fratermus
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I always remove "offensive" tracts when I see them
I'm curious. What is offensive about religious material? I'm not religious at all and can't imagine being offended by finding religious material. Sometimes I even read it, but more often I leave it there for whomever may actually enjoy it. My own beliefs (or should I say lack of) developed after years of serious consideration and thought, so no tract is going to convert me, therefore I see no reason to be offended.
I do not find religious materials (in the larger sense) offensive. I rather like comparitive theology and enjoy learning about the beliefs and practice of others.
OTOH and IMO, religious tracts are by definition offensive. They are simpleminded, hamhanded, deeply self-righteous propaganda for one particular brand of religion.
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Destroy because of a religious theme!!!!!!!!??????!!!!!!! I'm not sure what is more scary - that somebody would do that - or - that somebody would think others would do it. Does this thinking extended to religious items left in a cache?? (just what kind of country are we becoming)
I think it's possible.
One possible scenario: member of minority religion (what the general public would call a cult/occult/satanism/whatever) misguidedly places a religious-themed cache.
A local mainstream religion's youthgroup finds out about it and sees this as damaging to the community and removes the cache entirely or replaces original items with prosyletiszing tracts.
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Now call me shallow if you wish but knowing someone served, in whatever capacity, in our nation's forces gives them a little more credibiity with me when it comes to what they say. It sort of says they've walked the walk, not just talked the talk.
I do not assign more or less credibility in non-military matters to vets.
Having said that, I worked with the Army's Pershing II missile system from 1984-1988. INF and all that; "we handle more thermonukes by breakfast than most people handle all day". ;-)
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We have just recently downloaded the nRoute program and we are very impressed. Turn by turn directions, trip routing, tracking, satelite status and lots more. All the information your GPSr will tell you on a much bigger screen. if you have a Garmin GPSr the nRoute software is a free download from Garmin and I also have the Garmin mapsource Topo and Metroguide maps. The combinations of the maps and nRoute is pretty amazing.
I just used nRoute for the first time the other day. Wasn't expecting much but I was very pleased.
Went out and eBayed a car power cord for the laptop later that day!
BTW, it doesn't take much $$$. My nRoute laptop is an old thinkpad I got off eBay for $115.
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Well with all the info I got here I just orderd my first GPS yellow Garmin eTrex. I orderd it from the GPS Store. I also got a PC interface cable on ebay for $6.88. I cant wait to get them in the mail. When it comes do I need to set up the gps to work with the web site. Or is the defallt settings going to get me started? Well thanks for all the help.
Roger
You can start downloading the .loc files you want, then use freeware EasyGPS or whatever to upload them.
If you've got a laptop, I'd recommend downloading the freeware nRoute and snagging an older version of MetroGuide (ver 4 or 5) on the cheap from eBay. It'll use your gps to do turn-by-turn direction on the road. Pretty cool.
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I know I'm dreadging up an old topic here, but I didn't see the use in starting a new one for my question. I got my garmin legend today, did much of the stuff listed, downloaded gpseasy or whatever that first program is, and plugged the cord that came with into the gps, and the puter and....
nada.
am I missing something??
btw, the waypoints have downloaded into my computer just fine, just not over to the gps.
Thanks,
Octavia
Probably need to try a different comport or something like that.
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By "Numerology" they probably mean the quackery of turning names into numbers.
There are languages where letters themselves are used for numbers, so that names/words/strings/whatever really do (or at least can) have numerical meaning. Some of these languages are strongly associated with a particular religious practice.
The most obvioius examples would be Hebrew and Greek.
I am sharing this (gently and non-stridently I hope) so you don't unintentionally offend folks in mixed religious company.
fm,
always intrigued by comparitive theology
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not to start a flame war or anything, but i'm not sure why there's so much interest in women in caching, women's safety while caching, or women's caching events.
not from everybody, mind you. some folks seem overly uh, invested in the topic.
i'm going to go stand over there now. then i'm going to get edited, moderated, and i'm going to close the topic real quick.
Because we're a small enough group as it is; losing the females would be a huge loss.
Because having women involved means it's more likely the men will be allowed to buy more GPS toys. :-)
Because we are interested in the safety and happiness of all humans.
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I hesitate to say this because there is a good chance that you will take it the wrong way. Please don't.
The best way to know what is a cool way to hide caches is to find some. Find the urban micros in your area. You will notice that some are really great and that others just plain stink.
Next, take a walk around your downtown. Pay attention to the neat places and try to think of how you could hide a small container in these interesting places.
I think your input was valuable and gently expressed. I see no likelihood of offense being taken.
As a newby, I look for info like this from the more experienced players. Thanks!
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Well I went back today and found the cache! Woo-Hoo! Great fun. I walked within 5 feet of it yesterday, but didn't I see it.
That's pretty common on my own hunts, too! :-)
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>Not to be rude, but I'm guessing that you have not been awaken in the middle of the
>night to Mortar Fire.
I didn't read that as rude at all; it was not intended to be so. Rather, I read it as a way to assign to the poster a degree of authority on the topic that the others do not have. A variation on "If you're not [fill in the blank] you wouldn't understand."
Although many of us *would* understand, it is still does not illuminate the discussion of how GC placement might or might not affect compound security.
>Yes I had thought of this since its no real secret. At the same time if I was searching
> the web and I searched, for instance Iraq, I could find a bunch of compounds without
> even having to be physically there, or knowing anyone there, or the area at all.
Compounds != geocaches, although one might argue that caches placed by foreigners might be near their compounds.
Caches placed by locals (or foreigners for that matter) could be anywhere.
>Common knowledge when your a local is one thing, being able to find something from
>across the globe is another!!!!!!!!!!!
Being able to find something from across the globe is one of the cornerstones of modernity and "progress".
>I do, however, like the Idea of placing caches that will bear some longevity for the
> future, and not endanger anyone's loved ones.
I disagree with the idea that the placement of a cache and publishing the .loc would endanger anyone but the placer or seeker (assuming the cache description didn't contain stuff like "cache located in Compound Bravo"). Even the GC ban on tactical locations probably has more to do with avoiding LEO suspicion and bad press than endangering the location itself.
fm,
who is no stranger to compounds, and who wouldn't want to go caching in an area famous for IEDs anyway.
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I'm new and this may be a dumb question, but... I see things on eBay that resemble potentially dangerous devices which are designed to disguise caches. For example electrical junction boxes and outlets.
I saw them, too, and hoped no one was using them. I don't like the idea at all.
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Are you downloading 1 cache at a time? You know you can click on a bunch of them, and the download will combine them into a single Geocaching.loc file. Once you open the single file you will see many caches inside.
Yeah, I just figgered that one out last week. I'd been doing it The Hard Way.
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Can anyone tell me where to get info on terrain and difficulty numbers? I can't find anything on the web site.
Thanks
I've been wondering the same thing.
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When Mitey Mite goes off alone she brings, as always, her concealed weapon. She is in way less danger than anyone who has bad thoughts.
That's my method, too.
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Wow, you folks weren't kidding about the noise. I was expecting it and it was still a bit startling.
Converted those three DNFs on the way home, and I'll never look a lightpole the same way again. :-)
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anyone know if its possible to add a audio file to a cache page so it plays when the page is opened ...Thanks
Pages that force audio on viewers are, IMO, evil.
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The thing I find ammusing is he aludes to but never states that it is an Indian sacride place, which many people would be up in arms about defending. But even after reading throught it couple times I am left wondeing what is theis supposed sacride place? I think it was probable some Druidic site or a wica site or some weird fringe group site, sorry if I offend anyone I dont mean to. But I just find it interesting that the allusion to an Indian site is strong. If it had been and Indian site then the Federal goverment would have been all over it. I think they were as much interlopers as any one else in the area. And how about the lighte they brought in to light the candles that is not premeited in a designated wilderness area.
cheers
>throught it couple times I am left wondeing what is theis supposed sacride place? I
>think it was probable some Druidic site or a wica site or some weird fringe group site,
>sorry if I offend anyone I dont mean to. But I just find it interesting that the allusion to
Every religion was a fringe group at some point.
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Thanks for the input, folks!
fm,
who had been blissfully ignorant about the anatomy of lightpoles up to now.
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Ok, my last three searches resulted in DNFs because the only thing at the location was a lightpole. No magnetic fasteners or anything else that could hide a cache.
Ding! I read an article about 1/1 lightpole caches.
Ding! maybe the lightpole itself hides the cache.
Ding! all three poles had access plates
Am I supposed to remove the access plate and look *inside* the light pole? If so, does this kind of thing make anyone else nervous? Anyone get questioned by cops or property owners about it?
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>I was using my Vista (similar to Legend) with Metroguide for years but it is
> a rather difficult way to drive your way from one place to another. Ther'es
You can build the route from cache to cache on the PC and then navigate the route.
>no auto-routing,
No autorouting in the GPS, if that's what you mean. The autoroute built on the PC can be uploaded to the Legend/Vista, and navigated as a regular route.
>audible voice prompts or sound of any kind and the black and white
> screen is tiny.
The freeware nRoute download from garmin gives audibles and screens as big as your laptop is. :-)
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Ok, lets save some time here...It's Jeremy's site, he doesn't want virtuals listed at this time. Questions? Now if I could just find a dead horse to beat...
A cynic might say because there's no way to hype www.geocaching.com on a virtual. :-P
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If it didn't take A Really Long Time to load the maps to the GPS, you prolly didn't load them. :-)
You can control level of detail in the GPS, as another poster suggested.
And there is a max level of zoominess; at some point it will say "overzoom", which means you can still magnify the map image but no more detail will show.
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I think that is what the 'taking his toys and going home' comment was intended to convey. Two different ways of saying the same thing.
If I was going to pick at the essential differences between the two, I'd say that your version is less inflammatory and focuses on the specific situation. The nominal flamer's version focuses on how such a reaction fits into the general types of behaviours we hairless apes tend to display.