Actually a much misunderstood comment - What Falwel was actually doing was in the Christian tradition of "mea culpa" - blaming oneself.
Now where he leaves that tradition is when he moves the blame away from himself personally (the proper Christian position) onto others within his community.
When Jerusalem was sacked by the Arabs in 634 Patriarch Sophronius said something similar - but he didn't exempt himself and locaise the blame onto others.
Even Jerry Falwell didn't suggest a violent response.
I hate to go off on tangents / be a wet blanket - but contrary to the idealist sentiments of the author, racism & anti-immigrant hysteria has been part of the US since day one.
By thst I presume that you mean that the original inhabitants of North America were scared of the immigrant europeans. I'd say that they had a point!
Bush taught us that a president can't be impeached for running the country into the ground.
Bush taught us that a president can't be impeached for
a) Election fraud.
b) Starting a war on false pretences against the wrong enemy the ultimate result of which is religious/ethnic cleansing of the very people who we should have been trying to protect!
c) Inventing a contrivance to imprison people outside the protections of either US law or the Geneva conventions.
NP-complete means (simplified version) that it's very difficult to compute, but easy to verify the right answer once you see it. Factorization belongs to this category:
Maybe the enforcement is mostly random - but it does appear that Orthodox Clergy have been targeted - perhaps because of the "keywords" in their names.
For those unfamiliar with the cultural issues involved, this is essentially a Muslim-world analogue to the government of the UK formally announcing an intent to restore the British Empire.
More like that patient telling the psychiatrist that he is God. This doesn't go down well with the psychiatrist because...
According to some of the papers today, ISIS are going around smashing up satellite dishes and receivers in and around Raqqa to stop the locals seeing all the nasty things the West are saying about them.
Would one of those nasty things be "ISIS are going around smashing up satellite dishes ....."
That seams highly improbable. The bible even condone stoning of animals to death.
Firstly that is a non-sequitur.
Secondly you would have to believe that either:
a) Assuming that it is not literally true the person who wrote it was unaware that he had just contradicted himself
b) Assuming that it is leterally true... but wait a minute if it is literally true then you are in the wrong anyway.
Tell this to doctors in Ireland that ...etc
You can find examples of bad stuff done by the adherents of every religion, philosophy or political system - including whatever you subscribe to. So what?
I just pointed out that you made a deliberate, ridiculous misinterpretation of a text to support your argument. That criticism stands. Obviously aren't prepared to let logic or reason interfere with your predetermined attitudes.
Onan was punished for the sin of wasting his sperm.
That is not the case - if you actually read the text it is clear that he was punished for refusing to father a child - which is hardly the same thing. The idea that this text implies that each individual sperm has some kind of right to life is a straw man that is often asserted by those who objective is ridicule but is in fact nonsense.
But as Genesis 2:17 tells us, disregard knowledge!
A rather odd reading that.
In any case we've already eaten the fruit so the genie is out of the bottle. The result is now we have to make the tricky moral decisions (like this one) and that is our punishment.
Political systems tend to reward those who have enough resources to affect the political system.
A really good point - maybe better than you realise it is.
After the second world war labour was in short supply and technology had reached a point where many semi-skilled workers were required. This gave bargaining power to the masses and ushered in a period when democracy seemed to mean something and the "1%" were in retreat. However times have changed again and billions of people in the former 3rd world have been added to the labour market - undermining the position of all but the elites in the West. Hence the 1% are back on top and our rights are being eroded again.
At best he was an actor reading somebody else's script.
Personally he was a romantic who was easily swayed by whoever talked to him last. This is amply demonstrated by the walk in the woods with Gorbachev.
Turns out Reagan was better at foreign policy
Luckier maybe, but better?
Iran Contra anyone?
Jimmy Carter was actually one of the best presidents you ever had - his record since leaving office underlines that. Unfortunately he was about the unluckiest president you ever had.
I think the line is in the intention of the person who made the copy. If the intention was to create a new work then there would be a new copyright. ON the other hand if the intention was to create a faithful copy then there is no new copyright. This is the substance of the judge's decision in the Corel case and also in this statement from the UK.
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Actually a much misunderstood comment - What Falwel was actually doing was in the Christian tradition of "mea culpa" - blaming oneself.
Now where he leaves that tradition is when he moves the blame away from himself personally (the proper Christian position) onto others within his community.
When Jerusalem was sacked by the Arabs in 634 Patriarch Sophronius said something similar - but he didn't exempt himself and locaise the blame onto others.
Even Jerry Falwell didn't suggest a violent response.
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By thst I presume that you mean that the original inhabitants of North America were scared of the immigrant europeans. I'd say that they had a point!
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Bush taught us that a president can't be impeached for
a) Election fraud.
b) Starting a war on false pretences against the wrong enemy the ultimate result of which is religious/ethnic cleansing of the very people who we should have been trying to protect!
c) Inventing a contrivance to imprison people outside the protections of either US law or the Geneva conventions.
I could go on.....
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No it doesn't! In this diagram - assuming as most do that the left side is correct:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NP-hardness#/media/File:P_np_np-complete_np-hard.svg
then factoring is in NP but not in NP complete. You can't use Shor's algorithm to solve 3sat.
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I wouldn't wish any of them to be in prison let alone having to share a cell with him!
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Santa
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Actually not true.
http://usa.greekreporter.com/2015/04/11/facebook-threatens-to-delete-accounts-of-orthodox-clerg y/
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More like that patient telling the psychiatrist that he is God. This doesn't go down well with the psychiatrist because...
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Re: Mmmm. Sounds familiar?
Would one of those nasty things be "ISIS are going around smashing up satellite dishes ....."
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Firstly that is a non-sequitur.
Secondly you would have to believe that either:
a) Assuming that it is not literally true the person who wrote it was unaware that he had just contradicted himself
b) Assuming that it is leterally true... but wait a minute if it is literally true then you are in the wrong anyway.
Tell this to doctors in Ireland that ...etc
You can find examples of bad stuff done by the adherents of every religion, philosophy or political system - including whatever you subscribe to. So what?
I just pointed out that you made a deliberate, ridiculous misinterpretation of a text to support your argument. That criticism stands. Obviously aren't prepared to let logic or reason interfere with your predetermined attitudes.
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Or perhaps not, Adam lived 930 years after he did the same.
He did "die" in a sense - because he was thrown out of paradise - that is was the text means.
You don't have to take every word literally you know.
The underlying point remains true and powerful regardless of whether you believe any of the literal stuff.
When you have drained off all the bathwater you will find that the baby has gone too!
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That is not the case - if you actually read the text it is clear that he was punished for refusing to father a child - which is hardly the same thing. The idea that this text implies that each individual sperm has some kind of right to life is a straw man that is often asserted by those who objective is ridicule but is in fact nonsense.
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A rather odd reading that.
In any case we've already eaten the fruit so the genie is out of the bottle. The result is now we have to make the tricky moral decisions (like this one) and that is our punishment.
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A really good point - maybe better than you realise it is.
After the second world war labour was in short supply and technology had reached a point where many semi-skilled workers were required. This gave bargaining power to the masses and ushered in a period when democracy seemed to mean something and the "1%" were in retreat. However times have changed again and billions of people in the former 3rd world have been added to the labour market - undermining the position of all but the elites in the West. Hence the 1% are back on top and our rights are being eroded again.
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All this tells us is that the EFF is well behind the NRA in that respect.
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Mostly things outside his control.
So the mood was that Reagan couldn't be any worse.
Outside the US most of us thought Reagan was a joke! See video I linked to above.
Nothing that happened changed our minds.
see this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s2n87YKSjrA
At best he was an actor reading somebody else's script.
Personally he was a romantic who was easily swayed by whoever talked to him last. This is amply demonstrated by the walk in the woods with Gorbachev.
Turns out Reagan was better at foreign policy
Luckier maybe, but better?
Iran Contra anyone?
Jimmy Carter was actually one of the best presidents you ever had - his record since leaving office underlines that. Unfortunately he was about the unluckiest president you ever had.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QkHkWy9S4nw
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Crazy Americans
There were enough to elect Ronald Reagan!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmWLJmbytkk
Enjoy!
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