90's parenting personified?

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Registered: 03-25-2003
90's parenting personified?
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Fri, 09-10-2004 - 7:43am

I found this article interesting.

"There in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I close my eyes, feel their beauty and follow where they lead."

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Registered: 08-19-2003
Wed, 09-15-2004 - 12:04pm
>>Educated decision because I did look at the facts. I didn't not read them. After I read them, I disgreed for our dd.<<

So following your "logic" on what constitutes an "educated" decision . . . if I read the studies regarding how harmful smoking is, yet I "disagree" with these studies findings and continue to smoke, I have made an "educated" decision.



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Registered: 12-10-2003
Wed, 09-15-2004 - 12:05pm
I'm not taking issue with how you live. I am taking issue with the fact that you say one thing then change it completely to suit another post.

You said you don't *read* research. NOW you say you do.

The fact that you NOW claim you read reseach only proves that you change your story to suit your argument.

You claiming I don't "win" is meaningless. You changed your story. So your argument cancels itself out by default. As a consolation, you do win the most "changes to an arguement to suit your needs award."

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Wed, 09-15-2004 - 12:06pm
Oh so not true.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Wed, 09-15-2004 - 12:07pm
So what do you do when you can't watch tv?

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Wed, 09-15-2004 - 12:10pm
You live like 25% of your life (at least) doesn't matter?

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 09-04-1997
Wed, 09-15-2004 - 12:10pm
That must be some historical home. We've got a family of four and went through both President Eisenhower's home in Gettysburg and President Truman's home in Independence and didn't pay that much total. Three of us got four antebellum homes in Natchez, Mississippi for forty dollars (US) this spring.
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Registered: 06-27-1998
Wed, 09-15-2004 - 12:11pm

Don't forget....you aren't addicted if you only do it 25% of your time, then it doesn't matter.

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 12-10-2003
Wed, 09-15-2004 - 12:17pm
Not defend how you live. Defend how it can be an educated decision when you made it clear that you don't read research.

And, IF you NOW have started to read research, as you NOW claim, (because it is essential for you to change your story in order to back that "I make educated decision" argument) how you can say it's an educated decision when you ignore everything to suit your wants.

It's not you lifestyle I am debating. It's the fact that you can't back up your stance without changing your story.

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Registered: 08-05-2004
Wed, 09-15-2004 - 12:19pm
So 'Educated Decision' means making a decision that goes with the norm? Or aggrees with whoever did the study. Or agrees with *you*.

I thought 'Education' meant you read the studies, you know the facts. Educated doens't have to do with the decision, educated means you *know*.

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Wed, 09-15-2004 - 12:21pm
Yes, there is a direct relationship. It costs a merchant to have a payphone located on his/her property, and it costs the phone company to maintain it. If it is not bringing in profit through the coin box, the hassle isn't worth it.

A story in my local paper recently said that the proliferation of wireless phones is contributing to all of the cutbacks in US domestic air service. It seems that airports have been using the profit from the payphones in the terminals to offset their operating costs, thus lowering the per-passenger facility charges that the airlines have to pay to operate there. The payphone profit at this airport was $4.2 million in 1999; last year the phones only made about $248,000. In the same period, the PFC has risen from ~$6.75 to nearly $10. The airports are all going to wireless hot spot technology instead, and charging for it, so that they can make money off laptop surfers instead.

BTW, the newest coin-box trend in airports is (brace yourself) coin-operated electrical outlets. Airports have realized that there is opportunity to make money off of waiting passengers who need to recharge their wireless phones and laptops.

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