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2012 Isaac Asimov Debate - Shocker
While I was speedily browsing through this 1:45 hour video, I was suddenly stunned by Dr. David Cline of UCLA's response to a Q&A [@ 1:29:00]:
Cline: [paraphrasing] At UCLA, most of my graduate students are Chinese, this is because very few Americans...BTW, the Chinese government has done a very smart thing by sending its students here. Not nearly enough Americans are going into science...
This is a response to a liberal questioner who wants to talk about the possibility of certain impossibility of scientific breakthroughs. Cline's response seems to target at most Americans who love Hollywood effects rather than real science.
The antagonist of Cline in the debate, Dr. Laura Patrizii of University of Bologna, ended the show with "No comment" to the question on scientific management of the 2 month mistake regarding the faster-than-light neutrino anomaly. From Patrizii's behavior and gesture, Italian accent aside, I conclude that she's hyper anxious for crackpot results.
Posted in Astronomy, Reviews
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Virtual Sandbox
Forget about Sandboxie or VMWare. Thus far, I find Faronics' Deep Freeze the best.
Standard edition has only the freezer.
Enterprise edition has remote console with more configurations. (Took a while for me to figure out how to start the package) Turns out one must CREATE a package from the administrator configuration and then run that package.
There is also a server edition.
Posted in Technical
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What's with the Hashtags "#" in Social Media
This hashtag or a pound "#" sign is symbol prefixed to one word. It is culturally associated with Twitter. But generally used in most social media. A metadata tag. When clicked, it lists all posts that contain this hashtag, thereby rendering a good marketing or lobbying tool.
I'm glad that I can still follow up with this kind of stuff.
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Nova Delphini 2013 & Perseid Meteor Shower
Finally, a supernova of my time.
My own take (coordinates 20h 23m 19.8s/+20°50'26.0" [J2000]):
Nova Delphini 2013
Just a few days ago (+- Aug 12) there was Perseid Meteor shower. An event I did not witness.
Posted in Astronomy
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Organized Rally without direct invitation is now proven wrong
Until I saw this news by Janet on Facebook, I had always felt uncomfortable at the way CCCNY, if not others, do their gospel rally ministry. I couldn't pinpoint the problem, now it is clear, in this "hack" that Franklin Graham's Iceland rally tickets are being reserved by liberals who plan not to attend.
[I've always known something's wrong with this kind of organized rally, now I know what it is. Many great evangelists require no "reservation tickets". Simply making an announcement and expecting a certain number of people to show up may help, but it is in no way replacing every Christian's need to evangelize. It would have been a cowardly move. Stop blaming only the liberals.] - My response to the FB post.
Posted in Theologization
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Evolution Vs. God
My simple review of the short film "Evolution Vs. God" by Ray Comfort.
It's more of a series of interviews of various atheists on evolution. Atheists from agnostic professors to young biology students.
Watching the film reminds me of several characters such as Ken Ham, Kirk Cameron, Sean Ho. No doubt Phil Johnson would also endorse it.
It's good to note Neil deGrasse Tyson does not want to be grouped with the atheists. Further resources maybe found I'm sure.
Another point of interest is this tactic of asking one to spell "SHOP", and then immediately asking one "what do you do when you come to a green light?", most would answer "STOP".
The interviews ended with the Gospel message to each of them. This, may be lauded or abhorred by Christians. As an evangelical, I laud the action. However, if the interview was done in a way most evangelicals do today by treating all their subjects as inferior, which I hope is not the case here (I cannot conclude from some of the interviews with students), then it is shameful, in spite of of all those clever questions.
Another relevant films I shall review are "180" & "Genius" by the same guy.
Posted in Reviews, Theologization
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If there is a need to start a church
One may think it is extreme when one hears Rev. Stephen Tong calling the young believers to start their own churches.
At times I may be stunned by his tone on the issue.
Nevertheless, what's becoming of the world today cannot be ignored anymore. There's another, Thom Rainer, on Janet Mefferd's 8/13/2013 show (@16:40min), who said that if one really cannot find a church of orthodox value, which is a stretch (hmm...perhaps not especially in New York City), then find a few believers and form a group/church.
In the past, it was always about attending the church your parents go. Then, it becomes attending the church that you find relevant to your lifestyle, now it's all kinds of things. I recall Tong's old answer to question regarding whether believers have to attend a church. That was a different case. That has to do with just simply looking for the "Best" church or not attending church. This, however, has to do with committing to a church, building a church. They are very different issues.
If I were to start a group/church, I must be aware of one tricky danger, that is the influence of those of the unorthodox churches. Whether it be financial support or even manual assistance. It may come to a point that these must be rejected, unless they are used without any affiliation to the contributing party, like one accepting the help of a Muslim or Mormon to carry one's luggage to the airport.
Posted in Theologization
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