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I had left the thread before this sank in, and had to come back in to upvote. I agree, he is off limits again.
I had left the thread before this sank in, and had to come back in to upvote. I agree, he is off limits again.
What do non-Americans think it is?
I wonder how much money it takes to rebuild a blown engine in a new BMW 3-Series nowadays?
Edit: so I went and had a brief look in Google. It looks like they run between $6000 and $12000 depending on how powerful the engine is. So for a base model it would indeed be somewhat cheaper.
That seems to illustrate the point that LadyLikesSpiders was making – quite nicely.
I don't think that it actually answers your question, but I would like to point out that the sun is a mass of incandescent gas: a gigantic nuclear furnace.
Google for “Intuit lobbying.”
It’s not literally bribery; it’s corporate America at work. Effectively bribery, IMHO.
… and chips (Frito-Lay).
From reading the text, I speculate that Franklin was alluding to the preexisting saying as well – alluding to the cat in the dark as an accepted axiom.