Comment Re:UPDATE (Score 1) 353
Well done sir.
Well done sir.
yep - the job creators had fundamental disagreements with Matthew 6 & 19
Not to mention 23...
Do you happen to have a link for this quote? I would love to share the source with a number of my ultra-religious relatives on Facebook. (None of them think he's a secret Muslim, to my knowledge, but I'd still be interested to see their reaction to this.)
Washington National Cathedral is a bit more than just "a church". Wikipedia
yes, because nothing proves your sincerity by knowing what's written in a fantasy book.
The question of whether the Bible is a fantasy isn't at issue here. The issue is whether the President honestly believes it, studies it, and tries to live according to its teachings, or whether he's just pandering to the masses by telling them what they want to hear. His choice of words here suggests an intimate familiarity with the text that wouldn't be there if he were merely pandering.
A large number of people have been mislead into believing that President Obama is either an atheist or a Muslim. Many of the people who voted against him did so primarily because of these lies. Lies and deception are unhealthy in a democracy.
If you're an American who believes Christians are stupid and dangerous, I hope you were not similarly mislead, and exercised your right to vote for someone else.
I have no doubt that our PM is likely more religious than many of our previous PM's, however likely they most that would be said about it might be "yes I believe in god, and that is a private affair for myself and my family".
The quote wasn't from a speech, but from an interview that both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney gave for the midsummer 2012 issue of Cathedral Age, the magazine of the Washington National Cathedral. It did not receive much press coverage. The President doesn't speak publicly about his religious beliefs very much, although he doesn't dodge such questions when asked.
Perhaps you can point some of your Christian friends to this quote:
First and foremost, my Christian faith gives me a perspective and security that I don’t think I would have otherwise: That I am loved. That, at the end of the day, God is in control—and my main responsibility is to love God with all of my heart, soul, and mind, and to love my neighbor as myself. Now, I don’t always live up to that standard, but it is a standard I am always pursuing.
My faith is also a great source of comfort to me. I’ve said before that my faith has grown as president. This office tends to make a person pray more; and as President Lincoln once said, "I have been driven to my knees many times by the overwhelming conviction that I had no place else to go."
Finally, I try to make sure that my faith informs how I live my life. As a husband, as a father, and as president, my faith helps me to keep my eyes on the prize and focus on what is good and truly important.
-- President Barack Obama
The allusions to Matthew 22:37-39 and Philippians 3:14 are what makes me believe his sincerity.
You should be able to log into your phone account from another device and retrieve the location of the phone, Maybe listen in and record calls from your phone, too.
You don't even have to have him click a link. Send an email with a web bug (1 pixel img), hosted on a server you have log access to, and when he reads it you have his IP.
This doesn't work with modern email clients. Spammers can set the URL of the image to a unique ID code that's linked to your email address, so as soon as you load the image they've just confirmed that your email address is valid. We don't want that, so external images are blocked by default.
However, a decade ago this would have been more likely to work.
It is easier to charge the public more or ban something wasteful like children's balloons than it is to get the military or industry to do anything. Remember, the military and industry have a history of KILLING PEOPLE rather than change their ways - and you want them to change over a small resource supply problem? The military complex can't even stop wasting money when we run out of money.
But banning party balloons won't help us to not run out of helium so soon. It's such a small percentage, the difference would be imperceptible, and yet you're asking millions of people to sacrifice a fun tradition just so you can feel like you're "doing something" without any real benefit to the public.
My suggestion: tax it, just like cigarettes and gasoline. Artificially driving up the price will encourage people to waste less and recapture more, and the additional revenue can contribute to deficit reduction.
The most important feature of Windows 7 is not being named "Vista". That alone generated millions of sales.
Furthermore, the silly codenames Ubuntu has are just that: codenames. They are for developers and testers, not end users, and certainly not "pundits".
That's precisely how Apple's cat names started, until rumor sites caught wind and end users started using them. Then starting with Mac OS X 10.4 "Tiger", Apple's marketing team decided to just run with it.
Personally I'm really disappointed that Ubuntu didn't go with Hungry Hippo.
The real reason 7 felt so much faster than Vista: When they made Vista, they planned on you booting up very infrequently, so they scheduled a lot of junk to happen at boot and login, thinking that users would just 'sleep' instead of rebooting. Windows 7 (And Vista SP2) backs off a bit and does the housekeeping when you're not using the computer. Vista actually wasn't really 'slow', it's just 'irrationally busy' doing stuff with the I/O (indexing, precaching, defragmenting, etc.) while you're just trying to get to your gosh-darned desktop.
Also, the reason people had fewer compatibility problems with 7 isn't because Microsoft fixed the OS, it's because software and hardware vendors fixed their applications and drivers.
If you tried to do anything useful on Windows Vista within the first six months after it was released, you probably had a miserable experience. If you tried to do the same stuff on Windows 7 within the first six months of that OS's release, it probably worked fine. What people don't realize is that if you did a clean install of Vista when Windows 7 was released, it would have worked fine too, because the apps had been fixed by then.
I don't buy that. It may have appeared up, but that's because everything was intermittent all day.
An ipad is a toy. A laptop is a tool. Idiots.
An iPad can ALSO be a tool, but it's a different tool that is great at different things. To borrow another poster's analogy, a kitchen knife is a great tool, but I'm not gonna use one for eating soup. Conversely, slicing a ham with a spoon is probably about as much fun as writing a paper on an iPad.
Intel CPUs are not defective, they just act that way. -- Henry Spencer
