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note that SUV sales and gas sales have not been negatively impacted by the gasoline increases recently.

So no, raising the price of gasoline is an utterly inefficient way of doing anything other than causing inflation.

Like most market based solutions, they just don't work.

I realize that I'm Johnny-come-lately, but IIRC putting more quarters in a meter that is not expired, and whos time limit you haven't exceeded is OK. But if it has expired, or you have stayed longer than the limit you are guilty and are supposed to turn yourself in or somesuch.

That's why you get cases like http://www.cincypost.com/news/1998/meters020998.ht ml, where puting coins into expired meters is judged to be obstructing police enforcement. /rolleyes

okay, this is my last post.

i can't convice you that oil companies are collaborating because it is only in their best interest and there is nothing to stop them. oh well. guess i'll just give up....

all hail the oil industry, a model of efficiency proficiency, and incorruptability that will never be topped in the history of the world...

pysche.

http://www.accc.gov.au/content/index.phtml/itemId/ 596718/fromItemId/2332

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/economy/jan-june00/ oil_2-17.html

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c106:H.R.382 2.RFS:

http://economist.com/agenda/displayStory.cfm?story _id=1602123

http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AI D=/20050804/EDIT/508040321/1003

oh, and those links work.
unlike this one...
http://articles.roshd.ir/articles_folder/mohandesi Science/mechanic/HowstuffWorksHowGasPricesWork.htm

and they're legit, whats roshd.ir? (i can't read arabic.)

and, this final link...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/2908133.stm

you wanted evidence?

well, i don't think you'll be convinced. so i can't change your mind, you can't change mind. and we both wasted time typing meaningless shit on some nerd website. good debate, but not a big fuckin' deal.

"The Energy bill is a mess the likes of which haven't been seen since the Patriot Act. That's where the focus needs to be."

well said...

oh, and nobody in the media seemed to notice that the senate just passed a 300 BILLION dollar bill for ROADS!!!
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/07/29/highway.bil l.ap/

did i miss something...wasn't there all of this uproar about that 87 billion dollars for iraq? hey, those soldiers can find their own armor, but those potholes have to go!

this makes me wonder how the corruption between government and the media actually works. are the news people just dumb, are they in cahoots with all the congressmen, or are they only controlled by a few so that, unless those few get angry, they don't report it.

i think we need more reporters like this guy...
http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AI D=/20050804/EDIT/508040321/1003

I have a real question. Why did Comair's system fail in the first place? Was it due to a design flaw requiring it's replacement in 2004? Was it an irreplaceable piece of hardware which died?

If I remember correctly, the ID number to index schedule changes (which was a 16-bit integer) overflowed. I think they said they never expected more than 32,000 changes in a month.

http://www.cincypost.com/2004/12/28/comp12-28-2004 .html

Actually, they can be. Cincinnati is getting ready to institute speeding cameras, and the expected revenue is $12 million per year. Some members of the city council are looking at this specifically as a revenue source to help balance the city budget.

Back in the days of the Flint trials (70's) I attended the church that was also attended by the county prosecutor (Simon Leis) who was made to look pretty foolish in that movie. So of course, my attitudes were skewed by my young exposure to one side of that issue.

Yes, Cincinnati continues to be pretty strict about porn, and they periodically raid stores looking for ways to clean it up. They usually end up hassling the owner, and losing (or dropping) the case in court. But I read somewhere (and I believe) that most sexual material enters the town in the mail - and that there is far more sexual material per capita shipped in BECAUSE of the ban.

So I have a hard time believing that it's illegal! I just don't believe that Cincinnati belongs on that list (although compared to other towns, this is MUCH cleaner from a porn-shop / dance club / prostitution perspective). Or maybe pornography is illegal, but they are "softening" their "position" as to what is considered pornographic.

Funny story: At work we were watching out our window, and were amazed to see what looked like a hooker in CINCINNATI !! (Northside, if you must know). We all gathered around; we just couldn't believe it - it's so out of the ordinary in this town. Then a guy comes to try to pick her up. She removed her shoe (the cue), and police cars swarm. I don't think it would have been so odd in other towns, but we don't get out much!

The Bush administration's decision to ignore the Geneva Convention and assert the right to hold captives indefinitely under the legally ambiguous category "illegal combatant" has left it with a nasty dilemma. What do we do with these people?

One thing we don't do is build a network of secret, extraterritorial prisons where terrorism suspects that U.S. authorities don't want to free or bring before U.S. and foreign courts can be held for life. According to the Washington Post, this proposal is among those being considered ...

Indefinite, incommunicado incarceration without the right of trial is a horrible affront to American ideals. It certainly makes a mockery of what we purport to stand for in the eyes of the world. And as details about the treatment of Iraqi prisoners and the detainees at Guantanamo leak out, there have to be grave doubts that a system operated in secret would be humanely run. ... As for secret prisons where inmates are held for life without trial, the old Soviet Union bequeathed us a name for such a system -- gulags.

.... no EDS at that shop. The old vice-VP of IT, now "senior vice president of customers" preferred IBM Global Services to get his 'master plan' from. Back in 1999, they wasted gobs of money on IBM to tell them how to 'make their systems go', but in the end, the didn't really change a thing.

Democrats were only accused of doing this by the Republicans and only laptops (the easiest and most valuable hardware to steal) were taken, quickly from an office where they were plainly visible from the street.

Engaging in vandalism against Bush offices by teenagers is not quite as bad as tearing up valid registrations.

Criminally negligent op-ed pieces do not facts make.

Accusing a group of committing illegal activities with no evidence is a typical Republican tactic.

Press releases aimed at creating a non-existant scandal and failing are pretty weak as a source.

Finally, defrauding a company by making up fake voter registrations to earn more money in a $9 per hour job is not making people think they are registered when they are not.

Take off your DNC-issue blinders, and maybe you'll see that both sides engage in all sorts of nefarious activities to make sure their side wins. Nothing to see here, move along.

You hope so? Better close your eyes then. That's right, the police can arrest you and haul you off to jail in chains for speeding, failing to signal, honking without due cause, having your stereo too loud, not having your seatbelt done up, or turning into the wrong lane. Instead of getting a ticket, you go to jail. They usually don't, because that would be dumb, but they CAN and there is NOTHING you can do about it. They don't even need a reason, other than they felt like harassing you.

On the topic of new police powers, they don't need warrants anymore, either. Link

To Jail this week.

Theres your big company hackers you disenchanted fool. A friend of mine too. Up the river for a good long time.

Wanna know where they went? They got smart and stopped doing this.

Unfortunantly, he is rather busy at the moment.

I would send him an email and tell him about it, but I don't think he's gonna be answering anything electronic for a little while.

No, this is not a joke. Yes, this is a real friend of mine. And yes, I am probably a rat bastard for posting this on here. However, he did some of this from *home*!

Jesus eppie, I thought you knew better than that!

I guess the reason I am posting this is for all those of you who think that "thrill hacking" for fun, and not doing any real damage, will just get you a slap on the wrist if you are caught. Bet thats what eppie thought.

According to Nielsen SoundScan, which tracks album sales, 681 million were sold in 2002, down from 785 million in 2000.

But if you look here for instance, you'll see that the article starts with "Christmas 2002 may wind up being a season to forget for some of the country's biggest retailers". Times are tough all over. I went shopping at 3 differnt malls on Christmas Eve, and I had no trouble finding parking, and I know that the malls were completely dead before Christmas too.

Best Buy announced that it would close 107 stores...

I've got a sneaking suspicion that Best Buy's decision to close 107 stores isn't completely linked to Kazaa et al. Also, I want to know where on Kazaa I can download a new TV, DVD player, and accessories for my new cell phone.

Also, with regard to Best Buy, how many of the stores that they closed were because they'd bought Future Shop and were duplicating in the same market? IIRC, they're closing a couple of stores in and around Bellingham, WA, since the Future Shop is about 2 blocks from Best Buy.

-- Ray

This is quite revealing as to why traffic laws aren't uniformly enforced and why the general public has such contempt for them. Police officers are simply tax collectors and receive an amount of respect communsurate with that position from most motorists.

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The Dayton Daily News and Cincinnati Post reported last week that the Cincinatti, OH and northern Kentucy bus transit system will begin useing a mixture of used oil from fast food resurants and diesel later this month as part of a test of a new way to fuel diesel engines. It drops the price that the bus system pays for their fuel to 50 cents a gallon. Read the Cincinnati Posts story here.

Progressive has a black box they are putting into the cars of volunteer insurees in certain areas. The box lets them track your driving habits.. the times you drive, where you drive to, what parts of town you drive in, the kinds of roads you use, how often you make sudden lane changes and sudden decelerations, and most important, the speed you drive. Subscribers who allow them to attach this device to their car sometimes get better rates becuase their habits fall into the left hand side of the bell curve these insurance types reference before they take a dump. How long before your insurance company requires you to have one of these for the first 6 months they insure you? Heres a link to a recent story on the box.
Ohh yeah.. they patented it, so maybe that will slow down some of the other companies from adopting this.