25 Automatic Gunfire in the Kawishiwi Triangle (Read 28217 times)
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Re: Automatic Gunfire in the Kawishiwi Triangle
Reply #30 - Jun 5th, 2009 at 1:00pm
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db ; "BTW - As someone who uses these puppies to an extreme... ... - correct me --- dumb down the rules if you must ... show me a better way..."

I'll be glad to help.  A simple sentence contains a verb and a subject.  The vast majority of properly designed sentences will end with a period.  If you wish to connect two related but separate sentences, a semi-colon(Wink is the proper tool; use them sparingly.

The ellipsis is used to indicate missing words.  They are usually used in a quote: "BTW - As someone who uses these puppies to an extreme...show me a better way...."  It the missing words at the end of the sentence, use four periods; it they are missing from the middle of the sentence, use three.

Good luck.  I'll be keeping an eye on your progress. Shocked
  
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Reply #31 - Jun 5th, 2009 at 1:36pm
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EXPOSED!

Thanks for wasting my time Bamabu.  Angry  I really enjoy conversations on Wilderness ethics and the proper response to the situations we face.  Your posting on the BWCA board, however, shows your intent and your disregard for meaniful conversation.  While I may not agree with either end of this conversation, I am dissapointed that the intent was to cause "havoc." 

That being said, I will no longer read your posts.  You have lost all credibility!
  
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Reply #32 - Jun 5th, 2009 at 4:09pm
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Jiimaan wrote on Jun 5th, 2009 at 1:00pm:
db ; "BTW - As someone who uses these puppies to an extreme... ... - correct me --- dumb down the rules if you must ... show me a better way..."

I'll be glad to help.  A simple sentence contains a verb and a subject.  The vast majority of properly designed sentences will end with a period.  If you wish to connect two related but separate sentences, a semi-colon(Wink is the proper tool; use them sparingly.

The ellipsis is used to indicate missing words.  They are usually used in a quote: "BTW - As someone who uses these puppies to an extreme...show me a better way...."  It the missing words at the end of the sentence, use four periods; it they are missing from the middle of the sentence, use three.

Good luck.  I'll be keeping an eye on your progress. Shocked

That is a fairly limited view of the use of an ellipsis. It can also be used in situations where an em dash would typically be used. For example: it can be used as an aposiopesis (i.e. at the end of a sentence trailing off into silence). It is also commonly used as a pause in the sentence.
  
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Reply #33 - Jun 5th, 2009 at 5:01pm
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Oh my.

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Reply #34 - Jun 5th, 2009 at 5:38pm
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I think they should have just stuck with the painted flames...
  
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Reply #35 - Jun 5th, 2009 at 6:01pm
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I like to use them....to connect incomplete thoughts....or mutterings.  Four dots....is serious...three is less so......but six, means I'm pondering hard.  Anyway...that's how I learnt it...

Love this place...learn something everyday....and ellipsis 'eh?  wiki (for what it's worth....says my use is legit as well....)
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Re: Automatic Gunfire in the Kawishiwi Triangle
Reply #36 - Jun 5th, 2009 at 6:28pm
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"What a bunch of heroes over there on QJ!!!!! "approach the campsite in early morning hours and start small talk and blah blah blah.....take pictures of interior of campsite blah blah blah" OK, let me go and rile the sleeping Taliban, dont think so, I dont pretend to be a tough guy.....like some."

As the author of that post, I accept the "tough guy" moniker and ANYTHING that riles the Taliban, I consider my patriotic duty Wink
I've found that when dealing with Officials of any kind, you better have your ducks in a row. Pictures are worth a thousand words. First hand observation can be enlightening as well. You can approach ANYONE, if you do it in the right way. For starters you gain their empathy, not insult them Sad
 The whole episode boils down too your word against the purported violators. The FS heard you out and made a judgment call.
 HAVOC is a two-way street, your busted and any credibility you had is down the crapper!
  
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Reply #37 - Jun 6th, 2009 at 9:40am
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Well, as far as the campfire thing, Akulas photo of the truck fire prompts me to post a photo my daughter took in 2007 while on a camping trip she took with me in the hills of Montana. We spent long days in grass meadows among lovely pine stands, and at nights sometimes the sky would clear and all the stars in heaven could be seen.....but mostly our night skies and campsites were illuminated by the warm glow of the fire.
  
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Reply #38 - Jun 6th, 2009 at 4:26pm
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Yellowbird,
Isn't that what you'd call a YOOPER bonfire Grin
  
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Re: Automatic Gunfire in the Kawishiwi Triangle
Reply #39 - Jun 7th, 2009 at 1:25pm
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solotripper: I'm attaching another photo........one that I took of my daughter taking a photo. I am the owner/ opperator of a small business that  specializes in emergency responce at the National level.  Earthquake, floods hurricane, volcanos , wind storms and wildfire is the typical stuff we respond to when disaters are of significant size to overwhelm the Government Agencies available resources and additional help is needed to manage the situation. Formal classroom and field training is required and certificates certifying my qualifications and those employed by me are required. Both my son and daughter have worked with me in the past as well as other young men and women with an intrest in this type of work.....something not everyone is cut out for. The other fellow in the attached photo volunteers his time to teach youth firearm safety programs, snomobile and atv saftey courses. He is also an 20+year ex voluenteer fireman and a verteran of the U.S Army airborn division. As a result of my children working with me and other "rough neck" types ,My daughter is persuing a career in wildfire management, and my son presently is a volunteer fireman on our local dept. and is persuing membership on the county sheriffs search and rescue team. Solo, your taglines by Churchill and Orwell are ones that I hope some of my neighbors will read and consider when they refer to some of us people as gun toting,beer drinking, pickup truck driving rednecks.......I kindly ask those neighbors  "When the chips are down and the BIG AX falls"..........."Who you gonna call?" Wink
  
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