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Facts... Our production efficiency keeps increasing, shifting the requirement to produce away from labor towards capital. Capital attracts capital, money/posession bears children if cared for properly. Even in the 1990's, had we applied the most efficient production processes globally, only one ...

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I think I can help with the question on memorials overseas, there are two US WWII memorials around my area that I know of.

The memorials here are considerably smaller. Just across the border to Belgium there's a memorial for I believe US airforce service men who died defending a bridge over the ...

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unless it’s frozen up somehow

...which I gather from his description of the cart moving as soon as the starter turns over. How do you explain that with a clogged air/gas inlet?

For all that I know, the starter engine turning the engine over should not be enough to engage a torque converter ...

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http://auto.howstuffworks.com/auto-part ... verter.htm

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Not having looked at the replies...

Quiz for People Who Know Everything
1. Name the one sport in which neither the spectators nor the participants know
the score or the leader until the contest ends.

Boxing

2. What famous North American landmark is constantly moving backward?

No idea

3 ...

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Brent wrote:For some reason

Part of that reason is that he isn't GWB. How much so, I cannot tell from here.

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Don't you just love all these experts on TV after these horrible shootings?

"Our first analysis hints at indications of a chance of the existence of a mental disorder."

Well no, I call killing a bunch of fellow students/teachers/policemen/bystanders a perfectly normal behavior.

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Wow Tobey, not exactly what I wanted to read coming here. My thoughts are with you, as others said, keep fighting! It's the best thing you can do right now.

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I think we should practice terraforming on unihabited planets first...

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The NY Times did not name any numbers either, or did I just miss them?

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Yep, and just when you thought you had seen it all... this case came along last year. I mean... WTF???

Killing him is too merciful, IMO. Make him live as long as possible... he has some years of confinement and torture and rape to make up for...

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Yes, and while we're at it, let's have a look at how the mj criminalization came to be in the first place...

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Watch your news today - there was another general strike in France today, with even more participation than the one in January. See if you can find it. For us it's prime time tv news. Our TV news (ARD - Germany, quite arguably #1 TV news) said 1,500,000 people according to the police, 3,000,000 ...

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Shouldn't the British government first worry about keeping data safe before even pondering collecting more?

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probably closer to the truth than the actual speech

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To add to Burke's post, also look at a refinery. These complexes are insanely huge and complicated, I'm sure they cost more than a dime.

Still, record profits is record profits, and that money still comes from us. The OPEC is a cartel - and as such, it naturally does not have your wallet in mind ...

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ronald,

I can't even find the Europe section on the NY Times lol. That's how they do it...they bury it here for us. the sad fact is, we know about it after the fact when we really should be leading the way.

Americans should be peacefully assembling to demonstrate our desire for accountability ...

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I did not find a mention of it on Fox News, for example, that much is true. But I don't know if I would call it under-reported given two things. One is the easy access to the info - on mainstream media sources, or would you not call the NY Times or USA today mainstream? The other thing is France's ...

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Interesting vid

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Look at the date, it's old news. The strike was on January 29th this year. With that in mind, it's easy to find mentioning of it in some random major US news sources as well.

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/world/europe/30france.html?_r=1&scp=8&sq=france+strike&st=nyt
http://online.wsj.com ...

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I guess I have to rank one of my primary news sources lower. They ran this story today - obviously without checking it. http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/0 ... 53,00.html (in German)

Edit: They grabbed the story from AP.

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Gixxer wrote:maybe a little russian.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_peoples

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Couple of other question Ron, what have your historical fuel prices been and what do the taxes raised from the fuel sales give you? Free healthcare?

To also answer questions as well, although we stray a bit off topic...

Historical fuel prices? Ever rising, always above US. Currently going ...

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Break it down for me Barney style.

After sales? Is an A-Class guaranteed to break down thus requiring parts? Can you explain this to me more clearly so I can understand?

Couple of other question Ron, what have your historical fuel prices been and what do the taxes raised from the fuel sales ...

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If I give you a perfect product, how often will you need to upgrade?

Look, I work for a car manufacturer myself. I know where profit is generated for which models.

A-Class - no money is made on the sale, money is made in after-sales.
S-Class - money is made on the sale and less in after-sales ...

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To expand on the topic... what I REALLY don't get.

Just look at this: http://www.vauxhall.co.uk/vaux/pages/cars/carRange.jsp

It's not like GM does not have decent cars in its global portfolio! It has a full range of small to medium sized, fuel efficient (Agila: up to 62.8mpg), reliable (almost ...

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I think what GM and also Chrysler need is swift action - either way.

Consider this: A warranty from a company of which you don't know if it'll exist in one month is pretty much pointless. Uncertainty in this area probably causes sales to drop even further than they normally would. While GM lost ...

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YeOldeStonecat wrote:Yeah it's all about the water tables when you live on the shoreline or in a peninsula. If your property is in a flood plain zone, entrance to basement or top of foundation has to be at least a certain height (varies by region) above mean tide.

Ah, that makes sense.

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Roody wrote:No sorry MadDoc. It doesn't have a basement. There isn't alot of those in Florida.

You'd think a basement would make a good hurrican shelter, or not?

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Also, I wouldn't want to take a medication against a mental trauma that influences my heart...

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Warcraft 2 & 3, Starcraft, the earlier C&C series titles should run just fine on moderate hardware and provide some fun. For some of them new maps are still being released. Not in bulk, but there's a bit of a scene left.

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Not the gas tax, brembo. Road tax as in an annual or quarterly fee that you pay for having a registered car, in case of the NL depending mostly on fuel type (gas/diesel/lpg) and engine displacement. Gas will still be taxed...

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GPS is easily defeated. The cash outlay in the beginning would be prohibitive as well.

Prohibitive? The Netherlands will introduce such a system in the next decade, first for trucks, then for passenger cars.

While I'm strongly against any such system due to privacy concerns, I do understand ...

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Isn't that also very close to where the game Indiana Jones IV - The Fate of Atlantis placed it, according to some hint from Plato?

The structure sure doesn't look natural. Also, it does not look like a grid enough for Google's explanation, I think. However, it does look totally oversized for a ...

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Funny you say that, I was just busy making extensive posts over that exact topic in this thread: http://forums.speedguide.net/showthread.php?t=250248

I arrived at the topic through a different context, but exactly what you're saying.

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Actually, let me sum up the Flick family a bit more extensively...

Friedrich Flick was born in 1883 in western central Germany. He completed school and university (business), and between 1906 and 1913 worked as accountant for a steel plant.

In 1913, he then became CEO of a different steel plant ...

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Evan, Bush is not much of a talking point anymore over here, other than maybe the occasional historical scapegoat (mostly justified too, IMO).

Nobody over here expects you guys to prosecute him, and most have shrugged it off as given because nothing we do can influence you guys enough to do it or ...

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Tony, but why are they in power? Germany IS a democracy. Even if they do also hide in the large parties... they do pull voters.

And since voting is a secret (thankfully!), nobody knows how many votes for CDU, SPD etc. really came from those skinhead idiots with bomber jackets like mentioned in the ...

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Just found this nifty little solution for my problem - wanting to control the WinAmp on my machine that's connected to the stereo on another networked PC...

http://www.winamp.com/plugins/details/171286

This plugin runs a little webserver on your machine to do just that. It works with almost any ...

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