JackFlash

 

Wait, I haz a confuzed...

 

By printing more, how are they inflating the value?

 

I think you're confusing the Terms "inflating" and "inflation"

 

I can see that this is not worth discussing, and I don't

think it is me that is confused.

The government cannot pay it's bills, so it prints money

to do so.  It prints more than it has in gold to back up

the value of the paper money it prints.  That makes

our paper money worth less, and it buys us less.  We

become poorer, as a people, as a country.

Watch this:

http://youtu.be/U-tI-Wv1wko

Perhaps inflating the value isn't what I meant to say.

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Wait, Who said we were for sale?

If so...Who has the money to buy us?

 

China (collectively, if you include all of it's citizens) we owe them a trillion dollars... but if the dollar loses it's value, we owe them less money... if the dollar becomes worthless we owe them a trillion sheets of toilet paper, and we could have charmin pay them in full in under an hour...

 

That doesn't mean we are for sale, or will ever be for sale...

Get your head out of the sand.

We won't owe them in US dollars.

US Dollars will fail to remain the

reserve currency.

These are not my words, but they say a lot.

Last April... in a little-noticed move... Australia announced it was transferring 5% of its currency reserves from the U.S. dollar to the Chinese yuan.

The deal was part of a broader currency agreement between the two countries that allows Australia's leading banks to handle trade settlements between the two countries without the use of the U.S. dollar as a reserve currency.

As CBS Marketwatch explained, "The agreement does away with the need for companies and currency traders to first convert their Australian dollars or yuan into U.S. dollars."

Similar direct-exchange agreements, swap lines, and bilateral trade agreements have now been established between China and virtually every major economy in the world: Japan, Brazil, Russia, India, Britain, and France – not to mention every economy in Asia. These agreements will allow China, the world's dominant consumer of commodities, to completely avoid using the U.S. dollar in virtually all of its raw-material sourcing.

Similar "dollar exclusion" agreements have been formed by Russia with its major trading partners. London-based HSBC, one of the world's largest banks, now predicts that by 2015, the Chinese yuan will equal the U.S. dollar and the euro in cross-border transaction volume.

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It won't be long before the USD

will be worthless and we will owe

our debts in a currency far more

valuable and costly than what

our government is printing and

inflating the value of today.

We will never be able to recover

from what is being done to our

country by those in DC.

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I agree, but are we willing to look the other way while the syrian government poisons it's own people?

How big of an atrocity would it have to become to justify our involvement?

What about our people?  There is a point where we should start putting

ourselves first.  We have huge money problems in this country that are

going to continue to haunt us in ways we can not yet imagine.

There are other countries besides us.  With all the money Saudi Arabia has,

why don't they jump in?  The rest of the world hopes we will jump in so that

we become even weaker economically.  This is part of the financial attack

that has been promised will happen to us.  O'fuckhead is just helping it

along.

Sign up and go.  Jump on over there and straighten up those Arabs.  Send

us a postcard.  Just stop sending our troops into shit that isn't for our defense.

It costs us in lives, money, future progress, friendships, and all sorts of other

shit.  There are too many other countries that can take care of this kind of

crap.  They just let us because our stupid ass government is willing to spend

us into non-existence and they will come in and buy us up for pennies on the

dollar.

Okay then, at what point SHOULD we intervene?

 

do we allow another holocaust to happen?

There's a point at which we draw the line, and I'm drawing it now.  Let some

of the rest of the world clean up some messes at their expense instead of

ours.  It's always our pockets the rest of the world has it's hands in.  Where

the fuck does it end?

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"Life is not a journey to the grave

with the intention of arriving safely

in one pretty and well preserved piece,

but to skid across the line broadside,

thoroughly used up, worn out, leaking oil,

shouting GERONIMO!"


Life isn't about how to survive the storm

...But how to dance in the rain!
 

You see, ya can't please everyone,

so ya..... got to please yourself.

  - Ricky Nelson, Garden Party

How to live life:

“There are so many hammocks to catch you if you fall, so many laws to keep you from experience

 Fourteen thumbs up to that.  Rep! Rep! Rep!  And more rep!

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They are always having blood drives

where I work.  They set up and drain

as much as they can.  We always know

when they are coming.  There are

posters everywhere and they ask for

signups.  They even come through

the building and try to solicit donors

at the last minute.

I wouldn't mind this so much if they

required management to give a three

pint minimum.

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It's way past time we stop getting into shit that we

get mired in and don't know how to get back out

of.

Where's the rest of the world?  Let someone else

take care of this shit.  Where's Russia?  Japan?

Canada?  England?  France?  Germany?  Why

the fuck us all the time?  We can't afford this. 

It's our kids dying in other countries that don't

give a shit about us, and mostly hate us unless

we are doing something for them.

I'm sick of this shit!

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The sticker by the steering head suggests, 33 PSI Front / 41 PSI Rear

My "Haynes" manual suggests:  

Rider,  33 PSI Front / 36 PSI Rear

Rider & Passenger,  33 PSI Front / 41 PSI Rear

I've made a few calculations and determined

that the Haynes manual is as close as I need

to get.  My tire warms up just fine without getting

hot, no matter how hard I push the corners.

Thanks for all the info.  I knew I would get great

info from you guys.

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Should I strive to burn off the "Chicken Strip"

from the tire edges?  I'm thinking I'm wasting

rubber by not using it.  There's about an inch

on each side.

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I only go to McD's if a person I'm with wants to go there.

I don't enjoy their food very much.  They can barely get

the meat on the bun.  And I never go to the drive up

window anywhere.  They will certainly charge you for

something they forget to put in the bag.  Even at the

counter, I check for all items before I walk away.  I'll

even open a sandwich right there to make sure it's the

way I paid for it.

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My little GS 500 still has the factory tires.

They say, Max Pressure 41 PSI.  It's always

been my habit to inflate my car tires to their

max, considering they have to be refilled

eventually when the pressure goes down

again.

A motorcycle is different.  I've been riding

this thing hard lately.  I'm practicing my

cornering at faster speeds, and with a

harder lean on the twisties.  I know tire

pressure is an issue in performance

riding and I'd like to know if there is a

guideline to a certain percentage of max

pressure for the open road.

I have no idea what range of tire pressure

I can use on this bike, or how much

pressure a very experienced rider would

suggest for getting a maximum grip on

the road with the type of riding I'm trying

to work up to.

Thanks for any advice.

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It does look like they fling the patties from across

the room to see if they can get them on the bun.

How they put them on doesn't seem to matter.

And why does my McBurger never look like the

one in the picture that I point to when I say, "Give

me one of those"?

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Just get you a $50 dome tent and a $40 bag at WalMart, add a Harbour Freight tarp a foam pad and a $20 bottle of Sailor Jerry rum. With that rig you could camp on a blacktop parking lot. We aint climbing Mount Everest here. Drink half that bottle of rum and you wont need none of that other shit.

This might be the best idea yet.  It's certainly the cheapest.

With the right items, a comfortable setup might be cheap to

put together. 

One concern is space, on a small bike.

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No I mean cut completely. No more welfare food stamps medicare etc...

The hungry mobs and unwashed masses

would overwhelm the amounts of ammo

you have saved up, and eventually eat

all your stored food, and maybe your dogs

and cats too.

It can't be cut all at once, but it can be

whittled down a little at a time.  Cut 10% a

each year on all government spending,

across the board until we stop bleeding.

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If I was the manager, I would personally send

you a handwritten card and a note, with a crisp

new $20 bill, along with a discount offer of some

sort.

Your satisfaction with us would be very important

to me.

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i'm doing this tomorrow then for my situation

Yes, everyone.  Please do this so that the Post Office

can be held to a higher standard, over and above the

services of our competitors.  I need the USPS to stay

afloat for the next 15 years so I can remain employed,

and superior customer service doesn't just happen

without someone keeping watch.  Make it happen so

people will continue to want to use them. My motorcycle

gasoline money depends on it.

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so the answer is ..over look incompetence?

 

she said specifically if it was more than $10 do not send it.

I fear there is little you can do about it, other than

give someone a piece of your mind. 

You'll get an,

"Oh sir, we're terribly sorry.  We misunderstood your

request and it was of our utmost importance to provide

you with exceptional customer service before, during,

and after your stay at our facilities.  Please accept our 

sincerest apologies in our misunderstanding of this

matter and the way in which we mishandled your request.

We strive to honor all reasonable requests of our guests

and with the human element in place, sometimes we

sadly fail to satisfy.  Please accept our offer of a $50

credit towards your future stay at any one of our

worldwide facilities.

Once again, we apologize for our mistake.

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I'm very sure this is not how packages are supposed

to be handled.  I would be pissed about this, all of it,

and I work for USPS.

Take those videos to the supervisor and show them.

Someone should be written up for this.  Also, go to

USPS.gov and leave a request that someone get

in touch with you.

You may file a complaint by email, or by phone at (1-800-275-8777).

http://faq.usps.com/adaptivedesktop/faq.jsp?ef=USPSFAQ&dest=EmailUs

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It seems there was a communication

breakdown between your wishes

and the employee sent to the UPS

store. 

I would blow it off and chalk it up to

experience.  It's not like they had to

ship it, and didn't charge you for the

service.  The UPS store isn't going

to refund any money. 

I would let it go and forget it.  Life

is too short.

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what is your budget for each item? 

 

That's a good question.  I'm finding that these

items are a lot more costly than I was expecting.

$80 to $90 for a sleeping bag should include

breakfast delivered with hot coffee.

Let me fish around and let the reality of today's

prices sink in before I find something I'll have to

settle for.

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btw, all you really need is either a hammock, or two tarps, poles, stakes, rope and a couple of army blankets.

I could go stealth, but I like

a slight bit of comfort.

A poncho w/liner and some

cord would be a start.

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I hear this thing called Google is pretty sweet with giving you info on things......

Googling now, for backpacker tents.  I'm still open to recommendations

from those with first hand knowledge of quality, lightweight items.

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Opportunities have presented themselves for some

motorcycle camping.  So, if you have any recommendations

for a tent, for one, that's easy to carry on a small bike, that

would be good.  How about a sleeping bag, too?

I'm thinking a week away from Ohio would be fun.  Some

camping is on the list.

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I like this idea.   I was hoping that Doc's

leaving would not be the end of large

gatherings of OhioRiders.

With enough notice, I may be able to

get off work for this. 

Tents?  Anyone have any tent recommdations

to carry on a small bike?  I'll post the question

in it's own thread.  Sleeping bags too.

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