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Current best beer cooler: http://www.asciimation.co.nz/beer/ ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

I think it's right on point. There's no need to do anything in the Middle East right now. We should just wait around until they nuke us like the ad says. BMcD... ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

I took zero direct hits and bit three bullets, but I do not agree with the definition of biting a bullet. The creator of the study shifts some value judgments into the logical analysis of the questions. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

>>The whole thing would have been prevented if the family had looped the stupid dogs leash through a door handle while they were pulling over

I imagine that anyone looking up to watch their main and reserve entangle would be a potential "yes" vote on an "Is your next reserve going to be round?" poll. Or more likely, they will abstain. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Don't remember who said it, but it's some famous dead guy: "No one is so blind as he who will not see." I take this to mean that everyone who does not agree with me is an idiot, but some idiots say that people like me are the ones who refuse to see. I say they are blind. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

There's a good sporting clays course right outside G'burg on the Pigeon Forge side. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Actually, I've heard lots of bad things about paypal, also. They take a big fee but don't seem to do all that much. Have you had any positive experience with their fraud protection to share? Note that I am not looking for "never had a problem", which is what I would hope happens the vast majority of the time, but I am looking for "I had a problem and they fixed it." ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

9.25% Tennesseeans pay that now. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

B & H carries Konica 50. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/03/01/27473390.shtml Another link ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

See this: http://photonotes.org/articles/auctions/ ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

I bought my rig there. Was disappointed that promised delivery time and actual delivery time were about a month apart, but I have no reason to believe that the mfgs sent him my stuff and then he sat on it. They just didn't get it made as soon as he thought they would. His prices were better than I could do elsewhere, and he was a real nice guy. Answered millions of first time rig buyer questions patiently. Threw in a couple of T-shirts for the wait. I'd buy from him again. Brent ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

And I thought skydiving was hardcore. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Lots of recommendations on open face helmets in the other helmet threads. Any opinions out there on full face helmets? Specific questions - what is the difference between a Havok and a Boomerang? Can either be jettisoned quickly if I may want to stick on a camera? BMcD... ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

This should provoke some interesting commentary from the libs. BMcD... ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Damn, dude. If you need some good wishes from the right side of the Mississippi, here's some. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Please expand on this idea. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

I agree. In the '80's, economists talked a lot about "nova theory" as the way to ensure a solid economy. The theory was that because the US had the most powerful military in the world, our currency would always be acceptable to people in other countries. Therefore, the US could have a perpetual budget deficit (as long as interest on the debt did not exceed global production), and just wait until the sun went supernova (so you would never have to pay back the principal). The idea was that you would just issue more an more treasury securities, rolling the ever-growing principal balance into perpetuity. It turned out not to work. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Yeah, that is kind of my point. The guy complaining about the building inspector is trying to shift some sort of blame to him, by acting as if the $500 was some amount to which he was entitled but that he had to give back. If I pay less taxes next year, it won't be because I got some gift from the government, it will be because I spent less on taxes. Taxes cost me. Tax cuts don't "cost" society. BMcD... ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

It's a decline in revenue, not a cost. The top line just goes down. A cost happens when you spend money you already had. The implication of using the word "cost" is that the government is somehow "giving back" money to people. For example, transfer payment programs "cost" money. The government collects the money and then spends it by giving it to whomever society at large decides is worthy of the subsidy. Could be poor people, farmers, big oil companies, or folks who drive fuel efficient cars. A reduction in revenue does not actually involve an expenditure. It may have the same impact on net income from year to year as a cost, but it does not have the same implication. Please look in your wallet and let me know how much it is costing me not to rob you right now, and you'll see what I mean. It doesn't really "cost" me money not to rob you. But it's still $x that I would have had if I did. I dunno. Maybe I'm overly caught up in the semantics of this, but I think it's an important distinction. BMcD... ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Actually, it does just print more money. But it is not costless, as some people believe. I think that is what you meant. Increases in the money supply (in order to pay the nominal dollar obligations of the federal government) are part of monetary policy and act as one of the ways that the government attempts to exert control on the economy. An increase in the money supply tends to push interest rates down, which has a variety of other macroeconomic effects. BMcD... ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

How is that a "cost"? This is a piece of logic I don't understand. Newscasters actually use the verb "cost" a great deal when talking about a tax cut. You never hear people say, "I'm spending $100 thousand (or whatever their perception of the NPV of a medical career is) by not going to medical school and becoming a doctor." From an economic standpoint, whether it comes from C (consumer spending) or G (government spending) does not really matter, with the exception of the Marginal Propensity to Consume, which for most nonskydivers is less than 1.0 but not much. BMcD... ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

You're gonna get flamed. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com

Also remember that both monetary and fiscal policy are a little like the controls on a battleship. You move the controls, and then a while later something happens. It takes a great deal of time for shocks on the economy to be felt, and our economy gets shocked by all kinds of stuff all the time. The public thinks about some types of shocks more than other types, and the philosophy of the president in office at the time the GDP figures are released is given (in my opinion) a great deal more emphasis than it ought to. ---------------------------------- www.jumpelvis.com