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RE: Advice for bypassing Skagit River Bridge?
You better talk to your media people up there because I quoted directly from a Washington TV station website. So if I don't understand then they don't either.
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msmith1199
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05/24/13 09:18pm |
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RE: Advice for bypassing Skagit River Bridge?
Have to chuckle at the Washington guys who are chuckling at the California guys. According to a Washington media website one of the detours is:
"The Transportation Department has set up detours. The closest is within sight of the I-5 bridge and mostly used for local traffic between Mount Vernon and Burlington.
Traffic is being diverted off southbound I-5 at Exit 230. For an alternate route, take eastbound Highway 20, then south on S. Burlington Blvd. and west on E. College Way (SR 538) to southbound I-5."
Funny, where did we see that before? Oh yeah, one of the California guys pointed out there was another bridge close to the one that collapsed.
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msmith1199
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05/24/13 08:47pm |
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RE: How many passwords do you have?
I read a case of a hacker a few years back that created an adult website with free content on it. All you had to do was create a username and password and you had full free access to his website. Turns out the reason he did this is because he knew people used the same username and password on all their accounts. So once he had collected thousands of usernames and passwords he was able to just start trying them on banking and credit card websites and was able to steal hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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msmith1199
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05/24/13 08:38pm |
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RE: Advice for bypassing Skagit River Bridge?
Actually it will be interesting to see how long it takes to get the bridge back up and running. Under normal government construction projects it would take three or more years to build a bridge there. But remember back during the Northridge earthquakes when almost all the freeways were shut down with damaged and collapsed bridges? They were rebuilding entire overpasses in 60 days. If this bridge were South of Seattle I'd say they'd have it back up in 6 weeks. Since it's North I bet it takes 9 weeks.
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msmith1199
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05/24/13 03:56pm |
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RE: How many passwords do you have?
Mr. Camper don't forget your username and password for RV.NET! When you retire you'll still have that one.
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msmith1199
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05/24/13 03:05pm |
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How many passwords do you have?
I opened a business account with the Post Office yesterday and had to select a username and password. So as always I opened my password protected storage place for my usernames and passwords and added this one to the list. I notice this one put me on to 4 pages of user names and passwords. I just counted them all and I have 77 different logons on my list. 78 if you count the password to get into the list.
Remember back in the good old days when you had maybe two or three passwords to remember? You didn't even have to write them down back then.
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msmith1199
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05/24/13 02:24pm |
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RE: Small dealer rant
You do need to get it corrected because sometimes if all items don't match up you may not be able to pay your registration online. I learned that the hard way. My insurance agent got one digit of my VIN wrong on my insurance policy on my car. So when it came time to renew like is typical of me I waited until the last day. As you know California has no grace period. Pay on the day it's due or it's a 10% penalty. I went online to pay only to find out it wouldn't let me pay online. I was at work, 50 miles from home, so I went to the DMV to pay it and there was a two hour line just to pay with a credit card. I didn't have my checkbook with me so I ended up going to a bank and getting a cashiers check and going back to DMV and dropping in the box. As long as it was in the box that day I was good. But I sure do like paying all that stuff online.
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msmith1199
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05/24/13 02:18pm |
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RE: Washington I-5 catastrophe......
In looking at photos of the bridge, you can see that the overhead supports are arch shaped. So the bridge would be higher in the fast lane versus the slow lane. I wonder if that was the problem, he was supposed to get into the fast lane to clear the bridge and didn't do it.
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msmith1199
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05/24/13 01:48pm |
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RE: Washington I-5 catastrophe......
According to an eye witness truck driver I saw being interviewed, the load was not too high. According to the eye witness it was a wide load and as the wide load truck approached the bridge another truck had pulled up next to him in the fast lane and the wide load couldn't get over far enough and the right side of the load struck the right side of the bridge. I know this isn't what the media is reporting, but they get everything wrong.
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msmith1199
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05/24/13 01:37pm |
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RE: Advice for bypassing Skagit River Bridge?
There is a four lane bridge next to the one that collapsed. It's a short detour to use that bridge. The question is how bad traffic will be getting around it.
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msmith1199
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05/24/13 01:34pm |
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RE: Washington I-5 catastrophe......
I just checked Google maps to see where this was and Google has already removed that section of I-5 from the map. If you switch over to the satellite view you can still see the bridge. Doesn't look like it's going to be a too difficult detour because there is a four lane bridge for surface streets right next to this bridge. They'll just have to divert traffic off the freeway right before the bridge and then back on to the freeway right after it. I wouldn't want to drive through there during heavy traffic though.
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msmith1199
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05/24/13 09:33am |
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RE: Washington I-5 catastrophe......
Sounds like the truck driver and his insurance companies have some issues to deal with, but should a major bridge like that fall down because an oversized load on a truck hits it? I'm thinking there will be a lot of questions that need to be answered about why the thing fell.
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msmith1199
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05/24/13 09:27am |
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RE: Any LEO retired or currently sworn here!
Three weeks in and only just now starting PT? Times have changed. We started PT on day one. Hopefully though you've known it was coming and you've already started on the treadmill!
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msmith1199
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05/23/13 05:10pm |
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RE: Health insurance
I can't directly answer your question, but I can tell you I'm in California myself and I've never heard of medical insurance for $3500 a month. The most I've heard talked about in the various complaints I listen to at the coffee shop, is $1800 a month and that included having an adult kid still on the plan. I'm retired and my wife still works and right now I'm on her plan. He employer pays $1600 a month and it's a Cadillac plan with only small copays, no deductible. When she retires I can go back through my retirement plan and right now the cheapest insurance they offer is $1200 a month for 2 of us and that plan has a $1500 annual deductible per person. I think Kaiser for two of us through my retirement system is $1500 a month and that's no deductible, but with copays. So your $850 a month doesn't sound completely out of line, but I'd want to know more about the fine print.
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msmith1199
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05/23/13 05:08pm |
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RE: Taking advantage of the stupid!
Not to mention who is this evil "The Bank?" People are very quick to judge this huge corporations as evil and only getting richer while the rest of us get poorer. Did you ever stop to think that "The Bank" is actually people, most of which are just like the rest of us collecting a paycheck? Sure there's some at "The Bank" that are making huge salaries but 98% of them that work for the bank are the middle class. But what about those huge profits "The Bank" makes at the expense of the rest of us? Most it goes to share holders, some of whom are very rich people, but most of whom are not. Most of those share holders are again you and me. My pension system owns a lot of those shares as does my 401k. So I for one like to see it when the bank makes a good profit.
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msmith1199
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05/23/13 09:21am |
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RE: Taking advantage of the stupid!
Arguably the most controversial choice on the list is the iconic Jeep Wrangler (including its stretched four-door equivalent the Wrangler Unlimited). While the Wrangler has few equals as a rough-and-tumble go-anywhere off-road vehicle, it’s lacking in refinement, comfort and road manners as a pavement-planted daily driver.
I can't believe how ridiculous the people writing these articles can be. It's a Jeep people, it's supposed to be that way. And when I had my Wrangler although it felt weird at first, once I got used to it it was a very comfortable vehicle.
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msmith1199
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05/22/13 10:02am |
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RE: Vin and Serial number versus title
Vehicles are not titled until sold. So the chassis could have been made in 2004, shipped to HR (Monaco?) for a build in 2005 and then delivered to a dealer and sold to a customer in 2006. It's first use would have been in 2006 hence the title year.
I imagine it's quite common for a MH to sit at a dealers for 6 months before being sold. This is like saying my pick up was made in 2003 but it didn't sell of the dealers lot until 2005 so now its a 2005. Vehicles of all kind are titled from the date of build. In the case of rv's the build date is when the coach was built not the chassis. Even HR says it is a 2005.
Call it whatever you want, I was explaining why the title was 2006, HR said it was 2005 and why the chassis was 2004
As a title is a 'registration of ownership' and is issued by the DMV, it is only issued when the vehicle is sold for the first time. Of course some dealers will title vehicles in their own names to skew the sales figures.
Then how come toward the end of the year dealers start having end of year close outs to get rid of the previous model year cars? No reason to get rid of the previous models if you can just change the model year on them when the calendar changes. All those unsold 2012 models all the sudden became 2013 models on Jan 1? That didn't happen.
What does happen is just like has been explained. The model year of your motorhome is going to be the year the house was attached to the chasis and it was shipped out of the factory. My motorhome is a 2004 model, but my chasis is a 2003 and my VIN will indicate the chasis is a 2003. But my model year is a 2004 and that is what is listed on the title. All a little confusing, but perfectly legal.
I'm sure that years ago the motorhome manufacturing groups must have lobbied for this otherwise because of build time they would often be a model year behind. If somebody buys a new motorhome in 2013 they generally want it to be a 2013. I'd venture to say that most of the 2013 motorhomes sitting on the dealer lots today are sitting on 2012 chasis. By October or November that may not be true, but it is now.
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msmith1199
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05/21/13 05:04pm |
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RE: Why is gas 60 cents more in same state
Huge price differences like that are the norm in California and like already pointed out a lot of things effect it. One thing that I see that seems to have the most effect on prices is location, location, location. Gas stations right off the Interstate are almost always way more expensive than the stations in town. I think the theory being people getting off the freeway are going to go to the easiest station they can versus driving around and looking for better prices, while if you live in the town you're going to go to the station with the best prices.
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msmith1199
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05/21/13 04:54pm |
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RE: Seems like they all do this
Be sure to check out the in dash GPS before you buy it. I paid a lot of money for a built in unit in my wife's Mercedes and it is a terrible unit. It has very little detail on the screen, it's very hard to use, and it almost constantly has errors in its routing. I can't believe Mercedes even puts this unit in their cars. A friend has a Lexus and the unit she got was a hundred times better than what Mercedes had. When we're taking a long trip in my wife's car I take the Magellan GPS and don't use the built on one.
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msmith1199
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05/20/13 03:18pm |
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RE: Off brand ATV's
Also before you turn your kid lose on the ATV I'd make sure he read every story at the website linked below. He needs to know the ATV isn't a toy and what can happen if you aren't responsible on it. I've only read a few of these stories but in every one I read it was the riders fault with kids just doing stupid stuff that kids do.
http://atvsafetynet.org/stories.php
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msmith1199
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05/15/13 04:05pm |
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