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Strategies & Market Trends : Winter in the Great White North -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: E. Charters who wrote (3116)	9/24/2002 12:12:24 AM
From: ralfph	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8273

Gee I teach Mechanics on occasion. All the doors are open when we are in the shop and when I do have to run one its done outside, with the doors closed. I used to get called in to do tuneups and trouble shooting for the racer boys round and about Van. Some of those shops would give me a headache in a few minutes. Very often I would be called when they could not get a fresh engine to fire. It usualy took only a few minutes for me to get one to fire. Unless the timing gears were out of line. Maybe the reason they kept screwing up was because of the fumes. I always figured it was the two cases of beer each consumed before calling me. Actualy I agreed with your first post regarding Carbon Monoxide . But you laid such a fine foundation for me to build on that I could not resist the chance to be silly. Have you ever looked at ion (sp?) generators. There was some talk about putting them in cars as well. It seems that the static electricity a car creates while traveling fills the car with the wrong kind of ions. This market is very interesting. Everything is going titters. except the mines. I think the Sept rally has worked its magic in the mining sector , but it is muted. Oct should produce more of the same action. Next post I will return to stocks goodnite all ralfph

To: E. Charters who wrote (3116)	9/24/2002 2:57:43 AM
From: marcos	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 8273

Lots of talk here lately about ways to stop kids from street racing, there are all sorts of asian kids whose parents set them up here with a place to live and a fancy car, while they're back making money in Taiwan or Hong Kong ... major problem, a young mountie was just killed by one, nailed crosswise in an intersection at high speed So one suggestion was, make all new drivers get GPS location beepers in their vehicles, and pay the costs of a central system that could monitor movement .... it's likely possible to set up an automated scanning system for speeding vehicles, if point A to point B is covered in less than X seconds, obviously the machine was exceeding the limit .... fairly intrusive, this, hard to say if the privacy issue could be raised against it under the charter, probably not, as driving is a privilege not a right, and what is being monitored is the machine not the individual 'I used to test mine vehicles for CO and NO with a draeger tester.' - this is a german company, Draeger, makes mine safety equipment .... years ago i knew a guy who designed and printed instruction manuals for their whole line, in twenty-something languages including arabic ... and did it all from a farmhouse near a village out of Newcastle on the Jedburgh road .... didn't matter where he lived, he had an enormous phone bill anyway, paid by the company in any case, contract was cost-plus and they treated him well ... this was before the internet, there were dial-up procedures for transfer of data ..... where he lived was not so far from where old Lord Armstrong began what became Vickers-Armstrong, started out making mine pumps, then went into artillery as competition for Krupp