Posts by SnakesInTheTower

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Second issue of OUR BOREDOM MINISTRY

by processor in

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friends

here is the second issue of our boredom ministry:.

show personal interest - by offering criticism: why criticism is important to motivate people.

what are your plans for the summer?

SnakesInTheTower

Oh this parody is funny...... and the publication shorthand for Our Boredom Ministry is OBM.... so I will go meditate on the fine spiritual points of this new publication.....while taking a dump.

Snakes (:....)

ps... regarding a certain unnamed poster, I still dont understand why someone that is still obviously pro-JW posts on this board when they know damn well this is considered an apostate site by the Society.... and if they are posting that means they have to be a member of said apostate site...... lol...ah well, the irony cracks me up.

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If you know about computers put your hand up

by LouBelle in

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friends

cos i need some help as i don't trust my it guy at all.. my email totally crashed on me today - i noticed the pee cee getting slower and slower and then it switched itself and restarted.

i rebooted after that again...just in case.

when i went into my mail everything that was in my inbox and subsequent folders opened under that had disappeared along with everything in my sent items.

SnakesInTheTower

I do not use Outlook in any form. When Microshaft tries to download "updates" for Outlook, I don't allow it.

Answer to questions 2 and 3 yes.

Answer to question 1. there are commercial and free versions of software out there that are called dbx readers that would assist you in recovering email files. The commercial version I seen was under $30 per license...but your company should buy it not you. As to the freeware versions, just be careful. Either way, it doesn't sound like you should be messing with those programs..your idiot IT guy should be... and since it is business related, all of that should have been backed up on mirror servers every night. A good security protocol is for IT to have the system take a "picture" of your hard drive (and the network drives) once a day and store it off site each day...so it can be restored if something goes awry. Apparently this is not happening at your place of employ...penny wise pound foolish indeed.

Yeah, you probably should upgrade that hard drive. 40GB is nothing these days. At the very least as someone said, back up your important files. A USB thumbdrive is cheap and easy to transfer data back and forth. (although a proper IT department would block access to USB ports for security reasons to keep business files from walking out the door).

I use an old version of JUNO email for my home and have ever since the Beta version of 1.0. I have literally thousands of emails saved...but there is a point in which the file that holds all of them does get corrupted. Then it just dumps all of the individual files into one file and then it is hell to sort. I found that problem went away when I upgraded from a 40GB hard drive to a 250GB hard drive. Hasnt crashed in 2 years....knock on wood. I back up but not often enough.

So hard drive size might be part of the problem...constantly overwriting old files... solution: pimp slap your IT guy. ...just sayin'.

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Reporting feild servie time via email

by Iwonder17 in

our hallnow allows you to report your time via email, anyone else do this?.

i kinda takes the sheparding out of the whole thing, doesn't.. not that i am complaining, but aren't the service overseers supose to talk with you so they know how you're doing?.

SnakesInTheTower

I encouraged it when I was a secretary.

I gave each book study overseer a paper copy of a list generated by my database .... they could either turn it in to me with the paper slips or some of them said they wanted it via email and they could email it back...it was great... I could always pick up the paper copies for back up at the next meeting.

fairly soon, i had the technically capable publishers emailing the overseers individually and the technically capable overseers emailing me collective lists....

either way, I only had 5 group lists not 100 individual slips to deal with. I kept he slips for a few months as back up for the CO who insisted on them. I had one elder (ironically a former secretary) that resisted the whole arrangement at first. I told him "you of all people should like this arrangement you used to be a secretary",...... he wanted me to deal with 100 people instead of him dealing with 15 or 20. I told him "go be a shepherd"...lol

soooo glad I dont deal with those children anymore. I would be a lousy manager.

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"The Elders"

by minimus in

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when i think back of how the elders were viewed, even when i was a kid, i recognize that many people were deathly afraid of the elders.

my brother had been appointed in the 70s shortly after the elder arrangement was put into effect.

so my family always had an "in" because of our theocratic connections----not that my brother was very forceful.

SnakesInTheTower

wha happened?....

u were never an elder, and u will never know what it's like to be in an elders meeting and watching the politics fly

amen. I was never good at playing in the BOE sandbox.

Snakes (of the "Been there, done that, have the t-shirt" Sheep Class)

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Would you support a 'tent' city in your town?

by sammielee24 in

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friends

i read this comment in the sacramento news and wondered how many would support a 'tent' city for the homeless in their town?

i personally don't know how it works other than that i imagine it cloisters those homeless who wish to take of advantage of it into one large area, and provide them with toilets and tents and perhaps some form of help in the way of volunteers offering food or medical assistance.

once legal and set up, what would happen?

SnakesInTheTower

Dignity Village It should provide the basics....roof over one's head. ..and a temporary place to land. A shame is that a lot of folks that are homeless are Veterans that come back from war with TBI and mental illness..and the government lets them down....tosses them aside like a burned out Humvee.

The place shouldn't be great..or more people would want to be there. I have never understood how people in subsidized housing can afford cable (with 4 digital boxes) or satellite. Make such places safe and temporary but not a place to live for generations. Three generations in the projects is ridiculous. Public Housing for able bodied people should not be a lifestyle.

When I was in India, folks did not even have as much as the people in the picture above... I seen human beings lying in the middle of the sidewalk without any kind of covering at all...and barely any clothes...tattered and dirty. They would have loved Dignity Village.

BTS:

By the way, the JWs would love to have this as part of their Field Circus territory.

That is because JWs prey on the weak and marginalized in society. Most everyone else won't fall for it.

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artist sells entire body of work for $20 million...

by darth frosty in

and he cant read or write.

this is in_fuggin credible.. http://www.guzer.com/videos/needle-art.php.

SnakesInTheTower

wow

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New Music thread....best soul/dance music!

by restrangled in

diana king....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjm5aboxcls&feature=related.

try to keep from dancing !!!!!!!!

!.

SnakesInTheTower

i cant dance

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edited to add... it does have an insistent beat...but speaking of beat... I am going to bed.... :( LOL

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Just saying hi to all jwd friends!

by restrangled in

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friends

haven't checked in awhile.....just wanted to say hi~hope you are all doing ok!.

have a cousin started here and she wound up meeting up with some long time members in new york......her name is magwitch, for those who recognize the name, she is more frequent on another exjw forum, but some of you know her.. changing the subject....we need a new music thread!.

much love to all!.

SnakesInTheTower

hiya restrangled...

glad to see you pop in... hope all is going well out in the real world.

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CO's and DO's for the Midwest.

by AllTimeJeff in

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however you define the geographic midwest.

the only do of consequence i had was illingworth.

also f bartell.

SnakesInTheTower

Wells was a CO but sub DO'd a lot I believe. Goff actually served one time as our DO for the CA... he even commented on it.... how he was gone all the time...once out of the 3 years this was his district. (midwest)

Does anyone recognize the last name "Gamble" for a CO? In my conversation with the 2 sisters yesterday they went on and on about their new CO and how nice he was. I dont know if he is black or his wife is, but I heard they were not the same race (a big deal in this area for years because they never sent black COs and definitely not mixed couples). Younger..I am hearing 40s.

Thankfully my card is not in a congo in the town I live in.. or even the circuit I live in...part of the fade strategy.

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I ALMOST WEPT................................

by Warlock in

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the senate okay'd a tax break of $1,553 on the purchase of a $25,000 automobile.. as a matter of fact, my eyes are welling up with tears as i type this line.. warlock .

SnakesInTheTower

rebel8:

How many people who work at nonprofits have student loans longer than 10 years?

uhhh...no one unless you are on deferrment as I am because I went back to school after making about 6 months worth of payments.

Has anyone looked at some of the numbers in the actual HR1 bill? I was trying to find a breakdown of the spending and tax cuts for an economics class but I haven't found one yet. Some numbers are crazy: up to $100 million in matching federal funds for "revitalization of the National Mall" if the private sector coughs up another $100 million. And a whole bunch of money going to National Park Service...hmmmm... a lobbyist for NPS interests has a Sr. VP for Governmental Affairs whose name is Craig Obey..... and the chairman of the Appropriations Committee and primary sponsor of the Stimulus Bill is David Obey. Hmmmm...cooincidence? No. Craig is father to David. Yet they say there is no sting pulling. Craig just asked his buddy congressman who is known for backing NPS projects to put that little bug in his son's ear for him. No direct connection that way.

Crooks. All of them. Change my a$$. Business as usual more like it.

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