the problem with that can be summed up in two words. Human Nature. It's not enough that we are comfortable, we have to be more comfortable than the next guy.
While I'm not sure if I would call boilerplate activish one of the greatest inventions ever, I do think that it has its place. However, I also think that the people reading these things would begin to notice if they receive thousands of identical letters. Therefore, I think that these things have the potential to become self-trivializing without any other help.
I had a Visor with the phone attachment. I *highly* recommend not using this one. It is almost completely useless as a phone. Decent PDA, but terrible phone. Problems are:
Difficult to dial because the buttons are on your screen
Next to impossible to dial from your phone book with one hand
Very difficult to answer the phone while driving (I know, but I had hands-free).
Vibrate mode eats batteries, and ringer is very quiet (uses Visor's speaker), so it's difficult to tell when you're getting an incoming call.
Mine used Voicestream's service which at least in the New York/New Jersey area is spotty at best.
Would love to try something else, but for me, this one stunk.
I tell you what, I *like* jabbing the keyboard like a psychotic drill instructor. My favorite keyboards are the old-style IBM keyboards. Really heavy, hella loud, kinda ugly, but very durable. I tend to break newer keyboards quite frequently due to learning to type on a mechanical keyboard.
since it, at least from a historical perspective (forget water to wine, etc.) has been proven to be 100% correct in the cases where it is verifiable. Note - I am talking about *historical* information. Not miracles, prophesies, or anything else. Just locations, names, places, etc.
Well, I'm not sure if you would consider Revelations "ancient greek" since it was (to the best of my knowledge) written in approximately AD 90. However, the Greeks used phonetics for their numbers. Here's some more info. Of course, this may or may not be relevant since they're talking like 1000 years prior to the text in question. I'm thinking that the language probably changed somewhat in that time.
If you calculate the numerological value of Nero's full name according to numerological practices of the time it adds up to 666
Which is fine, except that there are no original manuscripts available from that time that definitavely say that the number is, in fact, 666. The middle character (can't remember which one it is now, but I'm pretty sure it's not on my keyboard anyway) is somewhat obscured from the originals, making it difficult to distinguish. It could just as easily be 616, but that just doesn't sound as evil for some reason.
3. I drink soda. However, I know perfectly well what pop is.
Just because someone's intelligent doesn't mean that I can understand them. Where do you draw the line? No English at all? There are plenty of people who are far more intelligent than I that I don't have any language in common with. Would I hire them? No.
but my $39 gives me caller ID, call waiting, 3 way calling, call forwarding, *69 callback, I can check my voicemail on the web, change my plan on the web, and be on the phone long distance 24 hours a day if I want.
I didn't have a land line until I tried vonage. Works over a broadband connection, connects to any phone, and with only a small amount of wiring ability, you can connect it to your POTS NI, and have all of the phone jacks in your house working with dialtone. That and it's $39/mo for unlimited local, long distance, voicemail, etc. Numbers are portable, and the sound quality is equivalent to a standard telephone. Not affiliated with them in any way, just a very happy customer.
"...were the nth day" doesn't exactly say how long of a time period they were talking about though, does it? Just that there were a certain number of periods. Like "The first period of time there was light." I've read most of those books, and I still stand by what I said before in that it takes substantially more gymnastics to "fit" a young earth philosophy than an old-earth one. I would also like to know if "the evening and the morning" includes the day, afternoon, and night. Seems to me that evening and morning would be a roughly 8 hour day, not 24. Not to nitpick, but if you're going to take that as a literal day, there's some missing portions there.
First of all, I do believe in the Bible and I do not think it is a collection of myths.
That said, I think it takes a heck of a lot more faith, not to mention far more scientific gymnastics to believe that there is a valid resolution between Genesis and the Big Bang than that the Earth is like 6k years old.
I also take exception to the view of the young-earth creationists that their interpretation of Genesis is correct, and everyone else's is wrong. I know that God was there, I wasn't, neither were you. Also, neither of us were there when Genesis was written or inspired, and the author of Genesis wasn't around either. And he was human, taking God's word and putting it into a frame of reference that we could understand. Maybe God's versions of days were different. Maybe the author just couldn't possibly get it right. Maybe it was completely clear at the time of writing, and years of syntax changes made it not seem so clear.
You could be right, I could be wrong, and God could have created the universe with age just as he created Adam and Eve with age. I don't know, and neither do you. My only point is that there is patently *not* a number next to "yom" or however you spell it. There is evening, there is morning. Both of which can have different meanings just like "day" can.
A british equivalent is still speaking English natively. Just a heads-up. I never said "American English from around the town I grew up in so that they sound identical to me and all of my neighbors".
I'll reply to myself here. I mean exactly what I say. Certain native English speakers have an accent - think Southern, New York, Boston, New England, etc. Also, there are quite a few people who have a slight accent due to different languages being spoken at home. This is not what I'm talking about. By "can't tell they are not native speakers", I mean that they "get" ernacular, jargon, slang, jokes, music, understand what I'm saying straight away, and I can understand what they're saying first time every time.
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false. A 20mm shell moves at about 1800 km/h. Pretty sure those are still in widespread use.
As always, the answer is a union
True. The problem is that it was a stupid question.
the problem with that can be summed up in two words. Human Nature. It's not enough that we are comfortable, we have to be more comfortable than the next guy.
Not at all. Keep in mind that the church censored them for *everyone*. This technology is user-specific.
yeah and each person has to eat shit...
Yow. I didn't think there was anything that would make the Navy worse than being referred to as "semen".
While I'm not sure if I would call boilerplate activish one of the greatest inventions ever, I do think that it has its place. However, I also think that the people reading these things would begin to notice if they receive thousands of identical letters. Therefore, I think that these things have the potential to become self-trivializing without any other help.
if the population was educated, they wouldn't vote for Republicans
Revised:
if the population were educated, they wouldn't dogmatically say Republicans == Bad && Democrats == Good
- Difficult to dial because the buttons are on your screen
- Next to impossible to dial from your phone book with one hand
- Very difficult to answer the phone while driving (I know, but I had hands-free).
- Vibrate mode eats batteries, and ringer is very quiet (uses Visor's speaker), so it's difficult to tell when you're getting an incoming call.
- Mine used Voicestream's service which at least in the New York/New Jersey area is spotty at best.
Would love to try something else, but for me, this one stunk.All generalizations are wrong.
Sometimes they are also flamebait.
"Dolphins are intelligent and friendly creatures!"
"Yeah. Intelligent and friendly on rye bread with some mayonnaise"
I tell you what, I *like* jabbing the keyboard like a psychotic drill instructor. My favorite keyboards are the old-style IBM keyboards. Really heavy, hella loud, kinda ugly, but very durable. I tend to break newer keyboards quite frequently due to learning to type on a mechanical keyboard.
since it, at least from a historical perspective (forget water to wine, etc.) has been proven to be 100% correct in the cases where it is verifiable. Note - I am talking about *historical* information. Not miracles, prophesies, or anything else. Just locations, names, places, etc.
Computer-related death is non-zero, so the gun to computer related death is not infinite.
Well, I'm not sure if you would consider Revelations "ancient greek" since it was (to the best of my knowledge) written in approximately AD 90. However, the Greeks used phonetics for their numbers. Here's some more info. Of course, this may or may not be relevant since they're talking like 1000 years prior to the text in question. I'm thinking that the language probably changed somewhat in that time.
If you calculate the numerological value of Nero's full name according to numerological practices of the time it adds up to 666
Which is fine, except that there are no original manuscripts available from that time that definitavely say that the number is, in fact, 666. The middle character (can't remember which one it is now, but I'm pretty sure it's not on my keyboard anyway) is somewhat obscured from the originals, making it difficult to distinguish. It could just as easily be 616, but that just doesn't sound as evil for some reason.
I can't read that. He clearly did not put the proper cover sheet on his report before he sent it out.
1. I need no gasoline in my trunk
2. I know what all of those are.
3. I drink soda. However, I know perfectly well what pop is.
Just because someone's intelligent doesn't mean that I can understand them. Where do you draw the line? No English at all? There are plenty of people who are far more intelligent than I that I don't have any language in common with. Would I hire them? No.
I'm not paranoid, I'm mononoid. There's only one person out to get me - I just don't know who it is.
but my $39 gives me caller ID, call waiting, 3 way calling, call forwarding, *69 callback, I can check my voicemail on the web, change my plan on the web, and be on the phone long distance 24 hours a day if I want.
I didn't have a land line until I tried vonage. Works over a broadband connection, connects to any phone, and with only a small amount of wiring ability, you can connect it to your POTS NI, and have all of the phone jacks in your house working with dialtone. That and it's $39/mo for unlimited local, long distance, voicemail, etc. Numbers are portable, and the sound quality is equivalent to a standard telephone. Not affiliated with them in any way, just a very happy customer.
The whole fun part is listening to the different formats and sounds of radio stations as your cross the country
Especially when they have both kinds of music - country AND western. w00t!
"...were the nth day" doesn't exactly say how long of a time period they were talking about though, does it? Just that there were a certain number of periods. Like "The first period of time there was light." I've read most of those books, and I still stand by what I said before in that it takes substantially more gymnastics to "fit" a young earth philosophy than an old-earth one. I would also like to know if "the evening and the morning" includes the day, afternoon, and night. Seems to me that evening and morning would be a roughly 8 hour day, not 24. Not to nitpick, but if you're going to take that as a literal day, there's some missing portions there.
First of all, I do believe in the Bible and I do not think it is a collection of myths.
That said, I think it takes a heck of a lot more faith, not to mention far more scientific gymnastics to believe that there is a valid resolution between Genesis and the Big Bang than that the Earth is like 6k years old.
I also take exception to the view of the young-earth creationists that their interpretation of Genesis is correct, and everyone else's is wrong. I know that God was there, I wasn't, neither were you. Also, neither of us were there when Genesis was written or inspired, and the author of Genesis wasn't around either. And he was human, taking God's word and putting it into a frame of reference that we could understand. Maybe God's versions of days were different. Maybe the author just couldn't possibly get it right. Maybe it was completely clear at the time of writing, and years of syntax changes made it not seem so clear.
You could be right, I could be wrong, and God could have created the universe with age just as he created Adam and Eve with age. I don't know, and neither do you. My only point is that there is patently *not* a number next to "yom" or however you spell it. There is evening, there is morning. Both of which can have different meanings just like "day" can.
A british equivalent is still speaking English natively. Just a heads-up. I never said "American English from around the town I grew up in so that they sound identical to me and all of my neighbors".
I'll reply to myself here. I mean exactly what I say. Certain native English speakers have an accent - think Southern, New York, Boston, New England, etc. Also, there are quite a few people who have a slight accent due to different languages being spoken at home. This is not what I'm talking about. By "can't tell they are not native speakers", I mean that they "get" ernacular, jargon, slang, jokes, music, understand what I'm saying straight away, and I can understand what they're saying first time every time.