ScottP

Who, Thompson or Nixon? Uh...basically it was.

My favorite HST quote comes from his Nixon eulogy: "If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning. Even his funeral was illegal. He was queer in the deepest way. His body should have been burned in a trash bin."

Yes...please do.

crack: Rattletale-pitch 2/Breakfast of Champs (toss up) sport: uh...Newest Industry...?

Looks more like a German soldier smoking a hookah and following a flying onion ring at night somewhere outside of Stalingrad.

Roland's Pink Elephant on Elephant Dome, near the headwaters of the Kern? (I only saw it from the ground.)

"Blame yourself for not making this country one you want to live in" WTF?

My mom voted for the shrub in 04 simply because she felt Teresa Heinz Kerry was a dingbat. Talk about irrational...

I believe the senses cease to function after death, hence your grumpiness is pointless.

Matt, I am not arguing against the organized effort. It has obviously been of some benefit for us as climbers. It is the "Your legislators set policy for state departments - just let them know what you want." mindset that seems a bit naive. Maybe I missed the meaning, but it seemed that the above statement greatly simplified that which requires considerably more effort to acheive.

Gee Professor Freeberg, thanks for the civics lesson. Now I understand everything. Anyway...I'm not bitching. My negative response was to the notion that "just let them know what you want" is going to do anything. Along with the "write your congressman" or "change things with your vote", I have difficulty with the idea that any attempt I, as an individual, make toward changing the screwed up way things are done in government is going to amount to much. This seems rather contradictory to me.

Didn't Fox News lose millions of dollars in it's first couple of years?

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I have contacted my legislators on numerous occasions about a variety of concerns... the response has always been a cordial form letter or quaint hand-written note and never (despite the promise) any follow up... In other news... MattP says Look at that Bolt Nazi thread...we can't organize a consensus about a couple of ancient bolts let alone an entire climbing area. I agree that we could have some clout if we got our collective shit together, but I see that as quite unlikely to happen.

No doubt the harness manufacturers are tooling up to handle a sudden spike in new harness orders...

...and your shit does stink.

"Tupac and Biggie, move over..." "I'm encrypting shit like every single day; sending it across a network in a safe way; protecting messages to make my pay; if you hack me you're guilty under DMCA." "You are a troller...one week ban...I know your other screen name, man." "Dear Internet, you've pwned my life...And if you had an orifice...I'd make you my wife." "When I had a modem it was hella exotic...Now high bandwidth is my narcotic."

You obviously don't like them, but you don't seem to like the idea of no belay in that spot either. Are you going to remove them? Are you going to replace them?

Leave the route as it is. The bolts are a part of the route. It has been successfully climbed the way it is countless times.

The Games Climbers Play Between pages 384-385 Plate 12 Reinhold's blackened toes, still attached.

This seemed a logical place to stop the times I've been up there...

It is a common head lice treatment.

From Wired.Com: Random Acts Of Spamness "The addition of seemingly nonsensical words is aimed at confusing the antispam filters that incorporate Bayesian analysis techniques, such as SpamBayes and SpamAssassin. These filters examine incoming e-mail messages and calculate the probability of it being spam based on each message's contents. But unlike simple content filters that simply troll text looking for specific words like Nigeria, money and opt, Bayesian spam filters evolve according to each user's needs, analyzing all mail to determine what words and phrases are apt to appear in a user's legitimate e-mail and which are not. This process is called training, and results in a highly personalized and efficient filtering system. By throwing a hundred or so random words rarely used in sales spiels into each e-mail missive, spammers hope to thwart Bayesian filters by making the spam appear to be personal correspondence. Incorporating words that might be used in legitimate e-mails is also intended to poison the checklist the filter uses, forcing it to mark, for example, e-mails with somewhat common words like Amazon and fish as spam indicators."

I did it some time ago (early 90's?) as a consolation after taking nothing but draws on Newest Industry, seriously dogging the crux and then bailing after finding the need for gear way out from the last bolt (I've never trusted a Smoot guide since.) It was somewhat dirty even then. If you are ticking off Index routes, I'd say it's worthy of a look, but certainly not a destination in itself.

Not.