It's in the UK. The glorious leader is David Cameron.

LAs have become too much.

Often I want a lot of channels, but to capture diagnostic data specifically formatted for output to a diagnostic port on the chip. So I don't need a $100K Agilent mainframe LA setup. I just need a synchronous FIFO that can be triggered that a PC can read.

Since such things are not really out there, you just hack it together with an FPGA. So it's product+FPGA dev board+a few wires+a usb PC connection.

The DFX circuitry is all on chip. You just want to get at it.

What's on my workbench?

1) A PC running VNC
2) A datacenter full of servers loaded with chip design tools
3) A 6 billion dollar fabrication plant.

Oooh. I have one of those.

Oh wait. It's a CFFA, not a CFAA.

> Almost all purchasable items are purely cosmetic

In other realms of our lives we consider the cosmetics manufacturers to be quite unethical.

Windows Media Player works for me when I'm at work. The Sonos is good at home.

I'm sure any other player would work, but WMP is there.

>You cannot be sure of that hypothesis
That's why it's called a hypothesis

>name one thing Jesus said or did that cause any harm to anyone
"Have faith"

B.S. I did not say Jesus didn't exist. I said it is very probable that a miracle casting Jesus born of a virgin never existed. Find me a modern day person that can perform miracles and I'll revise my opinion of a person performing miracles 2000 years ago.

Jesus doesn't get special treatment. I'm saying the available evidence for the biblical Jesus is very weak. It is. That was the subject in the title.

The evidence for the last 3 popes is considerably stronger but if you want that answer, start a thread about the existence of evidence for popes.

That's the way it is.

Most historians have more important things to deal with, like, for example: history.

There is a vanishingly small proportion of historians who run around arguing about the evidence for the New Testament Jesus, and they write an awful lot about very weak secondary sources.

I'm not sure which logical fallacy that one falls into. Maybe we need a new one.
    The fallacy of the missing documentation.
It could work for software too.

Actually it is the response of people to other people that has had a great effect.

At least I can claim to have done less damage. Yet.

He lived well.

The Wikipedia page talks plenty about how convinced scholars are (who have a vested interest in that answer) but doesn't actually cite any evidence. It doesn't pass the sniff test.
 

>Virtually all historians, whether Christian, atheist or of some other religion, hold that a man Jesus existed, even if his biography is just so much myth accreted around the historical figure.

All the honest ones are clear that there is no direct evidence and many of the myths clearly relate to different people at different times. There have been many people names Jesus. With high probability, there has never been magic Jesus, born of a virgin, 2000 years ago, who could perform miracles.