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President's Position to be Outsourced - Lindy - 5/4/2006 3:46:18 PM
- Good stuff! - McFly - 5/5/2006 5:40:02 PM
- We can only wish.... (n/t) - Laurie Street - 5/4/2006 5:59:54 PM

Rumsfeld not popular with the Army - Lindy - 4/25/2006 7:15:40 PM
- re: Rumsfeld not popular with the Army - SDG - 4/25/2006 7:45:16 PM
  - Yep. If they let me vote, they will let anyone vote. (n/t) - alcaray - 4/25/2006 10:38:13 PM
  - I would think that...... - Lindy - 4/25/2006 8:00:48 PM
    - Scary stuff - ljk - 5/5/2006 5:14:45 PM

04 05 06 Today!! - Raoul - 5/4/2006 5:59:14 PM
- Hey Raoul! - Laurie Street - 5/4/2006 7:43:43 PM
  - re:I know... - Raoul - 5/4/2006 9:20:02 PM
    - I like that! - Laurie Street - 5/4/2006 10:51:42 PM
      - Isn't that near... - ljk - 5/5/2006 2:40:20 PM
      - re: Matching - Raoul - 5/5/2006 7:21:21 AM

Wrote to the NBA today - azstrummer - 5/4/2006 10:21:53 PM
- re: Wrote to the NBA today - azstrummer - 5/5/2006 6:53:33 AM

"Clever Car" -- the future of automobiles (whether you like it or not) - SDF - 4/29/2006 1:05:04 PM
- Three wheelers tend not to be very stable. - David F Mayer - 5/1/2006 6:18:40 PM
  - Ah, come on, you know that problem has been solved (n/t) - SDF - 5/2/2006 1:42:53 PM
    - How? (n/t) - DFM - 5/2/2006 2:10:53 PM
      - Didn't you used to tack a "PhD" to the end of your name? - SDF - 5/3/2006 1:29:30 AM
        
        How did they solve the 3 wheel instability problem? (n/t) - DFM - 5/3/2006 6:13:59 PM
        
        Answer to your question is in the picture... - alcaray - 5/3/2006 10:27:52 PM
        
        video of Clever Car - SDF - 5/4/2006 3:14:49 AM
        
        The first video is only 1.5 MB - SDF - 5/5/2006 2:33:43 AM
        
        can't do it from work - and I have dial-up at home. (n/t) - alcaray - 5/4/2006 9:37:28 PM
- Looks like a refinement of GM's "The Lean Machine"... - Larry J - 5/1/2006 12:28:25 AM
  - GM's "The Lean Machine"... and others - SDF - 5/1/2006 1:47:19 PM
- Except that I can't afford it at the moment... - Mary Anne - 4/30/2006 4:38:13 PM
  - Hey Mary Anne....... - Lindy - 4/30/2006 10:21:53 PM
  - Only a prototype for now - SDF - 4/30/2006 5:17:15 PM
    - Volkswagon has already set the standard - SDF - 4/30/2006 5:50:52 PM
      - Wow...thanks. - Lindy - 4/30/2006 10:30:48 PM
- I saw a car that kinda looked cool - R.L. - 4/30/2006 12:46:32 PM
- Not so hot if you have kids and stuff to haul. - Tom Brosz - 4/30/2006 1:53:18 AM
  - I'm sure there will always be full-sized cars available for those who need one (n/t) - SDF - 4/30/2006 2:21:20 AM
- Excellent for commuters in large cities - Lindy - 4/29/2006 3:24:01 PM
  - That *is* the model with the passenger seat in the back (n/t) - SDF - 4/30/2006 2:20:23 AM
    - Where do they sit? - Lindy - 4/30/2006 3:04:14 AM
      - Behind the driver, with feet on either side, like a motorcycle - SDF - 4/30/2006 3:35:47 AM
    - I think the passenger has to be able to fit in a carseat :) (n/t) - SDG - 4/30/2006 2:48:34 AM
- Fuel economy = 188 miles per gallon equivalent - SDF - 4/29/2006 1:21:59 PM
  - re: Fuel economy = 188 miles per gallon equivalent - SDG - 4/29/2006 2:36:42 PM
    - re: Fuel economy = 188 miles per gallon equivalent - SDF - 4/30/2006 12:56:49 PM
      - Clever Car series - SDF - 4/30/2006 1:57:04 PM
  - Fuel your car at home - SDF - 4/29/2006 1:25:54 PM

LOST - whew! - Laurie Street - 5/4/2006 5:57:38 PM
- Naw I was watching... - alcaray - 5/4/2006 6:34:53 PM

Yet another meaningless quiz profiling thingy - Tony - 5/1/2006 2:34:50 PM
- Born to be wild... - nick hoffman - 5/4/2006 12:15:02 AM
- Sorry. Questions are from a completely different planet. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 5/1/2006 8:03:57 PM
  - I can't answer them either. - REB - 5/2/2006 5:11:42 PM
  - Ya got Donny Osmond's Puppy Love, huh? (n/t) - Tony - 5/1/2006 9:05:02 PM
    - Nope. Wife of 29 years. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 5/1/2006 11:41:18 PM
      - Yup. Tom got Puppy Love - tony - 5/2/2006 3:38:00 AM
      - Very nice! (n/t) - SteveS - 5/2/2006 3:24:39 AM
- Beautiful Day - Laurie Street - 5/1/2006 5:00:50 PM
  - Me, too! - Mary Anne - 5/2/2006 2:32:00 AM
    - Me, three! - Fox - 5/2/2006 2:39:40 AM
- Back in Black (n/t) - alcaray - 5/1/2006 4:12:52 PM
  - Well I knew that would happen :-) - Tony - 5/1/2006 5:53:00 PM
    - Next up: Robert - Back in Black (n/t) - Robert - 5/1/2006 9:02:24 PM
      - C'mon, there's gotta be more than 3 theme songs in there! - Lindy - 5/1/2006 9:12:58 PM
        
        More Black... (n/t) - SteveS - 5/2/2006 3:22:35 AM
        
        Was seeing definite trens until you showed up - Tony - 5/2/2006 11:22:24 AM
        
        other Steve got Black too. (n/t) - SDG - 5/2/2006 3:53:24 PM
        
        You just don't know me...whimp,whimp.. and how many years has it been...whimp, whimp.. (n/t) - SteveS - 5/2/2006 12:24:17 PM
- Heh heh - Lindy - 5/1/2006 4:08:22 PM
  - A soul mate!!!! - R.L. - 5/1/2006 4:59:58 PM
- re: Yet another meaningless quiz profiling thingy - R.L. - 5/1/2006 3:19:36 PM
  - Time to start a club....... - Publius - 5/1/2006 5:37:59 PM

Statistics Canada --- Religiosity Index - SDF - 5/3/2006 11:45:16 AM
- re: Europe! - Raoul - 5/3/2006 9:26:31 PM
- People with strong motivations do cause the most trouble - alcaray - 5/3/2006 9:09:12 PM
- Africa Religious Violence - SDF - 5/3/2006 12:03:37 PM
- Central South American Religious Violence - SDF - 5/3/2006 12:02:01 PM
- Oceana Religious Violence - SDF - 5/3/2006 11:59:28 AM
- Southeast Asia Religious Violence - SDF - 5/3/2006 11:57:10 AM
- South Asia Religious Violence - SDF - 5/3/2006 11:51:20 AM

The Palace of Ajax Found? - ljk - 5/2/2006 5:56:01 PM
- And on the other side of the planet Earth... - ljk - 5/3/2006 6:34:34 PM

For those interested in growing plants. - David F Mayer - 5/2/2006 4:53:11 PM
- How about a technical summary in a paragraph? (n/t) - et - 5/2/2006 9:11:22 PM
  - re: How about a technical summary in a paragraph? - DFM - 5/2/2006 9:15:43 PM

CNN reports Philo T. Farnsworth widow died recently - carl - 5/2/2006 6:47:18 PM

Can't find Earth on a globe, either - ljk - 5/2/2006 5:37:45 PM

And you thought gas prices here were out of control... - Laurie Street - 5/2/2006 5:23:50 PM

Ice Age giant 'Sloth' is unearthed. (Apr. 1st) - Marcia - 4/13/2006 6:50:33 PM
- Thanks Marcia - Lindy - 4/29/2006 6:42:46 PM
- re: Ice Age giant 'Sloth' is unearthed. (Apr. 1st) - Marcia - 4/13/2006 6:54:13 PM
  - If Sid is cute to you..... - Tony - 4/13/2006 7:00:11 PM
    - re: If Sid is cute to you..... - Marcia - 4/14/2006 1:19:08 AM
      - If it floods, watch out for the mosasaurs.... (n/t) - Tony - 4/14/2006 4:22:25 PM

BOLO......AT+T TV commercial .............. - carl - 4/27/2006 8:46:26 PM
- re: BOLO......AT+T TV commercial .............. - phil a.k.a. Robbie - 4/29/2006 2:10:53 AM
- re: BOLO......AT+T TV commercial .............. - phil a.k.a. Robbie - 4/29/2006 2:10:51 AM

Facinating test! - alcaray - 4/26/2006 6:12:45 PM
- interesting... - FrankC - 4/26/2006 11:23:37 PM
  - Cry me a river, damnit.... (n/t) - R.L. - 4/27/2006 8:57:02 AM
- Cool - made my head spin, but cool! - Laurie Street - 4/26/2006 9:28:11 PM
  - I did several of them and discovered... - Mary Anne - 4/28/2006 1:14:48 AM
    - But... - FrankC - 4/28/2006 6:06:44 PM
      - errors balance? no - alcaray - 4/28/2006 7:17:50 PM
      - re: But... - SDG - 4/28/2006 7:01:13 PM
  - Seeing ourselves as others see us - LJK - 4/27/2006 2:08:13 PM
    - re: Seeing ourselves as others see us - Marcia - 4/27/2006 7:24:01 PM

The amazing robot chair! - Tom Brosz - 4/21/2006 1:31:29 AM
- I feel like that all the time. - podrock - 4/22/2006 2:07:46 AM
  - Steven Wright - Mary Anne - 4/22/2006 3:07:58 AM
- Reminds me of that race in the third or 4th Oz book - alcaray - 4/21/2006 4:00:40 PM
  - I've got almost the whole set of those... - Tom Brosz - 4/27/2006 4:34:39 PM
    - When my daughter was about 5, I had the idea... - alcaray - 4/28/2006 4:30:19 PM
- Wow! But is it comfortable? - Mary Anne - 4/21/2006 2:16:07 PM
- might be easier to just design a chair that doesn't fall apart. (n/t) - SDG - 4/21/2006 5:08:43 AM
  - I bet they said something similar to Thomas Edison when they expelled him from school. ;) (n/t) - Mary Anne - 4/21/2006 2:16:59 PM
  - You're no fun. (n/t) - Tom Brosz - 4/21/2006 7:44:56 AM
    - A walking wheelchair - ljk - 4/21/2006 12:00:20 PM
      - re: A walking wheelchair - SDG - 4/22/2006 12:02:25 AM
        
        re: A walking wheelchair - SDG - 4/22/2006 12:06:06 AM
      - I don't know if I'd feel safe in one of those. - Mary Anne - 4/21/2006 5:50:56 PM
        
        re: I don't know if I'd feel safe in one of those. - ljk - 4/21/2006 5:56:02 PM
        
        Point taken. I still wonder if stilts are the answer. - Mary Anne - 4/21/2006 6:02:53 PM
        
        Easy solution - Tom Brosz - 4/21/2006 11:47:37 PM
        
        re: Point taken. I still wonder if stilts are the answer. - ljk - 4/21/2006 6:11:13 PM
        
        Japanese researcher shows robot legs that could replace wheelchairs - LJK - 4/27/2006 2:28:23 PM
        
        re: robot legs - Tom Brosz - 4/27/2006 4:36:36 PM

For the folks from Florida - Laurie Street - 4/27/2006 10:58:17 PM
- he heh (not for the young 'uns) - Lindy - 4/27/2006 11:06:23 PM

Bush's New Bunker Busters - Lindy - 4/25/2006 8:03:44 PM
- The Union of Concerned Scientists is also against RTGs - Lee - 4/26/2006 5:55:19 AM
  - Nuclear Energy - Lindy - 4/26/2006 3:39:00 PM
    - "'Allowing' American car manufacturers to develop and market...?" - Tom Brosz - 4/27/2006 3:41:20 AM
    - Nuclear Energy is a lot better than the alternative - R.L. - 4/26/2006 6:13:29 PM
      - I hate to be such a pessimist... - alcaray - 4/26/2006 10:20:11 PM
        
        Nuclear waste and fuel supply - Laurie Street - 4/27/2006 10:07:49 PM
        
        re: I hate to be such a pessimist... - gbaikie - 4/27/2006 1:13:02 AM
        
        How much energy do you expend getting it to the moon... - alcaray - 4/27/2006 2:56:04 PM
        
        re: How much energy do you expend getting it to the moon... - gbaikie - 4/27/2006 8:30:30 PM
        
        Looks like a whacky idea to me (n/t) - alcaray - 4/27/2006 9:20:12 PM
        
        if you feel okay about getting it off the planet, - podrock - 4/27/2006 1:30:06 AM
        
        re: if you feel okay about getting it off the planet, - gbaikie - 4/27/2006 2:13:49 AM
        
        Hubbert's peak applies to all finite commodities. - podrock - 4/27/2006 1:07:09 AM
      - re: Nuclear Energy is a lot better than the alternative - gbaikie - 4/26/2006 9:38:28 PM
      - Apply the American genius... - Laurie Street - 4/26/2006 9:32:53 PM

20 years ago today. - Jacob Samorodin - 4/26/2006 11:29:07 PM
- re: 20 years ago today. - R.L. - 4/27/2006 8:53:10 AM
  - "Dont promulgate the lies.... " - Lindy - 4/27/2006 7:25:23 PM
- re: 20 years ago today. - Publius - 4/27/2006 1:53:09 AM

History of the Microprocessor - phil - 4/20/2006 2:35:55 PM
- Experts see computers getting bigger and smaller at the same time - ljk - 4/25/2006 3:57:00 PM
  - The Punch Card Era - ljk - 4/25/2006 5:59:28 PM
    - I remember punch cards, and am not retired. *hmph* - Mary Anne - 4/26/2006 5:53:30 PM
    - Punch card, paper tape, yeah - nick hoffman - 4/26/2006 3:24:13 AM
      - It was yellow punch tape when I was in school. - Tom Brosz - 4/26/2006 4:00:37 AM
    - Punch card Pranks - carl - 4/25/2006 8:12:01 PM

God, penguins, gays, and ID - ljk - 4/13/2006 4:21:28 PM
- Non-reproducing members of a species - SDF - 4/20/2006 5:23:32 PM
  - re: Non-reproducing members of a species - SDG - 4/20/2006 7:16:07 PM
    - re: Non-reproducing members of a species - SDF - 4/20/2006 8:10:54 PM
      - OK... define YOUR role.... - R.L. - 4/20/2006 10:57:57 PM
        
        Nothing wrong with being single (n/t) - SDF - 4/21/2006 1:03:36 AM
        
        and I'm not demanding spousal benefits either, since I have no special role (n/t) - SDF - 4/21/2006 1:06:35 AM
        
        By your reasoning... - R.L. - 4/21/2006 1:04:31 PM
        
        Not really - SDF - 4/21/2006 3:12:10 PM
        
        So - then you would be ok with gays getting spousal benifits if they adopt? - R.L. - 4/21/2006 5:29:28 PM
        
        Twenty years ago, we wouldn't be having this conversation - SDF - 4/22/2006 1:06:18 PM
        
        No, we'd be having the same conversation about race. - Mary Anne - 4/22/2006 4:53:18 PM
      - Pairing off - Tony - 4/20/2006 9:10:17 PM
        
        Good point - SDF - 4/20/2006 11:42:04 PM
        
        re: "Alot of women also marry because they don't want to work." - Mary Anne - 4/21/2006 12:58:25 PM
        
        However - SDF - 4/20/2006 11:51:04 PM
        
        Do you think that you turn a PROFIT with the tax breaks by adopting a kid? - R.L. - 4/21/2006 1:07:13 PM
        
        "without first finding a father that will stick around" - Mary Anne - 4/21/2006 1:05:15 PM
        
        If he beats her up, he should be charged with assault, taken away, and never allowed to return - SDF - 4/21/2006 4:01:51 PM
        
        Gays already adopt. - tony - 4/21/2006 12:12:41 AM
        
        I didn't know that. A court decision was made on November 26, 1999. - SDF - 4/21/2006 12:35:18 AM
        
        so should single women not be allowed to adopt? (n/t) - SDG - 4/21/2006 12:12:05 AM
        
        No. (n/t) - SDF - 4/21/2006 12:38:59 AM
        
        and if the single woman is gay? (n/t) - SDG - 4/21/2006 5:16:22 AM
        
        then she is still single (n/t) - SDF - 4/21/2006 3:50:50 PM
        
        "I just don't agree with that. I think children should be raised by a mother and a father." - R.L. - 4/20/2006 11:56:40 PM
        
        Because that is the natural means by which babies are made, with few exceptions (n/t) - SDF - 4/21/2006 12:38:12 AM
        
        Most things people do today isn't 'natural'... why does this one example bother you? - R.L. - 4/21/2006 12:58:29 PM
        
        What makes you think homosexuality is natural? (n/t) - SDF - 4/21/2006 3:34:20 PM
        
        Because it appears in nature. - Mary Anne - 4/21/2006 3:50:34 PM
        
        That was my original point, it DOES appear in nature - SDF - 4/21/2006 3:54:24 PM
        
        While you assign them their "place", don't forget to shave their heads and tattoo numbers on their arms. (n/t) - Mary Anne - 4/21/2006 4:33:07 PM
        
        Ironically, many of them are already doing such things - SDF - 4/21/2006 4:45:06 PM
        
        So sayeth Some Dumb F... - R.L. - 4/21/2006 5:44:46 PM
        
        Because the cause of the condition is not understood. (n/t) - SDF - 4/22/2006 1:10:34 PM
        
        Why do you need to consider it a disease? - R.L. - 4/23/2006 8:56:08 AM
        
        You are quick to call me bigoted (which is a form of bigotry itself), but I am being objective - SDF - 4/24/2006 12:49:04 PM
        
        Corrections - Mary Anne - 4/25/2006 1:27:56 PM
        
        You are one sick puppy.... - R.L. - 4/24/2006 8:15:17 PM
        
        I don't think so - SDF - 4/25/2006 12:33:36 PM
        
        Irony is a mystery to you, isn't it? - Mary Anne - 4/21/2006 4:55:53 PM
        
        Its like coppery except harder... (n/t) - R.L. - 4/22/2006 4:59:21 AM
  - Sounds like a past description of the left-handed. - Mary Anne - 4/20/2006 6:36:08 PM
    - Left-handed people aren't so offensive. - SDF - 4/20/2006 8:15:40 PM
      - What garbage!!! - R.L. - 4/20/2006 10:51:56 PM
        
        The degree of deviance that people are willing to accept varies somewhat, but not really that much. - SDF - 4/21/2006 12:53:10 AM
        
        Setting rather than content. - Mary Anne - 4/21/2006 1:25:30 PM
        
        It used to be the same for interracial marriage... - R.L. - 4/21/2006 1:12:39 PM
        
        Only in some countries - SDF - 4/21/2006 3:24:03 PM
      - Maybe they don't hate men. - Mary Anne - 4/20/2006 9:26:20 PM
        
        Birds of a feather flock together (n/t) - SDF - 4/21/2006 12:57:44 AM
        
        "And so do pigs and swine... - Mary Anne - 4/21/2006 12:44:41 PM
        
        Well, if they act a certain way and their friends act the same way - SDF - 4/21/2006 3:20:15 PM
        
        Um, because human beings are more complex than that. - Mary Anne - 4/21/2006 3:37:12 PM
        
        I don't think people are complex at all - SDF - 4/21/2006 3:42:46 PM
        
        Obviously. - Mary Anne - 4/21/2006 3:53:06 PM
        
        Simple response. (n/t) - SDF - 4/21/2006 3:56:23 PM
        
        Suits you, then. (n/t) - Mary Anne - 4/21/2006 3:59:45 PM
        
        LOL. What's wrong, can't win? - SDF - 4/21/2006 4:08:22 PM
        
        According to some parliamentary rules, silence implies consent. - Mary Anne - 4/21/2006 5:08:51 PM
      - Hatred of men? - Tony - 4/20/2006 9:12:13 PM
        
        It's not really hatred that I feel. It's disgust. Why are you willing to accept their bahaviour, but not willing to accept that I am offended by it? (n/t) - SDF - 4/21/2006 1:01:24 AM
        
        Be offended all you want. - Mary Anne - 4/21/2006 12:54:16 PM
        
        re: Be offended all you want. - SDF - 4/21/2006 3:16:03 PM
        
        Then file charges for harassment. - Mary Anne - 4/21/2006 3:39:32 PM
        
        I still think they should justify their sexual preference before encoding it in law - SDF - 4/21/2006 3:49:37 PM
        
        Why? And do you intend to institute a "test" for that too? - Mary Anne - 4/21/2006 4:00:24 PM
        
        You lasted longer than me :-) - Tony - 4/21/2006 5:14:59 PM
        
        You still letting that eat you up inside? - SDAI-Tech1 - 4/22/2006 6:41:08 AM
        
        Not eating up. - Tony - 4/22/2006 7:38:45 PM
        
        Most diseases are biological. Eventually we find treatments. - SDF - 4/21/2006 4:04:03 PM
        
        Yup, and education is the vaccine against bigotry... (n/t) - R.L. - 4/22/2006 1:49:01 AM

Policy-level game based on Palestine / Israel conflict. - alcaray - 4/24/2006 5:09:04 PM

National Wildlife Photo Contest Winners - Lindy - 4/22/2006 4:56:51 PM
- Impressive stuff. - Tom Brosz - 4/23/2006 7:06:14 AM
  - re: Impressive stuff. - R.L. - 4/23/2006 3:24:09 PM
- Wow... - Mary Anne - 4/22/2006 8:21:07 PM
  - re: Wow... - Lindy - 4/23/2006 3:43:44 AM
    - Nature, cute in tooth and claw. - Mary Anne - 4/23/2006 3:27:22 PM
      - re: Nature - Lindy - 4/23/2006 4:57:24 PM
        
        re: Nature - Marcia - 4/24/2006 4:54:42 PM

I hate to bring this up - R.L. - 4/24/2006 4:16:17 AM
- re: I hate to bring this up - Tom Brosz - 4/24/2006 8:24:00 AM
  - Also, her mother is articulate and a real bulldog. - Mary Anne - 4/24/2006 1:06:36 PM

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