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  1. Re:Don't bother on Ask Slashdot: the Best Linux Setup To Transition Windows Users? · · Score: 1

    Hey, Jehovah's Witnesses are using Linux too!

  2. Re:Hopefully? on Getting the Most Out of SSH · · Score: 1

    Oh I'm sure you already use ftp, don't you? So where's the difference? telnet -> ssh, ftp -> sftp. get it?

  3. Re:Don't forget Palm's WebOS!!! on Comparing the Freedoms Offered By Maemo and Android · · Score: 1

    controlling the US is also done via javascript.

    so you indicate that Chavez and Ahmadinejad are unsuccessful only because they use perl instead of javascript to control the US?

  4. Re:Not this again on "Puddles" of Water Sighted on Mars · · Score: 2, Interesting

    OK, but how about the opaqueness?

  5. little spielberg on Students Put UCLA Taser Video On YouTube · · Score: 1

    should obviously attend a video course. He won't receive an Oscar for filming backs, lamps and cubicles.

  6. Re:Commutivity on This Rare Friday the 13th · · Score: 1
    1520 + 476 = 1996...

    And most important, if you live in the year 2009, then you are 13 years away from 1996!

  7. Re:You know... on Kansas Challenges Definition of Science · · Score: 1
    plants were created before the sun was seen on the Earth

    Plants have no problems with a cloudy sky where you never see the sun or stars.

    It's hard to reconcile Genesis with the fact that Stars had to exist for many, many millennia before the Earth formed

    The hebrew word used for the term 'day' here is 'jom' which is used not only for days of 24 hours but for eras too. So it is not hard to reconcile Genesis with the fact, that stars existed millions of years before. Genesis doesn't deny that.

  8. Re:You know... on Kansas Challenges Definition of Science · · Score: 1
    By this time there already were continents and oceans and plants

    Yes, by this time the lights in the firmament were seen from the earth. As you can read earlier, there were some changes with the water in the atmosphere. So those lights were not visible before. It is not written here, that the lights didn't exist before they were seen from earth.

    This is one of several possible interpretations as is yours. But true is, that Genesis doesn't oppose scientific facts.

  9. Re:You know... on Kansas Challenges Definition of Science · · Score: 1
    Genesis says that the Earth formed first, and then the Sun, moon, and stars formed.

    No, what Genesis tells us is, that the lights appeared later.

  10. it's the time, not the amount on Sleep Less, Eat More? · · Score: 1
    I don't think that it is the amount of sleep that makes fat. When you are working at night and go to sleep very late (or early in the morning) you propably go and eat anything IN THE NIGHT.

    It's the timing of your dinner that makes you fat.

    The solution is: don't eat after eight o'clock.

  11. Re:I believe on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1
    Random copying errors don't produce eyes, or wings, or brains by themselves. Natural selection produces these things.

    So you think this is proven, don't you?

  12. Re:Someday on What Do You Believe Even If You Can't Prove It? · · Score: 1
    Flavius Josephus mentioned Jesus several times.

    There is a comprehensive article with faqs currently at watchtower

    Content:

    • The Gospels - History or Myth?
    • Could the Gospels be a masterful invention?
    • Could the Gospels be legends?
    • If the Gospels were legends, could they have been compiled so quickly after the death of Jesus?
    • Were the Gospels later edited to fit the needs of the early Christian community?
    • What about seeming contradictions in the Gospels?
    • Does modern-day Christianity represent the Jesus of the Gospels?
  13. Re:And you get it how? on Lunar Helium 3 Could Meet Earth's Energy Demands · · Score: 1
    Realistically, our costs would be those to put a crew on the Moon, sustain them for the time needed to 'mine' He3, and bring them home

    You forgot the guards, defenting the base against the russian, indian or chinese Goldfingers!

  14. Re:Overblown toilet FUD on Would You Drink This Water? · · Score: 1
    Most water we drink today have been recycled

    No, ALL the water we drink today has been recycled. We piss in the toilet, it gushes into a river, streams down to the sea, goes up to some clouds, and reappears as filtered, clean rain.

  15. How about Laptops? on A Dual Monitor Experiment · · Score: 1
    has three video cards in it

    How about Laptops? They have usually an external monitor connector. Is this in any way usable for that?

  16. Re:Whaaaa? on White House Lied About Iraq Nuclear Programs · · Score: 1
    Israel is actually the one trying to wipe out Palestine

    Ummm, go and read history: Israel was attacked by all arab neighbours. Israel won the war and after that some territories were kept occupied.

  17. Re:Burden of proof on White House Lied About Iraq Nuclear Programs · · Score: 1
    How do you prove that something doesn't exist?

    He had to prove, that something that existed before was destroyed. This is not the same: it is possible.

  18. Re:Passive cooling == silence on Less Might Be More · · Score: 1, Interesting

    I use a ThinkPad 760XD (166MHz Pentium with 80MB RAM), Red Hat 7.3, lightweight windows manager, vnc connection via wireless to a 3GHz machine residing the cellar. In fullscreen vnc it is fun to point people to the fullblown ximian evolution, firefox, gimp etc. which are very responsive: "What? this runs on this old machine?". Yes, sometimes I forget, that this stuff actually doesn't run locally. Even the harddisk stops spinning!

  19. You insensitive clod! on Palmtop Nirvana? · · Score: 0
    Agreed. It was a great machine

    It was? Right now I sit in front of my 1993 HP LX 200 and you tell me it was?

  20. Re:For the love of Jehovah on Child Porn Probe Uses Live Internet Wiretap · · Score: 0
    Elohim

    Elohim is sovereignty plural. Known in hebrew and other semitic languages.

    Secondly, since you link to Watchtower.org, I Know you are probably not allowed to read this

    So you don't seem to know a lot about us, or you learned it from the wrong people.

    My point is that these mistakes have a history of generating a legacy which then takes a revisionist look at those mistakes themselves.

    The Tetragrammaton existed long before these 'histories of generating'. There even is a form of it in old hebrew letters.

    Look at how the Christian revisionism regarding the Hebrew concept of the Messiah has developed. If you actually research this ...

    It is one of the main goals of our bible study to remove any influence of jewish, catholic or evangelical revisionism. So about the Messiah, we go back to the prophecy in Eden: Genesis 3:15 which is very clear about the role of the Messiah.

    I don't think that the pagan holidays like easter or xmas have anything in common with biblical history. It simply was easier for catholic proselityzers to attract people this way those times.

  21. Re:For the love of Jehovah on Child Porn Probe Uses Live Internet Wiretap · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Please tell me: When somebody tries to eliminate your name everywhere he finds it, and replaces your name with something neutral and common, and he does this with a lot of fanatism, is this person your friend, or is this person your worst enemy?

    When you look at the different bible translations, there are fanatic eliminations of god's name (which appears over 7000 times in the form of the Tetragrammaton YHVH). The name is replaced with neutral and common titles, even if the result makes no sense (e.g. Psalms 83:18, 110:1).

    Jews began forbid the use of the name of Jehovah (or simply say Jahve if you hate his witnesses...) some time B.C. This was something different from the teachings and experiences of Moses (Genesis 3:15). Jesus too used and teached the name of God: John 17:6+26

    More about the name

  22. Re:What about... on Alternatives to TAP for Outage Alerts? · · Score: 1

    what if you connected a cell phone to the computer ... and uesd that for text messaging? the problem is, that you only can connect either the power or the data cable to such a phone. The only way to use it would be, if you have an ir connector on the pc. Then you can plug the power cable to the phone and send via ir.

  23. graphological differences on Anniversary of the First Computer Bug · · Score: 1

    how about the graphological differences? I am not an expert, but read some book (some 20 years ago ...) about graphology. It seems to me, that the sentence "first actual bug ..." is of a newer date.

  24. Re:RTFM on Worst Linux Annoyances? · · Score: 1

    deinstalling is actually rpm -e packagename WITHOUT the .rpm part and WITHOUT the version number.

    e.g. sendmail-8.12.rpm

    rpm -e sendmail