Gromnir

is Gromnir the only guy who sees the mcdonald's fries and burger as misplaced? am overthinking, but can't help but feel as if we missed something. HA! Good Fun!

if is not income generating or likely to increase in value 'cause is collectable or somesuch, then is a terrible "investment." is a personal vehicle. both vehicles will achieve goal of getting you to-and-from work for the next five years. both will allow you to make trips for groceries and whatnot. gas might be more expensive for the chevy, but repair costs will likely be more pricey for the mazda... as will insurance and other additions. regardless, the cars is gonna decrease in value. if both the chevy and the mazda lose 1/2 their value in 5 years, then the mazda has cost you considerable more money. take the $9k saved and use a simple compounding interest opportunity at a meager 5% and you is gonna see ~$2.5k return. can (and should) do far better with an initial $9k. *shrug* HA! Good Fun! ps young americans is notorious bad at investing. start savings young... and avoid making your home essential to long-term investment and savings. we americans tend to start late with saving and is far too dependent on value in our homes, even after recent real estate collapse.

I looked it up, seems that the recession in 2008 has helped the number quite a bit, so only 17.3 percent leave in the first 5 years. When I started in 2003 it was close to 50%. They've also improved new teacher support a lot since then, plus states are way more strict about having properly credentialed teachers in the classrooms. We are still in a pretty massive shortage though. teacher? way too much additional education for a job with long hours, mediocre pay and students who is... well, when we think o' the typical American high school student (circa 2016) we cannot help but recall our time in paris, france. in many parts o' france, we met hospitable and polite folks. y'know, people... if a bit too fond o' smoking. in paris we encountered almost constant scorn and contempt which oscillated 'tween unspoken and overt. teaching in the US, from our limited experience viewing real classrooms, is akin to being stuck in a room with obnoxious and sweaty parisians for nine months outta the year, without the benefits o' parisian food and art. HA! Good Fun! ps we got much sympathy for mediocre teachers. sounds odd, no? good teachers, for the most part, seem to enjoy their job. they got the classroom management aspect well-in-hand, and possess the ability to genuine teach extreme diverse groups o' students in a modern american classroom. however, as with any profession, many teachers is mediocre. being mediocre ain't a sin in most professions. a significant % o' any folks in a profession is gonna be mediocre. sadly, teachers got multiple classes every day, and each class is filled with dozens o' students. so many living reminders, by word or action, o' mediocrity.

may be hard for you to believe, but the 2017 f-150 raptor mpg is an improvement from previous models, thus there is indeed an ecoboost... from a relative perspective. smaller and more efficient engine with more power. but again, ford is actual not selling ecoboost save in the most tangential way. oh, and weight is 5600-5800 lbs, so almost 3 tons. HA! Good Fun!

get yourself a 97 monte carlo with ~100k miles for cheap... dunno, 'round $2800 to $3000? is reliable and inexpensive to repair if something goes wrong. should be good for another 100k miles. sounds as if you aren't exact comfortable with your current economic situation, so do yourself a favor and buy the cheap and dependable used car. five years from now, when breaking even on insurance ain't a matter of possible breaking you, then splurge on something fancy. hell, in five years, when you feel comfortable with your money, go out and buy something stoopid... like a 1987 buick grand national gnx. feel like batman or darth vader. five years is nothing. HA! Good Fun!

the only japanese entries in the full-size pickup category has virtual the same mpg. the f-150 raptor is a pickup. the f-150 is a big ol' 4x4 pickup. "Regardless, Raptor buyers aren’t purchasing on economy figures. No matter what well-argued rationale they might offer, they’re fundamentally concerned with how well the thing handles sweet jumps." --car & driver big dogs gotta eat. even so, the reason Gromnir drove a ford ranger as 'posed to an f-150 for so many years is 'cause the big trucks is gas hogs and we weren't all too concerned with handling on "sweet jumps." HA! Good Fun!

the new f-150 raptor became available recent http://www.roadandtrack.com/new-cars/future-cars/news/a30980/2017-ford-raptor-horsepower-torque-performance/ in case chill wants a 4x4 vehicle which will start conversations with his perplexed and/or scornful european friends. HA! Good Fun!

I have no idea who this is had a good part in the martian. was also in community for a number o years, but am admitting we never saw it. was kinda hoping for michael b. jordan... funny how you gotta use the "b" or it gets confusing. HA! Good Fun!

well, as much as we suspect they is disliked by most obsidian boardies, am thinking that john mccain and bob dole is good folks even if you don't like their politics. bernie sanders, while having failed to make it through the primaries, came closer to beating clinton than many expected, and while he is clear a different kinda cat from mccain or dole, he also seems like a man o' principles. perhaps this election will result in backlash 'gainst the clinton and trump kinda characters. dunno. as for shady's fashion observations, when clinton came out for the debate, we thought she were, perhaps, auditioning to be the new colonel for kfc. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDIzMdpqadQ unfortunately there is no extra-greasy on the kfc menu. woulda' been perfect. HA! Good Fun! ps the above kfc commercial(s) caused us to break up with our most recent female companion. not kidding. found our self explaining to our lady friend why it were funny to use george hamilton in an extra-crispy commercial. she were too young to get the joke. eventually she were able to visualize mr. hamilton, but were only 'cause she had seen him on dancing with the stars? made us feel like a cradle robber.

get yourself a 97 monte carlo with ~100k miles for cheap... dunno, 'round $2800 to $3000? is reliable and inexpensive to repair if something goes wrong. should be good for another 100k miles.

Slowly releasing personal emails a month before the election in order to make the Clinton campaign look bad is pretty clearly a biased act. It's also a dangerous precedent to set, Rubio had a pretty good response to the situation: http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/exclusive-rubio-talk-wikileaks-donald-trump/story?id=42895586 not to be too cynical, but the rubio approach could be as calculated as those who is pointing out all clinton's wikileak wackiness. make certain the wikileaks issue is raised at every presser, interview and barnyard hootenanny, and then lament how terrible such attempts at propaganda is for the electoral process. simple mention "clinton" and "wikileaks" keeps all the nonsense fresh in the public consciousness, but rubio gets to appear as being enlightened and above the fray. ... Gromnir don't resort to that kinda thing as am too ethical. nope, never. HA! Good Fun!

You can't really blame the left fully, since the Patriot Act was a pretty massive move against personal freedom. But the left has continued the trend the last 8 years. well, you kinda can blame the left for the patriot act if you want to as only 66 members in the house and 1 in the senate voted 'gainst passage. am not recalling exact numbers o' party affiliation in house and senate at the time, but senate were close to an even split. was very much bipartisan support. a small number o' democrats and an even smaller number o' republicans opposed the patriot act, but is dishonest to give the left as a whole a pass for patriot passage. HA! Good Fun!

in an interview from the not too remote past, f. urquhart identified neil gaiman's neverwhere setting as an appealing potential game world. a neverwhere game would be fantastic, but am actual convinced that gaiman's graveyard book offers superior material for a game. got readily identifiable factions and motivations w/o some o' the pretension we see in many fantasy/sci-fi settings. the desire to be unique tends to results in a fail o' style o'er substance for books and games. as a work intended for young adults, the graveyard book is lacking in pretension, but while the settings and creatures is all familiar, they is crafted with depth o' character rather than relying solely on a hook (visual or otherwise) to keep the audience interested. is a world o' instant recognizable vampires and werewolves and ghosts, among other creatures o' myth and legend, but more classical inspired as 'posed to anne rice/underworld origins. the man-jacks were fantastic villains in gaiman's book but obviously one need not limit oneself to the jacks as a game bad guy. another nifty aspect o' such a game would be potential using famous world graveyards/cemeteries as game locations. http://www.businessinsider.com/worlds-most-stunning-cemeteries-2014-2?op=1/#yama-cemetery-in-tokyo-originally-belonged-to-the-aoyama-family-before-becoming-japans-first-public-cemetery-its-famous-for-its-cherry-blossoms-which-draw-visitors-from-march-through-early-may-1 famous and beautiful cemeteries ('bove and below) as well as otherworldly realms o' death/near death offer endless possibilities. setting and creatures is familiar, but is done artful and creative. not gonna happen, but a guy can dream. HA! Good Fun! ps some folks will recognize our oft repeated loathing for vampires and zombies. as such, the graveyard book is a rather unexpected exception to a rule.

farming crates for gear? welcome back 2012. got visions o' the ilum pvp area clawing their way up from the depths o' our swtor memory. yeah, the farming will be different from old ilum stuff, but it sounds a bit... odd. gonna have need o' seeing implementation. edit: added sweary video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lz-GRE9f3e4#t=71 ilum pvp crates had a random chance o' dropping 1007. HA! Good Fun!

money and moderation the established parties have the political mechanism and money to make it more difficult for 3rd party candidates to enter into the big time political game. the first goal o' any potential Congressman is to get elected. the primary job o' any Congressman is to get reelected. need pac money to get reelected these days. perhaps Gromnir is naive, but am believing most candidates is not bought by pacs. however, organizations got a vested interest in making sure like-minded candidates is elected. the whole process o' aligning pac money with candidates is deep entwined with party mechanics. the money issue is just one issue we believe libertarians would better focus their efforts on state and local offices. need far less money to compete local and state. the angry farmer or shoe-salesman-with-a-dream can still compete in the local political arena even without big money. is still not gonna be level playing field competition, but who ever promised the game would be fair, eh? the other reason we don't see 3rd party candidates in 2016 is 'cause things is actual pretty good here in the US. we got two parties who talk as if they is world's apart, but in practice they ain't. when euorpeans hear liberal v. conservative they is using their own political spectrum to pigeonhole US political animals. the truth is for the past few decades we has had a whole lotta moderates and hardly any genuine liberals or conservatives as would be recognizable beyond US borders. things need get bad enough, or at least the public needs to be getting frustrated 'nuff, before we see a genuine shift away from the centrist politics which has dominated our political landscape for almost a couple generations... at least. sanders and trump success this cycle does suggest the center is weakening, but am suspecting the two parties learn from their obvious mistakes and next national elections will be business as usual. just our opinion. HA! Good Fun!

there is a near universal misunderstanding 'bout the powers o' the Presidency. at the same time, am thinking the founding fathers had a shared fundamental misunderstanding o' human nature. every time trump opens his mouth and tells us 'bout how he is gonna overturn ny times v. sullivan or he blathers on 'bout preventing muslims from immigrating to the US, we wonder who were the moron who taught trump 'bout our federal government while he were in high school and university. however, the sad truth is trump is not alone in his misconceptions 'bout the power o' the President. am suspecting the number o' people who actual understand the powers granted to the President by the Constitution is extreme small. heck, while the President is the undeniable leader o' the executive branch, from a practical perspective, given how vast is the executive branch, much o' the functional power o' the executive branch o' government is wielded by career bureaucrats who perform their duties with little concern for who is the current President o' the USA. 'course the founding fathers understood what (limited) powers were being granted to the President. more fools were they. the thing is, the President's power ain't as much a product o' the Constitution as it is o' human nature. the President is the one fed elected office we all get a chance to vote 'pon. the President is also the most visible and recognizable member o' the federal government. the most vocal federalists o' 1787 would be shocked by the power and influence o' the federal government. voting for President is not just a vote for the head o' the executive, but it is a functional national referendum o' broad policy issues. when Presidential elections happen, Congressmen listen. the President, when he appears to have the backing o' a significant majority o' the people, wields far more practical power over domestic affairs than the founding fathers woulda' ever imagined. the electoral college is fine for what the President was meant to be. the electoral college may even be ok for what the President actual is 'ccording to the Constitution. the thing is, actual Presidential power is different than what a reading o' the Constitution would suggest. am thinking a change to the process by which the President is elected is warranted, but as gd observes, changes to the Constitution is difficult to affect... as were intended by the founding fathers. HA! Good Fun!

well, you were gonna need get your characters to 65 regardless. level the sentinel the rest o' the way doing the tactical and tactical-solo flashpoints. am suspecting that you reach 65 once finished with the fps. have the sorcerer immediate start revan. the pvp is almost a non factor as we got valor 5 from three warzones, two o' which were fabulous losses. don't do any side-stuff in sor or kotfe and space-bar through cutscenes and you will finish relative quick. *shrug* you thought it were pretty much just a matter 'o getting two to 65, yes? get to 65 via the fps on one character and get to 65 with sor+kotfe on the other will take a bit more effort than our suggested sooper-dooper speed leveling, but won't be too much worse. even so, as is material you has already slogged through previous, am understanding the reluctance to continue. for a new companion? too much effort. 'course by doing champ level requirements you get the complete xp boost armour we mentioned, so there is that. HA! Good Fun! ps keep in mind that by doing sor, you will need necessarily complete a handful o' fps, and am 90% certain you do not need complete all fps on one character for flashpoint expert.

http://dulfy.net/2016/06/28/swtor-dark-vs-light-event-checklist/ just to be certain, am gonna note how each lower level reward is a prerequisite for higher level rewards. to be successful granted the eternal rewards, which includes the new companion, you must first complete the champion level requirements. is annoying, but to get the new companion at least 1 dvl character needs do minimal pvp (2-3 warzones?) as well as shadow o' revan content and kotfe content. not need do your main class quests which culminate on corellia, so get a character to +50 via heroics and then start shadow o' revan is perfect viable. as for quick leveling, stick the dvl xp armour on a character and continue doing black talon. with the level scaling implemented, you will not need better armour to sleep walk your way through black talon, even at +50 levels. given the current 2x xp event which runs through november, you is gonna level very fast indeed while also picking up ok credit rewards and two pieces o' class appropriate purple armour/gear... which can be sold for credits if nothing else. we recommend bt v. esseles as the bonus boss can be dispatched solo in bt. unlike operations, where you must needs wait around on fleet and hope for an invite... and then roll the dice you didn't get a fail op group, ~20 minutes o' your time will result in a successful bt run. HA! Good Fun! ps flashpoint expert requirement for champion level is also a pain in the tuckus. a considerable number o' the fps can be completed solo, which is nice. is also not hard-mode required, so the tactical runs is typical ez. unfortunately, depths of manaan is/was bugged. do not let fire kill the final boss or you will not get credit for the fp.

well, y'know, trump's admission, which were also recorded, tends to lend credibility to the accusers. ain't the foul language but the admission o' a pattern o' behavior which most folks is pointing to as evidence that trump's accusers is worthy o' consideration. am not sure what you heard in the recordings, but am thinking you missed the lead. ... truth-to-tell, the foul language in the recording likely helps trump. if all we had were a cold-blooded admission o' sexual assault, w/o the accompanying laughter and foul language being shared by two adult males, the recording would be viewed as more damning rather than less. at least with the language and laughter, trump can argue his admission were in jest. HA! Good Fun!

Considering his own history of groping women, perhaps it would be more appropriate just to keep quiet? as much as our democrat friends hate to hear this, we do find a considerable amount o' hypocrisy coming from those who defended bill in spite of his questionable treatment o' women and their revulsion o' trump's behavior towards the fairer sex. does not apply to all democrats, but those who were dismissive o' the bill clinton scandals regarding women should be speaking a bit more softly 'bout trump insofar as his treatment o' women is concerned. but again, am speaking specific o' the treatment o' the ladies issues. is a whole bunch o' other issues, no? we got no problem with arnold rejecting trump. our own concerns with trump's suitability to be President is less 'bout his unwholesome behavior towards women and more 'bout his complete misapprehension o' the role of President and the near total lack o' any kinda workable solutions to those problems he thinks is obvious. trump, at best, is an elmer gantry kinda candidate. arnold, as an extreme successful immigrant and republican, has a noteworthy pov regarding trump. typical we put little stock in arnold pov as we share little in common with his values and perspective, but am not gonna outright dismiss arnold pov on current political issues anymore than we would dismiss bill clinton. if the issue in question has to do with mistreatment o' women, then yeah, arnold and bill and donald is not gonna be role models. 'course so little 'bout this election is having anything to do with the actual qualifications and abilities o' the candidates. HA! Good Fun!

yeah, for the dvl event we created two characters we will be unlikely to ever use again in the future. rushed through old content doing minimum necessary to reach "eternal" level o' rewards. am doubtful the goal o' the event were to have us exhaust tens o' hours on throw-away characters. 'course, while the mindless repetition o' already completed content is indeed soul crushing, our typical leveling scheme requires a couple dozen runs o' esseles or black talon, so our capacity for dvl kinda self-flagellation is already high. one positive: the dvl xp bonus armour stacks with 2x events. the speed with which we will be able to level future characters is a nice bonus. HA! Good Fun!

Sorry though, I didn't bring it up to humiliate you, it's just that- oddly enough- a whole lot of those '6-12 month' articles have started popping up again, which I find highly amusing given how poor (and generally forgotten) the last set of such articles were and the general theme of media propagated/ generated propaganda prevalent in the election. pretty much everything in the spoiler is wrong, which is why am confused if you thinks it would humiliate Gromnir to once again be offering to take a punch for putin's sake. the situation has been devastating for russia and the Negative growth russia has endured the past two years will require a good number o' years o' positive growth to see russia fully recover. sub 1% growth predictions is Not positive news. am not sure what articles you is reading, but russia were hit extreme hard and a currency collapse (the bloomberg graphic you used identified russia as having had the worst currency downfall o' any nation during the span o' time tracked, but the ruble did beat bitcoin, so...) woulda' resulted in a quicker recovery, albeit with far different and equal devastating consequences. http://forums.obsidian.net/topic/69691-ukraine-discussion/page-13?do=findComment&comment=1569008 yes, being down to their last $367 billion actual were a problem and weren't funny at all, which is why putin started digging into pension funds o' all things. capital flight from russia has been incalculable... literal. is so much shady russian business it becomes impossible to tell just how much money left russia, and prospects for increased foreign investment at this time is still extreme limited particular with at least a couple years o' stagnation being predicted, foreign sanctions in place, and an increasing unstable foreign relations picture developing. in a more appropriate thread we would be happy to continue this all-too--familiar discussion. not much has actual changed, but it has arguable changed for the worse overall. the russian economy is still mired in a framework which more closely resembles petroleum-based mercantilism than anything else. the currency drop didn't actual result in russian domestic production marked increasing. the poverty rate in russia has increased and those russian poor is now spending ~50% o' their retail income on food, a figure not helped at all by self-imposed sanctions o' food. is not good for russia. is not good for europe. just as russia weren't able to laugh off their currency woes 'cause o' their currency reserves, the russian economic situation still ain't funny. again, 'cause bloomberg appears to be ok for zor https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-07-27/vladimir-putin-is-his-economy-s-worst-enemy kinda off-topic though, so... knock yourself out. am sure you can convince oby that all is well. HA! Good Fun!

Two and a half years. I've been keeping count, thanks to Gromnir just starting a conversation about how sanctions would bankrupt Russia in 6-12 months. It's just one of those things which is always 6-12 months away, I guess. lordy. this old chestnut. we observed a couple experts predicted currency collapse in russia in 6-12 months if nothing changed. 'course russia went desperate with their interest rate adjustments and staved off currency collapse, but collapse mighta' been the less long-term damaging result as 'posed to what has happened to the russian economy the last two years. anybody wanna actual review state o' the russian economy as it stands today compared to a couple years ago? and heck, given how little russia has actual done to improve their situation since the double-whammy o' sanctions Plus oil price collapse a few years ago, they now gets to enjoy the prospect o' years o' economic stagnation following +18 months o' actual recession. what actual happened were zor suggesting that the hundreds of billions in foreign currency assets russia possessed would allow them to laugh at the currency crisis, and that russian retributive food sanctions wouldn't hurt russians. were also some nice hypothesizing 'bout food alternatives from china and brazil. used bloomberg graphic 'bout relative currency strengths he complete misread, seeing as how russian currency were hit far worse than other oil dependent nations during a similar period o' time. *shakes head sadly* until russia makes a serious commitment to alter their economy, which is far too dependent on oil exports, it will continue to be highly vulnerable to sanctions and to the predictably volatile nature o' oil (or any single resource) as the alpha and omega o' russian economic growth. and yeah, the poor is gonna suffer the most when a nation imposes food sanctions on a people... and the ranks o' the russian poor has grown alarmingly in the past couple years. to respond to malcador's actual observation, doesn't take much mental gymnastics to explain the recent russian "posturing" simply as a way for putin to distract the russian people from just how terrible is their economic situation. if the russian people weren't so angry at vile westerners, they would no doubt focus their attentions on more mundane issues... such as being able to actual pay for food. am doubting distraction is the only reason for seeming russian "posturing" but am not doubting it is a factor. HA! Good Fun!

we noticed yesterday that most is available via youtube as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY7eqTQgEsE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BAMUm-uAp0&index=3&list=PLdI7wgR3a3r6A8SpXlExtC8teRM73MQKW HA! Good Fun!

http://www.nytco.com/the-new-york-timess-response-to-donald-trumps-retraction-letter/ david mccraw and the times just went all ll cool j on trump. HA! Good Fun!