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What to do with the 4 dollar gas price (funny)

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Dutch petrol the costliest in Europe

Taxes account for some 57% of the Dutch petrol price.

DutchNews.nl - Dutch petrol most expensive in Europe

EU Dictators May Ram Through Lisbon Treaty Despite Irish Rejection

EU Dictators May Ram Through Lisbon Treaty Despite Irish Rejection

the EU is nothing more than an illegitimate dictatorship of manufactured consent.

Simple question, funny answers

I was looking at a bike (bicycle) ad posted in the classifieds section. I had a query about bikes and so I decided to ask my colleagues.

Here is what I had written

I am interested in buying a bike (bicycle). The ad for it says that the read break cable needs to be replaced.

Could anyone give me an idea of how much it would cost me to get this break cable repaired?
Also, how much would one of those heavy locks (2 kg chain locks) cost? I believe the bike does not come with any locks so I’ll have to get them myself.

Apart from the more useful ones, I got these responses

• I personally don't buy bikes with external gears - they are greasy and dirty.
• break cable repair is about 500 euro's.
  If you bring your bike to me, we'll make a nice deal, i'll do it for 300.
• Go to the little repair shop in the underground bike storage just outside the train station. They will know.
  You may wanna ask them not to break your bike, but to fix the brake.
• forget about the repairs, having breaks only increases commute time.

For those interested in the answer, its between 10 and 20 Euros, depending upon the shop. If you have the necessary tools, you could buy the cable for 5-7 Eur and do the job yourself. But from experience, I believe its not that easy, particularly if the breaks are one of those drum breaks.

Amsterdam ranks 13 in world list of most livable cities

Mercer has designed an objective way of measuring quality of living for expatriates based on factors that people consider representative of quality of living. Once a year, Mercer conducts a quality of living study in more than 380 cities worldwide based on detailed assessments and evaluations of 10 key categories and 39 criteria or factors, each having coherent weightings reflecting their relative importance.

Among the criteria Mercer takes into account are economy, education, public transport and recreation. Crime statistics play a part as well, as do such issues as personal freedom and media vs. censorship.

Amsterdam ranks 13 in world list of most livable cities

Sun Pranksters

Really hillarious

Sun Microsystems Celebrates 25th Anniversary

Rules of Consulting (True, and hence, funny)

Some Consulting Wisdom I Picked Up - Chad Myers' Blog

Rules of Consulting (True, and hence, funny)

Some Consulting Wisdom I Picked Up - Chad Myers' Blog

World crude prices and Petrol in India

I remember the time when I moved from Bangalore to New Delhi in Mar 2004. I remember buying my car in early May that year. I very clearly the oil price then. It used to be Rs 33.71 per litre in New Delhi. The latest price hike puts it at Rs 50.52. Hence the petrol prices in India have risen by 50% in this period.

I looked at historical crude prices. Crude was trading at about USD 37 in early May 2004. It was last trading at over USD 125. That is a whopping 237%.

Can the striking Left parties tell me what's wrong with this price hike?

Virgin warns illegal internet music downloaders

Virgin warns illegal internet music downloaders - Telegraph

In many cases, these are likely to be received by the unsuspecting parents of a generation of children who have come to see music as a free commodity, thanks to so-called 'file sharing' services.

I really liked this sentence from the article. Its ironic, and true.

Wally gets two cups

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-06-04/

Wally gets two cups

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-06-04/

Wally gets two cups

http://dilbert.com/strips/comic/2008-06-04/

Top 10 Most Pirated Software

According to The Software & Information Industry Association (SIAA) list of top 10 most commonly pirated software, three are Adobe products. Photoshop, Acrobat and DreamWeaver.

Top 10: Most Pirated Software | adamwhiles dot com

49,000 lightning strikes, and not yet a record

49,000 lightening strikes were recorded last night in The Netherlands, and its still not a record. The record is over 80,000 strikes.

DutchNews.nl - Lightning strikes a lot

I can't fix stupid

I have always liked this blog Off The Record for their tech related WTF-filled stories (another one is TheDailyWTF.com). Here is their latest entry. If you go back thier archives, it has enough meat to take away one week of productivity.

Off The Record | Anonymous | InfoWorld | I can't fix stupid | May 27, 2008 03:00 AM