Building a "standard" building (1000 sq ft home) in the US costs about $250,000-350,000 without the lot (just building costs). The lot is not necessarily the expensive part, where I live you can get a residential zoned lot at $20k for half an acre although there are more expensive parts to the country.
Depends on where you live....there are many cities where $250K will get you between 2000-3000 sq ft easily.....
I chuckle when I see 500sq ft 'shacks' on tv for sale in the Los Angeles area for like near a million dollars....wow.
Amen. I have better sound, video, and a pause button at home. Plus, the local metroplex wasn't keen about my showing up in jammies and slippers.
Not to mention, cheaper BETTER food, being able to pause for a bathroom break, being able to throw out anyone that can't be quiet....and not having anyone get mad at you for pouring yourself a nice scotch while watching the movie!!!
Do what I do...get a cheap business account with your ISP.
I have had mine with Cox cable business for about a decade now...even moving around different places, they move it for me.
It is only about $70/mo...I get about 10-15 down, and usually about 5-6 up for speed.
I can run whatever servers I want...web, email, you name it, no ports blocked. I also have no data caps.
I even get a low level SLA.....and the few times I"ve had trouble, I call in..if there is any wait, I just leave my name/number and usually it has never been more than about 6-10 minutes for them to call me back. Once..I found my connection had gone down a bit after midnight. I called, not expecting much...but damned if when we figured it WAS a line problem, they had a truck out there on the pole near my house in about an hour...freaking after 1am!??! The problem was solved that night (early morning).
Frankly, I dunno why most people bother with the consumer level ISP crap...just pay a few more dollars and get a real connection that you can do with as you please.
Your first post smelled like a troll, but I thought to myself "No, I should give this person the benefit of a doubt. Maybe he really doesn't know."::sigh::
Children can choose to avoid ballgames and many other traditionally fun childhood places where peanut dust is prevalent, but they can't avoid school.
No, I really did not know this.
I'd heard some kids had them...but I had NO clue that do to the special needs of one or two kids...that a whole school could ban a normal food stuff for the other 99.99% of the kids.
It would be kinda cruel to force a child to eat by him/herself because the child has an allergy. Especially since the remedy is to simply make sure there aren't any peanuts nearby.
So, it is better to be cruel, or at least put limitations on EVERYONE else that is normal, eh?
The needs of the one outweighs the needs of the many?
Because having all the kids miss out on one particular non-essential snack food is better than forcing a few of the kids to have their lunch completely seperated from the rest of the kids? After all kids have never teased or bullied people who are highlighted as being different. And socialising isn't important for the kids who happen to have a relatively common allergy.
My GOD!!!
How in the world...did anyone from my generation, or ones before that, ever survive to adulthood without a peanut ban!?!?
I guess we had bodies laying all over campus twitching, and dying and we just never noticed it.
Or...is this peanut allergy thing something that just magically appeared in the late 90's ??
Seriously....I grew up with no bans on any foods brought into school (hell, they sold salted peanuts as a snack at some of the schools I went to)....and we had no problems.
I guess, everything is now being lowered to the lowest common denominator....*sigh*
Geez....I have to agree, I'd not want to be a kid in school today.
When I went, it was somewhat like college...except they took attendance in the classes. You could leave campus...hell, on some assembly days, we ran and got some beer, and had a party near the river, etc. But we all graduated, did decent grades...and now have fine and successful careers.
I do think...senior year...they did start giving out student IDs....but it wasn't like you had to carry or show them for anything.
Ok...so, I guess there were no peanut allergies when I grew up...we FREELY brought and ate whatever we wanted to in our lunches as a schoolboy.......??
Are we going to now ban them from all workplaces? I'm guessing these same kids grow to be adults that are allergic to them still.....
So,what's next...we ban peanut butter and peanuts in generally from the US entirely? I mean...we can't discriminate against the minority of people in the us going to baseball games....can't sell peanuts and crackerjacks, eh?
So, we have to cater once again, to the lowest common denominator? 2 kids have a peanut allergy, and we have to make sure and deprive the other 200-300 kids in the school?
When did this come along? I'm sure we had kids with peanut allergies back in my day...but we didn't force everyone else to not be able to bring a PB&J into school.
Only if it were to ever be acknowledged, something that has zero possibility of ever happening.
I dunno about that.....of late, the Obama administration is been quite 'leaky' when it comes to secret/covert ops.....what we already know about Stuxnet comes to mind.
I've heard of this happening where there is a child with a very serious peanut allergy.
Really?
Wow....well, why don't they isolate the one kid with the problem...rather than ban everyone else that is normal from eating something that is a childhood favorite?
Wow...when did they start even looking or caring what you brought from home to eat?
Are you serious? Even in high school?
Geez, when I was in high school....we had open campus, we usually either took our lunches out to the parking lot, ate around our cars, or jumped in the car and went and got a burger or something nearby. It was, however, YOUR responsibility to make it back in time to get to the next class after lunch or you got a tardy mark....which if added up, could get you thrown out of that class. (The tardys reset at the end of each semester).
They get fucking popsicles in the UK?! Christ, even way back when I was in school, decades ago, the best we could hope for was "nature's candy", raisins
You got raisins? When I was in school, "nature's candy" meant moose droppings. They'd just give us a dull knife and tell us to go out and kill something for lunch. And if you weren't fast enough to catch a squirrel or a vole, you starved to death. Once there was this kid who twisted his leg trying to catch a rabbit and we ended up tearing him to bits and eating him.
I'm telling you, we had it tough back in those days.
You try telling that to the kids today....and they won't believe you.
And...well, I don't see it in my best interest, in this case, to give up anonymity and open the roads to further future govt. abuse of the information on what guns I own...to make law enforcements job easier.
I don't see it as my duty or goal often, to make things easier for law enforcement.....it should be a bit tough for them, to keep them from easily abusing citizen's rights if things get too simple for them.
That, and today's hearing aids don't just simply amplify external sound. They are filled with a great deal of very sophisticated audio analysis, and digital sound processing...they have different modes depending on the settings, for instance modes to help with being in a restaurant, to help cut the background noise out....modes for conversational, modes for entertainment like watching a movie with voice and sound...etc.
I see them now too, that hook up with bluetooth to ones cell phone to make talking on those easier.
There's quite a bit of high tech audio processing in these things...and with the research and all, and lets face it...proprietary, patented algorithms and the like....it isn't cheap to make a quality hearing aid these days. They're packing a lot more than just amplification in these tiny units.
One important step is...get with a GOOD audiologist that you can work with...for testing and picking out the ones with the features that work best for you or those that need them.
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Depends on where you live....there are many cities where $250K will get you between 2000-3000 sq ft easily.....
I chuckle when I see 500sq ft 'shacks' on tv for sale in the Los Angeles area for like near a million dollars....wow.
Not to mention, cheaper BETTER food, being able to pause for a bathroom break, being able to throw out anyone that can't be quiet....and not having anyone get mad at you for pouring yourself a nice scotch while watching the movie!!!
LOL, wow...talk about memories!
I remember going to see 'Midway', in Sensurround...wow, sure was fun back in the day with the whole theater rumbling....
The base reason, is that we're strong, and have a non-Islamic state....and the koran tells them they must kill the infidels...
When I'm reading and come upon it, my brain automatically registers it as a typo.
I am, however, starting a little to get used to hearing people saying they are going to 'university' rather than saying going to 'college'.
To me, the better usage would be "I'm going to a university".
What are the provider choices you have there? I forgot to mention I have a static IP for the price I listed too.
What's in your area for cable? DSL?
Do what I do...get a cheap business account with your ISP.
I have had mine with Cox cable business for about a decade now...even moving around different places, they move it for me.
It is only about $70/mo...I get about 10-15 down, and usually about 5-6 up for speed.
I can run whatever servers I want...web, email, you name it, no ports blocked. I also have no data caps.
I even get a low level SLA.....and the few times I"ve had trouble, I call in..if there is any wait, I just leave my name/number and usually it has never been more than about 6-10 minutes for them to call me back. Once..I found my connection had gone down a bit after midnight. I called, not expecting much...but damned if when we figured it WAS a line problem, they had a truck out there on the pole near my house in about an hour...freaking after 1am!??! The problem was solved that night (early morning).
Frankly, I dunno why most people bother with the consumer level ISP crap...just pay a few more dollars and get a real connection that you can do with as you please.
Where do you get that peanuts aren't healthy for you (if you don't have an allergy)?
No, I really did not know this.
I'd heard some kids had them...but I had NO clue that do to the special needs of one or two kids...that a whole school could ban a normal food stuff for the other 99.99% of the kids.
So, it is better to be cruel, or at least put limitations on EVERYONE else that is normal, eh?
The needs of the one outweighs the needs of the many?
My GOD!!!
How in the world...did anyone from my generation, or ones before that, ever survive to adulthood without a peanut ban!?!?
I guess we had bodies laying all over campus twitching, and dying and we just never noticed it.
Or...is this peanut allergy thing something that just magically appeared in the late 90's ??
Seriously....I grew up with no bans on any foods brought into school (hell, they sold salted peanuts as a snack at some of the schools I went to)....and we had no problems.
I guess, everything is now being lowered to the lowest common denominator....*sigh*
When I went, it was somewhat like college...except they took attendance in the classes. You could leave campus...hell, on some assembly days, we ran and got some beer, and had a party near the river, etc. But we all graduated, did decent grades...and now have fine and successful careers.
I do think...senior year...they did start giving out student IDs....but it wasn't like you had to carry or show them for anything.
Are we going to now ban them from all workplaces? I'm guessing these same kids grow to be adults that are allergic to them still.....
So, we have to cater once again, to the lowest common denominator? 2 kids have a peanut allergy, and we have to make sure and deprive the other 200-300 kids in the school?
When did this come along? I'm sure we had kids with peanut allergies back in my day...but we didn't force everyone else to not be able to bring a PB&J into school.
I dunno about that.....of late, the Obama administration is been quite 'leaky' when it comes to secret/covert ops.....what we already know about Stuxnet comes to mind.
Wow...I thought they went out of business a LONG time ago....
Really?
Wow....well, why don't they isolate the one kid with the problem...rather than ban everyone else that is normal from eating something that is a childhood favorite?
Interesting...
Are you serious? Even in high school?
Geez, when I was in high school....we had open campus, we usually either took our lunches out to the parking lot, ate around our cars, or jumped in the car and went and got a burger or something nearby. It was, however, YOUR responsibility to make it back in time to get to the next class after lunch or you got a tardy mark....which if added up, could get you thrown out of that class. (The tardys reset at the end of each semester).
Err...peanuts confisticated? Seriously? Are peanuts now a dangerous weapon?
I suppose the nuts themselves might be thrown and could put someones eye out....but would they allow a peanut butter and jelly sandwich?
I'm guessing you're being as tongue and cheek as I am....?
You try telling that to the kids today....and they won't believe you.
Then, I read it was in the US, and had something to do with a few Moose dying off...
At least my Scotch supply won't be impeded!!!
Ahh....Balvenie!!!
I don't see it as my duty or goal often, to make things easier for law enforcement.....it should be a bit tough for them, to keep them from easily abusing citizen's rights if things get too simple for them.
Just my $0.02....
So, you are advocating the mandatory registration of guns now by all US citizens? Sure makes it easier to confiscate the guns if the govt want to....
I've not lived in states that require gun registration....I've only bought used firearms from individuals for cash, no real easy traceability.
I'm just not a fan of having the govt know what or how many guns I own, why do they need to know?
I see them now too, that hook up with bluetooth to ones cell phone to make talking on those easier.
There's quite a bit of high tech audio processing in these things...and with the research and all, and lets face it...proprietary, patented algorithms and the like....it isn't cheap to make a quality hearing aid these days. They're packing a lot more than just amplification in these tiny units.
One important step is...get with a GOOD audiologist that you can work with...for testing and picking out the ones with the features that work best for you or those that need them.