Everything in the OP's approach requires a belief in sola Sciptura, because he thinks that the Bible has a plain meaning that he and his Christian interlocutor can reach just by looking at the text, without consulting a canon of interpretation. For the vast majority of Christian bodies on earth (even many ones that identify as "fundamentalist"), as well as many other religions with their canon of texts, citations from Scripture are always understood in the light of references external to that text.
just another vain attempt at faux intellectualism by latin injection.
It's sad that you think the use of the standard term in a field is "faux intellectualism". When legal experts on Slashdot employ legal Latin or French phrases, do you chastise them as well?
It's Jesus speaking and he's pretty clear about what happens to people who choose to ignore the Old Testament rules/regulations.
Nothing in old texts (whether the Bible or any non-religious writing in the classical canon) is "pretty clear". Once they are removed from the speech community that produced them, the words mean nothing outside a tradition of interpretation, and every Christian body has one. Indeed, the notion of a belief really founded on sola Scriptura is hard to imagine, as one can clearly see that all Christian bodies that make such a claim nonetheless clearly engage in hermeneutics and sometimes have even developed their own little patristic canon. Ditto for Muslims who claim that the Qu'ran (even with the additions of the Hadiths) are the sole foundation of their beliefs
Your whole modus operandi gives atheists a bad name in that you claim to be the voice of reason, but you seem utterly unaware of the insights gained from structuralism since de Saussure's discovery of l'arbitraire du signe over a century ago.
Also, you mention Catholics, but the parent was talking about Christians in general.
The Roman Catholic Church is the largest single Christian body in the world. The second largest body, the Orthodox Church, asserts the same dual basis in Scripture and Holy Tradition. Then the several mainline Protestant denominations in the US have a creed that isn't very different, inasmuch as even if they claim Scripture is the basis, they also hand down a long hermeneutic tradition.
So basically, if the OP was talking about Christians in general, he wasn't doing a good job, because the appropriate generalization of Christians is that they do not hold to sola Scriptura. That belief is limited to a minority of Christians both globally and in the United States.
The vast majority of Christians on earth do not hold to the principle of sola Scriptura and therefore your attempt to dissuade them by pointing to Bible verses taken out of any established hemeneutical tradition is horribly misguided. If you want to argue against a set of beliefs, get it right and don't go after a strawman.
Yet another good reason to make public sector unions illegal at from the federal level down.
Unions are simply a group of individuals meeting together and deciding to all walk out of work on the same day if they don't like the conditions. You cannot make unions illegal without violating the right to free association that all Americans have. You can only bar the state from engaging with these unions in collective bargaining, institute a "right to work" law, and/or fire anyone that tries to organize.
For what it's worth, the fact that a country with a much greater dedication to organized labor than the US, namely Finland, is currently the envy of the developed world for its educational achievement in public schools, the existence of teachers' unions per se is clearly not the problem here.
Homeschooling is no more a threat to teachers in the US than bicycling to work is a threat to car manufacturers and gas stations, or vegetarian restaurants are a threat to large supermarket meat departments. An alternative lifestyle may grow large enough to be visible in an area without seriously challenging the status quo.
The Hopi indians had an enhanced lexicon for the reliability of information, particularly when speaking about water. 1st hand, 2nd hand, 3rd hand information, how old it was and how reliable the source was judged to be all could be described using specific words.
The origin of information reported is part of the morphology in Hopi, not the lexicon. It is reported by specific morphemes, not specific words. Any language can report such things with specific words, e.g. English "Mary is pregnant, I saw it myself" versus "Mary is pregnant, that's what John said."
Furthermore, morphological encoding is hardly unique to the Hopi, as this typology is found in languages all over the world (including a number of European languages). See Aikhenvald's Evidentiality (Oxford University Press, 2005) for a survey. No need to patronizingly romanticize Native Americans.
"Nanoscale" is not a generic word for small... it actually refers to a specific range of sizes (different from the ranges of sizes addressed by terms such as "microscale" and "femtoscale"). Words... we have them. Learn how to use them.
Just as e.g. the ancient Greeks had no problem with the use of the word myrios to mean either "exactly 10,000" or "an inexact huge amount", it's not the end of the world if English speakers today use nanoscale for "exactly a scale of 1-100 nanometers" among specialists and "an inexact really small measurement" in general parlance.
Words... we have them. Outside of small scientific communities that agree to fix their terminology, their meaning shifts over time in a natural and unstoppable process.
Still far away, though. This project is making use of giant pre-existing databases of English and Japanese in order to translate speech from one language to the other. The Star Trek universal translator, on the other hand, was capable of translating between English and previously unknown alien languages. Because of the principle of l'arbitraire du signe and the frequent use of idioms in human speech, in order for a computer to be able to learn and translate from a previously undocumented language (as opposed to useful but flawed Google Translate-like methods), we would essentially need true AI, and that doesn't seem likely in the coming years.
How is Mario ever "wearing fur"? Are they referring to Racoon Mario? When he touches the Leaf, he becomes a fucking racoon. He's not "wearing a racoon suit, cosplay style," he physically transforms into a fucking racoon
I haven't played Super Mario Bros. 3 in two decades, but I'm fairly sure that the game's manual termed that ability "the Racoon suit", just as the underwater thing was "the Frog suit". The game's Wikipedia article seems to agree.
The e-paper Kindle is a great way to carry a library around with you, but I don't see the utility of using it for anything other than reading books. The Kindle Paperwhite is more expensive than a generic Android tablet, plus the Paperwhite takes a few weeks to ship because of high demand. If you want to hack it to e.g. show weather data, why wait weeks and pay so much when you could have one of those generic tablets instantly?
That part of the Roman Empire that eradicated classical Platonic education (Byzantium) managed to last another thousand years -- and with high literacy rates and intact trading links with the rest of the world -- after the Western Roman Empire fell. If you want to propose a slippery slope, that's not the best start.
The Bible says in the New Testament in 1 Corinthians 15 that the church's judgment is to be enforced only within the church.
First of all, this is a non-ecclesiastical entity calling for prosecution (evidently as a cheap means of drawing attention to itself), not the Church itself prosecuting the fellow.
And second of all, if you have truly read much about the Orthodox faith, you would know that it rejects the sola Scriptura innovation of Protestantism, instead judging Scripture through the lens of Holy Tradition. After the many centuries of the Byzantine symphonia and the rulers glorified as saints because they (in part) prosecuted those who rejected or insulted the faith, then the current example should evoke no especial concern from Christians -- except that it is being done by a far right party whose members until recently rejected Christianity, only adopting it in propaganda to win over a larger segment of the population.
Yet another Slashdot first post that touts a Microsoft product while giving a modicum of lip service to a competing product in order to cover up shilling.
Storage is cheap, bandwidth is cheap, and software is cheap(once written); and all of these things are widely available in quantity; but the quality of the audio gear that most people are actually listening through has hardly been a beneficiary of Moore's law...
I once heard the assertion on some audiophile forum that even today's anonymous Chinese crap sounds better than the average person's setup in the late 1960s, so when people today hear classic rock records on ordinary computer speakers, they perceive a level of detail unaudible to the first generation of fans. Is this true, I wonder?
Compelling reasons: well, for starters, that colony would be insurance against an extinction-level asteroid impact here on Earth. So there's that.
A Mars colony would be dependent on Earth for supplies for decades if not centuries. And a civilization that was capable of e.g. terraforming Mars would probably be capable of deflecting an asteroid anyway.
Humans moving beyond the confines of Earth is Manifest Destiny. It's inevitable. Man must always have frontiers, else, he is not Man.
Those frontiers might be virtual. One of the most interesting ideas in Vernor Vinge's novel Marooned in Realtime (which I recommend to all Slashdotters -- he was thinking about the Singularity years before anyone else) is that instead of expanding into space, a sentient race might instead choose to move into a virtual reality, with all the infrastructure located so deep underground that it wouldn't have anything to worry about for millions of years. Yes, expansion might occur someday, but it doesn't have to occur so early in a race's history as you think.
Also, Richard Branson isn't requiring you to bless his spreadsheet, because his effort is privately funded
I would argue that a billionaire wanting to sink money into this when the technology isn't there yet, should be taxed higher so that the money can be directed towards more urgent things (I'm not talking necessary about feeding the poor or whatever, but at least some great investment in basic research).
I kinda regret seeing this comic immediately when it became live, as just as the working day had just begun here and I sunk an enormous amount of time into exploring it, but I'm nonetheless thrilled whenever webcomics do something that extends the comic format beyond the limitations of paper.
Earlier XKCD strips could easily be converted to print format, just see the first collection XKCD Volume 0 that Randall published (yes, he found a way to put the alt text in there too). But taking advantage of HTML and Javascript, making the comic interactive to a degree, feels like something fresh. Cyanide and Happiness have also been employing animated GIF elements. There's a lot of room for creativity in the webcomic format.
do they copyright the scans and sit on them as assets?
They don't hold the copyright on the scans. That is why they cannot offer wider access than they already do. The journals hold the copyright and only give JSTOR a limited license to redistribute the material.
First of all, historians don't use the term "Dark Ages" and haven't for decades now. Late antiquity and the early medieval era were more complicated than such a simplistic label.
Secondly, only Western Europe saw a collapse in the early medieval era. In the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium), the classical tradition of learning was preserved, literacy remained fairly high and there was ongoing exchange with the surrounding states. And yet there was a much closer bond between church and state (the so-called Byzantine symphonia) there than in the West. It's hard to blame the struggles of Western Europe during this particular era on the Catholic Church. A much larger role can be attributed to political, demographic and economic challenges that that institution was not responsible for.
I wasn't spamming, I was repeating a classic troll post in order to lampoon the OP's obvious shilling. And I didn't format the link correctly because I didn't want to help that particular company with SEO.
I'm glad Visual Studio also runs perfectly on Wine (I'm also making sure to have a party with my friends on Visual Studio 2012 Virtual Launch Party, where thousands of geeks around the globe connect together to party the release of latest Visual Studio).
I'm happy for you that you can develop more efficiently with Visual Studio, but I'm piffed that MyCleanPC still isn't available for Linux. I mean, I'm looking at my friend on his Windows box, and ever since he installed MyCleanPC, his gigabits are running faster than ever!
Plus, MyCleanPC completely eradicated any viruses on his computer, sped up his internet connection and gave him some peace of mind! We desperately need a Linux port of such outstanding software as MyCleanPC!
How do you propose to do that? The government can refuse to engage in collective bargaining with the workers, but the workers still have the right to strike if they feel they are being mistreated. Organization of labor it is simply the natural consequence of the every American's right to freely associate, and people are free to decide they will not show up for work.
You could threaten to fire any workers who strike, but rehiring a large workforce is a costly prospect. Thus, collective bargaining is arguably the better option.
this screams Israel, even though it was proven that this movie was created by Egyptian Copts living abroad. there is no way in hell that israel didn't partially fund this.
Have you actually seen the trailer? No more funding went into this piece of crap than into a purchase of a Domino's pizza. Anyone with an axe to grind and a green screen could have made this. It in no way "screams Israel".
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It's sad that you think the use of the standard term in a field is "faux intellectualism". When legal experts on Slashdot employ legal Latin or French phrases, do you chastise them as well?
Nothing in old texts (whether the Bible or any non-religious writing in the classical canon) is "pretty clear". Once they are removed from the speech community that produced them, the words mean nothing outside a tradition of interpretation, and every Christian body has one. Indeed, the notion of a belief really founded on sola Scriptura is hard to imagine, as one can clearly see that all Christian bodies that make such a claim nonetheless clearly engage in hermeneutics and sometimes have even developed their own little patristic canon. Ditto for Muslims who claim that the Qu'ran (even with the additions of the Hadiths) are the sole foundation of their beliefs
Your whole modus operandi gives atheists a bad name in that you claim to be the voice of reason, but you seem utterly unaware of the insights gained from structuralism since de Saussure's discovery of l'arbitraire du signe over a century ago.
The Roman Catholic Church is the largest single Christian body in the world. The second largest body, the Orthodox Church, asserts the same dual basis in Scripture and Holy Tradition. Then the several mainline Protestant denominations in the US have a creed that isn't very different, inasmuch as even if they claim Scripture is the basis, they also hand down a long hermeneutic tradition.
So basically, if the OP was talking about Christians in general, he wasn't doing a good job, because the appropriate generalization of Christians is that they do not hold to sola Scriptura. That belief is limited to a minority of Christians both globally and in the United States.
The vast majority of Christians on earth do not hold to the principle of sola Scriptura and therefore your attempt to dissuade them by pointing to Bible verses taken out of any established hemeneutical tradition is horribly misguided. If you want to argue against a set of beliefs, get it right and don't go after a strawman.
Unions are simply a group of individuals meeting together and deciding to all walk out of work on the same day if they don't like the conditions. You cannot make unions illegal without violating the right to free association that all Americans have. You can only bar the state from engaging with these unions in collective bargaining, institute a "right to work" law, and/or fire anyone that tries to organize.
For what it's worth, the fact that a country with a much greater dedication to organized labor than the US, namely Finland, is currently the envy of the developed world for its educational achievement in public schools, the existence of teachers' unions per se is clearly not the problem here.
Homeschooling is no more a threat to teachers in the US than bicycling to work is a threat to car manufacturers and gas stations, or vegetarian restaurants are a threat to large supermarket meat departments. An alternative lifestyle may grow large enough to be visible in an area without seriously challenging the status quo.
The origin of information reported is part of the morphology in Hopi, not the lexicon. It is reported by specific morphemes, not specific words. Any language can report such things with specific words, e.g. English "Mary is pregnant, I saw it myself" versus "Mary is pregnant, that's what John said."
Furthermore, morphological encoding is hardly unique to the Hopi, as this typology is found in languages all over the world (including a number of European languages). See Aikhenvald's Evidentiality (Oxford University Press, 2005) for a survey. No need to patronizingly romanticize Native Americans.
A principle that roman_mir has put into practice through years of invariably libertard posts.
Just as e.g. the ancient Greeks had no problem with the use of the word myrios to mean either "exactly 10,000" or "an inexact huge amount", it's not the end of the world if English speakers today use nanoscale for "exactly a scale of 1-100 nanometers" among specialists and "an inexact really small measurement" in general parlance.
Words... we have them. Outside of small scientific communities that agree to fix their terminology, their meaning shifts over time in a natural and unstoppable process.
Still far away, though. This project is making use of giant pre-existing databases of English and Japanese in order to translate speech from one language to the other. The Star Trek universal translator, on the other hand, was capable of translating between English and previously unknown alien languages. Because of the principle of l'arbitraire du signe and the frequent use of idioms in human speech, in order for a computer to be able to learn and translate from a previously undocumented language (as opposed to useful but flawed Google Translate-like methods), we would essentially need true AI, and that doesn't seem likely in the coming years.
I haven't played Super Mario Bros. 3 in two decades, but I'm fairly sure that the game's manual termed that ability "the Racoon suit", just as the underwater thing was "the Frog suit". The game's Wikipedia article seems to agree.
The e-paper Kindle is a great way to carry a library around with you, but I don't see the utility of using it for anything other than reading books. The Kindle Paperwhite is more expensive than a generic Android tablet, plus the Paperwhite takes a few weeks to ship because of high demand. If you want to hack it to e.g. show weather data, why wait weeks and pay so much when you could have one of those generic tablets instantly?
Isn't Japan the country whose P2P scene is dominated by darknet software like Winny and Share?
That part of the Roman Empire that eradicated classical Platonic education (Byzantium) managed to last another thousand years -- and with high literacy rates and intact trading links with the rest of the world -- after the Western Roman Empire fell. If you want to propose a slippery slope, that's not the best start.
First of all, this is a non-ecclesiastical entity calling for prosecution (evidently as a cheap means of drawing attention to itself), not the Church itself prosecuting the fellow.
And second of all, if you have truly read much about the Orthodox faith, you would know that it rejects the sola Scriptura innovation of Protestantism, instead judging Scripture through the lens of Holy Tradition. After the many centuries of the Byzantine symphonia and the rulers glorified as saints because they (in part) prosecuted those who rejected or insulted the faith, then the current example should evoke no especial concern from Christians -- except that it is being done by a far right party whose members until recently rejected Christianity, only adopting it in propaganda to win over a larger segment of the population.
Yet another Slashdot first post that touts a Microsoft product while giving a modicum of lip service to a competing product in order to cover up shilling.
I once heard the assertion on some audiophile forum that even today's anonymous Chinese crap sounds better than the average person's setup in the late 1960s, so when people today hear classic rock records on ordinary computer speakers, they perceive a level of detail unaudible to the first generation of fans. Is this true, I wonder?
A Mars colony would be dependent on Earth for supplies for decades if not centuries. And a civilization that was capable of e.g. terraforming Mars would probably be capable of deflecting an asteroid anyway.
Those frontiers might be virtual. One of the most interesting ideas in Vernor Vinge's novel Marooned in Realtime (which I recommend to all Slashdotters -- he was thinking about the Singularity years before anyone else) is that instead of expanding into space, a sentient race might instead choose to move into a virtual reality, with all the infrastructure located so deep underground that it wouldn't have anything to worry about for millions of years. Yes, expansion might occur someday, but it doesn't have to occur so early in a race's history as you think.
I would argue that a billionaire wanting to sink money into this when the technology isn't there yet, should be taxed higher so that the money can be directed towards more urgent things (I'm not talking necessary about feeding the poor or whatever, but at least some great investment in basic research).
I kinda regret seeing this comic immediately when it became live, as just as the working day had just begun here and I sunk an enormous amount of time into exploring it, but I'm nonetheless thrilled whenever webcomics do something that extends the comic format beyond the limitations of paper.
Earlier XKCD strips could easily be converted to print format, just see the first collection XKCD Volume 0 that Randall published (yes, he found a way to put the alt text in there too). But taking advantage of HTML and Javascript, making the comic interactive to a degree, feels like something fresh. Cyanide and Happiness have also been employing animated GIF elements. There's a lot of room for creativity in the webcomic format.
They don't hold the copyright on the scans. That is why they cannot offer wider access than they already do. The journals hold the copyright and only give JSTOR a limited license to redistribute the material.
First of all, historians don't use the term "Dark Ages" and haven't for decades now. Late antiquity and the early medieval era were more complicated than such a simplistic label.
Secondly, only Western Europe saw a collapse in the early medieval era. In the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantium), the classical tradition of learning was preserved, literacy remained fairly high and there was ongoing exchange with the surrounding states. And yet there was a much closer bond between church and state (the so-called Byzantine symphonia) there than in the West. It's hard to blame the struggles of Western Europe during this particular era on the Catholic Church. A much larger role can be attributed to political, demographic and economic challenges that that institution was not responsible for.
I wasn't spamming, I was repeating a classic troll post in order to lampoon the OP's obvious shilling. And I didn't format the link correctly because I didn't want to help that particular company with SEO.
I'm happy for you that you can develop more efficiently with Visual Studio, but I'm piffed that MyCleanPC still isn't available for Linux. I mean, I'm looking at my friend on his Windows box, and ever since he installed MyCleanPC, his gigabits are running faster than ever!
Plus, MyCleanPC completely eradicated any viruses on his computer, sped up his internet connection and gave him some peace of mind! We desperately need a Linux port of such outstanding software as MyCleanPC!
How do you propose to do that? The government can refuse to engage in collective bargaining with the workers, but the workers still have the right to strike if they feel they are being mistreated. Organization of labor it is simply the natural consequence of the every American's right to freely associate, and people are free to decide they will not show up for work.
You could threaten to fire any workers who strike, but rehiring a large workforce is a costly prospect. Thus, collective bargaining is arguably the better option.
Have you actually seen the trailer? No more funding went into this piece of crap than into a purchase of a Domino's pizza. Anyone with an axe to grind and a green screen could have made this. It in no way "screams Israel".