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Re: Out of the Blue |
Apr 24, 2013, 20:49 |
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Cutter, if someone wants to go after Armstrong for perjury, I have no objection to that. He should have been smart enough to take the fifth. But the nonsense of the USPS and others suing to recover payments made to him (aside from perhaps the libel judgment) are just silly. He did exactly what he was paid to do, win the TdF. If he hadn't use PEDs, he wouldn't have won.
This all comes back to I'd love to know why he confessed. Just keep your mouth shut. The only viable reason I can think of is it was actually weighing on his conscious. Which would seem based on behavior up to that point to not be a problem....
As I understand it, the USPS isn't budgeted to get money from the government. But when it runs in the red, the government does cover the loss. And yes, the unusual way they are forced to fund their pension system is a major contributor to their losses. |
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Apr 24, 2013, 15:43 |
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| Because he was doing what every other competitive cyclist was doing? Don't get me wrong, I don't think he is a saint, but all the gnashing of teeth over it is much ado about nothing in my book. |
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| News Comments > Into the Black |
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Re: Into the Black |
Apr 24, 2013, 10:47 |
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| Wow, that's somewhere between brave and stupid. A 15' fall to concrete could be seriously damaging. That said, it made for an incredible video. |
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| News Comments > Morning Safety Dance |
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Apr 24, 2013, 10:35 |
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| From the Forbes article on the Verizon hacking report: "Among the assets the hackers like to focus on are laptops and desktops, file servers, mail servers and directory servers." Really? Top-notch reporting there. If it hadn't been for them I would have thought they were trying to hack into my DVR. |
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| News Comments > Op Ed |
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Apr 24, 2013, 08:19 |
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| Yeah, there was a "Zine", short for magazine, scene for a while. Hell, there might still be one for all I know. Small, short, almost cult-ish publications created for the "new age of publishing", as I recall. |
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| News Comments > Evening Metaverse |
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Apr 24, 2013, 08:08 |
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| 15 or 20 years ago I would have gladly paid $20 a month for ESPN. Now? Pass. Reminds me somewhat of MTV and VH1, simply not what they used to be. |
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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Apr 23, 2013, 15:57 |
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| I cringe at the thought of what my company pays every month for my smart phone. The only time I've had any notable usage is when I've worked from home for that day and had to call into some kind of meeting/conference call. Person to person calls, I doubt I have ever surpassed 60 minutes in a month. So far this month, one outgoing call, one incoming call -- both under 5 minutes. |
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| News Comments > Out of the Blue |
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Apr 23, 2013, 15:25 |
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| Ahh, but the device heating my house doesn't heat water, there is nothing boiling. No one would ever call it a boiler. The burning of natural gas heats the flowing air pretty much directly. Forced air heating (and cooling) is pretty common in a large portion of the US. |
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Apr 23, 2013, 13:35 |
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From wiki:
"In the United Kingdom, a Chesterfield is a deep buttoned sofa, with arms and back of the same height."
"In Canada, the term 'chesterfield' is equivalent to a couch or sofa."
"The use of the term has been found to be widespread among older Canadians. This term is quickly vanishing from Canadian English according to one survey..."
"Northern California is the only place besides Canada where 'chesterfield' is a synonym for couch or sofa." |
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Apr 23, 2013, 13:28 |
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Cutter wrote on Apr 23, 2013, 12:54:
I remember when I was younger we used to say chesterfield all the time but now everyone just says couch or sofa. Don't recall ever hearing this prior to now. If you had ended the sentence at "time" -- I wouldn't have had a clue what you were talking about. I figured I was pretty much the oldest guy haunting this place, maybe not... |
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| News Comments > Paypal vs. Skullgirls |
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Re: Paypal vs. Skullgirls |
Apr 23, 2013, 12:22 |
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| I'll take your word for it. I've probably simply ignored the icons of other processors. I'll try to keep an eye out for them now whenever I'm using Paypal... |
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Apr 23, 2013, 12:06 |
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| Okay, if I agree that Paypal sucks, is there another electronic pay vendor with similar representation in the market place? I've never had a problem with them, but if I had -- I have no idea who else I might use otherwise. |
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Apr 23, 2013, 11:26 |
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| A boiler? Man, you guys in the Northeast -- it's not using heating oil too is it? I call it a furnace, don't really recall it being called anything else. Replaced mine in Oct. 2011, previous unit was (IIRC) 16 years old at time of replacement, went with the 95% efficiency model. |
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| News Comments > Morning Safety Dance |
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Re: Morning Safety Dance |
Apr 23, 2013, 07:57 |
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Tumbler wrote on Apr 22, 2013, 17:05:
Dune is tragically short. There are 6 books but the first one is unique. The remaining books don't have the same intensity. I made it to the end of book 4 (dune) and quit. Bored as hell. I've read Dune many times. The first 4 or 5 times I kept catching new stuff.
I'd definitely agree the second and third books in the original Dune trilogy are average. I thought the 4th was better, but still not as good as the first. I felt the fifth and sixth were much better, close to the original. I've also read the prequels written by his son and what would be the 7th and 8th novels. I know the 7th and 8th are based on an outline by Frank, not sure how fleshed out that outline was. The prequels about the families (House Atreides, etc..) where meh. However the others however, The Butlerian Jihad; The Machine Crusade; The Battle of Corrin were enjoyable and I thought he did a very good job of "setting up" Dune. I haven't read the Heroes of Dune series.
Pandora's Star is on my list at Amazon now. I'll see when I can get to it. After hearing about the expansive universe he creates, I'll be interested to see how it stacks up against Banks' Culture universe which for me currently holds the title of "fictional place I'd most like to live".
Edit: On the off chance this inspires someone to tackle the prequels or the 7th and 8th novels. I'd suggest reading the three non-family prequels (The Butlerian Jihad, The Machine Crusade, The Battle of Corrin) and then read 7th and 8th which are Hunters of Dune; Sandworms of Dune.
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| News Comments > Morning Tech Bits |
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Apr 22, 2013, 14:07 |
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Ratty wrote on Apr 22, 2013, 11:57:
Their walled garden approach to these is OK with me but I'd never get an IPad. Their walled garden approach is the only reason they were able to make the products they did. Having control of both the hardware and the software was very key in both the iPod and iPhone products. |
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Apr 22, 2013, 12:23 |
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| Yes, even some smart people watch dumb shows sometimes. A friend admitted to me the other day he got hooked for a time on "Storage Wars". Personally, I was almost ashamed to admit I knew what the show was. |
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Apr 22, 2013, 12:09 |
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Creston wrote on Apr 22, 2013, 11:47:
If you love expansive sci-fi, pick up his "Pandora's Star" novel. Best sci-fi novel ever, imo. A bold claim. I currently give that title to Dune for a single novel. Is there any advantage to reading Misspent Youth first? |
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