DigitalShadow

Daylight savings time is stupid, every study I've seen concludes that it doesn't help power usage at all and the changing of the dates of daylight savings last year cost millions in software updates. We might as well have just gotten rid of it all together instead of changing the dates for it.

I was working on computer science, but then I got hired in the industry halfway through and never finished school. I'm mostly self taught anyway.

There has never been a utopia but there is still a word for it and a valid definition. I think there have been a lot of failed implementations of socialism, but I don't think those instances define the word or what the original intent was.

Not everyone has the same taboos surrounding sex or religious beliefs. It's not something I would personally do, but if she is OK with it and someone is willing to give her a small fortune for it, I don't see why this is so shocking or a sign of how "bad" our society has gotten.

I hate commenting my code... I know I should... but I still hate it. It's like doing a really annoying chore.

If the trains are off their tracks and traveling due west and east, meeting in the middle is the least of their problems.

I would recommend Top Coder. You can review old contests, try them yourself and see how other people solved them. If you want to work more on practical application, I have found that it is best to think of a project that would be challenging and just jump in and do it in your free time. Look up things that you don't know how to do yet and if you still need help, jump on one of the many tech forums and ask for help.

Any time you get a group of people with different viewpoints and interests together it will be difficult to reach a consensus (you can even see that just within our country), but the decisions that need to be made are starting to have more and more global repercussions. Inevitably if we are to coexist on this planet we need to play nice with other countries.

This probably sounds like a very strange question and I am not trying to be offensive, but why do religious people seem to be just as sad to see people die as non religious people? Non-religious people I can understand being sad to see people die because they have no idea what comes after this life (if anything), but now that I think about it, it doesn't really make sense for most religious people to react the same as most non-religious people in that situation. If you are firmly LDS, don't you believe that even the lowest kingdom is so great that if you could see it you would kill yourself just to get there and that people who go to outer darkness truly desrve it? So why are events where thousands of people die so tragic if you know for sure that they are either going to a much better place or getting what they deserve? Why is it so sad still to see family members die if you know you will be reuinited with them when you die? If people I knew were moving to another country and I would never see them again but they would be happy, I would be sad and miss them, but not nearly as sad as if they had died. I guess I haven't really been to any LDS funerals so I can't say if there is much of a difference, but it seems like if you knew they had moved on to such a wonderful place you would throw a party in their honor rather than host an event of mourning.

And I'm sure that they think there are darker forces at work in the LDS church leading poor Christians astray. Not everyone who theologically disagrees with you is motivated by dark forces.

Love is neither right nor wrong, it just is. Logical reasoning is the only source I trust when searching for the truth, but that doesn't mean feelings are irrelevent or useless. There are many different theories for why we dream, but there are no widely accepted ones at the moment and I am perfectly fine with saying "I don't know" if there is not enough evidence to make a proper conclusion yet. Because we don't yet of a sufficient understanding of the human brain. It is not possible to reason that an invisible unicorn exists or not, but is it useful to believe it exists if there is no evidence for one? Reason shows that many things we cannot see most likely exist and we use those things to better our lives, it's called science. We trust our lives to mathematic principles every day. We use theories from math and science because they provide testable, repeatable results. Logical reasoning is what brings us all the wonderful technology that we have today. I don't think I can help much with your dilemma since I am not LDS, but I am wary of people who want you to throw out rationality. In my experience, the truth does not require you to disregard your rational mind or solid evidence.

I trust logical reasoning. The rest is rather questionable and often incorrect and/or contradictory.

failblog.org is one of my favorite sites. I will jokingly use the word with my co-workers (we're software developers so most of us are current on the latest internet memes), but only because we can all laugh about it. I would never talk like that to someone who I knew wouldn't get it or might be offended.

If only there were a laugh button in the Gospel forums...

No, but I forgot to end with: "I say these things in the name of Google, amen."

"bare your testimony" - 185 hits on google "bear your testimony" - 5040 hits on google Google has spoken.

I just started watching the new Dr. Who series a few weeks ago from a recomendation by netflix. I'm to the middle of season 3 now and I love it so far. I wish they were keeping David Tennant, but then again I wished they were keeping the last Dr. and David Tennant turned out quite well.

From the test: You answered 26 out of 33 correctly — 78.79 % It's been a while since my high school civics class so I'm suprised I even did that well. I think a lot of that test was useful knowledge that most citizens should know but some of it just seemed like pointless trivia (like the ones I got wrong ).

So I take it you have no issues with piracy either? It's basically the same justification. I'm not going to pay $20 for this over priced DVD anyway and they don't lose anything if I download it.

I'm agnostic so it has always struck me as strange that so many people believe they truly follow God but so many other people seem truly convinced that they are following God as well but believe completely different things. How does anyone know they are truly following God when whatever the case may be, billions of people in the world are very wrong, yet have complete faith in the wrong thing.

Sometimes I wish I had an imagination.

I speak English, C#, SQL, C++, Java (listed in order of proficiency)

1. Secular Humanism (100%) 2. Unitarian Universalism (91%) 3. Liberal Quakers (75%) 4. Nontheist (73%) 5. Theravada Buddhism (70%) 6. Neo-Pagan (64%) 7. Mainline to Liberal Christian Protestants (58%) 8. Taoism (49%) 9. New Age (49%) 10. Orthodox Quaker (43%) 11. Mahayana Buddhism (40%) 12. Reform Judaism (39%) 13. Baha'i Faith (31%) 14. Sikhism (31%) 15. Jainism (29%) 16. Scientology (28%) 17. New Thought (26%) 18. Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) (25%) 19. Christian Science (Church of Christ, Scientist) (21%) 20. Seventh Day Adventist (20%) 21. Hinduism (18%) 22. Mainline to Conservative Christian/Protestant (18%) 23. Eastern Orthodox (16%) 24. Islam (16%) 25. Orthodox Judaism (16%) 26. Roman Catholic (16%) 27. Jehovah's Witness (12%) I didn't like that a lot of the questions at the beginning had lumped "doesn't exist, not sure or not important" all in to one response because I think all of those are significantly different when it comes to religion.

Nope.

Gobal warming does not exist, we should continue with the our unbounded and increasing consumption of resources without regard to our planet since we couldn't possibly affect it in any way. Global warming will kill us all in 5 years! We need to make everything "green" and stop anything that could possibly hurt the environment. As a-train said, there are a lot of agendas to go around, those are just two examples. I've seen both sides grossly distort data or flat out ignore things.