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Today's topics:
* Legal living in a commercial bldg? - 2 messages, 2 authors
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/67885bfdbb806af3?hl=en
* One-time credit card numbers? - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/b77ead67078c8cf2?hl=en
* Electricity Rates - wasRe: Home heating oil price? - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/25ab6d7a439ac7f1?hl=en
* Any suggestions - internet data card ? - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/e5ffd008e895f182?hl=en
* 1992 Eagle Premier recalls - 1 messages, 1 author
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/2aad70a3065462d4?hl=en
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TOPIC: Legal living in a commercial bldg?
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/67885bfdbb806af3?hl=en
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== 1 of 2 ==
Date: Sun, Aug 31 2008 6:50 pm
From: former POW
Can one live in a former "commercial" or industrial area ? California
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If guns are out-lawed. Only the Out-laws & politicians will have guns.
== 2 of 2 ==
Date: Sun, Aug 31 2008 8:08 pm
From: Shawn Hirn
In article
<georgewkspam-CA080E.18502431082008@sn-ip.vsrv-sjc.supernews.net>,
former POW <georgewkspam@humboldt1.com> wrote:
> Can one live in a former "commercial" or industrial area ? California
Depends entirely on local zoning law. Contact the zoning department in
the community in question to ask.
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TOPIC: One-time credit card numbers?
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/b77ead67078c8cf2?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sun, Aug 31 2008 6:56 pm
From: Tim Smith
In article <IxXsk.19059$xZ.14736@nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com>,
DLC <DLC@dlc.biz> wrote:
> Citi Bank and Discover cards have virtual or one time use account
> numbers. MBNA used to have these as well, but I am not sure after the
> Bank of America purchase.
>
> You need to install software on your computer to generate the temporary
> accounts.
The ones from Discover can be generated from their website, too.
However, they are *not* one time use numbers. They are good for as long
as your real number is good, so you can use them for subscription
services, or for on file orders, and things like that.
You can call Discover and have them invalidate a given number, so the
idea would be to use a different number for each merchant, and if one of
the merchants leaked your number, you'd just cancel that one, without
having to go update your on file information at all the other merchants
you deal with.
Probably the easiest thing to do if you want to buy from a site that you
don't trust is to use a prepaid card. There are two kinds of those.
One kind you buy and it has a fixed amount on it. Once that is gone,
they card is useless. So, buy one, use it for your questionable
transaction, and then go use any leftover for random local purchases.
The other kind is refillable. You go to the issuer's web site and can
put money on the card, using your regular credit or debit card.
--
--Tim Smith
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TOPIC: Electricity Rates - wasRe: Home heating oil price?
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/25ab6d7a439ac7f1?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sun, Aug 31 2008 7:39 pm
From: Jeff
JonquilJan wrote:
> enigma <enigma@evil.net> wrote in message
> news:Xns9B0B710A94B95enigmaempirenet@199.125.85.9...
>> Jeff <jeff@spam_me_not.com> wrote in
>> news:if6dnSPZp9UTNCfVnZ2dnUVZ_oHinZ2d@earthlink.com:
>>
>>> Ouch. How much is electricity there? From my rough
>>> calculation, electric resistance heating at 10 cents a kWhr
>>> is the same cost. This has got to hurt.
>> i don't know about PA, but in NH my electric is .14/kWh. at
>> my upstate NH house it's around .8.5/kWh. oil at both is
>> around $4.68/gallon
>> lee
> Here (northern New York) my electric is .13028/kWh - but - delivery services
> are ,030799/kWh plus a 2.04082% surcharge on the delivery service plus
> basic delivery service (other than useage) of $16.21. The delivery services
> are over half my bill.
>
> What is the situation on electric in other parts of the country?
Not as bad here in Atlanta. About .10/kWh averaging in delivery and
other costs. A surcharge for going over 650kWh in the summer and a
discount in the winter. Most people heat with natural gas which is a
good bit cheaper but is subject to wild fluctuations, I've been adding
solar thermal none the less.
I can't help but think that the pain people feel at the pump is minor
compared to heating a house in a cold climate with oil.
Jeff
Company is
> National Grid - and I opt in for wind energy (which adds just a bit - trying
> to do 'my part').
>
> JonquilJan
>
> Learn something new every day
> As long as you are learning, you are living
> When you stop learning, you start dying
>
>
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TOPIC: Any suggestions - internet data card ?
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/e5ffd008e895f182?hl=en
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== 1 of 1 ==
Date: Sun, Aug 31 2008 8:51 pm
From: Gene S. Berkowitz
In article <pan.2008.08.18.00.53.21.148602@woa.com.au>, newssixspam-
spam@woa.com.au says...
> On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 13:07:02 -0400, Shawn Hirn wrote:
>
>
> > and there are tons of free or inexpensive wi-fi access points in the
> > United States and elsewhere around the world,
>
> not in this country there isn't.
>
> > such as public libraries,
> > book stores, coffee shops, even McDonalds.
>
> How are Maccas on people just wandering in to use their free wifi without
> purchasing anything? TANSTAAFL.
>
I just returned from vacation in Maine.
Late one evening driving back to our lodgings, we noticed a young woman
sitting on the ground, with her MacBook on her lap. She was illuminated
by the light of her open car door.
The location was just outside the property of the only business for four
miles (a local inn) providing wifi...
--Gene
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TOPIC: 1992 Eagle Premier recalls
http://groups.google.com/group/misc.consumers.frugal-living/browse_thread/thread/2aad70a3065462d4?hl=en
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Date: Sun, Aug 31 2008 9:31 pm
From: ultimauw@hotmail.com
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