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TechnoAtheist
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 Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2002 3:59 pm Post subject: Suffering the wrath of Satan's Broadcasting Company |
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A month.
I've been waiting now for just over a month for Earthlink to hook up DSL into my new house.
This afternoon I decided to give them a call to see what was causing the latest delay. Apparently, (after giving me some weird crap about there being some "residual DSL signal on the line") I found out the real answer.
I am, supposedly, just out of reach of one of the DSL offices.
Ladies and gentlemen of the press, I ain't buying that.
Why? I live in San Jose, CA, the left ventricle of the Silicon Valley. I live in a neighborhood thick with geeks, part of some sort of suburban techy equivalent of a leper colony.
No, I believe other, more sinister hands are at work because now I, ex-SBC customer, slime Earthlink customer may be forced to become a new SBC customer again because they own the link from the office to my house.
Frankly, I don't trust them further than I can comfortably spit the building they're located in.
*sigh* DSL. It's electric crack.
All I can say is that they're NOT getting their grimy little hands on my yahoo.com account.
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Hetta
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| Posted: Tue Nov 05, 2002 4:24 pm Post subject: Re: Suffering the wrath of Satan's Broadcasting Company |
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| TechnoAtheist wrote: | | I've been waiting now for just over a month for Earthlink to hook up DSL into my new house. |
There was a comparison of local ADSL providers in the major Helsinki paper.
MOST of them deliver 6-8 weeks from order, even if their website says "2 weeks". The ones I signed up with, about a week before that newspaper article, connected me in three days ("It'll take a week, is that ok?" "Sure." "Hello, this is your ADSL technician. You're now connected." "Wow, _that_ was fast!")
And, with ADSL, I can go online from linux, too. Wheee!
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Maracus
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| Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 2:16 pm Post subject: you're all going to hate me now. |
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I live right down the office from my telephone co-operative, I also live in an Amish community, where people with black hats still drive horses and buggies(hows that for a super hero, "BUGGY MAN" able to erect barns in the course of a day, muck the stalls, and still get completely hammered that night, all without breaking the bishops rule). It took me two hours to get connected, and that's because I got a bad modem first time round.
Sigh, it's just not fair is it.
At least you probably have a movie theater though.
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steveo
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| Posted: Wed Nov 06, 2002 3:17 pm Post subject: Re: you're all going to hate me now. |
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| Maracus wrote: | | hows that for a super hero, "BUGGY MAN" able to erect barns in the course of a day, muck the stalls, and still get completely hammered that night, all without breaking the bishops rule |
He works at Dutch Wonderland.
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Maracus
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| Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 8:34 am Post subject: dutch? |
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Your mennonites are Dutch? All ours here are German mennonites from Mexico.
Try to figure that one out.
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steveo
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| Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 11:34 am Post subject: |
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Pennsylvania Dutch = Deutsch.
It's an odd bastardization of the language, but you get used to it growing up there. Just like they're not all Deustch. Some are scottish, some are french.
Incidentally, Amish != Mennonite. That's like saying Baptists and Methodists are the same.
This "Useless Fact of the Day" has been brought to you by Ban roll-on.
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Hetta
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| steveo wrote: | | That's like saying Baptists and Methodists are the same. |
They aren't?
Huh.
Well, my education included christianity as split into evangelic, catholic, and greek-orthodox. And other religions, like islam, hinduism, shinto, etc.
Nobody mentioned methods or baptisms anywhere. Nor did they mention amish or mennites or such.
Which is the lot that runs Utah, again?
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Ununnilium
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| Hetta wrote: | | Well, my education included christianity as split into evangelic |
Truthfully, I don't think SEELE is representative of mainstream Christianity.
| Quote: | | Which is the lot that runs Utah, again? |
Mormons. They're the ones with more Bible than the others. ^_^v
Andrew "NO .SIG MAN" "Juan" Perron, and then there's people who follow the TGIF "Teen Angel" show... |
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| Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 3:12 pm Post subject: |
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| Hetta wrote: | Well, my education included christianity as split into evangelic, catholic, and greek-orthodox.
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Nobody mentioned methods or baptisms anywhere. Nor did they mention amish or mennites or such. |
Actually, the best way to divide christian sects is Evangelical (single act of salvation, only the "saved" get in to heaven) and Orthodoxy (salvation through penance, just about anyone can get into heaven, how they act here on Earth determines how much heaven they get).
Baptists are Fundamental Evangelicals, which means once you're saved, through spiritual rebirth (born again), you're always saved. After you're "saved," you have to have an actual physical baptism to get into heaven. "Believe and be baptised."
Methodists are Orthodox, and believe that the rituals of the Old Testament are binding to modern believers, the difference being that Jesus' death fulfilled all blood sacrifice requirements. Everyone's a sinner and needs constant spiritual renewal.
The Mennonites are descended from the Free Church, extreme Orthodox. The Amish are a branch of Mennonites; same basic tenets but a few differences in practice.
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| Ununnilium wrote: | | Hetta wrote: | | Well, my education included christianity as split into evangelic |
Truthfully, I don't think SEELE is representative of mainstream Christianity. |
Hear that sound? That's a you-seeking bitch-slap.
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Ununnilium
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| Posted: Thu Nov 07, 2002 4:41 pm Post subject: |
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| steveo wrote: | | Ununnilium wrote: | | Hetta wrote: | | Well, my education included christianity as split into evangelic |
Truthfully, I don't think SEELE is representative of mainstream Christianity. |
Hear that sound? That's a you-seeking bitch-slap. |
Mwahahahaha. I was afraid nobody would get that one. Except Jeff Nimoy, who would then turn LCL into "milkshakes".
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Maracus
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| Posted: Fri Nov 08, 2002 9:25 am Post subject: Where they're from |
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Our mennonites were from Germany, during Hitlers rule, they were not so politely asked to leave, they moved down to Mexico, where they were also not so politely asked to leave. So that's why all our Mexican Mennonites speak german. You're also exactly right about the Mennonite not the same, Amish tend to be Mennonite, but all Mennonites aren't Amish. Think of it as Amish as a way of life, and Mennonite as a religion.
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TechnoAtheist
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So I come home from the liquid snow experience to see...
<kimmie>
Like OMIGAWD There are like totally FOUR GREEN LIGHTY THINGS on my like DSL modem Psych! Psych! Psych! This so totally rules and stuff!! YAY! So like let me log in... and...
Access denied.
Ok, well, let me re-enter a different password and...
Access denied.
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| Code: | | The following text has been removed due to potential references to various members of a major communications network suffering the ill minded attentions of a herd of elephant seals that have just finished a two month long stag film festival. It has been removed not only to protect the accidental viewing by anyone under the age of 147, but because coming by to replace your monitor gets awfully expensive. Suffice to say that the person responsible is rather quite upset, and that the Ginger Snaps from Trader Joe's are pretty much history. |
the gum stuck in their mother's purse and stuff it so deep in their
| Code: | | Ah, well, we're sorry. We thought that he was finished. Apparently he was just inhaling. Dreadfully sorry about all of this, but trust us, you really don't want to know the full text, well, unless you were looking for a good way to remove the paint from the walls, of your neighbors house, in Cleveland, but really you don't want to read this. Just imagine those funny cartoon symbols floating over his head with the puffs of steam shooting from his ears. Oh, wait, I think he finished. |
| Code: | | Uhm, no, he just passed out. |
| Code: | | You know, he really needs to learn to inhale more often when he does that. |
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Ununnilium
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| Posted: Sun Nov 10, 2002 2:10 pm Post subject: Additional Information |
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By the way, if anyone wants to know more about Amish, Mennonites, Christianity in general, or any other religion, they should visit http://www.religioustolerance.org/ . *Very* good site; objective and intelligent, IMHO.
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