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  1. Turtle

    New to Fedex Custom Critical

    I would think the answers to most of those questions would then determine which carrier one would want to run for, rather than the reverse.
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    Global spam e-mail levels suddenly fall

    When you look at the statement in the scope of an isolated comment, you're right. But if you view it within the context of a long history of such statements, you see a troubling trend that defies sanity itself.
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    Block heater to House batteries?

    Short answer - Bad idea, high cost, don't do it. Anything down to about 4° F and glow plugs should be all that's needed if you have treated fuel. Engine block heaters are generally in the 1000 Watt range, though they can be as low as 400 Watts (generally more for an oil pan heater) or 1800...
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    Polar bear's epic nine day swim in search of sea ice

    This is a really good example of the kind of junk science used to confirm pre-determined conclusions that we are seeing more and more of these days. For the first time ever they collar a bear, and based on one two-month period of one bear they are able to determine that, "increased sea ice melts...
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    Giant crayfish found in Tennessee is new species

    They don't say where exactly they found it, but I'm guessing it was found in a creek just outside Oak Ridge, TN. :D
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    Are we becoming "Alone Together"?

    Something I refuse to do. If I wanted to work as a checkout cashier at the grocery store or Walmart, I'd put in an application there. If they want to pay me 10% off my purchases to do self check-out, I'll do it, otherwise forget it. I go to these places to buy stuff, not to work. I once went...
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    Are we becoming "Alone Together"?

    Oh, once you've reached "legal age" twice, you're definitely an Old Fart. There's no getting around that one. It used to be 30 ("Never trust anyone over thirty", and Logan's Run), but 40 is the new 30, dontcha know. You're out of touch with the younger generation, you think differently than...
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    Rahm Emanuel 'barred from Chicago mayor ballot'

    The BBC News article was badly worded, where it says, "A US appeals court." That makes it appear as if it was a US Court of Appeals or something. It was the Illinois State Appellate Court. Also, "His lawyer has already said they are going to appeal to the Supreme Court..." That's the Illinois...
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    Are we becoming "Alone Together"?

    This is just one of those things where there is a technological generation gap. The people who grew up and developed without e-mails and Twitter see these things as bad, because the younger generation is growing up and developing differently than the old farts did. The younger generation has...
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    Don't buy I Renew

    There are links to double blind studies at the link I posted above. They show Olympic and pro athletes who perform exactly the same with or without the bands. Of course, you'll never a an Olympic or pro athlete who gets paid to endorse these things participate in a double blind study. The one...
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    thinking of buying a couple of sprinters,what do yall think.

    Maintaining a Ford (or Chevy) can be rather easy. Most any place can do it, for one thing, so you don't really have to plan out the routine maintenance. For a Sprinter, for the things you don't do yourself (like filters and oil changes) you must plan them out to have them done by a Sprinter...
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    Need info. on A. Blair

    That $1 fee for loading the card, Comdata isn't charging that, either. There is no fee to load money on a card. The $1 fee to transfer money from the Comdata card to the bank (your debit card) is an actual Comdata fee. The $2.85 transaction fee to buy fuel is far and away the highest Comdata...
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    Don't buy I Renew

    "...a functional band's effect--not all brands always work." "How conveeeeeeenient," said the Church Lady. OK, which brands always work? Please don't say Q-Ray, iRenew, Bio-Ray, Rayma, or Balance, because all have been shown conclusively to not always work. In fact, they've all been shown...
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    Need info. on A. Blair

    CMP is CMP, no matter how many miles you run. If you make less per mile, you don't make it up in volume, you simply make less per mile for a lot more miles. You end up working longer and harder for the same money. 170,000 miles from April until the end of December is an average of more than...
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    thinking of buying a couple of sprinters,what do yall think.

    It all depends on whether or not you are prepared to make the commitment to treat and maintain a Sprinter as if it were a Sprinter, rather than trying to treat it and maintain it as if it were a Ford. I'm not kidding. They are very different vehicles, and nearly everything you know about...
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    Don't buy I Renew

    Please don't make me laugh. If there was a "charge" in the band (which there isn't) that was tuned to the same natural frequency of the body (which there isn't one, and I dare you to name what that frequency is - and no, it's not 7.83 Hertz), there wouldn't be enough of an electromagnetic charge...
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    From the HOW GROSS IS THAT? Department

    Human Cheese. That is, cheese made from the breast milk of human women. :eek: Mirian Simun, a student of New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), began her human cheese project last October to explore issues of sustainability, health, ethics, food systems, and...
  18. Turtle

    Sparks number retired

    Yes, it is about time. The Reds retired his number (10) in 2005. You, know, when he was still alive and able to appreciate the gesture. :D
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    Don't buy I Renew

    P.T. Barnum was right.
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    Now a fried breakfast IS good for you

    I guarantee you Dr Martin Young, of the University of Alabama at Birmingham didn't say, "programme" or "utilisation". :D
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