Here, Remi Van Haelst, says he's a carbon dating expert, wrote a detailed critique of the Nature article that presented carbon dating results for the
shroud. "A Critical Review of the Nature report (authored by Damon et al) with a complete unbiased statistical analysis" It is also an eye opener on the vageries of carbon dating.
For taxes, I switched to H&R Block's stuff the year intuit added the dreaded copy protect that was extremly invasive of the host pc. H&R Block, bless there hearts, had just add the new feature to read turbo-tax's prior year data:-). Now that is a wonderful example of serendipity!
Intuit 'repented' and removed the copy protection but I was much happier with H&R Blocks stuff because
of function, usability and company trustability.
Did you notice the right hand sidebar?
The Bhutanese banned the butt! Maybe they are
the buttanese!
Sorry if this is off topic, only off to the right:-)
Actually it is a brilliant terrorist plot! Just get
all the slashdotters to fly to.au with baseball bats.... and a few.au'rs with crickit paddles and sit back with a no mia culpa smile:-).
I expect registered or insured mail works fine but it may also be a good idea (if the rebate is large) to invest in a notorized copy for you records/later use.
I bought a bunch of 802.11b belkin stuff a few years ago at a great price (sale+rebate). It has worked well enough in my case.
That is until I purchased another, newer series, belkin pci adapter. That new card is incompatible with the old ones if I use encryption. Yes I have latest firmware for all (but nothing new for the old gear has come out in years).
"In other words, we're talking about how we use software, not the freedom of the press or the right to bear arms, and convincing people that software rights and basic constitutional rights are on the same level is an exercise in futility."
The existance of the four freedoms, if protected, could well someday server such things as the right to bear arms, for example, in our increasingly complex world of high tech! Generate your own sci-fi thought experiment to support this:-).
What other digitallia can you think of that make this point? Copy proctection hardware seems like a first restrictive step to me.
What you call micro-evolution used to be called adaptation. This variation within it's kind is easily explained by available information in the gene pool for that kind. That is what breeding is all about.
I once, as a kid, had the notion come to me that the
whole universe was in my imagination. You know, suffering can make you think like that but pain and suffering will convince you otherwise:-).
We had to set our Wellfleet routers clocks back four years (discovered in testing).
We had to fix several inhouse bugs, discovered in testing.
We had to patch the main OS (AIX) for y2k and we had to run several downlevel systems (AIX 3.2.5) patched but unsupported for awhile.
The Truetime GPS time receiver needed firmware upgrade to avoid (pre y2k) gps week rollover problem.
Several fancier Truetimes had rollover troubles a year later.
My wifes office 97 crappola needed y2k patches.
A couple of older pc's needed circumvention code loaded to fix bios limitations.
But it was all fixed (or circumvented), except for the later gps issue, before y2k so I guess the answer is no, we had no y2k problems at all, at least not at y2k. I do recall stories about numerous not so well prepaired sites having real issues at arrival of y2k, many were reported right here on slashdot.
Ahh the arooooma of "fresh brown crap", that stale stuff at cnn is soooo boooooring.
At least the bashing sessions of FOX are obviously commentary, on the order of a cheap editorial. The point that they cover many things not covered on cnn or the main stream media for that matter is valid.
You make excellant points! I am quite well impressed with your post. I do want to add perspective on one:
"There's a problem of vantage point when we attempt to establish moral principles like the one you did above ("The murder of an innocent person can never be a moral/ethical obligation.") and apply them to a higher being."
God, understood as omniscient, omnipotent, etc and GOOD.... might be doing someone a good deed taking them early given what He knows is in the future. Interestingly, the Bible says no one stops to consider this point!
A little light on the depth here (Biblically) can be
seen gained from Calvin's thoughts. I am not a strict Calvinist but this is good background:
from: www.gracebible.org.au/church/sermons/data/60-003.h tm
"[One cannot simply import a nonbiblical assumption about the nature of human freedom and then denounce Calvinism as incapable of meeting that (nonbiblical) criterion (cf. Ibid., p. 344n54).
Whatis clear biblically (last week): we cannot make a choice for God until we have a desire to please Him - a desire which no unregenerate man has!
[Now, all may have a desire to escape eternal punishment, or to long to be reunited with departed loved ones. But there can be no holy motivation to believe in Christ where there is no desire for the honour, beauty, and glory of Christ!]
Second, why "bother" if the end has been declared from the beginning? [moral]
This is where Calvinism shows itself to be so different from 'fatalistic determinism.'
Why bother, if God has already ordained things?
This question is like asking, "if God has decided I will live through Tuesday, why breathe on Monday?"[4]
KEY: "One must not assume that the end (our faith) has been decreed to occur apart from the means (our preaching)."[5]
In short, God ordains the means as well as the end!
Calvin himself said:
"Now it is very clear what our duty is: Thus, if the Lord has committed to us the protection of our life, our duty is to protect it; if he offers helps to us, to use them; if he forewarns us of dangers, not to plunge headlong; if he make remedies available, not to neglect them. 'But no danger will hurt us,' say they, 'unless it is fatal and in this case it is beyond remedies.' But what if the dangers are not fatal, because the Lord has provided you with remedies for repulsing and overcoming them?"
Thus, Calvin did not and Calvinism does not deny real choices, real cause-and-effect, real responsibility, i.e., biblical free will.
Note: not even Arminians can live with an unlimited free will, as one prominent Arminian commentator confesses,
"Prayer also influences men....The wills of men can thus be affected by prayer or else we would not pray for them. To believe in prayer is thus to believe in some kind of limitation of human freedom, and in some kind of incomprehensible influence upon the wills of men."
]"
"The basic argument requires the assumption of non-interfering free will"
The Biblical case for free will, as I understand it, does not meet this criteria. My guess is your liberated profs prefered straw man arguments that are easy enough to win by logic.
Now, sadly, your mind is made up and closed! (or so it sounds).
Yes I usually browse from a winows machine. I run two linux servers (one redhat and one frenchfry type) and sometimes I browse from one of those. Since the wife and kids prefer winows and those are the mose accessable (linux is in basement) I spend more time sitting at the one in the study.
I usually use Mozilla, I saw only 89% accounting in the browser talley, where does Mozilla stand? btw I am taking a close look at zandros on my test sys now. I hope to convert the wife to that, kids maybe... games, you know.
Thank you!
btw, Actually the astronomical observations of a newly discovered astroid coming more or less directly toward Earth are notoriously difficult to use to extract an accurate orbit prediction. Think for a moment, you have a more or less steady bearing, decreasing range with, usually, no direct (radar) measure of range. So, all the excitement of early predictions and even calculation of odds are usually quite premature. The angular change doesn't become significant until the astroid, essentially, starts to pass Earth.
Nothing happens by chance. Chance is simply a statiscal tool to rate probability of things observable.
If you disagree, please explain to me by what power comes chances causation?
Slashdot Mirror
Sounds like another monopolistic move by MS to me! Where are the anti-trust watchers when they are needed?
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/bachm/VHAELST6.PDF
Intuit 'repented' and removed the copy protection but I was much happier with H&R Blocks stuff because of function, usability and company trustability.
Did you notice the right hand sidebar? The Bhutanese banned the butt! Maybe they are the buttanese! Sorry if this is off topic, only off to the right :-)
Actually it is a brilliant terrorist plot! Just get all the slashdotters to fly to .au with baseball bats.... and a few .au'rs with crickit paddles and sit back with a no mia culpa smile :-).
She was a lowly cattleman's daughter but all the horseman new her.
Nuf said!
I expect registered or insured mail works fine but it may also be a good idea (if the rebate is large) to invest in a notorized copy for you records/later use.
That is until I purchased another, newer series, belkin pci adapter. That new card is incompatible with the old ones if I use encryption. Yes I have latest firmware for all (but nothing new for the old gear has come out in years).
Looks like the razor mfg's should wake up to this grand opportunity to broaden their customer base!
When you die, you usually suffer to get there. The odds are that you will suffer more than the animals do at a slaughter house, when you go!
Naw, true hackers do machine language but they go blind from severe hexeyes after awhile.
The existance of the four freedoms, if protected, could well someday server such things as the right to bear arms, for example, in our increasingly complex world of high tech! Generate your own sci-fi thought experiment to support this :-).
What other digitallia can you think of that make this point? Copy proctection hardware seems like a first restrictive step to me.
What you call micro-evolution used to be called adaptation. This variation within it's kind is easily explained by available information in the gene pool for that kind. That is what breeding is all about.
Dia = 10 Pi = 3.14 Cir = 31.4 round to nearest ten # reasonable for the useage Cir = 30
I once, as a kid, had the notion come to me that the whole universe was in my imagination. You know, suffering can make you think like that but pain and suffering will convince you otherwise :-).
We had to fix several inhouse bugs, discovered in testing.
We had to patch the main OS (AIX) for y2k and we had to run several downlevel systems (AIX 3.2.5) patched but unsupported for awhile.
The Truetime GPS time receiver needed firmware upgrade to avoid (pre y2k) gps week rollover problem.
Several fancier Truetimes had rollover troubles a year later.
My wifes office 97 crappola needed y2k patches.
A couple of older pc's needed circumvention code loaded to fix bios limitations.
But it was all fixed (or circumvented), except for the later gps issue, before y2k so I guess the answer is no, we had no y2k problems at all, at least not at y2k. I do recall stories about numerous not so well prepaired sites having real issues at arrival of y2k, many were reported right here on slashdot.
At least the bashing sessions of FOX are obviously commentary, on the order of a cheap editorial. The point that they cover many things not covered on cnn or the main stream media for that matter is valid.
"There's a problem of vantage point when we attempt to establish moral principles like the one you did above ("The murder of an innocent person can never be a moral/ethical obligation.") and apply them to a higher being."
God, understood as omniscient, omnipotent, etc and GOOD.... might be doing someone a good deed taking them early given what He knows is in the future. Interestingly, the Bible says no one stops to consider this point!
A little light on the depth here (Biblically) can be seen gained from Calvin's thoughts. I am not a strict Calvinist but this is good background: from: www.gracebible.org.au/church/sermons/data/60-003.h tm
"[One cannot simply import a nonbiblical assumption about the nature of human freedom and then denounce Calvinism as incapable of meeting that (nonbiblical) criterion (cf. Ibid., p. 344n54).
Whatis clear biblically (last week): we cannot make a choice for God until we have a desire to please Him - a desire which no unregenerate man has!
[Now, all may have a desire to escape eternal punishment, or to long to be reunited with departed loved ones. But there can be no holy motivation to believe in Christ where there is no desire for the honour, beauty, and glory of Christ!]
Second, why "bother" if the end has been declared from the beginning? [moral]
This is where Calvinism shows itself to be so different from 'fatalistic determinism.'
Why bother, if God has already ordained things?
This question is like asking, "if God has decided I will live through Tuesday, why breathe on Monday?"[4]
KEY: "One must not assume that the end (our faith) has been decreed to occur apart from the means (our preaching)."[5]
In short, God ordains the means as well as the end!
Calvin himself said:
"Now it is very clear what our duty is: Thus, if the Lord has committed to us the protection of our life, our duty is to protect it; if he offers helps to us, to use them; if he forewarns us of dangers, not to plunge headlong; if he make remedies available, not to neglect them. 'But no danger will hurt us,' say they, 'unless it is fatal and in this case it is beyond remedies.' But what if the dangers are not fatal, because the Lord has provided you with remedies for repulsing and overcoming them?"
Thus, Calvin did not and Calvinism does not deny real choices, real cause-and-effect, real responsibility, i.e., biblical free will.
Note: not even Arminians can live with an unlimited free will, as one prominent Arminian commentator confesses,
"Prayer also influences men....The wills of men can thus be affected by prayer or else we would not pray for them. To believe in prayer is thus to believe in some kind of limitation of human freedom, and in some kind of incomprehensible influence upon the wills of men."
]"
"The basic argument requires the assumption of non-interfering free will" The Biblical case for free will, as I understand it, does not meet this criteria. My guess is your liberated profs prefered straw man arguments that are easy enough to win by logic. Now, sadly, your mind is made up and closed! (or so it sounds).
Yes I usually browse from a winows machine. I run two linux servers (one redhat and one frenchfry type) and sometimes I browse from one of those. Since the wife and kids prefer winows and those are the mose accessable (linux is in basement) I spend more time sitting at the one in the study. I usually use Mozilla, I saw only 89% accounting in the browser talley, where does Mozilla stand? btw I am taking a close look at zandros on my test sys now. I hope to convert the wife to that, kids maybe... games, you know.
Thank you! btw, Actually the astronomical observations of a newly discovered astroid coming more or less directly toward Earth are notoriously difficult to use to extract an accurate orbit prediction. Think for a moment, you have a more or less steady bearing, decreasing range with, usually, no direct (radar) measure of range. So, all the excitement of early predictions and even calculation of odds are usually quite premature. The angular change doesn't become significant until the astroid, essentially, starts to pass Earth.
Nothing happens by chance. Chance is simply a statiscal tool to rate probability of things observable. If you disagree, please explain to me by what power comes chances causation?
www.oksolar.com/roof/ You can start there :-)