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  1. Turtle

    iPad, Droid pad, or Droid phone?

    No cell phone on a CMDA network can jump away from the call, pull up the weather online, and then return to your call. You must disconnect the cell call in order to send or receive data via the network. You can only surf and talk at the same time with a CDMA phone if you are online via WiFi...
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    Orange Gator Discovered in Florida, But Is It a Dye Job?

    Can you imagine the gnarly shoes that could be made with an orange gator? :D Personally, I think the gator just went overboard on the bronzing lotion.
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    Why would i want to show OOS

    Well, yeah. If you are unavailable for loads, and dispatch would be wasting their time calling you on a load you will be turning down, then you should put yourself Out of Service. The reasons might be for vacation, truck repair, if you're sick, lots of reasons. You have to be careful using...
  4. Turtle

    Jump start cables

    I am a veritable treasure trove of useless information. :D
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    The Rights of Our Over-indulged Children

    A.K.A., throw the baby out with the bath water, and is a solution that creates more problems than it solves. Team sports teach children responsibility, teamwork, physical and mental toughness. It teaches the concept of common goals and of winning and losing, which is something of significance...
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    Lied to over and over and over and over and over

    Of all the big carriers, I've never heard of there being a problem with a driver not wanting to risk driving in unsafe conditions, even if another driver made it OK over the same roads. The fact that another driver made it safely on the same roads, in a different truck at a different time with...
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    Lied to over and over and over and over and over

    I never worry too much about bad weather. Unless it's just ridiculous, you can generally make it through if you stay calm and take your time. I drove through the blowing snow yesterday without any problems, but I'm not sure I'd characterize it as a little blowing snow, not a problem. But I also...
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    Lied to over and over and over and over and over

    Dynamic is a great word to use. All too often things as so dynamic that even a few minutes can change things. Still, doesn't excuse some yahoo for severely downplaying or exaggerating a situation. Just yesterday I listened to someone say, "Oh, it's not bad. A little blowing snow, nothing to...
  9. Turtle

    Lied to over and over and over and over and over

    Are you talking about hours-old and likely stale CB reports of an ongoing weather event? Any CB weather report that's about half an hour ahead or behind you is generally worthless.
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    The Rights of Our Over-indulged Children

    I am for a less invasive government. But this is an extracurricular activity, which by definition means outside the government's curriculum. The coach is a dictator, and what the coach says, goes. Period. The government's got nothing to do with it. Like Leo said, if you don't like the coach's...
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    Jump start cables

    It started out because of the number of drawing operations used to produce a given gauge of wire. Very fine wire, say, 30 gauge, requires more passes through the drawing dies than does 2 gauge wire. Wire would be made initially in the largest size, which was 0 gauge, and if you draw the 0 gauge...
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    The Rights of Our Over-indulged Children

    Where do I begin? OK, one, there's no way to really tell if the quotes from residents are that of teenagers or adults. "Aleigh Class" may be a butt-stoopid name and the parents need to have a good talking to for naming their kid Aleigh because it's a neat-keen-supercool-and groovy way to spell...
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    White House tightening of Mexico border gun rules delayed

    It really won't do any good, tho. Any idea how many crimes have been prevented thanks to mandatory registration of handguns? None. Any idea how many crimes have been solved thanks to having handguns registered? None. Any idea how many guns will be prevented from flowing south if rifles bought...
  14. Turtle

    What a great story this is......

    I think God was on vacation in the Bahamas when the man went homeless in the first place.
  15. Turtle

    Global spam e-mail levels suddenly fall

    A million? Do you have a number for a round in the kneecap? How about for a baseball bat? I don't even want to know what it takes to get someone a .44 magnum behind the ear. That's a lotta spam.
  16. Turtle

    Another Military travesty

    FWIW, I didn't see it as a joke, either. I saw it as jab at the person, rather than at the topic at hand.
  17. Turtle

    Another Military travesty

  18. Turtle

    US urges action to prevent insider leaks

    Dontcha love how the BBC changes the spelling inside an actual written quote? :D
  19. Turtle

    3500 Sprinter without wheel wells in cargo area?

    The "Posted with my Droid EO Forum App" is a signature that can be changed in the app's settings.
  20. Turtle

    Another Military travesty

    And sometimes it's not even all that subdued. :( What I find very interesting, telling, and a little sad and pathetic is, we've got some extraordinarily bad things going on, like the CIA and related military Black Ops operations where innocent people as a result of mistaken identity, and...
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