I've watched a lot of shows with my kids: DC Animated Universe, iCarly, etc. While not always great, they are at least usually intelligent and well-written. But my youngest daughter likes MLP for some reason and I can't stand it. It's the only show my kids have ever persisted in watching when my other kids and I tell her it's garbage.
I'm a kid of the 80s and I saw the Wii in the spirit of NES. It was great and had all the franchises. The Wii U is sluggish and there are no games for it.
It's funny what you say about literature. I had a professor in college talking about what B F Skinner meant in a class and a student said, "You're wrong!" He said, "What makes you think I'm wrong?" And the student said, "Because I called B F Skinner and asked him the answers to all these questions."
To his credit the professor (who was actually a really cool guy) said, "Can I have a copy of your paper so I can teach the rest of the class?"
Not to mention that with nursing shortages, many nurses work 2 sets of 12 hour shifts at 2 different hospitals. I knew a woman working M W F at one hospital and T Th S at another. 72 hours per week. She had Sundays off.
We have the opposite here. My boss has made everyone chill out and leave the developers alone, and we are now the most productive we have ever been. People get up and talk a walk around the building if they need to. They don't monitor websites except for porn and we are faster than ever. People work late when THEY decide they need to and want to.
(The irony of this is quite lost on them as they happily tuck into their pork sausages).
9 About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10 He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 11 He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. 12 It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. 13 Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.”
14 “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.”
15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.”
16 This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.
No if the Bible still forbid pork they would probably not be eating it.
Great example. But then why couldn't he just write a program that creates the universe instantly? And why can't he reprogram the world whenever he wants to do "miracles" like Neo in the Matrix?
If you look Biblically, you will see that eventually there is a prohibition about marrying your sister, then your cousin and in today's world your second cousin. Since our human genome is becoming increasingly corrupt in each generation, this would make sense as it would become more and more dangerous to marry close relatives.
Where did Cain get his wife? The answer is simple: Cain married either his sister or a niece.
so...adam and eve had another boy and girl who together had a daughter, whose uncle plowed her after butchering his brother in cold blood. that's a great start to humanity.
Well, maybe that's why God said we are sinful and evil...
Cain married one of his sisters. Cain and Abel are men when this event happens, and they have sisters.
And the Bible states that occasionally miracles suspend the laws of physics. If you don't believe that is a possibility, then yeah, the Bible is going to be tough to understand.
And many scholars believe that Jesus was called a bastard in the Bible:
John 8:39ff
“If you were Abraham’s children,” said Jesus, “then you would do what Abraham did. 40 As it is, you are looking for a way to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things. 41 You are doing the works of your own father.”
“We are not illegitimate children,” they protested. “The only Father we have is God himself.”
42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God.
Many scholars believe that “We are not illegitimate children,” is an intended slam at Jesus' questionable birth.
They believe the facts are on their side. And they just want all the facts to be taught in the classroom, not to leave out all the ones that are uncomfortable for evolutionists. If you want to stop misunderstanding their position, you could start here:
http://www.answersingenesis.org/get-answers
I know this is hard to believe, but many creationists are actually looking at the scientific evidence, which shows things such as:
* The amount of helium present in deep rock calculates the earth to be around 6000 years old.
* Prior to Voyager, it was a creationist using a 6000 year model that correctly predicted the magnetic fields of every planet in the solar system. The "dynamo model", thoroughly debunked at every planet, is still taught in your textbook. Doesn't science demand that predictability proves a model correct and being wrong proves your model is wrong?
* The known mutations in the human genome divided by the mutation rate shows that humans were mutation free...6000 years ago and that all women on earth share the same mother.
* If you eliminate the completely unscientific Oort Cloud (no scientific method evidence), then comets show the solar system to be less than 100,000 years old.
* Everything on earth still has Carbon-14 in it. Instead of explaining this as "background carbon", the Occam's Razor answer is that everything is less than 10,000 years old.
* Every culture talks about dragons as if they are real, but we have mythologized them. Why? Creationists believe the simpler answer is that dinosaurs are dragons.
* No intermediate forms, almost at all. Virtually every fossil is a modern-day creature as is.
* Every culture talks about a flood, almost always one in which a guy often named something akin to "Noah" saves some combination of himself, his wife, his family and a bunch of animals with the help of his god. How do they all get this story when they didn't talk to each other.
So to me, the better question is why censor creationism? If it's so wrong, won't that be easily seen by everyone? But to get past the problems with evolution, wouldn't it be better to address them head-on scientifically instead of playing ostrich? What's wrong with getting a ton of students to think deeply about these issues and try to prove them out one way or the other? True scientists should never be afraid of additional voices, because the truth is on science's side always.
Third: privacy. I would just hate the idea that my vehicle's manufacturer was also working happily with, for example, intelligence agencies to use my car to spy on me, or marketing companies to more effectively target me with advertising. Just because you own a vehicle with an auto-pilot does not mean that you should expect to have your rights trampled upon.
Hope your car doesn't have OnStar or its equivalent.
Yeah, can the "I always vote Democrat" idiots in California finally vote her out please? I'm sick of being represented by her. But since they elected Jerry Brown to bankrupt California for a third time, probably not.
And when the government accuses you loudly in the media about running a child porn network because of all your Bitcoins and TOR endpoints, do you think that even your defense lawyer will take your side?
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Exactly. I wish I had mod points.
I've watched a lot of shows with my kids: DC Animated Universe, iCarly, etc. While not always great, they are at least usually intelligent and well-written. But my youngest daughter likes MLP for some reason and I can't stand it. It's the only show my kids have ever persisted in watching when my other kids and I tell her it's garbage.
Ha ha ha. C'mon people. This needs a +5 Funny!
How long before we see "Lunch! Sponsored by McDonald's", etc...
Where have you been? We already have cafeterias selling food from Taco Bell, Subway and Domino's: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB901574891620347000.html
"once iPad reached its market leadership, nobody else can have a worthwhile presence"
Which is hilarious since there are more Android tablets now.
Now that I have 2GB and an SSD, it's a pretty nice machine.
Microsoft embraced and extinguished the netbook with Windows limitations. 1GB RAM? Really?
And they should have based the tablets on .NET and had an easy way for developers to convert existing apps to tablet form.
Yeah. I have. It's better than everything else on the market.
I'm a kid of the 80s and I saw the Wii in the spirit of NES. It was great and had all the franchises. The Wii U is sluggish and there are no games for it.
As much as this annoys me, my horn is enough. I DON'T want this guy getting a ticket for texting and driving. He's not a danger to society.
It's funny what you say about literature. I had a professor in college talking about what B F Skinner meant in a class and a student said, "You're wrong!" He said, "What makes you think I'm wrong?" And the student said, "Because I called B F Skinner and asked him the answers to all these questions."
To his credit the professor (who was actually a really cool guy) said, "Can I have a copy of your paper so I can teach the rest of the class?"
That will make the news more interesting. Now not only can they make up the quotes ahead of time, but the video footage as well.
Not to mention that with nursing shortages, many nurses work 2 sets of 12 hour shifts at 2 different hospitals. I knew a woman working M W F at one hospital and T Th S at another. 72 hours per week. She had Sundays off.
We have the opposite here. My boss has made everyone chill out and leave the developers alone, and we are now the most productive we have ever been. People get up and talk a walk around the building if they need to. They don't monitor websites except for porn and we are faster than ever. People work late when THEY decide they need to and want to.
(The irony of this is quite lost on them as they happily tuck into their pork sausages).
9 About noon the following day as they were on their journey and approaching the city, Peter went up on the roof to pray. 10 He became hungry and wanted something to eat, and while the meal was being prepared, he fell into a trance. 11 He saw heaven opened and something like a large sheet being let down to earth by its four corners. 12 It contained all kinds of four-footed animals, as well as reptiles and birds. 13 Then a voice told him, “Get up, Peter. Kill and eat.” 14 “Surely not, Lord!” Peter replied. “I have never eaten anything impure or unclean.” 15 The voice spoke to him a second time, “Do not call anything impure that God has made clean.” 16 This happened three times, and immediately the sheet was taken back to heaven.
No if the Bible still forbid pork they would probably not be eating it.
Great example. But then why couldn't he just write a program that creates the universe instantly? And why can't he reprogram the world whenever he wants to do "miracles" like Neo in the Matrix?
If you look Biblically, you will see that eventually there is a prohibition about marrying your sister, then your cousin and in today's world your second cousin. Since our human genome is becoming increasingly corrupt in each generation, this would make sense as it would become more and more dangerous to marry close relatives.
Where did Cain get his wife? The answer is simple: Cain married either his sister or a niece.
so...adam and eve had another boy and girl who together had a daughter, whose uncle plowed her after butchering his brother in cold blood. that's a great start to humanity.
Well, maybe that's why God said we are sinful and evil...
Cain married one of his sisters. Cain and Abel are men when this event happens, and they have sisters.
And the Bible states that occasionally miracles suspend the laws of physics. If you don't believe that is a possibility, then yeah, the Bible is going to be tough to understand.
And many scholars believe that Jesus was called a bastard in the Bible:
John 8:39ff
“If you were Abraham’s children,” said Jesus, “then you would do what Abraham did. 40 As it is, you are looking for a way to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do such things. 41 You are doing the works of your own father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they protested. “The only Father we have is God himself.” 42 Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come here from God.
Many scholars believe that “We are not illegitimate children,” is an intended slam at Jesus' questionable birth.
They believe the facts are on their side. And they just want all the facts to be taught in the classroom, not to leave out all the ones that are uncomfortable for evolutionists. If you want to stop misunderstanding their position, you could start here: http://www.answersingenesis.org/get-answers
I know this is hard to believe, but many creationists are actually looking at the scientific evidence, which shows things such as:
* The amount of helium present in deep rock calculates the earth to be around 6000 years old.
* Prior to Voyager, it was a creationist using a 6000 year model that correctly predicted the magnetic fields of every planet in the solar system. The "dynamo model", thoroughly debunked at every planet, is still taught in your textbook. Doesn't science demand that predictability proves a model correct and being wrong proves your model is wrong?
* The known mutations in the human genome divided by the mutation rate shows that humans were mutation free...6000 years ago and that all women on earth share the same mother.
* If you eliminate the completely unscientific Oort Cloud (no scientific method evidence), then comets show the solar system to be less than 100,000 years old.
* Everything on earth still has Carbon-14 in it. Instead of explaining this as "background carbon", the Occam's Razor answer is that everything is less than 10,000 years old.
* Every culture talks about dragons as if they are real, but we have mythologized them. Why? Creationists believe the simpler answer is that dinosaurs are dragons.
* No intermediate forms, almost at all. Virtually every fossil is a modern-day creature as is.
* Every culture talks about a flood, almost always one in which a guy often named something akin to "Noah" saves some combination of himself, his wife, his family and a bunch of animals with the help of his god. How do they all get this story when they didn't talk to each other.
So to me, the better question is why censor creationism? If it's so wrong, won't that be easily seen by everyone? But to get past the problems with evolution, wouldn't it be better to address them head-on scientifically instead of playing ostrich? What's wrong with getting a ton of students to think deeply about these issues and try to prove them out one way or the other? True scientists should never be afraid of additional voices, because the truth is on science's side always.
Third: privacy. I would just hate the idea that my vehicle's manufacturer was also working happily with, for example, intelligence agencies to use my car to spy on me, or marketing companies to more effectively target me with advertising. Just because you own a vehicle with an auto-pilot does not mean that you should expect to have your rights trampled upon.
Hope your car doesn't have OnStar or its equivalent.
Yeah, can the "I always vote Democrat" idiots in California finally vote her out please? I'm sick of being represented by her. But since they elected Jerry Brown to bankrupt California for a third time, probably not.
And when the government accuses you loudly in the media about running a child porn network because of all your Bitcoins and TOR endpoints, do you think that even your defense lawyer will take your side?