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Quoteztirffritz In 5-10 years when most of the gas stations have closed you'll need to start planning routes around gas stations. It will be financially untenable to store hundreds of gallons of flammable liquid in tanks under ground that only a few people use. There are about 300 million ice mobiles on the road today, 10 million more are sold each year and only 1 million evs have been sold

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Re: Is short selling necessary for operating stock market? - 27 days ago

Huh? Don’t get the concept? In a short sale, the hedge fund sells a stock they do not own, essentially borrowing the stock from their brokerage house. They are betting the stock will go down. They have a certain period of time to cover their position and deliver the physical shares of stock to the broker. The hedge fund doesn’t actually sell anything to anyone. There are no poor duped inve

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Re: Apple urges security upgrade to iPhones, iPads - 28 days ago

QuoteWHiiP QuoteNewtonMP2100 ....you guys have.....urges too...... Yeah, but this won't fix those!!!! When those urges get fixed, the species is done for.

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Re: Latest in SSDs - anyone up on details? - 4 weeks ago

Forget FW. Why bother with an SSD if you’re going to slow it down to hard drive speed?

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Re: So if you don't get a Billion dollars, why is the lottery "for" a Billion dollars? - 4 weeks ago

It’s called the time value of money. Look it up.

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Re: Help me spend money-what would yo do with $850? - 4 weeks ago

Did you sell the MP?

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Re: The struggle continues ... upgrading Mac Pro to Mojave - 5 weeks ago

It’s a blessing in disguise. Attempting to run Mojave from a hard drive is not a pleasant experience. What kind of video card is installed?

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Re: The struggle continues ... upgrading Mac Pro to Mojave - 5 weeks ago

How long did you wait after the monitor went off before you pulled the plug? There are periods in the install when this exact thing happens - just let it go for a while.

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Re: House Air Purifiers - any suggestions? - 5 weeks ago

What are you looking to remove - dust, mold and/or odors? Your answer will determine what sort of system you’ll need.

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Re: eBay ditching PayPal - 5 weeks ago

The two companies split in 2015 but had a five year agreement that kept PayPal as their payment system. That is up now so PayPal is out.

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Re: NFL Talk: Post season 'purge' has begun! - 5 weeks ago

Yeah, lots of 4 and 12 qbs get to select their head coaches.

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Re: Want to use 2010 MBA for web surfer - 5 weeks ago

QuoteDP Quotefreeradical Wouldn't the SSD be pretty worn out on an 11 year old machine? Is this an issue? I've never heard of that... Sure, anything wears out eventually, but a spinner, e.g., has moving parts that will fail, but what's to fail in an SSD "over time"? Enquiring minds want to know! Okay enquiring one, take a look at this -

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