Okay, the method is actually one I use. But *not* on slashdot, honestly. I'm not going to give real information. Tongue in cheek, though, I was also pointing out another security flaw... you tell people your password, they'll be able to access your account. Publish it on the web, and...... anyhow, it happened to have to do with the title of the thread (Re:Stupid?). It was a little joke stuck in what might be otherwise useful comment.
Hopefully, the moderators will rate you and me down through the floor, now. Your comment for not getting the joke (-1 troll) and mine for having to explain it (-1 extremely stupid).
How about letting God be God, and handle that problem?
Or let me put it this way: Suppose you get on Price Is Right, and are in the middle of the game, and suddenly notice that one person isn't doing so well, and another is doing very well. Moreover, many people aren't getting called on to come up, at all. Is it your position to interrupt the game, and tell Bob, "We need to adjust the rules here. Some of those who are getting called are a complete embarrassment..."
Is that your job as one of the potential contestants?
Much more secure, and easier, is just to remember a few words from the theme song, and craft them into a password, substituting numbers as appropriate. There are many more variants this way, and you don't have to modify the password programs.
Then you work through the song, verse by verse.
As an example, I change my Slashdot password once a month to keep it secure. I'm in the middle of "Money ain't for nuthin", and my current password is based on "Custom Kitchens": two days ago, I modified it to be "ku5t0mK". In about another three weeks, I'll modify it to something based on "refrigerators". Each time I update my password, I have no problem remembering it; and there's almost zero chance that anyone will hack my Slashdot account.
Reading the headline and the homepage, "Our mission is to empower children and adults with affordable tools for knowledge sharing and literacy learning,...", I'd say that what they were trying to say is:
"We seek to teach children and adults to read and communicate."
I am very interested to see if their products work. Once they have tried them out, will they update their mission statement to reflect their newfound skills?
You say that the Vatican probably has billions at its disposal. The best answer I could find to that (no, not going to Chick publications, or to other conspiracy theorists), was located in Google Answers:
But stop and consider that "billions" is still less than the personal wealth of many individual many around the world.
Now stop and consider that that, according to Wikipedia, "In 2000, worldwide Catholic institutions totalled 408,637...". Or, there were half a million Roman Catholic churches around the world, so for every billion in assets, that represents $2000 per church, or about $1 per person.
So now you'd have to stop and ask, "if the church needed it, would its people be able to give $1? $10?" You'd have to answer yes. So yes, the Roman Catholic Church does have billions, even tens (maybe hundreds) of billions at its disposal, should it need it.
But then you need to ask, "Does that justify holding up the Roman Catholic Church for billions, because they can get it, and I want it?" (You have to include the "I want it" part, because that's really what's driving your statement -- either "I want it", or "I want it by proxy."
Now consider whether the Roman Catholic Church sees a brother in need and has no pity. My experience, is that the liquid assets of the church are so low (see the original google answers link above) *because* they have pity.
Just as a corallary... the organizations to which you belong: what assets are at their disposal, and do *they* show pity?
Today (June 2008) there are 6.7 billion people in the world, and 304 million in the US. (See the US Census). The world is currently producing about 85 M barrels of oil per day, and the US consumes about 20.7 M bls/day (see World Oil balance).
Note that world petroleum production peaked in 2005. This works out to 8 gallons of petroleum per US citizen daily. This consumption includes
gasoline, asphalt, heating oil, jet fuel, deisel fuel, lubridants, food production, and petroleum-based plastics. Of these products which is the LEAST painful to reduce?
So with 4.5% of the world population we are consuming 24% if the world's oil.
In other words, adding 21 MBls indeed won't lower the price of gas.
Yes -- I can think of how this works at the hospital (well, you pay the hospital megabucks for being there--the same money you'd have paid for the full service; but you still find you're liable to the doctor's union, and to the radiologist, and the pharmacologist, and the pharmacist, and the food service provider, and the company that provides the little packets of salt...)
Or I can think of how this works on Windoze machines that are sold without windoze (well, you have to pay them to not install it...)
It seems to me that the idea of selling the last mile of cable is simply a way of offloading costs (servicing the last mile of cable becomes YOUR problem, when you're neighbor's installer cuts your cable) while charging the homeowner a profit at the same time. Nor do I think that prices will be lower.
I'd call it dividing up the bill and double charging.
But maybe I'm wrong. This is Canada we're talking about, not the good ol' US of A. Us USAians are good at taking a good idea and driving it for such profit that we break the camel's back. Canada has followed us in that in some respects, but not nearly as badly.
Basically, what that means is that equations would convert to a screen-resolution (72 dpi) graphic. However, if you wanted to fix this problem, you simply purchased MathType for $125, and converted all your equations with copy/insert object {mathtype}/paste. Then you saved it into the appropriate format.
A deeper problem with Word was file corruption, and mis-rendering issues when you sent the file to the printer. That said, professionals either tended to go with a typesetting program like Quark, Mathtype, or one of a few others. Meanwhile, college professors always wanted something in Word, because they got that for free via M$ contract. That is when they didn't want it in HTML.
So our publisher Harcourt-Brace, required Word, and allowed whatever else we needed to get a professional product out there. I can't say they aren't professional, but that's a different kind of professional. They're the bankers (if you will), not the construction crew.
Ouch. You say that murder agencies will pop up left and right if the money is right... I have to agree.
1) Planned Parenthood.
2) School for the Americas-generated hit squads in S. America
3) Iraq/Afghanistan (no, I don't mean the war, I mean the suicide bombers outside police recruitment agencies)
4) Iraq/Afghanistan (now I mean the war)
5) Mafia (well, in the mafia governmental system, it *is* legal)
6) Putin's media/espionage branch offices in Britain and other locations (Litvenenko, for example).
7) Californian farmers' treatment of the Okies back in the dust bowl era.
8) Recent treatment of illegal aliens on the border
9) Oil companies hiring militias in Sudan
Yeah, I have to agree. Which is why our country's situation is a bit disturbing.
(Just so nobody think's I'm particularly anti-American in this, this list is compiled by an American who is more aware of American issues than other issues)
I'm replying to this late, because it's more a directly personal answer, and not for most people to read. I think the Lord takes kindly to what I did (including comparing a psalm to Aerosmith), specifically because I am reaching out to the lost souls.
Now, I have no idea what "religious experience" is all about. I also don't know how I could possibly look at slashdot if I was as thin-skinned as you imply. I'm not thin-skinned about it, perhaps because I have no real question about the reality of Christianity, or whether God actually means and does what He says.
Your post assumes that everything that goes on with Christianity is an illusion. If that were true -- if indeed it were an illusion -- Christianity and how it affects peoples' lives still beats any of the other things that society pushes, hands down. What does technology do for a schizophrenic person, but fill their life with noise? That noise means trouble for such a person. What does free sex and fashion do for a schizophrenic person, but give them a momentary high, followed by despair? It was either that, or the parallel crash of her career, that drove my schizophrenic aunt to suicide. The political -isms are worse. Science and math are nice, but the detailed intricate thinking that they require can threaten to push a schizophrenic person over the edge.
Yet I would contend that the wealth of evidence is that Christianity is basically true. But you can't come to it as a five-year gig, full of arrogance. The Lord reveals himself to the humble and the weak. Thus, psalm 107 is summed up as five different stories of "People were arrogant, and disaster befell them, and they cried out to God, and He saved them. Now let them declare the works of the Lord." For me, the disaster was back in '92. For others, it may be right now.
For many, though you are only getting an inkling of it, the disaster is coming. I don't mean schizophrenia -- I mean starvation, political strife, war, PTSD, and whatnot. When that happens, remember this, and learn humility, and cry out to God. He may save you, and you will learn that God is far more real than you and I.
Until then, I suspect it is kindof useless to speak to you and many others of Christianity. So for that, I won't bother -- for now.
But for the original poster, his disaster is right now. And Christianity absolutely requires of its members that they reach out to the hurting and the weak. You can't look at the Son without seeing that that was His whole focus. So no, I can't save myself the trouble and just go back to church for adoration. I've been among the hurting and week, and I've been restored; my life is as whole as it can be, and I didn't do anything to deserve it. Now I must in turn offer comfort to others.
Actually, my brother had to get a microwave meter, and needed to test it out. As part of his tests, he looked at the microwave output during various conditions of usage (that is, good reception --> bad reception). What he said is that the cell phone does ramp up to dangerous levels when it has bad reception.
Now consider that the skin of (say) a public city bus reflects the microwaves within the chamber, and you have a recipe for being toast.
I don't have more detail than that, but in line with that... yes, I'd say that it is wise to avoid using cell phones.
Even though the articles have been kept out of refereed medical journals, it's no secret.
Let me reply -- I've been there, done that. Not all that, but a little of that.
Back in 1992, I had a urethane or polyester exposure (I'm not sure which). That gave me hyper allergies, so the doctor put me on prednisone, which in 1/10 cases, causes psychosis.
He forgot to mention the possible side effects. But that didn't stop me from getting paranoia.
In my case, I was afraid that someone was putting something in my food to control me. Retrospectively, I think that my brain was essentially diagnosing its own problems, and trying to get me to modify my diet (ummm, could us neurons have a little more of that prednisone please? Or maybe we don't want it after all...)
Now, my mom just tried to keep me eating good food, and eventually the symptoms went away as the withdrawal effects went away. But it alerted me to the facts that (1) people of high IQ and high-stress jobs are highly likely to get a mental illness (2) I am susceptible, at the very least.
But my uncle, who works in psychology, mentioned that if you find yourself susceptible to mental illness, it is advantageous to get a lower-stress, more physical job. If need be, take up running (not all out, just 1/2 to 1 hr a day), gardening (pulling weeds is very therapeutic, I find), or a more physical job, or become a high school gym teacher. Also, avoid those situations that tend to make you more paranoid -- give yourself a break; and avoid those habits which you rationally know are insane. He calls this good mental hygiene.
Based on experience, I think he's right.
I'm right now an aerospace/ocean engineer by training, and a layout tech for a prestress concrete company by trade. I don't keep a computer or a TV at home, and use the computer minimally aside from that. If I absolutely need web access outside of my work computer, I go to a library.
I also cultivate a strong relationship with my wife, with my kids, and with Christ, praying as most Christians do. Although my prayers do get answers, I mean that in the sense that most strong Christians do, as well. When I've not been sure what to do, and I've prayed for God to close all the doors except the one he wants me doing, I've trusted him for that, and He's done it (as my wife, who is quite mentally stable, can affirm).
Last of all, needless to say, I'd say give up any weapons, and any hope of defending yourself against anything even through other means. Pray, and ask Christ to defend you. But as a potentially mentally ill person, if you're going to defend yourself, you're in trouble anyhow. So give that one up, and put your trust in God as your defender: "You who dwell in the shelter of the Lord, who abide in His shadow for Life; say to the Lord 'my refuge, my rock in whom I trust'. And he will raise you up on eagle's wings, bear you on the breath of dawn, and make you to shine like the sun, and hold you in the palm of His hand."
Wow, are you right! Why, if the Codex' Gospel of Mark was written in the 4th Century BCE as the headline says, then they had three centuries to revise it before the events even happened!
As it is, I (a Christian) do not intend to get very upset about this... much of the Bible does not speak of the resurrection, though much of it does.
Even Christ had to point out some of the finer points to the Sadduccees (God is a God of the living, not the dead; but says "I AM the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob" to Moses. Therefore, they must be living.)
Aside from that, conspiracy theorists always go over the deep end, making much out of nothing. Anti-Christian conspiracy theorists are no different.
Just a note here for our British friends -- our founding fathers initiated a system of checks and balances -- that is, a check is kindof like a body-block in football. Balance is kindof like keeping one's balance in gymnastiques.
As any Larouche party member can tell you, it wasn't until the British banques took over that the U.S. Quonstitution was said to have a system of Cheques (that is, payments made from the British Banque controlled Federal reserve) and Balances (that is, the amount of money left in the account, which is... ahem... quite embarrassing).
More to answer your pointe, our foundinge fatherse never trusted the common populace to run the Countrie. That is whye neither women, nor slaves, nor men without lande could vote. That is also whye they chose a republique, instead of a Democracie. It is but a naturalle extensione of the systeme, that a Companie that supplies hackable equipment to ye Britishe Banques should also be usefulle in properlie controlling ye Electionse, now that just any Tom, Dick, and Harry can vote.
Personally, I feel much, *much* better about McCain now that I know he can astroturf on the web.
Yeah, I know it has nothing to do with the war, or the torture, or whatnot, but McCain Can Astroturf Even the Web!!!
Actually, being pro-life, I'll probably just pencil in Keyes, unless for some reason Obama takes Keyes as VP running mate, in which case I'll vote Obama (my pro-life vote would be for Keyes for VP, then.)
It's not about a wasted vote. It is all about not being complicit in what I believe to be an unavoidable human rights disaster.
I wonder why an early adopter wouldn't just purchase a small gas-electric generator. Get stuck? Run the generator for about 2 hours, and get to where you can charge up.
Of course, that isn't the way it often goes. Rather, it goes more like this:
(1) Arrange line of credit with your current bank account as collateral (2) Buy oil futures (3) Pump spam/disinformation about a US military strike in Iran
(3a) Do this when US/Israeli officials are making strong statements, because
(3b) Iran has just tested some missiles. (4) Watch the price of oil go *down* 10% as major players sell (5) Take call from stockbroker calling in collateral, and selling your futures at 10% loss (6) Watch major players *buy*, sending up the price 15-17% (and collecting your bank
account in the process) (7) Profit! (For someone anyhow, not you).
Needless to say, this is just one of the myriad of ways to lose everything on the stock market.
Basically, I could do short sections in Word and not worry about corruption; but when I went to long sections, Word would corrupt the document in short order, every time. So I started producing "sections" in MS Word, but the final product in Quark.
It worked just fine. Of course, that was all on a Mac... I don't know about the PC version.
Actually, as I remember, the WordPerfect program that predated the Office 97 product line also had the exact same issues with file corruption.
So when Microsoft hired the lead programmer of WordPerfect to develop their Office 97 product line, and came up with nearly the same product, it's not surprising that they got nearly the same errors. It's also not surprising that they apparently didn't know what to do about it, and therefore said (with the paid support toll-free line) "no, your file isn't being corrupted, and no, we don't want before and after copies to figure out what went wrong".
Which is what they said. Later on, it turned out that they knew very well there were corruption problems; they were simply stonewalling. Which means that the product support they sold was a fraud.
Ron Paul is about as close to a libertarian as you can get, and at some times has been.
However, the major media affirmed, about 2 elections ago, that they would never again give the Libertarian party or any of their candidates coverage, even if they won the presidential election. That was in the words of a network representative (I'm thinking NBC), in explanation of why they were not covering the Libertarians, at a time when inexplicably no media was giving Libertarians coverage.
So the Ron Paul comment is right on target. He had the most support of all the candidates, both cash and personal -- and yet was excluded from the debates. He also had votes in New Hampshire which registered zero votes for him, and he had control of the Nevada Caucus, which was shut down rather than allow him to have support going into the Republican convention.
This is called election fraud. It goes hand in hand with the media fraud. In addition, the denial of Ron Paul in the debates made the Fox News Fair'n'Balanced(tm) debates into a primetime multi-hour infomercial. In other words, it was a major illegal campaign donation to all those who were given coverage. Of course, even calling it the debates also violates truth in advertising laws, but this can only go so far.
I should note, that in line with this I fully expect Obama will not win, even if he gets 96% of the votes.
Combine this with the abdication of legislative power to the president, and the abdication of constitutional interpretation to the president, and basically what we are seeing is that though most of the world is moving away from dictatorships, the US is becoming a secret-police, torturing, constitutionless dictatorship.
That said, it isn't worth fighting against. Rather, other countries are moving away from it because such countries destroy themselves. They simultaneously make deadly enemies, and destroy their economy, so that an enemy army can invade and destroy what's left.
So rather than fighting against it, it's more worthwhile to simply flee to a country that is a *land of the free* and *home of the brave*. The US has been there, done that, and don't look like it's even lookin' back. For what it's worth, it is my opinion that the handwriting is on the wall that we're becoming the world's next Iraq. To quote the evangelists, our 400 years of biblical testing are done, and we probably are found way wanting.
Actually, this guy sounds as crooked as Bob Barr. I suggest he should vote libertarian after all. I, on the other hand, am a libertarian supporter -- but I cannot support Bob Barr.
I will probably write in a name, just to be able to say, "yes, I voted, and no, my vote doesn't count for anything."
If you want to understand a shooting war, consider the war between ITT (vis a vis Pinochet) and Chile, when Allende nationalized their copper mines. Or consider the war between ITT and the US, during WWII, when ITT was making the German bombers, and the US bombed the German planes.
Or consider the war between the World Bank and Zaire, when Mobutu fled to France with all those IMF loans, Kabila declined to make payments on Mobutu's stolen funds, and within *3 months* there was a mobilized army led by the son of the IMF's representative to Zaire, which kept a shooting war going until *3 months* after Kabila said "okay, we'll start paying on Mobutu's money."
Note, too, that in both the case of Allende and Kabila, they were murdered, probably just to show the people that the corporations, not the citizens, are in charge.
Corporations are all too ready to commit murder and mass murder to claim power. Think before you act.
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Okay, the method is actually one I use. But *not* on slashdot, honestly. I'm not going to give real information. Tongue in cheek, though, I was also pointing out another security flaw... you tell people your password, they'll be able to access your account. Publish it on the web, and ... ... anyhow, it happened to have to do with the title of the thread (Re:Stupid?). It was a little joke stuck in what might be otherwise useful comment.
Hopefully, the moderators will rate you and me down through the floor, now. Your comment for not getting the joke (-1 troll) and mine for having to explain it (-1 extremely stupid).
How about letting God be God, and handle that problem?
Or let me put it this way: Suppose you get on Price Is Right, and are in the middle of the game, and suddenly notice that one person isn't doing so well, and another is doing very well. Moreover, many people aren't getting called on to come up, at all. Is it your position to interrupt the game, and tell Bob, "We need to adjust the rules here. Some of those who are getting called are a complete embarrassment..."
Is that your job as one of the potential contestants?
Or is that more the job of Merv Griffin?
Much more secure, and easier, is just to remember a few words from the theme song, and craft them into a password, substituting numbers as appropriate. There are many more variants this way, and you don't have to modify the password programs.
Then you work through the song, verse by verse.
As an example, I change my Slashdot password once a month to keep it secure. I'm in the middle of "Money ain't for nuthin", and my current password is based on "Custom Kitchens": two days ago, I modified it to be "ku5t0mK". In about another three weeks, I'll modify it to something based on "refrigerators". Each time I update my password, I have no problem remembering it; and there's almost zero chance that anyone will hack my Slashdot account.
Reading the headline and the homepage, "Our mission is to empower children and adults with affordable tools for knowledge sharing and literacy learning,...", I'd say that what they were trying to say is:
"We seek to teach children and adults to read and communicate."
I am very interested to see if their products work. Once they have tried them out, will they update their mission statement to reflect their newfound skills?
http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=54617
But stop and consider that "billions" is still less than the personal wealth of many individual many around the world.
Now stop and consider that that, according to Wikipedia, "In 2000, worldwide Catholic institutions totalled 408,637...". Or, there were half a million Roman Catholic churches around the world, so for every billion in assets, that represents $2000 per church, or about $1 per person.
So now you'd have to stop and ask, "if the church needed it, would its people be able to give $1? $10?" You'd have to answer yes. So yes, the Roman Catholic Church does have billions, even tens (maybe hundreds) of billions at its disposal, should it need it.
But then you need to ask, "Does that justify holding up the Roman Catholic Church for billions, because they can get it, and I want it?" (You have to include the "I want it" part, because that's really what's driving your statement -- either "I want it", or "I want it by proxy."
Now consider whether the Roman Catholic Church sees a brother in need and has no pity. My experience, is that the liquid assets of the church are so low (see the original google answers link above) *because* they have pity.
Just as a corallary... the organizations to which you belong: what assets are at their disposal, and do *they* show pity?
Today (June 2008) there are 6.7 billion people in the world, and 304 million in the US. (See the US Census). The world is currently producing about 85 M barrels of oil per day, and the US consumes about 20.7 M bls/day (see World Oil balance).
Note that world petroleum production peaked in 2005. This works out to 8 gallons of petroleum per US citizen daily. This consumption includes gasoline, asphalt, heating oil, jet fuel, deisel fuel, lubridants, food production, and petroleum-based plastics. Of these products which is the LEAST painful to reduce?
So with 4.5% of the world population we are consuming 24% if the world's oil. In other words, adding 21 MBls indeed won't lower the price of gas.
Yes -- I can think of how this works at the hospital (well, you pay the hospital megabucks for being there--the same money you'd have paid for the full service; but you still find you're liable to the doctor's union, and to the radiologist, and the pharmacologist, and the pharmacist, and the food service provider, and the company that provides the little packets of salt...)
Or I can think of how this works on Windoze machines that are sold without windoze (well, you have to pay them to not install it...)
It seems to me that the idea of selling the last mile of cable is simply a way of offloading costs (servicing the last mile of cable becomes YOUR problem, when you're neighbor's installer cuts your cable) while charging the homeowner a profit at the same time. Nor do I think that prices will be lower.
I'd call it dividing up the bill and double charging.
But maybe I'm wrong. This is Canada we're talking about, not the good ol' US of A. Us USAians are good at taking a good idea and driving it for such profit that we break the camel's back. Canada has followed us in that in some respects, but not nearly as badly.
They just switch to Dell Li-ion battery backup.
All the oxygen you need.
Basically, what that means is that equations would convert to a screen-resolution (72 dpi) graphic. However, if you wanted to fix this problem, you simply purchased MathType for $125, and converted all your equations with copy/insert object {mathtype}/paste. Then you saved it into the appropriate format.
A deeper problem with Word was file corruption, and mis-rendering issues when you sent the file to the printer.
That said, professionals either tended to go with a typesetting program like Quark, Mathtype, or one of a few others.
Meanwhile, college professors always wanted something in Word, because they got that for free via M$ contract. That is when they didn't want it in HTML.
So our publisher Harcourt-Brace, required Word, and allowed whatever else we needed to get a professional product out there. I can't say they aren't professional, but that's a different kind of professional. They're the bankers (if you will), not the construction crew.
Ouch. You say that murder agencies will pop up left and right if the money is right... I have to agree.
1) Planned Parenthood.
2) School for the Americas-generated hit squads in S. America
3) Iraq/Afghanistan (no, I don't mean the war, I mean the suicide bombers outside police recruitment agencies)
4) Iraq/Afghanistan (now I mean the war)
5) Mafia (well, in the mafia governmental system, it *is* legal)
6) Putin's media/espionage branch offices in Britain and other locations (Litvenenko, for example).
7) Californian farmers' treatment of the Okies back in the dust bowl era.
8) Recent treatment of illegal aliens on the border
9) Oil companies hiring militias in Sudan
Yeah, I have to agree. Which is why our country's situation is a bit disturbing.
(Just so nobody think's I'm particularly anti-American in this, this list is compiled by an American who is more aware of American issues than other issues)
I'm replying to this late, because it's more a directly personal answer, and not for most people to read. I think the Lord takes kindly to what I did (including comparing a psalm to Aerosmith), specifically because I am reaching out to the lost souls.
Now, I have no idea what "religious experience" is all about. I also don't know how I could possibly look at slashdot if I was as thin-skinned as you imply. I'm not thin-skinned about it, perhaps because I have no real question about the reality of Christianity, or whether God actually means and does what He says.
Your post assumes that everything that goes on with Christianity is an illusion. If that were true -- if indeed it were an illusion -- Christianity and how it affects peoples' lives still beats any of the other things that society pushes, hands down. What does technology do for a schizophrenic person, but fill their life with noise? That noise means trouble for such a person. What does free sex and fashion do for a schizophrenic person, but give them a momentary high, followed by despair? It was either that, or the parallel crash of her career, that drove my schizophrenic aunt to suicide. The political -isms are worse. Science and math are nice, but the detailed intricate thinking that they require can threaten to push a schizophrenic person over the edge.
Yet I would contend that the wealth of evidence is that Christianity is basically true. But you can't come to it as a five-year gig, full of arrogance. The Lord reveals himself to the humble and the weak. Thus, psalm 107 is summed up as five different stories of "People were arrogant, and disaster befell them, and they cried out to God, and He saved them. Now let them declare the works of the Lord." For me, the disaster was back in '92. For others, it may be right now.
For many, though you are only getting an inkling of it, the disaster is coming. I don't mean schizophrenia -- I mean starvation, political strife, war, PTSD, and whatnot. When that happens, remember this, and learn humility, and cry out to God. He may save you, and you will learn that God is far more real than you and I.
Until then, I suspect it is kindof useless to speak to you and many others of Christianity. So for that, I won't bother -- for now.
But for the original poster, his disaster is right now. And Christianity absolutely requires of its members that they reach out to the hurting and the weak. You can't look at the Son without seeing that that was His whole focus. So no, I can't save myself the trouble and just go back to church for adoration. I've been among the hurting and week, and I've been restored; my life is as whole as it can be, and I didn't do anything to deserve it. Now I must in turn offer comfort to others.
Actually, my brother had to get a microwave meter, and needed to test it out. As part of his tests, he looked at the microwave output during various conditions of usage (that is, good reception --> bad reception). What he said is that the cell phone does ramp up to dangerous levels when it has bad reception.
Now consider that the skin of (say) a public city bus reflects the microwaves within the chamber, and you have a recipe for being toast.
I don't have more detail than that, but in line with that... yes, I'd say that it is wise to avoid using cell phones.
Even though the articles have been kept out of refereed medical journals, it's no secret.
That is a quote from a psalm that was made into a song.
Not any more insane than quoting Aerosmith.
Let me reply -- I've been there, done that. Not all that, but a little of that.
Back in 1992, I had a urethane or polyester exposure (I'm not sure which). That gave me hyper allergies, so the doctor put me on prednisone, which in 1/10 cases, causes psychosis.
He forgot to mention the possible side effects. But that didn't stop me from getting paranoia.
In my case, I was afraid that someone was putting something in my food to control me. Retrospectively, I think that my brain was essentially diagnosing its own problems, and trying to get me to modify my diet (ummm, could us neurons have a little more of that prednisone please? Or maybe we don't want it after all...)
Now, my mom just tried to keep me eating good food, and eventually the symptoms went away as the withdrawal effects went away. But it alerted me to the facts that (1) people of high IQ and high-stress jobs are highly likely to get a mental illness (2) I am susceptible, at the very least.
But my uncle, who works in psychology, mentioned that if you find yourself susceptible to mental illness, it is advantageous to get a lower-stress, more physical job. If need be, take up running (not all out, just 1/2 to 1 hr a day), gardening (pulling weeds is very therapeutic, I find), or a more physical job, or become a high school gym teacher. Also, avoid those situations that tend to make you more paranoid -- give yourself a break; and avoid those habits which you rationally know are insane. He calls this good mental hygiene.
Based on experience, I think he's right.
I'm right now an aerospace/ocean engineer by training, and a layout tech for a prestress concrete company by trade. I don't keep a computer or a TV at home, and use the computer minimally aside from that. If I absolutely need web access outside of my work computer, I go to a library.
I also cultivate a strong relationship with my wife, with my kids, and with Christ, praying as most Christians do. Although my prayers do get answers, I mean that in the sense that most strong Christians do, as well. When I've not been sure what to do, and I've prayed for God to close all the doors except the one he wants me doing, I've trusted him for that, and He's done it (as my wife, who is quite mentally stable, can affirm).
Last of all, needless to say, I'd say give up any weapons, and any hope of defending yourself against anything even through other means. Pray, and ask Christ to defend you. But as a potentially mentally ill person, if you're going to defend yourself, you're in trouble anyhow. So give that one up, and put your trust in God as your defender: "You who dwell in the shelter of the Lord, who abide in His shadow for Life; say to the Lord 'my refuge, my rock in whom I trust'. And he will raise you up on eagle's wings, bear you on the breath of dawn, and make you to shine like the sun, and hold you in the palm of His hand."
Wow, are you right! Why, if the Codex' Gospel of Mark was written in the 4th Century BCE as the headline says, then they had three centuries to revise it before the events even happened!
As it is, I (a Christian) do not intend to get very upset about this... much of the Bible does not speak of the resurrection, though much of it does.
Even Christ had to point out some of the finer points to the Sadduccees (God is a God of the living, not the dead; but says "I AM the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob" to Moses. Therefore, they must be living.)
Aside from that, conspiracy theorists always go over the deep end, making much out of nothing. Anti-Christian conspiracy theorists are no different.
Just a note here for our British friends -- our founding fathers initiated a system of checks and balances -- that is, a check is kindof like a body-block in football. Balance is kindof like keeping one's balance in gymnastiques.
As any Larouche party member can tell you, it wasn't until the British banques took over that the U.S. Quonstitution was said to have a system of Cheques (that is, payments made from the British Banque controlled Federal reserve) and Balances (that is, the amount of money left in the account, which is ... ahem ... quite embarrassing).
More to answer your pointe, our foundinge fatherse never trusted the common populace to run the Countrie. That is whye neither women, nor slaves, nor men without lande could vote. That is also whye they chose a republique, instead of a Democracie. It is but a naturalle extensione of the systeme, that a Companie that supplies hackable equipment to ye Britishe Banques should also be usefulle in properlie controlling ye Electionse, now that just any Tom, Dick, and Harry can vote.
Yeah, I know it has nothing to do with the war, or the torture, or whatnot, but McCain Can Astroturf Even the Web!!!
Actually, being pro-life, I'll probably just pencil in Keyes, unless for some reason Obama takes Keyes as VP running mate, in which case I'll vote Obama (my pro-life vote would be for Keyes for VP, then.)
It's not about a wasted vote. It is all about not being complicit in what I believe to be an unavoidable human rights disaster.
I wonder why an early adopter wouldn't just purchase a small gas-electric generator. Get stuck? Run the generator for about 2 hours, and get to where you can charge up.
Of course, that isn't the way it often goes. Rather, it goes more like this:
(1) Arrange line of credit with your current bank account as collateral
(2) Buy oil futures
(3) Pump spam/disinformation about a US military strike in Iran
(3a) Do this when US/Israeli officials are making strong statements, because
(3b) Iran has just tested some missiles.
(4) Watch the price of oil go *down* 10% as major players sell
(5) Take call from stockbroker calling in collateral, and selling your futures at 10% loss
(6) Watch major players *buy*, sending up the price 15-17% (and collecting your bank
account in the process)
(7) Profit! (For someone anyhow, not you).
Needless to say, this is just one of the myriad of ways to lose everything on the stock market.
Yawn...
Basically, I could do short sections in Word and not worry about corruption; but when I went to long sections, Word would corrupt the document in short order, every time. So I started producing "sections" in MS Word, but the final product in Quark.
It worked just fine. Of course, that was all on a Mac... I don't know about the PC version.
Actually, as I remember, the WordPerfect program that predated the Office 97 product line also had the exact same issues with file corruption.
So when Microsoft hired the lead programmer of WordPerfect to develop their Office 97 product line, and came up with nearly the same product, it's not surprising that they got nearly the same errors. It's also not surprising that they apparently didn't know what to do about it, and therefore said (with the paid support toll-free line) "no, your file isn't being corrupted, and no, we don't want before and after copies to figure out what went wrong".
Which is what they said. Later on, it turned out that they knew very well there were corruption problems; they were simply stonewalling. Which means that the product support they sold was a fraud.
Ron Paul is about as close to a libertarian as you can get, and at some times has been.
However, the major media affirmed, about 2 elections ago, that they would never again give the Libertarian party or any of their candidates coverage, even if they won the presidential election. That was in the words of a network representative (I'm thinking NBC), in explanation of why they were not covering the Libertarians, at a time when inexplicably no media was giving Libertarians coverage.
So the Ron Paul comment is right on target. He had the most support of all the candidates, both cash and personal -- and yet was excluded from the debates. He also had votes in New Hampshire which registered zero votes for him, and he had control of the Nevada Caucus, which was shut down rather than allow him to have support going into the Republican convention.
This is called election fraud. It goes hand in hand with the media fraud. In addition, the denial of Ron Paul in the debates made the Fox News Fair'n'Balanced(tm) debates into a primetime multi-hour infomercial. In other words, it was a major illegal campaign donation to all those who were given coverage. Of course, even calling it the debates also violates truth in advertising laws, but this can only go so far.
I should note, that in line with this I fully expect Obama will not win, even if he gets 96% of the votes.
Combine this with the abdication of legislative power to the president, and the abdication of constitutional interpretation to the president, and basically what we are seeing is that though most of the world is moving away from dictatorships, the US is becoming a secret-police, torturing, constitutionless dictatorship.
That said, it isn't worth fighting against. Rather, other countries are moving away from it because such countries destroy themselves. They simultaneously make deadly enemies, and destroy their economy, so that an enemy army can invade and destroy what's left.
So rather than fighting against it, it's more worthwhile to simply flee to a country that is a *land of the free* and *home of the brave*. The US has been there, done that, and don't look like it's even lookin' back. For what it's worth, it is my opinion that the handwriting is on the wall that we're becoming the world's next Iraq. To quote the evangelists, our 400 years of biblical testing are done, and we probably are found way wanting.
Actually, this guy sounds as crooked as Bob Barr. I suggest he should vote libertarian after all. I, on the other hand, am a libertarian supporter -- but I cannot support Bob Barr.
I will probably write in a name, just to be able to say, "yes, I voted, and no, my vote doesn't count for anything."
If you want to understand a shooting war, consider the war between ITT (vis a vis Pinochet) and Chile, when Allende nationalized their copper mines. Or consider the war between ITT and the US, during WWII, when ITT was making the German bombers, and the US bombed the German planes.
Or consider the war between the World Bank and Zaire, when Mobutu fled to France with all those IMF loans, Kabila declined to make payments on Mobutu's stolen funds, and within *3 months* there was a mobilized army led by the son of the IMF's representative to Zaire, which kept a shooting war going until *3 months* after Kabila said "okay, we'll start paying on Mobutu's money."
Note, too, that in both the case of Allende and Kabila, they were murdered, probably just to show the people that the corporations, not the citizens, are in charge.
Corporations are all too ready to commit murder and mass murder to claim power. Think before you act.
I know it's old hat by now, but back in the Office 98 days, file corruption was a big deal.
I wonder what was going on, but it occurs to me that now I could concievably actually back out
the errors, and figure the thing out.