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Comment · 5 years ago
It is a nice thought but that could not happen. When an event like this happens it is because of huge structural failure.
Corruption would have played a part. If you brought a tanker or free oil, whose business interest, or tax revenue, would be impacted by an influx of cheap oil?
Who is being incentivized not to solve the issue?
Where do you dock the ship?
Who gets the oil for free but then charges the next user down the supply chain?
How can you be sure the majority of the oil does not end up on the black market, exported or not used for grid energy?
Twenty years ago the most advanced economy in the world, California, had blackouts due to fraud and corruption. If it can happen in CA it can happen anywhere.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000%E2%80%9301_California_ele...
Comment · 5 years ago
> Turkish MIT graduate who played a central role in the development
I am sure being Erdoğan's son in law helped more to obtain his position than being an MIT graduate.
Comment · 5 years ago
Nobody know's what is not declared. The Pentagon had a problem with defense contractors getting around the rules by instead holding elaborate dinner parties. They since cracked down on it. The rules still allow some scope for these kind of gifts. [0]
In the private sector it is not unheard of for a salesperson to drop 5 figures on champagne. If salesman from firm A is willing to give an exec or buyer a night to remember once or twice a year, with booze costing one or two weeks salary before tax, and the salesperson from firm B simply sends a "happy holidays" card once a year, it can easily sway that exec even if they believe they are unbiased.
Comment · 5 years ago
> It seems like you're hijacking this thread to make a your own political point
No I am not. I was making a salient legal point. The OP recommended visiting and making up your own mind. I pointed out that for many people that would be dangerous and illegal.
I have sympathy for the Iranian people who have a wonderful culture but are held captive by a repressive fanatical regime.
Comment · 5 years ago
It is simple descriptive term that means a trans person who has not had gender reassignment surgery. It is legal to be a post-operative transsexual person, but not a non-operative transsexual in Iran.
Comment · 5 years ago
In any event the debate is which letters were or were not written by Paul. There is no reason to suspect he wrote none of them, or at least none were transcribed them to secretary. The debate is which was written by him and which were not.
Your father may have claimed it was very obvious, but nobody else thinks so.
Comment · 5 years ago
> Can you clarify? Because the Gospels are largely the accounts of a man who spent the most impactful years of His life disputing Judaism as it existed at the time.
He disputed current practices of certain groups/sects, and his law superseded the "old" law. The key point is that Jesus did not "back date" his laws. He did not claim they applied to the ancient Hebrews and that they should be judged according to them.
> Also Christianity cannot be an offshoot of the religion now called Judaism
I make a point of noting that I was talking about Judaism as it was at 0 BC/AD.
Comment · 5 years ago
> today it remains controversial for Christian theologians to go on the record saying they’re one and the same.
You are incorrect. That is not controversial. In a sermon delivered by Apostle Paul in Athens, he even tells the pagans they may be worshiping the same God but not know it. [0] Paul was probably the least flexible or accommodating of the first Christian teachers.
What is controversial is the details. While Muhammad was inspired by Christian teachings, specifically Nestorianism [1], later Islamic scholars declared that Christian teachings were corrupted [2] thereby nullifying any contradictions between Jewish, Christian and Islamic teachings.
So yes, a Muslim theologian might truthfully say Islam is a superset of Christianity and Judaism, but they are not referring to any known version of Christianity or Judaism.
Christians on the other hand consider themselves a superset of Judaism. For the most part they don't dispute Judaism (as it existed before 0AD) and think of Christianity are an updated/evolved version.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Areopagus_sermon
Comment · 6 years ago
> Things are frequently buggy, unreliable and disjointed. I’d almost be able to forgive it but unfortunately the support is really terrible too.
This is my experience. After years of paying for the service, for multiple users, using tools that seemed to have been forgotten by the dev team, my credit card failed to process one month.
Support was not interested in helping me. Not at all. Ended up having to move my team's workflow off Zoho. I had been begging them to bill my card, but they just kept sending me generic emails asking me to try again. Phone support was even less helpful.
Comment · 6 years ago
Given the extreme wealth in the bay area, I am astonished you find it astonishing. Billionaires and multi millionaires would have funded these churches. Most churches and other religious organisations run on a tight budget and deter important costs like building maintenance because of lack of funds.
I have seen crumbling Catholic churches, and I have seen the Vatican Meusum. Two extremes of wealth.
Comment · 6 years ago
The 80s
Comment · 6 years ago
Lost could just mean expended in training but with slightly poor recording keeping that added up over time.