone out of the water with my next statement. I actually prefer rule by Christ, because he benefitted the least of those around him, instead of himself. Moreover, he did this more in his days of strength than in his days of weakness. Thus, in my book He is worthy to rule. All other rulers are worthless, or worse.
In response to this, I googled " Sweden that had genetically engineered some mouth bacteria", straight from your post.
The first entry was Wikipedia. The second entry, from ABC news, was as follows:
"A Bacteria That Could Keep Your Mouth Clean for Good - ABC News"
Google is your friend. Enjoy your mouthwash.
Then why is vote fraud standard in the Republican primaries?
Yes, they are standard in the Democrat primaries, too: any time you have a unified voice instead of a gaussian distribution of voices, then the voices have been artificially silenced, usually by vote fraud, but sometimes by intimidation, police action, murder, or other means.
In other news...
The Republican billionaires are debating whether to change the front they use for their unchanging agenda.
I say, good idea; the more expenive the better.
In both cases they expect me to forget yesterday AND disbelieve the evidence of my eyes.
And at that, I'm a conservative prolife Christian who will not vote Republican again (and IIRC haven't since 1992)
I've done t before, but it's not as interesting as uncontrolled dreaming. I've also done multi-path dreaming: multiple dreams at the same time; but only once. I've also dreamed specifically in color once or twice.
Having read the article, the Earth may have any number of temporarily captured asteroids.
Where did the idea come that we have two of them?
Photons carry momentum and energy. When he talks about wave packets, he's talking about momentum.
I would think that cornering a market would seldom if ever be profitable directly. However, it can be and often will be profitable in the first or second derivative.
Cornering the oil market probably was not directly profitable t to Standard oil. But ever since that time, the Rockefellers have had a prominent politician, and that position has been immensely profitable.
The moreso if being a politician controls armies, because then you are talking about being able to profit off of the losses of the troops, the enemy, the investors, the home front... ... in other words, for politicians cornering a market in something else can be extremely profitable.
This article was explicitly about politicians cornering the market in something else.
Go hang out in an alaskan salmon-fish?ng town when the boats come in. Wait in a bar and see what happens...
Aah, young Jmc, do you not recognize that Matrix and Star Wars are two different things?
There is no force. No matrix either.
No, no, no.
The new physics model is that when you have data that just absolutely PROVES that neutrinos go faster than light, you publish first in the popular press and then in a journal like NATURE. Only later do you mumble something about how you knew all along it was too good to be true.
My brother (in physics) forecast a major discovery followed by a major scandle 12-31-11, but he's repeating the forecast this year, and it looks like he'll repeat every year on that one.
Vetting is so passe.
Welcome to the brave new world of government funding of science in times of permanent fiscal crisis
I have seen a protracted fungal spike mentioned as an argument against the Permian Triassic extinction being due to a single event [a series of bolide impacts, etc].
However, from what I had seen, that fungal spike appears only in the African karoo, which -- between that and the Hudson -- look to me like ideal candidate locations for de-Meijer/Van Westrenen style georeactor explosions (that, based on rings of kimberlites around both, and what looks like identical-shaped and identical- oriented scars in both the crust and mantle.).
Because a georeactor explosion would flood the area with neutrons and contaminate the Pb/Pb dating, I am wondering: is the fungal P-T spike found elsewhere, or only in those two regions?
You really missed the boat. Whenever an artle headline asks a question, the answer can be given in a single word.
The book asks the question, in a world where web services can make real-time data accessible to anyone, how can the government leverage this openness to improve its operations and increase citizen participation and awareness?
No.