Posts by Sam F
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How about $30k for an old transit van and say $40k year for the driver to run shuttles across for a year and see if it gets used?
Offering an insulting shitty option, and then claiming that its rejection proves there's no demand for proper provision, is not cool. Hey, how about boosting commuter rail with disused cattlecars and see if uptake rises?
Also, they actually did something a lot like your white van man option before, and it failed, because it was slow, unpredictable and just plain rubbish which nobody wanted to use.
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Is it a coincidence that this chameleon used to have a column entitled Page 94? I think we should be told...
Fantastic stuff.
Also, I will be there on Sunday morning, possibly with bell on. Do we have any numbers on the possible size of the PAS contingent?
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don't know if there's a hip hop equivalent cos they steal all their drum beats....
what? too soon?
Heh. Air turntables yes, but air 808 would be a new one.
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And here was me wondering whether to reread the Homecoming series... I did recently enjoy Card's book on writing science fiction, which I think dated from a distant, saner era.
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SUPER IRONY!
Quite.
This just in: independent researcher discovers link between barrowpushing and overly muscular prose style.
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nitrate based drugs
Ah, that.
A large prospective study followed a group of 715 homosexual men in the Vancouver, Canada area; approximately half were HIV-seropositive or became so during the follow-up period, and the remainder were HIV-seronegative. After more than 8 years of follow-up, despite similar rates of drug use, sexual contact, and other supposed risk factors in both groups, only the HIV-positive group suffered from opportunistic infections. Similarly, CD4 counts dropped in the patients who were HIV-infected, but remained stable in the HIV-negative patients, in spite of similar rates of risk behavior.
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Normal people don't do that kind of crap and so don't know of the other meanings.
Actual witty deployment of that gag in the wild! Lol out of 10 for me.
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Testing your hypothesis, I've done some exploring on the Internet as a completely unqualified explorer.
It seems that the crushing weight of scientific and medical expertise is behind the retrovirii HIV-1 and HIV-2 as the cause of AIDS. There is disagreement on this - but the opposing camp seems to be composed of hardly any qualified scientists, and mixed in with the sincerre doubters are a lot of people whom it suits to believe that AIDS is really a nervous condition, a WHO conspiracy to sell mind-control drugs, or a result of drug abuse and Foul Sodomy rather than of an indiscriminate virus.
Would be interested to hear your views and see those papers, although I suspect you may have a barrow to push on this. But regarding your consensus thing: to crudely paraphase Bertrand Russell, for every self-taught eccentric that promotes unfashionable truths, there are 99 who promote unfashionable bullshit.
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Marriage is nominally indissoluble, but many people who seem to be married are not. In the case of influential Catholics, some ground for nullity can often be found, but for the poor there is no such outlet, except perhaps in cases of impotence. Persons who divorce and remarry are guilty of adultery in the sight of God.
The phrase "in the sight of God" puzzles me. One would suppose that God sees everything, but apparently this is a mistake. He does not see Reno, for you cannot be divorced in the sight of God. Registry offices are a doubtful point. I notice that respectable people, who would not call on anybody who lives in open sin, are quite willing to call on people who have had only a civil marriage; so apparently God does see registry offices.
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Further from Your Views:
For all you smug do-gooders applauding the court's ruling: the conviction was way out of whack (sorry), if the child suffered no real injury. Because the sins of the father are now visited upon the whole family, should they wish to travel to many places overseas. That means: no family trip to Disneyland etc.
"My dad used to rage on us and got convicted for punching me in the face when I was four. But it's thinking of the years I missed out on seeing Mickey that really keeps me up at night."