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«sheryls» i know in indiana your plates cost a percentage of the value of your vehicle. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:32pm) «Rob Balder» I've lived with it all my life, but I guess maybe there was no county decal in Texas (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:33pm) «sheryls» my grandpa always paid a fortune for his caddy. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:33pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» although it's something I agree with in principle...a user's tax. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:33pm) «lawrence» see, that actually makes a little more sense - combining the tax and the registration. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:33pm) «lawrence» Michael - definitely. I'm a little torn, though, because on the flip side it's a tax on non-liquid assets... (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:33pm) «lawrence» plus, you have to pay it even if you don't drive the car. gas taxes would make more sense as a user's tax, I think. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:34pm) «lawrence» (and they have that here, too, and it's insanely high, I think) (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:34pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» It used to be that way in Minnesota...but then GOvernor The Body changed it. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:34pm) «lawrence» ... why am I not surprised? :) (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:35pm) «Rob Balder» I'd prefer anarchy and leave me the hell alone. The system they used in Mad Max. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:35pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» (umm...the registration fee being based on the value of the car, that is...) (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:35pm) «sheryls» lol - governer The Body :D (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:35pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» It was on a sliding scale, starting high when the car is new, and dropping to $75 after 8 years or somesuch. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:35pm) «Rob Balder» The Body Politic (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:36pm) «lawrence» yeah, that's basically the same as the personal property tax here. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:36pm) «lawrence» only we have to pay it in addition to plate registration. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:36pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» Rob: I'd prefer a benign dictatorship, so long as I'm the benign dictator. :-) (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:36pm) «lawrence» heh. well, naturally. :) (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:36pm) «lawrence» the ideal form of government... (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:36pm) «Rob Balder» Michael then you just need the car with the most guns. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:36pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» Rba: Heh. Don't think the City Pages in Minneapolis didn't get milage out of that term. :-) (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:36pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» Lawrence: Twice in one year we agree. This is getting scary. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:37pm) «Rob Balder» It occurred to me this morning that my reign as emperor would end up being fairly Stalinesque. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:37pm) «lawrence» it happens more than you think, I'm sure. :) (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:37pm) «Rob Balder» Heheh I bet (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:37pm) «Rob Balder» Soooooo many offenses would carry the death penalty. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:38pm) «lawrence» heh. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:38pm) «lawrence» "Talking out of turn! DEATH!" (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:38pm) «Rob Balder» And there'd be other rules. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:38pm) «Rob Balder» Example: Go ahead and have a car alarm. But if it goes off and your car is not being robbed... (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:39pm) «Rob Balder» ...any passerby would be allowed to smash your windshield. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:39pm) «lawrence» heh. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:39pm) «lawrence» howabout if it goes off and your car isn't being robbed, then anyone is allowed to rob it, to at least justify the alarm going off? :) (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:40pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» heh (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:40pm) «Rob Balder» Sure. Some kind of reasonable limit on property damage or theft (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:40pm) «lawrence» "oops, I tripped. oh look, the alarm went off...." (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:40pm) «lawrence» "my car now." (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:40pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» I like Adam Carolla's idea that anyone who falsely calls 911 automatically gets whatever they were reporting done with them.\ (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:41pm) «lawrence» oooh. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:41pm) «Rob Balder» When I was a kid I sincerely believed that if you took medicine and you weren't sick, you'd GET whatever the medicine was for. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:41pm) «lawrence» Rob - hrm. the "morning after pill" would kind of suck then, huh? (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:42pm) «Rob Balder» LOL (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:42pm) «Rob Balder» I wish I remembered more about my screwed-up thought processes when I was a kid. I definitely thought about things in weird ways. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:43pm) «Rob Balder» I remember "discovering" in kindergarden that you could tell when someone was looking at you because their eyes pointed at you. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:44pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» I somehow grew up thinking that anvils were made of lead. Not really sure *where* I got that from. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:44pm) «Rob Balder» I was convinced that this was a super power that only I had. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:44pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» heh (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:44pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» Oh, so *that's* your mutant-ability... I was wondering. ;-) (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:45pm) «Rob Balder» When I was 10 I came up with a perpetual motion machine. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:45pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» It was funny and scary at the same time...like a werewolf eating the cast of Seinfeld. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:46pm) «Rob Balder» I had just learned that generators and electric motors were essentially the same thing. So I decided that you could hook a motor up to a generator and run it, then (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:46pm) «lawrence» most 10-year-olds are perpetual motion machines. :) (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:46pm) «Rob Balder» use the power from the generator to run the motor and take some power away. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:46pm) «Rob Balder» I was so excited I tried to call President Carter. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:47pm) «Rob Balder» OK maybe I was 9 (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:47pm) «Rob Balder» Possibly 8. Information wouldn't tell me how to call the President, anyway. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:48pm) «Rob Balder» "But I can solve the Energy Crisis!" (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:48pm) «Rob Balder» You'd think I would have learned from that. But in high school I thought of another perpetual motion machine. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:49pm) «Rob Balder» I was convinced this one would work. You take a boat, like a rowboat, and you punch a hole in the bottom so it springs a leak. The kind that squirts up in the air. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:50pm) «goovie is married!» misconceptions of your youth on chicklit. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:50pm) «Rob Balder» Then you use a nozzle to direct the squirt over the side of the boat. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:51pm) «Rob Balder» And outside of the boat you use a little water wheel to get power from the faling water. The boat sinks forever. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:52pm) «Rob Balder» What a shame cartoon physics can not be exploited that way. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:52pm) «Bareena» Hi. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:58pm) «Bareena» Cartoon physics is cool. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:58pm) «Bareena» I especially like the priviledged role that perception plays in mechanics (can't you tell I've been listening to humanities scholars all day?) (Sep 19, 2002 @ 4:59pm) «Bareena» Namely--you don't fall through thin air unless you look down. Ignorance protects you. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:00pm) «Bareena» Actually, now that I think of it, that's not too unlike real life. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:00pm) «Rob Balder» Metaphorically, anyway. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:01pm) «Rob Balder» I'm more concerned these days about "Cartoon Foreign Policy" (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:01pm) «Michael (foof) Maki» "Ignorance protects you"...could someone translate that to Latin for me? It sounds like a good motto for my new family crest. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:02pm) «Bareena» Cartoon foreign policy? (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:02pm) «Rob Balder» How long will world opinion not matter if you remain ignorant of it? (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:02pm) «Bareena» Hmm...I wish I could translate that into Latin. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:02pm) «Bareena» Good point, Rob. Unfortunately, a lot of Americans think in terms of cartoon foreign policy. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:02pm) «nate...» or just simply don't think. :P (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:03pm) «Bareena» Not to sound like a dolt and state the obvious. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:03pm) «Bareena» Yeah, there's that, too, nate. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:04pm) «Rob Balder» I've been pondering various series of events which would result in the US no longer being a "Superpower." I've come up with a couple of plausible ones that Bush could accomplish in one term. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:04pm) «nate...» and with that... I'm leaving. wheeenomorefor15.5hours (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:04pm) «nate...» nomorework,thatis. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:04pm) «Bareena» What are you doing for 15.5 hours? (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:04pm) «Bareena» Ah, gotcha. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:04pm) «Bareena» Have a good non-work time (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:05pm) «nate...» I shall attempt to. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:05pm) «It's a girl!» Ellen*hearts*pit bulls waves to rob (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:05pm) «nate...» :) (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:05pm) «nate...» bye! (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:05pm) «Rob Balder» Heya Ellen (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:05pm) «Bareena» Bye (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:05pm) «Bareena» Hi, Ellen. Why do you heart pit bulls? And what's your thinking on cartoon physics and foreign policy? (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:06pm) «Rob Balder» Here's another Reason I Love The Internet. I present to you: My Store! http://www.cafestores.com/PartiallyClips (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:07pm) «It's a girl!» my neighbor has a pit bull who is the sweetest dog ever-- well trained, not aggresive, very friendly- everyone in the building loves her-- but our landlord sez she has to go just cos she's a pit bull (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:07pm) «It's a girl!» so we're all rallying to her defense (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:08pm) «Rob Balder» This morning, I had no store. I had no products. I had nothing to sell. You couldn't purchase jack from me on the internet. Now, I have a store. (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:08pm) «It's a girl!» oooh (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:08pm) «It's a girl!» Ellen*hearts*pit bulls goes to check out rob's store (Sep 19, 2002 @ 5:08pm) « Previous 100 entries | Next 100 entries »
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