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Corollary - what can a prophet do that an omnipotent God cannot?

f God is omnipotent then a prophet is unnecessary and redundant. If a priophet is necessary it can only be because that prophet can do something God cannot - which means God is not omnipotent.

I've been on Firefox dor years without problems by this week - problem. When the Yahoo Home Page shows the news stories have headlines on a black background - no picture. In an Ebay category there is no gallery picture and other graphics are missing. The coloured star Feedback rating does not show, just tthe words "green star" in print. On the feedback page all is in print, no graphics. Trying to upload photos to a description fails everytime. I run an adblocker in Firefox.

In Internet Explorer I get loaded with adverts but everything works, none of the above problems appears.

Any ideas to "fix" my Firefox?

Recent price increases mean that for many parcels, it is cheaper for UK residents to send to Australia than it is to send to the next town. Does anyone else think this is a plot to shut them down?

It was the case that eBay treated as serious any use of alternate IDs to skirt a seller's block on your ID. This is no longer the case and to make matters worse, eBay is saying that habitual non-payment breaches none of their (new?) policies.

Anyone else aware of this? I can't find any announcement.

Lpok at sold item 230861080908.

What do you think is selling here?

The BBC tells me they can't allow downloading of some stuff they broadcast although there is the usual week to listen to it on their I-Player.

What would I need to make a digital copy of their broadcast assuming I usew my PC to pick it up in the first place? I know I could just line-in the audio signal to a tape recorder but I'd appreciate some help in putting it straight to a WAV, MP3 or similar.

In many countries Tracked Delivery Services are too expensive for it to be realistic to pay for them on all items. If I could cheaply get (say) coin sized transmitters for a few dollars each, each trackable from my PC with enough charge in them to last 20 days or so then I could secure a lot more of my shipping and still save.

Any suggestions? I'd need something small enough to conceal in the packaging perhaps activated by removing a label? Better still if it immediately told me where it was on a google map and/or with a zipcode and map reference.,

I just took delivery of a delightful Riken Steky lll with standard and tele lenses, filters and a tin full of cassettes. There are two cassettes in the camera and while I can lift out, the other is not so easy to lift. There is film running from one to the other and it has been developed and reloaded into the cassettes for show. Is there a trick to extracting it? As it is developed I'd hate to buckle or scratch it as because it would be fun to get it printed.

the nearest country especially as it is that country that threatens the supply lines?

Are there any goods legal in the UK that could get you arrested should you seek to import them into Taiwan? I'd love to hear of anything weighing less then 2Kg but around 500gm would be best.

A number of sellers in the UK and elsewhere have been forced to refund a fraudulent buyer in Taiwan - he invents wonderful complaints. Every UK seller he has bought from has suffered this so it is time he was outed. Ebay is aware but they rarely act on clear evidence.

ID is hpoto66

Argentina's claim to the Falklands falls down on every legal and historic criterium bar one - proximity. There are noises issuing from Obama that the islander's rights to self-determination are not uppermost in his mind and that he might support the Argentines this time.

If he does that, on what grounds could he argue against a renewed claim by China for Taiwan/Formosa only 1/3rd the distance away from the mainland and definitely lawfully and historically Chinese? No doubt such a claim would yet again be met with a refusal to consider it from the Taiwanese but on what basis could BHO deny self determination to islanders 250+ miles away from the claimants but defend it for those only 100 miles away?

Come on guys - try hard! The competition is really intense!

Everywhere I look, every form I'm asked to complete, I see the word "gender" replacing "sex" as though the word "sex" has become taboo. I also see people using the word "ethnicity" instead of "race" and probably for the same reasons. Why has it become so very un-PC to actually talk of male and female - i.e. sexes? If we start to substitute the cultural value attached to a sex for the sex itself isn't our language damaged? E.G., in the French language a table or a pen is feminine gender. If "gender" now means "sex" then it becomes difficult to explain the way that language works. It's the same for ethnicity and race. There's no racial difference worth speaking of between (say) Dutch and Germans but there are ethnic (cultural) differences. In places like Jamaica there are big racial variants in the population but culturally (ie ethnically) people are pretty much the same.

Most of black Africa is racially near identical but there are big ethnic differences. It's daft to confuse the two.

define it?

I notice that in all sections of YA one sees the word used but any attempt to find out what the user means by it is ignored. I wouldn't feel happy to use and reuse a word that I didn't actually know the meaning of.

Before anyone offers it - the answer that "if you need to ask you would not understand" is a symptom oif the problem not an answer to it!

What advertising slogans would they try and attract attention with?

Lomographyy makes millions out of selling the cheap plastic crock of moolagumbi called the Diana and the prices are further inflated because of the belief that the name is the first used for these multibranded giveaways.

There is evidence that one of the so-called "clones" (supposedly later versions) was around in 1961 and the earliest reference I can find to a Diana is early 1963. The makers of all early (genuine) Diana types, , Great Wall Camera Co, Hong Kong, did not keep records of the brand names they put on the cameras. !000s were supplied without name so the cardboardy nameplates could be added later. Does anyone have anything to support the view that Diana is actually the original name?

If I write to a UK newspaper the paper's lawyer will check it out for anything actionable because if the paper published the letter they would become become liable for any libel it contained. But I can comment on Yahoo news stories "anonymously" and allege all sorts of things against named or easily identifiable people. We had one on Yahoo alleging that a girl who had her jail sentence quashed had slept with the judge to achieve that, Now that is libel in anybody's book and in the UK it could be a criminal libel because there is a deliberate intent to do harm to two reputations.

How is this possible? How can 'trolls' get away with it?

If a libelled person demanded that Yahoo compensate them for publishing the libel what would Yahoo's defence be? Could Yahoo be forced to reveal the troll's identity?

A lot of questions - sorry!

If I write to a UK newspaper the paper's lawyer will check it out for anything actionable because if the paper published the letter they would become become liable for any libel it contained. But I can comment on Yahoo news stories "anonymously" and allege all sorts of things against named or easily identifiable people. We had one on Yahoo today alleging that a girl who had her jail sentence quashed had slept with the judge to achieve that, Now that is libel in anybody's book and in the UK it could be a criminal libel because there is a deliberate intent to do harm to two reputations.

How is this possible? How can 'trolls' get away with it?

If a libelled person demanded that Yahoo compensate them for publishing the libel what would Yahoo's defence be? Could Yahoo be forced to reveal the troll's identity?

A lot of questions - sorry!