Trump campaigned on tax cuts, deregulation and killing ACA. These are all Libertarian things. If you recall he also originally was for less military spending, particularly in making foreign countries (Asia, Germany, etc) pay for our military aid or we would pull out (pissing off Japan because we are obligated via treaty to defend them). Both candidates vowed to kill the TPP so neither was distinguished there. The silly wall no one took him seriously on (an incorrect assumption as it turns out). Clinton stopped just short of declaring war on Russia with her rhetoric, so no one saw her as 'less military spending'. She also ended up adopting much of Bernie Sanders' platform in an effort to appease those her rigged primary had disenfranchised, taking her even further from Libertarian.
Now with hindsight Trump is more opposite of Libertarian (e.g. Jeff Sessions stance on drugs and drug enforcement, ending DACA, etc). But on Nov 8 2016 if you had forced all Gary Johnson voters to instead vote for either Trump or Clinton with no stay home option, I just don't see Clinton getting them.
I once accidentally put a meeting on hold when I got another call during a conference. No one knew how to mute me, so the entire call of about 15 people (including 2 high level execs) stopped for about 10 minutes while I worked on another problem. I heard secondhand that they kept saying "who is this! Mute your line!" (not realizing it was hold music) followed by attempting to talk over it. Some tried to rap their comments to the beat.
This must have happened frequently enough because the hold music was eventually reprogrammed out of our phones.
Forget legalese, my response is a more crass "huh?". Generally speaking if someone is addressing me in a conference call, it is because they want something from me. Not repeating themselves suits me just fine.
If you count the third parties it's still against her; the Gary Johnsons align closer to trump and the Jill Steins closer to Hillary. Trump+Johnson > Stein+Clinton in the popular vote.
That's how I read it as well. Heck I lean right but this is a nice targeted tax that will actually stop the "race to the bottom". Very few companies would be affected, and those that do are currently undercutting more responsible employers.
Batteries are proven. Australia is a good example.
The population of the entire country/continent of Australia is less than 2/3rds the population of California. A lot more space per person for green energy.
Electric bills for Californians will go high enough that those who own their own properties will buy their own generators. There might even be a market for a loophole: natural gas generators hooked up to your main gas line. Instead of one centralized ng power plant how about a couple million?
I made that change almost 2 decades ago. While I have no quarrel with concrete, crowds or "unfriendly" people, I've noticed that stress is lower in small cities. Getting to work is fast and drama-free, housing costs are lower and are thus covered by a low-stress job. Being able to see the stars at night is also a plus. There's still enough population that you don't get "small town gossip" or feel isolated. I can still go to big cities on weekends to enjoy what they offer and remind myself why I don't live there.
That said I also agree with others who say that low density isn't very efficient or sustainable in the long run. Public transit is difficult to plan, and not all housing developments get decent utilities (e.g. some don't have gas, some don't have sewer, some have slow internet). And for whatever reason, people are allergic to building 'up' in these cities, so new housing means gobbling up nature for single family homes with huge yards. Even reasonable height (~5-10 story) apartment buildings are rare.
If there were a turd on the doorstep every time you went home, each left by a different person, you'd realize cleaning it up every day would be pointless. Capitalism's solution: Install a toilet next to the doorstep that gives out quarters in exchange for turds. Now you don't have to clean up the doorstep anymore! Communist solution: The state has investigated and determined there are no turds appearing on your doorstep (with the state official defecating on your doorstep while telling you this).
It's also why we should have never agreed to federal income taxes. The fact that the federal government can take everyone's money and force states to follow certain rules (i.e. raise legal drinking age in order to receive highway funds) to get a portion of it back is a massive end run around the 10th.
The lower level of the GWB was originally designed to hold trains. I'd imagine it's safer to be in a completely stopped traffic jam on that bridge than it would be standing on an arbitrary piece of land.
FERPA is a wonderful way to ignore parents calling with questions about their students.
Not sure if true but I was instructed to not even give away if their son/daughter attended the school; the reason given was there are parents out there who for whatever reason want to prevent their offspring from going to college, so the student deserves anonymity even from them.
It's also how our highways work. Government pays for the infrastructure, everyone gets to use it. Maybe make it more like a toll highway system, where there's access fees proportional to axle count (a 3 car passenger train versus a 100 car freight train).
However one positive aspect of this is that it damages the notion of unfettered free market principles of government championed by the right. This is a unambiguous example of a corporation putting profit over civil liberties and human rights.
Except this is entirely in response to a government regulation / requirement. In places without that requirement, no such censorship exists.
More importantly, decent subsidized housing. With automated elevated light rail weaving among the apartment blocks. The commute is maybe 40 minutes by train to the CBD from the fringes, Singapore is not very big.
Eliminate them entirely for a voucher system that covers everyone. The schools that suck would get no students and therefore no funds, and close. The ones that do not suck will get many students and funded. Basically, its a "vote with your feet" option where the government money that would have gone to public schools directly goes to parents who can spend it on the private school of their choice.
Actually 60 miles would be, say 2 gallons of gas, about $6. Toss in wear and tear on the car and a local job for $1/hr less would still come out ahead.
Fast food and Walmart pay pretty well for entry-level type jobs (~$10/hr), people with brains will generally make manager after a short while, and there always seem to be vacancies. I dunno why someone would pick literal back breaking work over that for less pay, unless they've done something to get blacklisted from retail/food service (caught robbing a cash register once?).
It didn't scream, it just gave up with no warning and suddenly I was idling like I was going through an earthquake. Car smoothed out at speed. According to mechanic when it broke it damaged something needed for the AC (which I had immediately noticed as well, due to it being 90+ outside that day), I blame Japanese car manufacturers for putting everything so close together. And no amount of throwing money into that hole worked, every time one thing was fixed something else would break months later. At one point I even brought it to the dealership (due to a problem with a car-specific emissions-related part, which would throw a code intermittently which eventually became always).
I will say that my "a bunch of belts" was a lazy retelling of something that happened years ago. I don't know wtf was wrong with it just that my wallet was leaking and a new car made it stop.
My shitty car was a 2005 model - it was only 7 or 8 years old when I got it. Did all the research and everyone online swore those cars could go 250,000 miles easy.
The one good thing was the low purchase price allowed me to leave enough invested to afford the newer car in cash later. In college I saw a video about buying a used car instead of a new one, and taking what you would have made in car payments and investing it. I one-up'd the advice and took the bus while investing, then bought the shitbox in cash figuring a real car in cash would be just around the corner. My $500/month investment kept getting eaten by shitbox maintenance, so I figured if I'm basically making erratic car payments on a shitty car, might as well pay the same and have something that actually works. So cash+2 year loan = fully paid off nicebox.
Yeah when it went it took a bunch of belts with it, including the A/C. If the repair bills were occasional I'd have agreed - but it was in one shop or another almost every month. And unlike the monthly car payment and insurance, a "it could be fine or it could need $1000 of work next month" wreaks havoc on any budgeting. And that's the thing about rolling the dice - you could get a lemon or you could get something perfectly fine. But you never know. With a new(ish) car you get a mfgr warranty.
Also to pass emissions inspections I needed to pour one of those "guaranteed to pass" fuel cleaner things in and drive 200 miles to naturally clear the codes. So I was making an annual trip to the nearest Chick Fil A (just under 100 miles from home) the day before inspection.
Definitely not. I've done 3 variants and it's a world of difference. First was a bus pass. IMO this was the 2nd best transportation experience despite there being a lot of waiting, ripoff cabs for late night travel, and limitations on employment / residential opportunities. Saved up money for option 2: A used car. Initially worked well but starting 6 months later it would have one surprise or another which made it a shop queen (idler pulley went, caliper bolt fell out causing the car to be unable to reverse, replacement headlight wouldn't mount properly due to unreported damage, impossible to pinpoint belt screech when starting, temperamental starting, mysterious electrical problems, battery died if car was not driven at least 20 miles a week, new battery did not help). As someone who doesn't care to work on cars, this got at best frustrating and at worst expensive. After putting 20,000 miles on it across 9 states, the district and 2 provinces, I no longer felt safe going faster than 60 or further than my county in it. I had gotten a sweet deal on a house, but because I would lose access to the bus as a backup option, I decided to keep renting. This was when I determined the car was more liability than asset, so on to option 3: A certified pre-owned car, barely 6 months old. Still had the Sirius XM free trial from when the previous owner drove it off the lot. Runs like a top, needs nothing but scheduled maintenance and oil changes. While the up-front cost was higher, my budget stopped having random holes blown in it from all the surprise problems.
Now a buddy of mine loves working on cars, so for him getting random $500 decade-old beaters and managing to keep them running for years is a hobby of his. Makes sense for him. For anyone else... well there's a reason most cars in the parking lot are nice, new, or both.
tl;dr Getting an older used car is rolling the dice on your budget, better to stick with the bus or spring for something newer.
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Trump campaigned on tax cuts, deregulation and killing ACA. These are all Libertarian things. If you recall he also originally was for less military spending, particularly in making foreign countries (Asia, Germany, etc) pay for our military aid or we would pull out (pissing off Japan because we are obligated via treaty to defend them). Both candidates vowed to kill the TPP so neither was distinguished there. The silly wall no one took him seriously on (an incorrect assumption as it turns out). Clinton stopped just short of declaring war on Russia with her rhetoric, so no one saw her as 'less military spending'. She also ended up adopting much of Bernie Sanders' platform in an effort to appease those her rigged primary had disenfranchised, taking her even further from Libertarian.
Now with hindsight Trump is more opposite of Libertarian (e.g. Jeff Sessions stance on drugs and drug enforcement, ending DACA, etc). But on Nov 8 2016 if you had forced all Gary Johnson voters to instead vote for either Trump or Clinton with no stay home option, I just don't see Clinton getting them.
I once accidentally put a meeting on hold when I got another call during a conference. No one knew how to mute me, so the entire call of about 15 people (including 2 high level execs) stopped for about 10 minutes while I worked on another problem. I heard secondhand that they kept saying "who is this! Mute your line!" (not realizing it was hold music) followed by attempting to talk over it. Some tried to rap their comments to the beat.
This must have happened frequently enough because the hold music was eventually reprogrammed out of our phones.
Forget legalese, my response is a more crass "huh?". Generally speaking if someone is addressing me in a conference call, it is because they want something from me. Not repeating themselves suits me just fine.
If you count the third parties it's still against her; the Gary Johnsons align closer to trump and the Jill Steins closer to Hillary. Trump+Johnson > Stein+Clinton in the popular vote.
That's how I read it as well. Heck I lean right but this is a nice targeted tax that will actually stop the "race to the bottom". Very few companies would be affected, and those that do are currently undercutting more responsible employers.
Too many regulations that reduce profit and the ships (and owners) will flag from a different country.
Batteries are proven. Australia is a good example.
The population of the entire country/continent of Australia is less than 2/3rds the population of California. A lot more space per person for green energy.
Electric bills for Californians will go high enough that those who own their own properties will buy their own generators. There might even be a market for a loophole: natural gas generators hooked up to your main gas line. Instead of one centralized ng power plant how about a couple million?
Train stations in the northeast do it as well. One critic against it dubbed it "acoustic insecticide" against loitering teens, criminals and homeless.
The same properties that drive away the homeless must drive the staff who work there slowly insane...
I made that change almost 2 decades ago. While I have no quarrel with concrete, crowds or "unfriendly" people, I've noticed that stress is lower in small cities. Getting to work is fast and drama-free, housing costs are lower and are thus covered by a low-stress job. Being able to see the stars at night is also a plus. There's still enough population that you don't get "small town gossip" or feel isolated. I can still go to big cities on weekends to enjoy what they offer and remind myself why I don't live there.
That said I also agree with others who say that low density isn't very efficient or sustainable in the long run. Public transit is difficult to plan, and not all housing developments get decent utilities (e.g. some don't have gas, some don't have sewer, some have slow internet). And for whatever reason, people are allergic to building 'up' in these cities, so new housing means gobbling up nature for single family homes with huge yards. Even reasonable height (~5-10 story) apartment buildings are rare.
If there were a turd on the doorstep every time you went home, each left by a different person, you'd realize cleaning it up every day would be pointless.
Capitalism's solution: Install a toilet next to the doorstep that gives out quarters in exchange for turds. Now you don't have to clean up the doorstep anymore!
Communist solution: The state has investigated and determined there are no turds appearing on your doorstep (with the state official defecating on your doorstep while telling you this).
It's also why we should have never agreed to federal income taxes. The fact that the federal government can take everyone's money and force states to follow certain rules (i.e. raise legal drinking age in order to receive highway funds) to get a portion of it back is a massive end run around the 10th.
The lower level of the GWB was originally designed to hold trains. I'd imagine it's safer to be in a completely stopped traffic jam on that bridge than it would be standing on an arbitrary piece of land.
FERPA is a wonderful way to ignore parents calling with questions about their students.
Not sure if true but I was instructed to not even give away if their son/daughter attended the school; the reason given was there are parents out there who for whatever reason want to prevent their offspring from going to college, so the student deserves anonymity even from them.
Heck the mute button on a phone does the same (picture of slash thru microphone with word "mute" above it).
It's also how our highways work. Government pays for the infrastructure, everyone gets to use it. Maybe make it more like a toll highway system, where there's access fees proportional to axle count (a 3 car passenger train versus a 100 car freight train).
However one positive aspect of this is that it damages the notion of unfettered free market principles of government championed by the right. This is a unambiguous example of a corporation putting profit over civil liberties and human rights.
Except this is entirely in response to a government regulation / requirement. In places without that requirement, no such censorship exists.
More importantly, decent subsidized housing. With automated elevated light rail weaving among the apartment blocks. The commute is maybe 40 minutes by train to the CBD from the fringes, Singapore is not very big.
Ah, the Detroit solution. In the end the only people left are the ones too poor to move.
Eliminate them entirely for a voucher system that covers everyone. The schools that suck would get no students and therefore no funds, and close. The ones that do not suck will get many students and funded. Basically, its a "vote with your feet" option where the government money that would have gone to public schools directly goes to parents who can spend it on the private school of their choice.
Actually 60 miles would be, say 2 gallons of gas, about $6. Toss in wear and tear on the car and a local job for $1/hr less would still come out ahead.
Fast food and Walmart pay pretty well for entry-level type jobs (~$10/hr), people with brains will generally make manager after a short while, and there always seem to be vacancies. I dunno why someone would pick literal back breaking work over that for less pay, unless they've done something to get blacklisted from retail/food service (caught robbing a cash register once?).
It didn't scream, it just gave up with no warning and suddenly I was idling like I was going through an earthquake. Car smoothed out at speed. According to mechanic when it broke it damaged something needed for the AC (which I had immediately noticed as well, due to it being 90+ outside that day), I blame Japanese car manufacturers for putting everything so close together. And no amount of throwing money into that hole worked, every time one thing was fixed something else would break months later. At one point I even brought it to the dealership (due to a problem with a car-specific emissions-related part, which would throw a code intermittently which eventually became always).
I will say that my "a bunch of belts" was a lazy retelling of something that happened years ago. I don't know wtf was wrong with it just that my wallet was leaking and a new car made it stop.
My shitty car was a 2005 model - it was only 7 or 8 years old when I got it. Did all the research and everyone online swore those cars could go 250,000 miles easy.
The one good thing was the low purchase price allowed me to leave enough invested to afford the newer car in cash later. In college I saw a video about buying a used car instead of a new one, and taking what you would have made in car payments and investing it. I one-up'd the advice and took the bus while investing, then bought the shitbox in cash figuring a real car in cash would be just around the corner. My $500/month investment kept getting eaten by shitbox maintenance, so I figured if I'm basically making erratic car payments on a shitty car, might as well pay the same and have something that actually works. So cash+2 year loan = fully paid off nicebox.
Yeah when it went it took a bunch of belts with it, including the A/C. If the repair bills were occasional I'd have agreed - but it was in one shop or another almost every month. And unlike the monthly car payment and insurance, a "it could be fine or it could need $1000 of work next month" wreaks havoc on any budgeting. And that's the thing about rolling the dice - you could get a lemon or you could get something perfectly fine. But you never know. With a new(ish) car you get a mfgr warranty.
Also to pass emissions inspections I needed to pour one of those "guaranteed to pass" fuel cleaner things in and drive 200 miles to naturally clear the codes. So I was making an annual trip to the nearest Chick Fil A (just under 100 miles from home) the day before inspection.
Definitely not. I've done 3 variants and it's a world of difference.
First was a bus pass. IMO this was the 2nd best transportation experience despite there being a lot of waiting, ripoff cabs for late night travel, and limitations on employment / residential opportunities. Saved up money for option 2:
A used car. Initially worked well but starting 6 months later it would have one surprise or another which made it a shop queen (idler pulley went, caliper bolt fell out causing the car to be unable to reverse, replacement headlight wouldn't mount properly due to unreported damage, impossible to pinpoint belt screech when starting, temperamental starting, mysterious electrical problems, battery died if car was not driven at least 20 miles a week, new battery did not help). As someone who doesn't care to work on cars, this got at best frustrating and at worst expensive. After putting 20,000 miles on it across 9 states, the district and 2 provinces, I no longer felt safe going faster than 60 or further than my county in it. I had gotten a sweet deal on a house, but because I would lose access to the bus as a backup option, I decided to keep renting. This was when I determined the car was more liability than asset, so on to option 3:
A certified pre-owned car, barely 6 months old. Still had the Sirius XM free trial from when the previous owner drove it off the lot. Runs like a top, needs nothing but scheduled maintenance and oil changes. While the up-front cost was higher, my budget stopped having random holes blown in it from all the surprise problems.
Now a buddy of mine loves working on cars, so for him getting random $500 decade-old beaters and managing to keep them running for years is a hobby of his. Makes sense for him. For anyone else... well there's a reason most cars in the parking lot are nice, new, or both.
tl;dr Getting an older used car is rolling the dice on your budget, better to stick with the bus or spring for something newer.