Zero gravity

Kent Betts wrote:

The goddam Commies ought to be kissing our asses for achieving Marxism
better than they did. The taxes are used as method to transfer wealth,
mainly to government employees. A degreed worker pays effing rediculous
amounts so that the effing dirt bag high school
janitor/clerk/teacher/sherrif's deputy/chair warmer can make the same pay
working fewer hours. And of course these scum-sucking leeches complain that
they could earn more "in the private sector." We are getting ripped of in a
wholesale fashion.


You really don't like the fact that April 15th is approaching, do you? ;-)

Pat

Pat Flannery wrote:
[...]
mainly to government employees. A degreed worker pays effing rediculous
amounts so that the effing dirt bag high school
[...]teacher[...] can make the same pay
working fewer hours. And of course these scum-sucking leeches complain that
they could earn more "in the private sector." We are getting ripped of in a
wholesale fashion.


You really don't like the fact that April 15th is approaching, do you? ;-)



Not sure what he does like. Is he really making only $45K/yr?
(scaled for SoCal). Oh, and the teacher example is further
complicated by *their* degrees, and they pay income tax, also.

Now making what a beer truck driver takes home...

/dps

"dave schneider" wrote in message
om...

Now making what a beer truck driver takes home...

Lots of beer that accidentally fell off? :-)

On Wed, 3 Mar 2004 09:57:19 +0800, "Neil Gerace"
wrote:

"dave schneider" wrote in message
. com...

Now making what a beer truck driver takes home...

Lots of beer that accidentally fell off? :-)

....Actually, you'd be surprised at this factoid: when it comes to "one
case fell off the back of the truck" thefts committed by truckers,
theft of beer is actually quite low on the list. Top of the list is,
believe it or not, cigaretts, followed by high-tech entertainment
equipment, with the really high dollar really aged spirits coming in
third. While the latter two are obvious, the reason cigarette
shipments usually wind up a case or two short is that the industry and
the distributors tend to turn a blind eye to it as "ensurance" that
the shipment will wind up where it's supposed to go relatively intact.

I forgot what #4 on the list was, but I do recall #5 being Sodas, and
#6 being frozen steaks...

OM

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On or about Tue, 02 Mar 2004 04:43:21 -0600, Pat Flannery
made the sensational claim that:
You really don't like the fact that April 15th is approaching, do you? ;-)

Me, I'm worried about March 15th.
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"LooseChanj" wrote in message
om...
On or about Tue, 02 Mar 2004 04:43:21 -0600, Pat Flannery

made the sensational claim that:
You really don't like the fact that April 15th is approaching, do you?
;-)

Me, I'm worried about March 15th.

Calpurnia: Julie, don't go, I said. It's the Ides of March. Beware already!

Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster, _Rinse the Blood Off My Toga_

LooseChanj wrote:

Me, I'm worried about March 15th.


Don't worry about me...a lean and hungry look I don't have.
I tend toward corpulence, and am reasonable, pleasant, and phlegmatic.
Still, there are those two naked-eye visible comets drawing near:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4371829/

Grachus

"Neil Gerace" ) writes:
"LooseChanj" wrote in message
om...
On or about Tue, 02 Mar 2004 04:43:21 -0600, Pat Flannery

made the sensational claim that:
You really don't like the fact that April 15th is approaching, do you?
;-)

Me, I'm worried about March 15th.

Calpurnia: Julie, don't go, I said. It's the Ides of March. Beware already!

Johnny Wayne and Frank Shuster, _Rinse the Blood Off My Toga_

" I told him, Julie, don't go ! " Ibid.

Man, those two were the best. Who's ever seen their Trek classic
parody ?

Andre


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"Pat Flannery" wrote in message
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LooseChanj wrote:

Me, I'm worried about March 15th.


Don't worry about me...a lean and hungry look I don't have.
I tend toward corpulence, and am reasonable, pleasant, and phlegmatic.
Still, there are those two naked-eye visible comets drawing near:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4371829/

"Comet NEAT will first be visible from the Southern Hemisphere. It shows up
for viewers north of the equator in early May.

"Comet LINEAR will also be visible from the Southern Hemisphere, and
depending on how much it brightens it might be seen just before sunrise in
late April and early May by Northern Hemisphere observers."

Predictably, I suppose, it doesn't say when the two comets will first be
visible in the Southern Hemisphere. Where could I find this out?

Neil Gerace wrote:

"Comet NEAT will first be visible from the Southern Hemisphere. It shows up
for viewers north of the equator in early May.

"Comet LINEAR will also be visible from the Southern Hemisphere, and
depending on how much it brightens it might be seen just before sunrise in
late April and early May by Northern Hemisphere observers."

Predictably, I suppose, it doesn't say when the two comets will first be
visible in the Southern Hemisphere. Where could I find this out?

http://www.heavens-above.com/

has information (including sky charts) for Comet LINEAR (currently
in Aquarius, at magnitude 6.2). They'll probably give information
for Comet NEAT as well.

--Bill Thompson