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Comment on Gas Tax Holiday: Dumbest Idea Ever by Keith Bertelsen

Keith Bertelsen — Wed, 07 May 2008 14:00:10 +0000

It worries me, but the cynic in me thinks that even if they *were* to get it, it wouldn’t matter, because the people don’t get it. It’s amazing how mad you can get people just for mentioning the effects of supply and demand…

Comment on Gas Tax Holiday: Dumbest Idea Ever by Keithius

Keithius — Wed, 07 May 2008 12:40:17 +0000

Yep, supply & demand… it’s really not a hard concept to understand. The fact that our leaders don’t seem to “get it” really worries me, though.

Comment on Gas Tax Holiday: Dumbest Idea Ever by Keith Bertelsen

Keith Bertelsen — Tue, 06 May 2008 16:16:48 +0000

I was going to point out that the holiday was going to only cause the price to go up, but you beat me to the punch

As I see it, we have two options:
1. We can go drill for oil in all those places we have it but Congress won’t currently let us go. Supply goes up, we don’t buy as much oil from foreign sources, we create jobs, we have a product to sell on the open market…
2. We can raise the tax on gas, reducing demand even more. Prices will get high, which people will hate, but it will inspire them to use less gas, and it will inspire companies to fund alternatives, because they’ll get cheaper than oil eventually.

I would say politicians need a course in basic economics, but I’m just not sure they’d get it.

Comment on A Computer Conundrum by Keithius

Keithius — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:43:36 +0000

I haven’t had to “refresh” my Windows installation like that since Windows ME - and I’d like to keep it that way. There’s a certain amount of pride involved - that I can say I don’t have to reformat & re-install Windows every year or so. It’s a testament to how well I keep my computer.

Besides… I don’t have original installation media for this computer.

Comment on A Computer Conundrum by Keith Bertelsen

Keith Bertelsen — Fri, 02 May 2008 12:38:34 +0000

I’ve run into similar issues in the past. At one point, I hooked my “huge” 200-GB drive in an external unit, and kept files there that I wanted to keep but wouldn’t often use (video and the like). Of course, I also had a laptop, which changes the equation.

Though what I ended up doing was buying a new laptop drive and replacing the drive on my laptop at the time–oddly enough, in between my ordering the drive and it arriving, the hard drive on my laptop died. That made the choice easy.

With a desktop, I would strongly consider installing the new hard drive as a primary with the smaller one as a secondary, and just going with a fresh installation of Windows. After all, that needs to be refreshed every so often.

This is also why my latest computer purchase has two 1-TB hard drives in it

Comment on Desktop Madness Vol. 4 by barkah

barkah — Thu, 01 May 2008 02:27:14 +0000

good dekstop

Comment on Desktop Madness Vol. 26 by Keithius

Keithius — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 12:35:07 +0000

“Music for Freelance,” huh? *heads over to Amazon/eBay to by it*

Comment on Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day? by archi's mum

archi's mum — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 03:36:37 +0000

yeah i take all my kids to work every day too … 2 dogs and 3 rabbits … workin’ from home kicks butt

Comment on Desktop Madness Vol. 26 by Nipper

Nipper — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:24:31 +0000

Oh my, another Bebop fan! I have to say that the Music For Freelance CD never gets old - at least not yet! Good thing too; I paid forty U.S. bucks for the damned thing on YesAsia.com. I think. It was many dozen moons ago…

Comment on Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day? by Nipper

Nipper — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 23:22:03 +0000

Kyooooooooooote!!