my company recently(less than a year ago) replaced all our computers with dell and it has been nothing but a nightmare!.
within 3 months 2 of them had to have their motherboards replaced.thats just the tip of the iceberg.i can't even begin to tell you the numerous "little" problems we have had.you will spend hours on the phone with snotty sarcastic tech support agents ...if you can first figure out how to get to them.. check out this link if you don't believe me.. http://www.smorgasbord.net/blog/archive/000002.shtml.
rumor has it that they are going bankrupt..
I have an HP Pavillion 533C at home and have never had any problems, although the CDR drive is very sensitive and I only get good burns on expensive CDRS like Verbatim like vinyl...small complaint
We have all dell computers at work...no problems. hmmmm...
while i was away on a recent road trip i had the opportunity to nip into a cinema to kill a couple of hours.
having see everything i wanted to see, during the week, i decided to watch the only thing that was starting at that time "lost in translation".
i didn't know anything about it, other than that it was going to help me bide my time, away from home.. i groaned inwardly, when i saw bill murray hit the screen, as i'm not especially a fan.. however, i was deeply moved by what was portrayed, along with the japanese neo-cultural explosion that was evidenced.. i hope this doesn't mean i'm reaching a mid-life crisis, however i found it profoundly disturbing.. http://www.bestofneworleans.com/dispatch/2003-09-30/film_review2.html.
hi there badwillie....how are things???
my wife and I watched the movie....thought it was absolutely brilliant. Bill Murray has been on top of his game for the last 5 years or so....if you haven't seen Rushmore or The Royal Tennenbaums, rent them right away. But Lost in Translation was perfect...the acting - Scarlett Johansson was perfect, as was Murray. The music perfectly fit every scene - much like Sofia Coppola's first movie, The Virgin Suicides....brilliant
the wt society is so proud in promoting the notion that all jw's are so law-abiding and how they pay all their taxes.. yet there seems to be no moral problem for them when a jehovahs witness elder can be a full-time regular pioneer and at the same time collect unemployment benefits.
and not just in the short-term but in one case the elder has been a full-time pioneer for many years, all the while collecting unemployment benefits from the government.. so if there are any active brothers or sisters reading this post, could you please explain to me how this is not dishonest, just as dishonest as not paying taxes?
why are jw's the biggest 2-faced hypocrites around?.
I don't think you can seriously make the argument that ALL JW's are dishonest. Thats ridiculous. Just like you can't make the argument that all XJW's are honest, its just not true. There are good and bad people in all groups. Thats humanity.
in the brief time that i've been reading jw-related postings and sites on the net, i've seen a lot of stuff regarding the jw leadership being all about the money with the implication that there is something unsavory about their acquisitiveness.. if that is true, what exactly do they want it for?
from what i've read, the gb seem to live reasonably well (better, in fact, than the average jw would expect, i think) but it hardly seems anything that would have earned them a spot on lifestyles of the rich and famous.
so, why would they be so concerned about amassing organizational wealth?
I think they are super evil and using the borg to take over the brains of people all over the world...either you are for or against...either way you are thinking about the super evil borg and their mission is accomplished. They must all be sitting in the ivory towers in borgland laughing at all of the jw's and xjw's always thinking about the borg.
the answer to your question is:.
for more information, see publication 517, social security and other information for members of the clergy and religious workers.
you ask the internal revenue service (irs) for an exemption from se tax for your services and the irs approves your request.
it seems pretty clear to me that no laws are being broken and even if its a vague understanding or stretching the meaning of the law, it still falls within the definition....not something you'd neccesarily want from GOD or GODS ORGANIZATION but legal.
hello friends, i wanted to post this here and get some opinions on it before i take the big step of sending it to my parental units.
dear mom and dad,
dad i was surprised to hear from you the other day.
if your parents are active witnesses, i wouldn't even try to persuade them about anything...especially the whole UN thing. My parents basically laughed at me and told me i was nuts....brainwashed.
just a reminder, the seattle area dinner meet up is this saturday, february 7 at 6:30. we'll be meeting at tony roma's at south center.
please contact me if you need directions.. it will be so great to actually get to meet you all!.
gretchen (aka sherry)
We are going to try and make it....but I'm working in Puyallup until after 5....we'll see...
i was wondering...what un-written rules have y'all come across ?
the rules that have gotten you or others in trouble?
including all the "grey rules," that are open to interpretation by indubviduals and committee's.
Strangely enough, I know several old "friends" who have not gotten married in the Kingdom Hall because they think the insides are ugly (very true)......and its ok now.
in 1999 when i got married, it was "get married in the KH or else"
unwritten rules...hmmmm...well, for the Philadelphia, PA area it was:
no long sideburns
no beards (of course)
no 2 door cars (this was loosening up as I left 2 years ago)
matching pants and suit jacket to do mics (no slacks w/ different colored jacket)
yesterday, i was on the phone with a friend i met while i was down in florida.
we had a nice long chat about how she doesn't feel as though she wants to be a jw anymore, and i gave her good guidence, and one of the peices of good guidence i gave her was "do not worry about your reputation, your reputation is held in low esteem by people who are in themselves in low esteem.
" she then told me about how my reputation was slammed down in florida.
I'm not really sure, since we moved 3,000 miles away. I know at one point my mom was wondering out loud to group of people at the Buckingham Assembly Hall if I was going to start smoking??? Also some people seemed to think that I was only following my wife Michalina's lead....beats me though. I don't really care. After one trip home to PA over thanksgiving, one thing i do know, is that JW's are nuts (all of the affairs in the halls, backstabbing....blah!) and I don't care what they say about me!
while responding to another thread, i was thinking about how so many of us talk about trying to help "believing dubs" out from the clutches of the wt, while at the same time, it occurred to me that we probably all have different motivations for doing so.
as for me, i am motivated to get my parents out because i think they have the right to know "the whole story" - not just the candy-coated version the wt espouses, so they can make better decisions about how they want to live the rest of their lives.
right now the wt makes all their life decisions for them - including whether or not they should look at what the "other side" has to say about them.
I think it someone has doubts they will find websites such as this, or seek out the Franz books. For people who don't have doubts, its a waste of time to try and convince them that its not the truth. I think thats exactly what is so annoying about JW's...jamming propaganda down someone's throat. Even if their beliefs are misguided, its a waste of time to try and convince them otherwise....you are just proving to them how "evil apostates are"
