Hey son/daughter, as an old timer here let me clue you in a bit on how it works. If you take the time to post something like:
This is why windows SUGs O.o
You really should check that post as anonymous box. You don't want that type of post showing up ten years later. It's on the Internet forever, try not to look like a dork.
I actually love my Microsoft Sculpt keyboard. The iPhone7 that the company gave me is nice too, but I don't love it.
Side bitch on keyboards: Fuck you Dell. I grabbed a stock Dell keyboard (total crap) from the stockroom to setup dhcpd on a FreeBSD box for our wifi network for testing. The son of a bitch fucking lame assed Dell keyboard did not have a scroll lock key! I couldn't scroll back on the console to see what error dhcpd was kicking out. I had to tail -n50/var/log/messages | less to see the issue. (typo in dhcpd.conf)
And no, I don't have a standard rack in this house, the last one, yes, but not this one. I have a "refreshed" HP Z820 workstation with 32 cores, 72GB RAM, and 4x5TB drives in RAID running ESXi VMware. That's how you do a rack these days.
Anyway, there are a lot of fake geeks out there. The price of our fame and earning potential. As long as they keep buying the drinks.
(Now I just need to order the box crusher from Amazon for all this cardboard in my house. FFS, I bought a queen size bed and mattress and had it delivered. My mail man hates me.)
I believe this is a big source of the tendency fro the poor to get poorer while the rich get richer.
A source, for sure, but the system is rigged against them. They don't have access to emergency money without agreeing to very bad terms, or very bad terms for just about anything that involves credit.
As the wise man Jesus said, "The poor will always be with us." But that doesn't mean we need to monetize them. (Looking at you check cashing joints and used car dealers.)
Ya know Bill, the tax rate has never caused me to be less productive. Spend more, maybe once. It was on a house when we found ourselves paying $48k in Federal taxes and that was so we could have some deduction. Fortunately (this was in the dotcom boom in Seattle, no, the first one.) we had a shitload of savings since our rent was only $600/mo for a townhouse. Bought a home (30% down, fixed rate) in the same neighborhood for $212k and sold it 5 years later for $375k. Then bought a fixer on the rez overlooking the sound for $55k with a 30 year lease at $560/mo (6 years prepaid with the home.) I'll have to move when I'm 67 but by then I'll be tired of 2300 sqft and looking for something without a big yard.
But I agree, I saw a lot of folks not understand why the adjustable rate mortgage payments went through the roof and they had to sell underwater or get foreclosed. Don't people read and re-read before signing a six figure document?
I'm on the every two weeks cycle. I get 26 checks (direct deposits) a year that are each 1/26th of my annual salary. So, if we both make the same salary (and not accounting for deductions, etc.) you'll have a bigger check than me, but I get more checks.
I've always paid cash for used cars, until a few months ago. Our method is to decide what type of car we want and how much we want to spend. Then we get the cash from the bank and put it in the safe, and start watching craigslist and pounce on a sweet deal. A sweet craigslist deal is a good single owner car sold by upper middle income family, you can tell by the address. They often undervalue the car. One was a '98 Volvo wagon for $1800 that I put 50k miles on and just handed down to my grandkid that just got out of the Marines. One I bought just last week was a 2007 Ranger for $3000 to replace my old 89 Ranger that had 430k miles on it.
When my wife died a few months ago I was able to take some of the money out of her retirement (one chance only) and buy a new Outback, a very nice car that should last me 15 years at least, also my first new car. Of course I didn't trash the retirement but rolled the other 75% over into my name. The retirement fund guarantees 4.3% and pays out for life.
But to borrow money for a car unless you HAVE to have it for work (and then it's a tool) is insane. If you have to then get the least car as cheap as you can.
Fine, as long as one of those robots is able to break down all my damn Amazon boxes and put them in the recycling for me. They will also need to pop and dispose of the air pillows too.
Added points for a robot that tracks down and gives a wedgie to anyone that ships stuff with packing peanuts.
I'm lucky that my ISP is a Native Sovereign Government (Indian Tribe) with a small user base and an attitude that anything like a DCMA just looks like extra work and screw that shit. Not the greatest speed (25/3) but damn good ping times. I even get a static IP which is really handy. That said, I do have PIA that I fire up from time to time and a few BSD boxen VMs scattered around the world.
Actually the box stores use contractors to be hands-on support that calls into the contracted service company. Store people are not allowed to touch that shit. Now if we could get the store people from using the server room as extra storage space...
Huh?!?! Do you have some *reason* to even suspect that, much less be "pretty sure" of it.... Did I miss something, or did you completely make that up out of thin air? Did you just imagine something and you're pretty sure it's true because you were able to imagine it, or do you have some reason think that?
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Possession is 90% (99%?) of the law.
So it wasn't just me that gets that vib from him.
..anyone with a PhD from a US top 50 university..
We already know they are deep in debt....
Hey son/daughter, as an old timer here let me clue you in a bit on how it works. If you take the time to post something like:
This is why windows SUGs O.o
You really should check that post as anonymous box. You don't want that type of post showing up ten years later. It's on the Internet forever, try not to look like a dork.
Big customers get perks, go figure. Those big contracts allow M$ to hire people to publish and manage the security info.
Move north across the river. Washington State doesn't have income tax. Go to Costco and by cars in Oregon. Duh.
Living in Washington, I hope they take you up on that and keep buying power from our dams.
they'll love microsoft/apple gear.
I actually love my Microsoft Sculpt keyboard. The iPhone7 that the company gave me is nice too, but I don't love it.
Side bitch on keyboards: Fuck you Dell. I grabbed a stock Dell keyboard (total crap) from the stockroom to setup dhcpd on a FreeBSD box for our wifi network for testing. The son of a bitch fucking lame assed Dell keyboard did not have a scroll lock key! I couldn't scroll back on the console to see what error dhcpd was kicking out. I had to tail -n50 /var/log/messages | less to see the issue. (typo in dhcpd.conf)
And no, I don't have a standard rack in this house, the last one, yes, but not this one. I have a "refreshed" HP Z820 workstation with 32 cores, 72GB RAM, and 4x5TB drives in RAID running ESXi VMware. That's how you do a rack these days.
Anyway, there are a lot of fake geeks out there. The price of our fame and earning potential. As long as they keep buying the drinks.
I'm a socialist-libertarian, myself. I want legal guns and drugs, and I want the government to pay the hospital when I use too much of both.
Commented and can't mod you but hella yeah, +1 Insightful.
Amazon for the win!
(Now I just need to order the box crusher from Amazon for all this cardboard in my house. FFS, I bought a queen size bed and mattress and had it delivered. My mail man hates me.)
I believe this is a big source of the tendency fro the poor to get poorer while the rich get richer.
A source, for sure, but the system is rigged against them. They don't have access to emergency money without agreeing to very bad terms, or very bad terms for just about anything that involves credit.
As the wise man Jesus said, "The poor will always be with us." But that doesn't mean we need to monetize them. (Looking at you check cashing joints and used car dealers.)
Ya know Bill, the tax rate has never caused me to be less productive. Spend more, maybe once. It was on a house when we found ourselves paying $48k in Federal taxes and that was so we could have some deduction. Fortunately (this was in the dotcom boom in Seattle, no, the first one.) we had a shitload of savings since our rent was only $600/mo for a townhouse. Bought a home (30% down, fixed rate) in the same neighborhood for $212k and sold it 5 years later for $375k. Then bought a fixer on the rez overlooking the sound for $55k with a 30 year lease at $560/mo (6 years prepaid with the home.) I'll have to move when I'm 67 but by then I'll be tired of 2300 sqft and looking for something without a big yard.
But I agree, I saw a lot of folks not understand why the adjustable rate mortgage payments went through the roof and they had to sell underwater or get foreclosed. Don't people read and re-read before signing a six figure document?
There better be a tomorrow, I can only get so much out of this ATM in one day!
I'm on the every two weeks cycle. I get 26 checks (direct deposits) a year that are each 1/26th of my annual salary. So, if we both make the same salary (and not accounting for deductions, etc.) you'll have a bigger check than me, but I get more checks.
I've always paid cash for used cars, until a few months ago. Our method is to decide what type of car we want and how much we want to spend. Then we get the cash from the bank and put it in the safe, and start watching craigslist and pounce on a sweet deal. A sweet craigslist deal is a good single owner car sold by upper middle income family, you can tell by the address. They often undervalue the car. One was a '98 Volvo wagon for $1800 that I put 50k miles on and just handed down to my grandkid that just got out of the Marines. One I bought just last week was a 2007 Ranger for $3000 to replace my old 89 Ranger that had 430k miles on it.
When my wife died a few months ago I was able to take some of the money out of her retirement (one chance only) and buy a new Outback, a very nice car that should last me 15 years at least, also my first new car. Of course I didn't trash the retirement but rolled the other 75% over into my name. The retirement fund guarantees 4.3% and pays out for life.
But to borrow money for a car unless you HAVE to have it for work (and then it's a tool) is insane. If you have to then get the least car as cheap as you can.
Fine, as long as one of those robots is able to break down all my damn Amazon boxes and put them in the recycling for me. They will also need to pop and dispose of the air pillows too.
Added points for a robot that tracks down and gives a wedgie to anyone that ships stuff with packing peanuts.
I'm lucky that my ISP is a Native Sovereign Government (Indian Tribe) with a small user base and an attitude that anything like a DCMA just looks like extra work and screw that shit. Not the greatest speed (25/3) but damn good ping times. I even get a static IP which is really handy. That said, I do have PIA that I fire up from time to time and a few BSD boxen VMs scattered around the world.
No, making something that someone paid for unusable, after the sale, is NOT justified, ever, for anything.
Uh, Samsung Note 7?
Tesla also doesn't have all the pensions hanging over it's head.
Actually the box stores use contractors to be hands-on support that calls into the contracted service company. Store people are not allowed to touch that shit. Now if we could get the store people from using the server room as extra storage space...
As a previous resident of Club Fed, good on you!
Gerrymander the shit out of them.
Good article. I had a boss that was a member of both the NRA and ACLU. Makes sense to me.
I'm just ACLU myself as I don't find guns interesting. But I do support wildlife causes so gun people have something to shoot.
Huh?!?! Do you have some *reason* to even suspect that, much less be "pretty sure" of it. ... Did I miss something, or did you completely make that up out of thin air? Did you just imagine something and you're pretty sure it's true because you were able to imagine it, or do you have some reason think that?
Hey, if the POTUS can do it, why can't Dunbal?