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DougW | 1 May 02:28

Re: gas buddy... if you think you've got it bad

Charles did pass the time by typing:
> No way it was me! It was "Porpoise" <porpoise1954 <at> yahoo.co.uk>!
>
>> Never mind the price of oil.... people can live without oil. It's the
>> price of water we all ought to be getting concerned about..... no-one
>> can live without water..... Just wait til *that* becomes the major
>> commodity......
>
> People have been repeating this for over 20 years.  I don't see it as
> becoming an issue.  The water market is capitalist - and capitalists change
> their habits when prices go up.  Changing habits includes finding clever
> ways to get more potable water...  Why, we've helped those clever Spaniards
> build some enormous desalination plants that are ridiculously cost
> effective.  Of course 'mericans aren't doing anything like that, but
> 'merican companies are stupid and short sighted.

'mericans are also stupid enough to buy filtered tap water and 8$ non-fat
mocha lattes.

If the U.S. actually went full fuel economy (like they did years back
with the first gas crisis), the oil companies would cry about not making
any profit, then cut back production till the price came up enough to recoup
the insane profit they lost.

Only thing high gas prices do is hurt small business and low wage earners.
I'd hate to be working a minimum wage job knowing half of what I earned was
simply paying to get to and from work.

Then again in retrospect the firt time I bought gas for a scooter it was only
40 cents/gallon or there about.
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Berny | 1 May 02:44
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Re: VOiP reviews?


"Charles" <8hmte5s02 <at> sneakemail.com> wrote in message
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SNIPPED

I have friends that only have cell phones and use Netzero VOIP when they
need to use "land line" I think they use cable broadband. and they have an
older W98 system.

I (my family) uses Skype,  www.skype.com excellent and free computer to
computer, even if the parties to the call are on dialup.

It's eu0.02 (2 eurocents about 2.5 cents) per minute for international calls
to a land line, we use that all the time between the UAE , and Canada or the
US.

Quality is as good as using the fixed lines end to end.

for equipment we bought $5.00 microphone, we use the computers speakers but
we also bought headphones at the same price for private calls. (we had
expected a feedback or echo problem but it never happened).
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DougW | 1 May 03:54

Re: gas buddy... if you think you've got it bad

Charles did pass the time by typing:
> No way it was me! It was "DougW"

>> Me, I'm taking my lunch to work and cutting out individual trips till
>> they can be all done at once.  Also doing more shopping on-line.
>
> Then you must be closer to the "edge" of that supply/demand curve than
> most.  I'm riding my bike more to work.  But I'm only doing that now
> because it's finally warm enough to do that.

Nah, I can afford the gas.  The point is I simply don't like getting
ripped off.  It comes from having to make due earlier in my life.
That and Scottish ancestry. :)

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NotMe | 1 May 03:50
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Re: Where is everyone?


"Sylvesterthekat" <me <at> privacy.net> wrote in message
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| "indigo" <nobody <at> spamcop.net> wrote in
| news:e2tqn8$cv2$1 <at> news.spamcop.net:
|
|
| > Dunno about that....I mean I LIKE a nice cocktail or 2, you know?
| > Makes my golf game better for one thing!
| >
| >
| >
|
| Or it makes your golf game SEEM better ;o)

What difference if you are having fun or only think you're having fun?
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NotMe | 1 May 03:41
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"Heidi" <nobody <at> spamcop.net> wrote in message
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| "Sylvesterthekat" <me <at> privacy.net> wrote in message
| news:Xns97B45BEC28343sylvesterthekat <at> 216.154.195.61...
| > http://www.gasbuddy.com/gb_gastemperaturemap.aspx
| >
| > ... check out California
|
| OK, why the differences?  Why is SC so low when surrounded by higher
states,
| and what about Ok? Are they refining their own?

state taxes.
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NotMe | 1 May 03:49
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"JohnL"
| "Frog Prince"

| > That was the very first caution I received when I went to the pain
| > clinic. Sad part was they were right as the caution applied to my
| > case.
|
| Yep, my S.O. has all the tapes/CD's , the chants, the exercises and all
the
| rest. Not much help with any of it. :(

One thing she does have and it DOES make a big difference is a SO that
cares, understands and has not bailed.
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NotMe | 1 May 03:45
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"Eponym"

| >
| > "Eponym"
| >
| > | Also, some of this is cultural and really has little to do with
| > | economics.
| >
| > Bull Sh|t.
| >
|
| Dude, get out of the US once in awhile.  Many foreign cultures value
having
| their elderly parents live with them or whatever.

For what it's worth I've been all over the world and in some real sh|t
holes.  Living 10/20 men to a room is not a cultural thing in any but slave
wage enviorments (think SA gold country).  BTW some areas of the Philipenes
do qualfy for that and it's mostly women because the shop can claim MADE IN
AMERICA but have a pass on US labor laws.
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JohnL | 1 May 04:15
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Re: Where is everyone?

"NotMe" <me <at> privacy.net> wrote in news:e33poa$9jq$3 <at> news.spamcop.net:

> One thing she does have and it DOES make a big difference is a SO that
> cares, understands and has not bailed.

Thanks for that. ;-)

She get's mean/snippy at times, but there a very good reason. On top of all 
the pain, is the worry about what is next, and when she settles down, she 
says pretty much what you just did.

I honestly can say that I could not handle all she has gone thru over the 
past 9 years.
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D-W-S | 1 May 11:58

Re: VOiP reviews?

Berny wrote on Sun, 30 Apr 2006 19:44:24 -0500:

> I (my family) uses Skype,  www.skype.com excellent and free computer to
> computer, even if the parties to the call are on dialup.

Ah yes, Skype. Brought to you by the samne people who wrote Kazaa.

Tell me, how far do you trust Skype?
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Frog Prince | 1 May 14:25
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"JohnL"
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| > One thing she does have and it DOES make a big difference is a SO that
| > cares, understands and has not bailed.
|
| Thanks for that. ;-)
|
| She get's mean/snippy at times, but there a very good reason. On top of
all
| the pain, is the worry about what is next, and when she settles down, she
| says pretty much what you just did.
|
| I honestly can say that I could not handle all she has gone thru over the
| past 9 years.

Just reread my post and failed/forgot to mention that I've been on the pain
side and try as I might to control it my wife has had to put up with the
mean/snippy stuff as well.

Still and all having someone who cares who is willing to suffer through the
emotional fallout makes a great difference, perhaps all the difference.
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