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QuoteThis Sunday night 60 Minutes will have a special report of DADT featuring an Army Sergeant serving in Kuwait. This sergeant is highly decorated and is in a critical medical field and is serving openly with the blessing of his command.
Chris
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/13/60minutes/main3615278.shtml?123
Sounds like:
"Don't ask; Don't tell."
"I'm telling; I'm gay!"
"No you're not!""There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. -
http://www.dropzone.com/forum/Skydiving_C1/General_Skydiving_Discussions_F18/st.louis,_mo_arch_base_jump_P837338/"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. -
QuoteThat, ultimately is why I don't own a gun. I am not afraid.
Oh, yeah, I felt that way too, being a big guy with karate training...until the night I found myself under attack by a raging lunatic bigger than myself, at the same time I was suffering from heat exhaustion. You'll never understand what it is to need a gun and not have it until it actually happens to you."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. -
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The ONLY reason DC is excluded from the analysis is that the survey of % households owning guns was a survey of STATES.
If you want to provide the missing data it will be possible to include DC in the plot.
I didn't say I had the data; I just wanted to argue.
I felt left out, being the only one not arguing with you."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. -
QuoteWhat's with the bannings from Bonfire? Pretty soon it will be the hot place to be.
I just complained about AggieDave's banning, so I suppose I'll be next.
Maybe we need to organize an example of civil disobedience and all post that "logout" link at the same time."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. -
QuoteEnjoy your time out... same goes for anyone else that posts that link.
It took me all of five seconds to realize what that link did to me, and log back in. How is that worthy of a banning???"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. -
QuoteIt seems i have been Phreezed out of bonfire.
Oh, for chrissake!!!
Now he banned AggieDave!"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. -
QuoteIt seems i have been Phreezed out of bonfire.
Well, damn! And right after I insulted you in the "Nice Work Mile Hi CO" thread.
Feel free to make your retort here."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. -
QuoteQuitting jumping is a national epidemic.
Maybe because we heard Squeak was coming?"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. -
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If you will provide the % of households in DC with firearms (legal and illegal), I will be happy to add DC to the chart, even though DC is a city and not a state.
Let me play devils advocate:
- DC is not part of any state, therefore its stats don't exist in the stats of any other state.
- It has a congressional representative (non-voting) which no city has.
- It's residents have no other representation in the Senate or the House.
- The familiar expression "Washington, D.C." originated because "Washington" was a city within the "District of Columbia", (as was Georgetown), prior to the city of Washington eventually annexing all of the property in DC.
Therefore I will argue that politically, DC is more a state than a city."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. -
QuotePhil Canard put together a recording of the event for broadcast in Atlanta sometime in the late 70s/early 80s. I have an old copy on a cassette.
Anybody know who Phil Canard is? Points to the first with the answer.
jon
Well, Google turns up: http://www.streakerama.com/in_the_news.htm"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. -
QuoteThat Cat Chasing story is one of the best I've ever read!
Neal Boortz is the DJ that did a hoax of the cat chasing story on his radio show in 1988. It went over something like Orson Welles "War of the Worlds" hoax with all kinds of hysteria from people who thought it was real. A friend gave me a photocopy of the chapter of his book "Somebody' Gotta Say It" where he described what happened."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. -
I have explained it to you twice that it was a simple PR mistake. If you want to keep beating this dead horse that died four years ago, you will need to do it by yourself."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. -
Re-read what I wrote. Of course it is positive PR for a business to make a charitable contribution. But telling your customers you are raising prices for the express purpose donating the increase to charity is a blunder. The reaction when it happened is proof of that."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. -
QuoteQuoteCorliss plans to use a wing suit, which has a metal exoskeleton and makes him look a bit like a flying squirrel.
Say what?"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. -
QuoteThose things that are made of bones found in the stone that were placed to test our faith in God and creationism but never really existed.?
I saw a cute cartoon once: A bunch of cavemen are gathered around a huge dinosaur skeleton, admiring it while one caveman stands there proudly. One of the bystanders to another:
"Ugg use the bones of twenty cows to build that thing!""There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. -
QuoteThe local news in San Diego just ran a short (30 second) piece wherein Jeb Corliss stated he will attempt to land a wingsuit on a 2 million dollar ramp in Las Vegas within two months.
Now lets parse those words carefully; Note that he didn't say he would be in the suit when it lands."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. -
QuoteTo make matters even worse, in the process of being force to walk naked up the broken steps, someone stitched my crotch closed.
Google the word "Infibulation"."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. -
Quoteoh ok, thought I was going to have to take the 5th
Blended, or single-malt?"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. -
QuoteI can do the moves, but I can't wear the dress.
Wear the dress, dammit!
We don't want to see you naked."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. -
QuoteToday is my last day of work for 6 weeks
I'll be boarding a plane at 5pm Friday (Cali time. Landing at LAX 7pm Saturday (yup 26hours travel time ).
Jumping at Ellsinore on Sunday
Read my sigline
I'd like to dedicate this next song to Squeak.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qsnUu71Viyo"There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones. -
No they are no, once you pay for your jump, the money is theirs, and they are free to do what ever they want with it.Quote
I'm not saying what they are doing is wrong - but I want to decide where and what my money supports.
You can bitch about having prices go up, but you cant bitch about how they choose to use the money once they have it.
if you want to decide where and what your money supports i suggest you investigate the dealings of every establishment you frequent, and find out how many people are using the money you spend in ways that you would prefer they dont.
My point of view: If they had just raised the rates $1, no one would have thought much about it. An increase of $1 from one year to the next isn't uncommon. Everyone knows the costs of providing services increases over time.
The problem was they raised the rates $1, and told people the money was going to be used for something other than providing the services being purchased.
If the management of a business wants to use it's money for something other than covering the costs of doing business, that is fine, but telling your customers that you are raising prices so you can use the money for something else is a public relations blunder."There are only three things of value: younger women, faster airplanes, and bigger crocodiles" - Arthur Jones.
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QuoteWhat a bunch of sissy-marys! My husband could do that shit in his sleep.
You are talking about the waist-deep horse manure, right?
What about the rest of the course?
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Perhaps because mass adoption of technology requires it to be user friendly. Locking Windows down is as easy as locking down Linux or BSD, however you will 'break' things in the eyes of the average user.
Users generally don't want to remember difficult passwords, or confirm that they really did mean to create a socket, or reconfigure their firewall every time a friend comes over and wants to use IM, or share files. In fact, they'll disable all the crap that gets in the way of them doing stuff if you tell them where the off switch is.
Technology failed the users. Users don't know any better. I tend to think Apple is closer to approaching the right balance than the majority of other vendors, but it's always going to be a struggle to manage complexity while remaining accessible to people who simply view their computers as a thing to get stuff done with, rather than an end unto itself.
First, you say that security is a problem for users, then you say Apple has the right approach.
Ever do a port scan on a new Apple? Nothing is open by default.
We agree on Apple. Prior to Mac OS X, when someone asked what computer to recommend to in-experienced users, I came up blank. The old Mac OS 9 was just a toy OS.
Gays in the Military
in Speakers Corner
I always thought the worst was the Navy calling its enlisted men "seamen".