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there are facts as well as opinions, but the statements regarding those facts may be slanted with opinion. -- Rob
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sorry.... I don't read every single post. I missed one. Sue me. -- Rob
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Of course; thus, the "nice phrasing" on your part - you got both sides of your butt covered, don't you? nice.... ignore my first line, and chide me for referring to what you pasted. dick. -- Rob
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but they're amazingly quiet now, aren't they. I saw some squawking on the news yesterday by some reported Obama supporters. But for the most part, nothing. Nice phrasing on your part - cover both sides so that no matter what, you can claim, "Well, this is what I mean." How very Gingrich-esque of you. Anyhow, your disregard for the facts can be demonstrated by - for example - this: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0311/51595.html aside from your backhanded compliment, my phrasing was apparently not clear. the "they" I referred to in my first line was meant towards the "they" on this forum. My second line was referring to what you pasted. take your sideways PA and shove it. -- Rob
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As does reality you... there's a reason academia is often referred to as "academentia". Name calling clearly indicates that you have no logical rebuttal. Why don't you provide a better source of data on employment statistics than the US Dept. of Labor, since apparently its data don't come up to your standards of accuracy? look... I used to work for the local university with a research group. They had a sense of humor about "academentia" (that's where I learned the term). Clearly your sense of humor is lacking, completely different from mine or just not revved up this morning. I wasn't name calling, just trying to inject humor. I'll not try when you're involved anymore. damn! -- Rob
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As does reality you... there's a reason academia is often referred to as "academentia". -- Rob
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I got slammed by a bunch of lazy people for making this over-simplified statement. "losing weight (barring medical conditions) is simple. burn more calories than you eat, and keep your metabolism from crashing. " They all told me that losing weight wasn't easy. Sure... I never said "easy" simple is different from easy. There were a bunch of qualifications around it about how to eat, and what to eat, and how much exercise to do. But the bottom line boils down to the above. -- Rob
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but they're amazingly quiet now, aren't they. I saw some squawking on the news yesterday by some reported Obama supporters. But for the most part, nothing. -- Rob
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Don't Want To Pay Taxes, Take A Lesson From G.E.
rhaig replied to Butters's topic in Speakers Corner
I'd always understood the term "tax avoidance" to refer to the legal practice of avoiding owing taxes through exploiting tax code to one's advantage. "Tax evasion" on the other hand is the illegal practice of not paying what one owes. -- Rob -
Incorrect. A lap band or any other sort of bariatric surgery doesn't force you to 'eat right', it limits what you can eat at any one time and bad eating habits can still overcome the limitations. As an example, one of the ladies that had gastric bypass surgery on the same day as my ex that ended up back at her pre-surgery weight after a year. my point is that unless your habits change you don't lose weight and may end up injuring yourself as a direct result of your eating + lap-band. I don't need examples, I know 2 women who have recently had lap-band procedures. One is on her second try as she snapped her first one through over-eating. The second has already discovered how to over-eat even with the lap-band. shortcuts don't work -- Rob
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That young boy has a Medical problem which goes beyond what he eats. I wonder if Lap-band surgery is an option. ah look... someone who doesn't know what lap band really does. it forces you to eat right. if you don't eat right, you end up back in the hospital with complications. -- Rob
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Like ALL fat people... It's all the amount food that is being shoved in his gob but if they don't let the kid stuff himself he cries!! :( -- Rob
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Quite. Quite simplistic. VERY 'cept it ain't. yes it is. It's impossible to say that the mechanical failure wouldn't have happened on the next training or patrol flight that aircraft was used on. If the failure was caused by their mission, or by maintenance bypassed because they were in active combat operations, then perhaps the above statement is correct. Without that information, it is incomplete, and over-simplified. -- Rob
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http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=201103201128dowjonesdjonline000174&title=us-coast-guardreported-gulf-slick-likely-silt-from-dredging -- Rob
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No. For many reasons. And bill was spot on when he said it was impractical. -- Rob
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which makes more sense than anything you have said lately except the part at the very beginning of the thread where he said the idea is impractical. -- Rob
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I'm not saying your opinion is wrong, or that you're silly or anything, but when I read the above quoted section of your reply, I laughed. The only thing I could think was "I know you are, but what am I?" -- Rob
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I'm contemplating one of these: http://www.lapolicegear.com/maxpedition-sitka-gearslinger.html I need a smaller laptop though. If I'm going to use something like this for every-day carry, I need to put my laptop in it too. -- Rob
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I couldn't find it, but a couple of years ago I read an opinion piece I agreed with. GPS navigation is stripping us of the ability to read a map, but more importantly, stripping us of general knowledge of our local area. I experienced a bit of it last week. I used gps nav to get from the philly airport to my hotel 35min away. As a result, I couldn't have told you the route when I was finished. I had no idea what the cities were that I passed through, nor how to return should my NAV fail. Lucky for me, I know how to read a map, and by habit, picked up one at the rental place. -- Rob
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oh!!! so we're not tracking location, but use now as well. so now it's a more complex mechanism. Let's add DNA registries and electronic palm matching while we're being all fanciful ok? -- Rob
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so you're going to ask the judge to issue a warrant because they were in the vicinity with their legally purchased, legally carried, unmodified chipped, tracked firearm?? -- Rob
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knowing the exact time and location would allow you to find all the guns that were inside 10m of that location at that time (assuming they had line of sight to 4 GPS satellites). Of course for indoor crimes it would narrow it down to guns in the building. Now the system is tracking this data for ALL guns in a jurisdiction, and keeping it logged for a fixed period of time (which would mean likely forever). were you to be able to get a query against that DB to return, assuming scale wasn't a problem, you would be able to determine which tracked weapons were in the vicinity at that time. This doesn't ensure that ANY of these weapons were the actual murder weapon. The result would be that if none of them were the murder weapon, that several people would be violently detained and likely have their weapons temporarily confiscated as potential evidence. Of course the criminals wouldn't dare disable the GPS trackers on their weapons. That would be illegal. -- Rob
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I was on a 4-way belly load once in a "GPS-spotted" plane. The door opened, our man closest to the door, (who had 4000 jumps), started looking out, then the green light came on. The entire load started screaming for us to go, and he kept shaking his head. I looked out over his shoulder, and saw we were still a mile short of the DZ, and downwind. Of course the entire load continued screaming at us until until we reached the DZ and exited. it's been a while, but I did that for a 4-way group I was on. I was leaning out, the next group was bitching, so I let them go. About 8 seconds after they left the spot was perfect. We opened just downwind of the landing area (5-10mph day). first group had to walk about half a mile through a plowed field and climb a barbed wire fence. They proceeded to bitch at me for letting them out. -- Rob
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So are all legal gun owners deemed to have a permit in Yellowstone with the new rules in Wyoming? I would think so, but no doubt there will be a fight. found this: http://www.nps.gov/yell/parkmgmt/lawsandpolicies.htm WYOMING: Open Carry Allowed Handgun = Yes Rifle = Yes In Vehicle = Yes Age Requirement = None Concealed Carry Allowed - Permit Required Person = Yes Vehicle = Yes State Reciprocity = 23 states Age Requirement = 21 years of age this was last updated before the recent WY law change. Open carry was allowed without a permit even before this. Unless the NPS policies (not this informational page) specifically refer to allowing concealed carry by those with a license to carry concealed in that state, I'd think that NPS would allow it. I don't see where there will be a fight, considering anyone could already open carry in the park. -- Rob