In the cab business where I work, a short tank is when you go to get your cab from the driver who drove it the previous shift and he doesn’t fully fill the tank with gas.
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This can save him money that he saves at your expense.
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For egregious violation there are remedies within our system to collect payment for not receiving the cab fully gassed up.
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But there are some drivers who I will call short tank artists, they fill the cab up but not all the way as there are various points on the “F” = full part of the fuel gauge, and what these cheapskates do is fill the cab enough to not get in trouble with the bosses but not fill the tank up as far as it should be saving themselves about 5 dollars a shift which adds up.

Be interesting to see what happens to this Bill that is on the Senate floor.
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It is directed at forcing China to revalue it’s currency higher.
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I don’t know if the Bill is a good thing or bad but definitely interesting.

The passing of of Steve Jobs has made me very sad.
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For me a man in my 40’s he is a cultural icon like Elvis Presley was to others from another era.
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Rest in Peace Steve Jobs who’s products brought so much pleasure and fascination to so many , I am truly saddened with your passing.

When I am driving my cab I sometimes feel like a journalist or historian who is working for himself. I meet an extraordinary amount of interesting people and am always interested in their stories and how they go to where they are at this point in their lives.
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I also drive through a variety of neighborhoods from the very wealthy to the very poor and always wonder how these places and the people who live in these places go to this point in their history.
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Sometimes you can drive into a nook of the city that is very depressed , and think wow this just the end of the line, complete poverty surrender.

If you like warm weather , the best time to go to San Francisco is in September and October.
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That city receives it’s best weather of the year then.

 Per Wikipedia
“Humans (known taxonomically as Homo sapiens, Latin for “wise man” or “knowing man” are the only living species in the Homo genus. Anatomically modern humans originated in Africa about 200,000 years ago, reaching full behavioral modernity around 50,000 years ago.“
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I would have thought it was more like a million years ago and who really knows how all this came about, me personally I can reconcile God with Evolution.
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So if Wikipedia is correct and we have only been around 200,000 to 50,000 years then we as humans have to help each other out with our new found humanity as we deal with all our ancient animal instincts in this odd mix of who we are part  animal and part divine.

When I am out making my rounds in my cab , I have noticed about a 15% increase in the price of food , in the little restaurants and coffee shops I stop and buy things in.
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I wonder if interest rate’s will be raised in 18 months or so.

That was the title of Alan Greenspan’s book published in 2007.
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I think his title has gotten it right and that’s what the world financial system has been experiencing for the last few years.
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The way I stay more relaxed and productive is to not pay attention to the new’s headlines to closely and just push on with what you have to do and work on what you have control over.

I was studying Python for about 4 months as a hobby, when a programmer in my cab told me he loved Ruby and thought it was awesome and that I could be making money doing Ruby in about 3 months. Hence I went out and got a Ruby book, and have been doing some online exercises, I will keep you updated how it goes.

I read an article where Russia opened it’s Nord Stream pipeline on September 6, 2011. Has interesting implications in giving the  Russians a deeper relationship with Western Europe, access to more capital and all that goes with that.