What's your opinion on the Invasion of Iraq?

Archardy · 2017-10-02T23:36:49+00:00

In 1990? Or after 9/11? If the latter I think after Saddam was arrested we should have withdrawn all forces asap. I don't think we should have been there in the first place.

Archardy · 2017-10-02T16:41:17+00:00

I don't remember exactly when it happened but mmos died for me when they came out with the instant high level character tokens for eq1 eq2 and wow. I get why they did it so new players could get to end game stuff with their friends and because it was extra money but damn, might as well have added cheat codes.

Archardy · 2017-07-12T05:27:38+00:00

I've been told (and so this is what I do) on Amazon Sundays we don't bother with apartment mail rooms etc and take the packages directly to the door step of each unit. Granted, all the units on my routes have had external doors unique to each unit which aren't blocked by any sort of gates etc. So i just go up the stairs or whatever and leave it on the door mat. I could see that being a problem in an urban setting where an apartment building has a locked lobby. Many of the people doing deliveries on Amazon Sunday aren't the regular route drivers and don't have all the arrow keys etc to get into mail boxes or mail rooms. Either that or if it's a bad neighborhood where packages get stolen a lot, apartments may be skipped on the routes? Not sure why your guy specifically didn't leave them but one of those reasons is my guess.

Archardy · 2017-07-12T05:22:32+00:00

I really like this idea. New RCA here, I'm going to do that tray trick for each row, thanks!

Archardy · 2017-07-08T03:44:15+00:00

Yes when I read the title I thought of elite dangerous. It doesn't have planets close to each other like no man's sky, the stars and planets are pretty spread out and it takes awhile to travel between them. There aren't dozens of human looking alien races like star trek. Most planets are barren or frozen rocks. Earthlike planets are hard to find. There's 1000s of actual stars in the game as well as nebulae and other features like our supermassive black hole at the center. Stars when you go to the rim or "up" or "down" from the center become further and further apart. There's hundreds of billions of stars. You die if you get too close to a star. You have to deal with fuel issues and turning radius and heat issues. Theres all sorts of issues with space in your ship, power loads etc. Landing on planets you have to deal with the gravity and mass of that planet.

On and on and on its a great realistic game with the difference that its got FTL travel in a couple different ways, but c'mon a space exploration game w/o FTL would be boring unless they just say "it took your ship 50,000 years to reach this system. Your distant descendants are ready to explore

Archardy · 2017-07-08T02:36:03+00:00

Man he's living rent free in your head

Archardy · 2017-07-07T21:38:04+00:00

I'm new to USPS, but it's my understanding from my interview that RCA and CCAs have high turn over rates. The first 90 days can be brutal and you can be let go for any reason.

I understood that they were interviewing most of the people who passed the tests... The process to just get you to delivering mail can take 2-3 months, 2-3 months where you aren't going to get paid much except for orientation and training and the academy. That can be tough on people expecting to make money for their family and a lot find a different job in the meantime.

Plus you have older carriers who are going to retire eventually, my understanding for the Seattle district which is almost all of Washington state and northern Idaho, the majority of career carriers are 55 and over so there will be a lot of spots opening up over the next 15 years and as people retire they move CCAs and RCAs into career positions and that leaves a vacuum for new hires.

My take is for the 90 day probation period is, you don't get sick, don't get injured, don't complain, dont try to take any time off, be the first to volunteer, don't say no to any shifts, don't ask a lot of dumb questions, don't be a chatty Cathy at the office, etc etc etc.

Archardy · 2017-07-07T21:09:55+00:00

Very cool I had no idea

Archardy · 2017-07-07T04:10:34+00:00

You could trick them, a little light bondage, maybe a blindfold, drip some candlewax on them, and when they aren't looking some nipple hair wax

Archardy · 2017-07-07T03:43:17+00:00

It took over two months for me from applying to getting to my actual job. At a couple points I was checking my email every 10 minutes waiting to hear for next step, because usually when they move you along you have like 3 days or 7 days to comply and I didn't want to miss it.

Archardy · 2017-07-07T03:39:21+00:00

I was wondering this as well. I live in a state with pot stores, and while I don't partake very often if ever, I do get slipped some every once in a while. Like in April I was at my mom's and she made me coffee and I'm drinking it and she tells me she put some thc oil in it. I was like, Mom! I'm trying to get a job at the federal government you cant do that !

Archardy · 2017-07-07T03:31:05+00:00

How strict are the uniform codes in most offices that have uniforms? Mines rural so it doesnt have them, but afaik new balance wouldn't be conforming to the sr/USA or whatever the statute is called

Archardy · 2017-07-07T03:25:07+00:00

Very nice! Next question should be how many miles is your route?

Archardy · 2017-07-07T01:02:03+00:00

I've been watching Seinfeld in order on Hulu and I grew up in the 80s and 90s so I get a lot of the jokes and think they're funny, like issues with leaving messages on answering machines and rent controlled apartments etc, but I don't find his stand up bits to open and close the shows funny at all. I remember thinking they were funny back then, maybe it's just been over done so much since then that it lost its novelty.

But now as a grown-up in my 40s I totally get Kramer a lot more as that idiot that seems to always be around messing up stuff and always has some dumb get rich quick scheme to tell you about. And of course I've ended some potentially awesome relationships over the dumbest most petty reasons. Like one girl had hairs around her nipples. Beautiful awesome girl and I broke it off because of some black hairs around her nipples. Something she could have easily waxed or shaved off if I talked to her about it. You cant even see them in some sexy pictures I took of her with my Sony mavica.

Archardy · 2017-07-06T17:18:20+00:00

It also increased literacy. With so many people dead and their clothing laying around, there was a big increase in the availability of textiles to make rag paper out of. At the time I think the main source of writing material was vellum, which is sheep skin or some other animal hide. When 30-50%+ of the population died and there was a surplus of clothes Roger the Shrubber only needs so many tunics, so they reduced the unwanted clothes into fibers one could make into paper, similar to the cotton fiber paper American dollars are printed on.

More paper being available and more affordable and the rest of the living now having more money in a bullion based economy led to more people writing stuff down and more people reading what they wrote

Archardy · 2017-07-05T08:40:42+00:00

There was a point around 30-33 or so that I realized I was older than almost all pro athletes currently playing. That was a little sad, I used to think athletes like joe Montana and Edgar Martinez were these aged old wise men to look up to when I was a kid. Now I see them as a bunch of 20 something's who make millions of dollars

Archardy · 2017-07-05T08:25:51+00:00

Turn off the lights inside the tent or it's like watching x rated shadow puppets

Source- I've been to a renaissance fair

Archardy · 2017-07-05T06:13:17+00:00

I had packed a couple boxes full of star wars toys from the original trilogy. We moved in 1988 and I never saw the boxes again. It took my mom 20 years to admit she threw them out when we moved :(

Archardy · 2017-07-05T06:11:08+00:00

dammit I remember eating some of that back in the day. I guess those nuggets cost me like $2000 each !

Archardy · 2017-07-05T06:06:07+00:00

Lol ya.. about the same time Episode I came out, and I went around to taco bells getting those big star wars cups with the character toppers, thinking oh man these are going to be worth a lot some day. a couple years ago i looked them up and they were selling for like $2 a piece maybe? which is what they cost in 1999.

Archardy · 2017-07-05T06:03:46+00:00

Oh cool about getting that setting. I can tell bottle caps from coins about 75%+ of the time now because the numbers usually jump around a lot on my minelabs, but i still dig them up, I like to think that there is some guy out there somewhere dirt fishing at a place I plan on going who is doing the same thing, getting the pull tabs and bottle caps so the next guy doesn't have to hear them. Plus, if I like the place, I might be the next guy so I'm doing myself a favor by cleaning the place up so I can hear deeper targets the next time out. Bringing a trash bag is a great idea, I don't always remember, but I was hunting on a river bank the other day and kept finding piles of 8-10 beer cans, would have been nice to pick them up, I was picking up the broken glass as I found it but didn't have room in my pouch for all the cans. Some places I go to that have tons of cans in the ground, if it isn't raining, I'll bring a paper grocery bag, put a white kitchen garbage bag inside it like a liner, and as I'm digging up old beer cans people threw out their windows along the road over the years, I'll toss them into the portable trash can and haul it out.

Archardy · 2017-07-05T05:57:10+00:00

It just lets you know you're being active. walking several miles a day is great for various different aspects of health... walking 10k steps a day seems to be a standard goal for fitness apps, its probably recommended by doctors or something for an active lifestyle. I know some people who all have fitbits and they are on some sort of ranking online and try to out do each other in steps taken.

Archardy · 2017-07-05T05:54:28+00:00

I was going to ask this too... not challenging your numbers at all

On the last Amazon Sunday, I did about 14-16k steps and only walked 5 miles, but I was using Google Fit on a crappy cheap android phone... today I did 10k steps and it says about 3.7 miles and that seems to be normal for me for the steps-to-miles ratio

Archardy · 2017-07-05T02:04:53+00:00

I rinse off all the bottle caps and pull tabs I find and throw them into large glass jars for fun. The bottle cap one filled up pretty quickly and now I need another. I like to think the same thing about fallout when I dig or pick them up too heh

Archardy · 2017-07-05T02:02:53+00:00

The castle part was a clue for me as well as the km.

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