willstrickland

Que Shiraz Shiraz. Yeah, that Yellowtail is TJs usually has some good cheap Pinot Grigios as well, but I'm not really big on white. Pair it with food, but not a stand alone.

Oui! Wait, is this part of the dating thread?

Yellow pine. They also make a load of lumber out of those trees (Georgia Pacific ring a bell?). Althought it accounts for a tiny amount, there is also a good amount of oak harvested for furniture. North Carolina has a lot of furniture manufacturers, likely due to the close proximity of those raw materials.

But if Fred was a spectator on your send of said problem would you be: Ticking while the Swiss watched?

For paper, sure. But what about structural timber? What is the breakdown in pulp for paper products as a percent of timber use? Just curious, I have no idea. Also, can hemp fiber be used in a similar manner as wood to make pressboard/fiberboard?

stable - questionable. My shrink doesn't think so anyway. single - sure, but if you have a friend she can join in too. early 30s - check. employed - check. Bonus points for 6 figures right? non-committment phobe - let me think about it for a while in the NW - kinda sorta, I'm north and west of you. No smoking - we're talking about cigarettes right? No dancing? - probably for the best, that one.

I resemble that remark. Does using this site from Alaska make me doubley odd or just double my odds?

My schools made you stand, but you didn't have to recite the pledge. I think it's lame that people are arguing over something that was a non-original "red scare" addition to the thing. The separation of church and state is tied to the language "congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion..." in the Bill of Rights. 1. Is the pledge a law? 2. Does inclusion of the generic word "god" in any way represent "establishment" of religion? It's not like it says "one nation, under our Baptist God". 3. By extension of the argument, do we also have to remove "in god we trust" from the currency? 4. Should we also amend the Declaration of Independence to read "all men are evolved equal"? I personally think the pledge should not have been altered in the first place. But really, the argument is weak. And now that it has been altered, does it cause more harm to stir up animosity over trying to prohibit or change it, than leaving it in place? Think of all the money and time these jackasses spent on this case. Think of all the tax dollars that went to paying the judges, court clerks, etc. Apply that time and money to volunteer work, community cleanup, delivering food to the elderly, etc. We have some fahqed up priorities in this country.

Dood don't need no stinking snow to ski either.

This already exists in several forms...Standard and Poors, Value Line, and the brokerage houses and banks have analysts assigned to cover specific companies or sectors. I like S&P's research and they have no inherent conflict of interest. It is a starting point for me, but certainly not a be-all end-all. Value Line is in almost every public library system in the country. The brokerage and bank analysts are crooks though. Go look at the upgrade/downgrades and what price levels they occured from say the Bank of America analyst covering AMAT. If you had listened to these jokers you would have bought at 25, sold at 20, bought at 23, sold at 19....etc. You'd be poor. Crooks!

They are ETFs...exchange traded funds. SPD=Standard & Poors Depository receipts and DIA=Dow Jones Industials depository receipts. They are essentially like owning shares of a stock in that they trade on the AMEX, but they are made up of the components of their reference index. For example, one share of DIA is composed of some fraction of all 30 DJIA stocks. It's like getting the instant diversification of mutual funds with a very low cost basis (i.e. no load fees, very low tax hits because they aren't trading unless the components of that index change). Furthermore, you can trade them at any time, unlike many mutual funds which specify when you can withdraw, etc. There are alot of ETFs, and one of the most traded issues on any exchange is QQQ (nickname cubes), which is the ETF for the Nasdaq 100. The road to wealth isn't a racetrack Josh. It takes capital to make capital, and for the first time in my life I'm making enough at my job to allow a sizeable portion of my salary to go into my investments. I'm not into high risk ventures, and I don't make gambles. I'm doing ok, and I forsee retirement at a young (40-45) age. That's good enough for me. Wall Street is full of crooks, believe that.

You are obviously drunk since you didn't comprehend any of what I said. Do you even participate in the markets? The big brokerages are using "program trading" which is essentially automated trading based on algortihms and the extent of this program trading represents a very large and growing percent of the transactions everyday (estimates put it in the 60% range). I don't trade with algortihms, tech analysis/charting voodoo, or anything else aside from fundamentals...cash flow, debt, earnings, dividend history, short interest, etc. I read the 10Qs, I read the balance sheets and income statements, I research the industries. Granted, when a company like World Com or Enron is cooking the books, even the most diligent research falls short, but with proper diversification even a total collapse of a company like that would not hurt you too bad. Common sense is the basis of any good investment strategy. Short term trading is much more about psychology and luck. I make short term trades, but as a very small percent of my holdings and in companies that are solid, large cap, dividend paying equities - MO, PG, GE, ABT, MRK, etc. All these "wall st darling" growth stocks are like playing with fire. Krispy Kreme, Starbucks, Taser....all waiting for a smackdown. And Taser got theirs, I shorted that shit with no reservations, it went up for another week and a half and then took a huge nose dive giving me a nice 23% return for nothing more than saying "this thing is WAY overpriced for it's growth potential" and acting on it. What do you really think the growth potential for Tasers is? People had the thing priced like they were going to have one in every home in the country. I'd wager that the "average joe" who is using mutual funds doesn't even understand the fee structure they are paying, nor do they know the true returns of those funds. The numbers the fund companies feed them don't take into account tax issues or fees. 80% of mutual funds don't even beat the S&P500 on an annual basis and less than 5% do it on a recurring basis. Joe Average could do better by simply buying SPDs or DIAs. Mutual funds are another scam for people unwilling or unable to learn about the markets.

I don't advocate removing the regulations. In fact, I think they are insufficient particulaly with respect to accounting requirements. The GAAP doesn't require expensing of options, (which some companies do report as expense), and that is b.s. in my book. It inflates earnings, and in the end it's all about earnings. It is more than possible for the little guy to research and do their own decision making. I do very well for myself. I would never pay a professional because I know from first hand accounts (i.e. brokers) what goes on in the brokerage houses. They are all fucking crooks. Keep in mind that Wall Street draws the best of the best minds. You are competing with extremely savvy people. Program trading (automated computer generated trading running off complex algorithms) is growing to be something like 60+% of all transactions. It throws an incredible amount of noise into the markets. You can take a small cap biotech like Genta that has a big beta..like 2.7 or something and the price fluctuations don't represent as strong of a quality signal. The thing could easily take a 25% haircut without anyone batting an eye because it happens so often, only to rebound. By the time the signal is clear, the slaughter is in full swing. I know a guy in PDX (the 'couv actually) who had a good stake in AVII (a local biotech). He liquidated all of it at a loss (took a 1/3 drop from March to late April) and got into Genta after the big sell off. He figured the market overreacted (as it often does, I've been cleaning up on overselling and the resulting rebound of MO on bad news in tobacco lawsuits). He got into Genta fully, it continued down and he lost half his money in about a week, erasing 2 years of sucessful trading. All because he went on non-fundamentals. Greed kills.

Gimme a break. Full-timers got hammered because they were, as one person eloquently stated, "irrationally exuberant". They weren't duped, they were greedy...and the greedy pigs get slaughtered. The information available for free to the casual investor is far and above what even the most sophisticated has access to in 1920s. Alot of the market "gurus" of the past century made their money on informational arbitrage. That's simply not possible anymore. Insiders are already required to file with the SEC when they are going to buy/sell/exercise options. These insider transactions are available for you to see, again for free, at sites such as Yahoo finance, or your discount brokerage website (I use Scottrade). The fact is, insider trading problems revolve around information not available to the public being selectively distributed. This is common, so legal or illegal it happens all the time. The argument that anyone can just observe the insider transactions and then act on that is bogus because when there is a mass exodus on a stock, the exchange (NYSE, NASDAQ, etc) will often halt trading in the stock. An example from about a month ago is Genta. Biotech firm who was about to get a ruling from the FDA on one of their technologies. On the lead-up to the ruling date the volume was off the charts. Options were also trading like crazy. FDA report was bad, stock sold off hard until the exchange halted the trading. Genta lost something like 75% of it's market cap. Somebody knew enough to have put options and others knew enough to sell off their position during the pre-ruling flurry the week prior. Whether that info came from Genta, the FDA, or whoever the point is that insider trading will not cease due to SEC oversight. I still believe that requiring the actual company insiders to disclose their trading is a positive thing. And anyone who didn't see the bubble coming didn't want to see it. Aggregate P/E, and PEG, was sky high. I went to all cash 6 months before the big slide. Plenty of people made alot of money in those 6 months, but most of them suffered the consequences when the correction hit. A much bigger problem to me is the blatant manipulation by the MMs and the big houses, particularly with the big houses analysts making horrible calls all in order to generate transactions. Sector rotation and the short term self-fufilling prophecies they create are all based on making you transact and generate fees for the brokerage houses. Underlying value is an afterthought in many cases.

You need that pic of Messner and Habeler at Everest basecamp in '78. They were pimpin' some styley Fila softshell tracksuit lookin' deals. I want one!

About time too dontcha think?

Ahh bullshit. They booted your ass outta the mod club for spending too much time sprayin on stupidtaco.com and cockknockers.com aka rockclimbing.n00b and not enough time moderating.

It's on the right as you enter Capitol Gorge...at the end of the scenic drive road where it turns from pavement to dirt. Grand Wash entrance is about 1/2 mile before that. There are a couple of cracks on the right side of Grand Wash, a wide 5.8 called Pussy Bolt and a .10 called Sharon's crack just to the right of it. The classic handcrack is the lone route on the right wall at mouth of Cap Gorge. 31m long, angles to the right, two drilled angles for an anchor.

Classic Handcrack in Capitol Reef NP about 20 times because it was one of the small selections of routes there, fun, well protected, and the best warmup, and it was 15 minutes from my door. Nutcracker in Yos about 6 or 8 times because there are lots of start options, it's fun, varied, no-stress climbing, is long enough to make it worthwhile, but short enough to do with a newbie. I don't repeat many routes.

Up here we have all the usual Calvin pissing stickers, plus Calvin pissing on all the snowmobile companies...Arctic Cat, Polaris, etc. There are rednecks everywhere you go, the accent just changes. Classic: "Gas, grass, or ass - Nobody rides for free"

Catbird...I'd probably do what you described. Maybe use flemish bend instead of fishermans, but it's just personal preference. As for just going with a 3 on a single 30m rope, I wouldn't have issues with that approach unless there were alot of wide, open slots and suspect bridges where you were doing the "end around" to skirt crevasses. In that case you might want more than 15m between.

Alright, that's a kind of bizarre scenario, and my first reaction would be to just tie each to the middle man with figure 8s (via biners like Sno says above). BUT...after thinking about it, I would join the ropes and tie the middle man off to one side of the joint for this reason: If one of the end members takes a crevasse fall, the other end member may be in a sufficient arrest/anchor position to hold the fallen climber. The middle person could then unclip from the joined ropes, and move to assists the end person. If the middle person is best placed to anchor, it doesn't matter how you do it, but if the end person is best placed...the middle might need to get free. If you don't join the ropes and just connect them both to the middle person, you can't get the middle person free without some convoluted ropework shenanigans.

Sweet dreams you nasty bastard.

The ACT itself states (this is a small excerpt, but the relevant part to our discussion): --------------------------------------------------- Section 4, Part C PROHIBITION OF CERTAIN USES © Except as specifically provided for in this Act, and subject to existing private rights, there shall be no commercial enterprise and no permanent road within any wilderness area designated by this Act and, except as necessary to meet minimum requirements for the administration of the area for the purpose of this Act (including measures required in emergencies involving the health and safety of persons within the area), there shall be no temporary road, no use of motor vehicles, motorized equipment or motorboats, no landing of aircraft, no other form of mechanical transport, and no structure or installation within any such area. Sec4, Part D SPECIAL PROVISIONS (d) The following special provisions are hereby made: (1) Within wilderness areas designated by this Act the use of aircraft or motorboats, where these uses have already become established, may be permitted to continue subject to such restrictions as the Secretary of Agriculture deems desirable. In addition, such measures may be taken as may be necessary in the control of fire, insects, and diseases, subject to such conditions as the Secretary deems desirable. ------------------------------------------------------- Empasis added. The fixed anchor ban was based on a superintendent's interpretation of the term "installation" as applying to fixed anchors.

I think you've seriously misunderstoof the motivation behind those who want to limit (not prohibt) the use of bolts. It's not about climbing like the old dudes. If you don't get it, I doubt I can convey it.