Actually, the OT does have significant overlap as well. It's a worthwhile thing to draw up a timeline for yourself, and place the various OT accounts onto that timeline.
Of course, the scope of the OT's events is certainly much greater, I'll grant you that. But you might be surprised to see how much certain time periods are paid attention to, or that certain accounts overlap (or partially/nearly so).
Also, regarding authority, the most generally useful and accessible resource for figuring this sort of stuff out for yourself that I am aware of is the "Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture" series. Basically, for each passage of the Bible, the scholars gather together whatever early church figures may have had to say about that passage, in the context of a sermon or writing or whatever. I have found this series books well-informed, and pretty much unbiased, yet reasonably accessible to ordinary people as well. I don't know what they have to say about these passages/issues; my copies are a couple thousand miles away at present. But what they say would be external evidence of a potential mistranslation (or not!) You'd also have Jewish Hebrew manuscripts available, which would presumably be free from potential Christian translational bias.:-) And, of course, there was a widely-used preChristian translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, so you actually have an additional class of evidence to consider.
As a related aside, it must also be noted that Mormon (LDS) interpretation of the Bible is certainly not orthodox Christian. This is probably due to the origins of this sect in the early 1800s, and its claim to independent revelation. In other words, Mormons-LDS folks are not reading from the same set of facts/documents/materials/history/revelation as the majority of Christians. I personally would argue that Mormon-LDS theology is sufficiently different from mainstream Orthodox-Catholic-Protestant Christianity as to be, in its essence, a new and fundamentally *different* thing, which no more deserves to be lumped in with Christianity than Islam does. Despite sharing certain commonalities, Christianity and Mormon-LDS are fundamentally, distinctively different ways of understanding who God is, and who Jesus is.
I'm not the grandparent, but the first example that comes to my mind would be the Romans' treatment of the Jews and Christians. Pretty hardcore stuff. On the other hand, the ancients generally tended to take pacification rather seriously.
A modern version to illustrate might be the way the Soviets attempted to pacify the Afghans a couple decades back. Or, if you prefer, consider the way that Klingons pacified conquered planets.;-)
People who live around natural gas wells are well compensated through royalties and lease agreements. Unlike some foreign nations where the natural resources belong to the government, ours still belong to the people (for now, at least). Nobody is forced to sign a gas/mineral lease.
That could be, and frequently is, inaccurate. For one thing, the people who own the mineral rights to a piece of property (and derive the benefits of extraction) can be entirely different people from the people who own the surface land. it could well be the case that owners of the surface are going to be reimbursed for actual damages caused by mineral development, but otherwise not be compensated for the development. Somewhat unintuitively, the owners of the mineral rights have the superior right under law. In other words, they get to do what they want/need to on the surface to develop the subsurface minerals, subject to ordinary government regulation.
We're not polluting the water; the water comes out of the ground as brine and is already "polluted". We're pumping it back in.
In the sort of hydraulic fracturing which is being done in the Fayetteville Shale play in Arkansas, my understanding is that the water which is injected is fresh water, not salt water. If the injected water is made saline by chloride additives, it would be potassium chloride (KCl), rather than sodium chloride (NaCl).
But the grandparent's point involved migration of the frac fluids beyond the intended formation, into the fresh water table. Typically, there are several thousand feet of separation between the two, and typically there is an extra layer of cement/casing protecting the ground water, but unintended things can happen.
Woot collects tax from Texas residents. There used to be an available discount code for Texas residents to use which helped compensate Texas purchasers, but the tax was still levied, you just got a discount on the cost of the product.
Huh. Been on the intartubes since before commercial use was permitted, and I never knew the space bar scrolled a web browser... Random factoids like this are why/. still rocks. Thank you, kind sir.
Actually, "man" in that expression should be properly considered a shortened form of "human", not "male human". The reimagining of the proper usage of "man" which would purportedly limit it to "male human" is a later development.
[...] at work, the computers are not yours. They don't belong to you. They belong to the organization you work for. Part of that means the origination gets to decide who has access. You can (and should) have input in to that, and should make sure it is all documented, but ultimately the systems belong to them and you need to do as they say.
While the organization clearly owns the computers, you the sysadmin are entrusted with stewardship of them, for as long as you are in that role.
Which brings in the matter of chain-of-command and authority. If the organization has a policy regarding access control, and your boss is asking for access beyond his designated authority, then you are kindof in a no-win scenario. Sometimes, being a good steward of resources, and acting in the best interest of the organization, may mean making people mad. I guess it sometimes comes down to the difference between doing the right thing and following orders.
I personally am willing to forgive someone who is trying to be a good steward and trying to do the right thing, even if they are wrong in hindsight or incompetent.
It really bites to be a steward in a dysfunctional management system. I have a great deal of empathy for anyone in such a situation. It bites even worse to be removed as steward, to care about handing over things properly, to have the dysfunctional management system prevent that from happening, and to see how your departure is going to be used as an excuse to cover all sorts of management incompetence as you take the fall. Not that I am claiming those are the facts of this case. But that was my first reaction, which has surely been colored by my own experiences.
The folks at United Nuclear who are behind the car conversions claim that their bottles of hydride are safer than an ordinary gasoline tank, since the hydrides liberate their hydrogen only under controlled circumstances. Breaching the tanks alone is apparently insufficient to produce a catastrophic failure/explosion:
Once the Hydride is "charged" with Hydrogen, the Hydrogen becomes chemically bonded to the chemical. Even opening the tank, or cutting it in half will not release the Hydrogen gas. In addition, you could even fire incendiary bullets through the tank and the Hydride would only smolder like a cigarette. It is in fact, a safer storage system than your Gasoline tank is.
CNG and propane powered vehicles are not uncommon, both in forklift-type applications and on the road. I have driven a converted-to-CNG cargo van myself. These types of vehicles have a decent safety record. In principle, there is no reason at all why hydrides ought to be any less safe than gasoline, propane, or CNG. Engineering errors in fuel storage design obviously occur, as in the case of the Pinto, or the Crown Victoria. But, as you correctly point out, that is a risk with existing gasoline technology as well.
Personally, from a safety standpoint, I'd be more concerned driving around with a huge Li-ion battery pack, as in a hybrid, but that's just me.
You seem to be under a misunderstanding of how Social Security works. It has always been pay-as-you-go, namely current workers pay for current retired. People who retired just as the original system went into place paid nothing for their benefits.
But pay-as-you-go doesn't handle so well a population bubble reaching retirement age compounded by increasing longevity.
Privatizing SS would not simply be a matter of shifting resources away from government control into private control. It also would shift from pay-as-you-go, compounding the problem for the pay-as-you-go system.
I don't know why people wish to believe that their tax dollars are being saved away somewhere for use when they retire. It has never been that way. That's simply not how the system works.
Yeah, but recreating someone else's effort for money becomes legal after a certain limited period of time, during which the original rightsholder is granted a legal monopoly. Check out Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution.
So, hissy fit or not, creators only are granted a limited franchise, not an eternal say, over how their work gets used.
Oh, I dunno about that. He ran a UUCP site back in the very early 90s that I was fortunate enough to be able to maintain Internet access through once I left the university. Had a shell account and all. I figure you don't admin a box like that in that era without having technical skillz and imagination both.
But, honestly, when it comes to design, it's the intangible qualities that matter most. Taste, aesthetics, wisdom, call it what you will. Bottom line is, design is at least as much an art as a science. Yeah, technique can be and is learned by experience. But the underlying imagination to be a good designer is not learned. Someone either has it or does not.
Thanks, Fred, for the access a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.
Yeah, except XP is still being sold on new systems. Microsoft can't have it both ways. Either they get to take money for it or get to stop supporting it.
And in any case, they are a monopoly, which means the rules as far as support should be a little different.
In this case the WINE team or some group like that could probably produce a replacement version of the TCP/IP stack to stick into Windows
I have been wishing for this for some time, actually. Then you could remove the arbitrary limits Microsoft has imposed on file sharing and use XP as a fileserver.
No. Children are certainly partially accountable for their own education. Parents also share responsibility, and their influence is probably more important to the outcome than teachers are.
Spend all day tinkering with old bikes and maybe you'll be a mechanic.
Ah, yes. Just like Orville and Wilbur. Wriiight. Seems to me the world needs some more people like that. Engineers from a couple generations ago, who actually did things like invent airplanes and rocket science and such, well, I'm not sure they would even be considered qualified by the powers that be today. Furthermore, I am not entirely certain that the people who are considered qualified today, are capable of the same sorts of Engineering prowess that put men on the moon using 1960's technology. We have rewarded the wrong things, IMHO. And I say that as someone with an education in Engineering.
Or assault (which is distinct from battery). Why so-called hate speech isn't regarded simply as assault (where in fact there is a threat of violence, implied or otherwise), or the two other crimes you mention, I do not understand.
It seems as though folks are up in arms about the damages awarded in these filesharing cases. People argue that $x,000 per song is patently ridiculous as far as damages, when you can just go download the song for about $1.
Well, OK, fine. But the true damages in filesharing are when you take that $1 song and make it available for x,000 or x,000,000 people on the Internet to download. Essentially, you have then become an alternate publisher, and if you and people like you were allowed to continue, copyright would simply become meaningless.
So, yes, it is reasonable to put a stop to such behavior. If it can be proven in court, it is reasonable to expect that someone who becomes their own publisher of someone else's copyrighted works would be liable for some big damages. Just because this is so trivially easy in the digital age does not make it any more right.
Which does not mean I support draconian enforcement strategies. This is a civil matter, not a criminal one.
I like this quote a great deal. I took the liberty of smoothing the English only a little, while keeping the essential translational word choices the same. I humbly offer it:
Dilettantes! Dilettantes! - so they are called, who are occupied by a Science or an Art out of love for it, per il loro diletto, with disdain by those who do it for profit, because they love only the money which can be earned by it. This disdain is based on the dastardly conviction, that nobody would ever seriously take on a subject if not urged to it by distress, famine, or another greed. The public is of the same spirit and thus has the same opinion: from here comes its respect for "people of the trade", and its mistrust of amateurs. In reality, for the amateur, the subject is the goal. For the tradesman, it is only a means. Only he who is immediately interested in the subject and who is occupied with it out of love will carry it on with earnestness. From those, not from the paid servants, have the greatest achievements ever begun.
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Actually, the OT does have significant overlap as well. It's a worthwhile thing to draw up a timeline for yourself, and place the various OT accounts onto that timeline.
:-) And, of course, there was a widely-used preChristian translation of the Hebrew Bible into Greek, so you actually have an additional class of evidence to consider.
Of course, the scope of the OT's events is certainly much greater, I'll grant you that. But you might be surprised to see how much certain time periods are paid attention to, or that certain accounts overlap (or partially/nearly so).
Also, regarding authority, the most generally useful and accessible resource for figuring this sort of stuff out for yourself that I am aware of is the "Ancient Christian Commentary on Scripture" series. Basically, for each passage of the Bible, the scholars gather together whatever early church figures may have had to say about that passage, in the context of a sermon or writing or whatever. I have found this series books well-informed, and pretty much unbiased, yet reasonably accessible to ordinary people as well. I don't know what they have to say about these passages/issues; my copies are a couple thousand miles away at present. But what they say would be external evidence of a potential mistranslation (or not!) You'd also have Jewish Hebrew manuscripts available, which would presumably be free from potential Christian translational bias.
As a related aside, it must also be noted that Mormon (LDS) interpretation of the Bible is certainly not orthodox Christian. This is probably due to the origins of this sect in the early 1800s, and its claim to independent revelation. In other words, Mormons-LDS folks are not reading from the same set of facts/documents/materials/history/revelation as the majority of Christians. I personally would argue that Mormon-LDS theology is sufficiently different from mainstream Orthodox-Catholic-Protestant Christianity as to be, in its essence, a new and fundamentally *different* thing, which no more deserves to be lumped in with Christianity than Islam does. Despite sharing certain commonalities, Christianity and Mormon-LDS are fundamentally, distinctively different ways of understanding who God is, and who Jesus is.
Peace.
I'm not the grandparent, but the first example that comes to my mind would be the Romans' treatment of the Jews and Christians. Pretty hardcore stuff. On the other hand, the ancients generally tended to take pacification rather seriously.
;-)
A modern version to illustrate might be the way the Soviets attempted to pacify the Afghans a couple decades back. Or, if you prefer, consider the way that Klingons pacified conquered planets.
but how can you tell that wireshark doesn't phone home?
compile from source?
But how can you tell your compiler doesn't insert "phone home" functionality into the resulting binary?
dun dun duuuuuun
By using a compiler & libs cross-compiled from source by a different compiler compiled from source on a different-architecture machine?
People who live around natural gas wells are well compensated through royalties and lease agreements. Unlike some foreign nations where the natural resources belong to the government, ours still belong to the people (for now, at least). Nobody is forced to sign a gas/mineral lease.
That could be, and frequently is, inaccurate. For one thing, the people who own the mineral rights to a piece of property (and derive the benefits of extraction) can be entirely different people from the people who own the surface land. it could well be the case that owners of the surface are going to be reimbursed for actual damages caused by mineral development, but otherwise not be compensated for the development. Somewhat unintuitively, the owners of the mineral rights have the superior right under law. In other words, they get to do what they want/need to on the surface to develop the subsurface minerals, subject to ordinary government regulation.
I am not a lawyer.
In the sort of hydraulic fracturing which is being done in the Fayetteville Shale play in Arkansas, my understanding is that the water which is injected is fresh water, not salt water. If the injected water is made saline by chloride additives, it would be potassium chloride (KCl), rather than sodium chloride (NaCl).
But the grandparent's point involved migration of the frac fluids beyond the intended formation, into the fresh water table. Typically, there are several thousand feet of separation between the two, and typically there is an extra layer of cement/casing protecting the ground water, but unintended things can happen.
Woot collects tax from Texas residents. There used to be an available discount code for Texas residents to use which helped compensate Texas purchasers, but the tax was still levied, you just got a discount on the cost of the product.
Huh. Been on the intartubes since before commercial use was permitted, and I never knew the space bar scrolled a web browser... Random factoids like this are why /. still rocks. Thank you, kind sir.
The only man won.
(Unless you consider third-party candidates.)
Actually, "man" in that expression should be properly considered a shortened form of "human", not "male human". The reimagining of the proper usage of "man" which would purportedly limit it to "male human" is a later development.
While the organization clearly owns the computers, you the sysadmin are entrusted with stewardship of them, for as long as you are in that role.
Which brings in the matter of chain-of-command and authority. If the organization has a policy regarding access control, and your boss is asking for access beyond his designated authority, then you are kindof in a no-win scenario. Sometimes, being a good steward of resources, and acting in the best interest of the organization, may mean making people mad. I guess it sometimes comes down to the difference between doing the right thing and following orders.
I personally am willing to forgive someone who is trying to be a good steward and trying to do the right thing, even if they are wrong in hindsight or incompetent.
It really bites to be a steward in a dysfunctional management system. I have a great deal of empathy for anyone in such a situation. It bites even worse to be removed as steward, to care about handing over things properly, to have the dysfunctional management system prevent that from happening, and to see how your departure is going to be used as an excuse to cover all sorts of management incompetence as you take the fall. Not that I am claiming those are the facts of this case. But that was my first reaction, which has surely been colored by my own experiences.
CNG and propane powered vehicles are not uncommon, both in forklift-type applications and on the road. I have driven a converted-to-CNG cargo van myself. These types of vehicles have a decent safety record. In principle, there is no reason at all why hydrides ought to be any less safe than gasoline, propane, or CNG. Engineering errors in fuel storage design obviously occur, as in the case of the Pinto, or the Crown Victoria. But, as you correctly point out, that is a risk with existing gasoline technology as well.
Personally, from a safety standpoint, I'd be more concerned driving around with a huge Li-ion battery pack, as in a hybrid, but that's just me.
Actually, there are other options besides liquid or gaseous storage. See what these guys are doing for a practical example.
You seem to be under a misunderstanding of how Social Security works. It has always been pay-as-you-go, namely current workers pay for current retired. People who retired just as the original system went into place paid nothing for their benefits.
But pay-as-you-go doesn't handle so well a population bubble reaching retirement age compounded by increasing longevity.
Privatizing SS would not simply be a matter of shifting resources away from government control into private control. It also would shift from pay-as-you-go, compounding the problem for the pay-as-you-go system.
I don't know why people wish to believe that their tax dollars are being saved away somewhere for use when they retire. It has never been that way. That's simply not how the system works.
You should look into the Pandora...
http://www.openpandora.org/
This would presume that what the bean counters are measuring correlates usefully to accurate and holistic measures of customer service.
In my experience, the typical bean counter instead is measuring the things which are easy to measure.
Yeah, but recreating someone else's effort for money becomes legal after a certain limited period of time, during which the original rightsholder is granted a legal monopoly. Check out Article I, Section 8, Clause 8 of the United States Constitution.
So, hissy fit or not, creators only are granted a limited franchise, not an eternal say, over how their work gets used.
Oh, I dunno about that. He ran a UUCP site back in the very early 90s that I was fortunate enough to be able to maintain Internet access through once I left the university. Had a shell account and all. I figure you don't admin a box like that in that era without having technical skillz and imagination both.
But, honestly, when it comes to design, it's the intangible qualities that matter most. Taste, aesthetics, wisdom, call it what you will. Bottom line is, design is at least as much an art as a science. Yeah, technique can be and is learned by experience. But the underlying imagination to be a good designer is not learned. Someone either has it or does not.
Thanks, Fred, for the access a long time ago in a galaxy far far away.
And in any case, they are a monopoly, which means the rules as far as support should be a little different.
I have been wishing for this for some time, actually. Then you could remove the arbitrary limits Microsoft has imposed on file sharing and use XP as a fileserver.
No. Children are certainly partially accountable for their own education. Parents also share responsibility, and their influence is probably more important to the outcome than teachers are.
Ah, yes. Just like Orville and Wilbur. Wriiight. Seems to me the world needs some more people like that. Engineers from a couple generations ago, who actually did things like invent airplanes and rocket science and such, well, I'm not sure they would even be considered qualified by the powers that be today. Furthermore, I am not entirely certain that the people who are considered qualified today, are capable of the same sorts of Engineering prowess that put men on the moon using 1960's technology. We have rewarded the wrong things, IMHO. And I say that as someone with an education in Engineering.
Or assault (which is distinct from battery). Why so-called hate speech isn't regarded simply as assault (where in fact there is a threat of violence, implied or otherwise), or the two other crimes you mention, I do not understand.
... actually, to achieve a 50% reduction in the original amount, approximately 6.6 decimations are required.
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Fear has proven to be a very effective tool in our democracy.
It will continue to be a politically effective tool so long as we the people let it be, as long as we reward the fearmongers.
Look at the debate on healthcare reform for the latest examples of it at work.
It seems as though folks are up in arms about the damages awarded in these filesharing cases. People argue that $x,000 per song is patently ridiculous as far as damages, when you can just go download the song for about $1.
Well, OK, fine. But the true damages in filesharing are when you take that $1 song and make it available for x,000 or x,000,000 people on the Internet to download. Essentially, you have then become an alternate publisher, and if you and people like you were allowed to continue, copyright would simply become meaningless.
So, yes, it is reasonable to put a stop to such behavior. If it can be proven in court, it is reasonable to expect that someone who becomes their own publisher of someone else's copyrighted works would be liable for some big damages. Just because this is so trivially easy in the digital age does not make it any more right.
Which does not mean I support draconian enforcement strategies. This is a civil matter, not a criminal one.
It pains me to write this.
Actually, no. Xerox PARC established what a computer interface should look like. Apple took from Xerox & improved it. Microsoft took from Apple &... well... became more commercially successful for reasons mostly of a preexisting monopoly, namely MS-DOS.