"Imagine if Wal-Mart decided they were going to tack on a $0.50 'electricity surcharge' to cover the cost of electricity they pay to light their store. Or what about a 'paper surcharge' to cover the cost of the paper your receipt was printed on?"
They do. It's called "overhead" and it's already factored into the amount (markup) they add to their wholesale price (what they pay for the item) that results in the retail price (what you pay them for that item). They just don't give you a breakdown of how much is wholesale, how much is markup, and how the markup is divided to cover all of their costs (labor, utilities, building costs, transportation, what they pay to various governments, etc.) when they quote you a retail price.
If they tacked on a fifty cent surcharge for electricity you'd expect the retail price to go down by fifty cents. If it doesn't you find somebody else selling the same thing for fifty cents less until Wal-Mart gets in line.
Phone companies have a lot more in their overhead that goes to various governments so they break out those costs on your bill to deflect your anger from them to the proper target.
"You mount one horizontal bracket near the ceiling (i.e. on the wood of the header behind the wallboard there), and the vertical supports hang on that -- hence no searching for studs."
Headers are only found above windows and doors. Otherwise there's just the top plate and the tie plate, a total of 3 vertical inches of wood running horizontally and part of that 3 inches is covered by the thickness of the ceiling sheetrock. There's a reason why the screw holes in the horizontal piece are 16 inches apart. It's so you can mount it to wall studs. Then it is used, after making sure it was installed "level", to hang the vertical brackets "plumb". Those verticle brackets still need to be attached to the walls, preferably directly over the studs so that you're running screws into wood instead of wallboard. If you do it that way you can put a lot more weight on the shelf supported by the horizontal brackets that hook into the vertical brackets that hang from the runner.
There are at least 2 other companies (Spur, an English import, and K&W) that make a similar line of products which are partially interchangeable with the ClosetMaid line, but be forewarned, some of the shelf brackets attach to the vertical supports at exactly 90 degrees, making for a shelf that's level front to back, but others are designed so that the shelf slopes up from back to front a few degrees. This causes problems if you want a shelf that turns and continues at the corners.
Time to start working on him to re-write the will to make sure it specifically goes to you.
My two most memorable rides (automobile-wise) while hitch-hiking back in the early '70s were in a new Rolls-Royce and a '52 Packard Straight Eight. The Rolls was nice, but I still lust for that Packard.
So if somebody snuck in while you weren't around and did an illegal Office 97 install on your machine you wouldn't be able to remove that software to which you weren't entitled, yet you can use the serial number from one Office 97 CD to install Office 97 from another Office 97 CD.
Since "virus" is basically Latin for "slime" and the plural of slime is slime, there really is no plural for virus, but I wonder how the Latin pedants would feel about "virum"?
"...about 1-2 days after it rains, the connection gets better while the longer we go without rain and the hotter it gets, the worse the connection gets."
So once the rain water gets well soaked into the soil things are good and when lack of rain and evaporation of moisture due to heat dry out the soil things get bad? Sounds like they used a rusty coat hanger as the sole tower ground.
" did you just say...that for most people, Internet Explorer is virus and pop up free ?"
Well of course. It's not the browser that gets all the problems it lets through, it's the OS, the Registery, and all those poor defenseless random executables.:-)
"...but the printing press was largely pushed forward by the civil war..."
To which civil war do you refer? Surely not one as recent as the 1861-1865 war in the U.S., some 4 centuries after the invention of the printing press?
"The CIA was being used to spy on Americans, intervene in American domestic affairs, and play dirty tricks on political opponents of those in power..."
Greatly angering Hoover's FBI who considered those to be their duties exclusively.
"Sleepless in Seattle and You've Got Mail were basically the same movie..."
Not at all. "You've Got Mail" was a remake of "The Shop Around the Corner" (which was also remade as a musical, "In the Good Old Summertime") whereas "Sleepless in Seattle" was plagarized from "An Affair to Remember" (which was a remake of "Love Affair").
So what you're saying is that the areas in the continental US that don't get their gasoline from New Orleans are still paying about $2.50 a gallon instead of about $3.50? What's that? Your prices went up as well?
The shortage on the east coast that drove up prices means higher prices in the west as well, otherwise the tankers would drive right past your gas stations on their way east to where they can sell their loads for more money.
"With a few days notice, even the slowest person could have gotten out of town on foot."
With a few days notice sure. But with hurricanes you only get a few days notice of where it might go and how strong it might be when it gets there. If you evacuate a few days in advance you may find that you've moved to where the hurricane actually winds up hitting.
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Now *that* would be enough to make this "grown man cry".
They do. It's called "overhead" and it's already factored into the amount (markup) they add to their wholesale price (what they pay for the item) that results in the retail price (what you pay them for that item). They just don't give you a breakdown of how much is wholesale, how much is markup, and how the markup is divided to cover all of their costs (labor, utilities, building costs, transportation, what they pay to various governments, etc.) when they quote you a retail price.
If they tacked on a fifty cent surcharge for electricity you'd expect the retail price to go down by fifty cents. If it doesn't you find somebody else selling the same thing for fifty cents less until Wal-Mart gets in line.
Phone companies have a lot more in their overhead that goes to various governments so they break out those costs on your bill to deflect your anger from them to the proper target.
Headers are only found above windows and doors. Otherwise there's just the top plate and the tie plate, a total of 3 vertical inches of wood running horizontally and part of that 3 inches is covered by the thickness of the ceiling sheetrock. There's a reason why the screw holes in the horizontal piece are 16 inches apart. It's so you can mount it to wall studs. Then it is used, after making sure it was installed "level", to hang the vertical brackets "plumb". Those verticle brackets still need to be attached to the walls, preferably directly over the studs so that you're running screws into wood instead of wallboard. If you do it that way you can put a lot more weight on the shelf supported by the horizontal brackets that hook into the vertical brackets that hang from the runner.
There are at least 2 other companies (Spur, an English import, and K&W) that make a similar line of products which are partially interchangeable with the ClosetMaid line, but be forewarned, some of the shelf brackets attach to the vertical supports at exactly 90 degrees, making for a shelf that's level front to back, but others are designed so that the shelf slopes up from back to front a few degrees. This causes problems if you want a shelf that turns and continues at the corners.
Time to start working on him to re-write the will to make sure it specifically goes to you.
My two most memorable rides (automobile-wise) while hitch-hiking back in the early '70s were in a new Rolls-Royce and a '52 Packard Straight Eight. The Rolls was nice, but I still lust for that Packard.
So if somebody snuck in while you weren't around and did an illegal Office 97 install on your machine you wouldn't be able to remove that software to which you weren't entitled, yet you can use the serial number from one Office 97 CD to install Office 97 from another Office 97 CD.
Since "virus" is basically Latin for "slime" and the plural of slime is slime, there really is no plural for virus, but I wonder how the Latin pedants would feel about "virum"?
Not if you did it in animated form. Then it'd be a Disney flick.
So once the rain water gets well soaked into the soil things are good and when lack of rain and evaporation of moisture due to heat dry out the soil things get bad? Sounds like they used a rusty coat hanger as the sole tower ground.
Well of course. It's not the browser that gets all the problems it lets through, it's the OS, the Registery, and all those poor defenseless random executables. :-)
So is "random" the brand name and "$50" the model number or is it the other way around?
Perhaps I should have said malice sufficiently cunning and devious to disguise itself as incompetence.
But what I fear is malice sufficiently advanced enough to disguise itself as incompetence.
To which civil war do you refer? Surely not one as recent as the 1861-1865 war in the U.S., some 4 centuries after the invention of the printing press?
"When I said "He was played by David Hasselhoff.", I thought I had pretty much covered that angle.
Greatly angering Hoover's FBI who considered those to be their duties exclusively.
Imagine "Planet of the Apes" ending with Charlton Heston saying "Well at least they made a good start on burying that ugly thing".
Ain't we all, brother, ain't we all.
You should have goten a +5, Funny just for that line, by the way.
If it weren't for the French we'd be known as South Canada and if there were a statue in New York harbor it would be of Queen Victoria.
(After 40 years some memories get mixed with others)
One day before the hurricane hit that higher ground could have been where the hurricane was going to wind up hitting.
Most are at least 40 years old.
Not at all. "You've Got Mail" was a remake of "The Shop Around the Corner" (which was also remade as a musical, "In the Good Old Summertime") whereas "Sleepless in Seattle" was plagarized from "An Affair to Remember" (which was a remake of "Love Affair").
There was already a Nick Fury movie. He was played by David Hasselhoff.
The shortage on the east coast that drove up prices means higher prices in the west as well, otherwise the tankers would drive right past your gas stations on their way east to where they can sell their loads for more money.
With a few days notice sure. But with hurricanes you only get a few days notice of where it might go and how strong it might be when it gets there. If you evacuate a few days in advance you may find that you've moved to where the hurricane actually winds up hitting.