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Greg, I would love to hear how the NAACP is on the same level as the BPs or the KKK.

Unfortunately it's raining everywhere I think... I guess we need it tho. back to perfect weather again by sat afternoon.

I heard it fell down the other day...

All good suggestions... for the sake of ease of use I have 50m of 6mm. Maybe when that wears out I'll think of using one of these other schemes. I like rbw's, I'm sorry to say I'd never even thought of that...a much safer way then knots fer sure.

LOL...wow, that's funny. That tax break is one of the biggest loads of outdated shit. There was an article on MSN cars a while back advising people to look for a 6k+ vehicle to get the tax break. Either these things need to be classified back to a new category, such as "obseeively vain and unreasoable cars" so they have to meet the same standards, or they should be regulated like the trucks they currently are. Which would mean banning them from residential streets. dps, is your neighbor self-employed? If not, I believe he is in violation of the tax code.

My query was in response to criticisms of kerry's war record, not his promised changes. Great...now go fuck yourself. A witty response, indeed, from the guy who can't track what a thread is about.

jjd blaterhing... My query was in response to criticisms of kerry's war record, not his promised changes.

thanks green, that's exactly what I was looking for.

Hi Green, great report on one of the more out of the way peaks. Did you have to cross any glacier at all? It sounds like not, since you don't indicate it or any gear. thanks, -josh

Does this mean that climbers will now be able to whack off above 25k feet, which was previously difficult if not impossible??

Umm, both of the last two times I have set up a computer it just attaches to the network and finds all the computers. Maybe I have a supar special #1 Windows computer? Yes, I do admit the patching sucks, I guess as will said above, it's nice having a OS that nobody uses and thus isn't targeted by hackers. In their defense the MS auto-update patching shit works pretty seamlessly.

RobBob, I realize your stance on Bush. That is cool, it's not what I am aruging. I am just wondering what specifically that you are seeing about Kerry that bothers you so? And if it is bad stuff, is it definiltey not right wing spin? I have seen plenty of accounts by guys *on* his boat (including two guys who he well may have saved from death) come to his support and call him a hero. I have heard lots of negative things from people that didn't serve immediately under his command. I just want to see what it is that bothers you so much. Obviously Kerry is going to trumpet up his war record, it's a political race. Bush is up there trumpeting his record on terrorism, which is a hellavu lot more suspect than kerry's war record.

Greag, you may be talking about the far far left, but I dont see the democratic party pushing to ban SUVs. This is certainly reasonable tho: *make them meet milage standards *make them meet safety standards *make them pay for their gross disproportional use of resources and pollution Banning things isn't going to help anybody, but asking that people who do more damage to the commons pay for more is reasonable. There has to be a balance struck between freddom to do whatever you want and the right of society as a whole to not be harmed by the actions of a few. The sad fact is we have a small planet, with very limited resources and people have the ability to do things to this planet and these resources that affect everybody else. I dont consider that fair to me or the others that don't want to be affected. Now banning abortion due to your (not saying you specifically) moral beliefs is just ridiculous. Not to mention making me as a taxpayer pay to educate your childern on the bible rather than science, which obviously prepares the reealll well for jobs in the real world.

Close minded people definiltey come from all sides and all walks of life. The reason the christian right is so offensive is because they insist on having government create laws to rule the rest of us according their "morals." There is some minister, I forget what his name is (I think somebody posted him on here??) who's goal is bring science into christanity. He belives (rightly so, I think) that the death of christianity will be the refusal of it's followers to accept science and the fact that the bible is a human created story book, not a hand-me-down from god.

All computer uses, mac or PC, are generally dumb, so I dont know what that argument is for. My machine now has 1gb of RAM. You'll swap anyway, at least if are using the machine for RAM intensive applications. Loading and everything else is much faster with a good HD. PLain and simple this is why comparable laptops are sooo much slower than desktops. The HDs are vastly slower. All the components count towards performance and HD is the one that everybody forgets. You are wrong about Sonys, external X. I have one (along with anotehr computer) and I wiped and reinstalled XP pro on it. Works fine. Then I installed just the few sony apps I wanted. You'll find the same suite of preinstalled crap on a dell, hp, compaq, etc. It's just what they do. Sonys are more expensive than equivilent PCs, that is true. But sony was the only company that made the exact laptop I wanted: ~4lbs, super-bright screen, widescreen, and good performance. The toshiba lifebook comes close but it lacks widescreen and 1024x768 is too small for my likeing. The sony Z-series is pretty sweet but the S I got replaces it. About displays...I would assume apple will come out with super-bright displays soon, as well as the majority of PC manufactuers. If you are interesting in the best diplay, wait until the model you want offers a super-bright. The comparison is night and day.

Viagra would make it a lot easier to stack the rope at a hanging belay

Thanks CJ, exactly what i was gonna say. Rob, if you think Bush isn't guilty of trumpeting himself as "serving his country" you must be turning your head away.

I certainly can't say if his awards, opr anyu others, are deserved but I can say one thing: he was out there getting shot at. Bush was home snorting. I think even an undecorated campaign in any war is more heroic than bush's actions.

Alex, in early season we made the choice to drop into pelton basin then ascend directly to cache col. I think all and alll this was easier (maybe even faster?) than fucking around on mixup arm. Our choice was made somewhat for us by the deadly snow patches pissing down on mixup arm.

Bullshit and bullshit. That's what this discussion is about. Go digging for yourself. I have...obviously from my post I have, at a minimum, read his offical documents for recieving the stars. Why don't you eleborate on exactly *what* it is you don't like? I'm not arguing with you, but before you sling shit my way you might want to clarify exactly what we are arguing about.

Oh, and on AMD, they make great desktop chips. The Athlon and Athlon 64 are right up there with the P4s. There weakness, hwoever, is in their mobile chips. For pure mobility, the PentiumM (aka centrino) is still the best choice.

OK, first off, let me just say to discount whatever eternalX has said. To address a few of his points: 1.)You can remove the Sony apps you don't want. Reinstgall the OS, and using the recovery disks only insall what you want. Or you can just add/remove what you want. 2.)Many would consider the design better. Who are you to say that bland white is nicer than silver/black? It's a personal thing. 3.)If you think HD speed has nothing to do with performance you haven't a clue how any operating system using virtual memory works. While most people look for HD capacity, a bigger factor, IMHO, is rotation speed. the common desktop speeds are 5400, 7200, and occasionally 10,000. Common notebook speed is 4,200, but thankfully 5400 and 7200 rpm notebook drives are gettin more commonplace now. Any decent laptop should be available with 512mb ram, and that should suit your needs. Now, the issue with the HD hits when windows has to do something called "swapping" (shutup mac users: all OSs do this), where virtual memory is paged off the disk into physical memory. The whole point of having more RAM is to avoid paging as much as possible. Even with 1gig of RAM, however, you will have to page. The faster the harddisk, the quicker paging can be done. If eternalX wants to argue this, I invite him to come use my notebook (where I opened it up and replaced the HD with a 7200rpm, 16mb cache drive) with it's stock quivilent, and it's 4200rpm, 2mb cache drive. It feels like a completely different computer. The difference is felt other times than simply paging of course. Loading a new program (or file) that is not yet in ram, such as word, excel, a large image, etc. will happen monumentally faster on a fast HD than a slow HD. Loading windows of course will happen much faster as well. The DR has left the building...

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Bingo. I don't think any of us here has the right to decide what Kerry did in vietnam, or if it was brave or not. Check out the accounts of the actions for which he won the silver and bronze stars. Those guys are more than willing to thank him, as are the majority of the people on his swift boat. It is really hard to seperate what is truth and what is mud slinging in a presidential race. Add to it that the fact that this was 30 years ago, and under the fog of war. One thing is clear to me...the guy DID servce his country. I personally believe he did it well, but with all the shit being slung one way or another, well, I guess I'll never know. But when I compare actually serving to what GW did...well,

ggt, I think you may have trouble finding people who used the "lower" alternative since practically everybody just goes over the red ledge. I didn't even know there was an alternative. Well, I should say I didn't know there was a suggested alternative. If you dont like the way something looks you can always find another way.