Came home today and

[grsthegreat]

My favorite t-shirt of all time was one I saw in Idaho Falls. It said "Idaho sucks. GO HOME. Tell your friends."

To anyone not living in Idaho, listen to grsthegreat. Idaho is full of skin heads and crazys. Everyone is suspicious of everything you do. We have insanely cold winters, and brutally hot summers. It's dry and the wind blows all the time. Trucking into Idaho is expensive, so everything from hay to harrows costs more. Big Brother does nuclear tests in the center of the state. Cell phone reception and internet availability are scarce. The high desert and harsh lava rock cause an above normal exposure to the sun's radiation.

It's best you all stay home and leave the wide expanses of open space and free range to grs and me.

I agree 100%. I need to locate my ice shoes and crampons so i can go check my mailbox. Ill be back in about 2 hours after this little chore.

Then ill have to go and check my gun emplacements to verify they haven't been breached.. so make that 4 hours.

[grsthegreat]

Most intersections here.. as in most large towns have a myriad of cameras mounted on them. Most are simply lane occupancy detectors, but others are some sort of spy garbage.

I know here in Idaho, the Post Falls police have a computerize camera system that actually photographs EVERY license plate that travels under the overpass on the I90 freeway. These images are computer checked against stolen vehicle list, wanted persons list, etc., and can dispatch police cars to nab the bad boys and girls. No person is actually involved except as a verification in-case of a partial read.

While on the surface i can see some good points with this system, i still smell big brother out there.

http://pipstechnology.com/images/upl...r_Jan_2012.pdf

your federal tax dollars wasted again

[Iplayfarmer]

I agree 100%. I need to locate my ice shoes and crampons so i can go check my mailbox. Ill be back in about 2 hours after this little chore.

Then ill have to go and check my gun emplacements to verify they haven't been breached.. so make that 4 hours.

If we haven't heard from you in a day we'll send out the recovery sled and some rations. If your sidearm siezes up due to ice, you can use it as a club against the hungry wolf pack. Just remember you have to kill at least two... One to distract the rest of the pack and one to provide a few days nourishment until the rescue party gets near enough to drop a few more supplies.

[grsthegreat]

If we haven't heard from you in a day we'll send out the recovery sled and some rations. If your sidearm siezes up due to ice, you can use it as a club against the hungry wolf pack. Just remember you have to kill at least two... One to distract the rest of the pack and one to provide a few days nourishment until the rescue party gets near enough to drop a few more supplies.

Actually, i hope to get that Sherman Tank they have parked next to the VFW hall and rig it up with a snow plow attachment.

The wife said i can have it, as long as i can put it to use.

I can probably get rounds for the main gun....you know, for avalanche control... ya thats it. Heck, this is Idaho, im sure i can get some rounds

[Iplayfarmer]

Actually, i hope to get that Sherman Tank they have parked next to the VFW hall and rig it up with a snow plow attachment.

The wife said i can have it, as long as i can put it to use.

I can probably get rounds for the main gun....you know, for avalanche control... ya thats it. Heck, this is Idaho, im sure i can get some rounds

If you can't, let me know. I know a guy.

[tglass]

Ok, i was able to take some pics of these boxes. there putting theme everywhere. your tax dollars at work.

here are a few

Looks quite a bit like that. Say's something like LT3079FGA ultra net. Still wishing it was some kind of high speed internet, phone, and television service at a decent cost. I would think if it was I would have received some type of trash mail giving a cheap price for the first year and not showing the rest of the hidden cost.

[Iplayfarmer]

...I would think if it was I would have received some type of trash mail giving a cheap price for the first year and not showing the rest of the hidden cost.

I think you're right. If there was a way for you to pay money as a result of those boxes, you'd have heard of it.

[masscity]

Our electricity usage is read right through the lines. The advantage to this is when the lines are down they can find the break by seeing whose meter they can't read.

Power outages took longer to fix when I worked in the city then up here in the UP Michigan.

[buckeyefarmer]

What? A state actually wasting taxpayer's money? Say it isn't so!
Here in MD, the state landscaping contractors have been bush hogging overgrown trees and shrubs growing alongside the roads, so they can plant purty trees in their place. All while the state has no money to pay teachers.


And on the subject of tin foil hats and such, pink floyd says it best:
What did you dream? It's OK, We TOLD you what to dream.