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I subscribe to Aviation Week & Space Technology, every other year.
Their best rate for current subscribers is about $98 per year. If you wait, they will offer you a "come back to us" rate of $58. -- Scott -------- The French, God bless them, are finally joining the war against Islamic extremism. Their targets, which will now confront the full force of l'état, are schoolgirls who wear Muslim head scarves in French public schools. Wall Street Journal Mike Rapoport wrote in message k.net... I used to subscribe to IFR until I realized that they offered a much better rate to new subscribers than to existing ones. After realizing this, my four year old decided to subscribe :-). Today he recieved a solicitation from another aviation magazine. Obviously they sold his (and my) name and address. I always check the little box indicating that I don't want my information shared and I don't want to recieve any offers. I will never subscribe to any Belvoire publication again. Just had to vent after calling a credit card company and telling them not to send me any more ot their stupid balance tranfer checks. It was the third time I called them. I am in the national opt out list for all pre-approved credit and I still get at least two "offers" a day. I guess that Congress is so busy spending our hard earned money developing rainforests in Iowa and subsidized rail to Disneyland that they don't have time for legislation that ordinary people really care about. Mike MU-2 |
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Gig Giacona wrote: I can show my wife how it could have easily be done in a more efficient manner. I'll bet that makes you real popular. George Patterson Love, n.: A form of temporary insanity afflicting the young. It is curable either by marriage or by removal of the afflicted from the circumstances under which he incurred the condition. It is sometimes fatal, but more often to the physician than to the patient. |
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Let's face it... the problem is: those WEEKLY envelopes from Belvoir
Pulbl to renew the subscription I already have with them for that magazine for the next year or so. Since I already subscibe to IFR and IFR REFRESHER, and Aviation Safety (and/or Consumer), I get at least one per week (or more). ARRGGHH!!!!! |
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I never received anything from any stock places untill a few weeks after signing
up with them. Now get the crap all the time. Newps wrote: Jeff wrote: Ameritrade is the same way. after using them, we got hundredss of spam (and still do) from stock places. Really? I've had Ameritrade for myself since about 1996 and for my kids college trusts since 1997. Never got any spam from financial institutions of any kind. |
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Why does that bother you ?
Its a sales technique, we start high, when someone does not buy, we lower it, then lower it some more. After 6 months to a year, we try to sell them again. Works great. No such thing as a fair deal. Companies who sell to individuals and to businesses will double and triple the price when it comes to selling to business's. I wont even get into that evil empire called Visa/Mastercard. Merchants just do what they can to survive. Another of my pet peeves is when a business extends different prices to different customers. "Every man deserves a square deal" Theodore Roosevelt Mike MU-2 |
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Not always, depends on the size of the business. Small businesses do not
have the latitude that larger / international places have. John Harlow wrote: Another of my pet peeves is when a business extends different prices to different customers. It's called volume discount. Exactly. The louder you yell, the cheaper you can get it. |
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Mike Rapoport wrote: "Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message ... "Mike Rapoport" wrote in message ink.net... I guess they need to distinguish what we care about from what we want! Pork spending is getting out of hand but I don't see any mechanism to contain it. Even the defense budget is about 25% pork according to one study I read (I think it was by the CBO or GAO). In 1981-82 the Grace Commission found that 40% or more of government spending was pork/waste. But hey, this is a DEMOCRACY. The spending might not be what YOU want (you probably have your own little pet project -- we all do), but it's what your NEIGHBOR wants. "What we must remember is that, in a democracy, the whores are us." - P.J. O'Rourke, _Parliament of Whores_. I agree completely. Everybody wants lots of things if they don't have to pay for them. The federal government should stick to national issues, defense, foriegn relations, interstate commerce, national parks, some research ect. The state governments should stick to state issues, state highways, law enforcement and so on. Local projects should be funded locally. If Anaheim needs a railway to Disneyland which is only going to benefit Anaheim hotels, I don't see why someone in New York should pay for it. All pork spending is a result of people wanting things they don't have to pay for. I don't have any pet projects that I expect someone else to pay for. Mike MU-2 These are noble, but simplistic, agruments. California primarily, and other border states are incurring tremendous costs because the federal government refuses to enforce our borders. Thus, Aunt Millie in Iowa is as responsible foe the failure of her federal government to protect the borders as is Uncle Joe in California. |
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wrote in message ... Mike Rapoport wrote: "Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message ... "Mike Rapoport" wrote in message ink.net... I guess they need to distinguish what we care about from what we want! Pork spending is getting out of hand but I don't see any mechanism to contain it. Even the defense budget is about 25% pork according to one study I read (I think it was by the CBO or GAO). In 1981-82 the Grace Commission found that 40% or more of government spending was pork/waste. But hey, this is a DEMOCRACY. The spending might not be what YOU want (you probably have your own little pet project -- we all do), but it's what your NEIGHBOR wants. "What we must remember is that, in a democracy, the whores are us." - P.J. O'Rourke, _Parliament of Whores_. I agree completely. Everybody wants lots of things if they don't have to pay for them. The federal government should stick to national issues, defense, foriegn relations, interstate commerce, national parks, some research ect. The state governments should stick to state issues, state highways, law enforcement and so on. Local projects should be funded locally. If Anaheim needs a railway to Disneyland which is only going to benefit Anaheim hotels, I don't see why someone in New York should pay for it. All pork spending is a result of people wanting things they don't have to pay for. I don't have any pet projects that I expect someone else to pay for. Mike MU-2 These are noble, but simplistic, agruments. California primarily, and other border states are incurring tremendous costs because the federal government refuses to enforce our borders. Thus, Aunt Millie in Iowa is as responsible foe the failure of her federal government to protect the borders as is Uncle Joe in California. No way. California passed laws giving illegals nearly the same benefits as legal citizens therefore creating the influx of illegals. Remember the idiotic drivers license law. Aunt Millie is a whole lot smarter than Uncle Joe. |
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Sounds like a formula for marital bliss
Gig Giacona wrote: Ha....... I have no doubt that the mileage driven by Soccer Moms could be reduced by 35% or more with a little planning. This is an argument that is had often around the old homestead and whenever it comes up I ask why it took 2 hours for what was clearly a 1 hour bunch of stops I can show my wife how it could have easily be done in a more efficient manner. Gig Giacona -- --Ray Andraka, P.E. President, the Andraka Consulting Group, Inc. 401/884-7930 Fax 401/884-7950 http://www.andraka.com "They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -Benjamin Franklin, 1759 |
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"Tom Sixkiller" wrote in message ... "Mike Rapoport" wrote in message ink.net... Actually ending our dependence on foriegn oil would be pretty easy but people don't want to do it. In round figures: We import about a third of our Petroleum Two thirds of petroleum is used for transportation It is possible to cut transportation use in half through a combination of fuel efficiency and more efficient trip planning. The reason we don't is that the costs are horrendous. As for trip planning and fuel efficiency, I'd like to see how Soccer Mom's® driving SUV's and mini-vans are going to improve their trip planning. My wife goes to the grocery store (12 miles each way) almost everyday to get something that she forgot the previous day, so she could certainly improve her trip planning. As a result of cheap gasoline, people are living great distances from their workplace with commutes of over an hour being common in many parts of the country. If gasoline was $5/gallon you would see commute distances shorten, more telecommuting, smaller vehicles, better trip planning. The economic costs of doing all this are tiny and probably there is actually a benefit. If there was simply a $4 tax on gasoline and an equivenenat tax credit (transferable) for income taxes, there would be no net economic cost and a huge incentive to use energy more efficiently. There would be casualties in businesses catering to people traveling by auto but that is about it. Mike MU-2 |
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