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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 15, 2022 at 7:21 pm
Lee Strobel:
1) Wasn’t an atheist, he was a lapsed Lutheran,
2) Wrote The Case For Christ after being a pastor for 15 years,
3) Only interviewed Christians,
4) Used fraudulent archaeological evidence and continued to use it after he was confronted.
teachings of the Bible are so muddled and self-contradictory that it was possible for Christians to happily burn heretics alive for five long centuries. It was even possible for the most venerated patriarchs of the Church, like St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas, to conclude that heretics should be tortured (Augustine) or killed outright (Aquinas). Martin Luther and John Calvin advocated the wholesale murder of heretics, apostates, Jews, and witches. - Sam Harris, "Letter To A Christian Nation"
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 16, 2022 at 3:36 pm
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A 40mm HE loitering munition can be dialed down in lethality to a range of 18inches. I just assumed they were 20m in-descriminate killing machines, beforehand. That's alot of sweat off my sack. I've never had any beef with anyone's driver.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 16, 2022 at 4:47 pm
(March 15, 2022 at 7:21 pm)Fake Messiah Wrote: Lee Strobel:
1) Wasn’t an atheist, he was a lapsed Lutheran,
2) Wrote The Case For Christ after being a pastor for 15 years,
3) Only interviewed Christians,
4) Used fraudulent archaeological evidence and continued to use it after he was confronted.
Just like Ray Comfort.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 17, 2022 at 1:36 am
Learned how to use the equation editor in Microsoft Word. (I'm taking a math course online and want to make my homework look nice.)
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 17, 2022 at 9:23 am
(March 17, 2022 at 1:36 am)Astreja Wrote: Learned how to use the equation editor in Microsoft Word. (I'm taking a math course online and want to make my homework look nice.)
I worked in the document department of a biomedical firm in the late 80s. We had Wordstar. We composed the formulas used in manufacturing the product with a combination of ascii characters, sub and superscripting, and backspacing over previous marks. You don't know how good you have it.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 17, 2022 at 11:18 am
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(March 17, 2022 at 9:23 am)Angrboda Wrote: (March 17, 2022 at 1:36 am)Astreja Wrote: Learned how to use the equation editor in Microsoft Word. (I'm taking a math course online and want to make my homework look nice.)
I worked in the document department of a biomedical firm in the late 80s. We had Wordstar. We composed the formulas used in manufacturing the product with a combination of ascii characters, sub and superscripting, and backspacing over previous marks. You don't know how good you have it.
Oh, I know -- I have 33 years' experience with various incarnations of M$ Word, plus some WeirdPerfect, and before that I used a Radio Shack Color Computer with a cobbled-together disk controller and a serial interface to a wide-carriage DECwriter that someone had evicted from their office. And EDLIN, and COPY CON. And a teletype running 55 baud. Not quite "editing the inodes by hand with a magnet" stuff, but near as darnit.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 17, 2022 at 12:53 pm
my dad learned wordstar in the early 1980s. till he retired he refuse to use anything else because the hurdle of change was perceived to be much higher than the convenience of a more user friendly product. At the time when there were not yet any on-line catalogue of professional papers in his field, he would actually copy the abstract of all the new papers into a giant word star document so as to be able to search for key terms later.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 17, 2022 at 12:57 pm
(March 17, 2022 at 11:18 am)Astreja Wrote: (March 17, 2022 at 9:23 am)Angrboda Wrote: I worked in the document department of a biomedical firm in the late 80s. We had Wordstar. We composed the formulas used in manufacturing the product with a combination of ascii characters, sub and superscripting, and backspacing over previous marks. You don't know how good you have it.
Oh, I know -- I have 33 years' experience with various incarnations of M$ Word, plus some WeirdPerfect, and before that I used a Radio Shack Color Computer with a cobbled-together disk controller and a serial interface to a wide-carriage DECwriter that someone had evicted from their office. And EDLIN, and COPY CON. And a teletype running 55 baud. Not quite "editing the inodes by hand with a magnet" stuff, but near as darnit.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 17, 2022 at 1:55 pm
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I thought Weirdperfect was rather nice. Fast, if nothing else. I was doing temp work and I was proficient on about a half-dozen different word processors. I think my favorite was Displaywrite, mainly for the colorful presentation.
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RE: What do you know today that you didn't know yesterday?
March 17, 2022 at 2:16 pm
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