This is one of the reasons why I left socal in 2007 and moved to Oregon. When you have too many people concentrated in a small area it's a disaster waiting to happen. Come to Oregon, plenty of water, great local wines and beers, beautiful greenery, and you can get a nice house for much less.
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This may be the year California burns down
by Hortensia inhttp://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-25996522.
there's a photo of shasta lake near where i live -- it's very sad now to see how low the lake is.
and governor brown is being really wimpy about it, suggesting we not flush our toilets as often as usual.
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Mac Book Pro with Retina or Dell XPS 15? (both with new Haswell processors)
by Simon ini'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?
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It promotes data hoarding and waste IMO and throwing a token bit of SSD in to speed things up is silly.
Totally agree.
I'd rather have a 128Gb or 256Gb SSD than 1Tb of spinning rusty metal with a buffer / cache to hide the slowness.
The year 2000 called, and it wants it crappy spinning hardware back...LOL. Bar none, an SSD makes the biggest difference in overall performance, It's almost criminal that these guys are still peddling this junk!
Finally, how are you not ripping the box open to play on the new toy?!
Trust me I have had the rig open several times, this MB has way too many settings to tinker with for someone with such limited time.
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Mac Book Pro with Retina or Dell XPS 15? (both with new Haswell processors)
by Simon ini'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?
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Simon, I'm glad the MBP is working out for you, it's amazing how bad the quality at Dell has gotten.
A couple of weeks ago I was in the market for an All-In-One, because I really like the clean uncluttered look. I was surprised to see that none of them (imac included) comes with an SSD, or a decent amount of ram (16 gigs+) except for some very expensive models ($2,500+). Dell, and others use a hybrid drive approach (e.g. 1 TB HDD with 32 gig SSD) which isn't really a satisfactory solution when you run virtual machines, and other high demand apps/games like I do. It was curious to me how many laptops could be so much more powerful than most All-In-Ones out there!
It turns out the the only reasonably priced no compromise solution was to build my own, and deal with wire clutter. I was able to build this mini-itx box for about $1,100, which has all the power that I need and still looks great, with a 500 gig SSD, and 16 gigs of fast RAM. Build your own is definitely back in style.
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Born-in memories, etc this is my first post, guys ;-)
by ThunderStruck52 inso i have decided to jump in and for the first time and share some of my random memories that seem to have been floating around my mind more and more lately.
mostly if all the weird anxiety i experience from time to time is related to it.
i guess that would be a different topic to post!.
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Hi Thunderstruck,
Welcome to the forum. I'll bet we probably crossed paths a few times at Long Beach, and maybe Norco too, I lived in O.C. until 2007. It's wonderful to be Watchtower free. It's terrible how they create a duality in us from such an early age, by making it criminal to connect with the world around us. The damage done over the many decades is incalculable. You will always find a sympathetic ear here, and I do hope that you find meaning and enjoyment in your life. P.M. me sometime if you ever want to chat.
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Billy's Comments You Won't Hear at the 01-19-2014 WT Study (7 Shepherds, 8 Dukes)
by Billy the Ex-Bethelite in16-20. we shall also have to raise up against him seven shepherds, yes, eight dukes of mankind.mic.
what is the most important thing that you can do now to prepare for any future attack on gods people?.
all of us must be ready to obey any instructions we may receive, whether these appear sound from a strategic or human standpoint or not.. .
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Billy, thanks so much for doing this! It was very therapeutic after the shit day we had with the "friendly" elder visit we had today.
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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday
by cofty inyesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
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Well then, I guess that's like much of what you have already written on this thread. I have no interest in knowing anything more about a self absorbed, and intellectually dishonest charlatan such as yourself, and I'm pretty sure most others on here don't either.
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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday
by cofty inyesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
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TEC said: Hell, I was never a jw
Yes, her personal lord and savior jebus neglected to tell millions of others, that the JW's are false, but saw fit to talk to TEC in her head, and give her a special warning to not be a JW. And now she is on a mission from god to teach us right. Isn't TEC such a wonderful gift and blessing to all of us inferior ex JW's here below?
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The Pastor of my Old Church Tried to Re-Convert Me Yesterday
by cofty inyesterday evening my wife and i were invited to friends house for new year's eve.
we met them when i was a christian and we have kept in touch.
they had a few other friends there as well, including the new church pastor and his wife.
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God's universal issue is of uttermost importance, it is of greater importance than our current human life.
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This photo woke me up
by krejames in.
i was already on my way to my second fade when i went to the wildlife photographer of the year 2012 exhibition, but this photo made me lose faith in the idea of a loving creator......(the gazelle has been injured by the mother cheetah so she can use it to train her cubs to hunt).
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Chimp on Chimp clan wars is something along these lines that led me to a similair conclusion. After 3:20 in the video you cannot tell me that a god of love designed his creation this way.
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Christians please answer something for me
by confusedandalone inor should i say some things.... reading over another thread and a number of other threads i have to ask, why are we making excuses for jesus / god.. how can you fathom and all powerful god who created the universe and all the laws that govern it was not capable of:.
1. making sure the proper pronunciation of his name is not available.
2. that all his teaching are not preserved in an easy to discern manner so that ther is no confusion.
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I suspect that John Mann is engaged in a bit of sattire.
