Bernies Sanders is too old to be Vice President. Hillary's VP pick will be younger, from somewhere else than the East Coast, and has a good reputation with Congress. After 30 years of beating the anti-Clinton drum, the Republican Party will be toast if Hillary serves eight years despite their opposition.
I can't wait until this happens. CNN will spin off a whole channel for nonstop coverage.
Los Angeles had a minor earthquake some years ago. I think it was like a 4.0 or so, a truck rumble at best. CNN kept running a black-and-white surveillance video of a grocery story where absolutely nothing moved in the background. Nothing falling, nothing breaking, nothing anything. But CNN made it sound like the BIG ONE already happened and California was sliding into the Pacific Ocean.
I've been told for the last 30+ years that the BIG ONE that will send California off into the Pacific Ocean is coming any day. Guess what? It should happen within the next 30 years. If the next 30 years was like the last 30 years, I got nothing to worry about.
I went back to school after the dot com crash to learn computer programming.* The networking track was still the money major at the time (i.e., if you want to make boatloads of money, take this major). You know it's getting absurd when a Vietnamese couple in their 70's who can barely speak English think they can get high paying job after graduation. When health care became the new money major, the network classes got cancelled due to a lack of demand.
* Yes, I got an A.S. in computer programming; no, I'm not a programmer because I went into I.T. support. But I do have an Network+ certification and studied for the CCNA on-and-off.
If he can't figure out how to set up VPN in an mixed environment, he should go back to school to get his bachelor's degree. A BS in networking is always valuable, especially in doing consultant work.
I take the express bus from San Jose to Palo Alto for my tech job. It's an hour each way. Sometimes a bit longer in the afternoon if there is more than five fender benders on the 280 between the 85 and the 17. Well worth the money at $140 per month for an express monthly pass.
There were no rent increases in 2009 and 2010 after the economy cratered from the Great Recession and people started moving out from Silicon Valley. The maximum rent increase by law is 8%, which didn't always mean that the rent went up by that amount each year. The rents have gone up in recent years because the apartment complex got sold several times. Each new corporate owner felt obligated to slap on a coat of paint, list the "luxury" apartments for inflated rents, and tried to recoup their costs in the shortest amount of time.
A few more certifications and another job change in a few years should put me on the $100,000 per year pay rate tier. Then, for the second time ever in my lifetime, rent will be less than 50% of my take home pay.
Being one of the few native Californians in the state, born and raised in Silicon Valley, I see this area as my home. I'm always amused by stories that people need $100,000+ per year to live here.
I pay 50% for rent, save 20% and live on 30%. IMHO, that's a modest lifestyle. I know many people in Silicon Valley who pay 50% for rent, live on 50% and spend 50% on credit cards. While those people are considered middle class, they regard me as being poor. Go figure.
The city of San Jose has a rent control for apartments that allow rent can to go up only 8% per year. When I leased my studio apartment ten years ago, I was making $32,000 per year and paying $800 per month in rent. Although my rent went up 57%, my income went up 64%. As long as I continue to make more money, rent isn't a problem.
I make $50,000 per year and rent a 475sqf studio apartment for $1,400 in Silicon Valley. For my needs, it's perfectly fine. Then again, I'm not trying to live the American dream of having it all. A modest lifestyle can go a long way in an expensive area like Silicon Valley.
Just because your mother allowed you to live in the basement until you were 50, you still need to get out into the big blue room with the bright light and interact with normal people who don't know about Slashdot.
The only data hog I got on my iPhone is the Wall Street Journal app. If I'm not careful to use the wifi connection on the express bus, I'll get an email warning towards from Sprint near the end of the billing cycle that I'm approaching the 1GB cap. Otherwise, my typical data usage is under 300MB per month.
My two-hour background investigation interview lasted four hours because the bureaucrats in Washington couldn't understand how one person can have multiple jobs. After being out of work for two years (2009-2010), underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month) and filing for Chapter Seven bankruptcy in 2011, don't you think a person would work a regular Monday-Friday job and a weekend job to get his finances in better shape? Meh...
Enjoy my case file, hackers! I hope your head explodes from my employment misery!
The CRA sent me a form letter saying that they weren't changing anything. This was back in the late 1990's. Maybe things are different today with Elizabeth Warren giving Wall Street hell.
The CRA refused to take it down, as the electric company insisted that they made every effort to collect and I apparently ignored their collection efforts for two years.
I did a spot check on my credit report and was surprised to find out that I had an unpaid bill with the local electric company. So I called them up. I owed them $2.75 for a closing bill that I never received two years earlier. They had my current address and phone number, made no attempt to collect on the balance during that time, and refused to remove the item from my credit report. I paid the bill and waited another five years for the entry to fall off my credit report.
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Bernies Sanders is too old to be Vice President. Hillary's VP pick will be younger, from somewhere else than the East Coast, and has a good reputation with Congress. After 30 years of beating the anti-Clinton drum, the Republican Party will be toast if Hillary serves eight years despite their opposition.
I can't wait until this happens. CNN will spin off a whole channel for nonstop coverage.
Los Angeles had a minor earthquake some years ago. I think it was like a 4.0 or so, a truck rumble at best. CNN kept running a black-and-white surveillance video of a grocery story where absolutely nothing moved in the background. Nothing falling, nothing breaking, nothing anything. But CNN made it sound like the BIG ONE already happened and California was sliding into the Pacific Ocean.
How can it be Hillary's fault when the Republicans plan to impeach and remove her from office on Day One?
I've been told for the last 30+ years that the BIG ONE that will send California off into the Pacific Ocean is coming any day. Guess what? It should happen within the next 30 years. If the next 30 years was like the last 30 years, I got nothing to worry about.
I went back to school after the dot com crash to learn computer programming.* The networking track was still the money major at the time (i.e., if you want to make boatloads of money, take this major). You know it's getting absurd when a Vietnamese couple in their 70's who can barely speak English think they can get high paying job after graduation. When health care became the new money major, the network classes got cancelled due to a lack of demand.
* Yes, I got an A.S. in computer programming; no, I'm not a programmer because I went into I.T. support. But I do have an Network+ certification and studied for the CCNA on-and-off.
If he can't figure out how to set up VPN in an mixed environment, he should go back to school to get his bachelor's degree. A BS in networking is always valuable, especially in doing consultant work.
I take the express bus from San Jose to Palo Alto for my tech job. It's an hour each way. Sometimes a bit longer in the afternoon if there is more than five fender benders on the 280 between the 85 and the 17. Well worth the money at $140 per month for an express monthly pass.
I like my numbers better. :)
There were no rent increases in 2009 and 2010 after the economy cratered from the Great Recession and people started moving out from Silicon Valley. The maximum rent increase by law is 8%, which didn't always mean that the rent went up by that amount each year. The rents have gone up in recent years because the apartment complex got sold several times. Each new corporate owner felt obligated to slap on a coat of paint, list the "luxury" apartments for inflated rents, and tried to recoup their costs in the shortest amount of time.
The percent difference calculator disagrees.
http://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/algebra/percent-difference-calculator.php
800 / 1400 = 0.57 or 57%
A few more certifications and another job change in a few years should put me on the $100,000 per year pay rate tier. Then, for the second time ever in my lifetime, rent will be less than 50% of my take home pay.
I'm a renter, not a landlord. Besides, I don't live in San Francisco.
Being one of the few native Californians in the state, born and raised in Silicon Valley, I see this area as my home. I'm always amused by stories that people need $100,000+ per year to live here.
I pay 50% for rent, save 20% and live on 30%. IMHO, that's a modest lifestyle. I know many people in Silicon Valley who pay 50% for rent, live on 50% and spend 50% on credit cards. While those people are considered middle class, they regard me as being poor. Go figure.
The city of San Jose has a rent control for apartments that allow rent can to go up only 8% per year. When I leased my studio apartment ten years ago, I was making $32,000 per year and paying $800 per month in rent. Although my rent went up 57%, my income went up 64%. As long as I continue to make more money, rent isn't a problem.
I make $50,000 per year and rent a 475sqf studio apartment for $1,400 in Silicon Valley. For my needs, it's perfectly fine. Then again, I'm not trying to live the American dream of having it all. A modest lifestyle can go a long way in an expensive area like Silicon Valley.
With Donald Trump being the next POTUS.
Just because your mother allowed you to live in the basement until you were 50, you still need to get out into the big blue room with the bright light and interact with normal people who don't know about Slashdot.
The only data hog I got on my iPhone is the Wall Street Journal app. If I'm not careful to use the wifi connection on the express bus, I'll get an email warning towards from Sprint near the end of the billing cycle that I'm approaching the 1GB cap. Otherwise, my typical data usage is under 300MB per month.
My two-hour background investigation interview lasted four hours because the bureaucrats in Washington couldn't understand how one person can have multiple jobs. After being out of work for two years (2009-2010), underemployed for six months (working 20 hours per month) and filing for Chapter Seven bankruptcy in 2011, don't you think a person would work a regular Monday-Friday job and a weekend job to get his finances in better shape? Meh...
Enjoy my case file, hackers! I hope your head explodes from my employment misery!
The CRA sent me a form letter saying that they weren't changing anything. This was back in the late 1990's. Maybe things are different today with Elizabeth Warren giving Wall Street hell.
I did and the CRA took the electric company side.
The CRA refused to take it down, as the electric company insisted that they made every effort to collect and I apparently ignored their collection efforts for two years.
I did a spot check on my credit report and was surprised to find out that I had an unpaid bill with the local electric company. So I called them up. I owed them $2.75 for a closing bill that I never received two years earlier. They had my current address and phone number, made no attempt to collect on the balance during that time, and refused to remove the item from my credit report. I paid the bill and waited another five years for the entry to fall off my credit report.