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This is not a debate, erik. This is about incitement to violence, which is illegal. Bicycles are legally entitled to share the road with motor vehicles.

The device doesn't really take direction directly from the brain. They rerouted existing nerves that controlled the arm to the chest where they caused muscles there to contract and be detected by a sensor. Apparently the arm is motorized.

Indeed, the two accounts apear to conflict.

You probably need a block and tackle to retract the lobes.

Aren't there many heifers up in your neck of the woods?

Klenke, you have mountain recognition programs hardwired into your brain. You could identify a mountain upside down and backwards and looking through trees.

You've heard of a jump start. This was a hump start.

I'm just speculating, mind you, but I think the dryer treatment serves to orient the hydrophobic tails of the perflurooctylsulfonate to that they face outwards to better repel water. Static electricity may play a role too. The chemist's perspective.

Go weigh an Irbis titanium screw and then a BD Express 17 cm, which is the closest equivalent. The Ti weighs almost exactly half what the BD weighs. That's why people take them. Yes, they place easily in glacial ice, but they are harder to place in water ice. The small threads are the reason why I place them 90 degrees to the slope, whereas the Express should be tilted at 15 degrees down from the perpendicular. The smaller threads mean also they melt out faster. So they have their place as long as one knows their limitations.

Welcome back ExtremoMtDude. How was the skiing in the Southern Hemisphere? Chasing the snow back north?

So basically what you are saying is we need ethnic cleansing.

If we focus all our attention on gun rights we can lose other rights, for example, civil rights, among them the right to protest and be heard. Did you read about how the Secret Service is being sued by the ACLU because protestors of the Bush Administration have not been allowed to get closer than a half mile of Bush appearances, while Bush supporters are allowed close access.

catturdeat = trask

One more nested quote and I am going to puke.

It seems to me that both parties are for more government. The only difference is that one would like more guns, the other more butter. One would prefer to borrow money for guns, the other would prefer to pay for it as we go along by not cutting taxes.

Moore doesn't need to exaggerate. Our murder rates are actually THAT bad compared to other first world democracies.

Aha, catturdeat returns after a lengthy hiatus.

They only suck because they are overused. They are cliche, cloyune, passe...any other French words?

I moderator can delete it, but you will have to grovel.

I've climbed with kids at the icicle on a number of occasions. It a lot of fun. As they say, "Kids say the darnedest things". If you err on choosing the grade, err on the easy side. If they complain it is too easy, put up a harder top rope. Have lots of good food and drinks on hand and remind them to partake so they don't get grouchy. Teach them how to belay one another, but be close by while they are learning. It's good if you have a second adult at the top to help coach and keep an eye on the anchor(s). I hope you all have fun and be safe.

I find it difficult to understand how or why some people can totally abandon their sense of civility and decency when they go online. I've heard others say that Necro is a good climbing partner and an agreeable person. Sure, there are people who take on alternate "persona" for their personal amusement, but this is a very serious and solemn occasion. Climbers and people in general are always going to be interested in accident reports. It reminds us that we are all mortal and live only one small mistake away from a similar fate.

Necro, I have met Elizabeth in person at Pub Club and she is a good person. You are making a personal attack on an individual because of your feelings about the media in general. It isn't fair and it isn't right. She didn't do anything wrong in my opinion. If anyone else reported the accident you wouldn't have jumped all over them. Furthermore, it was common knowledge that Elizabeth posts as Newstips. --Brian

There's quite a few ways to go wrong on rappel. Be careful everyone.

I think many of them figure you shouldn't be going over the speed limit and it is their duty to prevent you from breaking the law. Never mind they are breaking a different law themselves.

I'll bet the town is for it. Darrington has fallen on really hard times. It would help the local economy. Still, as Stefan mentioned, it sure rains a lot there. They could only race in the summer months.