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Van Morrison: Moondance
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I got a 2005 Malibu Maxx a couple weeks ago. About 4 people have come up and said "It that a Saab?"
It is great mixture a larger sedan and hatchback wagon. Very handy seat configurations.
Hauling two little kids and their stuff one day, taking two big German shephards to the park the next day.
And I am getting 32 MPG highway on it. And it is a big car.
I looked at the Toyota Scion (The boxy one), but it was so small a strong gust of wind nearly pushed it into another lane.
The 2005 Malibu Maxx is actually getting good reviews. I love mine. And the Chevy People will deal with you.
Check it out:http://cars.about.com/od/2001/fr/05MalibuMaxx_ts.htm
Saab I am pretty sure is GM to and extent?... Just as Isuzu is also partly GM owned?
Volvo is partly Ford?
I wouldn't be surprised at the styling similarites since outside the Japanese big three (which branch off into their own luxury divisions), the American big three have their hands partly in other areas/brands?
You buy a brand solely for the name... Fancy Hondas, Fords, Toyotas, GM, etc... is all they are?
Do I stand corrected by anyone out there?
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I have a crap load of VHS videos (mostly kid videos)... I also have a combo VHS/DVD player attached to my TV for about 3 years now.
The question is:
If I purchase a DVD recorder and place it between my combo unit and the TV... Can I record from VHS to DVD? Are there any copyright issues? I own all the videos and want to reduce the clutter that my VHS collection takes up by transferring to DVD. The copys will also serve as critical back up of important events recorded in the past on VHS. My concern is with the store bought videos, will I run into problems?
Any advice is greatly appreciated.
I use JVC components and plan to do the same with the recorder.
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Colin Powell has apparently played a part in raising doubts about Bolton to some of the Repub senators.
I usually don't make too much of management styles, but his are a little beyond the pale. We don't need a diplomat who's going to tell everyone off, especially at a time when we need fewer enemies.
People try to make the UN out to be more than it is or should be. As originally conceived it was a place for diplomats of all countries to have informal or formal talks, and to settle a few international issues, like use of the oceans, etc. A great idea to 'keep the back channels open.' Then they took off from there to the morass it is today.
Is that an oxymoron?
"We don't need a diplomat who's going to tell everyone off"
Remember there is a faction out there that "does not "do" diplomacy"?
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Having the law on the books doesn't mean a thing. Never in this country's history have we applied the death penalty in any meaningful and consistent way.
How about we put to death EVERY person convicted of first degree murder for the next ten years. Then you can do your study and tell me that it's not a deterrent. Until then, that argument is RJ.
I would be willing to take the bet that you wouldn't like the findings!
It's all RJ, because it just isn't going to happen.
You try and RATIONALIZE and argument from your RATIONAL world. Most murders DON'T come from that RATIONAL world.
I'll save all the "crap throwin monkey's" the energy by answering:
"I will try and enter that rational world some day. Just give me some time!"
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Maybe...
Lose of customers?
Sure there are 4,999 members?
Maybe one of Nervous Guy's family can register another name to become 5,000?
5,000 is open right now... What is the prize for registering?
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I will take OL anyday over QB.
It is much easier for a good OL to make a bad QB look good.
Not making comparisons
... It starts in the trenches... Who did NE take in it's first round?Always strive for the happy medium, don't swing wildly either way.
Also... What positions stay in the league the longest? Make usually the most immediate impact?
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I use conventional oil and change religiously at 3 to 4k. One auto has over 200k and the other over 100k.
For what it is worth, I use the high mile... and not a leak.
Don't the manufacturers specify what the normal oil consumption is over the course of the oil change (depending on the engine)? Why the need to top off if it is in the 1 Qt range? By the time it gets out of that range you are usually due for a new change?
Then again... I had a rotary Mazda that would consume a quart over 900 miles... Not burn it either! It had higher miles and above all was a rotary engine.
Is it really worth it trying to extend the mileage?
I am sure normal conventional oil works just as well over 5 to 6k?
The thing is to be routine? Drive senseably? And maintain your vehicle?
My car that I park outside (can't seem to build a shed to free up half of my garage!
) I even change weights depending on the season... 5W in the winter and 10W in the summer... The auto with 200+K.What about conventional-synth blends? Wouldn't they be more cost efficient?
Cars in the last 20 years are great! They should run forever with routine maintenance... Unless you don't like it anymore or the body is rotting away?
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But now, posting as crap throwing monkey more accurately describes the general utility of this board. Everyone else acts like crap throwing monkeys here...at least I'm honest about it.
What's really amusing is when people complain to the moderators "Help! I'm being picked on by a crap-throwing monkey!"
I was just thinking as I was riding down the lock wall... AD's voice rang in my head... I DID IT AGAIN... I wrote EXCEPT for ACCEPT above.
I guess people really write like they pronounce things!
It is ACCEPT!
Me bad!
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Thanks!
I wasn't sure since I don't view the board and keep up to date as much anymore... Picking and choosing stuff to view, respond, and follow up on.
I just wasn't around for the change-over.
A few posts ago... I asked who you were, got no response?
I could really care less. It has been more a curiosity to me. You are the same supercilious, pedantic anal orifice as always.
Your style shows through... Especially, when you back it with knowledge of history.It still doesn't explain why this vindicative stuff gets pinned? It is "ticky-tacky." Then again, I fully realize that is better left for another sub-forum, discussion.
Again, ACCEPT my sincerest apology for indulging my curiosity. A pure LAMP (and lazy) move on my part not to PM you.
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Debate? What !@#$ing debate???? What the hell is wrong with you? You started the thread, then disappeared, and are now bitching that we couldn't engage you in a debate???
Of course we couldn't, you crap throwing monkey...you weren't here to engage.
If you want debate, shut the hell up, go back and READ the thread you started, and respond to the reasonable responses to your initial post. There were a few...?
Last time I looked it was pinned. How twisted is that? This is one twisted, perverted and vindictive site?
God I love it!
You related to DC Tom?
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So there is redemption Rich... and for all your fellow Ohioans!
"Earlier Thursday, Ohio-based Wendy's International Inc. announced it had ended its internal investigation, saying it could find no credible link between the finger and the restaurant chain."
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Who are you?
You sound vaguely familar?
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If there was ever a thread worthy of a good round of "FLIGHTSUIT FLIGHTSUIT BUSH BAD!!!! BUSH BAD!!!!!", its this one.
RK... Couldn't have said it better!
May I?
"FLIGHTSUIT FLIGHTSUIT BUSH BAD!!!! BUSH BAD!!!!!"
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Thanks! Exactly. Around the trunk I make it bowl shaped to hold the water in... And slightly brush it away from the trunk exposing the soil.
Now I am countersinking the bolts on the machine pits... For some reason, they used normal hex headed bolts that stood higher than the diamond plate? It was a real pain to shovel them... Always catching!
Times are a changin'!
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WARNING, BEWARE... Total LAMP BELOW:
I am old school at home and at work... Everything gets done in-house. There is now way I am paying a middle-man to do my yard work.
At work it is the same... Old-school Army... EVERYTHING is done in-house. 22 acres of our installation is manintained 24/7/365 by the 10 personnel here that staff it. If it means mowing, snowplowing, or replacing the clutch on the Deere 1050... It all gets done in house! Quite a feat for today's Army where civ contractors for everything is the norm!
Middle-men cost money! Inefficient at times.
BTW... Actually sneaking in to post... since I have a load of bark mulch to lay. Trees are getting old around here... Taking the dead and damaged ones down and planting new ones....
"Jack of all trades, master of none!"
SHhhhhhhhhhhhh.....
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That is what I was thinking.
But... It was a BRIEF disclaimer!
Maybe he (Beau) would have wanted the disclaimer to be a full blown treatise?
I think all it takes is for the station to say is: "What you are about to hear is not true, purely fiction." End of disclaimer.
Beau does seem to be having fiction, non-fiction problems?
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I wasn't sure?... Thanks.
Anyway, this thread has me throughly confused (beyond my normal confusion
)!Being the spouse of a librarian... What would happen if a "consciencious objector librarian" refuses to shelve the book under fiction? Is that the same thing as as the Rx thread?
God, things could get really messed up! THAT'S ALL WE NEED. Rogue librarians out there!
Maybe I should write the ALA?
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Not sure if this was stated?
Didn't Wells and the station tell everyone that it was NOT REAL before they started to air the show?
Unfortunately, most people tuned in AFTER the disclaimer... And things snowballed.
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NYS Gets It Right Again
in Politics, Polls, and Pundits
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That's how the Illinois Tollway Authority continues to collect tolls on I-294 around Chicago.
Keep laying concrete somewhere else. (I-355)