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"God is dead" declares Nietzsche, "Nietzsche is dead" declares God. As regards the modern Christian faith, my take on it is that The Bible is for the guidance of wise men and the obedience of fools. The Catholic Church is basically what grew out of a view of how things should be run, drawn up by St Augustine. The Protestant branches grew out of either (1) Martin Luther's rejection of Papal supremacy, or (2) King Henry the 8th's desire to destroy the financial power of the monastries and also to obtain a second divorce. As regards The Bible, most of the Old Testament is an English translation of a Latin translation, of an Aramaic or Greek transliteration of a Hebrew oral tradition, so goodness knows how many 'chinese whispers' might have got caught up in there. As for the New Testament, what we now know as the NT is a collection of the 'approved' texts that St Augustine felt supported his belief system; any non-conformist Gospel or other text being dismissed as heresy; and any historical translation of The Bible was always carried out for an ulterior purpose,- whoever payed for it could influence how things were interpreted. Look at the issue of the 'heresy' that was announced simply because an English translation was produced, thereby bringing understanding of the 'word of God' to the common people and away from the Latin scholars. ( Unless, of course, you accept that the 'hand of God' is always at work in any interpretation of His words, and so any new translation or publication is bound to have His approval ). I also, however, support the basic tenets of the Christian faith, although I do not approve of the formalities of the organised Church. Without some form of belief system, we are no better than animals. My relationship with God is between the two of us.

I remember him in 'Oliver in the Overworld', can still sing the theme song

Raising Sand - Robert Plant & Alison Krause

Kate Rusby - The Girl Who Couldn't Fly

Unseen Academicals - a ( sort of ) footbal related Terry Pratchett

The Colour Red and The Colour Blue are put in the washing machine together

Seven Fiancees for Seven Brothers The Empire Gets Struck Unzipped Fly Gordon The Football Workshop

8 songs 8 1/2 weeks A Good Night's Sleep on Elm Street Not Quite so Fast & Slightly Upset October 30th Cool Walkings Barrister Dredd The Footpath to Perdition

I fear for the gene pool.

86%, and my normal monthly intake is no more than 2 units

Also, please don't forget that CO2 is not the only 'greenhouse' gas: Nitrous Oxide levels have increased 18% in the last 200 years, from a fairly static level held for the previous 11000 years, and N2O is estimated to be over 300 times as effective as a greenhouse gas than CO2. About one third of N2O entering the atmosphere is due to human activities. Methane is over 20 times as effective as CO2 as a greenhouse gas. Since 1750, global levels of atmospheric NH4 have increased by 150%. Other chemicals enhancing the greenhouse effect are Chloroflourocarbons, whose levels are starting to slowly decrease as they have been widely phased out of industrial processes; and the flourinated gases used to replace CFCs. Whilst not destroying the ozone, like CFCs do, these flourinated gases trap more heat in the atmosphere than equivalent amounts of CO2.

Don't SHOUT at a TONGUE-IN-CHEEK post, getting a little dig in at our redneck chum across the pond. However, the problem with trying to use statistics in this sort of argument is that whilst we produce a comparatively small amount of CO2, look at it like this; If the Earth naturally produces 100 "units" of CO2 in a period of time, ( from volcanoes or whatever ), Mother Nature has historically found way of soaking this up, generally by growing trees in the rain forests and starting 'blooms' of algae and phyto-plankton in the seas. Mother Nature might also be able to cope with the additional 2 "units" produced by man, but the problem these days is that we are chopping down the rain-forests and polluting the seas, which kills off the algae and plankton, so not even the Earth's own 100 units are no longer getting 'soaked' up. MMCC is not simply down to our production of CO2 from hydrocarbons, it's our interference with the balance that otherwise exists to absorb it. Oh, I forgot to add,----- FACT!

A talentless Geordie slapper, with a a complete t0$$er for a husband. I wouldn't go near her her with yours, let alone mine !

There's almost a logic here - if we get through all the hydrocarbon fuels as quickly as possible, then when it's all gone our production of CO2 will effectively come to an end as there is nothing left to burn, and the problem of man's contribution to climate change will be solved. Admittedly we'll probably all be sitting in a desert, or under the sea.

Not sure about the base O/S, but unless you have a PS3 Slim you certainly can add LINUX as an alternative boot option, so that you can use the console as a PC.

$ echo "YES" $ YES

Better not to try too hard with the touch typing I had to point out two weeks ago, to three of our support desk team, that I was fixing PCs before they were born; back in the days when the main OS was DOS; command line interface, 8086 CPUs, a big hard drive was 40Mb, and a maximum of 640Kb of RAM.

Still the best way to manage ICT kit, be it servers, workstations, routers, or firewalls. No GUI, no mouse, just white text on a black background.

My favourite scene in a film - the bit in Jurassic Park where the female brat runs over to the main control console and says "Hey, this is UNIX, I know this". :smt046 It's funny how the Windoze techies that work for me won't even try to learn a 'proper' OS. But then again, I still think ICL's VME was the best mainframe OS ever created.

My wife has an ASUS notebook running LINUX, and I have a laptop cannibalised from parts of 3 dead ones that I have installed MINT LINUX on. From a cold boot, the notebook takes 45 seconds to get onto the GOOGLE home page using our home wi-fi network. As I have worked on UNIX systems for about 25 years, I don't have issues, but agree that for the uninitiated, the fact it doesn't say Micro$haft on the box does intimidate. If your system has enough disc space, I would go with SS's suggestion of dual-booting. You won't need more than 10Gb for a LINUX partition.

Is suicide really painless ?

Please explain the difference.

The council are apparently blaming the new vetting law. Now, if that were the case, ( and I think the new law is an absolute disgrace, insulting to every member of the adult population of this country, and complete waste of time and money ), surely every council in the country would be doing the same thing ? All she is doing is making local politics even more of a laughing stock, ( if that were possible ).

This is what happens when you elect a LibDem !

Iron Maiden - Sign of the Cross followed by The Clansman , ( from Rock in Rio )