Repeat after me. There is more to the country and the world than California (or wherever you are that there's a huge bubble). There is no "national" or "worldwide" housing market. There's only a vast collection of local housing markets, all of them functioning individually.
This conversation hits on 2 of my pet peeves. One is the idea that if it's true in some small segment of the world extrapolates to the rest of the country or world.
The other is the comparison of house investment to stock, bond or other traditional investment. The thing is that for most people, getting a house is a switch from dumping $1000 a month into a landlord's bank account to paying it to a mortgage company. Since housing VERY rarely loses value, you're at least as good off as if you stayed renting, and most of the time much better off. Could you make more with $1000 a month than on a house? Probably. But tell me, when you shift the $1000 from the mortgage to rent, where's the $1000 in investment money going to come from. Buying a house turns a regular (virtually non-negotiable) expense into a modest investment instead.
However the prints on Fuji R4 paper will avoid fading MUCH longer than typical dye-based inkjet prints. I use inkjet for quick prints to have at work, online R4 prints for "keepers" and real prints from slides and negatives for the really good ones. It doesn't have to be a binary decision.
Exactly. I am 6'4" and a slowly declining 255. I just bought a body fat analyzer to track that more closely and my LEAN mass is 185 pounds. 10% body fat would put me at 205.
Seek out sode that is sweetened with Splenda rather than Nutrasweet. Splenda has a much more natural (read sugary) taste than Nutrasweet. Right now it's primarily the Diet Rite products, but there's a variety of flavors.
Everything I've put "free" on the curb in the last year was gone within 2 hours. Sofas, dead stereos, tables, etc. Probably depends on the amount of traffic and neighborhood, but a week or more is NOT the rule.
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Umm. Did you try just going "back" for the backspace? Works just fine for me.
The fallacy of equipment-based expertise permeates virtually every hobby and profession. It's based on the assumption that if one just uses the appropriate tools, excellent results will be a simple matter of fact. While the true masters of a given domain may indeed use a given toolset, it is most emphatically not the tools that guarantee the results, but the skills of the master.
The tools-obsessed photographer worries and frets about spot meters, chemistry selection and razor sharp lenses while the master quietly makes images that impact the soul with little more than a box and some film
The tools-obsessed cook buys copper-bottomed cookware with non-stick surfaces and an endless stream of gadgets and tools while the master chef makes mouths water with little more than fire and meat.
The tools-obsessed musician spends all their money on optimized amplifiers and acoustically engineered instruments while the master musician wrings emotion from the cheapest pawnshop instruments.
The tools-obsessed artist concentrates all their energy on choosing the right paints and canvas while the master creates great works of art on fast-food napkins.
The tools-obsessed carpenter buys specialized tools for every type of joinery and finish while the master carpenter builds furniture and homes that last for generations with little more than a handsaw and a plane.
The tools-obsessed programmer spends his time arguing about language choice, editors and platforms while the master programmer produces elegant code in any language and any platform that suits the job.
Venison (from white tail deer) in Minnesota tastes very different in the northern parts of the state versus the southern part of the state. Northern deer taste much more "wild" (due to eating things like pine needles) than their southern relatives (who spend their time in cornfields). The southern deer taste much more like beef than the northern ones.
I can't really detail the exact why on the smokering, but it stays moist mostly because traditional barbecue is done with really fatty cuts of meat that constantly moisten the meat as they cook. The whole process is to slowly break down the collagen in those cuts like brisket. Lean cuts of meat, if left on the smoker for 6-8 hours will dry out.
This doesn't have a name (I should probably come up with something), but almost everyone who tries it likes it.
1 pound hamburger 1 can baked beans 1 can whole kernel corn 1 box Mexican rice 1 jar salsa 1 bag cheddar or "Mexican" cheese 2 cups of water
Brown the hamburger. Dump the hamburger and everything except the cheese into a big pot. Simmer until it thickens up. Add the cheese and serve in a bowl with tortilla chips.
If you go through iuniverse.com, you can have it set up for print-on-demand for something like $100. It goes in the Amazon and BN catalogs and can be ordered at brick n morters through Ingram. No minimum orders as all books are printed after they are ordered.
In those part of the country where we dump the jackets and go out in short-sleeves when it hits 0C in February. You know, those temperatures where they close down the world in the South because water can freeze outside:).
I just had Netscape 7 and Win2K crash after searching Amazon.com for the 3 volume set of TAOCP. Did my profane OS fall over after merely viewing the holy book's entry in an online store?
Someone DID break into my Paypal account and tried to clean me out ($12,000US). You may have limited liability with the card, but it is still a HUGE pain to deal with. Worst part is that it seems that the cracker sent my money to others to pay for something. When Paypal pulled the money back, I got accusing emails for "backing out" of the transactions and that I needed to send $3000 to them ASAP.
While I'm not arguing that UF is terribly funny, as it's not, but offering those three up as an alternative? I just spent a few minutes at each of them reading a month's worth each and never cracked a smile once.
Everyone who isn't doing it is talking about it, while those who are doing it are enjoying it and not talking about it to everyone. Just because it isn't being done out in public doesn't mean that it isn't happening behind closed doors for private purposes.
If you're talking about labs using things like the Fuji Frontier, you couldn't possibly be seing ink dots. They use a traditional light sensitive color paper and project the image with a laser type projection system. The image is then processed exactly like a traditionally enlarged color photo.
Do you think your color negatives processed at the minilab and stored in the kitchen drawer are going to be viable in 2102? You'll probably be quite surprised. Slides and negatives from the 60s and 70s are already fading. You can much easily update/upgrade a pile of files than reshooting each and every slide with a slide copier.
Of course when your memory starts to fade a bit and the only way you can remember those moments is through photos, you'll be glad you kept them. Quite frankly, what else is worth keeping? And, in 100 years, the ones that WILL be worth something to someone will most likely not be the same ones you think are important today.
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Sure only 17% of your payment is going to principle. But, how much of your rent goes to anything?
Repeat after me. There is more to the country and the world than California (or wherever you are that there's a huge bubble). There is no "national" or "worldwide" housing market. There's only a vast collection of local housing markets, all of them functioning individually.
This conversation hits on 2 of my pet peeves. One is the idea that if it's true in some small segment of the world extrapolates to the rest of the country or world.
The other is the comparison of house investment to stock, bond or other traditional investment. The thing is that for most people, getting a house is a switch from dumping $1000 a month into a landlord's bank account to paying it to a mortgage company. Since housing VERY rarely loses value, you're at least as good off as if you stayed renting, and most of the time much better off. Could you make more with $1000 a month than on a house? Probably. But tell me, when you shift the $1000 from the mortgage to rent, where's the $1000 in investment money going to come from. Buying a house turns a regular (virtually non-negotiable) expense into a modest investment instead.
that's moving forward to release soon.
However the prints on Fuji R4 paper will avoid fading MUCH longer than typical dye-based inkjet prints. I use inkjet for quick prints to have at work, online R4 prints for "keepers" and real prints from slides and negatives for the really good ones. It doesn't have to be a binary decision.
Exactly. I am 6'4" and a slowly declining 255. I just bought a body fat analyzer to track that more closely and my LEAN mass is 185 pounds. 10% body fat would put me at 205.
My diet ideas are online at: http://www.phpgeek.com/articles.php?content_id=11
Seek out sode that is sweetened with Splenda rather than Nutrasweet. Splenda has a much more natural (read sugary) taste than Nutrasweet. Right now it's primarily the Diet Rite products, but there's a variety of flavors.
Some of us are nearly ready to go postal.
Everything I've put "free" on the curb in the last year was gone within 2 hours. Sofas, dead stereos, tables, etc. Probably depends on the amount of traffic and neighborhood, but a week or more is NOT the rule.
Umm. Did you try just going "back" for the backspace? Works just fine for me.
The fallacy of equipment-based expertise permeates virtually every hobby and profession. It's based on the assumption that if one just uses the appropriate tools, excellent results will be a simple matter of fact. While the true masters of a given domain may indeed use a given toolset, it is most emphatically not the tools that guarantee the results, but the skills of the master.
The tools-obsessed photographer worries and frets about spot meters, chemistry selection and razor sharp lenses while the master quietly makes images that impact the soul with little more than a box and some film
The tools-obsessed cook buys copper-bottomed cookware with non-stick surfaces and an endless stream of gadgets and tools while the master chef makes mouths water with little more than fire and meat.
The tools-obsessed musician spends all their money on optimized amplifiers and acoustically engineered instruments while the master musician wrings emotion from the cheapest pawnshop instruments.
The tools-obsessed artist concentrates all their energy on choosing the right paints and canvas while the master creates great works of art on fast-food napkins.
The tools-obsessed carpenter buys specialized tools for every type of joinery and finish while the master carpenter builds furniture and homes that last for generations with little more than a handsaw and a plane.
The tools-obsessed programmer spends his time arguing about language choice, editors and platforms while the master programmer produces elegant code in any language and any platform that suits the job.
Venison (from white tail deer) in Minnesota tastes very different in the northern parts of the state versus the southern part of the state. Northern deer taste much more "wild" (due to eating things like pine needles) than their southern relatives (who spend their time in cornfields). The southern deer taste much more like beef than the northern ones.
I can't really detail the exact why on the smokering, but it stays moist mostly because traditional barbecue is done with really fatty cuts of meat that constantly moisten the meat as they cook. The whole process is to slowly break down the collagen in those cuts like brisket. Lean cuts of meat, if left on the smoker for 6-8 hours will dry out.
This doesn't have a name (I should probably come up with something), but almost everyone who tries it likes it.
1 pound hamburger
1 can baked beans
1 can whole kernel corn
1 box Mexican rice
1 jar salsa
1 bag cheddar or "Mexican" cheese
2 cups of water
Brown the hamburger. Dump the hamburger and everything except the cheese into a big pot. Simmer until it thickens up. Add the cheese and serve in a bowl with tortilla chips.
If you go through iuniverse.com, you can have it set up for print-on-demand for something like $100. It goes in the Amazon and BN catalogs and can be ordered at brick n morters through Ingram. No minimum orders as all books are printed after they are ordered.
In those part of the country where we dump the jackets and go out in short-sleeves when it hits 0C in February. You know, those temperatures where they close down the world in the South because water can freeze outside :).
They do that in the US (at least Minnesota) as well. Red diesel also, if I recall correctly from my farm days as a kid, is allowed more sulphur in it.
That's kind of the point. :)
I just had Netscape 7 and Win2K crash after searching Amazon.com for the 3 volume set of TAOCP. Did my profane OS fall over after merely viewing the holy book's entry in an online store?
Someone DID break into my Paypal account and tried to clean me out ($12,000US). You may have limited liability with the card, but it is still a HUGE pain to deal with. Worst part is that it seems that the cracker sent my money to others to pay for something. When Paypal pulled the money back, I got accusing emails for "backing out" of the transactions and that I needed to send $3000 to them ASAP.
While I'm not arguing that UF is terribly funny, as it's not, but offering those three up as an alternative? I just spent a few minutes at each of them reading a month's worth each and never cracked a smile once.
Everyone who isn't doing it is talking about it, while those who are doing it are enjoying it and not talking about it to everyone. Just because it isn't being done out in public doesn't mean that it isn't happening behind closed doors for private purposes.
If you're talking about labs using things like the Fuji Frontier, you couldn't possibly be seing ink dots. They use a traditional light sensitive color paper and project the image with a laser type projection system. The image is then processed exactly like a traditionally enlarged color photo.
With the new continuous inking systems and the archival ink and high quailty paper, they're starting to be great for fine art as well.
Do you think your color negatives processed at the minilab and stored in the kitchen drawer are going to be viable in 2102? You'll probably be quite surprised. Slides and negatives from the 60s and 70s are already fading. You can much easily update/upgrade a pile of files than reshooting each and every slide with a slide copier.
Of course when your memory starts to fade a bit and the only way you can remember those moments is through photos, you'll be glad you kept them. Quite frankly, what else is worth keeping? And, in 100 years, the ones that WILL be worth something to someone will most likely not be the same ones you think are important today.