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  1. Gamepolitics:Jack Thompson Announces College Debate Tour He just won't go away will he.
  2. quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: Wow, that was excellent. I'm not an atheist, but that was very well put together. Yeah it took me by surprised. When I first came across the clip, I was expecting the same rantings you see from other demoninations of our society.
  3. ATTLEBORO, Mass. - Tag, you're out! Officials at an elementary school south of Boston have banned kids from playing tag, touch football and any other unsupervised chase game during recess for fear they'll get hurt and hold the school liable. Why not just pass a law stating that anything that happens to your kids at recess time is beyond their control. This way the kids can maintain their normal social interaction. I'm waiting for the girl that falls down and scrapes her knees playing hop scotch.
  4. Is that an error in that article or is the 10/14/2004 accurate.
  5. NEW YORK (AP) -- Fixed-wing planes have been banned from the East River corridor in New York unless the pilot is in contact with air traffic control, the Federal Aviation Administration said Friday. I smell a cover up. quote: New York Gov. George Pataki and Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, had asked the FAA on Thursday to require anyone flying near Manhattan to be under the supervision of air traffic controllers. "A smart terrorist could load up a small, little plane with biological, chemical or even nuclear material and fly up the Hudson or East rivers, no questions asked," said Schumer. The senator said the Lidle crash should be "a wake-up call to the FAA to re-examine flight patterns, which, amazingly enough, they haven't done since 9/11." The date refers to the September 11, 2001, terrorist attack when two airliners were flown into the World Trade Center.Rememeber what I said about lobbyists and politicians. I also haven't heard a peep out of our dear Sen. Clinton. Everyone is probably too busy shredding evidence. I conclude this because there hasn't been an outcry from all the politicians you'd expect to be kicking up a storm over this loophole in NY's air traffic. In fact, it's been downright too quite. I'll have to see if I can dig up that article I saw about the lobbyists. quote: The FAA, though, said it changed the rule because of safety rather than security considerations. "You get some real strange winds going through those canyons of buildings," said Bill Waldock, aviation safety professor at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University at Prescott, Arizona. "It's a weird area to try to maneuver airplanes in anyway," Waldock said.I beat this guy to the punch. I'm not a pilot and even I knew that. I don't think I need some "expert" from arizona to tell me about my own winds where I live.
  6. Huge is right! These companies are gobbling each other faster than you can say monopoly. Have you read up on anything more about the ULI chipset that I have in my motherboard. Which, btw, is still kicking sweet. Made it through the summer heat. Well, that is, when I didn't have my AC on.
  7. I'd like to vote but I can't. Haven't seen any of those on the list. Haven't been watching too much T.V. like I use to. Pronbably catch them on syndication which is usually what I do. I hate the waiting from week to week.
  8. I hope one day someone comes up with a legitimate Gamers union complete with medical coverage.
  9. Oh jack give it up already. What are you going to do next? Prevent kids from the reading the story of David and Goliath. Sling shots. Also, go after "A Christmas Story" as well while you are at it "You'll shoot your eye out kid" self mutilation with a BB gun.
  10. quote:Originally posted by Jaguar: Are we surprised? NO...LOL I called this when they first announced this stupid business plan. Nobody wants to listen to a bunch of angry liberals whine. Ah, you were just the man I was targeting with this post. I kmew you wouldn't let me or us down.
  11. NEW YORK (AP) -- Air America Radio, a liberal talk and news radio network that features the comedian Al Franken, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, a network official told The AP.
  12. Divorces are getting pretty violent lately. I'm sure it's probably true though. All of a sudden she goes missing?
  13. quote:Originally posted by Wolferz: LIS, Don't forget that he was one of your Bronx Bombers. Maybe he was just shopping around for a new apartment and didn't want to be bothered with doing it like everyone else. From the ground. Them sports figures think they can do anything they want. You know, when the news first broke and everyone was running and hiding screaming terroists, I was thinking the opposite. Just didn't seem like a terror attack. Too small and insignificant and there was nothing special about the date except for it being one month past 9/11. I was first thinking it was another divorce preceeding. Look at what that doctor did to his swanky brown stone building because of a divorce. Then when it was announced that there were at least two people on board, I was then thinking it was a husband and wife and she was nagging the crap out of him. quote:Originally posted by Grayfox: lol well if you got the cash, the upper east side is the place to go. i was listening to cnn and espn the day this happened and two things came to my attention. 1) they said the plane he bought was a little "racy" and might be a bit too much for a new pilot. they likened it to learning to drive in a ferrari (sp) 2) the VFR ends halfway up the east river creating an airspace "deadend" meaning that he would half to do a u turn and head back the way he came. some of the newsies were saying that when he fipped his u turn that perhaps the plane got away from him and he plowed into the 50th floor... the apartment was probably worth more than the plane. and before he was a bronx bomber, he was a fightin phillie! but when i saw cnn yesterday talking about the loophole LIS is mentioning, i almost tossed the tv out the window... ya lets just announce that loophole to the world and give every tango with a hard on ideas...media... Yeah, go out in style. Anyway, that's pretty much the concensus around here is that he was turning to go back the other way. Being a noob, he more than likely didn't take into account drift from the wind. I know for a fact that that area can be very windy even on a calm day. You know what'll make you madder is why that loophole is there in the first place. Lobbyists and politicians. NY has more restrictions on smokers than these hobby pilots.
  14. I'll have to read that book because I just can't make any comments on other than it's probably full of usual political fear mongering. Also, in case you didn't know, the mega volcano that is yellowstone is well past it's sell by date for exploding. If it does that in our life time or the next, all this climate talk will be moot.
  15. I'm sure by now most of you have heard about Cory Lidle. I'll tell you, people were very over reacting to this at first calling it a terrorist attack and the market reacted to this as well. Anyway, I digress. The main purpose of this post is to discuss a loophole that came to light to the public and myself yesterday. Also, let me add a very sad day for his family and all that but: quote:There are corridors to either side of Manhattan that allow pilots of small planes to fly at low altitude without a flight plan. They work outside the direct supervision of air traffic controllers on visual flight rules. Governor George Pataki says those rules need to change.What the hell do you call that? The government really amazes me sometimes more than usual at times like this time. They also need to keep these noob pilots away from the city. If not for pedestrian safety but the safety of newer pilots. quote:Lidle earned his pilot's license last off-season and purchased the plane. In August, Lidle said of his new hobby, "It's risky, but no more risky than driving a car.He actually obtained his license in Feb of this year and he's only had this particular plane two months ago. I'm sorry but there is just not enough experience there to allow anyone near our skyline. Jeez, it's bad enough with ground based vehicle traffic now we gotta worry about what's going around above us. [ 10-12-2006, 11:47 AM: Message edited by: LostInSpace ]
  16. This is another legacy of Clinton. SOUTHFIELD, Mich. - Republican Sen. John McCain on Tuesday accused former President Clinton, the husband of his potential 2008 White House rival, of failing to act in the 1990s to stop North Korea from developing nuclear weapons. "I would remind Senator (Hillary) Clinton and other Democrats critical of the Bush administration's policies that the framework agreement her husband's administration negotiated was a failure," McCain said at a news conference after a campaign appearance for Republican Senate candidate Mike Bouchard. "The Koreans received millions and millions in energy assistance. They've diverted millions of dollars of food assistance to their military," he said.
  17. That was actually quite clever. I wish I had a teacher like that.
  18. quote:Originally posted by Supreme Cmdr: puhleeze. I've been doing that since 1989. Where is the breakthrough here? Heh, I was actually waiting for that response.
  19. quote:Originally posted by Wolferz: WTF was that!!??? The new Al Quaeda recruiting video? ROTFLMAO If it was, I'd join right up just to learn those epic dance moves.
  20. I just happened upon this the other day on youtube. Seriously, come on now.........
  21. Still doesn't excuse clinton squandering his two terms in office on this. That's where the key timeframe was located. Bush wasn't even in office a year.
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