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CrackAddict
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Joshua Tree
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Sep 28, 2011 - 11:34pm PT
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Highest unemployment rates August 2011
El Centro, Calif. 32.4
Yuma, Ariz. 29.4
Merced, Calif. 17.5
Yuba City, Calif. 17.0
Stockton, Calif. 16.1
Modesto, Calif. 16.0
Fresno, Calif. 15.8
Visalia-Porterville, Calif. 15.7
Hanford-Corcoran, Calif. 15.3
Palm Coast, Fla. 14.9
Let's hear it for that Democratic California State Legislature!! And for the voters in CA, who voted every single one of them back into office, even one who had died a month earlier(!).
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CrackAddict
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Joshua Tree
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Sep 28, 2011 - 11:36pm PT
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"You fell for Obama's peacenik routine? I bet you feel pretty duped about us still being in Iraq, Afghanistan, keeping Gitmo open, etc."
He had no peacenik routine.
He had an intellegence routine.
I don't doubt Obama is intelligent, he suckered plenty of people into voting for him.
I wasn't fooled though, were you?
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dirtbag
climber
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Sep 28, 2011 - 11:40pm PT
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zzzz...
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CrackAddict
Trad climber
Joshua Tree
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Sep 28, 2011 - 11:42pm PT
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"Was it worth it? That is a value judgment, but no net economic growth ever came out of these projects."
Contradicting yourself in the same sentence kind of cuts into your credibility - just saying.
No contradiction at all. We got a trip to the Moon and an Atom bomb. Does that add to our standard of living? Not sure. But if the money were used to create a car, a house, or even a beanie baby, it would have added to our standard of living (well maybe not the beanie baby), plus created a self sustaining (non-subsidized) job by producing something someone wanted (well maybe not the beanie baby).
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Sep 28, 2011 - 11:50pm PT
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Richard Nixon.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Sep 28, 2011 - 11:57pm PT
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Crack addict= SUAP.
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CrackAddict
Trad climber
Joshua Tree
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Sep 29, 2011 - 12:06am PT
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You fukking ignorant idiot. Half the as5hole of Leb. Twice the dumbshet of Fattard.
We have a genius here! This guy can get around the expletive filters! What else can you do with that big fukking brain?
Only half though? I need to work harder.
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dirtbag
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Sep 29, 2011 - 12:08am PT
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dirtbag
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Sep 29, 2011 - 12:10am PT
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Jealous, Marsha?
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dirtbag
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Sep 29, 2011 - 12:15am PT
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Can I watch?
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CrackAddict
Trad climber
Joshua Tree
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Sep 29, 2011 - 12:22am PT
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The sad part is, I know who CrackAddict is, and he's as smart or smarter than anyone here, and climbs (or clmbed) harder than anyone here including me
And he'd probably kick all our asses in face to face debate
I respect differing opinions, but only if you can back it up
And bro, you ain't doing that
Thanks Joe, I just sent the check.
I have always respected your opinions, (usually) you back them up with solid facts. I think we could all do better at backing things up though. And maybe if I could learn to get passed the darn expletive filters using creative symbols in the place of letters (like FortMental) I could drive my points home a little better also, and feel better about myself.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Sep 29, 2011 - 12:29am PT
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Crack wrote: And maybe if I could learn to get passed the darn expletive filters using creative symbols in the place of letters (like FortMental) I could drive my points home a little better also, and feel better about myself.
Not always easy on the intardnet...this is the classic "boys" pissing match. Stay around it gets really funny here.
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Sep 29, 2011 - 12:32am PT
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if you don't like the world, don't bitch about it,
do something about it.
bill grahm rip
helicopter crssh after a huey lewis concert.
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CrackAddict
Trad climber
Joshua Tree
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Sep 29, 2011 - 12:32am PT
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My understanding is that we got microprocessor chips as a direct result of the space program
I think they were used by NASA for the Apollo program but they were invented a few years earlier by Gordon Moore and Dick Shockley (climber), who had their own company (Shockley Semiconductor).
I have heard though that NASA had a patent for Velcro, which makes sense.
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CrackAddict
Trad climber
Joshua Tree
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Sep 29, 2011 - 12:36am PT
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Backing you scumbags to the edge of a large open pit and burying your useless bodies like sh1tsoaked cordwood is too good for you.
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Bob D'A
Trad climber
Taos, NM
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Sep 29, 2011 - 12:37am PT
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Crack wrote: I have heard though that NASA had a patent for Velcro, which makes sense.
NASA and the Navy developed GPS...I think a few jobs and dollars came out of that.
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John Moosie
climber
Beautiful California
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Sep 29, 2011 - 12:37am PT
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The sad part is, I know who CrackAddict is, and he's as smart or smarter than anyone here, and climbs (or clmbed) harder than anyone here including me
I figured he was smart. I would like to hear his opinion without the rhetoric and the kind of sneering tone many of us seem to get caught in.
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Ken M
Mountain climber
Los Angeles, Ca
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Sep 29, 2011 - 12:38am PT
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Again, the Soviets employed even more people in their space/bomb programs. How did that turn out?
The great United States subcontracts satellite launches to the Russian Federation. Their missle payload launching system is superior to ours.
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Gary
climber
Desolation Row, Calif.
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Sep 29, 2011 - 12:43am PT
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Again, the Soviets employed even more people in their space/bomb programs. How did that turn out?
The great United States subcontracts satellite launches to the Russian Federation. Their missle payload launching system is superior to ours.
Ken, how much do you pay these guys to be your setup man?
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CrackAddict
Trad climber
Joshua Tree
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Sep 29, 2011 - 12:46am PT
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when the inventors presented their first working models to their companies the boards said " there is no market for this"
no duh, it hadnt existed before
the only reason they were developed into mass production and became affordable is because of kennedys announcement of the moon mission
I guess there never would have been a market for it without the Moon mission?
A handful of people at Xerox-Parc created nearly every innovation in the modern computer, on the cheap. Nobody saw a market for those innovations until Steve Jobs came to visit.
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