Invisible wrote:
> FWIW, as I understand it, it's not the water as such. The setting of 
> concrete involves a chemical reaction rather than the mere removal of 
> the water.

The evaporation of the water causes the chemical reaction.

To delay the setting, you can add more water, but then you wind up with 
gravel in very runny concrete that doesn't stick. If you don't add water, 
then eventually the concrete will set, even being agigated. It just won't 
stick to anything. You'll have a whole bunch of gravel covered with a thin 
layer of concrete.

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andrel wrote:
> 
> Can't be a follow up. This is within a day from when it happened (where
> were you earlier? at work) whereas the guy in the first one already has
> the check in hand. So either check was by e-mail or he did the same
> stunt twice with GTE Visa or the order of the events is impossible.

Or the "earlier" means "last week" oslt for them. Anyway, there's 600000
quote-id's between those two, so if bash.org increases them logically,
there's probably a bit more time between them than it seems at first sight.

-Aero

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>>> Did you hear the story about the guy who sent back an envelope full of 
>>> dimes, just heavy enough to put it into the next postage class, so the 
>>> advertiser had to pay extra duty on it? And when they complained that 
>>> he sent a bunch of dimes rather than a form, he said he did it by 
>>> mistake, and demanded that they *return* the money to him, so they 
>>> sent him a cheque for $0.18 or whatever it was.
>> 
>> http://bash.org/?127039
>> 
>> Follow-up:
>> http://bash.org/?743595
> 
> Right. So *definitely* 100% balony then! ;-)

I sent a bunch of garbage to one of those places, 
but I made sure not to put my address on any of the 
junk in the envelope.
...
A long time ago we had Sprint LD service, one of
the employees stole our credit card number. The
crooks got arested because they used the counterfit
card to pay their own electric bill. Dumb loosers!

Anyway, Sprint got dropped, but several times
in the following years they would bill very small
amounts. We didn't owe it, they just never purged
their system. So here's a bill, you owe us $0.12,
even though you haven't used our service in years,
and when you did, we stole from you.

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> Is it possible for concrete to set while it's still in motion?
> 
> But sure, that still sounds like a pretty expensive problem...

Maybe the drivers just carry some of this for emergency use:

http://www.aximconcrete.com/default.aspx?pageid=86&ProductId=80&GroupId=51

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Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
> >> I don't follow.
> >
> > It means if it says "Buy one for $10, get one free", then you can buy
> > one for $5.
> >
> > Altho I think that's more like "Two for $10" being "One for $5", now
> > that I think of it. I'm not sure "buy one get one free" always means you
> > can get one for half price.
>
> Round there, the deal is like this:
>
>    The item is priced at £10. If you buy one, it costs you £10. If you
> buy two, it costs you £10. If you buy three, it costs £20, if you buy
> four, it costs £20. And so on.
>
> In other words, the item's "real" sale price is actually £5, but if you
> only buy one, there's a 100% surcharge. But they like to phrase it as
> "if you buy two, you get the second one absolutely free". (Which,
> clearly, is untrue.)
>
> Similar offers include "3 for 2", "buy 9 get 1 free", and so on.
>
> > If you buy fewer (meaning more people buy the same number), they pay
> > more rent for storing them, they pay more in credit card transaction
> > fees, they pay more interest on the money used to buy them in the first
> > place, etc.
>
> Well, I'm not in retail. I very much doubt the things you're talking
> about are financially significant, but I don't know. However, I would
> strongly suspect that the true reason is simply to convince people to
> buy more than they otherwise would (possibly more than they actually
> need). Some people (like my mother) mistakenly believe that buying an
> item at a lower price per item necessarily equals saving money.
>
> --
> http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
> http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

I have shopped in a supermarket that often has buy 1 get 1 free offers.
The bill looks like this:





They often sell short dated fresh produce at reduced prices, with the resulting
bill:







It makes for interesting and profitable shopping.

Cheers,
Peter

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geep999 wrote:

> I have shopped in a supermarket that often has buy 1 get 1 free offers.
> The bill looks like this:




> 
> They often sell short dated fresh produce at reduced prices, with the resulting
> bill:






> 
> It makes for interesting and profitable shopping.

My mum would TOTALLY DO THIS! o_O


then handing the cashier a huge lump of coupons. (The look on her face 
was... enough to cause fatalities!) When she finally finished scanning 

obviously, is still an *absurd* amount of money to spend on food for 
just two people, but hey...)

-- 
http://blog.orphi.me.uk/
http://www.zazzle.com/MathematicalOrchid*

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