Jim

Zixar wrote: I guess my biggest question would be your definition of "economical". I know that scrap steel is so valuable that China's demand for it has pushed up the price of finished steel dramatically. And the price of both lumber and concrete with it. The price paid for scrap copper and brass just jumped off the charts, alledgedly because of the China demand to build their infrastructure. I watch containers loaded with steel, AL and electronics scrap heading for China and India every week at the local scrap/recycling yard. If, by economical, you mean that it would be recycled in this country, without subsidies, by US citizens, then yes, many things that are recycled, would not be. Then there's the question of long-term capital investment and whether it is wiser to pay more to recycle or take a huge cash hit to dig mines and build primary refining plants. As I'm sure you're aware, those issues are decided by quarterly profits, government subsidies and environmental regulations. I think you did miss lead-acid batteries. Shops wil *pay* an unsubsidized premium of $6 ea for large scrap lead acid batteries. Now my personal rant is spent reactor fuel rods. They absolutely, positively *should* be recycled, but the political stigma of fuel recycling created by Carter and propagated by all the subsequent presidents has forbidden it. So they sit in storage ponds at the reactor sites while the environmentalists wring their hands and whine about long-term storage. Recycling the spent fuel would create a huge amount of zero CO2 potential energy *and* solve the storage problem.

Yup. I did the whole backside thing for two years. I was A/V so I was spared a fair amount of the backbreaking work, but the flip side was long, long hours and total and absolute public condemnation for any mistakes made... A/V didn't have much work in the first few weeks of prep so we sometimes got "rented out" to Way Builders and that really sucked. BTW Radar, Tom Mausoff was better known as "Lord Mousoff" to the A/V staff because of his demanding and abrasive interactions with us. We had to occasionally dig a trench across the grounds and, of course, he was the authority on how it was to be done.

Never complain About anything. About door-to-door witnessing, about mediocre teachings, about how hot it is at the Rock, about how you just worked a 16 hour shift and don't want to go to session 5 of the pfal class which, of course, you've already heard 18 times, about how you'd rather not abundantly share 15% of the overtime you earned from working a 16 hour shift when you really need it to fix up your car to get to the Rock, etc, etc, etc...

No, that's not it. It appears as though the machine has been configured to install and run all user software on-to and off-of a network server. In this case, the server name is builttokill, the server harddrive is SATA(F) and the install directory on the server is /tinadocuments/mypictures. Since there is no longer a server available, the installation wedges. Honestly, the best thing to do would be to reinstall windows. Alternately, you could try logging on as administrator and creating a new user, then using that user as default. There may be a registry entry that you could change to fix the problem, but it's beyond my tech support abilities to help you with that long-distance. Reinstall Windows. You'll be happier in the long run.

Oh yeah. I also rode every day for about 2 years. Commuted on the Eastshore Freeway in the Bay Area monday through friday and rode the twistys on the weekends. About 12,000 miles worth. It was a great experience and I never went down. The two scary close calls were hitting a patch of diesel fuel and feeling the bike twist and sink underneath me while I was going about 40 and a stupid Volvo driver cutting around my right side as I started to make a right turn. I finally sold the big bike. I had a good run, but nobody's luck lasts forever. Now I've got a little 1964 Honda Super 90 that I fixed up from a pile of scrap. I take it out for a spin when I feel the urge.

Don't know, never took it. I can remember not being able to stop laughing during "Keys to Research"

I doubt it. My guess is that if the job were to replace the hard drive, they'd clone it, but since they aren't, they won't.

Sounds like your friends need "a checkup from the neckup". They seem to be lacking "an attitude of gratitude". Maybe TWI needs to dust off the old Renewed Mind class and run it for the old grads.

I got out in '80 and don't recall such a concept. OTOH, I find it very interesting from a logical standpoint that you can start with a *nothing* and turn it into an evil.

Where to start... Believing Abundant Sharing The Way Tree The value of life Accountability

You got that right. There was nothing like a class running to turn a branch twig leader's meeting into a scene from "The Crucible".

I think the worst part of running a class was the fsking cleaning orgy that had to be performed on the location before and during the class. The females seemed to bear the brunt of it, but nobody was immune. Attitude and non-cooperation were swiftly dealt with by accusations of "not wanting the best for God's people". Running classes really seemed to sift through the local believers, identifying potential corps material by their zeal for disciple and "attention to detail".

If you fall asleep, don't drop your Bible.

Two movies: Stepford Wives (the original, not the remake) A Boy and his Dog.

He popularized it by turning around the Russian phrase and using it against the Soviet Union, which at the time wanted a disarmament treaty without verification.

My first thought was that you were being strung along. My second thought was that he's been burned before and is being cautious. Men get stalked too. (My third thought was why are cowgirls hanging out with artists :) ) So, as the Russians say, "trust but verify". Search his email address on google groups and see if anything interesting comes up. As you said, he could be using multiple email addresses, but it's still worth a shot. Google image is definitely worth a try. I'd advise no further emotional involvement with the guy until you sort this out.

What a story. I haven't read anything quite so intense in a long time. Not much I can add. Wearing seatbelts was not common back then and the cars themselves were not as safe.

Well Roy, I have a bad feeling too. I've been checking the news every few hours. I think we've neglected the powder keg on our left for the powder kegs in the oilfields of the mideast.

My highlight of High Country Caravan video... Man at campfire: "Would you like a cup of coffee?" Man on horseback: "Let me sing you a song, first"

During the French Revolution, a doctor, a lawyer and an engineer are sentenced to death by guillotine. First the doctor is lead to the guillotine, strapped down and the blade is released. The blade comes flying down and jams inches from the doctor's neck. The crowd shouts "a miracle, a miracle, set him free" and they set him free. Next the lawyer is lead to the guillotine and strapped down. Once again, the blade flys down and stops just inches from his neck. Again the crowd shouts "a miracle, a miracle, set him free" and the lawyer walks free. Finally the engineer is lead to the guillotine and as they start to strap him down, he points up and says "I think I see your problem".

No kidding. Every 2 years I take a canvas moneybag to the bank full of change. It averages about $350.

It certainly appears I was wrong. I was going from a conversation I had with a lady at my wife's church. She was telling us of a member that graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary and she pointed out that it wasn't related to Princeton.

No. VPW's master was from Princeton Theological Seminary, a totally different entity from Princeton University.

The only "higher learning" was done on the 3rd floor fire escape.

Too creepy. The website is incredibly well done. The only indication I could find of a hoax was the lack of address and phone number and the ™ mark on Genpets, when genpets is not a registered trademark. Well done but creepy as hell.