Interesting...
Everything you are referring too either happened in the Old Testament and was done by the Jews, or happened in the New Testament and was done either by the Jews or by the Romans themselves.
"Christians" by definition beleive that CHRIST (Jesus) was the Son of God, Jews do not. Therefore Jew Christian. Thusly everything you just heaped on "Christians" is actually Jewish behavior, NOT "Christian".
I don't find anything in my bible about Jesus gathering a mob together to stone someone, quite the opposite in fact. I _do_ find quite a few instances of Jews doing that though.
Please note that I am not making any value judgements on religion or people, neither is my comment Anti-Semitic in nature. This was a point of clarification for the poster only.
If he works for a company that uses an MS Domain and Roaming Profiles they would follow him. He sure looks like a troll, but if all he is doing is switching which desk he is sitting at (Hotelling?) inside the company it could easily be working for him.:-)
1) New reactor designs need far less water, and some of them need no water at all. Two of these designs have been featured here on/. within the last 4 months.
2) There is a nuclear reactor located in Ft. Calhoun Nebraska. Suprisingly there are these things called "Rivers" running through there.;-)
3) Much electricity is shipped all over the place,even between countries here on the North American continent, despite "losses" over these other thingies called "high tension lines".
"Well, scientific principals (basically, prove it or it's not real) carried to the logical extreme do rather preclude a god."
Despite your awesome grasp of vocabulary you are wrong.
The primary goal of science is to observe nature. The secondary goal is to predict future behavior based on the previous observations.
IF you will notice, nowhere in there does science explain any of the fundamentals of the universe!
All SCIENCE knows is that if you have two sheep, and two more sheep wander up, that it is likely you will then have four sheep.
It says nothing about where the sheep came from, how they got there, where they are going next or who feeds them.:-)
Besides this glaring inaccuracy in your previous statement, you have another problem.
There is a statement that says, roughly, "You cannot prove that something is impossible." A related view of this would be that "You cannot prove that something doesn't exist."
Therefore you CANNOT reasonably claim that "..carried to the logical extreme do rather preclude a god." That statement is a logical FALLACY. If you'd spend less time in your dictionary and more time in critical thinking you would be able to see that.
I'm not arguing for or against God, my beliefs are my own and are frankly none of your business.
That does NOT mean however that you have the license to misrepresent science, what it does and how it does it.
Beyond that, I just like body checking people with more diction than sense!:-P
I am unsure whether you are comparing the United States to the European Union, or the United States to Finland. You don't delineate very well which one you are talking about.
I'll take the US vs Finland though, just to make it fair.;-)
From your link:
Finland has a population of 5.2 Million people, 67% of which live in _towns_.
That means you have (5.2M x.67) = 3.48 Million people living in an area of roughly (330,000 sq km x.67) 221,100 sq km!
Please take your 3G phone out to the 33% of your country NOT included as "urban" and check it's available features.
There is also the matter of your peasly 300,000 square kilometers.
The United States covers 9,631,418 square kilometers! _Everything_ works in a small network, scale that up by a factor of 30 or so and it's not quite so easy to accomplish.
I'd also like to point out that using the "average" population density as the yardstick is foolish.
In places where the United States reaches its "average" of 30 people per SQ KM cellular penetration is nigh on the "world average".
In places where the pop density is much lower it doesn't.
As an example, I live in the state of Wyoming. Wyoming has a landmass of 253,596 square kilometers and only 500,000 people in it! In other words, we are 75% of your size, with 10% of your population!
Now to discuss the EU vs. the United States, which is actually NOT fair!:-D
As near as I can tell the European Union has a total landmass among its member countries of 3,929,000. It also has a total population of 456,791,700. All numbers are post 5th stage enlargement.
The United States has a total landmass of 9,631,418 square kilometers with a total population of 293,027,571.
Now you may have been CLOSE in an arguement with Finland VS. United States but now that you can see the numbers it is CLEAR that you didn't do the research on the United States VS. European Union.
The EU has 1/3 our landmass and not quite 50% more people!
American Pop Density = 30.4 EU Pop Density = 116.2
Say goodbye to your arguement, and hello the parent posters arguement. You, are wrong.
It is not personal to you, I promise. I just like using numbers to prove I'm right.:-)
Finland numbers were taken from your link. US Numbers were taken from www.cia.gov EU numbers were taken from http://www.eurunion.org/legislat/agd2000/agd2000.h tm
Where did you get a 12 month warranty on an Xbox? Standard Xbox warranty in America is 90 days!
Where I live there simply was no place to buy it that offered an EXTENDED warranty for it either, and since I like to shop locally I couldn't get one.
A 90 day product warranty on an itme costing upwards of $200 (when purchased) is ludicrous; and it suggests to me that Microsoft KNEW these things were prone to this before they ever shipped them.
Funny,
I know several American Servicemen on the ground in Iraq and to a man they say things are better.
You won't believe that of course, but it's true none the less.
I hear this arguement made a lot by people who live in high population densities and I always cringe at your ignorance.
Since most rural areas tend to be populated by people working in either agriculture or extractive industries how about if we turn this around?
Since you have no "right" to inexpensive food, or material goods the following now apply:
$100 a pound for tin foil? Boo hoo. $100 a ton for low sulphur coal? (The same coal that fires your powerplants I might add)Boo hoo. $15 a pound for chicken, beef, & pork? Boo hoo. $100 a bushel for corn, wheat, & rice? Boo hoo. $20 for a dozen eggs? Boo hoo. $15 for a gallon of milk? Boo hoo. $10/therm for natural gas. Boo hoo.
We all support EACH OTHER, and if you want to undo the deal then get ready to watch the prices on many of the things you take for granted blow through the roof...if you can obtain them at all.
People who feel somehow superior because they live "In The City" really get on my nerves.
If you want to ignore the rural areas of the United States and leave them to rot like some third world backwater that's fine, just don't be shocked when you have no food, no fuel, and housing prices in your precious city suddenly skyrocket by a factor of 10 as all us poor ignorant rural folks try and move in.
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Bahhh, I should have used the preview button. Doggone default HTML formatting...
Sorry for the hard to read post.
Interesting... Everything you are referring too either happened in the Old Testament and was done by the Jews, or happened in the New Testament and was done either by the Jews or by the Romans themselves. "Christians" by definition beleive that CHRIST (Jesus) was the Son of God, Jews do not. Therefore Jew Christian. Thusly everything you just heaped on "Christians" is actually Jewish behavior, NOT "Christian". I don't find anything in my bible about Jesus gathering a mob together to stone someone, quite the opposite in fact. I _do_ find quite a few instances of Jews doing that though. Please note that I am not making any value judgements on religion or people, neither is my comment Anti-Semitic in nature. This was a point of clarification for the poster only.
Eh?
Where do you work that "mailserers are regularly offline for multiple days."?!
I work extra hard to insure that my mailservers are NEVER down!
If he works for a company that uses an MS Domain and Roaming Profiles they would follow him. He sure looks like a troll, but if all he is doing is switching which desk he is sitting at (Hotelling?) inside the company it could easily be working for him. :-)
1) New reactor designs need far less water, and some of them need no water at all. Two of these designs have been featured here on /. within the last 4 months.
;-)
:-)
2) There is a nuclear reactor located in Ft. Calhoun Nebraska. Suprisingly there are these things called "Rivers" running through there.
3) Much electricity is shipped all over the place,even between countries here on the North American continent, despite "losses" over these other thingies called "high tension lines".
4) Coal sucks.
"Well, scientific principals (basically, prove it or it's not real) carried to the logical extreme do rather preclude a god."
:-)
:-P
Despite your awesome grasp of vocabulary you are wrong.
The primary goal of science is to observe nature.
The secondary goal is to predict future behavior based on the previous observations.
IF you will notice, nowhere in there does science explain any of the fundamentals of the universe!
All SCIENCE knows is that if you have two sheep, and two more sheep wander up, that it is likely you will then have four sheep.
It says nothing about where the sheep came from, how they got there, where they are going next or who feeds them.
Besides this glaring inaccuracy in your previous statement, you have another problem.
There is a statement that says, roughly, "You cannot prove that something is impossible." A related view of this would be that "You cannot prove that something doesn't exist."
Therefore you CANNOT reasonably claim that "..carried to the logical extreme do rather preclude a god." That statement is a logical FALLACY. If you'd spend less time in your dictionary and more time in critical thinking you would be able to see that.
I'm not arguing for or against God, my beliefs are my own and are frankly none of your business.
That does NOT mean however that you have the license to misrepresent science, what it does and how it does it.
Beyond that, I just like body checking people with more diction than sense!
You could use SUSE 9.2 Pro on a commodity hardware box, still have no spyware, _and_ have an extra 2,000 USD in the bank. :-)
I am unsure whether you are comparing the United States to the European Union, or the United States to Finland. You don't delineate very well which one you are talking about.
;-)
.67) = 3.48 Million people living in an area of roughly (330,000 sq km x .67) 221,100 sq km!
:-D
:-)
h tm
I'll take the US vs Finland though, just to make it fair.
From your link:
Finland has a population of 5.2 Million people, 67% of which live in _towns_.
That means you have (5.2M x
Please take your 3G phone out to the 33% of your country NOT included as "urban" and check it's available features.
There is also the matter of your peasly 300,000 square kilometers.
The United States covers 9,631,418 square kilometers! _Everything_ works in a small network, scale that up by a factor of 30 or so and it's not quite so easy to accomplish.
I'd also like to point out that using the "average" population density as the yardstick is foolish.
In places where the United States reaches its "average" of 30 people per SQ KM cellular penetration is nigh on the "world average".
In places where the pop density is much lower it doesn't.
As an example, I live in the state of Wyoming. Wyoming has a landmass of 253,596 square
kilometers and only 500,000 people in it! In other words, we are 75% of your size, with 10% of your population!
Now to discuss the EU vs. the United States, which is actually NOT fair!
As near as I can tell the European Union has a total landmass among its member countries of 3,929,000. It also has a total population of 456,791,700. All numbers are post 5th stage enlargement.
The United States has a total landmass of 9,631,418 square kilometers with a total population of 293,027,571.
Now you may have been CLOSE in an arguement with Finland VS. United States but now that you can see the numbers it is CLEAR that you didn't do the research on the United States VS. European Union.
The EU has 1/3 our landmass and not quite 50% more people!
American Pop Density = 30.4
EU Pop Density = 116.2
Say goodbye to your arguement, and hello the parent posters arguement. You, are wrong.
It is not personal to you, I promise. I just like using numbers to prove I'm right.
Finland numbers were taken from your link.
US Numbers were taken from www.cia.gov
EU numbers were taken from http://www.eurunion.org/legislat/agd2000/agd2000.
Neat link, thank you for sharing. I just signed up! :-)
Two words:
Bite
Me
Move to linux desktops with a MS Terminal Server backed for Timberline & your other vertical app.
I devised this "scheme" about 6 months ago and test implementations of it throughout our client base have been very encouraging.
Think about it, all the userspace benifits of using *nix with all the app compatibility of MS. It is a good blend of the two worlds.
You are too late, I sent in for a patent on that idea last tuesday. :-)
Holy Crap!
I grew up in Fremont, which is just down the road from Wahoo. Talk about the land of no opportunity!
There are dual wields in RTCW as well.
Now what kind of geekly logic is it to NOT buy an Xbox? :-)
Cliff
Dick?
Is that you?
Where did you get a 12 month warranty on an Xbox? Standard Xbox warranty in America is 90 days!
Where I live there simply was no place to buy it that offered an EXTENDED warranty for it either, and since I like to shop locally I couldn't get one.
A 90 day product warranty on an itme costing upwards of $200 (when purchased) is ludicrous; and it suggests to me that Microsoft KNEW these things were prone to this before they ever shipped them.
Funny, I know several American Servicemen on the ground in Iraq and to a man they say things are better. You won't believe that of course, but it's true none the less.
This is why god created turbocharged Hayabusas. :-)
Spoken like someone who doesn't support any Terminal Server implementations, or if you do someone else is setting them up for you.
It is NOT trivial to keep "things" from being installed on a Terminal Server.
I'm not flaming you butttttt,I think you are more of an informed user, at least in the wireless arena.
Seriously, if you can't do everything he mentioned you should learn, now. It isn't that difficult to understand or do.
I hear this arguement made a lot by people who live in high population densities and I always cringe at your ignorance.
Since most rural areas tend to be populated by people working in either agriculture or extractive industries how about if we turn this around?
Since you have no "right" to inexpensive food, or material goods the following now apply:
$100 a pound for tin foil? Boo hoo.
$100 a ton for low sulphur coal? (The same coal that fires your powerplants I might add)Boo hoo.
$15 a pound for chicken, beef, & pork? Boo hoo.
$100 a bushel for corn, wheat, & rice? Boo hoo.
$20 for a dozen eggs? Boo hoo.
$15 for a gallon of milk? Boo hoo.
$10/therm for natural gas. Boo hoo.
We all support EACH OTHER, and if you want to undo the deal then get ready to watch the prices on many of the things you take for granted blow through the roof...if you can obtain them at all.
People who feel somehow superior because they live "In The City" really get on my nerves.
If you want to ignore the rural areas of the United States and leave them to rot like some third world backwater that's fine, just don't be shocked when you have no food, no fuel, and housing prices in your precious city suddenly skyrocket by a factor of 10 as all us poor ignorant rural folks try and move in.
They were all out on a stake out that night and just now caught the rerun.
Which one am I supposed to vote against?
Interesting claim.
9 /03/09/ president.2000/transcript.gore/
According to the transcript from the CNN Late Edition interview with Wolf Blitzer this is what he ACTUALLY said:
During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
It can CERTAINLY be read to mean exactly what is has commonly come to mean.
Full transcript of interview available here:
http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/stories/199