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1989Jeep Wrangler YJ - Why-JPosted in Project Vehicles on March 1, 2009
So a couple years ago I bought a '97 TJ from a dude who totally neglected it. He never put the top up, it had a blown rear end, the interior looked like the bottom of a pond that's been drained of all its water, and it needed a ton of work to pass smog. I paid him his asking price, which was something like $3,000 and called it "Project Steal-J". People lost their minds. I got called every name in the book for "taking" this poor chump with a plush computer job that paid probably three times more than I make a year. Whatever people; it's a fact of life that the strong will eat the weak and that good deals will go to smart buyers while dumb sellers will get fleeced.
And to prove my point, here's the '89 YJ I bought from a single mother of two for $500. Hate me? No? Well, how about if I tell you that the Jeep was one of the only things she asked for when she divorced her ex? Still nothing? Then I'll tell you how she and her girls loved the little red Jeep and one day wanted to paint it "sparkly pink" just like Barbie's. And that she almost cried when I loaded it on my trailer. Ah, now I can feel the hate flowing.
But I guess I should back up a bit. I had been searching for a new winter project that could seat my wife and two boys since most of my trail Jeeps are 2-seaters. I came across this ad for an '89 YJ that read like a scam. It said something like "Cute Jeep, good condition, needs clutch and some work, may need battery, $1000 obo." I e-mailed several times over the next couple weeks with no reply. Finally I e-mailed "Have cash and am serious - just wondering if this is a scam so I can move on." That finally got a reply from the girl. I phoned her and she told me she only stopped driving the Jeep because one morning she got in it to go to work and when she stepped on the clutch her foot went straight to the floor. She assumed it needed a complete clutch job or maybe even a transmission, so she parked it in the back of the house she was renting and ignored it for over two years. Then she decided to move out of state, so she needed the Jeep gone in a hurry. Some 48 hours before she was supposed to have it off the property I offered $500, loaded it on my trailer and made off with it.
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Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 162 diseños de 43 diseñadores freelance.
We need a logo for GiftParty, part of the logo should be displayable in a mini-icon format. Overall logo will be the company's corporate logo.
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Logo for GiftParty. It's a cooperative gift giving service, easily allowing many people to participate in a single gift. If you can capture that concept in the logo it would be great, but not a requirement.
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- Overly complex
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Last week 3 backpacking buddies and I went on a 3-day backpack up the spectacular Eagle Creek canyon in Oregon. Hobbit country! Waterfalls, mosses, ferns, huge old-growth evergreens, streams, deep pools, cascades, water everywhere, churning, falling, spitting, spraying, misting, rushing, tumbling, roaring and making everything green! Usually I hike in the Washington Cascades or the Olympic mountains. This was a different kind of ecosystem, more like on the Olympic Peninsula. It's about 5 hours from Seattle, but well worth the drive. We had a fabulous time.


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An volley of shots from an honor guard, Taps, the folding of the flag and presentation to the family of Michael Crain – these are the latest from the funeral of the Riverside officer slain during the hunt for Christopher Dorner.
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Oscar-nominated animator Bill Plympton offers career advice to cinema arts students.
Bill Plympton stood on the GRW Theatre stage narrating his simple marker strokes as they became "Ella," a character from his feature film Cheatin'. Beginning to shade in shadows, he stopped explaining and all that his microphone picked up was the felt-tipped swishes of his Sharpie until he joked, "I can't stop. Someone stop me!"
From the way the audience laughed, it seemed this was a familiar feeling.
Point Park's cinema arts department partnered with the Toonseum to have Plympton, an Oscar-nominated animator, teach a master class on Saturday, March 16.
Pahl Hluchan, professor of animation, thought the opportunity to interact with Plympton and see his work would inspire students.
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Plympton rounded out his process by showing clips of his work, both early stage pencil tests and completed shorts, and he also shared his "three rules of success" for animated filmmaking: "make your work short, cheap and funny."
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Why not just use a formula to price the product based on a decaying price curve that averages out to the same profitability as the current model (assuming that is sustainable)?
I figure it would sit at a high price "for a while", the "release window," and then decay towards a sustainable long term price.
I'm just surprised that as Australia is not a baseball playing country they would propose a "three strikes" law. Why not an "It's not cricket!" resolution or a "upped stumps and retired to the pavillion" regulation?
Why bother with all this messy physical printing at all? Just create a detailed 3D model of the record, save it as a file, and play it in a simulated record player...
What a pity printer manufacturers can't copyright their ink cartridges. Then it would be illegal to circumvent the the copy protection on the cartridge by using it with any other ink.
Actually you'd think gender is probably a more significant indicator than gaming for violent crime. Wikipedia says the ratio of people incarcerated in the US is 9 males to every female. And the ratio of gamers is 60:40 male to female.
http://edugamesresearch.com/blog/2008/07/23/esa-survey-malefemale-gamer-ratio-is-6040-ave rage-age-is-35/
So... If a violent criminal is much more likely to be male, then he's also more likely to be a gamer than the average person picked off the street, simply because male are more likely to be gamers. This doesn't mean gaming causes violent crime. But... it reflects the statistically significant fact that males are more likely to commit violent crime than females.
I note in passing that Anders Breivik is male, it's odd that nobody picked up on that before...? *doe eyes*
Who would have thought that people might want to wear shoes while wrestling?
Well there was a time when wearing shoes at all was considered novel, and would have been worthy of a patent. And since patents last forever, that means shoes should still be patentable, right? I mean, innovation is innovation...
The olympics are the classic example of the centralised, control freak one-to-many broadcast model of traditional sports bodies. They profit from restricting information and access and requiring people to pay large amounts of money to watch mass market broadcasts.
That's why, if anything, sporting organizations seem to be more copyright draconian than even Hollywood, trying to ban "unauthorized" reporting or photography of any kind.
It's the complete anathema of the many-to-many social broadcasting of the internet, where everyone is a "source" and everyone is a "consumer."
Now imagine if we started our own olympics where every athlete competed in their own home town and the winners were chosen by the posting of authenticated times, and all the footage just went straight up on YouTube...
The registry of births, deaths and marriages is database created by the government, and as such the government may claim copyright over it. Then offer everyone a license to use their own individual names, for a small fee. Don't for heaven's sake call it a "name tax" or worse yet "poll tax!"
And those who won't settle? Well...
I hear the North Koreans are working on a new bomb that destroys people and buildings but leaves intellectual property unharmed!
Why don't we take all the gasoline out of cars? I bet that would make them safer to operate!
By using this site you are agreeing that God is a woman, that biology is destiny, the Earth was created in 4004BC on 1 January at 9 in the morning, and pi is equal to 9.
Just send out payment demands to every email on the net, my friend. Some of them must have had Megaupload accounts, right?
But... But.. GOOGLE!
TVs are cheap and getting cheaper. I see old "dumb" CRT TVs on the side of the road all the time - nobody wants them. You can buy a new big screen TV for less than $500, much less. For me the key is USB and HDMI interfaces. With these I can connect a hard drive and a laptop. The harddrive stores the media and the laptop provides the smarts to do any general purpose computation. I can access the hard drive directly from the TV for simple avi files, or through the laptop if it's more complex. And I can pick up the laptop and the hard drive and take them on the road and plug them into any HDMI tv. A laptop with HDMI is the best place for the smarts to reside, and yeah, you might upgrade it every 2-5 years.
I wonder how many in the audience for The Artist have ever seen Vertigo? I'd guess much less than fifty percent. Maybe this is a homage, you know, a way of celebrating a classic score and a classic film and introducing them to a whole new generation of moviegoers... Who might even be motivated to now watch Vertigo for the first time.
Wouldn't that be a good thing?
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Seagate just released this hard drive that holds 3Tb of storage and outputs directly to your TV. I got to thinking: That thing could hold every movie ever made that I'm interested in seeing. And the two or three new movies a year that I would want to see... I could pay to see them at a cinema or rent them on DVD when they come out.
http://www.engadget.com/2011/10/13/seagate-goflex-cinema-puts-up-to-3tb-of-media-files-at-your-t vs/
That could mean my movie collection could be like my music collection: Something that's always there, which I update every now and again when I hear something compelling. Which isn't very often.
Rich people pirate movies too. You don't get super rich by paying too much for things. Some of the tightest people you'll ever meet are the super rich.
Effectively you're saying "It would be worth $60 to me to avoid the stupid movie theater lines and dirt."
I'm saying: $60 is too much to pay for a movie.
It's not really about whether you and I are super rich or super poor. It's about how much the movie is worth. Is a movie worth $60? Not to me.
Activity is not equal to influence... TRUE.
But, can you have influence with no activity? No. And if you look at the commenters who regularly post on this forum, the ones who comment on story after story after story... Won't they tend to build up influence?
So activity is not infulence, but... activity is certainly related to influence, and... oh... a person's maximum potential influence increases with activity.
Aaaaaarrrr, matey! A nation of pirates we be! Founded by whores and thieves and convicts, and our only currency is RUM! Arrrrrh!