That link makes two points: 1, that the witnesses had ulterior motives (they knew Smith, they had a financial stake in the success of the book), and 2, that if the witnesses believed their own testimony, then why did they leave the church. In fact, the second argument invalidates the first. If all the witnesses left the church, why did they never deny their testimony? Obviously they felt no loyalty to Smith, having left the church. Can you identify with that?
your scrutiny could use some scrutiny itself
That's an interesting point, but it addresses only one of the valid points made in the essay it refers to.
That one is pretty weak. In fact, one of its four citations (the last) links to an article with the necessary information to debunk the whole criticism.
all the evidence shows that Native Americans came from Asia
The last link in my previous comment demonstrates otherwise.
if you have the hard evidence
The same link also says, right in the concluding section, that the church's position is that the Book of Mormon is a spiritual document, not a historical one, and that "It is our position that secular evidence can neither prove nor disprove the authenticity of the Book of Mormon."
and when the transcriber "lost" the translations (to see if Smith actually did have a source document from which he could reproduce the same translation) Smith then provided a different translation
Where did you get the idea that Martin Harris's motivation in losing the document was to test Joseph? I've read a bit on the subject and found nothing to support that notion. In any case, Joseph did not retranslate that portion, and the rationale for that is laid out in clear.
How he translated some Egyptian scrolls into the Book of Abraham, but the scrolls in question have nothing in common with what Joseph Smith translated
I'm not familiar with that claim or its background so I can't address it.
What about the claim that Native Americans are a lost tribe of Israelites, something proven false.
That's too big of an issue to get into here, but suffice it to say that your statement of the claim is an oversimplification (the original and current editions of the Book of Mormon state that the peoples of the Book are descended of Joseph of Egypt, and among the ancestors of Native Americans), and the 'evidence' that has been posited against is does not stand up to scrutiny.
Apropos, the answers to all of your questions and the cure to your misconceptions are readily found on the internet. Whether the internet makes some people into atheists, I do not know, but one this is for sure: knowledge, even readily available knowledge, does not by itself make one more informed. One has to know how to seek it out, filter the truth from the noise, and then judiciously apply it.
Don't tell Valve! You'll ruin there latest business model!
Seriously, I've used GPUs from all three manufacturers and found every Intel and nvidia hardware/driver combination I've tried to work well in Linux, and every AMD combination to be the opposite. I wish it were not so, but it is, in my experience.
Mine smells like honey. Not all the time, but sometimes right after a sneeze or a general good cleaning. At first I thought it was some kind of floral scent, but then one day I sneezed near my 6 year-old daughter and she correctly identified it as honey. I still haven't nailed down what kind of honey. This only started happening maybe a year ago, but I hope it becomes more frequent.
Mod parent up. UPnP is insecure by design. It's very purpose is to take security and control out of the hands of the user, and put it squarely in the hands of whatever happens to be running on your network.
It's too bad that most people don't understand enough about network security to configure their own router, and a double shame that the kludge we call NAT has further broken network applications, but convenient "workarounds" like UPnP could only ever lead to problems like the summary lays out.
That makes sense to me. I live in northern Alberta, and while we're all used to driving on ice and snow for 6 months of the year, it's the rare snow in June that does the most damage. We had around 2m of snow between late October and mid January this year, and I can't think of a tree that took damage due to the weight. By contrast, we had one rare snowfall in June last year and trees were snapping all over the place; power went out. It wasn't the snow that got them per se, it was the fact that the snow was warm and heavy and the trees still had their leaves on.
Snow tires make a huge difference, but surveys have shown that most Canadians don't even use them (outside of Quebec where they are legally mandated). I'm sure that was a factor in these southern snow storms, but probably not on the same scale as everybody leaving work at the same time. If we can learn anything from this, it's to take heed when the experts tell you to stay home, don't panic when the snow starts to fly, and keep some extra food and fuel at home for the inevitables.
I was once asked that in an interview with my supervisor's supervisor (a VP where I was already employed). I gave an honest and ambitious answer and was promoted on the spot.
If you're truly happy with "(1a) Sufficient pay, (1b) Flexible hours, (2) Interesting work, (3) Leave me alone", then that question doesn't really require a thoughtful answer, but let's not pretend that there aren't supervisors and employees out there who can have a meaningful discussion about goals. That question is entirely appropriate in some job interviews, performance reviews, and succession planning-type situations.
I'm just dumbfounded at the implication here that the rover's ability to flip a small rock is regarded as luck. If it's such a valuable occurrence, should they not have included a rock-flipping function in the plans?
Who would ever get a bumper sticker like that for the sake of irony? Who would ever do that, not having read somebody's email?
Having thought about it, I can answer my own question. People whose job is much more invasive than reading people's email. Like, if my family and neighbours knew I had some secret spy job, but they didn't know that my job was to spy on you with a hidden camera in your bedroom, then I might slap that bumper sticker on there just to give people some bait to latch onto. I suppose you could call that irony.
And while you're at it, smokers, drug users, fast drivers, skydivers, safari goers, daredevils, worriers, hipsters, teamsters, mobsters, masturbaters, adulterers, tax evaders, loud talkers, smooth talkers, buffalo hunters, fast eaters, people who drive more than 5 km per day, GMO eaters, doughnut eaters, coffee drinkers, people who don't brush their teeth three times per day, people who don't eat enough vegetables, and people who eat too many vegetables.
At only 5 miles, I'd be at work in maybe 10 to 15 minutes.
I live 4.4 km from work. I can bike there in maybe 10 minutes (I've biked there lots but never actually timed it), but then I have to either stand around for 15 minutes to cool down, or hop in the shower before I can go to the office. Realistically, my 10-minute bicycle commute takes a minimum of 30 minutes.
Then there's winter. Last night we got 30 cm of snow. Last week we got 20 cm of snow. Two weeks ago we got 20 cm of snow. I have studded tires on the bike, but you just can't keep those things rolling in more than about 5 or 6 cm of soft snow. Even on packed snow or ice, you're looking again at double commute time, plus snow pants, goggles, etc. Add to this the time it takes to clean and maintain your drivetrain on a daily basis due to slush and sand.
So yeah, biking to work is an option, and one that I have used, but to say that it's basically equivalent to driving for any commute over about 1 km is not being realistic in my experience.
Not so, because then people would actually slow down, and the municipality's return on investment would plummet. The present lottery system allows people to speed and get away with it often enough that the occasional ticket isn't going to be any real deterrent for some--just enough, incidentally to provide low hanging fruit for minimal-effort enforcement.
Extrapolating from a few feet of bone, paleontologists were able to estimate
Science at its best! Honestly though, I don't need a few feet of bone to estimate that this very same dinosaur was an excellent conversationalists and patron of the high arts.
For mormon adherents, the staple proof is the witness of the spirit, and the personal fruits of faith. Critics and materialists contend otherwise, and have so far found nothing that would constitute proof either for or against.
There's no shortage of reading on this topic, but this article is a good start.
The icing on the cake is that the article apparently contains no video. Isn't this about a demonstration of video rendering technology? No, I didn't bother to read the article, and no, there is no cake.
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Not very reliable witnesses
That link makes two points: 1, that the witnesses had ulterior motives (they knew Smith, they had a financial stake in the success of the book), and 2, that if the witnesses believed their own testimony, then why did they leave the church. In fact, the second argument invalidates the first. If all the witnesses left the church, why did they never deny their testimony? Obviously they felt no loyalty to Smith, having left the church. Can you identify with that?
your scrutiny could use some scrutiny itself
That's an interesting point, but it addresses only one of the valid points made in the essay it refers to.
http://www.mormonthink.com/book-of-abraham-issues.htm
That one is pretty weak. In fact, one of its four citations (the last) links to an article with the necessary information to debunk the whole criticism.
all the evidence shows that Native Americans came from Asia
The last link in my previous comment demonstrates otherwise.
if you have the hard evidence
The same link also says, right in the concluding section, that the church's position is that the Book of Mormon is a spiritual document, not a historical one, and that "It is our position that secular evidence can neither prove nor disprove the authenticity of the Book of Mormon."
How do you rationalize Smith's behaviour with the gold plates that nobody but him ever saw
They were seen by the three witnesses. To what behaviour are you referring?
and when the transcriber "lost" the translations (to see if Smith actually did have a source document from which he could reproduce the same translation) Smith then provided a different translation
Where did you get the idea that Martin Harris's motivation in losing the document was to test Joseph? I've read a bit on the subject and found nothing to support that notion. In any case, Joseph did not retranslate that portion, and the rationale for that is laid out in clear.
How he translated some Egyptian scrolls into the Book of Abraham, but the scrolls in question have nothing in common with what Joseph Smith translated
I'm not familiar with that claim or its background so I can't address it.
What about the claim that Native Americans are a lost tribe of Israelites, something proven false.
That's too big of an issue to get into here, but suffice it to say that your statement of the claim is an oversimplification (the original and current editions of the Book of Mormon state that the peoples of the Book are descended of Joseph of Egypt, and among the ancestors of Native Americans), and the 'evidence' that has been posited against is does not stand up to scrutiny.
Apropos, the answers to all of your questions and the cure to your misconceptions are readily found on the internet. Whether the internet makes some people into atheists, I do not know, but one this is for sure: knowledge, even readily available knowledge, does not by itself make one more informed. One has to know how to seek it out, filter the truth from the noise, and then judiciously apply it.
This is the correct response. Educate and let each live or die according to his own conscience.
linux drivers suck for all 3
Don't tell Valve! You'll ruin there latest business model!
Seriously, I've used GPUs from all three manufacturers and found every Intel and nvidia hardware/driver combination I've tried to work well in Linux, and every AMD combination to be the opposite. I wish it were not so, but it is, in my experience.
Mine smells like honey. Not all the time, but sometimes right after a sneeze or a general good cleaning. At first I thought it was some kind of floral scent, but then one day I sneezed near my 6 year-old daughter and she correctly identified it as honey. I still haven't nailed down what kind of honey. This only started happening maybe a year ago, but I hope it becomes more frequent.
if an attacker is on the INSIDE of your LAN, then you are already boned.
What am I missing?
There are varying degrees of boned. UPnP lets the black hat turn a small exploit into a big one.
Assuming that UPnP is implemented properly
Well yes, there's that too.
Mod parent up. UPnP is insecure by design. It's very purpose is to take security and control out of the hands of the user, and put it squarely in the hands of whatever happens to be running on your network.
It's too bad that most people don't understand enough about network security to configure their own router, and a double shame that the kludge we call NAT has further broken network applications, but convenient "workarounds" like UPnP could only ever lead to problems like the summary lays out.
I think our boys in the UK already solved this problem.
There is nothing similar about the winters.
That makes sense to me. I live in northern Alberta, and while we're all used to driving on ice and snow for 6 months of the year, it's the rare snow in June that does the most damage. We had around 2m of snow between late October and mid January this year, and I can't think of a tree that took damage due to the weight. By contrast, we had one rare snowfall in June last year and trees were snapping all over the place; power went out. It wasn't the snow that got them per se, it was the fact that the snow was warm and heavy and the trees still had their leaves on.
Snow tires make a huge difference, but surveys have shown that most Canadians don't even use them (outside of Quebec where they are legally mandated). I'm sure that was a factor in these southern snow storms, but probably not on the same scale as everybody leaving work at the same time. If we can learn anything from this, it's to take heed when the experts tell you to stay home, don't panic when the snow starts to fly, and keep some extra food and fuel at home for the inevitables.
Q: Where do you see yourself in five years?
I was once asked that in an interview with my supervisor's supervisor (a VP where I was already employed). I gave an honest and ambitious answer and was promoted on the spot.
If you're truly happy with "(1a) Sufficient pay, (1b) Flexible hours, (2) Interesting work, (3) Leave me alone", then that question doesn't really require a thoughtful answer, but let's not pretend that there aren't supervisors and employees out there who can have a meaningful discussion about goals. That question is entirely appropriate in some job interviews, performance reviews, and succession planning-type situations.
I'm just dumbfounded at the implication here that the rover's ability to flip a small rock is regarded as luck. If it's such a valuable occurrence, should they not have included a rock-flipping function in the plans?
No, this is actually a brilliant move on MS/Nokia's part. If it takes off, imagine the Android royalties they'll collect from selling their own phone!
Who would ever get a bumper sticker like that for the sake of irony? Who would ever do that, not having read somebody's email?
Having thought about it, I can answer my own question. People whose job is much more invasive than reading people's email. Like, if my family and neighbours knew I had some secret spy job, but they didn't know that my job was to spy on you with a hidden camera in your bedroom, then I might slap that bumper sticker on there just to give people some bait to latch onto. I suppose you could call that irony.
Who would ever get a bumper sticker like that for the sake of irony? Who would ever do that, not having read somebody's email?
As an alternate explanation, I think maybe the driver of that vehicle was just tired of people asking him, "hey, did you read that email I sent you?".
That's how you do irony. ;)
And while you're at it, smokers, drug users, fast drivers, skydivers, safari goers, daredevils, worriers, hipsters, teamsters, mobsters, masturbaters, adulterers, tax evaders, loud talkers, smooth talkers, buffalo hunters, fast eaters, people who drive more than 5 km per day, GMO eaters, doughnut eaters, coffee drinkers, people who don't brush their teeth three times per day, people who don't eat enough vegetables, and people who eat too many vegetables.
At only 5 miles, I'd be at work in maybe 10 to 15 minutes.
I live 4.4 km from work. I can bike there in maybe 10 minutes (I've biked there lots but never actually timed it), but then I have to either stand around for 15 minutes to cool down, or hop in the shower before I can go to the office. Realistically, my 10-minute bicycle commute takes a minimum of 30 minutes.
Then there's winter. Last night we got 30 cm of snow. Last week we got 20 cm of snow. Two weeks ago we got 20 cm of snow. I have studded tires on the bike, but you just can't keep those things rolling in more than about 5 or 6 cm of soft snow. Even on packed snow or ice, you're looking again at double commute time, plus snow pants, goggles, etc. Add to this the time it takes to clean and maintain your drivetrain on a daily basis due to slush and sand.
So yeah, biking to work is an option, and one that I have used, but to say that it's basically equivalent to driving for any commute over about 1 km is not being realistic in my experience.
Whether it's a good thing or bad is a matter of taste, but there's no denying the XBO look is straight out of 1987.
Not so, because then people would actually slow down, and the municipality's return on investment would plummet. The present lottery system allows people to speed and get away with it often enough that the occasional ticket isn't going to be any real deterrent for some--just enough, incidentally to provide low hanging fruit for minimal-effort enforcement.
Extrapolating from a few feet of bone, paleontologists were able to estimate
Science at its best! Honestly though, I don't need a few feet of bone to estimate that this very same dinosaur was an excellent conversationalists and patron of the high arts.
Unfortunately there's no leaked date on new bosses at the Play Store yet.
the supposed release date on Halloween
I thought that date was bumped.
http://atheisme.free.fr/Religion/Sectes_liste.htm
It's not really a "singling out", but yeah, Les Témoins de Jéhovah are on there.
For mormon adherents, the staple proof is the witness of the spirit, and the personal fruits of faith. Critics and materialists contend otherwise, and have so far found nothing that would constitute proof either for or against.
There's no shortage of reading on this topic, but this article is a good start.
The icing on the cake is that the article apparently contains no video. Isn't this about a demonstration of video rendering technology? No, I didn't bother to read the article, and no, there is no cake.