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  What age group has to sacrifice the most to be a JW?

  by JH in

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  what age group has it easier or harder to be a jw?

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  I think it's easy to say the children and teens.

  But if you were a JW during the run up to 1975, made sacrifices of career and "went to serve where the need was great", ie: buttfook nowhere, and are STILL a JW, you are now into your retirement or nearing it, and are still trying to recoup your losses, all the while keeping up appearances of "reaching out."

  Getting a fat lip from the school bully because you're the easy mark is tough, but I give the sacrifice award to the older folks who got so sucked in, and gave up so much that there is no way out.

  Eric
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  Are Winter Olympics Boring?

  by Oroborus21 in

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  is it just me or are the winter olympics boring?.

  i dunno, maybe ice hockey sometimes is interesting and a few of the short speed skating events...but ice skating, all the skiing events, even snowboarding....it all seems pretty boring to me.

  and i like to ski but watching it on tv - boring.. the summer games are so much more interesting.. -eduardo

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  As I write this, our Canadian lesbian ice hockey squad is trouncing the Russian lesbian squad 12 - 0!

  Canadian dykes Rule! Just joking, folks, stay cool, these are winter games...

  I decided years ago I would no longer watch any "judged" sports. Figure skating is easily the worst and most obvious of the sports that are screwed up by political and socially motivated scoring but it was boxing that finally did it for me. It is not always as horrible as the Korean games, but sometimes when the fix is in before the fight even starts, the judging is just so plainly biased I could not stomach it anymore.

  I dig any speed sport, luge skeleton, bobsliegh, downhill skiing, or international sports decided by goals scored.

  Why in the name of the Great Wazoo does 90metre ski jumping need style points added? It shouldn't matter if the jumper windmills through the air like an out of control ragdoll or holds a beautiful form. If windmilling gets him 6cm further down the hill than anyone else, he should win it. I'm guessing that the IOC needed to feathebe a few spots for judges.

  Go Canada!

  Eric
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  Is this true in the UK and Europe?

  by Eyebrow2 in

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  i heard that in the uk and europe there are more cars that run on diesel.

  right now, i think the only new car (not counting trucks, you can usually get a bigger pickup in diesel if you want here) that is usually offered as a diesel is the vw...like the tdi and jetta, here in the us.. the reason i ask, is i am wondering how many of you that have diesel are or would consider using biodiesel, or using waste veggie oil, etc...so that you can cut your fuel expenses?

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  Here on the south end of Vancouver Island those little SmartCars are everywhere! 3-cylinder turbo diesels that get 70+ mpg. There is a waiting list to buy one and the City of Victoria is implementing reduced parking fees for vehicles less than 1.6 metres in length. Excellent! They are looking at reconfiguring some parking lots to accomodate a larger number of smaller vehicles.

  I also own a diesel vehicle.

  Unfortunately, it weighs almost 2 tonnes, and is guzzling diesel through a 6.5litre V-8 turbo. There was a time I needed such payload capacity but I'm done with that, and I missed this behmoth's "sell-by date".

  It won't run properly on the corn oils or biodiesel, either. The emissions sensor clangs on something it doesn't like and throws a warning light on my dashboard and by-passes the turbo.

  Then, I have the luxury of sucking down biodiesel with much less efficiency.

  I've been going grocery shopping on my motorcycle recently. Can't buy the Econo-sized stuff that way, but it's good for fresh produce and other immediate consumables.

  Anyone need a big dually 4x4? With enough rope it can pull a small planet out of orbit.

  Eric

  (My home is heated with oil. This winter, its going veggie!
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  Why Violence in New Orleans?

  by MegaDude in

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  it will be a while before everything shakes out about why things went to hell in a handbasket in new orleans but here's one opinion from an article on the net.. ------------------------------------------------------------.

  it has taken four long days for state and federal officials to figure out how to deal with the disaster in new orleans.

  the man-made disaster is the welfare state.

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  crucial fact: early reports from CNN and Fox indicated that the city had no plan for evacuating all of the prisoners in the city's jails--so they just let many of them loose.

  On reading this, it sounds so shockingly stupid.

  But remember that a City Jail is not prison. City Jails normally house people charged with crime, not those convicted of crimes. So the City Jail will hold everything from a simple drunk-and-disorderly or caught-smoking-a-joint up to a hooker or a pickpocket and right up to a murder suspect awaiting arraignment. The possible exception would be convicts being held on transfer from prison that day for an additional appearance in court, but since the city was under evacuation orders, I assume the court calander had been cleared as the judges would already be out of the City.

  And the report does not indicate they let all the holdees go, just many. I assume if they had a freshly arrested murder suspect in jail they would have held onto that one.

  Doesn't change the main thrust of the article, just some thoughts.

  Eric
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  And the tree fell

  by startingover in

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  in the middle of the night, a tree in my yard split and half of it fell right across the street.

  so early this morning i was up cutting it up and getting it out of the road.. now as i was doing this i started thinking about the noah story and what it would take to build something out of wood as large as the ark was described to be.

  now i had a chain saw that made relatively quick work of it, but i can tell you that even a 2 foot piece of green lumber is quite heavy.

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  startingover,

  It is time to look under "Tree Services" in your local Yellow Pages.

  I don't have the foggiest clue what Noah did, but I climb trees for a living. If half your tree split out and headed for the road, the remaining half may not be sound and (impossible to say without pictures) could be headed for your house.

  With almost any company I've worked for, estimates are free.

  An immediate big positive in the company's favour is if the estimator FIRST looks at what it would take to save the tree, make it safe, not just give a price to demo it. Saving it may be impossible, but it should be the the goal of any reputable tree company.

  Don't hire the cheapest company if they seem like hacks! I've seen more damage done to a property by know-nothing bucko-with-a-truck-and-a-chainsaw than I care to mention. A proper tree pruning or total removal should not even bust a sprinkler head or divot your lawn.

  But get the tree looked at.

  If you would like more of my opinion on your tree or the estimates you get, you may PM me.

  Eric
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  Intelligence Questions

  by Simon in

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  try these (i think i got them right, i'll post my answers after other people have had a go as well):.

  a bat and a ball cost 1.10 in total.

  how many pence does the ball cost?

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  Logic Rules!

  Answer that will get you the job:

  "Unmanaged they'll take six minutes per rat.

  Give me the team, I'll have those cats down to five minutes per, in six months."

  Big Smile, laughs.

  I do job interviews for fun. We all should.

  It keeps them guessing if you'll stay, is good for the ego, and who knows, you might get your dream job.

  Eric
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  Pay, Salary etc

  by ballistic in

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  i discovered today that my company are paying newbies (trainees) considerably more than me,.

  i'm a bit miffed about it to be honest.

  i don't think i'm on a bad wage, but it doesn't seem right that.

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  Company I worked for (huge multinational) instituted a privacy policy that covered wages.

  Reasonable for a company to do such, and it assists anyone who doesn't want such info divulged without their say-so.

  Local management turned it against the people it was meant to protect with an edict that made talking about your pay with others a forbidden thing.

  Bullshit, we said. Misuse of policy.

  The manager's office had a glass window that looked out on the shop floor. One payday several of us, (not all of us, but enough that they couldn't act) stood out infront of his window in a nice tight circle with a rehearsed silent act. Went something like this:

  Pull Paycheques from pockets on que with a >snap<

  Open Paycheques with a stroke >rrip<

  View personal Paycheque and wait one >beat<

  Pass Paycheque left, wait one >beat<

  Pass Paycheque left, wait one >beat<

  Repeat until circle complete, break-up and go to work as normal.

  Never heard a thing about the pay rate thing again.

  Eric
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  LIVE 8

  by tijkmo in

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  what are the chances of getting a ticket.

  last updated: tuesday, 31 may, 2005, 15:54 gmt 16:54 uk e-mail this to a friend printable version geldof unveils live 8 show plans .

  watch the launchbob geldof has unveiled plans for a repeat of 1985's live aid concert, called live 8, to highlight the ongoing problem of global poverty and debt.. the free event will be held in london's hyde park on 2 july with concerts in philadelphia, paris, rome and berlin.

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  Its HUGE Ballistic, easily the biggest I've ever seen.

  Keep on Rockin' in the Free World!
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  Help! There's a tree growing out of the first floor of my house!!!

  by ballistic in

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  it's a kind of woody trunked bush or shrub growing literally out of the brickwork making the bricks crack.

  i've pulled off the bush itself but i need to know what i can do to kill the roots and stop it growing again.

  it's already done quite a lot of damage!!!

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  Ballistic,

  Hmm, didn't see you last post before I started responding. I type SO slowly!

  Depending how far you've cut it back, and whether you see new growth starting again you may have to just start digging!

  What are these crystals you used? Might not be good to mix chemicals!

  Good Luck,

  Eric
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  Help! There's a tree growing out of the first floor of my house!!!

  by ballistic in

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  it's a kind of woody trunked bush or shrub growing literally out of the brickwork making the bricks crack.

  i've pulled off the bush itself but i need to know what i can do to kill the roots and stop it growing again.

  it's already done quite a lot of damage!!!

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  Hi ballistic,

  I work with trees for a living.

  Itwould be most helpfull to know what the plant be-deviling your brickwork actually is, or some pictures of it would help alot.

  No offense to sonnyboy, but don't use salt! It will leach into the surrounding soil and nothing will ever grow where the salt concentrations are high for several years.

  You want a systemic plant killer like glyphosphate, the generic term for Monsanto Corporation's product "Round-Up".

  Unfortunately, it works best sprayed onto the foliage, the plant absorbs it and sends it down throughout the root system and kills it by destroying the plants growth regulator hormone, causing intracellular collapse.

  However, you have removed the foliage, but all is not lost. If the plant is trying to sent out new shoots from the areas you have cut or torn back to, (very common with vines and other hardy shrubs), you're still in business.

  Try to identify the cambium layer of the woody tissue you have cut back to. That is the outermost growth ring just inside the bark layer. Apply glyphosphate UN-diluted directly to the cambium layer. Use heavy rubber gloves, and don't spill the product on the soil or any desirable plants. If you have cut back to several places, hit them all. Dab it on anything new and green the plant is sending out.

  The product will work mor slowly than if you still had foliage to work with, but you should see it spurt up wildly, then collapse.

  Hope this helps.

  Eric