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mygallons.com locks in the price you pay on a debit card. You could always sell it later on ebay for more than you paid. |
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Or just fill up a big tank. |
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I said a *big* tank, not a car's petrol tank. |
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Also I'm sure you're aware that there are entities out there who consume much, much more than 80 litres per week, and for them a 10 cent rise is very significant. |
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[+] No Kidding [Textide]; plus, the price of petroleum, ultimately, has nowhere to go but up. (Read: T. Boon Pickens... ) |
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A sideline problem, here, though, as I see it is: what the DEVIL happened to the Halfbakery of ~15 years ago!! I was gone for awhile doing dumb things (like writing a Doctoral thesis - I'm such an idiot!), and it's now populated (infested, mostly, I would say... ), by a new group of self-proclaimed "Illuminatti": self agrandizing (always voting for each other); always "naw-saying" others (except in the most extreme of circumstances; for instance, when the "others' " idea simply rocks too much, and they must acqueiesce); pompous intellectual wanna' be's... (YOU know who you are; but, there are a few of you who DEFINATELY seem to know what you are talking about ... Which begs the question: why do you let yourself be sucked into their Partisan maelstrom? Vote from YOUR conscience. Please... ) |
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The Half-bakery is in trouble: if you look at it's volumes of published ideas, you cannot tell, (by it's rating), if it's something worthwhile for Terran-kind. If it has a low rating, it could be the obvious prejudice of the current Illiteratti (the cyber-squaters, if you will); if it has a high rating, it could just mean it's the mental drivel of a "cerebral circle-jerk" by various, probably fat, men sitting in their underwear and pretending they're somehow ... important to the world. |
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Colour me: so dissapointed... |
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By the way: I consider this a gauntlet thrown down ... I'll answer any rebuttals to my accussations. Unfortunately ... I'm convinced that you know who you are, and you're too afraid for a FAIR fight (pen); it might show that you are NOT the halfbakery Gods that you think you are... |
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//what the DEVIL happened to the Halfbakery of ~15 years ago//
It was way ahead of its time - that's what happened to it.
sp. "disappointed", "accusations", "squatters", "a while", "its" |
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Hey, [coprocephalous], I'm too drunk to even walk right now; let alone, spell. So ... my words hit home pretty hard, eh, coprocephalous?! (By the way: you misspelled the "-phalous" part of your name; the "copro-" part, though, just might be apt... ) |
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But ... you DO agree with me - when looking at a brand new halbakery idea - that there is often RAMPANT partisanship? Be honest, ples... |
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No, [WP], personally I don't agree.
If a regular posts a crap idea, I'll bone it.
If a newbie posts a good 'un, I'll bun it.
And all combinations thereof. |
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But that's you, [coprocephalous]!! (That's got to be the the coolest handle, ever: "coprocephalous") But, I'm talking ... about the "regulars" (your words) ... and the "newbies" (your words). I ask you, in all honesty, coprocephalous ... don't you notice, when viewing one of the [seemingly] myriad posts of the [rabid] - my words - regulars, it'll often get, like ... +10 (instantly, seemingly... ), even if it's complete ... 'crap' science? (Individual interpretatation.) Can you break away from the pack to even admit this?! |
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I don't go with the pack, I usually go for "off-the-wall".
[TheLeopard] being a case-in-point.
Anti-terminator cows?
Apine musical prosthetics?
Not even remotely good science (or for that matter bad science), just divinely at right angles to normality, but with the essence of grounding.
I also like rants. [UB]'s good at those.
Newbies usually take some time to get the tone right, but some also hit the ground at full pelt.
I rarely, if ever, check scores before voting. |
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Maybe ... I'm in the wrong place. (It's Not like 15+ years ago when your idea stayed on for up to a month ... and people, albeit naively, thought that this place might just help change the world...) |
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So ... what does this mean? The Halfbakery has de-volved (evolved?) into a kind of on-line social club for wayward intellectualls? I have to admit that the quick 'witticisms' of some of the members make me laugh! But, than, Stephen Wright is my favorite comedian - so what do I know? |
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PROPOSAL: should a new Halfbakery (Halfbaker II) be designed for the [boring] people who aren't clever enough for Halfbakery I (but, like me, enjoy reading it... ), but ONLY for serious ideas: the Vincis, the Fullers, Teslas, and Newtons? |
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The halfbakery is about 9 years old, my how time crawls. |
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I have felt the same way you do about the hb at times, [wily], but I've come to realize that it's really not as elitist as it looks. I've seen 'bakers come and go, it just takes time as [coprocephalous] points out to familiarize with the hb and vice-versa. That time is inversely proportional to idea/anno quality (a product of time and wit), and perhaps friendliness and other factors. |
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I don't see a need for a "Halfbakery II", if [beanangel] for example can be "clever enough" than so can you. |
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//It's Not like 15+ years ago when your idea stayed on for up to a month //
Nostalgia, eh?
It isn't what it used to be. |
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I think you guys are missing the point of the idea. I don't just want to pre-pay for my gasoline (it's good to know that it's baked, thanks crankshaw). |
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1) A system that allows me to pre-pay for a LOT (or a little) of gasoline if I choose
2) An open market for this commodity
3) A way to redeem the purchase at any gas station |
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Trading pre-paid gas cards on e-bay is not the same thing as an open market with a stock ticker, etc. |
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BTW, I think the HalfBakery is still great -- if nothing else, it is a repository of ideas that (hopefully) won't go away. |
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//(By the way: you misspelled the "-phalous" part of your
name; the "copro-" part, though, just might be apt... )// |
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It would only be misspelled if he had a dick for a brain. |
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//It would only be misspelled if he had a dick for a brain//
Thanks [hazel], that would probably be an upgrade. |
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//Let me get this straight, [WP], you arrived in 2007 and posted 2 half-arsed ideas and left//
//I also like rants. [UB]'s good at those.//
See what I mean? Brilliant! |
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// you arrived in 2007 and posted 2 half-arsed ideas and left//
Oo-er - [UB] done it again - those two half-arsed (your words) ideas have been deleted. |
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wasn't there a crash that might have lost some ideas? |
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(how long has the 1/2B been around?) |
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//wasn't there a crash that might have lost some ideas? //
You mean the Great Crash of Ought Four?
Well sit ye here, young 'un, and listen.
Now, what was it I meant to say? |
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I bought a tank truck with a 1000 gallon tank some years back, and filled it up with fuel. It lasted about a year with all my family using it. Fuel prices were on a steady slow climb at the time, and I figured I saved about $700 on that tank of fuel. Wasn't really wort it, but was very handy to have a home gas station. |
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I sold the truck, and made $1000 on that. |
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Hey, you moroon: coprocephalous means NOTHING: copro-EN-cephalous, on the other hand, would mean: sh*t for brains. |
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'Just because you don't remember Halfbakery '95 - and my old handle - doesn't mean it didn't exist... |
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//Hey, you moroon//
More ferrousness.
//coprocephalous means NOTHING//
Well, "Bucephalus" means "ox-head", and the city named after him was Alexandria Bucephalous, so perhaps "sh*t-head -like" or even "sh*t-head-city" is a better translation. |
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//(like writing a Doctoral thesis - I'm such an idiot!)// |
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... and if you did that in the same style as your annotations here, and got your PhD, then THEY'RE idiots as well. |
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