Not true. Diesels require expensive maintenance. They typically will last far longer than a gas engine if they get that maintenance regularly but if you skimp on maintenance you'll get burned badly. A lot also depends on who makes the diesel. I don't know who makes the Ford Powerstroke engines but they have serious problems with bad injectors and even if you DIY the parts are pricey as well. The Dodge uses a Cummins diesel which generally are insanely reliable but it's essentially a big truck diesel depowered so it wont twist the frame on the Dodge. Too bad about the Dodge transmission though. The very best truck would be (IMHO) a F250 King Ranch with a Dodge Cummins diesel and a Chevy Allison transmission. You'd have a truck you could drive for over a million miles with little to no problem. For a car I don't think a diesel is such a great idea. I see electric as the future for cars. Maybe 5-10 years and then gas will start to fade, 20 years at the outside. I say this as someone who drives a big v-8 and loves it but you can't stop the future.
Maybe the solution is to set a sales limit. If they sell more than X amount of cars then they must go to a dealer system. It makes no sense for someone selling a handful of cars to have to work the same system as companies moving hundreds of thousands of units.
I think people that are really into music use the net. Casual listeners like myself just turn on the radio and let it flow. Most of the types I know that live with earbuds stuffed in their ears 24/7 get all their tunes online but not everyone is that heavily involved. For most people FM radio is adequate to their needs.
That sounds reasonable. As long as there is some way for video including the event to be saved then it should all be good. I'd think the cops would be okay with that, it would have saved that officer in Jefferson a lot of grief.
Because 99 percent of what happens in a cop's day is mind numbing, boring shit. All we need is the video of the incident. Maybe it should also come on when they call in a stop but to run that thing 24/7 is ridiculous.
How the hell will they be able to sit in the donut shops then. The last thing we need is hungry officers who are pissed off they can't take a break when they feel like it.
Ah...that's what happened. I wondered how it got screwed up. I noticed one day that my searches weren't working the way I expected and I noticed I was suddenly using yahoo. I couldn't figure what the hell had happened. I changed it back to google and it stayed there but I was wondering.
I remember telling my wife how high gold had gone and she went into her jewelry box and got out a handful of old broken necklaces, a ring she didn't like and about 15 single ear rings missing their pair. I took it down to the local jewelry store and he was paying out about 25 percent more than the guys advertising on TV. I got almost 500 dollars off that junk gold. I was amazed. One thing about gold, when things go to shit it suddenly becomes valuable.
I remember when the housing market collapsed and I lost almost 50K out of my 401 account. Most of my co-workers freaked and started transferring all their money from the stock fund to government bond fund. I remember telling them it was too late. They had already lost their money and the only way to get any back was to stay with the stock fund until it came back around. I stayed with it and eventually I caught the wave when it rebounded. People that react to the market are already too late. If you don't see trends way ahead of time then the only thing to do is pick a good stock fund and leave it alone until two or three years before you retire.
It's an American subsidiary of a Japanese Corporation. It's in the US but it answers to Sony in Japan. Japan and the US are tied together by trade agreements and military alliance. An attack on Japan is generally treated like an attack on the US.
Gold isn't generally a good investment. There are exceptions however and one of the big ones is what Beck took advantage of. Realizing that the housing market was about to collapse, which in retrospect should have been obvious and evidently it was obvious to Beck at the time, Beck pulled his money out of the stock market and bought gold. Given the fallout that occurred when all those banks tanked and had to be bailed out stocks dropped out and gold spiraled up having a twofold payoff for those who saw it coming. Not only did they avoid losing their ass in stocks but they more than doubled their money on gold. What most people did wrong then was to buy gold after it has gone out of sight. Once you miss the boat you might as well go back home because it's not coming back to port for a looooong time. You always pick up gold when it's cheap. It's a long term safe investment. Right now it's too fucking high to buy. Beck's fat little ass got rich as hell though and then he made millions more hawking it as an investment.
Well said. Chromebooks are crippled by design. With all the reduced functionality and privacy issues they should be giving them away, then it would cost what it's actually worth.
I've had good luck with HP on linux but canon printers require a lot of work to get right. Even then my canon i960 takes about 10 times as long to print a page from linux as it does my Mac. I'll never buy another canon printer.
I'm all for importing great programmers. Companies aren't looking for great programmers but cheap ones. Instead of limiting visas however they should make a minimum wage for imported help that matches the current level of pay. If companies can't save money by importing offshore programmers then the only reason they'd have for hiring them is for their skill set. Problem solved. Companies can get the help they need without driving wages down.
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Not true. Diesels require expensive maintenance. They typically will last far longer than a gas engine if they get that maintenance regularly but if you skimp on maintenance you'll get burned badly. A lot also depends on who makes the diesel. I don't know who makes the Ford Powerstroke engines but they have serious problems with bad injectors and even if you DIY the parts are pricey as well. The Dodge uses a Cummins diesel which generally are insanely reliable but it's essentially a big truck diesel depowered so it wont twist the frame on the Dodge. Too bad about the Dodge transmission though. The very best truck would be (IMHO) a F250 King Ranch with a Dodge Cummins diesel and a Chevy Allison transmission. You'd have a truck you could drive for over a million miles with little to no problem. For a car I don't think a diesel is such a great idea. I see electric as the future for cars. Maybe 5-10 years and then gas will start to fade, 20 years at the outside. I say this as someone who drives a big v-8 and loves it but you can't stop the future.
It's too easy to uncap wells. They'll just idle those sites until prices go back up. If there is a profit to be found someone will exploit it.
Now and then some people actually need to be shot. This is one reason we let the cops carry guns.
Maybe the solution is to set a sales limit. If they sell more than X amount of cars then they must go to a dealer system. It makes no sense for someone selling a handful of cars to have to work the same system as companies moving hundreds of thousands of units.
I think people that are really into music use the net. Casual listeners like myself just turn on the radio and let it flow. Most of the types I know that live with earbuds stuffed in their ears 24/7 get all their tunes online but not everyone is that heavily involved. For most people FM radio is adequate to their needs.
That sounds reasonable. As long as there is some way for video including the event to be saved then it should all be good. I'd think the cops would be okay with that, it would have saved that officer in Jefferson a lot of grief.
It's minor compared to a few rounds from a pistol. I think the cops are more worried about all the donut shop footage than anything else though.
Because 99 percent of what happens in a cop's day is mind numbing, boring shit. All we need is the video of the incident. Maybe it should also come on when they call in a stop but to run that thing 24/7 is ridiculous.
How the hell will they be able to sit in the donut shops then. The last thing we need is hungry officers who are pissed off they can't take a break when they feel like it.
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Ah...that's what happened. I wondered how it got screwed up. I noticed one day that my searches weren't working the way I expected and I noticed I was suddenly using yahoo. I couldn't figure what the hell had happened. I changed it back to google and it stayed there but I was wondering.
It's one of those movies that can easily go either way. Lots of people will hate it and lots will love it. At least it's not the same old shit.
My Dad is a big Beck fan and even he called bullshit on that gold advertisement of his.
I remember telling my wife how high gold had gone and she went into her jewelry box and got out a handful of old broken necklaces, a ring she didn't like and about 15 single ear rings missing their pair. I took it down to the local jewelry store and he was paying out about 25 percent more than the guys advertising on TV. I got almost 500 dollars off that junk gold. I was amazed. One thing about gold, when things go to shit it suddenly becomes valuable.
I remember when the housing market collapsed and I lost almost 50K out of my 401 account. Most of my co-workers freaked and started transferring all their money from the stock fund to government bond fund. I remember telling them it was too late. They had already lost their money and the only way to get any back was to stay with the stock fund until it came back around. I stayed with it and eventually I caught the wave when it rebounded. People that react to the market are already too late. If you don't see trends way ahead of time then the only thing to do is pick a good stock fund and leave it alone until two or three years before you retire.
You left out Cuba.
You're delusional. Most of the free world profits from trade with the US. Sanctions would hurt us but hurt many others far worse.
It's an American subsidiary of a Japanese Corporation. It's in the US but it answers to Sony in Japan. Japan and the US are tied together by trade agreements and military alliance. An attack on Japan is generally treated like an attack on the US.
Damn. I never thought of that. I bet you're right.
Leave him alone with his ignorance. He's obviously happy with it.
Gold isn't generally a good investment. There are exceptions however and one of the big ones is what Beck took advantage of. Realizing that the housing market was about to collapse, which in retrospect should have been obvious and evidently it was obvious to Beck at the time, Beck pulled his money out of the stock market and bought gold. Given the fallout that occurred when all those banks tanked and had to be bailed out stocks dropped out and gold spiraled up having a twofold payoff for those who saw it coming. Not only did they avoid losing their ass in stocks but they more than doubled their money on gold. What most people did wrong then was to buy gold after it has gone out of sight. Once you miss the boat you might as well go back home because it's not coming back to port for a looooong time. You always pick up gold when it's cheap. It's a long term safe investment. Right now it's too fucking high to buy. Beck's fat little ass got rich as hell though and then he made millions more hawking it as an investment.
Well said. Chromebooks are crippled by design. With all the reduced functionality and privacy issues they should be giving them away, then it would cost what it's actually worth.
I've had good luck with HP on linux but canon printers require a lot of work to get right. Even then my canon i960 takes about 10 times as long to print a page from linux as it does my Mac. I'll never buy another canon printer.
I like it. A lot. Too bad it's got less chance than a snowflake on a hot griddle of happening.
I'm all for importing great programmers. Companies aren't looking for great programmers but cheap ones. Instead of limiting visas however they should make a minimum wage for imported help that matches the current level of pay. If companies can't save money by importing offshore programmers then the only reason they'd have for hiring them is for their skill set. Problem solved. Companies can get the help they need without driving wages down.