i just read a piece on cnn about the commodore 64. apparently it is what hundreds of thousands of people (the article says "millions" -- really?
millions?
) look back on as their very first real computer.
The Adam computer we didn't end up getting would have been near the end of 1984 (right when winter was getting harsh). That I remember very clearly.
The C64c that we got was about 1986. And the floppy disk drive about a year later. We had to buy a printer first to make it a justifiable expense. That was the Star NX1000 dotmatrix printer. We had to buy and interface card for that too which added another $75 CDN.
the literature servant told me that their instructions are to only give one study wt per publisher starting with the january 1st, 2008 issue.
under no circumstances are they to provide any other copies (if lost or whatever, much like kms are provided now).
any guests attending the wt study will be provided a copy, but then the servant who gave them the copy must confiscate it after the meeting.
Mac n Cheese,
I'm calling you out on that. In particular the bogus line about confiscating the magazine afterwards.
I have a direct connection with the magazine servant at the hall I'm stuck at. Yes they are supposed to only have ordered one copy of the Study edition per publisher. Actually the first batch (Jan edition)sent out by the branches to the congregations were only about 15-20 extra mags from the offical number of publishers for the congregation but those numbers can then be adjusted with need. There's been a letter read that explains how the study magazines aren't to be placed but anyone who wishes to have one can have one while at the meeting. And there's been absolutely nothing said about trying to get the magazine back. That is just plain made up.
i just read a piece on cnn about the commodore 64. apparently it is what hundreds of thousands of people (the article says "millions" -- really?
millions?
) look back on as their very first real computer.
My father was about to buy a used Adam computer system from a jw who had way too much money to spend and had no real use for the thing. But just before making the deal we needed a new furnace so it was a few years later till me, my sister and my parents pooled our money together to get our first computer - the commodore 64c (the sleeker light brown one that looked alot like the c128) and the 1541-II floppy drive.
A great computer for games and also can you believe it an office suite that ran on less than 20K! Mind you it definitely was not WYSIWYG. Later I got GEOS for it which was a GUI for the c64 and it could use either a mouse or the joystick (Wow was using that joystick horrid.). An awesome game for the c64 was AutoDuel. I loved my later computers more though (Amigas).
P.S. I did not include that link to games in this post. I've doublechecked twice and I can't find anything I've done to bring up that popup.
the generation seeing the sign .
' previously, this journal has explained that in the first century, "this generation" mentioned at matthew 24:34 meant "the contemporaneous generation of unbelieving jews.
not the whole magazine, but this is the new light article.. .
Hi Biteme,
The dubs get their magazines a few months in advance. For example, here in Canada, they've already had the Jan 2008 Study Edition of the WT for over a month now. Coming this Tuesday there'll be another shipment of WT literature in the Golden Horseshoe here and I'd wager that it will contain the Feb 2008 Study Edition (since the last shipment already brought the Jan Public editions and the Jan Awake).The articles within the magazines are typically dated as being studied in the following month though.
This latest change will hopefully wake up a few people, but I fear the majority are like my sibling (who already knew about the new light since the circuit overseer mentioned it to all the pioneers in their meeting) and just accept it as yes making good sense.
the generation seeing the sign .
' previously, this journal has explained that in the first century, "this generation" mentioned at matthew 24:34 meant "the contemporaneous generation of unbelieving jews.
not the whole magazine, but this is the new light article.. .
Just because Jesus was saying how his apostles would be able to know the end was soon (just like figs would be coming soon), doesn't mean that he was talking about them when he said "this generation" will not pass. Even in this very WT article, they have to admit that in all other instances where this "generation" is spoken of, its usually in negative terms, and always about unbelievers. So what in this verse or passage requires us to look for any other group to be referenced? Carefully consider the context they say?
Well according to the supposed connection they were trying to emphasize in the illustration of the figs: They (i.e the apostles and so the Anointed) would see all these things. And so whats the point of the statement "This generation will not pass until all these things occur." Well duhhh...if they'll be seeing all these things go down they've got to be around!
But if one reads a few verses earlier still where Jesus is talking about the sun and the moon and then the sign of the Son of Man, its quite explicit that Jesus was talking about how everyone will be seeing these things. It'll be sad times for the unbelievers. They didn't see it coming till it was upon them basically. Then Jesus makes the contrast with his believers who'll be able to discern things as they're developing. A little later on he also talks about Noah and how everyone else except the eight didn't really catch on till it was too late. To me it seems, each and every time there's a contrast of believer and unbeliever and the unbelievers will eventually see how the believers were right. So having "this generation" of Matthew 24:34 be the wicked generation makes more sense since its making a point. You have that completion of the unbelievers getting whats coming to them. Having that verse be more like "don't worry faithful followers, you will not disappear until all these things happen" loses the contrast, as I see it and once again makes a sort of dumb repeated statement. Then again, this may be a weak counter-argument. But simply, allowing the text to speak for itself, I don't see why the gerenation in this verse should be a different group than the one referenced all the other times.
standing in the way of stem cell research.
by alan i. leshner and james a. thomsonmonday, december 3, 2007; page a17 .
a new way to trick skin cells into acting like embryos changes both everything and nothing at all.
Hey FunkyDerek,
Thanks for that link! I've got to say that its refreshing to see some people are actually trying to follow through with what they believe. I've got to give those people some credit there. Although only a bit, because I personally think they'd be doing alot more good by adopting those already born first. Why are those potential people more highly valued than already existing children who also would need a home?
Not passing judgement on them because I'm even more inconsistent in following my stances, and make many unfair choices all the time. Whose to say which human life is more valuable then another? I just have a personal leaning to first consider those who are already existing, sentient beings in contrast to lifeforms without any real neural development at this point in time. I'd think even with this effort there'd still be a fair number of unwanted embryos though, so I think its still a waste to not make them available for creating viable stem cell lines.
so i'm talking to someone from my old hall and he tells me that there are some disgruntled jws (including elders) who feel like some bad decisions are being made by the rbc.. for instance, one hall needed a new roof.
an elder, in the construction business, made a deal with a local non-jw roofer that if the brothers cleared off the old shingles, the roofer would come in with his crew and do the new roof for x amount of dollars.
the rbc elder in charge got wind of that arrangement and nixed the deal.
The congregation where my publisher's card is currently at had to have their roof redone. Materials alone would have costed about $9,000 and they were thinking they could use several local JWs to do the work. Enter the RBC, and they said that if they were to have several people on the roof who were not professional roofers, then the scafolding ALL around the rather large KH would be required. To rent that as well for two weekends (since they knew they wouldn't have enough hands to complete the job in just one) would have added another $3700 according to the RBC's quote.
That congregation just ended up paying a non-jw company to do the job for $12500. No headaches about getting volunteers and headaches on trying to feed the volunteers that would have for sure added another few hundred dollars onto the project.
Unfortunately the RBC is completely in on the project to redo the wallpaper, carpets, tiles and fencing.
standing in the way of stem cell research.
by alan i. leshner and james a. thomsonmonday, december 3, 2007; page a17 .
a new way to trick skin cells into acting like embryos changes both everything and nothing at all.
I've been saying this all along, there are many unwanted embryos sitting in liquid nitrogen tanks. All these groups that are opposed to embryonic stem cell research and champion the value of human life, are doing what exactly to ensure none of those embryos are destroyed? How many of those embryos have been retrieved, developed to term, and adopted by their members?
If they're doing squat and letting them be destroyed all the while shaking their heads and lamenting how its a waste of human life, then why not consider how it would be showing more respect for those "cells in a dish" if they were actually used to improve existing human life. One would be showing them more value that way I'd think.
Are you admitting that you really are a midget?
I'm going to go with the notion that absolutes can be misleading, and that good things can come in relatively, yeah let me stress that relatively - as in "just came out of the pool" - small packages.
Guess you gotta really know HOW to use it then, eh?
LOL. This made me think of an old In Living Color skit of "The Head". A pretty funny parody of the Six Million Dollar man but in that case the cop got drastically injured in the line of duty and they could only come up with a few dollars "to rebuild him."
I'll just keep those funny thoughts in mind.
Sexual selection is definitely huge. Females need to be choosy since they're devoting alot of their resources to the offspring they'll bear. Although sometimes the traits they prefer aren't always immediately evident as the best for survival. Like frogs with the deepest croaking sound, but that can be a very good indicator of size, so the bigger the better I suppose, like choosing the bird of paradise with the longest tail feathers..or...oh oh.
Modern human females are more sophisticated than that though I hope.
Who am I kidding? I'm screwed! Or more accurately, I won't be.
I'd like to suggest another driver of evolution. Viruses may affect more than just survival vs death, and bottlenecking the gene pool. Think of what sort of horizontal gene exchange could likely occur with viruses as the vectors. I know alot of this can sound outlandishly sci-fi but what if the mammalian placenta had some of its development as a result of viruses? That would be a fairly large evolutionary development. Not saying its a fact. You all can check up on the material and see whats probable or not. Just tossing out other possible candidates after that of females.
