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Oil Profits

OK, I've been extremely negligent in my posting and growing a business is not an excuse...I'm sorry.

Back to the story at hand.  I just read that Exxon announced a Q1 $8.4Billion (with a "B") profit.  Excessive, probably.  Wrong, no way.  I only dream of a day where I can run an 8 Billion dollar profit.  Of course the public, the government hacks and the media are blowing this out of proportion.  Now my car drinks the expensive stuff, 93 to be exact, so I complain just like the next guy, but if the government really wants to do something about the price consumers pay for gas, they should just repeal or lower the tax on gas, even for a month or two.  The federal and state government make a bigger profit on a gallon of gas then the greedy oil companies.

Where I live for example (MN), I pay 38.4 Cents per gallon to the government in taxes (18.4 federal, 20 State).  Who's greedy here, the government or the oil companies?

You can't force companies to lower prices, but couldn't the government lower the burden on their constituents by repealing the gas tax?

Of course, why would they?  They've been sucking on that breast for to long to care.

Numa Numa Still Going Strong

I can't believe it; it must have been over 12 months since the first Numa Numa video (the original) hit the Internet.  It just won't end, the copies just keep coming.  If you've got no clue what I'm talking about go to youtube.com and simply type in numa numa in the search bar.

15 minutes hell...more like 15 months of fame!

If you missed this, not to mention the copy cats, you've got a long way to go before you get to the end of the Internet.

MacBook Pro (Mini-Review)...I'll know more later.

I'm writing this on a MacBook pro I picked up this weekend.  I love it.  It's not the fact that it's now powered by the Intel chip, it's not the fact that it replaces the Risc architecture of the powerbooks and finally makes it price competitive with comparable win32 machines.  I love the fact that converting my old iBook took a total of 45 minutes...It moved everything to the new machine; files, settings, user accounts and APPLICATIONS, fully registered. 

The process was really simple; boot the new MacBook, connect the firewire cable to both machines (old and new), reboot the old ibook holding down the "T" key, DONE.  So for those of you that dread losing data, don't fret.

The only downside to the MacBook is the battery life.  A dismal 2 to 2.5 hours...  The iBook had a better battery life.  Overall a great purchase.