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I am Christian and I believe in the possibility of life on other planets. I believe that God could have created other civilizations much like our own to live out their own existences. If we somehow meet these other peoples, I believe that we can learn much about them. I also support what you guys said about not disproving the bible; that isn't science's goal, science just tries to find out the most it can about the world.That being said, I think this is an interesting find, but something that we cannot really capitalize on in our present condition, as our science hasn't progress far enough to make any real use of this finding. I think it is a great find in that it supports the idea of life somewhere else in the universe. Hopefully we can find habitable planets closer to our own galaxy that we can have a chance to explore. Often times, science fiction makes aliens seem scary and destructive, but I believe that if we find some other life in the universe, they will be similar in motive to us, just trying to find out as much as possible. Hopefully we can approach this the same way.

Exaggeration: I would want to rip their face off of their skull. I do not think that anybody has any excuse to cheat. I would be forgiving of the person who has cheated (I am very religious and believe in second chances). I would be willing to take them back if they truly felt remorse for what they have done. Them cheating would definitely put romance on hold until trust is built back. All in all, cheating is a very bad thing and is not kosher (pardon the expression) at all in any case. Go through the proper channels (divorce if married or break-up if dating) if you want separation.

I'm Christian (Mormon/LDS) and I believe wholly in my religion. My religion holds that human life is very important to one's salvation. We believe that the same ideas/passions will exist in the after-life as in this life, so if one is not in the frame of mind to accept our gospel, then they will not accept it in the here-after (but they WILL have an opportunity to do so). We also believe that certain ordinances must be performed, such as baptism, conferring of the Holy Ghost, conferring of priesthood, and many others (many are performed in our temples such as marriages). We believe that all religions are good and attempt to guide people back to Christ, but we also believe that we are the restored Church of Christ, the same Church as in Christ's day. As such, we believe that we are the "correct" Church, meaning we have everything restored. This is not saying that all other churches are wrong, just they they do not have the fulness of the truth as we believe that we have. I respect everyone's religion, and so does our Church. We believe that we have the truth of the gospel.If you have any questions regarding my religion (I know you probably don't know much about Mormons), feel free to ask, I will not be offended and will try to give as concise a response as possible.

My friend told me that we have more murders in Washington DC (our beloved Capitol) than deaths in Iraq over the course of the Iraq war. We need to focus our energies more at home on crime control than worry about the war over in Iraq. I support the War in Iraq, regardless of the casualty cost. The casualty cost is minimal when compared to any other war that we've been involved in (Vietnam, WWII, Civil, even the War of 1812).

Paranoid: LowSchizoid: ModerateSchizotypal: LowAntisocial: LowBorderline: LowHistrionic: LowNarcissistic: LowAvoidant: LowDependent: LowObsessive-Compulsive: LowThis test is not good at all. Most of the questions are poorly worded and most of the answers lean toward a "yes" answer.

I don't believe in a past life. I believe that this is the only "mortal" existence that we have, and after we have proven ourselves, we are set in our eternal rest. I DO believe in a premortal life (one where we are all spirits and lived with God) which we left to get our bodies. I voted YES because in eternity I want to remember all of the good times that I have had on this earth.

Gambling is an addiction like any other. Gamers convince themselves that they can beat the odds (through a "system"), but without cheating, there is absolutely no way to beat the house. Overall, the house ALWAYS wins, or else the casinos/horse betting places/etc would go out of business. To stop betting, one must convince himself/herself that betting is not a good pursuit and that he/she cannot win the money back. They must avoid any type of betting and rely on friends to keep them honest. There are many support groups to help in this pursuit. Over time, all honest betters lose. It is a statistical truth. If you play long enough, you will lose, that's how casinos make money.

I am not a Catholic (LDS in fact), but I have a pretty good understanding of what it means to be Catholic. My main argument against the Catholic church is the claim to priesthood. I believe that the priesthood (God's power given to man) is necessary for a church to be "correct" as Christ's original church in the New Testament had the priesthood. Catholics claim to have the priesthood, by providence of a bishop who received it and then started a church, but I do not believe that they do in fact have the priesthood. None of the Protestants claim to have a direct line to the priesthood, claiming a "priesthood of all believers" but the Catholics do claim this line. As a Mormon, every priesthood holder can trace his priesthood back to Joseph Smith, and from there to John the Baptist (for the "lesser"/Aaronic/Levitical priesthood) or Peter, James and John (for the "greater"/Melchizidek priesthood). While our claim rests on the assumption that Joseph Smith was indeed a prophet, the Catholic church's claim rests on some bishop that claims to have gotten the priesthood bestowed on him. The Catholic church claims that this chain has been unbroken, but the Catholic church has been reorganized so many times that this is improbable.

My understanding of Christian is any religion who accepts Jesus Christ as their personal savior. Each Christian religion does not believe exactly the same thing, but they must believe the Bible to be the word of God. Catholics ARE Christian in this respect. Catholics do not adhere to mainstream Christian, but they are still technically Christian.

I DO believe that this is a problem. I am Christian (Mormon actually) and I have read the Bible completely (Old Testament and New Testament) plus our Book of Mormon and many other religious texts. Old Testament: I did not find the Old Testament to be all that valuable in everyday life. Most of the important stuff comes from Deuteronomy, Ecclesiastes, Isaiah, Daniel, and Malachi. Deuteronomy has most of the principles of the early Jewish faith (it also contains a copy of the 10 commandments) and also has a similar warning as Revelation has (Revelation 22:19). Ecclesiastes contains many important teachings. I think Solomon wrote this book, but I am not sure. Isaiah contains many revelations that pertain to the second coming. While it is often confusing, once understood, this book is very important. Daniel also has some important revelations. Malachi has one very important revelation found in Mal. 4:5-6 ("turn the hearts of the children to the fathers, and the hearts of the fathers to their children" or something like that). New Testament: The Four Standard works are great, I love the Acts, Hebrews is one of my favorites, and Revelation is VERY important. James 1:5 (if any of you lack wisdom, let him ask of God) is very important to my religion. Revelation talks about the second coming in great detail. Hebrews is a good account of Paul? unto the Hebrews and gives a great argument for the Christ.

This may not be true. I took a CS class on processors, gates, etc and my teacher said that the more you overclock, the larger chance you have of data collision. This usually does not have that big of an effect, but if you drastically overclock it, like you suggest, you run a very large risk of messing up data signals. Lots of Overclocking -> lots of data signal collision lots of data signal collision -> messed up computations messed up computations -> computer lock-up or even data corruption (that's no good) This architecture sounds too good to be true, so I would have to assume that they are doing something else to keep the processing power up with the lower power intake (overclocking anyone?).

There are programs that copy a CD directly from one to the other without bothering what the data on the CD says, so I would look at some of those solutions. I did a quick search and came up with this. According to the site I got it from, this does basically the same thing as Ghost does. I hope this helps!!

According to the Javadoc for ArrayList, the Array list runs in amortized constant time, not constant time. This means that it is almost constant time, but not quite. I do not know the mechanics of it, but it is probably very similar to how a List works. The best part of an ArrayList is random access, which is faster than a List. A List is faster if elements are taken from the beginning or the end of the list. Both List and ArrayList have constant time adding of elements (just make the end pointer point to a new object and update references), but ArrayList does some extra stuff to make it have random access. An ArrayList could potentially create additional "overflow" arrays to hold data past its capacity, and then leave an address to that location at the end of the last array, or some other means of expanding capacity without copying the entire array. I am not sure of the specifics. Sorry for the crappy answer, and it probably didn't answer your question, but that is basically what I know for sure.

I love Ubuntu. I've been using it for a little bit now and have been very happy. I have run into some problems, but that's just me being a dufus and trying to mess with stuff that I have no idea what it does (screwed up my $PATH for a little while). Basically, here's my top three:1. Ubuntu2. Fedora3. Red HatNext time you make a list, please put in Ubuntu as its gaining in popularity VERY quickly (even Google is using it as part of its Goobuntu project).

I would have to go with Linux, as Linux is free, quite stable (depending on the distro), has increasing amounts of available software, and can network easily with most other OS's. Linux can read Windows' hard-drive partitions, but not visa versa (I've had some trouble with that). Linux is very customizable, allowing the user to choose different desktop environments (not just themes like in Windows, but a completely different look and feel). The one set-back is that it is not widely accepted or funded. Windows already has a captive audience that is not often willing to try something new. I know many happy Linux users that have tried many different versions of Linux and that swear by their particular flavor.With Ubuntu (what I use now), Linux is MUCH more accessible to the average user, allowing the advanced user to customize it while allowing the basic user to merely use it.It all chalks up to preference: whether you like a guaranteed solution that everyone uses, or whether you'd like to branch out a little and try something that you may like even more. I've branched out, and I have enjoyed the results.