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Free Talk Live => General => Topic started by: AlexLibman on December 08, 2006, 07:25:36 PM
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- While reading the History of NH (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_New_Hampshire) article on Wikipedia, I came across a word I never heard before - "Newhampshireman". Presumably it's pronounced as one word, and is the correct and gender-nutral way of referring to someone from that great state. If that's the case, why are there only like 50 online references of it (http://www.google.com/search?q=newhampshireman) according to Google? Do we want to (re)popularize it?
- I'm a big fan of forests, so I was very pleasantly surprised to learn that New Hampshire is the #2 state in the nation by percentage of land covered with forests, second only to Maine! This gov study PDF (http://www.fs.fed.us/ne/newtown_square/publications/brochures/pdfs/state_forests/nh_forest.pdf) has some very interesting info about that, including private ownership statistics.
- According to 2003 ACF data (http://www.statemaster.com/red/graph/eco_wel_cas_tot_rec_percap-caseloads-total-recipients-per-capita&nofb=1), New Hampshire had 1.15% of its residents receiving Welfare, which is pretty low but there are 16 states that are lower. The neighboring states of Mass (1.695% on welfare) and Vermont (2.044%) are close to the national average, which could have been expected, but it turns out that Maine (2.842%) is an even bigger freeloader magnet! It's also interesting to look at changes in number of recipients (http://www.statemaster.com/graph/eco_wel_cas_per_cha_in_tot_rec-caseloads-percent-change-total-recipients) from the year before, with Maine once again being a huge disappointment. Anyway, I wonder how much those 1.15% in NH are getting from the government, and how much it would take to switch them over to private charity instead.
- A Wikipedia article called "New England town (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England_town)" is a very interesting read to the uninitiated.
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That's good to hear about the forests. I love my vision quests.
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I'm a big fan of forests, so I was very pleasantly surprised to learn that New Hampshire is the #2 state in the nation by percentage of land covered with forests, second only to Maine! This gov study PDF has some very interesting info about that, including private ownership statistics.
thats cool, I'm sure its relative to the size of the state, I dont see how NH could surpass AK in forests
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Alex,
If you like forests, you'll love NH. It's very pretty here.
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Snowboarding........
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And now, more random thoughts about New Hampshire:
- Google results for "newhampshireman (http://www.google.com/search?q=newhampshireman)" have jumped by ~100 since I started this thread.
- Forbes: New Hampshire named best state to own a car (http://www.forbes.com/home/vehicles/2008/02/14/cars-states-ownership-forbeslife-cx_ae_0214cars.html). "In Hawaii, for example, owning a car for five years will cost the average driver $59,457. Compare that to New Hampshire, where the average car owner pays $47,599."
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- Forbes: New Hampshire named best state to own a car (http://www.forbes.com/home/vehicles/2008/02/14/cars-states-ownership-forbeslife-cx_ae_0214cars.html). "In Hawaii, for example, owning a car for five years will cost the average driver $59,457. Compare that to New Hampshire, where the average car owner pays $47,599."
um NH has yearly inspections.....
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- Forbes: New Hampshire named best state to own a car (http://www.forbes.com/home/vehicles/2008/02/14/cars-states-ownership-forbeslife-cx_ae_0214cars.html). "In Hawaii, for example, owning a car for five years will cost the average driver $59,457. Compare that to New Hampshire, where the average car owner pays $47,599."
um NH has yearly inspections.....
Well, since you brought it up...let's look very briefly at the NH Vehicle Inspection...
If you know the mechanic personally...or even not so much...your vehicle will probably pass unless there is something very much in need of correction...
If you don't know the mechanic and/or are not mechanically inclined...it's a way for the shop to "stay busy"...
For example, a vehicle didn't pass inspection for a ball joint(part of the front of the chassis that allows movement/changes in geometry of the chassis/suspension/steering components to facilitate turning and a smoother ride)... I replaced the ball joint myself and found that the original joint was not worn out or even loose... Most people do not have the capacity to inspect/change a ball joint so that's "easy money" for the shop...ball joints average around $40 to $80 each and are quickly replaced with the aid of normal shop tools like torches and impact wrenches...a shop estimate for this replacement might be around $250 to $400 depending on the shop...
Another "scam" is chassis rust...now I'm not saying that rust doesn't exist...I'm saying that it's an easy way for the shop to make money on a vehicle that is still 100 percent structurally sound...Say they find rust and fail the vehicle...and they give you a "courtesy estimate" for the repairs...say 4 hours labor at $85.00hr and $60.00 materials for a total repair cost of $400.00...so you need the vehicle to pass and you don't have the knowledge/skill/tools/location to do the work yourself so you agree to the "repair"...after you've left the vehicle at the shop they put it on the lift and spend a half hour total time on the repair($42.50 labor) twenty-five minutes with a wire wheel on a power tool and then five minutes to spray over the wire brushed spots with rubberized undercoating($4.00 spray can from Walmart) and they are done...The grease monkey gets paid $10.00hr so the shop pays him his $5.00 for the half hour and $4.00 for the can of undercoating(sure there are some other costs involved like electricity and such) and basically you've just paid $400.00 for a job that might have cost you a couple hours of your time and a can of undercoating from Walmart...If the shop does eight of these "repairs" from 8AM to Noon(half hour per job) that's $3200.00 gross if I've done my math correctly...and with the total costs of personnel/equipment/facilities/utilities/materials/consumables for the eight jobs at around maybe $400.00...now you can see why the shops LOVE the inspection scam...$2800.00 profit that they would not have "access" to...without the inspection system in place...
The above scenario, played out hundreds of times per day in New Hampshire alone, is outright fraud...it's despicable...and the inspection requirement should be ended...
Pretty neat huh!
John Shaw!
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And now, more random thoughts about New Hampshire:
- Google results for "newhampshireman (http://www.google.com/search?q=newhampshireman)" have jumped by ~100 since I started this thread.
- Forbes: New Hampshire named best state to own a car (http://www.forbes.com/home/vehicles/2008/02/14/cars-states-ownership-forbeslife-cx_ae_0214cars.html). "In Hawaii, for example, owning a car for five years will cost the average driver $59,457. Compare that to New Hampshire, where the average car owner pays $47,599."
yeah, but if you own antique cars,like me, you have to sequester them for @ 5-6 mos.; the road salt destroys them; salt air in hawaii does the same, i reckon, but i'd trade the overall climate & cost of car ownership any day, as i look out the window at the fucking snow, once again
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NHA:
MOST automotive garages DO NOT offer rust repair or bodywork. they don't have the facilities to offer such services. ie: spray booth, paint/chemical explosion-proof cabinets, or an entire garage bay devoted to rust repair, or bodywork.
that's why there are so many 'body shops'. they, in turn, don't do mechanical repairs...
fraud,regarding failed mechanical parts,is most likely a common occurence, but failure for rust? not so much.
(i used to work in a garage years ago, & performed inspections)
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NHA:
MOST automotive garages DO NOT offer rust repair or bodywork. they don't have the facilities to offer such services. ie: spray booth, paint/chemical explosion-proof cabinets, or an entire garage bay devoted to rust repair, or bodywork.
that's why there are so many 'body shops'. they, in turn, don't do mechanical repairs...
fraud,regarding failed mechanical parts,is most likely a common occurence, but failure for rust? not so much.
(i used to work in a garage years ago, & performed inspections)
The whole point is that it's a scam/fraud...
And any garage with a lift can take care of "rust" on the underside/unibody/chassis of a vehicle...
Point being...the garage does NOT need any special equipment besides the equipment they already have(lift, grinder, wire wheel, can of undercoating)...
And if the customer is a regular with no "working knowledge" of the inspection criteria...or what chassis/unibody/underbody "rust" IS and is NOT structural...and/or passable...then they should be totally comfortable with the honesty of their service establishment...
As always...buyer beware...
I've seen more scams/fraud...scams/fraud on anything and everything...than I can even recount...
Example: "Spelling your name in all capital letters is different than all lower case and/or spelled normally"...scam/fraud...(do people still fall for this?)
Re: The above example...clarification...IMHO...almost all "law" is a scam/fraud...like 99.999 percent...
IMHO...THE ONE LAW: The Non-Aggression Principle (i.e. Don't start it...but make sure you repel/destroy those who commit aggression/force/fraud)
IMHO...Factual Reality: Each and every human being living in the past/present/future could/can/will be put in one of two categories...
Category One: All the human beings who observe the non-aggression principle and "just want to be left alone"...
Category Two: All the human beings who "advocate/condone/endorse/employ/participate-in" aggression/force/fraud either "directly" and/or "indirectly"...MORE COMMONLY KNOWN AS "TAKERS"...WHO SHOULD ALWAYS BE REPELLED AND DESTROYED...
John Shaw!
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And now, more random thoughts about New Hampshire:
- Google results for "newhampshireman (http://www.google.com/search?q=newhampshireman)" have jumped by ~100 since I started this thread.
- Forbes: New Hampshire named best state to own a car (http://www.forbes.com/home/vehicles/2008/02/14/cars-states-ownership-forbeslife-cx_ae_0214cars.html). "In Hawaii, for example, owning a car for five years will cost the average driver $59,457. Compare that to New Hampshire, where the average car owner pays $47,599."
yeah, but if you own antique cars,like me, you have to sequester them for @ 5-6 mos.; the road salt destroys them; salt air in hawaii does the same, i reckon, but i'd trade the overall climate & cost of car ownership any day, as i look out the window at the fucking snow, once again
What cars do you own? I like antique cars and muscle cars.
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right now, i'm on a chev. 'task-force' series pickup kick.
they were produced from late '55 to '59-
very cutting-edge design at the time
i've got 2) 57 chev. long-bed stepsides (1- is a super rare NAPCO 4wd conversion)
1) 56 gmc longbed/stepside >also a NAPCO 4wd
it's a sickness.
one of my all time fav. cars was a 56 caddy model 62 sport coupe w/ continental kit...i got rid of it 6-7 yrs ago
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- According to Wikipedia, the official state dance (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._state_dances) of New Hampshire is Salty Dog Rag (Dartmouth Outing Club). This Everything2 node (http://everything2.com/index.pl?node_id=490029) has the steps and the lyrics - sounds more like a southern dance to me! C'mon, any Free Staters working on a new dance yet? :lol:
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More random thoughts about New Hampshire:
- The world-famous Old Farmer's Almanac (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Farmer%27s_Almanac) has been based in Dublin, New Hampshire (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dublin,_New_Hampshire) since it's founding in 1792.
- Old Farmer's Almanac just used its super-secret time-tested weather prognostication formula to announce that Global Cooling may be under way (http://www.usatoday.com/weather/news/2008-09-09-farmers-almanac_N.htm), which is pretty bad for those who wouldn't want New Hampshire to get any colder.
- On the other hand... Global Cooling would mean less environmentalist bullshit, so you can turn the heat up and buy a hummer or two - which is in fact very good for living in colder-than-now New Hampshire.
- Just don't put those Hummers on your credit card - N.H. ranks second in median credit card debt per borrower (http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080801/BIZ/808010397).
- Global Cooling might also mean fewer Massholes (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masshole) moving north, which is a good thing, but what if Canadians start moving south? And what do you call one anyway, a Canhole?
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A Canucklehead.
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I encourage Global Cooling, if only because I seek to live in a cold climate.
Colder than Detroit.
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Hmmm, what do New Hampshire and Rwanda have in common that makes Sweden jealous?
On Drudge from NowHampshire.com -- NH Makes History With First State Senate With Female Majority (http://www.nowhampshire.com/content/nh-makes-history-first-state-senate-female-majority) --
New Hampshire's State Senate (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Hampshire_Senate) is now unlike any in the country and unlike any before it. After Tuesday's election, women now make up the majority of the New Hampshire State Senate. In an election year that saw Hillary Clinton, Sarah Palin, and Nancy Pelosi grab headlines and airtime across the country, New Hampshire didn't just vote blue, it voted for women.
In addition to voting in a new state senate with a female majority, New Hampshire voted for the only female candidate in the primary, Hillary Clinton, and voted for the first New Hampshire woman, Jeanne Shaheen (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Shaheen), to go to the US Senate.
Previously ten women held senate seats out of twenty-four in Concord (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concord,_New_Hampshire), but now they hold thirteen. New Hampshire also made news in Washington where there are now seventeen women for the first time in the United States Senate because of Jeanne Shaheen's win. To show the contrast, both United States Senate and House of Representatives are 17% female.
It looks like those millions of cracks in the glass ceiling are spreading.
(Rwanda has 56% (http://www.californiawomen.org/a-world-first-female-majority-in-rwandan-parliament/) female majority in parliament, world's highest, followed by Sweden with 47%, and Cuba with 43%.)
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New Hampshire is now ruled by a bunch of angry cunts. Good going.
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- Google results for "newhampshireman (http://www.google.com/search?q=newhampshireman)" have jumped by ~100 since I started this thread.
Quote the term, or Google tries to be “smart” and ends up returning bogus results; pages containing “newhampshire man” came back, for example. There are about 14 for "newhampshireman" (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22newhampshireman%22&btnG=Search), however there are about 109 for "newhampshiremen" (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=%22newhampshiremen%22&btnG=Search).
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August in New Hampshire - temperatures dropping into the 30s:
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- Forbes: New Hampshire named best state to own a car (http://www.forbes.com/home/vehicles/2008/02/14/cars-states-ownership-forbeslife-cx_ae_0214cars.html). "In Hawaii, for example, owning a car for five years will cost the average driver $59,457. Compare that to New Hampshire, where the average car owner pays $47,599."
um NH has yearly inspections.....
Ouch. I don't know if I could handle that.
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From the AP via Yahoo News -- 231-mph NH wind gust is no longer world's fastest (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100126/ap_on_sc/us_wind_record_toppled) --
CONCORD, N.H. – First the Old Man (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_of_the_Mountain), now the Big Wind (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wind_power_in_New_Hampshire). New Hampshire's Mount Washington (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Washington_%28New_Hampshire%29) has lost its distinction as the site of the fastest wind gust ever recorded on Earth, officials at the Mount Washington Observatory (http://www.mountwashington.org/) said Tuesday.
The concession came three days after the World Meteorological Organization (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Meteorological_Organization) posted a snippet on its Web site saying a panel of experts reviewing extreme weather and climate data turned up a 253 mph gust on Australia's Barrow Island (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrow_Island_%28Western_Australia%29) during Cyclone Olivia in 1996.
That tops the 231 mph record set atop Mount Washington on April 12, 1934.
"It's obviously a big disappointment. Having the world record for over six decades was such a part of the soul of this organization and for fans of Mount Washington around the country," said Scot Henley, the observatory's executive director.
The official title at issue is "highest wind gust ever recorded on the surface of the Earth by means of an anemometer." But to most people in New Hampshire, it was simply "the Big Wind", a source of pride in a state that also revered its Old Man of the Mountain, a rock outcropping that appeared to be a man's profile and was featured on the state's quarter.
The Old Man crumbled to bits in 2003, seven years after the wind record apparently toppled.
Henley stressed that Mount Washington still holds the record for the Northern and Western hemispheres, and said it still can claim to be home to some of the world's worst weather given the combination of bitter cold, snow, wind and freezing fog it frequently experiences.
"So the work continues up there, and we'll be ready for the next one," he said.
No one noticed the new record gust at the time, Henley said.
"Somehow it fell through the cracks and the Australians didn't think it was a big deal," he said. "We hear that, and it kinds of blows our minds, but of course, we're weather fans and we're tuned into that sort of thing."
Henley first heard about the meteorological organization's conclusion Monday, when someone posted a link to the item on the observatory's forum. He contacted the organization and learned that the information was part of a report being presented at an international conference in Turkey next month.
The panel of experts has shared its research with observatory officials, who plan to review it in the coming weeks.
"There's no reason to believe it's not accurate, but we owe it to this institution and to our state and really to weather fans all over the world to make sure it is indeed accurate," he said.
The Mount Washington Observatory is a private, non-profit organization that maintains a weather station at the summit of the 6,288-foot mountain. On April 12, 1934, there were three crew members, two guests, three cats and five kittens at the observatory, according to observer Alex McKenzie, who later wrote a book about the Big Wind.
According to his account, April 11 started with a brilliant sunrise, but the weather soon turned cloudy. By evening, fog obscured the summit and rime ice formed up to a foot thick. Early the next morning, when observer Wendell Stephenson headed outside to clear ice from the anemometer, the wind knocked him flat on his back as he opened the door. When he accidentally dropped the club he was using to break up the ice, it went flying off into the fog. Gusts were at 150 mph.
"I dropped all other activities and concentrated on observations. Everyone in the house was 'mobilized' as during a war attack and assigned a job," observer Sal Pagliuca wrote in a log book.
Gusts grew stronger through the afternoon, until 1:21 p.m., when the 231 mph gust was recorded.
"Many people have wanted to know what we did after that," McKenzie wrote. "Did we cheer or open a bottle of champagne, or what? Well, we didn't do anything special for a while, except make more measurements."
Mary Stampone, assistant professor of geography at the University of New Hampshire and the New Hampshire State Climatologist (http://www.unh.edu/stateclimatologist/), said she had long expected the record to fall.
"As we improve our technology in terms of instrumentation, and we're observing in more locations, we were bound to pick up on something," she said.
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- Forbes: New Hampshire named best state to own a car (http://www.forbes.com/home/vehicles/2008/02/14/cars-states-ownership-forbeslife-cx_ae_0214cars.html). "In Hawaii, for example, owning a car for five years will cost the average driver $59,457. Compare that to New Hampshire, where the average car owner pays $47,599."
um NH has yearly inspections.....
Ouch. I don't know if I could handle that.
Eh, it's not so bad, just tip the guy a $20, or if you think he's a tightass, a $50. As long as emmissions tests aren't involved, it'll pass every time.
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The oldest Newhampshirewoman died today (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_oldest_american) at the age of 114 years and 294 days. She was also the oldest person in the United States, but who cares. Coincidentally the second oldest person in the U.S. also died a few hours later in Michigan at the age of 113 years and 342 days.
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The FSP e-mail newsletter for August mentions some positive state statistics:
- NH #1 in Child Well-Being (http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/acrossstates/Rankings.aspx?loct=2&by=a&order=a&ind=137&dtm=10657&tf=133) - The Annie E. Casey Foundation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annie_E._Casey_Foundation)'s 2010 Kids Count ranked (http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/acrossstates/Rankings.aspx?ind=137) New Hampshire in overall child well-being. (Interestingly ultra-conservative fertility champion Utah ranks 4th on that list, while California ranks 19th.) This is the 3rd year NH received top ranking.
- 2nd Best Job Growth in the Country (http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=NH+had+2nd+best+job+growth+over+past+year&articleId=fc7ec25d-0f11-47d2-a4e3-0758796ea378) - According to the US Labor Department (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Labor) (which should obviously be more biased toward more socialist states), New Hampshire experienced job growth of 1.43% between June 2009 and June 2010, which resulted in 8,900 new jobs. (Number one were the Washington moochers (http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=8174020&page=1) in Kentucky.) Nationally, the number of jobs fell by .1%.
Other Newhampshirama news sampling:
- NH to host ‘A Prairie Home Companion’ (http://www.bostonherald.com/entertainment/arts_culture/view/20100815nh_to_host_a_prairie_home_companion/)
- "Woodstock for the senior set" boogies on in New Hampshire (http://news.bostonherald.com/entertainment/music/general/view/20100816woodstock_for_the_senior_set_boogies_on_in_new_hampshire/srvc=home&position=also)
- NH to commemorate Portsmouth Peace Treaty (http://www.bostonherald.com/news/national/northeast/view/20100815nh_to_commemorate_portsmouth_peace_treaty/srvc=home&position=recent) (which ended (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_of_Portsmouth) the Russo-Japanese War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russo-Japanese_War) in 1905)