Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Apple shareholders were recently notified by this court document that the "Apple Derivative Litigation" has been settled. A brief summary of this--which relates to backdating of Apple stock options--is as follows: Apple Inc. and several of its officers and directors, including chief executive Steve Jobs, have agreed to settle a stock options backdating case for …
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This interesting comment from "JaquesArden54" in Why Anglican England is better than Secular France: The French Etat - and the French people in general - have forgotten that there is a difference between the State and Society. This confusion of two distinct realities is an error found within New Labour, Dave's Tories and the European …
Joyce Reingold notes the following astronomical event later this week: Our Star Watch columnist Mike Lynch also advises we mark our calendars for Friday, 9/19, when — conditions willing — the waning gibbous moon will partially cover the Pleiades between 9:30-11 p.m. “It should be quite a sight to begin your weekend,” he writes. A …
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As a lay person in the pew, I've always thought it would be cool to flash questions, commentary, etc., at the pastor during his (or her) sermon. (At my church, that's possible because there's a screen right in front of the pulpit, but...) Well, near Charleston, SC, one church is trying just that: I’m sure …
The New York Times finally catches up on the subject of online textbooks, many of which are free: It is that fact that can suddenly turn the good guys into bad guys, especially when the prices they charge are compared with generic drugs or ordinary books. A final similarity, in the words of R. Preston …
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This was originally posted 11 December 2005, and is a continuation of this (with explanation.) Dr. Saul Adelman's piece in the Fall 1990 issue of the Forum was not the end of the back and forth. His hard-hitting piece did get two responses. One, from Georgia, discussed some intentional distortion of the Bible translations during …
Churches that empahsise Sunday legalism get this verse recited frequently: And Jesus answering spake unto the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath day? And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go; And answered them, saying, Which of you shall have an …
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I am reposting this, originally put up 7 December 2005, for two reasons. The first is that the topic this article discusses is still very relevant. The second is that Adelman's response was quoted in James C. Alexander's book Stories of a Recovering Fundamentalist, without, I might note, any reference to my original article. My …
From here, relative to his visit to France: It seems obvious to me today that laïcité (the French policy of exclusion of any religious content in the life of the state) in itself is not in contradiction with the faith. I would even say that it is a fruit of the faith because the Christian …
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It looks like the Sh'ia/Sunni divide (also the Arab/Persian divide) is heating up: Slowly but surely, Arab columnists have started filing story after story critical of Iran's role in the region. That became strikingly clear when prime coverage was given to the death of General Hisham Sabah al-Fakhri, a decorated officer from Saddam Hussein's army, …
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