A greater market share means: More companies & people will look at Linux for: Writing software Creating hardware/drivers Writing software Using Linux Writing software : )
So... market share matters to me, because then, I will have more hardware and software compatible with my favorite OS!
I sure would like to create my own space colony with my trusted friends, and get away from all of liers, killers, mass murderers, stealers... Just me and fellow Truth seekers.
Hmmm... people that do that stuff are ruining their own lives, dont they?
Why do that do it?
Well anyways, I would rather not be on earth when Bush III decides its profitable and advantageous to blow up the left side of the US.
Now I am going off topic. Why do we still help our leaders after they lie to us?
I knew a guy who shot cds with a dremel tool... http://www.powerlabs.org/cdexplode.htm
All he did was speed the cd up, then let it fall off the tool onto the floor. The friction between the spinning cd and the floor caused the cd to accelerate to a high velocity. When it hit a wall it shattered into pieces.
Idea 1: Simple: a) Speed CD up with dremel tool b) Drop CD on its side onto a flat smooth surface (parallel to ground like floor), as Sam Burros did. c) Make sure the CD is going to go away from you!
Idea 2: Harder: a) Speed cd up with Dremel tool. b) Drop CD onto specially crafted rails +wall: c) The wall is on a side, which serves the same purpose as the smooth flat surface in Idea 1. d) The rail(s) beside the wall are VERY slightly grippy e) The rail(s) further from wall are as smooth as possible f) Make sure you spin the CD in the correct direction! (Don't have it grip on the wall and shoot backwords!)
SCO is a model for everything that is wrong in the legal system of the US. It is fortunate that they are here, to point out problems, which may or may not need to be fixed.
Where does freedom to take people to court end and where does throwing out stupid cases begin?
I ask, "Hey God, would you come hang out with me?"
This is not really a test, but a request to be with his greatness. I would like to know what he thinks, from my own senses (like my ears). I would like to ask him some questions, and answer any questions he might have (seems unlikely). It would be nice just have some sort of conversation with him, where he actually says something back.
Yet he does nothing. He loves me (as some say), but he does not take a moment of his infinate amount of time to even say "hi" to me. Isn't there something wrong with this? Is there something that I am missing?
This is not quite a test. Wouldn't it be in God's interest to fulfill my request? Especially since he loves me and wants me to love him too?
Indeed, why not put God to the test? Your passage the context does not say why, instead it just gives some examples of one character not proving himself as God.
Why does God have a problem with tests? As if tests are a bad thing? Passing tests shows evidence for one's credability, while failing them does not.
Why would God be against being tested?
If he wanted people to "believe" in him, why would he be against showing himself?
Beware: rant destroying Christianity:
Why is "believing" necessary anyways? I do not require you to be certain that I exist in order for you to be friends with me. Why would God require this? (It would be silly if he did, especially since we cant be certain of his Truth, and faith is self deceiving [See THE BOX])
And there is that problem of God hating sin, and if a sinner is in his presence, the sinner dies.
If you were to do something awful to me in my opinion, then you asked me to forgive you, I would forgive, independent of weather you are certain of my existence.
Lets say we asked for forgiveness for our sins, and then God would accept if we were genuine (and he would know our genuine-ness since he knows everything). Then we would be forgiven. Then we wouldn't have to worry about blowing up (or whatever happens when sinners are in the presence of God).
Then we could hang out with God!
Except, for some reason... God wont hang out with me : (
=====THE BOX=====
You think you can be certain?
Imagine a box, you cant sense anything inside it, and you have no way of learning any information about what is inside the box. Can you know the Truth of what is in the box?
Imagine a box, and you can sense whats in the box, and you are given a whole bunch of information about what is in the box. Also, you know that you cannot trust your senses, and you cannot trust any information given. Can you know the Truth of what is in the box?
Imagine a box, and you can sense whats in the box, and you are given a whole bunch of information about what is in the box. Also, you are uncertain of weather you can trust your senses and the information. Can you know the Truth of what is in the box?
=====THE BOX=====
The box is your experience of life (or whatever experiences you may have), and indeed presently, we cannot know the Truth of our experience.
Certainty is knowing what is inside the box, and there is no possibility of being wrong.
Maybe one day, after we learn a whole bunch of stuff about what is in the box, and what we are, and learn about the box, we can figure out if we can trust our senses and information. Then we might be able to be certain.
Faith is deceiving to yourself that you are certain of what is in the box, even though you know that it is possible that you could be wrong.
God did not give us the ability to be certain. He did give us the ability to have Faith. But why would God want us to have Faith? Faith deceives us from the truth of our current situation in our box/existence. Why would God want us to be deceived? Faith seems silly to me.
-Numinous
"After all if I was sick with cancer and knew that I could become well by getting a bunch of my friends to pray for me, I would do that and not go to a doctor."
So... if God healed people, then it would make doctors unnecessary, and we would not have to suffer from evil things in nature? Sounds wonderful!
Seat belts do save lives, and there is a strong correlation between wearing seat belts and surviving car crashes.
There is not a correlation between heart surgery success rate and prayer, when the circumstances are extra people praying for randomly chosen patients.
Your parable may mislead people into thinking that prayer is as powerful as seat belts. It was not in this case. I would love to see a case in which it is as powerful as seat belts.
Slashdot Mirror
I was just dreaming about this last night.
Can Slashdot read my dreams?
Hmmm... So what, are they doing research to replace machines & humans with monkey workers?
Hmmm... No, I bet they are doing the research to help make humans more productive in the long term. Monkeys are just slightly more ethical to work on.
A greater market share means:
More companies & people will look at Linux for:
Writing software
Creating hardware/drivers
Writing software
Using Linux
Writing software : )
So... market share matters to me, because then, I will have more hardware and software compatible with my favorite OS!
What are you suggesting? That someone sends the guy a similar UPS package?
There must be a nicer way to prevent him from scamming people and stealing money than this. No?
Why are keyborads
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0
instead of
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
?
Ok, this is a crazy idea, so you might want to make fun of me.
1. Push a really long cylindar (full of air, or much lighter than water) strait down into the ocean.
2. Put something on top, to go to space.
3. Let the cylindar go.
I sure would like to create my own space colony with my trusted friends, and get away from all of liers, killers, mass murderers, stealers... Just me and fellow Truth seekers. Hmmm... people that do that stuff are ruining their own lives, dont they? Why do that do it? Well anyways, I would rather not be on earth when Bush III decides its profitable and advantageous to blow up the left side of the US. Now I am going off topic. Why do we still help our leaders after they lie to us?
I knew a guy who shot cds with a dremel tool... http://www.powerlabs.org/cdexplode.htm
All he did was speed the cd up, then let it fall off the tool onto the floor. The friction between the spinning cd and the floor caused the cd to accelerate to a high velocity. When it hit a wall it shattered into pieces.
Idea 1:
Simple:
a) Speed CD up with dremel tool
b) Drop CD on its side onto a flat smooth surface (parallel to ground like floor), as Sam Burros did.
c) Make sure the CD is going to go away from you!
Idea 2:
Harder:
a) Speed cd up with Dremel tool.
b) Drop CD onto specially crafted rails +wall:
c) The wall is on a side, which serves the same purpose as the smooth flat surface in Idea 1.
d) The rail(s) beside the wall are VERY slightly grippy
e) The rail(s) further from wall are as smooth as possible
f) Make sure you spin the CD in the correct direction! (Don't have it grip on the wall and shoot backwords!)
Please tell me how it works out! : )
SCO is a model for everything that is wrong in the legal system of the US. It is fortunate that they are here, to point out problems, which may or may not need to be fixed. Where does freedom to take people to court end and where does throwing out stupid cases begin?
This is not really a test, but a request to be with his greatness. I would like to know what he thinks, from my own senses (like my ears). I would like to ask him some questions, and answer any questions he might have (seems unlikely). It would be nice just have some sort of conversation with him, where he actually says something back.
Yet he does nothing. He loves me (as some say), but he does not take a moment of his infinate amount of time to even say "hi" to me. Isn't there something wrong with this? Is there something that I am missing?
This is not quite a test. Wouldn't it be in God's interest to fulfill my request? Especially since he loves me and wants me to love him too?
-Numinous
Why does God have a problem with tests? As if tests are a bad thing? Passing tests shows evidence for one's credability, while failing them does not.
woops, should have hit preview! -Num
Why would God be against being tested? If he wanted people to "believe" in him, why would he be against showing himself? Beware: rant destroying Christianity: Why is "believing" necessary anyways? I do not require you to be certain that I exist in order for you to be friends with me. Why would God require this? (It would be silly if he did, especially since we cant be certain of his Truth, and faith is self deceiving [See THE BOX]) And there is that problem of God hating sin, and if a sinner is in his presence, the sinner dies. If you were to do something awful to me in my opinion, then you asked me to forgive you, I would forgive, independent of weather you are certain of my existence. Lets say we asked for forgiveness for our sins, and then God would accept if we were genuine (and he would know our genuine-ness since he knows everything). Then we would be forgiven. Then we wouldn't have to worry about blowing up (or whatever happens when sinners are in the presence of God). Then we could hang out with God! Except, for some reason... God wont hang out with me : ( =====THE BOX===== You think you can be certain? Imagine a box, you cant sense anything inside it, and you have no way of learning any information about what is inside the box. Can you know the Truth of what is in the box? Imagine a box, and you can sense whats in the box, and you are given a whole bunch of information about what is in the box. Also, you know that you cannot trust your senses, and you cannot trust any information given. Can you know the Truth of what is in the box? Imagine a box, and you can sense whats in the box, and you are given a whole bunch of information about what is in the box. Also, you are uncertain of weather you can trust your senses and the information. Can you know the Truth of what is in the box? =====THE BOX===== The box is your experience of life (or whatever experiences you may have), and indeed presently, we cannot know the Truth of our experience. Certainty is knowing what is inside the box, and there is no possibility of being wrong. Maybe one day, after we learn a whole bunch of stuff about what is in the box, and what we are, and learn about the box, we can figure out if we can trust our senses and information. Then we might be able to be certain. Faith is deceiving to yourself that you are certain of what is in the box, even though you know that it is possible that you could be wrong. God did not give us the ability to be certain. He did give us the ability to have Faith. But why would God want us to have Faith? Faith deceives us from the truth of our current situation in our box/existence. Why would God want us to be deceived? Faith seems silly to me. -Numinous
"After all if I was sick with cancer and knew that I could become well by getting a bunch of my friends to pray for me, I would do that and not go to a doctor."
So... if God healed people, then it would make doctors unnecessary, and we would not have to suffer from evil things in nature? Sounds wonderful!
-Numinous
Seat belts do save lives, and there is a strong correlation between wearing seat belts and surviving car crashes.
There is not a correlation between heart surgery success rate and prayer, when the circumstances are extra people praying for randomly chosen patients.
Your parable may mislead people into thinking that prayer is as powerful as seat belts. It was not in this case. I would love to see a case in which it is as powerful as seat belts.
-Numinous