Sin is, by definition, behavior that God does not want. But if God is the omnipotent, omniscient creator, he must have known that humans would sin and yet he created them anyway.
It's a logical impossibility for such a God to create a world that he does not want.
Theologians do a lot of handwaving to avoid this conundrum, but nobody has successfully solved it.
Actually thats not true, it was quite sucessfully solved by the Cathars,by the premise of two equally powerful gods, one good the other evil
The World of matter we are living in was held to be a creation of the evil god btw, this is why it is so obviously full of suffering and sin. the goal of the cathar's was to transend this evil physical world and enter the good spiritual one.
This is of course utterly heretical, and is why the catholic church saw fit to help the cathar's escape the physical world by setting them on fire...
This is the same government that made a deal with Microsoft to pay them regardless of whether Microsoft's software was actually installed. That doesn't sound like the kind of logical decision making that leads to entertaining the notion that 230 students might not need 192 servers after all.
I can see a possible case where that might make sense.
If for example the cost of auditing what each machine was running was more than the discounted price offered by microsoft, ie just pay us a flat fee for every machine you have, dont worry about auditing it.
Having said that of course, I doubt that the deal microsoft worked out is anything like that fair.
However I would imagine part of the cost saving involved, is the schools are not being sued for unlicenced copies of windows, when they have 300 copies of office, but only 200 licences
Not that it makes it any less a protection racket from microsoft, but it might not be an entirely stupid move on behalf of the education department
If I roll a die, and cover it up and look, maybe it says 3. So if I ask you, who doesn't see the number, what the chances are it's 3, it's 100%, because it is a 3. The fact that you can't see it can't change reality, they say!
yeah whatever Dave, you failed your saving throw ok, just give it up man... just give it up.
See... the good Doctor Himmelstein
it's pronounced "Homm-el-steen"
All the loaves of bread in my refrigerator
keeping bread in the fridge causes it to go stale faster.
apparantly quite cool temperatures causes the starch crystals to form long shard like structures (making the bread hard) baking causes the starch to form small spiky balls, but this is not a stable state, hence breads tendency to go stale.
the best way to store bread is at room temperature, or freezing.
my source for all of this is a random science program on Radio 4 so is of course COMPLETELY true
a failed Miss USA contestant (can anyone find her as one of the 50 finalists? I personally couldn't [geocities.com]),
it helps if you search the right year 1986 (i'll give you a clue, she's the one called halle berry, that looks a lot like a young halle berry)
The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities.