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Fear Mongering Monday!
nacho:
--- Quote ---Longer daylight saving may cause trouble
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--- Quote ---The upcoming transition evokes memories of Y2K
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Disaster!!
--- Quote ---Oil soars to new record high
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--- Quote ---Oil prices are 40% higher than a year ago, although crude prices would have to surpass $90 to reach the inflation-adjusted high set during the 1979 Iranian revolution....But at an average of more than $53 for the year to date for U.S. crude, prices are well above those during the 1974 Arab oil embargo.
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So it's below what it was in 1979.... BUT HIGHER THAN IT WAS IN 1974 AND 1492 COMBINED!!!!!
Matt:
I'm paying almost 2.50 for gas where I live. I remember when I first started really driving, about a year ago, it was like, a buck eighty. Or less.
Tyson:
The daylight savings thing will give a lot of programmers some really posh jobs, especially those well-versed in old mainframe languages. In the Y2K thing, COBOL and obsolete-assembly programmers were pulling hundreds per hour to read through old procedural code and add minor hacks.
nacho:
--- Quote from: Matt ---I'm paying almost 2.50 for gas where I live. I remember when I first started really driving, about a year ago, it was like, a buck eighty. Or less.
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Oh, cut it out. You should be paying $7-8 a gallon. And, technically, you are through the extraordinarily heavy State/county taxes we all pay. Gas is heavily subsidized, and it shouldn't be.
nacho:
--- Quote from: Tyson ---The daylight savings thing will give a lot of programmers some really posh jobs, especially those well-versed in old mainframe languages. In the Y2K thing, COBOL and obsolete-assembly programmers were pulling hundreds per hour to read through old procedural code and add minor hacks.
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So Bush is really boosting the IT market for the next two years. Good for him. The echo bubble. Which means he'll be leaving on a bustling economic note.
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