I'm trying to picture it in my head, and It seems like you could get all of the notes from a G7sus4 and a Dsus4 in one chord on a guitar. Those would be F, G, A, C and D. Such a chord could be played with a Barre chord all on the 10th fret with or without muting the low D.
Maybe it sounds better with the piano though.
I don't understand your point. Because teh banks were forced to use the same standards for approval... what?
My point is that they were forced to use DIFFERENT standards. They were forced to look at just the creditworthiness of the person in question and not take into consideration the neighborhood that they were buying in. They had to meet a certain quota of loans in areas that typically had high rates of foreclosure, and, not surprisingly, a lot of those loans have gone into foreclosure.
It's insightful because among professional singers, Paul really is quite an awful singer. I mean he's not as bad as Bob Dylan was (of course, Dylan's gotten much better. He had to be coached on how to sing like Bob Dylan on "We Are The World").
I like a lot of the Beatles later stuff. Can't say I care for the bubble gum pop crap that they did. But what was truly amazing about them was how they managed to create a sonically interesting piece incorporating relatively low instrumental and vocal skills. Pop stars today can't come up with sonically interesting pieces, even if they are more talented musically than the Beatles.
HIPAA doesn't get into very many specifics at all about HOW to secure the data, and so every company seems to come up with their own ideas of what secure means. When your company is like mine, we deal with protected healthcare information from dozens of different companies, all of which have their own views, sometimes contradictory, of how to protect the data. Of course, our salespeople fall all over each other to agree to whatever way every client wants their data protected.
One of the things they agreed to do was to PGP encrypt every drive. This includes the servers that no one can possibly walk off with without breaking through several stages of physical security.
Most troubling of all is that we discovered that our primary peice of third party software that we use to deal with the Protected Healthcare Information, inexplicably will not install on a drive with whole drive encryption on it. The third party company has no idea why this would be. We have been using this software for over 5 years and there is not really another alternative in the market right now. So in order to protect the information as we have agreed to do, we will just have to stop processing it altogether.
Which frankly, is fine with me, because I am sick of dealing with protected healthcare information, because apparently some strangers information is so important that I have to reveal every tiny detail of my life to the company and all of their clients including credit check, background check, criminal check, fingerprints, urine test, etc., etc. Why is strangers' data protected while my information is openly shared with anybody with a passing interest in doing business with my company?
Actually, they were forced to apply the same qualification standards as white people in ritzy neighborhoods about what they could afford to black people in slums.
Yes, and that is still the wrong thing to do from a statistical standpoint. It is not just about what a particular person can afford, but also about the foreclosure rate in a certain neighborhood is regardless of income level or property cost.
In the area I live in, there are thousands of homes in foreclosure status, and the majority of them are under $50,000. It's not that people with high dollar houses are having a harder time than those with lower cost houses, but those with higher dollar houses have more skin in the game and will do more to hold on to it. Most of the people who are letting these $50,000 houses go have no equity or negative equity, and they aren't really losing anything except their credit rating, whereas the people who have the high dollar houses usually have had to put a 20% down payment in and could be out thousands of dollars if they just walk away from it. YMMV, I am in an area where high dollar houses didn't qualify for 125% LTVs, only the cheap ones did. Also, our high dollar houses haven't lost nearly as much value as on the coasts. We've lost maybe 5-10%, and the low dollar houses lost about the same or maybe even more.
Who's the dumbshit that was allowing institutions to hand out loans to people without even checking their income level?
Ooh! Ooh! I know this one. FNMA under the directive from Bill Clinton.
They don't seem to be in the banking industry either...
Come on now. They were forced to give mortgages to people who, well, couldn't qualify for mortgages. What did we expect to happen?
The same people who wag their fingers at Google for buying an airplane spend many hundreds of times that amount every year on these bad tasting, overpriced "sports drinks". Hypocrisy, thy name is slashdot. Do you buy Red Bull? If so, then no complaining allowed. Do you buy Starbucks? If so, then no complaining allowed.
Yeah, sure, but... how well does it corner?
Like it's on rails.
Rails that go straight.
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It's like saying an airplane is a car while it's on the runway.
Yup. And of course, most passenger airplanes attain speeds of only between 100 and 150 mph before separating from the runway. You probably wouldn't want to be in a passenger plane going 300 MPH on the ground, even if the runway was virtually unlimited.
um you should get your story straight. there are 50 separate governments within the USA, not all of them have death penalties and of those that do, less than half kills more than one person a decade. The only notable exception is the same idiot state that brought us George Bush.
I would have expected better from Connecticut. Or Massachusetts if you are referring to Senior.
For punishment, a different part of their body should be sent to each destination at which they scammed people. Because we're good sports we'll let them decide which part of their body goes where.
Yeah, that would be usefully true if jetliners had a decent glide ratio. as it is, once the engines cut out, they fall out of the skies like stones. So, sure, you get to "come down for free" but nose down at 800 mph..
I doubt you could find a stone with a 15:1 glide ratio. From 35,000 feet, a 747 can travel 99 miles with no power. And the best glide speed is variable based on weight (but always the same angle of attack). On a 747, it is somewhere between 200 and 300 knots, nowhere near 800.
I once researched a trip to DisneyWorld from Oklahoma City. The routing had me go up to Chicago, over to Washington D.C., and then down to Orlando. The trip would have taken a little over two days and cost about 50% more than a plane. It's hard to compete when you take 10 times as long and cost more money. Even the bus was only a little over one day and far cheaper. The cheapest option of all was driving (but not cheap enough for me to actually go. Upper middle class doesn't leave enough extra for a Disney vacation).
How can they charge her with theft? It was put into her yard multiple times, it belongs to her. End of story. I heard this on the radio the other day, and I couldn't believe that the cops didn't just laugh at the idiot who phoned it in. If my kids kept tossing their ball into somebody's yard, and the person didn't give the ball back, I'd tell them that they should have been more careful.
I'm not suggesting that shooting people is the appropriate response to luggage being stolen
Well, then I will. The person who stole the $200k worth of stuff should be shot. Thank you, I'm here all week.
They just need to get the price point of electric cars in line with what the average consumer can afford.
Why do that? Regular cars don't cost what the average consumer can afford, and people still buy them. Of course, that is probably part of what lead to our current credit crunch.
Elon Musk has ousted the CEO and taken the reins, blaming the global credit crunch.
That's odd. Usually when a CEO totally fscks up a company, they give him huge bonuses and lay off more technical workers. In this case, they are admitting that it is due to the global credit crunch, which I am pretty sure is not the CEOs fault, and yet they are firing him anyway.
Bizarre.
A Lotus with lots of mobile phone batteries thrown in that would become an environmental nightmare if it caught on in the mass market. Goodbye Tesla.
Hey, I've GOT a Lotus, and it is not crammed with batteries, but it gets the highest MPG out of all the vehicles in my household. Plus it's the fastest, most nimble, and sexiest.
It's easy enough for four people who are sending money back to their families in their home country to live in a two bedroom apartment. It is not that easy for four families with kids to live in that same apartment. The reality of the situation is that people whose families live in the United States have to have a certain amount of money to survive, and people whose families live elsewhere require less. These people are able to outcompete Americans by accepting below market rates from companies which choose not to obey the law.
What, are you scared of competition?
I am not scared of competition, just unfair competition. I have to pay a certain amount of money to survive in America. If we open the floodgates to anyone who wants to come and work for awhile, then I have to compete with people who many times live with four people in a two bedroom apartment and send most of the money back home. These people are willing to work for less money. I would have NO PROBLEM competing with anyone from other countries, if the companies really had to pay the prevailing wage, but they do not, they skirt it by skewing the average wage by various means which I won't go into now but am happy to go into in another post if you want to hear about it. Are you too uneducated to realize that a lower cost of labor would lead to lower product costs, and in turn to a higher real income for you and everyone else?
Don't lecture me on economics. The line you're preaching is the same one we have been hearing since the 40's, when they said by now we would all be working 3 day weeks and the automation would be doing all the hard jobs for us. Why don't you go to China with the rest of the protectionist, nationalist, mercantile assholes.
If they are protectionist, nationalist, mercantile assholes than they won't hire Americans. Kind of like India.
Does being in the top 10% of your engineering class make you exempt from having to compete with everybody else?
Nope, it just makes me better able to compete with other people in America who are commanding equal salaries. Since I am better than most of them, this is not a problem. However, it doesn't help me to compete with people from other countries who are willing to do the job for much less. In that case, it doesn't even matter if I am better than them, because management sees lower costs and doesn't consider the performance.
Why shouldn't the US be falling over itself to grant me a work permit? Why can't I have a H-1B visa, please?
Two reasons:
1. There are tens of thousands of U.S Citizens who have the same education and experience as you who would also love to make that $80,000.
and more importantly...
2. There are tens of thousands of Indians who have the same education and experience as you who would love to do that job for $40,000.
If you do a good job, communicate well, and are well rounded you should never have to worry about a job.
Ah, yes, I was once naive like that too and said much the same thing about others who were losing their jobs. I thought that there would always be jobs for the top 10% of their engineering class, the ones whose managers praised them. The ones who were so adaptable they could learn a new language or environment over a weekend. But I was naive and I, too, was replaced by cheap H1B labor.
Take my advice. Learn to live on a third of your income. Then it will not hurt so bad when it happens to you.
What reasonable justification does the US government have for denying foreigners the same opportunities that American citizens have?
Other countries also deny or restrict foreigners working within their borders. Why should the U.S. be any different? Even to work in Mexico, a U.S. worker has to obtain a work visa, even if only to work in the Mexican office of a U.S. owned company that happens to be a few hundred yards over the border for one day.
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I'm trying to picture it in my head, and It seems like you could get all of the notes from a G7sus4 and a Dsus4 in one chord on a guitar. Those would be F, G, A, C and D. Such a chord could be played with a Barre chord all on the 10th fret with or without muting the low D.
Maybe it sounds better with the piano though.
I don't understand your point. Because teh banks were forced to use the same standards for approval... what?
My point is that they were forced to use DIFFERENT standards. They were forced to look at just the creditworthiness of the person in question and not take into consideration the neighborhood that they were buying in. They had to meet a certain quota of loans in areas that typically had high rates of foreclosure, and, not surprisingly, a lot of those loans have gone into foreclosure.
It's insightful because among professional singers, Paul really is quite an awful singer. I mean he's not as bad as Bob Dylan was (of course, Dylan's gotten much better. He had to be coached on how to sing like Bob Dylan on "We Are The World").
I like a lot of the Beatles later stuff. Can't say I care for the bubble gum pop crap that they did. But what was truly amazing about them was how they managed to create a sonically interesting piece incorporating relatively low instrumental and vocal skills. Pop stars today can't come up with sonically interesting pieces, even if they are more talented musically than the Beatles.
HIPAA doesn't get into very many specifics at all about HOW to secure the data, and so every company seems to come up with their own ideas of what secure means. When your company is like mine, we deal with protected healthcare information from dozens of different companies, all of which have their own views, sometimes contradictory, of how to protect the data. Of course, our salespeople fall all over each other to agree to whatever way every client wants their data protected.
One of the things they agreed to do was to PGP encrypt every drive. This includes the servers that no one can possibly walk off with without breaking through several stages of physical security.
Most troubling of all is that we discovered that our primary peice of third party software that we use to deal with the Protected Healthcare Information, inexplicably will not install on a drive with whole drive encryption on it. The third party company has no idea why this would be. We have been using this software for over 5 years and there is not really another alternative in the market right now. So in order to protect the information as we have agreed to do, we will just have to stop processing it altogether.
Which frankly, is fine with me, because I am sick of dealing with protected healthcare information, because apparently some strangers information is so important that I have to reveal every tiny detail of my life to the company and all of their clients including credit check, background check, criminal check, fingerprints, urine test, etc., etc. Why is strangers' data protected while my information is openly shared with anybody with a passing interest in doing business with my company?
Actually, they were forced to apply the same qualification standards as white people in ritzy neighborhoods about what they could afford to black people in slums.
Yes, and that is still the wrong thing to do from a statistical standpoint. It is not just about what a particular person can afford, but also about the foreclosure rate in a certain neighborhood is regardless of income level or property cost.
In the area I live in, there are thousands of homes in foreclosure status, and the majority of them are under $50,000. It's not that people with high dollar houses are having a harder time than those with lower cost houses, but those with higher dollar houses have more skin in the game and will do more to hold on to it. Most of the people who are letting these $50,000 houses go have no equity or negative equity, and they aren't really losing anything except their credit rating, whereas the people who have the high dollar houses usually have had to put a 20% down payment in and could be out thousands of dollars if they just walk away from it. YMMV, I am in an area where high dollar houses didn't qualify for 125% LTVs, only the cheap ones did. Also, our high dollar houses haven't lost nearly as much value as on the coasts. We've lost maybe 5-10%, and the low dollar houses lost about the same or maybe even more.
Who's the dumbshit that was allowing institutions to hand out loans to people without even checking their income level?
Ooh! Ooh! I know this one. FNMA under the directive from Bill Clinton.
They don't seem to be in the banking industry either...
Come on now. They were forced to give mortgages to people who, well, couldn't qualify for mortgages. What did we expect to happen?
The same people who wag their fingers at Google for buying an airplane spend many hundreds of times that amount every year on these bad tasting, overpriced "sports drinks". Hypocrisy, thy name is slashdot. Do you buy Red Bull? If so, then no complaining allowed. Do you buy Starbucks? If so, then no complaining allowed.
Yeah, sure, but... how well does it corner?
Like it's on rails.
Rails that go straight.
It's like saying an airplane is a car while it's on the runway.
Yup. And of course, most passenger airplanes attain speeds of only between 100 and 150 mph before separating from the runway. You probably wouldn't want to be in a passenger plane going 300 MPH on the ground, even if the runway was virtually unlimited.
um you should get your story straight. there are 50 separate governments within the USA, not all of them have death penalties and of those that do, less than half kills more than one person a decade. The only notable exception is the same idiot state that brought us George Bush.
I would have expected better from Connecticut. Or Massachusetts if you are referring to Senior.
For punishment, a different part of their body should be sent to each destination at which they scammed people. Because we're good sports we'll let them decide which part of their body goes where.
Yeah, that would be usefully true if jetliners had a decent glide ratio. as it is, once the engines cut out, they fall out of the skies like stones. So, sure, you get to "come down for free" but nose down at 800 mph..
I doubt you could find a stone with a 15:1 glide ratio. From 35,000 feet, a 747 can travel 99 miles with no power. And the best glide speed is variable based on weight (but always the same angle of attack). On a 747, it is somewhere between 200 and 300 knots, nowhere near 800.
I once researched a trip to DisneyWorld from Oklahoma City. The routing had me go up to Chicago, over to Washington D.C., and then down to Orlando. The trip would have taken a little over two days and cost about 50% more than a plane. It's hard to compete when you take 10 times as long and cost more money. Even the bus was only a little over one day and far cheaper. The cheapest option of all was driving (but not cheap enough for me to actually go. Upper middle class doesn't leave enough extra for a Disney vacation).
How can they charge her with theft? It was put into her yard multiple times, it belongs to her. End of story. I heard this on the radio the other day, and I couldn't believe that the cops didn't just laugh at the idiot who phoned it in. If my kids kept tossing their ball into somebody's yard, and the person didn't give the ball back, I'd tell them that they should have been more careful.
I'm not suggesting that shooting people is the appropriate response to luggage being stolen
Well, then I will. The person who stole the $200k worth of stuff should be shot. Thank you, I'm here all week.
They just need to get the price point of electric cars in line with what the average consumer can afford.
Why do that? Regular cars don't cost what the average consumer can afford, and people still buy them. Of course, that is probably part of what lead to our current credit crunch.
Elon Musk has ousted the CEO and taken the reins, blaming the global credit crunch.
That's odd. Usually when a CEO totally fscks up a company, they give him huge bonuses and lay off more technical workers. In this case, they are admitting that it is due to the global credit crunch, which I am pretty sure is not the CEOs fault, and yet they are firing him anyway.
Bizarre.
A Lotus with lots of mobile phone batteries thrown in that would become an environmental nightmare if it caught on in the mass market. Goodbye Tesla.
Hey, I've GOT a Lotus, and it is not crammed with batteries, but it gets the highest MPG out of all the vehicles in my household. Plus it's the fastest, most nimble, and sexiest.
It's easy enough for four people who are sending money back to their families in their home country to live in a two bedroom apartment. It is not that easy for four families with kids to live in that same apartment. The reality of the situation is that people whose families live in the United States have to have a certain amount of money to survive, and people whose families live elsewhere require less. These people are able to outcompete Americans by accepting below market rates from companies which choose not to obey the law.
What, are you scared of competition?
I am not scared of competition, just unfair competition. I have to pay a certain amount of money to survive in America. If we open the floodgates to anyone who wants to come and work for awhile, then I have to compete with people who many times live with four people in a two bedroom apartment and send most of the money back home. These people are willing to work for less money. I would have NO PROBLEM competing with anyone from other countries, if the companies really had to pay the prevailing wage, but they do not, they skirt it by skewing the average wage by various means which I won't go into now but am happy to go into in another post if you want to hear about it.
Are you too uneducated to realize that a lower cost of labor would lead to lower product costs, and in turn to a higher real income for you and everyone else?
Don't lecture me on economics. The line you're preaching is the same one we have been hearing since the 40's, when they said by now we would all be working 3 day weeks and the automation would be doing all the hard jobs for us.
Why don't you go to China with the rest of the protectionist, nationalist, mercantile assholes.
If they are protectionist, nationalist, mercantile assholes than they won't hire Americans. Kind of like India.
Does being in the top 10% of your engineering class make you exempt from having to compete with everybody else?
Nope, it just makes me better able to compete with other people in America who are commanding equal salaries. Since I am better than most of them, this is not a problem. However, it doesn't help me to compete with people from other countries who are willing to do the job for much less. In that case, it doesn't even matter if I am better than them, because management sees lower costs and doesn't consider the performance.
Why shouldn't the US be falling over itself to grant me a work permit? Why can't I have a H-1B visa, please?
Two reasons:
1. There are tens of thousands of U.S Citizens who have the same education and experience as you who would also love to make that $80,000.
and more importantly...
2. There are tens of thousands of Indians who have the same education and experience as you who would love to do that job for $40,000.
If you do a good job, communicate well, and are well rounded you should never have to worry about a job.
Ah, yes, I was once naive like that too and said much the same thing about others who were losing their jobs. I thought that there would always be jobs for the top 10% of their engineering class, the ones whose managers praised them. The ones who were so adaptable they could learn a new language or environment over a weekend. But I was naive and I, too, was replaced by cheap H1B labor.
Take my advice. Learn to live on a third of your income. Then it will not hurt so bad when it happens to you.
What reasonable justification does the US government have for denying foreigners the same opportunities that American citizens have?
Other countries also deny or restrict foreigners working within their borders. Why should the U.S. be any different? Even to work in Mexico, a U.S. worker has to obtain a work visa, even if only to work in the Mexican office of a U.S. owned company that happens to be a few hundred yards over the border for one day.