Be ready to buy with cash, and make it a stipulation that you will be placed on the HoA board of directors, or you and your cash deal walk away. You won't get a seat on the board but I'll bet you can get yourself exempted.
I'd love to hear a story of anyone who has gotten to the table at the title office with the contract ready to go and money in the title account, and then made an issue out of a HoA -- either in the form of being made exempt, or simply walking away from the deal. I think it would be fun to do that. Insist that it is very much in the seller's ability to make the deed exempt from any encumbrances of that sort, and to do it in the form of a deed restriction so that it is forever exempt. With the value proposition for them taking that step being that you are now walking away from an otherwise closed deal.
Not many people get to that point in a real estate deal prepared to walk away for *any* reason.
Climbing on the roof doesn't scare me. Hitting the ground or sharp things between the roof and the ground after falling from the roof does kind of scare me.
The only thing that really changed is that we know that military data security can be horrible, and that the spirit of "Loose Lips Sink Ships" died at some point.
Not everybody gets the same training, but I know an Army officer (an O-1) who was routinely drilled on this. Every now and then he'd get a plainly illegal order for something minor, which was a test -- not calling his superior on the test would have been a Bad Thing -- something you had to be on your toes to spot. That was at West Point, so of course not an experience that everybody in the Army has, but when I heard that and other stories it changed my opinion of military training and discipline. Point is, for all this stuff that civilians talk about (what if enemy elements infiltrated the US government? What if there were rogue elements within the chain of command?) at least some military officers are explicitly considering these possibilities as potential reality, and training for it.
Anyway it made me comfortable that at least one 1st Lt. in the US Army had been trained to instinctively consider that an order might not be legal.
On the other hand, that same training makes it really hard to presume that someone in Manning's position didn't know how severe the consequences would be for what he did. I'm not making a value judgment as to whether his actions were ethical or not, because I just plain don't care about that.
More than a backup system, many home and small biz users need organization and discipline. You might have a few terabytes of data, but I'll bet a tiny fraction of that is needed to keep you out of jail, keep you from losing customers, or keep the IRS from seizing your real estate. I'll go as far as to suggest that for many people that's a floppy disc's worth of information. But for want of a reliable, quick and convenient way to backup a terabyte, many people still go without the ability to recover from a disaster because that tiny amount of critical information is buried in the noise. I see this phenomenon at the corporate level, to scale. Picture multiple HP LTO jukeboxes at multiple facilities with tapes being sent offsite daily. In all that data, how much is really important to business continuity, and how much is noise? (Most of it is noise, but separating signal from noise is labor intensive and often is a matter of opinion, so it all gets backed up.) Now when you have an SLA that requires you do do something that's staggeringly expensive (if possible), these decisions still get made, just not necessarily in a disciplined way.
I knew before I got it that my MacBook Pro was a very usable notebook with a sufficiently Unix-like OS to meet my needs, with very efficient power management functions, and with full support for all its devices. There are no inexpensive notebooks for which I can have all these assurances with the degree of certainty I would need to purchase it blind.
To argue, give me some examples of notebooks in the sub $1000 range which are guaranteed to work with Linux (it doesn't have to be a "written guarantee" type of guarantee, I'll settle for community audits.) "Works with Linux" means no driver incompatibility whatsoever with wireless networking, firewire, audio, or video, and full power management support. Onboard video and audio must be at least as good as the GeForce and the Intel on these things (not a high bar to reach but these are NOT bad, and I've seen MUCH worse). There are some subjective aspects -- I actually *like* the Macbook keyboard and trackpad, the battery life, the portability, and oh yeah, the native OS gives me a proper shell, which is kind of the main thing for me.
So what's out there to compete? There's some value in *knowing* what these things have to offer, as opposed to the hit-or-miss nature of a Linux notebook (even a supported one).
That would be fine, IF THEY GAVE YOU THE LATTE OR TWO. Instead they are charging for the lattes and not giving them to you, but saying that's okay because it's pretty much the same price.
I cancelled my Netflix a long time ago. I started it up again at some point because I got a free month or something. It sure was hard getting them to cancel that free month (it took three paid months before I could stop it.)
Some people are able to find value in paid-for entertainment media. Myself, not so much.
If you aren't successful enough to have your own Gulfstream, get over yourself. Airport security might suck but are you seriously prepared to go up against this authority at the cost of your own freedom? This really isn't the driver for a revolution in this country.
If your road trip takes you from, say, Laramie Wyoming to Whistler BC, that's one thing. If you have to drive across Oklahoma AND Kansas, let's just say I don't want to ever do that again in my life. Not all road trips are equivalent.
Plenty of people don't think of trips in terms of a "vacation" but rather as a tour. Part of the problem is that people think of a vacation as something you cram into "two weeks". I've always envied people who can make an 8,000 mile trip into a whole season, even earning a modest living as they go. This isn't an especially high profile lifestyle, obviously, but there's a lot to be said, and a lot lacking in the typical city dwelling, working a day job lifestyle.
You miss the point. You aren't forced to "travel around the US", plane or no plane. We're only a couple of generations removed from people who very rarely made it 40 miles from their birth place, and we lose sight of the things we take for granted.
I don't care that the OS isn't supported. The only support I've ever asked Microsoft for was the activation of a MSDN key that I bought directly from Microsoft, a full retail MSDN subscription, that would not activate because someone had guessed the key and registered it before it was even assigned. Mind you, I never did get any support, and I had to literally threaten to sue (Microsoft!) to even get a replacement MSDN license.
Anyway, I don't care at all that XP isn't "supported." The problem is, will it be impossible to *activate* ? Will they go as far as to *deactivate* it? Will they release an activation crack before they end-of-life it?
What's interesting here is that there are people who, in return for a very modest wage, will agree to be in the position of examining little old ladies' diapers. There are people who would walk out of that job on day one. Then there are people who would make it their primary objective to get out of that job into something that gives some semblance of dignity. Understand, we're talking $10-15/hr jobs here, so a lateral move isn't all that hard to make, even in this economy.
Then there are people who *compete* to *get* this job, and who are eager to keep it. Those people scare me.
What business user doesn't use Firefox? What on earth do they use if not Firefox? Don't tell me "Internet Explorer" because that's crazy talk. Business users are using Firefox.
I tried to buy something once through a self-scanner, and it rang up a remarkably lower price than it should have. I completed the checkout, paid, and then went to customer service to explain the issue. The customer service clerk looked at me as if I had nine heads, especially after scanning the item and seeing that the barcode scan gave the same price that my receipt said I'd paid. She then said something like, "no, you paid for this", clearly not understanding my motivation for mentioning it, so I left.
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"Soon" has different meanings in terms of "tree growth" that what we usually think of as "soon".
Most people end up getting into real estate deals in a state of compromise and under severe duress. A lot of bad decisions get made.
Be ready to buy with cash, and make it a stipulation that you will be placed on the HoA board of directors, or you and your cash deal walk away. You won't get a seat on the board but I'll bet you can get yourself exempted.
I'd love to hear a story of anyone who has gotten to the table at the title office with the contract ready to go and money in the title account, and then made an issue out of a HoA -- either in the form of being made exempt, or simply walking away from the deal. I think it would be fun to do that. Insist that it is very much in the seller's ability to make the deed exempt from any encumbrances of that sort, and to do it in the form of a deed restriction so that it is forever exempt. With the value proposition for them taking that step being that you are now walking away from an otherwise closed deal.
Not many people get to that point in a real estate deal prepared to walk away for *any* reason.
Climbing on the roof doesn't scare me. Hitting the ground or sharp things between the roof and the ground after falling from the roof does kind of scare me.
The only thing that really changed is that we know that military data security can be horrible, and that the spirit of "Loose Lips Sink Ships" died at some point.
Not everybody gets the same training, but I know an Army officer (an O-1) who was routinely drilled on this. Every now and then he'd get a plainly illegal order for something minor, which was a test -- not calling his superior on the test would have been a Bad Thing -- something you had to be on your toes to spot. That was at West Point, so of course not an experience that everybody in the Army has, but when I heard that and other stories it changed my opinion of military training and discipline. Point is, for all this stuff that civilians talk about (what if enemy elements infiltrated the US government? What if there were rogue elements within the chain of command?) at least some military officers are explicitly considering these possibilities as potential reality, and training for it.
Anyway it made me comfortable that at least one 1st Lt. in the US Army had been trained to instinctively consider that an order might not be legal.
On the other hand, that same training makes it really hard to presume that someone in Manning's position didn't know how severe the consequences would be for what he did. I'm not making a value judgment as to whether his actions were ethical or not, because I just plain don't care about that.
I'm sorry, but I'm not smart enough to connect the dots between My Lai and what Manning did.
More than a backup system, many home and small biz users need organization and discipline. You might have a few terabytes of data, but I'll bet a tiny fraction of that is needed to keep you out of jail, keep you from losing customers, or keep the IRS from seizing your real estate. I'll go as far as to suggest that for many people that's a floppy disc's worth of information. But for want of a reliable, quick and convenient way to backup a terabyte, many people still go without the ability to recover from a disaster because that tiny amount of critical information is buried in the noise. I see this phenomenon at the corporate level, to scale. Picture multiple HP LTO jukeboxes at multiple facilities with tapes being sent offsite daily. In all that data, how much is really important to business continuity, and how much is noise? (Most of it is noise, but separating signal from noise is labor intensive and often is a matter of opinion, so it all gets backed up.) Now when you have an SLA that requires you do do something that's staggeringly expensive (if possible), these decisions still get made, just not necessarily in a disciplined way.
If you do have a magic money making machine, time spent with it turned off is zero cash.
I knew before I got it that my MacBook Pro was a very usable notebook with a sufficiently Unix-like OS to meet my needs, with very efficient power management functions, and with full support for all its devices.
There are no inexpensive notebooks for which I can have all these assurances with the degree of certainty I would need to purchase it blind.
To argue, give me some examples of notebooks in the sub $1000 range which are guaranteed to work with Linux (it doesn't have to be a "written guarantee" type of guarantee, I'll settle for community audits.) "Works with Linux" means no driver incompatibility whatsoever with wireless networking, firewire, audio, or video, and full power management support. Onboard video and audio must be at least as good as the GeForce and the Intel on these things (not a high bar to reach but these are NOT bad, and I've seen MUCH worse). There are some subjective aspects -- I actually *like* the Macbook keyboard and trackpad, the battery life, the portability, and oh yeah, the native OS gives me a proper shell, which is kind of the main thing for me.
So what's out there to compete? There's some value in *knowing* what these things have to offer, as opposed to the hit-or-miss nature of a Linux notebook (even a supported one).
I really like my Drobo and rsync.
That would be fine, IF THEY GAVE YOU THE LATTE OR TWO. Instead they are charging for the lattes and not giving them to you, but saying that's okay because it's pretty much the same price.
I cancelled my Netflix a long time ago. I started it up again at some point because I got a free month or something. It sure was hard getting them to cancel that free month (it took three paid months before I could stop it.)
Some people are able to find value in paid-for entertainment media. Myself, not so much.
If you aren't successful enough to have your own Gulfstream, get over yourself. Airport security might suck but are you seriously prepared to go up against this authority at the cost of your own freedom? This really isn't the driver for a revolution in this country.
If your road trip takes you from, say, Laramie Wyoming to Whistler BC, that's one thing. If you have to drive across Oklahoma AND Kansas, let's just say I don't want to ever do that again in my life. Not all road trips are equivalent.
Plenty of people don't think of trips in terms of a "vacation" but rather as a tour. Part of the problem is that people think of a vacation as something you cram into "two weeks". I've always envied people who can make an 8,000 mile trip into a whole season, even earning a modest living as they go. This isn't an especially high profile lifestyle, obviously, but there's a lot to be said, and a lot lacking in the typical city dwelling, working a day job lifestyle.
For some, the journey *is* the destination.
You miss the point. You aren't forced to "travel around the US", plane or no plane. We're only a couple of generations removed from people who very rarely made it 40 miles from their birth place, and we lose sight of the things we take for granted.
It could learn that "bad" is a noun and "fail" is an adjective.
I don't care that the OS isn't supported. The only support I've ever asked Microsoft for was the activation of a MSDN key that I bought directly from Microsoft, a full retail MSDN subscription, that would not activate because someone had guessed the key and registered it before it was even assigned. Mind you, I never did get any support, and I had to literally threaten to sue (Microsoft!) to even get a replacement MSDN license.
Anyway, I don't care at all that XP isn't "supported." The problem is, will it be impossible to *activate* ? Will they go as far as to *deactivate* it? Will they release an activation crack before they end-of-life it?
What's interesting here is that there are people who, in return for a very modest wage, will agree to be in the position of examining little old ladies' diapers. There are people who would walk out of that job on day one. Then there are people who would make it their primary objective to get out of that job into something that gives some semblance of dignity. Understand, we're talking $10-15/hr jobs here, so a lateral move isn't all that hard to make, even in this economy.
Then there are people who *compete* to *get* this job, and who are eager to keep it. Those people scare me.
What business user doesn't use Firefox? What on earth do they use if not Firefox? Don't tell me "Internet Explorer" because that's crazy talk. Business users are using Firefox.
>There are way too many burnout cases on the streets.
And that's a result of marijuana use among people who are otherwise completely sober?
What I took from this story is that New Zealand has an age-based prohibition on alcohol.
I tried to buy something once through a self-scanner, and it rang up a remarkably lower price than it should have. I completed the checkout, paid, and then went to customer service to explain the issue. The customer service clerk looked at me as if I had nine heads, especially after scanning the item and seeing that the barcode scan gave the same price that my receipt said I'd paid. She then said something like, "no, you paid for this", clearly not understanding my motivation for mentioning it, so I left.