mkporwit
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We're Merkins
Ummm, Tvash... maybe you're a Merkin... maybe that's how you spend your Saturday nights when you're not taking kick-ass photos in the North Cascades, but I don't think that's what you want:
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Obama will fix everything.
Wow, I see the Obama special ops team got to you and reprogrammed you to get behind some change you can believe in
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You can whine and bitch all you want. It is exactly what you asked for and you remember what they say about getting exactly what you want...
No, I did not ask for it. "WE" asked for it, the collective "you and I and Joe and Jane Citizen". At least have the balls to include yourself in that group if you're lumping me in with them...
This strikes me as a horrible abuse of our freedoms, and I am disappointed that it has gone this far and spread outside of upstate NY
IMHO this is not worth the cost to society.There is no easy answer to the question of how to best solve this. However, throwing up your hands and saying, "oh well, what are you gonna do" doesn't really advance the ball.
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We've had drunk driving checkpoints for decades. Seems like the same thing. Got a problem with those too, Bug? They run on the premise of assuming guilt before innocence, and demanding you show your driver's licence (Ihre Papiere).
KK, I don't like the drunk driving checkpoints either, but you can't really draw a parallel between the two. Like it or not, driving is a privilege (a trite phrase, but true) regulated by the state. You consent to this unreasonable search and seizure when you get your license. Also, you are not asked to provide identification until you are detained on the suspicion of being under the influence (at least I've never had to show my license). Yes, it stinks. In fact, it sucks donkey dick
. This is something different. You are on a public road miles from the border. You can be subject to this search even as a passenger. You are being asked to produce identification for no good reason, for merely being there. This stinks far, far worse
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Or if you want alpine ice, there's nice couloirs on the east side of the Sierra that come into shape right about now... North Peak and Mt. Dana are probably the closest to you, but there's more as you go south.
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Your closest ice is probably Lee Vining and June Lake, a couple of hours south on 395.
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"Wo ist deine papieren, bitte?"
Wo sind Ihre Papiere, bitte?
Wo sind deine Papiere du Schwein? Wo ist dein Judenstern?
It's a slippery slope, and someone's very keen to keep greasing it.
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If you're really eager to get it, looks like this site in Austria has it:
http://www.inandout.at/?ff_sku=VU12661
Also, hitting eBay seems to produce a couple of hits.
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No, it's not just you. The admins say they are on it. Hopefully fixing it today.
You never used to post this much...you know, back when you were climbing. That rack for sale yet? Can I have the first crack at it?
Ow, that's harsh. Sorry. So, you want to get out this weekend?
Not harsh... that's life. Sad that I'm now reduced to spraying for the rest of the year. Having kids will do that to you, I guess. However, the rack is not for sale. I have delusions of using it next year.
As for this weekend, probably not gonna happen
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fscking host provider
fscking? As in you had a disk outage? I thought most journaling file systems don't require that anymore...
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No, it's not just you. The admins say they are on it. Hopefully fixing it today.
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The Obama citizenship story has been making the rounds for a while now... here's what appears to be the latest and greatest:
I would expect that these sorts of issues have been vetted very carefully long ago and anyone still raising a stink about this has no legitimate beef.
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No need to apologize, Jon. Like Sherri, I was simply wondering out loud if I was "special" in yet another way, or if everyone was seeing it... I had expected someone else to qvetch before I did.
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And when I telnet to the port directly:bohun[MemRec2]% telnet cascadeclimbers.com 80Trying 208.113.217.224...Connected to cascadeclimbers.com.Escape character is '^]'.GET / HTTP/1.0HTTP/1.1 200 OKDate: Fri, 22 Aug 2008 02:16:44 GMTServer: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_throttle/3.1.2 DAV/1.0.3 mod_fastcgi/2.4.2 mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a PHP/4.4.8 mod_ssl/2.8.22 OpenSSL/0.9.7eLast-Modified: Tue, 07 Jun 2005 00:09:13 GMTETag: "30197-153-42a4e5a9"Accept-Ranges: bytesContent-Length: 339Connection: closeContent-Type: text/htmlSite Temporarily Unavailable
Site Temporarily Unavailable
We apologize for the inconvenience. Please contact the webmaster/tech support immediately to have them rectify this.error id: "bad_httpd_conf"
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Is it just me or is cc.com really slow today? Pages take 10+ seconds to load instead of the usual ~1 second. Also, the Mountain Pr0n is stuck on CBS's picture of the Blueberry Hill Rap Route...
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I think there's several things to consider in deciding between the mountaineers/boealps/wac and a guide service. The mounties get a bad rap on this website for some reason, so I'd discount anything too vitriolic or ridiculing their course to an extreme.
1) If you're raring to go and short on time, a guide service will get you up and running quickly. The basic climbing courses offered by the mountaineers or other orgs are over for the year and you'd have to wait until next spring to start. You wouldn't "graduate" until the end of next summer, most likely.
2) The mountaineers and their ilk will teach you this stuff for probably a fifth to a tenth of the cost of a guide service. The basic class costs $300. If money's tight and time is not of the essence, it might be worth considering. Their subsequent modules are priced very favorably as well.
3) The mountaineers get criticized for teaching "the one true way". There is rarely such a thing in climbing, but it is a necessity of the way the course is structured. If you know things coming into the course, you may be frustrated to be told your skills are no good and to shelve them while you're taking the class. My experience has been that a lot of instructors will understand where you're coming from and it really isn't that onerous.
Conversely, if you don't know jack, don't assume that what you've been taught is "the one true way". Some people finish the basic class and read FotH and think they know everything...
4) You're likely to meet a lot more people taking the courses through boealps or the mounties. I've met great partners this way. If you're short on friends that climb...
5) The mountaineers have a rigid course progression... so you can't go and take the trad climbing course without first learning the basics of glacier travel. Their aim is to make you well-rounded, but if all you want to do is crag at Leavenworth, then you'll be wondering why you have to do this.
6) The mountaineers are a very variable experience. My own has been with the Everett branch, which has a very high instructor to student ratio, so you get lots of individual attention. As a result of that there's less of "the one true way" than I've heard about from other branches. If you sign up with the mounties, do your research and pick a branch that suits your style, not just your commute.
7) Never discount the advice that Rad gave you -- if you offer to be a belay slave, there are very good people on this site that will help you out.
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I don't think he blames McCain. He points out that everything that McCain endured in Vietnam by no means makes him a standout among the POWs. He doesn't go about it in the best way -- pointing out that he did more time, got more medals, etc. makes him come across as childish, but it doesn't detract from the fundamental validity of his statement -- being a former POW is not a necessary (or even desired?) qualification for being president.
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Yep, denalidave is correct. Political campaigns are not bound to honor the do not call registry. Their freedom of speech trumps your leave-me-the-fuck-alone, I guess.
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That summit feed looks pretty tasty
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Well, if they say this is like the marijuana growing operations on the west slope of the Sierra, then there were certainly guns aplenty. In raids on farms in Kings Canyon and Sequoia National Parks they've confiscated weapons up to an M-16.
Checkpoint Charlie
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You sound like you have one, so you must have dealt with this problem at some point... but... you put on gloves every time you go to take a leak? Or do you get someone else to do it for you?