And those who never heard of God are likewise going to be in hell. As well as people who believe in other religions
The bible contradicts those statements. I wish I could cite chapter and verse, but my own preacher read it from teh pulpit a few months ago.
Even amongst the Christians, the Catholics are going to Hell, as well as the Baptists.
Well, the churches are full of atheists pretending to be Christian (I personally know a woman who says God doesn't exist but insists she's Catholic), but if you believe that Jesus is the Christ, son of the living God, your lord and savior who died for you and was ressurected, you don't go to hell as long as you repent your sins.
I grew up in a strict Catholic family, with strict Baptist Grandparents.
Man... I have problems with both of those groups. The catholics pray to the saints, which the bible frowns on greatly. Jesus said "when two or three gather together in my name, I will be there." They baptise infants, which is meaningless and stupid. Unless you choose baptism, it's a sick joke. And they baptise by sprinkling. And they don't consider you a Chriistian unless you're catholic.
The Baptists (like the Mormons) think drinking is a sin, despite the fact that Jesus drank. "John the Baptist neither ate nor drank, and you say he has a devil. The son of man comes eating and drinking and you call him a glutton and a winebibber." And they think dancing is evil.
Why won't Baptists have sex standing up? They're afraid someone will see them and think they're dancing.
The trouble isn't Christianity, it's Christians. The problem is, they're all human and therefore imperfect and simply get shit wrong.
It's not hard to sum it up. This God demands that you worship him. If you do, when you die, you will go to another place, where you will continue to worship him. If you do not worship him, you will be tortured forever.
The bible doesn't say that. It says that Satan will be thrown in th lake of fire and destroyed completely, and those who know God and reject him will be erased from the book of life. They will be as if they never existed.
I always wondered what he would do if you decided not to worship him when you got to heaven.
I don't see how you could be in paradise and not love the entity who sent you there, if if you decided not to you would be erased. Deleted from the program.
Or what if you lost a husband or wife in life, then got remarried, then re-met the original in heaven. Or divorce?
That's covered. Read the new testament, the Pharasees tried to trick Jesus with that very question.
Is sex not allowed in heaven?
Sex is a physical thing, a thing your body does, not your soul.
I get a kick out of people who bash books they've never read.
When you have a new toy, you can hardly wait to try it out.
When you build a new machine or write a new program you can't wait to test it.
for he could cast the sinning Eve as the first human that the kind and loving God tossed into the lake of fire, to be tortured forever and ever
That was a bug. Eventually the whole system was hosed, so he flooded it with zeros and started over. The next bug fix involved someone being beaten and then tortured, but that fix worked.
I'll be surprised if, as more and more people adopt electric cars, at some point there won't be massive power grid failures on a regular basis. It isn't designed for that sort of load
The power grid wasn't "designed" at all. It started over a hundred years ago and has been growing ever since, thanks to engineers, linemen, and power plant technicians.
Adoption of electric vehicles will come about gradually and the grid will be built to handle it. It's not like fifty million people in the US are going to buy Teslas tomorrow and suck it all at once.
They coped with massive electricity use gains during the 1920s, they'll cope with this.
It's not a "design feature" it's an insoluable engineering problem. Slashdot can't tell who you are when you're not logged in. The only fix would be disallowing all AC comments. Commenting after you've modded is indeed cheating. Of course, logged out you're starting at zero and few will see your comment unless you log back in and mod yourself up. I don't think anyone would deny that's cheating.
Maybe I got lucky. I had my first notebook for a year before it was stolen, and it did have a glitch -- if it was set to hibernate on close and sleep when powered, and you closed the lid then plugged it in before the lights stopped flashing, you had to remove the battery to get it going again. It was dual-boot and happened both with Windows 7 and kubuntu.
Its replacement didn't have those issues. I've had it for about 4 years now.
It ain't always like that, and not all women are whores like your ex-wife. In my case, she stayed home with the kids while I worked making damned little money. After I got a very big promotion when my new boss saw that I was doing things nobody else was capable of, I bought her a new car, we moved into a big house, and she left me (and our daughters) for an auto mechanic who was having all of his pay garnished by the IRS, the fool was in danger of prison.
Any woman (or man for that matter) who "falls in love" for money is a prostitute in disguise.
Then, a couple of years ago I met a woman with money who said she was in the middle of a divorce. She would never let me pick up the check. I dropped her when I found out her kids' ages, the same as mine when my ex left, I am NOT going to put kids through that.
Not all women are whores, and not all whores are streetwalkers.
Utter bullshit, it happens constantly. I learned not to buy a record album unless it was a best of, greatest hits, live, by a band I knew would have mostly good songs, or had heard the album at a friend's house almost half a century ago. I own over a dozen Isaac Asimov books; were it not for the public library I would likely never have even known he existed. I certainly am not stupid enough to buy a book by an author I hadn't read.
I pirated season 6 of TBBT last May. I bought the boxed set last week.
Tell me, how did I, a completely unknown author, manage to sell copies of Nobots? Simple: the people who bought it already read the first draft at slashdot. Had I not posted them I would not have sold a single copy.
Statistics show that pirates spend more money on media than non-pirates. The studies say exactly the opposite of your misinformed opinion.
If Congress can't handle a simple friggin website project, it's time to clean house and Enact term limits.
1. Congress doesn't build the web site, that's the Executive Branch's job 2. The President's term is already limited 3. My web site is a "simple friggin website project" but the ACA site is not. It has to pull data from many different databases in different agencies and private insurance companies, and feed the data to the states' exchanges. And it has to be able to handle hundreds of thousands of users at once.
If copyright were only ten years, Asimov wouldn't have made a dime from the Foundation trilogy. An editor at Doubleday was flabbergasted that Asimov hadn't received a single royalty in ten years (the books didn't sell, the publisher was weak in marketing) and only after Doubleday bought publication rights from Gnome did Asimov see any money.
I'm just now getting Nobots published, your ten year time period would limit my protection to six years, since I starteed working on it in 2009 (it started with a slashdot comment).
That said, twenty years is plenty of time (especially if an extension could be granted) and for software, ten would probably be more appropriate. The present length is absurdly long and harms creativity -- art is like science, in that everything new comes from the old.
Copyright worked as intended in this case. They were new works rather than some fifty year old song, and the pirates appropriated the work for commercial use. They were getting money that should have gone to the photographer.
In your case, someone DLing "The Hurt Locker" costs you nothing, the uploader gains nothing, and the downloader might think "hey, great movie" and see the sequel in the theater.
BTW, Read my book. For free. Yes, you can buy it, too; the printed version is superior -- typeface, etc. That's in stark contrast to your movie. The download is a superior product to the sold copy, which makes you sit through copyright warnings and maybe even advertisements.
Your employers are stupid. People will pay for quality.
You make little sense there. By the time there are a billion people in the US we'll either be single-payer like the intelligent, civilized world has, or we'll go back to "no money? Let 'em die."
What you're talking about is men sinning in the name of God. Christianity isn't what men actually do, but what they're expected to do. Like anything else, religion can be used for evil if evil men are in charge.
No, it's even more stupid to take your eyes off of the road in a car. If it can give voice directions that you can hear, great. But if you need to look at a screen, find somewhere to park.
"Emissions" means "dirty air coming out of the exhaust". If you're driving your Tesla in Clinton, IL you have zero emissions, period. If you're driving it in East St Louis or Chicago you're probably burning coal, but you'll pass the mandatory EPA tests they have to do in dirty cities. And in Chicago you may not only not be spewing particulates into pedestrians' faces, you may well not be emitting anything anywhere, because much of their electricity is from nukes.
did you know that an average USian uses double the energy than an average German (with similar living standards).
Of course. If Google can be trusted, it rarely gets below freezing in Germany and rarely gets hot enough to need air conditioning. I just looked it up, the lowest average low temp in Germany is 27F, average highest is 75F. Here in Springfield it ranges from ten below zero (-23.3C) to a hundred (38). And that's here; it gets a lot colder in North Dakota and Alaska and up to 120F (49C) in Arizona.
Plus we have all the fatasses in their giant FU-150s driving 30 miles to their office jobs.
Market share is only relevant because Samsung and other Android phone makers have dumped countless cheap worthless phones on the market, and get to claim market share.
Worthless? You iFans are even crazier than I thought you were. My $100 Kyocera will do everything your iBling will do except die if I get caught in a rainstorm (it's waterproof) and try to send me on a runway when I'm trying to park at the airport.
But other than BAD things, my $100 phone can do anything your iBling can.
Difficult to get speakers and microphone sealed up.
Kyocera managed to do it with the Edge Hydro. Will withstand being a meter underwater for an hour, they claim. And it still has a USB port and headphone jack, I have no idea how they pulled THAT one off.
Sweet, I've been waiting for this! Well, I've really been waiting for an bionic eye that has zoom function, x-ray vision, recording capability, etc.
I don't have a bionic eye, but I do have a bionic implant in my left eye. No zoom, x-ray, or recording (I have a phone to do that with, don't need it built in) but my previously extreme nearsightedness and age-related farsightedness are cured. I have better than 20/20 vision at all distances now, I see better than most teenagers, and I'm 61 years old!
Surgery in 2006, I'm still awed at the device and what it's done for me.
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And those who never heard of God are likewise going to be in hell. As well as people who believe in other religions
The bible contradicts those statements. I wish I could cite chapter and verse, but my own preacher read it from teh pulpit a few months ago.
Even amongst the Christians, the Catholics are going to Hell, as well as the Baptists.
Well, the churches are full of atheists pretending to be Christian (I personally know a woman who says God doesn't exist but insists she's Catholic), but if you believe that Jesus is the Christ, son of the living God, your lord and savior who died for you and was ressurected, you don't go to hell as long as you repent your sins.
I grew up in a strict Catholic family, with strict Baptist Grandparents.
Man... I have problems with both of those groups. The catholics pray to the saints, which the bible frowns on greatly. Jesus said "when two or three gather together in my name, I will be there." They baptise infants, which is meaningless and stupid. Unless you choose baptism, it's a sick joke. And they baptise by sprinkling. And they don't consider you a Chriistian unless you're catholic.
The Baptists (like the Mormons) think drinking is a sin, despite the fact that Jesus drank. "John the Baptist neither ate nor drank, and you say he has a devil. The son of man comes eating and drinking and you call him a glutton and a winebibber." And they think dancing is evil.
Why won't Baptists have sex standing up? They're afraid someone will see them and think they're dancing.
The trouble isn't Christianity, it's Christians. The problem is, they're all human and therefore imperfect and simply get shit wrong.
It's not hard to sum it up. This God demands that you worship him. If you do, when you die, you will go to another place, where you will continue to worship him. If you do not worship him, you will be tortured forever.
The bible doesn't say that. It says that Satan will be thrown in th lake of fire and destroyed completely, and those who know God and reject him will be erased from the book of life. They will be as if they never existed.
I always wondered what he would do if you decided not to worship him when you got to heaven.
I don't see how you could be in paradise and not love the entity who sent you there, if if you decided not to you would be erased. Deleted from the program.
Or what if you lost a husband or wife in life, then got remarried, then re-met the original in heaven. Or divorce?
That's covered. Read the new testament, the Pharasees tried to trick Jesus with that very question.
Is sex not allowed in heaven?
Sex is a physical thing, a thing your body does, not your soul.
I get a kick out of people who bash books they've never read.
When you have a new toy, you can hardly wait to try it out.
When you build a new machine or write a new program you can't wait to test it.
for he could cast the sinning Eve as the first human that the kind and loving God tossed into the lake of fire, to be tortured forever and ever
That was a bug. Eventually the whole system was hosed, so he flooded it with zeros and started over. The next bug fix involved someone being beaten and then tortured, but that fix worked.
I'm far more scared of idiots texting while driving than I am of terrorists. In fact, terrorists don't worry me at all.
I'll be surprised if, as more and more people adopt electric cars, at some point there won't be massive power grid failures on a regular basis. It isn't designed for that sort of load
The power grid wasn't "designed" at all. It started over a hundred years ago and has been growing ever since, thanks to engineers, linemen, and power plant technicians.
Adoption of electric vehicles will come about gradually and the grid will be built to handle it. It's not like fifty million people in the US are going to buy Teslas tomorrow and suck it all at once.
They coped with massive electricity use gains during the 1920s, they'll cope with this.
It's not a "design feature" it's an insoluable engineering problem. Slashdot can't tell who you are when you're not logged in. The only fix would be disallowing all AC comments. Commenting after you've modded is indeed cheating. Of course, logged out you're starting at zero and few will see your comment unless you log back in and mod yourself up. I don't think anyone would deny that's cheating.
Maybe I got lucky. I had my first notebook for a year before it was stolen, and it did have a glitch -- if it was set to hibernate on close and sleep when powered, and you closed the lid then plugged it in before the lights stopped flashing, you had to remove the battery to get it going again. It was dual-boot and happened both with Windows 7 and kubuntu.
Its replacement didn't have those issues. I've had it for about 4 years now.
It ain't always like that, and not all women are whores like your ex-wife. In my case, she stayed home with the kids while I worked making damned little money. After I got a very big promotion when my new boss saw that I was doing things nobody else was capable of, I bought her a new car, we moved into a big house, and she left me (and our daughters) for an auto mechanic who was having all of his pay garnished by the IRS, the fool was in danger of prison.
Any woman (or man for that matter) who "falls in love" for money is a prostitute in disguise.
Then, a couple of years ago I met a woman with money who said she was in the middle of a divorce. She would never let me pick up the check. I dropped her when I found out her kids' ages, the same as mine when my ex left, I am NOT going to put kids through that.
Not all women are whores, and not all whores are streetwalkers.
Utter bullshit, it happens constantly. I learned not to buy a record album unless it was a best of, greatest hits, live, by a band I knew would have mostly good songs, or had heard the album at a friend's house almost half a century ago. I own over a dozen Isaac Asimov books; were it not for the public library I would likely never have even known he existed. I certainly am not stupid enough to buy a book by an author I hadn't read.
I pirated season 6 of TBBT last May. I bought the boxed set last week.
Tell me, how did I, a completely unknown author, manage to sell copies of Nobots? Simple: the people who bought it already read the first draft at slashdot. Had I not posted them I would not have sold a single copy.
Statistics show that pirates spend more money on media than non-pirates. The studies say exactly the opposite of your misinformed opinion.
No. Trade is "I'll give you a coconut for those shiny beads." (yes, trade back scratches), This is "Hey, DUDE! Let me buy you a beer!"
Oh, and what they're drinking is in no way, shape, or form "beer". You don't make beer by spitting into fruit juice.
Wow, the ignorant moderating the ignorant up.
If Congress can't handle a simple friggin website project, it's time to clean house and Enact term limits.
1. Congress doesn't build the web site, that's the Executive Branch's job
2. The President's term is already limited
3. My web site is a "simple friggin website project" but the ACA site is not. It has to pull data from many different databases in different agencies and private insurance companies, and feed the data to the states' exchanges. And it has to be able to handle hundreds of thousands of users at once.
No way is it a "simple website".
How is Rand Paul in any way whatever a centrist?? You can't get much father to the right without goose stepping.
If copyright were only ten years, Asimov wouldn't have made a dime from the Foundation trilogy. An editor at Doubleday was flabbergasted that Asimov hadn't received a single royalty in ten years (the books didn't sell, the publisher was weak in marketing) and only after Doubleday bought publication rights from Gnome did Asimov see any money.
I'm just now getting Nobots published, your ten year time period would limit my protection to six years, since I starteed working on it in 2009 (it started with a slashdot comment).
That said, twenty years is plenty of time (especially if an extension could be granted) and for software, ten would probably be more appropriate. The present length is absurdly long and harms creativity -- art is like science, in that everything new comes from the old.
why do researchers feel they need to study tribal communties to learn about society?
There is no such thing as "human nature".
Copyright worked as intended in this case. They were new works rather than some fifty year old song, and the pirates appropriated the work for commercial use. They were getting money that should have gone to the photographer.
In your case, someone DLing "The Hurt Locker" costs you nothing, the uploader gains nothing, and the downloader might think "hey, great movie" and see the sequel in the theater.
BTW, Read my book. For free. Yes, you can buy it, too; the printed version is superior -- typeface, etc. That's in stark contrast to your movie. The download is a superior product to the sold copy, which makes you sit through copyright warnings and maybe even advertisements.
Your employers are stupid. People will pay for quality.
You make little sense there. By the time there are a billion people in the US we'll either be single-payer like the intelligent, civilized world has, or we'll go back to "no money? Let 'em die."
What you're talking about is men sinning in the name of God. Christianity isn't what men actually do, but what they're expected to do. Like anything else, religion can be used for evil if evil men are in charge.
No, it's even more stupid to take your eyes off of the road in a car. If it can give voice directions that you can hear, great. But if you need to look at a screen, find somewhere to park.
"Emissions" means "dirty air coming out of the exhaust". If you're driving your Tesla in Clinton, IL you have zero emissions, period. If you're driving it in East St Louis or Chicago you're probably burning coal, but you'll pass the mandatory EPA tests they have to do in dirty cities. And in Chicago you may not only not be spewing particulates into pedestrians' faces, you may well not be emitting anything anywhere, because much of their electricity is from nukes.
did you know that an average USian uses double the energy than an average German (with similar living standards).
Of course. If Google can be trusted, it rarely gets below freezing in Germany and rarely gets hot enough to need air conditioning. I just looked it up, the lowest average low temp in Germany is 27F, average highest is 75F. Here in Springfield it ranges from ten below zero (-23.3C) to a hundred (38). And that's here; it gets a lot colder in North Dakota and Alaska and up to 120F (49C) in Arizona.
Plus we have all the fatasses in their giant FU-150s driving 30 miles to their office jobs.
Market share is only relevant because Samsung and other Android phone makers have dumped countless cheap worthless phones on the market, and get to claim market share.
Worthless? You iFans are even crazier than I thought you were. My $100 Kyocera will do everything your iBling will do except die if I get caught in a rainstorm (it's waterproof) and try to send me on a runway when I'm trying to park at the airport.
But other than BAD things, my $100 phone can do anything your iBling can.
Difficult to get speakers and microphone sealed up.
Kyocera managed to do it with the Edge Hydro. Will withstand being a meter underwater for an hour, they claim. And it still has a USB port and headphone jack, I have no idea how they pulled THAT one off.
Sweet, I've been waiting for this! Well, I've really been waiting for an bionic eye that has zoom function, x-ray vision, recording capability, etc.
I don't have a bionic eye, but I do have a bionic implant in my left eye. No zoom, x-ray, or recording (I have a phone to do that with, don't need it built in) but my previously extreme nearsightedness and age-related farsightedness are cured. I have better than 20/20 vision at all distances now, I see better than most teenagers, and I'm 61 years old!
Surgery in 2006, I'm still awed at the device and what it's done for me.
What kinds of disabilities would a segway help overcome, that would not also hamper use of a segway?
Heart disease, COPD, fibromyalgia, lots of conditions. Not all physical disabilities are readily apparent.
Seriously, this is one thing I really miss about the US. You guys religiously lavel every road at every intersection. It makes navigation much easier.
I wish. Yeah, most streets are marked, but a lot aren't.
If solar is doing so great then why does it need subsidies?
The oil companies get subsidies, why isn't the GOP trying to stop that as well?