Because God wouldn't tell us God's proper name. When Moses asked "What should people call you?", God answered "I AM THAT I AM. Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, `I AM hath sent me unto you.'" (King James, Exodus 3:14)

Since "The Immortal State of Existence" was kind of a long name, and "I am" was awkward to use in conversation, we shortened it to: God.

John Resig of jQuery fame outlines why Khan Academy decided to offer JavaScript as their first computer language. With video, of course.

From http://www.khanacademy.org/ :

• Computer Science
• Introduction to programming and computer science
• Python Lists
• For Loops in Python
• While Loops in Python
• ...

How is Javascript the first language if they are already teaching Python?

"Hello, my name is ... Peggy. How are you feeling today?"

Perhaps that is so, but your further statements weaken your argument by showing your own bias.

Repeat after me: evangelism != fundamentalism. There are evangelicals who are not fundamental. And there are fundies who aren't particular evangelical. Evangelism is the process of spreading what you believe. Fundamentalists share a certain set of beliefs. They are not mutually requisite characteristics; neither are they mutually exclusive.

Specifically, I am an evangelical preacher who is decidedly not fundamental. My churches (two) are, I imagine, reasonably typical American evangelical Christian churches.

I have never preached the need to wage war, for or against anything. Period.

Any preacher, of any stripe, who does this in the US risks losing his church's 501(c)3 status. The IRS takes a dim view of PACs pretending to be churches.

For an excellent example of a fundementalist evangelical mega-church pastor who specifically denounces these ideas, read "Radical" by David Platt..

Citation, please. Here, I'll loan you one. According to [something I just found on the Internet], of the five largest denominations in North America, only one, the Southern Baptist Convention, fits your stereotype. The fastest-growing denominations are LDS, Assemblies of God, the Roman Catholic church, and the Orthodox Church in America. None of these fit your image, either.

The question isn't how politically involved the churches are as corporate entities. The question is how politically involved are the members. The most recent POTUS have been (in reverse order): UCC, UMC, SBC, Episcopalian, PCUSA, SBC, and Quaker. Only SBC comes close to fitting your stereotype, and I doubt you'd describe Bill Clinton or Jimmy Carter as the war-mongering money-loving elitists that so upset you.

Please: 1) don't confuse evangelism with TV-broadcasting, money-loving, success-preaching fundamental evangelicals. 2) Don't believe that fundies control the US religious landscape any more than you should believe that FOX news controls the political landscape, and 3) Don't believe everything you see on TV about Americans, or Christians.

I bid you peace.

Been there, done that.

But what will you use when you run out of primes?

They moved them?

Philistine. It's so clear which one is better, I can't imagine why you refuse to name it. Perhaps you secretly dislike both.

Wow. Star Trek was designed, pitched, and produced as a space western. IIRC, Roddenberry called it "Wagon Train to the stars."

I'd have to exactly and precisely disagree with you -- Star Trek is a space western, Star Wars is classic science fiction.

It seems to me that 3M and Xerox, among other companies, made a decent living releasing pet project after pet project.

So the combination is... one, two, three, four, five? That's the stupidest combination I've ever heard in my life! The kind of thing an idiot would have on his luggage!