All categories - 9 November 2007

I have changed the thermo, water pump, disconnected hoses and blew air thru the engine. I even disconnected the heater hose right at the water pump and started the engine and nothing, no water coming out of water pump. Still only cool air coming from blowers in truck. The water pump is working. I think there is a plugged journal or something somewhere so that it can get the proper flow. I am not a mechanical engineer.

2007-11-09 10:38:19 · 3 answers · asked by newbee38 1 in Maintenance & Repairs

I just been given a job offer, after nearly 2 years of not working. I will be making 18/hr. Due to this being mid November of a year what deductions can I make to give my money the most. Like claim 17 dependents for remainder of year and then lessen it to the correct amount in Jan. I know I can claim exempt status. Any other suggestions?

Please only those that are FAMILIAR with Human Resources/Salary please answer. Thank you!

2007-11-09 10:38:04 · 7 answers · asked by wisconsheepgirl 2 in United States

2007-11-09 10:37:56 · 61 answers · asked by vajo 5 in Polls & Surveys

It had to be asked.

2007-11-09 10:37:55 · 30 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-09 10:37:51 · 7 answers · asked by Is that your final answer? 3 in Fashion & Accessories

2007-11-09 10:37:43 · 8 answers · asked by April 5 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-11-09 10:37:30 · 2 answers · asked by JOE R 1 in Do It Yourself (DIY)

2007-11-09 10:37:28 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics

I'm from England and I've always wondered what twinkies are cos we don't get them over here

2007-11-09 10:37:15 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Food & Drink

akward

2007-11-09 10:37:11 · 10 answers · asked by ash 1 in Women's Health

Ive always wanted to join the military and im 16. My mother says im not allowed to b/c i take ritalin, is this true?

2007-11-09 10:37:04 · 8 answers · asked by rufftuff187 2 in Military

“We have turned out the lights in the studio,” NBC’s Bob Costas told viewers of Sunday’s Dallas Cowboys-Philadelphia Eagles game, “to kick off a week that will include more than 150 hours of programming designed to raise awareness about environmental issues.” Discerning viewers with eyes keen enough to pierce the sanctimonious glare of Costas’s candlelit silhouette may have noticed that the stadium’s klieg lights still shone brightly.

On a typical game day, a large football stadium burns about 65,000 kilowatt hours of electricity and 35,000 cubic feet of natural gas. The cars driving to the game spew about 200 metric tons of CO2 (and that assumes nobody’s driving SUVs or RVs, which is like assuming tailgaters are eating only sushi). There’s also the electricity used to broadcast the game and to watch it. But thank goodness Costas turned off the studio lights for a minute or two.

NBC’s “Green Week” continued apace (well after this writing). Morbidly obese contestants on The Biggest Loser lugged piles of recyclable cans up ramps and into enormous collection bins. Of course, the cans were delivered to the stunt by diesel truck. So a lot of energy — and sweat! — that could have been used toward fermenting homebrew tofu, or whatever energy is supposed to be used for, was wasted on viewer schadenfreude. The winners of the challenge each received a hybrid SUV. Alas, one of the winners didn’t own a car to begin with, so the net result was one more car on the road and a little more CO2 in the air.

On Days of Our Lives, a fictional couple had a fictionally “green” wedding.

The cast of The Today Show burned massive amounts of jet fuel sending its hosts to the corners of the globe, leaving a “carbon footprint” larger than those left near the recycle bin on The Biggest Loser.

I could go on, but you’ve seen the tyranny of Green even if you’ve never turned on NBC. Green is everywhere. Every magazine feels compelled to sell some sliced tree-meat in a special “green issue,” but they feel so guilty about it, they ditch their glossy paper for pulp that gives it the feel of a hemp-commune newsletter that doubles as sustainable toilet paper. Food magazines have replaced “delicious” with “sustainable” as the highest praise. “Green is the new black” according to fashion writers who at least think certain cliches never go out of style.

Now, the predictable response to my caterwauling is that I just don’t get it. Of course, Bob Costas’s Dickensian studio lighting is just so much symbolism. But, they respond, NBC is “raising consciousness” and promoting “awareness.” We’ve heard this tone before, perhaps starting in high school, when we were told, “If we all work together, we can make this the best yearbook ever!”

And that’s why, on top of all the other reasons, Green Week — and the Green Millennium it hopes to usher in — is so annoying. It plays us all for suckers. First of all, you have enormously rich people at fantastically wealthy corporations seeking grace on the cheap with a few symbolic gestures that come at absolutely no cost, and often considerable profit.

You do know that the parent company of NBC is General Electric, right? You do know that for GE, green is first and foremost the color of money, right? As Tim Carney explains in vivid detail in his wonderful book, The Big Ripoff, GE’s “ecomagination” campaign is simultaneously a way to brand itself as a “progressive” company and a means of shaking the money tree — the most sustainable planting of them all — growing in Congress’ backyard.

When the global company launched the ecomagination campaign, guess where it held the launch party? Its D.C. lobbying office, of course.

While sipping from wine made at a solar-powered winery, the head of GE, Jeffrey Immelt, proclaimed, “Industry cannot solve the problems of the world alone. We need to work in concert with government.” Translation: The King Kong of the corporate world needs tax breaks, subsidies and favorable regulations in order to make green technology profitable. Indeed, GE has nearly cornered the market on the solar panels necessary to implement Kyoto-style reforms. Global warming hysteria is good for its bottom line.

Liberals and environmentalists love to whine about special breaks for corporations, and they work themselves into paroxysms of paranoia about how big corporations propagandize against action on climate change. The reality is exactly the opposite. GE, DuPont, British Petroleum, and countless other big corporations routinely propagandize in the other direction, largely to win governmental support they don’t need. But so long as environmentalists approve of the message, they’ve got no problem whatsoever with the messengers.

For GE and Bob Costas alike, Kermit the Frog was a liar; it is easy being green.

2007-11-09 10:36:52 · 6 answers · asked by mission_viejo_california 2 in Politics

2007-11-09 10:36:43 · 8 answers · asked by Fred D 1 in Mental Health

Come on negative answers. Bring it on.

2007-11-09 10:36:38 · 29 answers · asked by TatsuJin 4 in Polls & Surveys

We do not own a house or anything of value

2007-11-09 10:36:12 · 3 answers · asked by j4joey89803 1 in Personal Finance

How do I make the wireless signal strengh on my ds lite faster?
It was working fine yesterday but today I can't seem to get it to work.

2007-11-09 10:35:47 · 1 answers · asked by somewhat insane ♥ 5 in Video & Online Games

I am.

2007-11-09 10:35:45 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

2007-11-09 10:35:44 · 10 answers · asked by slopoke6968 7 in Rock and Pop

For a while now I've wanted to be legally Ordained as a minister so I may legally marry people in the future ( a personal goal that I have set for myself). I've also wished to be Ordained not only as a Christian Minister, but as a Pagan. This site allows one to be ordained under any religion.

However I must question the legal validity of it? Does anybody have experience with this ? Does anybody know whether it is legally valid or how to determine whether it is or not?

http://www.themonastery.org/

2007-11-09 10:35:42 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Weddings

1. Jeff says, "The denominator of 2 fractions are prime numbers p and q. So the denominator of the product is p x q and the product is in lowest terms." Is Jeff right? Explain

2.Explain why all of these have the same quotient: / = divided
1/2 / 3/16 1 / 3/8 16 divided by 6 4 / 1 1/2(1 whole and a half)

3.Does the following method always work? Explain. WHen the demonitor is 2 more than the numerator in each fraction, the greater fraction has the greater denomintor. Which number is greater?
a. 1 whole and 5/7 or 1 whole and 4/6.
b. 3 wholes and 3/5 or 3 wholes and 5/7.

2007-11-09 10:35:25 · 1 answers · asked by Chelsea Y 3 in Homework Help

2007-11-09 10:35:22 · 1 answers · asked by topink 6 in Other - Cars & Transportation

Whar do i do????

2007-11-09 10:35:13 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Friends

2007-11-09 10:35:11 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

A puck has a mass of 0.260 kg. Its original distance from the center of rotation is 40.0 cm, and it moves with a speed of 80.0 cm/s. The string is pulled downward 15.0 cm through the hole in the frictionless table. Determine the work done on the puck. (Hint: Consider the change of kinetic energy of the puck.)

2007-11-09 10:35:10 · 1 answers · asked by ? 1 in Physics

READ WHATS ABOVE

2007-11-09 10:35:09 · 4 answers · asked by ipodguy01 2 in Laptops & Notebooks

as of yesterday, she now owes 3 payments. When will the finance company repo the car? Does she have any time to be bailed out of this?? Thanks for your answers, I am new to this!!

2007-11-09 10:34:59 · 5 answers · asked by Smilingcheek 4 in Credit

My rose bushes are very tall, maybe 5 feet or even taller. I am not a garden person and those bushes were there when I bought this house...so just wanted to know what to do because they are really beautiful when they are blooming.


Thanks all you garden people ;]]

2007-11-09 10:34:37 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in Garden & Landscape

I went through the Starbucks drive through and got 2 drinks to take home for me and my mom. When I got home I saw that one of the lids wasn't on all the way and had spilled all in the center console. The center console in my car has 2 cup holders and a different space for keys and stuff like that. I had my cell phone in this space. As a result the drink spilled all over my phone and now doesn't work. I call starbucks and they said all they can do is apologize and give me a new drink. They also said that the lid was on and that it must have come off when I was drinking the coffee. The thing is, I didn't even drink it; both drinks still had the paper wrapper on the straws. Is Starbucks responsible because they didn't put the lid on correctly? Is there anything I can do?

2007-11-09 10:34:33 · 16 answers · asked by crazyjen 2 in Law & Legal

LOL I got b*tched at 2 times already today

2007-11-09 10:34:27 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

I don't mean religiously...I mean like if someone said they would meet you somewhere at a certain time...would you believe them without proof? I know...that's a stretch...but I couldn't think of another example. I'm not putting you down....just curious.

2007-11-09 10:34:21 · 24 answers · asked by Anthem Demon R&S addict 6 in Religion & Spirituality