Here is what the Bible says will happen to all liars!
Revelation 21:8 But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
A simple way to do this would be to have an extra contact on one or two keys. In order to change anything on the chip, a user would be required to hold down that key or keys. Any time a user has to participate by holding down a key, this sort of thing is thwarted. Alternatively, Apple could modify the software update program so that any time a keyboard reprogramming must be done, certain key codes must be entered or certain combinations of keys pressed.
...if i double something from 1 to 2 and the other option is 10000...
Something that is more secure is not necessarily safer. $1 million in a safe in a bad section of town may be more secure but less safe than that same million dollars in a cardboard box in a remote mountain cabin. It does not really matter why Macs are safer, but the simple fact is that currently they are. It does not really matter that my house does not get burglarized for whatever reason, but the simple fact is that it does not get burglarized. There is a difference between safety and security. Something may be totally safe and yet completely insecure.
...this year's winner rated the difficulty of compromising...
That is true, but you forgot to mention that he also said that he deems his Mac to be safer because there are very few attacks. For years now, detractors have said that eventually Macs will be compromised as much as PCs as market share increased. Well, the market share of the Mac has doubled in the last few years and yet the number of attacks have not gone up. The biggest reason for that is that attack tools are mostly written for PCs and truly knowledgeable UNIX hackers are in the minority compared to the vast numbers of Windows programmers.
...Unless you run your browser in a jail, of course...
Another way to do this of course is to do all your Web browsing on a different user account than where you important Bank information is located. Apple makes this particularly easy with their fast user switching. Also, Safari allows Flash to be turned off in preferences, but it can be turned on if it is really needed. Most websites, especially the really useful ones, work just fine without Flash.
Yes you do, but apparently they are worth it to millions of happy Mac users. The price you pay for a product is not always related to its value. If you want to get some of your money back that you paid for a Mac, cook some meals at home instead of going to a restaurant and take the money you save and buy some Apple stock. They are doing better financially than any other company that makes junky, cheap Windows computers.
In the end, you can only believe or disbelieve that the Bible is the truth. The Bible itself tells us that without faith it is impossible to please God, (Hebrews 11:6) We humans say: "I will believe that if you show me", what God says: "If you believed me I will show you."
I have believed in Jesus Christ and he has revealed himself to me to be exactly who said he is, namely the risen and glorified God the Son.
On the authority of the holy Bible! The Bible claims to be God's Word, inspired human writers wrote down what God told him to write.
Even by human standards the Bible is a very unusual book. Actually it is a collection of 66 books penned by 40 different writers over a time span of at least 1500 years. Yet it has a very unified central authorship and message concerning the dealings of God with mankind. Much of it depicts human history written down before it ever took place. Some of this history, written in advance, is taking place right before our very eyes in our time. We can read the content of tomorrow's newspaper headlines in some of the passages of the Bible.
For thousands of years, all human writing had to be laboriously copied by hand. When the art of printing was finally invented by Johannes Gutenberg, guess which human writing was first printed? Guess which human writing is distributed more widely than any other and translated into more languages and dialects than any other? Guess which book its enemies have endeavored to destroy more than any other? There are many religious writings, but none of them come even remotely close to the content and distribution of this remarkable book.
I personally believe that Jesus Christ is who he claimed to be, namely the son of God come in the flesh, in order to rescue human beings and give them life. He proved this by rising from the dead and promises to all who believe in him that they too will rise from the dead.
We don't really know exactly how the brain works except maybe you do? If your computer would say to you how much it loves you, will you believe that? If your wife or girlfriend or boyfriend tells you the same thing is that any different? If you really believe in your heart that your brain is deterministic and their brain is deterministic, you are not human and neither are they, but are no different than your computer.
....IF you could be prosecuted if the stranger makes a crime through your access point...
It seems that a prosecutor would require additional evidence besides the Internet information in order to prosecute a crime, such as child pornography for example. At the very least they would have to examine all known computers connected to this access point or evidence. Therefore, having an open access point is really not all that dangerous if you are truly innocent. Still, having the police come and take all your computers for a period of time, could be disastrous if you use those computers to make a living. Having a secured access point makes it easier on the prosecution because there is no possibility of someone other than you or someone you give permission to download illicit material. In the case of a secure access point the jury may be more likely to believe that you are guilty as charged even if they find no evidence on your computers.
I think it is impossible to incite someone to hatred of anything or anyone if that hatred is not already latent inside such a person. If I have firmly decided to love or at least tolerate rather than to hate, no hateful speech can make me hate the object of love or tolerance.
Unless you are over 80 or are planning to jump off a bridge, I would not be so sure of this. The way things are going, this may well be a requirement in the next 10 or 20 years. According to the Bible, at some future time, everybody would be required to have some sort of identifier, without which they may not buy or sell. I am with you in hoping that this time will not come in our lifetime, but I am not optimistic.
... who pays to clean up the pollution caused by the...
toxic mercury and fluorescent chemicals in CFs? There is no way to easily eliminate those, but alternative clean energy sources can be and are presently available.
...mandating what kinds of light bulbs we can buy...
So with that mandate you profit by buying lots of light bulbs right now and then sell them for outrageous prices in the invariable black-market that develops whenever an artificial shortages are created by the government. Then we will not only have illegal substances such as marijuana but also have a illegal light bulbs. In addition to searching for illegal drugs, US customs will also have to inspect traveler's luggage for illegal light bulbs. In addition to these drug smugglers, now US prisons would be filled with illegal lightbulb smugglers.
....The Judeo/Christian god and the bible are known with 100% certainty to be nonsense...
That is why there are millions of Christians some of whom are every bit as educated and smart as you are and why the Bible has been translated into more languages and is more widely distributed than any other book. The reason you got so angry and resort to name calling, is because deep down in your heart you know the Word of God is true and you will some day be judged by God. Jesus Christ claimed to be God, which is something that the people of his day understood and accused him to be a blasphemer. However, He proved his claim by rising from the dead. He talked of Adam and Noah and other parts of the Old Testament which you claim are fiction, but he was there, being God, but you were not there. Since Jesus was God in human form he has affected life on this planet more than any other human being because he was also God. We still mark our calendar by his appearance.
Anyone who has to resort to name-calling and insults has automatically admitted that they are really are completely unsure of themselves and their arguments. You are just totally and utterly wrong.
I believe in the Bible in the sense of a belief in the God of the Bible and that the Bible is his message to mankind. When you compose a letter on your word processor it might be said to be the writer of the material, but you are the author. In the same way, the human writers were merely a word processors, but God is the author. The remarkable nature of the Bible itself testifies that it is a very unusual book, in fact the most unusual book ever written.
For thousands of years, all human writing had to be laboriously copied by hand. When the art of printing was finally invented by Johannes Gutenberg, guess which human writing was first printed? Guess which human writing is distributed more widely than any other and translated into more languages and dialects than any other? Guess which book its enemies have endeavored to destroy more than any other? There are many religious writings, but none of them come even remotely close to the content and distribution of this remarkable book. A modern book may get translated into a few of the most popular languages, but the Bible has been translated into thousands of languages, even very obscure ones.
I am not trying to make religious propaganda, but simply pointing out that even science hints at a realm beyond time and space. Partially, that is what this thread is all about, determining the origin of the universe. This remarkable book is not a science textbook, but whenever it touches on the real world it has never been proven wrong. In the very first sentence of this book, we are essentially told what Einstein discovered thousands of years after it was written. No actual statement of fact, but sometimes its interpretation, has ever been proven to be erroneous by either science or history.
All of the so-called supposed scientific myths you talk about involve INTERPRETATION of the scientific facts. The existence of fossils is always given as evidence for evolution, but nobody has yet made a fossil. If you wish to turn the body of a living creature into a fossil today, you need to figure out how to prevent decay. The biblical record tells us that the fountains of the great deep broke open. This water, which initially would have been boiling hot, came to the surface. We still use boiling water today to kill microorganisms and thus prevent decay. There is seismic evidence even today that the amount of water stored in the mantle of the earth is several times as much as in all oceans.
(...Because there existed Christians for a long time before there even was a Bible....)
If you really knew Christian history and had read the New Testament you would know that the Bible of Christians was the Old Testament is given to the Jews.
...Now find how one can try to test this hogwash...
You can't, you can either believe or disbelieve it. The same is true of God and what is written in the Bible. I choose to believe what is written about God in the Bible, rather than some conjecture about multiple universes. It is is written in the Bible that it is impossible to please God without faith.
...Why do you assume I'll care about what the Christian Bible says...
If the Christian Bible is true, and there is every indication that it is, you will stand before God at the judgment and then you will care. The Bible is the Word of God and is like an anvil, upon which the atheistic hammers are worn out.
So where along the infinite progression of universes do we come in? Somewhere in there has to be a beginning, the first universe, even if we truly are one of many. Other than being distasteful to the rebellious human spirit which wants to be responsible to no one, what is the big deal of postulating an eternal being, God? The reason I said distasteful, is because as soon as we admit such a God, we feel we may be responsible to him and somehow innately feel that we don't measure up to God's standards.
The Bible says that it is appointed unto men to die once and after that comes judgment. (Hebrews 9:27) It is not possible to dispute the fact of death, but many people do dispute the second part of this sentence. It is the secret fear of the outcome of this judgment that causes humans with feigned certainty to deny the existence of God.
....There's a theory that we are not the only universe, that big bangs happen all the time....
Too bad that is not a theory but a conjecture, because it is not falsifiable and does not give any predictions of anything. No predictions based on this so-called theory can be made.
If you believe in the law of cause and effect, then the so-called Big Bang has to have a cause. If time began with the Big Bang, then it's cause has to be eternal, beyond time, before time, God. The Bible tells us that God is eternal, he just is, the great I am.
Bible says that God is eternal that is he has always existed and he created the universe. He may well have started it off with a bang. God is eternal and is not subject to time, space, gravity or any other quantifiable thing in this universe. This cannot be tested but can only be believed or disbelieved.
So who created the Big Bang? The Bible says God created the Universe and that God has always existed. The Bible says that God created the universe out of nothing and scientists say that the Big Bang came from a singularity. Where does the singularity come from?
There are many basic assumptions in life and yes, my assumption, my belief is that there is a God and that every person is ultimately responsible to him.
(...that you are entitled...)
Because I BEIEVE that there is a God, I also believe he apportions our very lives out to us according to his will by grace. Nobody on this entire planet is entitled to anything, including life itself. It is all a gift of grace. I also believe that this life does not end at the grave, but that we are here on this planet for an education. Over and over, Christians are admonished to learn and practice the discipline of love. I believe that I am an eternal spirit being made in the image of God, destined to be with God forever, but am now, for a short time, living in this mortal body.
You may believe whatever you want to believe and live accordingly, but in the end each person will reap what they have sown. Because we have all broken God's law multiple times, we deserve death, but God offers us grace instead, if we believe. You may accept that gift by faith or you may reject it by unbelief.
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...almost everyone lies. ...
Here is what the Bible says will happen to all liars!
Revelation 21:8 But for the fearful, and unbelieving, and abominable, and murderers, and fornicators, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, their part shall be in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone; which is the second death.
....You wouldn't have to do a DIP switch,....
A simple way to do this would be to have an extra contact on one or two keys. In order to change anything on the chip, a user would be required to hold down that key or keys. Any time a user has to participate by holding down a key, this sort of thing is thwarted. Alternatively, Apple could modify the software update program so that any time a keyboard reprogramming must be done, certain key codes must be entered or certain combinations of keys pressed.
...when Quetzalcoatl/Jesus/Osiris/Thoth/Viracocha get back here...
Except that Jesus Christ is the only one in your list who is going to come back because he is not dead, but was resurrected.
...if i double something from 1 to 2 and the other option is 10000...
Something that is more secure is not necessarily safer. $1 million in a safe in a bad section of town may be more secure but less safe than that same million dollars in a cardboard box in a remote mountain cabin. It does not really matter why Macs are safer, but the simple fact is that currently they are. It does not really matter that my house does not get burglarized for whatever reason, but the simple fact is that it does not get burglarized. There is a difference between safety and security. Something may be totally safe and yet completely insecure.
...this year's winner rated the difficulty of compromising ...
That is true, but you forgot to mention that he also said that he deems his Mac to be safer because there are very few attacks. For years now, detractors have said that eventually Macs will be compromised as much as PCs as market share increased. Well, the market share of the Mac has doubled in the last few years and yet the number of attacks have not gone up. The biggest reason for that is that attack tools are mostly written for PCs and truly knowledgeable UNIX hackers are in the minority compared to the vast numbers of Windows programmers.
...Unless you run your browser in a jail, of course...
Another way to do this of course is to do all your Web browsing on a different user account than where you important Bank information is located. Apple makes this particularly easy with their fast user switching. Also, Safari allows Flash to be turned off in preferences, but it can be turned on if it is really needed. Most websites, especially the really useful ones, work just fine without Flash.
...Macs cost more than Windows PCs....
Yes you do, but apparently they are worth it to millions of happy Mac users. The price you pay for a product is not always related to its value. If you want to get some of your money back that you paid for a Mac, cook some meals at home instead of going to a restaurant and take the money you save and buy some Apple stock. They are doing better financially than any other company that makes junky, cheap Windows computers.
....How can I verify this?...
In the end, you can only believe or disbelieve that the Bible is the truth. The Bible itself tells us that without faith it is impossible to please God, (Hebrews 11:6) We humans say: "I will believe that if you show me", what God says: "If you believed me I will show you."
I have believed in Jesus Christ and he has revealed himself to me to be exactly who said he is, namely the risen and glorified God the Son.
...What authority would that be?.....
On the authority of the holy Bible! The Bible claims to be God's Word, inspired human writers wrote down what God told him to write.
Even by human standards the Bible is a very unusual book. Actually it is a collection of 66 books penned by 40 different writers over a time span of at least 1500 years. Yet it has a very unified central authorship and message concerning the dealings of God with mankind. Much of it depicts human history written down before it ever took place. Some of this history, written in advance, is taking place right before our very eyes in our time. We can read the content of tomorrow's newspaper headlines in some of the passages of the Bible.
For thousands of years, all human writing had to be laboriously copied by hand. When the art of printing was finally invented by Johannes Gutenberg, guess which human writing was first printed? Guess which human writing is distributed more widely than any other and translated into more languages and dialects than any other? Guess which book its enemies have endeavored to destroy more than any other? There are many religious writings, but none of them come even remotely close to the content and distribution of this remarkable book.
I personally believe that Jesus Christ is who he claimed to be, namely the son of God come in the flesh, in order to rescue human beings and give them life. He proved this by rising from the dead and promises to all who believe in him that they too will rise from the dead.
...A brain is deterministic too....
We don't really know exactly how the brain works except maybe you do? If your computer would say to you how much it loves you, will you believe that? If your wife or girlfriend or boyfriend tells you the same thing is that any different? If you really believe in your heart that your brain is deterministic and their brain is deterministic, you are not human and neither are they, but are no different than your computer.
....IF you could be prosecuted if the stranger makes a crime through your access point...
It seems that a prosecutor would require additional evidence besides the Internet information in order to prosecute a crime, such as child pornography for example. At the very least they would have to examine all known computers connected to this access point or evidence. Therefore, having an open access point is really not all that dangerous if you are truly innocent. Still, having the police come and take all your computers for a period of time, could be disastrous if you use those computers to make a living. Having a secured access point makes it easier on the prosecution because there is no possibility of someone other than you or someone you give permission to download illicit material. In the case of a secure access point the jury may be more likely to believe that you are guilty as charged even if they find no evidence on your computers.
....it's illegal to incite such hatred....
I think it is impossible to incite someone to hatred of anything or anyone if that hatred is not already latent inside such a person. If I have firmly decided to love or at least tolerate rather than to hate, no hateful speech can make me hate the object of love or tolerance.
...I am glad I will be dead by then.....
Unless you are over 80 or are planning to jump off a bridge, I would not be so sure of this. The way things are going, this may well be a requirement in the next 10 or 20 years. According to the Bible, at some future time, everybody would be required to have some sort of identifier, without which they may not buy or sell. I am with you in hoping that this time will not come in our lifetime, but I am not optimistic.
But many people, whenever they see the word "nuclear" they immediately see a mushroom cloud.
... who pays to clean up the pollution caused by the ...
toxic mercury and fluorescent chemicals in CFs? There is no way to easily eliminate those, but alternative clean energy sources can be and are presently available.
...mandating what kinds of light bulbs we can buy ...
So with that mandate you profit by buying lots of light bulbs right now and then sell them for outrageous prices in the invariable black-market that develops whenever an artificial shortages are created by the government. Then we will not only have illegal substances such as marijuana but also have a illegal light bulbs. In addition to searching for illegal drugs, US customs will also have to inspect traveler's luggage for illegal light bulbs. In addition to these drug smugglers, now US prisons would be filled with illegal lightbulb smugglers.
....The Judeo/Christian god and the bible are known with 100% certainty to be nonsense...
That is why there are millions of Christians some of whom are every bit as educated and smart as you are and why the Bible has been translated into more languages and is more widely distributed than any other book. The reason you got so angry and resort to name calling, is because deep down in your heart you know the Word of God is true and you will some day be judged by God. Jesus Christ claimed to be God, which is something that the people of his day understood and accused him to be a blasphemer. However, He proved his claim by rising from the dead. He talked of Adam and Noah and other parts of the Old Testament which you claim are fiction, but he was there, being God, but you were not there. Since Jesus was God in human form he has affected life on this planet more than any other human being because he was also God. We still mark our calendar by his appearance.
Anyone who has to resort to name-calling and insults has automatically admitted that they are really are completely unsure of themselves and their arguments. You are just totally and utterly wrong.
... Belief in the Bible....
I believe in the Bible in the sense of a belief in the God of the Bible and that the Bible is his message to mankind. When you compose a letter on your word processor it might be said to be the writer of the material, but you are the author. In the same way, the human writers were merely a word processors, but God is the author. The remarkable nature of the Bible itself testifies that it is a very unusual book, in fact the most unusual book ever written.
For thousands of years, all human writing had to be laboriously copied by hand. When the art of printing was finally invented by Johannes Gutenberg, guess which human writing was first printed? Guess which human writing is distributed more widely than any other and translated into more languages and dialects than any other? Guess which book its enemies have endeavored to destroy more than any other? There are many religious writings, but none of them come even remotely close to the content and distribution of this remarkable book. A modern book may get translated into a few of the most popular languages, but the Bible has been translated into thousands of languages, even very obscure ones.
I am not trying to make religious propaganda, but simply pointing out that even science hints at a realm beyond time and space. Partially, that is what this thread is all about, determining the origin of the universe. This remarkable book is not a science textbook, but whenever it touches on the real world it has never been proven wrong. In the very first sentence of this book, we are essentially told what Einstein discovered thousands of years after it was written. No actual statement of fact, but sometimes its interpretation, has ever been proven to be erroneous by either science or history.
All of the so-called supposed scientific myths you talk about involve INTERPRETATION of the scientific facts. The existence of fossils is always given as evidence for evolution, but nobody has yet made a fossil. If you wish to turn the body of a living creature into a fossil today, you need to figure out how to prevent decay. The biblical record tells us that the fountains of the great deep broke open. This water, which initially would have been boiling hot, came to the surface. We still use boiling water today to kill microorganisms and thus prevent decay. There is seismic evidence even today that the amount of water stored in the mantle of the earth is several times as much as in all oceans.
(...Because there existed Christians for a long time before there even was a Bible....)
If you really knew Christian history and had read the New Testament you would know that the Bible of Christians was the Old Testament is given to the Jews.
...Now find how one can try to test this hogwash...
You can't, you can either believe or disbelieve it. The same is true of God and what is written in the Bible. I choose to believe what is written about God in the Bible, rather than some conjecture about multiple universes. It is is written in the Bible that it is impossible to please God without faith.
...Why do you assume I'll care about what the Christian Bible says...
If the Christian Bible is true, and there is every indication that it is, you will stand before God at the judgment and then you will care. The Bible is the Word of God and is like an anvil, upon which the atheistic hammers are worn out.
...If there were universes prior to this one....
So where along the infinite progression of universes do we come in? Somewhere in there has to be a beginning, the first universe, even if we truly are one of many. Other than being distasteful to the rebellious human spirit which wants to be responsible to no one, what is the big deal of postulating an eternal being, God? The reason I said distasteful, is because as soon as we admit such a God, we feel we may be responsible to him and somehow innately feel that we don't measure up to God's standards.
The Bible says that it is appointed unto men to die once and after that comes judgment. (Hebrews 9:27) It is not possible to dispute the fact of death, but many people do dispute the second part of this sentence. It is the secret fear of the outcome of this judgment that causes humans with feigned certainty to deny the existence of God.
....There's a theory that we are not the only universe, that big bangs happen all the time....
Too bad that is not a theory but a conjecture, because it is not falsifiable and does not give any predictions of anything. No predictions based on this so-called theory can be made.
If you believe in the law of cause and effect, then the so-called Big Bang has to have a cause. If time began with the Big Bang, then it's cause has to be eternal, beyond time, before time, God. The Bible tells us that God is eternal, he just is, the great I am.
...there is no "before the big bang"?...
Bible says that God is eternal that is he has always existed and he created the universe. He may well have started it off with a bang. God is eternal and is not subject to time, space, gravity or any other quantifiable thing in this universe. This cannot be tested but can only be believed or disbelieved.
...The big bang created...
So who created the Big Bang? The Bible says God created the Universe and that God has always existed. The Bible says that God created the universe out of nothing and scientists say that the Big Bang came from a singularity. Where does the singularity come from?
... assuming there is a God...
There are many basic assumptions in life and yes, my assumption, my belief is that there is a God and that every person is ultimately responsible to him.
(...that you are entitled...)
Because I BEIEVE that there is a God, I also believe he apportions our very lives out to us according to his will by grace. Nobody on this entire planet is entitled to anything, including life itself. It is all a gift of grace. I also believe that this life does not end at the grave, but that we are here on this planet for an education. Over and over, Christians are admonished to learn and practice the discipline of love. I believe that I am an eternal spirit being made in the image of God, destined to be with God forever, but am now, for a short time, living in this mortal body.
You may believe whatever you want to believe and live accordingly, but in the end each person will reap what they have sown. Because we have all broken God's law multiple times, we deserve death, but God offers us grace instead, if we believe. You may accept that gift by faith or you may reject it by unbelief.