Well it does depend on the plant design. However most "peaking plants" are natuarl gas. A peaking plant is a plant that can be started/stoped quickly to meet a peak in demand. They are not as efficant as the big coal/nuke plants, but that isn't the main goal either.
True, but there are better uses for that power. My parents' water heater only turns on late at night, and then the hot water is stored for the next day. The power company controls this (for a big discount to my parents) to fill in the peak demands. They have in the past had the highest useable for the entire day be at 12:14am, when a lot of the load was this water heating!
That is just one example use for all that power. There are others. Start thinking.
Forget the embarressment factor, just put the money in a bank account, and collect interest until they cash the check. Of course you need to cover overhead (stamp at 35 cents, check and envelope at 25, plus your time) but that is where you should plan on the most money.
I've even heard of a guy doing that. Advertised Texas Oil well, money back if no oil in 5 years. Took the money, put it in a bank CD, sent it back 5 years latter, but kept the interest himself. Was legal because he had rights to oil on his land, and had a shovel that he was digging a well with. (obviously he would never strike oil) Might be a urban legend, but seems real anyway.
My dad has been a mainframe guy for years, and out of work for almost 2 now. Nobody will look at him because he only has a 2 year tech school degree. So they may want mainframe people, but don't think they are desperite enough to be flexable on their requirements.
I recall that I was allowed to use my calculator (hp48gx) on all exams. However for most of them we were told that it wasn't worth our while to bother. Once I got to the test I realized it was true, you are better off without a calculator.
Exams were designed so that the numbers would be easy to do in your head. So once you did the work you had something like (2+2)pi=4pi as the last step, then you circled 4pi and were done. The best part was, if you didn't use a calculator and the non-symbolic parts seemed hard you knew to go back and check your work there first because it was mostly likely to be wrong. (often I didn't have time to recheck all problems in the given time, so this was a useful clue of which problems I likely had wrong)
Sounds like you wife needs to drop service on the phone, while keeping it around. By law All cell phones will work to call 911 even if they otherwise don't have service.
You need to work in the real world a little bit. The sun workstations I know are rebooted only when the power goes out. These things operate just fine without reboots. Servers have a higher expectation, most operate for years at a time. When they are rebooted it is only because the out of date OS is no longer worth the gain of uptime, and then a slow time is picked well in advance. Well in advance means if you want to reboot on christmass this year, you are too late, the plans take longer than that.
Remember we are not talking about little servers here. Sun sells some big iron servers that do critical functions. Risk of the cluster software failing is not something they want to take. It sounds good on paper to say you have a 8 node cluster, but in practice it is very hard to do. I've personaly had to impliment software to deal with custom hardware failing in operation, and I can tell you it isn't easy. Despite hardware assurance that some procedure would work and was testing, when I implimented it we discovered (years latter) that there was about 1 chance in 100,000 that data would be lost. Tiny, but unaceptable.
When I worked in data centers (as engineering support for critical customers with problems I was an expert with) we were not allowed to reboot some of the Sun servers even though they had a full backup next to it that was running and full confidence in their failover software. It was well tested, everything would work and so they could reboot, but keeping things running was so critical to their buisness that we weren't allowed to reboot it anyway. The chance that the backup system would fail in the few minutes it took for the primary reboot wasn't worth the risk.
If you ever see a HVAC technition using duck tape fire him immeadiatly. The stuff does not hold up to use in duct work. (Exception: a temperary fix not intended to last more than a week) The glue will let go and then you have unsealed ducts. There are ways to seal ducts, but they are not tape.
By the by, although everyone (including us) calls that all-purpose handyman's necessity "duct tape," it is more properly styled "duck tape," which was the original name of the cloth-backed, waterproof adhesive developed for the U.S. Army to keep moisture out of ammunition cases.
Not in any american high school I've heard of. It was never allowed in school. After school many students got into fights, but it wasn't on school property. Just a bunch of idiots going to a park to fight. Easy to avoid if you aren't stupid enough to want to join.
Actually it is the freshmen who want to fight most. Hormons are peaking, and they haven't learned to deal with it yet. Seniors have matured a little bit, and gotten over the "enjoyment" of beating up someone not as tough as them.
My ISP carries binary groups, and contary to popular belief, not all of them are copyright violations. alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking rarely contains something other than woodworkers posting pictures of their latest creation.
Further, USENET contains in headers everything the ISP knows for sure about the poster, so the *AAs can figgure out themselves all they need to know to go after the violators. (not exactly, but until they do their own work and ask for the identity of who had aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd at such a time, the ISP can't tell them more than they can determin themselves)
I get about 50 spam messages a day in my email. I read several usenet groups, and see total of 5 a week on the busy weeks. Even then they are easy to weed out from the subject line, and rarely cross all groups.
I'll agree that the quality varies, but then it does everywhere else too. Those opinioniated people are everywhere in real life. Once I see a thread dropping into something that doesn't interest me it is very easy to skip the rest of the thread. This isn't Spam, because it is individual people (often 10 or 20) with strong opinions in one thread. Ignore the thread and you ignore the entire conversation. Much easier than email.
Both of your suggestions are worthless. Common, but you are better off with better tape, and oil.
WD-40 is for water displacement only. If you have water in the case, WD-40 is perfect for getting it out fast. Otherwise don't use it, the oil is designed to evaperate quickly and then you are back to where you started. A bottle of liquid wrench, and a bottle of sewing machine oil will not only be the same price, but work much better. (Don't get the spray cans, you don't want to spray the stuff all over anyway).
Duck tape (not duct tape despite popular belief) is for applications where you need a waterproof tape to hold for a short time. The glue doens't hold well to long term use, yet becomes a sticky mess when you do try remove it months latter. There are better tapes for the purpose. Or do what we did before duck tape, get some baling wire, that stuff was deisgned to hold things for a long time, yet be easy to open latter.
Perhaps, but I hope this guy has some way of keeping unwanteds out anyway. I can just see some local teens getting drunk and putting a few cuts into critical supports and him not noticing before a ride one day...
Well, nothing is said about him testing it... I can make some guesses though. My first test would be an unloaded car, which should make it around. Then I would figgure the person capacity of the car (one or two people it appears) and put 400 lbs per person (average person is less than 200 lbs, so double it for a margin of error) in the car, again the car should make it around. Solve all problems the above tests reveal. Then I would start looking for things like dolls that are similear to humans in shape to put in and make sure the whole thing works. Measure acceleration on these and check what the maxamum allowed on a person is.
That is the right way. In the old days (I have articals dating back to the 1910s that could be considered a form of coaster) you just built it, tested it unloaded, and then got the dumbest kid in the group to take the first ride. Read the true story of the Jato rocked on a car crashed into a mine darwin award winner... (look it up, I'm too lazy too, but you will soon see that they had a kid who wanted the first ride and had to convince him to allow a test run. The real story resembles the urban legend, but isn't as much fun)
I have to slightly disagree. I prefer a used car for price reasons, but I have some things I insits on. I'm likely the only one in the world who wants a big engine, manual transmission, manual locks and windows, A/C, cruise control, tilt, better radio etc. In other words I like luxery overall, but I have examined a few and discovered that I prefer the basic way.
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Re-read what he said: the car he selected had a manual option, but only for the smaller engine. He selected the car with the bigger engine and then the manual was not an option.
I hate that deer in the headlights look salesmen give me when I tell them that automatic transmissions are out, I won't touch them. I won't even test drive an auto with everything else I like and the manual on the way.
I'll accept point one, but then we have to find a different name for what I termed priests. Basicly you have people who's "job" is to study the bible, and teach the believers about it, and help convert non-belivers. They need some sort of name (pastor, preacher, etc. I choose priest in my previous post, but it was a bad choice of words in hindsite) so we can differenciate them from them from regular folks. Most of us do something other than study the bible for a living. Someone has to grow food for the priests, someone has to provide shelter, transportation, clothing, and the other basics. They are still priests in the bible (in the old testament God wanted the Jews to be a nation of priests. I don't recall anything like that in the NT, but at least that sprit is there), but they spend more time on other things. Of course everyone could provide for themselves, but it works better to specialize a little bit.
That out of the way, your post is basicly what I said: What is allowed (marriage) is different from what works best (single priests)
I feel obligated out point out that you are allowed one marriage, until death parts. Those divorced have only one option for marriage: make up with their ex and re-marry. How few "religious" people obey that one.
Nobody invests in the stock market with a time frame of less than 10 years until they need the money, it is stupid. Speculators can change the short term price of stock, but have little effect on the long term price. Don't worry about the short term investers, because either they will be out before you need the money, or you can afford to wait them out a little for a better price before you put it in.
As Warren Buffet (second richest person in the world, and got it all in stocks) said something like "Short term the stock market is a voting machine, long term it is a weighing machine."
I've always said that the drum is the hardest insterment to play well, mostly because is seems so easy that few can practice it like they should.
I takes a year (or so they say) to make a violin sound like a violin should sound, so you spend that year practicing it if you want to learn. It took me about 5 seconds at a drum set to learn how to make the snare drum sound like a snare drum. And the others are just as easy. So you never learn how to play it as an insterment. (chimes and tympani are harder to play, but few bands have them)
For those thinking about the drum as an insterment I'll give you this advice: The drum is a device for emphasizing the beat by not sounding on it. When the drummer plays on the beat (which is most of the time don't get me wrong) it is so the times when he plays off beat are more obvious. It is the job of the bass to keep the beat, with help from other insterments. (In bluegrass, bass and mandolin work togather to keep the beat, other styles of music have other insterments involved, but the drum should never be it)
No, short sellers help stock overall. Remember, when the price of stocks drop short sellers are buying, thus pushing prices UP in times of trouble when everyone else is selling. This is good for stock owners who are trying to get out. (Of course if you had made a good investment you would be willing to stick out the fall knowing it will come back, but...)
True, but the priests in the new testament are encouraged to not marry, and sex outside of marriage is not allowed. Thus a celibate life is encouraged for priests in the new testiment. Simon Peter was married, and the Gospil of Mark is generally thought to be written by his son. So we know that Jesus did allow marriage, but it isn't clear that he encouraged it.
My church has had married priests in the past, and they all agree that it is easier for unmarried priests to work in general. There were however some special situations that marriage is better.
The ones I've opened anyway, YMMV. Every cheap photo lab has the idiots open these cameras, so you can be pretty sure that once you take a roll it is trivial to get the film out without a darkroom. Normally you rip the cardboard, and open the bottom with a half twist with a screwdriver. To load new film is tricky, you will have to investigate. Worst case you throw the camera away and develop the film normally. More likely you will discover there is a hidden knob that you turn while pushing some buttom and the film loads. At least that is the one I reloaded 5 years ago.
I've found that dealers are only slightly more expensive than other mechanics, but often not as good. Remember, the dealer is the most likely to hire fresh out of high school kids and teach them to be mechanics. The good ones either start their own shop after getting expirence, or are offered a job paying more money by a mechanic who runs his own shop. The dealer is stuck with the kids who don't yet know what they are doing, and those older folks who are not bad enough to fire, but not good enough for someone else to hire away.
In the end though, there is only one mechanic I trust, and that is myself. I may not know as much, but the manufacture publishes a very good repair manual and I can figgure it out from that. I may be slower, but if I take three times as long to do the work I still break even while knowing it was done right.
Sure I can buy an inverter for my car, but that doesn't solve the problem I want to solve. I normally charge my phone by my bed, I want my charger there perminatly. Once in a while I take a long road trip and so I want a charger in my car. However I'm forgetful and likely won't bring the charger with. So I want a charger to leave my my car. For many road trips I car-pool, so I want the people I ride with to have a compatable charger too, we can share. Considering we choose the smallest car (gas milage) for the trip, sharing the charger is a way to save space.
Everyone in my family used to have Nokia phones, and it worked perfectly. Everyone had a charger for when I needed it so I didn't think about bringing mine. Then I broke my phone and discovered the new Nokia models suck. I know the standard keypad layout, don't mess with it. tri-band phones seem like a good idea eventhough I don't travel to Europe. Cameras are interesting and I wanted to try one. (I'm not sure if it was worth it) In the end I found that a non-Nokia phone offered the best price/feature combonation, but now I need all new chargers.
By definition a non-beliver cannot take the name of christ in vain. You seem to be under the (common) misconception that taking a name in vain is swearing, it is not. Taking a name in vain means that you claim Jesus/God wants something without having heard it from God. IF you are a non-beliver, then nobody will belive you when you say God wants xxx. A beliver who says God wants XXX may encourage others to do something wrong or unnessicary because they are trusted to carry God's (christ) words.
That isn't to say swearing isn't evil, but it isn't nearly as evil as taking the name of God in vain.
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Well it does depend on the plant design. However most "peaking plants" are natuarl gas. A peaking plant is a plant that can be started/stoped quickly to meet a peak in demand. They are not as efficant as the big coal/nuke plants, but that isn't the main goal either.
True, but there are better uses for that power. My parents' water heater only turns on late at night, and then the hot water is stored for the next day. The power company controls this (for a big discount to my parents) to fill in the peak demands. They have in the past had the highest useable for the entire day be at 12:14am, when a lot of the load was this water heating!
That is just one example use for all that power. There are others. Start thinking.
Forget the embarressment factor, just put the money in a bank account, and collect interest until they cash the check. Of course you need to cover overhead (stamp at 35 cents, check and envelope at 25, plus your time) but that is where you should plan on the most money.
I've even heard of a guy doing that. Advertised Texas Oil well, money back if no oil in 5 years. Took the money, put it in a bank CD, sent it back 5 years latter, but kept the interest himself. Was legal because he had rights to oil on his land, and had a shovel that he was digging a well with. (obviously he would never strike oil) Might be a urban legend, but seems real anyway.
My dad has been a mainframe guy for years, and out of work for almost 2 now. Nobody will look at him because he only has a 2 year tech school degree. So they may want mainframe people, but don't think they are desperite enough to be flexable on their requirements.
I recall that I was allowed to use my calculator (hp48gx) on all exams. However for most of them we were told that it wasn't worth our while to bother. Once I got to the test I realized it was true, you are better off without a calculator.
Exams were designed so that the numbers would be easy to do in your head. So once you did the work you had something like (2+2)pi=4pi as the last step, then you circled 4pi and were done. The best part was, if you didn't use a calculator and the non-symbolic parts seemed hard you knew to go back and check your work there first because it was mostly likely to be wrong. (often I didn't have time to recheck all problems in the given time, so this was a useful clue of which problems I likely had wrong)
Sounds like you wife needs to drop service on the phone, while keeping it around. By law All cell phones will work to call 911 even if they otherwise don't have service.
You need to work in the real world a little bit. The sun workstations I know are rebooted only when the power goes out. These things operate just fine without reboots. Servers have a higher expectation, most operate for years at a time. When they are rebooted it is only because the out of date OS is no longer worth the gain of uptime, and then a slow time is picked well in advance. Well in advance means if you want to reboot on christmass this year, you are too late, the plans take longer than that.
Remember we are not talking about little servers here. Sun sells some big iron servers that do critical functions. Risk of the cluster software failing is not something they want to take. It sounds good on paper to say you have a 8 node cluster, but in practice it is very hard to do. I've personaly had to impliment software to deal with custom hardware failing in operation, and I can tell you it isn't easy. Despite hardware assurance that some procedure would work and was testing, when I implimented it we discovered (years latter) that there was about 1 chance in 100,000 that data would be lost. Tiny, but unaceptable.
When I worked in data centers (as engineering support for critical customers with problems I was an expert with) we were not allowed to reboot some of the Sun servers even though they had a full backup next to it that was running and full confidence in their failover software. It was well tested, everything would work and so they could reboot, but keeping things running was so critical to their buisness that we weren't allowed to reboot it anyway. The chance that the backup system would fail in the few minutes it took for the primary reboot wasn't worth the risk.
If you ever see a HVAC technition using duck tape fire him immeadiatly. The stuff does not hold up to use in duct work. (Exception: a temperary fix not intended to last more than a week) The glue will let go and then you have unsealed ducts. There are ways to seal ducts, but they are not tape.
Duck tape is not just a brand name, according to snopes.com's duct tape page:
Not in any american high school I've heard of. It was never allowed in school. After school many students got into fights, but it wasn't on school property. Just a bunch of idiots going to a park to fight. Easy to avoid if you aren't stupid enough to want to join.
Actually it is the freshmen who want to fight most. Hormons are peaking, and they haven't learned to deal with it yet. Seniors have matured a little bit, and gotten over the "enjoyment" of beating up someone not as tough as them.
My ISP carries binary groups, and contary to popular belief, not all of them are copyright violations. alt.binaries.pictures.woodworking rarely contains something other than woodworkers posting pictures of their latest creation.
Further, USENET contains in headers everything the ISP knows for sure about the poster, so the *AAs can figgure out themselves all they need to know to go after the violators. (not exactly, but until they do their own work and ask for the identity of who had aaa.bbb.ccc.ddd at such a time, the ISP can't tell them more than they can determin themselves)
I get about 50 spam messages a day in my email. I read several usenet groups, and see total of 5 a week on the busy weeks. Even then they are easy to weed out from the subject line, and rarely cross all groups.
I'll agree that the quality varies, but then it does everywhere else too. Those opinioniated people are everywhere in real life. Once I see a thread dropping into something that doesn't interest me it is very easy to skip the rest of the thread. This isn't Spam, because it is individual people (often 10 or 20) with strong opinions in one thread. Ignore the thread and you ignore the entire conversation. Much easier than email.
Both of your suggestions are worthless. Common, but you are better off with better tape, and oil.
WD-40 is for water displacement only. If you have water in the case, WD-40 is perfect for getting it out fast. Otherwise don't use it, the oil is designed to evaperate quickly and then you are back to where you started. A bottle of liquid wrench, and a bottle of sewing machine oil will not only be the same price, but work much better. (Don't get the spray cans, you don't want to spray the stuff all over anyway).
Duck tape (not duct tape despite popular belief) is for applications where you need a waterproof tape to hold for a short time. The glue doens't hold well to long term use, yet becomes a sticky mess when you do try remove it months latter. There are better tapes for the purpose. Or do what we did before duck tape, get some baling wire, that stuff was deisgned to hold things for a long time, yet be easy to open latter.
Perhaps, but I hope this guy has some way of keeping unwanteds out anyway. I can just see some local teens getting drunk and putting a few cuts into critical supports and him not noticing before a ride one day...
Well, nothing is said about him testing it... I can make some guesses though. My first test would be an unloaded car, which should make it around. Then I would figgure the person capacity of the car (one or two people it appears) and put 400 lbs per person (average person is less than 200 lbs, so double it for a margin of error) in the car, again the car should make it around. Solve all problems the above tests reveal. Then I would start looking for things like dolls that are similear to humans in shape to put in and make sure the whole thing works. Measure acceleration on these and check what the maxamum allowed on a person is.
That is the right way. In the old days (I have articals dating back to the 1910s that could be considered a form of coaster) you just built it, tested it unloaded, and then got the dumbest kid in the group to take the first ride. Read the true story of the Jato rocked on a car crashed into a mine darwin award winner... (look it up, I'm too lazy too, but you will soon see that they had a kid who wanted the first ride and had to convince him to allow a test run. The real story resembles the urban legend, but isn't as much fun)
I have to slightly disagree. I prefer a used car for price reasons, but I have some things I insits on. I'm likely the only one in the world who wants a big engine, manual transmission, manual locks and windows, A/C, cruise control, tilt, better radio etc. In other words I like luxery overall, but I have examined a few and discovered that I prefer the basic way.
Re-read what he said: the car he selected had a manual option, but only for the smaller engine. He selected the car with the bigger engine and then the manual was not an option.
I hate that deer in the headlights look salesmen give me when I tell them that automatic transmissions are out, I won't touch them. I won't even test drive an auto with everything else I like and the manual on the way.
I'll accept point one, but then we have to find a different name for what I termed priests. Basicly you have people who's "job" is to study the bible, and teach the believers about it, and help convert non-belivers. They need some sort of name (pastor, preacher, etc. I choose priest in my previous post, but it was a bad choice of words in hindsite) so we can differenciate them from them from regular folks. Most of us do something other than study the bible for a living. Someone has to grow food for the priests, someone has to provide shelter, transportation, clothing, and the other basics. They are still priests in the bible (in the old testament God wanted the Jews to be a nation of priests. I don't recall anything like that in the NT, but at least that sprit is there), but they spend more time on other things. Of course everyone could provide for themselves, but it works better to specialize a little bit.
That out of the way, your post is basicly what I said: What is allowed (marriage) is different from what works best (single priests)
I feel obligated out point out that you are allowed one marriage, until death parts. Those divorced have only one option for marriage: make up with their ex and re-marry. How few "religious" people obey that one.
Nobody invests in the stock market with a time frame of less than 10 years until they need the money, it is stupid. Speculators can change the short term price of stock, but have little effect on the long term price. Don't worry about the short term investers, because either they will be out before you need the money, or you can afford to wait them out a little for a better price before you put it in.
As Warren Buffet (second richest person in the world, and got it all in stocks) said something like "Short term the stock market is a voting machine, long term it is a weighing machine."
I've always said that the drum is the hardest insterment to play well, mostly because is seems so easy that few can practice it like they should.
I takes a year (or so they say) to make a violin sound like a violin should sound, so you spend that year practicing it if you want to learn. It took me about 5 seconds at a drum set to learn how to make the snare drum sound like a snare drum. And the others are just as easy. So you never learn how to play it as an insterment. (chimes and tympani are harder to play, but few bands have them)
For those thinking about the drum as an insterment I'll give you this advice: The drum is a device for emphasizing the beat by not sounding on it. When the drummer plays on the beat (which is most of the time don't get me wrong) it is so the times when he plays off beat are more obvious. It is the job of the bass to keep the beat, with help from other insterments. (In bluegrass, bass and mandolin work togather to keep the beat, other styles of music have other insterments involved, but the drum should never be it)
No, short sellers help stock overall. Remember, when the price of stocks drop short sellers are buying, thus pushing prices UP in times of trouble when everyone else is selling. This is good for stock owners who are trying to get out. (Of course if you had made a good investment you would be willing to stick out the fall knowing it will come back, but ...)
True, but the priests in the new testament are encouraged to not marry, and sex outside of marriage is not allowed. Thus a celibate life is encouraged for priests in the new testiment. Simon Peter was married, and the Gospil of Mark is generally thought to be written by his son. So we know that Jesus did allow marriage, but it isn't clear that he encouraged it.
My church has had married priests in the past, and they all agree that it is easier for unmarried priests to work in general. There were however some special situations that marriage is better.
The ones I've opened anyway, YMMV. Every cheap photo lab has the idiots open these cameras, so you can be pretty sure that once you take a roll it is trivial to get the film out without a darkroom. Normally you rip the cardboard, and open the bottom with a half twist with a screwdriver. To load new film is tricky, you will have to investigate. Worst case you throw the camera away and develop the film normally. More likely you will discover there is a hidden knob that you turn while pushing some buttom and the film loads. At least that is the one I reloaded 5 years ago.
I've found that dealers are only slightly more expensive than other mechanics, but often not as good. Remember, the dealer is the most likely to hire fresh out of high school kids and teach them to be mechanics. The good ones either start their own shop after getting expirence, or are offered a job paying more money by a mechanic who runs his own shop. The dealer is stuck with the kids who don't yet know what they are doing, and those older folks who are not bad enough to fire, but not good enough for someone else to hire away.
In the end though, there is only one mechanic I trust, and that is myself. I may not know as much, but the manufacture publishes a very good repair manual and I can figgure it out from that. I may be slower, but if I take three times as long to do the work I still break even while knowing it was done right.
Sure I can buy an inverter for my car, but that doesn't solve the problem I want to solve. I normally charge my phone by my bed, I want my charger there perminatly. Once in a while I take a long road trip and so I want a charger in my car. However I'm forgetful and likely won't bring the charger with. So I want a charger to leave my my car. For many road trips I car-pool, so I want the people I ride with to have a compatable charger too, we can share. Considering we choose the smallest car (gas milage) for the trip, sharing the charger is a way to save space.
Everyone in my family used to have Nokia phones, and it worked perfectly. Everyone had a charger for when I needed it so I didn't think about bringing mine. Then I broke my phone and discovered the new Nokia models suck. I know the standard keypad layout, don't mess with it. tri-band phones seem like a good idea eventhough I don't travel to Europe. Cameras are interesting and I wanted to try one. (I'm not sure if it was worth it) In the end I found that a non-Nokia phone offered the best price/feature combonation, but now I need all new chargers.
By definition a non-beliver cannot take the name of christ in vain. You seem to be under the (common) misconception that taking a name in vain is swearing, it is not. Taking a name in vain means that you claim Jesus/God wants something without having heard it from God. IF you are a non-beliver, then nobody will belive you when you say God wants xxx. A beliver who says God wants XXX may encourage others to do something wrong or unnessicary because they are trusted to carry God's (christ) words.
That isn't to say swearing isn't evil, but it isn't nearly as evil as taking the name of God in vain.