Bulldrek v3.0

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I think glass dickish. You leave people's kids alone. Just as you understandably had a fairly powerful reaction when something associated with your child was an issue; this is a direct and disrespectful reference by an adult "friend" to my then 13-year-old daughter. Not acceptable.

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Well, that's really not cool. I'm sure you thought you were just being funny, but that's really tasteless and rude and creepy and dickish. Not okay.

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Let's see, where we we? Oh yeah: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-Rc6N2-ospE0/UENhmdV6J6I/AAAAAAAALv0/LIRxp14xe3w/s400/IMG_20120902_093846.jpg Got the trackbar out, and with Bishop's indispensable aid, get the outer bushing ring out of the eyelet, and a new bushing in. Next time, I'll use a poly b...

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I can't believe clutches are still the standard on bikes. It seems like the bike would be able to do this better than the rider by now! I know they have them on cars, but they're usually appalling; I would have thought they'd be standard on bikes by now, though.

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On Google+ right now, there's a spirited discussion of whether or not it was over the line for me to say someone was being "ridiculous." [Actual quote, "they haven't made me god-emperor yet, so I can't force you not to be ridiculous."] I really want to explain to them that were I...

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Got the Cherokee here. Still need to bleed the brakes - exciting two hour drive back - and replace the track bar on the axle side before it's really "driveable." Holy shit is it hot without an interior: lots of open holes through which hot engine air pours, lots of heat from the exhaust co...

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Does that have a sequential gearbox? Do you have to clutch it, or can you just grab the next gear?

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:D My last Cherokee was an auto, too. I actually prefer it, for offroading, because I do a lot of left-foot-braking when climbing obstacles, and that's not really practical with a manual. My Wrangler is a manual, and it's been pretty frustrating sometimes because of it; we specified an auto in our w...

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That's shitty. Make sure you detail the experience and spread it around: like my lousy service from Quadratec, they can't get away with it if enough people know their service sucks.

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I don't know bikes well, so forgive me, but what am I looking at on the bottom, with the five what-look-like-valve-springs and the giant gear?

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Traded my Wrangler for a Cherokee, which the owner is currently building for me. So we went from this https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-B_6J7-TFRD0/UDlpm2WTQVI/AAAAAAAALrc/KBavUqiTWzM/s800/IMG951687.jpg to this https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-p9tMZy8UYtQ/UDlpnywQCoI/AAAAAAAALr0/f8d089xdXbU/s400/...

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Oh my god. I'm not sure I'll be able to watch without dying of laughter. Is this what happened to Heath Ledger? They gave him a preview of Deckard Bane? "Shtay a while, and I'll shoot you before throwing you out of a plane!"

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Slightly more horribly, ABC was working on a Hulk TV show last year, with Guillermo del Toro and David Eick [he of Galactica fame], which was put on hold until a new writer could be found. So there's that. Also, there's been some talk of an Avengers show without the same characters, which to me seem...

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Slightly on the same subject, I've heard ABC is going to launch a Marvel television project...with Joss Whedon at the helm. It can't be The Avengers on TV, because they couldn't afford the film stars, but there's another Marvel property Whedon has been known to be interested in, that'd make a pretty...

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By "real people," you mean Asians, right? They're the only group on the planet clearly superior to British or Romani stock, after all. I mean, it's not like he'd go to Africa.

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Ooh! Nationalism is so hip! Let me give it a shot.

How's that work out for him? About as well as it usually does when some vaguely British/Gypsy accented guy tries to take on an American?

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That's excellent: keep it up. I'm maybe going to have to run a game of my own one of these days, and maybe I could use this.

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The biggest issue? There's far too many plot lines in play all at the same time. Is this a Batman curse? It seems like every franchise runs into this, and I just don't know why they don't, like, make two movies, then. The voice effect on Bane was an awful choice, as it made some of his dialogue muc...

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It's the same as most of these free-market things: because the market isn't actually free, we can't tell if it's privatization or partial privatization that's the problem. The market distortion caused by tax incentives for health insurance is definitely highly debated. It's interesting to compare th...

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Australia's system is one of the better ones, although how much of that is the system and how much the culture is certainly up for debate, and thus whether it'd work for the US is uncertain. But I wouldn't mind living under Australia's system, any more than I would the Dutch, Norwegian, or Canadian ...

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I don't think the size of the tax credit would cover the cost of the insurance, but I know next to nothing about anything involving governments. Do you have a good source of info?

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Not exactly. I'm not making an argument, I'm just saying my company can't afford to pay for health insurance [or unemployment insurance, or payroll expenses, or federal and state taxes], so when my boss asked if I thought we should move everyone to employees [rather than contractors], I told him we ...

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That's great! How do you feel?

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I would hit that like tectonics.

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Along those lines, when you are about to fly off the handle, take a moment to ask yourself. Is the situation or is it just a chemical situation in your head? That's exactly how I think of it, and not just for aggression, and not just for missed doses. It helps keep me level in a number of situation...

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I'm not going to the rehab. Period. And while you may say that UPS can't hold me back or face a lawsuit... well, it's kind of hard to prove why they pass me up for a promotion, as it can come down to something as simple as my divisional manager not liking me. A lot of addiction doesn't get treated ...

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That'd put you at $120-192 a month, which is probably more palatable. Definitely, but still untenable. Our expenses are already higher than our income, and I'm just getting to where that's no longer true, and here comes this. Literally everyone being 1099 is kind of odd. Guess it let's him dodge un...

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Medication can make a big difference; it can, if nothing else, hold the walls while you can marshal your forces. It doesn't [typically] solve your problems, but it lets you stop using all your energy just to get by, and start using your energy to move forward. As long as you view it that way - as a ...

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It's good that you and your mom have discussed this before, so you can make the decisions you need to make without uncertainty. If you need anything at all, you just let me know.

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Where are you working that you're making $38k-45k and not getting health insurance? :conf: I'm...not? I think you're probably doing the math with my daughter in there? Anyway, I make something like $30,000 - maybe a little more this year - and work for a company with basically zero employees; the f...

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If you're making below 400% of the poverty line, adjusted for dependents, the government subsidizes your purchase of healthcare to satisfy the mandate. Oh, yeah. They'll pay for some of it, but not enough. I'm in the 250-300 percent bracket, so I'd be looking at $200-$300 a month, which is utterly ...

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Ah ha hahaha! They can go fuck themselves. It would literally be the end of us, economically. I'll happily not-pay the not-fine, thanks. Jesus fucking stupid fucking Christ. Weren't these people supposed to be the party for poor people? Again, how much of your income is the government aware of (a r...

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The thing I miss is Marius. I talked to him briefly this week - he's, like, a genuine doctor-type-thing now - and then talked so much about him afterward that my daughter asked if I was going to marry him. I told her if he were a girl, I'd be all over that...but that his being a boy might not stop me.

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Ah ha hahaha! They can go fuck themselves. It would literally be the end of us, economically. I'll happily not-pay the not-fine, thanks. Jesus fucking stupid fucking Christ. Weren't these people supposed to be the party for poor people? Are none of the rest of you going to get completely fucked by t...

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Due to topography and the remoteness of some of the places she has to go, she's frequently out of cell range which I assume in the case of a smartphone might interfere with the uploading of tracking data. Yeah, but that's going to be the case with every single type of solution, with the sole except...

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You're describing a smartphone. I'm not sure why she doesn't want one, but it's like saying, "She needs a device that can push lead downrange, but she doesn't want a firearm." I don't know of any GPS tracking device as powerful and versatile that features connectivity [without which, the d...

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I don't know what those things mean. I'm not very good at things involving governments; for a long while, we had a standing arrangement: they left me alone, and I didn't overthrow them. So I'm not real good with tax terminology, and benefits, and stuff like that. What do you mean?

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Well, fuck. There goes a lot of my money into something I didn't choose, didn't want, and probably won't benefit from overall. Fuck.

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Ah, yeah: we almost never eat out. But hell, we probably spend more than $6 a day just on _fresh fruit._ I'm sure Ana ate at least $3 worth of cantaloupe today.

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I know there's a shit-ton of factors involved here, but does anyone have thoughts on how to manage their food budget? Don't. Make a list of the things you need to eat to be healthy, and then go buy those things. If that costs $700 a month, then maybe look for less expensive alternatives, but most o...

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All the concerns that have been raised are valid ones. New technology usually requires a period of adjustment, during which we change our behaviors and expectations to fit the new tools we have available to us. We will make these adjustments, but they won't leave us unchanged: I won't make value jud...

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The first thing is to come to terms with it. No matter what, your mom is going to die. Even if by some miracle, she completely recovers, this thing is still going to happen. So it's time you accept that at some point, probably not very far in the future, your mom isn't going to be there anymore, at ...

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In short order, I will be acquiring a new AR-15 for duty use. You know, you're the expert, and I know you're limited in what you can get under the lease program, but I don't think the AR-15 is the best choice. If it was my money, I'd definitely go with the Ares Alpha: the frame is only two grand, a...

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Yeah, I got it. I'll get it to you somehow.

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Tall order. As far as I know, it's only available on Self Defence, the UNKLE box set, which is thus pretty pricey. I have some lines out; I'll see what I can't turn up.

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This must be how people feel when I'm talking.

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Ha! Man, have I been there. Or angry landlords showing up, is another delight. • If you don't have everything ready for me on Day One, and we reschedule a Day Two, that's annoying but okay. If I show up on Day Two and it looks exactly the same as Day One, I'm going home. • If I let you temporarily s...

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And the header image is "arc01," so it's not like a simple replace would do the trick. And if it's the header - like, the part that says "Bulldrek v1.0" - I'd have a hard time even imagining the CSS-replacement browser trick that could pull it off. [The background would be trivia...

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paladin2019 wrote:FWIW, I'm about to go on a 21-28 meals/week outside the home schedule.
Just doing my part to skew the average.

Unless you're deployed in a restaurant, I don't think that counts.

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That could mean, say, Breakfast: Coffee and Bagels / Donuts. How many people stop in for a Starbucks every morning and grab a pastry of some sort? *bam* 1 meal out most days. Right, but that's completely fucked up. That's retarded as fuck. I mean, really. Most of the people at work go out for lunch...

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