Still, most of the seats I saw on them were bungee cords stretched between pieces of rebar.

God it was so entertaining seeing people in actual cars get stuck behind them, honking, and the farmers just ignoring them.

It doesn't take the latest and greatest card...or even a $375 card..."just to get the game to run." EVER. It didn't for Crysis, it didn't for Doom 3 (the most demanding of the first round of DX9 games).

You can go ahead and use stuff like that as an excuse to buy a new video card. Sure. But you look like an idiot if you start lamenting your optional (even if you choose the option of playing the game) 375 dollar purchase on that basis.

Of course...the point of this article is that it shouldn't be a 375 dollar purchase.

Sounds like someone hasn't seen "Joe's Apartment."

That's kind of the inverse.

In a system that is known for heat issues, anything that could impede air flow is something you're better off not having in it.

Things that don't exist are also invisible.

Actually, they may need your SSN for a criminal background check. Or at least, it could help.

My neighbor was having the damnedest time getting any kind of job for almost a year before she found out that background checks were coming up with someone with the same name with fraud convictions.

I wonder if the person who came up with that term is divorced.

@layabout: But it's a MINIVAN! I don't WANNA drive a minivan to haul my kids around, minivans are for women with families! I wanna intimidate with style! I wanna vehicle that barely meets my practical needs but fulfills some idiotic fantasy I have, even though I neither know how nor desire to drive it in a way that actually makes it fun!

There isn't all that much GM has in Europe that they really ought to have in the US that isn't already here in some form.

Ford, however...

@muhnkee_2:

They DID sell the Phaeton in the US. I saw one the day before yesterday.

Make it interesting...put the same engine in a car an in a bike.

Japanese businesses, too. (Although with the rise of the Canadian dollar, I'll bet Toyota isn't feeling as good about that decision as they once were)

Not having some form of national (or even state) health insurance is a competitive disadvantage for the US. How do you like THAT aspect of the free market?

THE WORLD IS BIGGER THAN JUST THE US, CANADA, AND MEXICO.

They'll still have to worry about remaining solvent. I don't think that would solve all problems.

Crowns grinding, veins popping, stroke having.

Go in there and DEMAND the cheese on your sprite, the cheese that you are PAYING for.

Why should they do that? They have a fairly unified look...you can look at a Chevy and know it's a Chevy...and it isn't a bad one.

What do you propose they do instead?

I'm not sure about the pig part, but "blue" seems to be pretty common in ice cream. There's Blue Bell ice cream, and Blue Bunny ice cream.

They're the only ones who COULD have.

You don't like it, don't read it. It is easy not to click on these links.

See: every article about academic cheating.

Even if you don't have kids, you're personally benefiting from schools. You're benefiting from an economy which depends on having them. Every time you get correct change you're benefiting. You're benefiting from having fewer kids idle during the day and vandalizing your car.

I don't think it's impossible...I just don't think someone that scatterbrained could follow the whole process through.

No, raising the price is inflation. This is inflation PLUS other stuff.

Shrinking the package is AT BEST wasteful...it wastes energy and other resources in having a greater ratio of packaging to product, and an individually negligible but in aggregate probably noticeable amount of energy in additional transport costs.

Altering the package to look the same on cursory examination but contain less product, or altering the product to contain less product (aeration, for example) is an attempt at deception. Altering the package in a visible way, and calling attention to that in an attempt to divert attention from the change in size, while keeping the price the same, is an attempt at deception by misdirection.

I was already inoculated against this by being a hardcore skeptic and questioning everyone about just about every thing almost all the time. But I don't like being lied to. It's insulting...and this is like being insulted every time I go to the grocery store.

My reaction on seeing grocery prices go up while size remains constant: "God dammit!" It is unfortunate, but it is honest.

My reaction on seeing grocery prices remain the same while size decreases: "OH, FUCK YOU!" It is unfortunate, AND it is dishonest.

Who will be getting my money?

There is a need.

The market is not meeting it.

Stop trying to dance around it.

(Not that health care is really a free market anyway)

Oh, and I think the point here is that it shouldn't come down to charity.

I'm more about rejecting the idea that the government has a responsibility to INCREASE it.

Or just cut the mold off.

Whatever, it ain't that way now. If you've got a farmer's market or specialized produce market that isn't a "cash in on the organic craze" place, you can pretty much count on it being cheaper.

Mandarins, 10 cents per pound in...was it Watsonville or Gilroy, 2004. TEN CENTS A POUND.