What pisses me off is having to pay the full sales tax on the artificially inflated price, not the true (or "rebate") price.
"Look, its $200.00, but they have a $50.00 instant rebate, plus $100.00 mail-in rebate... " but you're still taxed on $200.00, for what is in reality a $50.00 purchase.
FTFA:
Her decision to drop an exclusive arrangement with Intel on server chips and align with Advanced Micro Devices proved to be extremely timely as Intel subsequently stumbled in its server line.
Funny how they get all this "gee wow!" credit for making what was an obvious and long-overdue decision that any dumbass here on slashdot would have made on day one.
The whole idea behind the spin-off is because the shareholders want MORE Tim Hortons stock, because its such a strong performer. Both WI and TH make good profits, but TH is in expansion mode, and people see the stock as being held back by being tied into the corporate parent.
It won't change the dual stores one bit - franchisees are still franchisees.
They (Dunkin Donuts) were great until they started SHRINKING THE DONUTS!!! - this was about a decade ago, when the price went from $2.75 to $2.99 then $3.25 in the space of a year or so. Raising the price, doing away with their 50-cents-off-a-box coupons (I used to go to the one on Laurentien Blvd and Cote Vertu to tick up 2 dozen each time at half a buck off).
What was worse was that head office caught some of the franchisees selling the now-oversized donuts and made them stop.
They all think we're idiots. The flat boxes donuts come in nowadays are supposed to make it look like you're getting a "bigger" package, but the donuts are smaller - from all the players. TABERNAC!
Tim Hortons is continuing its expansion into the US. It has the product, the momemtum, and its a fresh face. Krispy Kreme is mortally wounded, not just because of the SEC investigations and their too-high fat content, but also because their franchisees aren't happy with head office.
Its going to be the same thing as up here - A Tim Hortons opens up, and the local Dunkin Donuts sees their net sales dive, quality goes down, sales go down more... head office gets on their case for not "making their numbers"...
Of course, 20 years from now it'll probably be a new donut chain that will be the aggressive new face going after Tim Hortons.
Oh, its changed all right... and its killed off the competition.
Kremeko (Krispy Kreme Canada) came to Canada with a big splash, lots of expansion plans, and went bankrupt... (the donuts have the highest fat concentration, and it didn't help that a news show had the ingredients of both players analysed, and Krispy Kreme was found to be using the lower grade of chocolate, etc. KK is really crap in comparison).
Dunkin Donut is pretty much invisible here in Quebec, after a revolt and lawsuit by franchisees over bad advertising, etc. It was REALLY AWFUL advertising that featured two "employees" - an old pencil-neck guy who would look more at home sleeping on a park bench, and an ugly woman... I mean ugly. It ran for years, and just killed their brand. You'd look at the commercial and go "no way do I want them touching my stuff!"
Watered-down coffee, tired locations, and bad advertising... they went the same way Mister Donut did before them (yes, they bought up the dead Mr. Donut locations, but a lot of them couldn't make a go of it as Dunkin Donut locales - the "death stench" was too strong near the end).
Reminds me of the Turkey Give-away in "WKRP in Cincinnatti" where they gave away live turkeys by dropping them from the helicopter... but turkeys can't fly.
Considering that Tim Hortons is killing Krispy Kreme lard-butt... and that its currently owned by Wendy's (they're spinning it off back into its own corporation later this year and taking a nice profit)...
Don't laugh - some Canadian Tire money is collectible - there re different variants from different "eras". I've got some of the old 3 cent ones kicking around (I keep it rather than spend it - I've got about $70 of the stuff)
On a side note, one guy I know is a retired trucker - one of his friends was making a run through New York, tolk the hooker that he had only Canadian money, and paid her with Canadian Tire money. $20 blow job was two 10 cent Canadian Tire bills (after all, they just looked for the denomination, not whether it was dollars or cents).
They won't take google's money but they will take Canadian Tire money
So, google just has to get Crappy^WCanadian Tire to print up more Canadian Tire currency...
I can see it now... Google buys a million bux of Canadian Tire money and uses it as their "float" for transferring money. Oh, and since you can get Canadian Tire bills for as low as $0.05, its great for micropayments since you can't send coins through the mail:-)
A circuit breaker only trips AFTER a short. Don't be such an intentional idiot - there's a big difference between a 600v or 12kv line shorting out and your measly 15-amp 110v line.
During a typical year, home electrical problems account for 67,800 fires, 485 deaths, and $868 million in property losses. Home electrical wiring causes twice as many fires as electrical appliances.
Guess you didn't here - the US has been a net importer of beef and hogs for 3 decades: http://www.unu.edu/Unupress/food/8F044e/8F044E05.h tm
TABLE 2. US Meat Trade (Excluding Poultry), 1977
Quantity (weight in millions of pounds) Value (millions of US dollars) Imports 1,725.0 1,289.1 Exports 921.4 608.5 Net imports 803.6 680.6
Lately that has extended to food overall, and was predicted over a year ago: http://www.pastpeak.com/archives/2004/12/us_to_bec ome_ne.htm
For nearly two years, U.S. farmers and ranchers watched as the second shoe grew bigger and bigger.
On Nov. 22, it officially dropped. According to U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service estimates released that day, 2005 will be the first year in nearly 50 that America will not turn an agricultural trade surplus.
The dubious milestone was met with odd silence at USDA. Odd because throughout the fall presidential campaign, Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman talked herself hoarse each time some farm community in a swing state dedicated a new, USDA-sponsored street light.
Now, as America is about to become a net food importer for the first time in generations, Veneman has no explanation of how Bush administration economic and trade policies have taken American agriculture from a $13.6 billion trade surplus in 2001 to a flat line in four short years. [...]
In reporting the change, ERS chose language more suitable to politics than economics. Yes, 2005 ag imports will rise by $3.3 billion over 2004. "But, this 6 percent gain in import value," it noted, "is less than half the 15 percent import pace in 2004 import value."
http://www.thecountrytoday.com/FarmNews-OtherNews1.htm When the North American Free Trade Agreement was passed in 1993, the U.S. had a $24-billion-a-year agricultural trade surplus, Mr. Buis said. In 2005, that trade surplus was $3 billion, and this year, the United States could be a net importer of food and fiber. The United States will eventually become only an international market "residual supplier," providing crops or livestock only if other countries have unforeseen shortages
http://www.genet-info.org/genet/2004/Dec/msg00053. html White House can't explain lurking trade imbalance
For nearly two years, U.S. farmers and ranchers watched as the second shoe grew bigger and bigger.
On Nov. 22, it officially dropped. According to U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service estimates released that day, 2005 will be the first year in nearly 50 that America will not turn an agricultural trade surplus.
The dubious milestone was met with odd silence at USDA. Odd because throughout the fall presidential campaign, Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman talked herself hoarse each time some farm community in a swing state dedicated a new, USDA-sponsored street light.
Now, as America is about to become a net food importer for the first time in generations, Veneman has no explanation of how Bush administration economic and trade policies have taken American agriculture from a $13.6 billion trade surplus in 2001 to a flat line in four short years.
Who can blame her? Would you want to be the first secretary of the last 11 to report such death-in-the-family news?
The news is made worse by the speed in which ag imports overtook ag exports. In August, ERS predicted a $2.5 billion ag trade surplus for 2005, the skinniest since 1972 but still a surplus.
Three months later, though, ERS lowered 2005 exports by $1.5 billion, raised imports by $1 billion (in a curious coincidence, both now are pegged at $56 billion) and the thin margin was gone.
In reporting the change, ERS chose language more suitable to politics than economics. Yes, 2005 ag imports will rise by $3.3 billion over 2004. "But, this 6 p
Since nobody outside SCO except perhaps the MoGTroll, Didiot, and a few people who were paid to look at it, have seen it, I call bullshit - or should I say backinfullforce-shit.
Both SCO and Linux can legally take anything they want from the BSD code base - so they would have the exact same comments, etc.
The LKP module that SCO had to yank is a good indication that copying went from Linux to SCO Unix, and not vice versa;
Header files? Sure, for things like POSIX, they WOULD be the exact same. No copyright infringement.
Those "millions of lines of code" in Blepp's suitcase seem to have disappeared.
Stock scam. That's all it ever was, after the extortion attempt failed.
I remember being in Kansas City, Kansas, and going shopping at 3 in the morning - huge store, acre on acre - and thst's just the breakfast cereal section:-)
Just out of curiosity:
In our case, my wife did not work outside the home, so not being able to file our income tax jointly, like one can in the U.S. was causing us to get hammered, income tax wise, in Canada.
In cases like that, you declare her as a dependent and get an extra $8k deduction.
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What pisses me off is having to pay the full sales tax on the artificially inflated price, not the true (or "rebate") price.
"Look, its $200.00, but they have a $50.00 instant rebate, plus $100.00 mail-in rebate ... " but you're still taxed on $200.00, for what is in reality a $50.00 purchase.
FTFA: Her decision to drop an exclusive arrangement with Intel on server chips and align with Advanced Micro Devices proved to be extremely timely as Intel subsequently stumbled in its server line.
Funny how they get all this "gee wow!" credit for making what was an obvious and long-overdue decision that any dumbass here on slashdot would have made on day one.
you're referring to yourself right?
nope ... I'm not retired, and I'm not a trucker. "Suivant!"
Can McDonalds double their US presence in one year? No.
The whole idea behind the spin-off is because the shareholders want MORE Tim Hortons stock, because its such a strong performer. Both WI and TH make good profits, but TH is in expansion mode, and people see the stock as being held back by being tied into the corporate parent.
It won't change the dual stores one bit - franchisees are still franchisees.
They (Dunkin Donuts) were great until they started SHRINKING THE DONUTS!!! - this was about a decade ago, when the price went from $2.75 to $2.99 then $3.25 in the space of a year or so. Raising the price, doing away with their 50-cents-off-a-box coupons (I used to go to the one on Laurentien Blvd and Cote Vertu to tick up 2 dozen each time at half a buck off).
What was worse was that head office caught some of the franchisees selling the now-oversized donuts and made them stop.
They all think we're idiots. The flat boxes donuts come in nowadays are supposed to make it look like you're getting a "bigger" package, but the donuts are smaller - from all the players. TABERNAC!
Stats:
Annual sales (2004) $3.6 billion
Annual sales (2005) $1,789,562,423
Tim Hortons is continuing its expansion into the US. It has the product, the momemtum, and its a fresh face. Krispy Kreme is mortally wounded, not just because of the SEC investigations and their too-high fat content, but also because their franchisees aren't happy with head office.
Its going to be the same thing as up here - A Tim Hortons opens up, and the local Dunkin Donuts sees their net sales dive, quality goes down, sales go down more ... head office gets on their case for not "making their numbers" ...
Of course, 20 years from now it'll probably be a new donut chain that will be the aggressive new face going after Tim Hortons.
Oh, its changed all right ... and its killed off the competition.
Kremeko (Krispy Kreme Canada) came to Canada with a big splash, lots of expansion plans, and went bankrupt ... (the donuts have the highest fat concentration, and it didn't help that a news show had the ingredients of both players analysed, and Krispy Kreme was found to be using the lower grade of chocolate, etc. KK is really crap in comparison).
Dunkin Donut is pretty much invisible here in Quebec, after a revolt and lawsuit by franchisees over bad advertising, etc. It was REALLY AWFUL advertising that featured two "employees" - an old pencil-neck guy who would look more at home sleeping on a park bench, and an ugly woman ... I mean ugly. It ran for years, and just killed their brand. You'd look at the commercial and go "no way do I want them touching my stuff!"
Watered-down coffee, tired locations, and bad advertising ... they went the same way Mister Donut did before them (yes, they bought up the dead Mr. Donut locations, but a lot of them couldn't make a go of it as Dunkin Donut locales - the "death stench" was too strong near the end).
No - for the same reason a regular chicken crosses the road - its stapled to the kid's skull.
Screw the frying them in motor oil. When are they going to cross chickens with octopii?
I want more chicken wings per chicken. Mmm ... chicken wings ...
8 wings, 8 legs - 16 pieces of snacking goodnesssss per bird.
Reminds me of the Turkey Give-away in "WKRP in Cincinnatti" where they gave away live turkeys by dropping them from the helicopter ... but turkeys can't fly.
What's next, Tim Horton's stored value cards?
Considering that Tim Hortons is killing Krispy Kreme lard-butt ... and that its currently owned by Wendy's (they're spinning it off back into its own corporation later this year and taking a nice profit) ...
Some facts and figures: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Horton's
The expansion into the US is going very well, btw.
Don't laugh - some Canadian Tire money is collectible - there re different variants from different "eras". I've got some of the old 3 cent ones kicking around (I keep it rather than spend it - I've got about $70 of the stuff)
On a side note, one guy I know is a retired trucker - one of his friends was making a run through New York, tolk the hooker that he had only Canadian money, and paid her with Canadian Tire money. $20 blow job was two 10 cent Canadian Tire bills (after all, they just looked for the denomination, not whether it was dollars or cents).
I guess that's why he said "Ain't America Great!"
They won't take google's money but they will take Canadian Tire money
So, google just has to get Crappy^WCanadian Tire to print up more Canadian Tire currency ...
I can see it now ... Google buys a million bux of Canadian Tire money and uses it as their "float" for transferring money. Oh, and since you can get Canadian Tire bills for as low as $0.05, its great for micropayments since you can't send coins through the mail :-)
This is literally vaporware!
Actually, I think the MPAA has prior art - they've been releasing expensive stinkers for decades.
To break it down sufficiently will mean you'll be doing all the developing except the actual code and testing.
Who's paying for that?
dartboard.
Take whatever time you think it will take and multiply by the number you throw. Cahnces are, you'll still be too low ...
A circuit breaker only trips AFTER a short. Don't be such an intentional idiot - there's a big difference between a 600v or 12kv line shorting out and your measly 15-amp 110v line.
A quick search shows http://www.usfa.dhs.gov/safety/tips/electrical.sht m that electical fires
I'm sure some of them even had breakers ...
Guess you didn't here - the US has been a net importer of beef and hogs for 3 decades:
.htm
http://www.unu.edu/Unupress/food/8F044e/8F044E05.h tm
TABLE 2. US Meat Trade (Excluding Poultry), 1977
Quantity (weight
in millions
of pounds) Value
(millions
of US dollars)
Imports 1,725.0 1,289.1
Exports 921.4 608.5
Net imports 803.6 680.6
Lately that has extended to food overall, and was predicted over a year ago:
http://www.pastpeak.com/archives/2004/12/us_to_bec ome_ne.htm
For nearly two years, U.S. farmers and ranchers watched as the second shoe grew bigger and bigger.
On Nov. 22, it officially dropped. According to U.S. Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service estimates released that day, 2005 will be the first year in nearly 50 that America will not turn an agricultural trade surplus.
The dubious milestone was met with odd silence at USDA. Odd because throughout the fall presidential campaign, Secretary of Agriculture Ann Veneman talked herself hoarse each time some farm community in a swing state dedicated a new, USDA-sponsored street light.
Now, as America is about to become a net food importer for the first time in generations, Veneman has no explanation of how Bush administration economic and trade policies have taken American agriculture from a $13.6 billion trade surplus in 2001 to a flat line in four short years. [...]
In reporting the change, ERS chose language more suitable to politics than economics. Yes, 2005 ag imports will rise by $3.3 billion over 2004. "But, this 6 percent gain in import value," it noted, "is less than half the 15 percent import pace in 2004 import value."
http://www.thecountrytoday.com/FarmNews-OtherNews1
When the North American Free Trade Agreement was passed in 1993, the U.S. had a $24-billion-a-year agricultural trade surplus, Mr. Buis said. In 2005, that trade surplus was $3 billion, and this year, the United States could be a net importer of food and fiber. The United States will eventually become only an international market "residual supplier," providing crops or livestock only if other countries have unforeseen shortages
http://www.genet-info.org/genet/2004/Dec/msg00053. html
White House can't explain lurking trade imbalance
For nearly two years, U.S. farmers and ranchers watched as the second
shoe grew bigger and bigger.
On Nov. 22, it officially dropped. According to U.S. Department of
Agriculture Economic Research Service estimates released that day, 2005
will be the first year in nearly 50 that America will not turn an
agricultural trade surplus.
The dubious milestone was met with odd silence at USDA. Odd because
throughout the fall presidential campaign, Secretary of Agriculture Ann
Veneman talked herself hoarse each time some farm community in a swing
state dedicated a new, USDA-sponsored street light.
Now, as America is about to become a net food importer for the first time
in generations, Veneman has no explanation of how Bush administration
economic and trade policies have taken American agriculture from a $13.6
billion trade surplus in 2001 to a flat line in four short years.
Who can blame her? Would you want to be the first secretary of the last
11 to report such death-in-the-family news?
The news is made worse by the speed in which ag imports overtook ag
exports. In August, ERS predicted a $2.5 billion ag trade surplus for
2005, the skinniest since 1972 but still a surplus.
Three months later, though, ERS lowered 2005 exports by $1.5 billion,
raised imports by $1 billion (in a curious coincidence, both now are
pegged at $56 billion) and the thin margin was gone.
In reporting the change, ERS chose language more suitable to politics
than economics. Yes, 2005 ag imports will rise by $3.3 billion over 2004.
"But, this 6 p
So here's a way cheaper alternative - picture this in your typical suburb:
The total cost per person is under $100.00, and they can run VoIP, and they'll have 100mbps for local lan parties, etc.
Today's prime rate is 8.25%
And 10-year municipal bonds are currently 5.125% - which is the rate this would actually be financed at. http://www.bloomberg.com/markets/rates/index.html
Monthly payments over 10 years of $16/month on initial capital of $1,500. http://money.guardian.co.uk/calculator/form/0,1456 ,603156,00.html
Boric acid mixed with icing sugar is what the pros use.
Me, I'm just trying to find boric acid so I can make silly putty.
Fuck off, troll.
Since nobody outside SCO except perhaps the MoGTroll, Didiot, and a few people who were paid to look at it, have seen it, I call bullshit - or should I say backinfullforce-shit.
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Both SCO and Linux can legally take anything they want from the BSD code base - so they would have the exact same comments, etc.
-
The LKP module that SCO had to yank is a good indication that copying went from Linux to SCO Unix, and not vice versa;
-
Header files? Sure, for things like POSIX, they WOULD be the exact same. No copyright infringement.
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Those "millions of lines of code" in Blepp's suitcase seem to have disappeared.
Stock scam. That's all it ever was, after the extortion attempt failed.block their ingress with a pile of the other white powder
You KNOW someone's going to try it with the other "other white powder". Ants with a case of the munchies ...
I remember being in Kansas City, Kansas, and going shopping at 3 in the morning - huge store, acre on acre - and thst's just the breakfast cereal section :-)
Just out of curiosity: In our case, my wife did not work outside the home, so not being able to file our income tax jointly, like one can in the U.S. was causing us to get hammered, income tax wise, in Canada.
In cases like that, you declare her as a dependent and get an extra $8k deduction.