False. There are no reputable historical sources for his existence. Every so-called account by a reputable source (e.g. a historian of the time and place of his supposed existence) is second-hand and admits as much.
I would certainly disagree wholeheartedly with that statement, but because reputable or not reputable is so subjective, you could claim it on any source, and therefore I won't cite any.
and the original manuscripts were lost in a fire probably set by rioting Christians,
Certainly not all of them. Why do you suggest it was done by rioting Christians when it was never in doubt to have been the Romans?
we can never truly deconstruct the bible to determine its relative veracity. So you're going to have to continue to take the existence of Jeshua on faith, due to a complete absence of evidence.
Ultimately, no evidence is absolute and all knowledge we assume is on faith. With a complete absence of evidence, no-one would believe in Jesus or God. I believe in Jesus not just because the Bible says so, but because I read the Bible and test what it says for validity. I have not found any non-truth so far, and that causes me to believe the rest is likely to be true as well.
We could argue about this until one or the other dies, or Slashdot fails, but I'm not going to.
The first prophecy claimed as true on your link is the coming of Christ. That puts the entire page into the "faith" category rather than the "facts" category, and it was a total toolbag waste of time.
That Jesus Christ existed is a historical fact. You could choose to not believe that Jesus is the son of God, but that doesn't take away that Jesus was here, and was prophesied by the Bible, to come when he did and to do the things that he did.
Nice try at the package-dealing there, but "global warming" is a religion, too.
Considering last year was the warmest year since temperatures have been recorded, I'd say that if "global warming" is a religion, then it has a better record of prophecy than any other major religion on Earth.
Are you not familiar with the prophecies of the Bible? Especially the ones that have come true?
There have been no prophecies in the Bible that have not come true, are unlikely to come true or are impossible to come true any more.
The number of casual gamers has skyrocketed, and most people who aren't tainted by the geekgenes don't care enough to get really into a game: they just want some minor distraction and a quick feeling of accomplishment. Which is what makes WoW thrive, and most casual games are built around the same model of quick successive accomplishments with a perceived level of challenge that really isn't there.
There are 2^4339 available bits in a valid tweet so the first algorithm takes any 2^4339 bit sequence and converts it into a valid tweet, the second converts it back again.
That's one heck of a compression algorithm! You could fit the entire internet in a single tweet! I think you're on to something, where can I invest my money?
What features of USENET make it better for obtaining legitimate binaries compared to FTP or HTTP or Bittorrent?
Speed and availability. You're only dependant on the speed of your usenet provider, which (if you pay for it) is usually very fast. I download far faster from my usenet provider than from any FTP or HTTP I visit, let alone torrents. Plus when something's on usenet, it'll stay there until it reaches your provider's retention. No one can delete it, no moderators, no MAFIAA. Also, torrenting music and videos is illegal where I live, but dowloading them via Usenet is not.
But binary groups? That is like preferring to get binary files as shar [wikipedia.org] email text rather than an attachment. It was a hacked in use and I never saw the appeal apart from piracy.
HTTP uses the same hack, although its encoding isn't as efficient. FTP is better, but you'd have to know where to find what you want and hope there's some kind of search.
News readers are a lot more lightweight than web browsers, can deal with the format intelligently.
Until Outlook came along and people started posting in (broken) HTML.
That's what I'll miss when Cox (my ISP) drops Usenet. How big are browsers now, to make use of the all the funky Ajax features, that basically just simulate what I could do with trn in a terminal window 20 years ago?
But.. you won't have smileys and avatars and pretty ads!
And of course they have the luxury of just working 50 hours - it's in the part of the article I quoted ("I know I can choose not to work overtime, but if I don't work overtime then I am stuck with only 770 Chinese yuan (£72.77p) per month in basic wages,' the worker said"). So they aren't "forced" to work more than 50 hours,
You only quoted half her reply. In the next sentence, she added:
'This is not nearly enough to support a family. My parents are farmers without jobs. They also do not have pensions.
Which, in my opinion, would take that choice away again.
Those without families could probably afford not to work there and quit, but those with families to support and no other means of income have no choice but to work in those conditions.
If they are working 15 hours a day, 6 days a week at £0.34 that's £132.60 per month. That puts them at a comparable income to an accountant, which is insane amounts of money for working the line at a factory.
It's not at all insane for the hours they make, and most of them barely support a full family with this money. They don't have the luxury to choose to work for just 50 hours. They don't even have the luxury to go home at night to see their children. They have to sleep in wooden crates on the company's floor, unless they can afford to buy a mattress to use in its stead.
On top of that, the Chinese economy is growing fast, and cost of living is going up rapidly, but salaries are not.
But they don't have a choice. It's either working under these hard conditions and feeding their families, or see their children starve. I agree with granddad poster that the level of apathy in the replies is frightening. The reports from this article of the Daily Mail are no different than most other reports of worker's conditions in China. The conditions are, if anything, harsher than you would imagine from reading such articles.
Dear User,
We at Microsoft strongly believe in listening to the community and have taken your issue to heart. 50% is indeed way too much CPU for any browser to use, and we are of the opinion that it should never go above 25%
Therefore, we would like to propose a deal. If you upgrade your intel core2duo to a quadcore, we promise to reduce the CPU usage of the browser by at least 50%.
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Insurgents in Iraq often arrived in vans to collect wounded
Is that not allowed? Doesn't the Geneva convention specifically allow forces to pick up their wounded?
But if nothing wrong was done, why go through so much trouble to classify and hide this video, and harass WikiLeaks employees?
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Can we keep to the car analogies, please?
Thank you.
Really... jeeze... What ever happened to common sense.
It got overridden by greed and narcissism.
False. There are no reputable historical sources for his existence. Every so-called account by a reputable source (e.g. a historian of the time and place of his supposed existence) is second-hand and admits as much.
I would certainly disagree wholeheartedly with that statement, but because reputable or not reputable is so subjective, you could claim it on any source, and therefore I won't cite any.
and the original manuscripts were lost in a fire probably set by rioting Christians,
Certainly not all of them. Why do you suggest it was done by rioting Christians when it was never in doubt to have been the Romans?
we can never truly deconstruct the bible to determine its relative veracity. So you're going to have to continue to take the existence of Jeshua on faith, due to a complete absence of evidence.
Ultimately, no evidence is absolute and all knowledge we assume is on faith. With a complete absence of evidence, no-one would believe in Jesus or God. I believe in Jesus not just because the Bible says so, but because I read the Bible and test what it says for validity. I have not found any non-truth so far, and that causes me to believe the rest is likely to be true as well.
We could argue about this until one or the other dies, or Slashdot fails, but I'm not going to.
I can understand and respect that.
The first prophecy claimed as true on your link is the coming of Christ. That puts the entire page into the "faith" category rather than the "facts" category, and it was a total toolbag waste of time.
That Jesus Christ existed is a historical fact. You could choose to not believe that Jesus is the son of God, but that doesn't take away that Jesus was here, and was prophesied by the Bible, to come when he did and to do the things that he did.
Considering last year was the warmest year since temperatures have been recorded, I'd say that if "global warming" is a religion, then it has a better record of prophecy than any other major religion on Earth.
Are you not familiar with the prophecies of the Bible? Especially the ones that have come true?
There have been no prophecies in the Bible that have not come true, are unlikely to come true or are impossible to come true any more.
If you RTFS, the people themselves went out on the streets to protest and to get Facebook banned.
Although I don't think bannage of Facebook is necessarily a bad thing.
It also takes up a minimum of 50 MB of RAM, and up to several gigabytes of RAM for seemingly simple scripts.
Using Chrome 5 development version, the site says it can't find any history on my machine at all (not using incognito).
Firefox, on the other hand, has a potty mouth.
The number of casual gamers has skyrocketed, and most people who aren't tainted by the geekgenes don't care enough to get really into a game: they just want some minor distraction and a quick feeling of accomplishment. Which is what makes WoW thrive, and most casual games are built around the same model of quick successive accomplishments with a perceived level of challenge that really isn't there.
There are 2^4339 available bits in a valid tweet so the first algorithm takes any 2^4339 bit sequence and converts it into a valid tweet, the second converts it back again.
That's one heck of a compression algorithm! You could fit the entire internet in a single tweet! I think you're on to something, where can I invest my money?
Blockbusters had it in their EULA too, and it was deemed not legally binding
I never said she was forced, only that she was unlikely to have a choice. I can't find any indication in that sentence that she is saving money.
What features of USENET make it better for obtaining legitimate binaries compared to FTP or HTTP or Bittorrent?
Speed and availability. You're only dependant on the speed of your usenet provider, which (if you pay for it) is usually very fast. I download far faster from my usenet provider than from any FTP or HTTP I visit, let alone torrents. Plus when something's on usenet, it'll stay there until it reaches your provider's retention. No one can delete it, no moderators, no MAFIAA. Also, torrenting music and videos is illegal where I live, but dowloading them via Usenet is not.
But binary groups? That is like preferring to get binary files as shar [wikipedia.org] email text rather than an attachment. It was a hacked in use and I never saw the appeal apart from piracy.
HTTP uses the same hack, although its encoding isn't as efficient. FTP is better, but you'd have to know where to find what you want and hope there's some kind of search.
Finding information on GG is much easier than normal Usenet access, but I found posting was far more a pain up the royal.
News readers are a lot more lightweight than web browsers, can deal with the format intelligently.
Until Outlook came along and people started posting in (broken) HTML.
That's what I'll miss when Cox (my ISP) drops Usenet. How big are browsers now, to make use of the all the funky Ajax features, that basically just simulate what I could do with trn in a terminal window 20 years ago?
But.. you won't have smileys and avatars and pretty ads!
And of course they have the luxury of just working 50 hours - it's in the part of the article I quoted ("I know I can choose not to work overtime, but if I don't work overtime then I am stuck with only 770 Chinese yuan (£72.77p) per month in basic wages,' the worker said"). So they aren't "forced" to work more than 50 hours,
You only quoted half her reply. In the next sentence, she added:
'This is not nearly enough to support a family. My parents are farmers without jobs. They also do not have pensions.
Which, in my opinion, would take that choice away again.
Those without families could probably afford not to work there and quit, but those with families to support and no other means of income have no choice but to work in those conditions.
If they are working 15 hours a day, 6 days a week at £0.34 that's £132.60 per month. That puts them at a comparable income to an accountant, which is insane amounts of money for working the line at a factory.
It's not at all insane for the hours they make, and most of them barely support a full family with this money. They don't have the luxury to choose to work for just 50 hours. They don't even have the luxury to go home at night to see their children. They have to sleep in wooden crates on the company's floor, unless they can afford to buy a mattress to use in its stead.
On top of that, the Chinese economy is growing fast, and cost of living is going up rapidly, but salaries are not.
even though the workers *choose* to work there
But they don't have a choice. It's either working under these hard conditions and feeding their families, or see their children starve. I agree with granddad poster that the level of apathy in the replies is frightening. The reports from this article of the Daily Mail are no different than most other reports of worker's conditions in China. The conditions are, if anything, harsher than you would imagine from reading such articles.
a book, a movie, a recorded tune: impossible to control in the internet age>
Unfortunately, that won't stop companies from trying their utmost and give it all they have to try anyway.
Thanks, that was pretty interesting. Imaginary mod points coming your way.
But how is minesweeper NP? It is pretty easy to write a script that plays it to best of any man's ability.
Dear User, We at Microsoft strongly believe in listening to the community and have taken your issue to heart. 50% is indeed way too much CPU for any browser to use, and we are of the opinion that it should never go above 25% Therefore, we would like to propose a deal. If you upgrade your intel core2duo to a quadcore, we promise to reduce the CPU usage of the browser by at least 50%. Best regards, Microsoft
The strict militarism, the demands for obedience, and extreme nationalism philosophically cannot allow for legal malleability, even at the top.
Do you have anything to back that up with, because I believe that statement is not true in the slightest.
Insurgents in Iraq often arrived in vans to collect wounded
Is that not allowed? Doesn't the Geneva convention specifically allow forces to pick up their wounded? But if nothing wrong was done, why go through so much trouble to classify and hide this video, and harass WikiLeaks employees?