Yea, right, you are blaming it on a global scarcity?
Try blaming it on bad people with guns forcing the relocation of their rivals to places without food along with the same bad folk preventing relief supplies from getting to the helpless in rival groups as the main cause of hunger.
Just like cattle overgrazing a field, humans have become more and more of a risk to their own existence. If there were fewer humans, we would have many fewer problems.
Wait, you are trying to tell us that we are somehow running out of food even though the supply keeps increasing and the price keeps decreasing?
All well and cute, but I have no idea what the mileage per gallon is in my Hydrogen Powered Hacker Jeep and I don't care either. If I could not afford the fuel I could not have afforded the payments when I was paying it off.
Good luck to you on your mechanic bills and all of those european fuel taxes!
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Well, my kid is in college on an academic scholarship, so I am past many of those basic issues. But, IF you wished to depreciate the car you have in an accelerated manner you could with a little re-shuffling of your books. It is probably not worth it if you do not have an on-going business operation, which is the real point of that structure.
Now, if your efforts are employing a few pople, like the efforts of most of the people who you are symbolically spitting on are employing, and the feds were singaling you out to prevent you from taking the same tax advantages that others are taking, then I might have some empathy for you. Sofar, ya got nothin.
Seems you have been doing a little reading by authors who do not know markets.
As with all durable goods, some are made to last very well and some are not. That and other factors affect the demand and the cost of the product.
I don't know any BMW or Mercedes owners who complain about their cars being built to be replaced. I am sure there are folks like that around, but I don't know any of them. Same with the Jeep owners who I know. See my posts above about the durability of my Jeep. After 279,000 miles it still has the original heater hoses.
Yes, there is a vast market of people who replace cars every 2 or 3 years because of style issues and thise cars need not be built all that well, but otherwise your statement holds no water.
I am pushing about 100,000 miles on Bosh Platinum 4+4 plugs and Accel 8.8 MM wires. Still acts like new. I ought to get another set of plugs and leave them in the vehicle for the first miss that I hear (have plenty of wire, connectors and boots) to just change it all then.
Just heard a caller to Pat Goss (that guy who is also on Motorweek) this weekend who was spraying throttle body/injector cleaner into the throttle body with the engine running. Both 02 sensors stopped sending in short order. I guess "most" are safe, but I would not spray any of them into a running engine unless it is expressly stated to do so.
Has not hurt mine one little bit. I guess the key here is don't spray it down the air intake with the engine running? Throttle body cleaner will do the same thing if you do it with the engine running! Sofar, I have managed not to do that since I never clean the engine while it is running.
Whenever I clean the enging I spray down all of the rubber hoses, plug wires, everything "rubber" with silicone spray then spray the whole thing with Son-of-a-Gun.
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Not as good a deal as they give rich people for buying Humvees [commondreams.org], but every time I see the price of gas go up a notch...
Umm, you get the SAME deal as the "rich people" if you take the SAME depreciation.
I find the biggest problem with vehicle longevity is the lack of proper care by the owner. Second problem, owners buying vehicles that they can not possibly maintain unless they are a professional mechanic.
One moment while I give the gratuitous link to my web-famous Hydrogen Powered Hacker Jeep. Seriously, it has 279,000+ miles, 1996 Cherokee, 2 Door, 4.0L I6, 5 speed manual trans, Command-Trac four wheel drive. Check journal for other posts about maintaining and modifying.
The success that I have with my vehicles (previous vehicle was a 1986 Dodge Dakota, V6, 220,000+ miles) is just changing the oil and using synthetic lubricants wherever/whenever conceivable. This is NOT a secret, but you would think that it is by talking to most vehicle owners.
Wal-Mart does synthetic oil changes for around $30, close to the retail price of the oil itself. I am pretty bad about flushing the radiator, and did have to replace one recently, probably due to my own neglect. I use Moble 1 gear oil in the trans and differentials, Moble 1 synthetic ATF fluid in transfer case.
I also use plastic-safe silicone spray on all exposed seals/rubber. Pretty bad about waxing and washing the paint, but the engine is always clean. Try to find a brushless carwash with an under-body sprayer to remove corrosives picked up from the road.
Under-coating promotes rust, so don't add any. Whenever a trim screw is removed, use silicone sealer on it before putting it back. Whenever a structural fastener is removed spray with penetrating oil a few days in advance, get the rust off, use anti-sieze on the threads, replace and paint over with Rustoleum if possible.
Anyway, if you start with a vehicle built on the "heavy duty" side of the range and you can turn a screwdriver, use a rag, and/or drive to Wal-Mart, you can take care of your own vehicle indefinately.
Now about this quip in the article: Ways to break the tyranny of oil are coming into view. Governments need to promote them. Replacing pseudo-tyranny with real tyranny is not much of a solution.
Outgoing callID isn't/can't be blocked on calls to 1800 numbers, nice thought though.
Really now? Thanks for the news flash pal!
My thought process lead me to 317-816-9336, you know, the one listed in the story (in case you still can't find it) and/or the other numbers, peppered throughout the comments, of their managers. BTW, it is not an 800 or equivelant number.
Great tip though, for folks who know nothing about the phone system.
I was thinking the same thing and did not realize how funny it was until I saw the moderation.
Perhaps some actual enforcement of some actual wrongdoing will deter crime, but not much hope of that either.
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Well way back in the previous century, in one of my Army Professional Development Courses we were taught that one of the "lessons learned" from the Grenada invasion was "do not sacrifice your mission to operational security". Seems that is a "lesson learned" just about every five years by the military. Also seems that it is *never* on the lessons learned list by startup businesses.
As another pointed out, apparently assuming that we are sticking with the same skilled employee remaining in the same industry, if the volume of movies made is reduced then the volume of movie work is reduced resulting in lowered salaries and raised unemployment with those skilled enough to do the work due to lower demand.
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So, this supports the previous story! Bravo SlashDot!
Yea, right, you are blaming it on a global scarcity?
Try blaming it on bad people with guns forcing the relocation of their rivals to places without food along with the same bad folk preventing relief supplies from getting to the helpless in rival groups as the main cause of hunger.
Just like cattle overgrazing a field, humans have become more and more of a risk to their own existence. If there were fewer humans, we would have many fewer problems.
Wait, you are trying to tell us that we are somehow running out of food even though the supply keeps increasing and the price keeps decreasing?
Of course! Scotty is an Engineer and Kirk is just management, silly.
All well and cute, but I have no idea what the mileage per gallon is in my Hydrogen Powered Hacker Jeep and I don't care either. If I could not afford the fuel I could not have afforded the payments when I was paying it off.
Good luck to you on your mechanic bills and all of those european fuel taxes!
Well, my kid is in college on an academic scholarship, so I am past many of those basic issues. But, IF you wished to depreciate the car you have in an accelerated manner you could with a little re-shuffling of your books. It is probably not worth it if you do not have an on-going business operation, which is the real point of that structure.
Now, if your efforts are employing a few pople, like the efforts of most of the people who you are symbolically spitting on are employing, and the feds were singaling you out to prevent you from taking the same tax advantages that others are taking, then I might have some empathy for you. Sofar, ya got nothin.
Seems you have been doing a little reading by authors who do not know markets.
As with all durable goods, some are made to last very well and some are not. That and other factors affect the demand and the cost of the product.
I don't know any BMW or Mercedes owners who complain about their cars being built to be replaced. I am sure there are folks like that around, but I don't know any of them. Same with the Jeep owners who I know. See my posts above about the durability of my Jeep. After 279,000 miles it still has the original heater hoses.
Yes, there is a vast market of people who replace cars every 2 or 3 years because of style issues and thise cars need not be built all that well, but otherwise your statement holds no water.
I am pushing about 100,000 miles on Bosh Platinum 4+4 plugs and Accel 8.8 MM wires. Still acts like new. I ought to get another set of plugs and leave them in the vehicle for the first miss that I hear (have plenty of wire, connectors and boots) to just change it all then.
Just heard a caller to Pat Goss (that guy who is also on Motorweek) this weekend who was spraying throttle body/injector cleaner into the throttle body with the engine running. Both 02 sensors stopped sending in short order. I guess "most" are safe, but I would not spray any of them into a running engine unless it is expressly stated to do so.
Has not hurt mine one little bit. I guess the key here is don't spray it down the air intake with the engine running? Throttle body cleaner will do the same thing if you do it with the engine running! Sofar, I have managed not to do that since I never clean the engine while it is running.
Whenever I clean the enging I spray down all of the rubber hoses, plug wires, everything "rubber" with silicone spray then spray the whole thing with Son-of-a-Gun.
Not as good a deal as they give rich people for buying Humvees [commondreams.org], but every time I see the price of gas go up a notch...
Umm, you get the SAME deal as the "rich people" if you take the SAME depreciation.
BRAVO!
I find the biggest problem with vehicle longevity is the lack of proper care by the owner. Second problem, owners buying vehicles that they can not possibly maintain unless they are a professional mechanic.
One moment while I give the gratuitous link to my web-famous Hydrogen Powered Hacker Jeep. Seriously, it has 279,000+ miles, 1996 Cherokee, 2 Door, 4.0L I6, 5 speed manual trans, Command-Trac four wheel drive. Check journal for other posts about maintaining and modifying.
The success that I have with my vehicles (previous vehicle was a 1986 Dodge Dakota, V6, 220,000+ miles) is just changing the oil and using synthetic lubricants wherever/whenever conceivable. This is NOT a secret, but you would think that it is by talking to most vehicle owners.
Wal-Mart does synthetic oil changes for around $30, close to the retail price of the oil itself. I am pretty bad about flushing the radiator, and did have to replace one recently, probably due to my own neglect. I use Moble 1 gear oil in the trans and differentials, Moble 1 synthetic ATF fluid in transfer case.
I also use plastic-safe silicone spray on all exposed seals/rubber. Pretty bad about waxing and washing the paint, but the engine is always clean. Try to find a brushless carwash with an under-body sprayer to remove corrosives picked up from the road.
Under-coating promotes rust, so don't add any. Whenever a trim screw is removed, use silicone sealer on it before putting it back. Whenever a structural fastener is removed spray with penetrating oil a few days in advance, get the rust off, use anti-sieze on the threads, replace and paint over with Rustoleum if possible.
Anyway, if you start with a vehicle built on the "heavy duty" side of the range and you can turn a screwdriver, use a rag, and/or drive to Wal-Mart, you can take care of your own vehicle indefinately.
Now about this quip in the article: Ways to break the tyranny of oil are coming into view. Governments need to promote them. Replacing pseudo-tyranny with real tyranny is not much of a solution.
We could even switch many folks back to good-old DC power since transmission distance will no longer be a factor.
Humm, nothing leaking out if it but power while it is running, right?
Once fuel has degraded to the point of no longer being useful to me is how long and it is on my own property?
I think I will just buy a few yards of concrete and make it into modern art at the end of it's useful life.
Yep, so what's wrong with using all of that Natural Gas in Alaska? Punch some little holes in ANWAR and buingo! Instant hydrogen power!
Outgoing callID isn't/can't be blocked on calls to 1800 numbers, nice thought though.
Really now? Thanks for the news flash pal!
My thought process lead me to 317-816-9336, you know, the one listed in the story (in case you still can't find it) and/or the other numbers, peppered throughout the comments, of their managers. BTW, it is not an 800 or equivelant number.
Great tip though, for folks who know nothing about the phone system.
Thank you Cingular!
"Free" long distance.
3000+ weekend min.
"Disable Outgoing Caller ID" in prefrences for all calls.
One touch redial. (I wonder if I can program that into the Handspring?)
Priceless!
Well, it's true and tragically funny.
I was thinking the same thing and did not realize how funny it was until I saw the moderation.
Perhaps some actual enforcement of some actual wrongdoing will deter crime, but not much hope of that either.
Well way back in the previous century, in one of my Army Professional Development Courses we were taught that one of the "lessons learned" from the Grenada invasion was "do not sacrifice your mission to operational security". Seems that is a "lesson learned" just about every five years by the military. Also seems that it is *never* on the lessons learned list by startup businesses.
LOL, they belong in the "space age" because they exist at the same time as space is being explored. They have "moved" nowhere.
It qualifies in the same way as your riding in a cab makes you a mechanical engineer. Bring a kite with you and you will be an aerospace engineer too!
As another pointed out, apparently assuming that we are sticking with the same skilled employee remaining in the same industry, if the volume of movies made is reduced then the volume of movie work is reduced resulting in lowered salaries and raised unemployment with those skilled enough to do the work due to lower demand.
Remember, movie piracy doesn't just hurt actors, but also camera operators, key grips, makeup artists, and costumers.
Don't forget the Best Boy!
San Francisco units are used to describe anything near Uranis.
Sounds like another arguement in favor of Hydrogen Power to me!