You are right. I am putting forward that hunger is what "inspired" great artists of the renaissance era etc. It's easy to think of these artists as experimental layabouts the likes of which artist today are portrayed but given that most of the great artists of religious works lived in poverty and were commissioned to paint specific genres of work by the aristocracy wishing to espouse their holiness etc it is false to say that god inspired the artists per se. God may have inspired rich people to spend their money showing how holy they were or wanted to be portrayed to be.

>> ^artician:

>> ^Kofi:
I'm pretty sure money inspired the greatest art, music and architecture.

I'm certain that whatever an individual personally worships, is what they themselves are convinced inspire "the greatest art".
This isn't a slight against Kofi: I read your comment first before I had watched far enough to see the moment from the clip that inspired it, but thought of this aspect when hearing the gentleman from the church preach his perspective on it. The guy clearly spends so much time with his face in the bible, that he sees it everywhere when he finally looks up. Today our culture is clearly told to worship money, so it's easy to see its influence in everything (even if it's not there).
Just an opinion (inspired by money!!!!!)

>> ^Kofi:

I'm pretty sure money inspired the greatest art, music and architecture.


I'm certain that whatever an individual personally worships, is what they themselves are convinced inspire "the greatest art".

This isn't a slight against Kofi: I read your comment first before I had watched far enough to see the moment from the clip that inspired it, but thought of this aspect when hearing the gentleman from the church preach his perspective on it. The guy clearly spends so much time with his face in the bible, that he sees it everywhere when he finally looks up. Today our culture is clearly told to worship money, so it's easy to see its influence in everything (even if it's not there).

Just an opinion (inspired by money!!!!!)

Inspired? I don't think so. Made possible and influenced/dictated the content? Absolutely.

>> ^Kofi:

I'm pretty sure money inspired the greatest art, music and architecture.

I'm pretty sure money inspired the greatest art, music and architecture.

I wonder if architectural engineers ever saw this footage before and if it would help them more accurately model WTC2's collapse..
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I was on R train riding to work, while at the last stop in Brooklyn conductor announced that "due to smoke conditions" at WTC station my train would be skipping that stop. So I got out a stop earlier at 'White Hall' station. I had no idea what was going on. I had my headphones on listening to music. The moment I stepped outside I heard a noise as if a helicopter and then a loud boom. I thought that was just a supersonic boom of a plane. I saw people on the street looking up in the sky and thought to myself why they are looking up in the sky, if that was a supersonic boom that plane was long gone. I still had no idea what was going on. As I got closer to my office, I crossed Wall St and suddenly I felt something like dust/dirt/tiny shards of glass falling on me and large amount of papers flying around. By the time I got to Maiden Ln where my office was I could clearly see what was happening.

If I hadn't gotten off one stop earlier, I think I would have been stuck on that train under WTC....... ;(

Was your Anthropology class a graduate level class? Did you have to take five of them? If you want to compare the intro class you took to taking five classes, many of them graduate level, be my guest.

BTW, wtf does Anthropology have to do with astronomy? Are you seriously suggesting psychology has no relation to teaching? You do understand that in order to help teach, you should know how the human mind works, right? It's not the ESPN Decathlon jump where you're sprinting, and suddenly have to fish. You're argument is like saying a scientist doesn't know math well because they're a scientist. Uhh, math and science are heavily related.

Nobody said teachers are dedicated expert psychologists. But to pretend that a teacher doesn't need any or even just a cursory "Intro to Psych" level knowledge to teach is silly. I've taught, I have the degree, I've proven to you just how much psychology is involved in getting degree alone, nevermind what's involved in the actual job; you pretend the only thing in the coursework was an Intro to Psych class, and pretend you're an expert in what is involved in teaching because you went to school as a student. I guess I'm an expert in architecture because I've lived in buildings all my life. I also know all about what it must be like to be a professional cook, since I've eaten food all my life.

But I get it though, you're just trying to troll, not have an honest discussion.

>> ^blankfist:

>> ^heropsycho:
He did claim the job is easy. I'm sorry, but that's what it implied.
He's not saying teacher's are all Einstein's. He's saying the swath of skill a teacher must possess is very wide, and it's not a cursory level of knowledge and skill. And his description is absolutely correct. He never said teachers are full time experts in every single one of those fields.
Before you say something idiotic like teachers don't need or are not required to have in depth knowledge of psychology, you could do a few common sense things like, oh I don't know, check college requirements for education degrees.
I must have imagined all those undergrad & graduate level psychology and education classes that were REQUIREMENTS to getting an education degree, which I had to have to get a teaching license! You know, classes that couldn't have a thing to do with psychology. Let's whip out that transcript and take a look:
101 Introduction to Psychology
300 Foundations of Education (heavy doses of educational psychology)
301 Human Development and Learning
607 (That's a graduate level class) Advanced Educational PSYCHOLOGY
605 Theory and Practice of Education/Special Needs Students
There were also Practicum classes with heavy doses of psychology.
Does your job require you to take five semesters of psychology in college to get licensed to do your job?
And that's my point with both of you. You have absolutely no clue whatsoever about the teaching profession, and yet you insist over and over and over you somehow do because you attended school. You clearly don't have a clue, so how about you go learn about these specific areas before you speak to them instead of trying to prove an ignorant point of view.


Ah, got it. So I guess the Anthropology course I took at my Liberal Arts school makes me a scientist. I'm also now qualified to operate the Hubble Telescope because I took a general studies course called 'Stars & Galaxies'.

This reminds me of a ZX-81 (also cheap PC CGA cards) with the screen snow/flicker in order to save on cost and complexity. Cool stuff that I wish I could really do

Really good chiptune music to go with it as well

This sort of architecture was also not unusual in the commercial world as well. There were several computers with TTL CPUs as well as a few arcade (Cinematronics) games.

Oh, I never meant to imply that it was easy. I've had to build a cpu twice, once for Computer Architecture and once for Digital Electronics. One was entirely simulated and one was loaded onto an FPGA (a programmable chip). Using software like Xilinx ISE or Altera, you can simulate the necessary logic gates to build and test the electronics, then "install" it to an FPGA. It took us about 2-3 weeks to do it, but it was definitely a hectic and stressful few weeks. What he probably did was simulate the setup and then build it to a couple of breadboards (which I can see there in the videos) using some component chips. (Here's a list of some on wikipedia.)

Now he also did a graphics module, which is not necessarily harder, but is built quite differently, so I estimate that took another month or so to figure out. Once those two major components are done, the rest of it is pretty easy to hook together, and all that's left is putting together the software.

So yeah, assuming he was doing this in his spare time, a year sounds about right. It just takes dedication and the willingness to learn the process. Nice to see a teenager willing to take the time to do it, and the results are testament to that.
>> ^marinara:

really? I agree, it's not a theoretical/conceptual feat. It's an engineering/fabrication feat. But, I can't ever use the word "easy" to describe what this teenager did.

really? I agree, it's not a theoretical/conceptual feat. It's an engineering/fabrication feat. But, I can't ever use the word "easy" to describe what this teenager did. >> ^Sylvester_Ink:

Most CS majors learn to do this in their computer architecture classes, and usually implement it via an fpga.

It's not as hard as it seems. Most CS majors learn to do this in their computer architecture classes, and usually implement it via an fpga. However, this guy had the patience to use the most basic building blocks, chips and wires, to do it. Definitely a nice accomplishment.

What we are really wondering is who the person was who had access to the camera in the pig's car that uploaded the video to youtube, were they male or female or sex be-damned, did they simply want to see a douchebag go down once, and for all??!!

Texas has a notorious good-ol' boy network of assholes. Some of these assholes become police because the job description best suits their already established tendencies towards control, power over others, or simply their own tiny, tiny penis combined with latent dominant or abused/abuser tendencies. Most of these poor rejects were abused and they best suit the position-That position being to fill the ranks of those who allegedly "protect and serve" with the actual animal, hind-brained petty thugs who will follow orders and dish out hate.

"Fuck the Police coming straight from the underground."
The systems' broke and can't be fixed, merely altered or eradicated. Come, let's rebuild on the ashes. America is a lifeless husk anyhow- The architecture is ugly, the government as corrupt as any third-world nation, and the people are becoming more and more like the cast from "Idiocracy" daily.

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The Bible is a storybook, that's all. A conspiracy to me, is a cover up of a crime.

You've convinced yourself pretty well with your strange arguments. Just because the Bible cites historical architectural knowledge doesn't mean there's a God. It just means that the people who wrote it at the time obviously took inspiration from their time period and what existed. It doesn't mean EVERYTHING they wrote is now true, they just had a reliable backdrop to their story, why would they write about a places and gatherings and cities and nations and locations that didn't exist, when they are wanting to trick people at the time? Surely it's a requirement to portray the world correctly and then use your lies in preaching to trick people to believing it.

I don't know how you can be so misguided to think proving the bible's archaeological facts leads it to prove all the crazy beliefs of a God and Satan and a Virgin birth, etc.

I can write a book about WW2, citing all the battles, bombs dropped, people killed, gatherings etc, and then just add in a load of stuff about how Hitler was actually secretly taking orders from a magical Unicorn called George who hated everyone, and that the allies were being advised by a giant Elephant called Bob who was kind and benevolent. So apparently in 2000 years, people like you will believe it all because all the archaeological data was proved in my story.

Talking about Christian's persecutions means nothing, brainwashed people are brainwashed, they think they will go to heaven if they do good, and go to hell if they stop believing in God. So no matter what persecution there is, until they are actually allowed to see sense, they will continue to believe in God and teach their children to believe in God.

Also I'd look at the surveys the other way, 79% of the people in the survey didn't believe in God, and 90% don't pray weekly. Then in the other survey 80% of the scientists aren't spiritual. That's a good amount of people who are sane. There has to be at least some crazy scientists otherwise we might miss out of some discoveries.

>> ^shinyblurry:

You think the bible is a conspiracy? lol..first of all most of the people who started the church were martryed for their beliefs. If they knew it was a lie, they wouldn't have died for it. The romans persecuted and martyred Christians for hundreds of years. There simply was no advantage to being a Christian in those days. It was very likely to get you killed.
And for being made up it sure is historically accurate:
"Now of course, archaeology could never prove that the Bible is divinely inspired, but it can help build a case for the historical reliability of the Bible. And it certainly has. For the past 150 years archaeologists have been verifying the exact truthfulness of the Bible's detailed records of various events, customs, persons, cities, nations, and geographical locations.
In every instance where the Bible can be, or has been checked out archaeologically, it has been found to be 100% accurate. The Bible has proven so accurate that archaeologists often refer to it as a reliable guide when they go to dig in new areas.
Nelson Glueck, who appeared on the cover of Time magazine and who is considered one of the greatest archaeologists ever, wrote: “No archeological discovery has ever controverted [overturned] a Biblical reference. Scores of archeological findings have been made which confirm in clear outline or in exact detail historical statements in the Bible. And, by the same token, proper evaluation of Biblical descriptions has often led to amazing discoveries.” [Nelson Glueck, Rivers in the Desert (Philadelphia, PA: Jewish Publications Society of America, 1969), 31.]
These are the words of a man who has who has been credited with uncovering more than fifteen hundred ancient sites in the Middle East. [ “Archaeology: The Shards of History,” Time, December 13, 1963, accessed November 18, 2010.]
There have been more than 25,000 discoveries within the region known as the "Bible Lands” that have confirmed the truthfulness of the Bible."
And it looks like some atheists just aren't as religious and dogmatic as you are..take for example this statistic from the 2008 Pew survey:
According to one underreported 2008 U.S. Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life survey, 21 per cent of atheists expressed at least some certainty of belief in God or universal spirit, and 10 per cent admitted to praying on a weekly basis.
Nor should we be surprised to learn that more “than 20 per cent of atheist scientists consider themselves to be ‘spiritual,’ according to a Rice University study.” From the Religion News Service: “The findings, to be published in the June issue of the journal Sociology of Religion, are based on in-depth interviews with 275 natural and social scientists from 21 of the nation’s top research universities.”
Seems that yours is the world view that isn't quite matching up to reality..