Maybe Congress got smart and realized they'd be killing the golden goose? Doubtful, I know. For those too lazy to hit the link, oil profits from 1977 to 2004: $643 billion. Total tax revenue from oil: $1.343 trillion. Yes, trillion.
Yeah, but look at the slope of that curve 2002-2004 (thank you, GOP). I will drink a gallon of gas if the 2006 oil profit is below the 2006 tax number.
This article is just a very vigorous proof that you're an idiot if you spend any time at all searching for the cheapest gas. We all know that some gas stations don't follow the unspoken price rule where you don't undercut your competitors and they won't undercut you. Some people must feel very smart finding those gas stations. How much gas they waste getting to them might be interesting to compute also. Oh well, as long as it makes you feel good inside.
Yes, you would be an idiot to drive around looking for cheaper prices, but anyone with half a brain will stay aware of what gas stations are nearly always cheaper. For example, when I drive from our Northern VA home to our WV getaway farm, I fill up in Winchester, VA and not in Friendsville, MD. The difference per gallon is on the order of 40 cents. I don't have to drive around looking, I just buy where it's always cheaper. Same goes for my daily commute - fill up in Loudoun County (at Costco) instead of in Fairfax county, and save 10-15 cents per gallon.
By the way, if european cars get better mileage, why not buy a european car??
Because of safety standards mandated by the US Government, most european cars are not allowed here. Imports are specially built for the US market. For one thing, you generally want to survive a crash with a monster SUV or a truck (aka lorry).
Imagine a video camera on the advertisement that spots you're bald and loads an ad for Rogaine or one that determines you're fat and loads an ad for NutriSystem, or that you have no fashion sense and loads clothing ads!
I dare say that just because YOU don't get excited by holding or shooting a gun, it doesn't mean that other people don't. A gun can stir emotions as much as porn can (porn just stirs my hormones, not my emotions). As John Lennon (he, himself a victim of a shooting) said:
It is nice to think that at least today we KNOW that our myths are made-up.
But there are still some people who manage to insist they are real, actual events! - UFO religions like the Scientologists or heaven's gate.
More prevalent myths believed today: genesis, the garden of eden, the virgin birth, the resurrection of Jesus, God.
Only one of these has ever gotten through the GMail spam filter to my inbox. I should have read its content to see why, but I classified it as spam out of reflex.
The error is in both the article summary and one place in the article. The proper term is "demultiplexer," not "demultiplier." A "demultiplier" is called a "divider."
Plus I doubt people who wish to surf the net (instead of watching the telly till it sucks their cranium and creativity empty) would go to the trouble of finding a discarded receipt from the trash can EVERYDAY.
Someone cheap enough to leech off a coffee shop's net would surely have no compunction digging up receipts. I've SEEN people freeloading, sitting on the sidewalk outside of Panera with no evidence of lunch. You underestimate what leeches will do to save a buck.
Print that day's nocat code on the recipts and that stops the leechers. All the leechers have to do is find a discarded receipt - they're sure to be all over the place.
Oh, alas, oh, what a pain in the ass! The point is that you do NOT have to buy an iPod to enjoy iTunes music (as in my list of other ways to play the music - including using your Windoze POS, you Apple-basher) and you do NOT have to buy iTunes music to enjoy an iPod, so (staying ON topic of the article), the issue of monopoly is bogus.
Also, Mom and Pop can easily do the re-rip process if they want since the process is clearly outlined in the iTunes help file!
1) I do not have a Windows or Mac Then you are not one of their potential customers. Just like MS will have trouble selling me Xbox games because I do not have an Xbox.
3) Legally? Yes. The capability is built into iTunes.
My god and everyone accuses the US of using obsolete measuring units. 15 stones load? Sheesh. Don't bother joining the 21st century, when you can stay in the 14th.
Lets use the border-cams and remote-hunting to shoot RF-ID tags at illegals as the cross into the country. Then, we'll just get the RF-ID readers in Walmart to go off when an illegal enters and post INS agents in the stores. Heck, they can even help bag your groceries.
Thanks for the heads up. Being a true nerd, I never throw hardware away (much to my wife's chagrin). I figure I can always run the Belkin to one of the ethernet ports on the D-Link, so I'll have two wireless networks. With different channels set, I shouldn't have any problems. We already see several other wireless networks in our neighborhood, which makes me consider subletting my FIOS service out.
We used a Belkin wireless router for quite some time with a cable modem - no problems. In comes Verizon with FIOS and they give us a free D-Link wireless router. My wife was constantly complaining about dropped connection. I tried relocating the D-Link all over the place to no avail. We switched back to the Belkin and BAM no problems at all. I give D-Link a grade of..."D"
I'm sure they're just testing the Six Degrees of Separation hypothesis.
Seriously, though, how long until they use this information for the "War on Drugs?" Hunting down anyone who ever spoke on the phone with a drug dealer? Oh, wait... someone's pounding on my door right now.
You gave enough of a rat's ass to respond with your linux ranting. If you really didn't care, you wouldn't even have clicked through to the article. You can always "uncheck" the Google box if you don't want to be informed of all things Google.
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Maybe Congress got smart and realized they'd be killing the golden goose? Doubtful, I know. For those too lazy to hit the link, oil profits from 1977 to 2004: $643 billion. Total tax revenue from oil: $1.343 trillion. Yes, trillion.
Yeah, but look at the slope of that curve 2002-2004 (thank you, GOP). I will drink a gallon of gas if the 2006 oil profit is below the 2006 tax number.
This article is just a very vigorous proof that you're an idiot if you spend any time at all searching for the cheapest gas. We all know that some gas stations don't follow the unspoken price rule where you don't undercut your competitors and they won't undercut you. Some people must feel very smart finding those gas stations. How much gas they waste getting to them might be interesting to compute also. Oh well, as long as it makes you feel good inside.
Yes, you would be an idiot to drive around looking for cheaper prices, but anyone with half a brain will stay aware of what gas stations are nearly always cheaper. For example, when I drive from our Northern VA home to our WV getaway farm, I fill up in Winchester, VA and not in Friendsville, MD. The difference per gallon is on the order of 40 cents. I don't have to drive around looking, I just buy where it's always cheaper. Same goes for my daily commute - fill up in Loudoun County (at Costco) instead of in Fairfax county, and save 10-15 cents per gallon.
By the way, if european cars get better mileage, why not buy a european car??
Because of safety standards mandated by the US Government, most european cars are not allowed here. Imports are specially built for the US market. For one thing, you generally want to survive a crash with a monster SUV or a truck (aka lorry).
Imagine a video camera on the advertisement that spots you're bald and loads an ad for Rogaine or one that determines you're fat and loads an ad for NutriSystem, or that you have no fashion sense and loads clothing ads!
I dare say that just because YOU don't get excited by holding or shooting a gun, it doesn't mean that other people don't. A gun can stir emotions as much as porn can (porn just stirs my hormones, not my emotions). As John Lennon (he, himself a victim of a shooting) said:
Happiness is a warm gun.
It is nice to think that at least today we KNOW that our myths are made-up. But there are still some people who manage to insist they are real, actual events! - UFO religions like the Scientologists or heaven's gate.
More prevalent myths believed today: genesis, the garden of eden, the virgin birth, the resurrection of Jesus, God.
Only one of these has ever gotten through the GMail spam filter to my inbox. I should have read its content to see why, but I classified it as spam out of reflex.
The error is in both the article summary and one place in the article. The proper term is "demultiplexer," not "demultiplier." A "demultiplier" is called a "divider."
Plus I doubt people who wish to surf the net (instead of watching the telly till it sucks their cranium and creativity empty) would go to the trouble of finding a discarded receipt from the trash can EVERYDAY.
Someone cheap enough to leech off a coffee shop's net would surely have no compunction digging up receipts. I've SEEN people freeloading, sitting on the sidewalk outside of Panera with no evidence of lunch. You underestimate what leeches will do to save a buck.
Print that day's nocat code on the recipts and that stops the leechers.
All the leechers have to do is find a discarded receipt - they're sure to be all over the place.
Oh, alas, oh, what a pain in the ass! The point is that you do NOT have to buy an iPod to enjoy iTunes music (as in my list of other ways to play the music - including using your Windoze POS, you Apple-basher) and you do NOT have to buy iTunes music to enjoy an iPod, so (staying ON topic of the article), the issue of monopoly is bogus.
Also, Mom and Pop can easily do the re-rip process if they want since the process is clearly outlined in the iTunes help file!
1) I do not have a Windows or Mac
Then you are not one of their potential customers. Just like MS will have trouble selling me Xbox games because I do not have an Xbox.
3) Legally?
Yes. The capability is built into iTunes.
Are really 2. and 3. free and legal ?
Yes, they are both free and legal. And clearly documented by Apple.
One more time and all together now:
You don't have to use an iPod to play iTunes Music!
Options:
1. Play music on your computer (Windows or Mac)
2. Burn CD and play on your stereo
3. Re-rip to MP3
My god and everyone accuses the US of using obsolete measuring units. 15 stones load? Sheesh. Don't bother joining the 21st century, when you can stay in the 14th.
Lets use the border-cams and remote-hunting to shoot RF-ID tags at illegals as the cross into the country. Then, we'll just get the RF-ID readers in Walmart to go off when an illegal enters and post INS agents in the stores. Heck, they can even help bag your groceries.
The free POS D-Link was a DI-624. The fabulous Belkin is their F5D7230-4. Both are wireless G.
I'll have to say that I'm completely unfamiliar with how a typical drug deal works, especially since NSA is probably data-mining this thread.
Thanks for the heads up. Being a true nerd, I never throw hardware away (much to my wife's chagrin). I figure I can always run the Belkin to one of the ethernet ports on the D-Link, so I'll have two wireless networks. With different channels set, I shouldn't have any problems. We already see several other wireless networks in our neighborhood, which makes me consider subletting my FIOS service out.
We used a Belkin wireless router for quite some time with a cable modem - no problems. In comes Verizon with FIOS and they give us a free D-Link wireless router. My wife was constantly complaining about dropped connection. I tried relocating the D-Link all over the place to no avail. We switched back to the Belkin and BAM no problems at all. I give D-Link a grade of..."D"
And a great way for him to find who you hooked up with!
Call twenty or more random numbers a day.
And end up on twenty random blacklists a day -- terrorists, anti-bush, drugs, child pr0n, etc.
I'm sure they're just testing the Six Degrees of Separation hypothesis.
Seriously, though, how long until they use this information for the "War on Drugs?" Hunting down anyone who ever spoke on the phone with a drug dealer? Oh, wait... someone's pounding on my door right now.
You gave enough of a rat's ass to respond with your linux ranting. If you really didn't care, you wouldn't even have clicked through to the article. You can always "uncheck" the Google box if you don't want to be informed of all things Google.
For that price you should get the seat in which your view is exclusively the tips of her pubes. Or more accurately - HER seat.