My thoughts exactly, buy why even stop at the $5.95 box? I use to ship things to my cousin with the largest flat rate USPS box (~$14 or ~12 to APO/FPO address) all the time when he was serving in Iraq. The box was something like 3/4 of a cubic foot and what ever you managed to stuff in it would ship. Every box I sent was always packed full and most weighed 20lbs or more. I imagine a box full of CDs and floppy disks would weigh less than the ones I sent that were full of mostly books and magazines with the remaining voids filled with smaller things guys in his unit requested.
Just kidding, but learning how to figure something out takes a long time and a lot of people lack that ability as it seems to fall in the same category of learning things on their own. Starting young does make it easier to get them able to figure stuff out on their own and even at a young age they can do a lot with some guidance. For example I got a free 2 stage snow blower that had some carburetor issues (you really need to drain the fuel and run it dry before putting it away for the season) but otherwise was in working order. It now runs great but needs some work to ensure many more years of trouble free use. So my oldest child and I are in the process of disassembling, cleaning, and servicing everything in it, and he is 6. When everything is all said and done I will likely have about $100 invested in the thing and it will look and run like new, so not bad amount to have a 24" 8hp snow blower. At the same time I get to teach my 6 year old about how things work, how to work with tools, and how to look at something and figure it out.
So it will be around forever? Like trebuchet's and catapults?
Just because you don't own one, doesn't mean others don't. Personally I like having siege engines in my backyard, although the ballista is my personal favorite.
I love the few conference rooms that have basically whiteboard wall paper in them in the building where I work. Others that work well are the conference rooms with windows which we do write on. I have done the take a picture thing as my company only thought it would be a good idea to have one of those white boards that can print and send a PDF.
I would prefer it didn't exist as well but it does so you can either attempt to mitigate by getting your real world friends to quit tagging you in shit and mentioning you in posts (not likely) or try to leave a mess in your wake. I don't tag anyone correctly and will often go out of my way to post complete bull shit. The most recent was the saga of moving to Havana now that US relations have thawed. I mean why not, it is just slightly less real than everyone's Facebook lives where they push stupid pictures and mind vomit around.
Now if only companies would realize that meeting rooms need mroe whiteboards instead of fewer ones, especially if a team is going to use one on an ongoing basis. On one project we had taken all of the mobile white boards from other rooms on the floor and taken to writing on the windows with whiteboard markers. Yes it did progress to something almost out of "A Beautiful Mind".
Just like things that you really don't care about at all. For a long while Facebook thought I was a gay Jew who was looking for a Jamaican lover, yes there are ads targeting this demographic. Also in photos I post if there are people in them I will put names but never correct names, but more of a generic description. I especially like it when the facial recognition fucks up and things there is a face in a cloud, bushes, the grass, etc. and there I will do stuff like tag myself or someone I know as being the fake face. Add in that I like uploading pictures of art and I tag away at those faces, if it is a statue of Zeus I tag it as myself. I tag locations of pictures incorrectly as well as listing my job, and home location incorrectly, and changing them every so often. Then just toss in some random posts about very random things (I have posted some Base64 encoded/dev/urandom output), as well as typing up a post but not actually posting it (there was an article about facebook using info from unposted posts a while back) and it becomes easy to poison their well. Also given that the US government sucks up a lot of public data from places like facebook I get to poison their wells also.
Not a Mustang or American Mussel Car guy, more of a European sports car kind of guy since I actually like to do something other than go straight. Besides if one wants to really abuse vehicles and have fun driving the regular open to the public roads suck. Give me a nice road course track like Road America, BIR, etc. and you can really have some fun beating on a car. I hate the general populations ability to do everything but drive their cars, and the young guys who try to drive like the "slow n delirious" movie on the regular roads.
I was thinking more along the lines of more useful minerals like iron, tin, lead, copper, etc that can smelted with a fair amount of ease and used to produce useful things. Lets say the worlds goes to hell Mad Max style having someone who knows how to smelt metals with the materials to do so is very valuable.
crashes are the absolute best opportunities for rich people.
Everyone else gets screwed.
Really?
While most would consider my household to be rich (top 10% of households) it isn't one that appears to be rich, modest house, older but reliable vehicles, trying to save for retirement and college for kids, etc. It is however a comfortable upper middle class life with some nice things every now and then, but not top 1% or top 0.1% type of thing that people envision in their minds eye.
Since the crash of 08 various accounts have over tripled from their pre-crash highs and we remained in the market the whole time. We have been saving the same amount of money each month for years and buying when the market just took a dump is great as when it finally decides to rebound you own a whole shit ton of assets that were previously inexpensive and are now rising. A little while ago I went to do another prudent thing and re-balance my work 401k and got to see a nice big number and then asked my wife if she wanted to see a big number as a joke.
I am always amazed with people's belief that "but this time it is different" so it is ok to ignore the standard prudent financial advise and then as you so aptly put it "but nobody saw it coming!". In 04 when my wife and I bought our house we got the bog standard boring 30 year fixed with 20% down that we could still afford if one of us lost our job. Everyone thought we were dumb because we didn't get some exotic loan for as much as we could afford in the hope of riding the equity bubble to the moon because this time real estate was going to keep going up for ever. Fast forward a few years and now we look like fucking financial geniuses because we didn't have to downsize to a tiny town home or file for bankruptcy because we weren't leveraged to the hilt, even though we did buy our house at the top end of the market and took a bath in the loss of equity. Then again we didn't buy our house to use it as an investment, instead we bought it so we could live there and raise a family. Even the mortgage broker thought we were nuts, somehow we qualified for a 3/4 million dollar loan that we wouldn't have been able to even make a single payment on, when I made him work backwards from a monthly payment we could actually afford to figure out what loan amount to get. Now go forward a few more years and we refinanced to a 15 year loan from the 30 and saved 7 years of payments for only $18 more a month.
Have you ever actually looked closely at a chicken? I did once and I am pretty sure that they are some sort of demon spawn and definitely not an animal, or at least not an animal of this earth.
I have listened to enough Coast to Cost in my life but have never heard anything about the chickens and now I want a good laugh at the reasoning behind this.
Guess what, a vaccine is meant to trigger an immune response and what you have basically sounds like a very strong immune response. I bet you get over things like the common cold pretty quick, I know I do and have similar responses to vaccines, though not that bad. I feel like shit for a day and then am fine. Also no one ever said that vaccines were 100% safe and without side effects but I'll take feeling like shit for a day over a full blown flu for several days while feeling like shit the whole time and puking.
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My thoughts exactly, buy why even stop at the $5.95 box? I use to ship things to my cousin with the largest flat rate USPS box (~$14 or ~12 to APO/FPO address) all the time when he was serving in Iraq. The box was something like 3/4 of a cubic foot and what ever you managed to stuff in it would ship. Every box I sent was always packed full and most weighed 20lbs or more. I imagine a box full of CDs and floppy disks would weigh less than the ones I sent that were full of mostly books and magazines with the remaining voids filled with smaller things guys in his unit requested.
Child's play.
Just kidding, but learning how to figure something out takes a long time and a lot of people lack that ability as it seems to fall in the same category of learning things on their own. Starting young does make it easier to get them able to figure stuff out on their own and even at a young age they can do a lot with some guidance. For example I got a free 2 stage snow blower that had some carburetor issues (you really need to drain the fuel and run it dry before putting it away for the season) but otherwise was in working order. It now runs great but needs some work to ensure many more years of trouble free use. So my oldest child and I are in the process of disassembling, cleaning, and servicing everything in it, and he is 6. When everything is all said and done I will likely have about $100 invested in the thing and it will look and run like new, so not bad amount to have a 24" 8hp snow blower. At the same time I get to teach my 6 year old about how things work, how to work with tools, and how to look at something and figure it out.
Ever tried putting a post-it note through your laser printer?
No but now I want to try it, especially with the one at work that seems to need service every week anyway.
The QWERTY layout has been around for 140 years.
So it will be around forever? Like trebuchet's and catapults?
Just because you don't own one, doesn't mean others don't. Personally I like having siege engines in my backyard, although the ballista is my personal favorite.
I love the few conference rooms that have basically whiteboard wall paper in them in the building where I work. Others that work well are the conference rooms with windows which we do write on. I have done the take a picture thing as my company only thought it would be a good idea to have one of those white boards that can print and send a PDF.
I would prefer it didn't exist as well but it does so you can either attempt to mitigate by getting your real world friends to quit tagging you in shit and mentioning you in posts (not likely) or try to leave a mess in your wake. I don't tag anyone correctly and will often go out of my way to post complete bull shit. The most recent was the saga of moving to Havana now that US relations have thawed. I mean why not, it is just slightly less real than everyone's Facebook lives where they push stupid pictures and mind vomit around.
We have a couple of whiteboards that will spit out a printed copy of what is on them or send off a PDF of what is on them. Seems to work great.
Now if only companies would realize that meeting rooms need mroe whiteboards instead of fewer ones, especially if a team is going to use one on an ongoing basis. On one project we had taken all of the mobile white boards from other rooms on the floor and taken to writing on the windows with whiteboard markers. Yes it did progress to something almost out of "A Beautiful Mind".
Just like things that you really don't care about at all. For a long while Facebook thought I was a gay Jew who was looking for a Jamaican lover, yes there are ads targeting this demographic. Also in photos I post if there are people in them I will put names but never correct names, but more of a generic description. I especially like it when the facial recognition fucks up and things there is a face in a cloud, bushes, the grass, etc. and there I will do stuff like tag myself or someone I know as being the fake face. Add in that I like uploading pictures of art and I tag away at those faces, if it is a statue of Zeus I tag it as myself. I tag locations of pictures incorrectly as well as listing my job, and home location incorrectly, and changing them every so often. Then just toss in some random posts about very random things (I have posted some Base64 encoded /dev/urandom output), as well as typing up a post but not actually posting it (there was an article about facebook using info from unposted posts a while back) and it becomes easy to poison their well. Also given that the US government sucks up a lot of public data from places like facebook I get to poison their wells also.
It is because of the fact the Facebook knew who I was that I got an account. At least now I can poison the well.
Not a Mustang or American Mussel Car guy, more of a European sports car kind of guy since I actually like to do something other than go straight. Besides if one wants to really abuse vehicles and have fun driving the regular open to the public roads suck. Give me a nice road course track like Road America, BIR, etc. and you can really have some fun beating on a car. I hate the general populations ability to do everything but drive their cars, and the young guys who try to drive like the "slow n delirious" movie on the regular roads.
I was thinking more along the lines of more useful minerals like iron, tin, lead, copper, etc that can smelted with a fair amount of ease and used to produce useful things. Lets say the worlds goes to hell Mad Max style having someone who knows how to smelt metals with the materials to do so is very valuable.
Depends on the velocity of the feather
I'll just leave this here.
crashes are the absolute best opportunities for rich people.
Everyone else gets screwed.
Really?
While most would consider my household to be rich (top 10% of households) it isn't one that appears to be rich, modest house, older but reliable vehicles, trying to save for retirement and college for kids, etc. It is however a comfortable upper middle class life with some nice things every now and then, but not top 1% or top 0.1% type of thing that people envision in their minds eye.
Since the crash of 08 various accounts have over tripled from their pre-crash highs and we remained in the market the whole time. We have been saving the same amount of money each month for years and buying when the market just took a dump is great as when it finally decides to rebound you own a whole shit ton of assets that were previously inexpensive and are now rising. A little while ago I went to do another prudent thing and re-balance my work 401k and got to see a nice big number and then asked my wife if she wanted to see a big number as a joke.
I am always amazed with people's belief that "but this time it is different" so it is ok to ignore the standard prudent financial advise and then as you so aptly put it "but nobody saw it coming!". In 04 when my wife and I bought our house we got the bog standard boring 30 year fixed with 20% down that we could still afford if one of us lost our job. Everyone thought we were dumb because we didn't get some exotic loan for as much as we could afford in the hope of riding the equity bubble to the moon because this time real estate was going to keep going up for ever. Fast forward a few years and now we look like fucking financial geniuses because we didn't have to downsize to a tiny town home or file for bankruptcy because we weren't leveraged to the hilt, even though we did buy our house at the top end of the market and took a bath in the loss of equity. Then again we didn't buy our house to use it as an investment, instead we bought it so we could live there and raise a family. Even the mortgage broker thought we were nuts, somehow we qualified for a 3/4 million dollar loan that we wouldn't have been able to even make a single payment on, when I made him work backwards from a monthly payment we could actually afford to figure out what loan amount to get. Now go forward a few more years and we refinanced to a 15 year loan from the 30 and saved 7 years of payments for only $18 more a month.
Salt actually has value though, and depending on the rocks they may be worthwhile to have as well if they are mineral bearing ones.
I wouldn't mind that. People still keep horses and use them they are just aren't a common mode of transport.
It takes a lot to build one, and I can't envision a world where cars can be easily home built from standard parts.
I take it you have never heard of kit cars and crate motors
He said recently that he doesn't know if he'd order troops into Iraq if he were in the same position as his brother.
Sounds like the only reason to consider voting for him.
"I'm not fat, I'm husky." Uh...yeah. "I'm portly." Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. "I'm stout." Okay, okay, okay... "I'm big-boned." You're big-ASSED, okay? Dinosaurs as big-boned! Put the fork down.
Lies
and that chicken isn't a real animal
Have you ever actually looked closely at a chicken? I did once and I am pretty sure that they are some sort of demon spawn and definitely not an animal, or at least not an animal of this earth.
I have listened to enough Coast to Cost in my life but have never heard anything about the chickens and now I want a good laugh at the reasoning behind this.
Guess what, a vaccine is meant to trigger an immune response and what you have basically sounds like a very strong immune response. I bet you get over things like the common cold pretty quick, I know I do and have similar responses to vaccines, though not that bad. I feel like shit for a day and then am fine. Also no one ever said that vaccines were 100% safe and without side effects but I'll take feeling like shit for a day over a full blown flu for several days while feeling like shit the whole time and puking.
I thing a more accurate statement would be that California is at the fringe of all political spectrums.