I pose that christianity throughout time has been all about the personal theist god that interacts with the world. This view is plain to dismiss in the wake of scientific discovery - as well as the origin of man.

I think what you explain (pertaining to "an individual who believes that there is a Supreme Deity in charge of causing the universe to exist") is only a fallback position in the face of modern knowledge, where it is increasingly futile to persist with the traditional religious claims.

Evolution -> bye bye Adam & Eve -> bye bye bible -> bye bye christianity. It is known that man was not created, and from there everything else crumbles.

I think it's a false dichotomy, saying either we use free will to make decisions, or the decisions are predetermined. I wouldn't say that the physical reality is deterministic. Causality does not imply determinism; it merely says that this X happened because of Y, not that Y will cause X. In the same way I would say the decisions you make are caused by your collective sensory inputs and experiences, but cannot be predicted based upon the same.

There's a difference here, in that this works on desktop machines - (I have an Ivy Bridge CPU with an nVidia card, running Ubuntu, and it works perfectly). The issues are on laptops with Intel + nVidia as far as I understand.

It all comes down to how good a grasp on reality you have (or, if you will - how psychopathic you are ;).

If you acknowledge that the artificial brain is just a collection of interconnected silicon, the wiping of its neurons is just a physical process to meet the wipers needs. Just like the human brain is just a bunch of interconnected cells, and the wiping of it has no objective value attached to it.

Humans have created a mental construct from the notion of emotional suffering, though. If you murder a human, people around that human may suffer or feel afraid, and that's really the only rationale for why murder is bad. For the murdered human himself, it is of no consequence - the brain has ceased to function, and thus he cannot have an opinion about being dead.

"We also protect the freedom of expression of citizens in China" - they [Chinese authorities] continue to lie blatantly. They throw regime opponents in jail, and then proclaim they protect freedom of expression. They still don't see the ridicule of their own behavior.

But still, the measurement says nothing about what computers can or can't support. It's the internet or the protocol or the equipment that's the problem?

The statement is not accurate. Any modern computer can handle full gigabit speed with ease over ethernet cable. If there's a limiting factor, it's in the peripheral network equipment.

I think they should also sue the ISP used to discover/watch said page, and then also the manufacturers of both the server hardware as well as of the computer used to view it.

If we had no emotions this might be reasonable, but the reality is that it's more or less hardwired into the brain to protect your loved ones - especially children - whatever the cost. For some reason I think it's more so in women than in men, which might be a preconception. You don't see many women orchestrating these things, but then again the islamic communities are not known for gender equality.

It's important that we accommodate those who do not wish to have their walled-garden world view tarnished. Seeing the world unfiltered is not for everyone... Imagine if geocentrists find that the earth is not the center of the universe - most uncomfortable indeed.

And I am baffled - it's a PDF viewer! "Read/Write operations?" Its purpose it to render PDF documents, and maybe print them. No need to touch anything else on the computer. Save some preferences, but that's done by the program, separated out from any PDF-interpretation - certainly not made available from "scripting" inside the document. Abandoned Acrobat Reader long time ago too.