i've been in need of a new laptop for a long time.
no, i mean it - a really long time.
the old dell that we have has a floppy lid and is woefully underpowered although it does build up my upper body strength every time i pick it up.. the last 6 months has been a bad time to buy something new though with the haswell processors on the horizon promising better battery life and also screen technology seems to have been leaping ahead recently to a new hi-dpi standard.. so apple finally released their mac book pro and at the same time dell has released an xps 15 ultrabook which looks like a pretty good alternative and probably better 'value'.. pro's and con's?
I run both Mac and Windows.
My largest annoyance with Mac is their spotty support for Java. Some of the SDKs and IDEs would not run on the Mac which is a pain. If you plan on using it for dev purposes, make sure all your tools are Mac compatible.
I though Java would be a safe bet, but I guess Apple insisted on having their own "flavor" of the JDK for years and now it is out of sync with the official release.
some of the comments on the anthony morris topics have been despicable.. if someone is an idiot or a biggot then they are damaging themselves.. if 'we' start posting vile filth, insults and threats then it doesn't convince anyone other than we're probably as bad..
Yes, and sound reasoning as to why is perfect.
Accusing people of being pedophiles or deserving of assassination is not .
What if my source is Jehovah's Holy Spirt that has directed my comments? I could call it new light...
so i am not officially da/do yet and my family has shunned me hard.
today crying my mother calls me to beg to see my children... should i let her?
i feel that if you can speak abusive of your own son and wife and shun the.
I had the same decision to make as well and much of what people have posted here were factors in my decision. (I am also not DA/DF and heavily shunned)
I told them that love needs to be unconditional, how can you say you love your grandchildren when you don't show love to your children. My mom just blubbered that I had taken a stand against Jehovah and that it was my doing. It was all me, I was doing this to them.
I also realized that at one point my sons will not live at home and very well might look up their grandparents curious about "the other side" so I make a point of once a year inviting my parents over for supper to see us and the kids. If the kids ever ask, I will tell them that for 7 years so far, their grandparents have refused invitations to come and visit and I suspect that will last for the rest of my life.
If my kids look them up, I would like them to explain to my children why it was so important to turn down years of invitations to come visit them. The Watchtower is all my parents know, they see me as the villian, to them it is so clear why they can't come and visit. It is my hope though, that the Watchtower explanation will sound (rightly) insane when offered as an excuse to my kids should they ever ask why they never accepted the invitations to come visit with the whole family.
there's an interesting medicolegal issue arising out of tx, a pregnant women who suffered a pulmonary embolism in november and died (when she was 14 weeks pregnant).. however, the body has been kept on life-support all this time (against her and her husband's wishes), due to an ambiguous tx state law (tex hs.
code ann.
166.049) which actually blocks the ability of the patient and family to decide:.
Just to weigh in my two cents.
I am not remotely religious. I am also pro-choice.
That said, early in our marriage my wife had a miscarriage and the fetus was lost. It had progressed far enough that the doctor was able to tell us that it was female.
I know that legally it was classified as a fetus and as such had no legal standing, but there is so much of a difference between having no legal standing and not being alive.
To me, I see no difference between those that lack any compassion towards those that lose a child in the womb because it doesn't suit their political agenda and those that try to deny women the right to choose. Both insist that their own narrow view should be painted across all people.
I do not envy any women that needs to make such a choice. While some use abortion as a form of birth control, and cases like that sadden me, it is not the measuring stick for the issue at large. A pregnant woman is a complex legal entity, a line needed to be set for when the rights of the child will supercede the rights of the mother but that is the issue, legal definition.
There is such a difference between when a fetus is recognized legally and when it is alive. To a loving couple, it is alive from the moment they learn of it. It is a baby and their child and the loss is traumatic.
Pro Choice does not give you the right to decide for others when they should feel a fetus is alive. Those that view the growing fetus as a child or baby are using their choice just as much as someone considering abortion.
as a born-in, i was eager to join the ministry school.
my cousins were also born-in but lived in different states.
there was keen competition to see who could do mature things, such as baptism (my mom said when i was 35) and ministry school.
I did get some benefit out of it. I always had to prepare my own talks and they were generally well recieved.
Like other Witness "pseudo-intellectual" practices, they only served to challenge me while I was a child. As I aged I quickly found no room for growth so I looked to other sources.
a few weeks ago, discoveries were made that show that there is another dna code language that rides on top of the already incredibly complex 4-letter code previously discovered.
this newly discovered code apparently regulates how genes work.
as i noted in a previous thread, the amount of data storage available in the dna storage system just the size of a pin-head would filll a stack of books stacked from your driveway to the moon .... 500 times!
Perry, you seem to base your calculations on Earth being to sole planet in our universe. Once you expand that there are 10^22 stars in our observable universe, many with the potential of multiple planets per star over the period of 14 billion years the math starts to become very interesting.
my facebook was "lit up" today with all the out cries about the possibility of the organization's website being banned in russia.. as many of you recall this past august a court in russia banned the website and sought to make accessing the website in russia illegal.
well tomorrow the appeal by the org will be heard in court.
if the appeal is denied, jw.org will no longer be available in that part of the world, causing endless lamentations and cries of "persecution", only to bolster the idea that they are truly hated by the world because they are true christians.
I am no fan of the Watchtower, but what is going on in Russia is scary. Putin is consolidating power, getting control of the media and opponents are being arrested, or just vanishing off the streets.
Given the power that Russia wields, nobody should cheer reports of amassing power and crushing of liberties
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2014-01/15/cold-fusion-moves-into-mainstream.
you shills aren't doing your job.
you need to provide more ridicule to stop this movement from saving the human race and changing the world.. hey, i'm just sayin'.
Last I heard, after millions being poured into cold fusion research, a theoretic model has yet to be defined.
There are still some places that fund research into cold fusion, but the original results were not able to be confirmed or duplicated. It has largely soured the scientific community on further efforts.
Remember, Einstein had a theorectical model for E=MC2 for years, but needed specific solar conditions by which he could test, measure and confirm his theory.
Cold fusion needs a theoretic model first, then a machine can be built to test and prove it. Anyone promising they built a cold fusion device is selling "miracle tonic".
i am reuniting with past students and return visits.. i met up with a young lad i used to call on.
he is not baptised, but at university in his 20's and living away from home.
his mother is a jw and his father is not.
Could always go the hard of hearing route too!
Embossed plate? Those can be difficult to wash.
Phosphate? I wasn't that good in chemistry.
A floss steak? No I like my think and juicy.
A moss rake? You should be able to just rip it up with gloves on!
yadda yadda 2 predicted a change in the bookstudy arrangement.
what future changes do you predict could/would happen?.
I see them phasing out the blood card and eventually just making it a personal decision. Courts are ruling against them and they are being crucified in the media.
They need to get rid of the most controvertial teachings to get off the cult radar. The blood is a big one, shunning is the secondary one. There has to be someone at the big table that can add two and two together. They don't want people talking to "disfellowshipped" ones out of fear that they will learn the truth about the organization. But promoting shunning, they end up turning these people into advocates against the Watchtower and given their history the arsenal is loaded.
If they keep on the current path, they will experience crisis. The current generation doesn't feel any urgency to preach. They do the minimum because there is no longer a marker for how close the end is. The generation is dead, the Watchtower isn't setting any new dates, so people are relaxing for the long haul.
