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rocket reacted to hatcheckgirl in Nicaragua - 'There's no law' 9 hours ago

A post I read on Instagram said that the brothers in Nicaragua are having their regional conventions in their own KHs, perhaps because it is not safe or viable to be in large venues. All talks will be streamed as there will be no live speakers.

I cannot verify this this as I don’t know the sister who posted it. However, if it’s true, it’s good they are receiving their convention food too. Things can change in a moment, as we know, but Jehovah always comes through.

rocket reacted to Sheep in Post a picture... Any picture 17 hours ago

Hey, wait a second! I resemble that last remark!

rocket reacted to carlos in Support email for JW Broadcasting Thursday at 04:14 AM

Thanks. That's exactly the problem I was having.

Thanks, Lynn. I tried this and it is working now.

I had already restored to factory settings several times to no avail, but that was some weeks ago. Today I tried unplugging the tv and it worked. I'm not sure if it's due to unplugging or it simply works when it wants, but so far it's going well.

I understand that but right now using the browser is the only way to see the English subtitles. Until a couple months ago you could download the videos with subtitles, but not anymore, not sure of the reason.

Thanks, that's a good suggestion. I have a Roku on an old tv we rarely use. I have have issues again I will connect it to this tv. Anyway there was an annoucement some time ago that English subtitles would not work on Roku for a time. Not sure if they are working now again.

rocket got a reaction from carlos in Support email for JW Broadcasting Wednesday at 11:30 PM

We have had some of the same issues. Mostly with jw.org

Three things I have done which helps:

1) unplug the tv for 30 full seconds.
if that doesn't help

2) do a reset to factory settings
you will loose all bookmarks, history etc

3) disable automatic updates, check after restarting tv that auto updates are disabled.

JW Broadcasting works better with the above but jw.org can only be accessed from JW Broadcasting. Not that great at tech stuff but like yourself neither Samsung help was much help nor jw.org and I have spent hours on the phone with both. Well actually only a few minutes with jw.org. Fact is the browser in your smart phone or tablet is 10 times more powerful than the browser in the Samsung tv. My wife has more patients to play with it and gets it to work every time, personally I'm ready to throw a rock through it.

rocket got a reaction from rlyem in YouTube Classics (Post a video... any video!) Monday at 03:49 PM

rocket got a reaction from Tortuga in Plane Stolen from Seattle Airport August 13

Having work at an International Airport for 5 years during the construction of a new concourse I noticed that everyone of the ground crew looked the same. This guy worked "baggage" but was also "tow certified", so it would not raise an eyebrow to see him towing a plane to put it in service. The jobs are very fast paced and hard to keep up with anyone. At times it looks like a bee hive. It really doesn't surprise me that some one could do this. I remember in the days after 9/11 walking down a row of Alaska plane with their baggage doors open and thinking how easy it would be for a disgruntled ground crew member to toss grenades in one plane after another before being stopped. No one ever ask me what I was doing and I was free to look at or touch any plane on the tarmac.

rocket got a reaction from Tortuga in Plane Stolen from Seattle Airport August 13

Having work at an International Airport for 5 years during the construction of a new concourse I noticed that everyone of the ground crew looked the same. This guy worked "baggage" but was also "tow certified", so it would not raise an eyebrow to see him towing a plane to put it in service. The jobs are very fast paced and hard to keep up with anyone. At times it looks like a bee hive. It really doesn't surprise me that some one could do this. I remember in the days after 9/11 walking down a row of Alaska plane with their baggage doors open and thinking how easy it would be for a disgruntled ground crew member to toss grenades in one plane after another before being stopped. No one ever ask me what I was doing and I was free to look at or touch any plane on the tarmac.

rocket reacted to Old in WT Library - Available for Download! August 13

In the early days there was even a little underground work on an early version. There were several brothers working on a search engine for the NWT 'only'. this is addition to their other progarming resposibilities. The governing body had not yet recogized the need for a Bible and publication search engine. This was before we had the Folio NWT floppydisk collection. When one of the governing body made a visit to the department and would ask what they were working on they were told to respond in a somewhat devious answer.. Devious, not untrue. One brother left Bethel with the information and refined it to a search engine that a great number of us used in leu of the Folio Bible. It was a good program and would search any any of our publication that various brothers had copied to computer language, whichwere all publications at that time. The Insight Volumes required entering 18 floppy disks into the program. The brother that put his out did not provide any publications, Bible or otherwise. Only the search engine. The Branch did come out with strong statements on copywrites laws. But the basic fact of a copywrite is if you own a leagle copy of any copywrited material, you were free to have it in any form you preferred, but no sales.Some brothers that were selling publications for a donation were instructed to cease an desist. JWHess has mentioned this program but my 80 year old brain can't remember the name.

rocket reacted to The Deej in Taunting buffalo gets you in pokey. August 12

I rode my motorcycle through that exact spot last year. There were several hundred of them crossing the road. We just sat still while several crossed less than 10 ft from our bikes. You have to respect their sheer size. I had no idea how big they were.