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  1. tango

    Monitoring online activities

    Perhaps, it's always hard to know what's real and what we're told to scare us into supporting things we wouldn't otherwise support. People will support many things if it's ostensibly to prevent terrorism.
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    Lämmchen's Workout Thread

    Got into the mountains yesterday, 10 miles of hiking. Then a 10k run today. My legs might not like me in the morning.
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    When Was the Last Time:

    I paid the local heating and cooling guy to service my furnace a couple of weeks back. He's the same guy I hired to install a heat pump a couple of months ago.
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    Monitoring online activities

    Monitoring phrases and key words simply invites problems where none need to exist. To give a few examples... There has been an explosion in the population of spotted lanternflies in the area. I'm gunning for my friend's son in his cross-country race this weekend. I didn't say much in the...
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    Monitoring online activities

    No. If someone is suspected of wrongdoing the government should specify the suspicion. Simply monitoring everything we do falls well into the "none of your business" category. I forget who it was who said that when the government fears the people you have freedom and when the people fear the...
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    Gifts for Pastors

    All sorts of things. Over the years we gave our former pastor gift cards so he can take his wife out to dinner, things to decorate his home and cabin, gift cards for bicycle accessories (he and his wife both enjoy cycling), and the like. Sadly he retired and as of right now we haven't found a...
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    "A sheep spends its entire life fearing the wolves...

    Unless there's a purpose to that suffering that you can't understand because, you know, you aren't God.
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    Do you like self-checkout?

    It's just a question of figuring the natural movement of the card from my wallet to the card reader and how close to the lens it does get. Then there's the remaining question of what other cameras might be in the area, even if unrelated to the system that processes the self-checkout.
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    Religious Freedom

    Only to the extent that is required to protect the fabric of society. So if you believe that a certain group of people need to be exterminated you don't get to go round killing them just because your religion says you should. I'm cautious about the concept that national law trumps religious...
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    "A sheep spends its entire life fearing the wolves...

    Your opinion. On what basis do you get to impose your values on another? Perhaps the reason things aren't explicitly spelled out is because some of those things no longer matter. A lot of what you're writing here sounds as if you expect God to step in and come up with some way to reach every...
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    "A sheep spends its entire life fearing the wolves...

    Perhaps because it's OK for us to eat meat? Why would the 10 commandments contain a prohibition that doesn't need to apply? Your opinion perhaps. How would you explain a principle that is relevant to a 1st century fisherman and also relevant to a 21st century lawyer? If you can't grasp a...
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    Why is the world being feminized

    I don't think it's about lowering the birthrate, more about lowering the birthrate among stable families. The way things are if you are a couple who works you don't get a whole lot of help from the state with the cost of raising kids. But if you don't work you can get more help. So the very...
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    Do you believe that it rained for 40 days and night as the Bible describes?

    GIven some of the other stories in the Bible I'm not sure it's that hard to believe that it could rain for such an extended period. If you want to point at things that sound far-fetched there are easier targets than that one.
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    "A sheep spends its entire life fearing the wolves...

    I think this is the kind of situation where a metaphor can only be pushed so far before it breaks. The shepherd protects the sheep from predators so that they stay alive. Sure, the shepherd keeps the sheep for some future purpose (meat, wool, whatever) rather than keeping them just for the sake...
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    Milestones

    I was amazed at the difference it made to me when I more or less stopped drinking sugary fizzy drinks. The main thing was that weight fell off me - the amount of sugar you can take on through those drinks is terrifying, especially in diners that offer endless free refills.
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    What does this mean:

    It could mean anything. If you believe in god, and the god you believe in is real, but your views on heaven are wrong you might not see the people you love there anyway. If you believe in god, and there is no god, your belief in god won't make any difference to anything because you die and...
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    Do you like self-checkout?

    I'd still be cautious with my credit card around a camera like that. I can't say I've waved a card in front of the camera to test the resolution, but I make sure to hold my finger over the number before putting it anywhere it can be seen by a camera. My concern is that if video is being stored...
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    Backyard Animals

    Mostly things that aren't welcome. Rabbits and squirrels. Birds in the trees are welcome. Occasionally we see next door's dog straying across the boundary. We don't care for dogs but next door's dog is one that we like, so we're not bothered if she strays over the boundary line every once in a...
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    This is the time of year I test my insulation. When it's supposed to go below 40 outside I turn the heating off completely overnight to see how cold it gets inside. This morning it was hovering just very slightly below 60 degrees. The insulation I've put in has obviously made a very significant...
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    So... What are YOU doing? - Part 8

    The outside walls are lined with polyiso insulation panels and now I've made a start on building stud walls inside the continuous insulation. Then I can cut thicker panels to go between the studs, run new wiring etc. Hopefully this room will be quite quick to finish from here.
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