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Replying to: dino001 (May 11, 2008 3:37 pm) ‘dino’, turn your slide rule lights on when you start calculating. Even with a 6 inch slide rule you can interpolate that the dollar amount is $350 not $300. The rest of your math is correct, or close enough, so I assume you turned the lights on after the first calculation.  The fuel cost curve is a hyperbola approaching infinity at 0 mpg, so drops are large at low mpgs and small at high. There is no denying that you proved your point here. After being here for 10 years, I see manufacturers and merchants insulting intelligence of their customers and getting away with that over and over again. Marketing and advertizing is almost everything here. I have never lived anywhere else other than the GREAT USA nor do I ever have any intention to do so. However, I’ve heard similar comments from people who came to this GREAT country after living elsewhere so I have to believe this. The only explanation other than the water is, ‘we like to hear what we want to hear’ and because it works most of the time a lot of people don’t want to think. Then we have an economic disruption like the ‘home foreclosure crisis’ we’re in now because people forgot how to think or weren’t paying attention to 5th grade math. People do crazy stuff all around the world, but it's really astonishing how easy people buy into trends here. Almost unbelievable. It would be nice to have everything but even WE can’t do it right all the time. Rant finished Mine too. Edited: see above, Teach made me do it.  jmonroe
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Replying to: jmonroe (May 12, 2008 6:09 am) You might change your mind after the 2008 elections.   Richard
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Replying to: richard64 (May 12, 2008 6:38 am) ouch....that is hard.
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Replying to: richard64 (May 12, 2008 6:38 am) Yeah, I don't think anyone could survive Bush 3.0.
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Replying to: traindriver (May 12, 2008 6:51 am) |
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Replying to: jmonroe (May 12, 2008 6:09 am) However, I’ve heard similar comments from people who came to this GREAT country after living elsewhere so I have to believe this. The only explanation other than the water is, ‘we like to hear what we want to hear’ and because it works most of the time a lot of people don’t want to think. Then we have an economic disruption like the ‘home foreclosure crisis’ we’re in now because people forgot how to think or weren’t paying attention to 5th grade math. You totally nailed it! This is a Great country - big part of its greatness was achieved BECAUSE it made it possible for people without 5th grade math skills rather than shutting them out. It finds a way to make them more productive and engaged for promise of life that is better than their actual paycheck. You and I it's not really true, but they don't. In other places people hear "don't even try". Here they hear e.g. "yes, you can buy $300K house on $35K wage" and they believe it. Since belief is half of achievement, some actually do achieve it. It's one of those great contradictions. Like you said - works most of the time.
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Replying to: nortsr1 (May 09, 2008 10:33 am) Sorry I missed this earlier. WAAAAYYY off topic, but wanted to say you should not put a hot pan on ANY countertop. The granite itself can take the heat, but the sealant and wax on it cannot. If you damage that, you probably won't even realize it until the next time you spill something harsh on it ... like grease ... and it soaks into the granite. I used to sell cabinets and countertops in one of my former universes. ;b
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Replying to: dino001 (May 12, 2008 9:11 am) SO ?…so because the guy whose trading in for gas mileage is counting on this $50 a year to buy gas. Sorry, forget it; this guy ain’t good with math anyway. jmonroe |
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Replying to: qbrozen (May 12, 2008 9:49 am) You guys just wouldn’t drop this would ya; just had to drag it outta me, huh? In all the years we’ve been married, Mrs. jmonroe never did the “hot pot” thing until last summer when she was asked to make potato salad by someone for a cook-out. She dosed off (I wasn’t home. I was at one of the son’s places helping with a home project and it was really hot outside) and when she smelled something burning she jumped up, ran to the stove, still a little groggy and slid the pot onto the Formica top just enough to create a nice little arc from the pot, clear into the dark core material (the top is beige). When I got home she was still very upset with herself and said, “that’s it, I’m never making this again”.  I tried to make her feel better and said, “hell, I like that stuff, now that you ruined the top you can make it a hundred times and you won’t have to worry about doing that again”. I then ran upstairs, locked myself in the bathroom and took a shower. Guess what she wants to buy now? I’m surprised she didn’t run out immediately and get one. Heck, it cheaper than a dining room set that we don’t need.  To stay on topic, we’ll drive to a counter top place in one of our high mileage machines and we’ll ask that they deliver it in one of their high mileage machines. jmonroe |
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Replying to: jmonroe (May 12, 2008 11:04 am) Then again you never stated when this story occured. |
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