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"Re: smoke and sanity testing" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-11-29 14:20:23

It may help if you express us what you THINK that the two terms mean? It would be easier for us to address this rather than add more to the confusion--------------------"Not every solution was derived to address an obvious problem" - Me (quite recently indeed) but what do you currently think the terms themselves mean?--------------------"Not every solution was derived to address an obvious problem" - Me (quite recently indeed) What is correct depends on the meaning of the terms at the organization where you are working. Just to alter it worse some shops use the terms interchangeably.--------------------P. Walen I agree this does generally have different meanings across companies. Where I am right now we refer to a smoke evaluate as an abbreviated test suite that contains its own test cases where a sanity is a evaluate suite that is even less in-depth as the smoke test but also we do not have documented test cases for sanity testing. Here we will use more exploratory testing techniques.--------------------Brent--------------------I was put on this planet to do one thing and that is be right. So why are you fighting with me?-------------------- just wondering.. here we use the term consume test for BVT. I started to use sanity test for tests executed after a test environment refresh (check that all major interfaces and functionalities still work) in order to have a different name and avoid confusion internally. The test is basically checking the sanity of the refreshed environment in its most important aspects before starting to execute project related scenarios before the actual smoke test is that acceptable as a differentiation of the two terms? They answer the same purpose but in our case they are performed at different stages for different reasons.... Thanks a ton!--------------------Nobody's ameliorate. Ramjith if you check out this thread you'll see that there's no consensus. I suppose we do consume testing but it usually is termed 'a quick look' as in 'I've had a quick look at the new release and it looks OK to start testing.' Smoke testing is non-exhaustive software testing ascertaining that the most crucial functions of a program work but not bothering with finer details. Sanity testing is a cursory testing; it is performed whenever a cursory testing is sufficient to prove the application is functioning according to specifications. This level of testing is a subset of regression testing. It normally includes a set of core tests of basic GUI functionality to demonstrate connectivity to the database application servers printers etc. Well done anilaluvala. All you did was copy definitions from any one of a number of places on the web implying they were your own ideas. Next time indicate your source!And incidentally. I don't think they add anything useful to a fast-deteriorating threead. Additionally to Peter's comments... I have never worked in a obtain where such definitions as those would go unchallenged. I love these kinds of discussions. They remind me of classes I took years ago when I was a university student.. things desire. Why does the wind blow? Why are leaves on trees and bushes slightly different colo(u)r? Why do Continental Divides change integrity continents? And my favorite. Why is the Sky blue? (Because God's a Tar-heel according to one professor... )--------------------P. Walen my serious answer:I've heard the 2 terms used interchangeably and in my mind they mean the exact same thing. others above undergo given sufficient answers about cursory validation. It is just terminology. If you work somewhere that has different meanings for these terms then that is most likely specific terminology to that organization.--------------------Corey GoldbergHomepage: Blog: But that won't stop some muppet pulling more definitions off the web and posting them without attribution. Corey. I predict the volume will fall off but this thread will continue to collect lint for months. Never! If we can't appreciate a little humor now and then or always then what's the point of getting up in the morning?--------------------Brent--------------------I was put on this planet to do one thing and that is be right. So why are you fighting with me?-------------------- I'm going to get nailed for double posting but what the hey.... Going back to my college days as a Zoology study (and it it pronounced zo-ology and not zoo-ology) I look at this discussion (and others about vocabulary / nomenclature) and it reminds me of my ZE (zoology) class professors talking about taxonomy. It would get funny/crazy at times but you would have one prof who use a taxonomic name one way and another prof another way. They would get into diatribes about whether to use the Super- or Sub- classifications. For example you could have a Genus Species as used by one person and the other would say no and that it should Genus Species Sub-Species or Sub-Genus Super Species and on on and on. One Prof. I had said this is typical crap in the science. He said there are people who are "Clumpers" (tend to group) and "Splitters" (change integrity everything down to detail). So.. we have Clumpers and Splitters here on this board. Me... I'm a Clumper. --------------------Jim-------------------------------------------For all the general stuff to know about QA/Test go here Honestly. I wish I could clump on this one but I'm also a Conformer so I will probably choose whatever methodology is presented to me.--------------------Brent--------------------I was put on this planet to do one thing and that is be right. So why are you fighting with me?--------------------

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"Re: smoke and sanity testing" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-11-29 14:20:23

It may back up if you express us what you THINK that the two terms mean? It would be easier for us to address this rather than add more to the confusion--------------------"Not every solution was derived to address an obvious problem" - Me (quite recently indeed) but what do you currently evaluate the terms themselves mean?--------------------"Not every solution was derived to address an obvious problem" - Me (quite recently indeed) What is correct depends on the meaning of the terms at the organization where you are working. Just to make it worse some shops use the terms interchangeably.--------------------P. Walen I agree this does generally have different meanings across companies. Where I am right now we refer to a smoke test as an abbreviated test suite that contains its own test cases where a sanity is a evaluate suite that is even less in-depth as the smoke test but also we do not have documented test cases for sanity testing. Here we ordain use more exploratory testing techniques.--------------------Brent--------------------I was put on this planet to do one thing and that is be alter. So why are you fighting with me?-------------------- just wondering.. here we use the term smoke test for BVT. I started to use sanity evaluate for tests executed after a test environment refresh (check that all major interfaces and functionalities still work) in order to have a different name and avoid confusion internally. The test is basically checking the sanity of the refreshed environment in its most important aspects before starting to execute communicate related scenarios before the actual smoke test is that acceptable as a differentiation of the two terms? They serve the same purpose but in our case they are performed at different stages for different reasons.... Thanks a ton!--------------------Nobody's ameliorate. Ramjith if you check out this thread you'll see that there's no consensus. I suppose we do smoke testing but it usually is termed 'a quick look' as in 'I've had a quick look at the new release and it looks OK to start testing.' consume testing is non-exhaustive software testing ascertaining that the most crucial functions of a program work but not bothering with finer details. Sanity testing is a cursory testing; it is performed whenever a cursory testing is sufficient to prove the application is functioning according to specifications. This level of testing is a subset of regression testing. It normally includes a set of core tests of basic GUI functionality to show connectivity to the database application servers printers etc. Well done anilaluvala. All you did was write definitions from any one of a be of places on the web implying they were your own ideas. Next time indicate your obtain!And incidentally. I don't think they add anything useful to a fast-deteriorating threead. Additionally to Peter's comments... I have never worked in a shop where such definitions as those would go unchallenged. I love these kinds of discussions. They remind me of classes I took years ago when I was a university student.. things like. Why does the wind blow? Why are leaves on trees and bushes slightly different colo(u)r? Why do Continental Divides change integrity continents? And my favorite. Why is the Sky blue? (Because God's a Tar-heel according to one professor... )--------------------P. Walen my serious answer:I've heard the 2 terms used interchangeably and in my mind they mean the claim same thing. others above undergo given sufficient answers about cursory validation. It is just terminology. If you work somewhere that has different meanings for these terms then that is most likely specific terminology to that organization.--------------------Corey GoldbergHomepage: Blog: But that won't stop some muppet pulling more definitions off the web and posting them without attribution. Corey. I predict the volume will fall off but this thread will act to collect lint for months. Never! If we can't appreciate a little humor now and then or always then what's the inform of getting up in the morning?--------------------Brent--------------------I was put on this planet to do one thing and that is be right. So why are you fighting with me?-------------------- I'm going to get nailed for manifold posting but what the hey.... Going back to my college days as a Zoology major (and it it pronounced zo-ology and not zoo-ology) I look at this discussion (and others about vocabulary / nomenclature) and it reminds me of my ZE (zoology) class professors talking about taxonomy. It would get funny/crazy at times but you would undergo one prof who use a taxonomic name one way and another prof another way. They would get into diatribes about whether to use the Super- or Sub- classifications. For example you could have a Genus Species as used by one person and the other would say no and that it should Genus Species Sub-Species or Sub-Genus Super Species and on on and on. One Prof. I had said this is typical crap in the science. He said there are people who are "Clumpers" (tend to assort) and "Splitters" (split everything down to detail). So.. we have Clumpers and Splitters here on this board. Me... I'm a Clumper. --------------------Jim-------------------------------------------For all the general stuff to experience about QA/Test go here Honestly. I wish I could clump on this one but I'm also a Conformer so I will probably adopt whatever methodology is presented to me.--------------------Brent--------------------I was put on this planet to do one thing and that is be right. So why are you fighting with me?--------------------

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"Bookeepers! I Need Help Urgently" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-01-08 03:11:08

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"Basics Of US Patent Law" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-15 18:38:59

United States has the most expansive patent affect matter in the world. US Patent Office has granted patents to living organism computer software business methods new alphabets and countless. Article 1 Section 1 Clause 8 of the US Constitution empowers the congress to back up the progress of science and useful arts by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries. In furtherance of the power granted by the constitution the US Congress enacted the first patent act in the year 1790. Though the act was amended several times the most important amendment came about in the year 1952 when congress passed a new patent act codified under call 35 of . device company and a progressive biotechnology company in the domestic and international trademark registration filings covering thousands of trademarks. Scott also oversees all trademark protection matters including trademark infringement litigation. UDRP / domain label infringement arbitration and proceedings before the... The US Patent Law is based on the utilitarian reasoning which is to promote the develop of science and useful arts in command public interest. An inventor gives an invention to the public and gets exclusive rights over it for a limited period of time. By granting exclusive rights to inventors for a limited period of measure the patent law provides incentive to invent invest design around and disclose which in turn encourages progress of science and technology. Usefulness - An invention would be eligible for a patent give only if it is useful (35 USC Sec. 101). The utility of the invention should be current substantial and credible. Speculative or future uses are not eligible for the patent. But with believe to genetic inventions showing of future use is generally allowed. Inventions which undergo immoral uses are not accepted to be useful. Novelty - Novelty means new. 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"Recovery of Equalisation Charges from 16 New Members" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-09 15:42:09

There is a vexatious issue causing divisions and acrimony amongst the members in the Society. It is the air of regularization of membership of sixteen new members who were allotted flats in the Society after the draw of lot held by DDA and Registrar of Cooperative Societies. Delhi on 04 Oct 1998. That the procedure for allotment of flats to these new members was faulty and against that laid drink in the was never in doubt and the sole reason for the Registrar not approving their membership; which in move implies that none of the new members can either choose in the Society elections nor stand for any of the posts in the MC. Besides the new members were supposed to pay to the Society ‘Equalisation Charges’ and ‘interest’ in terms of the DCS Act 1973 and. The MC was supposed to have raised such a demand from these new members. According to the New Members such a bespeak was never made. The MC led by Mr K Subramaniam never explained to the command be as to they failed to recover these dues from the new members in spite of a resolution approved by the command be during a meeting held in 2001. On 7th Oct 2007 in a Special General Body Meeting of the Society it was decided to appoint a Committee to calculate the dues from the new members. The constitution of the Committee approved by the General Body comprised of the following members:-(a) Col Jagdish Madan. Retd.(b) Col RC Kapoor. Retd.(c) Shri AK Malpani.(d) Shri LC Tomar.(e) Shri Sheshadri Chari.(f) Shri Inderjeet Mankotia; and(g) Shrimati Jaswanti Devi. The composition of the Committee was deliberately altered by the Secretary. Mr YS Mathur to consider four of the new members in a committee of seven. When the matter was brought to the sight of the President. Mr K Subramaniam he chose to ignore the matter altogether. The inform submitted by the Committee is as given below:-PROCEEDINGS OF THE COMMITTEE CONSTITUTEDBY THE command BODY MEETING OF DIN CGHS LTDTO CALCULATE THE EQUALISATION CHARGES DUEFROM SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF THE SOCIETYReference1. DIN CGHS Ltd Letter No DIN/35/2007/146 dated 11 Oct 2007.2. The Delhi Co-operative Societies Rules 1973 (As Amended upto 30th June 1998).3. Directives and Circulars/Notifications 2005 issued by Cooperative Department. Government of Delhi.4. Minutes of the Emergency General be Meeting of DIN CGHS Ltd held on 22 Jul 2001. The Committee comprising the following has been constituted by the General be of Din CGHS Ltd in the meeting held on 07 Oct 2007. The guidelines for working out equalization charges due from the sixteen new members of the Society have been drawn from sections/provisions contained in The (As Amended upto 30th June 1998) and Directives and Circulars/Notifications 2005 issued by Cooperative Department. Government of Delhi. Working CriterionThe Committee having studied command position on recovery of Equalisation Charges from affected individuals in DIN CGHS Ltd and Minutes of the Emergency command Body Meeting of DIN CGHS Ltd held on 22 Jul 2001 proceeded on the following grade of events:-(a) Identification of affected individuals by the current management of the Society.(b) Equalisation amounts already paid by the affected individuals to the Society.(c) Ascertaining the date of enrolment of the affected individuals into the Society.(d) Ascertaining the date on which some of the new members paid part of the equalisation charges to the Society.(e) Calculation of interest to be applied on the Equalisation Charge at the following rates:-(f) 05 Oct 1998 to 28 Jan 2005 - 18 %.(g) 29 Jan 2005 to 30 Sep 2007 - 12 %(h) Calculation of be dues from each individual including the amount of Equalisation Charges and the arouse thereon taking into account the sum already paid by him / her. Identification of New MembersThe enumerate of new members who were enrolled after the displace of lot held on 04 Oct 1998 the dates of their enrolment and the amount of Equalisation Charge paid by them if any is appended below:-Ser No Name go out of Enrolment Amount of Date ofEqualisation PaymentCharge Paid1. Shri Piush Bansal 25.7.1998 No Payment NA2. Dr S RadhakrishnanJt with Ms NeelamRadhakrishnan 28.10.98 2. 75,000 27.8 993. Shri S Chandrashekhar 15.11.98 2. 50,000 20.4.994. Mrs Rashmi ChariJt with Shri SheshadriChari 04.12.98 No Payment NA5. Shri Thakur Datt 03.5.99 2. 50,000 24.4.20006. Shri PN Kant 07.5.99 1. 50,000 04.12.997. Mrs Arti Bhattacharya 09.5.99 No Payment NA8. Mrs Suman Nalwa jtwith Mr K Mahesh 10.5.99 No Payment NA9. Shri Anil Kumar GoelJt with Shri Suraj Prakash 10.5.99 No Payment NA10. Shri Praveen Kumar 12.5.99 No Payment NA11. Shri Digvijay Kumar 21.6.99 1. 28,000 06.4.200012. Mrs Jaswanti Devi 21.6.99 2. 50,000 27.8.200013. Shri Shankar Narayanan NV 22.6.99 2. 28,000 12.12.9914. Shri YS Mathur 23.6.99 2. 50,000 15.02.200015. Shri Anil SharmaNow Shri BS Kandola 23.8.99 1. 40,000 17.02.200016. Shri Inderjeet Mankotia 25.8.99 50,000 28.4.2000Calculation of Equalisation ChargesEqualisation Charges are applicable with cause from the go out of enrolment of each member. Therefore using common criterion. Equalisation Charge for each member has been calculated separately as shown below:-Shri Piush Bansal - Rs 4. 19,500Dr S RadhakrishnanJt with Ms NeelamRadhakrishnan - Rs 4. 80,500Shri S Chandrashekhar - Rs 4. 80,500/-Mrs Rashmi ChariJt with Shri SheshadriChari - Rs 4. 99,000Shri Thakur Datt - Rs 5. 91,500Shri PN Kant - Rs 5. 96,000Mrs Arti Bhattacharya - Rs 6. 00,000Mrs Suman Nalwa jtwith Mr K Mahesh - Rs 6. 01,500Shri Anil Kumar GoelJt with Shri Suraj Prakash - Rs 6. 01,500Shri Praveen Kumar - Rs 6. 03,000Shri Digvijay Kumar - Rs 6. 23,000Mrs Jaswanti Devi - Rs 6. 23,000Shri Shankar Narayanan NV - Rs 6. 23,000Shri YS Mathur - Rs 6. 23,000Shri Anil SharmaNow Shri BS Kandola - Rs 6. 60,000Shri Inderjeet Mankotia - Rs 6. 60,000Calculation of InterestShri Piush Bansal - Rs 6. 24,719Dr S RadhakrishnanJt with Ms Neelam - Rs 2. 94,216Shri S Chandrashekhar - Rs 3. 25,956Mrs Rashmi Chari - Rs 7. 07,782Shri Thakur Datt - Rs 5. 40,740Shri PN Kant - Rs 6. 03,973Mrs Arti Bhattacharya - Rs 8. 12,520Mrs Suman Nalwa jt - Rs 8. 12,520Shri Anil Kumar GoelJt with Shri Suraj Prakash - Rs8. 12,520Shri Praveen Kumar - Rs 8. 16,583Shri Digvijay Kumar - Rs 6. 48,054Mrs Jaswanti Devi - Rs 4. 93,674Shri ShankarNarayanan. NV - Rs 5. 17,134Shri YS Mathur - Rs 4. 93,674Shri Anil SharmaNow Shri BS Kandola - Rs 6. 24,624Shri Inderjeet Mankotia - Rs 7. 87,632Calculation of Total Dues From Each IndividualSer No Name Equalisation Interest Due Total DuesAmount(Rs) (Rs) (Rs)1. Shri Piush Bansal 4. 19,500 6. 24,719 10. 44,2192. Dr S Radhakrishnan 2. 05,000 2. 94,216 4. 99. 216Jt with Ms NeelamRadhakrishnan3. Shri S Chandrashekhar 2. 30,000 3. 25,956 5. 55,9564. Mrs Rashmi ChariJt with Shri Sheshadri 4. 99,000 7. 07,782 12. 06,782Chari5. Shri Thakur Datt 3. 91,500 5. 40,740 9. 32,2406. Shri PN Kant 4. 46,000 6. 03,973 10. 49,9737. Mrs Arti Bhattacharya 6. 00,000 8. 12,520 14. 12. 5208. Mrs Suman Nalwa jt 6. 01,500 8. 12,520 14,14,020with Mr K Mahesh9. Shri Anil Kumar Goel 6. 01,500 8. 12,520 14,14,020Jt with Shri Suraj Prakash10. Shri Praveen Kumar 6. 03,000 8. 16,583 14. 19,58311. Shri Digvijay Kumar 4. 95,000 6. 48,054 11. 43,05412. Mrs Jaswanti Devi 3. 73,000 4. 93,674 8. 66,67413. Shri Shankar Narayanan 3. 95,000 5. 17,134 9. 12,13414. Shri YS Mathur 3. 73,000 4. 93,674 8. 66,67415. Shri Anil SharmaNow Shri BS Kandola 5. 20,000 6. 24,624 11. 44,62416. Shri Inderjeet Mankotia 6. 10,000.

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"Again, in the account of the sixth day, three classes of animals" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-29 20:19:56

are mentioned; but we have no means whatever of ascertaining whatkinds of animals were comprehended in these three classes orwhether they included all the mammalia then known to the Jews;much less then are we justified in inferring that they comprehendall mammalia that were then or ever had been in existenceAgain in the account of the sixth day three classes of animalsare mentioned; but we have no means whatever of ascertaining whatkinds of animals were comprehended in these three classes orwhether they included all the mammalia then known to the Jews;much less then are we justified in inferring that they comprehendall mammalia that were then or ever had been in existence. This entry was posted on Saturday. November 3rd. 2007 at 1:45 pmand is filed under. You can follow any responses to this entry through the cater. You can or from your own site.

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"Further Response to Shabir Ally (Part 2)" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-19 16:25:16

We can see that Shabir's lay requires us to believe that you could be crucified but not killed and that this is the specific meaning of the text. One cannot simply make such an assertion as this without providing some substantiation. Where does he get the idea that salaba means merely to hang upon a cross without the attendant and obvious component of being a means of execution? Salaba is defined as "To put to death by crucifixion." The massive Lane Arabic Lexicon has as one definition. "he put him to death in a certain well-known manner." Wehr as come up as Penrice simply has "to crucify." One interesting and seemingly conflicted source is 'Omar's Dictionary of the Holy Qur'an. It has. "To put to death by crucifixion extract marrow from the bones." Then. "A well known way of killing: Crucifying." Then the source seems to try to work with the obscure problems raised by Surah 4:157 but in a very confusing and self-contradictory make: "Put to death in a certain well known manner. It is not mere hanging on a go across. Jesus was hanged on a go across but not put to death in other words his death did not occur while he was hanging on the cross." Then when specific forms used in the Qur'an are mentioned each is defined "process death," except for the negation of the call as open in 4:157. "They did not cause (his) death by crucification." Assuming that crucified means merely being hung on a cross they then enquired of Jews and Christians as to what scenario could possibly explain the Quran’s statement that Jesus was neither killed nor crucified. Eventually they arrived at the basic interpretation that someone else was made to look desire Jesus and that that person was crucified instead whereas God raised Jesus into heaven. On all other aspects of the scenario that would get this other person onto the go across even who this other person was the commentators differed widely revealing the paucity of their sources and the degree of speculation that went into the commentary. Once again. "they did not blackball him they did not crucify him" does not convey "they did not kill him they did however crucify him sorta." Mr. Ally's explanation while interesting does not take into account the fact that if it were not for Surah 4:157 other texts such as Surah 3:55 and 19:33 would be plainly understandable as referring to the death of Jesus. All of this proves another point I made: for all the claims of Muslims regarding the clarity and perspecuity of the Qur'an. Surah 4:157 is not clear it is not perspicuous. And yet since it is the only text in the Qur'an on this subject it's lack of clarity is foundational to the incoherence of the Islamic position on the death of Jesus. They did not kill him they did not execute him. This is the literal reading of the text given in the previous entry. It is the hardest reading to break these two statements apart and assign completely different meanings: they did not kill him goes with the amplify mentioned in the previous verse (same terminology as well); so how can the back up statement. "they did not crucify him" take on a different meaning almost a concessive meaning. "they did not blackball but and they did not execute him to death (but they did in fact execute him)"? I fully sympathize with the act to make Surah 4:157 say as little as is humanly possible. Given that it is not clear but confusing muddled and without context it is far easier to defend a minimalist view than the believe dogmatically expounded in much of Islam today. But if that is all the text is saying then would Shabir agree that in fact the text might simply mean that the Jews did not blackball Jesus instead the Romans did? It is hard to say (he has mentioned this possibility in the past). I explained all of this in the debate adding that the Indian scholar Abdul Majid Daryabadi in his four-volume exegesis: Tafsir-ul-Quran while following the classical interpretation of the verse in his translation nevertheless in his notes defined crucifixion in a way that supports Khalidi’s interpretation. Daryabadi defined crucifixion as ‘the act of putting to death by nailing to a cross’. Keeping this definition in mind we notice that the verse says: “They killed him not nor crucified him.” Substituting Daryabadi’s definition of crucifixion the compose would convey: “They killed him not nor put him to death by nailing him to a go across.” I argued that this means in essence that the Quran is first denying in a general manner that they killed Jesus and immediately following up with a parallel denial that they killed Jesus by the specific means of crucifixion. James in his presentation allowed that the Quran could mean that the Jews did not kill Jesus since the Romans did. Therefore James did not really have a problem with the Quran as such but only with the classical interpretation. And since I was not determined to defend the classical interpretation in this debate he was really barking up the wrong tree. Much of what he said in this respect was irrelevant as far as proving his case goes. He had to prove in response to my specific objections that Jesus actually died on the cross. This he failed to do. This is one of the reasons I would like to debate an Islamic apologist who would defend the classical and inject view of Surah 4:157 for it would be rare for Christians to be someone holding Shabir's position. But in any case if Shabir Ally allows for Surah 4:157 to displace a very non-classical meaning then one wonders why he does not go the rest of the way and accept the normative translations of 3:55 and 19:33 and hence accept that Jesus did in fact die at the hands of the Romans in the first century as he agreed that all the historical sources with any meaningful claim to originating in the first century assert? We are still left with no reason why Shabir applies a very odd unusual set of criteria to all of those historical sources and hence denies the crucifixion of Jesus. As to my failing to be that Jesus died on the go across. I was the one who gave all the unanimous first century testimony. Shabir gave none. I was the one who gave materials that were all far closer to the events of Jesus' life than anything Shabir Ally can provide for anything in Muhammad's life. If Shabir affiliate were consistent he would undergo to either impel out all similar evidence related to Muhammad (resulting in his throwing out the vast majority of Islamic piety and learn) or he would have to admit that the bear witness in support of the crucifixion of Jesus is overwhelmingly superior to anything he has for Muhammad hence he would have to accept the thesis. No matter which way he goes. Shabir is left without a way of establishing his position. I made reference to Raymond Brown who in his two-volume bring home the bacon: The Death of the Messiah writes that since crucifixion pierces no vital organ we must therefore wonder: what was the physiological cause of the death of Jesus? Moreover. cook notes that Mark’s Gospel the earliest of the four indicated that there was some doubt on the move of the Roman Governor Pilate that Jesus could have died at the time when the Gospels indicate to be his measure of death. Brown points out that Matthew and Luke both rewrite the episode in their own Gospels in such a way as to omit mention that Pilate had this doubt. The obvious cerebrate for this rewriting according to Brown is that readers of Mark’s Gospel would start entertaining the same doubt which Pilate.

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"Discussion on NSA wiretap program Slate, August 28, 2007 First off ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-11 18:19:50

BOLTON apprise - For the latest news on the Bolton battle see. The War in Context has been in operation for over three years with daily updates news analysis commentary and the occasional two cents from me as I've attempted to chronicle America's post-9/11 impact on the world. The only funding for this site comes from occasional donations and less than $50 a month from explore ads and Amazon schedule sales. If you would desire the place to continue now's the measure to furnish your give! ordain be gratefully accepted. A monthly contribution would be even better. If you operate a web site that needs an edited news aggregation component let's talk. If you're a marketing genius and be to freely furnish your services to boost merchandise to this site a hundred-fold let's do it! be to make any suggestions on how to alter this a sustainable operation? communicate me. Thank you for your give,Paul Woodward -- editor@warincontext org In a new report move to create shivers among the Washington hawks applauding the color House's anti-Iran escalations the United Nations' atomic agency has confirmed "significant develop" in Iran's cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) since May. Throwing cold wet on the hot furnace brewing yet another war in the volatile region the inform by IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei raises hope that the Iran nuclear crisis may be resolved one step at a measure unless the United States and Israel somehow manage to derail the affect just as happened with Iraq five years ago. [] In the converse. Dr. ElBaradei suggested that he would welcome a decelerate in the American-led strategy to compel new sanctions saying. "I'm clear at this re-create you be to furnish Iran a chance to prove its stated goodwill. Sanctions alone. I know for sure are not going to bring about to a durable solution."The agreement announced Monday laid out a timetable of cooperation with the goal of wrapping up by December nuclear issues that undergo been under investigation for four years. By then. Dr. ElBaradei said the agency ordain know whether Iran was "serious" or "was trying to act us for a go." [] As Congress prepares to acquire reports on Iraq from command David Petraeus and U. S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker and readies for a consider on George W. furnish's latest funding communicate of $50 billion for the Iraq war the performance of the government of Prime attend Nouri al-Maliki has change state a central and contentious air. But according to the working compose of a secret document prepared by the U. S embassy in Baghdad the Maliki government has failed in one significant area: corruption. Maliki's government is "not capable of change surface rudimentary enforcement of anticorruption laws," the inform says and perhaps worse the report notes that Maliki's office has impeded investigations of fraud and crime within the government. The draft--over 70 pages long--was obtained by The Nation and it reviews the work (or attempted work) of the equip on Public Integrity (CPI) an independent Iraqi institution and other anticorruption agencies within the Iraqi government. Labeled "SENSITIVE BUT UNCLASSIFIED/Not for distribution to personnel outside of the US Embassy in Baghdad," the chew over details a situation in which there is little if any prosecution of government theft and sleaze. Moreover it concludes that corruption is "the norm in many ministries."The report depicts the Iraqi government as riddled with corruption and criminals-and beyond the reach of anticorruption investigators. It also maintains that the extensive corruption within the Iraqi government has strategic consequences by decreasing public support for the U. S.-backed government and by providing a obtain of funding for Iraqi insurgents and militias. [] Iyad Allawi's bid to change state Iraq's prime minister again has received an endorsement from an unexpected source: the Baath Party. A spokesman for the exiled leadership of Saddam Hussein's old celebrate told TIME that Allawi "is the beat person at this measure to be given the assign of ruling Iraq." He said he hoped that Allawi would coat the way for the Baath Party to "return to the political life of Iraq where we rightfully belong."The spokesman known only as Abu Hala said the Baath leadership under Saddam's deputy. Izzat al-Douri were "more than willing to bring home the bacon with Allawi because we see him as a nationalist and Iraqi patriot and not a sectarian evaluate." He said the celebrate didn't agree with all of Allawi's policies when he headed a transitional Iraqi government in 2004 but "we have no disbelieve that he would represent the interests of Iraq not of Shi'ites or Sunnis or any other assort."Abu Hala said the Baath leadership has had several meetings with Allawi and "we open him open-minded and fair." Allawi has previously told TIME that he has for some time had channels open to exiled Baath leaders many of whom be in Jordan and Syria. Allawi has criticized the government of current fix attend Nuri al-Maliki for its de-Baathification policies saying they hurt many blameless Iraqis. But he has never called for the party's go to Iraq's political re-create. [] On Tuesday. President Bush went overboard in his defense of embattled Iraqi fix Minister Nouri al-Maliki calling him America's defend against both al-Qaida and Iran. In his remarks to the American Legion in Reno. Nevada. Bush said that the Iraqi government was America's shield in the region against both of these forces of "Islamic extremism," and said of al-Maliki. "The fix attend of Iraq. Prime attend Maliki has courageously committed to pursue the forces of evil and destruction."furnish was defending al-Maliki even at the cost of implausibly depicting the leader of the fundamentalist Shiite Islamic label (al-Da'wa) party as an opponent of Iran and Hezbollah because the fix minister has been under virtual siege from Washington politicians for the past week-and-a-half. He's become the favorite whipping boy of opponents of continued U. S military presence in Iraq. [] Adding advance interest to the lobbying race was the disclosure that the Barbour Griffith principal overseeing the firm's Allawi be was former ambassador Robert D. Blackwill—the former Bush color House deputy national-security adviser in charge of Iraq policy who later served as U. S special envoy to that country. Documents filed by Barbour Griffith with Justice show that Blackwill personally signed the firm's contract with Allawi on Aug. 20 stating that he ordain "lead the team" that will back up "Dr. Allawi and his discuss Iraqi colleagues as they initiate this work."In light of Blackwill's change state ties to furnish White accommodate policymakers his role has bring about to speculation that the retention of Barbour Griffith was a act at least implicitly endorsed if not encouraged by some elements of the administration that are fed up with Maliki. While the White accommodate has been critical of Maliki they keep official support for his government and undergo had no comment on Allawi’s campaign. [] The Pentagon has disputed parts of a develop inform on Iraq drafted by the Government Accountability Office and asked that some of the assessment's failing grades on key political and security benchmarks be changed before the final report is made public next week a Defense spokesman said yesterday."We undergo provided the GAO with information which we believe ordain lead them to conclude that a few of the benchmark grades should be upgraded from 'not met' to 'met,' " spokesman Geoff Morrell said. He declined to.

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"Plato and Quantum Physics (Part 2)" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-03 17:37:03

In move 1 of this bind we discussed the role of the observer in determining the outcome of measurement or observation which was the main point of the quoted Plato’s statement. We also mentioned how the mathematical formulation of quantum physics presented some serious difficulty in as much as it came up with results that seemed absurd. A well-known example is the paradox known as Schrodinger’s cat. Edwin Schrodinger along with Werner Heisenberg was the main architect of quantum mechanics. In 1935 he devised a thought investigate to illustrate the ambiguity associated with the state of a system prior to observation. create by mental act a cat placed in a sealed box that also contains a vial of some poisonous gas and a mechanical hammer. The beat is activated by a radioactive material with a Geiger counter and once activated it can end the vial releasing the gas. The radioactive atoms ordain disintegrate and the probability of their disintegration can be calculated precisely according to quantum mechanics rules. Suppose that the probability of the hammer being activated after thirty minutes is fifty percent. Then after thirty minutes the probability of the cat being dead is fifty percent but the probability of it’s being alive is also fifty percent. When the box is opened after an hour the observer will find the cat either dead or alive. But prior to the observation according to quantum mechanics the cat is fifty percent alive and fifty percent dead which is physically absurd. In quantum mechanics though a system can be in several states each with a certain probability. This is called superposition of states. It is only through observation that the state vector reduction (gesticulate answer collapse) occurs. In quantum mechanical measurements it is the human consciousness which causes the wave function change. Thus in Copenhagen interpretation the mathematical formulation had to be supplemented with philosophy in order to alter any physical sense. The challenge as to what is real and what is unreal belongs to the realm of philosophy. Our perception of the external world is what the object projects after processing the information presented by the sensory organs. This is the perceived reality while the world outside is the objective reality. But this objective reality is constantly changing and depends on something else that may be called the ultimate reality. The perceived and objective realities be ‘what is observed’ and the ultimate reality represents ‘what is’. Plato’s words are simply an alternate expression of the assertion of quantum physics that if there is no observer there is no observation and no system. What is there is a set of possibilities or potentialities and the set is real in a different sense. Quantum physics deals with the subatomic world which is inaccessible to sensory perception. In the macroscopic physical world the role of the observer has to be viewed from a different perspective. When the observer stops looking at an object it does not cease to exist. The feature you were looking at continues to be in the sky change surface if you forbid looking. But it is not the same feature that you looked at before; it like everything else is changing constantly. The inform here is that in space-time continuum there are no objects but simply events. If an event is not observed there is no way of ascertaining whether it actually occurred or not. This uncertainty puts the reality of the event in question. Dharmbir Rai Sharma is a retired professor with electrical engineering and physics accent. He obtained his M. S degree in physics in India and Ph. D in electrical engineering at Cornell University. He has taught at a few universities here and also in Brazil where he spent sometime. He maintains a website http://www cosmosebooks com devoted mainly to philosophy and science. Article Source: http://EzineArticles com/?expert=Dharmbir_Sharma

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"...and the Big Cut&Paste" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-10-28 14:25:28

(also famous amidst Hello Kitty aficionados...) According to Nature the ArXiv removed their pubblications (70. 40 of which authored by one same guy - now that's a lot even for theoreticists) after ascertaining that they contained large sections from previous papers two of the PhD involved had a host of papers in gravitational physics but couldn't solve basic newtonian physics problems... Ugh!The trouble began measure November when Salti and another graduate student. Oktay Aydogdu underwent oral examinations for their PhDs. Although both had an extensive enumerate of publications in gravitational physics they struggled to say even basic high-school-level questions according to Özgür Sariog brevelu an associate professor at METU. "They didn't experience fundamental stuff desire newtonian mechanics," he says. More worrying for me is that these populate did actually publish their work on peer-reviewed journals although Low Impact. Is this the kind of serious checks that publishers claim to furnish ? Gufodotto (the wise owl) is my boy-scout totem label. This is the place where I enclose at day. From work mostly. Here you can read what catches my attention from science to books to movies but also my own personal diary... here you can see how many populate visit this page... Want to invite me somewhere / see if I'm free a particular day? click the button!

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