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Rotary Junkie
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- Canton, MI
- RJs_RX-7
Yeah, it's like 1.88-1.90 at most around here...
- 4,498
- Limburg,Belgium
- (GTP_) dustdriver
Here prizes also went down (and are still going down slowly)
But low prizes here are around $5,98/gallon
So quit complaining!
But low prizes here are around $5,98/gallon
So quit complaining!
TsukubaTrueno
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- RabiaEx
I payed $1.87 here at Cocoa, FL. 
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- P_Balance
Gas here just dropped to $1.83
- 24,553
- Frankfort, KY
- GTP_FoolKiller
- FoolKiller1979
Just to get the gas price dig in, I got gas for $1.75 yesterday in my wife's Yaris. $15 for the tank.
Basements are glorious things. But if they aren't done extremely well they will most likely leak eventually. So,they can also be a pain....That's what we're missing in Florida homes (...stupid slab-foundations on land that's 6 feet above sea level).
- 35,429
- Downtown North Dakota
- Cy-Fi
A good coat of bituminous concrete sealer, perimeter drain tile and a sump pump is (or at least should be) the norm.
- 24,553
- Frankfort, KY
- GTP_FoolKiller
- FoolKiller1979
Most of the houses I have been in are also 20+ years old, so that could play a part in my observations. All of those were apparently expected to leak as they all contain floor drains.
The only exception to this is my friend, who bought a 5 year old house with a finished basement, which started leaking, but the yard was poorly designed so that it sloped toward the foundation. The moisture caused some erosion and settling which cracked the wall and caused his front stoop to get a funky angle. He managed to fix the worst of it by redoing the landscaping on that side of the house.
- 35,429
- Downtown North Dakota
- Cy-Fi
My parents house was built in the '20's and remodeled in the '80's, but they didn't fix the basement for some odd reason. It's had water in it a few times but thankfully hasn't really done any damage since the floor has a low spot in the middle and there's nothing around it.
All of the houses in my development are 4-7 years old (mine is closing in on 6). It's amazing how much difference a properly graded lot makes. My neighbors are built a few inches lower than I am and their sump pump runs constantly. We have to have a ton of rain before mine will kick in. I do think they went a bit overboard with the slope on my lot, but it's better than the alternative.
- 24,553
- Frankfort, KY
- GTP_FoolKiller
- FoolKiller1979
How do they not scrape their bumpers?
- 38,951
- Application hell
- MP-Omnis
Just bought 3 Lexar 8gb UDMA CF Cards from Circuit City.
http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Lexa...sem/rpsm/oid/229204/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do
If any of the GTP photogs need CF cards, these are the ones to get. CC knocked 45 bucks off retail, and then Lexar's $40 rebate (here) still applies. That means that each card comes to like 30 bucks with tax included.
http://www.circuitcity.com/ssm/Lexa...sem/rpsm/oid/229204/rpem/ccd/productDetail.do
If any of the GTP photogs need CF cards, these are the ones to get. CC knocked 45 bucks off retail, and then Lexar's $40 rebate (here) still applies. That means that each card comes to like 30 bucks with tax included.
- 6,009
- Austin, Texas
- D-Nitrate / GTP_DNitrate
I just paid $1.79 for premium. The reason some parts of the country like California, and other countries gas costs so much more than others is due to the difference in taxes (not so much as the differcnes in sales taxes, but rather gasoline taxes - like cigarettes & alcohol) between regions and states.
Quite true. This is why I love walk out basements, as you get the best of both worlds, although you need to build on a decent sized slope.. and even then you still need to properly drain around the base of the house and seal the inner walls of the basement.
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50" Samsung 1080p plasma + FREE Xbox 360 PRO (60GB HD). Got it from Circuit City today. They were actually out of stock on the TV but they are getting more in their 6am delivery tomorrow so I'm picking it up in the morning. Best Buy WOULD NOT match the offer as they'd lose money on it 
Unfortunately my wall mount won't be here for a few days and I'll be out of town for a week so I won't even get to enjoy the damn thing until I get back
Unfortunately my wall mount won't be here for a few days and I'll be out of town for a week so I won't even get to enjoy the damn thing until I get back
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I've always wondered why they're were places with drive ways like that. It's cool but worthless especially in certain weather conditions. 💡
It's @#%^ worthless... I don't get why they felt the need to add the "noise" like grain. Robocop is like that too but I have a feeling it's because the film was so old. It's sad because the DVD looks just as good or better.
It's @#%^ worthless... I don't get why they felt the need to add the "noise" like grain. Robocop is like that too but I have a feeling it's because the film was so old. It's sad because the DVD looks just as good or better.
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- Downtown North Dakota
- Cy-Fi
It's similar, at least from my perspective, to the beginning of Bourne Ultimatum. Does the camera have to shake and be continuously out of focus? Yes, because Jason is stumbling and bleeding after having been shot. It's intended to draw us into the movie, not just be passive bystanders.
- 6,009
- Austin, Texas
- D-Nitrate / GTP_DNitrate
Exactly. It's an artistic choice by the director, cinematographer, editor, or whomever, and like art, not everyone is going to like it, or even understand the meaning of it, or why they did it in the first place.
For instance, I really didn't like the camera angles, quick cuts, and the use of the shaky-cam for the opening sequence in the Quantum of Solace, but that's just a personal subjective opinion, and I understand others may like it.
Besides purposeful and artistic modifications to movies, it's also important to distinguish between intended and unintended artifacts one can see in film prints as well as on video like DVD and Blu-ray.
In fact this topic came up very recently in the following thread.
If you are interested definitely check out that topic and feel free to participate, but to sum up my thoughts, to often I hear someone complaining about a so-called bad transfer, whether it be on DVD or Blu-ray, when most of the time what they think is a bad transfer is actually a brilliant transfer, but that the artifacts they are seeing were either intentionally (like 300), or unintentionally part of the original source material (film negatives, prints, etc)... and have nothing to do with the transfer of the movie from film to video.
And the age of the film isn't important. There are several films that are around 50 years old that because they were shot properly by a brilliant cinematographer, with excellent equipment, and the negatives were properly stored, look far better than most films being shot today. Some examples of that are Lawrence of Arabia, Ben-Hur, Oklahoma, West Side Story, and more.
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- Frankfort, KY
- GTP_FoolKiller
- FoolKiller1979
The fact that Oklahoma can be considered better than anything, in any way, shape, or form is disturbing to me.
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- United States
- nk4e
I think California is
Unleaded :63.9 cents/ per gallon Diesel : 72.0 Cents/ Per gallon
I got it from California Gas price
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