The "I'll sit here and take it" attitude employees are exactly the kind of employees most employers want. Unpaid overtime? No problem! Lousy working conditions? No problem!
Exactly so go in and steal a line from the simpsons.
'If you're looking for the kind of employee that takes abuse and never sticks up for himself, I'm your man! You can treat me like dirt and I'll still kiss your butt and call it ice-cream. And if you don't like it, I can change.'
Where does it say that God cleansed shellfish? As far as I can tell this is meant specifically as a metaphor to refer to the practice of accepting gentiles into the church, and is not meant to repeal any dietary regulations.
So when he said rise kill and eat he was talking about gentiles and not shellfish....yeah.
This is a perfect answer--not because it makes any sense, but because it so perfectly illustrates the cognitive dissonance we're talking about. Christians who take the time to read both the Bible and the Koran frequently have no trouble taking the harsher parts of the Koran at face value but find no end of excuses why the Bible's crazier passages (shellfish, anyone?) are not to be read literally.
Thanks for the demonstration.
The whole kosher thing was to be taken literallly but you do know the new testiment repealed all that.
Acts
10:13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.
10:14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
10:15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
What will likely happen, especially in China, is the government will force NAT on companies.
Unless you are running a server, NAT will work for you. If you are running a server, then a NATed address is not going to work. Most of our large companies in the US only run so many servers that are externally visible. The majority of desktop computers can easily be NATed.
Where I work, our desktops are NATed.
Most servers can and should be NAT'd as well with simple port forwarding. It's only when you have multiple servers that use the same ports that you run into problems.
The big bang theory does not in any way suggest that we are 'special'.
Unless you combine it with the theory of evolution and the observation that we are the only intelligent species in the unvierse.
Then you could say yeah...we're the only ones who survived and evolved in a cold indifffrent universe. Suck it universe we're special!
Therefore, claiming that there could be "giant, massive structures much larger than anything in our own observable universe" just outside this bubble seems somewhat... convenient.
"giant, massive structures much larger than anything in our own observable universe" is the new "here be dragons".
Unobservable space dragons.
I think I finally came up with a band name.
The bible has 2 purposes: explaining the history of God and the Jews, and Explaining the Sacrifice of Jesus..
You missed one rather large purpose.
Explaining the fall of man.
Jesus died because Adam and Eve messed everything up. The reason Christians have such a problem with evolution is that it negates the original couples existance. Which negates original sin.
Which negates the need for a Saviour.
Which pretty much destroys the entire religion.
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science is simply a dogmatic form of superstition
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This is a laughable statement that implies that this guy has no clue what science really is. Science is about creating a theory that produces predictions that are experimentally verifiable across time/space. So, no matter where you are, no matter when it is done, the experiment produces the same result which will either prove or disprove the prediction which will prove or disprove (at least part of) the theory.
Science, is thus something that can disprove something is is thought to be true. An example would be horoscopes. Science killed them long ago, yet some people (quite irrationally) still swear by them. Quantum Mechanics is strange and counter-intuitive, but none-the-less has mountains of experimental evidence to show its veracity.
And I've heard Christians say that, and I used to think a bit like that myself, but it is a load of bollocks. If time doesn't exist for god, he wouldn't change. The bible even says he doesn't change, but if that is the case why did he create the universe? How could he 'decide' to do so if he doesn't change?
Perhaps he didn't decide.
Nothing the Bible says God has a free will.
What about Final Fantasy Online? There is little to no PVP in that game, however they just released a patch that allowes you to level down so you can party with others, but still gain experience. If that's not focused on the casual player I don't know what is. Yet why isn't that game a hit?
Because nothing is soloable.
You need to group to do even basic quests and level. You may as well put upa big sign that says "Harcore PVE players only"
Casual players don't want to waste an hour forming a group everytime you play.
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The "I'll sit here and take it" attitude employees are exactly the kind of employees most employers want. Unpaid overtime? No problem! Lousy working conditions? No problem!
Exactly so go in and steal a line from the simpsons.
'If you're looking for the kind of employee that takes abuse and never sticks up for himself, I'm your man! You can treat me like dirt and I'll still kiss your butt and call it ice-cream. And if you don't like it, I can change.'
Where does it say that God cleansed shellfish? As far as I can tell this is meant specifically as a metaphor to refer to the practice of accepting gentiles into the church, and is not meant to repeal any dietary regulations.
So when he said rise kill and eat he was talking about gentiles and not shellfish....yeah.
This is a perfect answer--not because it makes any sense, but because it so perfectly illustrates the cognitive dissonance we're talking about. Christians who take the time to read both the Bible and the Koran frequently have no trouble taking the harsher parts of the Koran at face value but find no end of excuses why the Bible's crazier passages (shellfish, anyone?) are not to be read literally.
Thanks for the demonstration.
The whole kosher thing was to be taken literallly but you do know the new testiment repealed all that.
Acts
10:13 And there came a voice to him, Rise, Peter; kill, and eat.
10:14 But Peter said, Not so, Lord; for I have never eaten any thing that is common or unclean.
10:15 And the voice spake unto him again the second time, What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.
Can everyone please stop saying 'they' and start saying 'we'?
Or are we playing to the self-delusion that everyone except us is broken?
No I'm fine it's just you and to a lesser extent them,
opyright cops would be the sound bite to really get the youth vote out to the polls this election, and who would win then? Who?
Unless he's running for a third term not Bush.
Now I wish I had purchased a copy so I could jump on this bandwagon. However, I was waiting for them to loosen the DRM before I purchased it.
I own the game. Which way is the bandwagon? I didn't see any links on how to cash in on this?
What will likely happen, especially in China, is the government will force NAT on companies.
Unless you are running a server, NAT will work for you. If you are running a server, then a NATed address is not going to work. Most of our large companies in the US only run so many servers that are externally visible. The majority of desktop computers can easily be NATed.
Where I work, our desktops are NATed.
Most servers can and should be NAT'd as well with simple port forwarding. It's only when you have multiple servers that use the same ports that you run into problems.
I think you lost me there.
Thats because I'm special.
there's no reason to believe in exotic higher-dimensional structures for the universe unless there's a good reason and empirical evidence to do so.
Sure there is, because it sounds cool.
The big bang theory does not in any way suggest that we are 'special'.
Unless you combine it with the theory of evolution and the observation that we are the only intelligent species in the unvierse. Then you could say yeah...we're the only ones who survived and evolved in a cold indifffrent universe. Suck it universe we're special!
Therefore, claiming that there could be "giant, massive structures much larger than anything in our own observable universe" just outside this bubble seems somewhat... convenient.
"giant, massive structures much larger than anything in our own observable universe" is the new "here be dragons".
Unobservable space dragons.
I think I finally came up with a band name.
No, but it isn't illegal to scan port 80 on all machines on a subnet either. .
Really...which law does that break exactly?
No, the battles of the future will be fought in space, or possibly at the top of very tall mountains, by robots.
Our duty is clear....to build and maintian those robots.
Supposed you were to get stuck near the very top in space? Who is going to come and rescue you? Ultra-Man? Optimus Prime? Godzilla?
Don't be stupid. Godzilla never went to space.
much better than the Seinfeld ones, anyway.
So is stepping into a bathtub full of agitated electric eels, but I wouldn't recommend Microsoft use that as a marketting strategy either.
Actually that might work.
Operating systems need to stop being argued like a religion, I'm getting tired of it.
Blasphemy....burn the witch!
I don't own any bonds. I don't have any investments. I don't even own a credit card. So, why should I be contributing to keeping AIG alive?
Do you have money in a bank? Do you ever want to see that money ever again?
You forgot: "In The 21st Century Nations Don't Invade Other Nations"
We're not invaiding nations we're fighting a war on terror. :P
Maybe he was thinking of Belfast, TN.
6 films? I thought it was 3? Wait.. something is coming to me.. argh no! The horror! Make it stop, make it stop!! FAAAATHEEEEEEEEEEEERRR!!!
What 6 films would those be?
I never got into Starwars. I prefer the 1 Matrix film.
I always wondered what it would be like if they made that into a trilogy.
The bible has 2 purposes: explaining the history of God and the Jews, and Explaining the Sacrifice of Jesus. .
You missed one rather large purpose.
Explaining the fall of man.
Jesus died because Adam and Eve messed everything up. The reason Christians have such a problem with evolution is that it negates the original couples existance. Which negates original sin. Which negates the need for a Saviour. Which pretty much destroys the entire religion.
Go read some Milton
""" science is simply a dogmatic form of superstition """
This is a laughable statement that implies that this guy has no clue what science really is. Science is about creating a theory that produces predictions that are experimentally verifiable across time/space. So, no matter where you are, no matter when it is done, the experiment produces the same result which will either prove or disprove the prediction which will prove or disprove (at least part of) the theory.
Science, is thus something that can disprove something is is thought to be true. An example would be horoscopes. Science killed them long ago, yet some people (quite irrationally) still swear by them. Quantum Mechanics is strange and counter-intuitive, but none-the-less has mountains of experimental evidence to show its veracity.
Now String Theory on the other hand.......
And I've heard Christians say that, and I used to think a bit like that myself, but it is a load of bollocks. If time doesn't exist for god, he wouldn't change. The bible even says he doesn't change, but if that is the case why did he create the universe? How could he 'decide' to do so if he doesn't change?
Perhaps he didn't decide.
Nothing the Bible says God has a free will.
I thought they were going to discuss how Trolls are depicted in World of Warcraft. :)
Trolls are fine.
It's those bloody Elves that cause problems.
I have to disagree.
What about Final Fantasy Online? There is little to no PVP in that game, however they just released a patch that allowes you to level down so you can party with others, but still gain experience. If that's not focused on the casual player I don't know what is. Yet why isn't that game a hit?
Because nothing is soloable.
You need to group to do even basic quests and level. You may as well put upa big sign that says "Harcore PVE players only"
Casual players don't want to waste an hour forming a group everytime you play.