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OW said mods should maybe be called "Warlords" akin to those in Afghanistan. I don't think this is going to work because this would mean Jon and Timmy are eponymous with Osama bin Laden and Mullah Omar.

I take that back. Condor will probably purposely drop you and make you the carrion.

If you offer it enough carrion, perhaps you can get one of the nesting condors to toprope you.

[Alan Greenspan will croak sooner than later. I nominate Jay Brazier as his replacement.] Like anything else that occurs in this world, there are trade offs to doing one thing or another. Think of it as a spectrum of possible courses of action. In the case of shipping jobs abroad, one end of the spectrum is the ultimate benefit of the corporations at the expense of the employee. The other end of the spectrum benefits the employee but not necessarily the corporations. But even this is simplifying the spectrum into a linear model. Really the spectrum is two dimensional, maybe even three dimensional. It is essentially cause-and-effect analysis for a future that hasn't happened yet. In the limit of a higher and higher percentage of white collar jobs or technical blue collar jobs moved overseas, more and more it would be that the only things that remain for our own country are low paying jobs to service the upper class (the highly-payed executives). The jobs being shipped overseas are the middle class jobs. It is the middle class (the bourgeoise) that drives any 1st World economy. The more you ship those jobs overseas, the more the economy suffers for the middle class, hence the country in general. Right now, the percentages of those transplanted jobs are small. I speak only of growing limits. In the limit, this overall mid-level intellect and resource pool would suffer. Jay speaks of corporations but he neglects the country social perspective in his essay. He speaks of the benefit of the consumer as if there were no countries, no borders, only a global village. Unfortunately, even if you might think a global country (an 'earthy', if you will) is the way humanity is progressing, this is not where we are in the present. A country should not ignore itself--else it will one day find its foundation infested with mildew and rot. The foregoing are philosophical theories for the economy. They are not based on a current economy (as we see it NOW).

Ahhh goodie, another comedy thread shaping itself right up.

It should be noted that none of us except Jon and Timmy "own" this site. It is at their whim to ban, unban, cuss out, slobber over, spit at, or otherwise through a medium that is of their making. But, moderators, on the other hand... Possible solution: rotating moderators. Or make it an elected position maybe once a year. If we as users feel that any one (or more) moderator is getting too big for his britches or her panties, then we can simply vote the lame Locke out of his/her office. But Jon and Timmy shall lord supreme. Gods to us ordinary cc.com mortals.

On two occassions in the mid-90's before he was really famous, I played pool at Jillian's in Seattle on the table next to Gary. The man may be a great cager, but he sucks at billiards! Even so, he always tried to play up his game with his pals. On a few occassions in taking our shots we'd get in each other's way. Even though he sucked at pool, he was a pretty fun guy to be around. I suppose that would be the case when you make millions of $$$ per year.

I'm not trying to bring this back to the top. I just wanted to add the following link for archival purposes... I found this trip report for Twin Peaks: http://staff.washington.edu/gregm/twinpeaks.html In particular, the 7th picture shows the fantastic knife-edge ridge we didn't take to the summit, the practically vertical face for the 5.8 crack on the right, and finally the steep dihedral with the loose blocks in it that I backed out of. They apparently went up this dihedral (8th picture). The ninth picture shows the view looking directly up the 5.8 crack. I quote: "The vertical rock seen above was marbled with zig-zagging cracks and would have made some excellent top-roping, but it started to rain." Looks like they called it a zigzag crack too. But, we didn't top rope it!

Hey uPchucK:

Thinker: ya goin' to PC tonight? (You said you would buy me a beer. ) I aint gonna show otherwise.

Gives new meaning to "Pack it in, pack it out." Or... "Lots of men became aroused at the sight of the snowmaking equipment."

"Careful you don't drop your ski poles, Eugene!"

Yeah, well I still just like my beer alcoholic.

Me: Muhammed Ali. Shook his hand. Got his autograph. Threw him a left hook and he rope-a-doped. (Okay, that last sentence was a fabrication.)

Did you try two screwdrivers at once to pry up and toward the radial center? If you use just one screwdriver, this sometimes doesn't work because the action of getting it in forces the canister tighter against the inner wall of the cup. If you use two screwdrivers diametrically opposed (if you can get two wedged in that way), then you may be able to get more leverage to pull the canister out. In regards to filling the cavity up with water, you would employ the same method as my first suggestion but now the water acts to better transfer the shock wave through that cavity from base of cup to canister. Can't really say if this would have any affect without having the SNAFU in front of me to look at.

Interesting. You could try this: It looks like the canister is a little below the lip of the cup. Because of this, it may be possible to turn the whole thing upside down, put a hard object like a board over the base of the cup, put the whole thing down on a hard floor, and whack the board real hard with a hammer (mallet would be better). This might force the canister down so that its base now comes even with the lip of the cup, thus freeing it sufficiently. If not, you won't have harmed anything. But then you've probably already tried that. Another possible solution is to try to fill the cavity between inner cup and canister with water because it is incompressible (if there is a gap where the water can be poured in). Next, quickly turn the whole thing over in a shallow water basin such that you don't replace the water back to air. You can now whack the base of the cup and not make a splash if the base of the cup is above the water level. The incompressibility of water sometimes forces the two apart (at least this has worked for me in the past once or twice when I got two things stuck together like that).

I know this doesn't help Minx any but... Jackson Hole may be a lame ass tourist trap, but I will say that everytime I've gone in the Albertson's there (a total of about 10 times), I've been treated to many good views of nice looking women. At least it's always had that going for it for me. True enough, I haven't scored with any of these women, but that's beside the point. Isn't it? Isn't it?

Yeah, you're right. My bad. I was looking at the wrong feature (the feature above the true SCW).

Are you sure? That's not how I remember it.

Sisu, your story is written very badly! Who is your friend? The bouncer or the 145-pound Finn or neither? Who woke up? The bouncer or the Finn? Who did the police tell to get lost? The bouncer people or the Finns? Antecedents, antecedents! (And you call yourself a teacher.)

So what's with the black out of your eyes? We're all good people here. I don't think any of us work for the FBI, if that's your concern.

But you can't see the face of SCW. It's on the other side of that feature Al_Pine pointed out.

Why do you think I took up golf at age 10? Why for the sex baby! For the sex!

And, hey, that's FOUR lines, Chockstone Pie.

Yeah, isn't that kind of an interesting point, CBS. In the 19th Century it was standard practice to hang a horse thief even for stealing one horse (1 HP). My how times have changed. Now you get caught and set free due to ineffective laws for stealing the equivalent of 200 horses (200 HP).