There's no reason it has to be that bad. Throw it through ssh (and there's a tutorial for doing this, along with links, on VNC's site), and it'll be compressed and encrypted! Wow! Mommy, can I have one too??
Okay, that post makes me think of only one thing: We are Borg. You will be assimilated into the collective. Your biological and technological differences will be absorbed. Resistance is futile.
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Some kind of definable filtering rules might be useful, perhaps based on regexps. If you can define what spam is to a computer (and for i'd say 90% of it all you have to do is look for phrases like "get rich quick" or "hot sex") then you can filter all the b.s. out. This could either be done by the Factoid itself [assuming it has some computing power, which it probably will], by the Factoid server [which will be widespread if the Factoid itself is widespread], or by your own computer. Most efficient place is to do it on the Factoid itself, because it saves storage everywhere. Just a thought. Besides, by the time this thing is actually out there, maybe someone will have written an AI spam-supression system. heh heh.
Actually, this turns out not to be the case. God does not give us the freedom to believe anything we wish. We are morally obligated to believe the truth. Doing anything else is a sin. You are not free to interpret the Bible anyway you wish. What I have stated is what I hold to be the truth. What you have stated is what you hold to be the truth. Let's stop arguing now - its pointless, nothing can come of it. It is, however, nice to know that there are intelligent people out there, who hold to their beliefs and don't get downright bitchy when challenged. I try to do the same.
There is nothing in the text of Genesis 1 to suggest that the days of which it speaks are anything other than literal 24-hour days. There is nothing that definitively states that they were, either.
The truthfulness of something can't and doesn't change. No, but the way it might be presented in can and does.
As a Catholic, you should accept the fact that the Bible is God's Word. God's Word - his message - to the people He loves and wants to love him.
Evolution is incompatible with the Bible. I'm sorry, but I don't agree. You are perfectly free to believe what you want to, and so am I.
This is a lot of what I'm saying. Even though I'm a practicing Catholic, there is no reason not to use our minds. Just ask a certain saint named Thomas Aquinas about that.
I can perfectly accept the Universe being older that 6,000 years, and I do. Scientific evidence proves that, really, and I see no reason to just go around screaming "BUT THE BIBLE SAID SO!" like some kind of idiot that is really a disgrace [IMHO] to those who follow religions.
God gives us what we can accept - and he gave the Jews of the past 6,000 years of a Universe, perhaps because He knew they might have trouble accepting anything bigger, anything that wasn't geo-centric.... etc etc.
I'm not so sure about this. I'm a Roman Catholic, but that doesn't mean I can't use my brain. I think that the Bible was written for its time - the past. While much of it can be applied figuratively now, if taken literally it doesn't make that much sense. How do we know that seven days for God isn't 4.6 billion years for us? Genesis says, basically, that God put man on earth, and had him name all the animals. It was written in a way that would sound good to the Jews of that time, and nobody of now. And don't go saying something like "There, it's not valid now, you just said it... so where's God with the new message?" Whether God wants us to have a new message or just wants to be amused by our [basically] pointless squabbles and problems on this little planet for a little while is up to Him.
Having a religion doesn't mean you have to turn off your mind. And please - I'm simply defending my own beliefs, not attacking those of any others. I have friends that are agonists and atheists and can respect people with beliefs different from mine.
Reminds me of Foundation, when they're worried about Anacreon being taken over. [Anyone who hasn't read Asimov should stop reading at this point.] Like the treaty between the Galactic Empire and Anacreon, it was a few pages of crap that boiled down to basically nothing.
It is somewhat scary though. I don't want AOL everywhere. I really, really dislike them. To put it lightly. Same applies to MS, though.
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There's no reason it has to be that bad. Throw it through ssh (and there's a tutorial for doing this, along with links, on VNC's site), and it'll be compressed and encrypted! Wow! Mommy, can I have one too??
Okay, that post makes me think of only one thing:
We are Borg. You will be assimilated into the collective. Your biological and technological differences will be absorbed.
Resistance is futile.
Some kind of definable filtering rules might be useful, perhaps based on regexps. If you can define what spam is to a computer (and for i'd say 90% of it all you have to do is look for phrases like "get rich quick" or "hot sex") then you can filter all the b.s. out. This could either be done by the Factoid itself [assuming it has some computing power, which it probably will], by the Factoid server [which will be widespread if the Factoid itself is widespread], or by your own computer. Most efficient place is to do it on the Factoid itself, because it saves storage everywhere.
Just a thought.
Besides, by the time this thing is actually out there, maybe someone will have written an AI spam-supression system. heh heh.
Actually, this turns out not to be the case. God does not give us the freedom to believe anything we wish. We are morally obligated to believe the truth. Doing anything else is a sin. You are not free to interpret the Bible anyway you wish.
What I have stated is what I hold to be the truth. What you have stated is what you hold to be the truth.
Let's stop arguing now - its pointless, nothing can come of it.
It is, however, nice to know that there are intelligent people out there, who hold to their beliefs and don't get downright bitchy when challenged. I try to do the same.
There is nothing in the text of Genesis 1 to suggest that the days of which it speaks are anything other than literal 24-hour days.
There is nothing that definitively states that they were, either.
The truthfulness of something can't and doesn't change.
No, but the way it might be presented in can and does.
As a Catholic, you should accept the fact that the Bible is God's Word.
God's Word - his message - to the people He loves and wants to love him.
Evolution is incompatible with the Bible.
I'm sorry, but I don't agree. You are perfectly free to believe what you want to, and so am I.
This is a lot of what I'm saying. Even though I'm a practicing Catholic, there is no reason not to use our minds. Just ask a certain saint named Thomas Aquinas about that.
I can perfectly accept the Universe being older that 6,000 years, and I do. Scientific evidence proves that, really, and I see no reason to just go around screaming "BUT THE BIBLE SAID SO!" like some kind of idiot that is really a disgrace [IMHO] to those who follow religions.
God gives us what we can accept - and he gave the Jews of the past 6,000 years of a Universe, perhaps because He knew they might have trouble accepting anything bigger, anything that wasn't geo-centric.... etc etc.
I'm not so sure about this. I'm a Roman Catholic, but that doesn't mean I can't use my brain. I think that the Bible was written for its time - the past. While much of it can be applied figuratively now, if taken literally it doesn't make that much sense. How do we know that seven days for God isn't 4.6 billion years for us?
Genesis says, basically, that God put man on earth, and had him name all the animals. It was written in a way that would sound good to the Jews of that time, and nobody of now.
And don't go saying something like "There, it's not valid now, you just said it... so where's God with the new message?" Whether God wants us to have a new message or just wants to be amused by our [basically] pointless squabbles and problems on this little planet for a little while is up to Him.
Having a religion doesn't mean you have to turn off your mind.
And please - I'm simply defending my own beliefs, not attacking those of any others. I have friends that are agonists and atheists and can respect people with beliefs different from mine.
Let me clarify.
they = the leaders on Terminus
"Anacreon being taken over" should be "Anacreon taking over them"
Sorry.. heh
Reminds me of Foundation, when they're worried about Anacreon being taken over. [Anyone who hasn't read Asimov should stop reading at this point.] Like the treaty between the Galactic Empire and Anacreon, it was a few pages of crap that boiled down to basically nothing.
It is somewhat scary though. I don't want AOL everywhere. I really, really dislike them. To put it lightly.
Same applies to MS, though.