zil

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  1. I have to go renew my driver's license now, but I'll have a word or two for you when I get back (assuming I get back). You could save yourself by posting a FP-written response.
  2. Undecided. I've been lurking more over the past few weeks. What I can't figure out is why the Comet thread has yet to mention any of the other reindeer - I mean, if he hits the Earth that hard, I'm thinking it's gonna affect the other reindeer and the sleigh. And this would indicate Santa doesn't keep them on Earth (not enough room), but that would also explain how they manage to haul so many presents around so quickly... Sure, the moon is interesting and all, but not nearly so important...
  3. Best soap ever! MG is my generous soap benefactor, and has sent me soap on multiple occasions. No idea why commercial folk can't make soap this good.
  4. Look to the right side of the menu bar, right of the magnifying glass, for a 3x3 grid. Click on it. Should see a "Directory and Map" option, of not, click on "All Tools" and look on that page. (No, I'm not back. Here by accident, and decided to clear notifications before closing the tab.)
  5. I was thinking others could help build the list. Some are obvious (there are actually 24 hours in a day, not 12; time math is easier; you don't have to ask whether "at eight" is AM or PM; etc.). But some are fun - like The Great Salad of 1810.
  6. You can describe your dinner as: "The Great Salad of 1810".
  7. And now, for your viewing pleasure, one of the finest-looking knives1 ever made: It's enough to make a girl swoon. 1Not available in the UK.
  8. Your family are demanding that you give up your life not to save their lives, but for their pleasure and convenience - this is murder (or slavery, if murder is too harsh for your mind, but really, what difference is there between ending a person's mortality and using it all up for your gain?). They are demanding that you give up your liberty for their pleasure and convenience. This is slavery. They are demanding that you give up the product of your honest labor for their pleasure and convenience. This is theft. Their actions are immoral and no commandment of God, nor any decent law of mankind demands that you submit yourself to it. Do whatever you need to, Sunday, to change your thinking on this - you have an inherent, God-given right to your own life, your own liberty, and to the product of your own honest labors. To give any of these willingly for a righteous cause is virtuous. To have them taken from you by force is a crime against all that is decent.
  9. Is it kind to enable another person's abuse? Those who abuse need to be forced to face their own problems and take responsibility for their own actions. It may seem unkind, but at the end of the day, it's better (for you and them) than facilitating their bad behavior. If necessary, consider what Zil would do and tell them to grow up and get a room.
  10. Picture, or it didn't happen. Yank the USB and see if it still works. In my experience, USB cables between computer and monitor are only to allow USB ports and (sometimes) speakers built into the monitor to work. And DisplayPort doesn't require USB in order to work. The thing that the monitor-makers missed by a mile is to have their USB ports powered (all the time) from the monitor's power cable rather than its USB cable (so you can use them for charging regardless of whether the monitor is on and regardless of whether it's connected by USB cable to the computer). Dorks. (One of the USB ports in my laptop does this - runs power regardless of whether the laptop is on.)
  11. (Only remotely accurate of my online persona, though. The real thing is a different matter.) As for not posting much, I'm basically on my way out, can't drum up the interest or the time - I've got my creative groove back and what's happening inside my head is far more interesting. I have to go now. I left three characters standing in the hallway and they're getting impatient to move on.
  12. Maybe the Mexicans should get in on this - it could turn out to be like building a fence between your property and your neighbor's - too far onto your own property, and after so many years, the part of your property on "his" side of the fence is legally considered his. Meanwhile: Bordering scout wall sites Walling scout border sites Siting border scout walls Scouting border wall sites Scouting walls border site ....there's just all kinds of fun you can have with these four words.
  13. Clearly you don't spend enough time reading handbook 2. IMO, everything we have indicates with perfect clarity that God wants children to only be born to a father and mother who are sealed for time and all eternity. Anything less than that varies from tragic to tolerable to intolerable to willful rejection of God's commands. IMO, this falls into the latter category.
  14. https://www.lds.org/study/manual/handbook-2-administering-the-church/selected-church-policies-and-guidelines/selected-church-policies?lang=eng#title_number71 Especially: Handbook 2 answers a multitude of questions.
  15. Nope. I'm a starving artist now. My days of supplying fountain pens to the poor, inkless masses are over.
  16. Never. I'm done with being a computer genius, and this isn't a computing forum. (You'd even have a hard time finding evidence of my old title - Goddess of Paradox - as it seems only to exist on an obscure NNTP server now. (And some fiction thing has stolen my title for their own use, thus interfering with google searches.) Apparently I've been demoted.)
  17. At least three, apparently. The forum has yet to revoke or add any...
  18. That's a VGA port. Your cable should plug into it. Therefore, your existing monitor should work fine.