...but I've personally seen contractors doing the same work as employees for multi-year stints, just because it was easier to contract out than actually hire a permanent position. I've even seen positions intentionally left vacant, while contractors are hired to do that position's work.
Yes..and SHHHHHHH!!!
Don't start complaining about this. Those of us in the 1099 contracting game LIKE it this way!!
There's nothing magical or that difficult about paying your own benefits!! Medical is easy, just get a high deductible policy (and many of them since obama care came out are this way) of about $1200 deductible, you can also set up a HSA (Health Savings Account) and sock away about $3K annually pre-tax....for your routine meds and co-pays, etc.
You set up a solo-401K or IRA..whatever you like...and you know how to negotiate your bill rate to cover medical/retirement/timeoff and you're good to go. This way, you generally have MUCH more freedom with work (no more fucking waiting to *EARN* vacation hours...take them off when you want), and you can write off many things, driving to/from job site is a good one, equipment, and as I've mentioned before, if you set yourself up as a S-corp of one person, and pay yourself a reasonable salary W2 from your own company, you only have to pay employment taxes (SS and medicare) on that portion of your money, the rest falls through to personal income taxes at EOY..where only state and federal are taxes..and thats AFTER you take your deductions out.
All you have to do, is be able to wear your big boy pants and keep up with a bit of paperwork yourself, be responsible with money (save enough to pay EOY taxes, make sure to pay quarterly taxes)...and also good idea to hire a CPA (deductible).
You get more freedom to work like you wish, and you have a fighting chance to keep more of your hard earned money from the fscking IRS. And it is perfectly legal...
There is NOTHING wrong with being a 1099 contractor, frankly, I think it is much better than being a regular W2 wage slave...and these days, face it, you don't get any more job security as a regular employee than you do as a contractor...so, you might as well contract and get the BILL rate that goes with it.
This is how federal contracts have worked for years.
Often, employees can get the WORST of both worlds...if they are hired as a W2 employee of the contracting house (usually the prime) of a federal gig. Yes you get some benefits, but you don't get the pay and freedom of a full blown contractor.
If you can get your foot in the door and work things, it is best to try to incorporate yourself and maybe be a sub to a prime or sub to a sub(bottom line you are paid 1099)...in which case you know the drill, negotiate your bill rate to cover your paying your medical insurance, retirement, vacation/sick time off, etc.
This can work out *GREAT* for you....sure they will give you core hours to be there and often they furnish you with equipment...at least the feds do a lot of the time for security purposes, but you get that indie bill rate, and ability to write things off and keep more of your hard earned money from the tax man. I especially like doing the S-corp thing...to help save on paying employment taxes (SS and medicare) on everything you bill for...a bit more paperwork, but worth it in the long run, IMHO.
Anyway, I dunno what this guy is complaining about....but it has been this way for the past 17-18 years I've known about things in the govt/contracting industry, at least for IT systems.
Should we also do this with conventional hybrids? Since they also have the chance of "new untested substances to be produced within it"?
If not, why not?
There's a big difference between selective breeding between like species (same variety of plants) and genetic engineering where you take DNA out of like a starfish and put it into a tomato plant.
There's a big difference between selecting for a natural trait in a plant, vs splicing in 100% species foreign DNA sequences and not knowing what all effects can be had further down the line with expression of other genes in the plant.
Another BLOW to states's rights and of a states' citizens to vote to know what the fuck they['re eating.
This GMO stuff isn't like selective breeding, it is putting genes from a different species into a plant...like splicing DNA out of a frog into a stalk of wheat.
Why is the food industry so "afraid" of letting the consumer make an informed decision on what they want to put in their bodies?
The food industry hasn't put this much effort and money behind anti-consumer legislation since the food nutrition labeling act (you know, the Nutrition Guides on the back of products) a few decades ago.
You're going to need a lot more than a crank to get those kind of horses out of a smog-era Trans-am. My brother had a '77 with the 455
That can NOT be correct...1976 was the LAST year for the 455 big block engine.
The '75-'76 were quite air restricted and all, but they still had the same power plant and all of the earlier cars, so they just need a little help to coax those horses back out.
But the '77 cars and on, were MUCH weaker and the 400 engine was the highest option after that.
I plan to do a bit more than just the crank...but you don't have to do a complete engine overhaul with the older ones like you'd have to do with the later ones.
1976 was also the last year of the round headlights on them...after that, it was the eagle eye Smokey and the Bandit style.
Just a piece of trivia...S&TB was supposed to be filmed a year or two earlier. They actually had to take some '76's and put '77 front nose caps on them to match with the others. But some of those cars, especially the ones barking the tires are NOT automatics, and they were not '77's..they were re-branded '76s.
This. Although for some odd reason there are, I've heard, some employers (a nonzero number and increasing) that insist on not only having access to your Facebook account ""so they can get hold of you at any time", but for some even weirder reason they want your personal, established Facebook account and not some throwaway.
Actually, I've found NOT having a FB account, or other social media helps with jobs...especially those requiring a security clearance.
Unfortunately older cars are gross polluters compared to newer cars.
Not that big of an issue to me.
I do miss simple, but I don't miss 12 miles per gallon like I got in many older vehicles
Well, I've got a good job and can afford the gas. I lost a a 1986 Porsche 911 Turbo to Katrina...on a good day it used to get about 10mpg...it wasn't really street legal tho.
I've just come into some money, right now I'm looking to get maybe a '76-'77 Trans Am 455 4-speed. They can be had restored in the $20K range.
I'm looking to put a slightly more aggressive crank in it..and boost the lethargic stock 200 hp or so it had to near 500hp. I'm also looking to make it more of a resto-mod type deal...with a better more modern suspension to it.
Back in the day, yes, this thing got maybe 10mpg...I don't expect much more today, but like I said, I have a good job and can afford it, and it will be my secondary 'fun' car for mostly on weekends or errands around town, not like I"ll be taking family vacations out of state with it.
But I do miss that rumble of the engine, and the torque from them.
And...it doesn't look like every other cloned car out on the roads today...nice to have something unique to play with. And...pretty straightforward to work on.
I think you are romanticizing the past. Will you get rid of automatic chokes, electronic ignition too? I'm old enough to remember cars in those days. My 1972 Buick Le Sabre Estate Wagon had a very intricate starting procedure. You had to push the gas pedal all the way to the floor to set the choke. Then pump the gas pedal 2-3 times to prime the carb. Then you had to "crack" the gas pedal just the right amount. THEN you could turn the ignition key. Assuming the car turned over, it MIGHT start. Then, if it did not, you pumped the gas pedal one more time in case there was not enough fuel yet. Don't do it twice though. If you did, the engine was now "flooded" and you had to wait 15 minutes to try again. It's also possible that the one extra pump of the pedal flooded it. If you were lucky, the car started on the first try, but more likely it took 2, maybe 3 turns of the key to get the thing to start.
Today, you get in, turn the key enough to engage the starter. I you let it go, the car continues to crank until started. At least that's what my Expedition does. Anyway, it starts every time unless the battery is dead, or there is some other big problem. Sure, your old car was easy to work on. That's just another way of saying that it was always broken by today's standards.
Wow...you sound like you had a bit of a junker (POS) car.
I had a used '78 280Z I bought in high school. It ran like a top. I just put the key in and turned the ignition one and off it ran.
Very little mechanical problems with it.
I rarely had to do much to it but change the oil filter in it along with the oil periodically.
You know...I'd really pretty much like to go back to simpler cars, without all the computer bullshit, and make it mechanical again. Carburators, easy to use manual transmission, etc.
That way YOU could work on your own car again without an IT degree (not to mention breaking DMCA rules if you try to crack into your OWN car)...and you'd not be dependent on a software malfunction, nor have to worry about your car being 'hacked'...
Well, thats happened. How is the revolution going?
Honestly, if things keep going they way they are, I'm afraid something WILL break out.
I don't think it will be soon, but man...there's starting to be a LOT of pissed off people over here, and the US is quickly changing its character in many ways that are not setting well with many.
We already are seeing sporadic riots in the past couple years....not sure what the spark will be to set things off potentially, but I do see something major could happen.
Yeah. What an utter dolt, getting Iran to sit down with the current Great Powers and hammer out an agreement.
But, it appears to be a really fucked up agreement he signed. I hesitate to us the word negotiate, because this admin apparently doesn't know how to do that.
We had Iran in a vice and sanctions had them by the balls. We should have been negotiating from a major place of POWER. We should have insisted ALL centrifuges be destroyed, not just 2/3 of them. From what I can tell, we don't have on the spot ANY time ability to inspect anywhere we need to for Iran doing things against the treaty. It appears we have to give them a LOT of heads up time to approve places we want to look at and inspect at any given time. Plenty of time for Iran to clean up what they're doing before inspectors get there. It appears to be a joke.
All this treaty has done, is...perhaps....pushed Iran from creating a major supply of nuclear weapons maybe 10 years, that is if Iran doesn't really try hard and sneak around to do it in secret. We had the bargaining starting ability to REMOVE all Iran's nuclear bomb potential and what we appear to have done...is just have them hold off on Nukes for maybe 10 years.
IN just about 5-8 years, they can start buying and selling (and equipping their terrorists networks they sponsor) conventional weapons. And a bit of time after that, they can start to buy ballistic missiles.
Hmm..what do you supposed Iran would want with ballistic missiles???
And let's not forget, they'll be getting billions of dollars that have been tied up with sanctions...enabling them to really start the war maching building for them selves and their terrorist networks they work with as proxies for battles around the Middle East.
It seems to be a REALLY fucked up treaty. Obama and admin couldn't negotiate their way out of a paper bag with a pair of scissors......
That is just the treaty part. As for other reasons him being worst president evar...that would take about 3 more pages. I'll do that one later.
What makes it intrinsically illegal? Just because there is a law? I wonder how you feel about Illegal Aliens (er Undocumented residents). Gay Marriage was illegal just a few months ago in a wide number of places in the US.
I think you answered your own question with your answer. What makes it intrinsically illegal, is that it was against the law.
Pretty simple, no?
If you don't want gay marriage to be illegal, then you change the laws, plain and simple.
With illegal immigrants, they are criminal and have broken the law. Pretty cut and dried.
If you don't like it...apply to come in the LEGAL way. If that is too hard, then get your representatives to change the laws to make legal immigration easier....or to have guest worker programs.
Until then, it is the law and has to be observed and obeyed.
How hard is that?
If you only obey laws you like, that leads to anarchy and no society works well with that. There are laws and there are ways to change them or make new ones.
But we keep them for hunting, not overthrowing the government, so it is tolerable.
Hmm..that is EXACTLY the primary reason the founding fathers in the US spelled out the 2nd amendment, in case we HAD to fight back against a government that was becoming too overbearing and expanding its powers beyond what the constitution specifically limits it to.....
But its a lot of hassle to get a handgun license here,
You have to actually apply and get a govt. issues license to get an handgun (or any other weapon)??
Wow...glad we don't have to do that here. I've always bought my guns from private individuals, so the state and the feds have no idea about what transactions I've done for firearms (used cash), nor how many nor what I own.
Sorry, I used the wrong term. Was talking about semi-automatic rifles, not machine guns.
You have to doing something like professionally culling herds of feral buffalo from a helicopter to get a self-loading rifle license now.
But we haven't had any Sandy Hooks lately.
Oh wow..so you're saying you can only have bolt action rifles down there? What about semi-auto pistols?
As far as the Sandy Hook thing....it isn't that big a problem here. Sure every few years, some nut goes stupid and does something like this. But think of it...with the EXTREME number of guns in the US, of all types and calibers....we have very few mass shootings like this. And it is more of a recent phenomena.....When I grew up, you never heard much about this and gun laws were MUCH more lax back then it seemed. No background checks, etc.
Maybe it is just the people we're raising these days and how we're drugging them that is the problem, not the guns.
But even so, you only heard of these whack jobs periodically, it isn't like this is an epidemic here in the US.
People may regard the buyback (and ban on automatics)
I'm not sure where you get your news, but in the US, fully automatic weapons have NOT been legal for the average American. If you want an automatic weapon, you have to jump through many hoops and get extra special licensing, upon which you actually give up many of your rights to the ATF for anytime searches of your house, etc.
And if I recall..even if you get one of those, you can only own old machine guns...nothing can be owned that was made in the past few decades, but i'm not 100% sure not the dates.
But no...MOST people in the US cannot and do no own automatic weapons.
'The U.S. has some problems that Australia doesn't have. It's got a lot more racial crimes,
Seriously? C'mon, there aren't that many racial crimes in the US (I'm guessing a racial crime means white on black crime?).
We've just had a few cases that have been blown up by the 24/7 news media. It isn't like we're over here beating each other up when we see someone different walking across the street. Geez.
I'd dare say most people in the US couldn't give a fuck about what their fellow citizens are doing. Most of us are way too busy trying to support OUR own families and get ahead in life and enjoy life a bit.
Most of us here don't have the time to go out of our way to suppress or commit crimes against another race different than ourselves.
It isn't even on most of our citizens' daily life radar.
Have you ever read about Personal Rapid Transit(PRT)?
Nope, never heard the term before until just now.
Since it's non-stop and individually routed, even if it's limited to 25mph, the fact that it doesn't stop makes it competitive with cars, and it blows them out of the water if it can go 45+.
25mph - 45mph? Geez, that's SLOOOOW. I do that much backing out of my driveway....
Thing is, once it's good enough and you get even higher densities in the cities, things get better still.
The US is a large spread out country...the majority of the country is not filled with packed urban cities, and a lot of us don't want to live that way. I like to have a backyard where I can have my smoker, and have friends over for crawfish boils, a veggie garden, etc.
It is also nice to not have to share a wall with someone else, so that they don't complain when I crank the stereo up, or vice versa.
Why do dates have to be picked up? Why not just meet somewhere? I guess this is an unknown concept in a suburban wasteland.
Simple, because at the end of the night when you take her home, you have a better shot of going in WITH her at the end of the date and getting some action.
Women, especially on first dates, are more comfortable having sex in their own place than at your (somewhat of a stranger) place.
THINK!! This is the main goal of dating, learn to increase your odds of getting some.
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Actually...someone is looking to really FUCK UP a good thing many of us have going.....
Yes..and SHHHHHHH!!!
Don't start complaining about this. Those of us in the 1099 contracting game LIKE it this way!!
There's nothing magical or that difficult about paying your own benefits!! Medical is easy, just get a high deductible policy (and many of them since obama care came out are this way) of about $1200 deductible, you can also set up a HSA (Health Savings Account) and sock away about $3K annually pre-tax....for your routine meds and co-pays, etc.
You set up a solo-401K or IRA..whatever you like...and you know how to negotiate your bill rate to cover medical/retirement/timeoff and you're good to go. This way, you generally have MUCH more freedom with work (no more fucking waiting to *EARN* vacation hours...take them off when you want), and you can write off many things, driving to/from job site is a good one, equipment, and as I've mentioned before, if you set yourself up as a S-corp of one person, and pay yourself a reasonable salary W2 from your own company, you only have to pay employment taxes (SS and medicare) on that portion of your money, the rest falls through to personal income taxes at EOY..where only state and federal are taxes..and thats AFTER you take your deductions out.
All you have to do, is be able to wear your big boy pants and keep up with a bit of paperwork yourself, be responsible with money (save enough to pay EOY taxes, make sure to pay quarterly taxes)...and also good idea to hire a CPA (deductible).
You get more freedom to work like you wish, and you have a fighting chance to keep more of your hard earned money from the fscking IRS. And it is perfectly legal...
There is NOTHING wrong with being a 1099 contractor, frankly, I think it is much better than being a regular W2 wage slave...and these days, face it, you don't get any more job security as a regular employee than you do as a contractor...so, you might as well contract and get the BILL rate that goes with it.
This is how federal contracts have worked for years.
Often, employees can get the WORST of both worlds...if they are hired as a W2 employee of the contracting house (usually the prime) of a federal gig. Yes you get some benefits, but you don't get the pay and freedom of a full blown contractor.
If you can get your foot in the door and work things, it is best to try to incorporate yourself and maybe be a sub to a prime or sub to a sub(bottom line you are paid 1099)...in which case you know the drill, negotiate your bill rate to cover your paying your medical insurance, retirement, vacation/sick time off, etc.
This can work out *GREAT* for you....sure they will give you core hours to be there and often they furnish you with equipment...at least the feds do a lot of the time for security purposes, but you get that indie bill rate, and ability to write things off and keep more of your hard earned money from the tax man. I especially like doing the S-corp thing...to help save on paying employment taxes (SS and medicare) on everything you bill for...a bit more paperwork, but worth it in the long run, IMHO.
Anyway, I dunno what this guy is complaining about....but it has been this way for the past 17-18 years I've known about things in the govt/contracting industry, at least for IT systems.
There's a big difference between selective breeding between like species (same variety of plants) and genetic engineering where you take DNA out of like a starfish and put it into a tomato plant.
There's a big difference between selecting for a natural trait in a plant, vs splicing in 100% species foreign DNA sequences and not knowing what all effects can be had further down the line with expression of other genes in the plant.
This GMO stuff isn't like selective breeding, it is putting genes from a different species into a plant...like splicing DNA out of a frog into a stalk of wheat.
Why is the food industry so "afraid" of letting the consumer make an informed decision on what they want to put in their bodies?
The food industry hasn't put this much effort and money behind anti-consumer legislation since the food nutrition labeling act (you know, the Nutrition Guides on the back of products) a few decades ago.
What are they afraid of people knowing???
That can NOT be correct...1976 was the LAST year for the 455 big block engine.
The '75-'76 were quite air restricted and all, but they still had the same power plant and all of the earlier cars, so they just need a little help to coax those horses back out.
But the '77 cars and on, were MUCH weaker and the 400 engine was the highest option after that.
I plan to do a bit more than just the crank...but you don't have to do a complete engine overhaul with the older ones like you'd have to do with the later ones.
1976 was also the last year of the round headlights on them...after that, it was the eagle eye Smokey and the Bandit style.
Just a piece of trivia...S&TB was supposed to be filmed a year or two earlier. They actually had to take some '76's and put '77 front nose caps on them to match with the others. But some of those cars, especially the ones barking the tires are NOT automatics, and they were not '77's..they were re-branded '76s.
Actually, I've found NOT having a FB account, or other social media helps with jobs...especially those requiring a security clearance.
Yet another reason NOT to be on Facebook.
I have NEVER owned an automatic transmission car in my entire life. Always manual...
Not that big of an issue to me.
Well, I've got a good job and can afford the gas. I lost a a 1986 Porsche 911 Turbo to Katrina...on a good day it used to get about 10mpg...it wasn't really street legal tho.
I've just come into some money, right now I'm looking to get maybe a '76-'77 Trans Am 455 4-speed. They can be had restored in the $20K range.
I'm looking to put a slightly more aggressive crank in it..and boost the lethargic stock 200 hp or so it had to near 500hp. I'm also looking to make it more of a resto-mod type deal...with a better more modern suspension to it.
Back in the day, yes, this thing got maybe 10mpg...I don't expect much more today, but like I said, I have a good job and can afford it, and it will be my secondary 'fun' car for mostly on weekends or errands around town, not like I"ll be taking family vacations out of state with it.
But I do miss that rumble of the engine, and the torque from them.
And...it doesn't look like every other cloned car out on the roads today...nice to have something unique to play with. And...pretty straightforward to work on.
Wow...you sound like you had a bit of a junker (POS) car.
I had a used '78 280Z I bought in high school. It ran like a top. I just put the key in and turned the ignition one and off it ran.
Very little mechanical problems with it.
I rarely had to do much to it but change the oil filter in it along with the oil periodically.
I've heard like 1 or two people I know in meatspace mention it off hand once, but that's about all I've heard about it.
That way YOU could work on your own car again without an IT degree (not to mention breaking DMCA rules if you try to crack into your OWN car)...and you'd not be dependent on a software malfunction, nor have to worry about your car being 'hacked'...
Simple to use, simple to diagnose and repair.
They say that, but so far, no one can find verification of said fatwa....
Honestly, if things keep going they way they are, I'm afraid something WILL break out.
I don't think it will be soon, but man...there's starting to be a LOT of pissed off people over here, and the US is quickly changing its character in many ways that are not setting well with many.
We already are seeing sporadic riots in the past couple years....not sure what the spark will be to set things off potentially, but I do see something major could happen.
But, it appears to be a really fucked up agreement he signed. I hesitate to us the word negotiate, because this admin apparently doesn't know how to do that.
We had Iran in a vice and sanctions had them by the balls. We should have been negotiating from a major place of POWER. We should have insisted ALL centrifuges be destroyed, not just 2/3 of them. From what I can tell, we don't have on the spot ANY time ability to inspect anywhere we need to for Iran doing things against the treaty. It appears we have to give them a LOT of heads up time to approve places we want to look at and inspect at any given time. Plenty of time for Iran to clean up what they're doing before inspectors get there. It appears to be a joke.
All this treaty has done, is...perhaps....pushed Iran from creating a major supply of nuclear weapons maybe 10 years, that is if Iran doesn't really try hard and sneak around to do it in secret. We had the bargaining starting ability to REMOVE all Iran's nuclear bomb potential and what we appear to have done...is just have them hold off on Nukes for maybe 10 years.
IN just about 5-8 years, they can start buying and selling (and equipping their terrorists networks they sponsor) conventional weapons. And a bit of time after that, they can start to buy ballistic missiles.
Hmm..what do you supposed Iran would want with ballistic missiles???
And let's not forget, they'll be getting billions of dollars that have been tied up with sanctions...enabling them to really start the war maching building for them selves and their terrorist networks they work with as proxies for battles around the Middle East.
It seems to be a REALLY fucked up treaty. Obama and admin couldn't negotiate their way out of a paper bag with a pair of scissors......
That is just the treaty part. As for other reasons him being worst president evar...that would take about 3 more pages. I'll do that one later.
I think you answered your own question with your answer. What makes it intrinsically illegal, is that it was against the law.
Pretty simple, no?
If you don't want gay marriage to be illegal, then you change the laws, plain and simple.
With illegal immigrants, they are criminal and have broken the law. Pretty cut and dried.
If you don't like it...apply to come in the LEGAL way. If that is too hard, then get your representatives to change the laws to make legal immigration easier....or to have guest worker programs.
Until then, it is the law and has to be observed and obeyed.
How hard is that?
If you only obey laws you like, that leads to anarchy and no society works well with that. There are laws and there are ways to change them or make new ones.
Simple.
Actually, I think Obama is on track to dig to a new LOW, and carve out a well entrenched place in history as the new WORST president, evar....
I mean...he's making Carter and Bush 2 look like enlightened leaders at this point.
I just hope we can survive another year and a half of him, I'm not optimistic at this point.
Hmm..that is EXACTLY the primary reason the founding fathers in the US spelled out the 2nd amendment, in case we HAD to fight back against a government that was becoming too overbearing and expanding its powers beyond what the constitution specifically limits it to.....
You have to actually apply and get a govt. issues license to get an handgun (or any other weapon)??
Wow...glad we don't have to do that here. I've always bought my guns from private individuals, so the state and the feds have no idea about what transactions I've done for firearms (used cash), nor how many nor what I own.
They don't *need* to know.
Oh wow..so you're saying you can only have bolt action rifles down there? What about semi-auto pistols?
As far as the Sandy Hook thing....it isn't that big a problem here. Sure every few years, some nut goes stupid and does something like this. But think of it...with the EXTREME number of guns in the US, of all types and calibers....we have very few mass shootings like this. And it is more of a recent phenomena.....When I grew up, you never heard much about this and gun laws were MUCH more lax back then it seemed. No background checks, etc.
Maybe it is just the people we're raising these days and how we're drugging them that is the problem, not the guns.
But even so, you only heard of these whack jobs periodically, it isn't like this is an epidemic here in the US.
I'm not sure where you get your news, but in the US, fully automatic weapons have NOT been legal for the average American. If you want an automatic weapon, you have to jump through many hoops and get extra special licensing, upon which you actually give up many of your rights to the ATF for anytime searches of your house, etc.
And if I recall..even if you get one of those, you can only own old machine guns...nothing can be owned that was made in the past few decades, but i'm not 100% sure not the dates.
But no...MOST people in the US cannot and do no own automatic weapons.
Seriously? C'mon, there aren't that many racial crimes in the US (I'm guessing a racial crime means white on black crime?).
We've just had a few cases that have been blown up by the 24/7 news media. It isn't like we're over here beating each other up when we see someone different walking across the street. Geez.
I'd dare say most people in the US couldn't give a fuck about what their fellow citizens are doing. Most of us are way too busy trying to support OUR own families and get ahead in life and enjoy life a bit.
Most of us here don't have the time to go out of our way to suppress or commit crimes against another race different than ourselves.
It isn't even on most of our citizens' daily life radar.
Nope, never heard the term before until just now.
25mph - 45mph? Geez, that's SLOOOOW. I do that much backing out of my driveway....
The US is a large spread out country...the majority of the country is not filled with packed urban cities, and a lot of us don't want to live that way. I like to have a backyard where I can have my smoker, and have friends over for crawfish boils, a veggie garden, etc.
It is also nice to not have to share a wall with someone else, so that they don't complain when I crank the stereo up, or vice versa.
Simple, because at the end of the night when you take her home, you have a better shot of going in WITH her at the end of the date and getting some action.
Women, especially on first dates, are more comfortable having sex in their own place than at your (somewhat of a stranger) place.
THINK!! This is the main goal of dating, learn to increase your odds of getting some.