OT:Shooting Ourselves in the Foot

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I am in the process myself! I sold my house in Irvine last summer, paid off my loans and purchased a piece of land in Borrego Springs. That is just about as far from the middle of no-where you can get, and still be somewhere... 8-)

I was going to build here, but the time and price for custom construction was just too high, so I am buying a new home in Desert Hot Springs (Just outside of Palm Springs.) After I sell the land here in Borrego, I will just about be free and clear, still working from home, but able to start really salting away the savings for an eventual retirement.

Charlie

Demented is as demented does, Jim.

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Yabbut, if you dress like a nazi, goose-step like a nazi, and talk like a nazi, does that make you a nazi?

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Here too, Michelin is a French tiremaker since ages. They also publish a restaurant guide.

Seems that Michelin has a guide for the US now:

"Receiving two stars were Daniel Boulud's Restaurant Daniel, Masayoshi Takayama's Masa -- the nation's most expensive restaurant, at $350 prix fixe -- and David Bouley's Bouley and Danube restaurants.".

Thats why I live in small-town NZ (Te Aroha, pop. about 5,000) rather than auckland.

Its a great feeling, walking down the street and waving/saying "gidday" to a dozen or more people you know. In small towns, people tend to be a lot friendlier.

Admittedly the choices for restaurants arent great, but thats what cooking was invented for. And of course at 9:30pm you are shit out of luck if you want to buy something, so plan ahead.

my Fiancee lives in Auckland, and I'm 1hr 10 mins away (I dont speed). the funny thing is, most of her friends in auckland are further away, unless its very late at night. An hours drive doesnt get you very far in a big city....

Cheers Terry

Hi Joerg, Well, I have a PE, for what its worth. I don't do public engineering anymore, and I didn't have the PE when I did, but I did a lot of work that REQUIRED a PE stamp somewhere in the process. That was when I was working in building A/V systems and toll road construction.

Big thing for a PE is when you are designing work for public construction, such as buildings or road or dams and such. Also, certain goverment contracts may require a PE to be in the process. Also, if you are going to advertise services AS AN ENGINEER, then you have to have a PE on staff. I just warned a good friend of mine about that. He knew I had my own fictional company, Edmondson Engineering, so he created his own company, and called it XXX Engineering. I warned him that, unless he included someone with a PE on his staff with considerable ownership, he was in trouble. I then offered my services... 8-)

Charlie

Are you saying you've never heard of "media hype?" =:-O

Good Luck! Rich

Maybe they're suiciding because it hurts less than being butchered and hung by a hook in some shop window.

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Hi Joerg,

care to supply a few more details?

war stories are fun. except when actually about war.

Cheers Terry

There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damnable lies, and Statistics.

Ten Percent of what? Fifty percent of whom?

Ah, f*ck it. The sky is falling and we're all going to die, so what's the point?

Party on!!!!! ;-D

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Ah, hell. It's just another boogeyman they use to intimidate the sheeple into voting for the fourth reich minions.

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"We"? You and your research partners? You and your lab assistants? Like Tonto said to the Lone Ranger when they were attacked by a tribe of Apaches and the Lone Ranger said, "It looks like we're in trouble", What do you mean "we", paleface?

Can you say, "Media Hyps"?

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Well, Dubya's on some kind of insane crusade driven by some kind of messiah complex, but the world has had psychotic rulers before, and survived. Really abysmally stupid ones, too. ;-P

However, I do hold out some hope this isn't the turning point where they flush The Constitution of the United States down the toilet.

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I suppose you'll be kicking and screaming when you're dragged into the

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Maybe it was personal. They just didn't like you.

So far, I don't.

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You won't mistake it for Paris, but the capital Ljubljana is a very pleasant small European city. In 1988 we drove over from Italy through the mountains-- even our car insurance was okay, and we didn't need visas. A far cry from hellholes like Bucharest and Tirana.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Try "autochthones", but "autochtones" is how it's spelled in French:

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

Some years ago, I read some car ad in some magazine, and one of their proudest items was "All-screw-slots-aligned German Engineering."

But I'm probably biased - I apparently have mostly German Blood, which is probably why the "Americanized" version of my family name is so hard to pronounce.

Do the Spanish-based languages even _have_ a long "I" sound?

Thanks, Rich Grise, pronounced Greiss if you're German or Gryce if you're some kind of emigré. :-) And if you learned anything _at all_ in elementary school about English pronunciation, you'd have heard, "Long I, Silent E". Interestingly, the only people I've met who have pronounced my name right on the first try have been Asians. Probably because they pay attention in school. Thanks again, still me