No, it is free for the life of the OS. You got some spittle on you so I will ignore the rest. You can easily confirm this if you want. And no, I am posting from LinuxMint so I am not some sort of shill. You're insane and drolling on yourself - or drunk. Or stupid. Or willfully ignorant.
I liked Windows ME but only on one system. I had uptime for months with that thing. It was an Acer with an AMD K6-II @ 350 Mhz and I had OCed it to a bit over 500 Mhz. It came with Windows ME installed and proudly displayed a label saying something along the lines of "Windows ME Ready" (later more commonly seen with XP Ready stickers or Vista Ready stickers). Restore was new and was awesome as you could restore from outside of the OS. You still had DOS as I recall. It was stable and insecure as all hell out of the box but that was easily cured.
I was a happy ME user. I think there were six of us in the United States and maybe twice that many on the planet. Not even the Windows ME newsgroups got much use. Also, Media Player was kind of awesome too. It was much less bloated than it was the last time I looked at it. Then again, I have not used Windows Media Player in a whole bunch of years - since some of the XP updated versions got to be bloated, unintuitive, and generally crappy.
You could just install a different solitaire game, you know... There is nothing compelling you to use their version. If you do not want the ads then, yeah, do not install the game. This is not even complicated.
I do not have many Windows boxes around any more. I put a different distro (if it ran well in a VM) on pretty much all the computers in the house. (I have a lot of computers. Too many, really.) After doing so I discovered that, to my dismay, I had actually installed Linux on all the computers that had 7 on them. I have licenses aplenty (I get five new ones for every OS every year - MSDN subscription) but I have not been willing to actually go back and change any of them back. Other than one laptop on 8.1 and a tablet that I do not use I have one Windows install left and it is Vista SP2 on a desktop. I wonder if upgrading will work? I have backups so it is not an issue and, really, if it fails I will probably just put CentOS on it.
Every single person I know, except me actually, has or is going to upgrade to Windows 10 or plans on using it with their next computer purchase. I have been asking local computer users this question for months and no, I have not been advising them to not do so but I have suggested that they keep an eye on their privacy settings. I am not sure what that is worth but it is not my job to change their minds. Let them use what makes them happy.
I do not know any local people who use Macs.
On the tablet scene a number of people I know are chomping at the bit to get a Surface. They want Windows 10 on it. So far none of them have done so, as far as I know. They all pretty much seem to have current tablets based on Android but are electing to go to Windows even at the added expense. They all seem hell bent on the Surface too. I do not know anything about the Surface but I understand it is pretty decent. As I will likely be called in to help maintain these things I should probably invest in one. I really dislike the form factor. I do like, however, the Motion hybrid tablets - I bought a couple of those back in the day. I have no idea what the Surface looks like, I have yet to see one in the wild or even an ad for one. I understand that they can have attached keyboards? Meh... I will figure it out.
Finally, a few people but only a few, are looking to get a Windows phone. From what I can tell they seem to like the idea of getting an app and having it work across their desktop, tablets, and phones. I see the value in that but I do not see how that applies to me. I will probably get a Windows phone and keep it activated for a few months to play with it. It depends on what is available for hardware more than anything else. Even my sister, a die-hard Android fanatic who has been doing all of her computing on a mobile phone (even writing a novel), is planning on getting a Windows phone.
I guess my point is that, well, I do not think that they need to advertise Windows 10. This may be PR work but I do not think they need increased awareness. Everyone already knows about it. The whole free upgrade seems to have people quite enthusiastic and willing to try it out. Myself? I am going to keep my MSDN subscription but I do not see any use for Windows 10 as a main OS at this time. It runs fine in a VM and I bought VMWare for a reason.
Considering that they will likely be providing the hardware gratis then, yes - it is likely to be Microsoft products. Do you expect anything different? Do you have a good reason for expecting anything different or, really, even desiring anything different? Never let perfection get in the way of good.
Do you really expect complete altruism? How about, you know, letting them help out with the added benefit that they may end up employing some of them in the future. I can not, really, accept that this site is full of people who are against education. It is not as if they are going to force people into STEM fields and then enslave them in Redmond. They will benefit as will others. Not everyone is going to go into the field so it may just foster interests from those who may not have considered it before.
So long as it is not reducing education then I have no problem with this and, before you ask, I am certainly willing to discuss increasing the time spent in school as well as being quite willing to accept the increased taxes that would accompany that. I, for one, happen to be a fan of educating our children as well as we can. I am a fan of giving them options and getting them started on their careers early. I am all for an overhaul of our education system and am willing to put my money where my mouth is in the form of higher taxation should the rest of the population deem it to be so.
Hell, as it is, my property taxes go to a school system that is incapable of managing their money or operating within their budget. This is a school I have not likely benefited from in any meaningful way nor did my children attend said school system as I lived out of state then. A very large percentage of my taxes go to support this school and I have a lot of land and pay a lot of taxes. You know what? I do not even mind - one bit. Every now and again I find something that they are doing and donate more money to them. At the end of the school year I donated a bunch of computer equipment to the elementary school. I have even purchased equipment for the CS lab at the school. Why? Educating the little bastards is important. There are no factories left, there are few jobs that are worthwhile without a degree, and it is the human thing to do.
Let Microsoft throw some money into the system. Good. It is about time that they start this on a wider scale. More companies should be doing so. They want the human resources (our whole education system is designed around this principle) so let them pay more for it. Frothing at the mouth because it is Microsoft is damned silly. Try as they might, and they may, they will not be able to embrace, extend, and extinguish the education system - it's already broken. It is not like they can make it much worse than it already is.
No but you were suggesting he change his car when, really, keeping his car (meaning a new one needn't be manufactured) would potentially be better for the environment, their income, and overall more efficient as a new car needn't be manufactured.
I am a huge fan of keeping cars, safely, on the road for as long as possible. When I retired I got more heavily into collecting cars and it is a shame to see some of them being put to rest when they really needed a trivial, few hundred dollar, repair and then some regular maintaining of said vehicle.
We seem to forget the order (generic we) of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. I am not so good at the first one, personally. Then there is the added factor that the EV batteries can not be recycled and are considered hazardous waste by the EPA. Then there is the mining and processing the various ingredients... I think we need to examine the cost but, in the end, I think it will be worth it simply to move off of carbon based fuel.
As an aside, I am debating... I have finally decided that I take enough trips into town - just into town - that I can justify owning an EV. However, I have a dilemma. I do not know if I want a Tesla or if I want the i8 from BMW. I am a "preferred buyer" with BMW so I can make a deposit and go up near the top of the list but it is still in testing (design is supposedly final) and will not be shipped until 2018. It is not much more than a Tesla but it is also not a pure EV. The charge is, by itself, only good for 25 miles which gets me exactly into town and one mile back. I often go to the next town and that is much further away. No EV really suits that drive.
I have solar and wind. So it would be "free electricity." (Not really, you get the idea.) The Tesla models are nice but...
That would be an anomoly where they were providing "shovel ready jobs" to improve the economy. Did you forget that? Anyhow, I should have mentioned that anyhow - a lot of the money comes back in the form of federal tax dollars from the general fund though that is usually used for inter-state roads. You can tell those roads by the sign, they are black and white inside of a seal type of display (for lack of a better word). State roads are, most generally, paid for with gas taxes. Toll roads are *supposed* to be paid for exclusively with taxes in most states though some will have started with a trust and will pay out of that and the toll money.
I was up skiing during the Great Ice Storm of 98. Every power line was down - 14 days and 13 nights without power. The entire time? I had a POTS connection. Copper is not going anywhere. Not until Fiber is run underground to replace it. And that, my good man, is a fuckton more than a couple of grand. We rural people tend to vote more so, yeah... It is not going to happen any time soon. I still keep a regular house phone. I don't know the number and I do not actually recall using it now that I think about it except when I got it and made a test call. I am not even sure if it works.
I have solar so I do not go without power (I have a generator wired up as well as mains power goes out for long times here) and it is a cordless phone. Somewhere I have a real phone... So, even if shit really gets shitty then, well, I have a phone for quite a while. When the power goes out I have no cell sometimes. (I am not sure if it is signal propagation or if they have a generator for a while? It is sporadic during storms.) The best thing is I usually have internet during those times as well.
And if you think you will get your buddies to vote to kill copper? Hah! For every vote you submit, I am going to submit three!/s
As an aside, I have not pulled any power off the grid since improvements were made at the end of April (new batteries, replaced panels with more efficient panels, installed small windmill 'cause the wind whips down off the mountain more often than not). I have put power into the grid but I do not make money from it. I just get credits which I am told I can sell, gift, etc... I plan on gifting them when I accumulate enough assuming I still generate enough power over the winter to offset it still... I am thinking about a few more windmills actually - I would guesstimate that the turbine is spinning at least 90% of the time - maybe more. They metered it when I proposed it to a contractor and I average something like 18 MPH winds over the full day. Neat looking kit that they had too. Anyhow, I digressed enough. Now I have the munchies.
This person is wise in the way of the US Just Us System. Your legal-fu is worthy - I can tell by how you carry yourself.
Okay, I maybe smoked a little weed tonight. Maybe... It is mostly legal here but I can't be arsed to get the prescription. I can afford the fine. Call it my weed tax. You can not, realistically, go to jail for it here either. You can have pounds of the stuff and you get a $1000 fine. $350 for most amounts. You really gotta piss 'em off to get in trouble with it - I mean you need a gun, a bunch of cash, and to be forcing newborn babies to smoke it at the hospital itself. Even then it is probably a suspended sentence and payment arrangements for the fine if you have no money.
Which is why you are probably not a lawyer. Never, ever, assume good faith or commonsense. Never. I have dealt with the court system in so many different cases that, frankly, I am 100% certain that everyone involved (or those exposed long enough) are sociopaths. I feel bad for the liars that end up in the system - the ones that actually had altruism in mind. No, they become tainted.
Ask a lawyer (liar) what is the first word that comes to mind when you say, "Orange." Then ask them, "Explain your thought process as to how you reached that point?" For bonus points ask them if they could argue "orange" in court as a concept and how they would do so. However, there is that abyss and all that jazz so be careful about doing so.
There was a manual phone directory service in a small town that held on to it for cultural reasons. They ceased functioning about ten years ago, if I recall correctly. They were in the state I now call home, I did not live here then, and I think they were Byron Pond or something along those lines? Basically go left out of my driveway, head down 16, get on 17, and go down to Coburn Gore (spelling?). Take that left up (it takes you way back to Weld and to Farmington if you want to head that far and do not mind a rough road. Anyhow, before taking the right to go to Weld stay to the small trek to the left. There is a small town with just a few houses and a bunch of camps. They had the old fashioned phones where you literally spoke to an operator to get connected. They were also on a party line so anyone could listen in on your calls. There was a Bed and Breakfast there (I do not recall the name) and I stayed there on a work-cation but my stay was limited to just a few days that I could spare to be away from Rumford.
You know... I probably should be less lazy and use my mouse. I could have just searched for the town. I am sure Google knows. Google knows everything. *tab* *enter*
My ISP has all sorts of content. They have pages to bill me, pages to sell me stuff, pages to log in and play with my router (I just put my own routers in - screw that), and all sorts of stuff. You can not really say that ISPs do not generate content. They facilitate content but, I imagine, they all generate some content even if it is just a billing interface. You could even say that they craft packets... But, I am already being pedantic enough.
I have nothing to add really but Helvetica is a good movie. As for copyright, I could argue, if they are still making money from it then how do you suppose we have an obligation to strip them of that asset? However, I prefer to be illogical and really want copyright reform because, frankly, I think works in the public good would be beneficial though I do not think this applies to Mickey Mouse.
I take it you have not created any wealth... No, you can do quite a bit of exchanging without the bank being involved. Rather than get into details, please accept that I have a safe in my home with plenty of money in it. I just recently ordered a BMW and paid that with cash. Now, obviously, there is a bank (and some credit unions and some investment houses) if I want a large sum of money. I have filled out the form (I forget the name, they make me sign one if I take out x-amount of dollars and I have been told it is best to take out big amounts and be honest, enough, about the reasons) and put down "cash on hand." (Actually I just put COH on it.) I call a week before taking out very large amounts or I go on Thursday evenings to get smaller amounts. This is not a great onus. I have put down property and stuff like that but usually I just get a bank note for things that large but the paperwork is the same. Hell, I even travel with cash. Just declare the shit and you are all set.
Keep an octane booster in your trunk - a few bottles is good. It is great for when you get crappy gas or when premium is unavailable. Beemers can be a bit finicky about regular.
This is the second time you have stated this falsehood in as many days. Why lie? Wikipedia is available with a handy history section. The phrase was in use long before the 60s. Dishonesty does nothing but discount everything you say as utter trash.
Oh, I could not care less that you ride a bicycle. I thought the smiley face made that eminently clear. Perhaps I should have used the "/s" indicator instead.
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No, it is free for the life of the OS. You got some spittle on you so I will ignore the rest. You can easily confirm this if you want. And no, I am posting from LinuxMint so I am not some sort of shill. You're insane and drolling on yourself - or drunk. Or stupid. Or willfully ignorant.
Strangely enough, this is time for the hosts file.
I liked Windows ME but only on one system. I had uptime for months with that thing. It was an Acer with an AMD K6-II @ 350 Mhz and I had OCed it to a bit over 500 Mhz. It came with Windows ME installed and proudly displayed a label saying something along the lines of "Windows ME Ready" (later more commonly seen with XP Ready stickers or Vista Ready stickers). Restore was new and was awesome as you could restore from outside of the OS. You still had DOS as I recall. It was stable and insecure as all hell out of the box but that was easily cured.
I was a happy ME user. I think there were six of us in the United States and maybe twice that many on the planet. Not even the Windows ME newsgroups got much use. Also, Media Player was kind of awesome too. It was much less bloated than it was the last time I looked at it. Then again, I have not used Windows Media Player in a whole bunch of years - since some of the XP updated versions got to be bloated, unintuitive, and generally crappy.
You could just install a different solitaire game, you know... There is nothing compelling you to use their version. If you do not want the ads then, yeah, do not install the game. This is not even complicated.
I do not have many Windows boxes around any more. I put a different distro (if it ran well in a VM) on pretty much all the computers in the house. (I have a lot of computers. Too many, really.) After doing so I discovered that, to my dismay, I had actually installed Linux on all the computers that had 7 on them. I have licenses aplenty (I get five new ones for every OS every year - MSDN subscription) but I have not been willing to actually go back and change any of them back. Other than one laptop on 8.1 and a tablet that I do not use I have one Windows install left and it is Vista SP2 on a desktop. I wonder if upgrading will work? I have backups so it is not an issue and, really, if it fails I will probably just put CentOS on it.
Every single person I know, except me actually, has or is going to upgrade to Windows 10 or plans on using it with their next computer purchase. I have been asking local computer users this question for months and no, I have not been advising them to not do so but I have suggested that they keep an eye on their privacy settings. I am not sure what that is worth but it is not my job to change their minds. Let them use what makes them happy.
I do not know any local people who use Macs.
On the tablet scene a number of people I know are chomping at the bit to get a Surface. They want Windows 10 on it. So far none of them have done so, as far as I know. They all pretty much seem to have current tablets based on Android but are electing to go to Windows even at the added expense. They all seem hell bent on the Surface too. I do not know anything about the Surface but I understand it is pretty decent. As I will likely be called in to help maintain these things I should probably invest in one. I really dislike the form factor. I do like, however, the Motion hybrid tablets - I bought a couple of those back in the day. I have no idea what the Surface looks like, I have yet to see one in the wild or even an ad for one. I understand that they can have attached keyboards? Meh... I will figure it out.
Finally, a few people but only a few, are looking to get a Windows phone. From what I can tell they seem to like the idea of getting an app and having it work across their desktop, tablets, and phones. I see the value in that but I do not see how that applies to me. I will probably get a Windows phone and keep it activated for a few months to play with it. It depends on what is available for hardware more than anything else. Even my sister, a die-hard Android fanatic who has been doing all of her computing on a mobile phone (even writing a novel), is planning on getting a Windows phone.
I guess my point is that, well, I do not think that they need to advertise Windows 10. This may be PR work but I do not think they need increased awareness. Everyone already knows about it. The whole free upgrade seems to have people quite enthusiastic and willing to try it out. Myself? I am going to keep my MSDN subscription but I do not see any use for Windows 10 as a main OS at this time. It runs fine in a VM and I bought VMWare for a reason.
Considering that they will likely be providing the hardware gratis then, yes - it is likely to be Microsoft products. Do you expect anything different? Do you have a good reason for expecting anything different or, really, even desiring anything different? Never let perfection get in the way of good.
Do you really expect complete altruism? How about, you know, letting them help out with the added benefit that they may end up employing some of them in the future. I can not, really, accept that this site is full of people who are against education. It is not as if they are going to force people into STEM fields and then enslave them in Redmond. They will benefit as will others. Not everyone is going to go into the field so it may just foster interests from those who may not have considered it before.
So long as it is not reducing education then I have no problem with this and, before you ask, I am certainly willing to discuss increasing the time spent in school as well as being quite willing to accept the increased taxes that would accompany that. I, for one, happen to be a fan of educating our children as well as we can. I am a fan of giving them options and getting them started on their careers early. I am all for an overhaul of our education system and am willing to put my money where my mouth is in the form of higher taxation should the rest of the population deem it to be so.
Hell, as it is, my property taxes go to a school system that is incapable of managing their money or operating within their budget. This is a school I have not likely benefited from in any meaningful way nor did my children attend said school system as I lived out of state then. A very large percentage of my taxes go to support this school and I have a lot of land and pay a lot of taxes. You know what? I do not even mind - one bit. Every now and again I find something that they are doing and donate more money to them. At the end of the school year I donated a bunch of computer equipment to the elementary school. I have even purchased equipment for the CS lab at the school. Why? Educating the little bastards is important. There are no factories left, there are few jobs that are worthwhile without a degree, and it is the human thing to do.
Let Microsoft throw some money into the system. Good. It is about time that they start this on a wider scale. More companies should be doing so. They want the human resources (our whole education system is designed around this principle) so let them pay more for it. Frothing at the mouth because it is Microsoft is damned silly. Try as they might, and they may, they will not be able to embrace, extend, and extinguish the education system - it's already broken. It is not like they can make it much worse than it already is.
No but you were suggesting he change his car when, really, keeping his car (meaning a new one needn't be manufactured) would potentially be better for the environment, their income, and overall more efficient as a new car needn't be manufactured.
I am a huge fan of keeping cars, safely, on the road for as long as possible. When I retired I got more heavily into collecting cars and it is a shame to see some of them being put to rest when they really needed a trivial, few hundred dollar, repair and then some regular maintaining of said vehicle.
We seem to forget the order (generic we) of Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. I am not so good at the first one, personally. Then there is the added factor that the EV batteries can not be recycled and are considered hazardous waste by the EPA. Then there is the mining and processing the various ingredients... I think we need to examine the cost but, in the end, I think it will be worth it simply to move off of carbon based fuel.
As an aside, I am debating... I have finally decided that I take enough trips into town - just into town - that I can justify owning an EV. However, I have a dilemma. I do not know if I want a Tesla or if I want the i8 from BMW. I am a "preferred buyer" with BMW so I can make a deposit and go up near the top of the list but it is still in testing (design is supposedly final) and will not be shipped until 2018. It is not much more than a Tesla but it is also not a pure EV. The charge is, by itself, only good for 25 miles which gets me exactly into town and one mile back. I often go to the next town and that is much further away. No EV really suits that drive.
I have solar and wind. So it would be "free electricity." (Not really, you get the idea.) The Tesla models are nice but...
http://www.bmw.com/com/en/newv...
Yeah... It is a conundrum.
That would be an anomoly where they were providing "shovel ready jobs" to improve the economy. Did you forget that? Anyhow, I should have mentioned that anyhow - a lot of the money comes back in the form of federal tax dollars from the general fund though that is usually used for inter-state roads. You can tell those roads by the sign, they are black and white inside of a seal type of display (for lack of a better word). State roads are, most generally, paid for with gas taxes. Toll roads are *supposed* to be paid for exclusively with taxes in most states though some will have started with a trust and will pay out of that and the toll money.
I was up skiing during the Great Ice Storm of 98. Every power line was down - 14 days and 13 nights without power. The entire time? I had a POTS connection. Copper is not going anywhere. Not until Fiber is run underground to replace it. And that, my good man, is a fuckton more than a couple of grand. We rural people tend to vote more so, yeah... It is not going to happen any time soon. I still keep a regular house phone. I don't know the number and I do not actually recall using it now that I think about it except when I got it and made a test call. I am not even sure if it works.
I have solar so I do not go without power (I have a generator wired up as well as mains power goes out for long times here) and it is a cordless phone. Somewhere I have a real phone... So, even if shit really gets shitty then, well, I have a phone for quite a while. When the power goes out I have no cell sometimes. (I am not sure if it is signal propagation or if they have a generator for a while? It is sporadic during storms.) The best thing is I usually have internet during those times as well.
And if you think you will get your buddies to vote to kill copper? Hah! For every vote you submit, I am going to submit three! /s
As an aside, I have not pulled any power off the grid since improvements were made at the end of April (new batteries, replaced panels with more efficient panels, installed small windmill 'cause the wind whips down off the mountain more often than not). I have put power into the grid but I do not make money from it. I just get credits which I am told I can sell, gift, etc... I plan on gifting them when I accumulate enough assuming I still generate enough power over the winter to offset it still... I am thinking about a few more windmills actually - I would guesstimate that the turbine is spinning at least 90% of the time - maybe more. They metered it when I proposed it to a contractor and I average something like 18 MPH winds over the full day. Neat looking kit that they had too. Anyhow, I digressed enough. Now I have the munchies.
For those of us who may be in a slightly good mood... You prompted me to go find this:
http://www.hobbyfarms.com/hobb...
Yes, it is an "interactive" See And Say. It didn't even make me lower my security or prompt me for anything. Nice...
This person is wise in the way of the US Just Us System. Your legal-fu is worthy - I can tell by how you carry yourself.
Okay, I maybe smoked a little weed tonight. Maybe... It is mostly legal here but I can't be arsed to get the prescription. I can afford the fine. Call it my weed tax. You can not, realistically, go to jail for it here either. You can have pounds of the stuff and you get a $1000 fine. $350 for most amounts. You really gotta piss 'em off to get in trouble with it - I mean you need a gun, a bunch of cash, and to be forcing newborn babies to smoke it at the hospital itself. Even then it is probably a suspended sentence and payment arrangements for the fine if you have no money.
Which is why you are probably not a lawyer. Never, ever, assume good faith or commonsense. Never. I have dealt with the court system in so many different cases that, frankly, I am 100% certain that everyone involved (or those exposed long enough) are sociopaths. I feel bad for the liars that end up in the system - the ones that actually had altruism in mind. No, they become tainted.
Ask a lawyer (liar) what is the first word that comes to mind when you say, "Orange." Then ask them, "Explain your thought process as to how you reached that point?" For bonus points ask them if they could argue "orange" in court as a concept and how they would do so. However, there is that abyss and all that jazz so be careful about doing so.
No, you will get lost. Go RIGHT out of my driveway. The other way takes you to Eustis. Yes, I have to label my mittens - and keep them on a string.
There was a manual phone directory service in a small town that held on to it for cultural reasons. They ceased functioning about ten years ago, if I recall correctly. They were in the state I now call home, I did not live here then, and I think they were Byron Pond or something along those lines? Basically go left out of my driveway, head down 16, get on 17, and go down to Coburn Gore (spelling?). Take that left up (it takes you way back to Weld and to Farmington if you want to head that far and do not mind a rough road. Anyhow, before taking the right to go to Weld stay to the small trek to the left. There is a small town with just a few houses and a bunch of camps. They had the old fashioned phones where you literally spoke to an operator to get connected. They were also on a party line so anyone could listen in on your calls. There was a Bed and Breakfast there (I do not recall the name) and I stayed there on a work-cation but my stay was limited to just a few days that I could spare to be away from Rumford.
You know... I probably should be less lazy and use my mouse. I could have just searched for the town. I am sure Google knows. Google knows everything. *tab* *enter*
My ISP has all sorts of content. They have pages to bill me, pages to sell me stuff, pages to log in and play with my router (I just put my own routers in - screw that), and all sorts of stuff. You can not really say that ISPs do not generate content. They facilitate content but, I imagine, they all generate some content even if it is just a billing interface. You could even say that they craft packets... But, I am already being pedantic enough.
I have nothing to add really but Helvetica is a good movie. As for copyright, I could argue, if they are still making money from it then how do you suppose we have an obligation to strip them of that asset? However, I prefer to be illogical and really want copyright reform because, frankly, I think works in the public good would be beneficial though I do not think this applies to Mickey Mouse.
I take it you have not created any wealth... No, you can do quite a bit of exchanging without the bank being involved. Rather than get into details, please accept that I have a safe in my home with plenty of money in it. I just recently ordered a BMW and paid that with cash. Now, obviously, there is a bank (and some credit unions and some investment houses) if I want a large sum of money. I have filled out the form (I forget the name, they make me sign one if I take out x-amount of dollars and I have been told it is best to take out big amounts and be honest, enough, about the reasons) and put down "cash on hand." (Actually I just put COH on it.) I call a week before taking out very large amounts or I go on Thursday evenings to get smaller amounts. This is not a great onus. I have put down property and stuff like that but usually I just get a bank note for things that large but the paperwork is the same. Hell, I even travel with cash. Just declare the shit and you are all set.
Not off topic! It used to be cows and still has cows or it did the last time I was there. I admit that was ages ago.
Keep an octane booster in your trunk - a few bottles is good. It is great for when you get crappy gas or when premium is unavailable. Beemers can be a bit finicky about regular.
Higher octane does not necessarily mean higher output. It just means that the fuel requires more energy for combustion.
This is the second time you have stated this falsehood in as many days. Why lie? Wikipedia is available with a handy history section. The phrase was in use long before the 60s. Dishonesty does nothing but discount everything you say as utter trash.
Oh, I could not care less that you ride a bicycle. I thought the smiley face made that eminently clear. Perhaps I should have used the "/s" indicator instead.
Watch Radioactive Wolves of Chernobyl. You may enjoy it. I even dug you out a link.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...