Re:buy an old S10 and convert it to electric
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There is no doubt about it, an electric car is not for everyone. I personally, could not have just an electric car (vacations, etc), but our second car could be electric. For commuting, electric is IMO, the way to go.
To the parent: The costs of owning an electric car and a gas car are different. Aside from the obvoius fuel cost differences, an electric car is MUCH more reliable than a gas car. An electic car has very few moving parts. Ever spent $1000 repairing your car becuase of a hard to pin down problem?
Oil chagnes are my least favourite part of owning a car. Every several months I have to wait in line for 30 mins to wait 20 mins for some high school kid to change my oil @ $50/pop. Electric cars need oil changes something like every 70k km.
My point is (and I do have one) that while electric are not in a position to kill gas cars, they do make sense to be used for daily commutes. I think that the maintenance for electric cars (battery replacements) would be quite in line with conventional cars.
No, I don't have an electric car (but would like one in the coming years).
I remember popping Amped 3 in my 360 and booting it up. I start the game at the top of the mountain looking down. ELO's Blinded by the Light starts playing and I start ripping down the mountain and pulling MAD tricks left right and center (it was HARD to fall). The music totally made the first several minutes seem almost surreal.
Then I got to the first cut scene and the music sucked from then on... I was really dissapointed, but it shows the influence that sound can have on a game.
Sorry, but I would dispute some of the finer points:
Would you want to pay $10 for a gallon of milk? Your milk is produced domestically. Milk is collected from farmers in big trucks, where it gets boxed or bottled by domestic workers. My milk costs less than $1/L.
[...]$50,0000[sic] for that basic car[...] Domestic cars are currently quite inline with foreign. Granted, many of the parts still come from overseas. The real reason foreign cars do so well is because they are reliable (domestic is working on this).
[...]unions were needed back in the 1920s and 1930s. But they have out lived their usefulness. I would argue that things are moving back towards the way they were in the 20s and 30s. We have large companies (walmart for example) that pay peanuts, and rake in huge profits. Could they afford to pay thier employees more? What about provide health insurance? It seems to me that there is an unequal distribution of wealth. Unions are not the sole answer, but a start in the right direction. Also, the Unions aren't bringing down the company, it's the pension plans that the companies agreed to pay out.
[...]Unions[...]almost always cost more to the company forcing it to either raise prices or look else where to cut costs. Agreed. Unions increase labor costs. What does that mean? It means that Joe trucker makes and extra 3/hr and gets a pension and possibly minor health care. It means that apples cost $.85 vs $.75, but the trucker has a better chance to support his family. The trucker also has more money to spend, thus investing in the local economy. Moving jobs outside the country also moves all the money outside as well. Instead of paying 1000 workers $100/day they pay 2000 workers $2/day and one big wig a $25,000,000 bonus, which will get deposited in an offshore account and never get taxed.
,The loopholes are huge. Look at GM's $17 million a year just on Viagra One day you will need Viagra. These people are old, give them their pleasures. If you want to cut out loopholes, how about start with the tax system. It seems that the more money you make, the more exemptions are available to you. IMHO, off shore bank accounts that are used for tax evasion are one of the biggest prolems right now. These criminals are stealing from the less fortunate (you and me) by not paying their fair share of taxes and rely on the average citizen to make up their shortcomings.
The world is (and always has been) ruled by the elite, for the elite. I would like to have it run by the elite(i'm a realist), for the people.
I would much rather fly in a toilet stall. They are private, rarely have screaming babies, no one reclines their toilet into your stall, and some even have private screens for watching adverts(better than most movies they show).
I stopped playing WOW about a year ago. It was the same thing over and over. Push number, wait for bar to fill, push another number, wait for bar, then loot. Rebuff, and start again.
To me, this expansion means nothing. I would be curious to hear if this expansion will cause any players that have left to actually rejoin.
For federal tax, yes, but we pay provincial tax too. Then at the end of the day we take our earnings and pay more tax in the fuel we put in our cars, and more to the GST. I really like fuel tax, because they charge GST on top of the fuel tax, so the tax gets taxed.
Before someone says "When the pump says $20, that's what I owe, there's no GST." The GST is included in the base price.
[...]at least they didn't introduce an "Unlimited system access fee", claim it to be some sort of vague government forced thing, and then charge more for the fee (that is mandatory) than the service plan costs.
Uh yea they do. My bill dated July 25 has the following fee: System Access Fee - 6.95.
Wanna hear something even more crazy? The "Basic" Voicemail only allows you to have 3 messages for something like 48 hours. If you want more than 3 messages, you have to upgrade to another tier.
I was really hoping for a good Telus bashing today. Looks like I have my chance.
I have had nothing but problems with Telus. They cripple my phone, cripple the internet when viewed through the phone, and charge customers through the nose.
HERE IS A TIP TO GET FREE VOICEMAIL/SPARK 10/CALLER ID:
1)Call Telus (*611)
2)Yell AAAGGENT into the voice recognition system.
3)Yell AAAGEENT again.
4)AAAGEENT.
5)When you get a human say "When I connect to the mobile web, my phone takes me to the Telus homepage. I am then charged 2 cents. I didn't want to go to Telus' home page, I wanted to go to www.google.ca. Can you please block access to all websites hosted by telus.
6) They say "We can't do that."
7) You say "You guys are ripping off paying customers. I would love to change my homepage, but this crippled handset won't let me. Instead whenever I use my mobile browser, I get directed to Telus home, and charged 2 cents.
8) At this point they will do anything to get you off the phone, DON'T HANG UP!
9) Tell them that you are not hanging up the phone until this issue is resolved.
10) Eventually they will realize that they only solution is you give you a free spark 10 plan (so you don't get charged for viewing partner sites) which also includes VM and caller ID!
11) Save $10/month.
If you are a Telus customer (I feel your pain) please call them and do the above. It works, and you can screw telus out of some money.
To me, this is a problem for the Credit Card companies to fix. I think that some companies offer this already, but there should be a service that is included in the credit card that you can to to your bank's website and request a one-time credit card number. It can only be used once, and only for the amount that you specify.
I live in ranching country, and when I pass the cows on the road, it seems quite random to me. If I was lost, and came across a cow, I wouldn't use it for directions...
It turns out the the sticks that monkeys use to dig bugs out of trees are no more efficient than the sticks that biologists use to dig bugs out of trees. From this I can conclude that monkeys are equally as smart as humans.
Quite correct. Usually one starts with some sort of authentication, perhaps even using a third party. Next might come a simple handshake. After estiblishing a connection (perhaps idle), the male attempts to ultimately penitrate the security of the female. Once this is accomplished, a swap of DNA is in store, followed by a sleep.
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There is no doubt about it, an electric car is not for everyone. I personally, could not have just an electric car (vacations, etc), but our second car could be electric. For commuting, electric is IMO, the way to go.
To the parent: The costs of owning an electric car and a gas car are different. Aside from the obvoius fuel cost differences, an electric car is MUCH more reliable than a gas car. An electic car has very few moving parts. Ever spent $1000 repairing your car becuase of a hard to pin down problem?
Oil chagnes are my least favourite part of owning a car. Every several months I have to wait in line for 30 mins to wait 20 mins for some high school kid to change my oil @ $50/pop. Electric cars need oil changes something like every 70k km.
My point is (and I do have one) that while electric are not in a position to kill gas cars, they do make sense to be used for daily commutes. I think that the maintenance for electric cars (battery replacements) would be quite in line with conventional cars.
No, I don't have an electric car (but would like one in the coming years).
I think that posted to the wrong site. I think here is where you wanted to post. LOL OMG!!!!!11onehundredandone!
So what you're basically saying is you live in an average market. Gotcha.
Written, no. Performed, well, watch the video... Perhaps your understanding of the word "performed" is wrong.
I remember popping Amped 3 in my 360 and booting it up. I start the game at the top of the mountain looking down. ELO's Blinded by the Light starts playing and I start ripping down the mountain and pulling MAD tricks left right and center (it was HARD to fall). The music totally made the first several minutes seem almost surreal.
Then I got to the first cut scene and the music sucked from then on... I was really dissapointed, but it shows the influence that sound can have on a game.
I think you mean almost 303 degrees Kelvin.
Sorry, but I would dispute some of the finer points:
Would you want to pay $10 for a gallon of milk?
Your milk is produced domestically. Milk is collected from farmers in big trucks, where it gets boxed or bottled by domestic workers. My milk costs less than $1/L.
[...]$50,0000[sic] for that basic car[...]
Domestic cars are currently quite inline with foreign. Granted, many of the parts still come from overseas. The real reason foreign cars do so well is because they are reliable (domestic is working on this).
[...]unions were needed back in the 1920s and 1930s. But they have out lived their usefulness.
I would argue that things are moving back towards the way they were in the 20s and 30s. We have large companies (walmart for example) that pay peanuts, and rake in huge profits. Could they afford to pay thier employees more? What about provide health insurance? It seems to me that there is an unequal distribution of wealth. Unions are not the sole answer, but a start in the right direction. Also, the Unions aren't bringing down the company, it's the pension plans that the companies agreed to pay out.
[...]Unions[...]almost always cost more to the company forcing it to either raise prices or look else where to cut costs.
Agreed. Unions increase labor costs. What does that mean? It means that Joe trucker makes and extra 3/hr and gets a pension and possibly minor health care. It means that apples cost $.85 vs $.75, but the trucker has a better chance to support his family. The trucker also has more money to spend, thus investing in the local economy. Moving jobs outside the country also moves all the money outside as well. Instead of paying 1000 workers $100/day they pay 2000 workers $2/day and one big wig a $25,000,000 bonus, which will get deposited in an offshore account and never get taxed.
,The loopholes are huge. Look at GM's $17 million a year just on Viagra
One day you will need Viagra. These people are old, give them their pleasures. If you want to cut out loopholes, how about start with the tax system. It seems that the more money you make, the more exemptions are available to you. IMHO, off shore bank accounts that are used for tax evasion are one of the biggest prolems right now. These criminals are stealing from the less fortunate (you and me) by not paying their fair share of taxes and rely on the average citizen to make up their shortcomings.
The world is (and always has been) ruled by the elite, for the elite. I would like to have it run by the elite(i'm a realist), for the people.
Agreed, this is /., a community full of armchair scientists. At least use SI units!
Sounds like a big pile of awesome to me.
Speed? - Check!
Noise? - Check!
Engineering? - Check!
Potential for large explosions? - Check!
Are you sure you havn't pissed someone off?
I would much rather fly in a toilet stall. They are private, rarely have screaming babies, no one reclines their toilet into your stall, and some even have private screens for watching adverts(better than most movies they show).
I stopped playing WOW about a year ago. It was the same thing over and over. Push number, wait for bar to fill, push another number, wait for bar, then loot. Rebuff, and start again.
To me, this expansion means nothing. I would be curious to hear if this expansion will cause any players that have left to actually rejoin.
June 14. In the US it is Apr 23.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax_Freedom_Day
For federal tax, yes, but we pay provincial tax too. Then at the end of the day we take our earnings and pay more tax in the fuel we put in our cars, and more to the GST. I really like fuel tax, because they charge GST on top of the fuel tax, so the tax gets taxed.
Before someone says "When the pump says $20, that's what I owe, there's no GST." The GST is included in the base price.
[...]at least they didn't introduce an "Unlimited system access fee", claim it to be some sort of vague government forced thing, and then charge more for the fee (that is mandatory) than the service plan costs.
Uh yea they do. My bill dated July 25 has the following fee:
System Access Fee - 6.95.
Sorry if you were being sarcastic.
Wanna hear something even more crazy? The "Basic" Voicemail only allows you to have 3 messages for something like 48 hours. If you want more than 3 messages, you have to upgrade to another tier.
The "Basic" VM is not free either...
I was really hoping for a good Telus bashing today. Looks like I have my chance.
I have had nothing but problems with Telus. They cripple my phone, cripple the internet when viewed through the phone, and charge customers through the nose.
HERE IS A TIP TO GET FREE VOICEMAIL/SPARK 10/CALLER ID:
1)Call Telus (*611)
2)Yell AAAGGENT into the voice recognition system.
3)Yell AAAGEENT again.
4)AAAGEENT.
5)When you get a human say "When I connect to the mobile web, my phone takes me to the Telus homepage. I am then charged 2 cents. I didn't want to go to Telus' home page, I wanted to go to www.google.ca. Can you please block access to all websites hosted by telus.
6) They say "We can't do that."
7) You say "You guys are ripping off paying customers. I would love to change my homepage, but this crippled handset won't let me. Instead whenever I use my mobile browser, I get directed to Telus home, and charged 2 cents.
8) At this point they will do anything to get you off the phone, DON'T HANG UP!
9) Tell them that you are not hanging up the phone until this issue is resolved.
10) Eventually they will realize that they only solution is you give you a free spark 10 plan (so you don't get charged for viewing partner sites) which also includes VM and caller ID!
11) Save $10/month.
If you are a Telus customer (I feel your pain) please call them and do the above. It works, and you can screw telus out of some money.
FedEx will leave it at your door if you leave a note saying:
DATE
Mr. FedEx driver: Please leave package with tracking number XXXXXXXXXX on the back porch/between the doors/wherever.
thank you,
your name
sig
Address, including zip/postal code.
Interesting. I'll try that with my next purchase. Thanks!
To me, this is a problem for the Credit Card companies to fix. I think that some companies offer this already, but there should be a service that is included in the credit card that you can to to your bank's website and request a one-time credit card number. It can only be used once, and only for the amount that you specify.
Shouldn't "Although" be capitalized? It IS a new sentance. You, sir, fail as a Grammar Nazi.
I live in ranching country, and when I pass the cows on the road, it seems quite random to me. If I was lost, and came across a cow, I wouldn't use it for directions...
It turns out the the sticks that monkeys use to dig bugs out of trees are no more efficient than the sticks that biologists use to dig bugs out of trees. From this I can conclude that monkeys are equally as smart as humans.
I see an error on thier logic.
Quite correct. Usually one starts with some sort of authentication, perhaps even using a third party. Next might come a simple handshake. After estiblishing a connection (perhaps idle), the male attempts to ultimately penitrate the security of the female. Once this is accomplished, a swap of DNA is in store, followed by a sleep.
Xbox360 doesn't run Windows you insensitive clod!