Actually, atheists such as Stalin and Mao committed the worst atrocities of the 20th century. Even Hitler believed in atheist concepts such as speeding up "survival of the fittest", which in his mind meant white people and certainly not Jews.
People of religion actually risked their own lives to save others (often strangers) from these tyrants.
Actually, many books of the Old Testament were found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, which almost certainly predate Christ, and CANNOT go past the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70.
Actually, the "corruptions" appear in every new Bible. They are listed in the footnotes. The King James text actually contains all of them in the text itself. This dynamic is well understood and nobody is freaking out over it.
Also, Papyrus fragments predating Siniaticus contain most of the New Testament if you look at all of them as a whole. There is far more agreement than disagreement between the mass, which is to be expected if you understand copying and textual criticism.
1 The Spirit clearly says that in later times some will abandon the faith and follow deceiving spirits and things taught by demons. 2 Such teachings come through hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared as with a hot iron. 3 They forbid people to marry and order them to abstain from certain foods, which God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and who know the truth. 4 For everything God created is good, and nothing is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving, 5 because it is consecrated by the word of God and prayer.
I'm not trying to bash the Catholics here, but it would seem that people that forbid marrying for priests and meat on Fridays is not really where you want to be.
The Apostle Paul VOLUNTARILY went unmarried because of his faith, but even commented that others would probably be unable to do so, and should marry rather than commit sexual sin. At no time did he criticize married believers such as Peter.
This is more misleading than the typical CNN article.
The portions are "missing" for a couple reasons:
This manuscript is the oldest. When copyists left things out accidentally, they put it in the margin. When people added explanatory notes, they put things...IN THE MARGIN. The copyist coming along afterward has no way of knowing which is which. This is why the OLDEST manuscripts (such as Siniaticus) are the most important. (BTW, this all happened in the 50s and 60s and all versions of the Bible newer than NIV [1970s] have already removed all these verses and relegated them to the footnotes, because they were not in the original text.)
They are "missing" because the Codex Siniaticus was originally found in a trash can outside a monastery, waiting to be burned in an era where few people thought that keeping an old copy missing some important pages was worth anything.
Thankfully, Tischendorf rescued it from the fire, even in its incomplete and damaged state.
I remember at Fry's they used to sell versions of Aladdin, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Little Mermaid, etc. (under those names) in animated format. They suck. (My kids were watching one at church one day and they are really bad.) They are still for sale. Nobody is stopping them.
What Disney tends to crack down on is:
People using their Trademarks, Characters, etc., which THEY CREATED a likeness of.
People using THEIR SCRIPT and THEIR SONGS in a musical to which they are selling admission for profit.
etc.
Now, this is not to say that Disney doesn't have their share of abuses. There were several companies selling a "Classic Pooh" bear that looked more like the illustrations in the book and not like the Disney character. Disney then came out and trademarked their own "Classic Pooh" and then proceeded to sue all their competitors out of business because of the likeness. That was pretty underhanded, even if the original sellers forgot to get a Trademark.
Still, for the most part, Disney doesn't really claim ownership in these works. They are still easy to find for free at Project Gutenberg. You can still create your own new version of these stories (not including Disney's character designs, songs, added characters or scripts). Go ahead, film them and put them on YouTube or sell them on Netflix or Amazon. Nobody is stopping you.
Why not? If you just want to block per-port or per-application, it does just that.
It does? Every time I have tried to use it, it blocks apps even though they are in the list. I set up everything the way that it should be and it still doesn't work. I turn it off, and everything works perfectly. This is why everyone turns it off, because IT DOESN'T WORK.
Of course, if someone were to somehow figure out/reverse engineer the Nintendo API's without signing any NDA or contract with Nintendo, they could maybe create an open-source SDK which is 'compatible' with the Nintendo SDK, at which point third parties could start creating GPL programs for Nintendo (although you might not be able to get the software to RUN on a Wii without hacking the wii with some sort of modchip or Bios-flash or something. . . several posters have mentioned that software won't run on a Wii if it's not cryptographically signed using a key from Nintendo.
I still think a new e-mail system that charged 1 cent per e-mail would work. SPAM would instantly be too expensive, but the 10 messages I send friends per month wouldn't be.
Yes, because the thousands of repeatable experiments done using the scientific method by people with PhD's is the complete antithesis of science. Oh, and evolution and the big bang are perfect and cannot be challenged by anyone. If they are, it's not science.
If you want to criticize Creation Science, fine. But all I ask is that you read some of it first, since, by your statements, you clearly never have.
The Palm Treo 700w is VERY popular. I have one and almost everyone I know on Sprint or Verizon has one.
Palm just improved tethering on this old phone in their latest software update.
I've always viewed the press as a 4th branch of government. Its purpose should not be to report what brings in money; it should be reporting as much of the facts as it can get its hands on. In that, our current media has failed.
Actually, compared to Congress and the Whitehouse, I'd say it's doing better. The Supreme Court has been decent (note I didn't say great) lately, though.
Actually most Amazon songs are over 200kbps. I suspect that they are using something similar to the LAME alt present standard, which even people with much better hearing than I have can't hear the difference from the original.
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Actually, atheists such as Stalin and Mao committed the worst atrocities of the 20th century. Even Hitler believed in atheist concepts such as speeding up "survival of the fittest", which in his mind meant white people and certainly not Jews.
People of religion actually risked their own lives to save others (often strangers) from these tyrants.
Unlike the Koran, early copies of the Bible that don't agree weren't gathered and burned, leaving no copies of the "changed beyond 1 iota".
Burned Korans
You've clearly put so much research into this...
Actually, many books of the Old Testament were found in the Dead Sea Scrolls, which almost certainly predate Christ, and CANNOT go past the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70.
Actually, the "corruptions" appear in every new Bible. They are listed in the footnotes. The King James text actually contains all of them in the text itself. This dynamic is well understood and nobody is freaking out over it.
Also, Papyrus fragments predating Siniaticus contain most of the New Testament if you look at all of them as a whole. There is far more agreement than disagreement between the mass, which is to be expected if you understand copying and textual criticism.
Actually, it does. 1 Timothy 4:
I'm not trying to bash the Catholics here, but it would seem that people that forbid marrying for priests and meat on Fridays is not really where you want to be.
The Apostle Paul VOLUNTARILY went unmarried because of his faith, but even commented that others would probably be unable to do so, and should marry rather than commit sexual sin. At no time did he criticize married believers such as Peter.
This is more misleading than the typical CNN article.
The portions are "missing" for a couple reasons:
Thankfully, Tischendorf rescued it from the fire, even in its incomplete and damaged state.
You mean like this mention?
http://www.codex-sinaiticus.net/en/manuscript.aspx?book=36&chapter=21&lid=en&side=r&zoomSlider=0
Just because some portions were cut off at the end due to age, doesn't mean that it's somehow a conspiracy.
I remember at Fry's they used to sell versions of Aladdin, Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Little Mermaid, etc. (under those names) in animated format. They suck. (My kids were watching one at church one day and they are really bad.) They are still for sale. Nobody is stopping them.
What Disney tends to crack down on is:
Now, this is not to say that Disney doesn't have their share of abuses. There were several companies selling a "Classic Pooh" bear that looked more like the illustrations in the book and not like the Disney character. Disney then came out and trademarked their own "Classic Pooh" and then proceeded to sue all their competitors out of business because of the likeness. That was pretty underhanded, even if the original sellers forgot to get a Trademark.
Still, for the most part, Disney doesn't really claim ownership in these works. They are still easy to find for free at Project Gutenberg. You can still create your own new version of these stories (not including Disney's character designs, songs, added characters or scripts). Go ahead, film them and put them on YouTube or sell them on Netflix or Amazon. Nobody is stopping you.
Where ARE my mod points lately?
It does? Every time I have tried to use it, it blocks apps even though they are in the list. I set up everything the way that it should be and it still doesn't work. I turn it off, and everything works perfectly. This is why everyone turns it off, because IT DOESN'T WORK.
You mean like this?
I still think a new e-mail system that charged 1 cent per e-mail would work. SPAM would instantly be too expensive, but the 10 messages I send friends per month wouldn't be.
Yes, because the thousands of repeatable experiments done using the scientific method by people with PhD's is the complete antithesis of science. Oh, and evolution and the big bang are perfect and cannot be challenged by anyone. If they are, it's not science.
If you want to criticize Creation Science, fine. But all I ask is that you read some of it first, since, by your statements, you clearly never have.
Funny, most textbooks don't even have a blurb that big on Creation Science, despite it having a lot to say...
Or is it only a travesty when the side you favor is left out?
This is exactly what should be done. (Wish I had Mod Points today).
The Palm Treo 700w is VERY popular. I have one and almost everyone I know on Sprint or Verizon has one. Palm just improved tethering on this old phone in their latest software update.
You mean McDonald's?
Hardly surprising coming from a grammar Nazi.
What are you talking about? Windows.Forms works just fine and (to me) is the way to go if you want to develop cross-platform applications in C#.
The only part to watch is interacting with the file system. Everything else just works.
Did he just type his username and password in plaintext? Now be good everyone...
Actually, compared to Congress and the Whitehouse, I'd say it's doing better. The Supreme Court has been decent (note I didn't say great) lately, though.
Because, some programmers, like those above, would multithread such a simple operation and then do it wrong. KISS.
Actually most Amazon songs are over 200kbps. I suspect that they are using something similar to the LAME alt present standard, which even people with much better hearing than I have can't hear the difference from the original.
And if they hadn't, we wouldn't have ANY ancient works today. Everything we have of the ancient world are several generations away from the originals.
Of course not because, as everyone keeps saying, GIMP is no replacement for Photoshop!