JoeUser ForumsYes on the first, in a vague sort of way; no on the second.
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My brain kept trying to read "RHCP" as "RCMP" and I was wondering what the Mounties (Royal Canadian Mounted Police) had to do with anything....
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oh it just hit me -- Tongue You're awake enough to get one!
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What a shame to waste such a fine crust on a vegetable filling. Fruit and berry pies, baby, and nothing else!
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How did you come up with that the hybrid doesn't end up costing more over the life of the vehicle? First of all, that's what I've been saying the entire time. And you've agreed with it on several occasions. Including this one: <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=center bgColor=#FFF394 class="mb
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Just to inject a hopefully both humorous and on-point summary of the attitudes Draginol painted, I'd report them as: Conservatives focus on changing their portion of the world. Liberals focus on changing conservatives.
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I deduce from the chart Brad posted that hitting the "Interesting" button on an article is worth your user rank squared, and the "Insightful" button is twice that. The Trolling and Insightful buttons on posts are worth User Rank*2, except there seems to be a bit of difficulty there because that doesn't make a range of 1 to 18, so I"m not quite sure how you get 1 or 3. User ranks apparently range from 1 to 9, with admins slotted in at 10.</font
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Mig, there was hardly anything to my stage performances; we did a bunch of exercises throughout the course and then had to group up at the end for our final project, which was to do a 5-minute-or-so scene of our own choice in front of the rest of the class. My partner had already picked a piece that he wanted to do, so I went along with it. It was pretty obscure, I don't even remember anything about the play our scene was from.
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All right, I apologize for trying to take your discussion and expand it beyond your narrowly defined bounds and for drawing conclusions based upon what you wrote instead of simply sticking to the bare facts that you presented. So now if I may present a point related to hybrids etc. and their monetary costs: in general, doing something or buying a product that is "environmentally friendly" involves paying a monetary premium over the "standard"
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Oh, and mig, congratulations on having already covered so much of my list. I especially recommend the Doris Lessing stuff, though. While the Canopus in Argos: Archives series does technically qualify as Science Fiction, it is still in her greater context of classic fiction/literature as social commentary.
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Dig into some John Irving I went through a John Irving phase in high school, I think; The World According to Garp , Hotel New Hampshire , Setting Free the Bears , and at least a couple others. I don't remember A Prayer for Owen Meany , though. I'll try to look it up. <b
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Well, I'll weigh in on the other side of that too, that asking for constructive input on anything is almost always helpful in improving your ability. Certainly poetry is a personal matter and subject to both taste and interpretation, but there are lots of ways to change something without necessarily messing with meanings. A change in meter, a better rhyme, different presentation can all make a poem better. Now I personally think that in it
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You could have a crayon or pen accident in the washer or dryer Only problem there is that he might not even notice the difference, or might think it makes the shirts "more interesting."
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Crusaders, interesting guess, but no, not a toothbrush.
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1/ Arrested? No. Got a ticket for which I had to appear in court once. (Cop mistakenly wrote me for driving without a license, when the issue was that I as a MN resident was using a MD license.) 2/ Punched? Yes. Had a bit of a scrape with some moron in camp when I was in 7th grade or so. (Hit him once or twice, sat on him, fight over. He was bigger than I was, too.) 3/ Lost it? No. I have never lost it, even in private. 4/ Woken up
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Yes, you've reiterated that point several times. (Needlessly, I might add, since I got it the first time, in the very first sentence of my initial reply, even.) To expound upon the remaining point of contention, then, what your last paragraph clearly implies to me is that there is ONLY one place where you should bother to consider putting hybrid technology. And even there, you state that the horsepower loss may be prohibitive.
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I have never said that I was against hybrids (that you assumed) Hence my use of hedging words, saying that "you seem to be...". However, the editorial slant of your article clearly implies that you are against hybrids, especially the last paragraph. <TABLE cellpadding=8 width="95%" align=cente
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I think it reads a lot better with the current arrangement than it did at first. I'll disagree with Bluedev in that I think the punctuation that remains is good to have. I'll also suggest, though, that you might try it without any capitals at all, except on the first and last lines. You already got rid of all the other capitals but the 'i's; might as well take that last step.
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Still, what you've said here, KarmaGirl, is that over the life of the vehicle, for the factors considered, a hybrid costs the essentially same as a regular car. You seem to be painting this as reason not to get a hybrid, but since the apples-to-apples comparison comes up even, other factors will have to be used to make the final decision.
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No, I was trying to make a different point, that the actual cost of the car itself is not necessarily the only thing that should be considered. If that were the case we'd all be driving Yugos or Pacers. Or riding bikes. And I was pointing out that while you may not save money, you won't (according to the numbers presented) be spending anything extra either. ($200 out of $25,000 =
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So let's see then, over the course of 150,000 miles the cost is essentially a wash. And in some places you can get a tax break for buying a hybrid. are you saving anything? Yes, you'll be saving gas, and the environment. You may not be saving money, but you won't be spending a significant e
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I'll probably recommend those to my woman, TW, but I'm not much into that sort of thing myself. (She loves Patricia Cornwell, Mary Higgins Clark, and Sue Grafton in particular.) That's great to know, BlueDev! I guess I'll be out looking for that soon too.
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believe the point that Jamie Burnside is trying to make is, this whole CBS ordeal takes President Bush off "the hotseat" and deflects the topic of discussion to CBS. I think you're only seeing the first half of the point he's making; the second half is that,
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Don't feel the need to end every line with a punctuation mark, or begin every line with a capital. The lines are clearly arranged for visual effect, which is fine, but you don't need to mangle the syntax to go along with that.
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BlueDev, if I'm not mistaken, that series has concluded. It's just a trilogy and that last part is out in paperback, even. TW, my brother and I snuck over to the house of a friend who had cable when we were in high school to watch A Clockwork Orange on HBO. Very good, powerful movie/book that presents some great dilemmas. And can you tell me a little bit about the books you mentioned? trina, my school never studied much in the w
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