WTF are you talking about? Macedonia, or as you would obviously prefer it, FYROM is an independent country, geographically located just between Serbia and Greece. What would their name or territorial claims have to do with Serbia?
They are a Bulgarian (dialect) speaking sub-population of old Serbia. The ethnic composition is nearly 100% Slav or Albanian. They are no more Macedonian than Queen Elizabeth I. Certain Pakistanis have a better claim on calling themselves Macedonians than those people, as they are decended from Alexander the Great's soldiers and ACTUALLY SPEAK THE ANCIENT GREEK DIALECT!
Macedonians are a Greek speaking people of ancient hertiage, they are mainly concentrated in NW Greece, southern Bulgaria, and Albania. Oh yes, a small portion of them live in the southern parts of the Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia. Their cultural center is the port city of Thessalonika, and that city is what this is about.
Since the day The Republic of Macedonia (I heartily disagree with the politcally correct FYROM) declared independence, the US has supported the it and it's lawfully elected Government, and thus the majority of the people. We have supported your troops and police. We poured tons of money into your economy, and we definatly did not help the NLA or any follow-on groups.
It's not a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of a Serbian nation making territorial demands in Greece. How would you like it if Canada renamed southern Quebec 'New York' and started making territorial claims on New York state?
In order to properly answer that question I would need to know which tradition you had been brought up in. You are obviously not an Eastern or Oriental Orthodox Christian or the answer would not need to be explained. If you are Catholic and have attended Sunday school a moments thought will bring up the answer. If you are Protestant you probably do not have the cultural package to understand the answer, although if you are Jewish or Muslim you might.
I am not trying to be snide, the answer is part and parcel of a Middle Eastern/Apostolic Christian cultural approach. Most Protestant Westerners find the answer nonsensical without about an hour's worth of explaination (trust me, I've had to).
Suffice to say that it is a wedding thrown by a kindly and generous host.
What does that one guy named Jesus have to do with anything? So you decided to believe a book written thousands of years ago by some guys, which has been found to have inconsistancy, rather than what the vast majority of scientists think? Your choice. But when you force that crazy choice on students that's just bad. Did you know that less than 10 years ago there was still a movement in the US believing very seriously the earth was flat?
He Created the Universe, the Galaxy, the Earth, and everything in them.
He sustains all things (including for some unaccountable reason, you)
He died for you. You personally, whom He knew before the Universe was made.
He uses evolution to allow the world it's own free will.
Sometimes He tweakes the system when things are getting seriously out of whack. Not that we can tell.
You are invited to his wedding banquet.
You don't have to believe any of this. The IDers, Creationists, Diests, Atheists, and some advocates of evolutionary theory are wrong because they believe that His hadiwork can be discerned by scientific methods.
The Kansas Education Board has made a serious theological error in that it is subjecting the belief in Him to a scientific test, forgetting the injunction, "Thou shalt not put the LORD thy God to the test".
All comments in this post are carefully reasoned and researched. Obviously they are not the opinion of Slashdot, it's employees, or lackeys. Anyone who says differently is itching for a fight.
"theories of life arising from similar building-block molecules through purely random processes can be challenged by recent findings in the fossil record and by molecular biology"
I'll bite. What's wrong with that statement? ID curriculum aside, I've never had anyone give me a good explanation as to why Evolution cannot be challenged. Are not good thinkers supposed to challenge?
They can be challenged because the argument is a straw man. All processes are regulated by their internal logic. Molecules do NOT combine randomly, in fact the chemistry involved has signifigant restraints involving the number of molecular bonds formed and oxidation states (Carbon=+2,+/-4; Oxygen=+2; Nitrogen=+/-1,+/-2,+/-3,+/-4,+/-5; etc.), molecular weights, solubilities (no the stuff that falls out of solution will not be very likely to be part of the cellular machinery), and so on and so forth.
Also evolution by natural selection is not a purely random process, constraints include, the laws of physics (the power to give off an electric shock is a GREAT evolutionary advatage, however the energy cost is phenomonal, electric eels devote an absolute majority of their MASS to poducing the electrical field), history of the genome (due to a genetic quirk of evolution, mammals with more or less than seven bones in the neck develop cancer and die before reaching sexual maturity, making those fossils exceedingly rare...), history of the phenotype (the knee, four bones and seven miles of string...), etc. My personal favorites are the mutations that are so dysfunctional that the new organism immediatly self destructs. Those constitute an absolute majority of variation.
Given the above constraints the development of life in an environment like the early Earth is not just probable, but virtually certain, which was shown quite conclusively by many researchers putting together various mixtures of gases that have been thought to contitute the atmosphere of the early Earth, irradiating them in every conceivable way, and getting amino acids and peptides in short order every time. The system is constrained.
Human Beings on the other hand are not in any way inevetiable, in fact we are rather improbable.
Hardware - Individually bought and installed components.
Hardware/Software Support Services - Me.
If this computer system is not MINE then there is no such thing as private property. If you install software on this system without my consent you are stealing from me.
Empower IT with HR's traditional roles of hiring, promotion, and termination. Allow IT to veto any hire or promotion decision, and to terminate employees who are completely techno-clueless.
This will aid the security mission greatly as well.
Another word for this arrangement is "meritocracy".
You mean like the PhD Chemist who still uses a slide rule for calculations?
Some lines of creative work should never be done at home. An example would be synthetic organic chemistry, or any work so dangerous that it requires special (and EXPENSIVE) facilities to perform. The argument from the article also assumes that everyone is highly intelligent, educated, and motivated. Try talking to your average laborer, you will be quickly disabused of that notion. The fields that have traditionally had a large component of work at home done are farming, small specialty crafts, writing, composing music, and similar trades. Cheif among thier charachteristics are the barriers to entry are low, large groups are not required and the work is safe to perform at home. If these conditions are not met, say at a steel foundry, then a top down model works better.
I remember reading that sentience the quality of being self aware is not a computable algorithm from a theoretical point of view. That's probably why we sleep (reboot).
I've never been able to find out if the Roman soldier who killed him was punished or had anything to say.
That soldier was tortured to death over three days by being flayed alive and rubbed with salt, with the entire legion watching. The commander was FURIOUS!
Please be aware that you are speaking to a Greek. The reason for that particular usage of the word Turk is that the Ottoman Turks had conquered all of the Middle East at that time. The Ottoman Turks currently occupy Eastern Greece (in Greek: Anatoli Ellas) or Anatolia. Therefore the term does in fact refer to the dominant ethnic population of Anatolia. The ferocity of the Turks was well known at the time of Martin Luther.
Some of them have. This one is chatting with St. Peter. If you cannot see the obvious saintliness of the man then you are blind. May his memory be eternal.
You forget though that what started the Free Software Movement was AT&T stealing the freely donated IP of the programmers who turned Unix from a demonstration program into one of the most useful of OS's.
I really belive that if AT&T had played nice we would never have seen Microsoft become such a monsterous monopoly.
All that code was subsidized by the University system.
That's fine, but please resist the temptation to err on the other side when making these cases. It's bad enough when people use stickers like that to tell chidren that "Evolution is just a Theory". Don't play into their hands by making ridiculous statements like "there is no such thing as a fact". By making such statements you are making the creationists look reasonable to an uninformed observer. A far more reasonable objection to creationism, and one that fights the creationists on their own ground is to conceed the literal truth of the creation given in Genisis, and to then ask why when everything else was corrupted by the fall of Adam, the course of time was left alone? After all, time is part of creation, made so that Humankind would have a place to exist. God himself as scripture often states is outside of time.
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They are a Bulgarian (dialect) speaking sub-population of old Serbia. The ethnic composition is nearly 100% Slav or Albanian. They are no more Macedonian than Queen Elizabeth I. Certain Pakistanis have a better claim on calling themselves Macedonians than those people, as they are decended from Alexander the Great's soldiers and ACTUALLY SPEAK THE ANCIENT GREEK DIALECT!
Macedonians are a Greek speaking people of ancient hertiage, they are mainly concentrated in NW Greece, southern Bulgaria, and Albania. Oh yes, a small portion of them live in the southern parts of the Former Yugoslav Republic Of Macedonia. Their cultural center is the port city of Thessalonika, and that city is what this is about.
It's not a matter of political correctness. It's a matter of a Serbian nation making territorial demands in Greece. How would you like it if Canada renamed southern Quebec 'New York' and started making territorial claims on New York state?
Vlakas Amerikanos.
Then , if you are High Episcopalian you should know what the Bride of Christ is.
I am not trying to be snide, the answer is part and parcel of a Middle Eastern/Apostolic Christian cultural approach. Most Protestant Westerners find the answer nonsensical without about an hour's worth of explaination (trust me, I've had to).
Suffice to say that it is a wedding thrown by a kindly and generous host.
He Created the Universe, the Galaxy, the Earth, and everything in them.
He sustains all things (including for some unaccountable reason, you)
He died for you. You personally, whom He knew before the Universe was made.
He uses evolution to allow the world it's own free will.
Sometimes He tweakes the system when things are getting seriously out of whack. Not that we can tell.
You are invited to his wedding banquet.
You don't have to believe any of this. The IDers, Creationists, Diests, Atheists, and some advocates of evolutionary theory are wrong because they believe that His hadiwork can be discerned by scientific methods.
The Kansas Education Board has made a serious theological error in that it is subjecting the belief in Him to a scientific test, forgetting the injunction, "Thou shalt not put the LORD thy God to the test".
All comments in this post are carefully reasoned and researched. Obviously they are not the opinion of Slashdot, it's employees, or lackeys. Anyone who says differently is itching for a fight.
They can be challenged because the argument is a straw man. All processes are regulated by their internal logic. Molecules do NOT combine randomly, in fact the chemistry involved has signifigant restraints involving the number of molecular bonds formed and oxidation states (Carbon=+2,+/-4; Oxygen=+2; Nitrogen=+/-1,+/-2,+/-3,+/-4,+/-5; etc.), molecular weights, solubilities (no the stuff that falls out of solution will not be very likely to be part of the cellular machinery), and so on and so forth.
Also evolution by natural selection is not a purely random process, constraints include, the laws of physics (the power to give off an electric shock is a GREAT evolutionary advatage, however the energy cost is phenomonal, electric eels devote an absolute majority of their MASS to poducing the electrical field), history of the genome (due to a genetic quirk of evolution, mammals with more or less than seven bones in the neck develop cancer and die before reaching sexual maturity, making those fossils exceedingly rare...), history of the phenotype (the knee, four bones and seven miles of string...), etc. My personal favorites are the mutations that are so dysfunctional that the new organism immediatly self destructs. Those constitute an absolute majority of variation.
Given the above constraints the development of life in an environment like the early Earth is not just probable, but virtually certain, which was shown quite conclusively by many researchers putting together various mixtures of gases that have been thought to contitute the atmosphere of the early Earth, irradiating them in every conceivable way, and getting amino acids and peptides in short order every time. The system is constrained.
Human Beings on the other hand are not in any way inevetiable, in fact we are rather improbable.
Hardware - Individually bought and installed components.
Hardware/Software Support Services - Me.
If this computer system is not MINE then there is no such thing as private property. If you install software on this system without my consent you are stealing from me.
Then why did the Roman commander torture his soldier to death after the soldier killed the old Greek guy making cicles in the sand?
You mean like the PhD Chemist who still uses a slide rule for calculations?
Some lines of creative work should never be done at home. An example would be synthetic organic chemistry, or any work so dangerous that it requires special (and EXPENSIVE) facilities to perform. The argument from the article also assumes that everyone is highly intelligent, educated, and motivated. Try talking to your average laborer, you will be quickly disabused of that notion. The fields that have traditionally had a large component of work at home done are farming, small specialty crafts, writing, composing music, and similar trades. Cheif among thier charachteristics are the barriers to entry are low, large groups are not required and the work is safe to perform at home. If these conditions are not met, say at a steel foundry, then a top down model works better.
OK. How about he recieves one paper cut for each spam e-mail he sent. That should work out to...YUCK!
Now.
I remember reading that sentience the quality of being self aware is not a computable algorithm from a theoretical point of view. That's probably why we sleep (reboot).
Analog computers can be built cheap now using mass produced Op Amps. For the readout you can use a Vellman Oscilloscope which goes for about $150 US.
Para poly orea!
Read some history idiot. It is well attributed, or did you mean I had to produce the commanders diary?
That soldier was tortured to death over three days by being flayed alive and rubbed with salt, with the entire legion watching. The commander was FURIOUS!
Ti eurekais xevrakote?
Statistics reveal that the main cause for the high rate of accidents among Ford owners is distraction by Clippy, the Microsoft help agent ...
Please be aware that you are speaking to a Greek. The reason for that particular usage of the word Turk is that the Ottoman Turks had conquered all of the Middle East at that time. The Ottoman Turks currently occupy Eastern Greece (in Greek: Anatoli Ellas) or Anatolia. Therefore the term does in fact refer to the dominant ethnic population of Anatolia. The ferocity of the Turks was well known at the time of Martin Luther.
Martin Luther was an idiot. Today is the commemoration of the genocide of 1.5 million Armenians (Christians all) by the Turks during World War I.
Some of them have. This one is chatting with St. Peter. If you cannot see the obvious saintliness of the man then you are blind. May his memory be eternal.
You forget though that what started the Free Software Movement was AT&T stealing the freely donated IP of the programmers who turned Unix from a demonstration program into one of the most useful of OS's. I really belive that if AT&T had played nice we would never have seen Microsoft become such a monsterous monopoly. All that code was subsidized by the University system.
No son, he's a MOTHERLESS F***. Please correct your terms of abuse.
That's fine, but please resist the temptation to err on the other side when making these cases. It's bad enough when people use stickers like that to tell chidren that "Evolution is just a Theory". Don't play into their hands by making ridiculous statements like "there is no such thing as a fact". By making such statements you are making the creationists look reasonable to an uninformed observer. A far more reasonable objection to creationism, and one that fights the creationists on their own ground is to conceed the literal truth of the creation given in Genisis, and to then ask why when everything else was corrupted by the fall of Adam, the course of time was left alone? After all, time is part of creation, made so that Humankind would have a place to exist. God himself as scripture often states is outside of time.