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There are two common forms of global caches depicted in the diagrams. In Figure 10, when a cached response is not found in the cache, the cache itself becomes responsible for retrieving the missing piece of data from the underlying store. In Figure 11 it is the responsibility of request nodes to retrieve any data that is not found in the cache.
Figure 10: Global cache where cache is responsible for retrieval......
Figure 11: Global cache where request nodes are responsible for retrieval
The majority of applications leveraging global caches tend to use the first type, where the cache itself manages eviction and fetching data to prevent a flood of requests for the same data from the clients. However, there are some cases where the second implementation makes more sense. For example, if the cache is being used for very large files, a low cache hit percentage would cause the cache buffer to become overwhelmed with cache misses; in this situation it helps to have a large percentage of the total data set (or hot data set) in the cache. Another example is an architecture where the files stored in the cache are static and shouldn't be evicted. (This could be because of application requirements around that data latency — certain pieces of data might need to be very fast for large data sets — where the application logic understands the eviction strategy or hot spots better than the cache.)
Distributed Cache
In a distributed cache (Figure 12), each of its nodes own part of the cached data, so if a refrigerator acts as a cache to the grocery store, a distributed cache is like putting your food in several locations — your fridge, cupboards, and lunch box — convenient locations for retrieving snacks from, without a trip to the store. Typically the cache is divided up using a consistent hashing function, such that if a request node is looking for a certain piece of data it can quickly know where to look within the distributed cache to determine if that data is available. In this case, each node has a small piece of the cache, and will then send a request to another node for the data before going to the origin. Therefore, one of the advantages of a distributed cache is the increased cache space that can be had just by adding nodes to the request pool.
A disadvantage of distributed caching is remedying a missing node. Some distributed caches get around this by storing multiple copies of the data on different nodes; however, you can imagine how this logic can get complicated quickly, especially when you add or remove nodes from the request layer. Although even if a node disappears and part of the cache is lost, the requests will just pull from the origin — so it isn't necessarily catastrophic!
Figure 12: Distributed cache
The great thing about caches is that they usually make things much faster (implemented correctly, of course!) The methodology you choose just allows you to make it faster for even more requests. However, all this caching comes at the cost of having to maintain additional storage space, typically in the form of expensive memory; nothing is free. Caches are wonderful for making things generally faster, and moreover provide system functionality under high load conditions when otherwise there would be complete service degradation.
One example of a popular open source cache is Memcached (which can work both as a local cache and distributed cache); however, there are many other options (including many language- or framework-specific options).
Memcached is used in many large Web sites, and even though it can be very powerful, it is simply an in-memory key value store, optimized for arbitrary data storage and fast lookups (O(1)).
Facebook uses several different types of caching to
obtain their site performance (see "Facebook caching and
performance"). They use
$GLOBALS and
APC caching at the language level (provided in PHP at the cost of a function call) which helps make intermediate
function calls and results much faster. (Most languages have these
types of libraries to improve Web page performance and they should almost
always be used.) Facebook then use a global cache that is
distributed across many servers (see "Scaling memcached at Facebook"), such
that one function call accessing the cache could make many requests in
parallel for data stored on different Memcached servers. This allows
them to get much higher performance and throughput for their user
profile data, and have one central place to update data (which is
important, since cache invalidation and maintaining consistency can be
challenging when you are running thousands of servers).
Now let's talk about what to do when the data isn't in the cache…
At a basic level, a proxy server is an intermediate piece of hardware/software that receives requests from clients and relays them to the backend origin servers. Typically, proxies are used to filter requests, log requests, or sometimes transform requests (by adding/removing headers, encrypting/decrypting, or compression).
Figure 13: Proxy server
Proxies are also immensely helpful when coordinating requests from multiple servers, providing opportunities to optimize request traffic from a system-wide perspective. One way to use a proxy to speed up data access is to collapse the same (or similar) requests together into one request, and then return the single result to the requesting clients. This is known as collapsed forwarding.
Imagine there is a request for the same data (let's call it littleB) across several nodes, and that piece of data is not in the cache. If that request is routed thought the proxy, then all of those requests can be collapsed into one, which means we only have to read littleB off disk once. (See Figure 14.) There is some cost associated with this design, since each request can have slightly higher latency, and some requests may be slightly delayed to be grouped with similar ones. But it will improve performance in high load situations, particularly when that same data is requested over and over. This is similar to a cache, but instead of storing the data/document like a cache, it is optimizing the requests or calls for those documents and acting as a proxy for those clients.
In a LAN proxy, for example, the clients do not need their own IPs to connect to the Internet, and the LAN will collapse calls from the clients for the same content. It is easy to get confused here though, since many proxies are also caches (as it is a very logical place to put a cache), but not all caches act as proxies.
Figure 14: Using a proxy server to collapse requests
Another great way to use the proxy is to not just collapse requests for the same data, but also to collapse requests for data that is spatially close together in the origin store (consecutively on disk). Employing such a strategy maximizes data locality for the requests, which can result in decreased request latency. For example, let's say a bunch of nodes request parts of B: partB1, partB2, etc. We can set up our proxy to recognize the spatial locality of the individual requests, collapsing them into a single request and returning only bigB, greatly minimizing the reads from the data origin. (See Figure 15.) This can make a really big difference in request time when you are randomly accessing across TBs of data! Proxies are especially helpful under high load situations, or when you have limited caching, since they can essentially batch several requests into one.
Figure 15: Using a proxy to collapse requests for data that is spatially close together
It is worth noting that you can use proxies and caches together, but generally it is best to put the cache in front of the proxy, for the same reason that it is best to let the faster runners start first in a crowded marathon race. This is because the cache is serving data from memory, it is very fast, and it doesn't mind multiple requests for the same result. But if the cache was located on the other side of the proxy server, then there would be additional latency with every request before the cache, and this could hinder performance.
If you are looking at adding a proxy to your systems, there are many options to consider; Squid and Varnish have both been road tested and are widely used in many production Web sites. These proxy solutions offer many optimizations to make the most of client-server communication. Installing one of these as a reverse proxy (explained in the load balancers section) at the Web server layer can improve Web server performance considerably, reducing the amount of work required to handle incoming client requests.

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By: Zane Fischer 09/30/2009
Think you own your property? Think again. The tricky "split estate" law has been screwing New Mexico and the rest of the West since its inception. The purchase of land that includes water and mineral rights is rare indeed in these parts—usually those rights have been sold off long before the present-day owners bought their so-called property.
Most people don't realize they only own the surface of their land; what lurks beneath is the property of others to do with as they please.
A split estate is the legal—oh how should we put it?—or bullshit term for delineating land divided between a surface estate and a mineral estate. And, yeah, that's most land in New Mexico.
The kicker? Mineral estates generally take legal precedence over surface estates. In other words, let's say you own a couple of acres: You worked your ass off to buy the plot and, luckily, you're still able to work your ass off to keep up with the mortgage. It's a bitch, but at least you're building equity and you know the ground you sleep on is home to you and yours, and no one can take that away from you as long as you hold up your end of the bargain.
Unless, of course, the owner of the mineral rights decides to roll up and start extracting helium or coal-bed methane or any number of other bits of nasty, polluting, water-table-depleting sorts of stuff in the ground that might be traded for cold, hard cash. The actual ground can't be taken from you, but the earth below can be pillaged, and the equipment required for the rape can be erected outside your front door.
To put a finer point on this, take the case of the Santa Fe Opera (as first reported Sept. 24 by SFR on SFReeper.com, with several updates since).
In a 2002 gift from the Shellaberger estate, the opera and the College of Santa Fe were given joint ownership of a share in mineral rights to more than 26,000 acres in Mora and San Miguel counties.
In 2009, the opera (acting with the urging of CSF) agreed—along with three other owners—to lease those rights out for oil and gas exploration. None of the parties—including the opera and CSF—own the land or the water rights, but they control the mineral estate, which impacts both the quality of any profits generated from the land and the ground water. In return for leasing their share, the opera and CSF are set to receive a modest fraction of profits from extracted treasures. Hey, fair play, the opera is a struggling nonprofit and its mission is opera, not the environment.
That's the line that SFO General Director Charles MacKay took in a Friday, Sept. 25 statement to the press. MacKay claimed that leasing out the mineral rights was the only way to honor the bequest it had received and to ensure the opera meets its significant fiduciary responsibilities (to learn more about what MacKay has to say on this issue here. The college, as we know, continued to grasp at every monetary straw it could find, until its purchase by the City of Santa Fe was completed earlier in September.
However, CSF maintained ownerhip of the mineral rights in the deal. It remains unclear what the soon to be defunct entity will do with those rights.
As anti-drilling activists in Mora County point out, it's unlikely the opera or CSF would have had the hubris to do a similar deal in Santa Fe County—it would be too obviously politically incorrect—but both were apparently happy to cut a deal in a place perceived as somewhere else. Never mind that the college was quietly scheming to profit even as it vied to be taken over by San Miguel County-based Highlands University in a deal killed by the New Mexico Legislature.
As much as we routinely suspect our corporate citizens of generally illicit behavior, we have a tendency to assume that our nonprofit corporations will uphold a higher standard in their business dealings. Frequently, that happens to be true. But this situation has demonstrated, once again, that even adored, creative, cultural and educational producers can be guilty of putting greed before citizenship.
The issue is less the money that may or may not be made, but the failure to understand the potential impact of the actions. The extraction of coal-bed methane, for example, can damage a water table to the extent that it takes 10,000 years to recover. That's an instant sea change in culture, livelihood, food production, wealth and future for thousands and thousands of people. It may not happen this year or 10 years from now, but the opera and CSF knowingly mortgaged the futures of Mora and San Miguel counties' landowners for little more than a gamble. And the college did so from its deathbed, knowing that the deal would neither save nor sink it.
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There's No Room for Deadlines
One of the things that people new to agile thinking have a hard time getting their heads around is that time (and estimates, and deadlines) is simply not a factor in an agile shop. They say that deadlines are a necessary part of the "real world." Yes, there are real-world issues that surround time — you may have to present at an upcoming trade show, for example — but time is not a central part of the agile-planning process.
Let me explain.
Agile planning falls out of several basic principles, the most important being:
Agile processes promote sustainable development. The sponsors, developers, and users should be able to maintain a constant pace indefinitely.
That notion of a constant pace means that a standard, deadline-based management process simply can't work. There's no room for overtime to meet a deadline, for example. Kent Beck characterized overtime as "borrowing from the future:" You get so burned out that you can't work effectively once the deadline is met, so the pace of development slows considerably after the push. This is not a zero-sum game, with extra productivity before the deadline compensating for lower productivity after. In the best case, you never gain back the lost productivity. In the worst, burned-out people leave the company. If the team is punished for not meeting their deadlines (and overtime is a kind of punishment), then they'll pad the estimates to avoid the pain. Padded estimates both kill productivity and undermine effective planning because they budget for wasting time.
Moreover, deadlines are based on long-term estimates, and estimates of that sort never work. Take that trade show as an example. A deadline-focused manager typically starts with the assumption that certain features are essential, and if you can't build these features by the deadline, then you've failed. An agile team would say that your notion of "essential features" will change as the product develops, so any estimation that you make at the beginning of the product development cycle will be incorrect, because the set of things on which you base the estimate will change. You always find flaws in the specification or encounter unforeseen implementation problems. More importantly, you always uncover major flaws in your thinking about the product.
In other words, you're estimating something concrete — a fixed set of features. To insist on meeting an estimate at a fixed deadline is to commit to building that set of features. That set is bound to be wrong, however, so the estimate is bound to be meaningless. Committing to the deadline is effectively a commitment to build the wrong product.
I'm not sure about you, but in my "real world," building a product that nobody's going to buy isn't a particularly important goal.
So, why all the insistence on deadlines? In a waterfall world where it takes a year to get something that works, a deadline provides the illusion of security. A traditional deadline is a way to measure progress in order to manage budget. The reasoning is: The product won't be finished for a year, but at least we know that we're X% done. You have to be able to plan. Budgets are not infinite. If you budget based on estimates and you can meet those estimates accurately, then you can plan effectively. Nice theory.
Which brings us back to constant pace.
When you're working at a constant pace, the productivity of the team is constant. Moreover, the team can accurately predict how much work it can finish in a short iteration. That's a kind of estimation, admittedly, but it's a reliable one. I've found that experienced teams make pretty good guesses based on observation of past iterations, and when they happen, errors don't have a large impact. We're talking a day or two, not months.
When you couple a constant pace to short iterations, you can guarantee that you can deliver a working product every couple weeks.
The software is guaranteed to work when that trade-show arrives, because it always works.
The goal changes from "building a specific set of features by December" to "building the best possible product in the time we have."
The question changes from "Will it work?" to "What will it do?"
Since we have a list of the unfinished stories (the Scrum guys call it a backlog), we have a good notion of how much work needs to be done:
We know how big the stack of stories is.
We know how many stories we can finish in an iteration.
We know exactly how long an iteration takes.
Consequently, we can project how long it will take to finish the current backlog.
If we lay out the stories in a story map, we can draw a line that represents "
N months out" and see what will be done at that point in a glance. More to the point, if we add stories, we can see what gets pushed past that line and make intelligent decisions about what to build. If we don't like what's above the line, we can change it.
Of course, there are situations (regulatory requirements, for example), where you can't simply declare the current version as "done" and march off into the sunset. A constant pace gives us a more effective way to manage that problem, too. If something critical gets pushed over that line on the map, we have two options: eliminate something unessential that's above the line or add another team. More to the point, we can see that problem very early, so we can add another team. (Brooks's Law says that adding people late in the project won't help.)
The process I just described satisfies all the goals of a waterfall style manager. We can monitor progress, control costs, allocate people and physical resources, and manage our budget effectively. We've lost nothing except the pressure of an unreasonable deadline.
I'll finish up with a theme that should be familiar to you by now. A company with a culture of deadlines can't work the way I just described. They'll undermine the teams with a constant push towards an illusory goal, and any attempt to work in an agile way will fail as a consequence. They'll also build products that nobody wants. Agile thinking must extend way beyond the boundaries of the Engineering Department for it to work at all.


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A subject that I get endless laughter out of on Twitter or in Vent is the deletion of level 80 toons. I've deleted two level 80 characters so far, and I have no doubt that there will be others in my future as well. Deleting characters has never bothered me because, as I've stated several times before, I play to level. Once a character hits the level cap the game doesn't "start" for me, it ends. I don't care about gearing them up, doing dailies for gold, building my rep, collecting mounts and tabards, or anything else that people do at level 80.
One way you can look at it is that the Experience bar on my toons is a representation of my personal Enjoyment bar. The more it moves, the more fun I have. Once I ding and that bar resets I've got a whole new bar full of fun to go play around with. But once that bar stops moving, so too does my enjoyment with that character. Now, I do have an exception to that which is raiding with my guild, but I only do that on one of my toons. Right now that one toon happens to be my Mage, but he may very well get replaced with a healer before too long.
So now that you've got the backstory that nobody asked for let's get down to business; shall we?
Deleting max leveled toons is something that makes most players cringe. They just can't stand the thought of throwing away all that time and effort that it took. For me of course, it's just another day and another toon.
Steps For Deletion
When you delete a high level toon for the sake of deleting them rather than for something like closing your account and rage quitting or whatever.
Check the Auction House: A lot of players do all of their AH business on a single toon, which is my preferred method. If that's the case with you then you can skip this step unless (obviously) this is the toon that you do it on. The first thing you want to check is whether or not you have any gold coming in from sells. If so then you know you need to wait to delete until after you get the gold for those items. If a bid was placed then you'll need to wait for one hour after the auction time, where a buy out will come in approximately one hour after it was purchased. For all other items you have on there you want to just cancel the auctions so that you can get the items back and then send them to another toon to sell or just vendor them.
Clear Out Your Bank: First thing's first, you need to send all your valuable goods to another toon, preferably your bank alt or your main character, or something along those lines. If you send items in the mail then you can immediately delete the toon and still get the items in the mail, but if you put something on the AH with them then you lose any items or gold from selling them. If there are Soulbound items in there then you should vendor them all or delete them if they cannot be sold.
Everything else should be sent to another character. If you have crafting mats for that toon then you may want to take one last run through your profession to make whatever might be more profitable crafted than as raw mats. If you have any items in your bags or bank that are for quests that you can't immediately turn in, then delete them.
Spending Currency: The first thing you want to do is take advantage of all your currency. That means raid/heroic emblems, stonekeeper shards, honor points, etc – basically everything except for your gold. Spend it either on things that you can sell or things that can benefit your other characters. In my case I spent my emblems of Frost/Triumph on Crusader Orbs that I sent to my bank alt to sell on the AH. My Stonekeeper's Shards and Wintergrasp Marks were turned into Wintergrasp Commendations which bind to your account and grant 2,000 Honor when used.
I used the honor tokens to bump Psynister's honor to get close to a multiple of 10,000 and then ran one quick battleground for enough honor kills to get the last 250'some honor to bump me over the 10k mark (50k in his case) rather than spend one of the commendations for 2k and then not use 1,750 of it. The honor points were then used to purchase epic gems from the vendor in Stormwind which I sent as raw gems rather than cutting them myself before I deleted him.
Also, since Psynister was a 450 Jewelcrafter I did his daily JC quest and turned the token in for a Dragon's Eye that I also sent to have auctioned since the gems you cut from it all bind on pickup. The final currency he had available to him was the gold itself which I did not spend since it can be spent by any toon.
Selling Your Gear: Deleting a character with all their gear on is like throwing away gold, so be sure to find yourself a vendor and sell everything you're wearing that's not transferable to another toon (such as BoA Heirlooms). The whole point here is to not waste resources. You might be deleting the character and thus "wasting" the time and effort put into the character, but for me I got paid back for that with entertainment and the rest is just icing.
Mail Your Spoils: Finally you need to send everything you've got left to another character. I personally use my main character as my AH character and have my bank alt simply hold things for me so that I'm not bothered with logging into them all the time. Send everything that you kept from your bank/bags and everything that you got from cancelling auctions and so on, but don't send your gold just yet.
Sell Your Bags: We're here to milk it for everything it's worth so be sure to sell your bags after you've gotten rid of all of your other items. If your bags aren't soulbound then you can send them in the mail as well, otherwise you'll need to just vendor them.
Send Your Gold: And finally you need to send all of the gold that you have to your other character as well.
Now that all of your resources have been spent and all your goods have been sent off to other characters to hold or dispose of, it's time to get down to business and delete the toon. All it takes is a quick log out, click the delete button, type in the word "delete" to confirm, and then click on "Ok". It's as simple as that.
To give you a better idea of how it's done I went ahead and put it into a video for you. I realize that the audio in the video is insanely low compared to what it was when I uploaded it, so something apparently went a little off during the upload or something. I might fix it, might not. Anyway, my apologies for the crappy sound.


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Exactly! I was an Eastern Catholic and was often told by clergy and laity alike that it is not mandatory to hold the same understandings on issues and doctrines as that of the Latin Church such as: Filoque, papal infallibility, IC, and purgatory, original sin, etc.It caused a confusing dichotmy in my mind. I thought to myself: "These issues and doctrines are innovations of the post-schism Latin Church. As Eastern Catholics, why do we not come into union with Holy Orthodoxy." I was strernly rebuked for such remarks. I was consistently told to study Orthodoxy, to worship like the Orthodox, to hold Orthodox theological precepts and praxis, but do not be Orthodox---they are schismatics!!! I was injured by the identity crisis in the Eastern Catholic Church and I was opposed to the innovations of Rome. So I made the only logical decision. I joined the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church---the Holy Orthodox Catholic Church!
Mickey, I have followed your journey to Holy Orthodoxy on many fora and I simply want to chime in and say that we are all greatly blessed by your presence.
Mickey, I have followed your journey to Holy Orthodoxy on many fora and I simply want to chime in and say that we are all greatly blessed by your presence & witness.
Were you originally a Latin Catholic? If so, what made you change cannonical status?
I would like to add that although I lament the loss of Mickey in the Catholic Church, he is one of the most charitable and loving Orhtodox Christians that I have ever come across on line. I could learn alot form him and I think he is an alround great guy.
One Divine Liturgy and I was hooked by the East! (my wife too)
I have to admitt that the Divine Liturgy had me hooked on my old Ruthenian Parish for a good year. There were many things about the East that I loved, but when all was said and done, I am a Thomist, through and through. But I certainly understand your attraction to such a beautiful Liturgy. I actually prefer the Byzanite over the the Tridentine Rite.
I have very fond memories of the old Latin Mass of my childhood. Even though I could not understand a lick of Latin, the Liturgy somehow spoke to my heart (like Church Slavonic does today). I was saddened when the Novus Ordo swept the country (but that is for another thread).
I am not a big fan of Aquinas. Thomism is not very appealing to me and the way he delivers his odd mixture of Aristotlean/Platonic philosophy hurts my head. Scholasticism is not my cup of tea.
However, I must admit I am intrigued that he did not finish the Summa because he had a mystical experience. He claimed that all his writings were as straw. I wonder about this vision/experience. He died shortly thereafter. Could it have been the uncreated light? Perhaps he was moving toward Holy Orthodoxy!
Wow, Papist. Reading what you've posted in this thread today ... the civility, the reasonableness, the lack of ... well never mind.If I didn't know better I'd think I was reading a thread from last year -- you know, before the "new and improve" Papist appeared on the scene.Is it possible Classic Papist has just been hiding inside of you?
No theological work can even begin to touch on who and what God is.
Now you are sounding like a Palamist.
I am not sure what you want me to say. I have already explained how the ECs misrepresent the Catholic faith.
You didn't complete your entire thoughts, you just ran a laundry list and didn't give a reason for the list. A child can point out what he thinks is wrong and a man can back up and explain what he thinks is wrong.
All you asked was how I believe that the EC's misrepresent the Catholic Church. If you wanted more you should have asked for more. A real man asks the question he wants answered.
In my own search for the Church, people have often suggested that I become an Eastern Catholic. This would be a way for me to have the best of both worlds (the worlds being Catholicism and Orthodoxy).
True, although that cuts both ways.-Peter.
I was an Eastern Catholic and was often told by clergy and laity alike that it is not mandatory to hold the same understandings on issues and doctrines as that of the Latin Church such as: Filoque, papal infallibility, IC, and purgatory, original sin, etc.
It caused a confusing dichotmy in my mind.
So I made the only logical decision. I joined the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church---the Holy Orthodox Catholic Church!
Which, to me, says that these clergy and laity need to do the intellectually honest thing and either accept the teachings of Rome or become Orthodox.
So, you had two choices.
It might be a bit more than an intellectual imperative. Rome holds that they MUST ultimately adhere to Roman dogma.
Ultimately, yes. There was a time when I thought there was a third choice--Eastern Catholicism. I used to tell people that the pre-schism Church looked like the Eastern Catholic Church---Eastern in union with Rome. But that came crashing down on me over time. I learned that the Eastern Catholic Church used to be Orthodox. I learned that the post schism innovated doctrines of Rome were not known to the undivided Church. I learned that the fullness of truth existed in the Holy Orthodox Church.
Ultimately, yes. There was a time when I thought there was a third choice--Eastern Catholicism.
Hi Mickey,I was wondering if you might elaborate on this any further.I quite understand the part where you're saying that Orthodoxy is what you choose. What I'm not quite clear on is when you say that Latin Catholicism is a real choice, albeit one you reject, but Eastern Catholicism isn't a choice at all. Is that what you're saying, and if so can you help to understand it better?
I am saying that the schism is painful and it is a tragedy. I am saying that the Latin Church and the Holy Orthodox Church have Apostolic roots. I am saying that I believe the Latin Church has veered from the Apostolic Traditions through innovations. I am saying that I believed (at one time) that the Eastern Catholic Church was a wonderful melding of the Latin and Holy Orthodox Church--perhaps mimicking the pre-schism ancient Church. I am saying that I now believe that the Eastern Catholic Church is simply subject, submissive and obedient to the Latin Church. I am saying that the the true patrimony of the Eastern Catholic Church is...well...the Holy Orthodox Church! I am saying that I believe the Holy Orthodox Church is the Church of antiquity---the Church that Jesus Christ established at Pentacost--the 2000 year old Church of our Fathers.Is that more clear, Peter?
Mickey,...well put! As an Eastern Catholic, I concur 100%!Christos Voskrese! Voistinnu Voskrese!Ung-Certez
Is that more clear, Peter?
Not entirely. Are you 'saying' that you consider Latin Catholicism an option, but you don't consider Eastern Catholicism an option?
I am saying that the Eastern Catholic Church is a subset of the Latin Church and must adhere to all dogmas thereof.
No offense intended, but doesn't it seem slightly presumptuous of you to tell ECs what they must adhere to in order to be ECs?
(If so, I think he should consider becoming Catholic. )
Your posts have got me thinking Mickey.I wonder if some become Eastern Catholic believing that they will be fully accepted by both Roman Catholics and Orthodox, whereas the reality is that neither fully accepts them?
...yes, we are like orphans living with our foster parents until the time we are reunited with our "biological" ecclesiastical parents!
...yes, we are like orphans living with our foster parents until the time we are reunited with our "biological" ecclesiastical parents! Christos Voskres! Voistynu Voskres!Ung
I am not here to play word games Peter.
I was told that Eastern Catholics are "Orthodox in communion with Rome". I came to understand this to be a fallacy.
Since I am in disagreement with much of what Rome teaches,(Filioque, purgatory, IC, Infallibility, original sin, etc), I find it impossible to be in communion with Rome--whether Latin or any of the 23 sui juris Eastern Catholic Churches.
After all, weren't there Patriarchs of Constantinople in the first millennium who remained in full communion with the pope but didn't agree with everything he said?
(extending the analogy) Well, I'm glad we took you in when your biological parents left you.
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It is tempting to view programming in moral terms because we so often refer to code as good or bad, but programming lacks the defining overarching moral imperative towards which good things tend. To wit, the frequent example of the three divergent poles in programming: good, fast, and cheap. Different projects work within the constraints imposed by individual blends of these properties, which is why a CRUD app has more tolerance for errors than a pacemaker and why holding that some practice is the right way in all circumstances is bound to be wrong. Such a view, in my opinion, is a meta-level code smell.
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With DJ Hero 2, the mixes are great and the new gameplay mechanics really help vary the tracks. The freestyle sections are also great and a good replacement for the "Yeaaaaaaah Boy!" Flava Flav sample of DJ Hero, though I do miss it from time to time. The singing, however, is a vestigial addition. Much like the awful guitar support in the first game, the singing is likely a forced addition so people that are scared of that weird controller have something to do. Turns out singing along to a mix of two completely different songs, while a DJ scratches, mixes, and rewinds creates a slightly schizophrenic experience for the singer.
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