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QUOTE: Originally posted by tangerine-jack I think both, Phil. If at first you don't succeed.......................
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geez guys, so much for simple chit-chat, otherwise known as freedom of speech and freedom to associate
Its like the LGB topics, if someone doesnt like the subject, why on earth do they bother reading it, let alone post a reply? Skip it and leave it alone
Hey everyone no disrespect, but I guess to much of it. Didn't take the time to read every page, but the pot has been drank dry. Everyone have a good one, OK.
Byron
vsmith wrote: bumpWow, did this topic die suddenly like....not a single post for a year and a half...
I notice you didn't post on it during that amount of time either, you must really have a great interest in it continuing on.
vsmith wrote:geez guys, so much for simple chit-chat, otherwise known as freedom of speech and freedom to associate" border="0" width="15" height="15" />Its like the LGB topics, if someone doesnt like the subject, why on earth do they bother reading it, let alone post a reply? Skip it and leave it alone" border="0" width="15" height="15" />
geez guys, so much for simple chit-chat, otherwise known as freedom of speech and freedom to associate" border="0" width="15" height="15" />
Its like the LGB topics, if someone doesnt like the subject, why on earth do they bother reading it, let alone post a reply? Skip it and leave it alone" border="0" width="15" height="15" />
I read because, "My god where did this thread come from?" After reading I remembered when it started and what happened around the time it started. I also remember that I left this forum for over 8 months around that time because it had gotten so far off base of anything enjoyable or usable it wasn't worth my time.
I posted in agreement because if something hasn't been posted to in over a year and a half, it seems that no one cares about the topic itself anymore. To cry like someone has trampled all over your civil rights by posting is rediculous since the same rights you are crying about are being used in the post you don't like.
If a post lives on by itself so be it. If it dies off and no one adds to it for a long time why resurrect it with a post that adds nothing to it's content?
Jack
Jack I was gone for a while after the last post in 05 and for what ever reason couldnt find it again when I came back. I thought it had been locked or deleted for some reason.. I only refound it searching for something. I know some people didnt like it but others did. It just dropped dead though...
If no ones interested (and it doesnt look like it), then it will just die again...I wont rebump it.
But way let it die again. Don't people like a post to just yell at each other.....oh that already happens in all of the other posts.
On other issues, did anyone hear about the insident up at the White Pass & Yukon. All I have heard is that earlier this year 1 employee was killed and 3 more hurt. The Alco diesel is now in BNSF's yard near Seattle. That must have been a nasty fall because the cab is crushed to the bottom of the windows. Anyone know anything else about it?
Nope, this is the first I've heard of anything.
It musta been with a non-passenger train or MOW operation. If it had been with a passenger train it would have been all over the newswire. Where did you see the pics?
Here are the photos I found.
Nasty ain't it!
What it don't look all that bad, I mean a little bondo here, a new structural frame there... Hay it can be done, after all they made Michal Jackson into Martha. Here is another fun wreck from WP&Y. Oh and a general before and after.
Flag stop at Eureka enroute back to the White Pass & Yukon
"Three cars..........two cars.........one car.........that'll...OOPS!"
"But I TRIED three blasts, and she still won't back up"
Looking up.
O man! someones in trouble for that one! Lucky it didnt become a fish habitat
Famous last words of that longshoreman "Yeah, that'll do 'er"
Ahhhhhh, good old Evil-Bay in another law suit. This article came from the Associated Press.
U.S. District Court Judge Jerome B. Friedman denied a motion by MercExchange LLC for a permanent injunction against San Jose, Calif.-based eBay over the "Buy It Now" feature.
Last year, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that although eBay infringed upon MercExchange's patent for the service, it was up to the lower court to decide whether eBay had to stop using it.
In his ruling, Friedman said the company was not irreparably harmed because it continued to make money from its patents, either by licensing them outright or by threatening litigation against those it believed infringed upon them.
A federal jury found in 2003 that eBay had infringed on Great Falls-based MercExchange's patent and awarded the company $35 million. The amount later was reduced to $25 million.
MercExchange attorney Greg Stillman called the opinion a "double-edged sword."
"It was sort of good news, bad news for both sides," Stillman said. "I'm sure eBay is relieved that they're not going to be enjoined, but on the other hand (Friedman) made it quite clear that they're going to have to pay for that right."
Catherine England, a spokeswoman for eBay, said the company is "extremely pleased" with the decision.
Friedman denied eBay's request to stay proceedings on the "Buy It Now" patent because the infringement suit already has been tried by a jury and a final verdict and damage award was affirmed by the federal circuit.
The judge did stay proceedings on a second patent held by MercExchange until the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has time to reexamine it.
In the closely watched case, the high court ruled that judges have flexibility in deciding whether to issue court orders barring continued use of a technology after juries find a patent violation. The decision threw out a ruling by a federal appeals court that said injunctions should be automatic unless exceptional circumstances apply.
The case became a rallying point for critics who argue the U.S. patent system is riddled with abuse from small businesses that sue established companies to enforce patents for ideas that have never been developed into products.
Well there goes another a** f*** off to retirement. that makes no sence, now if another site had that setup and ebay cloned it then I could see, but that.....
.... Too many stupid lawsuit happy moronic imbuicals out there! Oddly enough arn't they the reason people arn't alloued to do anything anymore. I mean so many places can't take the risk and as such block off evrything from the public. Maby we should see just all we can come up with. Mine is camping...
Torby wrote: He said they actually got ready to fire a live torpedo at a Russian ship once, but didn't.
Well, Tom the mind strugles to imagine what sort of a world it would now be if they had fired that torpedo.
I doubt if we would have the great hobby that we do have now.
Alan, Oliver & North Fork Railroad
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If you don't know where you are going, any road will take you there. Lewis Carroll English author & recreational mathematician (1832 - 1898)
Can I mention again what is wrong with people?
MAN 'PUT FINGERS ON TRAIN LINE FOR INSURANCE PAY-OUT'
A MAN put his hands under a train so his fingers would be severed and he could collect an insurance pay-out, prosecutors in Austria have alleged. The 35-year-old from the town of St Johann, whose name was not released in line with Austrian privacy laws, is being tried on federal charges of insurance fraud stemming from claims filed in November 2003.
The suspect, a former false fingernail designer, told police he was riding his bicycle when he lost control and rolled down an embankment on to rail tracks just as a train was passing. He lost a thumb on one hand and an index finger and a pinky on the other. Investigators were suspicious when they found the man took out a £700,000 insurance policy a few months earlier.
State attorney Elvira Gonschorowski-Zehentner said prosecutors believed the man cut off his own fingers in an attempt to cash in. But the man's lawyer, Karl Wampl, dismissed as outlandish the idea that he would intentionally have mutilated himself in that way, arguing he could have used a power saw rather than risk death. If convicted, he may face ten years' jail.
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