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Usually the same thing.

poor bastard! Being a poor student definitely has it's advantages! mmmm college really was a great 11 years!

POTD!

Children who annoy the hell out of themselves?

Somebody has his dense cap on today

aaah, someone has post envy how cute! I actually inherited a steel fly rod from my great grandmother!?!?! Still amazes the heck out of me, but I haven't had a chance to try it yet, and unluckily a broken bamboo rod as well. Both have got to be 40 or 50 years old. Haven't been fly fishing in 4 years Stupid climbing, get's in the way of everything.

Marriage is mostly for the stubborn But a good other half makes it worthwhile.

I'm sorry to hear about the engagement Pink That pretty well bites. I imagine that it will bite less now than later though.

What the hell! You better get well soon. Without yoda this place just isn't the same! Lots of good vibes going your way. The folks at Swedish are top notch so your in good hands! Josh

hmmm, I'll have to look into that Though I can't believe you missed the pefect pavlov play on words

I don't think the article was implying that criminal behaviour was irredemable or unchangeable, just that in the short term we are a slave to our brains patterns. It doesn't say that over time those patterns can't change with the proper stimulus and application of effort. Isn't that what biofeedback does? The indication I see is that the focus should shift from pure retribution to rehabilitation, which I think would be a better policy anyway. Some people may be truly incurable in which case they should still be locked up where they can't harm anyone. Those who have the ability to change their behavior or even to learn to control what situations they end up in, if they can't control they're responses, should be supported. My wife works with criminals on a daily basis and what she's consistently seen is that to get someone to not re-offend they have to be given the chance, and allowed to develop things that they value enough that they want to hold onto them (posessions, friend, family).

Hey, if a good friend won't piss in your cheerios to start your day off right, then who will?

I didn't say that I minded being paranoid Just that your making me paranoid Pascal had something to do with Fluid Dynamics? Are you sure? I think I'd know that sort of thing, but it doesn't ring a bell?

Dmanit, get our of my head! Your starting to make me paranoid

Then it should only be pursued until a superior solution is determined.

Belief in a creator is a completely different case. Anyone making the argument that covering your ass is a good reason to believe in God is an idiot and missing some very important details. I guess in my opinion for belief to have meaning it must be chosen freely and completely for it's own sake. It can't be coerced, forced, or chosen in the form of a cost benefit analysis. If any of these are the core reasons someone believes, it speaks to a level of cynicism that i have trouble reconciling with open honest and complete faith. I don't think CYA and a free choice go very well together. In my mind what makes belief and faith in some creator special is that it is unburdened by cynicism and must be chosen in spite of a lack of empirical evidence. Whole different discussion in there though. Besides were more talking about hell on earth, and not something as esoteric as religion. I'd be more than happy to agree that there is likely more going into global warming than we are aware of. That said, we only have two options in how to act.

If you have a man pointing a gun at you, is it wise to act as if it's not loaded? That's really what were talking about here. We have change occuring (global warming) that is predicted to continue happening, and at the rate things are changing to cause some serious problems. (droughts, coastal flooding, melting ice caps.) This seems to be well established. Whether or not we are causing it is another story. So we have two choices.... Do we assume the gun is loaded and that through our own actions can affect the outcome, or that the gun is empty? If we assume the gun is loaded and we are a wrong, nothing happens, we smile, get a tan, and reduce our environmental impact a bit which doesn't hurt anything. If we are right we might keep ourselves from getting shot. Or do we assume the gun is empty and our actions have no consequences? If we are right, nothing happens and we smile and get a tan, and our level of environmental impact is unchanged. If we are wrong though we just got shot. So, how do you want act? There are scientists on both sides at the moment. So even if there isn't a consensus (which is another argument entirely) it seems awfully pragmatic to assume the worst and act to fix it.

Of course it Tommy's closes they'll probably just move across the street to the All American.

That could still be arranged for. After all, the Sausage fest is only a few blocks from Gary's digs.

Ok, I think we've milked this thread for all it's worth.

Do you like your sugar whipped or in the raw?

mmmmmm, liquid sunshine, makes me all foamy!

You can expect peace and quiet in the U-district just not on anywhere on the Ave. I lived up at 11th and 56th for about a year and it was great. Walking distance to UW, Safeway was on the walk home so shopping was a breeze and very quiet. The area right around Tommy's is just about the noisiest sketchiest part though. The violence is another story though and doesn't belong anywhere. Unluckily no good ideas for you. The fire ordinances are a good catch though. As an offshoot you might look into what is/has been done to try and shut down the Blue Moon tavern and see if you could tap some of the pressure being applied there to Tommies. (As memory serves the Blue Moon is getting pressured for drugs, violence, etc. though I don't think that's the whole story?) Anyone know more about that?

I've seen you putting up 11b leads in the gym, and just read your TR about 150 some indoor pitches in a day, so quit talking about suck I on the other hand, I can talk about suck all day

No one on here get's to make comments about normal.