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    Promoted!

    in What's Up?

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    Sweet! My neighbor across the street works for IBM out of his home -- has some cool conferencing equipment so he can participate in meetings I guess. If you're ever here stop over and I'll make ya some RIBS.

     

    :)

    turkey day

    in What's Up?

    True ... although this one is from 1995, so he doesn't have that old-guy hairdo yet.

     

    I like his show, and everything I've tried of his has been phenomenal. I like the science behind his stuff.

     

    I'd also vote for smoking a spatchcocked turkey. Frying a whole turkey feels a little to redneck for me.

    Finally bought COD4

    in Call of Duty

    You realize COD5 came out yesterday...right?

     

     

    So .... COD4 in WWII style? I bet nades are still annoying. The nice thing about COD4 is that when I get the idea in my head that I should play it, it doesn't take very long to remind me of what I hate. Would be nice if I had 200 fingers on my left hand and a fully custom keyboard so I could map all the stupid keys I need in order to play the game.

    Whatev

    in What's Up?

    Its not so much that you'll get over her ... you have.

    Its not so much that you'll find someone else ... you will.

    I doubt she contributed much to your happiness...

     

     

    We don’t need more money, we don’t need greater success or fame, we don’t need the perfect body or even the perfect mate – right now, at this very moment, we have a mind, which is all the basic equipment we need to achieve complete happiness.

     

    When you're with the wrong person, it seems like its easy to forget what makes you happy. Forget about her ... and go find that out. Its sooo cliche, but you'll find the right person when you're not looking.

     

    They built the train tracks over the Alps between Vienna and Venice before there was a train that could make the trip. They built them anyway. They new the train would come.

    getting a new ride

    in Garage and Workshop

    I vote for spending what you need. That said, when searching I found used Honda's (and anything reliable really) to be expensive. If you find one thats cheap, its probably too good to be true. I found quite a few that were not insurable, because they had already been totalled.

    Return of the draft(s)

    in General Politics

    Do you really believe he will put those who oppose his views in jail?

     

    I mean, I know required volunteer is an oxymoron, but it if is how I'm speculating it to be, you would only be required to do volunteer work if you got 4k.

     

    I'm only rationalizing the plan as if it panned out the way I explained. If you are required to do it and get no money and get no credit, then it wrong and I oppose it. But then again, the government owns the school and if they require you to do volunteer work to get into their school, that is their choice. But I would be strongly against it.

     

    Strictly talking about financial aid for students, this doesn't sound much different than the programs in place when I was in school. If you qualified for aid (there was some assessment of need based on your expected contribution from you and your parents). Those were tough years for farming and for a few of the years dad had a huge negative number to put on the forums. Anyway, so I qualified for aid for a few years in the form of grants and loans. Grants you didn't have to pay back, but loans, of course, you did. You could also do a program they called "work study", through which you did some work for the school and they gave you money that you didn't need to pay back. Most of my benefit was through govt backed student loans, where the govt takes care of the interest on the principal while I'm in school. The benefit, however, was small compared to the difference in tax money I've paid back over the past twelve years. I'm pretty sure I could show, with a little simple math, that they made that back in the first complete year I worked.

    getting a new ride

    in Garage and Workshop

    ANY time belt needs replaced between 90,000 and 100,000 miles...this is a limitation of the belt, make and model is irrelevant....unless of course it has a chain instead of a belt, but those are few and far between.

     

    I had the timing belt done for my Focus at 110k ... they said between 100k-120k it would go. Whatever you have fixed, don't skimp on labor. Was hard up for money this summer, so I had mine done @ Precision Tune. Had the dealership take a look at it this weekend cuz it was running rough. The new cams were out of alignment, timing was off, bolts were missing and/or loose. Bleah.

    What will Bush do?

    in General Politics

    ... and feel free to ignore this article, which I trust more than some stitched together youtube video with comments from an unknown. You of all people should know better than this.

     

     

    http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/wh...mic_crisis.html

     

    It's true that key Democrats opposed the Federal Housing Enterprise Regulatory Reform Act of 2005, which would have established a single, independent regulatory body with jurisdiction over Fannie and Freddie – a move that the Government Accountability Office had recommended in a 2004 report. Current House Banking Committee chairman Rep. Barney Frank of Massachusetts opposed legislation to reorganize oversight in 2000 (when Clinton was still president), 2003 and 2004, saying of the 2000 legislation that concern about Fannie and Freddie was "overblown." Just last summer, Senate Banking Committee chairman Chris Dodd called a Bush proposal for an independent agency to regulate the two entities "ill-advised."

     

    But saying that Democrats killed the 2005 bill "while Mr. Obama was notably silent" oversimplifies things considerably. The bill made it out of committee in the Senate but was never brought up for consideration. At that time, Republicans had a majority in the Senate and controlled the agenda. Democrats never got the chance to vote against it or to mount a filibuster to block it.

     

    By the time McCain signed on to the legislation, it was too late to prevent the crisis anyway. McCain added his name on May 25, 2006, when the housing bubble had already nearly peaked. Standard & Poor's Case-Schiller Home Price Index, which measures residential housing prices in 20 metropolitan regions and then constructs a composite index for the entire United States, shows that housing prices began falling in July 2006, barely two months later.

    Mythbusters

    in What's Up?

    Yeah, I enjoy that show. Its been on for a few years. They have a lot of fun with the stuff they're testing too. I don't remember all of them....but there was one where they tested the legend that some one in prison killed a bunch of ppl using a crossbow he made out of paper. Too many to recount. Very good show.

    The media coverage of the candidates

    in General Politics

    I'm not sure I get what you are saying, so its plausible that I'm just misunderstanding you. Anyway, I don't see how choosing not to headline something that is clearly irrelevant is biased. Its a non-story. Headlining it because the Republicans wanted it to be a story is not biased. Am I missing your point?

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