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  1. 4 hours ago, William_Cannon said:

    Coleman Sundome Tents are simple to setup, cheap, and regularly go on sale. They have different sizes but they are all pretty much the same design. You could get 2x 3-man tents. The downside of this approach is if rains while you are out, then the crew is split. Upside, you have flexibility if only half the crew comes and they are stupid fast to setup.
    The other option is to get a family tent like Luke’s and everyone stays together. We have one that’s large enough that it has little rooms that can be divided (divided by something that’s like a rain fly material). If there are four of you, you could easily have a “living room / bedrooms” setup which makes it great if it rains or if some want to stay up to play cards etc. The downside is that those tents are harder to setup. They’re easy compared to tents of old but I can take 45 min the first couple of times you pitch them. The sundomes take about 5 min to pitch for comparison.

    went camping last june in a borrowed sundome.  i'd never set up a sundome before and had it up within 5 minutes.  i don't think i could do that with my old timberline even though i could literally assemble it blindfolded (we practiced that a few times - almost necessary when you get to enchanted rock or lost maples at 9 with a 2 hour hike before you got to your camp). 

  2. And Christmas co-opted a pagan holiday and just kept the date because people were already accustomed to having a celebration that day, which just happened to roughly coincide with the winter solstice. 
    Hmmm...I think I'm starting to see a pattern here. 
    Hmmm...the twelve tribes of Israel, the twelve apostles of Jesus, the twelfth Imam of Islam...twelve signs of the zodiac. You don't suppose...
    Nah, gotta be coincidence. 

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  3. On 2/11/2019 at 8:36 PM, Message Board User said:

    https://www.statesman.com/news/20190211/texas-republicans-to-propose-tapping-rainy-day-fund-for-border-wall

     

    As President Donald Trump brought his campaign for border wall funding to El Paso Monday, two state lawmakers suggested spending $2.5 billion from the state’s rainy day fund to help pay for the wall.

    “The bottom line is that Congress has failed to act,” Rep. Briscoe Cain, R-Deer Park, told the American-Statesman, referring to the ongoing impasse over wall funding. “It’s now time Texas acts.”

    Cain and Rep. Kyle Biedermann, R-Fredericksburg, members of the conservative Texas Freedom Caucus, are drafting the proposal.

    nothing says freedom like taking people's land at gunpoint

  4. On 10/24/2018 at 10:22 AM, Bobby_Batronic said:

    It’s my understanding that the 16  or Suhkoi can out maneuver the 35 clean, but are quite similar given an actual weapons combat load. Instantaneous AOA is better for the 35 than the 16. The same high AOA advantage is true of the 18 versus the 16.

    Also, the A model’s 9G limit means it’s turn radius is comparable to a clean F16, but also that it does not have the sustained turn radius of the 16 due to energy loss even with that hellishly big motor (thanks VTOL). 

    The B/C are comparable to an F/A-18 with their 7G limit with the B having shorter legs due to the lift fan taking up fuel space as well as having heavier weight. Btw, the 7G limit for the 18 is a wing spar thing, and Swiss 18’s have a 9G limit because they opted for titanium spars. 

    So. Allegedly, the 35 replaces the combat abilities of the 18 and 16. It cannot maneuver with an airshow equipped  version of either or the modern Russian fighter, but is in the same conversation when combat equipped. The latter is obviously more important. It probably doesnt need to get in extended turning fights with its most likely adversaries, but that’s true of most of our tactical fighters dating back to WWII. 

    I asked some former fighter pilots for those answers. One was a 15 pilot who finished his career the the  B2, and the other starter in Phantoms and ended doing liaison work while getting time in 18’s. 

    Interesting side note 35 related, I saw one of the new Queen Elizabeth class British carriers sitting off Manhattan yesterday. To quote the esteemed cinematic work of Deuce Bigalew, Male Gigolo all I can say is that’s a big bitch. 

    TIL the british carriers are powered by two 777 engines

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  5. 3 hours ago, ChickenSandwich said:

    5 out of the top 10 for cities with the most homeless belong to California. New York is number 1. 

    https://www.cheatsheet.com/culture/cities-with-the-most-homeless-people.html/

    the truth is the the socialist movement leaders Hail from the states that are the worst offenders of all that they accuse conservatives of. They dropped the standard of living in their own states and want to blame someone else for their issues while trying to put on a carafe that they are a model for the rest of The country. 

    california has perfect weather.  if you're homeless the rational choice is going to california.

  6. 20 hours ago, Nice Guy Eddie said:

    The paradox of adding high speed trains is that is too expensive unless you build a line between two nearby places.    I still have hopes for the Houston to Dallas line even though they seem to go quiet for long stretches of time.  I know it screws some farms along the way but I’m sure that interstate highways did that as well.  

    california's system was basically fucked from the get-go. 

  7. 2 minutes ago, slorch said:

    I didn't say it was morally/ ethically pristine.

    I answered the question though.

    Boards and shareholders gotta do their due diligence too.  We seem to be lazy fucks on many fronts.

    Easier to yell at clouds.

     

    49 minutes ago, elfenix said:

    the question you're begging is whether CEOs have anything to do with it, or whether they're just along for the ride. 

    no, you really didn't.  you posted a blurb with a bunch of factors, and you didn't even read the blurb since you'd have known the guy who did the scholarly work was from LSU rather than harvard, and none of the factors say 'CEOs aren't along for the ride,' in fact, most of them shade the other way.  the other thing you posted was 3 hypotheses at best, not an actual study.  you didn't even really look at the pretty spider graph, which might make you wonder if US CEOs are really 2.33x better than their german counterparts and 7x better than their japanese counterparts.

  8. 4 minutes ago, slorch said:

    Dude from Harvard seems to think equity investments are reason #2 for high CEO pay, after  how developed the country is.  

    https://hbr.org/2015/05/the-factors-that-lead-to-high-ceo-pay

    Then there's this exceprt from another article:

    Of course, many executives earn their million-dollar salaries by returning value to shareholders, hiring new employees, spotting trends before their competitors and continuing to grow the business. What’s more, they often have extremely high goals that are set by the company’s board of directors. “The skills of executives may be particularly scarce, and CEOs have a much larger impact on firm value than rank-and-file employees, which can fundamentally change the nature of the optimal contract,” the report found. 

     https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-depressing-reason-why-executives-receive-such-massive-salaries-2017-07-17

     

    earlier poster asked what happened in 1995 and I showed him.  happyfunball said some words with no links to support them, while also proposing no explanation other than to say I was wrong.

    Then I get accused of slorching it up, or providing logic to y'all's class war.   LOFuckingL.

    here's that number 2:

    The more developed markets increase ownership “dispersion,” or the number of people who own shares in a company. Greater dispersion, writes Greckhamer, “implies

    reduced owner-control, which should increase CEOs’ power to allocate more compensation for themselves.”

    yeah that really sounds like the CEOs are doing a bang up job driving shareholder value.

  9. On 10/25/2018 at 1:21 PM, RollLeft said:

    This.  All i know is that fees and usage was the key to choosing the right plan.  Going by p/kwh was not.  Look at the plans that don't appear on your search.  

    powertochoose at least has a filter that avoids the fuckery, now.  looking around between all the various tools but my usage history is kinda fucked since i did a lot of bitcoining over the last couple years. 

     

    guess  i'll try griddy

  10. On 2/14/2019 at 7:27 PM, EMAWesome said:

    You really need to go back and retake a high school civics class.  Circumstantial evidence is normally not allowed as presentable evidence in a court of law.  This board is more out of touch with reality than the Flat Earth Society.

    #selfownageof2019

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    7 hours ago, SubliminalHorn said:

    Is that supposed to be high class? The furniture, carpet, and bar look like cheap and old pieces of shit. 

    probably picked it up when they redid willow fork in katy.

  12. 1 hour ago, Johnny Sack said:

    You’re banking on a small country of all whites?   Pretty racist.  

    maybe grandpa should have been more capitalist and paid for his own portion of his fucking football stadium instead of leeching off the government.

  13. right, i'm sure whenever someone says 'we want to be more like sweden,' they totally mean sweden of 1980, not the sweden of 2019. 

     

    and debt had increased to 80% of GDP.

    we managed to accomplish this AND have 30 million uninsured.  go fuck yourself conservatives.

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  14. 26 minutes ago, slorch said:

    Extended warranties in general.

     

    Why not sell me something more than a guaranteed piece of shit.

    i cashed in on 2 of the 3 or maybe 4 extended warranties i've purchased - one for a canon camera that stopped being able to load film (one of the APS pieces of shit) and another for a sony dvd player that started tossing error codes.  might even count the extra 2 years of warranty i bought from dell for my laptop (after 3 years warranty stopped being standard) - made them replace the logic board a few times. 

    never bought one for a car. 

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