WordWolf

The entire "old wineskin/present truth" thing was an lcm fiction. The truth is PRESENT like people are present in a roll-call. The truth is HERE-THAT'S what's meant by the "present truth"-the truth that's here. We don't have to wait for the truth, it's here!

If it counted as 2 firewalls, I'd be concerned. One is a toy that doesn't seem to do much, and NEVER affects OUTGOING traffic. Supposedly, the MOST it does is make your PC a little harder to "read". That having been said, I have no reason to turn it off. Then again, feel free to do so once you have ZoneAlarm running- would be no BIG loss anyway....

Don't worry about leaving the built-in firewall on. I do and it probably makes NO difference. Remember, it's a Microsoft product. "Microsoft security" is a lot like "honest politician" or "friendly fire." If you haven't downloaded all the critical updates, the exact page for XP users is http://v4.windowsupdate.microsoft.com/en/default.asp There's a corner box: "Protect your PC." Read it and follow the directions. It has nothing to do with the updates, tho. :)--> "Scan for updates". When it's 100% complete scanning, download ALL the "critical updates" it displays. If this has been a while, this could take hours. Each one plugs a different security "hole" that MS should have fixed before releasing XP. However, they don't care much about security, so they didn't. Once you've done that, run the antivirus scan I mentioned before. It will take an hour. A better link for the same scan is http://housecall.trendmicro.com/housecall/start_corp.asp THEN let me know you're ready for more stuff. :)-->

Personally, I'd like to know, also. I mean, it IS a big indicator if they just moved someone else into the house, or if they arranged for her possessions to be shipped to a family member (by prior arrangement.) For that matter, who, legally, owns that building? Does twi own it on paper, or does she? I know vpw signed over her family's farm (the Kipp farm) to twi, but is the house also in their name? Might be, might not be. The WayGB, if no one else, HAS to know this is what they can look forward to, either way, at BEST. twi has a standing policy of firing people as they approach obsolescence, so they can abrogate any legal responsibility. (They're devoid of taking MORAL responsibility, so the LEGAL issues are paramount to them.) The retired bot/bod are possible exceptions. Everybody else is cut free as soon as their usefulness is ended....

Nearly all of the Brady Bunch. (Except Barry Williams and maybe Maureen Mc Cormick.) This is a different curse than the "Different Strokes" curse. I'm waiting to hear that Conrad Bain knocked over a liquor store....

Ok, ZoneAlarm... I use ZoneAlarm. It's got the best reputation of all the free firewalls I know. Its advantages: it is extremely user-friendly, and self-guiding. Ok, firewalls, the basics.... A firewall controls traffic going in and out of your computer. Think of a good firewall as a 300-lb doorman at the velvet rope of your pc. He keeps out the undesirables, and lets in the beautiful people. I hear it slows things down a fraction, but I've never noticed. Besides, it IS a necessity. A firewall must OK programs that want access. Some programs want to access your computer. Sometimes that's good-you want to download something. Sometimes that's bad-someone wants to take over your computer or drop a virus. Some programs in your pc want to access the net. Sometimes that's good-for example, ZoneAlarm will check on its own, and tell you when an update is available for it, offering better security. Sometimes that's bad-a virus made it onto your pc and now wants to e-mail someone all your personal info. The firewall will give you the option of blocking each. With programs you really trust, you can tell it "yes, I approve of this program always, remember that answer next time." With programs you DON'T trust, you can tell it "always block its attempts to call out." (RealOne Media Player keeps trying to reach its server, but on my pc it will NOT succeed until I WANT it to.) I recommend taking a few weeks with it, and learning which programs connect to what. That way, you know which ones you can "always approve", and which to make it ask for permission for. Then, when you see a completely new program you've never heard of suddently ask to access the net, you'll know it wasn't YOU who put it there.... ZoneAlarm has options that allow you to see every attempt to probe your pc at the time it is attempted, or it can just count them and only speak up for permission for access. (That's the "jiggling the doorknob" thing, those probes.) I'd leave that on for 1/2 an hour just to see how often you get probed. Once you get the idea, then you can just let it give you "system alerts". So, if I were you, I'd switch on the built-in firewall, then download ZoneAlarm. Play with that for an hour or so... Then I'd go to http://www.trendmicro.com and have it do an antivirus scan and remove everything that got thru before the firewall was installed. That will take an hour. Then I'd update AdAware and Spybot and run them. Then I'd consider installing a free antivirus program. They generally include 2 things: the scanner (you can scan anytime) the shield (it acts similar to the firewall. When it spots an incoming virus it recognizes, it isolates it and bags it for trash removal. BTW, did you update your Windows program with all the critical updates? There were a few this month alone....

The built-in firewall is ca-ca. I switched mine on and proceeded to download a REAL firewall right after that. It's better than NOT having it on, but it's a toy.

...and in this specific instance, how might one appropriately express or extend that love?

Should you? YES. The more security-conscious here have a firewall and an external router with ITS firewall. The firewall is like installing a lock on your front door. Without it, passers-by can just stroll in. Mind you, some people just do random scans on the internet looking for computers without security, "like jiggling the doorknob." *checks* According to my firewall, I had 29 of those attempts within the past HOUR. Figure you've had about the same. So, if someone's been helping you, you probably DO have a firewall. (If not, you can get one FREE online.)

BTW, I'd recommend the following: A) go to Microsoft's Update site and download all the critical updates B) update your AdAware and Spybot: Search and Destroy. Your firewall and antivirus, while you're at it, also. (Each one should have an option to do so right on it, so long as your internet connection is open.) THEN run everything again. Your security will seem upgraded. Once you've done all that, let me know if you need more advice. Remember, I'm not that technical, so if I can do it, you can do it. :)-->

I don't have a short answer for that. Call up google or your favourite search engine and type in "what is spyware" in quotes. You'll get a bunch of links to sites explaining it.

"Notifications:ON" means you get an e-mail saying "someone added a reply to this thread." Ten replies later, you turn this off because your e-mail is filling with notifications for something you were going to look at in 2 hours anyway. I don't know about your first question.

What was his name? I know the name of one of them, and can easily check if the OTHER name appears anywhere...

Bumping this to the top....

vpw: "I took every correspondence course ever put out by the Moody Bible Institute." Really? Moody keeps records of the people who take their courses....no mention of vpw ANYWHERE...

Let's all come clean and be honest. What do you REALLY think about the place you left? ======================================== (Edited to add the word "POLL".)

Strange- I don't remember "the Thing" ever saying that. Zixar, did you ever see it? You might remember the 70's FF better than me. I didn't start reading them til Mr Fantastic lost his stretching power. (Literally with that issue.) That must have been around '77, though.

I used to have that on a shirt....

We actually discussed this at the GSC before. I can answer without looking at the site. My spook's bigger than their spook. ;)-->

Yeah, I can't top that quote for sheer over-the-topness. ---------------------------------------------------------- I know they did a New Testament Aramaic Interlinear in 3 volumes. I know this because I own a set. It's 3 volumes for ease of reading. The pages are formatted to include the actual word order, and to put them left-right instead of right-left like Aramaic is written. All of that takes space, and the typeface is nicely sized for readability. It's not too shabby. If someone claimed there was an 18-volume set, they need to just say no to drugs.

Taking it as a given that you did exactly that, and he responded exactly that way, it's easy. They programmed more than one response to some menu items. The program selects randomly among the options for which response is played. I put in different commands that resulted in EXACTLY the same footage. (100% identical). "Watch tv" and "take a break". Ever play "OutSmart"? Same basic principle.

My interpretation of things was that he felt things had progressed to the point that no man of conscience in his situation could do otherwise BUT to speak out about a miscarriage of justice, even if he DID want to be left alone. That's my interpretation, though. I have mine, you have yours. One of them might be right (or neither).

The "contacting chicken" thing makes it look like you're on live webcam with him or something. No, that's clever programming. They filmed him doing about a hundred or so things. If you pick one off their list, he does it. If you pick one off the "unapproved" list including "take off mask", the movie clip is of him shaking his finger. I think the concept is hysterical, but the clips are funny for about 3 minutes.... I think it's funnier that this is Burger King's way of saying "have it your way"......

Or maybe he's hoping to regain some vestige of privacy after enduring the 3-ring bot circus of twi. JP never ASKED for the limelight-unlike some bot past and present. He's never sought it that I know of. I don't see the point in shoving him into it. If you see a reason I don't, feel free to post it.

twi could have taught James Brown and Don King quite a few lessons about shameless self-promotion. twi had all the greatest living scholars of greek/aramaic and so on. (It had a few good ones, but they kept leaving or getting kicked out.) The copse had a training the equal of any college or university out there. (With no college-level professors, and a library composed of second-hand textbooks, this doesn't even look viable on paper...) You'll grow ten year's worth in one year on the wow field. (Some grew, some learned little.) The top leaders of twi could easily run a Fortune 500 company, the average leaders were all equal to middle management. (We've seen how well that's worked... Between ballyboi and all the copse who struggled once they were shoved out. Some were more employable than others, the current innies will probably need to start at the bottom once they're squeezed dry and swallowed.) way productions was the equal to any musical group or mass-media production anywhere. (Run by people with neither experience in media nor music nor entertainment.) aos was the equal to other productions out there. (I've seen one that's worse, but that's it.) The time would fail to tell of them all....