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Scott, posting here isn't a right. I'm pretty sure everyone who has ever been banned has thought it is bullshit, so your not alone, and everyone seems to hone it in on one event that seems completely benign as the sole reason they got the boot. Hey, look on the bright side, you are still able to post!

The fact of the matter is most of you people don't know how much goes into running this website, not from just Tim or I, but from the moderators as well. While I'm sure you all would like to think that the reason we have "secret" moderator forum is for us to talk about all you guys, the reality is that everyone in the moderator group would rather talk about things involved in running the website, like site improvements and such. Thing is, recently we have been spending too much time babysitting and discussing people, not because we want to but because we have to. If you are being talked about in the moderator forum it is of your own making. Every single person who has been banned on this website has been done so in a manner where more attention and consideration was taken into our actions than they ever did with their own. Most of you take the ignorant opinion that we are banning people because of their opinion on a subject, which is absolutely not true, we all have different views on bolting and everything in between, but what we all agree on is that this place isn't a platform for someone's cause and certainly a place where you can be an asshole to everyone. There are too many climbers out there for us to screw around constantly babysitting users that have had no positive impact on this website, even after 4 years of use. In the case of the 4 people who were just banned, every single one of the individuals expressed how much this site sucks, all are long time members and knew what and wasn't acceptable, and some of them has been saying how much this site sucks for the past four years. So guess what, we showed them the door. End of discussion.

Confirm what? Look at the people who support the website, it is right on the front page. NCMG does, who btw, have been slammed on here for some ropes they put up on an approach that NOBODY here had been on. Did we erase those posts? Pro Ski does not, and to perfectly honest, after this probably never will. When we shut down the website because we can't afford to pay for it becuase nobody will advertise/sponsor because every single one of you fucks have slammed them here, I'll be sure to thank you all with a red eye and middle finger as I turn off the server. FO.

They don't advertise on cc.com Dru, get real.

Listen you fuckheads, this guy is trying to find a partner to go climbing, not sit in front of his computer to bicker about a route. I'm sure he is a nice guy, if you don't have anything to do you should give him a call. Otherwise STFU. I'm erasing all your drivel, don't like it, the you can get lost.

For a Mac: Start Photoshop. Go to Image -> Adjustments -> Color Balance. For a PC: Start Photoshop -> DLL error -> Reboot -> Start Photoshop -> Open file -> File is corrupted, WTF? -> Close Photoshop -> Open Photoshop -> Are you files are belong to us! Down with United States! -> Blue Screen of Death! -> Swear like crazy. -> Grab monitor, throw it through the window! -> Take the case and bash it with an axe! -> Fuck you Michael and Bill! -> Shot of Tequila -> Have a smoke -> Fuck it have 5 smokes you just threw a monitor out your window and the landlord is going to be pissed -> Go down to U Village Apple Store and by a real computer.

Rodeo it's been a long time brother. Hope you are keeping it real!

Matt get the Nikon D2x, it will have everything you would ever need and it is super lightweight, a must for mountain speed climbing!

I still need to fix the headers and footer for the page. I have a HUGE favor to ask of people. Somewhere along the line, and I'm not sure when, somehow our configuration got screwed up and people were able to upload files larger than we wanted. There are some files that are as large as 2 megs, which just isn't necessary. Could everyone that has absurdly large files please edit them to a smaller size. I'm trying to figure out how to do this in a batch job but I'm not sure how this is going to work out. Thanks!

I'm not going to get into a pissing match with you dude, I don't know what you are so pissed off about, I've been out of town for the last week and a half and am not privy to the soap opera here, but seriously, it's like 11pm and you are still up. Go put some music on and work on your bike or something.

So what's you point Matt?

Thanks for contributing, Pope!

It's not much of a discussion if the person you are talking to never listens. Have a good day!

Merv, maybe you should hold yourself to a higher standard first.

So every day I go to the little cafeteria here at work and get a bagel and a coke from the coke machine. Well I show up last week after taking a few days off and not only did they raise the cost of the bagel by 7 cents they raised the coke price 25 cents to a $1.25!!! I'm not even going to say when my last raise was. Anyways it's seems that everyone is posting sobs stories so I thought I would use my one post of the day to share mine.

blah blah blah <advice>pick your wars</advice>

In this case size doesn't matter.

Could you guys please post longer articles?

I just saw the parking dude with man boobs who rides around on a Segway all day, he was chubbing (w/ his helmet on!) outside of the College Inn.

Wow. I'm so incredibly bummed. I remember a photo a long long time ago that Rodchester posted that I think was one of the most beutiful pictures I've seen. Found the picture, this quality doesn't give it justice.

Stonehead, I've been meaning to read that book. I've seen Zinni interviewed on Charlie Rose among others and he has some strong arguements. My statements are by no means support for the either the administration or the war, simply that I found a lot of things in the book very interesting. One thing that really stuck me was his comments about unconvential warfare, it was almost straight out of Al Qaeda's manual, it was freaky.

I was actually serious Dave. You can get your perspective from CNN. You can get your perspective from the people who were there, in this case Gen. Carl Stiner was both in charge in Lebanon and the Panama operation.

There is a book I recently read which was really really good and offers some perspective in this conflict. The book is by Tom Clancy and it is called Shadow Warriors, and it mainly deals with the life of the Special Forces, and the military life of one of their commanders. For someone in their late twenties it was interesting to hear about conflicts and missions that I was too young to really understand but remember. They talk about Vietnam, Lebanon, Iran, and Panama among others. I'm not really sure when this book was written, but one thing that was striking is how much praise this guy had for people like Cheney, Rumsfield, and Powell, and how much experience that these three individuals had in dealing with tough conflicts, especially Lebanon.

Still need to fix the template, header, and footer, but otherwise everything seems to working fine.

I've FINALLY upgraded the photo gallery software. Please respond to this thread if you find any problems. Werd.