It's both, isn't it? It's both being faithful to your god's expectations, and having faith in their existence and nature.

To follow your example, I am both faithful (show fidelity) to my wife, and I have faith (believe) that she will act according to what I know about her.

That said, we're talking about personified entities, here, regardless of your diety or dieties of choice. They are more psychology (soft-science) than physics or math as far as understanding or 'prooving'. There's a reason why the Bible and Greek/Roman/Norse mythologies (and probably others I'm less familiar with) speak of emotions with respect to God and the gods behavior (anger, as a common example), rather than logical rules that one gets from the hard-sciences. As such, one doesn't need faith to believe in gravitational or magnetic forces, but does need faith to believe in God's compassion.

My thumb comes at such an angle that sometimes while attempting to scroll right, my thumb places enough force that the pad also goes up. This is particularly a hassle while navigating my Netflix queue.

Their competitors also do not provide matchmaking of any sort, so MS also provides UNDEF more multiplayer services in that arena. That makes the price increase worth it, right?

But if you look at Matthew 5:28, Jesus neither specifies married man nor married woman, which to me implies an expansion of the sin of adultery. Sure, initially it was defined as the 'mixing of seed', but that doesn't seem to be the case in this instance. And as I said below, if the act of lust itself is a sin then it follows that all forms of sexual contact would likely follow, as they almost necessarily involve lust. Alternatively, the sin could be against a woman's future husband or her virginity itself.

That said, Miseph has it right in this thread. Whether it is defined as a sin or not should not be used as a hammer to cause guilt. The barrier to sin is relatively low, so much so that we all do it. The message is not (or should not) be 'stop sinning so you can be saved', because it's impossible. Rather, it is a goal for believers, so they can act properly and respectfully towards others.

Put another way, nobody goes to Hell just because they got a BJ in High School. God just doesn't want his people exercising their sexuality outside the bounds of marriage.

In general, Jesus has wrapped this one up pretty well: Matthew 5:28

I doubt that there is a pathway that leads to oral sex/mutual masturbation/other sexual acts that doesn't start with looking at and desiring the person. The sin is not the sexual act per-se, but the uncontrolable desire or fantasy for that sexual act with someone other than a spouse.

That said, many, including a majority of Christians, forget that the entire basis of the Christian message is based on the ubiquity of sin and our forgiveness of it even though it's undeserved. While the Bible still teaches that we should try not to sin (since it brings glory to God), it also teaches that no matter how hard we might try we still will. The focus has shifted from "we're all sinners and need forgiveness", toward defining which sins are the the 'really bad' ones that you're totally going to Hell for.

tl;dr: yes it's a sin, but it's hardly the only sin a teenager or anyone else will commit.

I know of exactly zero computer engineers who work in IT. I have a dual degree in Computer and Electrical Engineering. Most computer engineers get a job writing software or designing digital hardware (VLSI chips, microprocessors, FPGAs). Hell, the degree is basically electrical engineering, just with a focus on digital instead of analog and extra software chops.

Obviously he either wants to exercise his analog skills at home, or he plans to use it for digital circuits but a logic analyzer is out of his price range.

Agreed. This is what IQ was used for, before it was bastardised into a dick-waving competition. If you were below a 70-80 IQ, then you needed remedial help to catch you up with your peers.

The only benefit to passing along a student who doesn't understand the material is preventing the social stigma of 'flunking out'. By requiring a C (similar to most universities), the students can actually be taught, and underperforming students can be identified. Not to point them out and laugh, but to give them the resources to succeed.

That's assuming the other driver doesn't panic after being hit by a man at a difference in velocity of 50+ MPH, maintains control of their vehicle, and that nobody runs over said motorcyclist or bike.

I'd say it's about as dangerous as a deer on the highway (slightly slower relatively, yet heavier), and we consider that a danger:

I don't think it's particularly a price point issue, but a quantity issue. AAA games sell for the same price as non-AAA games, for the most part: $50-60. There's an anecdote drifting around from Spore's development that is costs 4x more to make a game that looks 2x better. If we assume that to be the case (diminishing returns on development when you get into AAA game range), then this all makes sense. If you spend double the money improving a AAA game, but those improvements only gain 50% more buyers, then that game shouldn't be polished to AAA levels for economic reasons.

I am assuming that R&D costs for automated flight control computers will be more expensive than that of pilot controls and comforts, as the latter are more common.

Regardless of R&D costs, operational costs will certainly be less.

It used to be that having more friends in the game unlocked larger farms (and other stuff) without having to spend real money. That may have changed, but the tactic has always been 'friends or dollars'. Either you fund them directly, or you coerce your friends to join, and maybe one of them gives you money.

Modern aircraft (particularly combat aircraft) already have redundant computers to move the control surfaces (and the computer is required to make the plane even remotely flyable), multiple sensors are already used because it's equally bad for a pilot to lose sensors, and high quality data links are standard in this age of electronic warfare. The only difference is one additional redundant computer to fly the plane in place of a pilot. Development cost will be higher due to the extra hardware and software work, but operational costs will be way down. Less weight, less fuel, less pilot training.

He also produced some of the most incredible PR gaffes in recent memory. It's easy to hate someone when they're wholly unlikeable.

Would this relate to triangles and the universe?

And thus, the reason why the % exists. It allows us to determine if a 1kg change is significant (weight of a bowling ball), insignificant (weight of the earth), of wildly significant (weight of a swallow) by giving a single digit which compares the magnitude of change to the initial value.

In other words, 4% of a value is not an 'infinitesimal' change, even if the values of concern are generally considered to be infinitesimally small. As far as relative change, it is significant enough to care (1/25th).