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I'd look hard at those HSU Quads, 2 for each system. I think you could do structural damage! Those or Conquests are the contenders for me. 4 Conquests are pricey. I don't care for the mono directional sound of a single sub. I've read good comments about the wireless aspect, but I remain suspicious and really uninformed about that. Seems way cool. Think you give up a bit of efficiency for the wireless. I'd run it wired as I still cling to old technologies a while. Happy hunting

And now Bush throws down the gauntlet for Congress to act. I don't mind a bit of goop on the beach if gas goes back under two bucks!

I'm with Endover ... it's hot'r than _ _ _ _ in the attics down here in the summer. Basically everything you store up there get's kinda crunchy over time. Maybe it has to do with absorbtion due to dark shingles? Ridge vents are not entirely waterproof which can be an issue given the frequent rains. Some can be, but the typical contractor grade can get some water thru it if the rain comes sideways.

Impressive, nice looking work Wonder if that would fit in my car???? Next time don't glue your hands to the bar ... Then the sub won't eat as much

Telepathy - then you tell your instructor your will be sending him your paper that night. Blame him (or her) for being a crappy receiver if it doesn't get through and demand an A for all the hard work he (or she) lost after you thought about it and did your mind fax. Why write it out when you can put it to the real test?

Ummmm, wife Hawaii You Amsterdam? [6]

Sure you are Surely you jest Okay, I'm done. Way to go and gratz on landing the gig. Isn't there some type of bean sprout type sandwich that helps pass those tests??? Pour some gold tequilla in the cup and act indignanat when they ask questions. Oh, that's after you get the job. Ignore that advice. Really, sure sounds nice!

Mick Taylor over Billy Gibbons?? Riiiiiiiiiiiiight. Not in my book. Looks like a bias to the oldies. Which guitarist stands the best chance of being able to play what the other 199 can play? Wonder how the list would look if ranked by being able to play the music of the names below? Even the mighty Hendrix would slip a good ways, ya think? My thought is the top few would include - 1) John Petrucci - Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment 2) Steve Vai - David Lee Roth, Whitesnake, Solo 3) Yngwie Malmsteen - Rising Force, Solo

Good question, not really a simple answer - Few things previously mentioned seem good. Get a street tire. Max out or slightly overinflate the tires. Big tire/wheels bad, but your truck suspension is set up for a particular geometry and you can't put on those ole Yugo rubbers. The topper idea appears interesting, tho I'd doubt a huge percentage increase. Seems, I saw research that compared tailgates and the conclusion was along the lines of no tailgate reduces weight. The drag affects were minor. SUVs would seem to get better than pickups by definition if it were a topper issue. Gearing will change things. Depends how/where you drive. On one hand the driveshaft will turn fewer times to rotate the wheels. Good or bad? I'd say it depends. At some mph your engine will lug along. More stress on trannny possible too. Better on flat land than hills. Depends on the torque curve for your engine too. Depends how agressively you gear and/or drive. Most trucks I've looked at offer a basic setup and one option that delivers alternate gearing for towing. Often this conundrum is solved with an overdrive gear. Tranny solution, not rear end. I'd think if they could get mileage by simply changing gears the factory would offer that as an option. Now that doesn't mean you can't do it. Unless you drive a LOT it's probably cheaper to keep the car and drive on rather than buy new. New tires, gears, topper cost X dollars. You can figure out how much you would need to drive to feel good about that spend. Hate to say it boils down to horsepower (torque really), weight and some degree of aerodynamics. The gearing tends to facilitate moving the aforementioned along by keeping the tach at the desired rpm. Just put some big honkin subs and mids in that ole Ford and plot the next station to fill er up at! A small nuclear reactor may be a good solution, tho you would need to add some A/C capacity. Blow up them tires - it's good for a little. Watch out for snake oil!

Opps, wrong chart - thanks Colin! Bout the same conclusion - specs long, trade short. Hedge exempt positions much larger than spec positions as you pointed out above. Almost 50 50 so nobody has a clue I'd venture. Everyone likes to blame specs I guess. I think your trading logic was sound until recently, particularly with Ags. A couple things to consider. 1) 401k funds have nowhere to go and are really doing some strange things to markets. Every group that manages the actual contract (the overseeing Boards or Committees) want those spec funds allocated against their commodity. In Ags it's usually cotton, coffee. Smaller contracts can't pull enough liquidity to pass the test. I wrote the NFC contract and while I think it was a good idea, 3 hurricanes and canker killed it. Just bad timing. It's still there, just de-listed tho. Probably need to open it up to Brazilian if it goes again. The All Florida logic made sense until the crop was 135MM or so. 2) Exchanges can represent world production and other countries have other laws. 3) Some commercial accounts hide out as specs. I'll call that the typical Cargill vs Dreyfus battle! 4) Anti-dumping orders, IMHO often what a waste to help the undeserving. That outta get somebody riled up. You all paid for it. 5) Electronic trading, good and bad points. 6) Fluctuating margin requirements. These can get quite painful, which is why when the DOW blows off it often drags the commodities with it as the big boys scramble to cover their stock positions liquidating their "small in the scheme of things" commodity positions for cash. 7) With the internet there are few real suprises that one can capitalize on. For example, you can't go out and see the orange is frozen, or the port is going on strike and have much of an advantage over the guy at his PC anywhere around the world. I think most traders would agree, that eventually the market is right and comes in line with real supply and demand. The periods of aberation can be long and painful. Cool thing is for trade accounts, who cares where the price goes as long as you got what you needed to get done. Point being, if you need to sell 3 contracts to hedge your farm it doesn't much matter how long the market traded where you needed it to be. It got there is the operative word. So, the daily range can be a solution even when the close is a problem. Yeah oil is ugly. Take a look at corn and natural gas. I'd bet the soda big boys are freakin! Lastly, buy lemon juice now! It's gonna get ugly - heh. CRUDE OIL, LIGHT SWEET - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE Code-067651 FUTURES ONLY POSITIONS AS OF 07/01/08 | --------------------------------------------------------------| NONREPORTABLE NON-COMMERCIAL | COMMERCIAL | TOTAL | POSITIONS --------------------------|-----------------|-----------------|----------------- LONG | SHORT |SPREADS | LONG | SHORT | LONG | SHORT | LONG | SHORT -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (CONTRACTS OF 1,000 BARRELS) OPEN INTEREST: 1,294,480 COMMITMENTS 216,934 194,966 209,804 786,950 805,374 1213688 1210144 80,792 84,336 CHANGES FROM 06/24/08 (CHANGE IN OPEN INTEREST: -11,595) 5,797 8,046 -6,117 -20,896 2,163 -21,216 4,092 9,621 -15,687 PERCENT OF OPEN INTEREST FOR EACH CATEGORY OF TRADERS 16.8 15.1 16.2 60.8 62.2 93.8 93.5 6.2 6.5 NUMBER OF TRADERS IN EACH CATEGORY (TOTAL TRADERS: 328) 89 126 127 83 100 261 270 I'm crawling back into my hole!

Market needs specs In no particular order of importance - Markets without specs have little or no volatility - the trade just plays with itself. Not all bad, but of little value. No volatility implies little or no price movement. Options values sink or become non-liquid. No price movement eventually means liuttle/no use even for the hedgers/trade. No traders means no market (contracts do die, errrrr get delisted). Any person that can open a trading account can short oil or any other commodity, or buy puts when they think it is overbought. Specs also can push the prices too low, just isn't happening right now. Specs usually have a lot more "bullets" in their guns to effect price moves versus trade accounts that are hedging physical or future inventories (bank/cash/audit controls - usually). I say we need both specs and hedgers!!!! Peek at commitment report below - specs and trade actually increased their short position! Granted specs are net long. Trade is net short. Seems normal to me for a rising market. NO. 2 HEATING OIL, N.Y. HARBOR - NEW YORK MERCANTILE EXCHANGE CFTC Commitment of Traders *Combined Futures and Options* Jun 24, 2008 Reportable Positions as of Jun 24, 2008 Non- Reportable Positions Speculators Commercial Total Long Short Spreading Long Short Long Short Long Short 27857 16325 58579 152958 175712 239394 250616 39042 27820 Changes from last report - Change in Open Interest: 9518116 330 -832 9126 9482 8410 8980 1108 538 Percent of Open Interest for each category of traders10.0 5.9 21.0 54.9 63.1 86.0 90.0 14.0 10.0 Number of traders in each category; Total Traders: 3434 21 41 62 66 118 112 (CONTRACTS OF 42,000 U.S. GALLONS) Open Interest: 278436

My suggestion is read carefully before you plunk down your $$$. Some of the software requires firewire connections and often that isn't Windows compatible, until you add a firewire port. I'm doing something similar and learned the hard way!

That would seem to me to be a bet on two things. A summer hurricane and the following FL crop. Can't ignore those fundamentals forever! You would have won 22 times and lost 19 over the past 41 years! (Buy in June sell Oct analysis). Guess you would get creamed coming out of a freeze (historically). Wierd thing is there are few suprises anymore in weather which has hurt the FL gang. You can monitor a Florida freeze from your computer, anywhere in the world now. So, on average it would be a winning trade (slightly) over 40+ years, but you could lose your butt in any given year couldn't you?

I'm movin to Montana soon Me thinks Zappa - do I get Dweezle and Lisa Loeb too with that one? Frank has a lot more to listen to than Pink Floyd, so, ummm, yeah, Zappa. Roberta Plant would cover a lot of ground tho. Hmmmmmmm.

Amy, will this get me initiation? Minstrel: [singing] Bravely bold Sir Robin rode forth from Camelot. He was not afraid to die, oh brave Sir Robin. He was not at all afraid to be killed in nasty ways, brave, brave, brave, brave Sir Robin. He was not in the least bit scared to be mashed into a pulp, or to have his eyes gouged out, and his elbows broken. To have his kneecaps split, and his body burned away, and his limbs all hacked and mangled, brave Sir Robin. His head smashed in and heart cut out, and his liver removed, and his bowels unplugged, and his nostrils raped and his bottom burned off and his penis... Sir Robin: That's, uh, that's enough music for now, lads...

Hrmmmm, does that mean I should sell one fast?

Good tip - thanks. I'm gonna grab one too. I saw them open for Aerosmith (I think it was) maybe in 1972 or 3. I had never even heard of them at the time. I saw a bunch of naugahyde white Marshalls with steer horns on top and thought. OMG, I'm gonna have to sit through some unknown country band. (I was a Pink FLoyd, Who rocker type). Well, they came out and blew me right outta my salt stained Michigan Chukka boots. I recognized Tush and LaGrange but never knew who played it back then. Fan ever since. I still drag out and play Fandango on vinyl.

Sweet - I've been dragon stalking for months! Nice score.

I really like it and it got my wife hooked on Robert Plant post Zep. 29 Palms is her new fav song. We flew to Birmingham to see them live and it was a treat. You can probably still catch the 1 hour Rob/Allison show on CMT if you can do a search. If you got the vinyl recently I'd say you are lucky, it went out of print quite a while ago and I searched all over the world (literally) to find 2 copies. I read somewhere this was released before Burnett adopted his new protocols. Just a timing issue thing.

Amy - could you post the frequency response and efficiency for the T-Shirts please? Maybe a graph or curve? Do the ducks like them? I'll take a couple too ...

I'll venture a couple thoughts - Getting bit perfect music out of the PC is the goal. USB works fine for transferring that. Sometimes the objective is getting the data stream away from the soundcard. Your computer's music player (Winamp, iTunes, etc.) can affect things, as can the "resolution" of the music you play (when you initially ripped it). If you rip AIFF or uncompressed with error correction on that's a good file to start with. Some folks are ok with FLAC files which are a bit smaller. Using a PC you can explore ASIO to get the data stream out. Windows can fiddle and convert files, which you want to avoid. I don't do it this way, but as I recall, ASIO is a format for data that allows one to sort of fool windows by not letting it know it's really audio. Hence, windows doesn't fiddle (i.e., mess up) with it. So, if you can get a bit perfect stream out of your PC, you have most of the battle won. Then you go into a DAC, which might well be the one in your Pioneer, or an external one. That's the next link in the chain. Then you analog RCA from the DAC into your receiver, which with the Pioneer it sounds like an internal process.

Given the quantity of speakers CC and BB sell, why the heck wouldn't Klipsch want to have an offerring to market through that channel? Maybe it will absorb some of the overhead so they can continue to supply all those great Heritage products.

Hope I can tag along here since this is kind of a DIY thread, I feel inspired to build a couple subs, or at least try. - I have a lot of tools, but the one thing I am lacking is a nice table saw. What do you guys suggest? I'm looking at a Grizzly for about $1,400. http://www.grizzly.com/products/10-Table-Saw-3-HP-Single-Phase-220V-Left-Tilt-w-7-Rails/G1023SLX I like some others but they cost about 2X, not sure I'd get more other than to keep my fingers maybe if I stick em in the blade. I just need good cuts and a good fence with an extension. Any thoughts?

I thought I read someplace a) it was an unsolicited offer. when the economy goes south beer stocks tend to go north?

Audiopulse LMS sounds like my cup O tea, "Ported, or rather 4th order vented systems are notorious for being distortion porn." Now there's a new fetish I need like a whole in the head.