Maybe your real question is, why did my brother or sister get picked by my parents for (some specific) special treatment?
But no good parent ever asks that question, why do I always pick my third child for special treatment? Maybe it's because in the meaning of special, comes the personal relationship. every child gets special treatment, but the treatment is special to the child. These two people received these types of healing, because in the total picture for them and those around them, the healing was a good and worthy gift.
Every child of God gets special treatment. But not the same treatment, or the treatment wouldn't be special.
For Christmas, I got my son a cut-out dollhouse. He likes to do crafts and woodworking. He had wanted to buy a dollhouse for his sister for Christmas, and we had said no for other reasons. The special treatment worked out well. She has a dollhouse that he made.
Trollers don't believe what they say. I do.Trollers don't actually try to convince, only harrass. I do. That is the difference between a troll, and a point that may be correct, but you simply don't like. A wise person will ignore a troll but pay close attention to the point they don't like, and search out the answer to the uuestion,
'Is it true? Could it be true? If so or if not, why don't I like it? '
Now, I wonder. If these same people were studying whether walking was actually effective at locomotion, would they have randomly picked from a dozen 3-mo-old human babies for a double-blind study?
Because before you can properly design a study, you have to know what you are dealing with.
So should they not first begin with something like the life of Hudson Taylor? Should they not first attempt document whether what he did seems to be historical fact, and then go on from there to design the study? Should they not find what are the common threads in those for whom prayer does seem to be effective?
Because if you are studying to prove or disprove something, then you need to study those whom you believe actually have obtained it. That is going to have to eliminate most double-blind studies.
Anyhow, I disagree that examples are not evidence. They are evidence, they simply are not proof.
To convert data points into the basis of an effective study, you have to identify trends, and that means identifying all of the independent variables. You have to ask, what is meant by "Faith"? How do we measure it? What is the purpose of the prayer? How do we measure it against the claims? What is the judgement of efficacy? How do we measure it? Are our measurements valid?
I don't doubt that there have been studies on the efficacy of prayer. I doubt that there have been many valid studies on the efficacy of prayer. But then again, maybe there are. At our church is a communications professor at ODU, and the main thrust of his research tends to be prayer as communication. Maybe he'd know.
Yes, excellent point! That was part of what impressed my father, too, that the distraction osteogenesis is a method that does work.
But *how* did it all happen with the equipment being people praying instead of a metal traction device?
See, too: you might think that if you can explain how, that there is no miracle. To me, the miracle is that God declares something and then does something... no, no. It's like this: although I respect creationists for having the guts to find and point out the flaws in current theory, I don't require creationism to believe that God made the universe. Explaining how doesn't take away the who or the why.
The big thing is not just that God does something, though, it is that God declares ahead of time, and then does it.
Anyhow, the evidence is useful, but not proof of anything. On the other hand, if someone needs to cover up the evidence in order to hold onto their beliefs, then their beliefs are questionable in my mind. In terms of notoriety, these miracles are only good for getting someone's attention, thwapping them on the head with the obvious, if you will.
But the greatest miracles are ones that many will not notice. For example, how many ethics and religions say "You must behave this way..." and do not empower the person to behave that way. Yet one of the unique claims of Christianity is that -- little by little -- it does empower a person to behave in that way.
I look at what's going on in India, and realize that they are discovering that they don't have the ability to *not* do what they are doing. Same with what's going on in Pakistan. Same with our governmental leadership. Same with our banking leadership. Same with our business leadership. And yes, same with some of our religious leadership. I'm sure that you can name the crime for each one. When the hand of restraint is removed, the man of sin becomes obvious.
But each of these are only groups people who have sought and worshipped something other than Christ. Go among the people of any thriving Christian church, though, and ask the pastor: "Do you have any parishioners who can tell of how God changed them, allowed *them* to change in ways that people can't change for themselves?" You'll find that there are people who were freed from pornography addictions (and masturbation, adultery, homosexuality); inveterate liars who were stopped from lying, people who were freed from abusive relationships, where they themselves were the abuser (and that's much harder to escape than if you are the abused); people who were freed from narcotics addictions that are normally incurable. And, if you start asking, you'll find people also who were healed from impossible maladies. It does happen, and it is a great gift to them.
You'll also find people who were held through such great torment and grief, that they should have despaired and committed suicide, but the Lord God held them through to a better day, restrained them with the peace that passes all understanding (read the story behind the song "It is well with my soul", and you may gain an idea of what I mean) and brought to the point of seeing victory in Him.
Those are the most powerful miracles. And you don't see it happen within other religions, or other ethics. You see it happen here, on this mountain if you will, because He who gives the grace has declared how and where He will give the grace, and He does not lie.
Oookay. Family friend of ours, had a limp because one leg was about an inch shorter than the other. She was 45 about the time I was 18. I went to college, came back, saw her, asked my Dad, "didn't she have a limp"?
He's a physicist, and was a skeptic (retired from both, now). Shoot, he still is a skeptic, but he is a believing skeptic.
Because he had to face the fact that her leg was prayed over, and grew back that inch, at a charismatic prayer service.
And another physicist in the department, who has a wife with MS, was prayed over at a another time, and was healed.
He can't deny the evidence of his eyes. So be it.
But that kind of thing has *nothing* to do with urban myths, or you tube. It has to do with the fact that God is intricately involved with his peoples' lives.
That kind of thing also has nothing on "don't know probability from a hole in the ground." The MS, maybe you'd make that claim, because we don't understand MS. But a leg an inch shorter than the other, that then shot out longer than the first, and relaxed back to being equal length? No.
That said, this is slashdot. Unpopular position... don't like the answer... mod overrated into the dirt. Once it's not visible, it didn't happen.
When the purchaser regularly underpurchases vital items, including basic Osha n95 masks, then you can 1] buy it yourself 2] shut down product delivery, 3] break the law, give your best workers silicosis, and face the wrath of God on judgement day.
I guess you could term that "clawback", though the normal usage refers to Madoff losers suing winners and such.
In my case, I still think it was the right move to take the position: but as I was well aware beforehand, financially speaking it was the wrong move.
But the company also could have been more just. When I took the job we were way behind schedule, and we never missed a delivery. Although I could accept the company not paying bonuses in such circumstances, to stay afloat, the company actually was trying to buy out a competitor, and did not pay bonuses. So be it. Maybe they still will. Or maybe the fiscal cliff will make bonuses advantageous, where they weren't before {somehow}.
Then the problem is not with the economic structure, but rather with the iniquity in the wealthy who believe that the person who mops his floors does not deserve to live. And although it is indeed nonsense to talk about raising the minimum wage to $10000/hr, it is not unreasonable to point out that now it isn't just the floor moppers who don't deserve to live: it is the grocers, and the checkout clerks, and the substitute teachers, and the nurses, and the construction workers, and the foremen, and the field engineers, and the draftsmen.
In short it is any of those who are not beneficiaries of government spending (considering that the government is the owner of last resort), or in the owner class. It is anyone who labors for his bread.
I went through that. I was a field engineer, making about $50k, 55 hours a week. With 3 kids, I qualified for state supplied health care for the kids.
I then was promoted -- and understanding what the deal was, accepted -- to a position as project manager making salary $60k, no overtime, 70+ hours per week for over a year, and a good deal more business related expenses, non-deductable. Lost the health care, but other things went up, and spending 70+ hours, you spend more on lunches and such... So I went from saving about $3000 a year to saving nothing, and working 15+ hours extra.
It was a real hit, and I knew it was coming, couldn't do anything about it except turn down the position, and I still decided that I should fill the spot.
That's for someone with no kids, and recieving free government services, which have to be paid with taxes. Those government services, then, are a freebe to employers paying $11-$14/hr.
Cut out government services, and the minimum living wage will go up. Now add in a family, and it'll be about $45k per year -- in a mobile home. With no retirement. And no college for the kids. And no money in the church basket [not a reasonable option for many people].
I know, because as an underemployed engineer with kids, I earned from $30k up through $60k. $45k was about the break-even point.
So... the employers get the labor and the profits, and we're told it's because the workers are lazy and/or unskilled. But the most recent bubble -- the re-college-education bubble, hasn't produced any wage increases, only debt. So that is a non-starter.
Real people all over the country, have lost their jobs, and then discovered that they never owned their property at all. Now the government does. Or, in reality, a bank does.
If we did as the GP suggested, we'd have an economy back right quickly. And though in concept you might be closer to not owning anything outright, in reality, you'd be more the master of your property than you ever had been.
The GP is right. But in a fascist world, it'll never happen.
Fund that on an optional property tax, and you'd have the economy back in a heartbeat. What do I mean by optional?
I mean, if you declare the worth and pay the taxes, then the government confirms your right to it. If you don't declare the worth and pay the taxes, anyone can declare a value and pay the taxes, and the government transfers it to the new owner.
If someone else declares a greater worth, they have to be willing and able to buy it at that value... and you then have the option of selling, or declaring the greater worth, yourself.
Empty skyscrapers will quickly be filled, and there won't be hoarding, except what produced income [thus the economy comes back].
_The_ meme. Interesting take on a country that just re-elected the most income-distributing president of all time.
I'm sorry, That honor belongs to GW Bush. Specifically, it was on his watch that we DOUBLED the national debt, crashed the economy, and gave it all, for free, to banks under a zero-interest, no date of repayment loan system [and yes, GMAC is also a bank, as is GE.]
But yes, Obama also voted for it as a senator. As did McCain. As did the Democratic establishment. As did the Republican establishment, except for Ron Paul.
As far as I can tell, Obama was reelected, because Romney looked all set to do it all again. Anyhow, Romney's son says Romney didn't really want to win: he just ran because there wasn't anyone better. So either Romney was arrogant, or had no awareness of what "better" means.
But it isn't a tornado: at best, it's a permanent dust devils.
Tornados are inherently driven by DC electric, viz. an amp or two through a potential of several million volts. The circuit consists of rain laying down charge, the tornado picking it up and returning it to the cloud.
> I should be able to let anybody contact me and I can opt in to people being charged a dollar to contact me.
Because that's exactly what facebook is doing. You want to talk for free, friend the guy. You want to talk uninvited, pay a dollar.
And no, the money shouldn't go to charity. I give Facebook an attaboy for this: charging a fee, for added value, on both ends. In this case, the fee *IS* the added value. It limits spam, and allows access.
This is far superior to falsely claiming ownership of users' photos -- which could come back to bite them.
The one dollar goes to Facebook. Facebook distributes that dollar to employees and investors. Some of that then goes from employees and investors to charity, according to their wills, not the will of a single accountant somewhere.
That's all the attaboy. Now, let me rant: I ran into people like you, who took offense at others making a just profit, to the extent that they would steal what was not theirs, and leave the entrepreneur (in my case, providing a photocopier with honor-system payment) with a loss. No, let me change that. They coveted the imaginary profits of my investment and effort, and then used their pretend offense to justify their stealing and destroying.
THOU SHALT NOT COVET. THOU SHALT NOT STEAL. Rant done.
Well, for me it was in watching the "doldrums" core aroue which hurricanes' paths ran.
In the 80's, it was fairly small; same in the early 90's. But th it increased in size, then doubled in size, and then grew againn. By 2000, you had a storm system form just like an African tropical wave, but off the coast of Virginia, heading East. It crossed the atlantic,reached hurricane strength, destroyed a British city, proceeded through the North Sea and died in Lithuania.
Tracking the paths was personal experience.
The weather was more than anecdotal: it was over rmany years, and dealing with large, multi element storm systems.
And yes, I had already been aware that warming I not a temperature process. It's a thermodynamic process, so I was looking for system changes, not temperature issues..
Actually, there are investor groups that specifically mob a public company, change the management, loot the customers, loot the shell, and sell. Then they go on to the next. Unless you keep track of who the managers are, you will get hit again and again. Think of what happened to Iomega between Bernoulli Box and Zip disk, or what happened to HP, or Allstate/Sears, or Disney... all old news here on Slashdot.
My huge problem of the moment is the company lawsuits against those who give bad ratings, because unless you know who the thieves are, you can't protect yourself.
So nonpositive ratings are viewed as a VERY BAD THING by the thieves, who now just make it illegal to spread the word.
The Siberian flats formed opposite Tierra Del Fuego. But considering that the Deccan flats formed opposite chixlub, the current theory has people guessing that there might have been an asteroid strike at Tierra Del Fuego.
However, the Smithsonian's lead paleoarchaeologist looked for evidence, and failed to find it. So that one is still out.
That said, I think there nonetheless WAS an asteroid strike there, travelling eastward, that formed both the Scotia Plate, and the African Karoo, which happens to have been directly above the Scotia Plate, and oriented the same, an. the same shape and size, and formed largely of impermiable Kimberlites [that is, mantle material].
I'm pretty sure the timex sinclair allowed it, but how about the basic stamp computers? How about the casio 8000 pocket calculators? Not all of us were so priveledged to have expensive toys like the Apple ][+.
Now I understand how they were able to read your newspaper headlines. I thought optical resolution limits prevented that, practically speaking.But I had never considered that they might just truck their hubble scopes from one part of the country to another.
I'll have to keep an eye out for neighbors or g-men at the next table who have a suspicious-looking hubble next to their coffee. You never know when the NSA might be interested in subversive elements of your breakfast cereal.
I attended a chesapeake city feedback meeting where they introduced the red light cameras. Under Va state law,
1] they are only allowed one camera for each 50000 [or whatever] residents. so they have to pick their intersections where they think it will do the most good.
2] they have to post signage
3] if you enter the intersection something like more than 1 second after it goes red, then you get a ticket.
4] the big concern IS T-bone wrecks, and just by placing plain cameras at known problem sites, they got footage of some extremely egregious violations and horrific wrecks.
So all in all , I suspect that if they got a 0.9% increase in total wrecks, and a, 3%, say] decrease in the horrific wrecks, they'd count it a good day's work.
BTW, I'm surprised that 0.9% has statistical significancee
Actually, I prefer web cams placed all along the roads, each reachable from a city website. line the roads with stripes, so speed can be digitally measured, and keep the last day of footage for public review.
Then, when someone gets cut off, or sees reckless driving, they can post a pointer to the police. Police either confirm or deny claim -- as well as any OTHER infractions they see in the incident. Appropriate citations get mailed out [fine to license only, no points]. Citizen who pointed out the incident first gets 10%. Citizens whose claim is denied cannot register another claim for a week, by automatic lockout.
Now, the unemployed can freelance in traffic patrols, and the wealthy who flaunt the law can fund them. The poor who flaunt the law can stop driving. The reckless can learn a cheaper way to drive.
I just bought 3 HDG bolts, 1"x5". cash out of pocket for something on the job. As long as there is a one time support fee of, say , $50 or less, desperate people may still pull out their own credit card.
It will be a time of great distress; there has never been such a time from the beginning of the world until now, and will never be again. If that time of troubles were not cut short, no living thing could survive; but for the sake of God's chosen it will be cut short. Matthew 24:22. It makes me wonder, but it also gives me real hope. Contrary to the attitude, 'well it's all going to burn, may as well use it now', it makes me think that good stewardship of our resources is more important than ever.
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Maybe your real question is, why did my brother or sister get picked by my parents for (some specific) special treatment?
But no good parent ever asks that question, why do I always pick my third child for special treatment? Maybe it's because in the meaning of special, comes the personal relationship. every child gets special treatment, but the treatment is special to the child. These two people received these types of healing, because in the total picture for them and those around them, the healing was a good and worthy gift.
Every child of God gets special treatment. But not the same treatment, or the treatment wouldn't be special.
For Christmas, I got my son a cut-out dollhouse. He likes to do crafts and woodworking. He had wanted to buy a dollhouse for his sister for Christmas, and we had said no for other reasons. The special treatment worked out well. She has a dollhouse that he made.
your reply seems more trollish than the OP
Trollers don't believe what they say. I do.Trollers don't actually try to convince, only harrass. I do.
That is the difference between a troll, and a point that may be correct, but you simply don't like. A wise person will ignore a troll but pay close attention to the point they don't like, and search out the answer to the uuestion,
'Is it true? Could it be true? If so or if not, why don't I like it? '
Now, I wonder. If these same people were studying whether walking was actually effective at locomotion, would they have randomly picked from a dozen 3-mo-old human babies for a double-blind study?
Because before you can properly design a study, you have to know what you are dealing with.
So should they not first begin with something like the life of Hudson Taylor? Should they not first attempt document whether what he did seems to be historical fact, and then go on from there to design the study? Should they not find what are the common threads in those for whom prayer does seem to be effective?
Because if you are studying to prove or disprove something, then you need to study those whom you believe actually have obtained it. That is going to have to eliminate most double-blind studies.
Anyhow, I disagree that examples are not evidence. They are evidence, they simply are not proof.
To convert data points into the basis of an effective study, you have to identify trends, and that means identifying all of the independent variables. You have to ask, what is meant by "Faith"? How do we measure it? What is the purpose of the prayer? How do we measure it against the claims? What is the judgement of efficacy? How do we measure it? Are our measurements valid?
I don't doubt that there have been studies on the efficacy of prayer. I doubt that there have been many valid studies on the efficacy of prayer. But then again, maybe there are. At our church is a communications professor at ODU, and the main thrust of his research tends to be prayer as communication. Maybe he'd know.
Yes, excellent point! That was part of what impressed my father, too, that the distraction osteogenesis is a method that does work.
But *how* did it all happen with the equipment being people praying instead of a metal traction device?
See, too: you might think that if you can explain how, that there is no miracle. To me, the miracle is that God declares something and then does something ... no, no. It's like this: although I respect creationists for having the guts to find and point out the flaws in current theory, I don't require creationism to believe that God made the universe. Explaining how doesn't take away the who or the why.
The big thing is not just that God does something, though, it is that God declares ahead of time, and then does it.
Anyhow, the evidence is useful, but not proof of anything. On the other hand, if someone needs to cover up the evidence in order to hold onto their beliefs, then their beliefs are questionable in my mind. In terms of notoriety, these miracles are only good for getting someone's attention, thwapping them on the head with the obvious, if you will.
But the greatest miracles are ones that many will not notice. For example, how many ethics and religions say "You must behave this way..." and do not empower the person to behave that way. Yet one of the unique claims of Christianity is that -- little by little -- it does empower a person to behave in that way.
I look at what's going on in India, and realize that they are discovering that they don't have the ability to *not* do what they are doing. Same with what's going on in Pakistan. Same with our governmental leadership. Same with our banking leadership. Same with our business leadership. And yes, same with some of our religious leadership. I'm sure that you can name the crime for each one.
When the hand of restraint is removed, the man of sin becomes obvious.
But each of these are only groups people who have sought and worshipped something other than Christ. Go among the people of any thriving Christian church, though, and ask the pastor: "Do you have any parishioners who can tell of how God changed them, allowed *them* to change in ways that people can't change for themselves?" You'll find that there are people who were freed from pornography addictions (and masturbation, adultery, homosexuality); inveterate liars who were stopped from lying, people who were freed from abusive relationships, where they themselves were the abuser (and that's much harder to escape than if you are the abused); people who were freed from narcotics addictions that are normally incurable. And, if you start asking, you'll find people also who were healed from impossible maladies. It does happen, and it is a great gift to them.
You'll also find people who were held through such great torment and grief, that they should have despaired and committed suicide, but the Lord God held them through to a better day, restrained them with the peace that passes all understanding (read the story behind the song "It is well with my soul", and you may gain an idea of what I mean) and brought to the point of seeing victory in Him.
Those are the most powerful miracles. And you don't see it happen within other religions, or other ethics. You see it happen here, on this mountain if you will, because He who gives the grace has declared how and where He will give the grace, and He does not lie.
Oookay. Family friend of ours, had a limp because one leg was about an inch shorter than the other. She was 45 about the time I was 18. I went to college, came back, saw her, asked my Dad, "didn't she have a limp"?
He's a physicist, and was a skeptic (retired from both, now). Shoot, he still is a skeptic, but he is a believing skeptic.
Because he had to face the fact that her leg was prayed over, and grew back that inch, at a charismatic prayer service.
And another physicist in the department, who has a wife with MS, was prayed over at a another time, and was healed.
He can't deny the evidence of his eyes. So be it.
But that kind of thing has *nothing* to do with urban myths, or you tube. It has to do with the fact that God is intricately involved with his peoples' lives.
That kind of thing also has nothing on "don't know probability from a hole in the ground." The MS, maybe you'd make that claim, because we don't understand MS. But a leg an inch shorter than the other, that then shot out longer than the first, and relaxed back to being equal length? No.
That said, this is slashdot. Unpopular position... don't like the answer... mod overrated into the dirt. Once it's not visible, it didn't happen.
When the purchaser regularly underpurchases vital items, including basic Osha n95 masks, then you can 1] buy it yourself 2] shut down product delivery, 3] break the law, give your best workers silicosis, and face the wrath of God on judgement day.
I guess you could term that "clawback", though the normal usage refers to Madoff losers suing winners and such.
In my case, I still think it was the right move to take the position: but as I was well aware beforehand, financially speaking it was the wrong move.
But the company also could have been more just. When I took the job we were way behind schedule, and we never missed a delivery. Although I could accept the company not paying bonuses in such circumstances, to stay afloat, the company actually was trying to buy out a competitor, and did not pay bonuses. So be it. Maybe they still will. Or maybe the fiscal cliff will make bonuses advantageous, where they weren't before {somehow}.
Then the problem is not with the economic structure, but rather with the iniquity in the wealthy who believe that the person who mops his floors does not deserve to live. And although it is indeed nonsense to talk about raising the minimum wage to $10000/hr, it is not unreasonable to point out that now it isn't just the floor moppers who don't deserve to live: it is the grocers, and the checkout clerks, and the substitute teachers, and the nurses, and the construction workers, and the foremen, and the field engineers, and the draftsmen.
In short it is any of those who are not beneficiaries of government spending (considering that the government is the owner of last resort), or in the owner class. It is anyone who labors for his bread.
And that is a serious prospect.
I went through that. I was a field engineer, making about $50k, 55 hours a week. With 3 kids, I qualified for state supplied health care for the kids.
I then was promoted -- and understanding what the deal was, accepted -- to a position as project manager making salary $60k, no overtime, 70+ hours per week for over a year, and a good deal more business related expenses, non-deductable. Lost the health care, but other things went up, and spending 70+ hours, you spend more on lunches and such... So I went from saving about $3000 a year to saving nothing, and working 15+ hours extra.
It was a real hit, and I knew it was coming, couldn't do anything about it except turn down the position, and I still decided that I should fill the spot.
It's real. It also hurts.
That's for someone with no kids, and recieving free government services, which have to be paid with taxes. Those government services, then, are a freebe to employers paying $11-$14/hr.
Cut out government services, and the minimum living wage will go up. Now add in a family, and it'll be about $45k per year -- in a mobile home. With no retirement. And no college for the kids. And no money in the church basket [not a reasonable option for many people].
I know, because as an underemployed engineer with kids, I earned from $30k up through $60k. $45k was about the break-even point.
So... the employers get the labor and the profits, and we're told it's because the workers are lazy and/or unskilled. But the most recent bubble -- the re-college-education bubble, hasn't produced any wage increases, only debt. So that is a non-starter.
Real people all over the country, have lost their jobs, and then discovered that they never owned their property at all. Now the government does. Or, in reality, a bank does.
If we did as the GP suggested, we'd have an economy back right quickly. And though in concept you might be closer to not owning anything outright, in reality, you'd be more the master of your property than you ever had been.
The GP is right. But in a fascist world, it'll never happen.
Fund that on an optional property tax, and you'd have the economy back in a heartbeat. What do I mean by optional?
I mean, if you declare the worth and pay the taxes, then the government confirms your right to it. If you don't declare the worth and pay the taxes, anyone can declare a value and pay the taxes, and the government transfers it to the new owner.
If someone else declares a greater worth, they have to be willing and able to buy it at that value... and you then have the option of selling, or declaring the greater worth, yourself.
Empty skyscrapers will quickly be filled, and there won't be hoarding, except what produced income [thus the economy comes back].
And all taxes become optional.
_The_ meme. Interesting take on a country that just re-elected the most income-distributing president of all time.
I'm sorry, That honor belongs to GW Bush. Specifically, it was on his watch that we DOUBLED the national debt, crashed the economy, and gave it all, for free, to banks under a zero-interest, no date of repayment loan system [and yes, GMAC is also a bank, as is GE.]
But yes, Obama also voted for it as a senator. As did McCain. As did the Democratic establishment. As did the Republican establishment, except for Ron Paul.
As far as I can tell, Obama was reelected, because Romney looked all set to do it all again. Anyhow, Romney's son says Romney didn't really want to win: he just ran because there wasn't anyone better. So either Romney was arrogant, or had no awareness of what "better" means.
FWIW, it also has appeared in Physics 101 texts that tornados have DC currents.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=electric+current+inside+a+tornado
The solar tower could work.
But it isn't a tornado: at best, it's a permanent dust devils.
Tornados are inherently driven by DC electric, viz. an amp or two through a potential of several million volts. The circuit consists of rain laying down charge, the tornado picking it up and returning it to the cloud.
> I should be able to let anybody contact me and I can opt in to people being charged a dollar to contact me.
Because that's exactly what facebook is doing. You want to talk for free, friend the guy. You want to talk uninvited, pay a dollar.
And no, the money shouldn't go to charity. I give Facebook an attaboy for this: charging a fee, for added value, on both ends. In this case, the fee *IS* the added value. It limits spam, and allows access.
This is far superior to falsely claiming ownership of users' photos -- which could come back to bite them.
The one dollar goes to Facebook. Facebook distributes that dollar to employees and investors. Some of that then goes from employees and investors to charity, according to their wills, not the will of a single accountant somewhere.
That's all the attaboy. Now, let me rant: I ran into people like you, who took offense at others making a just profit, to the extent that they would steal what was not theirs, and leave the entrepreneur (in my case, providing a photocopier with honor-system payment) with a loss. No, let me change that. They coveted the imaginary profits of my investment and effort, and then used their pretend offense to justify their stealing and destroying.
THOU SHALT NOT COVET. THOU SHALT NOT STEAL. Rant done.
How do you deserve this money?
Well, for me it was in watching the "doldrums" core aroue which hurricanes' paths ran.
In the 80's, it was fairly small; same in the early 90's. But th it increased in size, then doubled in size, and then grew againn. By 2000, you had a storm system form just like an African tropical wave, but off the coast of Virginia, heading East. It crossed the atlantic,reached hurricane strength, destroyed a British city, proceeded through the North Sea and died in Lithuania.
Tracking the paths was personal experience.
The weather was more than anecdotal: it was over rmany years, and dealing with large, multi element storm systems.
And yes, I had already been aware that warming I not a temperature process. It's a thermodynamic process, so I was looking for system changes, not temperature issues..
Actually, there are investor groups that specifically mob a public company, change the management, loot the customers, loot the shell, and sell. Then they go on to the next. Unless you keep track of who the managers are, you will get hit again and again. Think of what happened to Iomega between Bernoulli Box and Zip disk, or what happened to HP, or Allstate/Sears, or Disney... all old news here on Slashdot.
My huge problem of the moment is the company lawsuits against those who give bad ratings, because unless you know who the thieves are, you can't protect yourself.
So nonpositive ratings are viewed as a VERY BAD THING by the thieves, who now just make it illegal to spread the word.
The Siberian flats formed opposite Tierra Del Fuego. But considering that the Deccan flats formed opposite chixlub, the current theory has people guessing that there might have been an asteroid strike at Tierra Del Fuego.
However, the Smithsonian's lead paleoarchaeologist looked for evidence, and failed to find it. So that one is still out.
That said, I think there nonetheless WAS an asteroid strike there, travelling eastward, that formed both the Scotia Plate, and the African Karoo, which happens to have been directly above the Scotia Plate, and oriented the same, an. the same shape and size, and formed largely of impermiable Kimberlites [that is, mantle material].
I'm pretty sure the timex sinclair allowed it, but how about the basic stamp computers? How about the casio 8000 pocket calculators? Not all of us were so priveledged to have expensive toys like the Apple ][+.
That said,
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They're hereon the ground.
Now I understand how they were able to read your newspaper headlines. I thought optical resolution limits prevented that, practically speaking.But I had never considered that they might just truck their hubble scopes from one part of the country to another.
I'll have to keep an eye out for neighbors or g-men at the next table who have a suspicious-looking hubble next to their coffee. You never know when the NSA might be interested in subversive elements of your breakfast cereal.
I attended a chesapeake city feedback meeting where they introduced the red light cameras. Under Va state law,
1] they are only allowed one camera for each 50000 [or whatever] residents. so they have to pick their intersections where they think it will do the most good.
2] they have to post signage
3] if you enter the intersection something like more than 1 second after it goes red, then you get a ticket.
4] the big concern IS T-bone wrecks, and just by placing plain cameras at known problem sites, they got footage of some extremely egregious violations and horrific wrecks.
So all in all , I suspect that if they got a 0.9% increase in total wrecks, and a, 3%, say] decrease in the horrific wrecks, they'd count it a good day's work.
BTW, I'm surprised that 0.9% has statistical significancee
Actually, I prefer web cams placed all along the roads, each reachable from a city website. line the roads with stripes, so speed can be digitally measured, and keep the last day of footage for public review.
Then, when someone gets cut off, or sees reckless driving, they can post a pointer to the police. Police either confirm or deny claim -- as well as any OTHER infractions they see in the incident. Appropriate citations get mailed out [fine to license only, no points]. Citizen who pointed out the incident first gets 10%. Citizens whose claim is denied cannot register another claim for a week, by automatic lockout.
Now, the unemployed can freelance in traffic patrols, and the wealthy who flaunt the law can fund them. The poor who flaunt the law can stop driving. The reckless can learn a cheaper way to drive.
I think it'd be a win-win situation .
I just bought 3 HDG bolts, 1"x5". cash out of pocket for something on the job. As long as there is a one time support fee of, say , $50 or less, desperate people may still pull out their own credit card.
Publicise a 900 number support line, and note that a normal number is provided to those who sign up for paid services.
It will be a time of great distress; there has never been such a time from the beginning of the world until now, and will never be again. If that time of troubles were not cut short, no living thing could survive; but for the sake of God's chosen it will be cut short. Matthew 24:22. It makes me wonder, but it also gives me real hope. Contrary to the attitude, 'well it's all going to burn, may as well use it now', it makes me think that good stewardship of our resources is more important than ever.