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  1. Re:Maybe they do in the U.S..... on Why Do Employers Require College Degrees That Aren't Necessary? (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes!

    I do have 10 years bullshitting experience from before products shipped.

  2. A tiny %.

    The rest are mostly second generation morons, or their parents would cut off the funds after a year of 0.5 GPAs while taking only remedial courses.

    I blame 'Animal House' and I'm generally from the 'Pro Party' camp.

  3. Re:lack of a trades track as well germany has a go on Why Do Employers Require College Degrees That Aren't Necessary? (thestreet.com) · · Score: 1

    Germany USED TO do a relatively good job with their bottom 20%.

    But that ship has sailed, they now graduate into apprenticeships not knowing how do basic arithmetic.

    Yes my Aunt is a teacher in a German high school. They don't know what to make of it or do about it. It's like the idiot kids have been replaced by American idiots.

  4. Re:Does anyone not already know the answer to this on Why Do Employers Require College Degrees That Aren't Necessary? (thestreet.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Just no. Part of the solution is for the government to stop paying any part of any degree program that doesn't have high in field employment after graduation. That means kick those programs off public school campuses.

    A generation of 'poetry majors' publicly starving in the streets will also help kids focus on getting value for their education dollars, borrowed or not.

  5. Re:Identification on Bipartisan US Election Group Issues Security Tips (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    'The plan' has not been thwarted by voter rolls. Now or anytime in the last 100 years. In fact, voter rolls are just lists of registered nonvoters to be used in 'the plan'.

  6. Re:Identification on Bipartisan US Election Group Issues Security Tips (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Voter rolls are setup to make it easy to identify registered voters that haven't voted in multiple elections.

  7. Re:Another Tip on Bipartisan US Election Group Issues Security Tips (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    No, it's IOS 'smart punctuation' unicode.

    Think of it as a single earring on the right side.

  8. If you were trying to rent it, that would be an issue. If you just want to live there, no problem.

    City folks just don't get how life is in the country. This isn't theory, this happens every week up in the hills. If you don't have a tweak lab, _nobody_ cares. Not even the building inspector, it's not like he keeps the outrageous permit fees.

  9. I didn't realize how fucked up a place Australia was until I visited. Even their bureaucrats are toxic and deadly.

  10. Re:"The Dow is at record-breaking levels" on Mobile Homes Are So Expensive Now, Hurricane Victims Can't Afford Them (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The only place you can find a genuine communist these days is a theme park in Poland and a 'western' university humanities department. They are all about the derp.

    They honestly believe they can 'win' in the long term by corrupting the language we use. Think '1984' was in instruction manual. Progressive newspeak is everywhere, but it's a dumb joke that draws eye rolls.

  11. 'Normal people' live in apartments, own brand new car payments and have life long negative net worth. They are the idiots.

  12. Re:This doesn't ring true on Mobile Homes Are So Expensive Now, Hurricane Victims Can't Afford Them (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Whereever you put it, it will be worth maybe half it's new price at two years.

  13. Re:Bipartisan vs Google and Facebook on Bipartisan US Election Group Issues Security Tips (reuters.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    False dichotomy. She lost. Enough of her dirt got out. Get over it.

    CNN will never fully recover. Credibility is very slow to come back. They aren't even trying yet, more like doubling down. CNN is with MSNBC now, the stink won't wash off.

  14. Re:"notorious attack" - LMAO at that on Bipartisan US Election Group Issues Security Tips (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    He's dead, so done.

    You approve of assassinating whistle blowers? Think fixing the primary was 'just fine'?

  15. A good percentage don't own their homes, of those that do, a good percentage lose them to the park owners as soon as they fall behind on lot rent.

    I've heard of park owners, putting high moveout fees into their contracts. Essentially assuring they will end up owning any mobile home that's put in their parks.

    I've also seen a resident come home to find his mobile home, with wires and plumbing dangling from where it was torn loose, parked on the side of the road beside the park entrance.

    Like most 'super low cost' options, their are lots of hidden costs, mainly petty crime. Of the two people I know who lived in trailer parks neither lasted more than 18 months before fleeing the chaos. The worst thing about mobile home parks? The neighbors!

  16. Re: There shouldn't be any ads on this content? on Brands Pull YouTube Ads Over Images of Children (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    They should equally draw laughter from overseas.

  17. The difference between a mobile home and a prefab is 15 minutes with a cutting torch.

    In 'no-mobile homes' areas, they cut the axles and trailer hitches off. Instant legal 'prefab'. But building codes still exist.

    Better prefabs do exist, but at the low end prefab = (mobile home - wheels).

  18. Re:For really good movies.... on A Third of Americans Still Buy and Rent Videos (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    Videophile high res is higher than they can typically display. Because it makes the picture 'warmer'?

  19. Re:Good. on Mobile Homes Are So Expensive Now, Hurricane Victims Can't Afford Them (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Most 'shed banning' is done by HOAs. _Never_ buy a HOA property, it's just that simple.

    Unless of course you're an 'HOA person', than fuck you...we'll both be happier living as far apart as possible.

  20. I know a guy in his 20th year living, full time, in what's legally an outbuilding. The OP is talking about rural land, nobody cares, and that's in California. Land of busy bodies and 20k$+ home building permits.

    The only downside is at sales time. The buyer won't be able to finance non-conforming buildings.

  21. Re:"The Dow is at record-breaking levels" on Mobile Homes Are So Expensive Now, Hurricane Victims Can't Afford Them (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Reread my post. Why are you arguing with brick walls?

  22. Re:This doesn't ring true on Mobile Homes Are So Expensive Now, Hurricane Victims Can't Afford Them (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Just get an old house and a lawn goat for minimum maintenance work. Lawn fires suck.

    Have you ever looked closely at a two or three year old mobile home? Eyeball right down the side, where it's supposed to be straight and flat.

    99% of mobile homes, fall apart like Bayliner boats. Built like the interior of a GM economy car.

    'High class mobile home' is like 'high class call girl'. An oxymoron.

  23. Re:This doesn't ring true on Mobile Homes Are So Expensive Now, Hurricane Victims Can't Afford Them (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    In rural Texas? Old houses won't be much more and will appreciate in value rather than deprecate like a car.

    Mobile homes aren't maintenance free. Rather the opposite. Built like shit from shit materials.

    'No lawn' implies mobile home park. What does 'trailer park supervisor' mean to you? 'Lehey' is a part in a TV show, but it's based on reality. 'Trailer park supervisors' ARE notorious petty tyrants. Trailer park neighbors are also 'colorful' bunch. I've never lived in one, but have known a couple of people that spent a couple years in one. 'Trailer Park Boys' is a documentary.

    Trailer parks are redneck ghettos. Nobody has things worse than white trash kids from the trailer parks. Their culture is as broken as any inner city slum dweller, but no help for their 'privileged' asses.

  24. Re:"The Dow is at record-breaking levels" on Mobile Homes Are So Expensive Now, Hurricane Victims Can't Afford Them (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Anybody who regularly uses the phrase 'late stage capitalism' has drunk the koolaid and isn't open to reason.

    It's a tell. Save the effort. Your time is better spent arguing with brick walls.

  25. New mobile homes are for idiots. A house should not depreciate like a car. Rent for a 1000 square foot 'lot' should not run to hundreds/month.

    Anybody thinking of going there, should buy bare land and shed to live in until they can afford to build a house. Mobile homes are built like sheds anyhow.