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Sheer suicide. No one has been dumb enough to attempt it. Todd you familiar with what the publishing industry terms a "kill fee"?

They still had plastic on the roof last week! Opening on the 17th, that's gonna be awesome, I'm gonna go by just to see how much of a clusterphuk it is. Oh man, opening NINE days before XMAS

Santori Time!

A photoshopped this one

Yeah, he wants back sooooooooo bad

http://www.aprilwinchell.com/multimedia/media/mp3/StairwaytoGilligan%2Emp3 I found it

"I sing because I live with Satan. The Lord turns me off -- there's no escaping it. Here's to my sweet Satan, whose power is Satan. He will give you 666. I live for Satan." http://www.superseventies.com/stairway.html

I've been home from work for FOUR DAYS now The things I've been coughing up defy all scientific categorization; I got some guys from the CDC coming be later today to look at these plutonium nuggets I been bringin up Gotten a lot of paper work done Oh well, it's the first time I've gotten the flu in three years

Give up smoking -- gain weight, save money

Saw this funny doc a few months back about the sourcing of fair trade coffees . . . the majority of the coffee farmers in Columbia had never even tasted the coffee they were harvesting -- MATE RULES

Well put Mike; I think you hit the nail on the head for many folks. As I understand it, the current MEC plan is the result of an avowed need to remain profitable after becoming a little too extended in the 90s. The current selection has not only become more "pedestrian", but MEC has reduced product designers, so instead of continuing to develop innovative mountain gear while pursuing "urban life" lines, they have let the techincal end of things die off. Serratus RIP seems a predictable end point of this pursuit. I agree with you wholeheartedly that the introduction of the crappy house brand MEC packs helped kill Serratus, but it was also the introduction of arcteryx and Gregory when they could have put more money into building Serratus up. IMO they missed the boat about 3-4 years ago when they departed from being a competitor in innovative gear; soft shells, 2.5 layer hard shells were developed by all the others while MEC did not have the product designers to keep pace. I don't know how the hell they manage to keep screwing up the synthetic sleeping bag lines, but a new fill material seems to get cleared out each year! You are right to paint this as a betrayal of MECs ethical and legal roots. I suppose they would respond that the primary duty to members is to remain profitable - just the rant of a sad gear whore

Yeah, that crossing works, say if you've got $2000 worth of cams in the trunk from a covert prodeal op in Bend. Ahem. You can get stuck behind a goddamned milk truck or something on those roads in and out of that crossing. Why the hell am I debating this?

why not just wait 6 months for fred's guide. Thought you said Fred was waitin for a bit? Besides, he won't have Darin's "strokingly-lucious-no-guesswork" phototopos

Hey Darin, mind doin whatcha did there with all the other formations in the park, getting some topos nailed down, talking to Doorish et al, finally settling the discrepancies and lost/unrecorded routes, makin up a nice guidebook, hmm?

Salaried, high-paid employees work longer hours - of their own accord. These people are often the most motivated to excel. University professors, graduate students, and scientists also work long hours - because they love what they do. This yields to breakthroughs in research, patents, and inventions. Where are the bulk of all these fruits of hard-work found? Socialist countries tax labor at a higher rate, reducing the desire to excel. People work less because the marginal gains - personal, economic, etc are less. Why work 50 hours a week for little benefit? Now, can you say thread drift? The Laffer Curve is culturally subjective. I.e. in the US an x percent tax rate may be a disincentive to work but in Sweden it may not be perceived as such. But that supply side voodoo shit has been so discredited that it's not even worth discussing. ooops, I wasn't supposed to post unless your were making reference to the OECD reading/math/science data

either one works

Proof's in the pudding bitches! The issue was education . . I'm not going to even bother to look at your unreferenced abstract from a 2 page artcile published FOUR YEARS ago by in a small bulletin . . . Scott you ever study economics, you know the part whereby a larger country has a higher production of goods? Seems your Canuck education has failed you - the posting cited *per capita* productivity. Perhaps you should expand your lexicon to include common Latin phrases, or work on your reading comprehension skills. There was this *thing* I remember studying some years ago, what was it called? Oh yeah! "Economies of Scale" For the future, we were talking about education. Now I'm sure you're dying to argue some more about the calculation of production . . . however I will not reply to such because it would only legitimize your deviation from proof that Canada scores better MARKEDLY than the US in education.

Proof's in the pudding bitches! The issue was education . . I'm not going to even bother to look at your unreferenced abstract from a 2 page article published FOUR YEARS ago in a small bulletin . . . Scott you ever study economics, you know the part whereby a larger country has a higher production of goods?

aye, 176 street

Oh, I know!

B.C. students among world's best in reading, math, science 3,000 teens write tests given in 41 countries Janet Steffenhagen Vancouver Sun, with file from CanWest News Service December 7, 2004 B.C. students outperformed their counterparts in almost every province and all but a handful of countries in international reading, math and science tests last year. Alberta was the only province that ranked higher than B.C., but Education Minister Tom Christensen said the differences were so small as to be statistically insignificant. "I'm very pleased to see that British Columbia students are among the best in the world in reading, math and science," Christensen told a news conference after reviewing results from the 2003 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), released Monday. "It's a testament to our focus on student achievement and really to the hard work of students, parents and teachers in schools right around British Columbia." The tests, administered by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, were written by 15-year-olds in 41 countries, including a random sample of 3,000 students in B.C. British Columbia's performance improved slightly from the last PISA test in 2000. The province moved to fifth from seventh place in math while remaining at third place in reading and sixth place in science. The Canadian average, meanwhile, slipped in the rankings -- dropping to 11th place in science from fifth among countries in 2000 and falling to seventh spot from fifth in math. Canada remained third among countries in reading. Despite Canada's drop in the overall rankings, the country remains well above the OECD's 500-point average for each subject area, and far ahead of the United States in all academic areas. The U.S. placed 18th in reading, 22nd in science, 28th in math and 29th in problem-solving out of 41 countries. Its reading results are on par with the OECD average, but its science, math and problem-solving scores are statistically significantly lower than the OECD averages, and on par with Russia's performance in these three areas. Source: OECD

Take the truck crossing and go STRAIGHT up to the #1 instead of turning back onto the 99 whcih will lead you into downtown clusterfuck. The MEC in North Van is nowhere near opening. PLan on 3 hrs Ski both hills and decide for yourself

"Hey guys, I'm gonna rip it around this corner, blow a tire and then have to use crampons and my newly acquired third tool to change the flat BECAUSE I FORGOT TO BRING THE PROPER TOOLS. Sound good?"

Maybe if we offend him enough we can summon/invoke his presence Here he is too scared of getting his footsies wet to wade across the little stream