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RE: Another Mathemagical Survey

> Thanks Moe > > I'm suprised that no one has called me on the rejected monuments :-PDidja pull em? 😉

14 years ago
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RE: radians anyone

Radians are dimensionless. For geodetic calculations, it is typical procedure to do computations with angular measurements in radians.

14 years ago
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RE: GPS vs GPS + Glonass

you should have some default settings where satellites are rejected (i.e., elevation angles <20d, poor geometric distribution, etc.) Beyond that, I...

14 years ago
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RE: Today's Youth Wouldn't Have Survived pre 1970

I rely on this passage from Ecclesiastes (7:10) to keep me from carping too much about today's times vs. yesterday - "Do not say, 'why is it that the ...

14 years ago
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RE: East line or easterly line?

> When calling to a line, do you use:> > "...to the East line of Section 10....thence....."> > or> > "...to the easterly line of ...

14 years ago
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RE: Nedra Speaks .............

sorry to hear that GS. MI is uber-particular about the degree requirement...even so far as unless the degree was earned from one of two in-state schoo...

14 years ago
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RE: College Football Pick'em

College Football Pick'em-RandyMy fears are with another suck season under Rich Rod (probably a given), and UofM getting a hard-on for Les if he all of...

14 years ago
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RE: speaking of bottom feeders...

RICK WILSON CONSTRUCTION LAYOUT, INC> Andy> > I have followed a surveyor that started in the 1880's and was still surveying 1n the 1960's. S...

14 years ago
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RE: Uses for Old Plumb Bobs

spring time... stickin sugar maple trees. Also turning points on level runs (all the time)

14 years ago
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RE: College Football Pick'em

count me in but prefer anything but Yahoo. the other sites I don't think require you to create an account(?) At any rate, I don't need or want another...

14 years ago
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RE: Nedra Speaks .............

> Indeed, the young CE's are idiots. Funny because they have 4 yr degrees. While us old farts with high school diplomas and 20+ years experience ...

14 years ago
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RE: This Old Surveyor, How Many Are Left?

> I have been in the business since 1972. Did all my calcs by hand and then came the hand helds with the sub-routines that allowed the kids to pus...

14 years ago
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RE: Personal weather station

Temperature working range on that pretty limited for cold weather states (> 23F).

14 years ago
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RE: Field Vehicle

butch> That might have been it, 460, I thought it was 490, though. It needed to be that big just to push itself around. The '73 when it got a lit...

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RE: Broke the weather record for Anchorage

Oh I'd be a tropical person in a minute! My wife & I honeymooned in Kauia - quite a bit different than Oahu (the Honolulu side awayways). I think ...

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RE: Field Vehicle

just think Steve...Maybe was the 460 ci? I think only Caddy had bigger, at 500 ci (stock issue that is). I had a '74 Bird way back when, with the 460....

14 years ago
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RE: Broke the weather record for Anchorage

I recognize Waikiki beach there and the two condo towers - my mom had an aunt & uncle that retired to Oahu and I got to spend a week there in the ...

14 years ago
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RE: beer mug

Don't forget, in the first one, it was his mom doing all the killin! then there was one where he fights Freddy from Elm Street...

14 years ago
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RE: Another Ethics Question

agreed. Somebody owns it, if not a patentee (or heirs thereof), then the govt.

14 years ago
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RE: Ethics Perspective ???

well, depends too on the recording (and agency review) requirements (if any) of whatever state, and presuming, that this plat would be approved & ...

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