I don't buy the economic benefits section of the site. To recap: having one car in 2003 will save the household a total of roughly $10,000 (payments and insurance). when you add gas and maintenance, that's another $5,000 per year. add parking (right now i pay $5 per day, that's around $1,200 per year too. so, about $16,000.
Payments and Insurance:
10 grand breaks down to $833 per month. Let's be generous and take $150 off for insurance. This is probably not realistic as I'm sure it's a multi car policy (they are keeping the other car). So, the car payment is $683. Seems like you don't have to buy a scooter to save money. Just buy a freakin Honda or something!
gas and maintenance, that's another $5,000 per year
I can't even express how fake this number is. Okay, so we're talking $416 a month for this. Being liberal, lets take $150 off the top for gas. I don't know the relative gas prices or what theoretical car this is, so I may be off. So, we're left with $266. Assume an oil change every month just for added padding. Make it a pricey one. We're down to $216 a month. This person is spending over $200 per month to maintain a vehicle where the payment is nearly $700. That doesn't check out. Something is horribly wrong. Vehicles of that calibar do not require that heavy duty maintenance. If they do, the problem is easily correctible by ditching the money pit for a late model reliable car.
If they wanna have a Segway, by all means, purchase the thing. Just don't try to justify it economically with bogus numbers like this. All the eco-friendliness and economic validation is there by trading in the money pit for a Geo Metro. Just be honest with yourself and say you got the Segway for fun. People will have much more respect for you.
Oh! Thanks for the conversion. At first I thought I was reading something about tuberculosis.
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The net has never succeeded in promoting free expression of ideas. Instead it has founded enclaves of like-thinking people, who need to have their own point of view reinforced by others.
You can read the detailed history of the transformation from GEC to Marconi here.
I was part of Reltec when they were bought by (then) Marconi Communications. The link to Marconi was tenuous at best but his face would still appear on many internal materials. During the past few years, GEC Marconi have been radically consolidating under the Marconi name to give more of a cohesive sound to the name.
Also, what is interesting is that Marconi is actively participating in centenary activities.
I once had a Monty Python record with the Spam skit on there. Every now and then I would spin it backwards cuz it sounded so cool "MAPS MAPS MAPS MAPS". My family never got it.
Please, oh please tell me that PPT does not mean Powerpoint Documents. Visual SourceSafe has absolutely no purpose being used for binary files. They bloat the database, slow down access, disable most useful functions....There is a good reason why it is called Sourcesafe and not Documentsafe.
Alcatel is the company that recently exploited MLK to pitch their goods. It looks like Instant Karma has caught up with them. Read some more about the tasteless ads they produced:
http://slate.msn.com/moneybox/entries/01-04-02_103 560.asp
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having one car in 2003 will save the household a total of roughly $10,000 (payments and insurance). when you add gas and maintenance, that's another $5,000 per year. add parking (right now i pay $5 per day, that's around $1,200 per year too. so, about $16,000.
Payments and Insurance:
10 grand breaks down to $833 per month. Let's be generous and take $150 off for insurance. This is probably not realistic as I'm sure it's a multi car policy (they are keeping the other car). So, the car payment is $683. Seems like you don't have to buy a scooter to save money. Just buy a freakin Honda or something!
gas and maintenance, that's another $5,000 per year
I can't even express how fake this number is. Okay, so we're talking $416 a month for this. Being liberal, lets take $150 off the top for gas. I don't know the relative gas prices or what theoretical car this is, so I may be off. So, we're left with $266. Assume an oil change every month just for added padding. Make it a pricey one. We're down to $216 a month. This person is spending over $200 per month to maintain a vehicle where the payment is nearly $700. That doesn't check out. Something is horribly wrong. Vehicles of that calibar do not require that heavy duty maintenance. If they do, the problem is easily correctible by ditching the money pit for a late model reliable car.
If they wanna have a Segway, by all means, purchase the thing. Just don't try to justify it economically with bogus numbers like this. All the eco-friendliness and economic validation is there by trading in the money pit for a Geo Metro. Just be honest with yourself and say you got the Segway for fun. People will have much more respect for you.
deliver a 1.5 TB (that's a terabyte and a half)
Oh! Thanks for the conversion. At first I thought I was reading something about tuberculosis.
I couldn't agree more fully.
You can read the detailed history of the transformation from GEC to Marconi here.
I was part of Reltec when they were bought by (then) Marconi Communications. The link to Marconi was tenuous at best but his face would still appear on many internal materials. During the past few years, GEC Marconi have been radically consolidating under the Marconi name to give more of a cohesive sound to the name.
Also, what is interesting is that Marconi is actively participating in centenary activities.
I have a two word rebuttal: Yahoo Movies.
I once had a Monty Python record with the Spam skit on there. Every now and then I would spin it backwards cuz it sounded so cool "MAPS MAPS MAPS MAPS". My family never got it.
Please, oh please tell me that PPT does not mean Powerpoint Documents. Visual SourceSafe has absolutely no purpose being used for binary files. They bloat the database, slow down access, disable most useful functions....There is a good reason why it is called Sourcesafe and not Documentsafe.
Alcatel is the company that recently exploited MLK to pitch their goods. It looks like Instant Karma has caught up with them. Read some more about the tasteless ads they produced: http://slate.msn.com/moneybox/entries/01-04-02_103 560.asp