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I'm a regular bike commuter. I'm pro bike fees. I don't know how to do it, but I'm into users contributing to infrastructure. I always imagine the tax would bikes more into the process. I also forget how lazy most americans urbanites are. MOst people would probably just get rid of their bikes. Edit for clarification: 1. Items two and three are contradictory. I'm pro taxation (although I think we already pay our share in property and sales taxes), but I also realize that taxing bikes would probably get less people riding. Not goood. 2. When I say "urbanites are lazy", I'm obviously generalizing that they are more absorbed in the assessories of life (going ot the gym, working out, going out at night) and unwilling to exert effort to live. I'm not talking about fitness or health. I'm talking about fixing their own cars, cutting their own grass, doing their own maintainance, etc. Perfect example: farmers.

I'll take this one. PM sent shortly.

If you rick james'ed me I was going to freak out!

Hey marc: You want to stop acting like a fucking moron and cut that shit out. You just caused me some serious stress during finals. FYI: I appreciate the rest of your contibutions (nice work!), just this one is an error in you judgement. Thanks dave

I just wanted to drop a line. I almost made a reply in the forums asking them not to, but then I passed. Can anyone do something about this "rick rolled" shit. I just lost an hour of revisions on my paper when I had to shut down mozilla. It's fucking bullshit. These are just like viruses (causing harm to my computer and my productivity). The only way I can see people avoiding this problem is not following any links on the board, which makes the place real boring. If you think about it for a while, it's probably not the type of thing that's going to make people want to stick around. I'm honestly not threatening to not come to cc.com (like you really care about my visits), I'm just trying to point out why you might want to curb this shit. Thanks, dave

Something that hasn't been mentioned: I only want to have one pair of tools and crampons. It's part style, part finances, and part ethics (too many toys = wasteful), part practical. Leashless just aren't going to cut it for a glacier tool, a reality of many cascades ice climbs. I'd assume monos don't cut it as well on cruddy some ice/thick snow (anybody weigh in on this?) My vote: leashed. duals. Keep your nuts square when you unclip the leashes.

Starting a discussion about Make Your Day with a group of educators is sure to bring out some... contention. I work in a classroom that uses Make Your Day. My take on the program: + Encourages kids to make self assessment regarding behavior. + Is progresssive in that small infractions merit small adjustments, large infraction merit large adjustments. + Emphasizes learning fundamentally what constitues appropriate behavior, rather than learnig a lst of rules. - effectiveness depends heavily of teachers committing to and consistently implementing program - is another "program" teachers (and students!) must attend to.

This is an incorrect statement. This is a rude statement.

Three parties of free climbers and a few odd aider (give or take a few passings). This panel is definitely a landmark. Somebody should write up an obit.

Where? More info would be helpful. Do you have a jobby-job?

One plus of Jtree is cheap flights. Obviously things have changed in the last year and a half, but I flew to palm springs for about 200 rt from b'ham. Check out allegiant air. By my calculations you could expect to pay around $400 in gas alone if you drove. (not including cost of car and 2 oil changes) I've been to jtree four times over "spring break" and it's been hot and cold at times on all four trips. Red rocks has softer climbing and less wind, but it just isn't as amazing as jtree. Save some gas. Hit up vantage, tieton, Smith or one of the other "local" (albeit a bit boring) crags!

Whereas sonar systems use a sequence of reflection times to calculate target velocity, radar systems actually use "red shift" to determine velocity. That is, the speeding object reflects a slightly different frequency than that of the emitter. Techy-Geek session over.

Anybody have a Casio device that uses one of these sorts of remotes? Looks like a camera remote. Yours free if you want it. grouchous_rex (at) yahoo

Before I came to this sort of conclussion myself, I was both fearful for my economic future as well as pissed at the gov. Now that I've realized I'm on my own, I actually feel more in control (relatively), and just resigned to the reality of it.

yo D! I'm totally with you on this (and other wacky ideas you've thrown out) but this kind of talk makes most people laugh. You're right. It seems like younger people need to wake the f$*! up or they're going to get screwed.

Anybody have any tips on a place to park a car for six days in or near osoyoos? PM me and I'll keep it quiet. dave

I was studying this guy's webpage to learn how to climb and started to think about the self arrest grip vs. the self belay grip. I always hold my tool (woops!)... I always hold my ax with the spike pointed away, ready to self arrest. I think he calls this the self arrest grip. Even if I was self belaying, why would I want to hold the head (woops!)... hold the ice axe with the spike pinted "io" and NOT ready to self arrest? Go ahead, spray away, but SOMEBODY help me out here! dave

I was on that fire. We found the grave site and cabin site. The foundation is virtually non-existant. I rememeber just dort of nodding at it. The grave site has a little marker with somehing about a guy named Shorty... Brighty? and an old pick axe head. I'll dig through my picture when my laptop's up and running again.

It's not that complicated: Buy a helmet. Wear it. Anything more is like discussiong what kind of seat belt to install in your car.

Obviously not what you said, but a similar argument that seems to match my personal sentiments better. But I hear you if you would like to keep some things "wild". I used to like to got to Frenchmans and camp wherever I wanted.

Don't use resin if it's inside or anywhere near a door going inside. THat stuff stinks and is nasty.

Or they could be wasting their time on this...

probably. All I know about the story is that denali is some huge mountain somewhere in the northern yukon territory.

Makes me think of that story aboput alex lowe (?) carrying some dude on his back uphill to a helispot at some crazy altitude like 16k. Iron lungs.

I would think people's common sense would sway them away from driving four hours to climb for a day! I'm making an extra effort this summer to find things within biking distance from my house. They may not be extremo, but I bet they'll still be fun.