Jgnat. I agree it would be nice if we all used the metric system. It will never happen. Look at the way we build our stick frame houses in The States. Studs and rafters are placed on 12inch and 16inch centers. Plywood and sheet rock are sold as 4 foot sheets. Under the Clinton Administration a study was conducted to try to change over and the cost was counter intuitive. Imagine the cost of changing every interstate sign in America. The UK road system has about 2000 miles total while the US has about 150,000 miles of highways and another 50,000 miles of interstates. It would cost way to much in these tough economic times. I don't have a mental construct of what 20 cm is however I could probably draw one foot out to a half an inch of accuracy. I would love to see the change, but I am so comfortable with the standard system.
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I like you more if you are literratte
by usualusername inas a daily visitor of this site i am shocked by how judgemental i am.. .
if someone makes a valid point but does not spell well it colours my judgement.. .
if someone who is a clown has excellent grammar i give them leeway.. as an aside i am a gramaphobe.. .
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I like you more if you are literratte
by usualusername inas a daily visitor of this site i am shocked by how judgemental i am.. .
if someone makes a valid point but does not spell well it colours my judgement.. .
if someone who is a clown has excellent grammar i give them leeway.. as an aside i am a gramaphobe.. .
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A few points..
1. Intelligence comes in different shapes and sizes. I can write the integral and answer it for the velocity required to throw the tablet I'm writing on into a specified orbit. I have to use spell check constantly. Some times, I confuse the spelling of who and how. Just because an individual has trouble spelling, it does not make his or her point invalid. It only means he or she has trouble spelling. It is not a sign of intelligence.
2. As far as the British vs American colour vs color, I think we as a nation have earned the right to spell our words the way we want to. After all, we have individual states with larger land masses, population, and GDP than all of Britian. Btw. The next time,you eat an English muffin remember the wheat in your muffin probably has a little "flavour" of Nebraska in it.
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Diners Drive Ins and Dives challenge.
by Defianttruth ini'm a huge fan of this show.
i've decided the family and i are going to take road trips to visit different places highlighted in the show.
i've been to 3 so far.
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Diners Drive Ins and Dives challenge.
by Defianttruth ini'm a huge fan of this show.
i've decided the family and i are going to take road trips to visit different places highlighted in the show.
i've been to 3 so far.
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I'm a huge fan of this show. I've decided the family and I are going to take road trips to visit different places highlighted in the show. I've been to 3 so far. Anybody else been to one?
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Faders shunned now?
by Sammy Jenkis inhi all so my family had their c.a.
last weekend and my mother dropped this one on me, she'll now be treating me as a df'd person per info she received from a talk at the assembly.
apparently a fader should be treated as "bad association" given the fact they up and left the holy "truth" to splash around in vomit.. .
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Ask her why she is not following Watchtower directives to reach out to ones who are faders. Then have her read this.
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I need a change.
by Defianttruth ini am thinking of renting a house in europe from nov 2013 to feb 2014. any suggestions?
i am leaning to the south of france.
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I am thinking of renting a house in Europe from Nov 2013 to Feb 2014. Any suggestions? I am leaning to the south of France.
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Internship
by Defianttruth ini hired three summer interns this year.
all three are senior level engineering students from my alma mater.
i had one working on a project with me and i asked him to replace a bolt on a machine we are building.
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BTB don't let it get you down.
Most positions like this are filled before the position is posted. In my case, one of my friends who is a department head picks them out for me. My company is small and my interns are treated like glorified shop hands and go-fors. You could make more working the summer at Burger King. As far as the girl getting the job never let that worry you. Engineering is a field ran by men so the girls are always treated with preferentially. If she's hot it makes it even worse.
I do have a rule about personal contact with jwn people, but I forget what discipline are you studying?
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Internship
by Defianttruth ini hired three summer interns this year.
all three are senior level engineering students from my alma mater.
i had one working on a project with me and i asked him to replace a bolt on a machine we are building.
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I hired three summer interns this year. All three are senior level engineering students from my alma mater. I had one working on a project with me and I asked him to replace a bolt on a machine we are building. He came back with a bolt that was too big. Then, he came back with one that was too little. I told him to get the right one. He would find it in the fastenal box in our consumables room. After, an eternity he came back and said, " I found a 9/16thsand it was too big. I tried a 7/16ths and it was too little and there is no 8/16ths in the box". I was laughing and pissed at the same time.
He made me think of the witnesses I was raised around. I don't know why, but he did and I was instantly pissed at him and can't wait for him to go back to school. I guess it's because I wish my family could look at the problem in front them and solve it. It really is that simple.
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Will Google Balloons help turn the tide in developing countries?
by cedars inwell, i'm back on jwn so i may as well start a new thread!.
this story caught my eye on sky news recently.... http://news.sky.com/story/1104007/google-balloon-project-gets-off-the-ground.
it's basically a new initiative from google to bring the internet to far flung parts of the earth including parts of africa that are simply not wired up to the internet yet.. i'm not sure how the accessibility will work in terms of subscriptions etc, but google seem serious about it and early tests have been positive.. so, the question raised in my mind was, could this turn the tide against the watchtower?
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Wireless data systems are only about 1 percent wireless in terms of the average broadcast length. If I send a message on my iPhone it will travel to a tower where it is converted to a land based signal and broadcast to other processing centers. The power used by these towers is typically between .5kv to 3.5kv(as much as 70kv on large towers) That's a lot more power than that small basket ball size unit could carry on board. Also I checked the winds aloft for Africa at 10,000 ft and it was 36 knots about 38 miles per hour. So let's say these babies get a 20 mile range (which is stretching it at best) one would have to launch a new unit every 31.6 minutes to establish a chain for communication. That's not even weighing in the aviation dangers of this device. The thin soft walls of the fabric are invisible to radar. An airplane would never see the balloons in IMC conditions. Having two hundred in the air at a time and launching around 48 per day would allow for about .00001 coverage Africa. To cover the whole land mass (using a 20 mile radius) it would take around 40,000 units with 1.9 million launches per day. I just don't see the efficacy of 720 million launches per year. I dont think people who have limited food and water could support this system.
Warning all math was done in my head.
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What rumors have you heard about yourself since leaving?
by donny ingood morning all,.
i have had the opportunity over the last couple of years to speak with a couple of jw's who had either attended the same congregation i did or were married to someone who to the same one.
for the record, i disassociated myself in 1992 due to being followed around by an elder or two who had heard that i had ray franz's "crisis of conscience" in my possession.
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1. I joined the military. (I was told this to my face). I have a full beard and long hair.
2. I was homeless and on drugs. I can look the part for that, but the funny thing is I'm moderately successful. It goes to show the JW mind set of how an individual dresses and the correlation to life success. It makes me laugh at the business dress rule. I own a medium sized small business and I wear a suit about 1 percent of the time. The elders are on disability or wash windows and they wear suits 50 percent of the time.
3. I had fathered many children I do not care for. I don't know where that came from.
4. I am cruel to my family jw or not. That's kinda half true. I just don't like them. I get along with my wife's family better, but the list of people I've been cruel to is short. It goes against my personality.
5. I cheat on my wife and past girlfriends. I've never cheated on my wife. It never took me long to get over an ex though. I guess that's where that rumor started.
6. I'm involved in organized crime. I gave the teller of that rumor an ominous frown and said I couldn't talk about any of that. I laughed pretty hard after he left.
7. I am abusive to my wife and children. That one is really funny. I'm the biggest softy the world has ever seen.
8. I have a drinking problem. I drink about a beer a week on average.
9. I am a baptist preacher. Really? That's the best they can come up with.
10. I owned a strip club in New Orleans. Even though I've only been there a hand full of times and never to a strip club.
What worries me is these are the ones I've heard. I wonder how many more there are. It seems I am far more interesting in Jw gossip than in real life.