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Post by bazbear on Nov 1, 2007 8:40:56 GMT -4
It's awfully hard to put up a rational argument, even if laced with emotional speech, and truly be a troll. To me, a troll is just out to get under folks' skin. On certain forums I've been called one, but that's more about them than me.
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Post by bazbear on Jul 17, 2007 23:35:03 GMT -4
I entered "I don't like them, but it's better than anarchy...". While I'm far from paranoid about government, even the most well designed of them are still run and staffed by human beings, with all the fortes and foibles as the rest of us. Government is indeed, IMO, a very necessary evil, but they should never be trusted completely.
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Post by bazbear on Apr 17, 2007 0:16:25 GMT -4
I'm Barry.
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Post by bazbear on Apr 17, 2007 0:19:51 GMT -4
Not a bad song, but a bit too sappy and poppy for my tastes.
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Post by bazbear on Apr 17, 2007 0:29:35 GMT -4
There are lots of pretty bridges out there, but I guess I'm a bit old school; I like the looks of the old suspension bridges. Maybe as time goes on I'll warm up to the cable stayed modern structures, but I think the most beautiful bridge I've ever seen is the Golden Gate in San Francisco.
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Post by bazbear on Feb 28, 2007 9:27:29 GMT -4
Thanks God, the Almighty, the Merciful, I finished Masters of Hospital Management and found a hospital that agreed on doing stage for me, then if they can and if they liked my work, they will employ me. Sorry Lionking, I missed your graduation(obvious BIG whoops ), honest and heart felt congratulatons!
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Post by bazbear on Feb 28, 2007 8:19:07 GMT -4
the only thing is that I need to get paid for this disinformation. I will not serve the government and spread disinfo without being paid Where do we pick up our checks?
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Post by bazbear on Feb 28, 2007 9:22:01 GMT -4
Well at least we invented the forward pass! Yeah I know, typical Yanks, throwing the bomb... But I do enjoy watching them all.
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Post by bazbear on Feb 28, 2007 9:08:19 GMT -4
Rugby is complicated by the fact that there are two codes: League and Union, originating from an obscure Victorian dispute over money and social class. In both however, the central tenet is that the ball may only be moved forward by being kicked or carried: throwing, passing or knocking it forward results in a penalty. League is probably most similar to American Football, in that the tackled player gets up and restarts by "playing the ball" to a teammate behind him. Possession passes to the other team after six tackles, regardless of distance gained, so there is usually a kick & chase after five. edit-what's the deal with those"scrums" lol? Union is more complex in that possession can be physically contested at each tackle: the tackled player must release the ball, but usually contrives to do so in a way that ensures it is a teammate who picks it up. This frequently results in the ball being hidden within a pile of players in either a maul, where there is a ball carrier on his feet being shoved forward by his teammates (and/or back by the opposition) or a ruck, where the ball is on the ground and players attempt to back-heel it to a teammate. (There are some rules to protect fallen players in a ruck, but it is not a pleasant situation). Scrums are a kind of formalised ruck awarded for various infractions, where the forwards get into position to do the pushing and shoving before the ball is introduced. The problem is, those explanations make no sense to me unless we're watching a contest. Not the sports' fault, I just need someone to talk me thru it in real time.
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Post by bazbear on Feb 28, 2007 8:13:49 GMT -4
Yes, I know the international issue; the stop/start nature of the game. I say that's part of what MAKES yank footy. And the Chess Match of it...seemingly lost on many in the international audience?
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Post by bazbear on Feb 28, 2007 7:59:59 GMT -4
All the the "footy" games are beautiful, I think, if you understand them...and I have to admit rugby I don't get (and I've even played it lol) American football is a direct, violent, at the same time graceful game...if you don't get what I mean by that, you need to watch more. I've liked Aussie Rules for 25 years, watching it on ESPN and now catch as catch can. Soccer as we yanks call it is another great game. I prefer Yank footy to them all, but will watch all of them too, even rugger, which someday I'll find a friend who will straighten me up about the rules!
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Post by bazbear on Nov 15, 2006 5:30:15 GMT -4
Is any agency ever completely unified? They take the consensus answer as the correct one. The consensus among all the world's intelligence agencies was that Iraq had WMDs. The fact that there were individuals who disagreed with that assessment is not unnusual in intelligence work and is not a sign that the consensus was manipulated. Okay, even if I were to stipulate to that (which I am not entirely prepared to do), that doesn't excuse going into Iraq with little more than a "hope for the best" plan for a post-Hussien Iraq. IMO, it's at the very least damning evidence of hubris and incompetence.
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Post by bazbear on May 26, 2006 3:28:51 GMT -4
Well I think BS and some friends had a seance, in which they channeled the spirit of the prophet Kaysing. Using his wizardly expertise in all things technical, Kaysing poltergeisted a few zeros into ones, and vise versa, to bring the evil BAUT forum down! See? This is just MORE proof Apollo was all a hoax!
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Post by bazbear on Apr 27, 2006 0:10:38 GMT -4
Yeah, that was sad. At least he died doing something he loved. Indeed. I just find it ironic a man who pushed the envelope in so many of the highest performance aircraft of his time (and in the case of the X-15, arguably of all time) would perish flying a tried-and-true aircraft ('61 Cessna 210A) he'd flown a ton of hours in over the years. Unfortunately (or maybe fortunately?), most of them wouldn't know the name Scott Crossfield from Adam, the first man to fly at Mach 2, or twice the speed of sound. They certainly wouldn't know the connection the X-aircraft projects have to manned space flight. Heck, they were manned space flights on a couple or a handful of occasions, depending on definition. (Crossfield wasn't one of them even by the the 50 mile altitude U.S. definition, the international definition is 100 km/62 miles). He was one of a small group of men who pushed the envelope in the early days of trans-and-supersonic flight, and put his own @$$ on the line as much as more celebrated (if equally deserving) contemporaries and peers such as Chuck Yeager. I'll let his own words sum up how I see him "I am an aeronautical engineer, an aerodynamicist and a designer. My flying was only primarily because I felt that it was essential to designing and building better airplanes for pilots to fly."
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Post by bazbear on Apr 25, 2006 13:00:36 GMT -4
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