Posts by fodeja

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Not Argentina Again!

by Englishman in

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this morning was the draw for the first round of next years world cup.. our group to play each other is:.

england .

argentina.

fodeja

I will never understand soccer, but some people love it.

I don't understand your problems with soccer - after all, the examples you cite (urine bombs, penis biting) are at least entertaining. If you think soccer is boring, you've never witnessed a cricket match. Cricket is so boring that if you've ever seen a match, attending a JW District Assembly will seem like standing in the first row of a Sex Pistols concert in comparison.

But then, Baseball is just an americanised (or, americaniZed) version of cricket, so you know what I mean.

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15

Heya!

by Couso in

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heya all!

finally got round to posting my first post!

well to tell you a bit about myself i'm 19 and i'm from australia!

fodeja

Hi, Couso! Nice to meet you.

D'OH:

Nothin' is more saddening that reading a message from a teenager firmly believeing he is the champ, he knows it all, he is the grand master, while his former brothers and sisters are just trash.

Yes, that would be sad. However, I haven't read such a message in a long, long time. Have you?

Just as I wonder how stupid it is possible to become, new messages pop up all the time here, telling me new records are made every day.

I like your competitive spirit, OldTwittie. You can still beat all those youngsters. What's the secret of your sweeping success in the stupidity olympics?

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70 Hour Pio's & 15 Min Pubs

by metatron in

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let's see here - according to the latest rumor.

you can be a regular publisher by putting in 15 minutes.

a month.. you can be a regular pioneer by putting in 70 hours.

fodeja

DB, see the "Elder School Summation" thread.

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29

Brainteaser 1

by Simon in

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just a bit of fun.... try and come up with a meaningful english sentance that is gramatically correct that has the word 'and' 5 times in a row.. i'll post my version of the solution later.

fodeja

Hey Logi, that's almost cheating ;-) I mean, a language with a command to list the program itself...duh!

Eman, correct of course, here's another solution:

This sentence has thirtyone letters.

As regards the Titanic thing, I can't remember anything about that film except that I was forced to watch it after a long, hard day of work and fell asleep almost immediately. But from the description I'd guess the idea was to prevent the wheel effect of the propellers (well-known to anyone who's ever tried to maneuver a boat in a small harbour), which would happen if you had 2 props turning in one direction and one in the other.

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(edited because I can't read)

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Brainteaser 1

by Simon in

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just a bit of fun.... try and come up with a meaningful english sentance that is gramatically correct that has the word 'and' 5 times in a row.. i'll post my version of the solution later.

fodeja

Ah, I like "brainteasers" like that.

Try this:

This sentence has _______ letters

Fill the blank with a spelled-out number so that the sentence is correctly describing itself.

Kind of similar, and most computer geeks out there may already know that one, but those who don't should try it anyway: write a (syntactically correct!) program in your favourite language that prints out its own source code.

Once you know the trick it's fairly simple, although there's still a challenge to find shorter versions.

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So... Where Are They?

by COMF in

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i moved to my current location, a house in a quiet, friendly, family-oriented neighborhood, in july of this year.

i've been here five months.

i'm usually home on saturday mornings and sunday afternoons.

fodeja

I've been living in big-city territory not far away from the local bethel for almost three years now: not a single call so far. I haven't even _seen_ any JWs in door-to-door service. Only the occasional jdub lurking in the darkest part of the underground station, grim-faced, holding up his magazines with a frozen half-smile. But even that has become a rare sight.

Before that, I used to live a mere 200 metres or so from a KH in a small town. Never seen any dubs out in field service, either. Just that one guy at the railway station. Always the same guy, for years.

If you ask me, the much acclaimed door-to-door work is dead. The service hours statistics are a joke. Nobody gives a damn about the JWs, most people don't even know whether they still exist at all. At least around here, central Europe, that is.

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Computer/web design question

by TweetieBird in

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posted below is an email i received at work.

i immediately forwarded it to our web-designer to find out if what this person says is true.

he replied that it was a scam.

fodeja

Your web site claims to be secure, but it is not. When I clicked the
link for the form, I noticed that the URL did not begin with https, it
began http. If you were on a secure server, your URL would have to
begin with https. I then looked at your code and found that it was NOT
secure.

Well, the tone of that e-mail is sort of strange, the remarks about FrontPage are not entirely false, but irrelevant, and I don't know if it's actually possible to sue someone over this (OK, I guess in the USA it's possible :-)).

However, the person has a valid point: sending sensitive personal data over an unencrypted link is a security risk. It doesn't take someone particulary skilled to exploit that risk, it only takes someone sitting at the right position between the user and the server with the necessary piece of software.

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New NGO-Letter by German Branch

by GermanXJW in

storch - a participant on the german board http://www.infolink-net.de/forum.htm wrote to the german branch.

he got the following reply.

and his local elders informed him without any reference to the letter that he is not to do talks in the tms at the moment.. the english translation is mine.

fodeja

I think what's new in this reaction is the creating of guilt in the letter writer: you are making us sad, you are not thankful because we taught you "truth" and now you don't believe us.

New? The Watchtower has an inexhaustible supply of guilt trips, and that's the only thing they give away for free ;-) Seriously, I think the fact that someone took the time to write more than a copied and pasted response may be a sign that Selters has not gotten a lot of written enquiries so far.

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THE WATCHTOWER - 1 January, 2002. (REPORT)

by bj in

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can somebody here scan the report please?

(or fax it to kent)i'm interested in all of it but the most is france.. joe

fodeja

Oh, and what I found remarkable: India (with a population of 1 billion) has only 22000 publishers and a growth rate of just 3 (three) percent. That is one hard territory, isn't it?

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THE WATCHTOWER - 1 January, 2002. (REPORT)

by bj in

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can somebody here scan the report please?

(or fax it to kent)i'm interested in all of it but the most is france.. joe

fodeja

Thanks for the scans (though they're missing some parts, unfortunately).

Glancing over the avg. publisher counts now...wow, France is _still_ reporting decrease...Scandinavia as well...Eastern Europe partly stagnating, partly growing...Western Europe partly stagnating, partly decreasing...stagnation in the USA, slight decrease in Australia. It's somewhat surprising that Russia is down to 4% growth. Substantial growth in the so-called Third World, but it seems the list of countries with 2-digit growth rates is shrinking.

All in all, it looks pretty much like last year's report. To be honest, I had expected a slowdown of the decrease in Europe, but so far that doesn't seem to happen. Now it would be interesting to see if anything has changed in the baptism statistics.

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