when you make everybody do the job that the police are supposed to be doing. Who thought it would be a good idea for Social Security people to be screening criminals? (Newt Gingrich and his Contract on America congress in 1996, that's who). Screening criminals is what the police should be doing. What's next? Is the FBI going to be paving the roads?
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DETROIT (AP) -- The government's "cash-for-clunkers" program drew car and truck buyers back to American showrooms last month, making July the best month for auto sales in nearly a year and offering powerful evidence that the rebates were working as senators debate whether to continue them.
In fact, some automakers, dealers and government officials declared an end to the industry slump that nearly claimed the lives of General Motors and Chrysler.
"We certainly expect that we've seen the worst of it," said Dave Zuchowski, Hyundai Motor Co.'s vice president of U.S. sales, whose sales rose 12 percent over July of last year, the second-best in the industry, behind only Suzuki.
"We're not saying it's going to be a high bounce back. We think it will be good, solid, steady growth."
Even though the overall U.S. market fell 12 percent when compared with July of last year, gleeful automakers reported vastly better sales than in the dismal first half of 2009.
In Washington, the White House urged the Senate to approve $2 billion without delay or risk ending the big rebates for car buyers by week's end.
Buyer demand was so strong that the government had nearly spent in one week the $1 billion that Congress had expected to last until Nov. 1.
"I think probably this is the greatest one-week energy conservation program that may have come out of Washington or anywhere else," said George Pipas, Ford's top sales analyst.
Without the clunkers program, July sales probably would have been about the same as June, Pipas said.
Democrats remained concerned about lining up enough support for the incentives, which offer up to $4,500 per vehicle. The House approved the rebates last week before heading home for the August recess.
Automakers and the Obama administration said the clunkers program did everything it was designed to do - replace inefficient sport utility vehicles with more efficient cars, boost auto sales and help lead the economy out of recession.
Gas-guzzling vehicles from the 1990s were stacked up on nearly every new car lot in America. As of Saturday, the government reported that 83 percent of the trade-ins under the clunker program were trucks, and 60 percent of the vehicles purchased were cars.
July was the best sales month since August 2008, when the industry sold more than 1.2 million vehicles before the financial meltdown began.
Still, the sudden spike in sales depleted dealer stocks of nearly every major automaker, leading many observers to predict that prices will almost certainly climb later this year.
The Ford Focus, which gets 35 mpg on the highway, was the No. 1 purchase of those trading in clunkers.
While the cash-for-clunkers program surely drew out buyers who would have come later in the year, Zuchowski and others said much of the clunker sales were from pent-up
Let's consider the value of the pollution externalities that the power companies benefit from every day, balance that against the cost of hooking wires to my house, and we'll call it even.
It's a really good deal for the power company.
To explain further, an externality is an economic term that refers to a cost or an impact on someone not directly involved. When a power company pollutes with a coal plant, there are many people who are impacted by the pollution, even though they are not involved in either the generation or the consumption of the electricity causing the pollution.
A homeowner bears more than his fair share of the cost of pollution, and a factory which uses far more electricity bears much less than its fair share.
Clean air is worth something. It has a value. And when that clean air is destroyed, the value is uncompensated. That's an externality.
So if the electric company wants to charge me for the house hookup, then I would like to start charging the electric company for the value of the clean air I no longer have access to.
Fatty porn. Someday, a smartass on Slashdot 3000 will point out the obese ideal of beauty of the 21st century. He'll point to an archive of thousands of fatty porn pics.
Apparently Boston can't tell if it's a computer virus or a tornado. It must be the same effect that causes them to believe that their women are good looking.
Wow, another dumbass from Boston who can't tell the difference between a cop and a citizen.
Just for you, I'll expand my criticism, which if you could read you would notice was directed towards the Boston PD, to the entire populus of the Boston metropolitan area.
Every person in Boston is a dumbass, afraid of the blinking lights.
If I'm going to get accused of generalizing about the entire city, I may as well make the generalization. If there's one thing I hate, it's being wrongly accused.
I can't recall any Russians who were able to paralyze an entire city in fear with nothing but an amusing comic book character. It rivals something Chuck Norris could do.
Or maybe the Boston PD is a bunch of scared little pussies. Naaah, nobody would believe THAT.
Actually, these guys were capitalists. And their abuses clearly indicate that socialism is right, and capitalist supporters are going to hell. We need a revolution. Bullet Box! Bullet Box! Woooo! Call the NRA, I'm going to cum.
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when you make everybody do the job that the police are supposed to be doing. Who thought it would be a good idea for Social Security people to be screening criminals? (Newt Gingrich and his Contract on America congress in 1996, that's who). Screening criminals is what the police should be doing. What's next? Is the FBI going to be paving the roads?
Portland cement based concretes also absorb CO2 over their lifetime.
The difference here is that Portland cement emits a bunch of CO2 during production, but the new stuff does not.
Change the website that formerly used to be about the Pacific Northwest by a simple search and replace on the string.
Now the website will be about the Pacific Delta Airlines Sucks.
I think I've just discovered my next porn fetish. Women pulling impossibly enormous and elastic snots from their nose. Slowly.
Aren't new web technologies supposed to first appear on porn sites and move into the mainstream from there?
Flamebait? Jesus obviously fucked that moderator in the ass.
Think about it - Jesus was a man. Jesus had a COCK! An actual cock!
Hard to believe, and most never even think about it, but he had a cock.
And the moderator was fucked in the head with it.
Or 20 twats in the Navy.
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DETROIT (AP) -- The government's "cash-for-clunkers" program drew car and truck buyers back to American showrooms last month, making July the best month for auto sales in nearly a year and offering powerful evidence that the rebates were working as senators debate whether to continue them.
In fact, some automakers, dealers and government officials declared an end to the industry slump that nearly claimed the lives of General Motors and Chrysler.
"We certainly expect that we've seen the worst of it," said Dave Zuchowski, Hyundai Motor Co.'s vice president of U.S. sales, whose sales rose 12 percent over July of last year, the second-best in the industry, behind only Suzuki.
"We're not saying it's going to be a high bounce back. We think it will be good, solid, steady growth."
Even though the overall U.S. market fell 12 percent when compared with July of last year, gleeful automakers reported vastly better sales than in the dismal first half of 2009.
In Washington, the White House urged the Senate to approve $2 billion without delay or risk ending the big rebates for car buyers by week's end.
Buyer demand was so strong that the government had nearly spent in one week the $1 billion that Congress had expected to last until Nov. 1.
"I think probably this is the greatest one-week energy conservation program that may have come out of Washington or anywhere else," said George Pipas, Ford's top sales analyst.
Without the clunkers program, July sales probably would have been about the same as June, Pipas said.
Democrats remained concerned about lining up enough support for the incentives, which offer up to $4,500 per vehicle. The House approved the rebates last week before heading home for the August recess.
Automakers and the Obama administration said the clunkers program did everything it was designed to do - replace inefficient sport utility vehicles with more efficient cars, boost auto sales and help lead the economy out of recession.
Gas-guzzling vehicles from the 1990s were stacked up on nearly every new car lot in America. As of Saturday, the government reported that 83 percent of the trade-ins under the clunker program were trucks, and 60 percent of the vehicles purchased were cars.
July was the best sales month since August 2008, when the industry sold more than 1.2 million vehicles before the financial meltdown began.
Still, the sudden spike in sales depleted dealer stocks of nearly every major automaker, leading many observers to predict that prices will almost certainly climb later this year.
The Ford Focus, which gets 35 mpg on the highway, was the No. 1 purchase of those trading in clunkers.
While the cash-for-clunkers program surely drew out buyers who would have come later in the year, Zuchowski and others said much of the clunker sales were from pent-up
Let's consider the value of the pollution externalities that the power companies benefit from every day, balance that against the cost of hooking wires to my house, and we'll call it even.
It's a really good deal for the power company.
To explain further, an externality is an economic term that refers to a cost or an impact on someone not directly involved. When a power company pollutes with a coal plant, there are many people who are impacted by the pollution, even though they are not involved in either the generation or the consumption of the electricity causing the pollution.
A homeowner bears more than his fair share of the cost of pollution, and a factory which uses far more electricity bears much less than its fair share.
Clean air is worth something. It has a value. And when that clean air is destroyed, the value is uncompensated. That's an externality.
So if the electric company wants to charge me for the house hookup, then I would like to start charging the electric company for the value of the clean air I no longer have access to.
Fair's fair.
Sperm Swimming is mixing my spunk!
Where can we find another hacker that looks like a yeTTY?
I agree.
Any reboots of Keen should restrict themselves to upgrading from EGA resolution to something nicer, but that's it. Leave it 2D.
Oh, and leave Keen as a kid. We don't need to have an older/wiser Keen jumping to get the joint and the beers.
My former favorite "Here I sit all broken hearted" seems kind of dull compared to that masterpiece.
There's a problem with this:
Fatty porn. Someday, a smartass on Slashdot 3000 will point out the obese ideal of beauty of the 21st century. He'll point to an archive of thousands of fatty porn pics.
Thus, I am skeptical.
And just to rub it in...
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Apparently Boston can't tell if it's a computer virus or a tornado. It must be the same effect that causes them to believe that their women are good looking.
Wow, another dumbass from Boston who can't tell the difference between a cop and a citizen.
Just for you, I'll expand my criticism, which if you could read you would notice was directed towards the Boston PD, to the entire populus of the Boston metropolitan area.
Every person in Boston is a dumbass, afraid of the blinking lights.
If I'm going to get accused of generalizing about the entire city, I may as well make the generalization. If there's one thing I hate, it's being wrongly accused.
Aqua Teen Hunger Force.
I can't recall any Russians who were able to paralyze an entire city in fear with nothing but an amusing comic book character. It rivals something Chuck Norris could do.
Or maybe the Boston PD is a bunch of scared little pussies. Naaah, nobody would believe THAT.
Rep. Bartlett read a book, and got a bug up his ass.
The book he read was: http://onesecondafter.com/
Literally, the book is about three nukes launched from ships at sea, on top of modified scuds. Same plot as this Representatives scary scenario.
Bruce Schneier calls this kind of thing the "Movie Plot Terrorist Threat."
BTW It's a decent book for a fun read. If you enjoy the end of the world aspect of a zombie film, you'll like "One Second After."
But it's fiction, and while the principle is interesting, it won't be the end of the world as we know it.
He's got a friend with a horny dolphin, and imagines a threesome?
Scroll down for the sexy story.
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The guy sounds like a jilted ex - "You'll miss me when I'm gone!"
This is Microsoft we're talking about. So, let me help you with that analogy. It's what I'm here for.
The guy sounds like a rapist saying to his victim - "You'll miss me when I pull out."
Actually, these guys were capitalists. And their abuses clearly indicate that socialism is right, and capitalist supporters are going to hell. We need a revolution. Bullet Box! Bullet Box! Woooo! Call the NRA, I'm going to cum.
In other words,
If I can help Apple deliver new iPhone models by defenestration of brown or yellow people, then that's what I'm going to fucking do.
I can think of some foods which are obviously even worse to eat while driving:
1. King Crab legs in the shell
2. Fondue
3. Baked Alaska
Goodness, I hadn't realized the racist conservative map of humanity was so fucking SOPHISTICATED.
Why should records which have been verified to be true through comparison with many internal and external independent sources NOT be trusted?