stiphy
@stiphy
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Joined: July 30, 2008 7:49 pm
Last seen: February 4, 2021 9:09 pm
Topics: 25 / Replies: 930
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Re: US VI Crime Stats = CRAZY

Those stats are way off. While a life is a life, if 70+% of victims were white while making up only 10% of the population, and most of the perpetrate...

14 years ago
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Re: White policemen

Police have an amazing amount of power to "look the other way" when a suspect happens to be a family member or friend. Even someone who is generally ...

14 years ago
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Re: Top 10 Needed Commodities of the Island...

We need cheaper electricity. From this flows everything else. This would lower the cost for all goods and services across the board, which would in ...

14 years ago
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Re: No more network TV in HD from Dish?

Sean, In the menu 6 8 you can manipulate the aspect ratio a bit. But I understand your comment 100% Yeah, I do this but it still isn't quite...

14 years ago
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Re: No more network TV in HD from Dish?

The biggest gripe I have about Dish's SD feeds is that they aren't in 16X9 aspect ratio. I could live with lower resolution but the aspect ratio game...

14 years ago
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Re: apple repair+stx

I wouldn't hold my breath for there being much open tomorrow. You know everyone on island loves their holidays. 🙂 What's wrong with your mac? It's ...

14 years ago
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Re: I am looking for veteran islander input

I don't know what you have been through but you sound like you are 25 and waiting to die. There are many, many productive years ahead of you...if Ste...

14 years ago
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Re: relocating & Internet speed STX vs STT

As others have said BBVI is your best option. If you cannot have downtime though I'd look for a backup solution as well as the elements and lack of "...

14 years ago
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Re: Anyone recomend a good buyers agent on STX?

So if I've followed this correctly, to sum it up, there are 2 potential "conflicts" of interest here to look at when thinking of buyer brokers. T...

14 years ago
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Re: $12.28 for bread and butter.

I would disagree about people using food stamps. They are usually VERY careful about spending. Not a lot to last a family for a month. I will ...

14 years ago
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Re: $12.28 for bread and butter.

It's out of control and really does make living here tough.. Some of it is probably inflation due to macroeconomic factors (the US government way ove...

14 years ago
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Re: Choice Internet outage

Nug, when they first came out with their "4G" service it was actually working ok on the download side. I was getting 5mbps downloads regularly which ...

14 years ago
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Re: Verizon cell coverage?

The phones work but VZ doesn't offer service here so you will be roaming. Whether that entails fees or not is probably dependent on your plan. Choic...

14 years ago
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Re: What's going on with AT&T? - no service

It's true for cellphone service too. /blockquote> Thanks for that Neil, interesting (and seems controversial to me). Sean

14 years ago
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Re: new phone co?

That's not entirely true I don't think. Choice is using "WiMax" technology which is considered "true 4G" stateside (along with LTE). BUT they seem t...

14 years ago
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Re: Choice Internet outage

Ok, so it looks like they have figured out what my (and my neighbors) problem was. They had the modems set to the wrong frequencies. Local guy said ...

14 years ago
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Re: cost of living versus New York City

Compared to Downtown Washington DC I find the cost of living to be similar here on STX. Food is more expensive, housing is a bit less expensive. Ele...

14 years ago
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Re: Netflix Price Increase

Interesting, I run my Ipod touch through a dd-wrt router that is tunneling everything trhough the states. The router assigns itself as my dns server ...

14 years ago
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Re: hovensa

Good Grief sometimes this board gets tiresome in everyone wanting to prove you wrong. Sean what did I say that was untrue? I said I had not HEARD of...

14 years ago
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Re: WAPA liability for home appliance/ motor failures?

So when my water pump comes on I see a very slight and quick dimming of my lights in my house that lasts about .5 second. Is this indicative of a pro...

14 years ago
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Re: hovensa

They always lay of the contracted labor, like Sun and wyatt around november/december and then rehire them in January/Feburary. It's always been like ...

14 years ago
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Re: Smoking ban in effect; enforcement is delayed

I tend to agree more with the idea that smoking should be banned everyone EXCEPT for private places due to the health risks to bystanders. And to me ...

14 years ago
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Re: Road conditions n STT-STJ vs STX

We get gas on STX at wholesale prices; we have (roughly) 40 cents/gallon less tax than they have in the upper 48; then how come our gas is as expensiv...

14 years ago
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Re: WAPA liability for home appliance/ motor failures?

I vote that Wapa hire Jim and DUN to work on the problems at the source 🙂 Sean

14 years ago
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Re: Road conditions n STT-STJ vs STX

My understanding is that we do not pay any federal gas tax here, we used to but they got it dropped a few years ago going to court to get the .07 fede...

14 years ago
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