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QUOTE (santo=dorf @ Dec 30, 2008 -> 03:02 PM) I wish someone would set up a texting system to the ushers to page them in if there's a problem. I know, I know, another person using a cell phone. OK Done http://www.pocket-lint.co.uk/news/news.pht...er-alerts.phtml need anything else?

QUOTE (shipps @ Jan 5, 2009 -> 09:52 AM) Absolutely true. The person below me is allergic to nuts. False. Work related? The person below me is circumsized.

QUOTE (jasonxctf @ Jan 5, 2009 -> 11:03 AM) does anyone here know alot about the Act and the Law? My question, as a business owner, do I have the ability to contact say a School District in Florida and request information pertaining to a particular contract they entered into with a competitor of mine, or do I need to actually live in the boundaries of this School District? The FoI Act is federal, this sounds like a local matter. Usually they have to disclose terms of any contracts they enter into. Have you asked the District directly? What did they tell you? The deliberations can occur in closed door meetings, but bids are usually unsealed in a public meeting and the results announced.

QUOTE (Steve9347 @ Jan 5, 2009 -> 09:28 AM) It's no more a chick-flick than Forrest Gump. What was wrong with the first thirty minutes? Perhaps it was just us, but we had this feeling of watching Forrest Gump in reverse and perhaps dreaded a couple more hours of this. There really wasn't anything wrong with the first thirty from the movie side. I did think the pace from "birth" until perhaps his mid 50s was slow to develop. We both found ourselves thinking ahead and wondering how they would handle 18- death. It seemed to work for us.

QUOTE (shipps @ Jan 5, 2009 -> 10:53 AM) LOL That is the one thing I have been worried about. But remember it's Gage, he is in the Urban Dictionary for his ineptness regarding this stuff.

While it is an interesting comparison, we should be careful what kinds of conclusions are drawn from it. I think it would be wrong to state that Iraq is safer than Chicago. It may be interesting to ponder if Chicago would be better if there was armed military patrolling the roads.

QUOTE (SouthsideDon48 @ Jan 3, 2009 -> 11:31 PM) FALSE! I had a miserable time at summer camp, couldn't even sleep my whole time there. The person below me has an uncircumcized penis. False. Bummer about your summer camp. The person below me is surprised this thread is still going.

Did you do any of your on line shopping at work? I'd be thinking of any changes in your routine. Does the shirt fit? There is a 25% chance they got it right at random, but that could be an interesting clue if the person knows you or not. But Occam's Razor would tell us it was someone with easy access, family member or a clerk who you gave your card to, before some on-line intercepted purchase.

Here is a thread on another board that may help Gage in his real problem. http://www.sherdog.net/forums/f13/how-make...-bigger-307723/

Couple thoughts, We should have been suspicious of any thread that involves Gage having a girlfriend. But I guess imaginary girlfriends can have demands as well. Isn't shipps a great friend for coming up with a cover story for gage? Kind of jumping on the granade. I wouldn't do it. After I had it done, I couldn't walk for almost a year. Of course I had no say in the matter, I was only a couple days old.

If anyone decided to see . . . Benjamin Button, resists the urge to walk out after the first 30 minutes. The final two hours was breathtaking . Seriously, I like chick flicks, with a chick, and this one did not disappoint. They "solved" some of the reality to movie issues in a rather pleasing way. From the DVD folder, watched Dead Poets society and have proclaimed Robin Williams as the most underrated actor of our generation.

QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Dec 26, 2008 -> 07:22 PM) So where does that leave a man driving a Toyota Tacoma? They do not exist in Texas. _or_ He borrowed his wife's car?

I'll defend the Constitution. I would rather err by allowing all of this, than picking and choosing. However, if NSS is suggesting it is a really bad idea, and probably not best for the RNC, I'll agree. If the suggestion is it should somehow not be allowed, then I will disagree.

The difference between alcohol, caffeine, and marijuana as a starter drug is where you buy it. If your starter drug is caffeine, you may move onto Bety Crocker cake mixes at your local mega-mart, or worse, $5.00 triple soy lattes at Star$s. If alcohol is your starter drug, that same "dealer" may sell you cigars, porn, or more alcohol. If marijuana is your starter drug, it opens up more and harsher illegal drugs. All the more reason to legalize it and sell it in liquor stores. The fighting a war and drinking age is a classic misdirection. I've seen kids as young as 12 be remarkable great shots, able to navigate well with map and compass, and totally school adults on a paintball field. Will that also predict how well they could handle alcohol in a few years? I doubt it. Skills inone area do not translate into the other. There are just too many unnecessary dangers in younger people drinking. And getting back to my social good argument earlier, many of those dangers are of concern to other people around the teen drinker. Drunk driving and other behavior that hurts innocents. In a nutshell, we've discovered that 18 year olds, with clear minds, are capable soldiers. We've also discovered 18 year olds, given the right and responsibility of alcohol were too often not capable drinkers.

That was pretty sweet. That also reminds me of Goochi's

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 25, 2008 -> 04:44 PM) Applause again for fair knight Brave. Well done.

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 25, 2008 -> 07:27 PM) Because of the symbolism. Just because the object is symbolic, that doesn't make it or or not make it assault. The two facts are wholly independent of one another. If I throw a brick through your window, its criminal damage to property. If the brick has some symbol painted on it, its still criminal damage to property. By any reasonable interperetation of US or common law, this was an assault. Iraqi law? I have no idea. But how could you see that shoe go right where his head had been and think it wasn't meant to hit him? Because you asked . . . Great point regarding symbolism. I don't have a good answer for that besides it speaks of intent. And there are a number of laws that hinge on intent. The brick analogy doesn't fit unless there was a custom of throwing bricks on your lawn and this one sailed high and to the right. Then I agree, throw the book at the brick thrower. (pun intended) Same as if you are flipping someone off, trip, and poke their eye out. Easy. A slow wind up and slow toss from the front versus waiting until he wasn't looking.

QUOTE (southsider2k5 @ Dec 25, 2008 -> 08:57 PM) So where did the 100 votes just show up from, and why have they never been subtracted? From what I know, most states do not count the write in and absentee votes unless the election is close enough for those votes to determine the winner. Minny requires, if possible, that those ballots we counted in the precint where the voter is registered, and by the same process as the rest of the ballots. So once it is decided that those ballots need to be counted, they transport the ballots to the polling place to be counted. Some polling places were closed before the ballots could arrive. Again, Minny's laws then require those ballots to be brought back and a manual count is conducted. So the ballots go from a central mail box, to the precint, and back again. Only these need to be counted separate because the polls had closed before they could get there. I am not saying that the GOP is spinning this or some Dem is breaking the law. But the explanation of the law matches the trail of the ballots, as I read it. It could still be ballot fraud, but there is a legal and plausable explanation.

QUOTE (Balta1701 @ Dec 25, 2008 -> 04:56 PM) Question is... at what level is it government's job to make sure we can't make a mistake by banning things, rather than taking steps to give people a chance to do what they want to do? (perhaps while also providing ways to fix things if people do make mistakes) In a broad sense we are the government and decide what we want to do. It seems we have tasked the government with assuring our collective futures and perhaps with helping US business and their employees with being successful on a world scale. So we ask for security, in terms of physical threats, and some form of financial security. Then we ask them to stop others from infringing on what we consider to be our rights. I believe that victimiless crimes may fall under keeping us secure and law and order. When a reasonable claim can be made that by allowing X we are creating a nuisance that infringes on our Y, we ask the government to intervene. We don't want hookers walking the streets in front of our homes. We do not want 20 year olds drinking alcohol. We have found that certain drugs eventually create a cost to us when people become addicted. We find a sociatal cost to gambling. When health care costs become an issue we look for ways to lower costs as a society, so we require safer cars, seatbelt usage, lower speed limits, restrict teen driving, etc. It benefits the greater good.

The alcohol lobby will never allow marijuana. There are already smoking bans in almost every public place, I'm not certain if that helps or hurts the efforts. The on-line gambling seems much more doable. But I do not see multi-player games. It will be more along the lines of video poker, slots, etc. I doubt sports book would happen right away, the pro leagues are generally against it. Unleashing a few more vices is also problematic for me. I've always felt we will fail from within.

QUOTE (bmags @ Dec 24, 2008 -> 11:51 PM) http://www.minnpost.com/davidbrauer/2008/1...car_story_false One thing about living in the US, our elections are about as fair as humanly possible. When something makes zero sense and seems totally wrong, there is usually an honest and believable explanation. Many of the problems come from absentee ballots. The root of this is our strong desire to allow everyone to cast a ballot. How sad would it be if we excluded the men and women of our military from voting? Excluded those patients who could not vote because of illness or death (Illinois Dems only) So we must accept that the very few close elections will look biased and ugly and everything else. But the truth of the matter is there is a margin of error in everything that humans do. With as close as this election is, a .1% error is enough for the "wrong" person to be elected.

QUOTE (knightni @ Dec 25, 2008 -> 08:44 AM) Good thing that he wasn't Richard Reid. Nice touch. Did you have to google that?

QUOTE (Alpha Dog @ Dec 25, 2008 -> 07:43 AM) So because I feel personally offended that that jagbag threw a shoe at our President, that is wrong? I thought that AT THAT TIME, right when it happened, the secret service should have been a little faster on the ball and beat the crap out of the guy. As for now, he is in an Iraqi jail, being subject to iraqi laws, not our laws, so i am not sure what you are complaing about? Over there, insulting a foreign leader is apparently a big deal, since they had that law already onthe books and it wasn't just thought up for this occasion. Or do you want us to respect the custom but not the law? You were really offended? You must spend a lot of time being offended, our Presidents are insulted every day. There are a lot of things over there that Americans found offensive in Iraq's legal system, so offensive in fact, we have lost thousands of US lives trying to fix them. Right after the WMD argument was exposed as based on faulty intelligence, we started looking at how Iraq treated people who insulted the country's leaders. It isn't so amazing we embraced those laws now. Imagine if Saddam had someone beaten for throwing a shoe at him. Something you yourself advocated in this post. I believe this detour of the conversation started with what an appropriate punishment would be. I offered a counter to those that looked through a US lens and felt this was a simple case of assault. That he randomly used a shoe. I read a few articles that pointed out the tradition around that particular symbol and why there are mitigating reasons for Iraq to consider doing nothing instead of a harsh sentence. I thought it was an interesting discussion. Anthropology is a fascinating area of study.

Wow, a white guy driving an F-150 in Texas. s***, that's half the state. The other half has a real truck. A F-250 or F-350

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Dec 24, 2008 -> 11:23 AM) I don't see how you can think he didn't intend to hit Bush. The shoe sailed right where Bush's head was, if he hadn't quickly (and, I must admit, deftly) dodged it. Why did he use a shoe and not something like a cell phone?