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Why would anyone use a "full service" broker? The extra service they are talking about are the more commissions to themselves that they generate by churning your investments. Every financial advice book or website I have ever read has indicated that you should run away from these salesmen as fast as you can.
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davester
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Valentine's Day has become far too overwrought. It's supposed to be for secret lovers, not everybody in the universe. Fer chrissake, it's more of a Hallmark retailer's "rake in the bucks" day than anything else. Ignore all that ridiculous advertising and get a life.
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davester
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SKYLANE Wrote:
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> does it maintain preferences and
> web page bookmarks (etc.) from one OS to the next?
Yes
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davester
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Is there any real technical reason for "nuke and pave"? It seems horrendously time consuming to me and I've never had a problem with "archive and install". Here are instructions on how to do it:
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davester
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From what I've heard the "archive and install" method is much better than the "upgrade" method. It puts a clean copy of the new system on your disk and saves the old system in an "old system" folder. That's what I did...worked like a charm.
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davester
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Perhaps they should adopt walmart's shorter, snappier motto...."Be Evil".
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davester
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It should be obvious to you all that I was bowlhaircut over there.
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davester
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Doesn't work for me. 5' 10" medium build lists 182.5 as my max ideal weight. I've been 180 before and it was NOT GOOD. My blood pressure was a bit too high at that weight also, and as we all should know, high BP and overweight go hand in hand. 175 is as high as I can go and still be able to engage in fairly vigorous physical activity without strain. 170 is close to ideal and the chart lis
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davester
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This "don't buy rev A" stuff is not based on reality. If you check out lowendmac's "road apples" you'll find that they are distributed amongst both "rev A" models and established lines. The two best computers I've ever owned have been rev A new processor models...my 6100 (first PowerPC model) and my beige g3/266 (first g3 model), both bought right after introductio
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davester
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Ethanol derived from corn does produce more energy used in producing it (but not by a large margin) but co2 emissions using ethanol are not that much different. However, using cellulosic forms of ethanol is much more sustainable in this regard than using corn (a disappointment to all those farm state legislators I'm sure). Here are some recent background articles:
However, note that
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davester
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I don't think it was ever "in style", but it was affordable. I'm guessing that with the expansion of Walmart-style use of dirt cheap foreign labor and cheap nonsustainable wood products, it is no longer necessary to use plastic to achieve low prices.
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davester
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Not even a question. Get the intel version unless you can pick up the G5 for less than $1,000.
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davester
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Hmmm. They don't look that good to me, but I'd have to see the original slides to know whether it is the originals or the dupes that are the problem. On the tree picture, there are some pretty severe brightness changes in the sky near the edges/corners. They also didn't crop it properly on the top left edge. Both slides look looks pretty washed out overall, especially the tree picture. Is this
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davester
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I had the same issue when I first hooked up my replay. Sorry to say but that was a long time ago and I forgot the exact solution, though I believe the solution involved opening ports on the router. I would strongly suggest that you post this question, along with the brand/model of your router at . That's where I got all my questions answered.
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davester
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cbelt3 Wrote:
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> davester, Peabody's made their money in Strip
> Mining. Not hard tunnel and chamber mining.
> Different environment.
Yeah, the song was about strip mining but I thought Peabody Coal did both (though their notoriety is primarily for strip mining).
What exactly do you mean by "strip mined terrain is o
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davester
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www.poopli.com is definitely the way to go if you have a 50xx or a 4xxx model.
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davester
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Paul F. Wrote:
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> The same could be said of your post...
> Where you pull that from? Your ass?
Among many other sources:
> Learn to do your OWN research not through your
> "corporations are evil" glasses...
> You MIGHT learn something.
That's an idiotic and inaccurate statement. I have no such predi
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davester
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Then the coal company came, with the world's largest shovel,
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land.
Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken.
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man.
And Daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg county,
Down by the Green River, where Paradise lay.
"Well I'm sorry, my son, but you're too late in askin'."
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davester
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Paul F. Wrote:
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> Several of the oft-quoted "studies" of the health
> risks of Asbestos, and the occurences of
> asbestosis (in workers who were NOT also heavy
> smokers), is patently false.
What exactly are you talking about? You haven't provided a source for your claim. If they are "oft-quoted", t
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davester
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Paul F. Wrote:
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> Even when you DO pull it out, it's far, FAR, less
> carcinogenic than the early studies stated...
While the potential for asbestos impacts from encapsulated asbestos has been overstated in many cases by unqualified laymen, your statement is false. Asbestos is a significant cause of lung cancer and mesothelioma. I
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davester
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From reading the comments here it appears that many people are under the major misconception that google earth and similar services use satellite imagery. This is true only for the low resolution high altitude shots.
When you zoom in, you are looking at mosaiced air photos taken on a variety of different dates, NOT satellite imagery. Publicly available satellite imagery is not available at
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davester
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If you can get it in your area, use Air Krete. It uses inert mineral ingredients, fills like foam, has high insulating value, and is absolutely not flammable. We had our house done with it during a remodel. With the studs exposed, they stapled up plastic window screens across the studs, and sprayed the shaving cream like substance through the screen then waited for it to dry before putting up s
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davester
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They depend primarily on airphotos flown for various purposes by government agencies and cities. These coverages happen for most cities about every 2 to 5 years. Google says:
Our images are photographs taken by satellites and aircraft sometime in the last three years. The images in Google Earth are updated on a rolling basis.
Not all cities are covered in high resolution (where you can
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davester
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I know a number of people who work at the EPA. Believe me, it is much worse at the EPA. People have been quitting in droves because the science is being censored in favor of political BS generated by the "press officers" (akin to the political officers of the former soviet union.
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davester
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Bear in mind that your local lab will almost certainly send your slides out to have done elsewhere, and they will cost a lot if they do it in house and it is not their main business (plus, their quality will likely be poor because they won't have the latest equipment and trained color correction specialists. If you feel nervous shipping your slides, do it in a few shipments to minimize the chanc
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davester
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I'd stick with kodak. How many slides do you have...it might be cheaper to have them digitized at 50 cents a slide and then watch them on your TV or computer screen.
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I'm going through this process myself right now. It will take you forever to scan that many slides and your results will probably not be that great. I'm going to have mine done by a professional service. At 50/cents per slide for professional quality scans they are a bargain. Here are the two services I'm considering:
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davester
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On #4, I heard that there was a bit of gratuitous female nudity in the movie. That'll give you something to live for, though I don't know if it is worth waiting through #1, #2 and #3.
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