WHO can afford the FUEL for that thing??? I remember when my Dad had a single Mercury BlackMax 250 outboard on our Whaler and on "cruise" it burned 16GPH. I can't imagine what that sucker above burns per hour!Originally Posted by zombie67
WHO can afford the FUEL for that thing??? I remember when my Dad had a single Mercury BlackMax 250 outboard on our Whaler and on "cruise" it burned 16GPH. I can't imagine what that sucker above burns per hour!
That picture was forwarded to me with the following "internet" story. No telling if it's true, and I usually assume it's not.WHO can afford the FUEL for that thing??? I remember when my Dad had a single Mercury BlackMax 250 outboard on our Whaler and on "cruise" it burned 16GPH. I can't imagine what that sucker above burns per hour!
2,000 HP Outboard Inflatable ...
Here's the latest drug runner toy from B.C ...
This thing belted across the English Bay channel 3 times
per week, and was just a blur on the Radar of the
British Columbia Coast Guard.
They were so astonished by the speed of the
unknown craft that they brought in a special high-
speed Helicopter to chase it.
Drugs were found on board. Of course, you'd have to be on
drugs to push the throttle down on this thing!!
Snopes says it's true.
http://www.snopes.com/photos/boats/drugrunner.asp
Those boats are more common then you think. the coast guard around here run light boats with 4 300's (mod's) on them. I can deffently see the 4 video cards though!
You know you've BOINC'ed too much when you watch an episode of Eureka and get really excited because they are talking about using sleeping humans as a distributed computing system...
...when you read license plates that start "H##..." and your immediate thought is of a new model water cooler for the CPU.
...when you buy a video card because you don't want to lose all production when you have to RMA your other video cards.
When you are all but unemployed yet spend your entire tax return on upgrades so you can crunch more.
(Yeah, I'm gonna be THAT GUY....but it's tax time, and it needs to be said at least once.)
You gave an interest free loan to the government? They (we) would not do the same for you.
So it is better to owe the government at the end of the year? Not sure I understand that logic. No matter how you file it will all end up the same. They will either charge you the taxes at the end of the year or you will get "some" back. I would rather get a check from them then have to write one. Yes, they get a free "loan" for the year but my tiny amount of taxes probably does not buy an F-15.
It's not the difference to the government that matters. It is the lost interest (at worst), or lost investment gains (better) that you could have made on that money had it been in your pocket for a year, rather than theirs (ours).
Edit: Think about it this way: You could kept all the same cash you eventually ended up with anyway, PLUS a GPU paid for with the interest/gains you earned on your own money.
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