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    Anyone know how much it is to replace a starter on a Sprinter?

    A starter for an 2002-2006 Sprinter at a dealer is gonna be $967 for a reman Valeo or $1311 for a spankin' new Bosch. They are 24k gold plated and encrusted with diamonds. Same exact alternators at Europarts are $215 (plus $100 core) and $259 (no core). Well, those aren't gold plated or have...
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    O.O.I.D.A. Whose side are they realy on?

    I expect to see a rule change mandating toilets and running water in all sleepers.
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    Marijuana = alcohol

    It's someone who has cannabis abuse disorder, and got it when they were in their teens. Don't forget that only 9 percent of pot smokers ever develop cannabis abuse disorder, regardless of when they first started smoking it. And of all of those, the only ones with permanent or long-lasting...
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    Marijuana = alcohol

    Because he was asked about it by David Remnick in an interview for The New Yorker magazine. It's a pretty long piece, with only a small snippet of it dealing with pot.
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    Google Data Compression, Save on Data Use ?

    Sorry about that. Basically what happens is, when you talk to a Web site, you don't talk to it directly. Your communication TO that Web site is intercepted by a Google proxy server. It then passes your communication on to the Web site, and when the Web site responds (like sending you the Web...
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    Marijuana = alcohol

    I'm not implying any kind of conspiracy, I'm implying a mass failure of people to comprehend what they read. Barry's statement was highly qualified, not a matter-of-fact statement. He didn't downplay the dangers at all. He said it's less dangerous to the individual consumer, which is true...
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    Google Data Compression, Save on Data Use ?

    It's pretty straightforward. And it's been in the Opera Mini Browser for years (now found in the "off road mode" in its Opera's Blink based browser for Android). In order to compress the data send to the mobile device, Google is forwarding all HTTP traffic and DNS lookups to a SPDY proxy run by...
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    Where do you CV drivers sleep during this polar vortex cold weather?

    It's a weather feature that's been known for decades (first discovered in 1853). It's a low pressure system, like a tropical depression, tropical storm, a cyclone or hurricane, only it's over the poles. It's just a well-defined rotation, but it's way up there in the troposphere or the...
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    Marijuana = alcohol

    Did he downplay the dangers of it? No. Did he give false information about it? No. What did he say, exactly? Well, he said, exactly... "As has been well documented, I smoked pot as a kid, and I view it as a bad habit and a vice, not very different from the cigarettes that I smoked as a...
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    Marijuana = alcohol

    Thanks. One thing I forgot to mention, and it's really the underlying thing for both the racism and the money men is... the foundation of political control using prohibitions, especially drugs. Total and partial prohibition of drugs, alcohol and other stuff gives the government a tremendous...
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    Marijuana = alcohol

    Well, of course it contradicts his Drug Czar. The federal government classifies marijuana as a Schedule I substance, which is retarded. All Class I drugs act chemically and biologically in very similar ways, except for marijuana which doesn't resemble any of them in the way they act on the body...
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    Pay for a sprinter driver

    Going by the Rule of Thirds, based on the current going rates, driver pay should be about 35 cents per mile for loaded miles for a cargo van. Factoring in the 20+ MPG of a Sprinter, and thus fewer operating costs, should bring it up to about 40 cents per loaded mile.
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    Welcome to January 2014! New month, year, beginnings?

    I'm just north of ya a little ways, south of Atlanta. It's 60 degrees here. The wind chill makes it feel like 59, though.
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    Business 101

    Wait.... we have business cards?
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    Barack Obama Avenue

    In some cases it's extraordinarily quick. When Obama had been in office barely 100 days, the Webster Magnet Elementary School in Moot's backyard of St. Paul, MN changed it's name to the Barack and Michelle Obama Service Learning Elementary School. There are at least 13 schools now renamed...
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    Disappearing Industry

    Except my opinion is derived directly from the evidence, rather than unsubstantiated allegations. I'm going strictly by the evidence, which I did, in fact, show. You simply ignored it or refuse to accept it. Experts have looked at his patents and at his machines, and they have all concluded that...
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    Disappearing Industry

    I would disagree with that premise, as well. Fortunately, that's not the premise I established. Everything, especially official stories, should be questioned. The problem comes, and the premise I established, is when people use their questions as being equivalent to conclusive evidence for...
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    Expedite NOW It's Not Just a Job, It's an Adventure : Expedite NOW Magazine

    Oh, trust me, that's a question that really wanted to be asked. You have no idea how badly that question wanted to be asked. But, when it came time to ask that question, it instantly didn't matter. It wouldn't have changed anything, and it would likely only make them mad, or feel bad. No point...
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    The House on Wade Avenue

    I was vaguely aware of some of it, but I had no idea just how much of it is happening. There's a relatively large power station in Chicago disguised as a Georgian mansion, and one in downtown Nashville disguised as an office building. There are about 30 homes in Toronto that are fake enclosures...
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    The House on Wade Avenue

    It's a seemingly normal enough looking house, sitting along Wade Avenue in a typical residential neighborhood in Raleigh, NC. But it's not what it seems. If you look close, you'll see no driveway, no garage, no walkway to the front door. There are no lights, the windows are blacked out, and...
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