It sounds funny, but in WWII Japan, citizens could be arrested for accidentally seeing a military ship in the ocean just off the coast. People would literally close the blinds on passenger trains as they passed a beach to avoid this.

You beat me to the punch! I'm glad I'm not the only one who gets irked when people say clip instead of magazine. I wish I had some mod points for you!

Ha ha....I can definitely see the resemblance!

You know, I can't seem to get over this part. You're right on target when you say it's more common in a "base install", but I just can't get past how hard it is for me to read. I don't know, maybe I'm weird, but I gave up trying to use the stuff. I have been known to use php in cli mode instead, even though it may not be as ubiquitous as perl. I just started looking at Ruby, and so far I like it pretty good too.

Either way, when I see perl code I can't help but think about something a friend of mine told me once...he said perl code looked like he puked ASCII chunks in his terminal.

Where oh where are my mod points? This is hilarious! Is it bad that the episode of TNG to which your are referring is the first thing that came to my mind when reading this article?

I can second this whole-heartedly. I work in a computer shop, and I can personally testify that these two products catch more infections than anything Symantec, McAffee, or Trend Micro EVER came out with. I still recommend Malwarebytes Antimalware as a supplementary spyware scanner, but Avast and Avira are definitely my favorite for main protection.

I'm all for doing the right thing, too. Some people just have a hard time figuring out what that is. In my life I have bought 3-4 component dvd players. Right now, only 1 of them still works. That means I've paid the license fee for the dvd codec 3 or 4 times, and 2 or 3 of those license purchases are unused. So, I don't feel bad running xine/mplayer/ffmpeg with libdvdcss. I've paid my dues.

I think it comes down to this question: will I be anal enough to limit myself to what some company says is legal (in the deteriorating constitutionally-questionable legal system in my country [USA]) or do I just do what's ethical.

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...except many steel parts are being replaced by plastic or aluminum ones. Granted, aluminum is stronger than plastic, but sometimes it still isn't really strong enough. I'm no metallurgist, so I don't know about all the cool new alloys out there; but, I figure a lot of those alloys are probably too much more expensive to consider using in large amounts.

I can't tell you how glad I am of this. I pray that God will show himself to you in your life in a way that will let you believe. Forever is a long time, and God wants you to be happy during it, but he won't force you.

I think I may have hit the wrong reply button, so I'm leaving a little message here so you get the notification that I've replied.

Here's where it comes down to whether you can believe in something.

I know God is real and THE God because I know him personally. I talk to Him every day. He works in my life in ways that no one else could, preparing me for things that have happened in ways that no one else could. I have seen Him heal people in ways that have flabbergasted doctors, just because those people prayed in faith to be healed.

To answer the questions why humans, what does God look like, etc:

Genesis 1:27-28
27) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

28) And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

But the Bible tells us that the form God has is not a physical form, but a spiritual one:

John 4:24
24) God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

In answer to your question about teaching love, I don't believe people in general would hold to the idea of loving their neighbor if we hadn't been taught it by God in the first place. Many people STILL don't. This is why our nations are being consumed by the greed of their leaders and businessmen.

It sounds like you're saying God doesn't exist because some dead guy (Occam) says say it's unlikely. And anyway, how is the theory "God made it" not composed of fewer entities and simpler relationships? I count 2 entities: God and existence. I count 1 simple relationship: God vs existence. Count the entities and relationships involved in the big bang and evolution. I hope you have a lot of time and know a lot of big numbers.

Besides that, no one was around 14 billion years ago to prove whether these "explanations" are correct. We don't even have first hand accounts of any of the things mentioned in these explanations.

We have first hand accounts of everything that's written in the Bible as witnessed by the men who penned down God's words.

It still seems to me that you are discounting God, the Bible, Jesus, etc. because they can't be proven using the tools/methods you're used to and comfortable with. Is it not possible that there is another layer to reality that we have a very weak connection with and cannot measure in a test tube?

I know God exists, because I talk to Him all the time. And He answers. You can say I'm crazy, but no one who knows me would agree. And yes, plenty of non-believers know me, and they know me well enough to decide whether or not I'm insane.

Why is this "explanation" more likely than God actually existing? Is there something about this man's ideas that make them more possible than the existence of God, especially since we have a record of some of the things he has said and done involving man, aka, the Bible?

Sure, lots of people automatically discount the Bible because it's so old and doesn't confirm what they think, but what makes it less substantiated than other ancient texts that don't mention divine existence/intervention? In school, many history lessons are derived directly from these other ancient texts, and they are generally taken as truth.