, but 10 years is not unreasonable. I've
never done the brakes on my Ranger, and I've had it for more than 10
years now.
>Less buying, more making do. Now that I think about it I use that as a
>kind of personal mantra for a lot of things. Makes my life simpler and
>chea
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Hi Erik
> > I think a lot of us have that problem. Always too much to do, never
> > enough time for keyboards!
>
>Yes, especially when the sun is shining!
Even it when's snowing, hmph. It snowed for a month and stopped
yesterday. I never saw snow until I was 25, and then I thought it was
be
Chandan Haldar wrote:
-SNIP
> And finally (the list archives should be full of stuff about
> this), an "alternative" source of energy is not a real
> alternative unless it is nett energy positive (can produce
> more energy than it takes to make and operate it on a
> perpetual basis). As far as I u
Kirk McLoren wrote:
> (cpm wrote)
-SNIP
> No. Food outside the corporate stranglehold isn't cheaper, it's
> more expensive, it's also higher quality, better tasting and
> considerably healthier.
> ---
> 65 cents for Fuji apples and FRESH beats the heck out of corporate
> distributi
Kirk, you know there's a whole world between your alternatives of big
and bad on the one hand and treadmills on the other. Appropriate
Technology works, it fits, it's sane, it's sustainable and it has a
future.
You sound a bit like the guys who say the only alternative to the
modern consumeris
