Posts by Dark Knight

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WHAT CHANGES WILL GB INTRODUCTED NEXT?

by badboy in

jw
friends

any ideas?

Dark Knight

Due to falling numbers in the R&F, contraception is no longer considered acceptable for true christians...

:D

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If Al Gore was elected in 2000, would 9/11 happened?

by free2beme in

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friends

i was thinking about this today, as al gore did win the popular vote and lost because of how the electoral college works.

so people like to blame 9/11 on bush, and fahrenheit 9/11 really tried to make it look like bush.

i remember when the movie, "the road to 9/11" came out, clinton was having a fit that it showed the problems with 9/11 started while he was in office.

Dark Knight

I think 9/11 probably wouldn't not have happened. Bush undid a lot of the good work Clinton had done in the middle east.

11

Working in IT

by Chameleon in

jw
friends

hello.

if you work in it, what exactly do you do, and did you go to school for it?

Dark Knight

Well I'm a developer, mostly Java these days. Studied Computer Science at university.

How about you?

DK

37

HEY YOU AUSSIES

by tijkmo in

so do you think you'll be winning them back then.

well do ya?

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Watchtower Decline Confirmed - Only 1.9% growth in 2006!

by Neo in

jw
friends

the official watchtower 2006 service year report is not out yet, but i have it on good sources that this year's increase on publishers number is 1.9%.

the average number of publishers will be around 6,500,000. .

here's the % increase for this decade:.

Interesting graph!

What this is saying is that since 1996 The Watchtower's "relative growth" has been negative...

So what was so special about 1996? Was that because of the change in the generation doctrine??? I didn't realise it had that much of an effect on the average JW's psyke.

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HEY YOU AUSSIES

by tijkmo in

so do you think you'll be winning them back then.

well do ya?

?.

Dark Knight

Oh... poor guy. What have they got against trumpets...

At least he could've done a half decent rendition of God save the Queen. Not like the one they played on the start of Day 1.

37

HEY YOU AUSSIES

by tijkmo in

so do you think you'll be winning them back then.

well do ya?

?.

Dark Knight

I hear ya clam, but Freddie should bowl himself in longer stints if he wants more wickets. One of the theories is that he hasn't developed enough match fitness so he's saving himself as he wants to last the whole series. Well he's definetely the best bowler out there for england at the moment. Shame about Mahmoud. I really wanted to see him take on the Aussies. Not just yet i guess...

Well i hope today is as interesting as yesterdays play. Good luck to Punter. Hope he gets a double.

DK

37

HEY YOU AUSSIES

by tijkmo in

so do you think you'll be winning them back then.

well do ya?

?.

Dark Knight

Hey Frog,

Geez been a while since I've bumped into you... How are things?

I think you are going to get that pommy wolloping you so desire.

Shame about the england injuries. I was really looking forward to seeing Mahmoud up against the aussies. I was pretty certain he'd be one of england's ashes heroes.

One thing that baffled me today was Freddy's bowling of himself in short stints... He'd bowl 3 or 4 over spells. He only gave himself 1 over with the 2nd new ball. Yet he appeared the most dangerous of the bowlers. What's going on with that? Any english fans make sense of it?? Somehow the captaincy doesn't feel right on his shoulders, me thinks.

DK

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HEY YOU AUSSIES

by tijkmo in

so do you think you'll be winning them back then.

well do ya?

?.

Dark Knight

Hey Clam,

It's not a bad little pitch, there are a few little cracks that will start to open up towards the end of day 3 which is really going to suit the the more accurate bowlers (not to mention what Warney will do on it). IT's the kind of pitch that will really favour the team batting first, but regardless of that, the English bowlers haven't bowled very well. I believe this pitch will reward good accurate bowling. It's quick and bouncy although there isn't heaps of sideways movement.

The thing is, I don't think I've ever seen the Australian team this confident or determined. They really want to win this. Real bad. It will take something amazing from England to retain the ashes.

Cheers
DK

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Watchtower Decline Confirmed - Only 1.9% growth in 2006!

by Neo in

jw
friends

the official watchtower 2006 service year report is not out yet, but i have it on good sources that this year's increase on publishers number is 1.9%.

the average number of publishers will be around 6,500,000. .

here's the % increase for this decade:.

Dark Knight

I believe the only real indicator of watchtower growth is the number of newly baptised each year. Each year the number of newly baptised "should" increase by about 1.5% (approx world growth) over the previous year.

It would be nice to see a graph of percentage increase in baptismal numbers per year as this would give a nice representation of how the watchtower really is going.

Another great graph would be world_population_increase/newly_baptised per year... I believe this would give the best indicator of watchtower growth vs world growth.

Has anybody been able to generate such graphs? I'd love to do it myself but don't have all the data i need to do it at the moment. Would be nice if someone has all the stats in a form (csv perhaps?) i can load into a database and run some reports and generate some graphs against it.

Cheers
DK