Gary_Yngve

If it breaks at 48kN, it's too damn heavy. If it is rated at 12kN, I would want 99.99% of models to break at above 12kN. If they broke at 13kN, it's no less safe than breaking at 48kN, assuming my requirements were that they are rated at 12kN.

They should dynamite the Hillary Step while they're at it.

You mean Mountaineers Books. They are separate orgs.

the irrational fear to the swine flu pisses me off. it's not what we need (reduction of commerce) in an economic downturn. i heard something like they want 1.5 billion dollars to allocate toward protecting against it? that would only be a good use of money if in excess of 500 Americans were to die from it.

Where do you get that from? Climbers don't drive through Vantage. You drive to George for the Taco Truck. The road is called Old Vantage Hwy, I think. Maybe folks didn't want to call it Freedom Coulee. Regarding other areas in WA, I see general regions and then individual creeks, trailheads, and walls. Yeah, we do have the areas Index, Leavenworth, and Darrington that are named after towns (and Index after a mountain too). But I think that works well for quickly explaining what you're doing. I can go climbing one day in the Icicle and another in the Tumwater but describe the whole thing as Leavenworth. Within Darrington, Squire Creek, 3 o'clock Rock, etc. Index.. LTW, UTW.. Tieton seems to be named after the river. Erie is not called Anacortes. X32/Little Si is not called North Bend. What else am I missing?

Has anyone been able to get in touch with them? I couldn't get a reply from them regarding a change-of-address.

is this a quentin tarantino movie?

Now what I don't understand is the pirates have said they would now kill any US and French crew, instead of taking them hostage. Wasn't hostages the primary reason for us not sending in forces and kicking ass? Unless the pirates figure out how to sabotage the goods carried by ships, lay mines, or otherwise cause mayhem, keeping hostages alive is in their best interest for their own safety and for receiving ransom.

Gary proving his historical ignorance again. ?? explain why?

We've been the world's policeman for 200 years. Back then, Europeans were being pussies and paying ransoms to the Barbary pirates. Our marines went in there and kicked some ass.

SEALs or Marines, dropping three perps in the same instant and not giving the perps a chance to harm the hostage is damn impressive!

"Potential helicopter support will be dictated by availability from several private companies. " This sounds like one of those retarded things where some number of privately contracted rescue flights will turn out to be more expensive than the original program.

What about cold-smoking some crackers and frying in pork fat?

I'm glad Barack said it. Everyone needs to lighten up about political correctness.

Why not me? Please explain.

a few months ago, all the right wingers were saying how great it was that God blessed the Palins and that they're doing the right thing by getting married. now that they're not getting married (which minx predicted better than I did), what do the right wingers have to say now?

http://www.people.com/people/article/0,,20264935,00.html go abstinence and other rightwing crap!

Depends what they talked about. Could have been on a spectrum from brown-nosing to blackmailing.

Ya, you have an iTunes license for individual use, not public performance Same issue with kindle and reading aloud

style: MK and GL self-rescuing JL from the top of Hunter and then sending Inf Spur a few days later Dan Mazur aborting his Everest climb to rescue an abandoned dying climber Long, Bridwell, Westbay's 1-day ascent of the Nose Lynn Hill's futuristic FFA of the Nose House/Anderson sending the Rupal Face alpine-style

i bet he would also like to be an astronaut, a neurosurgeon, and a porn star. Now of those, along with a mountain guide, who's the cockiest?

the approach from the north side seems to be good for a skiing objective. the approach from middle fork is best for a summer hike, because you pass by the potholes along the way. unfortunately the access is getting worse.

It may function as information retrieval, but replicated/cached copies on distributed servers may legally count as information dispersal, because they are fundamentally electronic facsimiles. Just think of how retarded copyright law has been regarding the Internet.

It's fortunate that they were able to self-rescue. SAR was also busy on McClellan's Butte and would have probably been understaffed trying to do two simultaneous missions that day. The only public info I found about the McClellan's Butte mission is here: http://hikerhell.blogspot.com/2009/02/climber-injured-on-mcclellan-butte-near.html

Of course, you can't just throw a bunch of money at something and get something big and good made immediately and efficiently. We learned that in the first dot-com bubble. It will take years to negotiate a modernization of HIPAA, which was written pre-google, pre-SaaS. It will take more time than you think to architect a design, hire top talent, etc. Don't even get me started on legacy systems. Heck, it will take at least a year just to award grants and contracts.