6Your boasting is not good. Don't you know that a little yeast works through the whole batch of dough? 7Get rid of the old yeast that you may be a new batch without yeast-as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed. 8Therefore let us keep the Festival, not with the old yeast, the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with bread without yeast, the bread of sincerity and truth.
9I have written you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people- 10not at all meaning the people of this world who are immoral, or the greedy and swindlers, or idolaters. In that case you would have to leave this world. 11But now I am writing you that you must not associate with anyone who calls himself a brother but is sexually immoral or greedy, an idolater or a slanderer, a drunkard or a swindler. With such a man do not even eat.
12What business is it of mine to judge those outside the church? Are you not to judge those inside? 13God will judge those outside. "Expel the wicked man from among you."[b]
There is a difference between being a sinner and actively sinning while doing nothing to correct your actions.
The Bible throughout places sexual immorality of any sort as among the most damaging sins.
Not to really support the grandparent, but the books go "Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus"
The Ten Commandments were in Exodus and the verse that you quoted were in Leviticus which is the book of law as opposed to the commandments which were more like an informational brochure.
Yep. In a nutshell "Have nothing to do with them."
If they are in your church you warn them twice to stop, and then kick them out. If they eventually stop then you welcome them back and help them repent.
Not to piss on your cornflakes so to speak, but John Handcock was the only one to sign the DoI before it was distributed. That is why his signature is so big. All the other ones were added on later.
The majority that agreed with each other would soon eliminate the minority of opposing views. Soon each person would begin to express more and more of a biased perspective as they saw no opinions other than their own. Anyone with a divergent opinion that joined would soon either be acclimated into the overall group mind or be modded down until they stopped posting.
Soon the overall level of rhetoric in the forum would lead it participants to stage a bloody riot of cannibalism and bestiality. The souls of the damned would escape from their doom and take refuge in the recently slain. Zombies would quickly devour what is left of the living and the forces of darkness would rule over the world forever.
Of course... Some argue that this has already happened and nobody noticed. Well I'm off to eat breakfast. Mmmm... Brain Flakes!!
(This post actually started off serious, but then either went horribly wrong or horribly right depending on your perspective of things)
Michael Buffington chose to build a weblog [b]using highly automated content aggregation tools around a single keyword,[/b] asbestos, because of the high click through rate associated with the ad. 'The subject matter, while weighty and all that, is of little importance to me. It's not that I don't have opinions on asbestos and asbestos reform, because I do. The whole point of the site is to experiment with an idea. [b]I built a tool that helps me aggregate topical news with the help of Google's Alert system.[/b] So far it works wonderfully. But there's a second motive as well. Right now asbestos reform and asbestos related litigation is on fire. Lawyers are paying anywhere from $15-100 per click through on Google ads. The second part of this big experiment is to see if I can capture some of that click through revenue while still providing a somewhat valid service to people who might arrive by search results.'
He is doing aggregation from the google news site.
Just because someone has a PHD doesn't mean they are immune to human failings. Scientists can get caught up in their beliefs as much as religious folk, and once that happens anything they observe will be slanted slightly to fit in their world-view. This of course assumes that they really believe in their work, and they aren't just doing it for the money. Once you pay the same people to get the data, interpret it, and act on it then all the data suddenly must be collected and interpreted in order to produce the most costly (hence profitable) action.
I mean look at AIDS research. If all the money devoted to researching AIDS was focused on direct study and prevention AIDS would be gone right now, but a most of it actually goes to various "lets not make the victims feel bad" junk. (I'm not saying that they should be made to feel bad, but the number one vector of infection is through personal irressponsibilty.) Another chunk of the money is spent on "administrative" costs such as paying the people who work for the AIDS groups, organizing benefits, and advertising not for people to not engage in risky behaviour, but instead for more money to study AIDS.
Organizations made for the sole reason of eliminating a problem often find it is in their best interests to allow the problem to continue indefinatly.
I'm all for actions taken to preserve our world so long as those actions can be proved to be an actual benefit. If endangered species really benefited the environment then they wouldn't be endangered. Sure the spotted owl fills a vital niche in the ecosystem, but if it isn't filling it well enough to survive then maybe it should die off so a more capable species can take over. Its a little thing called survival of the fittest.
Currently man defines the concept of fitness. This does not mean we should destroy all other species; it just means that we deserve our spot in the world. If things start pushing us towards destruction we will have to take action, but right now other than the obvious immeadiate problems we shouldn't try to fix things that may not be broken.
The people who know what they are saying about the environment are suggesting very rational means of protecting the environment, but for every one of the rational experts there are a hundred screaming morons making inarticulate and unhelpful demands.
Which group gets heard more?
The people who actually care about the environment should worry about getting their acts together. Until they do that they will continue to be dismissed for the nutjobs a great many of them are.
Of those 400 46% said that they were being pressured so 184.
The story really is 13.14% of scientists polled agreed with our leading questions. And look at some of the actual questions and responses
24. In my experience, scientific documents generally reflect technically rigorous evaluations of impacts to listed species and associated habitats. strongly agree agree don't know disagree strongly disagree 7.5% 54.3% 13.8% 18.1% 4.3% 25.
USFWS strives to substantially incorporate independent peer review in formulating and validating scientific findings. strongly agree agree don't know disagree strongly disagree 7.7% 52.2% 16.4% 18.8% 3.6%
26. I have been directed to inappropriately exclude or alter technical information from a USFWS scientific document. frequently occasionally seldom never not applicable overall 2.2% 8.9% 9.2% 68.8% 10.4%
Overall the polls show a good amount of the usual worker problems (We need more money, we don't trust upper management, ect...), but the part about economic and political pressure doesn't specify about who is applying the pressure. They could just as easilly be getting pressure from groups like PETA to increase the number of species declared endangered.
In firefox I have my tabs as grey on grey with only a few values difference between the text and the backcolor. From more than a foot away they are indistinguishable from just a blank toolbar.
If carnivore was a complete packet logger. It isn't by the way. It is actually a result of actions to protect privacy. It is a modified version of a program known as omnivore which read all packets that passed through it. Carnivore only logs the requested data, the meat if you will. However the name carnivore caused a frenzy in the crackpot privacy circles because it "sounded scary".
It was made because there weren't any privacy protective commercial software packages at that time. Once a number of companies came out with them the FBI retired the carnivore project.
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1 Corinthians 5
There is a difference between being a sinner and actively sinning while doing nothing to correct your actions.
The Bible throughout places sexual immorality of any sort as among the most damaging sins.
I assumed he was speaking of the rpg.
Do you not know of the rpg Citizen?
Not to really support the grandparent, but the books go "Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus"
The Ten Commandments were in Exodus and the verse that you quoted were in Leviticus which is the book of law as opposed to the commandments which were more like an informational brochure.
Yep. In a nutshell "Have nothing to do with them."
If they are in your church you warn them twice to stop, and then kick them out. If they eventually stop then you welcome them back and help them repent.
I run commedore 64 you insensitive clod.
Not to piss on your cornflakes so to speak, but John Handcock was the only one to sign the DoI before it was distributed. That is why his signature is so big. All the other ones were added on later.
An echo chamber would form quickly.
The majority that agreed with each other would soon eliminate the minority of opposing views. Soon each person would begin to express more and more of a biased perspective as they saw no opinions other than their own. Anyone with a divergent opinion that joined would soon either be acclimated into the overall group mind or be modded down until they stopped posting.
Soon the overall level of rhetoric in the forum would lead it participants to stage a bloody riot of cannibalism and bestiality. The souls of the damned would escape from their doom and take refuge in the recently slain. Zombies would quickly devour what is left of the living and the forces of darkness would rule over the world forever.
Of course... Some argue that this has already happened and nobody noticed. Well I'm off to eat breakfast. Mmmm... Brain Flakes!!
(This post actually started off serious, but then either went horribly wrong or horribly right depending on your perspective of things)
Those damn insecure people... I hate them so much!!!
I believe that up is down you insensitive clod!
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Michael Buffington chose to build a weblog [b]using highly automated content aggregation tools around a single keyword,[/b] asbestos, because of the high click through rate associated with the ad. 'The subject matter, while weighty and all that, is of little importance to me. It's not that I don't have opinions on asbestos and asbestos reform, because I do. The whole point of the site is to experiment with an idea. [b]I built a tool that helps me aggregate topical news with the help of Google's Alert system.[/b] So far it works wonderfully. But there's a second motive as well. Right now asbestos reform and asbestos related litigation is on fire. Lawyers are paying anywhere from $15-100 per click through on Google ads. The second part of this big experiment is to see if I can capture some of that click through revenue while still providing a somewhat valid service to people who might arrive by search results.'
He is doing aggregation from the google news site.
Who determines the scientists?
Just because someone has a PHD doesn't mean they are immune to human failings. Scientists can get caught up in their beliefs as much as religious folk, and once that happens anything they observe will be slanted slightly to fit in their world-view. This of course assumes that they really believe in their work, and they aren't just doing it for the money. Once you pay the same people to get the data, interpret it, and act on it then all the data suddenly must be collected and interpreted in order to produce the most costly (hence profitable) action.
I mean look at AIDS research. If all the money devoted to researching AIDS was focused on direct study and prevention AIDS would be gone right now, but a most of it actually goes to various "lets not make the victims feel bad" junk. (I'm not saying that they should be made to feel bad, but the number one vector of infection is through personal irressponsibilty.) Another chunk of the money is spent on "administrative" costs such as paying the people who work for the AIDS groups, organizing benefits, and advertising not for people to not engage in risky behaviour, but instead for more money to study AIDS.
Organizations made for the sole reason of eliminating a problem often find it is in their best interests to allow the problem to continue indefinatly.
I'm all for actions taken to preserve our world so long as those actions can be proved to be an actual benefit. If endangered species really benefited the environment then they wouldn't be endangered. Sure the spotted owl fills a vital niche in the ecosystem, but if it isn't filling it well enough to survive then maybe it should die off so a more capable species can take over. Its a little thing called survival of the fittest.
Currently man defines the concept of fitness. This does not mean we should destroy all other species; it just means that we deserve our spot in the world. If things start pushing us towards destruction we will have to take action, but right now other than the obvious immeadiate problems we shouldn't try to fix things that may not be broken.
GGNU
Google GGNU is not Unix
The people who know what they are saying about the environment are suggesting very rational means of protecting the environment, but for every one of the rational experts there are a hundred screaming morons making inarticulate and unhelpful demands.
Which group gets heard more?
The people who actually care about the environment should worry about getting their acts together. Until they do that they will continue to be dismissed for the nutjobs a great many of them are.
I love the numbers of this survey.
1400 polled 400 responded.
Of those 400 46% said that they were being pressured so 184.
The story really is 13.14% of scientists polled agreed with our leading questions. And look at some of the actual questions and responses
24. In my experience, scientific documents generally reflect technically rigorous evaluations of impacts to listed species and associated habitats.
strongly agree agree don't know disagree strongly disagree
7.5% 54.3% 13.8% 18.1% 4.3% 25.
USFWS strives to substantially incorporate independent peer review in formulating and validating scientific findings.
strongly agree agree don't know disagree strongly disagree
7.7% 52.2% 16.4% 18.8% 3.6%
26. I have been directed to inappropriately exclude or alter technical information from a USFWS scientific document.
frequently occasionally seldom never not applicable overall
2.2% 8.9% 9.2% 68.8% 10.4%
Overall the polls show a good amount of the usual worker problems (We need more money, we don't trust upper management, ect...), but the part about economic and political pressure doesn't specify about who is applying the pressure.
They could just as easilly be getting pressure from groups like PETA to increase the number of species declared endangered.
In firefox I have my tabs as grey on grey with only a few values difference between the text and the backcolor. From more than a foot away they are indistinguishable from just a blank toolbar.
The DMCA notice was due to cd check removers or some other thing to allow the games to be pirated.
That these people also have cheat codes is irrelevant.
Maybe one like this
Zebras will be eliminated under the DMCA.
That might work...
If carnivore wasn't retired.
If carnivore was a complete packet logger.
It isn't by the way. It is actually a result of actions to protect privacy. It is a modified version of a program known as omnivore which read all packets that passed through it. Carnivore only logs the requested data, the meat if you will. However the name carnivore caused a frenzy in the crackpot privacy circles because it "sounded scary".
It was made because there weren't any privacy protective commercial software packages at that time. Once a number of companies came out with them the FBI retired the carnivore project.
The four is out of place.
Those are the starting numbers in the fibboraci(sp?) sequence.
1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 ect...
CHR(13) = Carriage Return = ENTER
1. Write virus suseptible OS
2. Buy anti-virus program.
3. Buy more anti-virus programs.
4. Charge people to use AV
5. Profit!
Very well thought out too. No ??? anywhere.
Glare.
When the sun is up you have to turn down the contrast so you can see anything.
You must not have the gravity control peripheral.
It comes with the beta version of Duke Nukem Forever.
Pretty cool, but really doesn't live up to the hype.
Congradulations Slashdot. You've destroyed the moon.