olyclimber

too smart for the room. yeah...that may just be it.

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If you got banned, it was something you did Atreides. Sorry. Maybe you were reacting to someone else, but bans happen for a reason here. Just because someone else is acting like an ass doesn't give every one a license to. Sometimes it is the person who reacts negatively to someone else behaving badly that gets kicked out of the game. It just happens. Live and learn. React differently next time. Be a part of the solution rather than the problem.

Sorry this place isn't run to everyone's satisfaction. Pleasing everyone is pretty tough, and while there is definitely the option of running a tighter ship, the costs of doing so (using moderation help that is completely volunteer) goes up exponentially as you ratchet down. This place has always been more permissive than other sites, and we have no doubt lost readers because of that. However, it is that same nature that has drawn a lot of great climbers, story tellers, and gear geeks. Dane is definitely an asset to CC.com as the latter. Who else has spent as much as he as on the single minded pursuit of identifying the best gear out there? Not me! That he shares this info with you guys should help you overcome any issues with his personality you might have. He is a pretty generous guy. As to who he is talking about, I don't know. I have an idea, but I'm not sure. I'm not sure I care though, because I have my own list of people I would like to ban . All I can say is we are definitely a community. A community has all sorts of characters. Some are great assets to the community. Some are actually pretty annoying. And some are pretty annoying but have redeeming qualities. The spectrum here is pretty wide. If you start wielding the ban hammer every time someone is offended, there will probably be 3 people left on this board. So sorry for not meeting your expectations, but we are glad you are here at a part of the CC.com community. If you see a user violate the TOS , then please let a moderator or admin know. thanks.

Happy Bday sobo!

this?

old larry, why u pissing on peoples fun?

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makes total sense http://www.apfn.org/apfn/contrails.htm

12 pages later= not that quiet

You could just give the dish washer $10. Its just your dishes after all, and that more than compensates for your share

Ever paid less for an oil-based product even though you knew it was going to help the bottom line of a company doing bad things...just because it would save you a buck in the short term?

LOL ivan, that was an apparently successful campaign by the Stranger mag (or Dan Savage) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santorum_%28sexual_neologism%29

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i come from the land down under

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Have yall seen this? I got a chuckle out of it. Sarah Palin PAC ad "Together" @ Yahoo! Video

Well failures in the private sector are not a good way to judge if it is working or not. I think they are a way to gauge a particular business *is* working or not. There are plenty of examples of successful private enterprises. If you aren't profitable, you die. End of story. Survival of the fittest. The liberal argument would be that such a "dog eat dog" world isn't very humanistic. It is profits before people. But then neither has the evolutionary process that got us to this point either (if you believe in that sort of thing).

http://www.infrastructurereportcard.org/ Well one thing is clear is that the US is full of people who want it all, but they don't want to pay for it. This is outside of any discussion of social services such as heath care. This is bridges, roads, and shit like that. I suppose the conservative solution is to privatize all this stuff. Private roads, private bridges. Toll booths everywhere. I think there are great examples of building a great national resource/infrastructure in the private sector and have it happen in a fantastically efficient way. The Internet is such an example. But the Internet really hasn't been run in a true "private" way. However, it looks like it soon may: http://money.cnn.com/2010/11/03/technology/net_neutrality_election/index.htm?section=money_latest Having our country become a mesh of toll booths and private enclaves doesn't sound that good to me.

Prediction: we'll see him again for the next governors race.