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 | re: thoughts on Life of Pi? - cwill on 5/24/13 at 11:52 pm
[quote]Richard Parker represented the beast inside Pi that allowed him to survive. It left at the end because he didn't need it anymore. [/quote]
It's so obvious, I can't believe this thread is this long debating this...proof that most literature, metaphors and symbolism escape most people....
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Political Talk
| re: I think we're on the brink of the Electric car revolution - cwill on 5/24/13 at 3:42 pm
[quote]Where they mine lithium in Canada, it's killed all the trees in a 5 mile radius I hear! You might get 25 miles out of a charge with a Volt on a good day! Should nI go on?[/quote]
Greens never realize (or maybe they do and really just want millions to die while living in animal skin teepees...
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Political Talk
| re: I think we're on the brink of the Electric car revolution - cwill on 5/24/13 at 3:40 pm
Naw man this is it, technology is going to be bogged down for decades. :rolleyes:...
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Political Talk
| re: I think we're on the brink of the Electric car revolution - cwill on 5/24/13 at 3:14 pm
And then there was the Tesla.......
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Fantasy Sports Board
| re: SBL Week 7 - cwill on 5/24/13 at 2:59 pm
[quote]Werent you in first place a week ago?[/quote]
A fleeting moment...my team is smoke and mirrors....
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Political Talk
| re: I think we're on the brink of the Electric car revolution - cwill on 5/24/13 at 2:56 pm
I thought the entire discussion was about being on the brink....which it seems to me we are....maybe not as soon as Pman predicts but I think battery technology stands to improve dramatically over the next few years and that's the key and the only impediment I see at this point....Tesla is the first...
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Political Talk
| re: Baton Rouge group aims to attract more black people to conservative movement - cwill on 5/24/13 at 2:19 pm
Will they be serving fried chicken?...
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Political Talk
| re: I think we're on the brink of the Electric car revolution - cwill on 5/24/13 at 2:12 pm
That's why he said we're on the:
[quote][b][i][u]brink[/u][/i][/b] of the Electric car revolution[/quote]
And we are...Tesla has broken a barrier - it looks good and gets pretty amazing mileage. I don't know how many people drive more than 300+ miles/day on average anyway.
Plus we all know...
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Fantasy Sports Board
| re: SBL Week 7 - cwill on 5/24/13 at 12:10 pm
I'll probably be selling at the all-star break...I'll have pitching to move....
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Political Talk
| re: WTF is this BS: Lerner REFUSED to resign. - cwill on 5/24/13 at 10:12 am
[quote]The board is set up so fired employees appealing their termination get two chances to prove they should stay. Their first stop is at the merit board’s regional level. The initial appeals take an average of 93 days to process. If the regional board rules against the IRS employees, they could a...
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Political Talk
| re: WTF is this BS: Lerner REFUSED to resign. - cwill on 5/24/13 at 10:10 am
[quote]Obama terminates her. Problem solved.[/quote]
Gov't can't just fire employees like a pvt business...it's one of the reasons gov is so inefficient....
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Movie/TV Board
| re: thoughts on Life of Pi? - cwill on 5/24/13 at 9:49 am
[quote]I wasn't too happy at first about the ambiguous ending of "did it happen or was it really an embellished story about him, his mother, the chef, etc." but the more I look back on it, the more I'm cool with that kind of ending.[/quote]
The ending wasn't ambiguous....
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Political Talk
| re: Electric Cars are Free - cwill on 5/23/13 at 4:11 pm
[quote]Seems like a hybrid would be the way to go until they increase the range with the batteries, if you want to be green.[/quote]
Depends on how you use your car....Tesla gets 300 per full charge on the large battery...I only commute about 20 minutes total for work, maybe 10 miles total...How ...
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Political Talk
| re: Electric Cars are Free - cwill on 5/23/13 at 4:10 pm
[quote]I pay 207 a month in gas for my paid off vehicle that gets 8 mpg.
Still not seeing the great deal in electric vehicles. Or, any new vehicle for that matter. It'd take like 16 years to make up the difference. About 10 years if I didn't pay a dime for gas.[/quote]
Need to factor in no oi...
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Political Talk
| re: Tesla to repay fed loan - cwill on 5/23/13 at 3:38 pm
Tesla is the one thing funded by the gov that would very likely have been fully funded by PE....
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Political Talk
| re: Electric Cars are Free - cwill on 5/23/13 at 3:27 pm
The Tesla isn't free...and it's a pretty cool car...think I'll buy one of those for my next car...the fuel savings should be incredible....
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Political Talk
| re: "Lone Wolf".....there's that word again....LOL - cwill on 5/23/13 at 2:39 pm
How is that a "lib" talking point?...
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Political Talk
| re: "The only reason we have killed this man today is because Muslims are dying.." - cwill on 5/23/13 at 1:38 pm
[quote]I earned a "Ph.D" in Ka-Razy! [/quote]
FIFY....
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Political Talk
| re: "The only reason we have killed this man today is because Muslims are dying.." - cwill on 5/23/13 at 1:13 pm
Does it make more sense that after having their countries ravaged by war, droning and American influence in their politics that they might try to get even...or is it simply more convenient to just imagine a bunch of innately murderous people who were just waiting around for an excuse?...
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Political Talk
| re: "The only reason we have killed this man today is because Muslims are dying.." - cwill on 5/23/13 at 1:05 pm
[quote]Yeah this is blowback...... since the 7th century. due to a man named Ole Mo and the koran, hadiths and sunnahs. If anybody cannot figure that out now then they are helpless, and have failed history classes. [/quote]
Your failure is your attempt to connect the 7th century to the 21st and i...
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Political Talk
| re: "The only reason we have killed this man today is because Muslims are dying.." - cwill on 5/23/13 at 1:02 pm
[quote]They have a lot in common with the LGBT activist that you are fine with them forcing their vision upo everybody else.[/quote]
WTF??? :lol:...
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Political Talk
| re: "The only reason we have killed this man today is because Muslims are dying.." - cwill on 5/23/13 at 12:38 pm
[quote]They will never be happy until they force their vision of the world upon everybody else.[/quote]
Kinda what we're doing to them, no?
I don't think anyone is justifying the attacks, but this is clearly blow back....
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Political Talk
| re: Lerner lost her rights! - cwill on 5/23/13 at 10:17 am
Sometimes I think Rex is on one long epic troll of this board....
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Political Talk
| re: Lerner lost her rights! - cwill on 5/23/13 at 10:08 am
[quote]Either she waived the 5th or she didn't. Thats a question of law that a judge will decide. There is no diminishing of the 5th. Seems you are the one playing politics. Funny....I bet you aren't worried about diminishing some of the other pesky Amendments.[/quote]
Read the post I replied to....
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Political Talk
| re: Lerner lost her rights! - cwill on 5/23/13 at 9:52 am
A reasonable person! :bow:...
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Political Talk
| re: Lerner lost her rights! - cwill on 5/23/13 at 9:51 am
[quote]she waived her rights. That isnt diminishing anything but her and her lawyer's intelligence.[/quote]
I don't think she did...or at the very least it's not as open and shut as you present it....and I was responding to a specific post which clearly was justifying that specifically....
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Political Talk
| re: Lerner lost her rights! - cwill on 5/23/13 at 9:48 am
Yay, let's play retributive politics by diminishing the 5th! Yay!...
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Political Talk
| re: It's time for sensible "Fifth Control Laws" - cwill on 5/23/13 at 8:50 am
[quote]We are no longer the republic that you and I loved but are a tyranny.[/quote]
Truth be known, it's simply the wrong kind of tyranny to people such as yourself....
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Political Talk
| re: It's time for sensible "Fifth Control Laws" - cwill on 5/23/13 at 8:49 am
[quote]The fifth amendment was written so that our government could not beat a confession out of a person, innocent or not. [/quote]
Sure, you can't be compelled to testify against yourself.
[quote]It was not written so that a person gets to avoid being fired for malfeasance in office. [/quote...
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Political Talk
| re: It's time for sensible "Fifth Control Laws" - cwill on 5/23/13 at 8:45 am
[quote]Last I checked, I'm not a government official or politician. I haven't proposed gun control legislation that I, the law abiding citizen, must go through a background check for the second amendment rights. You sit at your computer making accusing me of wrongdoings when I have literally not bro...
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