Well, if you go down the line that worship of anything consitutes a religion then everbody is religious in some way, in which case the statement 'most killing has been caused by religion' becomes a truism. The Bible would in fact agree with the statement then, since worship of anything other than YHWH is responsible for the messed up state the world is in, including murder.
99% of deaths were caused by very religiously devoted people(
Interesting and completely unfounded statistic. I'd say that a pretty big chunk of deaths are caused by old age and disease.
And before you even mention Communism, the Communist cults of personality without which Stalin and Mao would have fallen were religions, just not called that.
In that case you should probably use a different word since most people mean something different when they say 'religion.' Generally i doesn't involve atheistic beliefs.
When the church controlled everything, we were in the Dark Ages.
During the Dark ages, the church was one of the few places to preserve knowledge and learning. You can thank the church that the Dark Ages weren't worse.
Actually, he may have a good point. Ice, being denser than foam, will have less surface area for the same mass. Less surface area means less drag, which means it slows down less in the air when it comes loose. Slowing down less means that its velocity relative to the speeding shuttle will be less, so it could well do less damage.
For similar reasons, if you drop a point of nails and a pound of feathers, the nails will hit the ground first. It's all about drag, not weight.
That's often read as a gloss on the original text, written by someone who didn't understand the mechanics of crucifixion. Why stab someone who's already dead, especially if he's going to spray blood and water all over your nice clean tunic?
To check that he's dead. The fact that both red and clear liquids come out is the medical evidence that convinces doctors that he was in fact dead.
Especially since Apple is using 4200 RPM drives in the G4 minis.
That should be 'was,' rather than 'is,' since they're not making them anymore and in the last few months, they were shipping Minis with 5400 RPM drives, like mine. 4200 must have sucked though, especaill with quite a few people wanting to use them as PVRs. At least the Intel ones are 5400 RPM now.
And if you guys would stop the sectarian flame-baiting and those ridiculous marches, you be a lot less sore too.
Most people don't support such things. Don't you thinkthe use of the word 'flame-baiting' is a little hypocritical here?
The sooner we get rid of Northern Ireland and hand it back to the Republic, the better.
Would you like the citizens of Northern Ireland to decide which country you should belong to? No? Well then what gives you the right to decide which one we do?
Technically he did say "British State"
N. Ireland isn't part of Great Britain, it's only part of "The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland"
We're not part of Great Britain, but we are a part of the British State. We're British citizens and have MPs and Lords at Westminster.
Unfortunately, due to our small number of MPs, we basically have one guy, Peter Hain the Northern Irish Secretary, dictating everything that happens here. e.g. 90% of the population are against the school reforms he's planning, but he's going to go ahead with them anyway, because there's nothing our MPs can do to stop him.
That's because of the peculiar makeup of the British state. There's approximatly 5 million of us Scots, a similar number of Welsh, and the rest - 50 million odd - are English.
You left out the 1.6 million Northern Irish. Kind of a sore point over here!
The trouble with that method is that you're not playing songs in isolation. When you pick a song, you'll have selected it from the song, album, artist, composer or playlist menus normally, which then tells the iPod which other songs to buffer. By the time you've typed in the name of the song and then chosen which context to play it in, you may as well have gone through the usual selection process, especially if the song title is more than a couple of words long.
How can you tell the difference between 'selling like hotcakes' and 'mediocre sales' when they're consistently sold out? It's a bit hard to judge demand when supply is so low. I may be misinterpreting, but it sounds like you're criticising lack of supply in what you perceive as a law demand situation. But given the low supply, it's mighty hard to accurately gauge the demand.
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denying firms and OSS projects the right to adequately compete by restricting my ability to shift music/movies to a format of my choosing is not at all a violation of fair trade and antitrust laws
DRM for music is not illegal. I certainly haven't seen Apple hauled into court over it. Or anyone else using DRM for music. You do know that you can burn it to CD and re-rip it, don't you? Syure, you lose a bit of quality, but not much. And there's nothing preventing you from moving music encoded yourself. OSS projects ahve no right to be able to play music Apple sells through the iTMS.
treating me like a criminal
Are you posting from a jail cell?/p>
by denying me my right to govern my own personal property by invading my machine with a super-root presence is not at all immoral
Just because you can instal it, doesn't mean that it's going to work right. It's not DRM, it's dropping support. Your rights aren't being managed.
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That's a rather poor analogy. There's nothing illegal about DRM and Fairplay isn't exactly immoral. Neither is Apple a big enough company to boss the record companies around. If they'd said no to DRM, they wouldn't be selling music, simple as that.
The Heisenberg uncertainty principle states that the lower the mass of a particle, the greater the uncertainty in its position.
No it doesn't. It states that the product of the uncertainty in the momentum and the uncertainty in the position is equal to or greater than Planck's constant divided by 4 pi. That can mean in certain situations that what you said is true, but it is dependent on the velocities of the particles.
I think your argument would have merit if it was a case of 'your way or my way,' but it's really a case of 'God's way or your way,' in which case we are placing our confidence in God's revelation, rather than in our own plans. Humility then comes from submitting to his plan, rather than trying to impose our own on anyone.
It's funny we should be having this conversation because the sermon in church this morning was about Jesus' evangelistic method in John 4 in his conversation with the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well. He's polite, even to a women that this people would despise; rather than being overbearing, he is vulnerable, asking for a drink of water; he isn't pushy, instead he gradually develops a conversation with her; rather than force her to respond to him, he talks a bit about himself and how to worship God and allows he to come to the conclusion that he is indeed the Messiah who will save her.
Through it all, he is immensely polite, humble and gracious. But he also talks about the need to worship in spirit and in truth. He has firm convictions. He admits no possibility that he could be wrong. There is no conflict between the two.
Take a look the conversation we've been having. We both have an idea of what humility entails. You are firmly convinced about one definition, while I am firmly convinced of another. We each think are definition is better than the other's, yet we've not been pushy, we've listened respectfully to what the other has to say and, unusually for Slashdot, have been polite to another. I'd like to think that in sharing our convictions, we've bee able to humble.
To be fair now, pretty much every application vendor uses version changes as a revenue stream. It's best to ignore product names and just look at the feature changes.
Admitting that an idea you do not believe in could be right is called humility.
I'm not sure I agree there. There are many things I could be 99.99999999% sure of. Quite a few things I could be sure enough of to stake my life on them. I firmly believe that yo can have firm and indeed unshakeable convict, yet still be utterly humble. It depends on where your confidence lies. If your confidence lies in yourself, I'd say that makes it pretty hard to be humble. With respect to Christianity, my confidence lies in God, so I believe that it is no barrier to humility. Having said that, I could be a lot more humble, but the barriers are of my own making, rather than being a product of my faith.
Being a Mac user makes it hard to e humble as well:^)
Giving money is no pre-requisite for salvation. In fact it is very clear that you can't buy your salvation in the Bible and that only faith in Jesus can save anyone. However, if you truly believe that Jesus saves people from eternal damnation, have accepted him as Lord of your life and believe that everything we own in this life has been given to us by him, then it would be very inconsistent to go and withhold anything from him. Truly saved people should want to support the work of the gospel. But no-one is forced to give and every church I've ever been to receives the vast majority of its giving through standing orders or numbered envelopes, so the only person who would ever be able to find out how much anyone is giving is the treasurer. The pastor normally keeps well away from the money so that he can never be tempted to abuse his position.
The trouble is that tolerance has become a grossly misused word these days. Being tolerant of an idea doesn't mean saying that it could be right. It means giving people a choice and not persecuting them if they choose differently to how would like them to. It is perfectly consistent to be tolerant of someone's views while also being convinced that they are wrong and trying to persuade them through reason and debate to change their mind.
Why are you under the impression that the church would want to exploit you? I'd love to see guys like this in church, but so that they can be saved and change, not so that we can use them to exploit people.
You see, I wanted an mp3 player for some hard-core fitness use. An iPod lpoks great attached to the arm (arm strap not included btw) of the hot chick walking on the treadmill at the gym - but try using an iPod while running intervals. I listen to language tapes a lot so am frequently pausing and resuming the player. This means I have to be holding the device and in the case of the iPod, looking at it you want to hit the right button if you are doing anything other than sitting down.
'm curious, how did getting an iRiver solve your problem? Surely it operates by physical contact, rather than telepathy? If your answer is 'I sued the remote,' then why didn't you just use a remote for the iPod? If you prefer the iRiver, then fair enough, your choice, but the iPod does seem to meet your needs here.
Doesn't play WMA
You make that sound like a bad thing:^) Seriously though, why would you want to use WMA? Have you purchased songs from a WMA music store? It would seem odd if you encoded your own stuff in WMA, but then also want OGG support. Personally, I'm quite happy with AAC, but my entire collection is encoded in it and I've shopped at the iTMS.
no radio
If you get the remote then you can use it as a radio. Yeah, it costs more, but it solves your sweating problem as well. Otr it would if you still had the iPod.
I gave it about a week before trading it in for the iRiver. Don't get me wrong, market forces obviously show that the iPod is a great product that meets the needs of most people,... I'm just not one of them...
Fair enough. As long as there's a healthy number of dissenters liek you, hopeuflly Apple will keep on improving the iPod. Which in turn will make other amnufacturers compete more. A win for both of us:^)
So true. Star Destroyers held no fear for me after fairy short order. Corvettes were quite fun to toy with because you could actually shoot their turrets off before they blew up. Nebulon-B Frigates on the other hand were a nightmare. Hated them. Awkward target profile and lots of lasers coming at you. Mighty hard to hit anywhere other than the forward section when I ad to play with a mouse.
I think I got the most satisfaction though from blowing up TIE Advanced fighters. The combination of speed and shielding made them a right pain. Best way to do it (if you were in a B-Wing) was to kill the engines, hunker down and wait for one to make a strafing run. Once he gets close (and I mean really close, toggle off a pair of torpedoes and watch him go boom.
I never completed every mission, but I loved every minute of the ones I played and definitely felt more satisfaction than any game since. Had a lot more fun when I discovered that there were download-able missions on the net that people had created. Massive face-offs between fleets of Star Destroyers, Frigates and Cruisers felt just like Star Wars.
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You don't pay for dedicated servers. You pay for the ability to play online.
Well, if you go down the line that worship of anything consitutes a religion then everbody is religious in some way, in which case the statement 'most killing has been caused by religion' becomes a truism. The Bible would in fact agree with the statement then, since worship of anything other than YHWH is responsible for the messed up state the world is in, including murder.
Interesting and completely unfounded statistic. I'd say that a pretty big chunk of deaths are caused by old age and disease.
In that case you should probably use a different word since most people mean something different when they say 'religion.' Generally i doesn't involve atheistic beliefs.
During the Dark ages, the church was one of the few places to preserve knowledge and learning. You can thank the church that the Dark Ages weren't worse.
Actually, he may have a good point. Ice, being denser than foam, will have less surface area for the same mass. Less surface area means less drag, which means it slows down less in the air when it comes loose. Slowing down less means that its velocity relative to the speeding shuttle will be less, so it could well do less damage.
For similar reasons, if you drop a point of nails and a pound of feathers, the nails will hit the ground first. It's all about drag, not weight.
To check that he's dead. The fact that both red and clear liquids come out is the medical evidence that convinces doctors that he was in fact dead.
That should be 'was,' rather than 'is,' since they're not making them anymore and in the last few months, they were shipping Minis with 5400 RPM drives, like mine. 4200 must have sucked though, especaill with quite a few people wanting to use them as PVRs. At least the Intel ones are 5400 RPM now.
Most people don't support such things. Don't you thinkthe use of the word 'flame-baiting' is a little hypocritical here?
Would you like the citizens of Northern Ireland to decide which country you should belong to? No? Well then what gives you the right to decide which one we do?
We're not part of Great Britain, but we are a part of the British State. We're British citizens and have MPs and Lords at Westminster.
Unfortunately, due to our small number of MPs, we basically have one guy, Peter Hain the Northern Irish Secretary, dictating everything that happens here. e.g. 90% of the population are against the school reforms he's planning, but he's going to go ahead with them anyway, because there's nothing our MPs can do to stop him.
Bring back devolution.
You left out the 1.6 million Northern Irish. Kind of a sore point over here!
The trouble with that method is that you're not playing songs in isolation. When you pick a song, you'll have selected it from the song, album, artist, composer or playlist menus normally, which then tells the iPod which other songs to buffer. By the time you've typed in the name of the song and then chosen which context to play it in, you may as well have gone through the usual selection process, especially if the song title is more than a couple of words long.
How can you tell the difference between 'selling like hotcakes' and 'mediocre sales' when they're consistently sold out? It's a bit hard to judge demand when supply is so low. I may be misinterpreting, but it sounds like you're criticising lack of supply in what you perceive as a law demand situation. But given the low supply, it's mighty hard to accurately gauge the demand.
DRM for music is not illegal. I certainly haven't seen Apple hauled into court over it. Or anyone else using DRM for music. You do know that you can burn it to CD and re-rip it, don't you? Syure, you lose a bit of quality, but not much. And there's nothing preventing you from moving music encoded yourself. OSS projects ahve no right to be able to play music Apple sells through the iTMS.
Are you posting from a jail cell?/p>
You confuse Apple with Sony.
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DRM also prevent a future OSX release from being used on an older Mac.
Just because you can instal it, doesn't mean that it's going to work right. It's not DRM, it's dropping support. Your rights aren't being managed.
That's a rather poor analogy. There's nothing illegal about DRM and Fairplay isn't exactly immoral. Neither is Apple a big enough company to boss the record companies around. If they'd said no to DRM, they wouldn't be selling music, simple as that.
No it doesn't. It states that the product of the uncertainty in the momentum and the uncertainty in the position is equal to or greater than Planck's constant divided by 4 pi. That can mean in certain situations that what you said is true, but it is dependent on the velocities of the particles.
I think your argument would have merit if it was a case of 'your way or my way,' but it's really a case of 'God's way or your way,' in which case we are placing our confidence in God's revelation, rather than in our own plans. Humility then comes from submitting to his plan, rather than trying to impose our own on anyone.
It's funny we should be having this conversation because the sermon in church this morning was about Jesus' evangelistic method in John 4 in his conversation with the Samaritan woman at Jacob's well. He's polite, even to a women that this people would despise; rather than being overbearing, he is vulnerable, asking for a drink of water; he isn't pushy, instead he gradually develops a conversation with her; rather than force her to respond to him, he talks a bit about himself and how to worship God and allows he to come to the conclusion that he is indeed the Messiah who will save her.
Through it all, he is immensely polite, humble and gracious. But he also talks about the need to worship in spirit and in truth. He has firm convictions. He admits no possibility that he could be wrong. There is no conflict between the two.
Take a look the conversation we've been having. We both have an idea of what humility entails. You are firmly convinced about one definition, while I am firmly convinced of another. We each think are definition is better than the other's, yet we've not been pushy, we've listened respectfully to what the other has to say and, unusually for Slashdot, have been polite to another. I'd like to think that in sharing our convictions, we've bee able to humble.
To be fair now, pretty much every application vendor uses version changes as a revenue stream. It's best to ignore product names and just look at the feature changes.
I'm not sure I agree there. There are many things I could be 99.99999999% sure of. Quite a few things I could be sure enough of to stake my life on them. I firmly believe that yo can have firm and indeed unshakeable convict, yet still be utterly humble. It depends on where your confidence lies. If your confidence lies in yourself, I'd say that makes it pretty hard to be humble. With respect to Christianity, my confidence lies in God, so I believe that it is no barrier to humility. Having said that, I could be a lot more humble, but the barriers are of my own making, rather than being a product of my faith.
Being a Mac user makes it hard to e humble as well :^)
There are plenty of free updates between point releases. IT's only every 18 months or so that there's a paid for upgrade.
Giving money is no pre-requisite for salvation. In fact it is very clear that you can't buy your salvation in the Bible and that only faith in Jesus can save anyone. However, if you truly believe that Jesus saves people from eternal damnation, have accepted him as Lord of your life and believe that everything we own in this life has been given to us by him, then it would be very inconsistent to go and withhold anything from him. Truly saved people should want to support the work of the gospel. But no-one is forced to give and every church I've ever been to receives the vast majority of its giving through standing orders or numbered envelopes, so the only person who would ever be able to find out how much anyone is giving is the treasurer. The pastor normally keeps well away from the money so that he can never be tempted to abuse his position.
The trouble is that tolerance has become a grossly misused word these days. Being tolerant of an idea doesn't mean saying that it could be right. It means giving people a choice and not persecuting them if they choose differently to how would like them to. It is perfectly consistent to be tolerant of someone's views while also being convinced that they are wrong and trying to persuade them through reason and debate to change their mind.
Why are you under the impression that the church would want to exploit you? I'd love to see guys like this in church, but so that they can be saved and change, not so that we can use them to exploit people.
'm curious, how did getting an iRiver solve your problem? Surely it operates by physical contact, rather than telepathy? If your answer is 'I sued the remote,' then why didn't you just use a remote for the iPod? If you prefer the iRiver, then fair enough, your choice, but the iPod does seem to meet your needs here.
You make that sound like a bad thing :^) Seriously though, why would you want to use WMA? Have you purchased songs from a WMA music store? It would seem odd if you encoded your own stuff in WMA, but then also want OGG support. Personally, I'm quite happy with AAC, but my entire collection is encoded in it and I've shopped at the iTMS.
If you get the remote then you can use it as a radio. Yeah, it costs more, but it solves your sweating problem as well. Otr it would if you still had the iPod.
Fair enough. As long as there's a healthy number of dissenters liek you, hopeuflly Apple will keep on improving the iPod. Which in turn will make other amnufacturers compete more. A win for both of us :^)
So true. Star Destroyers held no fear for me after fairy short order. Corvettes were quite fun to toy with because you could actually shoot their turrets off before they blew up. Nebulon-B Frigates on the other hand were a nightmare. Hated them. Awkward target profile and lots of lasers coming at you. Mighty hard to hit anywhere other than the forward section when I ad to play with a mouse.
I think I got the most satisfaction though from blowing up TIE Advanced fighters. The combination of speed and shielding made them a right pain. Best way to do it (if you were in a B-Wing) was to kill the engines, hunker down and wait for one to make a strafing run. Once he gets close (and I mean really close, toggle off a pair of torpedoes and watch him go boom.
I never completed every mission, but I loved every minute of the ones I played and definitely felt more satisfaction than any game since. Had a lot more fun when I discovered that there were download-able missions on the net that people had created. Massive face-offs between fleets of Star Destroyers, Frigates and Cruisers felt just like Star Wars.