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Leave the first comment ▶The eager young men at Conservapedia are p.o.’d that the Bible might be seen as too liberal. So they’ve come up with the Wiki-style Conservative Bible Project, to make sure the Lord doesn’t go all wobbly on us. Excerpt:
As of 2009, there is no fully conservative translation of the Bible which satisfies the following ten guidelines:[1]
Framework against Liberal Bias: providing a strong framework that enables a thought-for-thought translation without corruption by liberal bias
Not Emasculated: avoiding unisex, “gender inclusive” language, and other modern emasculation of Christianity
Not Dumbed Down: not dumbing down the reading level, or diluting the intellectual force and logic of Christianity; the NIV is written at only the 7th grade level[2]
Utilize Powerful Conservative Terms: using powerful new conservative terms as they develop;[3] defective translations use the word “comrade” three times as often as “volunteer”; similarly, updating words which have a change in meaning, such as “word”, “peace”, and “miracle”
Combat Harmful Addiction: combating addiction by using modern terms for it, such as “gamble” rather than “cast lots”;[4] using modern political terms, such as “register” rather than “enroll” for the census
Accept the Logic of Hell: applying logic with its full force and effect, as in not denying or downplaying the very real existence of Hell or the Devil.
Express Free Market Parables; explaining the numerous economic parables with their full free-market meaning
Exclude Later-Inserted Liberal Passages: excluding the later-inserted liberal passages that are not authentic, such as the adulteress story
Credit Open-Mindedness of Disciples: crediting open-mindedness, often found in youngsters like the eyewitnesses Mark and John, the authors of two of the Gospels
Prefer Conciseness over Liberal Wordiness: preferring conciseness to the liberal style of high word-to-substance ratio; avoid compound negatives and unnecessary ambiguities
Thus, a project has begun among members of Conservapedia to translate the Bible in accordance with these principles. The translated Bible can be found here.“The liberal style of high word-to-substance ratio”? Hoo-wee! Elitists like to use words, and lots of ‘em! “Unnecessary ambiguities”? But how are you going to abide by the conservative mandate to avoid “dumbing down” Holy Writ while at the same time avoiding big words liberals use?
More seriously, the insane hubris of this really staggers the mind. These right-wing ideologues know better than the early church councils that canonized Scripture? They really think it’s wise to force the word of God to conform to a 21st-century American idea of what constitutes conservatism? These jokers don’t worship God. They worship ideology. As Mark Shea says:
Right wing dementia marches on apace. Some of this has a grain of sense to it, as ideological madness always does. For instance, the dumb attempts to feminize Scripture are pernicious and need to stop. But seriously: the story of the woman taken in adultery is “liberal”? Free market as Sacred tradition? Liberal wordiness?
You really need to read the whole Conservapedia entry to grasp how crazy this is. It’s like what you’d get if you crossed the Jesus Seminar with the College Republican chapter at a rural institution of Bible learnin’.
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One comment so far, add another ▶The key point is that ever since the Reagan years, the Republican Party has been dominated by radicals — ideologues and/or apparatchiks who, at a fundamental level, do not accept anyone else’s right to govern.
Different reasons, same end effect here, too.
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2 comments so far, add yours ▶SameBeat.
LINK.
Mortimer Gauge and the Loops in Time.
Freecorp.
Koiné. (With the wrong accent, I know.)
Four Coma.
Violet Vorpal.
Mortimer Gauge and the Ruins of Old.
The Three Monkey Heads. (Not mine.)
The Carbon Fiber Engine.
ProbeKit.
The Infinitely Complex.
Overheard.
Mortimer Gauge and the End of the World. (This one not in cronological order.)
INSIDE. Also CELL.
Harmonic.
Project Gemini.
SHOWCASE.
Director Whiplash.
ItemKit.
Mockingbird.
Two more Mortimer Gauge titles.
Infinite Pad.
The Infinity Engine.
Another Mortimer Gauge title (unrelated).
The Shelf. Also, Radiate.
THE CENTRAL.
Some more that I forgot.
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Leave the first comment ▶The following is an imaginary dialog summarizing stuff that happened, in longer form, elsewhere.
Loren Brichter at @atebits: “Here’s Tweetie 2. Better, stronger, more beautiful. We decided to make it a separate app, rather than an upgrade, so if you want it you’ll have to pay $2.99 again.”
The Blogosphere: “Yea! But I feel cheated! I just paid for Tweetie 1! You know, you should really have an upgrade price. No! Even better: I know you can’t have upgrade pricing because Apple won’t let you to, so I propose having everyone pay $2 instead of $3, so everyone can get the update price!”
Me: “And have Atebits lose one third of their profits? No.“
Leave the first comment ▶Mover’s not perfect. Unfortunately. I’m a one-man band here, working all the time on other stuff. I do listen, though, to all mail and iTunes reviews and Twitter laments surrounding Mover.
Also, more interestingly for you, I act on what I read.
The following two things are currently in Apple’s hands:
After these, Mover+’s third release line (tentatively versioned as 2.1) will include the result of the Adequately Awesome Project™, an effort in replacing the core transmission part of Mover with a new protocol with lesser overhead. I announce it now, even though I have a policy of shutting up until done, because it’s working right now, although with stuff to iron out before shipping, in my development version. It will include progress reporting for large transfers and will be quite a bit faster for images and other large-content stuff.
This fixes the third most common complaint, transfer speed. AAP makes the transfer run as fast as it can possibly do. Of course, it also makes possible transfer of iPhone 3GS-shot video clips. That’s coming too. (I need to make the storage engine a little more intelligent and mindful of RAM and disk space before it can be done.)
The fourth most common complaint is a little trickier. It’s the “doesn’t show up arrows! doesn’t work” one. That’s harder because I have no idea what actually causes it — in fact, there are a ton of possible causes, and I strongly suspect most of the time it’s your network’s fault. (Bonjour can easily be hindered by firewalls or wireless access points that don’t route traffic the right way, by accident or choice). Still, I do see bizarre situations from time to time, and I’m working overtime to come up with theories and workarounds in my code. In that regard, Mover+ on the store is much better than free Mover, although the 1.0.3 update learns some tricks from its bigger brother.
Unfortunately, fighting adverse network conditions is a losing battle; but it’s one I will keep fighting.
That’s it for the future I will reveal. What comes next, it’s a secret that I’ll be happy to show you in due time.
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