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Once again, it looks like you haven't been paying attention to large bank behavior over the last couple years. Holding money like this even though the origins and intent is well documented and provable is pretty much par for the course with banks nowadays, it seems the larger the bank the more prevalent the policy.

I agree. I've stopped throwing advice to these people, even though everyone else will tell them (rightly) that it's monumentally stupid. It's the dude's money, he's a grown man, he can make his own decisions.

That's all I need to know about the veracity of the reporting. Inflate (or possibly fabricate) news to generate revenue much?

That may be, but I'm wiling to bet that any bank is going to do some investigation on a increase of that size. It just so happened that BoA added insult to injury with the "gun" thing. Also, BoA is a private enterprise, they can choose to do business with whoever they want. That cuts both ways however, and as a private individual I choose to tell them and the other large banks to get fucked, but not for the reasons in the OP.

You're just getting around to this now? Clearly you haven't been paying attention to the banking sector these last couple years.

I'm on a breadless diet and now I want some toast, fuck.

Then get up off your ass and start a political party, or go volunteer and spread the message of a existing party like the Libertarians. Too much work? Then continue to sit on your ass and think that by having a crossed-out hammer and sickle and talk about 0bummer that you're making impactful change. Don't give me this "hesitantly" copout bullshit.

Can we please keep all the gun related stuff in the firearms forum? Isn't that what it's there for?

Thanks flounder. I've been wrasslin with this a little, and I think I'm after more of a all-weather hiking boot type than something high. I can still do stuff outside in snow with hiking boots, I just won't have the extra cushion that a high boot provides for waterproofiness. I think I'm going to try on those Merrell's with the Vibram soles at DSW when I get paid tomorrow.

And who might you say would be a "REAL" Presidential candidate?

Yup, I is here. Good info so far, thanks to everyone. Besides doing some outside work like shoveling driveway, I'd like to have a good boot for outdoor activities that may or may not involve snow, but I recognize that higher is better for snow activities as boots aren't waterproof from the top down, only from the sides in.

Probably had something to do with the fact that Boehner ran unopposed in his district. The problem here is that Americans want change, but they won't change. Further gerrymandering of districts ensures that change won't happen. Remember that "scary" measure on the ballot last November to take redistricting out of the hands of the current Congressional party and move it to a bi-partisan panel? The one that brought in all kinds of outside ads with crazy claims of "unlimited budget, no accountability"? Yeah, that was our attempt at stopping the crazy redistricting, and it lost by 20%, if I remember right.

They had these at DSW in Easton, that's kinda what kicked this whole thing off. I wasn't willing to drop a hundo on a unknown (to me) brand without at least doing a little due diligence.

It occurred to me as I was shoveling my driveway in my Chuck's that I don't have a good pair of boots. Since I know there are some outdoorsy peoples out here, what's a good hiking/all purpose boot?

Even on campus? That's...unfortunate.

I should have figured you'd know a guy...

I grew up with the hot/cold hookups in the garage too, beats the hell out of schlepping the hose halfway around the house.

Pimping for those tourism dollars, eh?

You do plumbing stuff? I'm going to have a need here in a few months, redoing my little half-bath in the foyer and I want to branch off hot/cold/drain to the garage which the bathroom shares a wall with to put a utility sink there. Figured it would be a easy-ish job, but I have absolutely no plumbing experience at all.

Were the other two reasons boobs and beer?

I'll chime in: Tickets to Lewis Black in February, some assistance with my kitchen project (bowdog, I'll be hitting you up as soon as my tax refund shows up ), a New York Rangers gnome (awesome!), and assorted stocking bits. From me to me: another 23in LCD monitor/UPS for home networking gear/Weather radio with crank, bought my parents one as well. This year I did the vast majority of shopping on Amazon (with Prime) and I'm never dealing with the crowded store bullshits again.

If it's the same as cast iron, there's a good writeup on Cook's Illustrated (which hasn't been wrong about anything we're tried in the past), a blurb is here: http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/757023 I'll warn you, their method is extremely durable however it takes FOREVER. The article is for a griddle or wok, and they're calling for 5 iterations of flaxseed oil baked on for a combined 15 hours.

Didn't know about the disable/enable account trick, I'll have to file that away. You can clear out the cached credentials on mapped network drives by putting in "net use [drive letter/UNC/IP share path] /delete"

Speaking from my IT background, this is true for us as well. I've worked with people that went to places like DeVry, and they were kinda hit or miss. I've also had a few from ITT, and they were almost universally useless.

I disagree. I work with networking devices all day, and if I didn't have the contacts and support that I have from making network administration my career, then I wouldn't have the resources to learn and play on the stuff that I get to play on all day. I may be in the minority of people loving their hobby so much that I don't mind (usually) doing it on a daily basis, but that's my take on things. Truf right there. EE's or MechE's can get their tentacles into a lot of different things. I'll add my two cents as well to this: Despite what your "guidance" counselors tell you, despite what your parents or teachers tell you, there are other options than to bury yourself in debt and going to a 4-year college. If there's a local community college and your credits transfer, then for fuck's sake, take all your bullshit core classes there. If, in the course of doing so, you think that college may not be for you, there are always trade schools or other options. I lasted 2 years (98-99 and 2001 spring/summer) before I failed out of college, going for a Computer Science degree. I paid a LOT of dues for about 5-6 years before I really hit it big, but I do pretty well for myself now. All I'm saying is college isn't for everyone, and experience/personal networking trumps a piece of paper more often than you think. If you don't think it's for you, and you end up plowing through college anyway, all those loans you signed aren't going to pay for themselves, and getting rid of them is next to impossible.