I suspect this will be modded troll, and that would be fair. Go ahead. Has to be said, though.
Some languages, I see the point of. I understand why Visual Basic still exists, even if I despise it. I understand why C exists, and even why Java exists.
PHP, I just don't get. Why bother? It's Perl, minus a bunch of features, in a templating language. As soon as you discover that other languages can be embedded into a webpage, too, I cannot think of a single thing that PHP does better than just about anything short of C intended for developing web apps.
The one thing that I can appreciate about PHP is the massive amount of stuff that's already written in it -- like COBOL, it will remain popular and used for that reason alone. But unlike COBOL, it continues to be actively developed, and used for new projects. Why?
Were it just about anything else, people might come to me with code samples, showing at least one niche thing that their pet language does beautifully, or at least, that they believe shows it lacks a weakness of some other language. Prove me wrong -- show me some beautiful PHP code.
Certainly, but this can be reduced by making sure that e-mail coming from the outside world can only be sent to gmail addresses and e-mail going to the outside world requires password authentication by the sender. And, specifically, that it can only be sent to valid Gmail addresses.
I've done stuff like this with Postfix, in my spare time, on my own mailserver. It's trivially easy, and it completely eliminates bounces, except in the case of mysterious internal errors -- but even then, I think it's more common for a temporary error to be returned at the SMTP layer than for the mail to actually bounce.
Seriously -- QuickTime has been reverse engineered, and is actually meant for playing video, not for doing absolutely everything. It has pretty much the same UI for streaming/caching as YouTube does.
Why would you use Real? And why would you use Flash?
Never mind. I'm sure someone will spew something about how Flash is "more supported" -- QuickTime (or mpeg, or anything similar) is going to be supported everywhere VLC is.
I pretty much have to agree, at least on the theory -- small, open spaces for people working on at least related projects.
Imagine developing a client and a server. They are going to be done by different people, because they are almost necessarily in completely different languages, for completely different platforms, and each is doing a lot in its own right.
First time around, before I worked there, they had to work with a large corporation -- the corporation was doing the server, and they had us do the client. Now, part of this might be that they sucked -- they couldn't even produce valid XML -- but I suspect part of it was also the lack of communication between the two teams.
As in, we'd pretty much get nothing from them until they had a server up. And then we'd have to go tell them to change it -- as nicely as possible -- because we really kind of need valid XML.
There's such a thing as too much communication, but there's something to be said for working in the same room with the guy doing the server. Second time around actually went very, very well, until that business model imploded.
People always used to 'pay' for their wives back then.
It's not the paying-for-your-wife part that I have a problem with. It's the part where she has to marry you, and all you have to do is pay her father -- and this because you raped her.
So now that you mention it, really seems like the rapist doesn't get punished, and the victim does.
You're just showing what an ignorant bigoted fuckwit you are here
Read my signature. And then go back and read the context.
Yes, exactly, do whatever the fuck you want as long as you believe in Jesus. Just ignore the fact that by believing in him you have recognised the fact that you are a sinner and you believe he has died for those sins, and that you are thankful that they are forgiven and don't actually want to be sinning anymore.
I don't see how that follows.
I mean, yes, it takes a bit of a sociopath, but it's really quite simple -- if I sinned so much in the first place, maybe I believe that he died for my sins, and I don't care at all.
How do you expect the bible not to be relevant to the time it was written?
I don't.
However, if it were the word of God, as is often claimed, and an absolute truth, as is also often claimed, it would be timeless.
from your quality of information so far
Tell you what, if I get bored, I'll go to Gutenberg and grab a KJV. I know I've looked these up before.
Yes, I did say they deserve to die. That is part of Christian belief - everyone deserves to die as soon as they come into existence, because of the fall.
Let's remember this, shall we? What was the fall?
Oh yeah, someone took a bite of an apple.
They took. A bite. Of an apple.
Alright, it was some symbolic apple. It was the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. So we deserve to die for wanting knowledge, now? The only way to live without sin is to eat of the Tree of Life, but not the Tree of Knowledge -- Life without Knowledge.
You'll forgive me if I don't respect this belief of yours.
I didn't say I'd stone anyone, I wouldn't.
You did, however, say that they deserve to be stoned, as per the law.
He gave his life rather than killing them.
Well, actually, they killed him.
Which raises another fun debate topic: Why can't an all-powerful God absolve humans without having to kill his son? Why can't he just waive his magic... hand?
I personally don't think believing in another God is any more evil than anything else, but yes it is something worthy of death, the same as extending sentiments such as 'fuck you' to a fellow human being, or lying.
You'll probably be getting that other post I made just now... If not, the correct translation is "No more than an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth."
I honestly don't see how lying deserves death, or how believing something else -- being misguided, or uninformed -- deserves death.
I also find it unreasonable for a deity to offer no chance after death for sinners to redeem themselves. Nope, if you die without believing -- without any proof whatever, of course -- then you get to burn forever.
When (well, more likely 'if') you one day realise what scum humans are and how basically everyone deserves to die
I simply don't believe that.
I could certainly find plenty of people who are scum, and perhaps deserve punishment. But we all deserve to die? Really?
Try this experiment -- find a sweet, innocent little girl. Make her, say, five or six years old. And say, to her face, "You deserve to die." I dare you.
I know I couldn't do it.
You're creating a nice little catch 22 for yourself by saying that if people don't agree with parts of the bible they're hypocrites, but if they happen to
You're again showing a complete lack of knowledge of the new testament I remember "What the Lord has cleaned, you shall not call 'unclean'." I also remember that it was a very specific circumstance, and I do not remember any kind of clear, general proclamation that these animals should continue to be called clean.
It would seem to conflict with Jesus proclaiming that "Not one stroke of a letter will pass..."
I've not been in the best of moods the last few years (on and off antidepressants for various reasons), and I have no idea any more what I believe about life, the universe and everything I will tell you that one of the most liberating and empowering (sorry if I sound self-help-ish) things that you can do is stop relying on religion.
I'm not telling you to give it up -- at least, not yet. I am telling you to look to yourself for answers; after all, "God helps those who help themselves."
And here's the cool part -- if you don't have an answer, you can make one up. If you don't know what to think about life, the universe, and everything, then it is whatever you want it to be. "Empty and meaningless" means you have a space to create meaning.
I'm not sure if any of that makes sense -- it was the abridged version, after all.
There is also a lot of nasty stuff in the Old Testament, but that's just how things were back then (and still are in some parts of the world today). See, the thing is, if you can dismiss one part of the Bible as being influenced by the time it was written (by humans), then how can you treat it as scripture?
It doesn't mean that nothing in there is true, although much of it has been misinterpreted. For example, the correct translation is "No more than an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."
But never use it to "prove" a point. Never do something like point to the -- Leviticus chapter, I think? -- and say "See, God hates gays!"
As for myself, I have come to the conclusion that the God portrayed in the Bible is not one that I would worship. I don't believe such a god exists, both out of sane skepticality and out of my own naive hope that if there is a deity, or an intelligence, that it is actually benevolent.
so I take the bait all too often and end up in a bad mood for a while - trying not to do that too much just now Thanks. I mean that -- I appreciate the effort.
You still have to contend with the awful Javascript language though. The engines are slow because the language is convoluted. Awful? Convoluted?
It wouldn't be my first choice, but I don't think either of those really apply. There are a few weird syntax issues, but it's pretty much Lisp in C's clothing, and actually enjoyable to work with, once you really know it.
and the dozen hoops to jump through if you what to imitate the innate data hiding of a real OO language. It's actually pretty trivial to do that, though I would argue it's much better to simply specify, in your documentation, what your public API is.
The way a function namespace comes from the context of its definition rather than invocation That's a feature. It means all functions are automatically closures, which makes for some very cool Lisp-like possibilities.
Not going to disect your entire post -- whether it was your intent or not, one gigantic paragraph is annoying to read -- but here:
That, and maybe I haven't looked too carefully at it, but I suspect Canvas is not necessarily a software renderer. At least, I suspect it's possible to build a compatible renderer which is hardware accelerated.
The difference is, of course, that Flash will be hardware accelerated when Adobe damn well pleases, and there's nothing we can do about that.
Maybe you should actually look up the very history of Javascript -- the programmer wanted an embedded LISP. Some PHB-type wanted it to look like C, so it would be more approachable. So he took his embedded LISP and gave it a C-like syntax.
Or maybe you should've Googled about Lisp and Javascript. Here, go read.
The point of that exercise -- finally fixed, wow -- was to demonstrate how terminally stupid Vista is. Not that the results take longer, but that it would spawn anywhere from 5-30 threads (depending how much you typed) and not terminate them or pool them in any way.
Kind of goes with the whole "drop your network performance to 10% by playing music" bug. Not feature, bug.
You're blatantly ignoring the fact that women weren't very respected back then Mostly because the Bible claims to be the word of God. Is it, or isn't it?
and that the bible says there must be penalties/amendments paid if someone does rape a woman, rather than just raping her and being done with it. Yes -- a cash payment. And then you marry her.
So what it's saying is, if you have fifteen silver shekels, and you see an attractive, unmarried, virgin girl, go ahead and rape her. She'll have to marry you.
The law is still there, so you are still sinning when you break it. The difference being that if you believe in Jesus, those sins are forgiven. In other words, you can do whatever the fuck you want, so long as you believe in Jesus? Must be great to have no morals at all.
The thing with what you are saying is, that people do deserve to be stoned and such for rape Even the victim? Because that's what it says -- stone the man, and the woman. (Of course, nothing is ever said about a woman raping a man -- understandable, if you accept it as a human book influenced by the time it was written in, but if so, why believe it as gospel?)
and even for 'worshipping other gods' So you really do believe Hindus deserve to be stoned? Buddhists?
Fuck you. I have no respect for someone who thinks anyone deserves to die for any thoughts or beliefs.
And yes, I am ignoring your "cast the first stone" bullshit -- you did, in fact, just say that people should be stoned for their beliefs. Saying "Oh, but I wouldn't do it because I'm a dirty sinner, too" doesn't get you off the hook -- it didn't stop you from saying they should be stoned, did it?
Try this: Disable indexing on your hard drive. Now open the start menu and start typing, as a search. Each character you type will spawn a new search in a background thread. Which means if you type "Hello, world!", you just spawned 13 separate threads, each of which is now crawling your entire hard drive.
Tell me that's not broken.
If she waited a year or two to buy a vista computer: it would meet the real-world requirements. And in a year or two, Vista might have a service pack that fixes retarded shit like the above.
Microsoft likes to alpha test on their customers. The only way out of it is to either not be a Microsoft customer, or to use a six year old OS. Meanwhile, I'll be over here using Ubuntu, which is pretty much mature and tested, and never more than six months old.
Maybe this will help stem the tide of Vista-bashing. No, fixing Vista will help stem the tide of Vista-bashing. Help, not eliminate -- Microsoft is yet again alpha-testing their products on the general population, and for that, they deserve to be bashed.
I think most people who are ripping on Vista for being the operating system anti-christ are forgetting how badly XP sucked pre-SP1, and even pre-SP2. I remember very well, which is why it's all the more infuriating this time around.
Oh, by the way, can anyone confirm whether or not this is fixed yet: Disable indexing, then try to type something into the search in the Start menu. Watch system explode, because each character spawns a new thread to search, without killing the old one. Doesn't take very much to bring the whole thing crashing down.
If yes, then we've got some progress. If not, that's fucking pathetic.
Anyone who thinks that having a 'good heart' gets you into heaven is saying that Jesus didn't need to die for our sins though.
Or maybe they're just saying that Jesus died for everyone's sins, whether or not they believe. Why does Jesus dying require everyone's faith?
Because you're basically saying he's like Tinkerbell, which seems laughable to me. Did he not die on that cross if you don't believe? Does he disappear if people stop believing in him?
What then is the point of even being 'religious', let alone claim to be Christian?
I don't know that there is a point in the first place, but you tell me. Why do you believe? Why is it important to you?
If it's only important because it gets you into heaven, then I'm going to say that it means very little, and also that you are a selfish bastard.
You could say that that means that Jesus' sacrifice saved everyone, but that's not what the bible says. You can't just pick and choose parts of a religious system that you like, ignore the rest, and then claim to be a follower of that religion..
While that's true, if you're going to go by the Bible as the absolute word of authority, you've got other problems. Jesus does say that the old Laws of Moses are to be upheld, and those laws include some... interesting things.
For example: Deuteronomy 13:6-10 tells you to stone your family if they believe in other gods.
Deuteronomy 22:23-24 tells you to stone rapists, and their victims, assuming it happened in town. Oh, and 22:28-29 covers another exception -- if you rape an unmarried virgin (who's not yet engaged), you must pay her father fifty silver shekels, and then marry her. (And yes, she must marry you.)
Is it just me, or does the Biblical God encourage rape?
Deuteronomy 28:15-63 reminds you of the penalties for breaking the Law: "Though you will get engaged to marry a woman, another man will rape her. God will take delight in ruining and destroying you. He will afflict you with hemorrhoids, scurvy, and the itch, and you will find no cure. God will strike you with foul ulcers, boils, and tumors from which there will be no cure, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head. God will strike you with madness, blindness, and confusion until you grope your way around at noon like a blind man groping in the dark, and your steps lead you nowhere. He will send wild animals to attack you. You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters. God will strike you down with consumption, fever, rash, drought, blight, and mildew. And these will pursue you until your ruin."
Wait, you thought that was it? No, your wonderful, loving God won't even leave your corpse in peace: "Your dead body will be carrion for all wild birds and all wild animals, with no one to scare them away."
And you're right -- this is intended to be taken literally, by the book, without regard for your good intentions.
Deuteronomy 29:19: "If anyone should think to himself, 'I will do well enough if I follow the dictates of my heart,' God will not pardon him. His wrath shall burn against him, and all of the curses written in the book will come to him."
Oh, by the way: Believing in Jesus doesn't get you off the hook. Matthew 5:17-18: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law of Moses or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them. In truth I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even the smallest stroke of a letter will pass away from The Law."
If you aren't following these laws -- if you aren't stoning anyone who believes in another god, family member or not -- if you so much as eat bacon and eggs -- then you are a fucking hypocrite if you try to tell me that the Bible is the authority for your religion.
And if you decide to take your own interpretation of the Bible -- which, the Bible says, will cause all those nasty curses to befall you -- but let's assume you're more op
The other half is their ability to shut you off at their whim. Which they don't do.
no "feature" can make up for this. Bullshit.
World of Warcraft has over ten million subscribers. That's ten million people who believe a feature does, in fact, make up for losing control over a game they "bought".
You could say that the features Steam has aren't enough, which would be fine, except you obviously haven't examined those features -- you just dismissed it out of hand.
You can always commit suicide later if you find the pain is too much - why give your oppressor the buzz of killing you? It usually wouldn't be later, I'd think. Much more likely in the heat of the moment.
After you've been raped and left by the side of the road, bleeding and unconscious, you're probably going to want to find food and shelter.
During the process, the question is, do you want to be raped again, or do you want to die?
But choosing death over rape is stupid. I think choosing death is always stupid, but I've never been raped.
And I think that for everyone, there's going to be a certain amount of pain -- a certain amount of torture past which you'll do anything to end it, including kill yourself. For some people, that's rape -- I do hope you agree it's a form of torture.
There are a lot of stupid denominational separations, but essentially you either believe in Jesus or you don't! Well, yes and no.
Thing is, there are Christians who believe that everyone with a good heart will make their way into Heaven. And there are Christians who believe that everyone who doesn't believe in Jesus will go to Hell, no matter how good they are.
And if that wasn't fucked-up enough, there are also Christians who believe that unless you subscribe to their particular church, you aren't a true believer, and you're going to Hell.
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I suspect this will be modded troll, and that would be fair. Go ahead. Has to be said, though.
Some languages, I see the point of. I understand why Visual Basic still exists, even if I despise it. I understand why C exists, and even why Java exists.
PHP, I just don't get. Why bother? It's Perl, minus a bunch of features, in a templating language. As soon as you discover that other languages can be embedded into a webpage, too, I cannot think of a single thing that PHP does better than just about anything short of C intended for developing web apps.
The one thing that I can appreciate about PHP is the massive amount of stuff that's already written in it -- like COBOL, it will remain popular and used for that reason alone. But unlike COBOL, it continues to be actively developed, and used for new projects. Why?
Were it just about anything else, people might come to me with code samples, showing at least one niche thing that their pet language does beautifully, or at least, that they believe shows it lacks a weakness of some other language. Prove me wrong -- show me some beautiful PHP code.
I've done stuff like this with Postfix, in my spare time, on my own mailserver. It's trivially easy, and it completely eliminates bounces, except in the case of mysterious internal errors -- but even then, I think it's more common for a temporary error to be returned at the SMTP layer than for the mail to actually bounce.
Bounces are unnecessary, full stop.
Question:
Why not QuickTime?
Seriously -- QuickTime has been reverse engineered, and is actually meant for playing video, not for doing absolutely everything. It has pretty much the same UI for streaming/caching as YouTube does.
Why would you use Real? And why would you use Flash?
Never mind. I'm sure someone will spew something about how Flash is "more supported" -- QuickTime (or mpeg, or anything similar) is going to be supported everywhere VLC is.
I know!
I swear, I read the headline as "EA looses Spore..."
I pretty much have to agree, at least on the theory -- small, open spaces for people working on at least related projects.
Imagine developing a client and a server. They are going to be done by different people, because they are almost necessarily in completely different languages, for completely different platforms, and each is doing a lot in its own right.
First time around, before I worked there, they had to work with a large corporation -- the corporation was doing the server, and they had us do the client. Now, part of this might be that they sucked -- they couldn't even produce valid XML -- but I suspect part of it was also the lack of communication between the two teams.
As in, we'd pretty much get nothing from them until they had a server up. And then we'd have to go tell them to change it -- as nicely as possible -- because we really kind of need valid XML.
There's such a thing as too much communication, but there's something to be said for working in the same room with the guy doing the server. Second time around actually went very, very well, until that business model imploded.
People always used to 'pay' for their wives back then.
It's not the paying-for-your-wife part that I have a problem with. It's the part where she has to marry you, and all you have to do is pay her father -- and this because you raped her.
So now that you mention it, really seems like the rapist doesn't get punished, and the victim does.
You're just showing what an ignorant bigoted fuckwit you are here
Read my signature. And then go back and read the context.
Yes, exactly, do whatever the fuck you want as long as you believe in Jesus. Just ignore the fact that by believing in him you have recognised the fact that you are a sinner and you believe he has died for those sins, and that you are thankful that they are forgiven and don't actually want to be sinning anymore.
I don't see how that follows.
I mean, yes, it takes a bit of a sociopath, but it's really quite simple -- if I sinned so much in the first place, maybe I believe that he died for my sins, and I don't care at all.
How do you expect the bible not to be relevant to the time it was written?
I don't.
However, if it were the word of God, as is often claimed, and an absolute truth, as is also often claimed, it would be timeless.
from your quality of information so far
Tell you what, if I get bored, I'll go to Gutenberg and grab a KJV. I know I've looked these up before.
And if you get bored, go read.
Yes, I did say they deserve to die. That is part of Christian belief - everyone deserves to die as soon as they come into existence, because of the fall.
Let's remember this, shall we? What was the fall?
Oh yeah, someone took a bite of an apple.
They took. A bite. Of an apple.
Alright, it was some symbolic apple. It was the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. So we deserve to die for wanting knowledge, now? The only way to live without sin is to eat of the Tree of Life, but not the Tree of Knowledge -- Life without Knowledge.
You'll forgive me if I don't respect this belief of yours.
I didn't say I'd stone anyone, I wouldn't.
You did, however, say that they deserve to be stoned, as per the law.
He gave his life rather than killing them.
Well, actually, they killed him.
Which raises another fun debate topic: Why can't an all-powerful God absolve humans without having to kill his son? Why can't he just waive his magic... hand?
I personally don't think believing in another God is any more evil than anything else, but yes it is something worthy of death, the same as extending sentiments such as 'fuck you' to a fellow human being, or lying.
You'll probably be getting that other post I made just now... If not, the correct translation is "No more than an eye for an eye or a tooth for a tooth."
I honestly don't see how lying deserves death, or how believing something else -- being misguided, or uninformed -- deserves death.
I also find it unreasonable for a deity to offer no chance after death for sinners to redeem themselves. Nope, if you die without believing -- without any proof whatever, of course -- then you get to burn forever.
When (well, more likely 'if') you one day realise what scum humans are and how basically everyone deserves to die
I simply don't believe that.
I could certainly find plenty of people who are scum, and perhaps deserve punishment. But we all deserve to die? Really?
Try this experiment -- find a sweet, innocent little girl. Make her, say, five or six years old. And say, to her face, "You deserve to die." I dare you.
I know I couldn't do it.
You're creating a nice little catch 22 for yourself by saying that if people don't agree with parts of the bible they're hypocrites, but if they happen to
It would seem to conflict with Jesus proclaiming that "Not one stroke of a letter will pass..." I've not been in the best of moods the last few years (on and off antidepressants for various reasons), and I have no idea any more what I believe about life, the universe and everything I will tell you that one of the most liberating and empowering (sorry if I sound self-help-ish) things that you can do is stop relying on religion.
I'm not telling you to give it up -- at least, not yet. I am telling you to look to yourself for answers; after all, "God helps those who help themselves."
And here's the cool part -- if you don't have an answer, you can make one up. If you don't know what to think about life, the universe, and everything, then it is whatever you want it to be. "Empty and meaningless" means you have a space to create meaning.
I'm not sure if any of that makes sense -- it was the abridged version, after all. There is also a lot of nasty stuff in the Old Testament, but that's just how things were back then (and still are in some parts of the world today). See, the thing is, if you can dismiss one part of the Bible as being influenced by the time it was written (by humans), then how can you treat it as scripture?
It doesn't mean that nothing in there is true, although much of it has been misinterpreted. For example, the correct translation is "No more than an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth."
But never use it to "prove" a point. Never do something like point to the -- Leviticus chapter, I think? -- and say "See, God hates gays!"
As for myself, I have come to the conclusion that the God portrayed in the Bible is not one that I would worship. I don't believe such a god exists, both out of sane skepticality and out of my own naive hope that if there is a deity, or an intelligence, that it is actually benevolent. so I take the bait all too often and end up in a bad mood for a while - trying not to do that too much just now Thanks. I mean that -- I appreciate the effort.
Oversimplifying is bad, too.
It's a bit like saying "Guns are bad."
It wouldn't be my first choice, but I don't think either of those really apply. There are a few weird syntax issues, but it's pretty much Lisp in C's clothing, and actually enjoyable to work with, once you really know it.
And Tamarin will make it fast.
Not going to disect your entire post -- whether it was your intent or not, one gigantic paragraph is annoying to read -- but here:
A quick article
Or, check out the YUI Theater, in particular things like "The JavaScript Programming Language" and "Advanced JavaScript".
And I'll take Ruby over Python any day. (Unless I need performance. Then I'll write C.)
That, and maybe I haven't looked too carefully at it, but I suspect Canvas is not necessarily a software renderer. At least, I suspect it's possible to build a compatible renderer which is hardware accelerated.
The difference is, of course, that Flash will be hardware accelerated when Adobe damn well pleases, and there's nothing we can do about that.
Or Linux.
But then, most of my complaints about Flash are its video playback.
The VM does, however, make most JavaScript implementations look slow -- emphasis on "most".
Which is why the Tamarin project exists.
That's funny.
Maybe you should actually look up the very history of Javascript -- the programmer wanted an embedded LISP. Some PHB-type wanted it to look like C, so it would be more approachable. So he took his embedded LISP and gave it a C-like syntax.
Or maybe you should've Googled about Lisp and Javascript. Here, go read.
Oh, I would very likely leave it on.
The point of that exercise -- finally fixed, wow -- was to demonstrate how terminally stupid Vista is. Not that the results take longer, but that it would spawn anywhere from 5-30 threads (depending how much you typed) and not terminate them or pool them in any way.
Kind of goes with the whole "drop your network performance to 10% by playing music" bug. Not feature, bug.
So what it's saying is, if you have fifteen silver shekels, and you see an attractive, unmarried, virgin girl, go ahead and rape her. She'll have to marry you. The law is still there, so you are still sinning when you break it. The difference being that if you believe in Jesus, those sins are forgiven. In other words, you can do whatever the fuck you want, so long as you believe in Jesus? Must be great to have no morals at all. The thing with what you are saying is, that people do deserve to be stoned and such for rape Even the victim? Because that's what it says -- stone the man, and the woman. (Of course, nothing is ever said about a woman raping a man -- understandable, if you accept it as a human book influenced by the time it was written in, but if so, why believe it as gospel?) and even for 'worshipping other gods' So you really do believe Hindus deserve to be stoned? Buddhists?
Fuck you. I have no respect for someone who thinks anyone deserves to die for any thoughts or beliefs.
And yes, I am ignoring your "cast the first stone" bullshit -- you did, in fact, just say that people should be stoned for their beliefs. Saying "Oh, but I wouldn't do it because I'm a dirty sinner, too" doesn't get you off the hook -- it didn't stop you from saying they should be stoned, did it?
Which got modded Informative? WTF?
Try this: Disable indexing on your hard drive. Now open the start menu and start typing, as a search. Each character you type will spawn a new search in a background thread. Which means if you type "Hello, world!", you just spawned 13 separate threads, each of which is now crawling your entire hard drive.
Tell me that's not broken. If she waited a year or two to buy a vista computer: it would meet the real-world requirements. And in a year or two, Vista might have a service pack that fixes retarded shit like the above.
Microsoft likes to alpha test on their customers. The only way out of it is to either not be a Microsoft customer, or to use a six year old OS. Meanwhile, I'll be over here using Ubuntu, which is pretty much mature and tested, and never more than six months old.
Oh, by the way, can anyone confirm whether or not this is fixed yet: Disable indexing, then try to type something into the search in the Start menu. Watch system explode, because each character spawns a new thread to search, without killing the old one. Doesn't take very much to bring the whole thing crashing down.
If yes, then we've got some progress. If not, that's fucking pathetic.
Anyone who thinks that having a 'good heart' gets you into heaven is saying that Jesus didn't need to die for our sins though.
Or maybe they're just saying that Jesus died for everyone's sins, whether or not they believe. Why does Jesus dying require everyone's faith?
Because you're basically saying he's like Tinkerbell, which seems laughable to me. Did he not die on that cross if you don't believe? Does he disappear if people stop believing in him?
What then is the point of even being 'religious', let alone claim to be Christian?
I don't know that there is a point in the first place, but you tell me. Why do you believe? Why is it important to you?
If it's only important because it gets you into heaven, then I'm going to say that it means very little, and also that you are a selfish bastard.
You could say that that means that Jesus' sacrifice saved everyone, but that's not what the bible says. You can't just pick and choose parts of a religious system that you like, ignore the rest, and then claim to be a follower of that religion..
While that's true, if you're going to go by the Bible as the absolute word of authority, you've got other problems. Jesus does say that the old Laws of Moses are to be upheld, and those laws include some... interesting things.
For example: Deuteronomy 13:6-10 tells you to stone your family if they believe in other gods.
Deuteronomy 22:23-24 tells you to stone rapists, and their victims, assuming it happened in town. Oh, and 22:28-29 covers another exception -- if you rape an unmarried virgin (who's not yet engaged), you must pay her father fifty silver shekels, and then marry her. (And yes, she must marry you.)
Is it just me, or does the Biblical God encourage rape?
Deuteronomy 28:15-63 reminds you of the penalties for breaking the Law: "Though you will get engaged to marry a woman, another man will rape her. God will take delight in ruining and destroying you. He will afflict you with hemorrhoids, scurvy, and the itch, and you will find no cure. God will strike you with foul ulcers, boils, and tumors from which there will be no cure, from the sole of your foot to the top of your head. God will strike you with madness, blindness, and confusion until you grope your way around at noon like a blind man groping in the dark, and your steps lead you nowhere. He will send wild animals to attack you. You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters. God will strike you down with consumption, fever, rash, drought, blight, and mildew. And these will pursue you until your ruin."
Wait, you thought that was it? No, your wonderful, loving God won't even leave your corpse in peace: "Your dead body will be carrion for all wild birds and all wild animals, with no one to scare them away."
And you're right -- this is intended to be taken literally, by the book, without regard for your good intentions.
Deuteronomy 29:19: "If anyone should think to himself, 'I will do well enough if I follow the dictates of my heart,' God will not pardon him. His wrath shall burn against him, and all of the curses written in the book will come to him."
Oh, by the way: Believing in Jesus doesn't get you off the hook. Matthew 5:17-18: "Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law of Moses or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them. In truth I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even the smallest stroke of a letter will pass away from The Law."
If you aren't following these laws -- if you aren't stoning anyone who believes in another god, family member or not -- if you so much as eat bacon and eggs -- then you are a fucking hypocrite if you try to tell me that the Bible is the authority for your religion.
And if you decide to take your own interpretation of the Bible -- which, the Bible says, will cause all those nasty curses to befall you -- but let's assume you're more op
World of Warcraft has over ten million subscribers. That's ten million people who believe a feature does, in fact, make up for losing control over a game they "bought".
You could say that the features Steam has aren't enough, which would be fine, except you obviously haven't examined those features -- you just dismissed it out of hand.
After you've been raped and left by the side of the road, bleeding and unconscious, you're probably going to want to find food and shelter.
During the process, the question is, do you want to be raped again, or do you want to die? But choosing death over rape is stupid. I think choosing death is always stupid, but I've never been raped.
And I think that for everyone, there's going to be a certain amount of pain -- a certain amount of torture past which you'll do anything to end it, including kill yourself. For some people, that's rape -- I do hope you agree it's a form of torture.
Thing is, there are Christians who believe that everyone with a good heart will make their way into Heaven. And there are Christians who believe that everyone who doesn't believe in Jesus will go to Hell, no matter how good they are.
And if that wasn't fucked-up enough, there are also Christians who believe that unless you subscribe to their particular church, you aren't a true believer, and you're going to Hell.
Wait -- why do you need a high-energy particle accelerator to build a fscking video game?
Oh, I get it.
Except that doesn't work. That, plus moderation, means we don't have to think about them, but by now, they'll be fuckwads with or without an audience.