For example, when the canaanites sacrificed their children to baal, Jeremiah 7:31 shows us that this is repugnant to God. How could that be repugnant to God if he was guilty of the same thing?
It wasn't always repugnant.
Isaiah 13:15-16
"Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword. Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished."
Numbers 31:16-18
"Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD. Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves."
I actually bought an Atheros-based PCI-E wifi card for my laptop, because I knew I'd never get the Broadcom one working properly in Linux.
I've been using Sabayon 3.4 on a Compaq Presario V6000 with Broadcom 4311 wlan.
It installed and worked fine out of the box, including the Broadcom wifi. If you're using Beryl, you'll need to set AIGXL to correct a display glitch, but that's a single menu setting in the Beryl manager
The Son of man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Maybe it's written "and I'll torture them for eternity" and i missed it
Luke 16:22-26
And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that [would come] from thence. Rev 21:8
But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part [will be] in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone
It is completely logical for an omnipotent being to allow something outside itself to exist which also causes things that the omnipotent being itself would not do.
Not if the entity is the definer of all that is good.
The entity would then be permitting evil to occur despite having the power to prevent it. That in itself is evil (see Luke (10:25-37). Allowing evil to occur makes God an accomplice in vile acts, and therefore not pure good.
Actually, that's the fundamental contradiction inherent in most religions.
If all good comes from God, and God is omnipotent, then nothing that happens in God's realm can be evil (and Google can therefore do anything, including masturbation, golf and strangling cats, without being evil).
But if evil does exist, then there are values greater than God, which means God is not omnipotent, and Google can continue to expand indefinitely to take His place.
Either way there's a moral dilemma for religious Google users which us atheists will never have to confront.
SCO has been allowed to cause uncountable damage to Linux and an equivalent benefit to Microsoft for the past three years.
That's thirty billion dollars of income for Microsoft, protected from competition in part by FUD generated by SCO. They have NEVER had a credible case, but they have been allowed to slander the closest competition Microsoft has for three years. Only now does it look like they'll be forced to stop the slander.
And their punishment? We don't know yet, but it looks like it'll be no worse than shutting down the company and allowing the perpetrators to take their ill-gotten gains elsewhere.
Interesting article, and given that the consensus elsewhere is that it would be impossible to "accidentally" move the nukes without higher approval, it looks believable.
I'm wondering if they weren't intended to be used as a frame-up?
Fire nuke-tipped but partially disabled (chemical explosion only) cruise missiles at centrifuge sites in Iran
Follow up with the other 1,200 missiles
Find weapons grade material scattered around centrifuge sites
Nah, we've got him at the moment, that's why half of Sydney is shut down.
Sad thing is, we've fenced him in, surrounded him with hundreds of snipers, and not one of them has done the obvious. Should've put a few 'roo shooters into the paddock as well...
I tried Suse, Fedora, and Mepis. I really liked Mepis (based on Ubuntu) but switched to Kubuntu based on a sound driver problem. The switch was almost effortless.
I'll second that, and point out it's one of the reasons I choose Linux over single-origin operating systems.
Like Steel Shepherd, I've tried several distros (Ubuntu, Fedora, etc) and was impressed with aspects of them, but eventually settled on the ones which work for me now (SLED10 for business and Sabayon for fun). Switching between the distros while I was testing was totally painless, and installs mostly took just a few minutes of my time, with the bulk of the install occurring unattended.
If someone develops a new distro which works better for me, I can change to that without significant effort.
That's the free-as-in-freedom aspect of Open Source at work, and I guess it matters more to me than some, but it's nice to see it's getting easier for all computer users.
having to compete with yourself in order to not be a monopoly seems a bit stupid.
It's actually the clearest evidence of Microsoft's monopoly we have.
In a competitive market, producers are forced to continually improve their products so customers will buy them in preference to anyone else's.
In the computer OS market, Microsoft is having to coerce people into "upgrading" to their newer versions because there's no improvements their customers actually want.
Slashdot Mirror
Your karma is safe. Slashdot was overrun by Microsoft marketing long ago.
The irony relates to Microsoft's use of disability advocates to block the adoption of ODF in Massachusetts.
Microsoft's own code will be used to spike that weapon.
This is the kind of distortion of reality that always makes me regret even talking to you religious fanatics.
The words are there in black and white, but you make an assertion that their meaning is diametrically opposite, then accuse ME of ipse dixit.
Conversation over.
So what you're saying is that we will have to ban coffee or let the terrorists win?
Sure, and I realise fire is water, and burning is drowning.
Where do you get these alternative meanings from? The Ministry of Truth?
It wasn't always repugnant.
Isaiah 13:15-16
"Every one that is found shall be thrust through; and every one that is joined unto them shall fall by the sword. Their children also shall be dashed to pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be spoiled, and their wives ravished."Numbers 31:16-18
"Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD. Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves."I've been using Sabayon 3.4 on a Compaq Presario V6000 with Broadcom 4311 wlan.
It installed and worked fine out of the box, including the Broadcom wifi. If you're using Beryl, you'll need to set AIGXL to correct a display glitch, but that's a single menu setting in the Beryl manager
Matt 13:41-42
The Son of man will send out his angels, and they will weed out of his kingdom everything that causes sin and all who do evil. They will throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.Luke 16:22-26
And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am tormented in this flame.
But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.
And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that [would come] from thence. Rev 21:8 But for the cowardly and unbelieving and abominable and murderers and immoral persons and sorcerers and idolaters and all liars, their part [will be] in the lake that burns with fire and brimstone
So God isn't really omnipotent?
Good answer.
I was expecting you to suggest Celine Dion.
I've covered this elsewhere, but to paraphrase Edmund Burke;
All that is needed for evil to prevail is for good Gods to do nothing.True of course.
However if I was to torture a person who disagreed with me even for an hour, most people would consider me unbalanced.
Guess who tortures people for eternity?
As is missing a parenthesis.
Please don't strike me down.
Not if the entity is the definer of all that is good.
The entity would then be permitting evil to occur despite having the power to prevent it. That in itself is evil (see Luke (10:25-37). Allowing evil to occur makes God an accomplice in vile acts, and therefore not pure good.
Actually, that's the fundamental contradiction inherent in most religions.
If all good comes from God, and God is omnipotent, then nothing that happens in God's realm can be evil (and Google can therefore do anything, including masturbation, golf and strangling cats, without being evil).
But if evil does exist, then there are values greater than God, which means God is not omnipotent, and Google can continue to expand indefinitely to take His place.
Either way there's a moral dilemma for religious Google users which us atheists will never have to confront.
Read TFA.
He tried that, but the velcro kept sticking to his gloves instead.
SCO has been allowed to cause uncountable damage to Linux and an equivalent benefit to Microsoft for the past three years.
That's thirty billion dollars of income for Microsoft, protected from competition in part by FUD generated by SCO. They have NEVER had a credible case, but they have been allowed to slander the closest competition Microsoft has for three years. Only now does it look like they'll be forced to stop the slander.
And their punishment? We don't know yet, but it looks like it'll be no worse than shutting down the company and allowing the perpetrators to take their ill-gotten gains elsewhere.
You call that justice? I call it a travesty.
In Soviet Russia YOU eat man-eating ducks!
Nah, we've got him at the moment, that's why half of Sydney is shut down.
Sad thing is, we've fenced him in, surrounded him with hundreds of snipers, and not one of them has done the obvious. Should've put a few 'roo shooters into the paddock as well...
I'll second that, and point out it's one of the reasons I choose Linux over single-origin operating systems.
Like Steel Shepherd, I've tried several distros (Ubuntu, Fedora, etc) and was impressed with aspects of them, but eventually settled on the ones which work for me now (SLED10 for business and Sabayon for fun). Switching between the distros while I was testing was totally painless, and installs mostly took just a few minutes of my time, with the bulk of the install occurring unattended.
If someone develops a new distro which works better for me, I can change to that without significant effort.
That's the free-as-in-freedom aspect of Open Source at work, and I guess it matters more to me than some, but it's nice to see it's getting easier for all computer users.
It's actually the clearest evidence of Microsoft's monopoly we have.
In a competitive market, producers are forced to continually improve their products so customers will buy them in preference to anyone else's.
In the computer OS market, Microsoft is having to coerce people into "upgrading" to their newer versions because there's no improvements their customers actually want.
I'm an Australian, you insensitive clod!
I'll start.
- Claiming Linux violates 235 patents.
- Introduce OOXML to spike ODF, and stacking ISO
- Subverting Massachusetts to prevent adoption of ODF there.
- Novell-Microsoft agreement
- Preventing alternative desktop search engines.
- Introducing Silverlight to spike Flash
- Introducing XPS to spike PDF
- Refusing to open APIs and protocols despite EU decision.
- Breaking all of their own "12 tenets' before they even got started.
There's more, but that's a good start.