Boss "Hey, get back to work!"
Me "Compiling!"
Boss "OK. No wait! You're writing VB script!"
Me "... bugger"

I'm getting paid for my time, and I'm reading /. I think that means "yes", even if I'm supposed to be doing something else.

Not quite. It was established in the west by Christians (nominally), but slavery pre-dates Christianity and even Judaism by millennia.

Also it still exists today, even though it is largely illegal.

Stop the traffik

        * TRAFFICKING IS
            to be deceived or taken against your will, bought, sold and transported into slavery for sexual exploitation, sweat shops, child brides, circuses, sacrificial worship, forced begging, sale of human organs, farm labour, domestic servitude.
        * TRAFFICKING IS
            where family members and friends deceive parents to release their children or sell them for as little as $20 each, selling them on to local gangmasters or serious organised international trafficking rings.
        * TRAFFICKING IS
            growing. 2–4 MILLION men, women and children are trafficked across borders and within their own country every year. More than one person is trafficked across borders EVERY MINUTE, which is equivalent to five jumbo jets every day. a trade that earns twice as much worldwide revenue as Coca Cola.
        * TRAFFICKING IS
            where victims usually suffer repeated physical abuse, fear, torture and threats to families to break their spirits and turn them into saleable commodities. a person can be sold and trafficked many times.

nicely done

a risk based approach is required, so that users know that occasionally a message box will appear that will have serious negative consequences if they fail to take the correct action.

For example "If you don't turn around right now I'm going to smack you over the head with a baseball bat" [OK]

No evidence that this is the case. It is often stated but the reality is that today both hardline disbelief and orthodox faith are growing rapidly world wide. The truth is that apathy is withering and faith (both in it positive and negative forms) is growing.

Hey, an atheist utopia! Except that it's closer to hell IMHO. East germany is dead and lifeless, grey and miserable. I do not want to go back there any time soon.

No such thing as a fact. Every measurement has uncertainty, and the possibility of failure. Therefore a datum is not a fact. It is merely data with a confidence value, and that confidence value is itself culturally conditioned to some extent.

Well said.

In my view, the best evidence of these powers is that the disciples were all killed for claiming Jesus rose from the dead, but since they all claimed to be eyewitnesses they would have had to have known it was a lie. In my experience people don't cheerfully and joyfully allow themselves to be executed for something they KNOW to be false. I find their faith in a life after death, flowing from their experience, in the face of certain death to be compelling.

Thus proving the premise of TFA

This is not constrained to formal organised religion, but is instead universal to anyone who has any worldview, and that includes atheists. What makes you think that somehow atheists hold an privileged position where they alone have access to the truth, and how is that unjustifiable belief any different to any other form of belief, or that somehow they have direct access to reality with it being altered by their beliefs?
In other words, those who self identify as members of religious organisations are no different than anyone else when it comes to interpreting facts through the filter of their worldview, and yet you appear to be asserting the supremacy of yours which is ironic, given that when a religious person does that you would call it bigotry.

Can I recommend "The Reason For God", by Tim Keller, as it delves more deeply into the inconsistencies of such a belief.

I'm pretty sure you can so long as you're a 64bit native app, and not just a 32bit app on a 64bit OS.

No need. Pestilence, War, Famine and Death would all be the consequence of Global Warming, if it happens.

I must admit, I find it hard to decide whether or not it's real, and I studied atmospheric physics at uni. I'm not sure whether the data we have now can really show us whether the warming trend is part of a long term warming on a scale of millenia with shorter cycles overlaid, or whether there is genuine AGW going on. Certainly the weather over the last decade is not statistically significant enough to declare warming over, and a couple of cold winters does nothing to undermine the AGW theory, particularly as global warming could easily mean local cooling or increased snowfall in some areas.
My fear is that by the time we get the required data it may be too late to do anything about it, if it's not already.

I think what really winds up the AGW proponents is that the denialists are (with some success) managing to get the media to portray the AGW, IPCC etc as the ones who are "religious" about their beliefs, while the deniers sound very reasonable and plausable saying "the case is not proven", and "there is still some doubt here". They manage to sound like scientists, while the real scientists might as well be standing on street corners shouting "The end is neigh!"