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They don't bother me. I'd rather see a wind farm than a coal plant. It'd be nice if they designed oil platforms to look a little less industrial, but for the most part, they're just there.

We do.

Individual donations count towards the individual's goal as well as the team goal, so I'd say overall, it's better to sponsor an individual, since it helps them reach their personal goal AND helps the team reach the team goal.

From my neighbor in the next cube who heard me laughing and came to see what was funny: Spotted dick. It sounds like a disease. Call it currant pudding or currant cake please.

I had the same problem with my iBook. You may not have a completely bad drive, and just an issue with the files that allow your computer to boot, and the rest of your files may be intact. Of course, your whole drive may be fried. This is what I did (after a trip to the genius bar at the apple store, where they told me how to do this and sold me a firewire cable): Do you have an iBook or a MacBook as well as your iMac, or access to a friend's Mac? if so, plug in your iMac to the other Mac using a firewire cable, with the iMac off and other Mac running. Then, boot up the iMac holding down Command-T. You'll get a giant orange symbol on a grey screen, and this will allow you to access the hard drive of the imac from the ibook as if the iMac is an external hard drive, and you can grab your essential files and pull them over to the laptop and burn them to a CD. If you can grab your data, do it, and then make a Genius Bar appointment at an apple store. They have a device there that can restore the OS on your computer, and they sometimes do it for free since it's just a software fix and doesn't require parts, whether or not your computer is still under warranty.

So don't put a fee, stop "managing" them, and let most of them go back to being wild, the way they were when people started visiting them to begin with, and let people hike in to camp if they want to. Nature generally doesn't require maintenance.

I did it, did not cut the state parks, and the only things I raised taxes on were alcohol and cigarettes. Ideally, I wouldn't even do that. I'd legalize prostitution, gambling, and marijuana and tax that.

That's awesome! Every little bit helps. Thank you so much for supporting our team! You can support an individual walker by clicking on their name on the team list in the link Lisa posted, or make a general team donation by clicking on the "general team donation" link in the team list in the same link. General team donations go towards the team goal only, and individual donations go towards an individual walker's goal as well as the overall team goal.

I have a Winchester Defender 20 gauge. It's small, light, and easy to handle. It is a pump, though.

We had so much fun last year!!!

*Not legal advice, just my observations. If you want legal advice, consult a firearms attorney licensed to practice in Arizona* If you have a CCW, you can bring a concealed weapon into places that serve alcohol in California, provided their primary purpose isn't serving alcohol and the person carrying the weapon doesn't consume any alcohol. For example, a restaurant is okay as long as the person carrying isn't drinking, but you can't walk into a bar. This is what the law is trying to fix in Arizona. Right now, if you have a concealed weapon, you can't even walk into a sit down restaurant to eat, because they serve beer and wine. What's really curious is that you can OPEN CARRY in many of these places. I understand wanting to keep concealed weapons out of bars. People go there mainly to get drunk. I don't like that they fail to recognize that people that go through the CCW process are statistically the most law abiding citizens in the US, and are highly unlikely to drink and carry a weapon if it is against the terms of their license. The current law that tries to keep CCW holders out of Dennys is dumb.

I remember pretty much all of Algebra, mainly because I've been tutoring high school kids in Algebra for extra cash since college.

Since you had so many issues with your stay, try writing to this guy: Travel Troubleshooter It's amazing how many hotels turn around when threatened with bad publicity.

If they want you to carry a gun, they should give you a vest. Hmm, if you want to climb poles for a living you bring your own equipment. When it needs replacing, company pays it. Not saying you are wrong but, there are different ways to look at it. Who provided the gun?

If they want you to carry a gun, they should give you a vest.

The problem is that President Bush went to a ton of trouble not to classify them as POWs. The issue is that if they are not POWs, then under Geneva 4, they do have access to our civilian courts, with all the rights and protections that come along with that. Apparently, Bush was so focused on denying them the protections of the third Geneva convention that he completely forgot about the fourth one.

A person is either a criminal and protected by the US Constitution and then they're entitled to Miranda, OR they're a POW and protected by Geneva and entitled to be advised of their rights under Geneva 3, OR they're a civilian and entitled to protection under Geneva 4: "Persons protected by the Convention are those who, at a given moment and in any manner whatsoever, find themselves, in case of a conflict or occupation, in the hands of a Party to the conflict or Occupying Power of which they are not nationals." (translation: everyone not covered under Geneva 3). Yes, the Geneva Convention specifically requires POWs to be advised of their rights. It also states that: Should any doubt arise as to whether persons, having committed a belligerent act and having fallen into the hands of the enemy, belong to any of the categories enumerated in Article 4, such persons shall enjoy the protection of the present Convention until such time as their status has been determined by a competent tribunal. With regards to being advised of rights: Geneva 3, Art 105: "He shall be advised of these rights by the Detaining Power in due time before the trial" (and it goes on from there detailing all the rights, such as right to counsel, right to call witnesses, right to appeal, etc) With regards to civilians under Geneva "No sentence shall be pronounced by the competent courts of the Occupying Power except after a regular trial." That'd be a regular trial in our civilian courts... So, either they're not POWs and they're criminals and therefore have access to our civilian courts and need Miranda, they're not POWs and they're civilians under Geneva and therefore have access to our civilian courts and need Miranda, or they are POWs and have rights under Geneva. Any way you look at it, we have to be informing them of some rights.

They are terrorists not criminals, there for they should have no access to civilian courts. Terrorism is a crime under United States Code Title 18, section 2332b - "Acts of terrorism transcending national boundaries"

They closed the museum Thursday for a "Day of Mourning" in honor of the guard who was murdered. Personally, I think that closing the museum, even for a day, gave the shooter exactly what he wanted. The best tribute to the guard would have been to keep the museum open with free admission that day to allow people to see what it was the man was guarding, and have baskets available to collect donations for his family.

"Miranda" is not a granting of rights, it's a "Miranda warning", and if they're going to be prosecuted in a US court, the prosecution must prove that these warnings were given prior to any confession being admitted. They are either entitled to the protections of our constitution or the protections of the Geneva Convention, which also requires the advising of certain rights, and the right to representation in the event of a prosecution.

I have two friends who have been together for a long time (like a decade). She has herpes that she caught from someone she was with before him. He doesn't have it, apparently through a combination of her being on medication to prevent/treat outbreaks and both of them being careful. Talk to your doctor, and call the Herpes hotline, and once you feel you have all the information, make an informed decision about whether it's a risk you want to take.

You're assuming that women always choose to have sex. Personally, I wouldn't choose abortion unless my life was in danger. However, I'm not going to tell any woman that she has to have her rapist's baby, and I'm not going to advocate implementing a policy that encourages people to lie to get an abortion.

If you're against abortion, don't have sex with a woman that would have one. Have that discussion before you have sex. If you don't want to take responsibility for a child that you might have, don't have sex, or make sure that you use protection and that she is on birth control.

Good luck with that - IS there another carrier, Stateside, that uses GSM (required for the iphone)? T-Mobile.

Of course a fetus is alive (so are bacteria). It's also human, given its DNA. Abortion really isn't a question of alive or not alive, human or not human. It's a question of whose rights trump whose, and at what point, if any, prior to birth, does a fetus have rights.