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Unfortunately the network I like to access via VPN is my home network for when I'm away from home, so VPN is a big advantage for me. I like the idea of streaming movies to my iphone on the fly as well and although vpn isn't entirely necessary for this, it helps :) Your point about open source and apps being mostly free are good ones though. I may well move to the G1 when I've exhuasted my iphone, hopefully by that point they'll have fixed all the small problems and the bigger ones like no VPN support - I mean an awful lot of the business market down the drain. Many people cannot even access their e-mail unless connected via VPN.

Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning - Bill Gates

I've not read all the replies to this thread, it's still too early in the morning for me to even consider reading anything longer than two sentences and taking any of it in, however I thought I'd point out that while they won't stop patrons entering the temple with facial hair, they do prefer them to be clean shaven. Also any temple staff and voluntary workers have to be missionary standards i.e. clean shaven. I don't know if this applies to all church employees or just the temples.

I have doubts about the G1 already... no VPN support! That's me and a entire chunk of the market they have lost... no doubt it will come eventually, albeit too late for a lot of people. I'm normally a fan of google as well.

Yeah, I thought about that but I don't see how you can take the Lords name in vein without meaning to or realising it and I'm sure none of us would. I thought there might be something else at play.

Don't know if I'm missing something obvious here, but why do you type replacing certain letters with a dash?

Or, coming back to reality, where it will benefit the country exerting the influence the most in whatever subtle way

Apparently there is one on the android market called 'scriptures'. Just search for that. It's from digitalbias.com. Should allow you to access them when you have no signal.

A bit off topic, but for those who have firefox, type about:mozilla into your address bar. And you didn't believe you were a member of a cult!

I know the feeling! When I was at college I did several units over the time I was there, each unit lasting six months. During the first three months I'd literally do nothing in the way of work... I'd go to lectures (most of the time) and that's about it. During the latter three months I'd have to work my butt off in order to catch up and during the first year I was there I never had time to work above a C (our pass grades are marked from E - A* with A* being the highest and anything lower than an E was a fail). So that affected my final grade which wasn't as good as it could have been and it's now something I have to live with. I remember I left myself with so much to catch up with each time that I'd often save my work and leave the computer at 2am, go to sleep on the couch next to the computer, get up at 4am and start work again. The day before the deadline was always the biggest killer, I'd work for 24 hours straight, go into college arrives just seconds before the deadline. Then go home and catch up on sleep, whilst worrying that I might have missed things out because I didn't have time to check it. All of this because I couldn't be bothered to work the first three months so ended up with six months work to do in three months. And did I learn? Not really... it took me until the very last set of units we did before leaving college for me to get my act together and incidently those grades were the best I got throughout the entire time there. So I can't really give you any advice on how to motivate yourself (as I never really found any magical solution to the problem) other than the knowlege that you have to live with the grades you get for the rest of your working life. Or put another couple of years in to do in again which is really a waste of time.

Wow, seeing as they are introducing bar coded temple recommends, I can't see a reason it's such lax security on garments. I just looked on facebook and found about 20 different matching names and date of births, all who I know to hold temple recommends. I'm pretty sure you probably have to be a friend of the person to see their DOB, but it's not difficult to get someone to add you as their friend even if you don't know them. So basically anyone who is as serious as that guy on youtube will easily find the information they need online in order to buy garments. No point in saying people wouldn't go to that much effort because I saw his videos a while back and he went to a lot of effort to do what he did to mock the church. Not to mention being dressed as a missionary oftens gets them through the checks anyway. It simply depends who is behind the till, to a lot of people a missionary badge is classed as a form of ID... which is not that much worse than a name and DOB. Before barcodes were introduced on recommends (which has been very recently done), the only way intruders in the temple with stolen/revoked recommends were spotted was by a 20-30 A4 page long print out of all recently lost and revoked recommends at the recommend desk. The person at the desk was advised to simply listen to the spirit and if prompted to check the print out, to do so. Clearly this method didn't work, otherwise they wouldn't have changed it. This lax security on garments won't work either.

I do anyway mate

I use google. Not only is it the website I use most on a day-to-day basis, but it's quick to load (I cannot stand slow loading webpages, particularly as my home page) and never has any adverts apart from a quick text link here and there. Perfect IMO.

catch 22 there. Damned if you do, damned if you don't .

Wow congrats. You make me feel young, I've lived only 3 years more than you have been married To think what the world must have been like the year you were born, I have no idea. Well, that's easily solved with wikipeda: 1889 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

It's spelt stonehenge, and it's not too far away. If you live in the USA it'd be a very short distance for you in comparision to the journeys you are used to

Not to mention the human sacrifice we hold in the basement of the temples! (this was a joke by the way... no doubt some lurker will take it as truth)

Okay first of all, not everyone has your point of view. While it wouldn't bother me, it bothers a lot of people and that's the point. The last thing the church wants is to be in headlines in the media. Secondly, why is it that I so regularly I see the kind of statement I've highlighted in bold on this forum? It wasn't really directed at me as I don't hold the views you were bashing, however you are basically saying "oh they don't agree with me, they must be stupid". I'm sick of reading comments like that. Do you really have nothing more related to facts to support your argument that you have to resort to personal attacks? I apologise if this seems an extreme response, but I really cannot stand ad-hominem.

Oooh many. When out and about to random places, I usually buy volvic flavoured water. In the mornings I drink milk (and often in the evening too) and in the evening hot chocolate. At work I am well known for my coke/pepsi consumption... it helps to keep me alert, though I'm trying to drink more water at work. I also have a passion for mcdonalds strawberry milkshake, though that rarely happens.

I don't think you'd be very impressed if a church you disliked tried to claim your deceased parents as baptised into their church without your familes authorisation. You need to look at it from the other persons perspective as well. I'm not saying everyone dislikes the church, but a lot of people do and therefore it would cause unwanted attention. The last thing the church wants is a very public legal battle and the media really do like a challege at how well they can destroy a person or organisation. The other thing is that people would constantly be choosing to be baptised on behalf of famous people. Imagine how many times famous popstars would be baptised by the youth?

I can only assume this is what you are referring to: Earth In the Beginning ??

That is not something I expected to read at all. Having never been in that situation, the only thing I can really say is don't fall down into that deep pit of depression. It's so easy to do and so difficult to get out once you fall right down. Look after yourself, I don't know much about you at all but keep doing things that you would normally do on a day to day basis. If you have a job, keep going in to work as normal, to consider calling in sick one day due to feeling down is a mistake and will only make things worse. Keep laughing and smiling, regardless of what you feel on the inside. If others can be fooled into thinking there is nothing wrong, you'll eventually start to feel that way yourself. Rather than pondering on what you don't have, think about the good things that you do have. I've seen this happen to so many people including my own parents and you can't help but admire those who carry on as normal even though you know how much they are hurting on the inside. Keep yourself busy, get involved in things if you have any gaps to fill. Get a hobby if you need to. Keep people around you. You need to mourn for the loss of the husband he could have been, but don't let it get to excess.

Lol, there is more to that site when you look at the source code (don't ask, it's an annoying habit I have with most websites). In the meta keywords (what some search engines use to know roughly what the site is about) we have: <meta name="keywords" content="[B]swine, flu, swine flu, do i have swine flu, do i?, I HAVE SWINE FLU!?, ****!, I'M DEAD!, WE'RE ALL GOING TO DIE!, RUN REDDIT! RUN![/B]" />And in the meta author (supposed to be who designed the page - again, for the benefit of certain search engines) we have: <meta name="author" content="[B]Pigsy McFlu[/B]" />And then if you follow the CSS code link (basic code used for the layout of the site) we have in a comment at the top: /*============================================================ Do I Have Swine Flu? YES, you thick *******. You have it. Notes: ================ By reading this, you're essentially giving yourself Swine Flu. *From Reddit* ================ *Aguyinachair 9 points 1 hour ago:* *Has Madagascar closed its port?* ================ No, but it doesn't matter. They're already infected. You can blame the rapid spread of the DNS. In This CSS: ================ +SWINE FLU ============================================================ +SWINE FLU --------------------------------------------- */I've never received so much information about a website from looking at the source code before

I don't think I would. Outside of church influence, gambling for me involves way too much effort for such little gain. I'd probably be involved in the odd small style holiday casino with family or friends, but only on the one off occasion. I'm also kind of a scrooge when it comes to money lol, only in certain areas though and I'm positive gambling would be one of them.

Lol, so basically women are expensive, a lot of people pretend to know a lot about them but few people really do, they look flashy but when you become familiar with them you realise they don't do as much as they were advertised to do and when they break they can be really difficult to fix and sometimes due to the nature of the breakage it would be much cheaper and a lot less hassle just to get another one. I'll get my coat...