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Well... I know there's been "post loading" threads before but I figured since I started jumping 9 months before I got an account on dropzone.com it was only fair to figure it out per day. Apparently I do about equal posting and jumping. The thread murdering thing was just something I was curious about. I've been self-conscious of my apparent toxic effect on forum threads well before I joined this site. Now I know that one in every fifteen times I post... I kill the thread.

As of just prior to this post... In the 2490 days I've been jumping I've made 2497 jumps or 1.003 jumps/day.

An older photo for an older thread... ...still one of my favorites though.

Noyes and Loomis eh? I was more of an Everitt and Altgeld kinda person.

What about white, asian, hispanic, or even african families that are starting the first or second American generation of their family (having inherited nothing) and have made a name for themselves? Are their estates to be considered laundered historic profits of slavery? Would your system of reparations consider the difference between old and new money? Or is everyone with a net worth greater than the net worth of the average black person in America at moment X responsible for paying out? Or how about just all the white people?

Do you feel the estate tax is another one of those "blatantly racist laws" you keep talking about?

The government is capable of doing six types of things... 1) Things that accomplish good and are expensive 2) Things that accomplish good and are really expensive 3) Things that accomplish bad and are expensive 4) Things that accomplish bad and are really expensive 5) Things that accomplish nothing and are expensive 6) Things that accomplish nothing and are really expensive I think the disagreement here is whether this was a number 1 or a number 5.

It's interesting to me that it took this long in the thread to bring up the 13th amendment. The Declaration of Independence didn't really accomplish what the establishment of the Constitution and the War of 1812 did. Similarly, the Emancipation Proclamation didn't accomplish what the conclusion of the Civil War and the passing of the 13th, 14th, and 15th did. What none of these things did was change anything overnight. It still took the United States a long time to rise to the status of world power that it enjoys today. Similarly, it has taken a long time for black Americans to get to where they are today (this is not to suggest the journey is over.) I wouldn't say I have heartburn over this resolution, I'm just confused as to why anyone would really care that it pass. What would the average American's response be if the UK apologized formally in 1880 for tyranny against the colonies? We were busy diving head first into the second industrial revolution, taking it upon ourselves to overcome the past and show the world who we were. I like to think black Americans are making that same kind of progress these days.

I'm printing out a few copies of this article and I'm going to leave them conspicuously around the break rooms of the LCROSS team tomorrow.

I asked about this a couple years ago and the thread resulted in photos of a few different mounts including, eventually, the one I ended up making.

I really don't know what to say to anyone who suddenly feels better because congress apologized for something. Getting over and moving on from discrimination is not something a resolution, a bunch of money, or free rainbows is going to accomplish.

Non-rechargeable lithium batteries will have no trouble operating over any temperature range that you operate over. And while temperature cycles can stress parts, a 25 C swing is really nothing for most modern electronics. Other than that I agree, the screens on Visos could stand to be a lot more durable, and no matter what you use it's important to know how to use it.

Hadn't seen that one... definitely bookmarking it... er wait... rss feed, even better.

The suspense in terrible. I hope it lasts.

Here is a shot of a VE-090 with HMA lines, 22 inch risers, stock brake settings, and my hands in the front dive loops during a gradual left harness turn. There's quite a bit of bow in the steering lines and virtually no tail deflection.

Yes, but that's a big difference from having to make a trip to a physician for an Rx, pay for some or all of that visit, and then take that Rx to the pharmacy. In my current health care situation, I could do that all electronically (email to my doctor, have him send the Rx to the pharmacy), but for a lot of folks, getting a prescription still involves a visit to a doctor. It is pretty silly to go above and beyond the controls already in place for pseudoephedrine, so I agree the bill is foolish. Regarding the rest of your post, I think services like this are a step in the right direction. There's one right down the street from me, and with my current health coverage I would have no copay for any of it. Come to think of it, this bill would make it cheaper (read: free) for me to get Claritin-D because it would then be covered by my insurance.

If you'll note, I very carefully used the weasel words of, "for the time being." I think over Obama's term(s) we'll see some expanded social programs and limited improvements in government transparency as he promised, but it will probably take him his entire presidency, and it will all be very anti-climactic. I also think we'll see marked improvements in Afghanistan and Pakistan, but I will preemptively attribute those gains to Gates and Kayani rather than Obama. I don't think Bush was a very good president and I think that Obama will be a very average one. I try not to get worked up about either of their performances. Boring, I know, but it is politics after all.

I agree with the hypothesis mentioned earlier that Obama wanted to (and perhaps still wants to) bring about change, but is probably finding himself a bit overwhelmed. I too am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt for the time being. I forget the gentleman's name as it was some time ago, but I attended a lecture by a defense department official who said, "Washington is like a river. And it starts way over there [pointing to one end of the room] and it flows all the way over there [pointing to the other end] and the odds are pretty good that if you jump in and start waving your arms, the little eddies you create will be gone 10 feet downstream. Some people actually make a career out of doing just that, but you have to be pretty smart to change the course of the river."

The warrantless wiretapping should never have happened in the first place. If it hadn't, then there wouldn't be those questionable documents that might threaten state secrets. Do you see the difference in authorizing the illegal wiretapping and and the disposition of the resultant information? I generally take care in not alienating people as a first order of business when I respond to their post no matter how hard I had to bite my little piece of emergency rawhide I keep next to my computer. It was particularly challenging here, these two sentences constitute my outlet, and now I'll just assume I'm misunderstanding you and ask for a clarification. What "resultant information" are you referring to? There's three possible answers. 1) Details of how the wiretapping was pulled off technically which would have existed anyway making "resultant" a misnomer, making the information useless to a plaintiff, and making the task of explaining why it should stay a secret fairly trivial. 2) Details of how targets were selected (e.g. very "warentlessly") which, if the wiretapping shouldn't have happened in the first place as you argued, shouldn't be considered a state secret because the only reason to protect it is if you want to keep doing it. 3) The "goes-outs" of the whole ordeal (i.e. the information that was obtained) which, again if the wiretapping should never have happened, shouldn't be useful and thus shouldn't need to be kept secret. What stumbling block do you think Obama is stumbling upon?

As you'll find in most if not all abortion debates, there are varying values of "people".

Granted.

It would floor me if they had any such technology capability that was indigenously produced. The DPRK (Democratic People's Regime of the Kims) literally has nothing but problems right now.

You can, with no stretch of the imagination, expect the interpretation of, "critical infrastructure information systems" to include anything associated with communications, utilities, private defense/consulting firms, transportation, medical facilities, or the financial sector. You can, again with no stretch of the imagination, expect the interpretation of, "data concerning such networks" to include data relating to, about, important to, affecting, involving, worrying, or having a specific connection with the networks. (from the definition of the word "concern") Any and all data needed to make a determination as to whether or not your computer is part of a botnet or is in any other way maligned when you use it to log into your bank account online is "relevant data concerning such networks" and may be collected without regard to any provision of law, regulation, rule, or policy restricting such access. Your thoughts? Personally, I think the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

Common sense didn't die with the establishment of societies. What died (mostly) was natural selection of the individual in favor of natural selection of the society as a whole (e.g. empires rising and falling.) In other words it set the stage. Things like distribution of wealth, talent, and "common sense" (which don't always coincide, mind you) didn't become unbalanced as suddenly as people like to think. Like other traits of societies as a whole they emerged over a long time. What has happened revolutionarily (i.e. over the course of just one or two generations) is the emergence of the information age. Suddenly (truly suddenly) as individuals we have access to more information than we know what to do with, and that leaves us doing a double take, rubbing our eyes and shouting, "Holy crap, the middle class is gone, the world is run by idiots, and no one has the common sense to do anything about it!" Unfortunately, this is not breaking news. So the information age is kicked off, and just like with other leaps the human race has made, we'll see which societies embrace it successfully and which ones freak out over it and implode upon themselves.

This is an assumption that I'd really like to believe because it has the most promise to get us past the crumby political landscape we face, but I'm not sure I can. It's true that most people are fairly quiet about political issues and we usually hear from the loud folks (and loud coincides with polar most of the time) but it's a mistake to confuse quiet with moderate.