I will go against the crowd here, and say that Internet helps me with my faith.
You might just be speaking for them. The minority tends to be more vocal.
became an atheist by reading about religion on the Internet. He was already away from faith, since he said that he would have identified himself as religious without attending service
I disagree with your example, but not with the idea. I am not an Xian, and religion, to me, has nothing to do with service, service is just another effect.
There is a famous quote, "Power corrupts, absolute power power corrupts absolutely." That was said by someone who was denying responsibility of the individual. Power does not corrupt. Power gives corrupt people the ability to exercise their extant corruptness. A non-corrupt person would be fine with power, and we might even be the better off for it.
Similarly, the Internet does not shake anyone's faith. It stirs he whose faith has already been shaken, or just wasn't so strong to begin with. That being said, sites of...um...ill repute, will demoralize a person, and that can ultimately lead to shake his faith. But that is more an issue of morality than theism.
Fritz cautions that the study is too small and too subjective to draw broader conclusions about new or old violins in general. "Our observation is about these 12 violins," she says. "Maybe if we had done this with 12 other violins people might have been able to tell the difference." One aim of the study was to determine what violinists look for in an instrument, which remains hard to quantify scientifically. "I donâ(TM)t like violins that are too direct," says soloist Solenne PaÃdassi. "I like a sound that's more diffuse."
Not everyone is convinced that there isn't something special about the old instruments. Hou says she found the study somewhat artificial in that choosing an instrument for one tour isn't the same thing as choosing one to use for the long haul. A modern instrument may sound better right away she says, but an old Italian may be able to produce more colors of sound that only become apparent after months of use, she says. "I played the Avery Fisher Stradivarius for 6 years," she says, "and it took me 3 years just to get accustomed to it."
According to a European Commission survey published in February 2014, 94% of Europeans who travel outside their home country limit their use of the web, including social media such as Facebook, because of the cost of mobile roaming.
Catch that? including social media such as Facebook
I knew Facebook was everywhere. Taken over little by little. First Occulus, now the Occident.
Unfortunately, you have to be a finance major to understand the report.
But the Finance major can't possibly be a CS major, unless he went to college twice, which would means he can't plan anyway. Regardless, if he went for Finance first, then to CS, he obviously realized that CS was better. But, if he went for CS first, then for Finance, he would then realize that CS was better. This catch 22 is the best proof why Agile is the preferred method even when taking college courses.
Sew, knot to be weft out of the warped logic taken so lightly here, and to tie up loose ends, the ships often shuttle at sub-warp speed when they weave interstellar space and to weave through a solar system.
"My pet peeve is inertia," says Trollope. "There are many good reasons for keeping your engines on in space, but 'maintaining speed' is not one of them. If you turn your engines off, you don't stop."
I have *years* of experience watching Star Trek to know that isn't true. Indeed, the only thing inertia can do for space travel is keeping horrid shows about it from being cancelled.
Early testers have noted they "feel quite anonymous and undetectable" wearing the tinfoil hat, with no less than three extra layers of tinfoil to keep the NSA out.
For an extra $50, users can get a banner reading "Don't mind me, I'm anonymous." attached at no extra cost.
In other news, Slashdot has decided to get rid of the commenting system, noting that most comments are not informative, and only serve to derail the important points with discussions of overlords, hot grits, and first posts. Instead, only the Slashdot team will be able to comment, limited to which "dept" the story came from.
The change on slashdot was well received according to the poll asking about it. The one choice, Cowboy Neal, which was explained to mean "yes", was the overwhelming choice by voters. The change is expected to make it easier on new users.
Erstwhile administrator and founder Cmdr Taco, said simply, "In Soviet Russia, this is how we did it."
Heh. Maybe. Approximately 5 hours before i signed up, someone else got uid 17 (outside the US). So, before morning broke in the US, 2 and most 3 digit uids were taken. Those numbers went (relatively) fast. I wonder how long the four digit ones were open.
I stopped reading the front page a while a go as the stories were not what they used to be. (A friend told me about this story.) I even stopped JEs here in the last major UI change. It's a new generation and i am not with the new style.
Taco, thanx for the website. I kept up with news here for a few years, and learnt to write JEs here.
I remember finding the site and loving it. It was already/. but before UIDs. I spread the word to my friends, and read it every day. One morning i woke up and found UID were added, and was lucky enough to get a small UID. I still feels good to have. It's my small part in Internet history. Slashdot is that big.
Slashdot Mirror
I just read about this on meh.com. So i came to read.
RIP Rob.
Remember Comcast?
How i wish i had held on to that letter.
This open source policy is open for comments. :)
In Soviet Russia, you watch Adobe!
Wait, wait, something's wrong here....
Linky linky.
I will go against the crowd here, and say that Internet helps me with my faith.
You might just be speaking for them. The minority tends to be more vocal.
became an atheist by reading about religion on the Internet. He was already away from faith, since he said that he would have identified himself as religious without attending service
I disagree with your example, but not with the idea. I am not an Xian, and religion, to me, has nothing to do with service, service is just another effect.
There is a famous quote, "Power corrupts, absolute power power corrupts absolutely." That was said by someone who was denying responsibility of the individual. Power does not corrupt. Power gives corrupt people the ability to exercise their extant corruptness. A non-corrupt person would be fine with power, and we might even be the better off for it.
Similarly, the Internet does not shake anyone's faith. It stirs he whose faith has already been shaken, or just wasn't so strong to begin with. That being said, sites of...um...ill repute, will demoralize a person, and that can ultimately lead to shake his faith. But that is more an issue of morality than theism.
That's what they said about XP.
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to give the Wikipedia link for Marvin Oppong (English?
Ehem, 3.11. 3.1 didn't get very far.
But why get so graphical? Text can be done by Windows 2, or Windows 1 with no overlap!
Important paragraphs:
Catch that? including social media such as Facebook
I knew Facebook was everywhere. Taken over little by little. First Occulus, now the Occident.
Are you saying that a decision for finance is no decision at all?
Or are you saying that a decision for finance is a good hedging?
P.S. I should say writing, until the audio comes to a comment near you.
Unfortunately, you have to be a finance major to understand the report.
But the Finance major can't possibly be a CS major, unless he went to college twice, which would means he can't plan anyway. Regardless, if he went for Finance first, then to CS, he obviously realized that CS was better. But, if he went for CS first, then for Finance, he would then realize that CS was better. This catch 22 is the best proof why Agile is the preferred method even when taking college courses.
the Captain has to sign a fuel-consumption report every shift.
That doesn't matter. In fact, it's anti-matter.
Sew, knot to be weft out of the warped logic taken so lightly here, and to tie up loose ends, the ships often shuttle at sub-warp speed when they weave interstellar space and to weave through a solar system.
Good point though. :)
What makes the same people eat up LOTR or the Hobbit with total suspension of disbelief, but grouse incessantly about flowing hair?
"My pet peeve is inertia," says Trollope. "There are many good reasons for keeping your engines on in space, but 'maintaining speed' is not one of them. If you turn your engines off, you don't stop."
I have *years* of experience watching Star Trek to know that isn't true. Indeed, the only thing inertia can do for space travel is keeping horrid shows about it from being cancelled.
That is, of course, without sending them into space for the duration of the film.
That doesn't seem like such a bad idea.
Early testers have noted they "feel quite anonymous and undetectable" wearing the tinfoil hat, with no less than three extra layers of tinfoil to keep the NSA out.
For an extra $50, users can get a banner reading "Don't mind me, I'm anonymous." attached at no extra cost.
In other news, Slashdot has decided to get rid of the commenting system, noting that most comments are not informative, and only serve to derail the important points with discussions of overlords, hot grits, and first posts. Instead, only the Slashdot team will be able to comment, limited to which "dept" the story came from.
The change on slashdot was well received according to the poll asking about it. The one choice, Cowboy Neal, which was explained to mean "yes", was the overwhelming choice by voters. The change is expected to make it easier on new users.
Erstwhile administrator and founder Cmdr Taco, said simply, "In Soviet Russia, this is how we did it."
Is the difference really tenured or non-tenured? Or is it, younger or older.
Heh. Maybe. Approximately 5 hours before i signed up, someone else got uid 17 (outside the US). So, before morning broke in the US, 2 and most 3 digit uids were taken. Those numbers went (relatively) fast. I wonder how long the four digit ones were open.
I stopped reading the front page a while a go as the stories were not what they used to be. (A friend told me about this story.) I even stopped JEs here in the last major UI change. It's a new generation and i am not with the new style.
Taco, thanx for the website. I kept up with news here for a few years, and learnt to write JEs here.
I remember finding the site and loving it. It was already /. but before UIDs. I spread the word to my friends, and read it every day. One morning i woke up and found UID were added, and was lucky enough to get a small UID. I still feels good to have. It's my small part in Internet history. Slashdot is that big.
Heh. I get a kick out of that.
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