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  1. cj001f

    Coldplay

    Of dispair.
  2. Just my ass.
  3. Both are factually correct, one has detail. Still trying to explain away ?
  4. Since when is a summary a dramatic escalation?
  5. You first http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,22989-1739222,00.html
  6. LONDON, Aug. 16 -- A Brazilian man mistakenly shot by British police last month did not vault over a subway turnstile or run away and was being restrained by one officer when another shot him eight times, ITV News reported Tuesday, citing leaked police documents, witness statements and photographs. Further, the television channel reported, Jean Charles de Menezes was not wearing a padded jacket that police have said led them to believe he could be concealing a bomb. A photograph of Menezes broadcast by ITV News on Tuesday night showed him lying in a pool of blood, wearing jeans and what appeared to be a shirt or jacket. According to a witness statement, he had been wearing a light denim jacket. Scotland Yard said Tuesday that it would not be proper to comment on the report until a full account on the killing had been prepared. The ITV report said police surveillance indicated Mendez had taken a bus from his apartment to the Stockwell subway station, where he calmly picked up a newspaper and walked through the turnstiles. Differing with versions provided by police, ITV News said Menezes only ran as a train approached, as did others around him. Once on the train, according to what the channel said was a leaked police statement aired Tuesday night, a police officer pinned Menezes down when another officer shot him. A coroner's report said he was shot seven times in the head and once in the shoulder. Scotland Yard officials have said repeatedly that the incident occurred in the highly charged atmosphere one day after the failed July 21 bombings, and two weeks after four bombs involving a bus and three subway lines killed 56 people, including the presumed bombers, and injured 700. Family members have said Menezes, 27, was an innocent bystander who happened to live on a block where police were monitoring the apartment of a suspected bomber.
  7. Perhaps there's a market for Zoroastrian "Towers of Silence" in the suburbs?
  8. cj001f

    whatcha reading?

    I'd always assumed it was a century of the, or one of the top, per capita incomes in the world. For those interested in oil "The Prize" - Daniel Yergin, gives a great history up to GW1 of the oil business, with such interesting sidenotes as Aristotle Onassis's whale foreskin bar stools.
  9. I don't think it's neccessarily a parabola, circle or any conic section. I know the sidecuts of my skis aren't circular. I believe the sidecut "radius" is calculated by assuming a circle of sidecut and using length of ski & width at tip, mid and tail - probably the equation you derived.
  10. "May I join you?" the foreigner asked civilly, and the friends involuntarily moved apart. The foreigner slipped in between them and immediately entered the conversation. "If I heard correctly, you said that Jesus never existed?" he asked, turning his green left eye to Berlioz. "You heard correctly," Berlioz answered courteously. "That was precisely what I said!" "Ah, how interesting!" exclaimed the foreigner. "What the devil does he want?" Homeless thought, frowning
  11. I wore a bra to make sure it was protected.
  12. cj001f

    hint of fall

  13. If you paid for them already
  14. cj001f

    Ok who was it?

    http://www.latimes.com/features/la-os-potfarm9aug09,1,5484369.story There was a 79,000 plant raid in CA not that long ago!
  15. And that proves what besides retail stores have the sub room temperature IQ we've assumed for years? Get a grip man.
  16. cj001f

    whatcha reading?

    I bought an advanced copy of the new Chouinard book - interesting ideas, not well edited. Others include Anna Kernina, The Russia House, Out of Africa, The Wheel of Life (Great White Hunter Safari memoir), and the Nikon D70 manual. And the usual geeky Optics books for work.
  17. Good old narcissism. After all, who doesn't want an SUV, a big screen and a house on a culdesac?
  18. Marvin's to busy playing golf at Belle Haven and drinking to be in on the conspiracy.
  19. cj001f

    60 years ago

    How about missile technology, you know, the reason behind the space race? That we were scared shitless that the russians had the capability to launch missiles and blow us to kingdom come without any means to counter? It's called "dual-use" technology for a reason. As for the retard arguing that technology is the basis for war, buy a clue. A good portion of modern technology originated or was substantially advanced by military/defense research. The internet, IC's, the jet engine, radar, nautical propulsion, the list goes on.
  20. I have a copy. PM me.
  21. Read your AAJ's. Oh, and be prepared for alot of time sitting and waiting in a stinking shithole.
  22. By "patagonia" you mean the paine and fitzroy massifs, correct? Or are you interested in some mere mortal routes in a 1,500 mile region? "Les Orgues de Patagonie" - Gino Buscaini (in French) is the best guidebook around.
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