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capitalj 10-31-2006 10:10 PM

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... High Horse Jumping was my best Olympic event!
According to my wife, I'm probably a lock for the gold. :o

johngpt 10-31-2006 10:24 PM

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Originally Posted by capitalj (Post 331627)
According to my wife, I'm probably a lock for the gold. :o

Probably another biased judge from behind the iron curtain?

capitalj 10-31-2006 11:09 PM

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Originally Posted by johngpt (Post 331629)
Probably another biased judge from behind the iron curtain?

Rather a backhanded bias. Sigh.

johngpt 10-31-2006 11:33 PM

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Originally Posted by capitalj (Post 331645)
Rather a backhanded bias. Sigh.

VERY loud groan!!! ;)

CAlvarez 11-01-2006 03:32 PM

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You seem to, if not admire and condone the vandalism, at least minimize it.
I admire it, and would help fund it given the opportunity. Say a pool that could be claimed by anyone removing a camera from service.

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offshore corporations and other tax shelters are too often abused.
Sure, I agree. The corollary is that our courts are abused with frivolous suits and our citizens are abused by a corrupt tax system, so the only available solution is to make everything you own untouchable. You may or may not agree on specifics of tax law, but surely you agree that there HAVE been proven instances of the IRS summarily garnishing someone's property only to later be proven wrong. I can't afford that.

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I am also puzzled by the percieved need to protect oneself from scrutiny carried so far as to hide behind a paper trail in matters as mundane as vehicle registrations.
There is no question that I'm a lunatic when it comes to privacy and any matters dealing with government. I freely admit that. However the registration is carried by the trust in order to be legal so the fact that it is untraceable is just as much a free side benefit as anything.

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You were traveling at speed which many cars simply cannot safely maintain under the best of conditions.
If by many cars you mean a 1961 Volkswagen bug with 300k miles, sure. Any modern car can be driven on a straight road at 90 MPH with total safety.

As far as the law, I have no respect for civil statutes whatsoever. I mostly hold them in contempt. I respect personal responsibility and ethics, but not law, which is artificial and man-made (usually to the benefit of the rich and powerful).

johngpt 11-01-2006 04:48 PM

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Originally Posted by CAlvarez (Post 331782)
As far as the law, I have no respect for civil statutes whatsoever. I mostly hold them in contempt. I respect personal responsibility and ethics, but not law, which is artificial and man-made (usually to the benefit of the rich and powerful).

Shades of Robert Heinlein.

capitalj 11-01-2006 09:38 PM

You support vandalism, yet respect personal responsibility and ethics. You abhor the law for being "artificial and man-made" yet personal responsibility and ethics, which you hold in esteem, are also human inventions. Some mental gymnastics going on there.

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You may or may not agree on specifics of tax law, but surely you agree that there HAVE been proven instances of the IRS summarily garnishing someone's property only to later be proven wrong.
Of course I agree that tax laws are sometimes misapplied. It is wrong and unfair when it happens, which isn't as often as some would believe.

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If by many cars you mean a 1961 Volkswagen bug with 300k miles, sure.
Of course I mean nothing of the sort, but I suspect you already know that.

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Any modern car can be driven on a straight road at 90 MPH with total safety.
That is simply not true. It is possible to drive at that speed without incident. In my youth I did so, a few times in my mother's old Bug, and faster in my old Chevelle, on the narrow curved back roads of Cape Cod. But that does make it safe. A flat tire, strong gust of wind, or animal darting across the road, will have very different results at 90 mph than they would at 65, even in a shiny new, modern car - especially a small, lightweight model

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As far as the law, I have no respect for civil statutes whatsoever. I mostly hold them in contempt. I respect personal responsibility and ethics, but not law, which is artificial and man-made (usually to the benefit of the rich and powerful).
The poor, weak and powerless don't have offshore holdings. ;)

I enjoy ranting debates as much as anybody else, but we've drifted a bit from the original topic - and we certainly won't change each other's mind. Shall we call a truce? :)


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