Larry Kuperman

Reply to Wow! Windowblind 5 trojan horse in OS Customization JoeUser Forums

It is highly educational to type "antivirus false positives" into your favorite search engine. Some highlights that I found: November 15, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Microsoft Corp.'s fledgling consumer antivirus service, Windows Live OneCare, wrongly identified Google's Gmail service as a virus infection last week, Microsoft has acknowledged. (<a href="http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9005111&so

Reply to Customize.Ru - time to complain/act in Community WinCustomize Forums

I think Larry [Koop] most likely can take the lion's share. Nope, it was the power of the community. Thank you all. This is a victory and one that was accomplished with the help of many people. But be aware...it never ends. If I tell you Island_Dog, Zoomba, Yarlen and I take down between 5 to 10 links a day...5 days a week...and we still don't get them all. RapidShare, Metafiles, even the larger torrent sites will take links down upon a

Reply to Kuperman's Fire- A Review in Books JoeUser Forums

Thanks to Marjorie for turning me on to this work!

Kuperman's Fire- A Review in Books JoeUser Forums

Let me start off by saying that Kuperman's Fire by John J. Clayton moved my more than any other book that I have read in a long time. Only 304 pages in length, it took me longer to read than I would have thought. There were parts that I read over several times to savor; other times I had

Reply to Religion of peace update: May 2007 in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

For those who did not actually look at the data presented (especially if you chose to comment anyway) you really missed a comprehensive source of information. First, the summary and analysis presented by Pew was 108 pages, not the actual poll. (That is in response to BakerStreet's comment above.) There is a ton of detail on how the data was collected, the multiple languages that the poll was conducted in, the experts on the board that wrote the questio

Reply to Mormonism, Al Sharpton, Bigotry, and Catholicism in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Brilliant, Dr. Guy. Not only your point, but the eloquence with you presented it.

Reply to Does a Candidate's Faith Matter in Politics? in Current Events JoeUser Forums

If a candidate's religious persuasion is irrelevant, would you vote for a Muslim? Assuming that other than religious beliefs, all things were equal between that candidate and their opponent?

Reply to Skinners motto in Community WinCustomize Forums

"To err is human....to skin Divine!"

Reply to Skinners motto in Community WinCustomize Forums

"Forgive me.....for I have skinned."

The Bread of Affliction in Religion JoeUser Forums

“This is the bread of affliction that our ancestors ate in the land of Egypt; let all those that are hungry enter and eat thereof; and all who are in distress, come and celebrate the Passover. At present, we celebrate it here, but next year we hope to celebrate in the land of Israel. This year we are servants here, but next year we hope to be free people in the

Reply to And you call MICROSOFT a Monopoly? in Personal Computing WinCustomize Forums

The topic of the post was a comparison of Apple and Microsoft as corporations and I will offer my opinion that history shows Apple the more evil of the two. Back in the day.... In 1985, Steve Jobs had resigned from Apple to found NeXT Computer and Apple decided to compete directly with Microsoft, to produce an OS and license others to resell that. "By 1995, Apple Macintosh computers accounted for about 7% of the worldwide desktop computer market. Apple executives decid

Reply to Alexandrie has a birthday... in Community WinCustomize Forums

Happy birthday, Johanne. I am glad that we finally got to meet in person.

Reply to Children used in car bombing.. whats next?? in War on Terror JoeUser Forums

It is a Western value, and only a fairly modern one, that children should be preserved at all costs. In Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East, we face an enemy that views children as expendable and as targets. On March 26, 2004, I posted an article on JU entitled "Hamas Forces Children to Bomb." It is at Link That is not to detract from what you have written, only to amplify it. <BR

Reply to The Jewish Canon in Religion JoeUser Forums

Hi, KFC. You probably anticipated that I would comment.... The earliest version of the Torah was not written prior to the end of the Babylonian Diaspora, around 569 BCE. Parts were written much later. The Book of Esther, for example, was written after the time of Ahashveros, the Persian King who is a prominent figure in that story, so that means after 369 BCE. It is a collection of stories and rules meant to unite a group of tribe

Reply to Internet explorer 7 slow to start? in Personal Computing JoeUser Forums

It shouldn't be slow. My IE7 starts much faster than Firefox (although I still use FF as my primary browser.) Are you running any other programs that start with IE, such as an ad or pop-up suppressor?

Reply to FOR MY JU FRIENDS WITH LOVE in Personal Relationships JoeUser Forums

A bi gezunt, my friend.

Reply to Paul & The Gnostic Intro In The Early Church in Religion JoeUser Forums

There is no discussion of the afterlife in the Torah, nothing comparable to Revelations. Remember that the Jews had just escaped servitude to people who had a Book of the Dead as core text. Here is a pretty good summary of Jewish thought on the afterlife: WWW Link The Book of Job was most probably written after the Babylonian Exile. One of the reasons that I state that pretty strongly is the use of

Reply to Paul & The Gnostic Intro In The Early Church in Religion JoeUser Forums

Hi, KFC. I am wondering if your teacher has covered the Sadducees, Pharisees and the Essenes as a pre-cursor to the Gnostic traditions. Paul defined himself as a Pharisee (see Acts 23:6 where Paul said ""My brothers, I am a Pharisee, the son of Pharisees." The Pharisees or "detached" ones, were a sect of Jews that existed during the Second Temple Era (536 BCE to 70 CE) that opposed the Sadducees or priestly class of Jews. The roots of Christia

Reply to Is This Really All There Is? in Blogging JoeUser Forums

Little-whip, here is a link to an answer from Fermi Labs re a similar experiment at Brookhaven Labs: Link Saying that they were trying to duplicate the Big Bang is perhaps journalistic license. MasonM, when you list the "keystone discoveries" you focused pretty much entirely on physics. How about other fields of science, including the Human Genome project, complet

Reply to Hillary's Amen Corner in Politics JoeUser Forums

David Kuo's book "Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction” recounts the cynicism of the Bush administration toward evangelicals. Basically, President Bush knows that my striking the right note on issues that resonate with evangelicals, he knows that he can win their votes. Or at least, he knew that. Carrying through on those issues...well, see BakerStreet's post above. Dr. guy may well be right. Michigan is concerned about the e

Reply to Hillary's Amen Corner in Politics JoeUser Forums

Hi, KFC. Here's some on info on Mr. Strider: Burns Strider, Policy Director -- Burns, a native of Grenadda, Mississippi, comes to the Caucus office from Leader Pelosi's staff. Burns has eight years experience working on the Hill, and has worked closely with Clyburn over the past year in the Congressman's capacity as Chair of the Leader's Faith Working Group. Strider has worked in a freshman Member's office, the Democratic Congressional Campaig

Reply to Use of Cluster munitions by Israel in Current Events JoeUser Forums

I am glad that you linked to your article on the bombing of civilian targets in Qana. Qana is the perfect example of how Israel's bombings were directed against hostile terrorist forces hiding behind civilians. Despite initial denials by the Sinoria government, four Hezbollah fighters were among the causalities, belying claims that this was a civilian target. It was a staging area for rocket attacks where civilians were used by Hezbollah as human shiel

Reply to Antivirus in PC Gaming JoeUser Forums

Running AVG Free, three processes currently taking up less than 2 MB of memory. BTW, AVG is now offering a free anti-spyware program as well. KidGloves, what does AVG get in the way of?

Reply to Proposal for the Holy Land in International JoeUser Forums

How well do you see the One State model working among the Sunnis, Kurds and Shiites in Iraq right now? You might also want to read this article on the continuous Jewish presence in the Holy Land: Link There were ALWAYS Jews in the Holy Land. Even when exiled from Jerusalem, there were Jewish communities in Galilee. There were Jews in Jerusalem when the forces of Isla

Beirut Burning in Current Events JoeUser Forums

A general strike, orchestrated by Hezbollah and supported by Syria and Iraq, has flared into violence. The intent of the strike was to topple the pro-Western government of Sinoria in favor of a Hezbollah led government. Opposing the Shiite Hezbollah forces is the Sunni Future part