If he makes the rules, why did Christ have to suffer and die for us to get preferential treatment?
The entire city of Pompeii was killed by a sudden wave of toxic gas, then buried under ash. What is the valuable lesson they learned for future use?
Being creator doesn't make him more right, it just makes him more powerful. People in positions of power don't deserve respect and worship simply by virtue of their status. He created us with free will, then cursed us with pain and death the minute we exercised it.
Pain and death are bad. They are the ultimate enemy. If God made hunger hurt like all get out so I'd learn to plant my crops on time, I'd be fine with that. When I plant my crops on time, and God sends a killing frost in early spring and blows a tree onto my child's bedroom as she sleeps, I'm not a happy camper.
But maybe hell won't be that bad. Lack o' God doesn't sound all that troubling. We'll set up a nice government, lock up the pedophiles and murderers like we do topside, and open a few Starbucks.
I think that's listed under "Reasons you don't get to worship anyone else." I suppose that's easily explained by revisions and mistranslations, but it's a little odd.
So God allows suffering because it causes us to turn to him? That's really not a healthy relationship, not even in a parent-child context. That's like secretly burning your kid's homework at the last minute so he has to beg you for help.
And why do we need to turn to him? Because believing in him is the only way to stay out of Hell. Why is Hell there? He allowed it to be there, and apprently he tossed some asshole in to be the DM, so he must have a reason for it. Whoever this devil fellow is, he seems to get a kick out of his job, so it doesn't sound like much of a punishment. But maybe it is, what do I know. The result is that a God who claims to love us and can run the show just about any way he wants to was directly involved in the creation of a place of such evil, pain, and eternal horror that it would be morally wrong of him NOT to fill the world with cancer, man-eating tigers, and asteroids that crush dogs, just so we have to to pray to him for mercy.
Why does disbelief in God warrant eternal suffering? Because he's smarter than me, and I wouldn't understand? You know, I consider myself to be more loving and merciful than most, but I'm certainly not up there with any God worth praying to for any but the most selfish and calculated reasons, and -I- think that's fucking extreme. He's God. If he REALLY wants to keep someone from crashing Heaven's parties and spiking the bunch, he's got Ultimate RBL power. As a last resort, just erase the poor bastards.
When a rottweiler eats a child, you don't put it on life support and torture it for ten years, you put it to sleep.
And you don't let a rottweiler eat a child now and then just so the rest have to beg you to keep them leashed.
The first time I saw it luagh-tracked, it was all I could do to watch in mute, slack-jawed horror. Then my friend took me too a celebrirt baseball game with Casey in it, because she thought he was cute. Meatloaf stood in the outfield blowing plumes of water, and at some point commented on the fact that I was wedged between two girls in the stands.
What was I saying?
Oh, yeah. Laugh track bad. And Adult Swim is the best thing to happen to television since my decision to stop watching The Simpsons (which was a brilliant revolution in observed quality). I'm sure I'd enjoy more Futurama, but this is one of the few times that I have to say I wouldn't mind it staying dead. The last episodes were beautiful, and provided closure for me, and getting more would be like getting back with an old girlfriend for a year of awkward attempted romance, knowing full well it couldn't last.
2.3.5 had "color", not color. It had bevelled rectanglees that could be wedged behind buttons to color them, and support for loading pictures and quicktime movies in a similar fashion, but manipulation was so slow and hideously painful as to be useless.
By any reasonable measure, card graphics were still in black and white til the very end.
Even without cloning the card, a lot of banks depend on your reporting the card lost/stolen to figure out what you did and didn't pay for. If you buy a big screen TV, the card gets back to the owner, and he goes a month without checking his balance for some stupid reason, it gets tricky.
I suppose they could make a little bank form that says, "Card missing from Date: XXX to Date: XXX", but I'm sure people would abuse the hell out of that...
It reminds me a little of Titus Andronicus with Anthony Hopkins. Shakespearian plot, Roman politics and architecture, mixed with early 1900s technology and clothing.
Haptics looks pretty interesting to me. Mice are being developed that can send texture information to the user as they move the cursor across the screen. I don't know how far along the technology is, but when I saw it it I wanted one myself.
THe upgrades were incremental, as upgrades tend to be. At the time I bought the 500 Mhz card, it was actually decent. My boss was into Macs, and he was jealous for a while. USB was cheap to add, IDE was cheap to add, CD-RW was cheap to add, but they do add up. A friend actually -gave- me 512 Mb RAM, for which I am eternally grateful.
I love the old guy, and I can't wait to get him back. As painful as it was I probably will try to run X on it again some day just for fun, but other than another IDE drive and maybe a FireWire card there isn't a whole lot that can reasonably be done to improve it at this point.
I had four screens on my aging Mac. My PC was glad to have the ViewSonic, but it took some prodding to get the old Apple Studio Display to run through alongside it. There's something sick and wrong about running a DVI->VGA adapter into a VGA->Apple adapter. I try not to wiggle it too much.
I just can't afford a real one.
I was raised on them, up until G3s, at which point we stopped buying from Apple, and I started molesting my poor 9600 with third party upgrade cards.
Unfortunately, you can only push old hardware so far before it's overwhelming oldness clamps down on any boosts you might be striving for.
It's going to be a long, long time before I can afford a new Apple computer, so here I am with a 2.4 Ghz PC I got for 300, playing the living hell out of games that aren't available for the Mac, Photoshopping, Dreamweaving, etc...
My poor FrankenMac is living with my mom now, until she can afford a bargain PC of her own to run her home business on. It's too weak/old to run X properly, so she's using 9.1.
It's a sad thing to be a huge fan, but be outside their intended user base because I don't have 3,000 to blow on something decent.
Reminds me of a G5 parody site:
Ask yourself, "Is my money good enough for this computer?"
People who receive training on a system become more comfortable with it!
Does Aunt Trillie have an SMS pager on which she routinely drops her vowels?
Could Joe User possibly put his Remember "box" on a GUI desktop where it's always visible?
Would it maybe help exlporation if you told them anything they ruined in GUI would be replaceable as well?
At 8 hours a day a display with a lifespan of 10000 hours then that will last three and a half years, which is within normal expected computer lifetimes.
Raise your hand if your screen will last one year.
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People who program robots to fire guns kill people.
"Think Jar Jar here." Is there anyone on this entire site who would choose to educate Jar Jar rather than bashing him?
If he makes the rules, why did Christ have to suffer and die for us to get preferential treatment?
The entire city of Pompeii was killed by a sudden wave of toxic gas, then buried under ash. What is the valuable lesson they learned for future use?
Being creator doesn't make him more right, it just makes him more powerful. People in positions of power don't deserve respect and worship simply by virtue of their status. He created us with free will, then cursed us with pain and death the minute we exercised it.
Pain and death are bad. They are the ultimate enemy. If God made hunger hurt like all get out so I'd learn to plant my crops on time, I'd be fine with that. When I plant my crops on time, and God sends a killing frost in early spring and blows a tree onto my child's bedroom as she sleeps, I'm not a happy camper.
But maybe hell won't be that bad. Lack o' God doesn't sound all that troubling. We'll set up a nice government, lock up the pedophiles and murderers like we do topside, and open a few Starbucks.
I think that's listed under "Reasons you don't get to worship anyone else." I suppose that's easily explained by revisions and mistranslations, but it's a little odd.
So God allows suffering because it causes us to turn to him? That's really not a healthy relationship, not even in a parent-child context. That's like secretly burning your kid's homework at the last minute so he has to beg you for help.
And why do we need to turn to him? Because believing in him is the only way to stay out of Hell. Why is Hell there? He allowed it to be there, and apprently he tossed some asshole in to be the DM, so he must have a reason for it. Whoever this devil fellow is, he seems to get a kick out of his job, so it doesn't sound like much of a punishment. But maybe it is, what do I know. The result is that a God who claims to love us and can run the show just about any way he wants to was directly involved in the creation of a place of such evil, pain, and eternal horror that it would be morally wrong of him NOT to fill the world with cancer, man-eating tigers, and asteroids that crush dogs, just so we have to to pray to him for mercy.
Why does disbelief in God warrant eternal suffering? Because he's smarter than me, and I wouldn't understand? You know, I consider myself to be more loving and merciful than most, but I'm certainly not up there with any God worth praying to for any but the most selfish and calculated reasons, and -I- think that's fucking extreme. He's God. If he REALLY wants to keep someone from crashing Heaven's parties and spiking the bunch, he's got Ultimate RBL power. As a last resort, just erase the poor bastards.
When a rottweiler eats a child, you don't put it on life support and torture it for ten years, you put it to sleep.
And you don't let a rottweiler eat a child now and then just so the rest have to beg you to keep them leashed.
Bill Gates entry in the Celebrity Atheist List.
Do you pronounce it Fro-drich?
Hooray! I've missed this troll. All on one line please though, I'm a stickler for tradition.
The first time I saw it luagh-tracked, it was all I could do to watch in mute, slack-jawed horror. Then my friend took me too a celebrirt baseball game with Casey in it, because she thought he was cute. Meatloaf stood in the outfield blowing plumes of water, and at some point commented on the fact that I was wedged between two girls in the stands.
What was I saying?
Oh, yeah. Laugh track bad. And Adult Swim is the best thing to happen to television since my decision to stop watching The Simpsons (which was a brilliant revolution in observed quality). I'm sure I'd enjoy more Futurama, but this is one of the few times that I have to say I wouldn't mind it staying dead. The last episodes were beautiful, and provided closure for me, and getting more would be like getting back with an old girlfriend for a year of awkward attempted romance, knowing full well it couldn't last.
2.3.5 had "color", not color. It had bevelled rectanglees that could be wedged behind buttons to color them, and support for loading pictures and quicktime movies in a similar fashion, but manipulation was so slow and hideously painful as to be useless.
By any reasonable measure, card graphics were still in black and white til the very end.
Nope.
Even without cloning the card, a lot of banks depend on your reporting the card lost/stolen to figure out what you did and didn't pay for. If you buy a big screen TV, the card gets back to the owner, and he goes a month without checking his balance for some stupid reason, it gets tricky.
I suppose they could make a little bank form that says, "Card missing from Date: XXX to Date: XXX", but I'm sure people would abuse the hell out of that...
It reminds me a little of Titus Andronicus with Anthony Hopkins. Shakespearian plot, Roman politics and architecture, mixed with early 1900s technology and clothing.
Beautiful.
I need a season three. I -need- it.
I knew a diabetic fellow for a while who used to roll down the windows when he drove, because it made the oncoming cars easier to hear.
Haptics looks pretty interesting to me. Mice are being developed that can send texture information to the user as they move the cursor across the screen. I don't know how far along the technology is, but when I saw it it I wanted one myself.
There are machines that print braille from computer screens in realtime. Ever seen the movie Sneakers?
THe upgrades were incremental, as upgrades tend to be. At the time I bought the 500 Mhz card, it was actually decent. My boss was into Macs, and he was jealous for a while. USB was cheap to add, IDE was cheap to add, CD-RW was cheap to add, but they do add up. A friend actually -gave- me 512 Mb RAM, for which I am eternally grateful.
I love the old guy, and I can't wait to get him back. As painful as it was I probably will try to run X on it again some day just for fun, but other than another IDE drive and maybe a FireWire card there isn't a whole lot that can reasonably be done to improve it at this point.
I had four screens on my aging Mac. My PC was glad to have the ViewSonic, but it took some prodding to get the old Apple Studio Display to run through alongside it. There's something sick and wrong about running a DVI->VGA adapter into a VGA->Apple adapter. I try not to wiggle it too much.
Like any video card worth owning, mine has an S-Video port. Big-screen, high quality gaming, offline, or online with no subscription fee.
Shh.
And I totally didn't mean to post that anonymously. Teh s uck for me.
I just can't afford a real one. I was raised on them, up until G3s, at which point we stopped buying from Apple, and I started molesting my poor 9600 with third party upgrade cards. Unfortunately, you can only push old hardware so far before it's overwhelming oldness clamps down on any boosts you might be striving for. It's going to be a long, long time before I can afford a new Apple computer, so here I am with a 2.4 Ghz PC I got for 300, playing the living hell out of games that aren't available for the Mac, Photoshopping, Dreamweaving, etc... My poor FrankenMac is living with my mom now, until she can afford a bargain PC of her own to run her home business on. It's too weak/old to run X properly, so she's using 9.1. It's a sad thing to be a huge fan, but be outside their intended user base because I don't have 3,000 to blow on something decent. Reminds me of a G5 parody site: Ask yourself, "Is my money good enough for this computer?"
Although I'm sure if you Stripped Independantly long enough a RAID would occur...
People who receive training on a system become more comfortable with it!
Does Aunt Trillie have an SMS pager on which she routinely drops her vowels?
Could Joe User possibly put his Remember "box" on a GUI desktop where it's always visible?
Would it maybe help exlporation if you told them anything they ruined in GUI would be replaceable as well?
At 8 hours a day a display with a lifespan of 10000 hours then that will last three and a half years, which is within normal expected computer lifetimes.
Raise your hand if your screen will last one year.