The i7-13700K is reputed to be faster than the i9-12900K. In other news, the cheap RTL8125 NICs I bought don't work in Windows 11.

A friend of mine just told me that Jehovah's Witnesses are out proselytizing door-to-door again. One recently stopped by her house and gave her some JW tracts.

Bing is an invasive program.

(March 24, 2023 at 7:52 am)Gwaithmir Wrote: A friend of mine just told me that Jehovah's Witnesses are out proselytizing door-to-door again. One recently stopped by her house and gave her some JW tracts.

Just remember, if they ever come to your door, the correct response is "Make it quick. It's my birthday and my boyfriend and I are going to try on skinny jeans and give each other blood transfusions."

And, yes, the tight pants are actually a surprisingly big no-no for the Watchtower Organization, even if the Governing Body member who's particularly obsessed with the issue recently resigned (under mysterious circumstances):

An exclave is a portion of one country’s sovereign that is completely surrounded by the sovereign territory of another.  

For historic reasons harkening back to the principalities in the pre-British Mughal Empire and the way India and Pakistan separated from eachother at the time of their independence from British ruke,   there are many small Indian and Bangladeshi exclaves in each other’s territory along the the border between the two countries.

There are several nested exclaves there where an exclave exists inside an exclave.    There is one triple nested exclave where a Bangladeshi exclave exists inside an Indian exclave inside a Banglordeahi exclave inside India proper.

Because these exclaves represent long lasting ethnic and religious division,  there is much hostility and much effort to make life inside exclaves difficult.    For example, because there are no consulates that can grant visas inside these tiny exclaves, there is no way for residents to legally leave the exclaves because leaving requires a visa to enter the territory of the other country.    In one bangladeshi enclave 85% of resident had spend time in Indian jails for illegally entering Indian territory before being deported back into their tiny exclave.

@Rev. Rye

A tight pants prohibition? Well, there's another thing I didn't know about Jehovah's Witnesses. 

My oldest granddaughter is graduating from high school at the end of May. We just found out that she is in the top 10% of her class of 565 students. She was teetering between the 10 and 11 percentiles but thanks to rounding managed to pull off the 10. Considering COVID and all the extra weirdness of her high school career, I'd say that's damn good!

I found about this website:

My door sign: Attention, salesmen, Jehovah Witnesses, ANY religious idiot. Your bodies will not be returned to your next of kin. Dog food is expensive, we appreciate the donation.

Below that is a picture of a ~180 lb. Great Dane with six puppies.

Doing some research if I plan on going the historical route with my second novel.

Quote:This calendar era is based on the traditionally reckoned year of the conception or birth of Jesus, AD counting years from the start of this epoch and BC denoting years before the start of the era. There is no year zero in this scheme; thus the year AD 1 immediately follows the year 1 BC. This dating system was devised in 525 by Dionysius Exiguus, but was not widely used until the 9th century.[4][5]

The bold part being more relevant for my purposes.