Frankly, in any real estate transaction involving a property NEW enough to be in a HOA, there should be professionals involved who won't let this happen. That is what they are paid for.
FTFY. FYI, a neighborhood of million-dollar mansions built in the '50s almost certainly won't have an HOA, but a neighborhood of shitty cottages built in the '80s almost certainly will.
I think your point still stands in the case of a sale to an owner-occupant because there's likely a mortgage and thus the mortgage company would insist on professional title insurance, but in cases where investors are buying up the shitty cottages for cash there might end up being a problem.
HOAs are evil, in that they are perfectly constructed to set neighbor against neighbor. We would be better off without them.
They're also evil in that they're racist. And I don't mean that "some" of them have been "corrupted" by racists, I mean that they were designed as an end-run around the Fair Housing Act of 1968, when making rules to explicitly prohibit people of particular ethnic groups from living in a development became illegal. HOAs provide a excuse where "undesirables" can be run out of a subdivision allegedly for violating some selectively-enforced bullshit rule instead of because they're the wrong color.
But I am saying that HOAs are not generally needed in neighborhoods that are so rich that anyone who would degrade the property value couldn't move in there anyway.
Counterexample: Justin Bieber. I bet his neighbors wish they had an HOA!
The main difference between HOA and non-HOA development is not the price range of the development, but rather the age of it. Up until something like the '70s or '80s almost no new subdivisions had HOAs; by the '90s almost all of them did. Therefore, if you want to live in a house less than 30 years old or so, you're probably going to have to accept an HOA.
The correlation with richer, whiter areas is merely a consequence of white flight.
Closing Gitmo was never feasible. Obama ran on it because he didn't know any better and it sounded good. But once you learn the details, it neigh impossible without letting everyone loose, and most of the people in there are people no one wants let loose.
I don't give a shit whether no one "wants" them let loose; unless they can be charged with a crime then they must be let loose! We don't have a goddamn legitimate choice about that!
As far as the NSA is concerned, the liberals/Dems are far more likely to support what the NSA was doing since they are in favor of a "Nanny State" to start with; and they're too tied to corporations to let anything major get through as far as the environment is concerned.
What a perfect little pawn of the establishment you are! You've fallen for the "us vs. them" propaganda hook, line and sinker.
The reality is that the Democrats are left-authoritarian and the Republicans are right-authoritarian, which means that they both completely agree that totalitarian NSA oppression is Peachy Keen and Awesome.
Nevertheless, there are more politicians in the Democratic Party than in the Republican Party who at least pay lip service to civil liberties, and if they had any integrity whatsoever they should have at least tried to act when they had the chance.
You're right, failing to uphold net neutrality and reform immigration is not what we should be upset about. Failing to punish NSA treason, close Gitmo and protect the environment (all issues that did exist during the Democrat supermajority) is what we should be upset about!
No, fuck you for blatantly pretending "privilege escalation" is the only kind of security hole javascript could possibly have. Fuck you for ignoring the fact that it's incredibly dangerous for allowing user tracking, de-anonymizing TOR users, etc. Fuck you for trying to destroy innocent people's privacy by telling them they're idiots just because they tried to protect themselves.
Why is the data store not immutable and applications only get a link to the data IF they are allowed access to it?
Because then somebody has to tell the computer which applications are allowed to access which data, and normal users can't be bothered.
You know that we have such functionality now, right? All you have to do is use something like SELinux and set up the ACLs. But I doubt that even most people as security-conscious as you have actually spent the effort to use it.
Malware could be a lot worse than even this. Why it isn't yet, I haven't figured out - I presume because money-making is at the heart of it now rather than actually malintent with your data. But that won't last forever.
Most malware isn't "all that bad" for the same reason most diseases aren't like Ebola: if you kill the host too quickly, or provoke a strong anti-disease response, it's harder to spread.
The source I used said "At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 London had a population of about 18,000. By the 14th century it rose to about 45,000." Either way, it's not important: the point I was making is that Cahokia was bigger than London, which is impressive no matter how much bigger it was.
If Kodak was once a "film" company, they were really a chemical company, rather than a camera company. In that vein, one of their little-known successes in the reinvention department is their spinoff of Eastman Chemical, which currently is a thriving $11B company.
Actually, the last time I flew, I went on a week-long vacation and shoved all my stuff into my under-seat bag. I was flying Spirit and I was too cheap to even pay for a carry-on...
You broke the conditions of carriage and used a different product to the one you purchased
Bullshit. He missed the flight. The airline does not know, and is not entitled to know why -- it's none of their goddamn business. Maybe he missed it intentionally; maybe he was just sick in the bathroom. Either way, it is absurd for the airline to somehow contractually "compel" him to complete the flight.
How is the airline's asinine policy his fault? The airline doesn't have to wait for somebody who's "late" (either accidentally or intentionally) getting back to the plane, you know.
What I want to know is why does anybody want to get on the plane sooner? I, for one, want to be the last person down the jetway -- waiting at the gate is more comfortable than waiting on the plane!
Now, I could certainly see paying extra to get off the plane sooner (but I suppose paying for an assigned seat closer to the front is a proxy for that).
Eh? If we do it, people say that no one loses anything if you make a copy, and that sharing has been part of human culture for ages. These people should have nothing to whine about if Sony then goes to do the same thing.
If Sony were an individual and wanted to play it at home in private, sure. But incorporating into a major commercial motion picture (i.e., for profit... at least in theory) is a little bit different!
The important distinction between Slashdot and social media is that Slashdot is organized around a topic for discussion, whereas social media is designed so that everybody can broadcast every trivial detail about themselves to everybody else.
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FTFY. FYI, a neighborhood of million-dollar mansions built in the '50s almost certainly won't have an HOA, but a neighborhood of shitty cottages built in the '80s almost certainly will.
I think your point still stands in the case of a sale to an owner-occupant because there's likely a mortgage and thus the mortgage company would insist on professional title insurance, but in cases where investors are buying up the shitty cottages for cash there might end up being a problem.
They're also evil in that they're racist. And I don't mean that "some" of them have been "corrupted" by racists, I mean that they were designed as an end-run around the Fair Housing Act of 1968, when making rules to explicitly prohibit people of particular ethnic groups from living in a development became illegal. HOAs provide a excuse where "undesirables" can be run out of a subdivision allegedly for violating some selectively-enforced bullshit rule instead of because they're the wrong color.
Counterexample: Justin Bieber. I bet his neighbors wish they had an HOA!
The main difference between HOA and non-HOA development is not the price range of the development, but rather the age of it. Up until something like the '70s or '80s almost no new subdivisions had HOAs; by the '90s almost all of them did. Therefore, if you want to live in a house less than 30 years old or so, you're probably going to have to accept an HOA.
The correlation with richer, whiter areas is merely a consequence of white flight.
I don't give a shit whether no one "wants" them let loose; unless they can be charged with a crime then they must be let loose! We don't have a goddamn legitimate choice about that!
What a perfect little pawn of the establishment you are! You've fallen for the "us vs. them" propaganda hook, line and sinker.
The reality is that the Democrats are left-authoritarian and the Republicans are right-authoritarian, which means that they both completely agree that totalitarian NSA oppression is Peachy Keen and Awesome.
Nevertheless, there are more politicians in the Democratic Party than in the Republican Party who at least pay lip service to civil liberties, and if they had any integrity whatsoever they should have at least tried to act when they had the chance.
You're right, failing to uphold net neutrality and reform immigration is not what we should be upset about. Failing to punish NSA treason, close Gitmo and protect the environment (all issues that did exist during the Democrat supermajority) is what we should be upset about!
The only solution is to drive old cars that aren't infected with this shit.
No, fuck you for blatantly pretending "privilege escalation" is the only kind of security hole javascript could possibly have. Fuck you for ignoring the fact that it's incredibly dangerous for allowing user tracking, de-anonymizing TOR users, etc. Fuck you for trying to destroy innocent people's privacy by telling them they're idiots just because they tried to protect themselves.
Because then somebody has to tell the computer which applications are allowed to access which data, and normal users can't be bothered.
You know that we have such functionality now, right? All you have to do is use something like SELinux and set up the ACLs. But I doubt that even most people as security-conscious as you have actually spent the effort to use it.
Most malware isn't "all that bad" for the same reason most diseases aren't like Ebola: if you kill the host too quickly, or provoke a strong anti-disease response, it's harder to spread.
Why? Wood fibers are pretty darn strong in tension, and cheaper and more environmentally-friendly than fiberglass or carbon fiber.
Nah, that's unrealistic too: the earliest match-like devices were invented only about 1500 years ago (by the Chinese).
Can't you watch full episodes at foodnetwork.com these days?
The source I used said "At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086 London had a population of about 18,000. By the 14th century it rose to about 45,000." Either way, it's not important: the point I was making is that Cahokia was bigger than London, which is impressive no matter how much bigger it was.
100,000 people in Cahokia in the 13th century would have made it about two or three times larger than London at the time.
If Google was blocked for not obeying Chinese law, but isn't blocked anymore... then what principles did Google compromise in order to get unblocked?
To me, the craziest thing about Kodak is that it would have been a good investment despite going bankrupt, because of the Eastman Chemical spinoff.
Actually, the last time I flew, I went on a week-long vacation and shoved all my stuff into my under-seat bag. I was flying Spirit and I was too cheap to even pay for a carry-on...
You have to admit, "it burned up on re-entry" is a pretty good excuse for losing it though!
Bullshit. He missed the flight. The airline does not know, and is not entitled to know why -- it's none of their goddamn business. Maybe he missed it intentionally; maybe he was just sick in the bathroom. Either way, it is absurd for the airline to somehow contractually "compel" him to complete the flight.
How is the airline's asinine policy his fault? The airline doesn't have to wait for somebody who's "late" (either accidentally or intentionally) getting back to the plane, you know.
What I want to know is why does anybody want to get on the plane sooner? I, for one, want to be the last person down the jetway -- waiting at the gate is more comfortable than waiting on the plane!
Now, I could certainly see paying extra to get off the plane sooner (but I suppose paying for an assigned seat closer to the front is a proxy for that).
No they're not. Sanitation engineers are civil engineers who design waste collection systems (e.g. water treatment plants).
Saying the guy on the truck is a sanitation engineer is like saying the dumbass at Jiffy Lube is an automotive engineer.
Wanting to be able to use your own damn property is "entitlement?!" Fuck you!
If Sony were an individual and wanted to play it at home in private, sure. But incorporating into a major commercial motion picture (i.e., for profit... at least in theory) is a little bit different!
The important distinction between Slashdot and social media is that Slashdot is organized around a topic for discussion, whereas social media is designed so that everybody can broadcast every trivial detail about themselves to everybody else.