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Re: High Frame Rate Projection in Movies Has Got to Go

Tsaot — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 18:13:31 -0000

Old man wants to see slideshow instead of movie it seems.

Re: Twitch points to 'malicious third party' for recent site hack – Destructoid

Tsaot — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 07:43:52 -0000

"Twitch goes on to state that there is “no indication” that login details nor any payment information of its users have been accessed"

And yet payout information is in there, and there's talk about hard coded API keys on slashdot. You know this isn't going to end here. If that info isn't in the leak, someone is using the leaked information to get at it.

Re: [Giveaway] Win a copy of Knights of Pen and Paper Double Pack

Tsaot — Sun, 27 Jan 2019 20:36:09 -0000

Snake pass was fun. Pen and paper, what I've played of it at least, was fun and it'd be fun to have on the switch.

Re: New Droid Turbo Android 4.4.4 Update Now Available for Verizon Users

Tsaot — Tue, 16 Dec 2014 13:53:15 -0000

My wife is having the same problem. The speaker is much quieter when playing music/media. Additionally the sound quality is kind of crackly when turned up all the way.

Re: The new Dell Active Stylus (750 AAHC) gets demoed on video

Tsaot — Fri, 05 Dec 2014 21:56:41 -0000

Sorry for the late response, i was trying to find the box it came in, but that appears to be lost now. I believe it was A02 though.

Re: The new Dell Active Stylus (750 AAHC) gets demoed on video

Tsaot — Thu, 04 Dec 2014 12:30:02 -0000

Honestly, my experience with the Active Stylus made me loose faith in Dell's accessories. My current stylus is working fine, but it has nowhere near the battery life that was advertised. I'm replacing the battery almost once a week.

Re: Mid-Missouri Mormons celebrate religious freedom with walk, run

Tsaot — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:51:15 -0000

Emma finding Joseph Smith alone with someone is not the same as being "in the act" with. In any case, this is a debate that researchers have been arguing for years, I doubt we can resolve it in a comment forum. Have a good one.

Re: Mid-Missouri Mormons celebrate religious freedom with walk, run

Tsaot — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 17:46:46 -0000

I stand corrected on those grounds then. I'll have to look at the books referenced. However, none of those accounts you give mention pre/extra-marital relations as your previous comment suggests. Each of the women you present were married to him.

My statement of dynastic marriages still applies in regard to some of his wives, notably in relation to youngest ones you mention.

Look, your argument is starting to descend into the level of "polygamy bad" and you know I'm going to bring up examples of Abraham and the law of Moses as past precedent. Are you going anywhere else with this or can we call it quits here? We both agree that he practiced polygamy. We both disagree on whether it was correctly practiced. This is turning into a battle of opinion.

Re: Mid-Missouri Mormons celebrate religious freedom with walk, run

Tsaot — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 15:56:02 -0000

Okay, for a woman who wants a healthy marriage, what would you have recommended Eleanor McLean do? By your account, she had no recourse but to die alone and married to a man that mistreated her. That's wrong, and that's why we now have laws that allow women to escape situations such as hers. As far as I am concerned, in her situation, her then husband violated and invalidated his marriage vows when he began beating her. She did everything in her power to end the marriage and as such morality is satisfied.

Additionally, while Joseph Smith did marry several women, it's hard to find any evidence that there were sexual relations in those marriages. Historians (both in and outside the LDS church) believe that most of his marriages were dynastic marriages (marriages made to secure family ties & loyalties). In fact, researchers have concluded that the motivations for polygamy had little to do with sex. I recommend looking at B. Carmon Hardy's "Solemn Covenant: THE MORMON POLYGAMOUS PASSAGE" for a good look at the environment of the time. It was certainly nothing like the craziness the FLDS are perpetrating.

Re: Mid-Missouri Mormons celebrate religious freedom with walk, run

Tsaot — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 11:55:23 -0000

Are you suggesting that a marriage where the husband beats the wife and subsequently forces her to stay married to him against her wishes should stay valid? Even after she did all that she could to secure a divorce? This is a man that, when she was singing a hymn, beat her and threw her out of his house and locked her out. Are you saying she should've gone back to that?

Re: Mid-Missouri Mormons celebrate religious freedom with walk, run

Tsaot — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 11:25:08 -0000

You mean the woman who ran away from her abusive husband who abused her both mentally and physically? You mean the woman who sought after a divorce from said husband who rejected the divorce, and as such, she couldn't complete it under the laws of the time? That woman? How horrible of Pratt to create a safe loving environment for a woman so abused.

Re: Bump Adds Photo-to-Computer Sharing Abilities, Catches Our Attention For the First Time in Years

Tsaot — Fri, 25 May 2012 22:27:10 -0000

I do this and I have a script that activates once a day to move the files out of my dropbox so it doesn't fill up.

Re: Morman's Already Strong In Washington D.C.

Tsaot — Mon, 14 May 2012 09:08:28 -0000

I don't know what's more sad, the fact that you're lifting entire articles from CNN without crediting the original author, or that your spelling ability is so bad, you misspelled Mormon in the headline despite it being the fourth word in the lifted article. Why, when you're already copying entire articles, do you feel the need to change the headline? Don't you have some sort of deal with CNN or are you actually committing plagiarism?

Re: Week One Contest: Win an Asus Transformer Pad Prize Bundle to Celebrate TegraZone’s One Year Anniversary (Update: Winner Picked)

Tsaot — Fri, 11 May 2012 10:20:49 -0000

Of all the games to play right now, I'm addicted to Cartoon Wars. I'm at level 63 at the moment.

Re: Schlock Mercenary - The Avengers and Their Holes

Tsaot — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:40:06 -0000

I agree. When it comes to weaponry with high yields, I prefer the KISS mentality. That way there's less that can go wrong.

Re: Schlock Mercenary - The Avengers and Their Holes

Tsaot — Thu, 10 May 2012 11:28:15 -0000

Howard kind of started the spoilers here. I think after reading his post and the invitation at the end of it, all you can expect is spoilers.

Re: Engadget Giveaway: win one of three Kindle Fires, courtesy of TurboTax!

Tsaot — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 08:31:54 -0000

My dad bought one for my mother when she lost her Kindle 3. It's a nice device.

Re: Second teen pleads guilty in church arson case | The Salt Lake Tribune

Tsaot — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:15:58 -0000

Honestly, you just need to ignore these kinds of comments. This troll is a very obvious troll. Mocking other people and their beliefs are second nature to trolls and you're just opening yourself for attack.

I will congratulate you on spelling "you're" correctly though. I can't count the number of times I've seen the phrase "your a idiot" in threads like these.

Re: Engadget Giveaway: win one of two ASUS Transformer Primes, courtesy of NVIDIA!

Tsaot — Fri, 16 Mar 2012 21:10:36 -0000

There are currently 23445 comments. So I have a 2 in 23446 chance of winning this item. Although, I also have a 23443 in 23446 chance of winning the chance to not claim an expensive tablet on my taxes! so either way, I win!

Re: LDS Church blocks whistle-blower’s access to proxy baptism data | The Salt Lake Tribune

Tsaot — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 15:29:50 -0000

"You all just don't understand do you? People of other faiths don't need your proxy baptisms."
And that's the real point here isn't it? Mormons (myself included) believe themselves to be members of Jesus Christ's one true church, the only one with the holy priesthood that can provide saving ordinances to mankind. We also believe that every human being is a child of God and that God is a fair god and wouldn't want any of his children to miss the opportunity to accept his Son's sacrifice.
Other people, such as yourself, take offence to this belief and want to do every thing in their power to crush those that hold it.
How about a truce. I'll continue to believe that everyone--including yourself--is going to a heaven of some kind or another, and you can continue to believe that I'm going to burn in Satan's pit.

Re: LDS Church blocks whistle-blower’s access to proxy baptism data | The Salt Lake Tribune

Tsaot — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:49:43 -0000

So Celt, you say that to offer saving rites (not force upon as stated previously) to a dead ancestor who can still think for themselves and decide whether to accept or reject said offer, I need the permission of all of their other living descendants? Using this logic, I suppose my father's cardiologist needs to seek permission from his children and grandchildren to provide consultation on life saving procedures. I guess I need to call my sister in Utah and ask her permission before sending Grandma her Christmas present as well.

sigh...

Re: LDS Church blocks whistle-blower’s access to proxy baptism data | The Salt Lake Tribune

Tsaot — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:34:33 -0000

And what is invasive about me offering saving rites to my great-great grandfather? Or how about my great-great grandmother? It's not like I'm forcibly converting them to Mormonism. I'm offering them a chance to have something they weren't able to obtain in their lives. They are free to accept or reject the ordinance on their own.

Anyone who does say baptism for the dead is forced conversion is either a sensationalist trying to stir up trouble or misinformed. In any case, it has always been the church's policy for members to to submit only the names of their ancestors and no more. Those who search out Holocaust victims and celebrities are deliberately going against church policy and this article points out that they are enforcing stricter rules to stop it.

EDIT: spelling: day->say

Re: LDS Church blocks whistle-blower’s access to proxy baptism data | The Salt Lake Tribune

Tsaot — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:27:34 -0000

Your point here is hard to take seriously. The important thing is that the work is done, not in whose work is done first. If some people must wait for Christ's personal reign upon the earth because it would otherwise hinder spreading his word to those that are living now, I don't think they would mind. If I were dead, I wouldn't mind waiting if it meant that my descendants would not hate the church and its message of Christ and possible accept his gospel.

Now if this limitation meant that the work would never be performed, then I could see the issue, but it doesn't.

Re: LDS Church blocks whistle-blower’s access to proxy baptism data | The Salt Lake Tribune

Tsaot — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 14:03:37 -0000

Actually, no-one is exempt. Mormons believe that anyone who hasn't had their ordinances performed yet will have them done before they are resurrected during Christ's thousand year reign. The Church policy of limiting baptisms to family members only is a way to avoid offence to others.

I would like to point out though, as others have before, that the Mormon church does not count the dead who have had baptisms performed for them as converts to the church. Baptism for the dead is merely an invitation to come to Christ, which the person is free to accept or reject as they so desire. The only people who see baptism for the dead as forced conversion are sensationalists and the misinformed.

Re: LDS Church blocks whistle-blower’s access to proxy baptism data | The Salt Lake Tribune

Tsaot — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:52:13 -0000

So Helen Radkey, who uses hacker techniques (yes, using a confidant's login counts, it's called social engineering), had the account she was using flagged as suspicious after the church applies security measures to stop users from doing what she want them to stop doing. Surely this is the outcome she wanted? People who regularly search for names that aren't to be submitted are locked out of the system. It's not like the church was targeting her specifically since she was using someone else's account. This is starting to turn into the boy who cried wolf now.