sweetbaboo
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I wouldn't say top 50 is good - I can't think of a single major retailer that isn't on that list. Being behind "Food Lion" is not a good thing. Trust me.
I can barely believe that Market Basket is so high on the list. Walking into Market Basket is like stepping back in time. Anyone remember Super Duper from the early 80's? It looks worse than the inside of Super Duper! The closest thing I've ever seen recently to a Market Basket was the Mt. Hope Wegmans which they shut down in...2005?
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I can't say that I particularly care how much oil we either save or don't save in that process.
science and logic have no place where powerful emotions are involved!
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oh mammy!
now if they'd just move a little further north...no alcohol license issues in NH!
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nothing beats Wegmans...I nearly wept the first time I stepped foot into a Shaw's in New England. I can stomach Hannaford, but now my wife does all of the grocery shopping. If Wegmans was here, I'd actually go myself.
Consumer Reports Supermarket Ratings
Out of 50 some chains (I think), Wegman was #1...Tops was dead last
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Your still a hick and your probably not a Phd either or you wouldn't be arguing about the early cost of solar power. Early adopters always pay more, the price comes down as more units get sold. Just like flat screen TV's started out at $15,000 per unit. Now they are around $1000 per unit.
So be happy some people arte paying the higher prices so the price will eventually come down.
So...basically you're saying through all this hostility that I'm right? That it's not currently cost effective and only early adopters with too much money can afford it? Thank you.
By the way, You are = You're...not Your. But you don't need a Ph.D. to know that. And yes, I have a Ph.D. I also have a BS and MS in Chemical Engineering and deal with solar energy applications on a weekly basis for one of my projects...but you know more thanks to hearsay and news clippings.
I hate to argue with your enthusiasm about solar power because like I said, I really hope it becomes cost effective quickly...but you're not even thinking rationally and are misinformed thanks to our wonderfully reactionary media and your own personal gullibility. Thanks for being an early adopter I guess...
Scientific American-Scientists Know Better Than You--Even When They're Wrong
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It's not even worth arguing with you. Technology exists but it's not cost effective yet. Mass implementation happens once technology becomes efficient and cost effective enough for everyone. Being practical and understanding the technology and market does not equal doom and gloom. What the hell, do you think I want this to fail?So why are people installing them here in San Diego ? While watching their elec. meters spin backwards and getting a bill at the end of the month for $0 and charging their elec. cars to boot ! Seems like the system is working just fine despite your doom and gloom outlook ! -
You guys kill me. If your not educated about something why doubt it ? The state of California and Federal rebates total about 10 to 15K reducing the cost of the solar system from 25 to 30K down to around 15 K. I didn't include the cost of the elec. car because I'm still pricing them out. Sheesh. What a bunch of f-ing hicks around here.
My Chemical Engineering PhD hick ass that was in the optical engineering industry still works closely with folks in the solar power business in Northern California and all of them (IN THE INDUSTRY) have told me that it's not even close to being worth the hype yet. Cost is too high and the efficiency isn't there yet. You must know something the experts trying to develop the technology don't know.
As soon as it becomes remotely cost effective, I'll get a system myself.
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Then who is, the guy who will enjoy them in 5-10 years?
if that's the case, he'll just get a new younger one without having to lose money during a trade-in
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a few coworkers refinanced through lending tree and got great rates from competing companies
we tried lending tree as well and also got some good competitive offers...then we took those offers and presented them to our current lender and they trumped everything we got from lendingtree
either way, it's a win-win. Our rate went from 6.375% for 30 years to 5.625% for 20 years.
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so...is he picking up 6300 in tax rebates this year? not including the tax credits he gets for each kid?
even still...not worth it
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I'm thinking of getting an electric car for my wife. Put in a solar system on my house that can run my entire house with using no elec. in fact spin the meter backwards and sell the excess electricity back to the elec. company. Now I can charge my wife's car for free from the solar system. That should save me about $1000 a month. The system pays itself back in 12 to 15 months.
Any recommendations on elec. cars ?
what part of fantasyland do I go to to get all of this stuff? 15k for a whole setup like that?
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Why?
inquiring minds want to know!
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when the hell does that guy have time for sex? especially since finding someone to harness and belay him into that vast cavern must take some time to schedule
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my wife was thinking SUV for quite a while...I had to ask her if she was insane with the rising gas prices
she settled on a Subaru Outback...built in Indiana
meanwhile, I've been carpooling with a guy from work. We figured it costs us 8 bucks a day to get to work, so if we split it 50-50, we're saving nearly 1,000 a year
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Robert Downey Jr just equaled Christopher Reeve as best acting for a Secret ID.
not so secret ID
I never really liked RDJ all that much until I saw Kiss Kiss Bang Bang...I'm now a believer
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Most of the glut of superhero movies have been a disappointment. Spiderman was good and that's about it.
Spiderman 1 was good. 2 and 3 were godawful.
You didn't like Superman Returns?
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was awesome
that is all
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You hear people say, "That guy is smart enough to come up with a cure for cancer." That's inspirational.
I had typed up a long reply but decided it wasn't worth it.
This is better...
ok, Mr. moved by Inspiration...why aren't you working towards a cure for cancer?
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Fine, then develop them without wasting all the money of going to Mars, if that's even possible
In other words, forget shooting for the moon and stars and just aim low.
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This is why it's hard for UB to compete for big-time talent. Not only does the school not have any gut majors for dumb jocks, at schools with big time programs a player would never have to ask to have a paper written for him. The boosters would already do all his homework or the professor, knowing he's got a jock in his/her class, wouldn't even bother giving him an assignment like that.
PTR
how about psychology? man, the psych classes at UB were a breath of fresh air compared to my engineering courses...I never had to study to get an A AND I finally got to see some hot hot chicks that were lacking in my engineering classes
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I have absolutely no interest in a manned space mission to Mars though
In developing the technologies that make a manned space mission to Mars, alot of new scientific discoveries and technologies are created and spun off for other uses...alternative energy sources would be one of them. How the hell do you think they're going to have enough oxygen, electricity, fuel and food to use for such a long trip?
and thanks to Frasier, a bunch of psych majors...Most people in this country do not go into the sciences and engineering without inspiration. In fact, they don't do anything hard. Look at the pendulum between med school and law school applications - it pretty much tracks the appearance of shows like ER and LA Law.The general perception of scientists and engineers is that they're a bunch of geeks with no life outside of the lab...hence, there isn't really anything on prime time tv that would draw young people to it the way the lawyer, doctor and psychiatrist shows do. On the other hand, the Discovery channel and National Geographics channel has some amazing stuff. I didn't think it was very "cool" to watch that stuff when I was younger, but I can't get enough of it now. I'm assuming much of the younger generations still don't find science engineering to be cool.
Dean Kamen states it well on his website DEKA Research
"You have teenagers thinking they're going to make millions as NBA stars when that's not realistic for even 1 percent of them. Becoming a scientist or engineer is."
on another note, science apparently is also difficult to capture on video...during my last year of my PhD work, a camera crew came in to film our labs. When they came to me the first thing the photographer said was, "Act like you're doing science..."
WTF
My response was, "I am doing science."
For sake of the shoot, I donned a lab coat, goggles and held some beakers with colored fluid in them. Every once in a while, I'd shout, "Eureka!" just to piss them off...
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Gas prices are going up - again - because every spring the refineries have to switch over to the summer blend, meaning they increase the ethanol content, which causes all sorts of problems because ethanol is hyrdophillic, so they have to make sure that their refining systems are clean and dry, moreso than they used to with MTBE. Hence, it takes longer to switch over than it did five or so years ago, hence refineries are down longer in the spring, hence supply gets tighter, hence prices spike every April and May...
...lather, rinse, repeat. Every single spring I point out that gas prices spike in April and May because of the switch in blends. For the record: gas prices will spike in the spring of 2009, as they switch to the summer blends.
You want to lower the price of gas? Stop putting !@#$ing corn in it.
doesn't it go up when they change to the winter blend also? so basically, every year there's multiple reasons for the gas prices to keep going up
if this keeps up, i'm getting a motorcycle with a sidecar!
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this was much better when Dolph Lundgren jumped over a car in Showdown in Little Tokyo
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looks like I just got lucky and sold my house before everything really went to crap back in 2006...
Favorite Grocery Store?
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The strange thing about Wegmans is, the prices are still competitive or lower. I've never found something significantly higher priced at Wegmans. A friend of mine used to swear by Tops, saying it was far cheaper...so I gave it another shot and planned to do all of my grocery shopping there. There wasn't a single item cheaper than what I paid at Wegmans, including milk and OJ...so I left and went back to Wegmans.
Somehow, even the non-super Wegmans like the one in Henrietta, NY are better than anything I've encountered anywhere else.