I've visited CarMax a few times while shopping for a car. I'll never even bother going there again because they consistently demanded much higher prices for their cars compared to other local sellers.
Don't forget suspension! Maintaining the suspension can be as costly as maintaining tires or breaks. Okay, you don't have to pay $20 for oil every 3000 miles, and you don't have to worry about belts as hoses AFAIK, but many of the big-ticket maintenance items are still there! As a matter of fact, other than oil and spark plugs, I don't think that there is a single maintenance item on my car that would have been mitigated by having an electric car.
All that being said, I do want to drive an electric car some day, and I don't want to pay the early-adopter tax.
I'll second that! I used to live there, but I thought about moving to Austin. I had a development job at "Fort Sam Houston" (which confuses people, because Fort Sam Houston is in San Antonio, not Houston). For several years, I rented a 1/1 apartment with my wife for less than $700 per month in a fairly nice area.
The funny story is that one day it looked like my dream was coming true; I was brought on as a temp-to-hire for a company in Austin. I was asked to spend the first two months on-site with a client in Denver, at company expense, which was awesome because I had no rent payment for two months! I was placed on a dysfunctional team and let go after a few months. After that, I decided to just take another job in Denver since I had already vacated my apartment and I love mountain sports so much.
The best part of the story is that I had a chance encounter with someone I regularly saw at the client site. He said that the project crashed and burned, so I think you could say that getting fired from that job would be like getting ejected from the Titanic before it left port.
I've been to Utah on vacation several times. It is perhaps the most beautiful state in the US, scenery-wise. (5 national parks!) My brother says that his wife briefly lived in Utah as a child and discrimination against non-Mormons was a serious problem for her.
If you're out in Utah, I would suggest taking a walk around Ancient Art sometime, near the town of Moab. It really looks like a landscape straight out of a "Dr. Seuss" book. Canyonlands is amazing, too!
That being said, last time I checked, there are a fraction of tech jobs in Utah that there are in Colorado.
I posted above that I live in one of the 'burbs south of Denver. I've lived here for two years, and I purchased my home just before the prices started going up. Even still, my home value has gone up about 25% and if I were thinking of moving to Colorado today, I wouldn't be deterred.
I've lived in the Denver area for about two years now. I live in the suburbs on the south side of town. The traffic downtown is abyssmal, but there is one thing that really stands out for a town this size besides the number of tech jobs (check Dice, there are lots!)
There is an area about 10 minutes south of downtown known as the "Denver Tech Center". This area is HQ for a number of tech companies and it's extremely convenient because you can get a decent tech job there, live in the 'burbs, and not have to drive downtown every day.
The skiing and other mountain activities nearby are phenomenal. There is a lifetime supply of camping, hiking, and mountain climbing opportunities. I'm told that the nearby town of Evergreen has America's largest outdoor ice-skating park, as well.
I was in Austin about three years ago to take on a new job. It didn't work out and I don't live there anymore, but traffic is a nightmare in Austin. The desirable neighborhoods are poorly served by the major highways. Even looking at the Google Maps streetview, you can see that the cameraman taking the photos from the Google car (or whatever it's called) was stuck in traffic!
Awesome! I work with Web Development, mainly with C# and Javascript, and I do not bill that much, but I would say that I bill more than many in my sphere. Thanks for sharing.
I am sympathetic toward changing minds. I know some people who have unbendable beliefs about politics in their minds: that certain things are always a certain way, and they pick up nuggets that reinforce their beliefs and cast off everything else. Those people scare me.
Hillary is not one of those people. Hillary is a political animal who tells people what they want to hear. She probably had more knowledge of what was in TPP long before most of the rest of us. She knows better, and she knew better. She was trying to line the pockets of the rich and powerful, plain and simple, and now wants to deny it.
I must say that there is one thing that recruiters are really good for: you can comfortably ask them questions about the job that you wouldn't want to ask at the interview. For example, you might ask questions about remote work and paid holidays to the recruiter, while those same questions could raise doubts about your candidacy to the hiring manager.
I really loved the sequel to the game "The 11th Hour" (probably because I was just old enough to enjoy it), but damn was it hard to get that game to run without crashing!
I wish more people understood it the way you do. In the USA, the law is that Congress cannot bind a future Congress to enact any particular policy. This is an end-run around this law by those who want to permanently cement their place at the top of the pyramid.
By the way, Trump and Sanders both oppose TPP. Clinton was for it before she was against it::ducks::
Gun owners do need to be responsible, but our legal system says is designed for a reason so that the burden of proof is on the prosecution to show beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the crime. It is not the gun-owner's responsibility to prove to the court that he "took adequate steps to secure his weapon"; it is the prosecutor's responsibility to prove that he didn't.
I wish I could agree with you, but I think they actually could enforce a ban against encryption. If encryption is illegal, then Google, Microsoft, Apple, et al can be forced to stop using it. Then whatever small players are left who violate the ban will stick out like a sore thumb. They would then be arrested.
I agree. I have family who have voted Republican all their lives. I tell them how bad TPP is sometimes I think they imagine that it couldn't possibly be that bad. I tell them that if the Republican candidate is some establishment crony like Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio, Sanders' opposition to TPP alone makes it worthwhile to vote for him, even if you disagree with him on other issues. The response is always: "but, but, SOCIALISM!"
Let me also add: I heard someone way that the establishment can always be counted on to tell us who they are afraid of. Who do they ignore? Who do they laugh at? Who do they fight?
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You troll, but I'm sure that's how many in government feel.
You assume he would take the job, if offered.
I've visited CarMax a few times while shopping for a car. I'll never even bother going there again because they consistently demanded much higher prices for their cars compared to other local sellers.
If only there was a company that had no sunk investment in those hassles that was highly motivated to create a desirable car...
All that being said, I do want to drive an electric car some day, and I don't want to pay the early-adopter tax.
Never let a crisis go to waste!
The funny story is that one day it looked like my dream was coming true; I was brought on as a temp-to-hire for a company in Austin. I was asked to spend the first two months on-site with a client in Denver, at company expense, which was awesome because I had no rent payment for two months! I was placed on a dysfunctional team and let go after a few months. After that, I decided to just take another job in Denver since I had already vacated my apartment and I love mountain sports so much.
The best part of the story is that I had a chance encounter with someone I regularly saw at the client site. He said that the project crashed and burned, so I think you could say that getting fired from that job would be like getting ejected from the Titanic before it left port.
If you're out in Utah, I would suggest taking a walk around Ancient Art sometime, near the town of Moab. It really looks like a landscape straight out of a "Dr. Seuss" book. Canyonlands is amazing, too!
That being said, last time I checked, there are a fraction of tech jobs in Utah that there are in Colorado.
I posted above that I live in one of the 'burbs south of Denver. I've lived here for two years, and I purchased my home just before the prices started going up. Even still, my home value has gone up about 25% and if I were thinking of moving to Colorado today, I wouldn't be deterred.
Have a nice day.
There is an area about 10 minutes south of downtown known as the "Denver Tech Center". This area is HQ for a number of tech companies and it's extremely convenient because you can get a decent tech job there, live in the 'burbs, and not have to drive downtown every day.
The skiing and other mountain activities nearby are phenomenal. There is a lifetime supply of camping, hiking, and mountain climbing opportunities. I'm told that the nearby town of Evergreen has America's largest outdoor ice-skating park, as well.
I was in Austin about three years ago to take on a new job. It didn't work out and I don't live there anymore, but traffic is a nightmare in Austin. The desirable neighborhoods are poorly served by the major highways. Even looking at the Google Maps streetview, you can see that the cameraman taking the photos from the Google car (or whatever it's called) was stuck in traffic!
Awesome! I work with Web Development, mainly with C# and Javascript, and I do not bill that much, but I would say that I bill more than many in my sphere. Thanks for sharing.
Hillary is not one of those people. Hillary is a political animal who tells people what they want to hear. She probably had more knowledge of what was in TPP long before most of the rest of us. She knows better, and she knew better. She was trying to line the pockets of the rich and powerful, plain and simple, and now wants to deny it.
What are you doing to bill $125 to $250 per hour?
I must say that there is one thing that recruiters are really good for: you can comfortably ask them questions about the job that you wouldn't want to ask at the interview. For example, you might ask questions about remote work and paid holidays to the recruiter, while those same questions could raise doubts about your candidacy to the hiring manager.
I really loved the sequel to the game "The 11th Hour" (probably because I was just old enough to enjoy it), but damn was it hard to get that game to run without crashing!
This agreement is not about trade. It is about setting policies that megacorps want, many of which have nothing to do with trade.
By the way, Trump and Sanders both oppose TPP. Clinton was for it before she was against it ::ducks::
That sounds like what you might call "working welfare"
Gun owners do need to be responsible, but our legal system says is designed for a reason so that the burden of proof is on the prosecution to show beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant committed the crime. It is not the gun-owner's responsibility to prove to the court that he "took adequate steps to secure his weapon"; it is the prosecutor's responsibility to prove that he didn't.
I wish I could agree with you, but I think they actually could enforce a ban against encryption. If encryption is illegal, then Google, Microsoft, Apple, et al can be forced to stop using it. Then whatever small players are left who violate the ban will stick out like a sore thumb. They would then be arrested.
I agree. I have family who have voted Republican all their lives. I tell them how bad TPP is sometimes I think they imagine that it couldn't possibly be that bad. I tell them that if the Republican candidate is some establishment crony like Jeb Bush or Marco Rubio, Sanders' opposition to TPP alone makes it worthwhile to vote for him, even if you disagree with him on other issues. The response is always: "but, but, SOCIALISM!"
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The second hit is a piece in the Wall Street Journal.
Let me also add: I heard someone way that the establishment can always be counted on to tell us who they are afraid of. Who do they ignore? Who do they laugh at? Who do they fight?