The majority of people use Windows Federal Credit Union, although I hear Linux Federal Credit Union is gaining popularity. (Sorry, couldn't resist!)
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Gee, if only there was some easy way to check things like this...naw, that'd never work.
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nicobolas Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ironically for all those that haven't gathered the > small bits of intelligence or lack thereof on your > behalf I’ve walked in a blizzard longer then the > road I was hit on walking in snow or ice is never > a pleasant experience but I have places I have to > be now just cause I’m too poor to get your &g
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Gordon Blvd Wrote: > I'm a moron. So if I can see it about 5-10 second > BEFORE I get to the intersection, I'm a little > stumped as to how all these other ppl can miss it Most people don't look more than 10-15 feet ahead of their cars. This manifests in several ways, among them the phenomenon I call "The Red Sea", where they enter a highway and drive blindly (typically without accele
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FWIW, I doubt there's a "regulation". It's more likely a "standard of the reasonable man" scenario. Assuming that anybody on this forum is reasonable (a stretch, I realize) and a man (also not clear), some of them think you're toast. If you're not on the edge of losing your license already, I wouldn't bother. If you are, and you can afford the $$$ but not the inability to drive, then go for it
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nicobolas Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > so i'm walking away from the apartment complex > that i live on and its off as in right off a > highway. I have no car and cannot get a lift > because of snowstorm, now both sides of the road > have snow and i'm walking on the right side of the > road not in the middle of the right lane just the > edge
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doyan Wrote: > The large photo is NOT the one from the car. Really? You say that just because the numbers are different? Nicdoot: Pay attention. You'll live longer.
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Or get admitted to Reston Hospital -- I always see it on trays there.
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Eater of Tacos Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Since when is 3-6 inches immobilizing? I remember > driving to school on days with 3-6 inches of snow. > Media hype. It ain't you, it's the morons with the 40-profile tires, convinced that the answer to lack of traction is "moar throttle!"
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eesh Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I heard somewhere that the remaining Roys are the > result of a single franchisee that was able to > keep the stores open and hold onto the trademarks. GIYF: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Rogers_Restaurants
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Can't quite read it...what does it say?
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Go to www.fairfaxcounty.com/dta and see if you can find it. With the VIN I'd think you can. It will want the "property number" at first; in the future, pay online (via e-check, no charge) and let it save the property number, so you can look it up by letting your browser fill in the number. (Yeah, I know this because I, too, failed to keep my PPT bill with my tax stuff, and my tax guy needed the n
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Tbone Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Clydes of Reston, has a great chicken n walfell,on > the bar menue. Walfell? Sounds painful. Bad drywall?
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So one thing I've been unable to tell for sure from the 495expresslanes.com site: If I get on 495 northbound from Jones Branch, can I get off on the Dulles Toll Road? It sort of looks like I *can't* from the wee animation on https://www.495expresslanes.com/using-the-lanes, but it's not entirely clear.
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Gordon Blvd Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > you guys ready to lose your ever loving mind? That's a highway, all right. Without context, that's all it is. Want to give it some meaning?
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Taqueria Anda, 920 Harbor Blvd in Santa Ana, a few miles south of Disneyland. Best tacos I've ever had. Bit of a long way to go, but if you're in the area...
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Right, my plan is to die like most of the rest of ya... Fact is, there's no reasonable way to evacuate a modern city. The attempt to do so would be likely to cause mass deaths anyway, as folks panicked. Nobody in power wants to admit this, for obvious reasons--nothing nefarious, just common sense.
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So this is goodbye to Gordon Blvd? Yay!
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Don't forget the canonical Jehovah's Witness joke: Knock knock...
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Google: exploding oven door class-action ...and be prepared to be irritated.
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I was with you up to "Democrats are full blown communists". You really need to read up on what "communist" means. The current Democratic party would be considered moderate to conservative in any other first-world country, or by either US party as of just a few years ago. And it certainly isn't "communist" by any accepted definition of the term.
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I've been peering at FiOS for the last year or so, though we're reasonably happy with Cox. The two things that keep me from making the switch (aside from inertia/hassle avoidance) are: 1) Verizon claims that if we go to FiOS, all phone lines to the house have to switch to VoIP. We have two hard lines now, on separate accounts. I'd rather keep one of them as a hard line; so far, nobody at Verizon
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One day a week is 10%? Interesting math. Just sayin'...
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Damn... http://www.timhortons.com/ca/en/about/kandahar-withdrawal.html Not that I was likely to get to that one any time soon!
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URL got truncated: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-state-of-nova/post/the-death-of-bryan-glenn-did-the-fairfax-county-police-mishandle-it-did-the-news-media/2012/10/16/cdbbe820-124f-11e2-ba83-a7a396e6b2a7_blog.html
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OK, this isn't OP's fault, but nice to know that neither undergrad nor grad school teaches anything useful, like how to deal with accepting a job offer. Or even how to use Google: "job offer" stall gets a bunch of solid hits.
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Gordon Blvd Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > @greybeard - remember how that shopping center had > two Giants - one for groceries and one for drugs. > .................... Yes! Went in the wrong one, couldn't figure out where TF the food was...
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Whobe Wrote: > There was an Ollies in Annandale? That pic looks > like the one in Arlington, think it's still there? It does kinda...that was my thought when I saw the pic. As for whether it's still there, GIYF: https://maps.google.com/maps?q=arlington+cinema+and+drafthouse&ll=38.86309,-77.084439&spn=0.001474,0.002578&oe=utf-8&client=firefox-a&fb=1&gl=us&hq=cine
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