"About This Story: "The above was written to illustrate that elections without a meaningful audit of the counting function, which is backed up by voter verification of paper ballots, can harm whatever political party is out of power, and ultimately damage our confidence in the voting process and our ability to chart our future through the voting box."
Also, look at the last paragraph of the story:
"Guess it was time to reconcile himself to another four years of President Kerry, and hope Sen. McCain would consider running again in 2012."
"VVER" is the Soviet designation for a pressurized light water moderated reactors, which is designated PWR in western designs. This type of unit is generally regarded as less vulnerable to fire than the RBMK graphite-moderated reactors (LGR) employed at Chernobyl.
The article goes on to discuss some of the safety issues relating to the Cuban reactors.
In part because of these concerns, efforts by Moscow and Havana to find international financial support for the project have so far failed, and remarks by Cuba leader Fidel Castro in January 1997 signal that it is unlikely to be completed anytime soon.
Then again, there was the spring-loaded running suit those guys made. It retained almost as much energy running as a Kangaroo (one of the most efficient runners on the world). With it, people could run really fast and jump high, all without power. True, it was massive and you'd look a dick wearing it, but technologically fantastic.
Someone else mentioned the SpringWalker, but I think Bionic Boots look a bit "cooler".
"Mosquito larvae have internal organs which contain various structures, including a small air bladder. All structures have acoustic resonance, especially underwater bubbles. Since larvae tissues are fragile, simply matching the acoustic resonance of the air bladder causes acute trauma and embolism resulting in death of the mosquito larvae.
Thus, referring to FIG. 1, an acoustic transducer is immersed in a body of water which is a habitat for mosquito larvae. A depth of immersion of only a few inches is required, as shown in FIG. 1. One or more transducer is preferably connected to an amplifier which in turn is connected to a signal generator for generating a resonant frequency within an octave range ranging from 16 kHz to 32 kHz. The transducer immersed in water is energized for a short period of time. The resultant acoustic resonance resonates with the air bladder of the mosquito larvae, causing it to traumatize surrounding tissue and causes the air bubble to migrate from the thorax of the mosquito through the abdomen, resulting in death to the larvae. An effective resonant frequency is from 16 kHz to 32 kHz, and less than one watt of energy is necessary to start the process. A larger signal generator would be necessary to cover a larger body of water with rapid coverage, or the unit could be effectively moved to various locations in the body of water."
In our instance we had six people. Four of which became fast friends, and one who the other four will probably never speak with again.... In our case we had one person running around breaking stuff and four people scrambling to fix it...
What happened to the sixth person? You say there are six people, but later on you only mention five of them.
And "right to defend christian pilgrims" did not prevent crusaders from trying to kick some Byzantine a** while they were at it.
Well, sometime before the Fourth Crusade, one of the Byzantine Emperors had ordered attacks against the Venetians. The Emperors also conspired with the Muslims to attack the Crusaders. So some of the Crusaders wanted revenge for these attacks and betrayals.
Partly as a result of Fourth Crusade, Byzantine power fell so that Selcuk Turks easily overrun them.
Byzantine power had already been waning for a long time. And maybe if the Byzantines had cooperated a little more with the Crusaders instead of attacking them, the Turks wouldn't have been such a problem for them.
And "slaying of innocent pilgrims" was used just as excuse.
Not at all.
And *that* is one of the reasons for hatred that still exists.
Not really. In the 1800s or 1900s, some Arab nationalists started a propaganda campaign about how bad the Crusaders were, in order to get other Arabs annoyed with the West. Before that, the Crusades weren't really a big deal to Arabs. During the Crusades themselves, the Christian knights and their Muslim counterparts got along pretty well with each other. For instance, Saladin's nephew was knighted by one of the Christian kings leading the Crusades.
The first "crusade" was in 1095 and Muslims took Jerusalem in 638, so it was over 400 years difference.
Well, it was only then that the Byzantine emperor asked for help.
Christian turks in what is now western Turkey
They weren't Turks, they were Byzantines, Greeks living in the Eastern Roman Empire.
And his assistance? Send "Christian" knights to retake Jerusalem. These "Christian" knights did this, but in the process murdered innocent women and children, and most likely did even worse.
Sure, but then again the Allies in World War II committed certain war crimes too. That doesn't make the Allied effort wrong in itself - fighting the Nazis and Japanese was a good thing, and the war crimes were a bad thing.
The only clear winner was Rome, who now had less knights to challenge their authority.
Since when are knights automatically opposed to Rome?
Actually, no, it was not about politics. The Muslims had begun to attack Christian pilgrims, and the Crusades were an attempt to take over the Holy Land in order to protect those pilgrims.
Alexandria was under Muslim rule at the time, so it might theoretically make sense to attack it, just like the Allies in World War II initially invaded France, and not Berlin.
Constantinople was attacked against the direct orders of the Pope, so clearly it was not part of what the Crusades were intended for. The Byzantines had been attacking Catholics, in particular the Venetians. The Doge of Venice had been blinded by the Byzantines, in fact. The Byzantine emperor had also conspired against the Crusaders with the Muslims, which the Crusaders saw as a betrayal. The attack on Constantinople was about revenge and/or retribution primarily.
Look at the Crusades, that was Christian Fundamentalists.
What do the Crusades have to do with "fundamentalism"? The Muslims had invaded Christian lands a few hundred years before. While that wasn't exactly good from a Christian point of view, it was tolerable as long as people were treated more or less fairly. The problem started when the Ottomans (I believe) took over, and started killing Christian pilgrims. Christians do have a right to defend themselves, just like anyone else.
I am an athiest, and am equally critical of all religions.
Well, atheism is a religion in a way, or at least a belief about how the world is...
I'm wondering...
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The article says:
Previous measurements have shown that the lump of material at the center of that collision is from 10 to 100 times as dense as normal nuclear matter. Its temperature is more than a trillion degrees.
That's like saying that if someone is slandered, and tries to defend himself or herself against that slander, we shouldn't take that person seriously, since "Of course they're going to attempt to tear apart all of the assertions against them and defend themselves. They're biased."
The article I linked to, unlike "The Da Vinci Code", is based on objective facts. Read it and see for yourself.
The Romans have some sort of idea that sperm are potential life or something, and that it's bad to spill them without chance of conception, or something (c.f. Onan in the Old Testament).
11. The sexual activity, in which husband and wife are intimately and chastely united with one another, through which human life is transmitted, is, as the recent Council recalled, "noble and worthy." It does not, moreover, cease to be legitimate even when, for reasons independent of their will, it is foreseen to be infertile. For its natural adaptation to the expression and strengthening of the union of husband and wife is not thereby suppressed. The fact is, as experience shows, that new life is not the result of each and every act of sexual intercourse. God has wisely ordered laws of nature and the incidence of fertility in such a way that successive births are already naturally spaced through the inherent operation of these laws. The Church, nevertheless, in urging men to the observance of the precepts of the natural law, which it interprets by its constant doctrine, teaches that each and every marital act must of necessity retain its intrinsic relationship to the procreation of human life.
Union and Procreation
12. This particular doctrine, often expounded by the magisterium of the Church, is based on the inseparable connection, established by God, which man on his own initiative may not break, between the unitive significance and the procreative significance which are both inherent to the marriage act.
The reason is that the fundamental nature of the marriage act, while uniting husband and wife in the closest intimacy, also renders them capable of generating new life - and this as a result of laws written into the actual nature of man and of woman. And if each of these essential qualities, the unitive and the procreative, is preserved, the use of marriage fully retains its sense of true mutual love and its ordination to the supreme responsibility of parenthood to which man is called. We believe that our contemporaries are particularly capable of seeing that this teaching is in harmony with human reason.
Faithfulness to God's Design
13. Men rightly observe that a conjugal act imposed on one's partner without regard to his or her condition or personal and reasonable wishes in the matter, is no true act of love, and therefore offends the moral order in its particular application to the intimate relationship of husband and wife. If they further reflect, they must also recognize that an act of mutual love which impairs the capacity to transmit life which God the Creator, through specific laws, has built into it, frustrates His design which constitutes the norm of marriage, and contradicts the will of the Author of life. Hence to use this divine gift while depriving it, even if only partially, of its meaning and purpose, is equally repugnant to the nature of man and of woman, and is consequently in opposition to the plan of God and His holy will. But to experience the gift of married love while respecting the laws of conception is to acknowledge that one is not the master of the sources of life but rather the minister of the design established by the Creator. Just as man does not have unlimited dominion over his body in general, so also, and with more particular reason, he has no such dominion over his specifically sexual faculties, for these are concerned by their very nature with the generation of life, of which God is the source.
Some pronounce this name with a "v" sound for the third letter from the right, the "vav." It is true, in today's Hebrew, that the letter "vav" is given a "v" sound.
The "Vav," today pronounced with a "v" sound, was originally pronounced as a "w" (the letter name is often written as "waw"). Biblical Hebrew: A Text and Workbook, by Kittel, Hoffer, and Wright; Yale University Press 1989, page 1.
Other texts have described this change to the "v" sound as coming from the European influence, mainly Germanic, which language had no "w", sound so the "v" was substituted. Hebrew really did not need this letter to be a "v" sound, since it already had a "v" sound in its second letter, Bet, when the dot (the dagesh) in the center of the letter is absent.
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And even more people have been killed in the cause of atheism (Communism).
That was a science fiction story describing what could happen:
"About This Story:
"The above was written to illustrate that elections without a meaningful audit of the counting function, which is backed up by voter verification of paper ballots, can harm whatever political party is out of power, and ultimately damage our confidence in the voting process and our ability to chart our future through the voting box."
Also, look at the last paragraph of the story:
"Guess it was time to reconcile himself to another four years of President Kerry, and hope Sen. McCain would consider running again in 2012."
From the Federation of American Scientists website:
The article goes on to discuss some of the safety issues relating to the Cuban reactors.
However:
Then again, there was the spring-loaded running suit those guys made. It retained almost as much energy running as a Kangaroo (one of the most efficient runners on the world). With it, people could run really fast and jump high, all without power. True, it was massive and you'd look a dick wearing it, but technologically fantastic.
Someone else mentioned the SpringWalker, but I think Bionic Boots look a bit "cooler".
There's a walkthrough for Out of Order here, in case anyone wants it.
Here's his patent for this invention:
Patent 6,298,011: Method for killing mosquito larvae
A short excerpt:
"Mosquito larvae have internal organs which contain various structures, including a small air bladder. All structures have acoustic resonance, especially underwater bubbles. Since larvae tissues are fragile, simply matching the acoustic resonance of the air bladder causes acute trauma and embolism resulting in death of the mosquito larvae.
Thus, referring to FIG. 1, an acoustic transducer is immersed in a body of water which is a habitat for mosquito larvae. A depth of immersion of only a few inches is required, as shown in FIG. 1. One or more transducer is preferably connected to an amplifier which in turn is connected to a signal generator for generating a resonant frequency within an octave range ranging from 16 kHz to 32 kHz. The transducer immersed in water is energized for a short period of time. The resultant acoustic resonance resonates with the air bladder of the mosquito larvae, causing it to traumatize surrounding tissue and causes the air bubble to migrate from the thorax of the mosquito through the abdomen, resulting in death to the larvae. An effective resonant frequency is from 16 kHz to 32 kHz, and less than one watt of energy is necessary to start the process. A larger signal generator would be necessary to cover a larger body of water with rapid coverage, or the unit could be effectively moved to various locations in the body of water."
The link to the third article should point here.
In our instance we had six people. Four of which became fast friends, and one who the other four will probably never speak with again. ... In our case we had one person running around breaking stuff and four people scrambling to fix it...
What happened to the sixth person? You say there are six people, but later on you only mention five of them.
No, Otomans came after the crusades
Sorry, I should have said Turks.
And "right to defend christian pilgrims" did not prevent crusaders from trying to kick some Byzantine a** while they were at it.
Well, sometime before the Fourth Crusade, one of the Byzantine Emperors had ordered attacks against the Venetians. The Emperors also conspired with the Muslims to attack the Crusaders. So some of the Crusaders wanted revenge for these attacks and betrayals.
Partly as a result of Fourth Crusade, Byzantine power fell so that Selcuk Turks easily overrun them.
Byzantine power had already been waning for a long time. And maybe if the Byzantines had cooperated a little more with the Crusaders instead of attacking them, the Turks wouldn't have been such a problem for them.
And "slaying of innocent pilgrims" was used just as excuse.
Not at all.
And *that* is one of the reasons for hatred that still exists.
Not really. In the 1800s or 1900s, some Arab nationalists started a propaganda campaign about how bad the Crusaders were, in order to get other Arabs annoyed with the West. Before that, the Crusades weren't really a big deal to Arabs. During the Crusades themselves, the Christian knights and their Muslim counterparts got along pretty well with each other. For instance, Saladin's nephew was knighted by one of the Christian kings leading the Crusades.
The first "crusade" was in 1095 and Muslims took Jerusalem in 638, so it was over 400 years difference.
Well, it was only then that the Byzantine emperor asked for help.
Christian turks in what is now western Turkey
They weren't Turks, they were Byzantines, Greeks living in the Eastern Roman Empire.
And his assistance? Send "Christian" knights to retake Jerusalem. These "Christian" knights did this, but in the process murdered innocent women and children, and most likely did even worse.
Sure, but then again the Allies in World War II committed certain war crimes too. That doesn't make the Allied effort wrong in itself - fighting the Nazis and Japanese was a good thing, and the war crimes were a bad thing.
The only clear winner was Rome, who now had less knights to challenge their authority.
Since when are knights automatically opposed to Rome?
Actually, no, it was not about politics. The Muslims had begun to attack Christian pilgrims, and the Crusades were an attempt to take over the Holy Land in order to protect those pilgrims.
Alexandria was under Muslim rule at the time, so it might theoretically make sense to attack it, just like the Allies in World War II initially invaded France, and not Berlin.
Constantinople was attacked against the direct orders of the Pope, so clearly it was not part of what the Crusades were intended for. The Byzantines had been attacking Catholics, in particular the Venetians. The Doge of Venice had been blinded by the Byzantines, in fact. The Byzantine emperor had also conspired against the Crusaders with the Muslims, which the Crusaders saw as a betrayal. The attack on Constantinople was about revenge and/or retribution primarily.
Look at the Crusades, that was Christian Fundamentalists.
What do the Crusades have to do with "fundamentalism"? The Muslims had invaded Christian lands a few hundred years before. While that wasn't exactly good from a Christian point of view, it was tolerable as long as people were treated more or less fairly. The problem started when the Ottomans (I believe) took over, and started killing Christian pilgrims. Christians do have a right to defend themselves, just like anyone else.
I am an athiest, and am equally critical of all religions.
Well, atheism is a religion in a way, or at least a belief about how the world is...
The article says:
Previous measurements have shown that the lump of material at the center of that collision is from 10 to 100 times as dense as normal nuclear matter. Its temperature is more than a trillion degrees.
How do they measure things like this?
That's like saying that if someone is slandered, and tries to defend himself or herself against that slander, we shouldn't take that person seriously, since "Of course they're going to attempt to tear apart all of the assertions against them and defend themselves. They're biased."
The article I linked to, unlike "The Da Vinci Code", is based on objective facts. Read it and see for yourself.
Here's an article that discusses the book and some of the factual errors in it:
Dismantling The Da Vinci Code
An article pointing out the various factual errors in "The Da Vinci Code can be found here.
Star Wars episodes 4 and 5 were quite good.
No, that's the Sulfurous Rule.
Da Vinci's Notebook has a little clip of this song on their website, if you want to hear what it sounds like: here.
I agree, and that is in fact what the Orthodox bioethicist Engelhardt has pointed out.
It's too bad that the Orthodox have fallen away from the teachings of the Church Fathers on this subject...
The Romans have some sort of idea that sperm are potential life or something, and that it's bad to spill them without chance of conception, or something (c.f. Onan in the Old Testament).
That has nothing to do with it. From Pope Paul VI's encyclical "Humanae Vitae":
11. The sexual activity, in which husband and wife are intimately and chastely united with one another, through which human life is transmitted, is, as the recent Council recalled, "noble and worthy." It does not, moreover, cease to be legitimate even when, for reasons independent of their will, it is foreseen to be infertile. For its natural adaptation to the expression and strengthening of the union of husband and wife is not thereby suppressed. The fact is, as experience shows, that new life is not the result of each and every act of sexual intercourse. God has wisely ordered laws of nature and the incidence of fertility in such a way that successive births are already naturally spaced through the inherent operation of these laws. The Church, nevertheless, in urging men to the observance of the precepts of the natural law, which it interprets by its constant doctrine, teaches that each and every marital act must of necessity retain its intrinsic relationship to the procreation of human life.
Union and Procreation
12. This particular doctrine, often expounded by the magisterium of the Church, is based on the inseparable connection, established by God, which man on his own initiative may not break, between the unitive significance and the procreative significance which are both inherent to the marriage act.
The reason is that the fundamental nature of the marriage act, while uniting husband and wife in the closest intimacy, also renders them capable of generating new life - and this as a result of laws written into the actual nature of man and of woman. And if each of these essential qualities, the unitive and the procreative, is preserved, the use of marriage fully retains its sense of true mutual love and its ordination to the supreme responsibility of parenthood to which man is called. We believe that our contemporaries are particularly capable of seeing that this teaching is in harmony with human reason.
Faithfulness to God's Design
13. Men rightly observe that a conjugal act imposed on one's partner without regard to his or her condition or personal and reasonable wishes in the matter, is no true act of love, and therefore offends the moral order in its particular application to the intimate relationship of husband and wife. If they further reflect, they must also recognize that an act of mutual love which impairs the capacity to transmit life which God the Creator, through specific laws, has built into it, frustrates His design which constitutes the norm of marriage, and contradicts the will of the Author of life. Hence to use this divine gift while depriving it, even if only partially, of its meaning and purpose, is equally repugnant to the nature of man and of woman, and is consequently in opposition to the plan of God and His holy will. But to experience the gift of married love while respecting the laws of conception is to acknowledge that one is not the master of the sources of life but rather the minister of the design established by the Creator. Just as man does not have unlimited dominion over his body in general, so also, and with more particular reason, he has no such dominion over his specifically sexual faculties, for these are concerned by their very nature with the generation of life, of which God is the source.
Unlawful Birth Control Methods
14. Therefore We base Our words on
You can find the Google cache for the Google search for Kazaa Lite here.
Maybe that's true in modern Hebrew, but not ancient Hebrew:
You can find some plays and poems by Oscar Wilde here
Also, more funny quotes by Wilde here.
It is now official - Netcraft has confirmed: Game Guides are dying
... [etc.]
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Game Guide community when
D'oh! I should have said that water also doesn't contain carbon!