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Topic: Confessions of a Grocery stocker . |
jlw61
Replies: 86
Views: 4813
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 2:58 pm Subject: Re: Confessions of a Grocery stocker . |
| Why are they shrinking boxes but leaving the price as it is? This is illegal here. You must write the price per kilo by law. So people can do the math instantly. Shrinking boxes of 10 or 20% is illega ... |
Topic: List of what to buy with spare cash |
jlw61
Replies: 28
Views: 696
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 6:35 am Subject: Re: List of what to buy with spare cash |
| It depends on a number of issues including what you think the future will be like. Will oil simply "go away"? No, it's going to be around in one form or another for centuries. Will electricity simp ... |
Topic: Number of Searches being done on Google |
jlw61
Replies: 15
Views: 433
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Forum: Psychology Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:22 pm Subject: Re: Number of Searches being done on Google |
I just tried 'zombie hordes' and was advised there weren't enough searches made to generate a graph.
There is therefore still plenty of time before things fall apart, folks.
However, "[url ... |
Topic: Add Electric Motors to Boost Your Current Car's Efficiency |
jlw61
Replies: 3
Views: 201
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 2:11 pm Subject: Re: Add Electric Motors to Boost Your Current Car's Efficien |
So we've tossed around hundreds of present and future options for reducing our dependence on oil, but what's something that could help people in the short term without necessitating huge changes?
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Topic: Number of Searches being done on Google |
jlw61
Replies: 15
Views: 433
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Forum: Psychology Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 12:15 pm Subject: Re: Number of Searches being done on Google |
http://www.google.com/trends
Good stuff for checking out a pattern over time on any single search term! Thanks! |
Topic: Number of Searches being done on Google |
jlw61
Replies: 15
Views: 433
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Forum: Psychology Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 8:15 am Subject: Re: Number of Searches being done on Google |
| Absolutely facinating. Please consider posting this information every month if it won't go against Google licensing. It's impossible to say anything certain without several months of data, but my fir ... |
Topic: Confessions of a Grocery stocker . |
jlw61
Replies: 86
Views: 4813
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Forum: Peak Oil Discussion Posted: Thu Jul 24, 2008 6:27 am Subject: Re: Confessions of a Grocery stocker . |
| Again, I know you're not advocating anything, just the messenger. I just can't help but wonder whether people buying Spam are thinking these things through. If they actually like the greasy stuff, w ... |
Topic: Cold War heats up with a vengence |
jlw61
Replies: 52
Views: 1596
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Forum: Geopolitics Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 7:08 am Subject: Re: Cold War heats up with a vengence |
I say that what we need now is a little home cooked patriotism, and not faux-patriotism through stick waving.
Bring 'em home - all of them. It's time for us to get the hell out of everybody's busi ... |
Topic: U.S. Attempts to Manipulate the Price of Oil |
jlw61
Replies: 18
Views: 790
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 6:33 am Subject: Re: U.S. Attempts to Manipulate the Price of Oil |
Oil is a valuable commodity and the Americans don't have a birthright to it that supercedes everyone else's right to purchase oil.
Wanna say it to their face?
No, he's right, we don't have a bi ... |
Topic: Crystal sets, anyone? |
jlw61
Replies: 12
Views: 639
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Forum: Planning For The Future Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 3:09 pm Subject: Re: Crystal sets, anyone? |
If you're trying to have somehting to build after an EMP blast, dont you think the EMP blast would have fried the transmitter of the signals you would want to listen to??
Any commercial location th ... |
Topic: No Fuel Magnet Motors |
jlw61
Replies: 19
Views: 709
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 3:01 pm Subject: Re: No Fuel Magnet Motors |
| I will believe in perpetual motion machines when you can show me the opposite. A machine that you can put energy into, with absolutely no result - no increase in temp, no motion, no electromagnetic o ... |
Topic: No Fuel Magnet Motors |
jlw61
Replies: 19
Views: 709
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:32 pm Subject: Re: No Fuel Magnet Motors |
I have a perpetual motion machine design that will take 12lbs of BS and put it into a 6lb package with no additional BS used in the process. Think it'll sell?
Nah, we've got something that does tha ... |
Topic: No Fuel Magnet Motors |
jlw61
Replies: 19
Views: 709
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 1:29 pm Subject: Re: No Fuel Magnet Motors |
That's just a simple type 1 perpetual motion machine.
Wait until I've completed work on my type 2 perpetual motion machine that takes 1 pound of water as an input and produces 10 ah at 12 volts an ... |
Topic: No Fuel Magnet Motors |
jlw61
Replies: 19
Views: 709
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Forum: Energy Technology Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2008 12:35 pm Subject: Re: No Fuel Magnet Motors |
That's just a simple type 1 perpetual motion machine.
Wait until I've completed work on my type 2 perpetual motion machine that takes 1 pound of water as an input and produces 10 ah at 12 volts an ... |
Topic: The Economist: America may default on it's debt |
jlw61
Replies: 85
Views: 3743
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Forum: Economics & Finance Posted: Sun Jul 20, 2008 2:44 pm Subject: Re: The Economist: America may default on it's debt |
I'd like to see a one-time super-wealthy tax. No one should be able to accumulate a billion dollars, let alone more than, say, $25 million...
And if you are talking about the government taking the ... |
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