I agree. If I am going to miss something from the last product, than I can assume that the new product is missing it?
Makes me think, "I miss my old car, it had power steering." I probably got the new car because something was wrong with the old car. And I would expect the new car to have the good things like, power steering.
I used to have this same issue. In-fact, any of my own computers, this would be the first issue I have if I am going to have a problem. When you power on some mobo's the first thing it does is initialize the video, then it would POST (At least this is how I under stand it.) So the Video card isn't working/making a connection to the Mobo, and next thing you know, the only thing running is some fans.
I'm curious, when you were working on this issue, did you notice how quiet it was? My dad doesn't know about computers very much, but when he watched me working on it, turning it on and off he told me it sounded quieter than usual. I think that was the first time I ran into that issue. So when I noticed that it really was quiet, I started listening for what was turning on, and then listening to a computer that was working, discovered the video card is the first thing, listened to the none working one and sure enough, it was quite because it couldn't get past the video card.
The problem you describe, sounds very similar to the problems I usually have, I would be interested to know if you had this problem again, because I need to know what I keep doing wrong to cause this:(
The Old testament is (As Eddie Izzard calls it) the big beard Testament.
Not all Christian religions are the same, nor do they interpret the Bible the same way. The LDS church believes the Bible is only the word of God, if it is Translated correctly. http://scriptures.lds.org/en/a_of_f/1 (See number 8)
They also believe the Old testament is the Old Law, the Law of Moses. Much of what was practiced before Christ was meant to go away with the coming of Christ, and the Higher Law. http://scriptures.lds.org/en/gs/l/12
The Higher Law, in a Nutshell, is to do unto others as you would have them do unto you, Love one another, and all that passive stuff. Any Christian faith, that condones animal Sacrifice, killing anyone when it's not in defense of yourself, your family, or your country, or any of some of the bizarre things required by the Israelites in the old Testament, is not following Christ's teachings.
Maybe you and I at least can agree on one thing though. You believe ( or don't believe ) how you wish, and I will how I wish. I will not chuck you into a big group, and assume you are like the worst, and I would love to also not be chucked into the big group that claim they are doing the Lords work, when they contradict the Lords teachings
I was taught many things as a child. The importance of my faith was impressed upon me, as was the importance of taking a bath, eating breakfast, looking both ways before crossing the street, not stealing, work hard, get an education, read the scriptures and find out for myself what it is true. I was told that I shouldn't have sex before marriage, but if I am going to, be smart about it. My childhood was not full of indoctrination, rather, it was full of teachings.
My parents taught me what they believed was true, taught me what faith means, and asked me to learn for myself.
Where you "indoctrinated" with anything as a child? Where you "taught" anything as a child? And when is there a line drawn between the two?
Religions do disagree. They can't all be right. If you have faith, then by definition your opinion is untestable (if you could test it it wouldn't be faith, but science). So any claim about which religion is correct is, by definition, bullshit.
So this would be your opinion. This is how you feel about any claim about which religion is correct. So that would mean you're opinion is, by your definition, untestable, meaning it is also bullshit.
Apply this to Gravity, it goes down. But how? It's still just a theory. Sure we can "test" it, but other than showing what we already know (Things fall towards the bigger mass), it proves nothing.
I can test my faith, and my opinion. I have faith I will fall towards earth, and in my opinion, I am correct.
You are absolutely right that truly faithful people don't sweat the details. You would think, if they believed so much that God made this universe, or that an Intelligent being of some kind did it, they would give some credit to that being for making life so complex. Making a set of rules, and laws, that all matter and energy follow, so that life and the universe as we know it could exist. I don't need a citation, I do believe you that a lot of schools in the Bible belt do have Creation Science as a class. But it really doesn't belong in the Science class. (If any class, it should be a philosophy class.) Because faith is supposed to be knowing something is true by the spirit of that something, which can't be proven, and shouldn't be physically proven, or else faith is not needed. Science is physical proof. And any sensible person can appreciate that these are very separate schools of thought. To me, if we evolved from apes, fine, in no way is it up to me to say that God didn't plan it that way. Could we have evolved this way, with out a god? Sure! But that doesn't mean we did. I still have faith in my God, so does my family. But we know that we can't ignore that there are laws to nature that have been proven, and theories with very compelling evidence. And those laws and Theories are SO COOL!
Citation please? I am religious, my God IS a scientist:P. But I agree with the parent of your post, it's incredible. My in-laws (Mostly my Mother-in-law) have a close family friend that is into just about every conspiracy theory in the book. Although recently he is starting to step away from the 9/11 mumbo jumbo, or he just doesn't think he can convince me anymore. I have never heard him speak of the moon landing, but I have heard him talk about some "Leaked" photos of a supposedly scorpion like life-form on mars. -_-
I reinstall my OS about once a year (I was using XP, now using Vista). And occasionally I have to reinstall semi-annually, (Because it's XP, or Vista maybe). There is that occasional wiping of the wrong partition. I swear, my wife gets SOO mad, I nearly get killed.
It's the same as the cool kid in highschool. Popularity also means more people will hate him, or exploit his keyless entry, or the bug in his active x controllers.
I agree that if there is a company that always has faulty products, that people would stop buying products from them. But nobody has stopped using windows (In this case the problem is IE, activex yada yada) because it generally works in most cases, for what people want it for.
I used to do tech support in a call center. The company I worked for made networking hardware, so the internet service that packaged our products the most, hired us to also do tech support for the customers with our products. Literally, my boss, his boss, as far up the chain at this company I could see, were a bunch of geeks ( we used to have prizes for good performances, that included the WoW expansion). What did they all use? What was working for our customers when it came to our products? What did our quality control guys, and the guys who lay out the plans for these products test them on? Windows. Some of our Networking hardware would work on linux, Sometimes we would write drivers for linux, but when I would go and speak to the guys that had to write the software, they hated the linux part. (Of cause the major bullet point here is that not everyone believes Linux to be as practical as you do.)
So it's a double edged sword, if linux becomes popular, that would be cool! But once it becomes popular, any vulnerability, will be exploited.
King James Version of Romans 5:12-13: - 12: Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:
13: (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. - So sure Verse 12 sounds like it was all Adams fault, but reading on, we see that without the law, there is no sin. If there is no knowledge of good and evil, there is no law, and there is no sin. So if it weren't for Adam, we wouldn't have our ability to understand right from wrong, so in that sense, Adam aloud us the ability to choose to sin our not.
Apply this also to football. I got my uniform, and all the gear, but if I am missing my helmet (Brain Damage) or shoulder pads ( Oh I don't know, bad shoulders?) or if I don't have knee pads (Bad legs), then playing the game (Life) can have it's challenges, but my team mates (Other people) can still cover me, or let me use some spare gear, and I will just have to learn how to play the game my way, with my own challenges. Or my team mates could just Not toss me the ball, or put me on the bench. SO in this case, the player (Me) is the soul. When I leave the game I will still be the same guy that was playing football, I just won't be wearing the gear. (Assuming there is a soul.)
That was my point. You get bored with it, there is no more excitement. In the US we have Teenagers in record numbers getting pregnant because we only see so much sex on TV and Movies, Teenagers get curious, curiosity is exciting. I like chocolate cake, but I agree with you on that. I won't stop liking chocolate cake, but I will get bored with it. Sex gets boring with old couples because there is nothing new. Sex is exciting to teenagers, because it can always be new, and they see enough to start guessing what is out of frame.
It is interesting that we are ok with Violence, but fret over sex (At least in the US). To me though, I prefer it that way. My wife and I, we watched Watchmen last night. It is now funny to look back at our reactions, all the gory parts we said "WHOA!" and the sexy parts we'd blush and look at each other (You know what they are doing?!?). I'm ok with sex being Taboo, because I like sex. For example, you're watching some love story, they start getting hot and heavy, you start thinking (they are gonna do it) and then the Camera pans off. Same is is in Mass Effect, and some people think (DANG I wanted to see that). But it's the question that has people interested. If we saw sex, and it was ok, all the time, we wouldn't be so curious about it anymore. Why do you think old married couples don't have sex as often? It's not just because they are busy. It's because they have lost the curiosity.
these are the same sort of people who believe that adam and eve rode dinosaurs to church. ignore them.
This isn't always true. I don't condone killing a human, at any stage of life, I am a theist, but I have many atheist friends who feel the same way. So I am against embryonic stem cell research, and it doesn't have to do anything with my religious beliefs.
NPR did a story in 2007 about some researchers that got stem cells from skin. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16511934 I am all for that!;)
I see your point. It would be perfectly legal and no foul at all to start throwing insults at your opponent, but not accepted in a game of chess. But generally people will keep quiet and just play chess. Now let's apply that to playing cops and robbers. You're the cop, I'm the robber: Oh look I'm robbing a bank, there is a cop, I don't want to go to jail, *BANG BANG* you're dead, I win! Oh wait, you wanted to arrest me, I guess that wasn't fair, I should give you a chance. Better yet, let's play Superman, you can be Lex. Oh you're committing a Crime, I'll just swoop down and take you to the cops, no really, I'm superman, I'm stronger than you so you have to let me carry you over to the cops. This sounds fair to me, and fun.
As I understand it, City of Heroes/Villains, is a Heroes vs. Villains game. So if I were to buy the game now and start playing, and choose to be a Hero, I'm gonna try (Probably fail because I'd be new) to kill every villain I see.
You point makes me think of Checkers, except, instead of playing the normal way, let's see how many of our pieces we can king, without jumping each other.
Just to add, here is what they plead guilty too: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1465.html
Now, if any one could help me out on this, what does the DOJ mean by obscene, lewd, lascivious, or filthy. I could say Playboy was that, but that's just my moral beliefs. Anyone have a DOJ dictionary or some/such?
Obscure may not mean what you think it means.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obscure
2: not readily understood or clearly expressed.
Computers, Science (In general), D&D, all these are not readily understood, unless you are in the proper setting, like a university, or the IT department.
Definition 1;b is funny, when thinking about the stereotypical nerd.
b: shrouded in or hidden by darkness .
Who says God doesn't have a creator? You're arguing against issues that can't be proven, or dis proven. And this is my point.
Science is not a religious thing, and Religion is not a science thing. For me, being a Christian, and also a scientist, I only have to believe that God was the greatest scientist that ever lived, and currently lives. But what difference does that make when it comes to science? Only that I have a reason why everything is here. It doesn't effect the scientific method at all.
I only hope that you don't try to apply any of that religion to either your science or your ethics -- or at least, I hope you're as good at adapting it as you have been with evolution.
Well, here's how I see it. Science is how things work, how the universe works, how biology works. My religious beliefs are why we have a universe, and why we are here. To say that our understanding of science must be wrong because there is a god, is saying that God is unable to do it. Which is saying that God is not Omnipotent. But to believe in a god, you should not doubt his ability to make this universe. So I draw the line, God Lives. Now, lets appreciate this universe he made, by understanding how it works.
I really hate this Creationists bashing science, Scientists bashing Creation. Complete nonsense.
Evolution happens, I have my Dads shaped mouth, and my moms huge teeth. Kinda sucks because my jaw locks up when I'm eating, but these are traits passed on. If it weren't for our brains, I would possibly be one of those poor suckers that doesn't breed, because of traits. (But My MD can make things otherwise, and I'm married => )
But I am also a Christian (LDS), It would be silly of my to assume that the universe was created by an all powerful being, and he wasn't able to set in motion EVOLUTION! For all we know, God told Moses it was 7 days, because Moses just wouldn't understand something like 7 Billion years maybe. Here's what I believe, God Created the universe, god created life, God caused evolution to Just work, so that Humans would eventually evolve. Adam was the first Smart enough primate to understand these things. Whether it was 6000 years, or billions of years since the earth was created, if God is all powerful, he can do it how ever he wants, and will do it the way it best works.
d) What's the point of faith if he just proves to everyone he exists?
God is not something that can be proven. Sure, he may reveal things to you, through prayer. But even that needs to start with faith.
So...COOL, Science is so awesome, thank you God for our awesome brains that we can figure out the secrets of the universe. Thank you God for possibly setting evolution in motion, so that we could evolve into humans, with these brains.
Faith.
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I agree. If I am going to miss something from the last product, than I can assume that the new product is missing it?
Makes me think, "I miss my old car, it had power steering." I probably got the new car because something was wrong with the old car. And I would expect the new car to have the good things like, power steering.
I used to have this same issue. In-fact, any of my own computers, this would be the first issue I have if I am going to have a problem. When you power on some mobo's the first thing it does is initialize the video, then it would POST (At least this is how I under stand it.) So the Video card isn't working/making a connection to the Mobo, and next thing you know, the only thing running is some fans.
I'm curious, when you were working on this issue, did you notice how quiet it was? My dad doesn't know about computers very much, but when he watched me working on it, turning it on and off he told me it sounded quieter than usual. I think that was the first time I ran into that issue. So when I noticed that it really was quiet, I started listening for what was turning on, and then listening to a computer that was working, discovered the video card is the first thing, listened to the none working one and sure enough, it was quite because it couldn't get past the video card.
The problem you describe, sounds very similar to the problems I usually have, I would be interested to know if you had this problem again, because I need to know what I keep doing wrong to cause this :(
The Old testament is (As Eddie Izzard calls it) the big beard Testament.
Not all Christian religions are the same, nor do they interpret the Bible the same way. The LDS church believes the Bible is only the word of God, if it is Translated correctly. http://scriptures.lds.org/en/a_of_f/1 (See number 8)
They also believe the Old testament is the Old Law, the Law of Moses. Much of what was practiced before Christ was meant to go away with the coming of Christ, and the Higher Law. http://scriptures.lds.org/en/gs/l/12
The Higher Law, in a Nutshell, is to do unto others as you would have them do unto you, Love one another, and all that passive stuff.
Any Christian faith, that condones animal Sacrifice, killing anyone when it's not in defense of yourself, your family, or your country, or any of some of the bizarre things required by the Israelites in the old Testament, is not following Christ's teachings.
Maybe you and I at least can agree on one thing though. You believe ( or don't believe ) how you wish, and I will how I wish. I will not chuck you into a big group, and assume you are like the worst, and I would love to also not be chucked into the big group that claim they are doing the Lords work, when they contradict the Lords teachings
I was taught many things as a child. The importance of my faith was impressed upon me, as was the importance of taking a bath, eating breakfast, looking both ways before crossing the street, not stealing, work hard, get an education, read the scriptures and find out for myself what it is true. I was told that I shouldn't have sex before marriage, but if I am going to, be smart about it. My childhood was not full of indoctrination, rather, it was full of teachings.
My parents taught me what they believed was true, taught me what faith means, and asked me to learn for myself.
Where you "indoctrinated" with anything as a child? Where you "taught" anything as a child? And when is there a line drawn between the two?
Religions do disagree. They can't all be right. If you have faith, then by definition your opinion is untestable (if you could test it it wouldn't be faith, but science). So any claim about which religion is correct is, by definition, bullshit.
So this would be your opinion. This is how you feel about any claim about which religion is correct. So that would mean you're opinion is, by your definition, untestable, meaning it is also bullshit.
Apply this to Gravity, it goes down. But how? It's still just a theory. Sure we can "test" it, but other than showing what we already know (Things fall towards the bigger mass), it proves nothing.
I can test my faith, and my opinion. I have faith I will fall towards earth, and in my opinion, I am correct.
You are absolutely right that truly faithful people don't sweat the details. You would think, if they believed so much that God made this universe, or that an Intelligent being of some kind did it, they would give some credit to that being for making life so complex. Making a set of rules, and laws, that all matter and energy follow, so that life and the universe as we know it could exist. I don't need a citation, I do believe you that a lot of schools in the Bible belt do have Creation Science as a class. But it really doesn't belong in the Science class. (If any class, it should be a philosophy class.) Because faith is supposed to be knowing something is true by the spirit of that something, which can't be proven, and shouldn't be physically proven, or else faith is not needed. Science is physical proof. And any sensible person can appreciate that these are very separate schools of thought. To me, if we evolved from apes, fine, in no way is it up to me to say that God didn't plan it that way. Could we have evolved this way, with out a god? Sure! But that doesn't mean we did. I still have faith in my God, so does my family. But we know that we can't ignore that there are laws to nature that have been proven, and theories with very compelling evidence. And those laws and Theories are SO COOL!
Citation please? I am religious, my God IS a scientist :P. But I agree with the parent of your post, it's incredible. My in-laws (Mostly my Mother-in-law) have a close family friend that is into just about every conspiracy theory in the book. Although recently he is starting to step away from the 9/11 mumbo jumbo, or he just doesn't think he can convince me anymore. I have never heard him speak of the moon landing, but I have heard him talk about some "Leaked" photos of a supposedly scorpion like life-form on mars. -_-
I shouldn't have to back it up if I don't wipe the wrong partition.
I reinstall my OS about once a year (I was using XP, now using Vista). And occasionally I have to reinstall semi-annually, (Because it's XP, or Vista maybe). There is that occasional wiping of the wrong partition. I swear, my wife gets SOO mad, I nearly get killed.
It's the same as the cool kid in highschool. Popularity also means more people will hate him, or exploit his keyless entry, or the bug in his active x controllers.
I agree that if there is a company that always has faulty products, that people would stop buying products from them. But nobody has stopped using windows (In this case the problem is IE, activex yada yada) because it generally works in most cases, for what people want it for.
I used to do tech support in a call center. The company I worked for made networking hardware, so the internet service that packaged our products the most, hired us to also do tech support for the customers with our products. Literally, my boss, his boss, as far up the chain at this company I could see, were a bunch of geeks ( we used to have prizes for good performances, that included the WoW expansion). What did they all use? What was working for our customers when it came to our products? What did our quality control guys, and the guys who lay out the plans for these products test them on? Windows.
Some of our Networking hardware would work on linux, Sometimes we would write drivers for linux, but when I would go and speak to the guys that had to write the software, they hated the linux part. (Of cause the major bullet point here is that not everyone believes Linux to be as practical as you do.)
So it's a double edged sword, if linux becomes popular, that would be cool! But once it becomes popular, any vulnerability, will be exploited.
King James Version of Romans 5:12-13: - 12: Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned: 13: (For until the law sin was in the world: but sin is not imputed when there is no law. - So sure Verse 12 sounds like it was all Adams fault, but reading on, we see that without the law, there is no sin. If there is no knowledge of good and evil, there is no law, and there is no sin. So if it weren't for Adam, we wouldn't have our ability to understand right from wrong, so in that sense, Adam aloud us the ability to choose to sin our not.
Apply this also to football. I got my uniform, and all the gear, but if I am missing my helmet (Brain Damage) or shoulder pads ( Oh I don't know, bad shoulders?) or if I don't have knee pads (Bad legs), then playing the game (Life) can have it's challenges, but my team mates (Other people) can still cover me, or let me use some spare gear, and I will just have to learn how to play the game my way, with my own challenges. Or my team mates could just Not toss me the ball, or put me on the bench. SO in this case, the player (Me) is the soul. When I leave the game I will still be the same guy that was playing football, I just won't be wearing the gear. (Assuming there is a soul.)
Sorry Data, you're just a bunch of pieces pushing one against another. If it weren't for his emotion chip, he might be ok with this.
That was my point. You get bored with it, there is no more excitement. In the US we have Teenagers in record numbers getting pregnant because we only see so much sex on TV and Movies, Teenagers get curious, curiosity is exciting. I like chocolate cake, but I agree with you on that. I won't stop liking chocolate cake, but I will get bored with it. Sex gets boring with old couples because there is nothing new. Sex is exciting to teenagers, because it can always be new, and they see enough to start guessing what is out of frame.
It is interesting that we are ok with Violence, but fret over sex (At least in the US). To me though, I prefer it that way. My wife and I, we watched Watchmen last night. It is now funny to look back at our reactions, all the gory parts we said "WHOA!" and the sexy parts we'd blush and look at each other (You know what they are doing?!?). I'm ok with sex being Taboo, because I like sex. For example, you're watching some love story, they start getting hot and heavy, you start thinking (they are gonna do it) and then the Camera pans off. Same is is in Mass Effect, and some people think (DANG I wanted to see that). But it's the question that has people interested. If we saw sex, and it was ok, all the time, we wouldn't be so curious about it anymore. Why do you think old married couples don't have sex as often? It's not just because they are busy. It's because they have lost the curiosity.
these are the same sort of people who believe that adam and eve rode dinosaurs to church. ignore them.
This isn't always true. I don't condone killing a human, at any stage of life, I am a theist, but I have many atheist friends who feel the same way. So I am against embryonic stem cell research, and it doesn't have to do anything with my religious beliefs. NPR did a story in 2007 about some researchers that got stem cells from skin. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=16511934 I am all for that! ;)
I see your point. It would be perfectly legal and no foul at all to start throwing insults at your opponent, but not accepted in a game of chess. But generally people will keep quiet and just play chess. Now let's apply that to playing cops and robbers. You're the cop, I'm the robber: Oh look I'm robbing a bank, there is a cop, I don't want to go to jail, *BANG BANG* you're dead, I win! Oh wait, you wanted to arrest me, I guess that wasn't fair, I should give you a chance. Better yet, let's play Superman, you can be Lex. Oh you're committing a Crime, I'll just swoop down and take you to the cops, no really, I'm superman, I'm stronger than you so you have to let me carry you over to the cops. This sounds fair to me, and fun. As I understand it, City of Heroes/Villains, is a Heroes vs. Villains game. So if I were to buy the game now and start playing, and choose to be a Hero, I'm gonna try (Probably fail because I'd be new) to kill every villain I see. You point makes me think of Checkers, except, instead of playing the normal way, let's see how many of our pieces we can king, without jumping each other.
Just to add, here is what they plead guilty too: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/18/1465.html Now, if any one could help me out on this, what does the DOJ mean by obscene, lewd, lascivious, or filthy. I could say Playboy was that, but that's just my moral beliefs. Anyone have a DOJ dictionary or some/such?
Obscure may not mean what you think it means. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/obscure 2: not readily understood or clearly expressed. Computers, Science (In general), D&D, all these are not readily understood, unless you are in the proper setting, like a university, or the IT department. Definition 1;b is funny, when thinking about the stereotypical nerd. b: shrouded in or hidden by darkness .
Who says God doesn't have a creator? You're arguing against issues that can't be proven, or dis proven. And this is my point. Science is not a religious thing, and Religion is not a science thing. For me, being a Christian, and also a scientist, I only have to believe that God was the greatest scientist that ever lived, and currently lives. But what difference does that make when it comes to science? Only that I have a reason why everything is here. It doesn't effect the scientific method at all.
I only hope that you don't try to apply any of that religion to either your science or your ethics -- or at least, I hope you're as good at adapting it as you have been with evolution.
Well, here's how I see it. Science is how things work, how the universe works, how biology works. My religious beliefs are why we have a universe, and why we are here. To say that our understanding of science must be wrong because there is a god, is saying that God is unable to do it. Which is saying that God is not Omnipotent. But to believe in a god, you should not doubt his ability to make this universe. So I draw the line, God Lives. Now, lets appreciate this universe he made, by understanding how it works.
I really hate this Creationists bashing science, Scientists bashing Creation. Complete nonsense. Evolution happens, I have my Dads shaped mouth, and my moms huge teeth. Kinda sucks because my jaw locks up when I'm eating, but these are traits passed on. If it weren't for our brains, I would possibly be one of those poor suckers that doesn't breed, because of traits. (But My MD can make things otherwise, and I'm married => ) But I am also a Christian (LDS), It would be silly of my to assume that the universe was created by an all powerful being, and he wasn't able to set in motion EVOLUTION! For all we know, God told Moses it was 7 days, because Moses just wouldn't understand something like 7 Billion years maybe. Here's what I believe, God Created the universe, god created life, God caused evolution to Just work, so that Humans would eventually evolve. Adam was the first Smart enough primate to understand these things. Whether it was 6000 years, or billions of years since the earth was created, if God is all powerful, he can do it how ever he wants, and will do it the way it best works.
d) What's the point of faith if he just proves to everyone he exists? God is not something that can be proven. Sure, he may reveal things to you, through prayer. But even that needs to start with faith. So...COOL, Science is so awesome, thank you God for our awesome brains that we can figure out the secrets of the universe. Thank you God for possibly setting evolution in motion, so that we could evolve into humans, with these brains. Faith.
Video games can teach my child to kill. But I can teach my child why it's wrong.