I could be. I could be doing any number of things including reading slashdot for 5 minutes during my lunchbreak and then leaving the tab open but not ever looking at it again, and my boss could come in and wonder why there are ads playing on my laptop.
Technically, we are not allowed to be streaming audio or video, so slashdot is causing me to violate company policy if they autoplay the ads.
He shouldn't have too much trouble finding work. Alton Nolen, the guy that beheaded a co-worker in Oklahoma this morning in another incident that is also Not Terrorism had only been released from prison a year ago:
And I am sure our wonderful District Attorney Prater is already on his way to file life in prison charges against the owner of the company who saved countless lives by shooting and killing this maniac. But that's modern liberal life in Oklahoma. Kill a gun wielding thief, go to jail for life. Kill a couple of unarmed innocents, go to jail for maybe 10 years, out in 5.
Mod parent up. I was trying to hunt down last night what tab in Firefox was outputting audio at me. It turned out to be slashdot. BAD SLASHDOT! Keep this up and I will hit that disable advertisement which I have the option to do. I go ahead and let them serve me ads which I would never in a million years actually click on, because I know they get paid for impressions and I feel they deserve some money for hosting the site. But forcing me to have to listen to the audio of some advertisement that clearly makes no sense without the video and without prompting to be played, when for all they know I could be trying to videoconference with the CEO or something? That is just wrong.
So you used CFLs in a manner that they specifically say not to, and you're surprised when they don't last. Genius.
First, I don't recall ever seeing a CFL packaging where it said not to use them with a motion sensor.
And second, Do you propose that he use an illegal incandescent bulb for this purpose instead of the CFL?
It would have to be conspicuous enough that it would be obvious to a prosecutor, judge, or whoever else enters the mix.
Why does it have to be conspicuous? Just put it in a sealed box and tell the Judge he can see the EULA after he buys the car, after which point he will no longer be able to return the car. There is legal precedent.
It is not a good thing for predatory loans to exist. These people can't afford the way they are living. They need to rejigger their lives. The loans just prolong the agony and inflate prices for everyone by creating demand and buying power where demand and buying power should not exist.
Uh, this pretty much sums up the entire issue right here.
Everything else behind that issue is irrelevant bullshit. Stop preying on people who can't afford the fucking loan in the first goddamn place.
Yes, and people who can't afford the loan in the first place, stop pursuing and accepting these loans.
I'm sure you'll get modded down, but I have lived in a household where this occurred as well. I was just out of college, with student loans, a mortgage and a car payment, spending $25 a month on groceries, mostly bologna, bread, processed cheese food substitute and ramen.
My sister, on the other hand was living in my house for free, and getting foodstamps and was buying steak and all different kinds of meats, milk and all other kinds of stuff, all subsidized by me paying taxes while living on ramen.
Except that these devices make it possible to lend somebody money for a used car who otherwise wouldn't get a car. Whether the loan is good depends on things in the future, and whether the loan will be made depends on things in the past. If somebody gets a job and needs a car to commute, this sort of loan makes it possible for the guy to slowly get into a better situation.
The purpose of these loans is not to help somebody out, they are just worded that way. They are meant to bleed the last drops out of somebody that has no business getting a loan on anything.
All good points, none of which are actual considerations to poor people buying a car.
I would also like to point out that newer cars are not magically exempt from repairs either. The difference between a junker and a new car is that on a new car you have to pay the monthly payment PLUS repairs and on the junker, you just have to pay repairs. The new car may have fewer repairs but thanks to all of the electronics and miniaturization, fixing it yourself becomes less of an option and the prices are much higher for repairs on a new car than an old car with the same problem.
Another angle to consider. Why shell out the full purchase cost of a car when I can borrow at a rate equal or below inflation?
Absolutely! If you have the money for a new car, but could get a loan for less than inflation, and somewhere useful to put your money at greater than inflation plus taxes, then you should do that.
People who don't have a great deal of cash aren't going to be offered the loan rates which would allow them to invest any cash that they happened to have.
So, poor people should always pay cash. Rich people should always take loans.
In the old days, a jobless single mother wouldn't be able to get a car loan at any interest rate.
I would think they would be able to get a 0% interest rate with 100% down. I really can't see anybody allowing somebody to make payments on a car when they have no income. If they had the cash in the bank, maybe, but even then, there is no guarantee they wouldn't use the cash on something else.
They also make a considerable percentage of their profit from the "downpayment" that the repo-victim will lose when they repo the car. These people require a *weekly* payment for you to keep the car, and a downpayment to get it in the first place. You'll lose all of that when they repossess. But, yes, their money is made by reselling the same car many times.
In my state, they are allowed to still hold the buyer responsible for the remainder of the loan minus the value of the repossessed vehicle. In order to determine the value of the vehicle, though, they are required to sell it. They can't just sell it to themselves, either. So they sell it at private auction to their brother-in-law for bottom dollar and then it ends up back on their lot for sale at 10 times the auction price. Within a year, they can easily end up with tens of thousands of dollars in down payments and loan payments on a car, plus 40 or 50 thousand in judgments on the same car, and still have that car for sale on the lot.
I surely hope that subprime auto loans are not being made on "a lot of newer vehicles". New or newer model cars are not affordable for lower or middle class families and, just like with the housing market both the buyer and the lender are guilty of greed it they are getting into cars that they cannot afford.
An assessor using street view/aerial (most of the imagery from such services is actually taken from aircraft) is probably pretty darn close 99% of the time.
Our assessors don't even get that fancy. They just use a standard calculator to calculate the maximum allowable increase in property value allowable by law and then that is what your house is worth this year.
If you wish to contest it, by all means pay $500 for an independent appraisal which might be thrown out by the judge or might be accepted and might even save you something less than the $500 you spent on the appraisal.
Well, I guess if the bins are there, then this is about properly separating, which people absolutely should do and there is no need for the sensationalism in the summary or title.
Where I live, there is literally nothing you are allowed to do with yard waste. We have only a trash can, no recycle or compost bins. We are not allowed to put yard waste in the trash can. We are not allowed to burn yard waste. We are not allowed to compost. Yard waste is not accepted at the dump.
So when management reads their trade journals and wants us to use this fancy, trendy new toy that doesn't really meet the needs of the employees, then we get all bent out of shape. But when development wants to use this fancy, trendy new toy that doesn't really meet the needs of management, we get all bent out of shape?
I want to make sure I understand this correctly. When Sony or EA or Microsoft require a constant on internet connection in order to play your game, that is bad, but when your IT department requires a constant on internet connection to view historical data, that is good?
Add:
Reports don't take additional time to generate every time you look at them.
Reports don't require a constant on-line internet connection
Reports still work when the dashboard server, database server, internet, electrical grid, etc. are all down.
I am a manager. I created a dashboard for our product that our operations people use. But when I go to management meetings, I need to present static data to the upper management. They don't want to sit and watch me enter date ranges and wait for data to come back. They want to hit next page on the slideshow and there is the graph.
There is a time and a place for both dashboards and reports. Operational procedures are going to lean more toward using dashboards. Managerial people are going to lean more toward reports.
Why should a manager have to log in to a place once a week, when a report could be automatically emailed to him once a week? Just because dashboards are hip and trendy doesn't make them the answer to all of life's problems. Fancy new ratcheting wrenches are indeed awesome, but they still suck at pounding nails.
Every group of people thinks that they are smarter than all the other groups and should be in charge of making decisions. The only difference being that the group I am in is correct.
More controversy = more ad revenue. Dice doesn't care a whit what you think or how many mod points you have or what your karma has. You are a means to an end. The more controversy they feed you, the more likely you are to read or post and the more ads you are served.
No different from TV "news". Misleading flamebait to get you to watch the 10 o'clock news where you find out their big story for the day was a hyped up non-event. But they got viewers and they get dollars for it.
What is the alternative proposed by Seattle for dealing with food waste? Eat everything, even if it is spoiled or otherwise no longer edible? Is Seattle going to provide compost bins? They sure as hell aren't going to allow every single postage stamp lot to have a compost bin in it. First of all, the neighbors will complain about the smell and sight of the compost, and second, it is a fire hazard.
And here I was thinking that liberals made up the majority on slashdot. At least that is the impression I get whenever somebody says something even remotely conservative or mentions God and suddenly gets modded troll and everybody slams them in their replies.
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I could be. I could be doing any number of things including reading slashdot for 5 minutes during my lunchbreak and then leaving the tab open but not ever looking at it again, and my boss could come in and wonder why there are ads playing on my laptop.
Technically, we are not allowed to be streaming audio or video, so slashdot is causing me to violate company policy if they autoplay the ads.
He shouldn't have too much trouble finding work. Alton Nolen, the guy that beheaded a co-worker in Oklahoma this morning in another incident that is also Not Terrorism had only been released from prison a year ago:
And I am sure our wonderful District Attorney Prater is already on his way to file life in prison charges against the owner of the company who saved countless lives by shooting and killing this maniac. But that's modern liberal life in Oklahoma. Kill a gun wielding thief, go to jail for life. Kill a couple of unarmed innocents, go to jail for maybe 10 years, out in 5.
Mod parent up. I was trying to hunt down last night what tab in Firefox was outputting audio at me. It turned out to be slashdot. BAD SLASHDOT! Keep this up and I will hit that disable advertisement which I have the option to do. I go ahead and let them serve me ads which I would never in a million years actually click on, because I know they get paid for impressions and I feel they deserve some money for hosting the site. But forcing me to have to listen to the audio of some advertisement that clearly makes no sense without the video and without prompting to be played, when for all they know I could be trying to videoconference with the CEO or something? That is just wrong.
So you used CFLs in a manner that they specifically say not to, and you're surprised when they don't last. Genius.
First, I don't recall ever seeing a CFL packaging where it said not to use them with a motion sensor.
And second, Do you propose that he use an illegal incandescent bulb for this purpose instead of the CFL?
It would have to be conspicuous enough that it would be obvious to a prosecutor, judge, or whoever else enters the mix.
Why does it have to be conspicuous? Just put it in a sealed box and tell the Judge he can see the EULA after he buys the car, after which point he will no longer be able to return the car. There is legal precedent.
I can see how these would be useful in parts of Alaska in the winter
Unless, of course, it is cold or windy.
It is not a good thing for predatory loans to exist. These people can't afford the way they are living. They need to rejigger their lives. The loans just prolong the agony and inflate prices for everyone by creating demand and buying power where demand and buying power should not exist.
Uh, this pretty much sums up the entire issue right here.
Everything else behind that issue is irrelevant bullshit. Stop preying on people who can't afford the fucking loan in the first goddamn place.
Yes, and people who can't afford the loan in the first place, stop pursuing and accepting these loans.
I'm sure you'll get modded down, but I have lived in a household where this occurred as well. I was just out of college, with student loans, a mortgage and a car payment, spending $25 a month on groceries, mostly bologna, bread, processed cheese food substitute and ramen.
My sister, on the other hand was living in my house for free, and getting foodstamps and was buying steak and all different kinds of meats, milk and all other kinds of stuff, all subsidized by me paying taxes while living on ramen.
Except that these devices make it possible to lend somebody money for a used car who otherwise wouldn't get a car. Whether the loan is good depends on things in the future, and whether the loan will be made depends on things in the past. If somebody gets a job and needs a car to commute, this sort of loan makes it possible for the guy to slowly get into a better situation.
The purpose of these loans is not to help somebody out, they are just worded that way. They are meant to bleed the last drops out of somebody that has no business getting a loan on anything.
All good points, none of which are actual considerations to poor people buying a car.
I would also like to point out that newer cars are not magically exempt from repairs either. The difference between a junker and a new car is that on a new car you have to pay the monthly payment PLUS repairs and on the junker, you just have to pay repairs. The new car may have fewer repairs but thanks to all of the electronics and miniaturization, fixing it yourself becomes less of an option and the prices are much higher for repairs on a new car than an old car with the same problem.
Your definition of poor sounds like what middle class has already become and upper middle class is becoming.
Another angle to consider. Why shell out the full purchase cost of a car when I can borrow at a rate equal or below inflation?
Absolutely! If you have the money for a new car, but could get a loan for less than inflation, and somewhere useful to put your money at greater than inflation plus taxes, then you should do that.
People who don't have a great deal of cash aren't going to be offered the loan rates which would allow them to invest any cash that they happened to have.
So, poor people should always pay cash. Rich people should always take loans.
In the old days, a jobless single mother wouldn't be able to get a car loan at any interest rate.
I would think they would be able to get a 0% interest rate with 100% down. I really can't see anybody allowing somebody to make payments on a car when they have no income. If they had the cash in the bank, maybe, but even then, there is no guarantee they wouldn't use the cash on something else.
They also make a considerable percentage of their profit from the "downpayment" that the repo-victim will lose when they repo the car. These people require a *weekly* payment for you to keep the car, and a downpayment to get it in the first place. You'll lose all of that when they repossess. But, yes, their money is made by reselling the same car many times.
In my state, they are allowed to still hold the buyer responsible for the remainder of the loan minus the value of the repossessed vehicle. In order to determine the value of the vehicle, though, they are required to sell it. They can't just sell it to themselves, either. So they sell it at private auction to their brother-in-law for bottom dollar and then it ends up back on their lot for sale at 10 times the auction price. Within a year, they can easily end up with tens of thousands of dollars in down payments and loan payments on a car, plus 40 or 50 thousand in judgments on the same car, and still have that car for sale on the lot.
I surely hope that subprime auto loans are not being made on "a lot of newer vehicles". New or newer model cars are not affordable for lower or middle class families and, just like with the housing market both the buyer and the lender are guilty of greed it they are getting into cars that they cannot afford.
An assessor using street view/aerial (most of the imagery from such services is actually taken from aircraft) is probably pretty darn close 99% of the time.
Our assessors don't even get that fancy. They just use a standard calculator to calculate the maximum allowable increase in property value allowable by law and then that is what your house is worth this year.
If you wish to contest it, by all means pay $500 for an independent appraisal which might be thrown out by the judge or might be accepted and might even save you something less than the $500 you spent on the appraisal.
Well, I guess if the bins are there, then this is about properly separating, which people absolutely should do and there is no need for the sensationalism in the summary or title.
Where I live, there is literally nothing you are allowed to do with yard waste. We have only a trash can, no recycle or compost bins. We are not allowed to put yard waste in the trash can. We are not allowed to burn yard waste. We are not allowed to compost. Yard waste is not accepted at the dump.
So when management reads their trade journals and wants us to use this fancy, trendy new toy that doesn't really meet the needs of the employees, then we get all bent out of shape. But when development wants to use this fancy, trendy new toy that doesn't really meet the needs of management, we get all bent out of shape?
I want to make sure I understand this correctly. When Sony or EA or Microsoft require a constant on internet connection in order to play your game, that is bad, but when your IT department requires a constant on internet connection to view historical data, that is good?
Add:
Reports don't take additional time to generate every time you look at them.
Reports don't require a constant on-line internet connection
Reports still work when the dashboard server, database server, internet, electrical grid, etc. are all down.
I am a manager. I created a dashboard for our product that our operations people use. But when I go to management meetings, I need to present static data to the upper management. They don't want to sit and watch me enter date ranges and wait for data to come back. They want to hit next page on the slideshow and there is the graph.
There is a time and a place for both dashboards and reports. Operational procedures are going to lean more toward using dashboards. Managerial people are going to lean more toward reports.
Why should a manager have to log in to a place once a week, when a report could be automatically emailed to him once a week? Just because dashboards are hip and trendy doesn't make them the answer to all of life's problems. Fancy new ratcheting wrenches are indeed awesome, but they still suck at pounding nails.
Every group of people thinks that they are smarter than all the other groups and should be in charge of making decisions. The only difference being that the group I am in is correct.
More controversy = more ad revenue. Dice doesn't care a whit what you think or how many mod points you have or what your karma has. You are a means to an end. The more controversy they feed you, the more likely you are to read or post and the more ads you are served.
No different from TV "news". Misleading flamebait to get you to watch the 10 o'clock news where you find out their big story for the day was a hyped up non-event. But they got viewers and they get dollars for it.
What is the alternative proposed by Seattle for dealing with food waste? Eat everything, even if it is spoiled or otherwise no longer edible? Is Seattle going to provide compost bins? They sure as hell aren't going to allow every single postage stamp lot to have a compost bin in it. First of all, the neighbors will complain about the smell and sight of the compost, and second, it is a fire hazard.
And here I was thinking that liberals made up the majority on slashdot. At least that is the impression I get whenever somebody says something even remotely conservative or mentions God and suddenly gets modded troll and everybody slams them in their replies.