Frugal Living: 25 new messages in 13 topics

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

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TOPIC: Bush To Let Illegal Aliens Get $40 Digital TV Coupons
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/f941e4a655a77d3f?hl=en
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== 1 of 9 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 5:12 pm
From: "Jerry Okamura"

"Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
>> Thanatos <atropos@mac.com> wrote
>>> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
>>>> Thanatos <atropos@mac.com> wrote
>>>>> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
>>>>>> Thanatos <atropos@mac.com> wrote
>
>>>>>>> But they have to do it according to established law. They can't
>>>>>>> (legally) just pass a law declaring something to be illegal and
>>>>>>> then ignore it.
>
>>>>>> They are the ones who make the laws.
>
>>>>> And they also have to abide by them.
>
>>>> Not really.
>
>>> Yes really.
>
>> If everyone abided by the law, you would not need laws.
>
> Irrelevant to what is being discussed there, the LAWMAKERS needing to
> abide by them.

That would be nice if they did. But of course we all know they do not.

== 2 of 9 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 5:14 pm
From: "Jerry Okamura"

"Thanatos" <atropos@mac.com> wrote in message
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> In article <47165ba9$0$32539$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>,
> "Jerry Okamura" <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> "Thanatos" <atropos@mac.com> wrote in message
>> news:atropos-BDE3E1.20501716102007@news.giganews.com...
>> > In article <47154f8c$0$15354$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>,
>> > "Jerry Okamura" <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>> >
>> >> "Thanatos" <atropos@mac.com> wrote in message
>> >> news:atropos-373F81.15084316102007@news.giganews.com...
>> >> > In article <47150409$0$4995$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>,
>> >> > "Jerry Okamura" <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>> >> >
>> >> >> "Thanatos" <atropos@mac.com> wrote in message
>> >> >
>> >> >> > But they have to do it according to established law. They can't
>> >> >> > (legally) just pass a law declaring something to be illegal and
>> >> >> > then
>> >> >> > ignore it.
>> >> >>
>> >> >> They are the ones who make the laws.
>> >> >
>> >> > And they also have to abide by them.
>> >>
>> >> Not really.
>> >
>> > Yes really.
>>
>> If everyone abided by the law, you would not need laws.
>> >
>> >> >> They have the power to change the law
>> >> >
>> >> > And until they do, they have to abide by them.
>> >> >
>> >> >> They passed the fourteenth ammendment, then reversed
>> >> >> themselves and invalidated the fourteenth ammendment.
>> >> >
>> >> > Really? I wasn't aware the 14th had been repealed. Which amendment
>> >> > repealed it?
>> >>
>> >> Soory I meant the 18th and 21 st Amendment
>> >
>> > Note that until they passed the 21st Amendment, the government had to
>> > abide by the restrictions of the 18th.
>>
>> And do you really think that every member of Congress, every member of
>> their
>> staff at the time, everyone working for the Government, including those
>> who
>> were in law enforcement abided by the law, when prohibition was the law
>> of
>> the land? If you do, I have a bridge in Brooklyn to sell you.
>
> Your logic is not our earth logic. When legislators break the law, they
> get arrested just like anyone else. Does the name Larry Craig ring a
> bell?

Only if they get caught, and only if when caught they are bought to justice.
Remember Willaim Jefferson?

== 3 of 9 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 5:15 pm
From: "Jerry Okamura"

"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
>>>>>> Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote
>>>>>>> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
>>>>>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>>>>>> Rick <videojockey1a@yahoo.comzzzz> wrote
>>>>>>>>>> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
>>>>>>>>>>> Thanatos <atropos@mac.com> wrote
>>>>>>>>>>>> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Thanatos <atropos@mac.com> wrote
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Rick <videojockey1a@yahoo.comzzzz> wrote
>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Build the Fence!
>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> They'd just do an end run around it, like the Cubans do.
>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> The reason it works for the Cubans is that once they make it
>>>>>>>>>>>>>> to U.S. soil, the law says they get to stay.
>
>>>>>>>>>>>>> Jumping ahead of the line when they do that?
>
>>>>>>>>>>>> I don't know if they get to become citizens or not. But they
>>>>>>>>>>>> get to stay here as foreign residents at a minimum.
>
>>>>>>>>>>> And what is the difference between Cubans "jumping ahead of the
>>>>>>>>>>> line" and those illegals who are in this country already,
>>>>>>>>>>> "jumping ahead of the line"?
>
>>>>>>>>>> It's part of a program President Kennedy or Johnson put in place
>>>>>>>>>> for the bang up job they did in the Bay of Pigs.
>
>>>>>>>>> No it isnt, it preceeded that.
>
>>>>>>>> What preceded that?
>
>>>>>>> That business about them being allowed to stay if
>>>>>>> they made it to the US preceeded the Bay of Pigs.
>
>>>> http://origin.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/americas/17289788.htm?source=rss&channel=miamiherald_americas
>
>>> Irrelevant to what happened legally just after Castro took over.
>
>> Huh?
>
> What was being discussed was whether cubans who got to the
> US were legally allowed to stay before the bay of pigs. They were.
> That preceeded the bay of pigs, so cant have been due to the bay of pigs.
>

Thanks for the clarification

== 4 of 9 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 5:17 pm
From: "Jerry Okamura"

"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
>>>> Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote
>>>>> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
>>>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>>>> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
>>>>>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>>>>>> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
>>>>>>>>>> Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote
>
>>>>>>>>>>>> But any market reform in Mexico would be better than what they
>>>>>>>>>>>> have now.
>
>>>>>>>>>>> Wouldnt fix the problem. NAFTA had no effect on the number of
>>>>>>>>>>> illegals.
>
>>>>>>>>>> First of all the comment was "any market reform in Mexico...",
>>>>>>>>>> it did not even mention NAFTA.
>
>>>>>>>>> Its a similar economic change.
>
>>>>>>>> Why is it "similar"?
>
>>>>>>> Because its another way of getting economic change.
>
>>>>>> Ageed
>
>>>>>>>>>> Second, while it is true that NAFTA will not fix the problem
>>>>>>>>>> (it is not intended to fix the problem), are you going to
>>>>>>>>>> argue that it won't "help"?
>
>>>>>>>>> Nope, that while it may well help the economic situation in
>>>>>>>>> Mexico, that wont have any effect on the number that still
>>>>>>>>> decide that their prospects are much better in the US than
>>>>>>>>> back in Mexico.
>
>>>>>> Agreed again, but it helps....
>
>>>>> Not with what is being discussed, the number of illegals from Mexico.
>
>>>>>>>> Huh? Does it provide jobs for some in Mexico that they would
>>>>>>>> not otherwise have,
>
>>>>>>> Thats arguable given that china manages fine without that.
>
>>>>>> huh?
>
>>>>> China doesnt have anything like NAFTA with the US and
>>>>> has plenty of jobs in areas that export to the US anyway.
>
>>>>>>>> and doesn't that provide them with the incentive not to enter this
>>>>>>>> country illegally?
>
>>>>>>> Nope, because work in those operations that do benefit from NAFTA
>>>>>>> still provides them with much worse living standards than moving
>>>>>>> to the US does.
>
>>>>>> so?
>
>>>>> So your line about improving the economic situation in Mexico wont
>>>>> actually have any effect on the number of illegals choosing to move
>>>>> to the US, essentially because whatever is done in Mexico will STILL
>>>>> see them with much worse living standards in mexico than in the US.
>
>>>>>> Does it or does it not convince some that they prefer to stay in
>>>>>> Mexico rather than enter this country illegally?
>
>>>>> Nope, wont make any difference to that, essentially because
>>>>> working conditions in mexico are so much worse than in the
>>>>> US even if jobs are made available for them in mexico.
>
>>>> then why aren't more of them here?
>
>>> Because the US makes it hard for mexicans to just move to the US.
>
>> that sure has worked hasn't it?
>
> Have the remotest concept of how many there would have been if any
> south american that wanted to move to the US was free to do so ?
>
> In spades with the rest of the world.
>

Well yes. But my argument is they would not want to come here in droves, if
they could make a decent living in the country of their birth. And as long
as they cannot, they will come.

== 5 of 9 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 5:19 pm
From: "Jerry Okamura"

"Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_birth_rate
>
> Completely useless on that living standards question.
>
> Not one of those with a birth rate that mexico has
> has anything like the living standards that the US has.
>
> It isnt possible for any govt to produce the living standards
> that the US has when they have a birth rate that Mexico has.
>
Did you really bother to look at the list?

== 6 of 9 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 5:54 pm
From: "Rod Speed"

Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote
>> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
>>> Thanatos <atropos@mac.com> wrote
>>>> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
>>>>> Thanatos <atropos@mac.com> wrote
>>>>>> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
>>>>>>> Thanatos <atropos@mac.com> wrote

>>>>>>>> But they have to do it according to established law. They can't (legally) just pass a law declaring something
>>>>>>>> to be illegal and then ignore it.

>>>>>>> They are the ones who make the laws.

>>>>>> And they also have to abide by them.

>>>>> Not really.

>>>> Yes really.

>>> If everyone abided by the law, you would not need laws.

>> Irrelevant to what is being discussed there, the LAWMAKERS needing to abide by them.

> That would be nice if they did. But of course we all know they do not.

Those that dont get dealt with the same way that everyone else does.

== 7 of 9 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 5:59 pm
From: "Rod Speed"

Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
>>>>> Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote
>>>>>> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
>>>>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>>>>> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
>>>>>>>>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote
>>>>>>>>>> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote
>>>>>>>>>>> Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote

>>>>>>>>>>>>> But any market reform in Mexico would be better than what they have now.

>>>>>>>>>>>> Wouldnt fix the problem. NAFTA had no effect on the number of illegals.

>>>>>>>>>>> First of all the comment was "any market reform in
>>>>>>>>>>> Mexico...", it did not even mention NAFTA.

>>>>>>>>>> Its a similar economic change.

>>>>>>>>> Why is it "similar"?

>>>>>>>> Because its another way of getting economic change.

>>>>>>> Ageed

>>>>>>>>>>> Second, while it is true that NAFTA will not fix the problem
>>>>>>>>>>> (it is not intended to fix the problem), are you going to
>>>>>>>>>>> argue that it won't "help"?

>>>>>>>>>> Nope, that while it may well help the economic situation in
>>>>>>>>>> Mexico, that wont have any effect on the number that still
>>>>>>>>>> decide that their prospects are much better in the US than
>>>>>>>>>> back in Mexico.

>>>>>>> Agreed again, but it helps....

>>>>>> Not with what is being discussed, the number of illegals from Mexico.

>>>>>>>>> Huh? Does it provide jobs for some in Mexico that they would
>>>>>>>>> not otherwise have,

>>>>>>>> Thats arguable given that china manages fine without that.

>>>>>>> huh?

>>>>>> China doesnt have anything like NAFTA with the US and
>>>>>> has plenty of jobs in areas that export to the US anyway.

>>>>>>>>> and doesn't that provide them with the incentive not to enter
>>>>>>>>> this country illegally?

>>>>>>>> Nope, because work in those operations that do benefit from
>>>>>>>> NAFTA still provides them with much worse living standards
>>>>>>>> than moving to the US does.

>>>>>>> so?

>>>>>> So your line about improving the economic situation in Mexico
>>>>>> wont actually have any effect on the number of illegals choosing
>>>>>> to move to the US, essentially because whatever is done in
>>>>>> Mexico will STILL see them with much worse living standards in
>>>>>> mexico than in the US.

>>>>>>> Does it or does it not convince some that they prefer to stay in Mexico rather than enter this country
>>>>>>> illegally?

>>>>>> Nope, wont make any difference to that, essentially because
>>>>>> working conditions in mexico are so much worse than in the
>>>>>> US even if jobs are made available for them in mexico.

>>>>> then why aren't more of them here?

>>>> Because the US makes it hard for mexicans to just move to the US.

>>> that sure has worked hasn't it?

>> Have you the remotest concept of how many there would have been if any south american that wanted to move to the US
>> was free to do so ?

>> In spades with the rest of the world.

> Well yes. But my argument is they would not want to come here in
> droves, if they could make a decent living in the country of their birth.

Pity that no one has managed to work out how to produce the same
living standards in those countrys as there are in the US to stop hordes
deciding that their economic situation would be much better in the US.

> And as long as they cannot, they will come.

And since no one has managed to work out how to produce the same
living standards in those countrys as there are in the US to stop hordes
deciding that their economic situation would be much better in the US,
the US will continue to see heaps choose to move to the US illegally.

== 8 of 9 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 6:04 pm
From: "Rod Speed"

Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
> "Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.com> wrote in message
> news:47166dc6$0$11608$5a62ac22@per-qv1-newsreader-01.iinet.net.au...
>> Jerry Okamura <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_birth_rate
>>
>> Completely useless on that living standards question.
>>
>> Not one of those with a birth rate that mexico has
>> has anything like the living standards that the US has.
>>
>> It isnt possible for any govt to produce the living standards
>> that the US has when they have a birth rate that Mexico has.
>>
> Did you really bother to look at the list?

I didnt need to, I produced by own from the CIA list by
importing it into Excel and sorting it it on the birth rate.

Not that that told me anything I didnt already know, that no country
with a birth rate of what mexico has or higher has living standards
anything like what the US has and that there are plenty with birth
rates significantly lower than what mexico has STILL have living
standards MUCH worse than the US, like China most obviously.

So we are fresh out of magic wands to wave to fix the fundamental
cause of illegals in the US, the fact that the living standards where
they are coming from are much worse than in the US.

You can proclaim that the countrys they are coming from should be
fixing that problem if you like, but until you can demonstrate how that
can be done, its just completely silly to suggest that that is the solution.

== 9 of 9 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 8:30 pm
From: Thanatos

In article <4716a56b$0$15422$4c368faf@roadrunner.com>,
"Jerry Okamura" <okamuraj005@hawaii.rr.com> wrote:

> "Thanatos" <atropos@mac.com> wrote in message
> news:atropos-7D7B60.17454217102007@news.giganews.com...

> > Your logic is not our earth logic. When legislators
> > break the law, they get arrested just like anyone else.
> > Does the name Larry Craig ring a bell?

> Only if they get caught, and only if when caught they are
> bought to justice.

Which can be said of everyone. You're talking in circles again. First
you claim that lawmakers belong to some protected class that's above the
law, then when it's pointed out that they get arrested just like
everyone else, you say "Only if they get caught!"-- which is true of
everyone, lawmaker or not. How many regular citizens get arrested,
prosecuted and/or imprisoned without being caught first?

> Remember Willaim Jefferson?

Yeah, he's been indicted, sparky.

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TOPIC: Global Home Based Biz Tap Lucrative Prosumer MiddleClass Markets 45+
Countries
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/886e79c441d6bf93?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 5:35 pm
From: "AcaiPlus2@gmail.com"

SUBJECT LINE: Residual Income Biz

Hi,

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team.

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TOPIC: As Seen on TV - A Huge Tip!
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/3bafebe6374b1da7?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 5:39 pm
From: helenmelvin

Re: Paying Pennies on the Dollar For Everyday Expenses!

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TOPIC: Update on the Free iPod from Key Bank
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/2f5122d4b3b41d48?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 6:06 pm
From: "Rod Speed"

Gordon <gonzo@alltomyself.com> wrote:

> THE FREE iPOD is HERE!! Whoo! Whoo!

> FedX delivered a package today from "The Fulfillment Center"
> and I knew exactly what was in it. Inside the box, inside
> a padded envelope, was a 4GB iPod Nano. And it's the new
> wider model.

> THere was also a rather diminutive getting started guide.
> Needed my reading glasses to read it. IT's obvious which
> generation they are marketing this to.

The reality is that its what fits easiest in the box with that diminutive ipod.

> So if you happen to by riding Portland's Max, and see
> a middle aged, slightly balding, slightly overweight, guy
> listening to an iPod with a big grin... Well now you know why.

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TOPIC: Lithium Ion or NiMH power tool "systems": Which one?
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/6a98c39c7645880f?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 6:13 pm
From: E Z Peaces

me@privacy.net wrote:
> I was originally looking to buy a Dust Buster type
> device but all the consumer ones have built in
> rechargeable batteries....such that once the battery
> dies you have to throw away the whole unit. Very
> wasteful!!
>
> I recently came across many power tool "systems" where
> you buy the battery units separate and they can be
> slipped on various hand tools such as drill, chop saw,
> and hand vacs!
>
> Curious which brand/model is the best value in terms of
> light weight, stamina, etc?
>
> Is Li-Ion better than say NiMH?

The NiCad is widely used for power tools. It's safe, simple, and the
longest lasting. It thrives on fast charges and fast discharges. NiMH
his a higher power density but won't tolerate fast charges as well.
More can go wrong with charging and the self-discharge is faster.

Li-Ion are expensive for a given capacity. The available current is
limited because high current can cause them to catch fire.

>
> Any brands to consider such as Black and Decker new GPX
> system?
>
I haven't heard of it.

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TOPIC: the price is wrong, @#%&@!
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/6ff0a0f299d2fb17?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 6:14 pm
From: Logan Shaw

OhioGuy wrote:
> Next there was a
> concerted effort to remove the symbol for cents from common usage.

I tend to wonder if that wasn't possibly caused by limitations of typewriters
and then exacerbated by limitations of computers. Having to choose only one
of the two because of a limit to the number of symbols available, they
eliminated the one could less easily serve double-duty.

> Now it looks
> like the plain old decimal place is also going the way of the dodo, because
> I guess it's just too much trouble to bother with.

I think there's a more depressing explanation. It's not that the decimal
place that is becoming less popular. Instead, it's plain old education.
People put "$49" as the price for bananas because they either don't know
the difference or, through years of brain atrophy, have ceased caring.

- Logan

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 9:59 pm
From: Abe

> I see it all the time - signs saying "milk $250 a gallon", or "bananas
>$49 a pound" It annoys my wife so much that she has complained to store
>managers, and has toyed with the idea of taking a black permanent marker
>along with her.
>
> Is it really so hard to put a decimal place in a sign? I mean, they went
>to the bother of putting the units on the sign, so why not get the price
>right?
>
> First they tried to foist the Metric System on us. Next there was a
>concerted effort to remove the symbol for cents from common usage. Later
>there was the "War on Christmas" (happy holidays, everyone!). Now it looks
>like the plain old decimal place is also going the way of the dodo, because
>I guess it's just too much trouble to bother with.
>
It's just sheer stupidity/ignorance/cheapness to leave out a decimal
place. Without it, the price being displayed is incorrect.

My supermarket has a policy where if an item rings up differently than
how it's priced on the shelf/bin, the item is free.

If yours has the same policy, you could have some fun messing with
their heads. Say "Hey the price for these bananas are $79 a pound, and
you rang it up as 79 cents per pound. I think I should get them for
free." When they look at you like you're a loon, stay serious and
insist on the free item. Do it again and again on subsequent visits.
Let's see how long it takes them to start using decimals in their
pricing. Could be lots of fun.

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TOPIC: What are you planning for Sweetest Day this Saturday?
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/045f914110927a39?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 6:16 pm
From: "Ben Jackson"

"OhioGuy" <none@none.net> wrote in message news:ff0k4f$qkl$1@aioe.org...
> Just wondering what everyone else is planning on doing to show their
> appreciation for their significant other on Sweetest Day this year?

I'd never heard of it before this. In fact, until I saw the Wikipedia entry,
I thought maybe you were making it up.

> >To ignore what is just another stupid con job.
>
> How so? I spoke to my Grandfather, and he says most folks around here
> have celebrated it since he was a kid. (and he's 84)
>
> It is also on our wall calendar.

My calendar also lists Canadian Thanksgiving and United Nations Day among
this month's "holidays"; I won't be celebrating those either.

>
> Why would you consider an opportunity to show your appreciation to
> someone you love (at little cost, I might add) to be a con job?

Why would you need an obscure, predominantly midwestern to show your
appreciation to someone you love?

>
> 50 years ago, Sweetest Day was mostly celebrated in the Midwest.
> However, as jobs moved, the Interstates were built, and people started
> becoming more mobile, they took their local holidays with them, including
> Sweetest Day.
>
> That is why Texas, California and Florida are now up in the top 10 as far
> as # of people celebrating Sweetest Day. Just 10 years ago, it was still
> all Midwest states.

Well, I hate to burst your bubble but I've lived in Texas for more than ten
years and had never heard of
"Sweetest Day" before stumbling across this thread. You may very well be
right about Texas being in the top 10, but I suspect that that's like saying
that Louisiana is one of the top five states in the country for "Talk Like A
Pirate Day" -- it just doesn't mean very much.

The interesting thing about all this is that, assuming with Wikipedia entry
is accurate (always a risky assumption, I admit), the original Sweetest Day
involved giving free boxes of candy to "newsboys, orphans, old folks, and
the poor", which seems like a very kind thing to do. It's really a shame
that what may have started out as a day for doing something nice for the
less fortunate has been turned into another excuse for crass commercialism.

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TOPIC: Use flat bed sheets only?
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/11daf24d12dfd175?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 6:42 pm
From: Logan Shaw

me@privacy.net wrote:
> Curious if anyone here refuses to use fitted bed sheets
> and instead uses two flat sheets?

I was under the impression that fitted sheets are a relatively
recent invention (maybe 1950's?) that came about when elastic
became practical for the purpose. Before that, everyone would
have used only flat sheets.

I also vaguely recall hearing they may have used buttons or snaps
sewn onto the mattress in order to hold the sheets in place. I
could be wrong, but even if I am, I suppose it would work. Buttons
in particular should work well, because if you put the buttons on the
mattress itself, all you've got to do is put button holes in the
sheets (and you can use several different sheets with the same
bed without buying more buttons). You could use other types of
fasteners as well, maybe even laces (with which you could probably
get the sheets very taut, if you're into bouncing quarters).

On the other hand, learning to fold fitted sheets isn't that bad.
It's true it can be a pain during the 25-year learning curve, but
once you've got it mastered, it's easy.

Personally, I approach this problem by always making sure to put
the same sheets back on the same bad the same day as I took them
off. That way, I rarely have to fold sheets at all.

- Logan

== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 7:37 pm
From: Shawn Hirn

In article <0tnch3horkok8853j3hcpqge7btd03qdhm@4ax.com>, me@privacy.net
wrote:

> Curious if anyone here refuses to use fitted bed sheets
> and instead uses two flat sheets?
>
> Also.... can a person use a queen size flat sheet on a
> FULL bed as the bottom sheet so that it will have more
> material to tuck under the mattress?

Why not? Its your money so if you want to buy larger size linens then
your bed needs, then you should do just that.

> I HATE trying to fold and store fitted sheets and
> thinking abt going back to all flat sheets.... but I
> have a full bed only.... no queen or king.

I use both. Works for me.

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TOPIC: free search engine?
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/db0014d235679823?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 6:45 pm
From: Logan Shaw

J. Davidson wrote:
> George Grapman <sfgeorge@paccbell.net> wrote in message
> news:JvvRi.35747$eY.6300@newssvr13.news.prodigy.net...
>> J. Davidson wrote:

>>> Are there any search engines which are free anymore?

>> I never knew of any that were not free.

> The ones I am using lately may give some information such as name and state
> but you have to pay for the phone number and the rest of the address.

Apparently you have a specific type of search engine in mind but are
being coy about what exactly you want.

You could try specifying what sort of information you plan to supply to
the search engine and what sort of information you're hoping to get back.

- Logan

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TOPIC: Catalog Items at Cost and Below
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/03d6c4dd4e26740d?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 6:53 pm
From: "Gary C."

BlueBroom.com is a web site that sells gifts at incredibly low
prices. Mostly catalog items. If you can't find a great deal here
then you....

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TOPIC: dishtv programmable remote (channel timer) for std receiver/tuner?
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/7f77cea4f7dff215?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 7:22 pm
From: patrick

Hello; The std tuner/receivers for the dsh tv system (model #311/322)
don't appear to have timer/channel programability function . In order
to use the vcr for recording, you have to lleave the receier to one
channel, set the vcr to that channel then program the vcr to record at
a particular time. There's no program for time and channel change.
Do any of the more intelligent universal remotes have the capability
to enter all the stuff re the channel and time to change then trip
the dishtv receiver to do the deed? That would keep the cost down a
bit as it would keep me from buying the dvr that would allow that in
addition to the monthly fee for the privelege of having a dvr! Thanks
Pat

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TOPIC: Why is it the finest hotel in the world
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/da3c33089d27a883?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 11:00 pm
From: "Cheeky Bastard"

"Stella" <rajeshsharma7778@rediffmail.com> wrote in message
news:1192031562.836936.249070@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
> Why is it the finest hotel in the world
> http://hotel-burj-al-arab.blogspot.com/2006/12/best-hotel-in-world.html
>

Ever heard of stupid is as stupid ask?
Don't let this bother you so much as most likely you will never see it
anyway.
If you have to ask you can't afford and that is what keeps the price up and
most of us out.

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TOPIC: Why does olive oil & vinnegar (mixed) need to be refrigerated anyway?
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/cbc77de31f1e4169?hl=en
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== 1 of 3 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 11:05 pm
From: "Cheeky Bastard"

It's obvious you really don't care so why listen to others as you are not
anyhow.
Do as you wish with it. Do you think most care?
Maybe you have a dorm room fridge? <grin>
"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:5nhpgqFibbq2U1@mid.individual.net...
> Daniel MacKay <daniel@bonmot.ca> wrote:
>
>>> They're pretty close to sterile in practice.
>
>> You're not listening.
>
> You in spades.
>
>> Either a container is sterile - that is, a can, or a jar with
>> an airtight seal, and has been "processed" at a certain
>> temperature for a certain number of minutes, or it is not.
>> There is no such thing as "pretty close in practice."
>
> You can keep asserting that till you are blue in the face if you like,
> changes nothing.
>
>> Dressing and mayonnaise containers in the grocery store are not. They
>> have cardboard seals, are in no way airtight, and have not been
>> "processed."
>
> And they are close enough to sterile for all practical purposes anyway.
>
>> They *can't* be processed - you can't heat mayonnaise.
>
> We aint talking about mayonnaise.
>
>> Conversely, if you argue that a plastic jar with a cardboard seal
>
> Its got a plastic top as well as the cardboard seal.
>
>> is sufficient to preserve food, you should put up some fruits and
>> vegetables that way and check back on them in a couple of weeks.
>
> Having fun thrashing that straw man are you child ?
>

== 2 of 3 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 11:08 pm
From: "Cheeky Bastard"

You asked and you got the answer but you now argue it. Please next time do
not post and just do as you are going to anyway.

"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:5ni7a8Fi6iodU1@mid.individual.net...
> John Weiss <jrweiss@nospamattglobal.net> wrote
>> Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote...
>
>>>>>>>> Why must I refrigerate a mix of that which
>>>>>>>> doesn't itself need to be refrigerated?
>
>>>>>>> Essentially because the mixing will normally end up contaminating
>>>>>>> the mixture, if only because the container wont be sterile.
>
>>>>>> They technically weren't sterile beforehand either.
>
>>>>> The containers they came in were near enough.
>
>>>> Not nearly...clean is a far cry from "sterile"
>
>>> They're pretty close to sterile in practice.
>
>> Nope.
>
> Yep.
>
>> Once the containers are opened, they are no longer sterile. After being
>> used many times and opened & closed repeatedly, they are no longer
>> sterile.
>
> And few bother to refrigerate olive oil and vinegar once they have
> been opened and the container doesnt say that you should either.
>
>> The container used for the mixture may be as clean or cleaner than the
>> bottles of oil & vinegar.
>
> Unlikely given that the container will have been washed
> in the home, and not new in the manufacturing plant.
>
>> FWIW, many restaurants keep salad dressings in unrefrigerated
>> containers. If you use them up in a reasonable time (a few days)
>> there is no need to refrigerate them.
>
> Irrelevant to the question that was asked.
>
>> OTOH, repeated shaking of the mixture will aerate it, and possibly
>> accelerate the oxidation of the olive oil, which will change its
>> taste and aroma. Refrigeration may help delay that oxidation.
>
>
>

== 3 of 3 ==
Date: Wed, Oct 17 2007 11:11 pm
From: "Cheeky Bastard"

Goomba38? No worries not a real Italian anyway LOL

Besides we use the ovlive oil way before it is in question.

We also have known you can cook with it as long as you never hit the flash
point of the oil.

"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:5ngjckFhuessU1@mid.individual.net...
> GreenieLeBrun <GreenieLeBrun@hotmail.com> wrote:
>> Rod Speed wrote:
>>> Goomba38 <Goomba38@comcast.net> wrote
>>>> Rod Speed wrote
>>>
>>>>>> Why must I refrigerate a mix of that which
>>>>>> doesn't itself need to be refrigerated?
>>>
>>>>> Essentially because the mixing will normally end up contaminating
>>>>> the mixture, if only because the container wont be sterile.
>>>
>>>> They technically weren't sterile beforehand either.
>>>
>>> The containers they came in were near enough.
>>
>> Sterility (from a microbiological view)is like virginity it either is
>> or it isn't no in between.
>
> Wrong with new containers for those components.
>

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