Read James chapter 2. Rome didn't invent their theology just for fun, an even Martin Luther could never adequately explain away James.
But hey, keep repeating long defunct anti-Catgolic nonsense.
14What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
15If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
16And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
17Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
18Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
19Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
20But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
21Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
22Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
23And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
24Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Anyone, of course, except the Catholics. One of the chief doctrinal divides between Catholics and Protestants is the nature of salvation. Catholic theology very much insists that works are a part of salvation.
If yes, then the standard angle can be reasonably angled, and Chrome+Firefox together certainly hold more than enough sway to do so. But if not, then the winner will be whoever delivers the product; end users don't care about standards, they just want things to work, and if only one guy has it work, well...
Again, that's 2005 thinking. All things being equal, with most of the web access via PCs running Windows, you bet, competition didn't have a chance in hell. If Browser A couldn't support it at all, then Internet Explorer would win by default.
But we're living in an age where a growing amount of web usage is not by PC, but by tablets, phones and other smart devices. The bulk of these devices, in fact the overwhelming majority of these devices do not run Internet Explorer, and even the most favorable projections do not show Microsoft making that big a dent in the mobile market to make IE the only meaningful player again.
The days when Microsoft could just give the rest of the browser makers a one-fingered salute, go it's merry way and know that it had already won before the fight broke out are done. There will be no more Internet Explorer 6s. Microsoft cannot afford to isolate itself by pushing a standard that no one else will or can support. Customers are not going to ditch their $700 tablets or phones just because Microsoft refuses to talk.
But this isn't 1998 any more. It's not even 2005. Microsoft no longer has the web dominance to force standards on anyone. If it goes it alone, it risks everyone else saying "Fuck you", and if Chrome and Safari won't support whatever Microsoft cooks up, it has at least a half way chance of crapping out.
Yes, Microsoft can still pull shit with document standards, but that's because it still has a massive advantage as far as office applications go, but the days of 90%+ Internet Explorer on the Internet are gone, and gone for good.
Which underscores the other necessity of backups, you must regularly test your media to make sure you actually have a backup. That's something I learned the hard way (and it didn't take any big-ass magnets sitting next to the archive tapes).
Our major physical offsite solution is literally packing out physical media that everything is backed up to on Sundays and then taken to a safety deposit box on Monday. Of course, the business has three locations, so we also make sure key data from each location is backed up to the others, but that's probably overkill for this guy. The point is that if it's not offsite, cloud, tape in the bank, whatever, you risk total loss.
I'm sorry. I didn't know I had to spell it out, but it was all during 2006. The order of events, as I recall it:
Winter 2005 - She started noticing some pain while eating sour foods and drinking things like wine. Our family doctor put her on antibiotics and sour candies (yup, that's right), thinking it was a blocked salivary gland. Early 2006 - Problem still there, so doc sent her in for an ultrasound Feburary 2006 - Off to a specialist, who initially thought salivary tumor, but sent her off for CAT scan. CAT scan revealed a large mass near or on carotid body. She is now referred to an ENT (Ear-Nose-Throat specialist). More CAT scans and MRI ordered. A biopsy is done but results are indeterminant. March 2006 - ENT suspects carotid body artery, so books her in for surgery for April. April 2006 - Surgery reveals this is a thyroid tumor. She is closed up. The ENT orders more scans specifically of thyroid, and sends off biopsy. May 2006 - A diagnosis of follicular thyroid cancer is made... which is good, because it's a very slow growing cancer, but bad because it appears to have lymph involvement (bad for any kind of cancer). He recommends a total thyroidectomy, and as a side note, gives a piece of paper with the risks of such a procedure, which I may say is the most frightening 8.5x11 piece of paper I've ever held in my hands. More CAT scans and MRI. June 2006 - Thyroidectomy performed. A number of lymph nodes are removed as well as considerable surrounding tissue. Five days in the hospital along with physio afterwards because of nerve damage to that side of the face and to the nerves controlling that shoulder. Has to spend to take synthetic thyroid medication the rest of her life.
I left out the best part, which you Americans should pay attention to. By the time of a diagnosis of cancer had been made, the ISP I was working for had closed and I was out of work. Because Canada has a fully public health care system, there was no loss of insurance and for all our cares and worries (our kids were 12 and 14 at the time, so A LOT to worry about), the one thing we never had to worry about was paying what surely must have amounted to tens of thousands of dollars in bills. We did not lose our house, we did not declare bankruptcy, we did not have to borrow vast sums.
I would guess, in most of the US, my wife would probably have gone through the final surgery a few weeks earlier.
So when some anti-health care American comes around talking about how bad the Canadian system is, I have personal experience with the Canadian system, and have known a number of people who have had cancer, and no one has died for lack of treatment. Most certainly it does happen, but can anyone seriously claim that it doesn't in the States?
I'm sure the Romans in the first few years of the Barbarian migrations/invasions thought precisely the same thing. "Oh well, we just build our walls and our fortified settlements and our Legions will take care of the problem..."
Even if places like the United States and Europe do close the borders and use their economic engines to pay for what would amount to vast walls based on technology and manpower to absolutely shut down the borders, other countries are not going to be so capable, and as we know only too well, destabilization of even distant regions can have widespread geopolitical ramifications.
No shit. I'm a Canadian. My wife was diagnosed with a tumor in her neck in February of 2006. In April she had her first surgery, which revealed it to be a thyroid tumor, and by June she had a total thyroidectomy.
How many Latin Americans a year try to get into the United States? How many Turks, Pakistanis and other Central Asians and Middle Easterners try to get into Europe every year? How many rural Chinese try to move to the more prosperous coastal provinces every year? How many Africans end up in refugee camps outside their countries of origin?
Best of all, if they catch a new mother feeding her baby formula or some guy trying to supersize his Coke at McDonalds, they can have the SWAT team their in minutes!
I'm sorry. Apple cannot make mistakes anymore. Clearly this is just anti-Apple-types trying to give the greatest, most wonderful, most lauded, most glorious company that has ever or will ever exist.
I'm now turning my iPod up to 11 to drown out the filthy lies of the naysayers. Jobs be praised.
An interesting point of view. Here's one to counter it. I've been following Robert Fripp's struggles to get UMG to give him a simple accounting of how many King Crimson and related releases have been sold, for several years now. What I'd more, in violation of contract, KC music has got on to online stores like iTunes. Will you support SWAT teams raiding UMG at gunpoint to seize those records, and if not, why not?
For fucks sake, stop with the thinly veiled advertising. We're talking about a huge penetration of languages like C, C++, Java and Perl and the like which are still going to require people capable of coding in them. This fucking online Khan Academy crap isn't going to change that, and I'll wager you dollars to donuts the whole fucking thing will collapse under the weight of insanely over-hyped promises and gimmicks.
Hah! Just try to post anything even vaguely anti-Libertarian, and all the Ayn Rand types around use every mod point they can to mod the post into oblivion.
They shouldn't have to be, but when you run for political office, there's a tacit understanding that you no longer have the degree of privacy you would have if you were just Joe Q. Citizen. Sure, you can refuse to show your tax records at that point, but your opponents and the electorate are also free to draw whatever conclusions they want from that.
The underlying point here is that political damage doesn't have to be logical, rational or, hell, even right. But damage is damage nonetheless. A lot of Republicans are really getting concerned that the longer Romney refuses the more people will assume he has something nasty to hide, so that even if it is nothing more than a bit embarrassing when and if it does come to light, he will have already put too many holes in the hull of his campaign.
Here's my advice for anyone running for public office. If you value your privacy, don't bother. They are mutually exclusive.
Translation; I'm an Apple fanboy and frequently string bunches of words together in shallow and lame attempts to defend Apple's retarded and idiotic positions.
It is just a short story, but it was pretty much the last Mars story Leigh Brackett wrote and is beautiful, heart aching and so utterly futile. She is a greatly underappreciated writer from the Golden Age.
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Read James chapter 2. Rome didn't invent their theology just for fun, an even Martin Luther could never adequately explain away James.
But hey, keep repeating long defunct anti-Catgolic nonsense.
14What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?
15If a brother or sister be naked, and destitute of daily food,
16And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?
17Even so faith, if it hath not works, is dead, being alone.
18Yea, a man may say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: shew me thy faith without thy works, and I will shew thee my faith by my works.
19Thou believest that there is one God; thou doest well: the devils also believe, and tremble.
20But wilt thou know, O vain man, that faith without works is dead?
21Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?
22Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?
23And the scripture was fulfilled which saith, Abraham believed God, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness: and he was called the Friend of God.
24Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.
Anyone, of course, except the Catholics. One of the chief doctrinal divides between Catholics and Protestants is the nature of salvation. Catholic theology very much insists that works are a part of salvation.
Considering Apple's market position, even with Microsoft, it's not enough.
Again, that's 2005 thinking. All things being equal, with most of the web access via PCs running Windows, you bet, competition didn't have a chance in hell. If Browser A couldn't support it at all, then Internet Explorer would win by default.
But we're living in an age where a growing amount of web usage is not by PC, but by tablets, phones and other smart devices. The bulk of these devices, in fact the overwhelming majority of these devices do not run Internet Explorer, and even the most favorable projections do not show Microsoft making that big a dent in the mobile market to make IE the only meaningful player again.
The days when Microsoft could just give the rest of the browser makers a one-fingered salute, go it's merry way and know that it had already won before the fight broke out are done. There will be no more Internet Explorer 6s. Microsoft cannot afford to isolate itself by pushing a standard that no one else will or can support. Customers are not going to ditch their $700 tablets or phones just because Microsoft refuses to talk.
But this isn't 1998 any more. It's not even 2005. Microsoft no longer has the web dominance to force standards on anyone. If it goes it alone, it risks everyone else saying "Fuck you", and if Chrome and Safari won't support whatever Microsoft cooks up, it has at least a half way chance of crapping out.
Yes, Microsoft can still pull shit with document standards, but that's because it still has a massive advantage as far as office applications go, but the days of 90%+ Internet Explorer on the Internet are gone, and gone for good.
Which underscores the other necessity of backups, you must regularly test your media to make sure you actually have a backup. That's something I learned the hard way (and it didn't take any big-ass magnets sitting next to the archive tapes).
Our major physical offsite solution is literally packing out physical media that everything is backed up to on Sundays and then taken to a safety deposit box on Monday. Of course, the business has three locations, so we also make sure key data from each location is backed up to the others, but that's probably overkill for this guy. The point is that if it's not offsite, cloud, tape in the bank, whatever, you risk total loss.
I'm sorry. I didn't know I had to spell it out, but it was all during 2006. The order of events, as I recall it:
Winter 2005 - She started noticing some pain while eating sour foods and drinking things like wine. Our family doctor put her on antibiotics and sour candies (yup, that's right), thinking it was a blocked salivary gland.
Early 2006 - Problem still there, so doc sent her in for an ultrasound
Feburary 2006 - Off to a specialist, who initially thought salivary tumor, but sent her off for CAT scan. CAT scan revealed a large mass near or on carotid body. She is now referred to an ENT (Ear-Nose-Throat specialist). More CAT scans and MRI ordered. A biopsy is done but results are indeterminant.
March 2006 - ENT suspects carotid body artery, so books her in for surgery for April.
April 2006 - Surgery reveals this is a thyroid tumor. She is closed up. The ENT orders more scans specifically of thyroid, and sends off biopsy.
May 2006 - A diagnosis of follicular thyroid cancer is made... which is good, because it's a very slow growing cancer, but bad because it appears to have lymph involvement (bad for any kind of cancer). He recommends a total thyroidectomy, and as a side note, gives a piece of paper with the risks of such a procedure, which I may say is the most frightening 8.5x11 piece of paper I've ever held in my hands. More CAT scans and MRI.
June 2006 - Thyroidectomy performed. A number of lymph nodes are removed as well as considerable surrounding tissue. Five days in the hospital along with physio afterwards because of nerve damage to that side of the face and to the nerves controlling that shoulder. Has to spend to take synthetic thyroid medication the rest of her life.
I left out the best part, which you Americans should pay attention to. By the time of a diagnosis of cancer had been made, the ISP I was working for had closed and I was out of work. Because Canada has a fully public health care system, there was no loss of insurance and for all our cares and worries (our kids were 12 and 14 at the time, so A LOT to worry about), the one thing we never had to worry about was paying what surely must have amounted to tens of thousands of dollars in bills. We did not lose our house, we did not declare bankruptcy, we did not have to borrow vast sums.
I would guess, in most of the US, my wife would probably have gone through the final surgery a few weeks earlier.
So when some anti-health care American comes around talking about how bad the Canadian system is, I have personal experience with the Canadian system, and have known a number of people who have had cancer, and no one has died for lack of treatment. Most certainly it does happen, but can anyone seriously claim that it doesn't in the States?
I'm sure the Romans in the first few years of the Barbarian migrations/invasions thought precisely the same thing. "Oh well, we just build our walls and our fortified settlements and our Legions will take care of the problem..."
Even if places like the United States and Europe do close the borders and use their economic engines to pay for what would amount to vast walls based on technology and manpower to absolutely shut down the borders, other countries are not going to be so capable, and as we know only too well, destabilization of even distant regions can have widespread geopolitical ramifications.
Indeed. The half-ass system that the US has seems destined to always be suboptimal.
No shit. I'm a Canadian. My wife was diagnosed with a tumor in her neck in February of 2006. In April she had her first surgery, which revealed it to be a thyroid tumor, and by June she had a total thyroidectomy.
How much does it pay the states through with the Colorado River flows?
How many Latin Americans a year try to get into the United States? How many Turks, Pakistanis and other Central Asians and Middle Easterners try to get into Europe every year? How many rural Chinese try to move to the more prosperous coastal provinces every year? How many Africans end up in refugee camps outside their countries of origin?
Best of all, if they catch a new mother feeding her baby formula or some guy trying to supersize his Coke at McDonalds, they can have the SWAT team their in minutes!
I'm sorry. Apple cannot make mistakes anymore. Clearly this is just anti-Apple-types trying to give the greatest, most wonderful, most lauded, most glorious company that has ever or will ever exist.
I'm now turning my iPod up to 11 to drown out the filthy lies of the naysayers. Jobs be praised.
See what I mean. The Libertarians around here view mod points as a weapon of their holy creed.
An interesting point of view. Here's one to counter it. I've been following Robert Fripp's struggles to get UMG to give him a simple accounting of how many King Crimson and related releases have been sold, for several years now. What I'd more, in violation of contract, KC music has got on to online stores like iTunes. Will you support SWAT teams raiding UMG at gunpoint to seize those records, and if not, why not?
For fucks sake, stop with the thinly veiled advertising. We're talking about a huge penetration of languages like C, C++, Java and Perl and the like which are still going to require people capable of coding in them. This fucking online Khan Academy crap isn't going to change that, and I'll wager you dollars to donuts the whole fucking thing will collapse under the weight of insanely over-hyped promises and gimmicks.
Hah! Just try to post anything even vaguely anti-Libertarian, and all the Ayn Rand types around use every mod point they can to mod the post into oblivion.
They shouldn't have to be, but when you run for political office, there's a tacit understanding that you no longer have the degree of privacy you would have if you were just Joe Q. Citizen. Sure, you can refuse to show your tax records at that point, but your opponents and the electorate are also free to draw whatever conclusions they want from that.
The underlying point here is that political damage doesn't have to be logical, rational or, hell, even right. But damage is damage nonetheless. A lot of Republicans are really getting concerned that the longer Romney refuses the more people will assume he has something nasty to hide, so that even if it is nothing more than a bit embarrassing when and if it does come to light, he will have already put too many holes in the hull of his campaign.
Here's my advice for anyone running for public office. If you value your privacy, don't bother. They are mutually exclusive.
Great, now that's two missing tax returns.
Curiously, the entry for Beelzebub was edited 250 times, Quetzalcoatl 100 times and Ronald Reagan's Zombie an astonishing 345 times.
Translation; I'm an Apple fanboy and frequently string bunches of words together in shallow and lame attempts to defend Apple's retarded and idiotic positions.
It is just a short story, but it was pretty much the last Mars story Leigh Brackett wrote and is beautiful, heart aching and so utterly futile. She is a greatly underappreciated writer from the Golden Age.
And pretty disturbing. I'm not sure I'd want to meet Donaldson in a dark alley.