I don't think there is going to be any "action" against Syria. After the British Parliament's vote, no one else is going to sign on, and surely even this administration is not crazy enough to go it completely alone.
My UK friend tells me that the British have turned entirely against Obama -- even the Guardian regularly denounces him, and the rest of Europe is not far behind.
The drone issue is very big in Europe and the Middle East. Plus everyone has gotten used to Obama talking, talking and talking but nothing much happening.
Here's something remarkable for free that's not for everyone but still an interesting blossom in educational software:
"Play Like Botvinnik"
http://chessok.com/?p=24620
Botvinnik was one of the most remarkable chess players in history -- world champion off and on from the forties to the sixties plus numerous achievements as an engineer, computer scientist and as chess coach to several recent world champions. You can read more at wiki or other sites.
The software provides all of Botvinnik's chess games and will coach the user in 350 critical positions from those games to, well, play like Botvinnik. It's a good idea, but in this case it's also implemented decently.
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Except for phx and Icepick, I don't think many here want to improve their chess playing. I bring it up because I see that educational software is getting better and will without doubt play an increasingly large role in future education. For a long time educational software has mostly been terrible, but that is changing.
PS Now that he's been humiliated (largely by himself) in a way that's never happened to him before, does that make it more likely he'll do something even more dangerous and irresponsible to make up for it?
I was listening to the car radio. Some Christian thing. FamilyRadio.com.
They offer some kind of pamphlet. "How Do I Know the Bible is True?"
They gave one of the reasons over the radio. The bible is the product of hundreds of people working over hundreds of years so that's how you know it's truly God's word.
That's a real head scratcher.
Seems to me, if God thought we should have a how-to book with His name on it, it'd be a tad bit more coherent. Delivered all at once. Some sort of world-wide ceremonial revelation so we get it right and none of this yeah-it-was-a-burning-bush-but-it-didn't-actually-burn-so-don't-bother-yourself-going-up-there-and-taking-a-look-around-for-evidence-just-take-my-word-for-it stuff.
Still, I'm sure the people who put those sorts of pamphlets together are nice people.
Mitchell, I think that the best argument I've heard was based on a couple of assumptions (that you can refuse, of course) but that 1) a just God wouldn't leave you guessing, and 2) a just God wouldn't leave a bunch of humans to just make stuff up.
Yeah, there are a lot of problems with those reasons, too. But I figure that of the various options (there is no God, there is a God but He's purposely hiding from us, and there is a God and He's not hiding from us) the only one that I can actually usefully consider is the case where God is real and not hiding and then look to see if I can locate his revelation.
After that it's a bit hard to get the philosophical issues on something pamphlet sized. If God's revelation was indisputable, would we still have free will? OTOH, does the fact that gravity is indisputable take away our free will?
As for the added veracity of having multiple authors over centuries... it makes sense than the Book is inherently flexible because it needs to remain relevant throughout those centuries? A person would write for people in the same time and same country, but God would write for all time. So it's pretty incoherent in places, sure it is.
My mom is a wise lady and she thought it best to consider the points made clearly in multiple places as the most important, the things it was appropriate to *insist* upon, while interesting things that were mentioned once or were ambiguous ought to be viewed as things to contemplate for personal spiritual growth rather than elements to clobber other people over the head with.
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I don't think there is going to be any "action" against Syria. After the British Parliament's vote, no one else is going to sign on, and surely even this administration is not crazy enough to go it completely alone.
Think he regrets sending that Churchill bust back?
Nah.
OMG, I clicked by accident and had a flashback... I'm so old. (49 on Sunday.) Now I'm going to have to go buy this and put it on my playlist.
Pasta tagged the Kim Jong-un's ex-lover execution by firing squad as "bad break up".
Es una cancion muy buena.
My UK friend tells me that the British have turned entirely against Obama -- even the Guardian regularly denounces him, and the rest of Europe is not far behind.
The drone issue is very big in Europe and the Middle East. Plus everyone has gotten used to Obama talking, talking and talking but nothing much happening.
Their love was in Jeopardy, baby.
Here's something remarkable for free that's not for everyone but still an interesting blossom in educational software:
"Play Like Botvinnik"
http://chessok.com/?p=24620
Botvinnik was one of the most remarkable chess players in history -- world champion off and on from the forties to the sixties plus numerous achievements as an engineer, computer scientist and as chess coach to several recent world champions. You can read more at wiki or other sites.
The software provides all of Botvinnik's chess games and will coach the user in 350 critical positions from those games to, well, play like Botvinnik. It's a good idea, but in this case it's also implemented decently.
***
Except for phx and Icepick, I don't think many here want to improve their chess playing. I bring it up because I see that educational software is getting better and will without doubt play an increasingly large role in future education. For a long time educational software has mostly been terrible, but that is changing.
Barack Obama is the Ted Bundy of American Presidents.
The Limeys, Frogs and Krauts are just catching on to his act.
Synova, you are still in your prime.
PS Now that he's been humiliated (largely by himself) in a way that's never happened to him before, does that make it more likely he'll do something even more dangerous and irresponsible to make up for it?
He already married Michelle, what could be more dangerous and irresponsible than that?
Whenever I hear the name "Greg Kihn" I always think of Tim Moore for no good reason that I can possibly fathom.
In my own little time machine, I'm going to see The Samples tonight at the bandshell.
I was listening to the car radio. Some Christian thing. FamilyRadio.com.
They offer some kind of pamphlet. "How Do I Know the Bible is True?"
They gave one of the reasons over the radio. The bible is the product of hundreds of people working over hundreds of years so that's how you know it's truly God's word.
That's a real head scratcher.
Seems to me, if God thought we should have a how-to book with His name on it, it'd be a tad bit more coherent. Delivered all at once. Some sort of world-wide ceremonial revelation so we get it right and none of this yeah-it-was-a-burning-bush-but-it-didn't-actually-burn-so-don't-bother-yourself-going-up-there-and-taking-a-look-around-for-evidence-just-take-my-word-for-it stuff.
Still, I'm sure the people who put those sorts of pamphlets together are nice people.
Mitchell, I think that the best argument I've heard was based on a couple of assumptions (that you can refuse, of course) but that 1) a just God wouldn't leave you guessing, and 2) a just God wouldn't leave a bunch of humans to just make stuff up.
Yeah, there are a lot of problems with those reasons, too. But I figure that of the various options (there is no God, there is a God but He's purposely hiding from us, and there is a God and He's not hiding from us) the only one that I can actually usefully consider is the case where God is real and not hiding and then look to see if I can locate his revelation.
After that it's a bit hard to get the philosophical issues on something pamphlet sized. If God's revelation was indisputable, would we still have free will? OTOH, does the fact that gravity is indisputable take away our free will?
As for the added veracity of having multiple authors over centuries... it makes sense than the Book is inherently flexible because it needs to remain relevant throughout those centuries? A person would write for people in the same time and same country, but God would write for all time. So it's pretty incoherent in places, sure it is.
My mom is a wise lady and she thought it best to consider the points made clearly in multiple places as the most important, the things it was appropriate to *insist* upon, while interesting things that were mentioned once or were ambiguous ought to be viewed as things to contemplate for personal spiritual growth rather than elements to clobber other people over the head with.
... it makes sense that the Book...
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