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  1. 295 miles. Well sort of... you be the judge About 14 years ago, I met a German girl in a Jersey mall. Turns out she was spending a week with a "foster American family in NH", something like that. After a conversation that lasted less than 30 minutes, we agreed to meet in a small local airport in Manchester, NH. I rented a 172 flew out there and spent the day and the night with her. I then flew back home in the morning. A couple of months later, concidently (really) I found myself living in the same city of Germany as she. We went out on one more date this time in Dresden and I never saw her again. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.
  2. Steel

    Corvette's....

    I have a 99 vette to do this week, and why is it that EVERY vette owner thinks they have the one and only vette like theirs? i mean seriously.. ---------------- I like C5 a lot and thought I would never get used to C6 but in the past seven months I have learned otherwise. It still puts me in a good mood to hit the gas pedal and feel those 436 horses on that 6.2 liter engine go. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.
  3. You can't just say National Socialist party because the "intellectuals" who think that the Nazis were right wing, don't know that the actual name for that very clear left wing ideology that they know as Nazism was the National Socialist party. Now I will go back to lurking and watching others argue. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.
  4. Not sure about this but I don't consider myself to be reckless behind the wheel. That being said. I have changed clothes completely while driving, received roadhead, and even pleased a female in the passenger side with fingerwork. Some less challenging things include reading emails on my blackberry and sending short ones or text messages. I don't think eating, drinking coffee or talking on a cell phone are things that too many people have not done. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.
  5. Now snow-skiing, I've taken my share of falls and gaffes. Once while riding the lift, I hung my poles on the bar in front of me. Approaching the half-way get-off point, I wondered why the guy in the booth was waving and pointing at me. Chair goes over off-ramp, both poles get bent at 90 degree angles. D'OH! And another time I was fast approaching the end of a run near the line of skiers getting on the lift when I noticed I was about to get beheaded by the nearly invisible rope marking the line-up lanes! Cracked one of my ski boots down the back and broke a pole when I instinctively fell backwards to one side. No injuries. More stuff to buy. Snow skiing I have an exciting one. Don't ASSume that because you are sitting on the chair lift that you can be comfortable kicking your skiis back and forth to deal with boredom. Sometimes that chairlift could be close enough to the terrain underneath that with a pair of 200's on, you might get them caught on a rock and that can lunge you foward off the chair lift. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.
  6. It's possible to put an impeller on backwards. When this happens no water will cool your boat engine it will overheat and the impeller spinning without lubricant will burn and break to pieces. Keep the propeller on a boat away from shallow water. All it takes is one tap on a high rock to put a small dent on it and make it useless. If you know there is a leak on your automobile airconditioning system, don't ASSume its the more expensive parts that are leaking if you can't find the leak. It could be a $20 pipe. Changing the transmission fluid on a standard shit car is difficult. Strongly consider paying somebody to doing before taking on this project. When learning to carve steep on slalom turns (waterskiing) ask the boat driver to go only as fast as is needed to keep you above the water. wiping out at 40 hurts signficantly more than wiping out at 28. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.
  7. I can't think of an album better for acoustic guitar sound than the beatles 1965 Rubber Soul album. http://guitar.about.com/library/blrs005.htm If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.
  8. On a national radio show a while ago they were discussing a military operation. Some guy called in claiming to be ex-special forces. The radio host asked him what his MOS was. The caller's response was; "We went in, got the job done, and got out." Is there anyone in the military that doesn't know what an MOS is? The caller didn't seem to know the difference between MO and MOS. To my disappointment, the radio host seemed to know the guy was fake, but didn't call him out on it. MOS Months MOS Military Occupational Specialty (US Army) MOS Metal-Oxide Semiconductor MOS Microsoft Office Specialist MoS Ministry of Sound (London Night Club) MOS Museum of Science MOS Mambo Open Source MOS Mates of State (band) MOS Mean Opinion Score MOS Man Of Steel MOS Margin of Safety MOS Medical Outcomes Study MOS Model Output Statistics MOS Moment of Silence MOS Metal-Oxide-Silicon MOS Man On the Street (type of interview) MOS Maryland Ornithological Society (Baltimore, MD) MOS Media Object Server MOS Monthly Operational Summary MOS Marine Observation Satellite MOS Maintenance Operations Squadron MOS Mother of Sorrows (New York Catholic school) MOS Made of Steel MOS Member of the Opposite Sex MOS Macintosh Operating System MOS Multi-Object Spectrograph MOS Mom Over Shoulder MOS Multi-Object Spectrometer MOS Make Out Session MOS Mittelstandskinder Ohne Strom (band, German: Middle-Class Children Without Energy) MOS Member of the Service (NYPD Sworn Officer) MOS Member of Service (police) MoS Manual of Standards MOS Mic-O-Say (Honor Camping Society of the Heart of America Council, Boy Scouts of America) MOS Mic-O-Say (Tribe) MOS Minimum Operating Strip MOS Multi-Beam Optical Sensor MOS Margin on Services (insurance) MOS Michael O'Neal Singers (Roswell, GA) MOS Major Operating System MOS Marineoperationsschule (German Navy school) MOS Major Orthopedic Surgery MOS Military Occupation Skill MOS Michigan Orchid Society (Ann Arbor, MI) MOS Mini Operating System MOS Mode Of Shipment MOS Method Of Supply MOS Mobility Operations School MOS MIDS on Ship (Multifunctional Information Distribution System) MOS Metal Oxide Substrate MOS Material On Site MOS Mountain Ocean Sea (Japanese burger chain) MOS Massachusetts Orchid Society MOS Maintenance Out of Service MOS Military Operations Specialist (FAA) MOS Maritime Observation Satellite MOS Motion Omit Sound (TV term for silent film or tape) MOS Mute on Sound MOS Manned Orbital Station MOS Minimum Operational Sensitivity MOS Maintenance Override Switch MOS Marked Out of Stock MOS Management Operations Staff MOS Marine Occupational Standard MOS Manual Observing System MOS Military Oceanography Subcommittee MOS Malibu Orchid Society, Inc. MOS Mapping Ocean Sanctuaries (Center for Image Processing in Education) MOS Mit Out Sprechen/Sound (without speech; German/English movie term for shot without dialog) MOS Measure Of Suitability/Stability MOS Minus Optical Strip (acting) MOS Material Ordering Schedule MOS Materials Ordering System MOS Military Obligated Service MOS Modulated Orthogonal Sequence MOS Monitor Only Stations MOS Main Object Size MOS Mission Operational Specialty MOS Morph Operating System MOS Multifunctional Operator System MOS Multiplex Out of Sync (Hekimian) MOS Manually Out of Service MOS Modetti Office Services (Singapore) MOS Modular Optical Scanner MOS Mobile Office Suite MOS Master Operating System MOS Managed Objects MOS Magneto Optic Storage MOS Multiprogramming Operating System MOS Mobile Office Support MOS Management Operating System MOS Mission Operation System MOS Minimum Operating System MOS Multiuser Operating System MOS Mobile Office System If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.
  9. I think that article accurately describes the differences between cats and dogs. But in my experience more than a quarter of those generalizations are not even close to true. I won't go line by line, but I will just point out one thing in the artical that I thought was a joke. It said that dog people were messy where as cat people were neat. That was pretty funny. I am not trying to suggest that dog owners are always clean. But I think its far more likely that a cat lady's house is going to be a nasty place that stinks to high heaven. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.
  10. When a person (especially a man) has a dog for a pet, it shows that person know how to take care of obligations, be nurturing and is not purely self-absorbed in his life. -------------------------------------------- I think this statement is to broad. I would agree with it, if it specified more. Many people have dogs, but I would still say they are not necessarily good people. For example I hate it when I see a dog in the bed of a pick up truck. So many dogs have jumped out of the back of a moving pick up trucks and died doing so. Those dog owners are certainly not showing any hint of responsibility. I could go on and cite many other examples of selfish people who happen to own dogs. But I do agree, that somebody who is a loyal dog owner, loves his dog and takes the responsibility of being a dog owner seriously is probably a person with a good heart. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.
  11. I really don't see the mystery there at all. In 1984 Mondale was leading Reagan in the polls the day before Reagan won 49 states. The polls showed Al Gore winning in 2000 and Kerry winning in 2004. I don't know of one single instance in which the polls showed the Republican candidate ahead. The polls are clearly titled to the left. I have often wondered why Democrats continue to use this same strategy inspite of its failure rate. ACORN already having been busted with election fraud and being sued in 14 different states tells me that the Obama camp is not so sure that they are actually winning. To be honest I am concerned about this. Bill Clinton's presidency was a national embarassment, but we were able to survive as a country. If through the use of election fraud and a lot of clueless people who can't see Obama's Socialist policies for what they are, he were to get elected, then I don't think this country could ever be the same. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.
  12. if you think o'reilly is "extreme right wing", you either haven't objectively watched him much or at all, or you looking from WAY over on the left. yes he is on the right, but he's far from extreme. i want to see this movie. the idea of a michael moore type character getting slapped around along with a pro america theme is appealing to me. it will still have to be funny for me to enjoy it. i'll probably have to wait for it to hit pay per view though, i'll be using my babysitter time for huning the rest of this month. It was awesome! I saw it on opening night last Friday. It's amazing how fast the hardcore lefties rise to attack that which clearly shows their senseless logic for what it is. I would tell you some of the jokes but don't want to spoil it. I highly recomend finding a way way to see it. I think this election is really exposing many posters real position, if it hadn't been exposed already. McCain is undoubtedly one of the most liberal Republicans in Congress. I can't think of any other Republicans more in the center than McCain. Obama on the other hand is, as shown by his short voting record and his speeches one of, if not the most liberal Democrat in Congress. So we have a guy in the Center and a far left loon. Still we have all the clearly partisan Democrats on this site spouting all the Democrat talking points, defending their loon, absurdly trying to paint John McCain as a far right candidate, and at the same time, claiming objectivity and denying their political affiliation. What a joke! If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.
  13. Interesting, I just did some googling and noticed that I never made the association with 10Gig ethernet being specifically capable of handling an OC-192. The only company that I have seen has come close to filling their 10 Gig links with significantly more than 1 Gig of data is Sprint. I am sure there are others like ATT, I just hadn't come across it. I have yet to see a 40 Gig ethernet link and actually I would expect the next step to be 100 Gig ethernet. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.
  14. Well we know that and oc-3 is 155mbits. So then an oc-768 would be 256 times that ( 39680). So yeah 39Gigabits/per sec. But does anybody know how much that will cost monthly? If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.
  15. It's not like they have a bunch of DS3s running into a server room. More likely, they are operating some kind of OC192 or OC748 to manage the massive traffic in and out of iTunes. Plus, there are real live people that are managing the content, hardware, cooling of the servers. A lot of that is outsourced to be sure, but it still costs...I once sold a SONET OC12 to a client in Oregon, the price of that beauty was $15K/month...not including carrier access (which added another $5K). ----------------------------------------- Wow, I must be behind the times. I recall back in 2000 a DS3 costing $11K a month and an OC-192 being described as enough bandwidth for a small country. When did they come out with this OC-748 that you speak of and how much is that currently costing monthly? Inquiry minds want to know. If I could make a wish, I think I'd pass. Can't think of anything I need No cigarettes, no sleep, no light, no sound. Nothing to eat, no books to read.