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Aren't the monotheistic religions basically all the same?

Great ... yah when it's really cold a lot of weird things start to happen My jeep has this VERY loud bang up front when it's cold. I know exactly where it is coming from (front axle sway bar disconnect pins) ... but I have no idea why it does it when it's really cold and not at other times Mos jan jan .. not sure if you have seen this or posted this before, but here's some more Russian Offroading :cool:

The pre-game show sucked. Hopefully the half-time will be better.

Edward, I completely agree with you but we should not have respect for disrespect. This is a rephrase of what Bill Maher said once that tolerance is good as long as we don't start to tolerate intolerance. Muslims should be the last people to demand respect when they themselves, collectively, are among the most hostile and disrespectful (of others) of ANY religion. Sure there are nice muslims out there and I know many of them personally myself. But as a religion (much like most other religions), Islam is as disrespectful and intolerant of others as they get.

If nothing else, religion has definitely created a bunch of super-sensitive cry babies running around the world, since day 1. But on the other hand, I can definitely see how questioning or ridiculing someone's shakey belief system on which their entire lives revolve around can cause massive panic, hysteria, and anger. Of course why doesn't the same thing happen when someone questions a valid and proven scientific claim? Most often, that person is labeled an idiot and dismissed. But question religion and oh boy ... all Hell breaks loose and people's feelings get hurt

Man that is just absolutely AWESOME! It is probably the best idea anyone has ever had since the Geroge Forman Grill. I can see this making HUGE amounts of money in the short run until everyone else and their mother catches on the mainly untapped "internet novelty" market. I love it.

Looks like the enterance to the new Escher-land theme park being build in Indianapolis Indiana... and of course I just made that up.

Vava, it is very hard to diagnose something like that but it almost sounds like a normal squeek. Has it been very dry lately? I'd say give the car a good wash ... the kind that sprays the bottom. Then get yourself a can of WD40 and spray down any moving part of the shock and spring that you might see coming in contact with other things. That is the easiest solution I can give you when it's really cold and you can't roll around the car too long That should take care of your squeeks at least temporarily.

You canadians PISS me off. You are sooooo ignorent.

Yes send me $49.99 and I'll send you a CD and lots of other helpful information which will explain it all. Edit: I decided to lower the price for this one time.

13 stripes in the US flag? 23 pounds of candy in the hand basket? 9 pennies in Sip's ashtray?

My goal for the next couple of years is to reduce my debt... student loans, credit cards, car loans, home equity line of credit, etc ... all gotta go except obviously for mortgage that I will never be able to pay off most likely I'll worry about investing after these loans are brought under some order.

Maybe we can make all of it feed into one thread... or maybe even a separate webpage ... but I too don't think it's a good idea to feed a lot of threads into the forum automatically.

That's exactly the reason. Some of the "Christians" are starting to see that that doesn't make any sense if they want to conjure up a God that later on will judge us for our actions in time. A God that is beyond time won't have to wait and see how we live our lives

What's a typewriter?

Actually, I always tick the "Pacific Islander / Philipino" box .. I'm not joking.

Bayts 85 .... V8 ... inch makur ... west coast ...

Mosjan jan ... this looks like your kind of truck.

I think the confusion stems from the Bible. The church has to take a clear stance on this and not hand waive and try to paint a fuzzy picture. Either the Bible is the word of God and God created man in his own image, or the Bible is a nice story book to teach basic morals and they should stop treating it like some sort of holy entity.

I always listen to those with lots of experience!!!!! Thank you sir. Azat, the reason I ask is because there's a mustard museum about 15 minutes from where I live and I've wanted to go check it out for a long time ... I figured I'd look out for that particular one

Hey Azat, on a completely unrelated note, what was that mustard you were drooling about here in WI?

No prob!

What kind of number? Any number? You can use some sort of iterative search to find the answer. One of the most common ways to do this is Newton's method. The basic iteration for doing Newton's method looks like this: x_next = x_curr - f(x_curr) / f'(x_curr) By starting from some x_curr, doing the iteration above repeatedly will eventually lead to an x such that f(x)=0, if such an x exists of course. To solve the square root problem, let f(x) = x*x - n where n is the number for which you want to find the square root. Then f'(x) in this case is 2x. Thus, the Newton's iteration becomes: x_next = x_curr - (x_curr*x_curr-n) / (2*x_curr) With a loop like this, you should be able to find a decent square root: x=1; while (abs( x * x - n) > 0.00001) { x = x - (x*x-n)/ (2*x); } Note that this thing will diverge if you let n=0 and will eventually cause a divide by 0 problem. But it should work fine for most cases. Also, you might be able to pick a better starting point than just 1. You may also wish to limit the total number of iterations as opposed to waiting for a certain accuracy (in this case 0.00001). The other things to watch out for is that you might end up at the negative square root of a number (depending on where you start) since each positive real number has potentially 2 real square roots. But that's an easy check on the final answer. Negative numbers for n will most likely cause problems too.