I hear you, and am quite familiar with those doctrinal concepts, having been an unwilling childhood participant in various christian sects.
I never could reconcile the widely ranging interpretations of the bible by the various pastors I listened to. Not even the covenant would explain some of what appeared to be big contradictions.
Some pastors focused on the old testament and its rather hard-line commands and rules, some went easy-peasy with the new testament and its mercies - the fact that it is all open to broad and multiple interpretations, and that there's apparently no reconciliation of these views across sects, and that those ancient texts present a rather constrained worldview esp. of the universe we live in, caused me to start reading philosophy, Spinoza in particular.
Perhaps then you can explain why some Christians prefer to rely on the Old Testament fire-and-brimstone God, and some prefer the New Testament peace-lovin' Jesus? And some both, as convenient, it seems to me.
How much play is there to interpret the Bible? Is it all interpreted, some, or none?
It is the varying interpretations, from the many denominations of Christianity that my family attended when I was a child, that for me totally blew out the notion that the Bible's God could have any bearing at all on reality.
Some said the bible is the literal word of God, that the apostles simply transcribed what was "spoken" to them, while others said it was the interpreted experiences and observations of spiritual men. Which to believe?
That the creator of this vast universe, if it has such, with its billions of galaxies of billions of stars, would have any interest in the picayune daily activities of the creatures on this particular planet, to the point of logging them for a *later* tribunal determining afterlife entry to eternal paradise or torture... and oh, that this creature would also happen to look just like us... still seems absurd, egocentric and infantile.
Believe it or not, I'm not bating you - just sharing my thoughts. My beliefs today fall along the same lines of Spinoza. I think our universe is so vast that we really are incapable of understanding the totality of it. If there is a deity responsible for it all, I'd like to think it waits for species to ripen and make contact in a meaningful way... kind of like in Sagan's Contact.
The punishment of stoning was merely man's additional interpretation.
Thereby the reason to disbelieve anything in or about the bible: written by men, interpreted by men... for all you or I know, it's entirely fabrication.
Oh, I know, you get a *feeling* about it, which tells you its true. God's whispering in your ear, ain't she?
actually, that's Saturday... Odd though how the sabbath can move
s/Sunday/Sabbath/;
I don't think the punishment is death.
Exodus 31:15: For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must be put to death.
There are other, similar references in the Old Testament.
... and Jesus said it was ok to work...
It's unlikely that Jesus has enough hit-points to cancel spells issued by the Old Testament deity, because he wasn't deified until well after his death.
As for Jesus being "raised from the dead," I'm rather surprised that people don't immediately see him for what he really is: a zombie.
My sister married a gal from a wealthy family. They've spent over $20,000 on legal documents, trusts and related nonsense in order to ensure they have *some* of the rights entitled to heterosexual couples. And that's just for things that matter to courts - they can't change laws which grant rights only straight family members (visitation, child privileges, etc.)
I was curious about it at the time - from all I read, the gestation period is 1-3 days after exposure, and the fever peaking within 2-4 days.
That his symptoms showed up a week later doesn't explain if the shot gave him the flu, either, but boy did it make me wonder.
Also made me wonder if the reason why some vaccines are effective long-term (small pox), and some need frequent updating (flu) has to do with varying rates of speciation.
Vague threats of violence have no place in civil discourse. And your strawman statement about how he'll try to prove how "tough" he'd be by purposely coughing on people? How stupid was that?
You might as well amp it up with one more specious statement, then you'll be free and clear to call him a terrorist, phone it in to DHS, and get his ass tossed into Gitmo!
When my 76-y.o. father caught the flu last year, around a week after receiving his flu shot, I was somewhat shocked. Isn't that what it's supposed to prevent?
Whether the Canadian study has any merit will be determined in due course.
It would be worthwhile if Google didn't do it already for free.
You've missed the point... or you've never tried to use Google programmatically.
Google's search APIs are all bound to Javascript now. There is no way to connect with them from your Java, Python or Ruby application. Not, that is, if you don't want to get your IP(s) blocked for running too many queries.
This spidering service provides something similar to what Alexa Web Search once did.
Agreed wholeheartedly - and unfortunately for people with something cogent to say, the violence-prone anarchists are very much in the minority at protests of this type.
For the most part, protests are populated by concerned people who have a valid opinion to express. First amendment-protected speech.
But, because the police don't want to (or can't, really) take the time to differentiate between anarchists and non-violent protesters, everybody gets the same treatment. I'm not blaming them, the work of cops is difficult, and brats in hoodies and masks fuck up protests for everybody else. Police *have* to plan for the lowest common denominator on the street.
I worked as a freelance photojournalists from 1999 to 2004, mostly selling photos and the occasional story to AP and UPI. My primary interest was in covering protests, and the police. Seattle WTO, DC WB, Quebec City NAFTA, Miami FTAA, LA DNC, NYC RNC SF, Oakland etc. I've seen it all (or a lot, anyways.)
In my exercised opinion, there are better ways to get your point across, more targeted types of activism that leave you free from association with anarchists. Calling your representative and senators probably does more than protesting in the street - unfortunately. This country was founded on protest (and revolution.)
Protesting is a de facto outlaw activity now - not because the laws changed (not much), but because of codes like "disorderly conduct" which can be used to arrest pretty much anyone for anything.
ammo companies aren't going to increase their production lines too much because the increased buying was caused first by Obama's anti-gun tendencies and has continued because of the extremely large expansion in government power
Huh? You who didn't notice the "extremely large expansion in government power" during the Bush era deserve to get your playtoys taken away.
Didn't notice a one of you showing up to Bush's (few) public speaking engagements packin' 2nd amendment heat, not during the time he expanded the federal budget and deficit to new record levels, all the while crossing out sections of new law just cus his lawyers say he can.
Now that you got a Democratic president, you're all up in arms. Whoop-te-do, you're at least five years late.
A tiny fraction (not "a large number") of the membership disagrees with the vast majority, who have stated in unequivocal terms:
Emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities are changing the atmosphere in ways that affect the Earth's climate. Greenhouse gases include carbon dioxide as well as methane, nitrous oxide and other gases. They are emitted from fossil fuel combustion and a range of industrial and agricultural processes.
The evidence is incontrovertible: Global warming is occurring. If no mitigating actions are taken, significant disruptions in the Earthâ(TM)s physical and ecological systems, social systems, security and human health are likely to occur. We must reduce emissions of greenhouse gases beginning now."
You, on the other hand, should be ashamed for badly misrepresenting the APS in your OP.
Then how does he keep getting re-elected? I have heard many accusations against Sheriff Joe Arpaio, but I don't recall anyone suggesting that he has committed election fraud.
The article reviews allegations of illegal money funneling from Arpaio's senior deputies to the Republican-financed SCA. It also covers the over-the-top video campaign run by SCA that accuse Arpaio's opponent Dan Saban of rape (unfounded), letting child molesters go free (no evidence at all), and included portions of a video deposition from a civil suit where Arpaio's attorneys questioned Saban about his sexual practices including masturbation (plain old dirty politics.)
Now, while the campaign finance case remains open, nothing's proven - however, the video campaign itself was run again and again, analysed on TV news programs, and generally helped to swing the race in a big way, IMO.
So, the allegations are there, think what you will, but IMO one day soon the law will catch up with Sheriff Arpaio. If he doesn't croak first (he's old!)
Off duty police officers also retain protections against their own violations of law and lawsuits to which an ordinary citizen doesn't.
Right, partly by police union contract, and partly by dint of the Blue Code of Silence. Also, in many jurisdictions, off-duty officers retain their powers of arrest and weapon-carry privileges, wherein mistakes made have the same immunity as on-duty officers.
But when it comes to non-duty-related violations of law, officers still have far more protection against interrogation and prosecution than the average citizen. Check out Injustice Everywhere, a site which tracks crimes committed by on-and-off duty cops.
He was fired for falsifying the report (not for beating the suspect), only to be reinstated with full back-pay - because, his lawyers claimed, *his* rights as a cop had been violated. The point being that cops have a completely different set of rights than ordinary citizens.
But you have no idea yourself how they did it in a standalone 4KB executable, do you? Your comments on this article indicate you're as in the dark as everybody else (e.g. "a secret and hardware-specific way" -woo, technical!)
I'm no demo joe, but do have some idea what it takes to render 3D in realtime, having written a really basic game engine. A mode-X DOOM engine-alike, with back-traced texture maps (aliased), simplified BSP, all walls and sprites, no atmospherics, yielding decent framerates on early 100MHz Pentiums (no GPU or other libs) -- based in part on ideas lifted from the first Abrash book.
That effort was mixed C and assembly, and it did not fit into 4KB. IIRC the base.exe was ~56KB after subtracting out for space definitions, graphics and high-level game logic.
So tell us, how'd they pull it off? Specifics, please.
Stupid is/. commenters arguing over whether 4k means 4 kilobits or 4 kilobytes, or if the 4K file is source or executable! And not so much stupid as naive.
Stupid is believing that RGBA could possibly fit what they did -high-detail 3D rendering with textures, ray-tracing, atmospheric effects and camera motion, plus synthesized audio- into a 4KB executable, with no supporting libraries other than common Windows hardware device drivers.
Just. Not. Possible. Come up with a plausible explanation and I'm all ears.
Yeah, and Elevated *has* to be using platform libraries, no way to fit such detailed 3d rendering and audio into 4k. Probably just high-level invocations of Win/WMP libraries, though impressive they fit that much direction into so little space.
Sequential - very nice. Any idea how big the program is?
1) the opening scene from LOTR: The Two Towers, an amazing piece of design and rendering.
2) Audio player visualizations. The giveaway is the contrails appearing in sync to the music.
Is it possible RGBA are using a built-in visualization library, possibly from WMP? That would explain the high level of detail and apparent use of texture maps, which I'm guessing wouldn't fit into 4kb, algorithmic or not.
Slashdot Mirror
Got any examples, like some links to newstories perhaps? A lawsuit of that kind must have made the news.
Was this in a state where gay marriage is legal?
A quick search for pastors or churches who refused to marry gay couples doesn't show much of anything. Please correct that.
I hear you, and am quite familiar with those doctrinal concepts, having been an unwilling childhood participant in various christian sects.
I never could reconcile the widely ranging interpretations of the bible by the various pastors I listened to. Not even the covenant would explain some of what appeared to be big contradictions.
Some pastors focused on the old testament and its rather hard-line commands and rules, some went easy-peasy with the new testament and its mercies - the fact that it is all open to broad and multiple interpretations, and that there's apparently no reconciliation of these views across sects, and that those ancient texts present a rather constrained worldview esp. of the universe we live in, caused me to start reading philosophy, Spinoza in particular.
Peace.
New Covenant aka Covenant of Peace, iirc.
Perhaps then you can explain why some Christians prefer to rely on the Old Testament fire-and-brimstone God, and some prefer the New Testament peace-lovin' Jesus? And some both, as convenient, it seems to me.
How much play is there to interpret the Bible? Is it all interpreted, some, or none?
It is the varying interpretations, from the many denominations of Christianity that my family attended when I was a child, that for me totally blew out the notion that the Bible's God could have any bearing at all on reality.
Some said the bible is the literal word of God, that the apostles simply transcribed what was "spoken" to them, while others said it was the interpreted experiences and observations of spiritual men. Which to believe?
That the creator of this vast universe, if it has such, with its billions of galaxies of billions of stars, would have any interest in the picayune daily activities of the creatures on this particular planet, to the point of logging them for a *later* tribunal determining afterlife entry to eternal paradise or torture ... and oh, that this creature would also happen to look just like us ... still seems absurd, egocentric and infantile.
Believe it or not, I'm not bating you - just sharing my thoughts. My beliefs today fall along the same lines of Spinoza. I think our universe is so vast that we really are incapable of understanding the totality of it. If there is a deity responsible for it all, I'd like to think it waits for species to ripen and make contact in a meaningful way... kind of like in Sagan's Contact.
Thereby the reason to disbelieve anything in or about the bible: written by men, interpreted by men ... for all you or I know, it's entirely fabrication.
Oh, I know, you get a *feeling* about it, which tells you its true. God's whispering in your ear, ain't she?
Maybe internment camps for gays?
s/Sunday/Sabbath/;
Exodus 31:15: For six days, work is to be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest, holy to the LORD. Whoever does any work on the Sabbath day must be put to death.
There are other, similar references in the Old Testament.
It's unlikely that Jesus has enough hit-points to cancel spells issued by the Old Testament deity, because he wasn't deified until well after his death.
As for Jesus being "raised from the dead," I'm rather surprised that people don't immediately see him for what he really is: a zombie.
I prefer bacon with halva. It's a helluva halva!
My sister married a gal from a wealthy family. They've spent over $20,000 on legal documents, trusts and related nonsense in order to ensure they have *some* of the rights entitled to heterosexual couples. And that's just for things that matter to courts - they can't change laws which grant rights only straight family members (visitation, child privileges, etc.)
Hey, have you ever worked on Sunday? Why hasn't your church stoned you?
Working on Sunday is explicitly forbidden by the Bible, and the penalty is that your community must stone you to death.
I was curious about it at the time - from all I read, the gestation period is 1-3 days after exposure, and the fever peaking within 2-4 days. That his symptoms showed up a week later doesn't explain if the shot gave him the flu, either, but boy did it make me wonder. Also made me wonder if the reason why some vaccines are effective long-term (small pox), and some need frequent updating (flu) has to do with varying rates of speciation.
Vague threats of violence have no place in civil discourse. And your strawman statement about how he'll try to prove how "tough" he'd be by purposely coughing on people? How stupid was that?
You might as well amp it up with one more specious statement, then you'll be free and clear to call him a terrorist, phone it in to DHS, and get his ass tossed into Gitmo!
When my 76-y.o. father caught the flu last year, around a week after receiving his flu shot, I was somewhat shocked. Isn't that what it's supposed to prevent?
Whether the Canadian study has any merit will be determined in due course.
You've missed the point... or you've never tried to use Google programmatically.
Google's search APIs are all bound to Javascript now. There is no way to connect with them from your Java, Python or Ruby application. Not, that is, if you don't want to get your IP(s) blocked for running too many queries.
This spidering service provides something similar to what Alexa Web Search once did.
Agreed wholeheartedly - and unfortunately for people with something cogent to say, the violence-prone anarchists are very much in the minority at protests of this type.
For the most part, protests are populated by concerned people who have a valid opinion to express. First amendment-protected speech.
But, because the police don't want to (or can't, really) take the time to differentiate between anarchists and non-violent protesters, everybody gets the same treatment. I'm not blaming them, the work of cops is difficult, and brats in hoodies and masks fuck up protests for everybody else. Police *have* to plan for the lowest common denominator on the street.
I worked as a freelance photojournalists from 1999 to 2004, mostly selling photos and the occasional story to AP and UPI. My primary interest was in covering protests, and the police. Seattle WTO, DC WB, Quebec City NAFTA, Miami FTAA, LA DNC, NYC RNC SF, Oakland etc. I've seen it all (or a lot, anyways.)
In my exercised opinion, there are better ways to get your point across, more targeted types of activism that leave you free from association with anarchists. Calling your representative and senators probably does more than protesting in the street - unfortunately. This country was founded on protest (and revolution.)
Protesting is a de facto outlaw activity now - not because the laws changed (not much), but because of codes like "disorderly conduct" which can be used to arrest pretty much anyone for anything.
Huh? You who didn't notice the "extremely large expansion in government power" during the Bush era deserve to get your playtoys taken away.
Didn't notice a one of you showing up to Bush's (few) public speaking engagements packin' 2nd amendment heat, not during the time he expanded the federal budget and deficit to new record levels, all the while crossing out sections of new law just cus his lawyers say he can.
Now that you got a Democratic president, you're all up in arms. Whoop-te-do, you're at least five years late.
O'Really? Willing to go online Safari but not into the stacks for a classic, eh?
Joking aside, it's inevitable that new books will be only digital, though that'll take decades to manifest around the entire world.
A tiny fraction (not "a large number") of the membership disagrees with the vast majority, who have stated in unequivocal terms:
You, on the other hand, should be ashamed for badly misrepresenting the APS in your OP.
All the Sheriff's Men: The SCA Campaign-Finance Scandal is Linked to Sheriff Joe Arpaio's Chief Deputy David Hendershott
The article reviews allegations of illegal money funneling from Arpaio's senior deputies to the Republican-financed SCA. It also covers the over-the-top video campaign run by SCA that accuse Arpaio's opponent Dan Saban of rape (unfounded), letting child molesters go free (no evidence at all), and included portions of a video deposition from a civil suit where Arpaio's attorneys questioned Saban about his sexual practices including masturbation (plain old dirty politics.)
Now, while the campaign finance case remains open, nothing's proven - however, the video campaign itself was run again and again, analysed on TV news programs, and generally helped to swing the race in a big way, IMO.
So, the allegations are there, think what you will, but IMO one day soon the law will catch up with Sheriff Arpaio. If he doesn't croak first (he's old!)
Right, partly by police union contract, and partly by dint of the Blue Code of Silence. Also, in many jurisdictions, off-duty officers retain their powers of arrest and weapon-carry privileges, wherein mistakes made have the same immunity as on-duty officers.
But when it comes to non-duty-related violations of law, officers still have far more protection against interrogation and prosecution than the average citizen. Check out Injustice Everywhere, a site which tracks crimes committed by on-and-off duty cops.
Current example up on their home page, a Shreveport LA cop beats the living shit out of an unruly (but controllable) DUI suspect, ending with her on the floor in a pool of her own blood.
The cop turned off the state-mandated video evidence system several times, to prevent having his beatings of the suspect, Angela Garbarino, captured.
He was fired for falsifying the report (not for beating the suspect), only to be reinstated with full back-pay - because, his lawyers claimed, *his* rights as a cop had been violated. The point being that cops have a completely different set of rights than ordinary citizens.
Or Minutemen posing as Border Patrol agents, in a home invasion that ended with a 9-year old girl and her father murdered in cold blood.
Thanks, slackito - see my recant, I stumbed across Quilez's work while answering my question. Consider me both convinced and hooked.
Thanks for the gentle clue - chalk it up to ignorance, I haven't worked in graphics in over a decade.
See my recant.
Truly impressive work. I am embarrassed by my comments now.
I recant my rant. It really does look possible to do what RGBA did in 4KB. This thread forced me to go learn up ...
Producing mountain-like terrains with Perlin noise.
More by the same author (Inigo Quilez.)
Truly awesome and impressive. My eyes are opened, and I'm intrigued enough to try my hand at an implementation.
But you have no idea yourself how they did it in a standalone 4KB executable, do you? Your comments on this article indicate you're as in the dark as everybody else (e.g. "a secret and hardware-specific way" -woo, technical!)
I'm no demo joe, but do have some idea what it takes to render 3D in realtime, having written a really basic game engine. A mode-X DOOM engine-alike, with back-traced texture maps (aliased), simplified BSP, all walls and sprites, no atmospherics, yielding decent framerates on early 100MHz Pentiums (no GPU or other libs) -- based in part on ideas lifted from the first Abrash book.
That effort was mixed C and assembly, and it did not fit into 4KB. IIRC the base .exe was ~56KB after subtracting out for space definitions, graphics and high-level game logic.
So tell us, how'd they pull it off? Specifics, please.
Stupid is /. commenters arguing over whether 4k means 4 kilobits or 4 kilobytes, or if the 4K file is source or executable! And not so much stupid as naive.
Stupid is believing that RGBA could possibly fit what they did -high-detail 3D rendering with textures, ray-tracing, atmospheric effects and camera motion, plus synthesized audio- into a 4KB executable, with no supporting libraries other than common Windows hardware device drivers.
Just. Not. Possible. Come up with a plausible explanation and I'm all ears.
Yeah, and Elevated *has* to be using platform libraries, no way to fit such detailed 3d rendering and audio into 4k. Probably just high-level invocations of Win/WMP libraries, though impressive they fit that much direction into so little space.
Sequential - very nice. Any idea how big the program is?
On second viewing, two things come to mind:
1) the opening scene from LOTR: The Two Towers, an amazing piece of design and rendering.
2) Audio player visualizations. The giveaway is the contrails appearing in sync to the music.
Is it possible RGBA are using a built-in visualization library, possibly from WMP? That would explain the high level of detail and apparent use of texture maps, which I'm guessing wouldn't fit into 4kb, algorithmic or not.
This (admittedly weak) theory can be verified by disabling the visualization library for Windows Media Player.
Anyone want to volunteer to verify this?