Some wiz proven it. PDF paper included at the site. Proof was done with the help of supercomputer. Perhaps there should be an even lower limit.
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A very resourceful site for identifying which internet port is for what purpose/program in general.
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Musical Styles Categorization
With all the fuss about distinctions between classical and pop music, tradition and modern, perhaps in order to avoid confusion and misunderstanding, I would use terms between: disciplined music and selfish music.
traditional hymns, classical music generally fall under the music with discipline category; while many modern, pop music fall under the selfish category.
Disciplined music requires hard work, careful composition, thoughtful talent, etc.
selfish/non-disciplined music is usually very easy to pick up and its success generally relies how high it makes one feel, like the effect of drug or erotic pleasure.
Disciplined music shows the beautiful art of soul and mind; while non-disciplined music shows only the unruly outburst of emotion whether it be loud or soft.
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Proposition 8 Threatened
All hell broke lose again after a judge overturned the ban on gay marriage in California.
After noting a "baptist" minster's comment, who, unfortunately, actually advocated the ruling, said of the ruling:
"important distinctions between civil
marriage and religious marriage."...
"was sensitive to the
concerns of people of faith who oppose same-gender marriage on religious
grounds but that he recognized, as do we, that their religious freedom
will not be impacted by the legalization of same-gender marriage."
I began to analyze him with what I could gather.
My conclusion was that he is either very liberal or a coward. The key being the fact that he supported the distinction of a world with God in it and a world without God in it. Thus, an obvious denial of responsibility to be the light and salt of the world, as commanded by Christ.
On the other hand, I have been wondering, of the proponents of the ban, especially Christians, about what they have been doing about being the salt and the light of the world in respect of TRUE marriage, after the risky 52% victory on Proposition 8.
There is only one TRUE marriage. There is no such thing as a "religious marriage" and that of other kinds. What then? if there were other kinds and those "family" become Christians? What would these liberal advocates pronounce then? Divorce? Ignore their previous stand on such distinction?
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Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) Prediction
Well, now that we can predict (by density of protons and intensity of magnetic field fluctuations) solar eruption about 2 days ahead, perhaps we could find it less frightening towards more severe geomagnetic storms in the future, provided everyone is more sober about them.
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Client Type Refusal
I have this inkling that I should never accept any client that's in the business of shortsales and owned by an Israeli. Both clients in my experience would have owed me $465 + $780 = $1245 by now. At least what I'm losing is only time in this case.
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Amazing Deblurring Technology
Something impressive from Microsoft. Though, it doesn't seem to be out for sale in the market.
Some very simple idea which I never bothered to think of.
I am really intrigued by it. The site has a link to the papers, I must read it sometime.
The resulting images are incredibly sharp and welldone.
I wonder how blur this technology can support.
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Author quits Christianity
These type of people, such as Anne Rice, I'm sure, are plenty.
Yes, there's truth in what they say, just like Mahatma Gandhi. But they failed to grasp the prime focus: That Jesus is Lord. Their acceptance of Christ, was that he was a very good, moral human being.
And their resulting conclusion as exhibited, was somewhat more of a cowardice. For it is like saying: I am not Chinese, because of some the hideous things the Chinese people are doing.
And at a deeper subconscious state, perhaps they were blaming all the problems in the world on God's inaction.
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Gandhi's Famous: I like Your Christ...
I like your Christ. I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. The materialism of affluent Christian countries appears to contradict the claims of Jesus Christ that says it's not possible to worship both Mammon and God at the same time.
This famous quote attributed to Mahatma Gandhi was not properly sourced. I looked and looked and finally arrived at this site: (The closest source so far but I have not verified it myself)
A 1926 review [1] by the Reverend W.P. King (then pastor of the First Methodist Church of Gainesville, Georgia) of E. Stanley Jones's The Christ of the Indian Road (published in 1925 by The Abington Press, New York City) includes the following,
Quote:
Dr. Jones says that the greatest hindrance to the Christian gospel in India is a dislike for western domination, western snobbery, the western theological system, western militarism and western race prejudice. Gandhi, the great prophet of India, said, "I love your Christ, but I dislike your Christianity." The embarrassing fact is that India judges us by our own professed standard. In reply to a question of Dr. Jones as to how it would be possible to bring India to Christ, Gandhi replied: First, I would suggest that all of you Christians live more like Jesus Christ. Second, I would suggest that you practice your Christianity without adulterating it. The anomalous situation is that most of us would be equally shocked to see Christianity doubted or put into practice. Third, I would suggest that you put more emphasis on love, for love is the soul and center of Christianity. Fourth, I would suggest that you study the non-Christian religions more sympathetically in order to find the good that is in them, so that you might have a more sympathetic approach to the people.
I'm not so sure that Jones actually attributed to Gandhi the line "I love your Christ, but I dislike your Christianity" in The Christ of the Indian Road (it doesn't appear, for example, in the snippet view of Jones's work that's available on Google Books), but it's possible that Jones or his work somehow, perhaps unintentionally, served as the origin for the belief that Gandhi had said as much. The line itself may have been a pithy distillation, offered by someone else, of a thought attributed to Gandhi. In any event, the phrase, with its attribution to Gandhi, is at least as old as February, 1926. And it seems to have been quite a hit amongst various American theologians in the decades that followed. (Tough to know whether Jones, during his lectures in the United States, ever attributed that precise sentiment to Gandhi.) In any event, it would probably be helpful to check The Christ of the Indian Road to see how accurately King offered up text from the book.
I got nothing on the rest of the alleged quote (because I really didn't look for it), except the thought that it likely evolved in a similar fashion, as a perhaps uninformed rephrasing of text that had appeared in one of Jones's books (perhaps the text that King presents, above). (It seems to me that a line attributed to Gandhi that contains "your Christ" would be older than the remainder of what you shared with us.)
-- Bonnie
[1] The Atlanta Constitution, 7 February 1926, p. F14.
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Microsoft Access: Environ popup
Apparently happening on some stations: VBA scripting or the environ("UserName") function causing some station's MS Access to popup a field called environ, and no matter what is entered, the resulting value will always be #error. On working stations, they do as they should, showing some intended values.
According my search, this is due to security settings.
Solution:
Tools->Macro->Security-> Set lowest (or maybe just change settings back and forth).
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