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Quincy, MA - $1.89/gallon - regular

Time for a bit of non-controvertial good news in this forum inhabited by sourpusses. Just saw a short clip on TV regarding this year's recepient of the Nobel Peace Prize, Economist Professor Muhammad Yunus. I was impressed and googled a bit, finding among other things his acceptance speech...

Hello all. Note: I have a question about Harry Price. Please see further on. First, let me point out that I am just an everyday family man doing an everyday job. No background in the sciences, no degrees and no relevant (to this site) qualifications. No religious upbringing and not at all...

Hello all. I have been a lurker here for quite some time, but I can never find the time to post this. I have some time now, so here I go… I was reading one of the threads here (I think it was about Pascal's Wager) and people keep saying something about the price of believing. The problem for me...

This one now ranks as one of my favorite eBay auctions ever. http://cgi.ebay.com/A-LECTURE-JESUS-APPEARED-TO-ME-I-WILL-SPEAK-IN-PUBLIC_W0QQitemZ9514379910QQcategoryZ1469QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem It's true!:)

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A recent email for your consideration: Here's some thought provoking information - The next time you hear a politician use the word "billion" in a casual manner, think about whether you want the "politicians" spending your tax money. A billion is a difficult number to comprehend, but one...

Thanks to whoever recommended this book to me... I'm into the second chapter, and I'm finding it a great read! The transformation of the early Christian church from Gnosticism to Catholic Orthodoxy is a history that until now I've never been exposed too. I'm really looking forward to the rest...

I scanned through (and searched) the board for a discussion of this topic and wasn't able to find anything, so apologies if this is a duplicate. Anyone catch this little gem? :hb: Pathetic.

Marilyn vos Savant has said some pretty silly things, but this week, she claimed that the cost of a product has nothing to do with its selling price. Is she a complete idiot, or does she just play one?

Here is the American Automobile Association's Retail Gasoline Price web page. You can look up average prices for all grades of gas and diesel by national average, state and major cities. Some listings give the highest and lowest recorded prices, and the time of the update is listed at the top...

I dont buy this whole "Chinas economy driving the gas prices up" bull flop. You mean to tell me that in a mere 3 years, China has managed to drive up gas costs by like 80%!?!? CONSPIRICY I SAY!!!

I posted this on the book club forum, under Michael Scheuer's Imperial Hubris, but thought it was worth a discussion on its own merits. You need not have read the book to have something to contribute to this. Scheuer maintains that if we want to win the global jihad, one of the things we need...

http://afr.com/articles/2005/03/18/1111086004998.html All the signs are there, production has peaked, and demand is still growing. The market certainly seems to recognise that. The Iraq invasion was a futile roll of the dice to secure a supply of oil, but 200Billion has been blown on...

Long, interesting article from Business Week magazine on manufacturing in the US and China - the extract below sort of suggests where all this is going - roll on the days of working 24/7 for a pittance. quote: "China is also propelled by an enormous domestic market that brings economies of...

All the figures suggest that crime has risen substantially over the last 80 years in the UK. It is difficult to judge how much, since figures are reported differently and it's not clear that as much as 50% of all crimes were reported in the past, as they are today. But it does seem clear that...

Zarqawi, who is also supsected in the Madrid train slaughters, will pay the f#cking price for what he was done. His crimes are clear and his death is forthcoming.

Can anyone explain to me the mechanism by which share prices rise and fall? I see at the moment oil companies have been making the largest profits ever in the last 2-3 years and yet the share price remains low...why?

I thought I'd have a bit of fun and pose an Ethical scenario. Question 1: Is the right to life so fundamental, that price should not be a factor in preserving it? Seriously, who can put a price on life. No one would say with enough money, you could buy a human's life, right? Question 2...

http://slate.msn.com/id/2084315/ Interesting editorial. Please read the entire thing, I can not quote it all, but it is very thought provoking.