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Author: Pixel DentPixel Dent
Date: Jan 26, 2007 21:41
> Anybody know?
Get the application from the post office. Get two of the right type of
picture taken (Lots of places do this. I think last time I had mine
taken at Kinkos). Take application, photos, and payment back to post
office. Wait for passport to arrive in the mail.
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Author: ravenraven
Date: Jan 26, 2007 21:37
Neal Eckhardt penntraffic.nospam.com> wrote:> Twice as big means little without a reference point.
The f117 -is- the reference point.
> I have heard
> estimates (since the real info is still classified) that the radar
> cross section of the F-117 was about the size of a bumble bee. If the
> F-22 is twice as big, is that really a big concern?
Well, yes, that was my implied point: when facing the Soviets, who could
be expected to work to overcome the radar evading features, you would want
to keep getting smaller RCSs. But that sorta arms race is gone now.
John
--
Remove the dead poet to e-mail, tho CC'd posts are unwelcome.
Mean People Suck - It takes two deviations to get cool.
Ask me about joining the NRA.
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Author: EstronEstron
Date: Jan 26, 2007 21:31
Previously, in alt.fan.cecil-adams , Les Albert wrote:
>>>I really thought he played the banjo. So what does play, the drums?
referring to me, so I replied:
>>"He" is sitting right here.
And Les responded:
>I did not mean to slight you; it's just that I like to treat these
>postings as a conversation, and I was responding to the person who
>told me that you don't play the banjo.
Okay, but to belabor the point, if there were three of us standing around
talking in real life, and you had said something about me playing the
(aargh!) banjo, and the woman had mentioned, "Oh, he doesn't play the
banjo," you wouldn't say to _her_ "What does he play?" You would likely
turn to me and say, "Oh, what do you play?"
>>He, that is to say, I, play the guitar, although the kinds of guitar snobs
>>who have the same level of outright snobbery as the beer snobs who say that
>>Budweiser "isn't beer" would probably say that I don't play the guitar.
>>At any rate, the guitar is the only musical instrument I make sounds with
>>in public.
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Author: Charles BishopCharles Bishop
Date: Jan 26, 2007 21:15
In article insightbb.com>, Dana
Carpender kivanospam.net> wrote:
>Dover Beach wrote:
>
>> Dana Carpender kivanospam.net> wrote in
>> news:O7OdnQdjq_Wh2CfYnZ2dnUVZ_uXinZ2d@insightbb.com:
>>
>> >>>It was getting down the damned wallpaper on the one un-paneled...
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Author: Lee AyrtonLee Ayrton
Date: Jan 26, 2007 21:15
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Blinky the Shark wrote:
> Lee Ayrton wrote:
>> On Thu, 26 Jan 2007, xhoster@ gmail.com wrote:
>> >>> I stick posters or maps to my wall with plasti-tac, with 2 or 3 little
>>> pieces along the top to hold it up, and 2 or 3 on...
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Author: Lee AyrtonLee Ayrton
Date: Jan 26, 2007 21:12
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Boron Elgar wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007 13:08:04 -0500, Lee Ayrton panix.com>
> wrote:
>>> On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Joetheone wrote:
>>
>>> "Greg Goss" gossg.org> wrote in message
>>> news:51tk44F1lr2q4U1@mid.individual.net...>>>>
>>>> My mother's doctor prescribed capsaicin pills (cayenne) to improve
>>>> circulation to reduce tingling in her extremities.
>>
>> Capsaicin to systemically improve circulation? that's a new one on me.
>
> It does not improve circulation or affect the underlying condition,
> but it can provide relief in some cases.
That's what I thought.
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Author: mflemmflem
Date: Jan 26, 2007 21:08
"Buying a hooker is really, really expensive. You're better off renting."
Spit take time!
Q: What is the best way to get apple juice out of a keyboard?
Oh, nevermind - it was old and I needed a new one anyway. This one had its
own weird way of spelling things and all to often just typed up exactly what
my fingers told it to say instead of what I meant.
Milk in Yewstun
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Author: Richard EvansRichard Evans
Date: Jan 26, 2007 21:07
"Tony Myers (A cherished national treasure)" gmail.com>
wrote:
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>For the most part prisons aren't like on tv - the few I've visited
>people in are closer to college dorms than alcatraz. Lot of bored guys
>desperately trying to fill time.
FWIW, I worked in a military stockade in the Viet Nam era. Among the
general population, safety razors were allowed. In solitary or max
security, restrictions were tighter. The cadre were not allowed to
enter the lockup with anything that a convict might seize and use as a
weapon. No pocket knives, nail clippers, etc. Some cons were known to
remove the blades from the safety razors and mount them on the melted
end of a toothbrush to form a shank, but it wasn't the rule.
Prison life wasn't as dire as presented in the media, but it wasn't
any fun either. Confinement to a post stockade was limited to six
months, though some ran longer awaiting court martial. Daily routine
included hard labor details under shotgun guards. Most of the cons
were in for non-violent offenses, mainly AWOL, so the atmosphere was
more like a strict basic training camp than anything else.
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Author: Shawn WilsonShawn Wilson
Date: Jan 26, 2007 21:03
"Lee Ayrton" panix.com> wrote in message
news:Pine.NEB.4.64.0701261347501.7544@panix1.panix.com...
>> People paid for their own health care until WWII, or they went to charity
>> hospitals. WWII introduced (actually expanded, it was there before but
>> rare) health insurance. Before then health care was not unusually
>> expensive
>> compared to other services and people could pay out of pocket. Health
>> insurance (and medicare/medicaid) led to massive inflation in health care
>> costs (who shops for a bargain or chooses the cheaper treatment when
>> someone
>> else is paying?).
>
> You're being selective with your history here.
No, I'm not.
> The bottom line cost of healthcare is up also because the _range_ of
> healthcare is up.
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Author: Lee AyrtonLee Ayrton
Date: Jan 26, 2007 21:03
On Fri, 26 Jan 2007, Lee Ayrton wrote:
[followup to myself with stuff I forgot to include]
>
> The sense that I get from my Googling is that younger drivers have better
> reflexes than older drivers and do react more quickly. They are also better
> able to comprehend traffic movement, say in a busy intersection. However,
> younger drivers lack experience and skill to help them avoid risky situations
> and are given to impulse that can put them at risk. Older drivers are more
> likely to die of injuries in a crash than younger drivers, whihc is often
> expressed as "fratal crash" which falsely implies severity of the crash.
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