"This will swing the deal, because nothing -- and I mean nothing -- persuades Senators faster than a room full of bulk faxes, all sent from the same website and all basically the same! Sheesshh. How can so mainly nominally smart people be so dumb about how best to influence the democratic process."
I don't consider "belief" in something that you're never allowed to question to be a true "belief". It really just accepting something because that's all you've been told about. I consider the ability to questions your beliefs and be able to back them up against other peoples' questions to be a fundamental part of truly "believing" something. Sticking your fingers in your ears and yelling "nah nah nah I can't hear you" would do more to underline the point that you aren't very strong in your beliefs. If you were, questions wouldn't shake you so easily.
2. Let's say you could prove that Jesus (the man) existed. Would that prove that he is the son of God? I can prove Muhammed existed because he is mentioned in far more places than the Koran and by far mroe people than those around him.
3. Let's say you could prove that he was the son of God...well, then you win and I'm becoming Christian.
Thank you. I'm getting explaining this to people who use the "well then nothing before your own lifetime can be proven" crap. While I;m not weighing in on whether or not Jesus lived (because he may very well have) I'd like to point out a few other things:
1. People point to the locations in the Bible that have been discovered as proof that the Bible is true. They find a lost city mentioned in the Bible and everyone says "see, it's all true". I don't see anyone saying, hey look at Troy. Of course religious texts will talk about real people and places. It's hard to tell people that their deity was born a couple hundred years ago in a city that they've never heard of and that he had confrontation with kings that nobody thinks ever existed.
Personally I believe in the possibility that something(s) is(are) responsible for creating man, whether directly or indirectly. The universe is clearly a vast space and we are merely tiny blips on its screen. It may be that something intelligent created the universe - or that it created the laws of nature - and nature created the universe and man (through natural processes such as evolution).
My reason for leaving these possibilities open is that I can't find a way out of the infinite loop of "a creator created us, but something must have created the creator, and then something must have created THAT creator..."
Basically it comes down to the idea that there is something fundamental about our creation that we don't have the ability to understand - yet.
Please save all of the "God exists outside of time" arguments. I have the same problems with those areguments that I have with the idea of omnipotence.
I would be happy to find out that God (the Christian one) exists. That would make life simple in my opinion and give me purpose/focus. But I can't believe something just because I hope it's true.
1. The top grossing movies of all time in adjusted dollars
2. The top moveis of all time by the # of tickets sold
Going by unadjusted gross is highly misleading, but that's how they always seem to do it. (not aimed at the poster, but at the movie industry, the media, etc)
Aplle seems to be doing a very good job of taking good-quality, Open-Source projects and kicking them up about 6 notches. Hell, look at Tiger Server. Almost completely made of pre-existing open-source applications, but improved upon and packed in an easy-to-use way. I would love to see Apple improve upon something like Open Office and turn it into a truly competitive office suite, then include it with the OS or sell it at a significantly lower price than MS Office (say $25-$50).
Wait a minute, the concept of "temptation" in the story implies that Eve "knew" that eating the apple was bad and "chose" to try and get Adam to eat the apple. So, was Adam created as a nit-wit and Eve was born with knowledge?
I've corrected myself over the iDVD / DVD Player mixup, but I should also note that iDVD also belongs in the "the average user will rarely/never use this" category. Rather than packaging iLife, they should have packages a good (emphasis) office suite.
Hopefully, Mac Minis will help Macs gain a larger share of the home desktop market and Apple can start concentrating on creating an office suite to compete with MS Office. Until they have enough market share, their existence is still largely due to MS wanting to keep them around as "proof of competition"
My bad on iDVD vs. DVD player. Yes, I'm referring to the DVD player. Why is there no FF/RW on the remote? I would think that would be used far more often than the buttons for skipping chapters.
iPhoto, GarageBand, Keynote, iMovie, iDVD for starters
iPhoto and iDVD are the only two that most home users would use. And frankly, iDVD SUCKS!!!!. You have so little control over it and I have yet to figure out how to simply fast-forward from the "remote control" on the screen. I have to do it from the icon on the Dock. All I can do from the remote is skip to the next scene.
Regardless of the quality of GB, KN, and iM, your average home user has no use for them.
First, you might try getting ahold of an OEM copy of XP Pro since you're building a system from scratch. As for whether XP Pro or OSX is better, that depends on what you do. And that's a different discussion.
OEM XP Pro from Newegg $139 (Adjusted Price $1234)
Gigabit Eth WAS included. As for bluetooth, I own an adapter for my PC (costs $10-20) and have yet to use it. ($1234+$20 = $1254) Still much cheaper than the Mac.
And before anyone flames me, I love Macs. Personally, I prefer OSX to XP, but that's because I do a lot of work with my Linux servers and like having something very similar to Linux at the command-line level while having a GUI that looks great. If I just wanted to play games and do basic thing, I'd probably pick Windows because there are far more programs/games available.
God gave mankind the gift of free will so that they could use that free will to obey him and thus show that they loved him as much as he loved them.
Free will so that they could obey him? Seems to contradict itese
After all, he did love them enough to give them life. That *one* tree that they were not to eat from was the *only* law that they had. They were perfect, and as such they would make no mistakes.
If they were perfect, they wouldn't have chosen to make a mistake - again contradictory.
They *chose* to disobey God. They decided they did not want to submit to Gods authority. That one tree was the only way that they had to prove that they were faithful to God. Without it, there would have been no opportunity to do so. They failed.
But what I'm talking about was GPS. In case you get in a car accident somewhere that's not heavily populated, they will know exactly where you are. Or if you get injured in the woods, etc.
type in Tiger and look at all of the people who own "Tiger" for different products. The fact that they're both in the same industry has only mild significance. If TigerDirect sold software CALLED Tiger, then I would see the problem.
aren't you given a phone number with VoIP? I would think you could just find out who that number is registered to. Then again, VoIP companies aren't regulated the same, so I don't know what hoops 911 would have to jump through to get this info. Another downside of unregulated VoIP. Regulating VoIP is a double-edged sword. Regulating it will stifle its adoption by removing many of the monetary benefits. Leaving it unregulated will cause some problems, such as 911, but it's easier to leave it less regulated and increase regulation as it becomes truly necessary than to go the other way around. I think it would be better to come up with an easy system for incorporating 911 into VoIP at user request (like what Vonage does now), but I think it should be up to the VoIP user.
It will be a requirement soon (if not already) for all cell phones to be GPS-enabled for emergency purposes. The legislation was passed a long time ago. I just can't remember the final "all new phones must comply" date.
Automater is far easier to use than what you're linking to. Automater is accessible to the general user. DCOP requires significantly more computer experience. Still, I didn't know DCOP was there. I'll have to check it out.
I would say that ferrying an insignificant amount of munitions over while watching Hitler goose-step around the Eiffel Tower for a while would be considered being idle. It's about like watching your friend get the crap kicked out of him and occasionally handing him a small pebble and yelling "throw that". WWII began in the Fall of 1939. We didn't really enter the war until Dec, 1941 - almost 2 1/2 years later, and that was only because we had been attacked by Japan and Germany had declared war on us. Otherwise, we would have simply let Europe fall.
Wouldn't it be faster for them to sift through the logs of what was happening when the system was stable? I mean, dear God, imagine the size of the log files if they logged crashes.
Perhaps you should pick up a history book youself. You seem to have very little actual knowledge of events, just misguided patriotism. I love my country, but I'm realistic about its history. Patriotism and blind devotion are not one in the same. The founding Fathers were HEAVILY influenced by English and French philosophers - not English and French governments - philosophers. In many ways, America was extrememly progressive. In other ways we weren't. We weren't exactly the first to abolish slavery. As for WWII, I'd like to point out that, while US involvement (key word there) won the war, we didn't exactly rush to Europe's aid. Germany declared war on us, not the other way around. We stood idly by while Germany trounced most of Europe.
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"This will swing the deal, because nothing -- and I mean nothing -- persuades Senators faster than a room full of bulk faxes, all sent from the same website and all basically the same!
Sheesshh.
How can so mainly nominally smart people be so dumb about how best to influence the democratic process."
Hey, it works for the FCC...
I don't consider "belief" in something that you're never allowed to question to be a true "belief". It really just accepting something because that's all you've been told about. I consider the ability to questions your beliefs and be able to back them up against other peoples' questions to be a fundamental part of truly "believing" something. Sticking your fingers in your ears and yelling "nah nah nah I can't hear you" would do more to underline the point that you aren't very strong in your beliefs. If you were, questions wouldn't shake you so easily.
2. Let's say you could prove that Jesus (the man) existed. Would that prove that he is the son of God? I can prove Muhammed existed because he is mentioned in far more places than the Koran and by far mroe people than those around him.
3. Let's say you could prove that he was the son of God...well, then you win and I'm becoming Christian.
Thank you. I'm getting explaining this to people who use the "well then nothing before your own lifetime can be proven" crap. While I;m not weighing in on whether or not Jesus lived (because he may very well have) I'd like to point out a few other things:
1. People point to the locations in the Bible that have been discovered as proof that the Bible is true. They find a lost city mentioned in the Bible and everyone says "see, it's all true". I don't see anyone saying, hey look at Troy. Of course religious texts will talk about real people and places. It's hard to tell people that their deity was born a couple hundred years ago in a city that they've never heard of and that he had confrontation with kings that nobody thinks ever existed.
OK
CAN I GET A HALELUJAH?!!!!!!
"Being a liberal, non-Christian Oklahoman"
Wait...you mean there are two of us? Sweet.
Personally I believe in the possibility that something(s) is(are) responsible for creating man, whether directly or indirectly. The universe is clearly a vast space and we are merely tiny blips on its screen. It may be that something intelligent created the universe - or that it created the laws of nature - and nature created the universe and man (through natural processes such as evolution).
My reason for leaving these possibilities open is that I can't find a way out of the infinite loop of "a creator created us, but something must have created the creator, and then something must have created THAT creator..."
Basically it comes down to the idea that there is something fundamental about our creation that we don't have the ability to understand - yet.
Please save all of the "God exists outside of time" arguments. I have the same problems with those areguments that I have with the idea of omnipotence.
I would be happy to find out that God (the Christian one) exists. That would make life simple in my opinion and give me purpose/focus. But I can't believe something just because I hope it's true.
*movies, not moveis
Just committing spellicide before the Grammar Nazis march me off to Spelling and Grammar Camp
Does anyone know where I can find:
1. The top grossing movies of all time in adjusted dollars
2. The top moveis of all time by the # of tickets sold
Going by unadjusted gross is highly misleading, but that's how they always seem to do it. (not aimed at the poster, but at the movie industry, the media, etc)
*cough* cheaper version would be nice *cough*
Aplle seems to be doing a very good job of taking good-quality, Open-Source projects and kicking them up about 6 notches. Hell, look at Tiger Server. Almost completely made of pre-existing open-source applications, but improved upon and packed in an easy-to-use way. I would love to see Apple improve upon something like Open Office and turn it into a truly competitive office suite, then include it with the OS or sell it at a significantly lower price than MS Office (say $25-$50).
Wait a minute, the concept of "temptation" in the story implies that Eve "knew" that eating the apple was bad and "chose" to try and get Adam to eat the apple. So, was Adam created as a nit-wit and Eve was born with knowledge?
I've corrected myself over the iDVD / DVD Player mixup, but I should also note that iDVD also belongs in the "the average user will rarely/never use this" category. Rather than packaging iLife, they should have packages a good (emphasis) office suite.
Hopefully, Mac Minis will help Macs gain a larger share of the home desktop market and Apple can start concentrating on creating an office suite to compete with MS Office. Until they have enough market share, their existence is still largely due to MS wanting to keep them around as "proof of competition"
My bad on iDVD vs. DVD player. Yes, I'm referring to the DVD player. Why is there no FF/RW on the remote? I would think that would be used far more often than the buttons for skipping chapters.
iPhoto, GarageBand, Keynote, iMovie, iDVD for starters
iPhoto and iDVD are the only two that most home users would use. And frankly, iDVD SUCKS!!!!. You have so little control over it and I have yet to figure out how to simply fast-forward from the "remote control" on the screen. I have to do it from the icon on the Dock. All I can do from the remote is skip to the next scene.
Regardless of the quality of GB, KN, and iM, your average home user has no use for them.
First, you might try getting ahold of an OEM copy of XP Pro since you're building a system from scratch.
As for whether XP Pro or OSX is better, that depends on what you do. And that's a different discussion.
OEM XP Pro from Newegg $139
(Adjusted Price $1234)
Gigabit Eth WAS included. As for bluetooth, I own an adapter for my PC (costs $10-20) and have yet to use it.
($1234+$20 = $1254) Still much cheaper than the Mac.
And before anyone flames me, I love Macs. Personally, I prefer OSX to XP, but that's because I do a lot of work with my Linux servers and like having something very similar to Linux at the command-line level while having a GUI that looks great. If I just wanted to play games and do basic thing, I'd probably pick Windows because there are far more programs/games available.
God gave mankind the gift of free will so that they could use that free will to obey him and thus show that they loved him as much as he loved them.
Free will so that they could obey him? Seems to contradict itese
After all, he did love them enough to give them life. That *one* tree that they were not to eat from was the *only* law that they had. They were perfect, and as such they would make no mistakes.
If they were perfect, they wouldn't have chosen to make a mistake - again contradictory.
They *chose* to disobey God. They decided they did not want to submit to Gods authority. That one tree was the only way that they had to prove that they were faithful to God. Without it, there would have been no opportunity to do so. They failed.
But what I'm talking about was GPS. In case you get in a car accident somewhere that's not heavily populated, they will know exactly where you are. Or if you get injured in the woods, etc.
Check here:
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http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/gate.exe?f=searchstr&s
(sorry for the botched URL)
type in Tiger and look at all of the people who own "Tiger" for different products. The fact that they're both in the same industry has only mild significance. If TigerDirect sold software CALLED Tiger, then I would see the problem.
aren't you given a phone number with VoIP? I would think you could just find out who that number is registered to. Then again, VoIP companies aren't regulated the same, so I don't know what hoops 911 would have to jump through to get this info. Another downside of unregulated VoIP. Regulating VoIP is a double-edged sword. Regulating it will stifle its adoption by removing many of the monetary benefits. Leaving it unregulated will cause some problems, such as 911, but it's easier to leave it less regulated and increase regulation as it becomes truly necessary than to go the other way around. I think it would be better to come up with an easy system for incorporating 911 into VoIP at user request (like what Vonage does now), but I think it should be up to the VoIP user.
It will be a requirement soon (if not already) for all cell phones to be GPS-enabled for emergency purposes. The legislation was passed a long time ago. I just can't remember the final "all new phones must comply" date.
I heard there were going to be British guys arranging matches in one scene.
Automater is far easier to use than what you're linking to. Automater is accessible to the general user. DCOP requires significantly more computer experience. Still, I didn't know DCOP was there. I'll have to check it out.
I would say that ferrying an insignificant amount of munitions over while watching Hitler goose-step around the Eiffel Tower for a while would be considered being idle. It's about like watching your friend get the crap kicked out of him and occasionally handing him a small pebble and yelling "throw that". WWII began in the Fall of 1939. We didn't really enter the war until Dec, 1941 - almost 2 1/2 years later, and that was only because we had been attacked by Japan and Germany had declared war on us. Otherwise, we would have simply let Europe fall.
Wouldn't it be faster for them to sift through the logs of what was happening when the system was stable? I mean, dear God, imagine the size of the log files if they logged crashes.
Perhaps you should pick up a history book youself. You seem to have very little actual knowledge of events, just misguided patriotism. I love my country, but I'm realistic about its history. Patriotism and blind devotion are not one in the same. The founding Fathers were HEAVILY influenced by English and French philosophers - not English and French governments - philosophers. In many ways, America was extrememly progressive. In other ways we weren't. We weren't exactly the first to abolish slavery. As for WWII, I'd like to point out that, while US involvement (key word there) won the war, we didn't exactly rush to Europe's aid. Germany declared war on us, not the other way around. We stood idly by while Germany trounced most of Europe.