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Too many overhead wires for the electric buses.

In his defense, getting from 50-100 jumps to 200 jumps takes considerably longer than finishing your vegetables so that you can have ice cream. And that takes forever!!!! wahhhhhh!!!!!!

Makes it sound like they moved to the west. Just for them? I wrote "living in the..." for all eight groups. I don't really care how people got where they are for the purposes of this discussion.

Deploying the main of an unconcious person who has a very small main, an AAD, and a reserve that's 40-50% larger than their main could very well be killing them. ...just sayin'.

My sporting clays instructor could shoot perfect rounds of skeet from the hip. It was disgusting. I remember he'd be standing 10 feet behind me and 5 feet to the side while I was practicing trap from 27 yards and on misses he'd tell me how I missed before I even knew I had missed. What's more satisfying than blaming the gun is shooting rounds where your instructor has nothing to say.

Yeah, and that central park jogger deserved it! We all know rapsist run rampant around there, and she was wearing tight skimpy clothes! Actions have consequences! [/sarcasm] No I think the point is that just because the rapists were black that doesn’t make all black males rapists. Hold on I have to run and hide my kids from the all these Christians child fuckers. What the fuck is up with that anyway why do all Christians like to hurt children? Total non-sequitur. I realize you're sensitive to people attributing the actions/threats of extremists to all of Islam, but that's not what's happening here. One problem with the central park jogger analogy is the implication that she deserved the consequences of her actions. As though things as awful as rape or dealth threats become okay just because they're not unexpected. I don't think anyone's arguing that. Another problem is that there's no "central park" to avoid when it comes to offending muslim radicals. The information age has made the outrage two-step very efficient. (Step 1: internet quickly gets any and all potentially offensive material into the hands of the irritable. Step 2: the media quickly spreads the words and actions of outrage over the material across the globe.) Regardless of how large or small the group of people making death threats is, they are effectively omnipresent.

Depicting Muhammad is explicitly blasphemous but is the reuse of names of holy cities / figures also? Or is this just a Sheikh raising a stink because he can? What happens if you name your kid Muhammad and he turns out to be a jerk?

Wind up looking like pricks to whom exactly, and is this image/audience combination something that is currently missing? Let's enumerate the groups in play here... 1) Moderate (or also staunchly apologetic, I think the way I've broken these down it's okay to group them here) non-muslims living in the west 2) People distrustful of muslims in general living in the west 3) Moderate muslims living in the west 4) Radical / incitable muslims living in the west 5) Moderate (or apologetic) non-muslims living in [what I'll call] the muslim world 6) People distrustful of muslims in general living in the muslim world 7) Moderate muslims living in the muslim world 8) Radical / incitable muslims living in the muslim world Hopefully avoiding for as long as possible an argument over the relative sizes of each of these groups, what messages do you guys think are missing and need to get through to which groups? Does Qur'an buring and cartoon publishing send any such missing message?

http://nationalinterest.org/blog/bruce-hoffman/todays-highly-educated-terrorists-4080 Interesting read which certainly calls into question mid- (during drawdown) and long-term (after departing) effectiveness of CT/COIN strategies in the middle east.

"On this episode, we've secretly replaced Pastor Jones's copy of the Holy Qur'an that he intends to set on fire with a copy of the Holy Bible..."

Indeed. The definition of "reasonable expectation of privacy" seems to be indexed to technological inflation, so-to-speak.

Well, posting data that doesn't tell the whole story leads to incomplete discussions and often incorrect attributions. Qualitative discussion is necessary to figure out what needs to be considered before you start plugging and chugging to see what correlates. Data is important, no doubt, as without it you're left with conjecture. But attribution without understanding is actually dangerous as opposed to conjecture which is merely useless. Simple generalizations about the economy and how it will react to a single input parameter (at non-trivial values) are invariably wrong.

Agreed... we should be burning iPads "...let's see here..." "...iBooks... iBooks book store... search... Qur... 'an... purchase... yes I'm sure..." "Ah ha!"

Does 2110 come after 2012? Lots of years come after 2012.

And burning books. Germany as it existed leading up to WWII bore little resemblance to the mess of territories that were around in the early 19th century. Also, Heinrich Heine wasn't exactly a spokesperson for any of the governments around at the time. How funny would it be if in 2110 something Jon Stewart had said today contradicted the actions of the government of the Unified Western Hemisphere Alliance?

There have been two large (>$10B) programs sacked prior to award in the last few years that I probably would have worked on if not right away then at some point. It happens. My stance is just that if you're going to do it, do it. Decide what you really don't need and then don't spend money on it anymore. Telling everyone to save a nickel, and then telling them to do it again and again won't yield the best results.

It is just as likely that not burning it would have worse consequenses. A highly publicized Qur'an burning is pretty likely to result in peaked-up violence. If it's just as likely that not burning it would have worse consequences, and the likelihood of this guy being forced by law not to burn the text is pretty much zero (at least not in any way that would be held up by the courts), does that mean you think him not burning the Qur'an by choice will have worse consequences? I guess it might depend on what he says in regards to why he decided against burning it. This raises an interesting question. Can this guy say anything that would be condescending and/or derogatory enough about Islam in regards to why he refrained such that it incites more violence from extremists than the actual burning act itself would have? Could he blow off his steam just as effectively with such a statement? As an aside, does anyone really want Sept 11 to become "world-wide religious and cultural intolerance day"? How is that not more offensive to the 9/11 victims' families than a mosque / community center in lower Manhattan?

"And the 'all democrats want an overbearing nanny-state' wins out in hijacking the thread over the 'all republicans favor torture in overseas military prisons'. Tell us what happened Steve" "Yeah John, The Obama drop came out early in post four whereas the torture one-timer, while still in regulation, didn't get picked up by the democratic offense." "I gotta tell you, I thought it was a good pass, but post 11 is probably too late to make a play like that, and it didn't have enough mustard on it to draw the defense out of position."

It doesn't. Again, I don't know the details here, but it sounded like he was talking about a purchase mortgage. If that's the case, I can't imagine how you can end up upside down 18 years into a mortgage. There wasn't a hugely inflated housing market in 1992 that I'm aware of.

I don't know the terms of the mortgage in question or the location of the property, but if he bought the place 18 years ago and has been making payments for 18 years, I would hope it's not a short sale at this point. I suppose if he went interest only after a bidding war on a swamp...

More like Kyle Dubious amirite?

Any respectable hot dog joint in Chicago uses an all beef dog When's the last time a respectable hot dog joint went under in Chicago? You have to really screw the pooch to not make that work. That or, ya know... muslims.

There aren't any revolutionary new ideas spawning from speakers corner on dropzone.com. For the most part people just repackage already popular (or unpopular) opinions and then a predictable dance on the edge of insult ensues. The same really goes for political pundits, blogs, youtube videos, etc. as well. Occasionally the dips and twirls are entertaining. But if everyone understands that's what's going on, consciously or otherwise, then a poor job to even perform the simple repackaging will draw ridicule. If you go to ask someone to dance and stutter and throw up on their shoes they're not going to dance with you.

Same story here: G4 / Velo-90 / Optimum-126. I think there's been a big push in the last couple years by both canopy and rig manufacturers in general to allow people with smaller mains to have larger reserves, which is a good thing. Cutting away and landing under my reserve actually takes longer to get to the ground than just landing my main.

Well, its good to see Religion back to being used for its intended purpose.