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I hope they win like David against Goliath...
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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If you consider David some sort of "hero", I definitely think that you should trust what you have heard from your Sunday School teacher, and NOT start reading about him in The Book of Books.
You might come across, say, that story about when he slaughtered two hundred soldiers so he could cut certain pieces off their dead bodies to use as payment for his (first) bride. Maybe you think the nature of his relationship with Jonathan is OK - I don't care, but lots of people do. Maybe you think it is OK to rob another man's young wife and order her husband to go to war and get killed so he won't make any fuss. Some people may even have objections to a grown man throwing all his clothes and dance stark naked in front of the servant girls of his men.
David adorers are probably better off trusting their Sunday School teacher.
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David was, like all Old Testament figures, flawed. This does not detract from his very real accomplishments as a ruler, as a military commander, and as a psalmist.
As for the points you raise:
- David slaughtered 200 Philistine soldiers (who were enemies of the Kingdom of Israel) in order to get his bride price. This was King Saul's attempt to dispose of David, as he didn't want David's blood on his hands. (I Samuel 18,6-30)
- I grant you that David and Jonathan's relationship can be read as you imply. It can also be read as an extremely close friendship, where David and Jonathan were closer than many brothers. Certainly David's biological brothers were nothing much to write home about.
- As the commentators point out, formally, each of David's acts re Uriah and Bat-Sheba were legitimate. Ethically, they stank to high Heaven, the prophet Nathan reproved him for them, and David was punished for them by God. I suggest that you read the rest of the story (II Samuel 11 - 12,25), and Psalm 51.
- The Old Testament records that David was dancing with all his strength before the Ark of the Lord. His wife Michal (Saul's daughter) reproved him for his lack of dignity, not for exposing himself. I also suggest that you read David's reply (II Samuel 6,14-23)
If you intend to quote the Old Testament, please do it the courtesy of fully quoting in context.
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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I didn't say nothing about good and evil. Only about small and giant.
I don't care if the small Meta is good or bad, I just think Facebook-Meta and Zuckerberg should more often be liable for what they do. And just a brand name / copyright issue is for me as good as all the other faults they have never been accounted for.
M.D.V.
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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The suit has been brought under meta-law?
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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... or is it all meta-phorical?
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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Like Microsoft Loop components, Adaptive Card-based Loop components are live, actionable units of productivity that stay in sync and move freely across Microsoft 365 apps, starting with Microsoft Teams chat and Microsoft Outlook. Unfortunately, in order to qualify, "actionable units of productivity" must actually mean something to you.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: "actionable units of productivity" must actually mean something to you. Perhaps it is only understandable after mastering CEOing in an 8 year college setting.
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Row upon row of microscopic hockey pucks etched into a silicon chip could hold the key to making quantum computers at practical scale and allow for un-crackable encrypted information to be sent over long distances. It's both sorry, and not sorry at the same time (until you collapse the wave function)
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And now, a drop of maple syrup.
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Please, someday I want to read one of these quantum computer stories where they dope the silicone with catnip.
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So this how Canada is hoping to win the Stanley Cup back from the American teams.
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The policy doesn't apply to gaming apps on the Google Play store for now. So, I put the Euros in the USB slot?
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C# is thriving. So why are so many people ready to write it off? COBOL says, "Hi"
Apologies for posting a Medium piece. It worked for me without logging in, albeit with a "You have 1 free member-only story left this month"
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Brain-computer interfaces have become a practical (if limited) reality in the US. Sadly, they went with SCSI and now they can't find a cable anywhere
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Meta's new front-end and back-end development courses prepare entry-level professionals for development careers in less than eight months. It consists of Zuckerberg's notes from CS101
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Microsoft is now launching Viva Engage today, a new Facebook-like app inside Teams that encourages social networking at work. For those that like to look at coworkers' cat photos at work?
Filed under, "Why? Why? Why?"
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I can see this having a place in companies. Think about all the water cooler discussions and other social activities that occur in many companies and this fits right in with them.
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20 years ago I contracted at a company that used "the office package that everyone legendarily hates" - anyway, so they had all of these user forums for all of their different company supported groups. Now mind you, fb is fb to mine data. Microsoft wants to be able to mine what companies are doing. You think there is some other reason why they want companies to go to the cloud and 365? Hmm.
Anyway, after announcement after announcement of awards to assorted groups: single moms, mixed this, mixed that. It doesn't really matter. We're talking 100s of thousands of dollars - some engineer commented, "Can we get some money for training and research?" and was told, "Get on the train or find another place...."
Company does not exist any more.
Microsoft made it's money with the OS and Office. I live in the embedded world and we are on Windows embedded. Not for much longer. FML.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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A previous employer attempted to create that as an internal platform. It went about as well as you would expect.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Teams BLOWS.
<insert not="" safe="" for="" work="">
It's terrible. The conversations are gated by IT settings and they expire. It's a steaming pile...
God, please let me retire before meeting Viva.
Charlie Gilley
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
Has never been more appropriate.
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It was now obvious to most organizations that giving developers a choice in the tools they used enabled them to create more interesting and ultimately more interesting applications. Does "rock-paper-scissors" count as decision making?
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Did it allow them to create more useful and ultimately more useful applications, too?
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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This new feature comes with the iOS 16 system and aims to combat “Pegasus” and other malicious software. How many people will they have to split it between?
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