If evolution is true, you'd agree that God did not create Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, right?
I will agree that God didn't create a place on Earth called "Garden of Eden", and didn't create a physical white male named Adam, didn't physically extract a physical rib from him and didn't physically turned that physical rib into a physical Caucasian female with physical long blond locks.
I will agree that God created all this in a meta-physical world. Now if you can think outside of the box, and beyond the Earth, you can ask yourself some profound metaphysical questions: Are Adam and Eve representative of the people of the Earth, or of any other planets bearing intelligent life? Is the Original Sin limited to the Earth, or is it universal? Does the sacrifice of Jesus only saves us human, or does it save people from other planets as well? If so, why did Jesus came specifically to Earth? Is he visiting the other worlds as well?
Taking the Bible to the letter, whether you're an atheist or a fundamentalist evangelical, kind of restrict the thought process. One group will read the Bible and declare it a bunch of hogwash. The other group will say it's the unquestionable Word of God transcribed in its magnificent purity.
The rest of us will read it, close the book, and start will thinking: What's the real meaning? How does that fit with my understanding of the world? How do I reconcile the notion of a universe created in 6 days, while living in a planet that was formed 4.5 billions years ago?
That's some serious paradoxes that are so fascinating to resolve if one keeps an open mind. If you are a fundamentalist evangelical, it's easy: Ignore the physical reality, and the paradox is resolved: God is everything. If you're an atheist: Easy also. Remove God and the paradox is resolved too.
Personally, I choose the hard way. By definition, it's not always easy. But I do believe I the learning, questioning, yearning, praying, make me a better man.
Instead of screaming how evil national ID cards are, you guys should use your powers to get your congresspersons to fix your information privacy laws. In fact get them to enact privacy laws like we have back home in old Europe:
Must not use information for another purpose than collected in the first place
Must provide the entirety of collected personal data upon request from the "collectee"
Must correct/remove the data upon request
Must not store the data beyond a reasonable period
Must not use IDs to cross reference between system
Of course, we don't have the convenience of being able to use our driver's license when we forget our library card, but identity theft is typically not a problem. So we do carry ID cards to prove who we are (ie citizen), because no other piece of information proves that much.
I would bitch if I were a US citizen, but I'm not, so I can't. It belongs to you get your privacy rights sorted. That national ID thing is just a bone thrown at you to make you feel you're in control of your privacy.
I tell you another anecdote: Someone once hit my car while it was parked. An anonymous person left me a note with the description of the car and license plate. The note was written on a receipt from CVS. The purchase was made the day before at CVS, paid by credit card, but the person who wrote the note didn't leave his or her name, and blacked out the credit card number.
I showed the note to cop, who wasn't fazed: He told me he could just go to the store where we purchase was made, and lookup from the items purchased what the credit card number was, and from there find who left the note.
You guys have no privacy. National ID cards or not.
The British didn't exactly surrender Hong Kong to the communists. The New Territories were on lease for 99 years from 1 July 1898(Expiring on 30 June 1997).
in 1982, Margaret Thatcher was very much inclined in keeping Hong Kong Island under British rules (Since the island was under a lease to perpetuity), but the PRC saw it differently- that Hong Kong had been taken from Chinese sovereignty in 1841.
What didn't help Mrs. Thatcher was the fact that the United Nation had passed a resolution in 1972 affirming the claim of the PRC over the island of Hong Kong.
To ease the transition from British to Chinese rule, Hong Kong has been granted a special administrative status, with its own government (albeit one that is approved by Beijing), but with a great deal of autonomy. In fact, China's main responsibility is to provide defense for HK since it doesn't have its own army.
You are of course well aware that you need a visa to visit China, but a simple EU or US passport is enough to visit HK. Or that you can't pay with HKD in China and can't pay with RMB in HK.
So Craigslist doesn't need the $500M to run the business... How about giving it all to charity?
There'd be that category where people would advertise the cause that is dear to them, and some flaging options for the community to decide whether that cause is worth the advertising we're exposed to. At the end of the month, the money is split according to the number of vote received.
There would probably need some form of check and balances to make sure the charities listed are for real, and the same people can't just keep on voting, but you get the gist
For the love of Pete... This has to be the most damaging form of protest ever. Folks! Wake up! This is counter-productive!
France is voting for a new president and a new parliament next year. Why don't you go and make your case to Segolene Royal and Nicolas Sarkozi? Why aren't you showing your petition to your MP? What are you trying to achieve by meeting a prime minister who has less than a year in office, and has 30% approval rate?
You may think that there is nothing to life other than being anti-DRM and pro-OSS, but over 10% of the French population is unemployed, the suburbs were burning last fall and student protests were paralyzing the country a couple months ago. Have a bit of perspective here. The dude has to prioritize. He knows he ain't staying, and pissing you off is probably an acceptable trade-off to him building his legacy with the population at large.
So please, please, please stop the whining and come back when you have a better game plan. Actions as such are your cause.
My guess is if you live in an area that is so ravaged, trading goods won't be a priority for you. You will probably live in a shelter, and eat meals from the Red Cross... Unless you relocate to an area that hasn't been hurt that much, in which case you might be able to use your cashless device. If the devastation is caused by WWIII, even cash might be useless.
At the end of the day, it's all about convenience. Debit and credit cards make it easier to steal my identity than stealing my cash, but frankly, I'd rather take that risk (Which is manageable with some common sense) than carrying with me hundreds of $$ in cash (Which can also be lost, as well as being stolen)
The same argument against cash can be made. It's very easy for the government to start printing $100 bills, thereby diluting the value of each individual dollar. Yet we weigh that risk against the inconvenience of trading with gold (Imagine having to check for the purity of the change you get from the pop machine). That's the privilege we have living in developed countries. In some backwards economy, I'd rather be paid in anything (bread, coffee beans, sea shells) but their paper currencies.
True, but the point being, of all the jobs known to mankind, one study in UK says IT manager is a crappy job, while another study in US says there is nothing better than being a software engineer.
It's peculiar that the guy with the best and the guy with the worst job are both computer profesionals.
Or maybe one of the two study (or both) is bollocks.
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I will agree that God didn't create a place on Earth called "Garden of Eden", and didn't create a physical white male named Adam, didn't physically extract a physical rib from him and didn't physically turned that physical rib into a physical Caucasian female with physical long blond locks.
I will agree that God created all this in a meta-physical world. Now if you can think outside of the box, and beyond the Earth, you can ask yourself some profound metaphysical questions: Are Adam and Eve representative of the people of the Earth, or of any other planets bearing intelligent life? Is the Original Sin limited to the Earth, or is it universal? Does the sacrifice of Jesus only saves us human, or does it save people from other planets as well? If so, why did Jesus came specifically to Earth? Is he visiting the other worlds as well?
Taking the Bible to the letter, whether you're an atheist or a fundamentalist evangelical, kind of restrict the thought process. One group will read the Bible and declare it a bunch of hogwash. The other group will say it's the unquestionable Word of God transcribed in its magnificent purity.
The rest of us will read it, close the book, and start will thinking: What's the real meaning? How does that fit with my understanding of the world? How do I reconcile the notion of a universe created in 6 days, while living in a planet that was formed 4.5 billions years ago?
That's some serious paradoxes that are so fascinating to resolve if one keeps an open mind. If you are a fundamentalist evangelical, it's easy: Ignore the physical reality, and the paradox is resolved: God is everything. If you're an atheist: Easy also. Remove God and the paradox is resolved too.
Personally, I choose the hard way. By definition, it's not always easy. But I do believe I the learning, questioning, yearning, praying, make me a better man.
(PS) For an example of a man of God who believed strongly in evolution, check http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre_Teilhard_de_Ch ardin
- Must not use information for another purpose than collected in the first place
- Must provide the entirety of collected personal data upon request from the "collectee"
- Must correct/remove the data upon request
- Must not store the data beyond a reasonable period
- Must not use IDs to cross reference between system
Of course, we don't have the convenience of being able to use our driver's license when we forget our library card, but identity theft is typically not a problem. So we do carry ID cards to prove who we are (ie citizen), because no other piece of information proves that much.I would bitch if I were a US citizen, but I'm not, so I can't. It belongs to you get your privacy rights sorted. That national ID thing is just a bone thrown at you to make you feel you're in control of your privacy.
I tell you another anecdote: Someone once hit my car while it was parked. An anonymous person left me a note with the description of the car and license plate. The note was written on a receipt from CVS. The purchase was made the day before at CVS, paid by credit card, but the person who wrote the note didn't leave his or her name, and blacked out the credit card number.
I showed the note to cop, who wasn't fazed: He told me he could just go to the store where we purchase was made, and lookup from the items purchased what the credit card number was, and from there find who left the note.
You guys have no privacy. National ID cards or not.
The British didn't exactly surrender Hong Kong to the communists. The New Territories were on lease for 99 years from 1 July 1898(Expiring on 30 June 1997). in 1982, Margaret Thatcher was very much inclined in keeping Hong Kong Island under British rules (Since the island was under a lease to perpetuity), but the PRC saw it differently- that Hong Kong had been taken from Chinese sovereignty in 1841. What didn't help Mrs. Thatcher was the fact that the United Nation had passed a resolution in 1972 affirming the claim of the PRC over the island of Hong Kong. To ease the transition from British to Chinese rule, Hong Kong has been granted a special administrative status, with its own government (albeit one that is approved by Beijing), but with a great deal of autonomy. In fact, China's main responsibility is to provide defense for HK since it doesn't have its own army. You are of course well aware that you need a visa to visit China, but a simple EU or US passport is enough to visit HK. Or that you can't pay with HKD in China and can't pay with RMB in HK.
So Craigslist doesn't need the $500M to run the business... How about giving it all to charity? There'd be that category where people would advertise the cause that is dear to them, and some flaging options for the community to decide whether that cause is worth the advertising we're exposed to. At the end of the month, the money is split according to the number of vote received. There would probably need some form of check and balances to make sure the charities listed are for real, and the same people can't just keep on voting, but you get the gist
For the love of Pete... This has to be the most damaging form of protest ever. Folks! Wake up! This is counter-productive! France is voting for a new president and a new parliament next year. Why don't you go and make your case to Segolene Royal and Nicolas Sarkozi? Why aren't you showing your petition to your MP? What are you trying to achieve by meeting a prime minister who has less than a year in office, and has 30% approval rate? You may think that there is nothing to life other than being anti-DRM and pro-OSS, but over 10% of the French population is unemployed, the suburbs were burning last fall and student protests were paralyzing the country a couple months ago. Have a bit of perspective here. The dude has to prioritize. He knows he ain't staying, and pissing you off is probably an acceptable trade-off to him building his legacy with the population at large. So please, please, please stop the whining and come back when you have a better game plan. Actions as such are your cause.
My guess is if you live in an area that is so ravaged, trading goods won't be a priority for you. You will probably live in a shelter, and eat meals from the Red Cross... Unless you relocate to an area that hasn't been hurt that much, in which case you might be able to use your cashless device. If the devastation is caused by WWIII, even cash might be useless. At the end of the day, it's all about convenience. Debit and credit cards make it easier to steal my identity than stealing my cash, but frankly, I'd rather take that risk (Which is manageable with some common sense) than carrying with me hundreds of $$ in cash (Which can also be lost, as well as being stolen) The same argument against cash can be made. It's very easy for the government to start printing $100 bills, thereby diluting the value of each individual dollar. Yet we weigh that risk against the inconvenience of trading with gold (Imagine having to check for the purity of the change you get from the pop machine). That's the privilege we have living in developed countries. In some backwards economy, I'd rather be paid in anything (bread, coffee beans, sea shells) but their paper currencies.
True, but the point being, of all the jobs known to mankind, one study in UK says IT manager is a crappy job, while another study in US says there is nothing better than being a software engineer. It's peculiar that the guy with the best and the guy with the worst job are both computer profesionals. Or maybe one of the two study (or both) is bollocks.