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| Thread ID: 56235 | 2005-03-31 04:29:00 | Petrol Tax | Overdrive_5000 (4950) | PC World Chat |
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| 339832 | 2005-04-01 06:04:00 | So now petrol is marginally more expensive than tap water. ;) A service statrion near home was selling water at $5 for a 4 litre bottle. I've got a tap at home, and I know the water is the same. Now if only the automobile would run on water (not the service station purchased stuff though). Anyone feel like inventing a water engine :illogical :nerd: |
dolby digital (5073) | ||
| 339833 | 2005-04-01 06:52:00 | You could buy a Stanley Steamer. Unfortunately you have to burn something to boil the water. I think they use kerosine, but you don't want to pay supermarket prices for that. If you could get it at the price the airlines get it for ... (The rare car would probably cost you as much as a 737). | Graham L (2) | ||
| 339834 | 2005-04-01 23:57:00 | To be fair,labour are careful with our money,quarter of a billion down the gurgler with Maori university,80 odd thousand to Auck mayor's company(unrequited I believe)some millions to the ChCh poly tech fiasco,half a million getting getting permission from maouri to build a prison and so on and so on,no wonder they need more tax. In England they brought in a window tax in 1695,they overcame it by bricking them up,don't think even they had a tax on going to the doctors,12.5% on your bill,I mean to say. You can add this great example of Labour being very careful with our money to your list. www.stuff.co.nz |
manicminer (4219) | ||
| 339835 | 2005-04-02 09:06:00 | You can add this great example of Labour being very careful with our money to your list. www.stuff.co.nz Where is the problem with this mob,it's only $5 odd million,after all it's your money they are spending. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 339836 | 2005-04-02 09:47:00 | Now if only the automobile would run on water (not the service station purchased stuff though). Anyone feel like inventing a water engine :illogical :nerd: We were always getting nutters coming to DSIR with their marvellous inventions, many a time they were friends of Muldoon or other ministers, so we had to go through the motions of pretending to take their looniness seriously. Eventually it was departmental policy not to look at perpetual motion devices, no matter who the idiot was. Then there was the nutter not long ago who was conning people with his engine that ran on water :) Basically he used the battery to split water into hydrogen and oxygen which was then burnt in the engine, which in turn charged the battery, which produced hydrogen and oxygen, which in turn was burnt in the engine........ What is sad is that these types actually believe in themselves, often they are very plausible, plausible enough to fool the TV guys who know little or nothing about engineering science. |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 339837 | 2005-04-02 10:08:00 | All the scientist of the day thought Edison was an idiot along with Bell.... www.alternativescience.com |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 339838 | 2005-04-02 10:36:00 | All the scientist of the day thought Edison was an idiot along with Bell.... www.alternativescience.com That site's no good, they don't have perpetual motion devices under "Forbidden Science" :) |
Terry Porritt (14) | ||
| 339839 | 2005-04-02 11:21:00 | That site's no good, they don't have perpetual motion devices under "Forbidden Science" :) True,but it does tell us to beware of scientists who know. |
Cicero (40) | ||
| 339840 | 2005-04-02 12:00:00 | hmmm.......Good to see people are still trying to invent perpetual motion engines, i'll put in an order for a dozen,to be delivered the minute they figure it out. it did lead me to a couple good sites though,one about the perpetual engine, www.lhup.edu and what amounts to pure comedy, the flat earth sociaty (and theie crazy cousins,the inverted eart society...) www.lhup.edu |
Metla (12) | ||
| 339841 | 2005-04-02 12:05:00 | But please remember that one glass of beer will not do you any harm whereas one cigar/ette harms you in the short and long term. So what anyway? Smokers pay enormous amounts of tax on the things and are in fact doing the rest a favour. If they all die early then they won't need a pension for years and years will they. So more for everyone else. |
pctek (84) | ||
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