Farmers have a better handle on accounting, government, economics, technology, and mechanical repair than most of the US population. If you want to see some sweet tech toys, today's farm equipment will blow your mind.
Tech folk shift bits around by plucking away at keyboards from the comfort of their warm, dry cubicles, with very little risk. Farmers work to create a product that is real, tangible, and without which we could not fuel our cars, feed our families, clothe our children, even though they have to handle variables related to temperature, rain fall, planting and harvest times, and disease that are complex and financially risky.
As tech folk, we solve a lot of problems. We cull, and sift, and display, and protect valuable data. We transfer funds and help people to communicate and all of that. But we still don't produce anything that continues to exist when the power goes out. The biggest problem of our day, feeding a hungry planet, will be solved by farmers. So let's not pretend that we are so wonderful at the expense of one of the most productive and creative segments of our population.
The answer, which may be hard for you to hear, is that *you* will not be getting a "good IT job" as a sysadmin any time in the near future.
To be a sysadmin, or to qualify for some other "good IT job", you need experience, knowledge, and the proven capacity to learn and adapt. No company (besides a tiny mom-and-pop joint) will be entrusting their systems to a person who has read a lot on websites, but has not accomplished anything. A degree is an accomplishment of sorts, because it means that you are willing to use your resources (time and money) toward your chosen industry. Of course, a degree without a related internship or other work experience is still very sketchy.
If you want a sysadmin job without a degree, then you will have to work your way up through other less glamorous IT positions - like a help desk. This is a completely acceptable route because you will learn a lot in these positions, gaining that much needed experience and knowledge and showing whether or not you can learn and adapt (as a job in the tech field always demands).
Lower your expectations and look for a job in the IT industry that is commensurate with your level of experience and then work hard at it. As time goes by and you gain experience, you can look for other IT jobs that fit your higher level of experience.
You do not want a job that pays a lot for a level of experience that you do not have. You will find yourself overwhelmed by the responsibilities, unhappy in the position, without respect from your fellow co-workers, and wishing you'd taken the longer route.
I realize that teaching won't be 40 hours, especially during the first couple of years. BUT, its better than working on a project for a year that you fear has no chance of success for the given budget, but having to live under that every day until delivery. And its much better than the "I had something planned tonight for months, but now it turns out I have to spend the next few days working 14 hours a day."
I'm getting my masters now, so I'm a bit ahead of the game on that one. And, quite frankly, I've never had a problem with school work. In fact, in energizes me. I look forward to periodic classes.
Teaching is hard, but the teachers I talked to still loved it. Their biggest problem: administrations.
And the biggest difference: I know I'm passionate about kids and about reading. I'm not passionate about programming, and I never have been. I think this will make the difference. Sometimes, you just have to decide who you are.
I agree with this. I'm a woman, I've been a programmer for six years now, and I have three months left in the industry. I'm leaving because I'm just not interested in it. I'm very good at it, I get it, in college I thought I really could like it, and certain things interest me about different problems, but thinking about OOP is not something I long for when I'm home at night. I long for a good book. I long to write. And so I'm about to start a program this summer to get my teaching licensure and become a high school English teacher instead.
I held positions in my undergrad where I was a teaching assistant in both Mathematics and Computer Science, I was on research panels - I excelled. Its not that I can't hack it - I've always been in that pack at the top of the class or the office - its just that I don't want to hack it anymore. There's more to me than this, and I want to experience that fullness.
I'm also leaving because I want to work my 40 hours and be done with it. I don't want to worry about a problem for weeks on end that may or may not be solvable, depending on what someone else's technology makes available to me. It makes me miserable.
Teaching kids is not easy either, certainly not, but at least its deterministic. X hours of effort to grade Y number of papers. Its not the non-deterministic problem of it could take me 5 minutes to fix this bug, or 5 days. Yuck.
I think most girls aren't wired to find these things interesting. I don't know if its something early on (nurture) or if its our actual nature, but my other female friends don't know the first thing about computers. If something's wrong, they call a guy to fix it, instead of digging around on their own to figure it out. But most guys don't do that. If they have a problem, if for no other reason than pride, they'll usually figure out how to fix it themselves.
The issue is this: Right now, when people risk their lives for research here, if they make it, they get to return to their families and relationships. There's a hope that if all goes well, I'll get to continue with my life, and I'll grow old, and retire, and get to see how my sacrifices made things better for my grandkids, or something along those lines.
But this gives no hope for afterwards. Its saying do this and nothing else. There will be no chance to do anything else with your life.
How much of our lives is spent looking forward to the hope of the next day, month, or year? And what hope will be afforded to those people who go on such a mission?
Actually, the corny songs stop at about the point that the Fellowship breaks apart. I've always felt that this is because things have gone and gotten much more serious. There are still songs every now and then, but there is a dramatic shift in tone between in 1st and 2nd volumes.
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I was pretty bummed when I went out for my interview - I requested the extra day because I had my heart set on doing some hiking, but I had to be at the airport at 10 the next morning (East Coast/West Coast problem), so that didn't end up happening.
I did have fun tooling around in my rental car during the evenings - I was impressed by the layout of the city. Very easy to get around. Gorgeous vegetation.
AND the amenities of the apartment they put me up in for those couple of days were amazing. Full laundry facilities, pots and pans, toaster oven, dishwasher - I was hooked. I just kept running around the apartment, giggling to myself. I think I came just short of selling my soul...
The truth is that while Star Wars is my first love, and Dune is a close 2nd, comparing the two is ridiculous. Dune is about politics, man's interaction with his environment, power, history, religion as a means of controlling society, etc. Star Wars is about friendship, good vs. evil (on a very idyllic level - evil is so much better represented by the vile Baron Harkonnen in Dune) and blowing stuff up.
Dune has a weight to it that Star Wars has never had - and never pretended to have. Lucas has been up front from the beginning that Star Wars is a spaghetti western in Space. A B-grade space opera. Dune is sci-fi from its very foundations - it concerns itself with much larger questions about society, religion, etc.
Star Wars is for the heart - it is the equivalent of donning your favorite
sweatshirt, wrapping yourself in the softest blanket, nestling a mug of hot cocoa between your hands, and throwing Toy Story 2 or Dead Poets Society in the DVD player. Dune is for the head - it is the all-nighter you put in while finishing up your paper on the economic situation in post-Soviet Russia, studying for your final on Computability and Unsolvability, and preparing to defend your thesis on the effects of the Gnostic movement on the structure of the 2nd Century Church and its continued ripples through history. It is heady.
For more reasons that this is stupid:
Paul is a melancholy. Luke is just a whiner.
Paul is a noble. Luke is a farm boy.
Paul thinks. Luke is impulsive.
In Dune, control is wielded by controlling the Spice - it's economic. In Star Wars, control is wielded by brute force.
In Dune, the religious faction is clearly female. In Star Wars, it is decidedly male.
In Dune, the religion is merely a means of controlling society. In Star Wars, the religion is based on the Force which, though it is of a dualistic nature, is of substance with a definitive will and moral outlook.
In Dune, everybody is a human. (Or was human.) In Star Wars, there are aliens.
In Dune, the Bene Gesserit use their warrior skills only as a means of protecting themselves. In Star Wars, the Jedi use their warrior skills as a means of keeping peace throughout the galaxy. This idea of a spiritual warrior is also common in our own human history. (Genesis 3:24 - "So He drove the man out; and at the east of the garden of Eden He stationed the cherubim and the flaming sword which turned every direction to guard the way to the tree of life")
In Dune, the monopoly on space travel is because only one group, the Spacing Guild, is capable of folding space. In Star Wars, everybody can get the technology for high speed space travel - the "monopoly" is created by piracy/thuggery, not by an actual monopoly on technology.
In Dune, the Landsraad is not a democracy, but a meeting of the heads of the major noble houses. In Star Wars, the Senate of the Republic is an actual republic.
Because by creating an army of clones, they don't have to worry about recruitment. Need more troops - just replicate a few more. As an added bonus, they don't have to concern themselves with all of the parents worrying about their young men serving in the army. Plus, you can build all of your equipment for a specific body type. You can plan a certain level of intelligence.
Need inventive ideas? That's why they have officers - recruited from the general public....
I think that he does in fact need the walking stick. When he doesn't need use it, it is probably because he is using his strength in the Force to enhance his physical abilities (much like Jedi using the force to do flis and whatnot).
It requires considerable testing because you have to make sure that the operating system has all of the APIs/dlls that you are expecting to use in your software.
For WindowsXP, when you build your OS to install on the embedded device, you pick the functionality that you are going to use in an ala carte fashion. Now, its smart enough to know that if you pick a feature B that relies on feature A, it will automagically include feature A in the build. Cool stuff.
BUT, the kicker is that I need to heavily test my software to make sure I'm not depending on a feature that isn't in the OS I created for the system. I think this may be what Gates was referring to, but perhaps I'm wrong...
Stunting is also not unusual for cable networks. When the Sci-Fi channel premiered in the early 90s, IIRC, for about a month beforehand they broadcast a spacey screen saver with a voiceover that said things like "We're coming for you, Madonna." "We're on our way, Mr. Yeltsin", etc... It was very creepy - they also had a timer counting down to their actual premier time.
I remember being very frightened of the whole thing (I was in high school, but it still gave me the creeps) - and now it is one of my favorite cable networks. Go figure.
Also, around 1990, a favorite station near me (it was 93Q in Toledo) went from being a top 40 station to an oldies station (I suspect that ClearChannel bought them out to make way for their own Top 40s station). Anyhoo, they played "Louie, Louie" nonstop for a week. Their press release said that they had looked at the demographics and concluded that people weren't getting enough "Louie, Louie". They were trying to fill that gap. Cute.
I wouldn't user "Moron" so liberally....
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He'd done nothing wrong, so they never should have cuffed him in the first place. It's one thing for the police to cuff someone who actually committed a crime, but it's quite another for them to cuff and publicly arrest an upstanding citizen who's done nothing wrong.
Here's the problem with your logic: Police are law enforcement officials, but they are not justice officials. Police don't always arrest people who commit crimes - the arrest people who have allegedly committed crimes. Cherian Abraham allegedly committed a crime, so the cops can cuff him. They shouldn't have cuffed him, because they obviously didn't have a very convincing case. The point I want to remind you of is that in our legal system, we hold that a defendant is innocent until proven guilty.
I'm with the guy who suggested that they arrest the manager for falsifying a police report.
Yes, yes, I was aware that I wasn't really in a position to make such a statement, which is why I added the qualifier at the end of the sentence. I actually meant that line as a joke, but apparently I didn't properly convey it. I also felt that this particular novel was so complete in its greatness that the possibilities that there was a greater contender amongst the lot was probably pretty slim.
In fact, although I have greatly admired Gaiman's work (Sandman, Stardust, Neverwhere, Good Omens, etc.) it is in this novel that I think he has really come into his own as a writer.
I think Gaiman's American Gods is the clear winner in the Novel category, although I say this without having read any of the other nominees. But, I feel confident in saying this because it is one of the best books I have read in years.
Gaiman is one of the world's most artistic storytellers. The way he brings together world religions creates a world of amazing depth. There are extra chapters in this particular book that do nothing to advance the plot line, but everything to increase the depth. It is an intensely satisfying read.
Gaiman's most successful project to date are the Sandman comics. Reading American Gods, you can tell that he used to work with comics. When Gaiman wrote the Sandman series, he didn't just write the dialogue, he wrote out long descriptions of each frame for the artist. In the same way, Gaiman creates a very visual picture for the reader in every scene. Although American Gods is horror by genre, every scene is beautiful because of Gaiman's description.
You may also know the book he co-authored with Terry Pratchett - Good Omens.
Our government was decidedly NOT based on the idea of an educated people.
The framers were so concerned with the lack of education on the part of the masses that originally, they set it up that Senators were elected by their state legislatures, and not, in fact, by popular election. It was only after the 17th amendment that Senators came to be elected by popular vote.
That, is also why we have the electoral college. It is the electoral college that directly selects the President. Our presidential votes only determine the makeup of the electoral college. The members of the electoral college could then vote differently than their party affiliations - it is merely loyalty that keeps them in line. Even in losing Florida, Gore could have won the presidential election if only a few electors had changed their votes.
The groaning aside, it is again amazing that kids will figure out how to use stuff. It does not seem to matter who the kids are or what the stuff is, they seem to figure out how to use it.
We should expect this of kids, because that's the frame of mind kids have: they are in a constant mode of learning. As a baby, they learn to crawl, and then to walk. Eventually they speak, which means an intense amount of learning. First, they figure out that language is a means of communicating, which is why they cry for attention. Then they figure out that different sounds have different meanings, so they try to figure out those meanings. Then they try to make those sounds themselves. Eventually they figure out sentence structures. They learn how to dress themselves, how to use the bathroom, etc.
You can't really be surprised by Microsoft's priorities here. This is all about who's toes are being stepped on. You see, if MS users can't play their Disney DVD on their machine, the Mouse gets pissed, and Disney is one of the few corporations with enough weight to make Microsoft actually fix a bug.
You can almost hear Mickey right now: "Fix it, B****!!"
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All references I have found in regards to the authorship of Hebrews talk about the Greek style of the author - in fact, they regard this style as fundamental to correctly deducing the authorship of this epistle.
Even in the first centuries commentators noticed the striking purity of language and elegance of Greek style that characterized the Epistle to the Hebrews (Clement of Alexandria in Eusebius, "Hist. Eccl.", VI, xiv, n.2-4; Origen, ibid., VI, xxv, n. 11-14). This observation is confirmed by later authorities. In fact the author of the Epistle shows great familiarity with the rules of the Greek literary language of his age. Of all the New Testament authors he has the best style.
Another similar document, in discussing the evidence against Pauline authorship, offers the following: "The Greek style is not typical of Pauline abruptness and digressions; it is more classical."
If Hebrews was originally written in Hebrew, as you say, then the Greek style should be of little importance.
No mention is given to the original being written in Hebrew. Can you point me to your source?
The Greek word used here, aion, can be translated 3 ways:
for ever, an unbroken age, perpetuity of time, eternity
the worlds, universe
period of time, age
I'm not sure where you are trying to go with this line of argument, since we clearly know that other worlds DO exist (Mercury, Venus, etc...). IN FACT, this means that it would be a very bad thing if scripture definitively said THERE ARE NO OTHER PLANETS since it would be false, and thereby conclusively rule-out divine authorship of the Bible (unless one would want to say that the divine being is a liar, but that's another can of worms).
I believe it is a clear cut issue and that the scientologists are fully within their rights to disallow google to allow people to link to this illegal page.
Yeeees, but I believe the reason that xenu.net has the OT III text to begin with is because it was a part of the Fishman transcripts. They are court evidence, and hence, are now part of public domain.
This is a bad argument. Let me give a hypothetical situation to illustrate why it is a bad argument.
Let us say that you are running Windows XP and store your bank account information on your computer. Let us imagine Microsoft then using that information to transfer the balance of your account into their coffers without expressly asking for permission to do so.
If we were to say that by accepting the Windows XP EULA you have given tacit permission for Microsoft's operating system to perform whatever operations/communications functions Microsoft cares for, then this transfer of your money from their account to yours would be entirely legal. (We can think of other similar situations that will illustrate this same point.)
The fact of the matter is that in purchasing this software as an operating system, you have certain expectations of what that software will do. Furthermore, as you have purchased an operating system, although there are expected costs associated with electricity and hardware, there is no reason for it to consume other resources unless such a directive is given explicitly by the user. A reasonable user would not expect the software to attempt an internet connection during a local search. They may not be taking money from your account outright, but this is tantamount to such an action, and surely can not be covered by such a broad and vague "agreement" such as their EULA.
Well, actually, there's a very good reason to use RAM, and that's if you don't want to leave an electronic trail behind you after decrypting a file or whatever.
If data security is important, then RAM is the way to go, because it is very easy to decisively destroy data that you don't want to be read. For that reason, there is a very big hubub about growing RAM storage sizes.
That kind creativity can be more closely related to really great tech workers than you seem to think. But as you point out they are the rare ones... and in most operations you won't see them because they don't show up to write code... they are more interested in working on the fundamentally hard problems.
This reminds me of Neal Stephenson's book, Cryptonomicon. You have this super-genius, Lawrence Pritchard Waterhouse, and you have his grandson, Randy Waterhouse. Lawrence was into solving intensely difficult math problems, but once he figured out the key to solving them, he didn't bother going through the actual steps to get the actual answer. He had solved it in theory, and that was the fun part. Too hell with solving the problem in actuality.
Randy, Lawrence's grandson, grows up to be a moderately badass hacker. He explains that there are tough problems to solve, and there is everthing else. He calls everything else "making (or was it punching?) license plates." The exceptional intellects don't want to get near making license plates. It is too boring for their creative and hard to focus minds - it takes something really cool to make them discipline themselves to think through a problem.
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Farmers have a better handle on accounting, government, economics, technology, and mechanical repair than most of the US population. If you want to see some sweet tech toys, today's farm equipment will blow your mind.
Tech folk shift bits around by plucking away at keyboards from the comfort of their warm, dry cubicles, with very little risk. Farmers work to create a product that is real, tangible, and without which we could not fuel our cars, feed our families, clothe our children, even though they have to handle variables related to temperature, rain fall, planting and harvest times, and disease that are complex and financially risky.
As tech folk, we solve a lot of problems. We cull, and sift, and display, and protect valuable data. We transfer funds and help people to communicate and all of that. But we still don't produce anything that continues to exist when the power goes out. The biggest problem of our day, feeding a hungry planet, will be solved by farmers. So let's not pretend that we are so wonderful at the expense of one of the most productive and creative segments of our population.
The answer, which may be hard for you to hear, is that *you* will not be getting a "good IT job" as a sysadmin any time in the near future.
To be a sysadmin, or to qualify for some other "good IT job", you need experience, knowledge, and the proven capacity to learn and adapt. No company (besides a tiny mom-and-pop joint) will be entrusting their systems to a person who has read a lot on websites, but has not accomplished anything. A degree is an accomplishment of sorts, because it means that you are willing to use your resources (time and money) toward your chosen industry. Of course, a degree without a related internship or other work experience is still very sketchy.
If you want a sysadmin job without a degree, then you will have to work your way up through other less glamorous IT positions - like a help desk. This is a completely acceptable route because you will learn a lot in these positions, gaining that much needed experience and knowledge and showing whether or not you can learn and adapt (as a job in the tech field always demands).
Lower your expectations and look for a job in the IT industry that is commensurate with your level of experience and then work hard at it. As time goes by and you gain experience, you can look for other IT jobs that fit your higher level of experience.
You do not want a job that pays a lot for a level of experience that you do not have. You will find yourself overwhelmed by the responsibilities, unhappy in the position, without respect from your fellow co-workers, and wishing you'd taken the longer route.
I'm getting my masters now, so I'm a bit ahead of the game on that one. And, quite frankly, I've never had a problem with school work. In fact, in energizes me. I look forward to periodic classes.
Teaching is hard, but the teachers I talked to still loved it. Their biggest problem: administrations.
And the biggest difference: I know I'm passionate about kids and about reading. I'm not passionate about programming, and I never have been. I think this will make the difference. Sometimes, you just have to decide who you are.
I held positions in my undergrad where I was a teaching assistant in both Mathematics and Computer Science, I was on research panels - I excelled. Its not that I can't hack it - I've always been in that pack at the top of the class or the office - its just that I don't want to hack it anymore. There's more to me than this, and I want to experience that fullness.
I'm also leaving because I want to work my 40 hours and be done with it. I don't want to worry about a problem for weeks on end that may or may not be solvable, depending on what someone else's technology makes available to me. It makes me miserable.
Teaching kids is not easy either, certainly not, but at least its deterministic. X hours of effort to grade Y number of papers. Its not the non-deterministic problem of it could take me 5 minutes to fix this bug, or 5 days. Yuck.
I think most girls aren't wired to find these things interesting. I don't know if its something early on (nurture) or if its our actual nature, but my other female friends don't know the first thing about computers. If something's wrong, they call a guy to fix it, instead of digging around on their own to figure it out. But most guys don't do that. If they have a problem, if for no other reason than pride, they'll usually figure out how to fix it themselves.
But this gives no hope for afterwards. Its saying do this and nothing else. There will be no chance to do anything else with your life.
How much of our lives is spent looking forward to the hope of the next day, month, or year? And what hope will be afforded to those people who go on such a mission?
It just seems incredibly bleak to me.
Actually, the corny songs stop at about the point that the Fellowship breaks apart. I've always felt that this is because things have gone and gotten much more serious. There are still songs every now and then, but there is a dramatic shift in tone between in 1st and 2nd volumes. =)
You should check out Cinefex - this magazine has all sorts of ads for different scanning services and equipment.
I did have fun tooling around in my rental car during the evenings - I was impressed by the layout of the city. Very easy to get around. Gorgeous vegetation.
AND the amenities of the apartment they put me up in for those couple of days were amazing. Full laundry facilities, pots and pans, toaster oven, dishwasher - I was hooked. I just kept running around the apartment, giggling to myself. I think I came just short of selling my soul...
Dune has a weight to it that Star Wars has never had - and never pretended to have. Lucas has been up front from the beginning that Star Wars is a spaghetti western in Space. A B-grade space opera. Dune is sci-fi from its very foundations - it concerns itself with much larger questions about society, religion, etc.
Star Wars is for the heart - it is the equivalent of donning your favorite sweatshirt, wrapping yourself in the softest blanket, nestling a mug of hot cocoa between your hands, and throwing Toy Story 2 or Dead Poets Society in the DVD player. Dune is for the head - it is the all-nighter you put in while finishing up your paper on the economic situation in post-Soviet Russia, studying for your final on Computability and Unsolvability, and preparing to defend your thesis on the effects of the Gnostic movement on the structure of the 2nd Century Church and its continued ripples through history. It is heady.
For more reasons that this is stupid:
Need inventive ideas? That's why they have officers - recruited from the general public....
I think that he does in fact need the walking stick. When he doesn't need use it, it is probably because he is using his strength in the Force to enhance his physical abilities (much like Jedi using the force to do flis and whatnot).
For WindowsXP, when you build your OS to install on the embedded device, you pick the functionality that you are going to use in an ala carte fashion. Now, its smart enough to know that if you pick a feature B that relies on feature A, it will automagically include feature A in the build. Cool stuff.
BUT, the kicker is that I need to heavily test my software to make sure I'm not depending on a feature that isn't in the OS I created for the system. I think this may be what Gates was referring to, but perhaps I'm wrong...
I remember being very frightened of the whole thing (I was in high school, but it still gave me the creeps) - and now it is one of my favorite cable networks. Go figure.
Also, around 1990, a favorite station near me (it was 93Q in Toledo) went from being a top 40 station to an oldies station (I suspect that ClearChannel bought them out to make way for their own Top 40s station). Anyhoo, they played "Louie, Louie" nonstop for a week. Their press release said that they had looked at the demographics and concluded that people weren't getting enough "Louie, Louie". They were trying to fill that gap. Cute.
I'm with the guy who suggested that they arrest the manager for falsifying a police report.
In fact, although I have greatly admired Gaiman's work (Sandman, Stardust, Neverwhere, Good Omens, etc.) it is in this novel that I think he has really come into his own as a writer.
Gaiman is one of the world's most artistic storytellers. The way he brings together world religions creates a world of amazing depth. There are extra chapters in this particular book that do nothing to advance the plot line, but everything to increase the depth. It is an intensely satisfying read.
Gaiman's most successful project to date are the Sandman comics. Reading American Gods, you can tell that he used to work with comics. When Gaiman wrote the Sandman series, he didn't just write the dialogue, he wrote out long descriptions of each frame for the artist. In the same way, Gaiman creates a very visual picture for the reader in every scene. Although American Gods is horror by genre, every scene is beautiful because of Gaiman's description.
You may also know the book he co-authored with Terry Pratchett - Good Omens.
The framers were so concerned with the lack of education on the part of the masses that originally, they set it up that Senators were elected by their state legislatures, and not, in fact, by popular election. It was only after the 17th amendment that Senators came to be elected by popular vote.
That, is also why we have the electoral college. It is the electoral college that directly selects the President. Our presidential votes only determine the makeup of the electoral college. The members of the electoral college could then vote differently than their party affiliations - it is merely loyalty that keeps them in line. Even in losing Florida, Gore could have won the presidential election if only a few electors had changed their votes.
Kids are learning MACHINES!!!
You can almost hear Mickey right now: "Fix it, B****!!"
For instance, the Catholic Encyclopedia has this to say concerning Hebrews:
Another similar document, in discussing the evidence against Pauline authorship, offers the following: "The Greek style is not typical of Pauline abruptness and digressions; it is more classical."If Hebrews was originally written in Hebrew, as you say, then the Greek style should be of little importance.
No mention is given to the original being written in Hebrew. Can you point me to your source?
The Greek word used here, aion, can be translated 3 ways:
I'm not sure where you are trying to go with this line of argument, since we clearly know that other worlds DO exist (Mercury, Venus, etc...). IN FACT, this means that it would be a very bad thing if scripture definitively said THERE ARE NO OTHER PLANETS since it would be false, and thereby conclusively rule-out divine authorship of the Bible (unless one would want to say that the divine being is a liar, but that's another can of worms).
Let us say that you are running Windows XP and store your bank account information on your computer. Let us imagine Microsoft then using that information to transfer the balance of your account into their coffers without expressly asking for permission to do so.
If we were to say that by accepting the Windows XP EULA you have given tacit permission for Microsoft's operating system to perform whatever operations/communications functions Microsoft cares for, then this transfer of your money from their account to yours would be entirely legal. (We can think of other similar situations that will illustrate this same point.)
The fact of the matter is that in purchasing this software as an operating system, you have certain expectations of what that software will do. Furthermore, as you have purchased an operating system, although there are expected costs associated with electricity and hardware, there is no reason for it to consume other resources unless such a directive is given explicitly by the user. A reasonable user would not expect the software to attempt an internet connection during a local search. They may not be taking money from your account outright, but this is tantamount to such an action, and surely can not be covered by such a broad and vague "agreement" such as their EULA.
If data security is important, then RAM is the way to go, because it is very easy to decisively destroy data that you don't want to be read. For that reason, there is a very big hubub about growing RAM storage sizes.
Randy, Lawrence's grandson, grows up to be a moderately badass hacker. He explains that there are tough problems to solve, and there is everthing else. He calls everything else "making (or was it punching?) license plates." The exceptional intellects don't want to get near making license plates. It is too boring for their creative and hard to focus minds - it takes something really cool to make them discipline themselves to think through a problem.