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VR38DETT
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IT Guy
Your God Smells Funny
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Las Cruces, NM
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| Re: Weekend Nonsense said by VR38DETT  :Toppings? Anything goes (except anchovies), it is the weekend after all. | |
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USA | Re: Weekend Nonsense I made some pizze myself some scratch just now... it was so good I ate a ton and now I feel like a beached whale. | |
| | Joe12345678
join:2003-07-22
Des Plaines, IL
| said by IT Guy :I like pizza, Steve! I LIKE IT! don't for get to tip the pizza guy some of them are makeing sub-min + a low per run pay. | |
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baineschile
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Oak Park, MI | Re: Weekend Nonsense isnt it courteous to tip the cable installer too? | |
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Des Plaines, IL
| Re: Weekend Nonsense said by baineschile :isnt it courteous to tip the cable installer too? only if they show up time if at all and do a good job. | |
| | Smith6612
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united state | YOU OWE ME LUNCH!!!!!!! I LOVE PIZZA!  | |
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united state | Re: Weekend Nonsense LOL what's with all of the cheese oozing into the BBQ though? | |
| DoRight
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Mechanicsburg, PA | Another week gone.. Lower oil prices, stock market up and still no job... Oh well... The weekend is here.. Yahoo!!! 11 weeks and counting.. | |
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join:2008-07-12
Ossineke, MI | Re: Another week gone.. Come move to Michigan! We got tons of jobs! *Snaps out of it*
o wait, we don't have any :'( | |
| | | DoRight
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Mechanicsburg, PA | Re: Another week gone.. Thanks anyway but I didn't have much luck when I lived in Bloomington, IL or Fort Wayne, IN.. I'll stick here on the East Coast.. | |
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kfolsom
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Yucaipa, CA | My Mother-in-Law ...is a pretty swell lady.
That is all. | |
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Phil
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Camarillo, CA | Re: My Mother-in-Law My mother-in-law is a cold, bitter lady. | |
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| Re: My Mother-in-Law My mother-in-law is whacky... | |
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kfolsom
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Yucaipa, CA | Re: My Mother-in-Law She looks like she's a lot of fun at parties.
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join:2004-11-03
Fairfield, CA
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| Re: Buying my first house soon... Does feel that way sometimes.
Much better to buy on the trough than the peak though.
We did a refi on this one at the market peak and I insisted we keep the tab to less than 50% of equity, it's been a wild ride but still in the black. 27% correction out here from peak. | |
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| Re: Buying my first house soon... LOL. A grand! I have some news for you, owning a house costs money! A funny thing, and sorry to report, is that when you own a home a lot of stuff just costs money.
Even a brand new house, you will be paying for stuff you will never even expect.
I bought my house, not brand new but what I wanted (took 2 years of looking). Me and my wife actually closed on our honeymoon while we were in Mexico!
Anyway, stuff breaks, things happen, stuff changes.
Oh, then there are kids, if you have kids then you will spend some money on that house. Geeze, we had a third "unexpected" kid (well, a true blessing though) but that required another bedroom. LOL, Well, that turned into another bedroom with a bathroom and an office...
Anyway, we had an inspection done and it was pretty much on. Our hot water tank went when the inspection said it would. Our furnace, well the house did not have central air and we wanted it, but a $4,000 furnace somehow turned into a $7,000 machine... hmmm, weird.
The worst things are the unexpected. Like the ice that built up and fell three stories ripping all gutters off along the way and puncturing a hole in the last roof (kitchen) and smashing the car in the driveway. See, renting, that all would have been a landlords problem.... LOL....
Sorry, had to let you know how fun it is. | |
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| Re: Buying my first house soon... said by keyboard5684 :LOL. A grand! I have some news for you, owning a house costs money! A funny thing, and sorry to report, is that when you own a home a lot of stuff just costs money. lol, no I know. Trust me, I'm well prepared for what's to come. I'm just saying I talked to my lawyer for 15 mins and had an engineering firm in there to check shit out, and boom $1,000. There's a few thousand dollars of repairs I'll have to do to this house initially, at least.
Shit is going to break, I'm already preparing that based on the engineer's estimates and assuming the EOL for certain items will be the more "pessimistic" guess of the engineer. The driveway will need to be repaved in 5 or 6 years at probably $5,000 so that's on the list too.
It'll be fun, I'm not worried. It's just I'm a guy that doesn't really spend that much money. Have a nice car, pay some rent, and other than food and drink, I rarely treat myself to anything big, so spending money isn't a hobby of mine. That's what I'm getting it. A house, with a 20% down to avoid PMI is something that it just flat out scary to me.
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| Re: Buying my first house soon... said by keyboard5684 :Not too bad, the cool part is you can do whatever you want to it. Bad part is you cannot control your neighbors... good ones are there when you move in then bad ones move in later... Oh isn't that the truth. Tell me about it. I hope the neighbors here are relatively cool. All I ask for is no assholes. If you want to keep to yourself, that's fine. I like to introduce myself and be neighborly, but that's my personality.
said by keyboard5684 :I once had one of those swings with a cover (the big 2 seater things). We had a big windstorm and it picked it up and ripped off the neighbors siding in a small area. I had to pay for that of course but it is stuff like that which makes life fun. Ah yes, the unexpected things like that. I didn't think too much about something like that, but that sure might be possible.
said by keyboard5684 :It is good to have an inspection (I assume that is what you mean by an engineer). Yeah, in NY state, there is a difference between a licensed home inspector and an engineering firm. I don't know all the ins and outs, but apparently the engineering firm has the authority to tell you about any structural [integrity] problems of the home, while a home inspector can not. I'm not a architect, inspector, or engineer, so I'm just telling you what they told me.
said by keyboard5684 :There is nothing better to spend money on though. You always have that asset and it is one of the best to have. You are always paying to live somewhere but when you buy a house you are paying for your asset instead of some landlord's. Yeah, our renting days are done. Kids are planned a little down the line, gotta get on with the show here known as life.
said by keyboard5684 :Plus, when the economy goes to hell you can always take out another mortgage or sell the house! When the economy goes to hell I hope I own the house, and just pay the taxes. Any money that had been spent on the mortgage will be spent on property defense mechanisms for the house.
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Stockton, CA | Re: big Hope you flushed so we don't all have to smell it. | |
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hayabusa3303
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| karlmarx
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Nashua, NH
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| Failure of the Bush Regime
Ok, as someone who spent almost 2 years in Iraq, I feel I'm qualified to report of the abject failure of the Bush Regime. To start, Iraq... sucks.. There is no other way to describe that place. On a physical level, it's freakin hot, it's dusty, and there are no trees or lawns. The bombed out buildings from 5 years ago are still that, bombed out building. The people are fundamentally religious nut camel herders with money. Uneducated, Religious fanatics.. Sounds a lot like republicans. In any case, I'm DONE. Finito. Finished. Gone from that hellhole forever. And here's my take.
What's going to happen? Well, I worked with the Iraqi government, and I have 3 words to describe them. Corrupt, incompetent, and smelly. Every single government worker from the top to the lowliest peon is totally corrupt. I'm not surprised, as they used the bush regime as their model. In any case, not only are the corrupt, but they are really bad at it. I mean, come on. We got a request for $400,000.00 CASH to buy furniture for a remote police station. HA! Naturally, they would spend $200.00 to buy furniture, and pocket the rest. They are just so damn primitive. And, they stink. I mean, going into an Iraqi building would cause your eyes to water, the stench was so overwhelming. Sweat, Urine, Feces all mixed together. They don't care, they live like that in their homes too. Never met an Iraqi who knew how to take a shower.
But, to summarize. They hate each other. I mean, with a passion. I can't freakin tell the difference unless they are wearing their ragheads. Blue/black tends to be sunni, Yellow and red tend to be shiite. But even in the government, if you are not of the right 'tribe', you are mistreated. As an American, we have a hard time understanding them. The reason is, they are FUNDAMENTALLY different. If I ask someone to prove who he is, he says Abdul is my brother, and Ali is my father. No license, no passport, just names of relatives. That's how they identify themselves, as part of a clan. A clan society is NOT ready to be a democracy. They technically have a democracy, but not a real one. So when we leave, it's going to collapse into chaos. Don't care. Let's sell them all weapons and let them kill each other. Every dead raghead means the world is a better place. Let's get the hell out of there, and let them fight it out. Iran of course, will step in, and that will force the sunni's to step in, so it will escalate to a regional conflict. The kurds, I actually like them, will use the opportunity to form their own country. Good for them. I can HONESTLY say, that life for the average Iraqi was a LOT better under sadam. Women could work, go to school, drive, dress normally. Now, you NEVER see a woman on the street. Ever. The iraqi government is still a fundamentalist government, ruled by religion.
That's it. The cause of all the problems. Religion. I hate religion, because it's founded on beliefs, while science is founded on ideas. A belief is almost impossible to change, while an idea can change. As long as we have people who think there is some 'god' watching over them, we will have people who support killing other people. The muslim religion, at the core, is a religion of HATE. HATE for anyone who is not part of your tribe. HATE to new ideas. HATE of change. In that respect, it's a lot like the fundies in the US.
Don't trust any of them... Ever.. Always carry your M-4 when you leave the camp, NEVER stop for Iraqi police, and never, ever stop at an iraqi checkpoint. That's how people get killed.
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SipSizzurp
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Hilo, HI
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| Still Firday ? Still Friday ? Damn. I've skipped two days this week I think. Seems like at least Sunday or later.
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slckusr
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Maumee, OH | Snack Foods Fiber Bars are NOT a snack food.
Don't let their Chocolate Carmel goodness mislead you. | |
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TK Junk Mail
Go ahead, make my day
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Margate City, NJ
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|  Users can "automatically" encrypt Gmail traffic now
Gmail now can be set to encrypt communications e-mail by default, an option that makes the e-mail service harder to snoop on but also potentially slower. Users already could encrypt communications with Gmail servers (by going to » https:// mail.google.com), but on Thursday, the company added an option to use the encrypted version automatically.
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Running Free
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| Re: Users can "automatically" encrypt Gmail traffic now said by TK Junk Mail :» news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-999947···1_3-0-20Gmail now can be set to encrypt communications e-mail by default, an option that makes the e-mail service harder to snoop on but also potentially slower. Users already could encrypt communications with Gmail servers (by going to » https:// mail.google.com), but on Thursday, the company added an option to use the encrypted version automatically. The change can be made under the Settings option: [att=1] This breaks the GMail notifier. I've submitted a bug report to the GMail team. | |
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TK Junk Mail
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| Re: Users can "automatically" encrypt Gmail traffic now said by Matt :said by TK Junk Mail :» news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-999947···1_3-0-20Gmail now can be set to encrypt communications e-mail by default, an option that makes the e-mail service harder to snoop on but also potentially slower. Users already could encrypt communications with Gmail servers (by going to » https:// mail.google.com), but on Thursday, the company added an option to use the encrypted version automatically. The change can be made under the Settings option: [att=1] This breaks the GMail notifier. I've submitted a bug report to the GMail team. It also breaks the "send-to" link in the Google Toolbar. The Gmail Blog is aware of the problems and are working on them.
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| Re: Users can "automatically" encrypt Gmail traffic now Fix from Gmail here
(Reg tweak that just changes the URL the notifier uses to https)
Hello,
Thank you for your report. We are aware of this problem, and our engineers are working diligently to find a solution.
If you've set Gmail to always use https and you're using the Gmail Notifier on a PC, you'll need to install an additional file.
1. Visit »google.com/mail/help/downloads/n···ttps.reg
2. Open the file.
3. Double click on the notifier_https.reg file.
4. Click 'yes' when you're asked to confirm if you want to add the information to the registry.
5. Restart the Notifier.
If you decide you no longer want to use the https setting, you'll need to install the other file included in the download to reset the Notifier. Use the same method as above with notifier_https_undo.reg.
Sincerely,
The Google Team | |
| | CalMark
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Fishers, IN | Fly Fishing I have never been fly fishing and want to try it sometime. | |
| | Austinloop
join:2001-08-19
Austin, TX
| Re: Fly Fishing Find a good fly shop and get some lessons. Fly casting is much different than any other type of casting.
Be wary of the equipment that you buy. Good fly rods start around $100, or at least they did a while back and go to astronomical amounts. | |
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Smithfield, NC
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| Re: Corporate America: A Bunch of Whiney A-holes Like spoiled 3-year-olds, they have learned that they can get their way by crying to mommy Government. | |
| | Smith6612
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united state | You guys.... owe me Pizza, cookies, and Pepsi! You are all making me hungry lol. | |
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