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U195408 Posted Jan 18, 2005
Roy, you're a troll, plain and simple. You dance around a point, and never address it. In the last LED you claimed the hardware was identical. When I bring up software, you act like that's totally irrelevant.
You thought you'd drop some techincal jargon on us, but you got caught, cause I happen to be very familiar with scientific calculations.
You still have never backed up any of your claims. The only thing you've done is read a report which I recommended to you, and then throw it back at us with irrelevant facts and acronyms.
What exactly is it that you hope to accomplish? Does it make you feel smart to use words you *think* nobody else but you understands?
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Montana Redhead (now with letters) Posted Jan 18, 2005
Yikes. Boys, calm down.
The Hussites...hmm. Bohemian followers of Jan Hus (or John Hus) who was burned at the stake for being a heretic on 6 July, 1415. Usually seen as the less lucky version of Luther.
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Good Doctor Zomnker (This must be Tuesday," said GDZ to himself, sinking low over his Dr. Pepper, "I never could get the hang of Tuesdays.") Posted Jan 18, 2005
I agree with MR guys. Right now, you're just going in a viscious circle with no resolution. Agree to disagree?
I'm really thinking I should go look at info on Hus.
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Montana Redhead (now with letters) Posted Jan 18, 2005
GDZ, I'd be happy to send you a short version of my paper...it's only 9.5 pages long (as opposed to the incredibly long 33 page version). drop me a line...I'm pretty sure Marv still has my email.
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U195408 Posted Jan 18, 2005
Let me ask a more basic question then...what's the difference between "hearsay" and "heresy"?
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FG Posted Jan 18, 2005
Hearsay is a legal term...heresy is a religious one.
Hearsay is inadmissible in American court trials. It is when Person A (to use our voter examples again 
) attempts to say, under oath, what they overheard Person B say to Persons C, D or E. It is not allowed because Person B did not speak directly to Person A and Person B is not under oath during Person A's testimony. Person A could be lying by putting words in Person B's mouth. At least that's how I understand hearsay.
Heresy is when Person A says something that contradicts the current acceptable teachings of their religion and Person B catches them in the act, if you will, and hauls them before the Inquisition of Persons C, D and E.
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Montana Redhead (now with letters) Posted Jan 18, 2005
there's also an etymological reasoning. Heresy is from the greek "heresis", which means "to make a choice". So basically, heresy is making the wrong choice according to the PTB.
Hearsay might get you jail time. Heresy, at least in past centuries, got you things like pilgrimages, loss of property, death...you know, inconvient things.
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Michele - Doily Mogul: Don't leave me! If you go there'll be no braincells in the room at all! Posted Jan 18, 2005
Yeah - like thum screws and hot pokers! 
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Michele - Doily Mogul: Don't leave me! If you go there'll be no braincells in the room at all! Posted Jan 18, 2005
I think they considered Columbus a heretic with his theory that the world was "round".
It was Columbus wasn't it? My brain is rather fried today...
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U195408 Posted Jan 18, 2005
OK, but now-a-days I can commit heresy all I want and go unpunished, right? Like, for example, espousing evolution. Is the catholic church still against evolution?
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Scandrea Posted Jan 18, 2005
Nope- they said you could believe anything you wanted to believe about how humans came about, so long as you believed they have souls.
Dunno about other animals...
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Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence Posted Jan 18, 2005
I thought it was Galileo who said the earth was round and revolves around the sun, thereby scandalizing the Church, who already knew that the earth is the center of everything. Columbus took the theory a stage further and bet that the first landmass he would encounter would be the East Indies, if he sailed west.
What constitutes heresy depends on who you talk to, of course. If I stod up in the middle of today's session the Lincoln County Commission and announced that Bush's foreign policy was enormously destructive, that would have been accounted heresy by those listening, AND traitorous to boot since the reasoning down there is that criticism of Bush is criticism of America.
*sighs*
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Good Doctor Zomnker (This must be Tuesday," said GDZ to himself, sinking low over his Dr. Pepper, "I never could get the hang of Tuesdays.") Posted Jan 18, 2005
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Montana Redhead (now with letters) Posted Jan 18, 2005
somehow, that doesn't make me feel much better. There's a lot he can do in that amount of time.
When does the Mayan calendar end? Is it 2006 or 2012? Makes me nervous, either way.
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FG Posted Jan 18, 2005
Well, dave, I believe the Catholic Church will still excommunicate people for heresy...am I wrong MR?
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Good Doctor Zomnker (This must be Tuesday," said GDZ to himself, sinking low over his Dr. Pepper, "I never could get the hang of Tuesdays.") Posted Jan 19, 2005
I think you are right FG.
Go to http://www.jibjab.com and watch Second Term
Kind of humorous, in a VERY nauseating sort of way.
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Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence Posted Jan 19, 2005
And there's a description that will suit the Torture Spice confirmation hearings pretty well.
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Scandrea Posted Jan 20, 2005
Anyone hear the rumor? "Not a damn dime" day?
Apparently it's been flying around the internet that to protest the Bush inauguration, people are going to spend nothing all day...
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- 402: Montana Redhead (now with letters) (Jan 18, 2005)
- 403: Good Doctor Zomnker (This must be Tuesday," said GDZ to himself, sinking low over his Dr. Pepper, "I never could get the hang of Tuesdays.") (Jan 18, 2005)
- 404: Montana Redhead (now with letters) (Jan 18, 2005)
- 405: U195408 (Jan 18, 2005)
- 406: FG (Jan 18, 2005)
- 407: Montana Redhead (now with letters) (Jan 18, 2005)
- 408: Michele - Doily Mogul: Don't leave me! If you go there'll be no braincells in the room at all! (Jan 18, 2005)
- 409: Michele - Doily Mogul: Don't leave me! If you go there'll be no braincells in the room at all! (Jan 18, 2005)
- 410: U195408 (Jan 18, 2005)
- 411: Scandrea (Jan 18, 2005)
- 412: Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence (Jan 18, 2005)
- 413: Good Doctor Zomnker (This must be Tuesday," said GDZ to himself, sinking low over his Dr. Pepper, "I never could get the hang of Tuesdays.") (Jan 18, 2005)
- 414: Montana Redhead (now with letters) (Jan 18, 2005)
- 415: FG (Jan 18, 2005)
- 416: Good Doctor Zomnker (This must be Tuesday," said GDZ to himself, sinking low over his Dr. Pepper, "I never could get the hang of Tuesdays.") (Jan 19, 2005)
- 417: Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence (Jan 19, 2005)
- 418: Hypatia (Jan 19, 2005)
- 419: Asteroid Lil - Offstage Presence (Jan 20, 2005)
- 420: Scandrea (Jan 20, 2005)
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