Anything more than anecdotes? I think not. There is quite a bit of historical evidence for Jesus and there are more early copies of the Bible available than most ancient texts that are treated as fact.
In those Bibles, however, are certain passages that do make it pretty evident that navigating the spiritual world is something that God wants us to have faith, not just fear of an ultimate God that you absolutely are certain can kick your butt if you get out of line. This is why the fundamentalists who branch out into scientific creationism are often so comical. Honest science hasn't disproven God and there *are* miracles that defy explanation that happen to this day.
There's enough evidence to argue over for a lifetime and without faith neither side is going to make the jump to the other.
Christians! Live the life of Christ! It's the best witness you have, and the most convincing.
As far as the human genome 'proving' evolution, I'll wait for the peer reviewed text. Anything else is just propaganda.
NYC public school per pupil expenditure 9k
NYC catholic school per pupil expenditure 4k
Who gets the higher test results, the higher graduation rates, the higher college acceptance and graduation rates?
Just guess
Oh yeah, it's all about money.
BTW: before you go pulling the BS about catholic schools cherry picking, there's an open offer from the Archdiocese of NY to the NY public schools that they'll take the worst school disctrict in the city and in three years turn it around with no extra expenditures and no change in student body. For some reason the teacher's union is dead set against the experiment and has been against it for 10 years +.
Just ask Terry McAuliffe how much hot water you can get into for saying colored people except when expanding out the initials of the NAACP. Frankly I don't like McAuliffe and think he should be in jail for some of his Clinton fundraising BS (Teamsters money laundering, etc) but he is a perfect example of what the parent post was talking about.
So if we're not even improved or better than the apes but just 'different' than what gives us superior rights to animals? What gives animals inferior obligations to us? Either we have to imprison/kill all animals for not obeying the law (which is stupid) or it's testing makeup on little Billy's eyes time because his folks needed the money.
There is a lot of foundational stuff in terms of morality, law, and ethics that this plays around with. The consequences of screwing around with this stuff (rights theory) without thinking it through are horrible, for two nasty examples see international socialism (Communists) and national socialism (Nazis). The combined body count was about 150 million.
The conservatives are concentrating on fixing things for the kids while the liberals are concentrating on fixing the system.
If you fix the system, it can take years for the improvements to filter down to the kids. If you pull the kids out of dangerous, broken schools and put them into better ones, the kids start getting a better education immediately.
I wouldn't even buy that. The K-12 teachers pretty much slurp down any of the pap handed down by the education colleges and the leftist think tanks but they become 'conservative' only when innovations from the right come out (phonics, english immersion).
It's a crock to say that they are conservative when their acceptance of change is so one sided.
Oh please, the left doesn't just want socialism, the right doesn't just want a free market. If life were only about economics then your comment might just make sense. The left wants that mush-headed self-esteem programming in between handing out condoms and allowing 15 year olds to get abortions without parental consent. Like it or not, you have to defend that crap or the orthodox PC types are going to kick your butt all over the place.
For myself, I'm a libertarian, but that's just me.
If it was a boy than he would have been condemned as a nascant racist contributor to the patriarchal society that Barbie is all tangled up in with her unrealistic body image.
The words you are looking for are orthodox and doctrinaire, repressive also comes in handy but conservative spawns a misunderstanding of what is going on.
Teachers in US public schools teach a mixed up grab bag of leftist claptrap that has demonstrably failed to educate children but if you want to change to proven techniques (phonics instead of look-say, english immersion instead of bilingualism) you are labelled a philistine, a barbarian at the gate.
The conservatives in the US are horrified at the k-12 educational system.
My understanding is that the school undercut the parents. The parents knew about the project, approved, and thought it was wonderful that their child was showing true scientific ability. The school scuttled that and punished the child. This is *BAD* in any sane traditionalist framework.
I should know, my own parents were set up and undercut by my own school many times as I was growing up because they wanted to hold me to higher standards and the teachers belittled that. It took quite awhile to work that out and for me to get my head straight.
Where have you been? Don't you remember the asian economic crisis? ROK got hit just as hard as anybody else and a lot of people are still hurting economically. The asian system of 'guided capitalism' has been exposed as a fraud and a phony and Korea, along with the rest of Asia that followed it is painfully clearing itself from the wreckage. I would expect that bargain hunting behaviors are up all over Asia, simply because that's what happens when anybody's economy takes a huge whack like that.
Oh God, not more regulation. Let's face it, IP is not a natural monopoly. You can get it through many existing media (telco lines, CATV, satellite, radio, etc) and the only thing stopping more competitors from stepping in is the existing legal monopolies granted to the present day utilities.
BTW: in the article thread (on advogado), there was concern about making command line programs scriptable. In Mac OS X the terminal.app is scriptable which should solve most of the problem.
No, actually, you overfly and drop millions of them all over the city. They're cheap, simple, and everywhere. The enemy can't take the time to wipe all of them out because it takes too long to find them (they would hide themselves like bugs too)and the enemy's troop positions are being tracked often enough by surviving bugs that your chances of being surprised drop to very low.
Though if you used the ambient radio waves to charge a battery, you could probably use the free power to work at least one hour in 24. For some things (such as crawling back and forth in a pipe to check for flaws) that might be enough.
Hmmm... Bitter at not being hired by a consulting company?
Staff is of variable quality. Very often it is wise to have an outside opinion, like when I did a quick security check for a client and found that a network admin had made his home network a trusted IP range so he could get in.
The problem was that this particular admin hadn't worked for the company for two years and the replacement hadn't figured out he should remove that rule from his firewall.
I could have understood where you are coming from more if I wasn't told, then independently observed that the more money you charged for your solution the more likely it was that your advice was listened to and you are hired back later.
I give good value for what I am charging when I work as a consultant. My value often does not relate to my bill rate. When I spent 2 days demonstrating that 5k spent on SMS is better than 100k spent on unicenter modules for the application they were looking to do (Unix, of any stripe, was pre-emptively vetoed by the customer) I pretty much paid for my 6 month stint at a recent client. I ended up getting the job done, the client was happy, they got their upgrades working fine and life went on. Did I do other work besides those two days? Sure, I had to implement the solution I worked up. But my high value work was those two days and I didn't feel guilty at all for learning SMS on the job when I told them, truthfully, that they should get an SMS implementer, that I didn't know how to do it.
They wanted me and they were ok with me learning on the job at my normal fees. Now this is the weirdest client I've ever had in terms of corporate culture, but did I do anything wrong?
Actually, it's immoral to endanger lives by putting governors on. As several others have commented, people can use the accelerator as well as the brakes to avoid accidents. To take away a safety tool just because it can be misused is immoral.
If your computer can receive the signal and it is under your control, you can hack it so that you can transmit a car stop signal at any time. Great for crooks in a hacked car, they speed through intersections making everybody going the other direction stop (regardless of light) and as they pass, people lurch into the intersection, interferiong with police operations.
Easily done. Put a differential gps transmitter at stop lights and toll booths. Congrats, you have a known position to start your dead reckoning at and any computer hooked up to a gps system can easily also be hooked up to the speedometer which would correct for accelaration and braking. Since you are going to get multiple readings (each time you pay a toll or get stopped at a red light), you can correct for accumulating error. As for winding streets, perhaps some old european cities might be helped out by that but most modern cities are grid based.
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Anything more than anecdotes? I think not. There is quite a bit of historical evidence for Jesus and there are more early copies of the Bible available than most ancient texts that are treated as fact.
In those Bibles, however, are certain passages that do make it pretty evident that navigating the spiritual world is something that God wants us to have faith, not just fear of an ultimate God that you absolutely are certain can kick your butt if you get out of line. This is why the fundamentalists who branch out into scientific creationism are often so comical. Honest science hasn't disproven God and there *are* miracles that defy explanation that happen to this day.
There's enough evidence to argue over for a lifetime and without faith neither side is going to make the jump to the other.
Christians! Live the life of Christ! It's the best witness you have, and the most convincing.
As far as the human genome 'proving' evolution, I'll wait for the peer reviewed text. Anything else is just propaganda.
DB
NYC public school per pupil expenditure 9k
NYC catholic school per pupil expenditure 4k
Who gets the higher test results, the higher graduation rates, the higher college acceptance and graduation rates?
Just guess
Oh yeah, it's all about money.
BTW: before you go pulling the BS about catholic schools cherry picking, there's an open offer from the Archdiocese of NY to the NY public schools that they'll take the worst school disctrict in the city and in three years turn it around with no extra expenditures and no change in student body. For some reason the teacher's union is dead set against the experiment and has been against it for 10 years +.
DB
Just ask Terry McAuliffe how much hot water you can get into for saying colored people except when expanding out the initials of the NAACP. Frankly I don't like McAuliffe and think he should be in jail for some of his Clinton fundraising BS (Teamsters money laundering, etc) but he is a perfect example of what the parent post was talking about.
DB
So if we're not even improved or better than the apes but just 'different' than what gives us superior rights to animals? What gives animals inferior obligations to us? Either we have to imprison/kill all animals for not obeying the law (which is stupid) or it's testing makeup on little Billy's eyes time because his folks needed the money.
There is a lot of foundational stuff in terms of morality, law, and ethics that this plays around with. The consequences of screwing around with this stuff (rights theory) without thinking it through are horrible, for two nasty examples see international socialism (Communists) and national socialism (Nazis). The combined body count was about 150 million.
The conservatives are concentrating on fixing things for the kids while the liberals are concentrating on fixing the system.
If you fix the system, it can take years for the improvements to filter down to the kids. If you pull the kids out of dangerous, broken schools and put them into better ones, the kids start getting a better education immediately.
Think of the children, not the bureaucrats.
I wouldn't even buy that. The K-12 teachers pretty much slurp down any of the pap handed down by the education colleges and the leftist think tanks but they become 'conservative' only when innovations from the right come out (phonics, english immersion).
It's a crock to say that they are conservative when their acceptance of change is so one sided.
DB
Oh please, the left doesn't just want socialism, the right doesn't just want a free market. If life were only about economics then your comment might just make sense. The left wants that mush-headed self-esteem programming in between handing out condoms and allowing 15 year olds to get abortions without parental consent. Like it or not, you have to defend that crap or the orthodox PC types are going to kick your butt all over the place.
For myself, I'm a libertarian, but that's just me.
Take a look at Rational Unified Process (RUP). If there were an OSS equivalent, much of those problems might be mitigated.
Hmmm....
If it was a boy than he would have been condemned as a nascant racist contributor to the patriarchal society that Barbie is all tangled up in with her unrealistic body image.
Boys don't get it any easier.
DB
Do you imagine that someone has gotten around to teaching her sampling and what numbers constitute statistically significant sampling?
Lesson learned, if it is politically sensitive, you will get suppressed, science be damned. You would have loved Lysenko.
DB
The words you are looking for are orthodox and doctrinaire, repressive also comes in handy but conservative spawns a misunderstanding of what is going on.
Teachers in US public schools teach a mixed up grab bag of leftist claptrap that has demonstrably failed to educate children but if you want to change to proven techniques (phonics instead of look-say, english immersion instead of bilingualism) you are labelled a philistine, a barbarian at the gate.
The conservatives in the US are horrified at the k-12 educational system.
DB
My understanding is that the school undercut the parents. The parents knew about the project, approved, and thought it was wonderful that their child was showing true scientific ability. The school scuttled that and punished the child. This is *BAD* in any sane traditionalist framework.
I should know, my own parents were set up and undercut by my own school many times as I was growing up because they wanted to hold me to higher standards and the teachers belittled that. It took quite awhile to work that out and for me to get my head straight.
DB
Where have you been? Don't you remember the asian economic crisis? ROK got hit just as hard as anybody else and a lot of people are still hurting economically. The asian system of 'guided capitalism' has been exposed as a fraud and a phony and Korea, along with the rest of Asia that followed it is painfully clearing itself from the wreckage. I would expect that bargain hunting behaviors are up all over Asia, simply because that's what happens when anybody's economy takes a huge whack like that.
You sir, are a race baiter.
DB
Oh God, not more regulation. Let's face it, IP is not a natural monopoly. You can get it through many existing media (telco lines, CATV, satellite, radio, etc) and the only thing stopping more competitors from stepping in is the existing legal monopolies granted to the present day utilities.
DB
Gee, my Palm Pilot Professional has its entire OS in 40k. What kind of OS load is Linux going to put on a PDA?
DB
Shipping March 24th, Unix with a friendly GUI.
BTW: in the article thread (on advogado), there was concern about making command line programs scriptable. In Mac OS X the terminal.app is scriptable which should solve most of the problem.
DB
No, actually, you overfly and drop millions of them all over the city. They're cheap, simple, and everywhere. The enemy can't take the time to wipe all of them out because it takes too long to find them (they would hide themselves like bugs too)and the enemy's troop positions are being tracked often enough by surviving bugs that your chances of being surprised drop to very low.
DB
Though if you used the ambient radio waves to charge a battery, you could probably use the free power to work at least one hour in 24. For some things (such as crawling back and forth in a pipe to check for flaws) that might be enough.
DB
So, if he was so right, how do you make a buck off it? If it's profitable, you *will* find a market.
The problem with suppressing technology is when it gets too fun for the technologists. Then they keep at it just to piss you off.
DB
I think that caveat emptor doesn't hold as a legal doctrine when you are legally licensed by the state and are subject to competency testing.
Then again, could you sue for a bad styling (stylists are also state licensed)? I don't think so so maybe not even then.
DB
Hmmm... Bitter at not being hired by a consulting company?
Staff is of variable quality. Very often it is wise to have an outside opinion, like when I did a quick security check for a client and found that a network admin had made his home network a trusted IP range so he could get in.
The problem was that this particular admin hadn't worked for the company for two years and the replacement hadn't figured out he should remove that rule from his firewall.
Duh!
DB
I could have understood where you are coming from more if I wasn't told, then independently observed that the more money you charged for your solution the more likely it was that your advice was listened to and you are hired back later.
I give good value for what I am charging when I work as a consultant. My value often does not relate to my bill rate. When I spent 2 days demonstrating that 5k spent on SMS is better than 100k spent on unicenter modules for the application they were looking to do (Unix, of any stripe, was pre-emptively vetoed by the customer) I pretty much paid for my 6 month stint at a recent client. I ended up getting the job done, the client was happy, they got their upgrades working fine and life went on. Did I do other work besides those two days? Sure, I had to implement the solution I worked up. But my high value work was those two days and I didn't feel guilty at all for learning SMS on the job when I told them, truthfully, that they should get an SMS implementer, that I didn't know how to do it.
They wanted me and they were ok with me learning on the job at my normal fees. Now this is the weirdest client I've ever had in terms of corporate culture, but did I do anything wrong?
I don't think so.
DB
Actually, it's immoral to endanger lives by putting governors on. As several others have commented, people can use the accelerator as well as the brakes to avoid accidents. To take away a safety tool just because it can be misused is immoral.
DB
If your computer can receive the signal and it is under your control, you can hack it so that you can transmit a car stop signal at any time. Great for crooks in a hacked car, they speed through intersections making everybody going the other direction stop (regardless of light) and as they pass, people lurch into the intersection, interferiong with police operations.
Oh goood.
DB
Easily done. Put a differential gps transmitter at stop lights and toll booths. Congrats, you have a known position to start your dead reckoning at and any computer hooked up to a gps system can easily also be hooked up to the speedometer which would correct for accelaration and braking. Since you are going to get multiple readings (each time you pay a toll or get stopped at a red light), you can correct for accumulating error. As for winding streets, perhaps some old european cities might be helped out by that but most modern cities are grid based.
Good try though, keep trying
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