...which is why Christ left us with a Church, not a book. He didn't say "go forth and write all this stuff down so that people can argue about it until I come back", he said "Go forth and TEACH all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit". The Bible came from the Church - not that it was made up by the Church, but that the Church recognized the voice of God in the words of Scripture and "weighed and discarded" that which did not hold up to the standards of Scripture.
To further address your gross exaggerations, there are not "a hundred different versions" of scripture. There is one - that which is recognized by the Church. The gnostic gospels and other forgeries are not God's Word, and the other differences between texts are mostly minor and akin to scribal errors. Doctrine and dogma do not change and have not changed for the preceeding 2000 years.
So then you ignore the "Jihad" which sparked Islamic expansion in the first millenium after Christ and directly led to the Crusades as a defensive retort? The First Crusade was called when Emperor Alexis I asked Pope Urban II for help in driving back invading Muslim forces from Byzantine territory.
My cable company just sent me a letter telling me that my broadband is being upgraded to 10Mb in the immediate future - with no additional cost. It may not be as far away as you think.
FYI, I took it in '94 and remember my recruiter extatically telling me that I had only missed 1 question (of course, that could just be how I remember it now, but I digress). It was all good for me, though, because I wanted to go in for Crypto-Linguistics and the recruiter basically told me that my scores qualified me for any job the Army had (and yes, I have friends who are recruiters and know how that can be "massaged"). I was permanently DQ'd though, no waiver recommended, because I had asthma when I was younger.
In any case, at that time weight was done on a percentage basis. As long as you were under 20% body fat, you were OK to ship - at least for the Army. I used to lift weights 5+ times a week back in those days, and was over the weight limit.
Having to build an a adapter to hook my VICmodem (C=1600) up to the handset cable on my phone because the handset used some weird wire scheme
Getting my first autodial modem (a C=1660 300 baud beast)
Getting my first 2400 baud modem as a second-hand that a friend of mine had fried and subsequently trying to find a terminal program that would work with it
Novaterm! Holy cow! 80 line display on a C64!:)
Being able to use a paperclip to ground the microphone to the shielding on a payphone
Internet? We had Bitnet, and we liked it!;)
The panacea of all BBSes in this area - TriState Online. Freenets used to be the bomb diggity.
Back in the Freenet days, Cleveland Freenet had something similar - but I think you had to make a payment with a check for the account. Of course, that's been many moons ago - so someone who remembers things better can clarify.
I happened to have two Fords that used the same key.. A 1975 Ford Granada and a 1989 Mercury Tracer.. Made the discovery one day when I accidentally inserted the old Granada key I still had into the Escort..
(at least I think it was the Tracer.. it might have been the 91 Tempo or the 93 Tempo.. I went through cars so fast from 16-20 that it's hard to remember..)
Back in the day, I had an old Amiga monitor that developed a short somewhere on the logic board. Never quite figured out where it was, but I did figure out a solution. You see, if you torqued the board just right the short would go away. So I did the quick-and-dirty - I used a piece of rope to hold the board in the proper position. Worked like a charm for me.;)
I later included that monitor with an Amiga 1000 I sold a co-worker. He ended up using it for several years - but the monitor bugged him. So when he finally upgraded to a new system, he did the only logical thing with it.
I hear Amiga monitors make a pretty sight when hit with a 20 gauge.:)
I work with a guy who has to carry nitro with him due to a heart condition. The funny thing about this is that he's no longer allowed to carry his nitro spray with him but can carry the pills. I would think it would be easier to do something nefarious with the pills.
And speaking of oddities, what's up with having to drink breastmilk and formula? I don't know about you, but if I were planning to blow up a plane I don't think having to quaff a little bit of the insidious chemicals would deter me.
A very successful one around me - which was open for years, but has recently closed (I think mostly due to new developments in the area) - incorporated a slightly esoteric menu (vegan items and so forth) with a coffee bar and gaming den.
Kudos for him.. It's always good to see someone stand up for their principles..
Unfortunately, however, this only means that his spot was filled by someone either without those principles - or who is unwilling to stand up for his/her principles..
This is one from my days in the comp lab at college. Guy comes into the office complaining that his mouse only goes up. So I go out to the machine to see what the problem is. Mouse seems to be working for me, so I ask him to show me the problem. Turns out that he's trying to "drive" the mouse - move up, rotate mouse 90 degrees, move left - so forth and so on.
Remember, this is the land that supported a popular party commonly called the "Know Nothings" for some time.. So I think the name holds less weight than you imagine, all things considered.
Why wouldn't they? They abandoned the Mac Classic users a long while ago, and that would be the same generation of software (which kinda sucks, because MacOS 9 flies on a Wallstreet but OS X sucks).
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...which is why Christ left us with a Church, not a book. He didn't say "go forth and write all this stuff down so that people can argue about it until I come back", he said "Go forth and TEACH all nations, baptising them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit". The Bible came from the Church - not that it was made up by the Church, but that the Church recognized the voice of God in the words of Scripture and "weighed and discarded" that which did not hold up to the standards of Scripture.
To further address your gross exaggerations, there are not "a hundred different versions" of scripture. There is one - that which is recognized by the Church. The gnostic gospels and other forgeries are not God's Word, and the other differences between texts are mostly minor and akin to scribal errors. Doctrine and dogma do not change and have not changed for the preceeding 2000 years.
So then you ignore the "Jihad" which sparked Islamic expansion in the first millenium after Christ and directly led to the Crusades as a defensive retort? The First Crusade was called when Emperor Alexis I asked Pope Urban II for help in driving back invading Muslim forces from Byzantine territory.
You can.. That's why charitable donations are tax deductible..
My cable company just sent me a letter telling me that my broadband is being upgraded to 10Mb in the immediate future - with no additional cost. It may not be as far away as you think.
FYI, I took it in '94 and remember my recruiter extatically telling me that I had only missed 1 question (of course, that could just be how I remember it now, but I digress). It was all good for me, though, because I wanted to go in for Crypto-Linguistics and the recruiter basically told me that my scores qualified me for any job the Army had (and yes, I have friends who are recruiters and know how that can be "massaged"). I was permanently DQ'd though, no waiver recommended, because I had asthma when I was younger.
In any case, at that time weight was done on a percentage basis. As long as you were under 20% body fat, you were OK to ship - at least for the Army. I used to lift weights 5+ times a week back in those days, and was over the weight limit.
Not AOL, which is what the GP referred to. Neither did the Airport in its first implementations.
Money orders, cashier's checks, Bidpay, Western Union, eGold, so forth and so on..
..was my AP English class in a nutshell.. ;)
Have you eaten at one of those "chinese buffets" lately?
Yeah, but we all know the tragedy that happens when they carry Goose.
Back in the Freenet days, Cleveland Freenet had something similar - but I think you had to make a payment with a check for the account. Of course, that's been many moons ago - so someone who remembers things better can clarify.
You call that souped up? ;)
My Amiga Tower of Power (before I sold it) had:
Finally, the Amiga is back baby!!! :)
Scary....
Very, very scary...
I happened to have two Fords that used the same key.. A 1975 Ford Granada and a 1989 Mercury Tracer.. Made the discovery one day when I accidentally inserted the old Granada key I still had into the Escort..
(at least I think it was the Tracer.. it might have been the 91 Tempo or the 93 Tempo.. I went through cars so fast from 16-20 that it's hard to remember..)
Granted, it would be much clearer as Windows Media-based, but I believe that's what the summary was alluding to.
Back in the day, I had an old Amiga monitor that developed a short somewhere on the logic board. Never quite figured out where it was, but I did figure out a solution. You see, if you torqued the board just right the short would go away. So I did the quick-and-dirty - I used a piece of rope to hold the board in the proper position. Worked like a charm for me. ;)
:)
I later included that monitor with an Amiga 1000 I sold a co-worker. He ended up using it for several years - but the monitor bugged him. So when he finally upgraded to a new system, he did the only logical thing with it.
I hear Amiga monitors make a pretty sight when hit with a 20 gauge.
Assuming you're playing the 2600 version, you might want to get your TV checked. The area between the Asteroids should be black.
Oh, and be careful with pulling down to warp. It can throw you into the darndest areas.
I work with a guy who has to carry nitro with him due to a heart condition. The funny thing about this is that he's no longer allowed to carry his nitro spray with him but can carry the pills. I would think it would be easier to do something nefarious with the pills.
And speaking of oddities, what's up with having to drink breastmilk and formula? I don't know about you, but if I were planning to blow up a plane I don't think having to quaff a little bit of the insidious chemicals would deter me.
A very successful one around me - which was open for years, but has recently closed (I think mostly due to new developments in the area) - incorporated a slightly esoteric menu (vegan items and so forth) with a coffee bar and gaming den.
Kudos for him.. It's always good to see someone stand up for their principles..
Unfortunately, however, this only means that his spot was filled by someone either without those principles - or who is unwilling to stand up for his/her principles..
This is one from my days in the comp lab at college. Guy comes into the office complaining that his mouse only goes up. So I go out to the machine to see what the problem is. Mouse seems to be working for me, so I ask him to show me the problem. Turns out that he's trying to "drive" the mouse - move up, rotate mouse 90 degrees, move left - so forth and so on.
Remember, this is the land that supported a popular party commonly called the "Know Nothings" for some time.. So I think the name holds less weight than you imagine, all things considered.
Why wouldn't they? They abandoned the Mac Classic users a long while ago, and that would be the same generation of software (which kinda sucks, because MacOS 9 flies on a Wallstreet but OS X sucks).