jimbarry
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Hope you've got a heat sink and fan attached to that keyboard. Just a thought tangent: I always thought I was pretty quick on the keyboard, until I started writing in dutch and discovered that typing fast is more about language-specific patterns than just knowing where the letters are. Type in a different language and watch your speed or accuracy go thru the floor.
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An artist at Cal Tech, a musician/pilot on Long Island, a 19th century bantamweight boxer, and a winery in Australia. None of them me. Ah yes, still flying under the internet's radar...
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All good stuff. Dunking is definitely more than the sum of the parts.. But... The best has got to be Dunkin Donuts plain cake donuts dunked bite by bite in a mug of hot cocoa. Quick before they dissolve. Dunkin Donuts! It's in the name! (why are none in SoCal? i miss them from back east.)
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Cool. I learned my speed AND found out why airlines don't just ask you about special meals up front. -------------------------------- You typed However, several of the airline representatives whome I spoke with told me that while they are pleased to accommodate passengers, it is a hassle for the flight attendants to do so once airborne. This explains why you are not asked on a regular basis by reservation agents if you desire a specialty meal. Your speed was 60 WPM with 1 mistake (adjusted speed 59 WPM)
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Understood. I do see some truths in there, but only half-truths. What about job training? He certainly didn't go into the AF with those skills. Clothing, housing, food, all paid for. COLA (does this still exist?) adjustments. An EM under E-5 who's married and/or starting a family has self-imposed problems. Sure. You have a marketable skill? Then don't re-up. The military understands that. Outright sells that aspect during recruiting. Cost of doing business. As for tough service, and long deployments, it's all volunteer and it's a sacrifice you make to serve and pay back your country for freedom. Does this guy really think an E-3 should be making $80k a year? I thank this guy (if he really exists) and everyone like him for their service, just as others thanked me for mine. But this "letter" comes pretty darn close to whining.
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Symbols have meaning. That's the property that makes them useful. Can't just wake up one day and have everyone agree that a swastika is nothing more than some angled lines.
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But it's so much more fun to say it this way: Bush lied about WMD! There were never any! The US is evil! Democrats are always right! Governments make jobs! Blah blah blah... See? Just spout off a sentence of four words or less. What? A whole paragraph of facts and reasoned logic? Borrrrinngggg...
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This fake letter's been spinning around the net for a few years now.
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Six pack of Bud Light
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Nothing wrong with it at all. None at all. After two posts and two responses, you're still under the delusion that the reason the US won't do business with Cuba is simply because it's a communist state. The history and reasons are a lot more complex than that.
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I guess that means you're not a woman either. Or disabled. Hey, whatchu got against reading stuff in S&T?
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Either are good explanations. If we treated them like every other Caribbean banana republic, they'd probably be at least a bit better off. They do get a lot of European and Canadian tourists for the fact that we can't go there, but that doesn't make up for it. Agreed. No doubt they would be a lot better off had we been trading partners these last few decades, but that still doesn't explain how the UN decreed that Cuba's ills are the US's fault. Blockade?
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BULLSHIT, China operates udner the same model and the US is jumping up and down doing business with them. Nice. You flip words around, then call them bullshit. I didn't say the US won't do business *because* of the model they chose; I said the cause of their problems is self-imposed, not due to the US. How do you figure the US is obligated to do business with Cuba?
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Dear U.N.: The US is "blockading" Cuba? The brutal effects Cuba has suffered is due to their choice of socio-political-economic model, not because the US won't do business. Loss of what? How is it the US's obligation to cure Cuba's ills? Thanks UN. 4% of the world (ie., the US) is to blame for Cuba's inability to build its own economy trading with the other 96%? Thread tangent over. We take you back to Britain's crime...
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Conservatives are all close minded war mongers
jimbarry replied to vmsfreaky1's topic in Speakers Corner
Yep, leaning heavily. Let's see... Our "warmongering" against Japan and in Europe was FDR's, the patron saint of the dems. The only use of nuclear weapons in history was Truman the Dem, then Korea. General Ike of the GOP presided over relative peace, then JFK the dem and his veep just *had* to dig us a nice southeast asian hole, that it took a republican "evil" Dick to extract us from. And then of course all of the ordnance expended by Clinton that the hollywood left allowed without complaint 'in their name'. Only Carter tried to play nicey-nice with evil in the world and we got shat on for it. I realize that all of the above might be plainly obvious to the typical american, but how is it that after all that, it's the GOP that are still seen as the mongers? -
Dude! That's so cool! Making it easier for you and your friends to launch your two ton vehicle down the road, endangering everyone who comes near your inebriated path. Awesome. RCMP rocks!
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I'm not even supposed to be jumping today...
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I see. Using a cell phone while driving a bus is dangerous, but using a cell phone while driving a car isn't. Got it. Thanks CA legislators!
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I'm thinking you're right. Recently went for a week on business. Whoa...
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We're at war! Let's go to Hawaii! Ah yes, Tom Ridge relaxing by the pool. Classic.
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How does a member of congress have any control over whether or not their legally-adult children volunteer for military service?
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Since you're a contract employee, it would depend on the terms of your contract. If you were a regular employee, then it would depend on your employment status, often referred to as Exempt and Non-Exempt. Non-exempts are those who by law must be paid 1.5 their hourly rate for each hour per week worked over 40. Some employers deal with non-exempts by prohibiting them from access to overtime at all. Exempts are those on a monthly or annual salary, typically professional or technical staff. Employers do not have to pay them overtime, but some do anyway in some form, half time, comp time, etc. If JP Morgan/Chase considers your position to be "professional", then I suppose you're lucky they offer to pay for extra time worked at all. They probably consider the position to be "Exempt".
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The taxation is for your representation. To be allowed to run for president is a right?
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No, the constitution should not be amended so that the governator can become president. Rather it *should* be amended so that any US Citizen can run for any elected office, including president. Remember that the prez has to be elected. If the majority of americans want some US citizen, any US citizen to be their president, then why shouldn't they have that right? (please no popular/electoral tangents). You really think some sleeper agent with mixed loyalties would be able to get him/herself elected president?
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Webster's calls it "American English". That's probably the best way to describe the language spoken in the US. Not sure what to call the language spoken by Anglo-Canadians (or who my brit friends refer to as "Plastic Yanks").