I am sick of having Joe Idiot Security guard poking his stick or whatever through my gear bag. If the TSA kills my PDA while doing their "search" I want some BUTT! Some may think oh is that all? YES! I paid lots of bucks for my gear and some idiot poking through my bag with a stick and possibly breaking stuff because they think they might find something bad is idiotic. Also, if we are going to do security, then do it the same in every public building. When I went to the Smithsonian, in one museum(American History Museum) I got a stick poked through my bag. In another(Air and Space Mueseum), I had to pretty much go through an airport treatment. Bag in xray and walk through metal detector. Are the Air and Space things more important? Also I am sick of having to remove my laptop from my bag. Does that and other "additional" security make me safer? No it makes me feel paranoid some idiot will drop my laptop on the way to swab it with that thing. Also, I noticed another item has hit the electronic devices ban on airplanes. You can no longer have a GPS device active on a airplane (even though every aircraft probably has one too). Things have changed security wise but has their actually been any security studies done to see if it proves it? I don't think so. At least they won't ask those stupid questions any more (Anyone ask ya to put stuff in your bag, have your bags ever been out of your control....that deal). I mean they were asking those BEFORE 9/11. Let's do something. Let's have the FAA do a study on both PED's and security. Let's see if a GPS, cellphone, radio, laptop actually do cause interferance to the avionics in a typical airliner. Let's see if having your 2 inches of recline during take off and landing makes you safer. Let's see if your tray table being up during take off and landing make you safer too. Let's do something we should have a long time ago...a scientific study before we do policy. It can't be any worse then what we do now.
Of showing movies shot with the idea of standard movie theater in mind being shown on a IMAX screen. What's the big deal? It's just a bigger screen. I can see that (with exception of Crappy Audio) at a drive in!
Microsoft STILL has support for a 9x os. 98 I think is still supported as is ME. Also, the switch for Microsoft users has not been as drastic. I am running a great amount of software that I ran on ME under XP with pretty much zero problems. My old Paralell Port scanner even works thru a kludge (registry hack).
No, they are not. Hard dries could be used for archiving, but they are nto a substitute for a raid array and good tape backup system. There are systems that can backup 320 Gb effectively...but not cheaply!
A rareity? I have never had a ripper fail on XP be it CDex or something else. Musicmatch has suport for XP as well as others. But, in my opinion, CDex is so good why use anything else?
Kernel changes that modularize everything that can be (pretty much that way now) and everything loaded on need (it's done that way now too mostly). So why compile your kernel (besides the because you can thing). One thing I would like is to see a standard way for non GPL'd drivers to be added to the kernel without a recompile, or having to half way compile (proprietary core) with a kernel interface needing compiled. It's kind of that way with some, but only if your binary is developed against the same kernel (the LTMODEM drivers used to be and may be still this way). Microsoft does not write all of their drivers. We should not have to either. Seems to me this would sure make alot more hardware work under Linux! I know the GNU bigots won't like it much, but I just want to be able to have more stuff supported out of the box then I do now.
Yeah. Well. I never much cared for it, but I do know Farscape was popular. Maybe now they will go back to showing reruns of other good series. With exception of TNN, ever notice that there aren't many networks who show what they started to show when they started. SciFi when they started showed things like Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica and things like that. Cartoon Network showed, well, old cartons like Bugs Bunny, Yogi Bear and Fred Flintstone. Now on there you get stuff like the Powerpuff Girls (eck) and Johnny Bravo. Maybe SciFi can do reruns of Dark Angel? Who knows!
Brings to mind another point....I remember everyone saying oh Kelly from survivor or Colleen who made that horrid The Animal movie with Rob Schnieder are going to be house hold words.....for MAYBE one month after the show. Now where are they? Only thing memorable for me was that a local radio station intern here actually banged Jenna from survior. It even made the radio(not the banging, but the story)! I don't remember much else. Don't even ask me about Survior 3 and 4. Fear Factor blows too. Fear Factor is a radio intern stunt blown up by 10.
Yep! Was going to post it but since you did I won't. I just covered that when taking some AIX training. This feature isn't revolutionary but it is a good idea. You save all of that last minute what caused the kernel to panic stuff so you can then forward it to IBM and see if it's a kernel issue or whatever. I really think that Apple will choose the IBM chips. Those who think they will go down the X86 path are mistaken. IBM makes some of the best servers I have ever seen on every platform including X86 machines.
Is most access points have this type of thing built in. Mine does and I got a Linksys. No big hairy deal really. Go to a web page on the router and click a button and poof you have a list of all users on the wireless. Quick. Simple.
Praise god someone gets it. I loved the line on that page that says that the Bible is full of myths. I supposed the tomb of Jesus Christ is empty because someone robbed it and not because he rose? I suppose the tomb existing at all is a myth eh? So many people get fooled into thinking in one way or another. So many people assume since Catholics call themselves Christians and use the same bible as I that they are Christians too. Well, some may be. The whole way Catholics consider the pope being on the same place as Jesus feels just weird to me. Also, I bet I could not be comfortable and rock out to Ancient of Days or some other songs while I dance in church and praise the lord if I was in a Catholic church. Also a couple others on here say that there are many gods. One foe the jews one for the islamics one for the christians....etc etc. Got news for them...they are most likely all the same god. First off, the god the Jews pray to is the same as the Christians. Jews simply do not believe the messiah has come already. They believe Jesus was a very spirtual man. Jesus in the bible is referred to many times as King of the Jews (he also was a jew). Islamics actually have a link back to Judaism and Christianity as well. All of the big three have links to Abraham pointing to my opinion that all three of these religions probably spring forth from the same roots. Only Christianity has scriptures that come right out and tell you exactly what to do to get to heaven...so I have been told and I believe. Also Mohammad has also been reported being written about in Hindu scriptures as well. Buddhism and Taoists also may even have links as well. This is where I think alot of folks mess up with paganism and stuff like that. If you don't believe in god, what do you believe? Darwin? We evolved from the primordial ooze and conditions were just right for life to exist and there was no god or outside help? What if the tinfoil types are right and we get proof we were dropped here by aliens? Will that change my opinion of God and Jesus??? Somehow I don't think so. There would still be many questions that we'd need answered. Did the aliens bring us here because god commanded it? I know I am skewing offtopic alot here, but still, it makes a point that alot of the Hard Sci Fi fans would not read something like Harry Potter myself included. Lots of Sci Fi conventions also forget this and have things there thatI don't appreciate. Marcon is one of those here in Columbus. I wanted to like and feel good about some of these people that worked at the con and I wanted to increase the amount of hard sci fi there. It was not meant to be. That and I was asked to take care of other (insensitive) fans kids while they attended forums and the like and the whole environment of the con was just....well, it felt WRONG. I never felt confortable at the parties and meetings and was looked at incredulously when I said I did not watch the X-files. If the X files stuck to aliens and things like that I would have watched it more. Sci Fi fandom claims they love Star Trek yet they never give it accolades. Sure, the Berman era is not as good but it's better than no Star Trek at all. That and Enterprise is turning out to be better then I expected. The Hugo's have always gone to these weird soft sci fi things. Anyway, to get to the point, NOT all Christians are tied by dogma and can't think for themselves. A great many have seen the err of the Catholics and others and do not insist on all of the legalism.
Oh by the way...I am dialoging here....not arguing...:)
This thing (the pics of the device) has been out and about in while. I almost got a Zaurus. Something about applications that are easily installable stopped me there. I do the tar ball compile thing for work....I don't want to do it for something I need to work to keep track of work if you know what I mean. I don't have time for that!;)
We'll see. Yeah alot of that stuff is secondary. But personally, I don't see it going on forever. Some things just do. To me a fad is just what I think Harry is now. The IN thing to read for kids. Kids are really faddish. After a while, something else will peak their interest (read when the next set of kids turn 8). There's nothing I see in Harry Potter that will just make it like Star Wars. The funny thing about Star Wars....I enjoy it and my newphew does and I am sure my Son will too. It's appeal is universal. Harry doesn't seem to me to be that. I have no interest in reading it in any form while I am sure my neice loves them. BTW one could say the same about beanies....some folks STILL collect them. They are STILL popular....they just aren't out in the media. Pogs are too. Every once in a while I will see a stack of POGS sitting somewhere. Be thankful kids are faddish....that means Britney's time is just about up!;) Then she will be the next E! true hollywood story.
I do love the sinnner. Where on earth in my post did I say I did not? I just said there's NOTHING good about Witches. My heart aches that they don't know the truth.
Also, those two web pages had some interesting articles with facts without an accompanying link where I can verify the source of their supposed facts. The one article with references to Samhain and him not being a form of Satan (or that in Wicca there is no Satan....)....he made statetments but there was nothing there to back him up.
I have read many translations of the bible and they almost all say the same things. I have never seen a translation that confuses the meaning of the scriptures. As for there being no Devil, that's an opinion of the Wiccans. I have news for you. Ne is VERY real. He's on thie planet right now. I am sick of everyone telling me I must be open to others. Being opne is this crappy Political Correctness that prvents people from trying to be themselves. If you don't want to hear someone preach the gospel, you can walk down the street or never go to church. Or CHANGE THE CHANNEL TOO! Just the same, I suggest that Christians do the same if the see something that offends them. This is how I excercise why I see Harry Potter books as just wrong. That's my opinion. You don't have to bash me for it.
All I am trying to do is be myself. Christianity certainly does not try to change the way people are other then getting them to try to get rid of destructive habits. Being open to others (as in religion) is the way satan corrupts the unsuspecting. I am not saying we should go bash in Muslim, Pagan's or wiccans because of what they believe. That would be wrong. Trying to be open is why we aren't doing something we as a country should be doing right now....disposing of Saddam Hussein. Some say what does this have to do with religion...I say it has EVERYTHING to do with it. Being all touchy feely about all of the innocents that would be hurt because of the bombing we'd do. Well, you know what? ANYONE can improve their own position even if it comes at great risk. If they don't agree with Saddam they can find a way to leave. While I don't want them hurt, I am afraid I see no other way to fix things. I, for one, am in total agreement with the president on this one.
I don't car eif it is a press release or not. Small PC's like this have a TON of uses I can come up with in less than 30 seconds:
MP3 Server in car GPS navigation in car Wearable (with proper battery pack) Internet terminal in car for passengers
Telematic Solution (Voice navigation, MP3, Internet fed by a 3G cel phone providing all sorts of services with TTS for the driver and a LCD for passengers...ends the are we there yet questions of kids).
Stick it in your kitchen, bedroom, bathroom or hall closet.
Listen. Not everyone needs a fire breathing machine to surf the net or word process. Not everone plays quake (I'm a geek and I don't). Not everyone needs a 400 dollar video card. My neighbor has a 2-3 year old machine and is perfectly happy with it. It does everything he needs. Personally, I am ready for an upgrade myself, but not even to a top end machine. I need the processor power, but don't need a Geforce 4. I will be happy with something that just processes a hair faster then my Duron 700. I'd be happy with the 1.2 Ghz machine you threw out yesterday.
If Harry Potter is still being mentioned every once in a while in 20 years....then I will say it's not a fad. Personally, I don't think it will have the holding power that Star Wars or Star Trek has had. Sure peoole may be reading it for decades just as people watch the same crap movies time after time on TV. But I don't think that their will be a Harry Potter in Witchcraft College book stating the tales an tribulations of Harry as he enters his 20's.
You should give Harry Potter a chance. It's a fun book, with more than a few christian or nearly-christian themes, even if God is a bit absent. But if you refuse to give "Harry Potter" a chance because of its "witchcraft" themes, can you at least be consistent and stay away from Star Wars, Star Trek, American Gods, Babylon 5, everything Asimov wrote, and just about all the other avenues of Science Fiction ever written? They ALL have rather blatant anti-Christian messages, and are filled with blasphemy, aside from a very small minority.
Star Trek anti Christian? I doubt that very much. First off, my pastor loves Star Trek and see's nothing anti christian in it at all. You don't see sex portrayed much in Star Trek and I hope they never go down that line. While I will agree that Star Wars had some witchcraft connotations they are just that....connotations. And with the release of The Phantom Menace and other prequels we find out that Jedi's aren't as mistifying as they seem. There's a scientific reason they can do the things they do....even if it's made up (midichlorians).
Harry Potter is blantant. It comes right out and screams we are witches and worlocks. To me ANY form of that is evil. There's no such thing as a good witch. Now I am not going to go on a witch hunt because the ones who say they are are being fooled by satan.
Most folks into goth and Marilyn Manson have no idea what they are getting into. It is satan worshiping and nothing less. Some say Marilyn Manson is putting on a show and on that note I say your right. But it does not mean he's not committing sins while he's doing that.
Probably the hardest things for non-christians to grasp is how can so and so be a christian and do the things that they do? They can because we are sinners and that's why we needed Jesus to die for our sins. I am not saying they should continue down that path. They should not. We are humans and are of a sinful nature. We are bound to make mistakes. What's bad is when we continue to sin. Then we continue down the path of the Dark Side (or the path to hell...if you don't like a comparison). One of the most interesting books I have read was a comparison of the Jedi to Christians. It was a really compelling book albiet small.
I am not closed minded. I believe that there's one god and there's noone more powerful then him. I cannot accept that there are any more gods than the only god I know.
Telekenesis is not really an indication of god either. You think god is going to come down and make thing levitate to prove he's god? That's laughable in this day and age.
Also, I find it funny that I get marked a troll because I am doing what most people won't. Stating their beliefs in a open forum. Isn't that what we preach or say we should do hear on Slashdot? I can see past dogma. Dogma is nothing more then legalism and it's not what is preached at my church. In my church we can show up in shorts, t-shirts and even jeas or dressed in the finest finery if we'd like. There's no "Dress Code". To some "christians", my church could be considered a group of blasphemers because several of our songs sound like rock and roll never mind that they are praises to god! We believe there's one god. We believe everything we have is there because of him. We believe what is written in the bible, our only mandatory reading. There's no hymnals in our church. There's no catechism classes except bible study. We don't have volume after volume of things that should and should not be done/said/worn in church (like the catholics do). We pray and sing praises to god in anyway we see fit. We don't kneel at certain times in church and we don't say that everyone must stand during praise and worship. We also usually don't try to judge although it is human nature to do this. I don't usually like to get into these things on Slashdot because the sheep that read Slashdot will dock me because I am doing what they claim they support. Stating my opinion and free thoughts. I am not trying to convert Slashdot or cram it down your throat although if someone goes to church because of what I said, praise god! I am just stating that Sci Fi is one thing, fantasy is another. By fantasy I mean dragons, witches and that sort of thing not the fantasy or made up item of faster than light travel. Their should be a clear line between and I usually see a clear line but can agree that often there isn't one. That's just all a part of the fight between good and evil. Not always is it clear to the reader what is what. I am not condeming you if you read Harry Potter. I am saying I will not read it because it's counter to all of my belief system. If that's closed minded, well, so be it. At least I have the guts to try to stick to my beliefs rather then roll over and submit to satan's whims like most folks do.
Sci Fi is NOT fantasy. Fantasy is stuff that will never happen or if it does we are in deep crap. Fantasy is or can be considered withcraft. I have a problem with that. I am a Christian and when you see people doing things that are god like it's considered blasphemy. Although Jedi can be considered witch like, you don't see the things like lightning bolts shooting from their hands and the like unless they are evil (usually). Not preaching or anything, but some people have a problem with Fantasy being called Sci Fi. Sci fi usually involves science. Fantasy usually doesn't. I agree with Hemos opinion. While I have not, and will not read Harry Potter books due to the witchcraft connotations, I agree that it does not deserve a Hugo. Harry Potter is a true fad and nothing that will ever last near as long as Star Trek or Star Wars. I mean here we are nearly a year since the film has ben out and do you hear anything in any media (mass media or other forms) about Harry Potter? Nope. Some may say that it's because a new book has not been written or something to that effect. But I think the fad's about over. I am aware of the bnlip about the false Rowling book being found in asia, but other then that nada. IT'S A FAD! Just like Britney Spears. Now I'll have to check out that book.
Ok this isn't making me feel sorry. First off, these people are being made to suffer by a government that does not realize that the people far outweigh the amount of army there is...plus the army folks may end up joining the real folks when the call for revolution. On the other hand, this kind of reason is why I still have junk laying around the house for one, and for two why I never throw this stuff away until it's TOTALLY useless.
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I am sick of having Joe Idiot Security guard poking his stick or whatever through my gear bag. If the TSA kills my PDA while doing their "search" I want some BUTT! Some may think oh is that all? YES! I paid lots of bucks for my gear and some idiot poking through my bag with a stick and possibly breaking stuff because they think they might find something bad is idiotic. Also, if we are going to do security, then do it the same in every public building. When I went to the Smithsonian, in one museum(American History Museum) I got a stick poked through my bag. In another(Air and Space Mueseum), I had to pretty much go through an airport treatment. Bag in xray and walk through metal detector. Are the Air and Space things more important? Also I am sick of having to remove my laptop from my bag. Does that and other "additional" security make me safer? No it makes me feel paranoid some idiot will drop my laptop on the way to swab it with that thing. Also, I noticed another item has hit the electronic devices ban on airplanes. You can no longer have a GPS device active on a airplane (even though every aircraft probably has one too). Things have changed security wise but has their actually been any security studies done to see if it proves it? I don't think so. At least they won't ask those stupid questions any more (Anyone ask ya to put stuff in your bag, have your bags ever been out of your control....that deal). I mean they were asking those BEFORE 9/11. Let's do something. Let's have the FAA do a study on both PED's and security. Let's see if a GPS, cellphone, radio, laptop actually do cause interferance to the avionics in a typical airliner. Let's see if having your 2 inches of recline during take off and landing makes you safer. Let's see if your tray table being up during take off and landing make you safer too. Let's do something we should have a long time ago...a scientific study before we do policy. It can't be any worse then what we do now.
Of showing movies shot with the idea of standard movie theater in mind being shown on a IMAX screen. What's the big deal? It's just a bigger screen. I can see that (with exception of Crappy Audio) at a drive in!
Microsoft STILL has support for a 9x os. 98 I think is still supported as is ME. Also, the switch for Microsoft users has not been as drastic. I am running a great amount of software that I ran on ME under XP with pretty much zero problems. My old Paralell Port scanner even works thru a kludge (registry hack).
Yep! NOT CHEAP! :) Although 15K is great for a datacenter, but 15K for a home user ain't going to happen!
No, they are not. Hard dries could be used for archiving, but they are nto a substitute for a raid array and good tape backup system. There are systems that can backup 320 Gb effectively ...but not cheaply!
A rareity? I have never had a ripper fail on XP be it CDex or something else. Musicmatch has suport for XP as well as others. But, in my opinion, CDex is so good why use anything else?
Remember Space Cowboys....Flying brick eh??
Kernel changes that modularize everything that can be (pretty much that way now) and everything loaded on need (it's done that way now too mostly). So why compile your kernel (besides the because you can thing). One thing I would like is to see a standard way for non GPL'd drivers to be added to the kernel without a recompile, or having to half way compile (proprietary core) with a kernel interface needing compiled. It's kind of that way with some, but only if your binary is developed against the same kernel (the LTMODEM drivers used to be and may be still this way). Microsoft does not write all of their drivers. We should not have to either. Seems to me this would sure make alot more hardware work under Linux! I know the GNU bigots won't like it much, but I just want to be able to have more stuff supported out of the box then I do now.
Yeah. Well. I never much cared for it, but I do know Farscape was popular. Maybe now they will go back to showing reruns of other good series. With exception of TNN, ever notice that there aren't many networks who show what they started to show when they started. SciFi when they started showed things like Buck Rogers, Battlestar Galactica and things like that. Cartoon Network showed, well, old cartons like Bugs Bunny, Yogi Bear and Fred Flintstone. Now on there you get stuff like the Powerpuff Girls (eck) and Johnny Bravo. Maybe SciFi can do reruns of Dark Angel? Who knows!
Brings to mind another point....I remember everyone saying oh Kelly from survivor or Colleen who made that horrid The Animal movie with Rob Schnieder are going to be house hold words.....for MAYBE one month after the show. Now where are they? Only thing memorable for me was that a local radio station intern here actually banged Jenna from survior. It even made the radio(not the banging, but the story)! I don't remember much else. Don't even ask me about Survior 3 and 4. Fear Factor blows too. Fear Factor is a radio intern stunt blown up by 10.
Yep! Was going to post it but since you did I won't. I just covered that when taking some AIX training. This feature isn't revolutionary but it is a good idea. You save all of that last minute what caused the kernel to panic stuff so you can then forward it to IBM and see if it's a kernel issue or whatever. I really think that Apple will choose the IBM chips. Those who think they will go down the X86 path are mistaken. IBM makes some of the best servers I have ever seen on every platform including X86 machines.
Is most access points have this type of thing built in. Mine does and I got a Linksys. No big hairy deal really. Go to a web page on the router and click a button and poof you have a list of all users on the wireless. Quick. Simple.
Praise god someone gets it. I loved the line on that page that says that the Bible is full of myths. I supposed the tomb of Jesus Christ is empty because someone robbed it and not because he rose? I suppose the tomb existing at all is a myth eh? So many people get fooled into thinking in one way or another. So many people assume since Catholics call themselves Christians and use the same bible as I that they are Christians too. Well, some may be. The whole way Catholics consider the pope being on the same place as Jesus feels just weird to me. Also, I bet I could not be comfortable and rock out to Ancient of Days or some other songs while I dance in church and praise the lord if I was in a Catholic church. Also a couple others on here say that there are many gods. One foe the jews one for the islamics one for the christians....etc etc. Got news for them...they are most likely all the same god. First off, the god the Jews pray to is the same as the Christians. Jews simply do not believe the messiah has come already. They believe Jesus was a very spirtual man. Jesus in the bible is referred to many times as King of the Jews (he also was a jew). Islamics actually have a link back to Judaism and Christianity as well. All of the big three have links to Abraham pointing to my opinion that all three of these religions probably spring forth from the same roots. Only Christianity has scriptures that come right out and tell you exactly what to do to get to heaven...so I have been told and I believe. Also Mohammad has also been reported being written about in Hindu scriptures as well. Buddhism and Taoists also may even have links as well. This is where I think alot of folks mess up with paganism and stuff like that. If you don't believe in god, what do you believe? Darwin? We evolved from the primordial ooze and conditions were just right for life to exist and there was no god or outside help? What if the tinfoil types are right and we get proof we were dropped here by aliens? Will that change my opinion of God and Jesus??? Somehow I don't think so. There would still be many questions that we'd need answered. Did the aliens bring us here because god commanded it? I know I am skewing offtopic alot here, but still, it makes a point that alot of the Hard Sci Fi fans would not read something like Harry Potter myself included. Lots of Sci Fi conventions also forget this and have things there thatI don't appreciate. Marcon is one of those here in Columbus. I wanted to like and feel good about some of these people that worked at the con and I wanted to increase the amount of hard sci fi there. It was not meant to be. That and I was asked to take care of other (insensitive) fans kids while they attended forums and the like and the whole environment of the con was just....well, it felt WRONG. I never felt confortable at the parties and meetings and was looked at incredulously when I said I did not watch the X-files. If the X files stuck to aliens and things like that I would have watched it more. Sci Fi fandom claims they love Star Trek yet they never give it accolades. Sure, the Berman era is not as good but it's better than no Star Trek at all. That and Enterprise is turning out to be better then I expected. The Hugo's have always gone to these weird soft sci fi things. Anyway, to get to the point, NOT all Christians are tied by dogma and can't think for themselves. A great many have seen the err of the Catholics and others and do not insist on all of the legalism.
Oh by the way...I am dialoging here....not arguing...:)
This thing (the pics of the device) has been out and about in while. I almost got a Zaurus. Something about applications that are easily installable stopped me there. I do the tar ball compile thing for work....I don't want to do it for something I need to work to keep track of work if you know what I mean. I don't have time for that! ;)
We'll see. Yeah alot of that stuff is secondary. But personally, I don't see it going on forever. Some things just do. To me a fad is just what I think Harry is now. The IN thing to read for kids. Kids are really faddish. After a while, something else will peak their interest (read when the next set of kids turn 8). There's nothing I see in Harry Potter that will just make it like Star Wars. The funny thing about Star Wars....I enjoy it and my newphew does and I am sure my Son will too. It's appeal is universal. Harry doesn't seem to me to be that. I have no interest in reading it in any form while I am sure my neice loves them. BTW one could say the same about beanies....some folks STILL collect them. They are STILL popular....they just aren't out in the media. Pogs are too. Every once in a while I will see a stack of POGS sitting somewhere. Be thankful kids are faddish....that means Britney's time is just about up! ;) Then she will be the next E! true hollywood story.
I do love the sinnner. Where on earth in my post did I say I did not? I just said there's NOTHING good about Witches. My heart aches that they don't know the truth.
Also, those two web pages had some interesting articles with facts without an accompanying link where I can verify the source of their supposed facts. The one article with references to Samhain and him not being a form of Satan (or that in Wicca there is no Satan....)....he made statetments but there was nothing there to back him up.
I have read many translations of the bible and they almost all say the same things. I have never seen a translation that confuses the meaning of the scriptures. As for there being no Devil, that's an opinion of the Wiccans. I have news for you. Ne is VERY real. He's on thie planet right now. I am sick of everyone telling me I must be open to others. Being opne is this crappy Political Correctness that prvents people from trying to be themselves. If you don't want to hear someone preach the gospel, you can walk down the street or never go to church. Or CHANGE THE CHANNEL TOO! Just the same, I suggest that Christians do the same if the see something that offends them. This is how I excercise why I see Harry Potter books as just wrong. That's my opinion. You don't have to bash me for it.
All I am trying to do is be myself. Christianity certainly does not try to change the way people are other then getting them to try to get rid of destructive habits. Being open to others (as in religion) is the way satan corrupts the unsuspecting. I am not saying we should go bash in Muslim, Pagan's or wiccans because of what they believe. That would be wrong. Trying to be open is why we aren't doing something we as a country should be doing right now....disposing of Saddam Hussein. Some say what does this have to do with religion...I say it has EVERYTHING to do with it. Being all touchy feely about all of the innocents that would be hurt because of the bombing we'd do. Well, you know what? ANYONE can improve their own position even if it comes at great risk. If they don't agree with Saddam they can find a way to leave. While I don't want them hurt, I am afraid I see no other way to fix things. I, for one, am in total agreement with the president on this one.
Er drool I mean! You see drool is sticking to my fingers I love this thing so much!
I still droll over this system. Only wish it has an extra PCI slot, but I can deal with only one (perfect fit for my TV card....dahrool!).
I don't car eif it is a press release or not. Small PC's like this have a TON of uses I can come up with in less than 30 seconds:
MP3 Server in car
GPS navigation in car
Wearable (with proper battery pack)
Internet terminal in car for passengers
Telematic Solution (Voice navigation, MP3, Internet fed by a 3G cel phone providing all sorts of services with TTS for the driver and a LCD for passengers...ends the are we there yet questions of kids).
Stick it in your kitchen, bedroom, bathroom or hall closet.
Listen. Not everyone needs a fire breathing machine to surf the net or word process. Not everone plays quake (I'm a geek and I don't). Not everyone needs a 400 dollar video card. My neighbor has a 2-3 year old machine and is perfectly happy with it. It does everything he needs. Personally, I am ready for an upgrade myself, but not even to a top end machine. I need the processor power, but don't need a Geforce 4. I will be happy with something that just processes a hair faster then my Duron 700. I'd be happy with the 1.2 Ghz machine you threw out yesterday.
If Harry Potter is still being mentioned every once in a while in 20 years....then I will say it's not a fad. Personally, I don't think it will have the holding power that Star Wars or Star Trek has had. Sure peoole may be reading it for decades just as people watch the same crap movies time after time on TV. But I don't think that their will be a Harry Potter in Witchcraft College book stating the tales an tribulations of Harry as he enters his 20's.
You should give Harry Potter a chance. It's a fun book, with more than a few christian or nearly-christian themes, even if God is a bit absent. But if you refuse to give "Harry Potter" a chance because of its "witchcraft" themes, can you at least be consistent and stay away from Star Wars, Star Trek, American Gods, Babylon 5, everything Asimov wrote, and just about all the other avenues of Science Fiction ever written? They ALL have rather blatant anti-Christian messages, and are filled with blasphemy, aside from a very small minority.
Star Trek anti Christian? I doubt that very much. First off, my pastor loves Star Trek and see's nothing anti christian in it at all. You don't see sex portrayed much in Star Trek and I hope they never go down that line. While I will agree that Star Wars had some witchcraft connotations they are just that....connotations. And with the release of The Phantom Menace and other prequels we find out that Jedi's aren't as mistifying as they seem. There's a scientific reason they can do the things they do....even if it's made up (midichlorians).
Harry Potter is blantant. It comes right out and screams we are witches and worlocks. To me ANY form of that is evil. There's no such thing as a good witch. Now I am not going to go on a witch hunt because the ones who say they are are being fooled by satan.
Most folks into goth and Marilyn Manson have no idea what they are getting into. It is satan worshiping and nothing less. Some say Marilyn Manson is putting on a show and on that note I say your right. But it does not mean he's not committing sins while he's doing that.
Probably the hardest things for non-christians to grasp is how can so and so be a christian and do the things that they do? They can because we are sinners and that's why we needed Jesus to die for our sins. I am not saying they should continue down that path. They should not. We are humans and are of a sinful nature. We are bound to make mistakes. What's bad is when we continue to sin. Then we continue down the path of the Dark Side (or the path to hell...if you don't like a comparison). One of the most interesting books I have read was a comparison of the Jedi to Christians. It was a really compelling book albiet small.
I am not closed minded. I believe that there's one god and there's noone more powerful then him. I cannot accept that there are any more gods than the only god I know.
Telekenesis is not really an indication of god either. You think god is going to come down and make thing levitate to prove he's god? That's laughable in this day and age.
Also, I find it funny that I get marked a troll because I am doing what most people won't. Stating their beliefs in a open forum. Isn't that what we preach or say we should do hear on Slashdot? I can see past dogma. Dogma is nothing more then legalism and it's not what is preached at my church. In my church we can show up in shorts, t-shirts and even jeas or dressed in the finest finery if we'd like. There's no "Dress Code". To some "christians", my church could be considered a group of blasphemers because several of our songs sound like rock and roll never mind that they are praises to god! We believe there's one god. We believe everything we have is there because of him. We believe what is written in the bible, our only mandatory reading. There's no hymnals in our church. There's no catechism classes except bible study. We don't have volume after volume of things that should and should not be done/said/worn in church (like the catholics do). We pray and sing praises to god in anyway we see fit. We don't kneel at certain times in church and we don't say that everyone must stand during praise and worship. We also usually don't try to judge although it is human nature to do this. I don't usually like to get into these things on Slashdot because the sheep that read Slashdot will dock me because I am doing what they claim they support. Stating my opinion and free thoughts. I am not trying to convert Slashdot or cram it down your throat although if someone goes to church because of what I said, praise god! I am just stating that Sci Fi is one thing, fantasy is another. By fantasy I mean dragons, witches and that sort of thing not the fantasy or made up item of faster than light travel. Their should be a clear line between and I usually see a clear line but can agree that often there isn't one. That's just all a part of the fight between good and evil. Not always is it clear to the reader what is what. I am not condeming you if you read Harry Potter. I am saying I will not read it because it's counter to all of my belief system. If that's closed minded, well, so be it. At least I have the guts to try to stick to my beliefs rather then roll over and submit to satan's whims like most folks do.
Sci Fi is NOT fantasy. Fantasy is stuff that will never happen or if it does we are in deep crap. Fantasy is or can be considered withcraft. I have a problem with that. I am a Christian and when you see people doing things that are god like it's considered blasphemy. Although Jedi can be considered witch like, you don't see the things like lightning bolts shooting from their hands and the like unless they are evil (usually). Not preaching or anything, but some people have a problem with Fantasy being called Sci Fi. Sci fi usually involves science. Fantasy usually doesn't. I agree with Hemos opinion. While I have not, and will not read Harry Potter books due to the witchcraft connotations, I agree that it does not deserve a Hugo. Harry Potter is a true fad and nothing that will ever last near as long as Star Trek or Star Wars. I mean here we are nearly a year since the film has ben out and do you hear anything in any media (mass media or other forms) about Harry Potter? Nope. Some may say that it's because a new book has not been written or something to that effect. But I think the fad's about over. I am aware of the bnlip about the false Rowling book being found in asia, but other then that nada. IT'S A FAD! Just like Britney Spears. Now I'll have to check out that book.
This thing will just suck. I wonder if anyone had a Heathkit Hero and upgraded it's brains?
Imagining Tasha and Data GETTING IT ON! Of course for Tasha it was probably alot like a Symbian (weird ass sex toy). That was one funny scene.
Ok this isn't making me feel sorry. First off, these people are being made to suffer by a government that does not realize that the people far outweigh the amount of army there is...plus the army folks may end up joining the real folks when the call for revolution. On the other hand, this kind of reason is why I still have junk laying around the house for one, and for two why I never throw this stuff away until it's TOTALLY useless.