Teh Ricer Civic!

Could always find an old 90s Volvo wagon, excellent insurance rates, classic box designs and plenty of storage space. How about a used focus? I dont think those things hold resale value very well so one could probably be had on the cheap.

Well PT cruisers suck, sonata is a hyundai and the previous gen wasnt terribly attractive. SO i guess i'd go with the 300M in that spot.

Well duh, what do you expect?

Oohh S40s are fun cars... plus they got the whole Volvo safety thing going for em. Not cheap to work on though if you run into any problems. If its a turbo 4, or one of them fancy turbo 5s they will be fun cars to drive. Course uh... volvo quality tends to be either hit and miss or nickel and dime to death when they get older.

Speaking of, i heard that if you were to get your girlfriend to drink enough beer, their boobs will get bigger. Something in it mimics estrogen or something... course this works for guys as well.

1. Fine then, clean coal. Everyone likes to be able to breathe. Don't make it about global warming, that's fear mongering of the highest degree. And to add insult to injury, it is now becoming very commercialized which is rather ironic. No, go the clean coal route, or tidal, or solar or wind power as they become economically viable and efficient. And for the love of God, please market them as "BETTER AIR FOR ALL" which is a MEASURABLE goal that is ultimately ATTAINABLE not some hypothesis that no one can prove or disprove. 2. Hydroelectric? Hydro power has already destroyed or damaged so much of the environment, do you want to further destroy it? Plus we have pretty well tapped most of the hydro power potential aside from tidal generators. With the new Gen V and future Gen VI reactors, we should see far greater efficiency and greater safety standards. Nuclear fuel is plentiful (and if your gonna go and complain about uranium supplies, i have one word - Thorium). Nuclear fusion would be even better... and an old '80s technology seems to have made some promising advancements. Inertial confinement can be maintained for a split second by focusing lasers onto particles, heating them up and confining them just long enough to set off fusion, creating a lot of heat. As laser technology becomes more and more efficient, the greater chance this technology has to become economically viable. And of course there's a myriad of other nuclear fusion techniques, hopefully one of them take off.

screw the second job, go straight for the third job.

What ever happened to mortgage insurance that people have to pay?

Like a forest, the economy has to burn itself down every once in a while to come back as strong and green as ever. That being said, i feel sorry for the 100 people who lost their jobs. Hopefully they will be able to find work somewhere else.

hehe, i used to have a Macintosh Performa 631CD with 8 mb of ram upgraded to 24mb and a 500mb hard drive. 66mhz Motorolla 68040 processor. I also remember using Mac IIci or whatever they were called at school that had no hard drives and in whatever their version of BIOS is called was options for processor speeds of: Slow, medium, and fast.

the Gay Mens Health Crisis organization?

Send her a tiny violin.

Well Bank of America was doin Okay until the government told them they had to buy out, who was it, goldman sachs? And now because of that forced merger they are in trouble and in need of a second round of government money (the first round was to help acquire goldman or whoever it was). Now if the government hadn't of tinkered with these, banks would likely have bought out assets that they saw favorable when other banks were liquidating, not the entire thing (filled with bad debts as well)... and generally in the desperation to liquidate, those bad debts would have been auctioned off very cheaply, making even those potentially beneficial assets to the other banks (even assuming most of the debt is bad, if you bought it for 5 cents on the dollar, its likely to still pay off). Sure it would have undoubtedly created some severe hardships for people with those bad debts, but its better if one of the cornerstones of our economy is in a relative healthy position than one where they are not much more than zombie banks relying on the government to stay alive. And i have friends who have an entire cabinet full of Mason jars.

You basically pour saltwater through your nose and it comes out the other nostril, grand fun.

Well they likely wouldn't be using 20% of the bailout money itself... im just saying off of income. There is a lot of time and money that goes into making sure that financial statements comply with the IRS least they incur some nice lawsuits (and many other penalties). Basically, you would have the government bailout essentially go into a cash account. Now so long as there is cash in that account greater than the bailout at all times, you could effectively say that you never even spent it. Is it true? Probably not, but you can't really track it. The best you could do is say you transferred say $5 billion to such and such department (or account) or whatever, and maybe guess what it did from there, but it wouldn't be very effective or useful in my opinion. because really, how do you separate numbers from accounts?

Granted 20% is a high figure, but it is not uncommon for business to spend anywhere from 5-20% of their income just on COMPLIANCE with SOX and accounting. Tracking individual dollars would only increase that cost... im not saying it would cost 20% just to track the money itself, but to add it to the already high costs of accounting/compliance. I do believe HP spends around 15-20% of their income on compliance issues. Moreover, why are you complaining about the companies when the SEC and other government institutions had ideas of what was going on? How about the fact that several of the governments initiatives to get people into homes (such as putting more pressure on banks to lend to people who were considered high risk) helped create the housing bubble and the eventual burst due to far too abundant credit in the system? No, i suppose its easier to blame the companies right? There was an analogy i heard for this, i believe it went: If a kindergartner teacher left a bunch of sugary candy for the children in the classroom and then took off for an hour, whose fault is it in the end when the room is trashed and all the kindergartners are running amok? The government is very good at producing undesired side effects in their "plans." I am getting very sick of seeing people from both sides of the aisle place blame solely on the "corrupt" nature of Wall Street who, of course, are out to make money cause THAT'S THE POINT OF BUSINESS... and regardless of how much regulation you slap on, there will always be people who figure out how to defraud others and make headlines. Additionally, if the government goes around making money too easy to access for business, as it has been doing for a while now, what do you expect them to do? Ignore the free candy in front of them?

You folks realize how much money companies already spend on accounting and compliance don't ya? Do you realize how much time, effort, and not to mention MONEY it would cost to track these funds individually? I would much rather see these companies putting that money to work than wasting 20% of it just keeping track of where its going. ... not like its really gonna help anyways. Hell, if they really wanted to alleviate some of the burden placed on business (and improve their liquidity) they could repeal Sarbanes-Oxley, which would give companies a LOT more time to think about other stuff rather than compliance (which takes a lot of time and money)... plus its debatable if its even helped at all.

DONT EAT BEEF OR ELSE! thats a good message. I think ill have some more beef for the third straight day in a row thanks to this article.

Then what do you propose? Following Japan's recipe for a decade of blahness?

Tax breaks for new cars and homes makes sense if you are trying to stabilize the markets without interfering in them directly... but what would REALLY be beneficial is if they let people write off interest they paid on their auto loans.

American followed very very closely by Mexican.... uhhh... i dunno its kinda rare that i eat anything else.

I saw a gerry-rigged moped that took... ohh... 2 blocks to get started.

Well interest rates are pretty low right now so its not a horrible time to take out a loan. But then again, id probably be trying to figure out the present value of both options and seeing exactly how much both would cost me in present value and in the future.

I thought it was NOSFERRARI2006. But i dont remember. And yes, and AH-HA wasn't even mad at me, Northstar is the one that blew up. And i cant for the life of me find my old signature with a goat, angry villagers and a nuke. I changed my account name when we switched over to this new forum. BV sent me a link back in 20 ought 5 but imagestation appears to no longer exist.

I do believe my old account name was Open Minded