2012-09-18, 12:09 | Link #23761 |
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Maybe safety is not too much a concern anymore (well it might still be somewhat sub standard, but not as much as it was a few years ago).
Anyway the chinese market usually demands products that have to adhere to the following criteria (based on market studies): *Inexpensiveness *Good performance (aka how much product you get for your money - that includes state of the art technology) *Huge amounts (you need enough production capability) *Build in China (not necessarily designed/developed there) This comes at the expense of: *Durability *Environment *Energy consumption (and other secondary costs) In my oppinion its just too easy to get a driving license in the US. And if you loose it, its not really a loss (its extremely cheap to redo). Besides, most streets in the US are made to unlearn driving, its just too easy, comfy and generally boring that it drains considerably on the attention span.
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2012-09-18, 12:11 | Link #23762 | |
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Though they are talking speeds of 10 times light. So Warp 2.15, basically, using the old Star Trek scale of the Warp Factor cubed. So a little over 22 weeks to Alpha Centari. (157 days)
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2012-09-18, 13:31 | Link #23763 | |
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2012-09-18, 13:44 | Link #23764 |
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A bit of history fact uncovered that may twist a few knickers of literalists. However, I just think it is another indicator (there are hundreds from the oldest texts as we find them) that the Council of Nicea (among others) essentially and substantially re-purposed what we call Christianity to suit the needs of the Empire. We'll watch to see if his interpretation holds up under peer review.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/19/us...esus-wife.html
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2012-09-18, 13:52 | Link #23765 | |
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2012-09-18, 14:24 | Link #23766 |
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Yes, it was. She's trying to emphasize that this is an interesting bit of evidence that needs further research - good scientist talk, not fiction
I find the Dead Sea Scroll work, the gnostic books, and work like this (pre-council of Nicea) fascinating because it shows a much more interesting.... even pleasant possibility of what might have been.
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2012-09-18, 14:58 | Link #23767 |
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Personally, I found the story of how this papyrus was discovered a bit fishy.
In any case, no serious analysis have been made on it (particularly on the ink used to write the text), so it's not possible to really determine if its a genuine 2nd century papyrus at the moment. |
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2012-09-18, 16:22 | Link #23769 |
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NATO halts work with Afghan allies to stem insider attacks
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/...88H0BL20120918 There's a moment when one should acknoledge a failure, than his objective was unrealistic, than each new lost is a testimony of the failure to learn the leason of the previous ones. This moment happened years ago. And we are still going the same way as if nothing happened.
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2012-09-18, 18:32 | Link #23770 | |
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Personally, I think that makes more sense then the Trinity but... |
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2012-09-18, 19:59 | Link #23771 | |
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Some things never change.. ::sigh::
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2012-09-18, 20:07 | Link #23772 | |
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2012-09-18, 20:51 | Link #23773 | |
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2012-09-18, 22:42 | Link #23774 | |
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destroying a planet isn't that difficult. Maybe that's why we haven't been visited by aliens yet (unless you believe the UFO conspiracy theorists). They all blew themselves away before they could meet us. So, what will happen here when our tech gets so advanced that any nutcase who's sufficiently pissed-off can build his/her own doomsday device? |
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2012-09-19, 01:25 | Link #23775 | |
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Regardless, it's not like the possibility of there being an early Christian tradition where Jesus had a relationship with Mary hasn't already been raised by study of the gospels of Philip, Mary, etc, right? Even if it is a stretch in those cases. Well, it wouldn't surprise me if there were such early traditions anyway. Considering how many diverse sects Second Temple Judaism saw, why wouldn't it be the case that there were numerous groups of early Christians with wildly different schools of thought on different matters? That certainly seems a given in fact, considering what we know of the Arians and other "heretics," as mentioned above. |
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2012-09-19, 01:30 | Link #23776 | |
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The only point I'm making is that people who think the KJV or even the results of the Council of Nicea (much less the Imperial Roman Church or the thousands of offshoots) might be better served with a better understanding of the roots of what they're labeling themselves as, rather than clinging to a soundbite of a misquote of a political agenda of another soundbite from several translations of third hand oral stories.
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2012-09-19, 02:12 | Link #23777 | |
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Bad to the bone: A medical horror story
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2012-09-19, 04:59 | Link #23779 |
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Oh no, get ready for more carnage as another cartoon of the Prophet Mohammed is printed in France....
I'm all for freedom of speech, but what an idiot! http://news.sky.com/story/986820/fra...-cartoon-fears
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