Gonna just rip out that drywall so you can run what you want? Great.... now how are you gonna put things back together?
Well that is my plan. There is too much wire in my house and I don't know what it all is controlling. I have a 36 bay breaker box and all 36 bays have a breaker in them yet I only have a 1900 sq. ft. house and there are 4 rooms that are all on the same breaker. Add in that there aren't enough outlets, or they aren't in the right spot, as well as wanting to run coax and network lines into each room and pulling down the sheet rock to put in conduit is looking like the cheapest and quickest solution. What makes it even more worthwhile is that the previous owner should have never been allowed to own tools so there is a lot of stuff than needs to be taken care of anyway that will get solved by this as well. For me at least this won't be the first time I have gutted and redid a house so I have that going for me.
This a thousand times. I had a similar experience when I lived in France. I only lived there for 3 months but got dropped right into it. Before I arrived I had managed to learn a few things so I wouldn't starve, get to lost, and be able to pay for things but I was pretty useless. By the end of the 3 months I could hold a conversation to some degree with the locals even if I was about at a kindergarten level. My only request is that someone teach the French how to pronounce "Häagen-Dazs" as it confused the hell out of me at first when coworkers would ask if I wanted to go get Häagen-Dazs after work. I tried but failed.
You are missing a couple of taxes at the federal level. There is social security and medicare tax (7.65% or 15.3% depending on how you want to look at it) that hits everyone but starts cutting out at higher incomes. And while you point out that you don't live in a state with income tax a lot do. Additionally a lot of states have a sales tax and this ignores local property taxes or local income taxes. When I did my taxes this year I was curious what my overall rate was and it is slightly below 30% and if I included sales tax it would likely be about 2% higher but that is just a rough guess.
Except that they seem to get a whole lot more for their taxes than we do. From what I can see they get roads good enough to not have a speed limit when traffic volumes are low, healthcare for everyone, education for everyone, etc. While in the US I get a government that likes to waste money on shit bridges to nowhere, bomb brown people, spy in bulk on its own citizens, etc. But by god I pay less in taxes to do so. I want an effective efficient government and while I may not be terribly familiar with some of the finer points of the German government they seem to be doing a better job
Well I get to make use of all that computational theory stuff I learned in my degree frequently at my job and it does pay well even if it is boring work with SCADA systems. I did have one of those bosses who wanted every one to work crazy hours and be on call at all times even when on vacation. When I told him I would be unreachable on one vacation he didn't believe me and after a bit of back and forth I told him that if he really needed me where I was going to be leaving my car and walking into the woods and that he should hire a trained tracker and a team of dogs.
Unfortunately these aren't the questions that are asked by the media or investigated when these issues come up for debate in the legislature. Even the school I went to after leaving the University of Minnesota wasted copious amounts of money. The biggest one that I was aware of was the student computer lab where 1/3 of the machines were replaced every year. I understand that they wear out and need to be replaced but instead of going with an inexpensive configuration they basically bought high-end gaming machines. These machines weren't for use in the HPC, or GIS labs where the extra power would have been useful but instead used for students to check their e-mail, write papers, and browse the internet. Then add in all of the administrators who don't contribute to education, this seems to be exponentially proportional to the number of students, double the number of students and you need 8x the administration.
It is just liability coverage on an old high mileage limited use vehicle. I can drive it at most 7500 miles a year which is about 2.5 times the amount I actually drive it. If you have a vehicle that you don't drive much see about getting a limited use policy as they are a lot cheaper and meant for things like RVs, collector cars, and other things you don't use much.
Vehicles are for the most part a depreciating asset so don't worry it will be worth the melt/salvage value in less time than you think. I don't get new vehicles but go and find the best older one I can and drive it until it isn't worth fixing or until it gets totaled. This seems to be economically the best way as I enjoy the rollilng upgrade everyone else gets but instead of costing me tens of thousands of dollars in depreciation it instead cost me less than $10,000 and I end up putting a shit ton of miles on it also.
I would love to get a nice new car exactly what I want and see if I can give this guy a run for his money but I wouldn't mind having his car either as he takes care of his stuff. I usually end up getting vehicles in the $8,000-$10,000 range and they last 4-6 years putting 25,000 to 30,000 miles a year on them. The ones with shorter lives have all been hit and totaled but even then all but one of them had over 200,000 miles on it when it went off to the junk yard. The most recent one that stupid automatic transmission went out at just over 260,000 miles and would have been a $6,000+ repair on a car that would have only been worth $2,000 with a good transmission. I hate automatic transmissions as they really are the weak point in most vehicles now days.
I tell people all the time that 4WD/AWD doesn't magically change the laws of physics. Yes you may have 2x the traction for starting but 2 times almost nothing is still basically almost nothing. Add in that most are open diff and even with 4WD it is really just 2WD across 2 axles. I love that my jeep has posi on both axles but even thin it isn't magic even with good aggressive tires. I don't get stuck but then I still can't drive like a retard in bad weather. I have had a lot of people go blowing past me in bad weather only to see them off in the ditch or crashed at an intersection shortly there after.
Depends on what he is doing with it. If he is like me having a beat up old junk jeep is worthwhile as I can take it down very questionable roads and add a few more dents and scratches to it. It only costs me about $80 every 6 months to insure and spends most of the time parked along side my garage. If I could rent a real 4WD vehicle (not a sissy little CR-V, RAV 4, etc) and actually do things with it that require the high clearance and 4WD that it offers and not be stuck with a giant bill for minor dents and scratches I would. Do rental companies allow you to ford a river in their vehicles?
On the flip side I offer one of my wife's cousins and his experience. He got an art degree from a private, and apparently very good from what I understand, art college. He has managed to make a reasonable career our of being a painter. Then again he already had been recognized before he graduated high school, and had gotten commissions to do work while he was still in school. Add in that he actually does treat it as a job and will typically put in anywhere between 60 and 80 hours a week at it and it becomes clear why he has succeeded unlike so many others. He just recently bought one of the galleries in the town he lives in so that should help him become more successful in the long run as it gives him another revenue stream as well as lowers his cost. Then again he isn't a whiny bitch and also understands that to make it as an artist you do have to produce what people want and not just what you want.
The some of the increase in tuition at state schools is directly the result of the state legislatures pulling money out. The legislators then turn around and claim there is a crisis in higher education with ever higher costs for the average person.
So how much is enough? For example in Minnesota the State provides the University of Minnesota about $600,000,000 which across all of it's campuses looks to have about 62,000 students enrolled. This works out to almost $10,000/per year per student. This ignores out of state students, people who are just taking a class for shits and giggles, and international students who either don't get a subsidy or don't get the full benefit of it so the actual number is actually better for full-time instate students. So where is all of this money being pissed away?
I have a Chamberlain 3/4hp one and it is probably getting close to 20 years old now. The only issues I have had with it are that I needed to replace the springs about 5 years ago and a couple of years ago I had to replace the stupid plastic gear that the worm gear turns because it got stripped out.
I refuse to accept this. Unfortunately I do think that things will need to get worse before thing turn around I just hope it doesn't reach armed revolution as that never seems to end well.
Hey some of us do try to do something about it. Problem is that there is no one in elected office higher than county board (larger than a city but smaller than a state for the Europeans) that I have voted for. Those who do supposedly represent me at the state and national level basically ignore anything I say or write unless it happens to be something they support which is getting to be far less each election cycle. I do write letters to the editor for the local news papers but those have never been published even though I usually submit about one a month. I encourage others to do so and am met with apathy at best or am shunned because the individual welcomes these intrusions for the false security. So short of going all Punisher on the NSA please tell me what else I as an individual could be doing?
well the documentation is already out there for various crypto algorithms and there are a number of open source implementations to look at so it isn't like this is an impossible task. Also given that these people are already doing something illegal what is to stop them from violating the GPL or just saying fuck it and using a real encryption program.
Sounds like my first experience with Belgian beer. I ordered a medium beer, I got a stein that holds ~750ml and what is left in the 1l bottle. I drank it without knowing how strong it was and then when I went to cut a wiz just about fell over.
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Gonna just rip out that drywall so you can run what you want? Great.... now how are you gonna put things back together?
Well that is my plan. There is too much wire in my house and I don't know what it all is controlling. I have a 36 bay breaker box and all 36 bays have a breaker in them yet I only have a 1900 sq. ft. house and there are 4 rooms that are all on the same breaker. Add in that there aren't enough outlets, or they aren't in the right spot, as well as wanting to run coax and network lines into each room and pulling down the sheet rock to put in conduit is looking like the cheapest and quickest solution. What makes it even more worthwhile is that the previous owner should have never been allowed to own tools so there is a lot of stuff than needs to be taken care of anyway that will get solved by this as well. For me at least this won't be the first time I have gutted and redid a house so I have that going for me.
This a thousand times. I had a similar experience when I lived in France. I only lived there for 3 months but got dropped right into it. Before I arrived I had managed to learn a few things so I wouldn't starve, get to lost, and be able to pay for things but I was pretty useless. By the end of the 3 months I could hold a conversation to some degree with the locals even if I was about at a kindergarten level. My only request is that someone teach the French how to pronounce "Häagen-Dazs" as it confused the hell out of me at first when coworkers would ask if I wanted to go get Häagen-Dazs after work. I tried but failed.
You are missing a couple of taxes at the federal level. There is social security and medicare tax (7.65% or 15.3% depending on how you want to look at it) that hits everyone but starts cutting out at higher incomes. And while you point out that you don't live in a state with income tax a lot do. Additionally a lot of states have a sales tax and this ignores local property taxes or local income taxes. When I did my taxes this year I was curious what my overall rate was and it is slightly below 30% and if I included sales tax it would likely be about 2% higher but that is just a rough guess.
Except that they seem to get a whole lot more for their taxes than we do. From what I can see they get roads good enough to not have a speed limit when traffic volumes are low, healthcare for everyone, education for everyone, etc. While in the US I get a government that likes to waste money on shit bridges to nowhere, bomb brown people, spy in bulk on its own citizens, etc. But by god I pay less in taxes to do so. I want an effective efficient government and while I may not be terribly familiar with some of the finer points of the German government they seem to be doing a better job
It is similar in Wisconsin as well.
Looks like it is time to re-render Big Buck Bunny.
Well I get to make use of all that computational theory stuff I learned in my degree frequently at my job and it does pay well even if it is boring work with SCADA systems. I did have one of those bosses who wanted every one to work crazy hours and be on call at all times even when on vacation. When I told him I would be unreachable on one vacation he didn't believe me and after a bit of back and forth I told him that if he really needed me where I was going to be leaving my car and walking into the woods and that he should hire a trained tracker and a team of dogs.
Was she by chance the Wife of Bath?
I say send in the Marines to clear the are of terrorists then.
Unfortunately these aren't the questions that are asked by the media or investigated when these issues come up for debate in the legislature. Even the school I went to after leaving the University of Minnesota wasted copious amounts of money. The biggest one that I was aware of was the student computer lab where 1/3 of the machines were replaced every year. I understand that they wear out and need to be replaced but instead of going with an inexpensive configuration they basically bought high-end gaming machines. These machines weren't for use in the HPC, or GIS labs where the extra power would have been useful but instead used for students to check their e-mail, write papers, and browse the internet. Then add in all of the administrators who don't contribute to education, this seems to be exponentially proportional to the number of students, double the number of students and you need 8x the administration.
It is just liability coverage on an old high mileage limited use vehicle. I can drive it at most 7500 miles a year which is about 2.5 times the amount I actually drive it. If you have a vehicle that you don't drive much see about getting a limited use policy as they are a lot cheaper and meant for things like RVs, collector cars, and other things you don't use much.
Vehicles are for the most part a depreciating asset so don't worry it will be worth the melt/salvage value in less time than you think. I don't get new vehicles but go and find the best older one I can and drive it until it isn't worth fixing or until it gets totaled. This seems to be economically the best way as I enjoy the rollilng upgrade everyone else gets but instead of costing me tens of thousands of dollars in depreciation it instead cost me less than $10,000 and I end up putting a shit ton of miles on it also.
I would love to get a nice new car exactly what I want and see if I can give this guy a run for his money but I wouldn't mind having his car either as he takes care of his stuff. I usually end up getting vehicles in the $8,000-$10,000 range and they last 4-6 years putting 25,000 to 30,000 miles a year on them. The ones with shorter lives have all been hit and totaled but even then all but one of them had over 200,000 miles on it when it went off to the junk yard. The most recent one that stupid automatic transmission went out at just over 260,000 miles and would have been a $6,000+ repair on a car that would have only been worth $2,000 with a good transmission. I hate automatic transmissions as they really are the weak point in most vehicles now days.
I tell people all the time that 4WD/AWD doesn't magically change the laws of physics. Yes you may have 2x the traction for starting but 2 times almost nothing is still basically almost nothing. Add in that most are open diff and even with 4WD it is really just 2WD across 2 axles. I love that my jeep has posi on both axles but even thin it isn't magic even with good aggressive tires. I don't get stuck but then I still can't drive like a retard in bad weather. I have had a lot of people go blowing past me in bad weather only to see them off in the ditch or crashed at an intersection shortly there after.
Depends on what he is doing with it. If he is like me having a beat up old junk jeep is worthwhile as I can take it down very questionable roads and add a few more dents and scratches to it. It only costs me about $80 every 6 months to insure and spends most of the time parked along side my garage. If I could rent a real 4WD vehicle (not a sissy little CR-V, RAV 4, etc) and actually do things with it that require the high clearance and 4WD that it offers and not be stuck with a giant bill for minor dents and scratches I would. Do rental companies allow you to ford a river in their vehicles?
You must not live in MN. I don't think I have ever had to show I had insurance when I went to get my vehicle registration renewed.
On the flip side I offer one of my wife's cousins and his experience. He got an art degree from a private, and apparently very good from what I understand, art college. He has managed to make a reasonable career our of being a painter. Then again he already had been recognized before he graduated high school, and had gotten commissions to do work while he was still in school. Add in that he actually does treat it as a job and will typically put in anywhere between 60 and 80 hours a week at it and it becomes clear why he has succeeded unlike so many others. He just recently bought one of the galleries in the town he lives in so that should help him become more successful in the long run as it gives him another revenue stream as well as lowers his cost. Then again he isn't a whiny bitch and also understands that to make it as an artist you do have to produce what people want and not just what you want.
The some of the increase in tuition at state schools is directly the result of the state legislatures pulling money out. The legislators then turn around and claim there is a crisis in higher education with ever higher costs for the average person.
So how much is enough? For example in Minnesota the State provides the University of Minnesota about $600,000,000 which across all of it's campuses looks to have about 62,000 students enrolled. This works out to almost $10,000/per year per student. This ignores out of state students, people who are just taking a class for shits and giggles, and international students who either don't get a subsidy or don't get the full benefit of it so the actual number is actually better for full-time instate students. So where is all of this money being pissed away?
Unless that dog is my sister's fucking malamute. It thinks everyone that shows up is there to feed it or let it out to play.
I have a Chamberlain 3/4hp one and it is probably getting close to 20 years old now. The only issues I have had with it are that I needed to replace the springs about 5 years ago and a couple of years ago I had to replace the stupid plastic gear that the worm gear turns because it got stripped out.
I refuse to accept this. Unfortunately I do think that things will need to get worse before thing turn around I just hope it doesn't reach armed revolution as that never seems to end well.
Hey some of us do try to do something about it. Problem is that there is no one in elected office higher than county board (larger than a city but smaller than a state for the Europeans) that I have voted for. Those who do supposedly represent me at the state and national level basically ignore anything I say or write unless it happens to be something they support which is getting to be far less each election cycle. I do write letters to the editor for the local news papers but those have never been published even though I usually submit about one a month. I encourage others to do so and am met with apathy at best or am shunned because the individual welcomes these intrusions for the false security. So short of going all Punisher on the NSA please tell me what else I as an individual could be doing?
well the documentation is already out there for various crypto algorithms and there are a number of open source implementations to look at so it isn't like this is an impossible task. Also given that these people are already doing something illegal what is to stop them from violating the GPL or just saying fuck it and using a real encryption program.
Or just go whole hog DBAN on the drive.
A flaming turd in a paper sack couldn't be worst than Hillary.
Sounds like my first experience with Belgian beer. I ordered a medium beer, I got a stein that holds ~750ml and what is left in the 1l bottle. I drank it without knowing how strong it was and then when I went to cut a wiz just about fell over.