Q. How times have changed! Canada�s Toronto Star noted that not long ago �the very idea of gays or lesbians openly cohabiting was a moral outrage.� Yet, Barbara Freemen, a teacher of social history at Carleton University, Ottawa, observes: �People now say, �Private life is private life. We don�t want other people interfering.��
Clearly, over the past few decades, morals have deteriorated rapidly in many places worldwide. What has led to these radical changes? How do you personally feel about them? And what do the changes indicate for the future?
Clearly, over the past few decades, morals have deteriorated rapidly in many places worldwide. What has led to these radical changes? How do you personally feel about them? And what do the changes indicate for the future?
A. Ah geez, not this nonsense again? Are we to believe and live by everything the Bible says?
Psalm 137:8-9 (New International Version)
New International Version (NIV)
O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is he who repays you
for what you have done to us-he who seizes your infants
and dashes them against the rocks.
Deuteronomy 21:18-21 �If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.�
Leviticus 20:9 �For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.�
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)
But if this charge is true (that she wasn't a virgin on her wedding night), and evidence of the girls virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst. (Deuteronomy 22:20-21 NAB)
The LORD then gave these further instructions to Moses: 'Tell the people of Israel to keep my Sabbath day, for the Sabbath is a sign of the covenant between me and you forever. It helps you to remember that I am the LORD, who makes you holy. Yes, keep the Sabbath day, for it is holy. Anyone who desecrates it must die; anyone who works on that day will be cut off from the community. Work six days only, but the seventh day must be a day of total rest. I repeat: Because the LORD considers it a holy day, anyone who works on the Sabbath must be put to death.' (Exodus 31:12-15 NLT)
And you might want to take this into account before you suggest the Bible as a cure for "declining morals".
"A STRENGTHENING of religious faith is often raised as the answer to society's ills. Peter Costello has said, for example, "that a recovery of faith would go a long way" to solving many of our society's problems. The Prime Minister, too, has publicly argued for the societal benefits of religiosity, claiming that "the Christian religion is the greatest force for good in this nation". Labor's Lindsay Tanner, a self-described agnostic, seems to agree, stating that "without some kind of sustained spiritual input" our society will "degenerate into a bleak utilitarian shell that debases us all".
Many ordinary Australians share the belief that religious faith is an indicator of morality, and it is accepted wisdom that high rates of religious practice correlate with lower rates of crime, promiscuity and abortion.
However, a study published in the Journal of Religion and Society, an American academic journal, set out to test this hypothesis and found there is an inverse relationship between religiosity and public health and social stability. The study, "Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies", compared social indicators such as murder rates, abortion, suicide and teenage pregnancy using data from the International Social Survey Program, Gallup and other research bodies.
"In general," writes the author, Gregory Paul, "higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion in the prosperous democracies."
A striking example of this is the US, which has the highest degrees of religious faith and the highest rates of homicide, abortion, STD infection and teenage pregnancy. The least religious countries - Japan, France and Scandinavia - have the lowest rates of violent crime, juvenile mortality and abortion...."
Psalm 137:8-9 (New International Version)
New International Version (NIV)
O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction,
happy is he who repays you
for what you have done to us-he who seizes your infants
and dashes them against the rocks.
Deuteronomy 21:18-21 �If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them: Then shall his father and his mother lay hold on him, and bring him out unto the elders of his city, and unto the gate of his place; And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard. And all the men of his city shall stone him with stones, that he die: so shalt thou put evil away from among you; and all Israel shall hear, and fear.�
Leviticus 20:9 �For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall be surely put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.�
If a man commits adultery with another man's wife, both the man and the woman must be put to death. (Leviticus 20:10 NLT)
But if this charge is true (that she wasn't a virgin on her wedding night), and evidence of the girls virginity is not found, they shall bring the girl to the entrance of her fathers house and there her townsman shall stone her to death, because she committed a crime against Israel by her unchasteness in her father's house. Thus shall you purge the evil from your midst. (Deuteronomy 22:20-21 NAB)
The LORD then gave these further instructions to Moses: 'Tell the people of Israel to keep my Sabbath day, for the Sabbath is a sign of the covenant between me and you forever. It helps you to remember that I am the LORD, who makes you holy. Yes, keep the Sabbath day, for it is holy. Anyone who desecrates it must die; anyone who works on that day will be cut off from the community. Work six days only, but the seventh day must be a day of total rest. I repeat: Because the LORD considers it a holy day, anyone who works on the Sabbath must be put to death.' (Exodus 31:12-15 NLT)
And you might want to take this into account before you suggest the Bible as a cure for "declining morals".
"A STRENGTHENING of religious faith is often raised as the answer to society's ills. Peter Costello has said, for example, "that a recovery of faith would go a long way" to solving many of our society's problems. The Prime Minister, too, has publicly argued for the societal benefits of religiosity, claiming that "the Christian religion is the greatest force for good in this nation". Labor's Lindsay Tanner, a self-described agnostic, seems to agree, stating that "without some kind of sustained spiritual input" our society will "degenerate into a bleak utilitarian shell that debases us all".
Many ordinary Australians share the belief that religious faith is an indicator of morality, and it is accepted wisdom that high rates of religious practice correlate with lower rates of crime, promiscuity and abortion.
However, a study published in the Journal of Religion and Society, an American academic journal, set out to test this hypothesis and found there is an inverse relationship between religiosity and public health and social stability. The study, "Cross-National Correlations of Quantifiable Societal Health with Popular Religiosity and Secularism in the Prosperous Democracies", compared social indicators such as murder rates, abortion, suicide and teenage pregnancy using data from the International Social Survey Program, Gallup and other research bodies.
"In general," writes the author, Gregory Paul, "higher rates of belief in and worship of a creator correlate with higher rates of homicide, juvenile and early adult mortality, STD infection rates, teen pregnancy and abortion in the prosperous democracies."
A striking example of this is the US, which has the highest degrees of religious faith and the highest rates of homicide, abortion, STD infection and teenage pregnancy. The least religious countries - Japan, France and Scandinavia - have the lowest rates of violent crime, juvenile mortality and abortion...."
OSAMA-releases his-WISH LIST for America. EMP attack maybe?
Q. 9 November 2008: On November 5, 2008, the day after the US Presidential Elections....
Osama and the Brigade of Al-Quida made a worthy promise (America will not live in safety).
He wrote extensively about the blackout across the northeast US and Canada some years back and indicates this will happen again.
They claim that they indeed caused the outage and will do it again.
Below are excerpts from the text.
In implementing the orders of the Emir of the mujahedeen Osama bin Laden -Brigades of Abu Hafs al-Masri find it important to strike a second time (facilities supplying) electricity in the eastern U.S., including the most important economic cities of America and Canada as America's ally in the war against Islam (the city of Toronto and New York) and (areas) around them. (In their first strike) they caused the strike to prevent electricity for more than fifty million people.
Further text indicates possible things that these people have on their terror "Wish- List" for the USA and Canada.
(We will) hit the main stronghold of the American economy
(international exchange). For your information, the American economy depends entirely on investor confidence.
The arrest (takeover) of seven major airports, a blow to the airlines.
Disable nine nuclear reactors and this has not happened before is a strong economic, as the reactors, nine are in the states of New York and New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan.
Disruption of transportation: trains, cars and trucks .... etc., causing heavy casualties.
Disruption of the Internet, which depend upon (Internet data transfer) in commercial transactions.
Disruption of global banks based in New York.
Losses (financial due to) to a massive deployment of police and security forces.
The economy that will lose electricity in the United States and Canada will cost the U.S. Treasury at least ten billion U.S. dollars. Deterioration of the U.S. dollar against other currencies.
WHAT IS AN EMP ATTACK? EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW THIS!
I feel the only way he can possibly do all he says Al Quida will do is by an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the American homeland...
Few if any people would die right away. But the loss of power would have a cascading effect on all aspects of U.S. society. Communication would be largely impossible. Lack of refrigeration would leave food rotting in warehouses, exacerbated by a lack of transportation as those vehicles still working simply ran out of gas (which is pumped with electricity). The inability to sanitize and distribute water would quickly threaten public health, not to mention the safety of anyone in the path of the inevitable fires, which would rage unchecked. And as we have seen in areas of natural and other disasters, such circumstances often result in a fairly rapid breakdown of social order.
American society has grown so dependent on computer and other electrical systems that we have created our own Achilles' heel of vulnerability, ironically much greater than those of other, less developed nations. When deprived of power, we are in many ways helpless, as the New York City blackout made clear. In that case, power was restored quickly because adjacent areas could provide help. But a large-scale burnout caused by a broad EMP attack would create a much more difficult situation. Not only would there be nobody nearby to help, it could take years to replace destroyed equipment.
Transformers for regional substations, for example, are massive pieces of equipment that are no longer manufactured in the United States and typically take more than a year to build. In the words of another witness at the hearing, "The longer the basic outage, the more problematic and uncertain the recovery of any [infrastructure system] will be. It is possible -- indeed, seemingly likely -- for sufficiently severe functional outages to become mutually reinforcing, until a point at which the degradation . . . could have irreversible effects on the country's ability to support any large fraction of its present human population." Those who survived, he said, would find themselves transported back to the United States of the 1880s.
This threat may sound straight out of Hollywood, but it is very real. CIA Director Porter Goss recently testified before Congress about nuclear material missing from storage sites in Russia that may have found its way into terrorist hands, and FBI Director Robert Mueller has confirmed new intelligence that suggests al Qaeda is trying to acquire and use weapons of mass destruction. Iran has surprised intelligence analysts by describing the mid-flight detonations of missiles fired from ships on the Caspian Sea as "successful" tests. North Korea exports missile technology around the world; Scuds can easily be purchased on the open market for about $100,000 apiece.
A terrorist organization might have trouble putting a nuclear warhead "on target" with a Scud, but it would be much easier to simply launch and detonate in
Osama and the Brigade of Al-Quida made a worthy promise (America will not live in safety).
He wrote extensively about the blackout across the northeast US and Canada some years back and indicates this will happen again.
They claim that they indeed caused the outage and will do it again.
Below are excerpts from the text.
In implementing the orders of the Emir of the mujahedeen Osama bin Laden -Brigades of Abu Hafs al-Masri find it important to strike a second time (facilities supplying) electricity in the eastern U.S., including the most important economic cities of America and Canada as America's ally in the war against Islam (the city of Toronto and New York) and (areas) around them. (In their first strike) they caused the strike to prevent electricity for more than fifty million people.
Further text indicates possible things that these people have on their terror "Wish- List" for the USA and Canada.
(We will) hit the main stronghold of the American economy
(international exchange). For your information, the American economy depends entirely on investor confidence.
The arrest (takeover) of seven major airports, a blow to the airlines.
Disable nine nuclear reactors and this has not happened before is a strong economic, as the reactors, nine are in the states of New York and New Jersey, Ohio, Michigan.
Disruption of transportation: trains, cars and trucks .... etc., causing heavy casualties.
Disruption of the Internet, which depend upon (Internet data transfer) in commercial transactions.
Disruption of global banks based in New York.
Losses (financial due to) to a massive deployment of police and security forces.
The economy that will lose electricity in the United States and Canada will cost the U.S. Treasury at least ten billion U.S. dollars. Deterioration of the U.S. dollar against other currencies.
WHAT IS AN EMP ATTACK? EVERY AMERICAN SHOULD KNOW THIS!
I feel the only way he can possibly do all he says Al Quida will do is by an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) attack on the American homeland...
Few if any people would die right away. But the loss of power would have a cascading effect on all aspects of U.S. society. Communication would be largely impossible. Lack of refrigeration would leave food rotting in warehouses, exacerbated by a lack of transportation as those vehicles still working simply ran out of gas (which is pumped with electricity). The inability to sanitize and distribute water would quickly threaten public health, not to mention the safety of anyone in the path of the inevitable fires, which would rage unchecked. And as we have seen in areas of natural and other disasters, such circumstances often result in a fairly rapid breakdown of social order.
American society has grown so dependent on computer and other electrical systems that we have created our own Achilles' heel of vulnerability, ironically much greater than those of other, less developed nations. When deprived of power, we are in many ways helpless, as the New York City blackout made clear. In that case, power was restored quickly because adjacent areas could provide help. But a large-scale burnout caused by a broad EMP attack would create a much more difficult situation. Not only would there be nobody nearby to help, it could take years to replace destroyed equipment.
Transformers for regional substations, for example, are massive pieces of equipment that are no longer manufactured in the United States and typically take more than a year to build. In the words of another witness at the hearing, "The longer the basic outage, the more problematic and uncertain the recovery of any [infrastructure system] will be. It is possible -- indeed, seemingly likely -- for sufficiently severe functional outages to become mutually reinforcing, until a point at which the degradation . . . could have irreversible effects on the country's ability to support any large fraction of its present human population." Those who survived, he said, would find themselves transported back to the United States of the 1880s.
This threat may sound straight out of Hollywood, but it is very real. CIA Director Porter Goss recently testified before Congress about nuclear material missing from storage sites in Russia that may have found its way into terrorist hands, and FBI Director Robert Mueller has confirmed new intelligence that suggests al Qaeda is trying to acquire and use weapons of mass destruction. Iran has surprised intelligence analysts by describing the mid-flight detonations of missiles fired from ships on the Caspian Sea as "successful" tests. North Korea exports missile technology around the world; Scuds can easily be purchased on the open market for about $100,000 apiece.
A terrorist organization might have trouble putting a nuclear warhead "on target" with a Scud, but it would be much easier to simply launch and detonate in
A. I googled it and found the EMP attack here:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57774-2005Apr15.html
And Al-Quida/Osama's wish list here:
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/20081109RT
DO YOURSELVES A FAVOR AND READ IT- or what she's written!
It's VERY REAL and coming to your doorstep soon !
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57774-2005Apr15.html
And Al-Quida/Osama's wish list here:
http://www.homelandsecurityus.com/20081109RT
DO YOURSELVES A FAVOR AND READ IT- or what she's written!
It's VERY REAL and coming to your doorstep soon !
How do I retrieve data from my broken Sony Memory Stick Pro Duo 2GB ?
Q. Hi everyone.
During vacation, my memorycard stopped working, trapping 500 nice pictures on it.
When inserted to the camera (DSC W-80) I get the message : "reinsert the memory stick".
When inserted to my laptop using my Memory Stick Duo Adaptor, the computer recognizes that something is in my F: drive, but it is not possible to access the memory card itself.
I have tried two other custom adaptors that should be compatible with this type of memory stick.
When contacting Sony, they send me a memorystick rescue program, but it didnt help. After this, Sony completely refused to help me further.
I know, that my camera did not sustain any damage in the days where this memory stick stopped working. The camera itself works pretty well with other memory sticks. . .
I thought maybe I could send the memory stick to a repairshop, but I dont know where! Have been looking around here in Taiwan where I live, but no one seems to know!
Will really appreciate any help in this case.
Thanks
During vacation, my memorycard stopped working, trapping 500 nice pictures on it.
When inserted to the camera (DSC W-80) I get the message : "reinsert the memory stick".
When inserted to my laptop using my Memory Stick Duo Adaptor, the computer recognizes that something is in my F: drive, but it is not possible to access the memory card itself.
I have tried two other custom adaptors that should be compatible with this type of memory stick.
When contacting Sony, they send me a memorystick rescue program, but it didnt help. After this, Sony completely refused to help me further.
I know, that my camera did not sustain any damage in the days where this memory stick stopped working. The camera itself works pretty well with other memory sticks. . .
I thought maybe I could send the memory stick to a repairshop, but I dont know where! Have been looking around here in Taiwan where I live, but no one seems to know!
Will really appreciate any help in this case.
Thanks
A. I found a company that has a location in Taiwan: it's actually a company based in Toronto, Canada (where I live) but they have dozens of worldwide offices. See http://www.cbldatarecovery.com/company/labs.php for their locations, or visit their Taiwanese site at http://www.cbltech.tw/ . Their phone number is 886-2-2700-0010 .
You can probably find others by googling "data recovery Taiwan", which is how I found the above company. You might want to shop around a little to find the best price or the best location for you.
If no local companies work out, you might want to find one in another country that will accept your memory card through the mail; it shouldn't be expensive to ship since it's so tiny, but you do risk having it get lost in the mail.
Good luck!
You can probably find others by googling "data recovery Taiwan", which is how I found the above company. You might want to shop around a little to find the best price or the best location for you.
If no local companies work out, you might want to find one in another country that will accept your memory card through the mail; it shouldn't be expensive to ship since it's so tiny, but you do risk having it get lost in the mail.
Good luck!
About deleting files...?
Q. When you delete a file, it goes to the recycling bin. And when you click the recycling bin and click to empty it, its gone forever right? Some people told me that even if I emptied the recycling bin, someone could still get the files. Is there a way to really delete them FOREVER? I have some important files that some people can't see. Need help please...
Any good program that can help me securely delete these files?
Any good program that can help me securely delete these files?
A. Yes, a file that's deleted from the recycle bin can still be retrieved with lower-level data recovery software.
Any data needs to be overwritten at least 7 times before it becomes unreadable.
Install Ccleaner form here: http://www.ccleaner.com/download
Click on "Options" then on "Settings" and select "NSA 7 passes from the drop-down list under "Secure Deletion"
Put the files to be deleted securely in the recycle bin and
now run the cleaner.
You should be fine with confidentiality now!
Just in case, here's a source for some more great free secure deletion tools: http://www.thefreecountry.com/security/securedelete.shtml
Guido Derlagen
Independent IT Consultant
Toronto
Any data needs to be overwritten at least 7 times before it becomes unreadable.
Install Ccleaner form here: http://www.ccleaner.com/download
Click on "Options" then on "Settings" and select "NSA 7 passes from the drop-down list under "Secure Deletion"
Put the files to be deleted securely in the recycle bin and
now run the cleaner.
You should be fine with confidentiality now!
Just in case, here's a source for some more great free secure deletion tools: http://www.thefreecountry.com/security/securedelete.shtml
Guido Derlagen
Independent IT Consultant
Toronto
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