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Microsoft didn't provide a patch for Windows 98 since they don't support it anymore. Since Microsoft doesn't support it anymore, most software companies will not either. There is an unofficial patch you can use (basically makes a registry change). You can find it at Windows 98, ME DST Patch

The video is sarcasm and intended to be humorous. It is in the correct forum now. Unfortunately, some people are too stupid to see the sarcasm and take it seriously. If you're in the latter category and were looking for a political discussion on it, this "wizard" would be more than happy to hit the delete key. What were you intending to "contribute in your own little way"?

If you had to manually adjust you PC, then it would throw off what you're seeing on the board also. Basically you PC is set to the wrong time zone now because DST is in effect but your PC isn't using it. After Sunday at 2:00 am, you can turn DST back on (since that is the former date for DST) and you should have the correct time again. Or you could apply the DST patches so you PC knows about the changes in the DST dates. For Windows XP, go to update.microsoft.com. Apple has their own for Macs. Ditto for Linux and Solaris.

Don't think I'll be trying this anytime soon, but it looks cool.

I think you're right on the whole sentence. It was originally on a corps night but they may have repeated it later on a STS after I made my exit. When I heard it second-hand from a corps, Paul Allen's lawsuit was still active and they were being careful what they said publicly. The way the statement stands can only mean Harve was referring to spiritual adultery because The Way never taught anything on physical adultery -- for the obvious reason that everyone at the top was practicing it. Karl Kahler documented that VPW was most likely having an affair as early as the 1950's and was the primary reason he resigned his position in his church to start his own thing later to be called The Way International (got caught having an affair with his church secretary). Whenever the word came up in a bible verse they were covering in a teaching it was always clarified as meaning spiritual adultery -- including what is in the Ten Commandments. They defined spiritual adultery as God seeing the worship of other gods equivalent to what a prostitute does. Since they did not pay anything when practicing their physical adultery, it must be OK with God (especially since all those O.T. "leaders" got to have multiple wives). My ex used the self evident excuse for TWI. Problem is, TWI sets a doctrine for anything they think they can control -- finances, state of your house, what's hanging on the walls, etc. It is also known that they knew of affairs occurring within TWI outside of their top circle. Adultery is a fact of life that every married person has to chose or not chose to do. It is a prime target for a doctrine. Leaving it for their members to assume it is wrong based on what they learned prior to joining TWI is contrary to how TWI functions. I would be very interested in seeing what is stated in Living God's Word as a Family. If anyone has a copy of the class or the syllabus, send it in. We have several people more than qualified to do a critical analysis of it -- more qualified than the people teaching the class.

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Here they are being built and exploded.

I have no idea why I felt like expunging a rant on TWI this morning? Strange day....

Why assume they have privately repudiated a doctrine because they no longer teach it publicly? The Way has several doctrines they believe to be true that they do not teach publicly. They are usually too controversial to be public, drawing too much criticism on them, or if their rank and file members knew about them there would be a mass exodus (without the genocide encompassing all first born males). Seven years ago people learned of their "every woman in the kingdom belongs to the king" doctrine, as well as the physical adultery being ok if you can handle it doctrine (well, many knew it before but this was when everyone who wanted to know could have easy access to the information). A mass exodus occurred -- they played damage control but never repudiated the doctrines. The furthest they went was one corpse night teaching in 2000 -- a limited private teaching not available to the rank and file members -- in which one sentence was uttered: "adultery is wrong." I didn't hear this teaching, but heard of it first hand from the local corpse who did. He was amazed because it was the first time he had every heard it taught in The Way. I never heard anything taught about adultery. The way it was done, I have no doubt that Harve Platig silently put the word "spiritual" in front of the sentence so he could claim honesty. The only reason Craig is not still president is because of the outcry of the rank and file members. Without that, he would still be there. He tried to remain, taking a break from teaching publicly. That lasted two weeks. When the outcry from the perceived (and real) hypocritical treatment of him would not go away and Paul Allen ready to expose all their dirty secrets in a public court room, they had no choice but "put him on 'spiritual probation'" -- where he remains to this day. But the doctrine lives on and is very guarded from the public or low-level members. Craig was an idiot for putting that in their foundational class. A product of his ego wanting to prove that he can do biblical research like VPW (I'd put that research on par with VPW -- VPW just did a better job of selling his crappy research), his addiction to sex with women (plural) besides his wife and his fascination with homosexuality. I'm sure Craig really saw all that in Genesis and he could picture the entire scene in his head -- the whole time thinking God was playing a tape of the actual event for him. It's no different than a lot of other things they believe. But putting it in their foundational class, where the attempt at initial indoctrination is made and allegiance to TWI is either gained or lost, was just plain stupid (and not the only stupid thing he did with that class -- remember the 'in your face' rant on the trinity in the first 20 minutes of the class?). But Craig's ego demanded it go into "his" class. The Way has taken a lot of heat over this teaching. But the worst part is they have lost many new recruits, along with their money, because they hear of this teaching and (rightly so) choose not to go any further with the group. Removing it from their foundational class is purely a marketing decision. If The Way (or any other group) does not publicly recant a doctrine, there is no reason to assume they do not believe and practice it anymore. I challenge anyone, especially those who are still active members, to name one doctrine Craig established or continued from VPW The Way has since repudiated since he supposedly left (even that has its doubts). Doctrines may disappear from the public, but unless officially repudiated, they live on in the fantasy world of those who have risen high enough in The Way's pecking order -- having attained enough "spiritual maturity" to handle them.

You're probably too tall to pass for 13. ;)

The owners of the building now perched on a hill did not want to sell, even though everyone around them did and the bulldozers showed up.

Stereo Eclipse The dark spot is the moon.

On the subject of toilets, here's a rather large collection of "custom" ones (German web site).

I'm an Internet junkie. Spend too much time on it.

Cool time-lapse picture of a prior lunar eclipse.

Interesting toilet: Best. Toilet. Ever.

Sulphur Hexafluoride is six times heavier than air.

View the Milky Way at 10 million light years from the Earth. Then move through space towards the Earth in successive orders of magnitude until you reach a tall oak tree just outside the buildings of the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory in Tallahassee, Florida. After that, begin to move from the actual size of a leaf into a microscopic world that reveals leaf cell walls, the cell nucleus, chromatin, DNA and finally, into the subatomic universe of electrons and protons. Secret Worlds: The Universe Within

It's funny! I'm prepared for a new ripping.

The Cafe server does have the correct time. Is your PC showing the correct time?