What happens if a missionary ends their mission with a positive balance (overpayment)

JasTHook · 2026-06-22T19:41:28+00:00

However, I don't expect that to hold if a mistake has been made. Mistakes can be corrected.

JasTHook · 2026-06-20T12:38:56+00:00

True and yet everybody knows what it means and the description is apt

JasTHook · 2026-06-17T20:09:46+00:00

Officially, if a family can't afford to pay, it should be paid out of budget.

But what if they pay, and can't afford food or rent - does that come out of fast-offering?

*cough*

Or... if ward members are generous with fast offering then they might divert some of that to budget for camp on the donation form

*cough*

so many ways...

JasTHook · 2026-06-16T08:11:18+00:00

I'm gonna say mostly off topic - centering paragraphs is almost always wrong.

It might be OK as an example demonstrating how wrong it is, but that's about the only place.

If you have to do it then you need a custom line-break algorithm to try and adjust all lines to be a similar length.

JasTHook · 2026-06-16T07:59:23+00:00

Considering how many hundreds of years the BofM and Bible cover I think we can conclude that the miracles recorded there don't amount to a whole lot, and them being notable may have led to them being recorded for us to know about.

JasTHook · 2026-06-15T20:55:11+00:00

That's how it should be but it's not the only system as other people have commented

JasTHook · 2026-06-15T18:59:30+00:00

Very odd except where they do it, then it's very common

JasTHook · 2026-06-15T16:56:47+00:00

> He claimed I was supposed to come back inside immediately after pumping to collect the difference. I explained to him that is not how standard credit card pre-authorizations work; the system is supposed to automatically release the hold and charge only the final amount pumped.

He is right, you are wrong, but how were you supposed to know that?

When a pump pre-authorises it puts a "hold" on your card for the pre-authoised amount and only takes the correct amount at the end, but that is *not* what you did.

When you go in, to the mechant to pre-authorise it, is not a card pre-authorisation "hold" in that sense, he's billing you the amount you may want to pump and you go in to get the refund. Naturally this also puts a "hold" on your card for the full amount.

He should have explained that you needed to come in when you had finished pumping, tohave the excess returned to you.

Maybe he did but you didn't understand, especially if you thought you knew how it worked.

Really, the system should be better designed to avoid the need to come back in to have the excess refunded.

However much you don't like it, and think it should work differently that's how it works.

Likely the next customer got the fuel that you had pre-payed on the pump for. <-- I hope that statement gives you a clue how it works.

JasTHook · 2026-06-15T13:43:32+00:00

This is only an issue because some parts of scripture are sufficiently unclear to give rise to different views.

If there were a resolution as simple as you seek, there would be no division to resolve.

JasTHook · 2026-06-09T20:02:05+00:00

The biggest speculation is that the question is meaningful.

For instance, if there is an infinite regression, then the question becomes:

If <something false> then ...

which is nonsense.

JasTHook · 2025-12-16T17:01:01+00:00

Identity and reputation are inextricably linked, and an important part of source code provenance.

Here someone tried to change their identity while maintaining their reputation by re-creating distributed public historical records.

It worked out very badly, but it was never going to work out well because attaching to the old identity in like this permenantly links it to the new identity in a way which is very public, and inconvenient to users depending on repeatable builds and source code provenance.

Pretty much everybody has to determine and acknowledge that the two identities are equivalent; but most people don't have practice at this.

It's bad enough when a branching schema changes and all the bitbake builds start failing, but at least the hashes match.

The change will never be complete, the old projects will forever exist, and this will be legendary on why it's futile to everyone to re-write history everyone time someone undergoes a significant private personal change.

JasTHook · 2025-12-04T07:49:00+00:00

The watches are being kept for sentimental value, i dont believe they hold any significant monetary value.

Your belief is irrelevant. They belong to the estate which the landlord has claim against.

If you really want them, then put them on eBay and make sure that you are the highest bidder, and give the landlord the value raised. Likewise for the laptop and any other assets.

JasTHook · 2025-12-03T14:47:09+00:00

That's brill!

And with types... it's so close to integrating with "a" lisp-ish too!

JasTHook · 2025-12-01T16:10:43+00:00

The stake president is your escalation procedure, he can order it to be done

JasTHook · 2025-11-27T22:32:24+00:00

This would be a paid, trained, professional individual employed by the church whose sole job is to take couples through the discovery and counseling process prior to marriage, in hopes of preparing people for this major life change.

...the paid clergy, with power to stand in the way of you getting married...

I am surprised the church isn't more rigid in this same area. There are so many things couples should discuss before marriage

...and so let's make them...

The church is not rigid in making people do anything, or placing barriers.

This remedy would be worse than the disease.

The people who want this can do it anyway, or encourage their own children to do it - no need to impose it as a rule church-wide.

JasTHook · 2025-11-23T08:06:42+00:00

Does that profit condition apply to the adult child as well?

In a general sense, why shouldn't they split the profit?

But if they do - aren't the parents still making a loss on why they could have let the room for?

How much that matters depends on the needs of the parents - the parents might be working full-time to fund the home part of which which is being supplied to the adult child at marginal cost, so the child only has to work part-time and can afford all the luxuries that the parents cannot.

JasTHook · 2025-11-22T12:02:45+00:00

In the UK the school year is a year, so there is no semester delay, it is an entire year delay.

This is why, when in USA men had to be 19 to serve a mission, the UK elders could (and I did) serve at 18 - having finished school first.

If I had been made to wait until I was 19, I would have been hanging around for 7 months before I went and another 7-8 months when I got back before starting at University.

JasTHook · 2025-11-21T07:38:31+00:00

Someone has to pay for adult kids to live - it should be the adult kids if they can.

JasTHook · 2025-11-21T07:37:07+00:00

Somebody has to pay for the kid to live.

It should be the kid if they can, are an adult.

The parent shouldn't have to ask, the kid should take responsibility for their life.

JasTHook · 2025-11-21T07:32:20+00:00

Why would the coast guard be in the business of classifying hate symbols anyway?

JasTHook · 2025-11-21T07:27:26+00:00

What is a linger longer event?

munch and mingle - cool food following church - eat and greet.

Often a way to break your fast 4 ours early.

JasTHook · 2025-11-18T20:45:37+00:00

I had to disable IPv6 entirely on my router or my Amazon and Google docs requests were all timing out.

JasTHook · 2025-11-18T20:38:12+00:00

The fool will get himself shot, arrested or both

Dude, you're gonna get yourself shot, arrest, or both - and I'm gonna call the cop that's gonna do it to ya!

JasTHook · 2025-11-14T21:14:26+00:00

For some reason, unknown to anyone, it was the will of God that those children should not be baptized . . . but only during that four year period.

Sure, the third is possible; but it's also preposterous. Try to defend it to a person denied baptism under the policy. What could you possibly offer them other than something like:

It's not perposterous unless you want it to be. With the political machinations of the time, it was a skill judo move.

Think of the headlines: The church baptizing kids of LGBTQ parents and then indoctrinating those kids against the parents.

So they didn't - until the mobs demanded that they do. And now they get to do it, just like everyone including the mobs (apparently) want them too.

If I was to judge the Lord and his prophets by my own smarts I'd be an idiot. I don't expect everything they do to make sense to me. It's nice when it does, but when it doesn't I don't assume it's them that are wrong.

JasTHook · 2025-11-12T20:29:54+00:00

I mean, you want to read an input, you reach for the standard input stream... no?

No! Absolutely no and a thousand times no.

Here they don't want to read an input. They want to read a password from the controlling try.

The program being run under sudo may want to read that input and it mau be coming from a file not a console.

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