Having crossed the border dozens of times (near buffalo) getting into Canada has always been easier. Going into the US by bus they run your bags through a metal detector. I've also seen a US border cop pull a gun on some guy who forgot a bag (they assumed it was a bomb?). Canadian side doesn't even have metal detectors and questioning is about the same for both sides. Oh and on the US side they actually look through your bags they dont going to Canada. And that isn't an example, that is policy.
One thing thats fun with laptops without a cd drive. You can install linux on them with a usb stick but you can't install windows (you can for windows 7). XP is a bitch I mean really horrible to install without a cd drive.
Sounds just like greasemonkey. Maybe greasemonkey + platypus? Mozilla ripping off its own addons now?:P I've been using modified internet for a year or so now. Its neat to be able to set the internet to match your theme... or remove annoying buttons you never use. (Examples...I have no sidebar in/. and when i click my name it redirects to my comments to check for replies rather than the annoying feed.)
Skype has to pay for connections to regular phones cause phone companies suck not skype. There is no free alternative, and its much cheaper than a normal phone.
vpn is horribly unpractical. Even with a perfect computer you will be creating completely unusable lag time and conversations will be near impossible unless you want to tell everyone you are in china somewhere.
Then why doesn't france shut down ALL religions? They promise eternal salvation and good things to come your way. Oh and they run on your money. Sounds the same to me. I don't see people running to close churches.
Why is religion and evolution irreconcilable?... you have people, which claim, the earth is 4000 years old.
Seems clear cut to me heh...
Those options are available sure. But I think the idea that huge groups of people are having their morals and ethics picked and chosen by a group of people is scary. And I think if you asked just that, "Would you follow the beliefs morals and ethical code of some people living in Italy" most Christians would think you are retarded. But that is exactly what they are doing. I find the idea scary. None of the options are very sensible.
My point was that is not a metaphor at all. I can't say "I ate chicken last night" as a metaphor for "I am eating bananas"... That's not a metaphor, it is... wrong? contradiction...? lie?
Either evolution is real and CONTRADICTS the bible. Or God is insanely convoluted.
No my argument was that it doesn't matter. Either you believe the bible is the word of God. In which case you must follow it. OR you believe it is created by man. In which case why are you following rules set up by men thousands of years ago? That seems pretty stupid right? You don't do that for any other books written by man. And if you ignore the bible then your whole basis for the religion is gone. I'm sure you haven't had Jesus your personal savior come to you in a dream and TELL you that evolution is a sham and creationism is real. So clearly your source for this belief is something we have decided is a sham (the bible).
I'd say the word of God trumps the Catholic church. At least when it comes to who gets the say in Christianity. And the bible clearly shows God doesn't have evolution. Or at least if there is evolution MAN was created there was none before us.
Not the noisy fundies. The bible. If it is to be the word of God then you are seriously pissing on the religion by not believing it. If the religion is not based on the bible then your beliefs are being shaped by the church which is arguably worse. Or the final option. You are making up your beliefs as you go along (Which is OK!). The problem is, if you are coming to your own conclusions on things you aren't following the religious doctrine and you are just stealing the title Christian which is bound to piss people off. If you say you are Christian because you believe the bible then how could you pick and choose parts of it to listen to?
"And God created man in His own image." --Gen 1:27
Seems pretty clear to me, not wishywashy at all. How then can you claim well he meant that as metaphor to something completely different.
Unless they really meant "God created complex mechanisms which eventually gave rise to life and then millions of years later resulted purely by chance something that resembled God." I don't buy it.
If you don't consider the literal interpretation what do you consider? What is your 'source' on God? If the bible means nothing then where do you get your religious beliefs from? The church? That sounds risky. If it is a personal attachment to something spiritual then why the need to go to some building on Sunday? Surely you didn't just 'feel' that God wanted you to go to church on Sundays. What is the basis for your religion if not the bible? And if it is the bible then how can you not believe 80% of it?
I'd take insane fundies over your kind any day of the week. You are the worst kind of cowards. At least they follow their beliefs you just use a religious construct as a shield.
You insult the religious by contorting their beliefs to your will. Taking their name and their religion and then doing as you please. I'm sure the republicans are uncomfortable with a tree-hugger like ron paul in their party. And you piss off the non-religious because of your pure cowardice.
You aren't bravely walking a fine line. You are a cowardly fence-sitter.
I find it amusing that you picked CIA torture. Many Nazi's didn't know about the extermination and you can't forgive them for doing nothing to stop it. Nearly ALL of the US soldiers in Iraq know about the torture, did nothing about it and you say this is similar:P
Disclaimer: I do think that many are hiding more than they know but we have historical evidence that says most of them didn't do it. Most people when confronted with the word Nazi assume they are evil jew killing machines. Which is not at all true just some of them are... I guess the thought process is that the atrocities are so horrible that stereotyping is ok? Or that they are evil jew killers by proxy? (Emotions sure make people's logic retarded)
You are totally wrong. A good example is 'Empire: Total War'. The game is about Europeans fighting it out in 1700 to form an Empire. The Americans are not playable. You have tons of big countries to pick from. And the cover? A bunch of guys charging gloriously into battle with early American flags. In 1700 America didn't exist, that flag didn't exist until 1780 when the US was formed. And the US was not in position to be a superpower until WW2(1940ish). It is kind of sad.
So when we have American flags making the cover in a game that they play a very minor role in. Why would you expect Germans to make the cover in a war and game the Americans play a major role in. How about a war from the Russian POV? They arguably did most of the work... And they are the 'good guys'. Won't happen with US pride taking up most of the market. Nothing to do with morals or anything just big American pride.
I guess we need a noculling.txt... Google is playing by the rules. Work on changing the rule if you don't like it. I know lots of site owners that would be happy to have Google cull their information. So long as their was appropriate credit given to sources. Its not like they are draining your bandwidth. So NOT doing this for the sake of some people who might not want it but put their info up freely on the net and allow for robots seems kind of stupid.
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Having crossed the border dozens of times (near buffalo) getting into Canada has always been easier. Going into the US by bus they run your bags through a metal detector. I've also seen a US border cop pull a gun on some guy who forgot a bag (they assumed it was a bomb?). Canadian side doesn't even have metal detectors and questioning is about the same for both sides. Oh and on the US side they actually look through your bags they dont going to Canada. And that isn't an example, that is policy.
One thing thats fun with laptops without a cd drive. You can install linux on them with a usb stick but you can't install windows (you can for windows 7). XP is a bitch I mean really horrible to install without a cd drive.
Sounds just like greasemonkey. Maybe greasemonkey + platypus? Mozilla ripping off its own addons now? :P I've been using modified internet for a year or so now. Its neat to be able to set the internet to match your theme... or remove annoying buttons you never use. (Examples...I have no sidebar in /. and when i click my name it redirects to my comments to check for replies rather than the annoying feed.)
Skype has to pay for connections to regular phones cause phone companies suck not skype. There is no free alternative, and its much cheaper than a normal phone.
vpn is horribly unpractical. Even with a perfect computer you will be creating completely unusable lag time and conversations will be near impossible unless you want to tell everyone you are in china somewhere.
Both of those are retarded. I think they missed the point of acronyms.
.... ok ... wtf? ...
CINCLANTFLT = Commander in Chief, US Atlantic Fleet
CIN = Commander in Chief,
CL = ??? wth?
ANT = Atlantic
FLT = Fleet
The first part is an acronym the rest is just garbage and then for one word they just dropped the vowels.
So we need colour changing roofs. Also... if i were you i'd weatherproof my house. Maybe put in some windows.
Then why doesn't france shut down ALL religions? They promise eternal salvation and good things to come your way. Oh and they run on your money. Sounds the same to me. I don't see people running to close churches.
"They can dig up sources satisfactorily"
I thought the problem was that they DIDN'T cite their sources.
I think this video is very relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9nJ0rpAcqk
It should be possible if we really want to. Take my word for it, I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night.
They never played the movie 'Speed' in the UK. This law clearly endangers all buses with Keannu Reaves on them.
Oh come on mods. You can't really troll mankind. Unless he's a chat bot I suppose...
You'd only think this is a bad thing if you've never been to Sweden.
Eunuchs?
But how can you knowingly accept some parts of a book you know to be inconsistent at best? Hence the term Pick-and-Choose Christians.
Why is religion and evolution irreconcilable? ... you have people, which claim, the earth is 4000 years old.
Seems clear cut to me heh...
Those options are available sure. But I think the idea that huge groups of people are having their morals and ethics picked and chosen by a group of people is scary. And I think if you asked just that, "Would you follow the beliefs morals and ethical code of some people living in Italy" most Christians would think you are retarded. But that is exactly what they are doing. I find the idea scary. None of the options are very sensible.
My point was that is not a metaphor at all. I can't say "I ate chicken last night" as a metaphor for "I am eating bananas"... That's not a metaphor, it is ... wrong? contradiction...? lie?
Either evolution is real and CONTRADICTS the bible. Or God is insanely convoluted.
No my argument was that it doesn't matter. Either you believe the bible is the word of God. In which case you must follow it. OR you believe it is created by man. In which case why are you following rules set up by men thousands of years ago? That seems pretty stupid right? You don't do that for any other books written by man. And if you ignore the bible then your whole basis for the religion is gone. I'm sure you haven't had Jesus your personal savior come to you in a dream and TELL you that evolution is a sham and creationism is real. So clearly your source for this belief is something we have decided is a sham (the bible).
I'd say the word of God trumps the Catholic church. At least when it comes to who gets the say in Christianity. And the bible clearly shows God doesn't have evolution. Or at least if there is evolution MAN was created there was none before us.
Not the noisy fundies. The bible. If it is to be the word of God then you are seriously pissing on the religion by not believing it. If the religion is not based on the bible then your beliefs are being shaped by the church which is arguably worse. Or the final option. You are making up your beliefs as you go along (Which is OK!). The problem is, if you are coming to your own conclusions on things you aren't following the religious doctrine and you are just stealing the title Christian which is bound to piss people off. If you say you are Christian because you believe the bible then how could you pick and choose parts of it to listen to?
"And God created man in His own image." --Gen 1:27
Seems pretty clear to me, not wishywashy at all. How then can you claim well he meant that as metaphor to something completely different.
God created man in his image.
Unless they really meant "God created complex mechanisms which eventually gave rise to life and then millions of years later resulted purely by chance something that resembled God." I don't buy it.
If you don't consider the literal interpretation what do you consider? What is your 'source' on God? If the bible means nothing then where do you get your religious beliefs from? The church? That sounds risky. If it is a personal attachment to something spiritual then why the need to go to some building on Sunday? Surely you didn't just 'feel' that God wanted you to go to church on Sundays. What is the basis for your religion if not the bible? And if it is the bible then how can you not believe 80% of it?
God of the gaps. Pick-and-choose Christian.
I'd take insane fundies over your kind any day of the week. You are the worst kind of cowards. At least they follow their beliefs you just use a religious construct as a shield.
You insult the religious by contorting their beliefs to your will. Taking their name and their religion and then doing as you please. I'm sure the republicans are uncomfortable with a tree-hugger like ron paul in their party. And you piss off the non-religious because of your pure cowardice.
You aren't bravely walking a fine line. You are a cowardly fence-sitter.
I find it amusing that you picked CIA torture. Many Nazi's didn't know about the extermination and you can't forgive them for doing nothing to stop it. Nearly ALL of the US soldiers in Iraq know about the torture, did nothing about it and you say this is similar :P
Disclaimer: I do think that many are hiding more than they know but we have historical evidence that says most of them didn't do it. Most people when confronted with the word Nazi assume they are evil jew killing machines. Which is not at all true just some of them are... I guess the thought process is that the atrocities are so horrible that stereotyping is ok? Or that they are evil jew killers by proxy? (Emotions sure make people's logic retarded)
You are totally wrong. A good example is 'Empire: Total War'. The game is about Europeans fighting it out in 1700 to form an Empire. The Americans are not playable. You have tons of big countries to pick from. And the cover? A bunch of guys charging gloriously into battle with early American flags. In 1700 America didn't exist, that flag didn't exist until 1780 when the US was formed. And the US was not in position to be a superpower until WW2(1940ish). It is kind of sad.
So when we have American flags making the cover in a game that they play a very minor role in. Why would you expect Germans to make the cover in a war and game the Americans play a major role in. How about a war from the Russian POV? They arguably did most of the work... And they are the 'good guys'. Won't happen with US pride taking up most of the market. Nothing to do with morals or anything just big American pride.
I guess we need a noculling.txt ... Google is playing by the rules. Work on changing the rule if you don't like it. I know lots of site owners that would be happy to have Google cull their information. So long as their was appropriate credit given to sources. Its not like they are draining your bandwidth. So NOT doing this for the sake of some people who might not want it but put their info up freely on the net and allow for robots seems kind of stupid.