I've been looking at having a car again. Looking specifically at Volkswagen Golf Tsi's and the like. You can get one for under $5K. But taxes are killed.
To register it I'd have to pay $350 in tax plus $75 for the registration. Insurance is $100 a month for 100/300 liability. And property tax on $5000 would be $300. So $350 + $1,200 + $300 and that is first year at $1,850. Gas is another one too as my commute is 100 miles a day.
Yeah because Macs are Intel machines these days. Only difference between them and a PC is the OS.
That being said - someone needs to start offering an inexpensive tech support solution for older folks. My problem was that my father was using Windows 7 and AOL. Thing is - I've been on Linux and OS-X for so long I've forgotten a lot about Windows.
Fortunately that problem solved itself - the old man died a year ago.
Vis a vis leading the economy off a cliff - there are Presidents who know how to inspire the economy. I suspect Bernie Sanders would be one of them. I mean do you actually think Hillary Clinton or any of the clown car posse of Republicans would do a better job?
Will they still be using the card number as not all devices and pc's have a smart card reader on them.
They could have solved the whole thing using two factor with magstripe, pin plus second factor - could be an RSA token, Google Authenticator, or what have you. It would make pretty much all card fraud impossible.
It's the diesel's they have this issue with. Me, I like the Volkswagen Golf TSi. BTW, far as I can see the only difference between a TSi and GTi is the transmission in the latter is a manual. Which is interesting because I find a bunch of used Golf GTIs on craigslist for really short money.
Yeah that is a disturbing trend. But as to TV's about 2 years ago the power supply went on mine. Opened the TV up, snapped out the power supply and snapped in a new one. TV has worked ever since.
Actually I toyed with buying a bunch of properties as the Church of the Green Grass Vapors. All properties would be named after Egyptian, Greek and Roman god, and maybe some Hindu gods for good measure. Have regular open worship with tenants and claim tax free. That would be fun.
T-Mobile is most built out between Boston, MA and VA. Once you get into say eastern North Carolina - out past Elizabeth City into Edenton and Columbia you can kiss sevice goodbye for data. In fact phone and text barely works there.
Just buy an OBD-II reader and then watch the zillion youtube mechanics explain what the codes mean and how to fix it.
The OBD-II reader can be found for about $20 on lots of sites. You don't need the Snap-On readers that cost $1,000 or more. And you definitely don't need to pay Verizon an additional $14.99 a month in addition for what you're shelling out for Verizon mobile service too.
Around here it's about 95% card swipe, 5% cash only. And this is in the northeast U.S. I do know merchants all over are going to have to upgrade their card hardware to be able to accept chip and pin by 2016 though.
I wonder how that impacts things like Square reader - lots of smaller merchants use that now.
And I'm in the southeast New England.
I've worked two state jobs as a permanent employee. One with the RI Department of Attorney General, the other with the RI Department of Secretary of State.
But I'll lay dollars to donuts you're talking about a state in the south.
Developers are the bane of system administrators. I had one developer who hose the entire crontab not just on the box but the one in the backup too.
Then there are stupid user tricks - like jamming an RJ-45 connector into an RJ-11 jack.
But my best - I was administering a Data Genral MV9600U running AOS/VS II. They had previously been using async terminals but switched over to an IP stack and Pacer terminal on Macintoshes.
So one day I'm cleaning out the old async cabling - no need for it anymore. Suddenly I hear the system console beeping - not a good sound to hear. I come around from the back of the system to see the system losing all it's data volumes. WTH! I look at the disk array and it's powered down. Cycle the switch, nothing.
Of course my boss flies into the room, big old knot on his forehead. I trace the power cable from the disk array - it's a Hubbel connector and I guess when I was pulling one the async cables out it rotated the power plug just enough to break contact. Twisted it back in and the disks all came up. Rebooted the system and all was fine.
It isn't just the U.S. Navy, but the IRS and a bunch of other government offices that are still on XP for legacy reasons. Let's face it, Vista was an abortion from the get go, and Windows 8 wasn't much better. In fact every even numbered OS from Microsoft is horrid. Hence why business uses Windows 7 now.
On my cell phone the only time I get voicemails is from callers that aren't in my contacts list. They get automatically dumped to voicemail and I'll listen to it at my convenience.
Android is wonderful in that respect - prior call blockers required you to whitelist individual entries. Now they blacklist everything but your contacts. Really nice.
Because the oil that can be drilled out is almost tapped out. Of course we could start scraping all the plastic out of the ocean and using thermal depolymerization on it. But fat chance that'll happen.
Instead we'll start mining the asteroids and gas giants for methane.
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I've been looking at having a car again. Looking specifically at Volkswagen Golf Tsi's and the like. You can get one for under $5K. But taxes are killed.
To register it I'd have to pay $350 in tax plus $75 for the registration. Insurance is $100 a month for 100/300 liability. And property tax on $5000 would be $300. So $350 + $1,200 + $300 and that is first year at $1,850. Gas is another one too as my commute is 100 miles a day.
Yeah - you have me train replacements and then want me to be available for two years? Pucker up!
Yeah because Macs are Intel machines these days. Only difference between them and a PC is the OS.
That being said - someone needs to start offering an inexpensive tech support solution for older folks. My problem was that my father was using Windows 7 and AOL. Thing is - I've been on Linux and OS-X for so long I've forgotten a lot about Windows.
Fortunately that problem solved itself - the old man died a year ago.
Was old Gordon West, WB6NOA. Wouldn't have gotten into amateur radio were it not for his books.
At the same time we get teleportation. Both require fast, wide and deep scanning. We're on the teetering edge of that now.
Vis a vis leading the economy off a cliff - there are Presidents who know how to inspire the economy. I suspect Bernie Sanders would be one of them. I mean do you actually think Hillary Clinton or any of the clown car posse of Republicans would do a better job?
Will they still be using the card number as not all devices and pc's have a smart card reader on them.
They could have solved the whole thing using two factor with magstripe, pin plus second factor - could be an RSA token, Google Authenticator, or what have you. It would make pretty much all card fraud impossible.
It's the diesel's they have this issue with. Me, I like the Volkswagen Golf TSi. BTW, far as I can see the only difference between a TSi and GTi is the transmission in the latter is a manual. Which is interesting because I find a bunch of used Golf GTIs on craigslist for really short money.
Yeah that is a disturbing trend. But as to TV's about 2 years ago the power supply went on mine. Opened the TV up, snapped out the power supply and snapped in a new one. TV has worked ever since.
Actually I toyed with buying a bunch of properties as the Church of the Green Grass Vapors. All properties would be named after Egyptian, Greek and Roman god, and maybe some Hindu gods for good measure. Have regular open worship with tenants and claim tax free. That would be fun.
With police loving their Chrysler products - you can pretty much shut them down over a cell connection.
T-Mobile is most built out between Boston, MA and VA. Once you get into say eastern North Carolina - out past Elizabeth City into Edenton and Columbia you can kiss sevice goodbye for data. In fact phone and text barely works there.
You do realize that there are proposal to build an orbital solar capture satellite. It'd be very cool to do that by the way.
Here's another one - YouTube is a google product, so too Chrome. So is it saying that the flash ads on YouTube are going to be blocked?
Just buy an OBD-II reader and then watch the zillion youtube mechanics explain what the codes mean and how to fix it.
The OBD-II reader can be found for about $20 on lots of sites. You don't need the Snap-On readers that cost $1,000 or more. And you definitely don't need to pay Verizon an additional $14.99 a month in addition for what you're shelling out for Verizon mobile service too.
Around here it's about 95% card swipe, 5% cash only. And this is in the northeast U.S. I do know merchants all over are going to have to upgrade their card hardware to be able to accept chip and pin by 2016 though.
I wonder how that impacts things like Square reader - lots of smaller merchants use that now.
And I'm in the southeast New England.
I've worked two state jobs as a permanent employee. One with the RI Department of Attorney General, the other with the RI Department of Secretary of State.
But I'll lay dollars to donuts you're talking about a state in the south.
I run Win7 Professional. I refuse to upgrade to Windows 10.
Developers are the bane of system administrators. I had one developer who hose the entire crontab not just on the box but the one in the backup too.
Then there are stupid user tricks - like jamming an RJ-45 connector into an RJ-11 jack.
But my best - I was administering a Data Genral MV9600U running AOS/VS II. They had previously been using async terminals but switched over to an IP stack and Pacer terminal on Macintoshes.
So one day I'm cleaning out the old async cabling - no need for it anymore. Suddenly I hear the system console beeping - not a good sound to hear. I come around from the back of the system to see the system losing all it's data volumes. WTH! I look at the disk array and it's powered down. Cycle the switch, nothing.
Of course my boss flies into the room, big old knot on his forehead. I trace the power cable from the disk array - it's a Hubbel connector and I guess when I was pulling one the async cables out it rotated the power plug just enough to break contact. Twisted it back in and the disks all came up. Rebooted the system and all was fine.
It isn't just the U.S. Navy, but the IRS and a bunch of other government offices that are still on XP for legacy reasons. Let's face it, Vista was an abortion from the get go, and Windows 8 wasn't much better. In fact every even numbered OS from Microsoft is horrid. Hence why business uses Windows 7 now.
On my cell phone the only time I get voicemails is from callers that aren't in my contacts list. They get automatically dumped to voicemail and I'll listen to it at my convenience.
Android is wonderful in that respect - prior call blockers required you to whitelist individual entries. Now they blacklist everything but your contacts. Really nice.
Have they ever heard of Netstat, TCPDump, Wireshark, etc? Jesus Christ on a stick.
Because the oil that can be drilled out is almost tapped out. Of course we could start scraping all the plastic out of the ocean and using thermal depolymerization on it. But fat chance that'll happen.
Instead we'll start mining the asteroids and gas giants for methane.
I have to train my replacement because they're laying me off. I'd tell them to kiss my fucking ass.
Well - some move on electrons now.