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Same reason why water isn't free (or reasonably priced), it falls from the sky and gathers in lakes, yet it cost just about as much as a soft drink. Marketers market the water as a 'healthy' alternative to the soft drinks and people pay for it, meanwhile it just comes out of their taps for minimal cost? So doctors and nutritionists say the "junk food" is bad for you so then the marketers of the actual healthy stuff market the healthy choice as healthy and jack up the price because people will buy it. "Organic" is another marketing scam, why would the foods cost more if the producer isn't using ...
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A new report that rates providers of retail carbon offsets is out today, and even the anticipation of its publication has caused a flurry of anxiety among some of the 30 companies it reviewed. Seems that "carbon neutral" isn't just the Word of the Year for 2006 . It's also shaping up to be the Debate of the Year for 2007. The report ( Download - PDF ) -- published by the nonprofit group Clean Air-Cool Planet (CACP) and sponsored by Clif Bar, Interface, Inc., and Stonyfield Farm -- represents the first independent review of retail carbon offset providers ever undertaken, according to CACP executive director ...
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Most magazines that review audio or music gear are in the business of selling the audience to the highest paying advertisers. So of course they'll make up things like danceable cables. I can only imagine how hard they shat themselves laughing at that one over the editorial bong. Brilliant Pebbles = feng shui repackaged. Instead of redirecting the flow of qi, this jar of rocks "acts as both a vibration 'node damper' and EMI/RFI absorber, depending on application, via atomic mechanisms in the crystal structures." What an amazing scam. Seconding Deej on the money to be made by the amoral. I'm a fan of Randi, ...
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Will Florida ever become an affordable place to live again? Only time will tell, and you'll be able to read about the journey (to sanity, or maybe not) right here. Our friends at Realtor.com have taken to adding a new "survey" that pops up when you search on a zipcode and follows with a few questions. One of the first is whether you are considering purchasing a home. Okay, fair enough. But then they follow that question with this atrocity: How would you rate the overall condition of the housing market in the area where you are hoping to purchase a home in next six months? Would you rate it as (please select the ...
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Will Florida ever become an affordable place to live again? Only time will tell, and you'll be able to read about the journey (to sanity, or maybe not) right here. From Marketwatch - we've now reached an all-time high in overbuilt housing. 'WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) -- The number of vacant homes waiting to be sold surged 34% to 2.1 million at the end of 2006 compared with the end of 2005, by far the fastest increase ever recorded, the Census Bureau reported Monday. The vacancy rate for owned units jumped to a record 2.7% from 2.0% a year earlier. From 1965 to 2005, the homeowner vacancy rate had never been above ...
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“An independent report released Wednesday into the leaked “Climategate” e-mails found no evidence to question the “rigor and honesty” of scientists involved.” That seems to be the general conclusion offered by Muir Russell, chairman of the select group of political insiders who conducted the review. The review focused on “the behaviors of the scientists in the climatic research unit in the University of East Anglia,” which was at the center of the Climategate scandal. Russell provided a carefully worded public statement on the review. “Those behaviors have been commented on in the light of a release – an ...
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May 6, 2008 ... and part-time “employment opportunities,” criminals have launched yet another round of ... The scam entices consumers with the promise of significant ... Bendix Name Fraudulently Connected to the Launch of Another Wave of Illegal ... letterhead for “Bendix Spicer Research Marketing,” a company that ...
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I would like to thank you for the opportunity to speak about the growing international problem of pyramid schemes. What is striking about these schemes is that while they are very old forms of fraud, modern technology has vastly multiplied their potential for harming our citizens. The Internet in particular offers pyramid builders a multi-lane highway to world-wide recruits in virtually no time. First, let me tell you about the Federal Trade Commission. (1) The Commission is an independent government agency that Congress established in 1914. We perform a core function of government -- ensuring that free markets work. This ...
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Chain letters are illegal.
Chain letters are a waste of time.
Net sites which do not discourage electronic chain letters risk losing
their net connections, as they have the potential for wasting great
amounts of bandwidth and disk space. Chain letters are letters which promise a phenomenal return on a small
effort.
The simplest form of a chain letter contains a list of x people.
You are supposed to send something to the top person on the list.
Then you remove the top person on the list, sliding the second person
into the top position, add yourself in the bottom position, make y copies of the letter, and mail them to your ...
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I just started taking these green tea caffeine diet pills. I was hoping that this would help me gain more energy at work and burn off some extra calories. So far I have not been as hungry and my energy seems to be up, but today I noticed an increase in my heart beat. My body is not use to caffeine, I pretty much stick to water, and was wondering if this increase is ok or not? I also have noticed I am having a harder time sleeping. I do not take the pills past 5 pm, is this too late? 2 months ago (Tiebreaker) Answerer 1 Stop taking those immediately and see a doctor. It sounds like you have tachycardia which is a side effect ...
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