NCclimber
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People are still filling up their tanks just as often. People are getting more and more used to the idea of $3/gal gas. Oil companies and refiners are still profiting but not so extremely that there's talk about windfall profits taxes or subsidy reduction. I guess it's just a well choreographed collusion. Just how many tin foil beanies do you have?
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Uh, no. It's 1CD = 1.09 USD. Dude You're just looking too hard for anything to complain about. Skydekker's exchange rate (a simple statement of fact) was correct when he posted it. This is pretty funny considering the exchange rate was not 1CD = 1.09 USD when you said it was.
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Catch phrases? I thought I was pretty clear. If you produce more then you flood the market with your product. If the market is flooded then your product is worth less. That's why gas prices go up when those annual "unexpected maintenance" shutdowns occur at the refinery. Milk is another great example. We produce much more milk than we need and/because the government buys the excess in order to keep the price from bottoming out and hurting the dairy industry. I understand the general concept of supply and demand, but right now demand is high, so it seems unwise to produce only half of capacity. Not sure how raising output would not add to the bottom line.
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In a situation where you have a candidate, who you genuinely support, but who doesn't stand a chance of winning and you have a front runner you're luke warm about, but clearly prefer over the opposition, how would you vote? Do you stay true to values and vote for the straggler, knowing your vote is basically a throw away? Or do you use your vote to help elect the lesser of two bad choices and leave your golden boy in the dirt?
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Nice dodge. Too funny!
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Practically, this is a non-issue. There is no way such a bill could make it into law. No way. It's too extreme. If you like his platform, don't let this bit of window dressing for small portion of the population deter you from supporting him.
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Devices Enforce Silence of Cellphones, Illegally
NCclimber replied to warpedskydiver's topic in Speakers Corner
I think Richard's point is that there are still inconsiderate assholes, who impose on everyone within earshot and that he'd like to be able to deliver a little vigilante justice. -
Last time I checked, you were the one saying he doesn't actually think that one of his "core beliefs" was true. Such dishonesty. tsk tsk It oozes from most of your posts in this thread. Now, how about addressing my main point.
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Why?
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Have you been paying attention to gas prices? They've gone up 25 cents in the last month. Wouldn't seem to indicate a glut of any sort. Right. The increase in inventory was only theoretical and based on your post. What are you talking about? I still have no idea how you could have concluded that it would be most profitable for a refinery to be working at 50% capacity, at this time. Perhaps you could explain it with something more than catch phrases.
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You asked for some proof. Sorry if you have no answer to it. Funny how some people interpret any limits placed on speech (no matter how reasonable) as an outright ban on speech. Bummer for those who can only see things in absolutes.
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Devices Enforce Silence of Cellphones, Illegally
NCclimber replied to warpedskydiver's topic in Speakers Corner
Let me see if I get this right. We get the cellphone makers to design and install a feature that would be utilized about 1/10th of one percent of the time, a feature whose purpose is to avoid the occassional disturbance in the theater, while removing individuals of responsibility for adjusting their phone setting when they go see a movie. Wow Talk about innovation. I'd like to be the one selling this brilliant idea to the board of Nokia. They'd love it. -
He's stating a principle, not an absolute fact. So, when he says it is one of his core beliefs that a healthy society is predicated on a belief in God... he's not actually saying that he thinks a healthy society needs to be predicated on a belief in God? Wow, the english language is so flexible. Now you're resorting to cheap word games. how nice. Why do you even care? Seriously, you seem to consistently get hostile whenever the subject of faith comes up. Why do you care if Fred Thompson believes "a stable society does not need to be predicated on a belief in God"? I understand the whole back and forth dynamic of this forum, but you seem to take this personally. Why?
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Have you been paying attention to gas prices? They've gone up 25 cents in the last month. Wouldn't seem to indicate a glut of any sort. This situation is about simply increasing production. There are no major upfront costs.
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He's stating a principle, not an absolute fact.
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I'm amazed at how many people take this third hand rumor as truth. First hand - you heard him say it yourself. Second hand - you heard it from someone that heard him say it. Third hand - you heard it on the news or read it in a paper, reported by someone who wasn't actually there. Seems like an awful lot of what we hear is third hand news rumor. Does that make all of it unbelievable? The difference is most secondhand information is checked out and confirmed. This whole business of Bush saying "God told..." has been refuted by people who were in the room when he supposedly made that statement. Still, people believe it.
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He states in his core principles that society needs to be predicated on a belief in God That's basically been a core principle for most Americans from the start. Then most Americans are wrong Why?
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He states in his core principles that society needs to be predicated on a belief in God That's basically been a core principle for most Americans from the start.
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I'm amazed at how many people take this third hand rumor as truth.
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How about any of them? Considering you've lived in the United States for 30+ years, I'd think you'd know the requirement for joining a major political party is simply an act of choosing one.
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How many US primaries have you voted in? Have you ever been a registered member either major party, in the US?
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"I think primaries should be restricted to dues paying paid up actual members of the party - those who put their money where their votes are." ----- kallend Whatever it takes to join. If dues are payable, then so be it. If not, so be it. Either way I think actual party membership should be a prerequisite to voting in that party's primary. Is that clear enough for you? So, you were just blowing smoke about that "dues paying paid up" nonsense?
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Debate on Cheney impeachment averted
NCclimber replied to masterblaster72's topic in Speakers Corner
There was nothing to debate. The Dems had nothing to impreach Cheney on besides the fact that they don't "like" him. And the fact that Pelosi is clearly smarter than Dennis "squeaky elf" Kucinick. -
That might work, Chief, if loss and profit were synonyms. But they're not, kind of like a dog's tail isn't a fifth leg. You're a professor of graduate level physics, right? He's saying it reminds him of other situations where people displayed a misunderstanding of microeconomics. In your defense, yes, his example was of a much more glaring case. Simply put, "Economics ain't linear." I agree. But I have a hard time seeing how raising oil refinery production from 50% of capacity to 80% of capacity would "cut into your profits". I get the whole diminishing marginal returns, variable costs vs. fixed costs, maximum production efficiency(sp?) factors. My simple explanation makes sense unless you through in some really screwy, atypical variables.