everybody is talking about how bad the email was instead of the breach itself.
Breaches don't matter anymore. I was a victim of the Home Depot, Target, and Equifax breaches. So all my information is already "out there". Most other people are in the same situation. Yet another breach doesn't make any difference. Who cares?
If it made sense to spin it off, it would have been done by now.
Two economists are walking down the street. One says "Hey look, there is a $20 bill lying on the ground!" The other says, "No, that is impossible because if there was really money lying on the ground, somebody else would have already picked it up."
Going to be interesting to see what the effect on property values will be when people can't easily move stuff in and out of the area.
Since residents are not affected by the ban, and traffic is now lighter, it will be easier to move stuff in and out, and property values should soar to the moon.
When a rich moron climbs into his overpriced car he is thinking "hey its autopilot. It will take me where I want to go and I don't need to do anything".
Can you cite a single instance of this happening?
You certainly seem to have a bug up your butt about the word "Autopilot". Why do you care so much? It seems like a strange thing to obsess over.
Why are vegans obsessed with making stuff that isn't meat into something they can call "meat"?
Mostly, they aren't. Many vegans aren't interested in fake meat. It is more for non-vegans that crave meat but want a healthier, greener, more humane, or whatever, option.
Most vegan "beef" is pretty bad, but fake chicken is pretty good.
Even if you could get a selling realtor to return your calls (which tehy tend not to do cause it's a cabal), they're not going to split the commission with you.
They will return your phone calls because realtors love dual-agency transactions. They work directly with buyer and seller, with one less layer of miscommunication. And they do not "split" the commission. They get the full selling commission. You only ask them to give up the buying commission, which they wouldn't get in a normal sale anyway.
Fuck the American culture of hero-worship of anyone in a uniform and with a gun.
The hero worship increases proportionally to the square of the distance from the nearest military base. When travelling in uniform, people would buy me drinks. But just off base, lawns would have signs that said "Dogs and Marines Keep off the Grass". Familiarity breeds contempt.
Oh, one other piece of free advice: Don't use a realtor to buy a house.
If you use a realtor, you will get about a 5% higher sales price. But the buyer agent and seller agent commissions are typically about 3% each, or 6% total.
So if you are a seller, using a realtor is a wash. You get a slightly higher price, but lose it all again on the commissions.
But for a buyer, it is just a dead loss. Your realtor has NO interest in negotiating a lower price on your behalf, since her commission is a percentage of the selling price.
Instead, you should ask the selling realtor to do a dual-agency, and make a waiver of the buy-side commission a condition of your offer.
Realtors are parasites. Just one notch above lawyers.
They more or less work for the Realtors, whose sole concern is making sure the house gets sold.
What state is this in? Everywhere I have been, they buyer selects the inspector, not the realtor.
Go online and pick someone with good reviews.
like the wall full of mold, and the lack of working power in most outlets in the upper floor.
I have had much better luck with inspectors. They certainly checked all the power outlets. I don't think they would have found mold inside a wall, but they do use a moisture sensor so they would find the underlying issue.
You're asserting "all rooms in an area of similar size are worth the same" without looking at any of the details that an appraiser would. Ceilings, doors, glass, light, materials, all kinds of things factor in.
They factor in far less than you think. Many sellers spend a small fortune on new countertops and carpets only to find they make little difference to buyers.
The idea that you're going to get a realistic valuation of all of that from a housing inspector or a public county recorder-assessor is just retarded.
Inspectors don't do valuations. That is obviously not their job. But they WILL find major problems, such as structural insect damage, that can influence the valuation.
NOBODY uses tax assessments to do valuations. They use the sale price of comparable properties.
Why have *people* involved, anywhere? We don't need "Merchants" any more than "Shoppers"
That is their plan. They will have small local distribution centers with picking robots. You order the groceries on-line, and your order is delivered to your home by a self-driving-car 30 minutes later.
There is nothing new about eliminating shoppers. Before 1880, there were no "shoppers". You went into the store, handed your list to the clerk, and then the clerk went into the storeroom and picked your order, wrapped it up, and processed the payment. Allowing the customer to actually see or touch the merchandise before they paid was unthinkable.
So we will just be going back to the old way, except the picker will be a robot.
... especially if the loans are subsidized by public money.
Maybe we should just stop subsidizing loans with taxpayer money.
The subsidies are justified because home ownership is a "Good Thing", but is it? In most big cities, it is way more cost effective to rent. Home ownership makes it harder for people to move to where the jobs are, and this "geo-stickiness" is one of the reasons for the slow recovery from the financial crisis, which itself was caused by people pushed into securitized mortgages that they couldn't afford, with much of the risk dumped onto the taxpayer.
A home inspection is generally worth the cost. An appraisal is different, and usually a waste of money.
The appraiser will walk through the house and make sure nothing obvious is wrong (which the inspector already does much more thoroughly), measure the size of the rooms (which is already a matter of public record, and also easy to do yourself), and then calculate a price based on comparable recent sales nearby.
Since the sale prices of the nearby comparables is public information, and available online, why do you need a human to calculate it, rather than a computer program? Answer: You don't.
His employment came to an end, and he wiped the USB drive, which is probably consistent with whatever employment agreement he signed.
He was notified that the USB drive contained legal evidence. If he wiped it after that notification, he may be guilty of obstruction of justice, which is a crime. That is why they are having a forensic investigator try to determine the date the drive was wiped.
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everybody is talking about how bad the email was instead of the breach itself.
Breaches don't matter anymore. I was a victim of the Home Depot, Target, and Equifax breaches. So all my information is already "out there". Most other people are in the same situation. Yet another breach doesn't make any difference. Who cares?
If it made sense to spin it off, it would have been done by now.
Two economists are walking down the street. One says "Hey look, there is a $20 bill lying on the ground!" The other says, "No, that is impossible because if there was really money lying on the ground, somebody else would have already picked it up."
I'd take eating outside there over Paris any day
Besides the clean air, another advantage of Madrid over Paris is the lack or Parisians.
though admittedly it's been a good 10 years since I've been to Paris.
It hasn't gotten any better.
I'm thinking there isn't a city in Europe that doesn't far exceed these limits.
You should visit Siena in Tuscany. Cars are banned from downtown. It is a beautiful city, and the people are very friendly.
Going to be interesting to see what the effect on property values will be when people can't easily move stuff in and out of the area.
Since residents are not affected by the ban, and traffic is now lighter, it will be easier to move stuff in and out, and property values should soar to the moon.
When a rich moron climbs into his overpriced car he is thinking "hey its autopilot. It will take me where I want to go and I don't need to do anything".
Can you cite a single instance of this happening?
You certainly seem to have a bug up your butt about the word "Autopilot". Why do you care so much? It seems like a strange thing to obsess over.
The inappropriate defecation is not caused by a lack of training, but by an excess of alcohol.
Well, if we blindly follow that logic, we should wipe out every species on earth.
As a general rule, doing things blindly is a bad idea.
Disclaimer: This post is not intended to denigrate blind people in any way.
If we start editing genes, will we fork our species into a group who's nutritional needs are far different than the current norms?
People of northeast Asia, including Mongols and Inuit, already have genetic adaptations for a meat based diet high in protein and saturated fat.
According to 23andMe, my daughter is 5% Mongol, and she is a vegan. So I presume that she didn't get the meat gene.
Not everyone desires blonde hair and blue eyes.
Analysis of dating site data shows that Asian women get the most messages.
How is it possible that the word "eugenics" does not appear in this story or in any of the comments?
1. The Nazis gave "eugenics" a bad rap, so nobody uses that word anymore. You have to call it something else.
2. This isn't really eugenics. Nobody is selected out. We just cut and paste the bad genes.
Like real estate, we're not making any more IPv4 addresses.
New IP addresses are made every time an organization rolls out a VLAN in the 10/8 range.
... and new real estate is made every time Kilauea's lava reaches the sea.
Why are vegans obsessed with making stuff that isn't meat into something they can call "meat"?
Mostly, they aren't. Many vegans aren't interested in fake meat. It is more for non-vegans that crave meat but want a healthier, greener, more humane, or whatever, option.
Most vegan "beef" is pretty bad, but fake chicken is pretty good.
Even if you could get a selling realtor to return your calls (which tehy tend not to do cause it's a cabal), they're not going to split the commission with you.
They will return your phone calls because realtors love dual-agency transactions. They work directly with buyer and seller, with one less layer of miscommunication. And they do not "split" the commission. They get the full selling commission. You only ask them to give up the buying commission, which they wouldn't get in a normal sale anyway.
Fuck the American culture of hero-worship of anyone in a uniform and with a gun.
The hero worship increases proportionally to the square of the distance from the nearest military base. When travelling in uniform, people would buy me drinks. But just off base, lawns would have signs that said "Dogs and Marines Keep off the Grass". Familiarity breeds contempt.
Semper fi.
Most people in the USAF are not pilots, and don't fly as part of their job.
Sure, the USAF has multi-million dollar equipment, but they also have floors to sweep and potatoes to peel.
It works.
It would stop working if we decriminalized texting.
Government officials who gave computer access to inmates.
The inmates were using smuggled cell phones.
Oh, one other piece of free advice: Don't use a realtor to buy a house.
If you use a realtor, you will get about a 5% higher sales price. But the buyer agent and seller agent commissions are typically about 3% each, or 6% total.
So if you are a seller, using a realtor is a wash. You get a slightly higher price, but lose it all again on the commissions.
But for a buyer, it is just a dead loss. Your realtor has NO interest in negotiating a lower price on your behalf, since her commission is a percentage of the selling price.
Instead, you should ask the selling realtor to do a dual-agency, and make a waiver of the buy-side commission a condition of your offer.
Realtors are parasites. Just one notch above lawyers.
They more or less work for the Realtors, whose sole concern is making sure the house gets sold.
What state is this in? Everywhere I have been, they buyer selects the inspector, not the realtor.
Go online and pick someone with good reviews.
like the wall full of mold, and the lack of working power in most outlets in the upper floor.
I have had much better luck with inspectors. They certainly checked all the power outlets. I don't think they would have found mold inside a wall, but they do use a moisture sensor so they would find the underlying issue.
You're asserting "all rooms in an area of similar size are worth the same" without looking at any of the details that an appraiser would. Ceilings, doors, glass, light, materials, all kinds of things factor in.
They factor in far less than you think. Many sellers spend a small fortune on new countertops and carpets only to find they make little difference to buyers.
The idea that you're going to get a realistic valuation of all of that from a housing inspector or a public county recorder-assessor is just retarded.
Inspectors don't do valuations. That is obviously not their job. But they WILL find major problems, such as structural insect damage, that can influence the valuation.
NOBODY uses tax assessments to do valuations. They use the sale price of comparable properties.
Why have *people* involved, anywhere?
We don't need "Merchants" any more than "Shoppers"
That is their plan. They will have small local distribution centers with picking robots. You order the groceries on-line, and your order is delivered to your home by a self-driving-car 30 minutes later.
There is nothing new about eliminating shoppers. Before 1880, there were no "shoppers". You went into the store, handed your list to the clerk, and then the clerk went into the storeroom and picked your order, wrapped it up, and processed the payment. Allowing the customer to actually see or touch the merchandise before they paid was unthinkable.
So we will just be going back to the old way, except the picker will be a robot.
... especially if the loans are subsidized by public money.
Maybe we should just stop subsidizing loans with taxpayer money.
The subsidies are justified because home ownership is a "Good Thing", but is it? In most big cities, it is way more cost effective to rent. Home ownership makes it harder for people to move to where the jobs are, and this "geo-stickiness" is one of the reasons for the slow recovery from the financial crisis, which itself was caused by people pushed into securitized mortgages that they couldn't afford, with much of the risk dumped onto the taxpayer.
Appraisals are required by lenders, and I think they always will be, regardless of this law change.
Of course appraisals will always be required. The only question is whether they will be done by humans.
A home inspection is generally worth the cost. An appraisal is different, and usually a waste of money.
The appraiser will walk through the house and make sure nothing obvious is wrong (which the inspector already does much more thoroughly), measure the size of the rooms (which is already a matter of public record, and also easy to do yourself), and then calculate a price based on comparable recent sales nearby.
Since the sale prices of the nearby comparables is public information, and available online, why do you need a human to calculate it, rather than a computer program? Answer: You don't.
His employment came to an end, and he wiped the USB drive, which is probably consistent with whatever employment agreement he signed.
He was notified that the USB drive contained legal evidence. If he wiped it after that notification, he may be guilty of obstruction of justice, which is a crime. That is why they are having a forensic investigator try to determine the date the drive was wiped.