Posts by Xander

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I definitely would've left over that.

by Sunchild in

jw
friends

i just finished watching the dateline piece, and i'm sitting here with tears in my eyes.

tears of joy that the truth has come out; tears of sorrow for the children who have suffered; tears of pride at bill bowen's efforts and how they came into fruition tonight.

but most of all, i'm happy because i know in my heart that, were i still an active jw, that segment would have sickened me enough to make me quit.

Xander

Of course, all the GOOD JWs are at the bookstudy, and so missed it.

The 'borderline' ones who find any excuse to miss meetings ("I need to wash my cat" "My cars engine is working fine" etc) and stayed home tonight just got all kinds of incentive to leave.

Sad thing is, though, when I was a 'good' JW, this program wouldn't even have phased me. Lies, lies, apostate lies, etc. Hell, I probably would have turned it off after their spiel about 99% of the Earth's population - 'including most of you watching this' (LOVE that!) - since it would show bias to me.

I see a large exodus of 'weak' ones, and a strengthening of the faith of the 'strong' ones...

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Dateline: WOW

by Kenneson in

jw
friends

just finished watching dateline.

i was very much impressed.. it didn't make the watchtower look good at all.

i bet.

Xander

Yeah, they tend to present 'devils advocate' sides to the story, I was afraid when they got into the whole 'WBTS *says* this and WTBTS *says* that' that the whole story was about to blow away.

But, then, they totally turned it around and hammered 'em even harder.

LOVE IT!

Loved the kingdom melodies, too. Gawd, been a LONG time since I've heard them....

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Trading Spaces

by simplesally in

anybody else watch it?

i so want to make my own ottoman now.

i have seen them do it a couple times it looks easy.

Xander

they seemed at a loss as to what to do

Yeah, that made me want to slap THEM, too. Sitting in their pool in ?Malibu? whining about how boring the 21st century is compared to the frontier.

LEARN HOW TO USE A COMPUTER!
*slap*
GET A FRICKIN JOB!!
*slap*
SHUT UP AND DO YOUR HOMEWORK!!!
*slap*
GO TO COLLEGE!!!!
*slap*
DO YOUR FRICKIN CHORES!!!!!
*slap*slap*

/me wouldn't trade the 21st century for *anything*. Well, maybe the 22nd. But, it hasn't happened yet, so you never know...

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THANKS SIMON

by You Know in

i just wanted to take a moment and thank you for providing this forum.

of course, i realize that it's intended purpose is to serve as a stumbling block for jehovah's witnesses, yet at the same time it also serves as a platform for me to defend my faith in a public forum.

over the years i have appreciated the opportunity provided by this and other forums to confront and refute various challenges that apostates have presented to our precious faith.

Xander

So, who started the YK look-alike competition, anyway?

It just wouldn't be the same here without you

LOL! That's true.

Hey, can I start a 'Reset YouKnows postcount to 0 4EVAR!!'
coalition? C'mon, you all know it'd be a riot -

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Steven Hassan was cut from Dateline

by DevonMcBride in

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friends

i received the following e-mail from steven hassan.

it seems that he landed on the cutting floor at dateline.

devon .

Xander

Cause Dateline got a big, fat check from the WTBTS and so are re-editing the interviews to create a pro-WTBTS piece?

Calm down, people. I'm sure if Dateline felt his part was critical to the story, they would have kept it. They do this for a living, remember?

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From JW to Pagan

by Sirona in

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friends

i've noticed that quite a few people on this board have said that they are now pagan.

i'm starting to wonder if converting to paganism is something that many ex-jws do?

being a pagan myself, i am actually surprised at how i could choose the religion that jws probably hate the most.

Xander

do you end up making accidental connections with other Pagans semi-frequently, too, in places where you're not looking for them or expecting to find them?

Just out of curiosity, how do you know you've run into a pagan? I mean, we don't exactly LOOK any different than, say, a Christian. Obviously, we don't were crosses, but most Christians don't, either.

Unless you are in the habit of bringing up religion with every new person you meet ...the only people you'd really talk about religion with are people you are close too because they have the same hobbies, or same interests, etc.

Or, am I completely off my rocker?

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Trading Spaces

by simplesally in

anybody else watch it?

i so want to make my own ottoman now.

i have seen them do it a couple times it looks easy.

Xander

Just wanted to add:

Yeah, HGTV is a pretty cool channel. 'Designers Challenge' is also a neat show, as is 'Designing for the Sexes'.

It really does give you a lot of ideas. They've motivated the wife to repaint, rearrange, and redecorate a couple times now, and I think the house looks ever better for it.

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Trading Spaces

by simplesally in

anybody else watch it?

i so want to make my own ottoman now.

i have seen them do it a couple times it looks easy.

Xander

Really? My bad, I thought it was $500. Silly me - shows how much I pay attention.

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Trading Spaces

by simplesally in

anybody else watch it?

i so want to make my own ottoman now.

i have seen them do it a couple times it looks easy.

Xander

Watched a litte of both. Couldn't get into the Frontier House one - that one lady was just SO whiney - it was very, very irritating.

You know, the one who had her mother come to visit as a birthday present for her son? *SO LAME IT HURTS* Just wanted to slap her.

I much prefer Changing Rooms

We did, at first. I think was got us thinking was taking a look at the quality of the work, though. 'Changing Rooms' does some great looking stuff, but it's not real high quality. The shelves, etc. that they do in 'Trading Spaces' just looks sturdier, looks more professional. Paints look better, fabrics look better, etc.

Which is funny, because £500 is worth quite a bit more than $500, so you'd think the UK version would have higher quality stuff.

???

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Video Game Systems. Which is better? Help!

by BeautifulGarbage in

playstation.

xbox.

my daughter wants to buy a game system.

Xander

MODIFIED NV25

Picking a nit, but the XBox GPU is the NV2A, which is a modified NV20. The GeForce4 is an NV25, and the next-gen card due in August is NV30.

as well as 4 simultaneous pixel shaders

But no Z-compression or Z-occlusion! And, that's were the biggest slowdown is in PC graphics today.

Matrox Parhelia is also interesting

Well, for what is rumored to be a $500+ card, I'd hope so.

apparently supporting PS1.4 (only the ATI 8500 does this ATM), which is a very flexible pixel programming language compared to PS1.1 (as implemented by NVidia),

Parhelia - ??? (but it does have vertex shader 2.0 support)
ATI R8500 - PS 1.4
GeForce3/4 - PS 1.3
ATI Radeon - PS 1.0

DX8.0a specs call for PS 1.1 support at least. No one ever used PS1.0 in any app to my knowledge.

The PC market is heating up, but the AGP bus bottleneck is still present nonetheless.

The AGP bus is only a bottleneck for the PC because the CPU are now up in the 3 GHz+ range, and can generate vertex's like mad.

EDIT: Cleaned up some.
XBox CPU to RAM: 0-1.06 GB/s
PC CPU to RAM: 2.7 GB/s

XBox GPU to RAM: 5.34-6.4 GB/s (shared w/ audio and nic, etc.)
PC GPU to GPU RAM: 10.4 GB/s (GeForce4 4600)

Also note that the XBox has 64 MB of shared RAM (CPU and GPU share it).

Most PCs have at least 256 MB of RAM for CPU and the GeForce4 brings 128 MB of RAM for the GPU.

That Max Payne runs faster on PC than XBox is slight proof of this case. You could argue, of course, that as it was designed for the PC, there might be some bias here.

I'm not aware of any highly demanding XBox->PC ports yet, so I guess the final verdict awaits.

At the very least, it is certainly true that the PC that could compete with an XBox certainly costs a LOT more.