WTF images for today

[Ebony]

To say nothing of the simple pressures of market competition. You want the cheapest gasoline in your neighborhood? Find the gas station with one or more stations across the street from it. The prices will be cheaper in my experience.
($3.75 for a gallon of regular in Dallas.)
Ebony the Black Dragon
http://ebony14.livejournal.com

"Good night, and may the Good Lord take a Viking to you."

[Duane Peters]

To say nothing of the simple pressures of market competition. You want the cheapest gasoline in your neighborhood? Find the gas station with one or more stations across the street from it. The prices will be cheaper in my experience.
($3.75 for a gallon of regular in Dallas.)

Actually, Ebony, that's where you're *least* likely to find a
ny competition. I worked in a gas station, in my misspent youth, and to comply with Federal law, my managwer had to go around to every station within a one-mile radius, and make sure our gas price was A)the same as every major chain, and B) within 5 cents of the mom-and-pop stores. Stations that aren't a major chain (and I forget just how many stores that is) are allowed to price themselves at 5 cents less than "the prevailing market rate," so the big oil companies can't put them out of business, like in the Bad Old Days.

[Star Ranger4]

still just over $4, $4.09 here in Los Angeles. Kinda surprising, since with the refineries and the ports you'd think our transportation portion of the costs would be less than someplace like the midwest.

Or maybe its because we ARE a seaport and are getting the imported stuff as compared to whatever might be coming out of the gulf / alaskan / ??? fields
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

[Norgarth]

The speculators on Wall street driving up the price of a barrel of oil by taking consistently long positions without bothering to go short?
What is it, $5 a gallon in the States now, of which 46c goes to ye're government and 7c goes to the garage. Where's the other 4:50 go?

Drillers, tanker operators, refiners, and all the other middlemen.
(And it's just above $5 a gallon in Canada - about $1.25 per litre, depending on where you are and which fuel station you patronize. It's cheaper in the States.)

just over $1.28/L in my neck of the woods  (3.8(?)L/gal so about $4.88/gal) and that's the lowest I've seen in 2 weeks.
The one upside of getting laid off is I'm using _way_ less fuel.
  
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"I've always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific." - George Carlin

[Rod.H]

I think there's a boat in the pic



When you see it...




Suck to be you....Ricer?

[robkelk]

When you see it...

I remember that episode of You're Under Arrest...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Bob Schroeck]

That's either a guy with an urge to make trouble and too much time on his hands, or it's a "blind" car for moviemaking.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Duane Peters]

That's either a guy with an urge to make trouble and too much time on his hands, or it's a "blind" car for moviemaking.

Or a private detective with too much money on a stakeout.

[Bob Schroeck]

-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[ECSNorway]

Dang, those are cool. Sauce?
--
Sucrose Octanitrate.
Proof positive that with sufficient motivation, you can make anything explode.

[Kokuten]

the first one is the fremont troll in seattle. I've peed on it.Wire Geek - Burning the weak and trampling the dead since 1979

[robkelk]

TMI, dude.

Oh, yes - PvP's resident troll meets the Fremont Troll. http://www.pvponline.com/2011/02/16/stone-cold-2/]Setup, http://www.pvponline.com/2011/02/17/below-the-beltway/]meeting, and http://www.pvponline.com/2011/02/18/first/]wrapup
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Bob Schroeck]

I had no reference for the first image, but the second can be found http://www.theatlantic.com/infocus/2011 ... th/100069/]here, where it has the caption:

A levee protects a home surrounded by floodwater from the Yazoo River on May 18, 2011 near Vicksburg, Mississippi. The flooded Mississippi River is forcing the Yazoo River to top its banks where the two meet near Vicksburg causing towns and farms upstream on the Yazoo to flood. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)

-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Rod.H]

[robkelk]

Wow... I'm beside myself...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

[Sweno]

someone wants to screw with the tourists?
-Terry
-----
"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

[Bob Schroeck]

Wow... I'm beside myself...

And several miles away, too!
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Rev Dark]

Okay, who gave the cartographers the primer on Quantum Mechanics?

[Rod.H]

When you see it...

[Bob Schroeck]

Okay, how the hell do you get that view in Google Maps?
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Star Ranger4]

Prolly thats Google Earth, not maps, and or includes.. includes... gosh. I forget what setting it is, but basicly you can tell it to include KMZ modeled structures at their identified locations.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

[Bob Schroeck]

Okay, just went into Google Earth, and yes, it's there. (40°00'40.73" N 75°02'34.35" W). Can you get that content on the Web? Because that's definitely the web interface for Google Maps there. (It's easy enough to fake it.)
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

[Star Ranger4]

*mucks about* Ah. If you hover your mouse over the Maps Icon you can tell google maps to load the earth applet which then gives you the GE stuff too.
Hear that thunder rolling till it seems to split the sky?
That's every ship in Grayson's Navy taking up the cry-
NO QUARTER!!!
-- "No Quarter", by Echo's Children

[Rod.H]

View Larger Map Oh well it won't embed. The link takes you there though, just might need to play with the camera angle.

[Bob Schroeck]

Okay, for some reason I can't get the GE option, hence my difficulties.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.