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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jun 26, 2006 22:04:39 GMT -5
Well hell,
just thought I'd post to say I'm gonna be around on this LS for a while.
I've spent the last couple of weeks in Hawaii being the best man in a wedding.
Fargo is basically 6 months of summer and 6 months where you can go outside without freezing to death. Being a person that loves the outside, I just don't play much in the summer. Swing dancing lessons don't go on during the month of July. I will however be able to make Tuesday night gods for the Month of July.
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jul 5, 2006 13:58:29 GMT -5
Yo, just thought I'd drop a line saying that I'll be gone to a wedding in Montana July 6-10. So I leave Thursday, and will be back late next Monday. Normally I wouldn't say anything, but I know we are tank hurting, so I thought I'd let you guys know.
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jun 27, 2006 19:47:51 GMT -5
later
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AOL!?!!
Jun 15, 2006 22:01:43 GMT -5
Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jun 15, 2006 22:01:43 GMT -5
LMAO, I hate pushy Customer Service / Salesmen. Had it happen to me a few weeks ago.
When I buy something for work, I call 3-4 places for prices and availability if it isn't listed online. 1 salesman took the time to get my work info, and called me back saying
salesdude>hey, I"m so and so, would you still like to buy x ?" I'm going to be in Fargo this week and was wondering if I could come visit you". me> Well I actually bought from a different company, and I'm not looking at purchasing another one of these again.
Then he tried to be all buddy buddy "oh i graduated from the Univeristy you work at" and it goes on for 10 min of me finally caving and agreeing to meet him.
I can't remember the rest of the convo, but he ended up coming from Chicago to give me a stupid catalog at 9 in the morning. I forgot he was coming, and slept in until 11, so he just left the catalog there and left.
Next time a pushy salesman pulls that crap I think I'm going to do the same thing lol, only on purpose. The suppliers I mainly buy from are really good and don't pull that argumentative crap.
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Heya
Jul 13, 2006 15:38:13 GMT -5
Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jul 13, 2006 15:38:13 GMT -5
Sup SirL,
I always thought you were alright, but I still reserve the right to make fun of ppl =D
Nice to hear from you, have a good one =)
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jun 7, 2006 13:56:35 GMT -5
Happy B-Day =D
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jun 6, 2006 17:56:21 GMT -5
running is better for you anyways LMFAO You'll never believe this shit. The Police actually found my bike and returned it to me. The accesories, like lock and bike bag ($35 total) were missing, but everything else was in tact! Maybe it helped that I called all the bike/pawn shops and told them to be aware of anyone who was selling a black Trek 820. I still can't believe the Police actually got it back! Time to go return the new $300 bike I just bought yesterday lmao.
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jun 5, 2006 16:10:15 GMT -5
Argh, I checked security cameras, I have 2 kids about 14-15 stealing my bike. I have it from 3 angles, and don't have the resolution on any of the cameras to ID anyone.
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jun 5, 2006 15:43:22 GMT -5
I had my bike stolen from work. I was shocked. It was not the concept that my bike had been stolen that had shocked me, but the manner in which it had been stolen.
I parked it at the front door of a big ass research building with huge windows right in front. This place is high security, as in we have at least three 24 hour surveillance cameras looking at our front door and our parking lot. 1 of the cameras was directly looking at my bike, so once I get a hold of the building manager, I will have a crisp video of who stole it, possibly from multiple angles.
I carry my U-Lock bike key on me at all times. I’m fairly certain I had locked it up. What’s just as odd, is that the place this thing was stolen from is barely visible from the street, and the building is basically in the middle of a field with 1 or 2 other buildings by it. We have little/no random pedestrians, especially 5pm on a Sunday night which is when it was stolen. We don’t even have that many random people drive by.
I don’t care about the money, I can afford $400 for a new bike, but once I get a copy of the surveillance camera, that guy’s face will be all over NDSU, hit the NDSU mass-email list, and the bike pawn shops. If I don’t see it back with in a week I’ll pay to put this guy’s face in the paper.
I can probably contact local new stations and say “Hey, I have a video of a person dumb enough to steal a bike in front of a camera” and they may take 15 seconds to show it. The media in Fargo, ND shows stupid crap all the time, I’m sure I can persuade them to put up a local stupid criminal.
Really, who is dumb enough to go to a high security building, and steal stuff from directly in front of it? Here's a tip for all criminals, don't piss off nerdy scientists!
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jun 10, 2006 10:47:46 GMT -5
First of all, there was a lot of WMD stuff over in Iraq. Sadam lauched either chemical agents against some of his own people in the late 1980's. That couldn't have been good for the newborn population. Soldiers in Iraq also took some screwed up meds to protect themselves from these weapons. The families of many of these soldiers sued the Army in accordance with the Federal Torts Claims Act. ( A soldier cannot sue the Army for loss of health, injury etc, but his family can). Depleted uranium eminates radiation. Yes, many things emit radiation. If it has a half life, such as the half life I mentioned above, it is known how much radiation it emits. Millions of Americans have radioactive sources in multiple places in their homes. If you have an older smoke alarm, it contains Americium 241, Americium 241 has a half life of 432 years. www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxprofiles/phs156.htmlAt point blank a geiger counter can pick up Americium 241. At 3 feet, it no longer measures anything higher than background radiation. I did this as a first hand experiment. The amount of Americium in a smoke detector is typically a micro-Curie source. A Curie is a measurement of how radiactive a source is, 1 Curie = 3.7*10^10 decays/second. Americium is a Radiactive Source we use everyday, and it's not a WMD. A good way to convince someone that DU munitions are hazardous, is to say "person x in this paper took a geiger counter measurement of a munition and he got x reading". You have now gotten my attention, and possibly gotten me to agree with you, because you have presented a fact. As a person who didn't do first hand research on the chemical agents Sadam used, didn't do chemical analysis on the drugs the soldiers took, and hasn't first hand taken radiactivity measurements of the DU munitions, I don't have the first frickin clue what caused Gulf War Syndrome. All studies of the gulf war syndrome points to exposure to radiation. Ok, you have my attention, which studies? Also, are there any first hand radiactive measurements of DU munitions taken of DU that you know of? Edit:Dr. Khajak Vartaanian, a radiation expert, holds a Geiger counter next to a hole in an Iraqi tank destroyed by depleted uranium weapons in the Persian Gulf War in 1991. The shell holes show 1,000 times the normal background radiation level. seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/95178_du12.shtmlGoogled "Depleted Uranium Geiger Counter" and found that. Ok, I now understand your original point. 1000x background isn't a lot, but I wouldn't want my kids running around it, nor my pregnat wife. 2nd Edit: Did some more looking around, U-238 (not U-235) is used in DU, it's half life is 4.47*10^9 years. I can't figure out why a material with such a huge half-life would case such a problem. Materials with incredibly huge half-lives are all over the place.
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jun 7, 2006 10:38:57 GMT -5
We talk of WMD and yet use depleted uranium in our heavy munitions. I don't understand this comment. Depleted Uranium is not a WMD. Munitions are not WMD. It's 1/2 life is also >100,000 years, so it's not very radioactive. From what I understand of DU, it cannot be used to make a nuclear weapon (if I am wrong on that, please correct me, and if you have a link which clearly explains otherwise please post it) The reason for using DU (U-235) is because its density is 19050 kg/m3, much more dense than lead which is 11340 kg/m3. Superman would be unlikely to see through DU since he can't even see through lead.
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jun 7, 2006 0:52:10 GMT -5
I jump at the draft because of some really bad military experiences in foreign countries, still kinda a touchy issue, maybe I allow the idea of being forced back in strike to much of a nerve. Recruiters call my house telling me "oh you must do this do that, would you like to reenlist by the way?" "there is no way in hell, I could care less about the $20,000 bonus you just offered me, FoD"
I wonder if some people talking about going to another country were just joking. The Canadians I know don't think very highly of their health care, I've known several who have come to the U.S. to get whatever done. A lot of Americans also don't acknowledge that Canadians pay more in taxes than Americans do.
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jun 5, 2006 2:22:25 GMT -5
Just e-mailed my Representative.
Made the message something like this "that idea sucks, F-that".
However I put it a bit more eloquently like "I'm a Veteran, we cannot support freedom by taking it away and forcing our own citizens into positions which they do not believe in. I hope you Congressmen Pomeroy do not support this bill, by the way, I voted for you last election".
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jun 4, 2006 20:57:18 GMT -5
As an Army Veteran, I will go to prison before I ever serve for the military again.
Screw this ridiculous shit of loosing people in a meaningless war which started over American Politics.
Didn't our great leaders learn anything from Vietnam? Drafting worked so well the last time around.
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Post by Bridger - Retired Paladin on Jun 3, 2006 14:32:55 GMT -5
+1 I agree, additionally,
Is there a place on there for people who act like they aren't responsible for anything they do when they are drunk ? Is that is the Redneck category?
How about people who cheat on their spouse? It was a real wakeup call being in the military and seeing how many people cheated and had absolutely no problem with it. Maybe some of these people had committed open sexual relationships, however I've never heard anyone I've seen cheat on their spouse mention that their relationship was open.
Are those things on that list anyplace and I missed them?
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