Not really, the Oljefondet continues to grow from oil money and is being treated as a pension fund. It is the largest pension fund in the world, nearly a trillion US$. That wise investment will ensure Norway's financial future for future generations.
First spray a lot of liquid wrench on the fittings and wait for it to penetrate the corrosion. When that doesn't help, fire up a propane torch to heat up the fittings. The resulting fire will give you nice new fittings in your new house that you can unscrew without extreme effort.
It varies a lot depending on the market. Some markets are distorted towards rent, some towards buy. In general, the more desirable the area the less likely buying is financially advantageous. If you want to buy an income property, you will generally have a bigger spread between carrying cost and rent in an undesirable area.
The bay area, where I am currently living, is an extreme example. I am paying about half in rent what an equivalent mortgage would cost and I don't have to pay taxes, repairs, insurance, or cough up $200k for a down payment. Downside risk is my rent goes up. I accept that for now.
Huh? When I carry paper maps hipsters fawn over me. They lovingly bring out their parallel rulers, dividers, sextants, quadrants, compass, mechanical rangefinders, and typewriters and we discuss how much finer things were when they were much more difficult and less functional.
What kind of idiot uses Waze for navigation when it is way more inconvenient? I can get most of my destinations in one or two keystrokes in GM. I try using waze and have to laboriously type in the entire frickin address like it is 1992. GM routes me dynamically around accidents and traffic and is so super fast, just a few clicks and I am on my way. Every time I have tried to use waze I have to click and click and click forever and its damn fruity interface makes me want to kill.
I have tried maybe 20 times to use waze and never once found it to be very good. I keep trying it because of asshats like you you keep insisting that it is moar bettar.
How to store the water? Much of the rain falls seaward of the foothills, there aren't any good places to build a reservoir. You'd need some truly astonishing pumps to get the water up somewhere easy to store it.
I've seen people who seem stumped by a spent french press. They waste gallons of water and a generous handful of paper towels, put such a river of grounds down the sink it gums up the works, and it takes them 5 minutes to deal so badly with things. I suspect it is far kinder to the environment for them to toss a K cup, at least in the deserts of California.
I'm guessing people who are generally bad at things love these because a dim child could operate one successfully with no surprises.
FWIW, I rent a room on airbnb and let guests make coffee. I wouldn't dream of putting a french press there. I have a drip pot with pre measured bags of ground beans.
There is some pretty good instant coffee these days. Trader Joe's 100% Columbian is my favorite. It's good enough for me to drink black, and it is really enjoyable. I mostly drink it where making real coffee is too difficult - backpacking or a sailing trip.
It tastes much better to me and is far cheaper than pod people coffee.
I love imagining explaining our culture to a smart person from the 18th century, say Ben Franklin. I bet you could get him to understand much of it, but it would be seriously mind blowing. We have little slabs in our pockets and millions of people have full time jobs making those slabs show pictures and communicate through the aether. I really wish I could have someone from the 2100s visit me and try to explain things to me.
You're so negative and defeatist. 97% of workers now are doing jobs that didn't exist 100 years ago, and I am fully confident that 100 years from now 97% of people will be doing jobs that don't exist now. Who knows what crazy shit people will dream up to busy themselves with when robots and AI do all the menial things?
Immigrants are awesome. They need places to live, stuffs to buy, and they are motivated hard workers. I think if you're worried about lazy do-nothings cluttering up the place we should kick out ignoramuses who were born here and claim to love it but have a super hopeless, fearful, self defeating attitude of failure and impossibility.
Seriously, look at the parts of the country that are thriving. All of them are packed full of immigrants! If shitholes like Kansas could figure out how to kickstart immigration they could get some of that boomtown prosperity going, but they are looking at it all wrong.
Vasectomies can fail. A decent surgeon using good techniques can get 0.1% - 1% long term failure rates. Bad techniques can have higher rates. If I was presented with this situation I would probably have my sperm counted before making any judgement.
Huh? My friend just finished building a house in "overregulated" California, in a crowded suburb of the bay area. He did full permits on everything, and some items such as the foundation were done by professional crews. The vast majority of the work was done by amateurs using scrounged materials. It's a small house but it cost around $50k to make in an area where you can't find a shitty condo for $300k.
I think you can pull this off most anywhere. Some cities are more uptight than others, but as long as you meet code and pull permits and don't be a dick to the inspectors you will have smooth sailing.
The velocities are massive, can be 10 km/s. Not all satellites orbit the same direction - they can be opposite or 90 degrees off or anything in between. Picture a 1g flake of paint traveling at a relative velocity of 20 km/s hitting something explosive and fragile like a lithium battery!
I'm picturing something like a small boat's head, where the toilet, shower, and sink all fit into less than one square meter. You pull the sink faucet out on a hose and use that to shower with, standing with one leg wedged against the toilet and door the other against the sink and wall.
It's fun on a boat, but I am guessing it gets old on land.
Where do you live where the gov't has been given plenty of cash only to piss it away? Everywhere I've lived in the US has been in "starve the beast" mode since I was born. I'm so sick of seeing everything chronically underfunded. Bridges and roads falling apart, teachers and schools starved of necessities, social programs cut over and over.
Any time a meager increase is passed, which doesn't even begin to cover inflation let alone the deferred maintenance, all the beast-starvers shriek about how "it is never enough!"
Well I would like to try paying enough for our necessary infrastructure and social programs. Lets try that. It hasn't been tried since the 50s here, and from my travels to countries that try it it will be nice.
Faults don't really affect magnetic variation. In the area annual change is 0 6' W per year, or 0.1 degree. Such a slow change wouldn't cause a sudden spike in failures, not to mention the entire BART system isn't all that long.
I am very excited. I'm in Milpitas these days and when I want to visit the city or go to berkeley or oakland I have to drive or bike to Fremont to catch BART. Those few miles are super awful after work. Having a station much closer to home is going to make my life much easier.
That article doesn't say anything about Sweden being "almost" cashless. They use cash at about 1/4 the US rate. Last time I was in Sweden I used local currency and Euros and nobody batted an eye. Well, I was turned away from a restaurant for being "too sporty" which cracked me up.
That shouldn't happen. A good wheelset should last you for years, at least 4 or 5 times that many miles.
Well, I can't be sure but I think the axle bent when I got hit by a car. There were also numerous potholes and driveway bumps and the fact that I am overloading the axle. I don't need my bike to be eternal, I treat it more like a consumable. Strangely, since I adopted this attitude it hasn't been stolen or destroyed in an accident but I've been burned enough to not get attached.
you need to buy something quality, not cheap, and you get what you pay for when you buy a bike.
Here you're just plain wrong. My bike is from Walmart, it was $200, and it has nearly 15,000 miles on it. I had the wheel replaced under warranty, if I bought a new wheel from the mfr it would have cost $50.
I ride hard, maintain poorly, and still my cheap bike held up admirably.
It is sad how many years I wasted, thinking that I didn't have what it takes to be a bike commuter, because of misguided people like you. I couldn't get over my heartbreak when I came back to my beloved Peugeot and it was beat to death by vandals in 1988. Now that I have realized cheap bikes are a good option I am a happy cyclist, putting at least 150 miles a week onto my trusty walmart bike.
I know a bunch of people with expensive bikes who are afraid to take them anywhere, and a bunch more people without a bike at all because they think they need to spend 4 digits to get something decent.
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Not really, the Oljefondet continues to grow from oil money and is being treated as a pension fund. It is the largest pension fund in the world, nearly a trillion US$. That wise investment will ensure Norway's financial future for future generations.
Is it truly regressive? Countries with high VAT have less income inequality than the US, with its progressive but widely circumvented tax structure.
Your puny statistics are no match for his huge chrome-plated anecdote!
First spray a lot of liquid wrench on the fittings and wait for it to penetrate the corrosion. When that doesn't help, fire up a propane torch to heat up the fittings. The resulting fire will give you nice new fittings in your new house that you can unscrew without extreme effort.
It varies a lot depending on the market. Some markets are distorted towards rent, some towards buy. In general, the more desirable the area the less likely buying is financially advantageous. If you want to buy an income property, you will generally have a bigger spread between carrying cost and rent in an undesirable area.
The bay area, where I am currently living, is an extreme example. I am paying about half in rent what an equivalent mortgage would cost and I don't have to pay taxes, repairs, insurance, or cough up $200k for a down payment. Downside risk is my rent goes up. I accept that for now.
Huh? When I carry paper maps hipsters fawn over me. They lovingly bring out their parallel rulers, dividers, sextants, quadrants, compass, mechanical rangefinders, and typewriters and we discuss how much finer things were when they were much more difficult and less functional.
What kind of idiot uses Waze for navigation when it is way more inconvenient? I can get most of my destinations in one or two keystrokes in GM. I try using waze and have to laboriously type in the entire frickin address like it is 1992. GM routes me dynamically around accidents and traffic and is so super fast, just a few clicks and I am on my way. Every time I have tried to use waze I have to click and click and click forever and its damn fruity interface makes me want to kill.
I have tried maybe 20 times to use waze and never once found it to be very good. I keep trying it because of asshats like you you keep insisting that it is moar bettar.
How to store the water? Much of the rain falls seaward of the foothills, there aren't any good places to build a reservoir. You'd need some truly astonishing pumps to get the water up somewhere easy to store it.
I've seen people who seem stumped by a spent french press. They waste gallons of water and a generous handful of paper towels, put such a river of grounds down the sink it gums up the works, and it takes them 5 minutes to deal so badly with things. I suspect it is far kinder to the environment for them to toss a K cup, at least in the deserts of California.
I'm guessing people who are generally bad at things love these because a dim child could operate one successfully with no surprises.
FWIW, I rent a room on airbnb and let guests make coffee. I wouldn't dream of putting a french press there. I have a drip pot with pre measured bags of ground beans.
There is some pretty good instant coffee these days. Trader Joe's 100% Columbian is my favorite. It's good enough for me to drink black, and it is really enjoyable. I mostly drink it where making real coffee is too difficult - backpacking or a sailing trip.
It tastes much better to me and is far cheaper than pod people coffee.
I love imagining explaining our culture to a smart person from the 18th century, say Ben Franklin. I bet you could get him to understand much of it, but it would be seriously mind blowing. We have little slabs in our pockets and millions of people have full time jobs making those slabs show pictures and communicate through the aether. I really wish I could have someone from the 2100s visit me and try to explain things to me.
You're so negative and defeatist. 97% of workers now are doing jobs that didn't exist 100 years ago, and I am fully confident that 100 years from now 97% of people will be doing jobs that don't exist now. Who knows what crazy shit people will dream up to busy themselves with when robots and AI do all the menial things?
Immigrants are awesome. They need places to live, stuffs to buy, and they are motivated hard workers. I think if you're worried about lazy do-nothings cluttering up the place we should kick out ignoramuses who were born here and claim to love it but have a super hopeless, fearful, self defeating attitude of failure and impossibility.
Seriously, look at the parts of the country that are thriving. All of them are packed full of immigrants! If shitholes like Kansas could figure out how to kickstart immigration they could get some of that boomtown prosperity going, but they are looking at it all wrong.
Vasectomies can fail. A decent surgeon using good techniques can get 0.1% - 1% long term failure rates. Bad techniques can have higher rates. If I was presented with this situation I would probably have my sperm counted before making any judgement.
Huh? My friend just finished building a house in "overregulated" California, in a crowded suburb of the bay area. He did full permits on everything, and some items such as the foundation were done by professional crews. The vast majority of the work was done by amateurs using scrounged materials. It's a small house but it cost around $50k to make in an area where you can't find a shitty condo for $300k.
I think you can pull this off most anywhere. Some cities are more uptight than others, but as long as you meet code and pull permits and don't be a dick to the inspectors you will have smooth sailing.
Holy cow. Earth has 148,300,000 sq km of land, at the current highest density on Earth, Mumbai, of 29,650 people per sq km that is only 4.4 trillion.
Imagine every bit of dry land packed up like Mumbai and then triple it.
I confess doing the math expecting to show that 15 trillion is not that bad, but goddamn if it is that bad!
20 years ago I would have glanced up from my gameboy and said "only 20 hours? but you gotta catch em all!"
The velocities are massive, can be 10 km/s. Not all satellites orbit the same direction - they can be opposite or 90 degrees off or anything in between. Picture a 1g flake of paint traveling at a relative velocity of 20 km/s hitting something explosive and fragile like a lithium battery!
That makes sense. They both have 12VDC electrical systems too. I guess there is a lot of crossover between boat and RV stuff.
I'm picturing something like a small boat's head, where the toilet, shower, and sink all fit into less than one square meter. You pull the sink faucet out on a hose and use that to shower with, standing with one leg wedged against the toilet and door the other against the sink and wall.
It's fun on a boat, but I am guessing it gets old on land.
Where do you live where the gov't has been given plenty of cash only to piss it away? Everywhere I've lived in the US has been in "starve the beast" mode since I was born. I'm so sick of seeing everything chronically underfunded. Bridges and roads falling apart, teachers and schools starved of necessities, social programs cut over and over.
Any time a meager increase is passed, which doesn't even begin to cover inflation let alone the deferred maintenance, all the beast-starvers shriek about how "it is never enough!"
Well I would like to try paying enough for our necessary infrastructure and social programs. Lets try that. It hasn't been tried since the 50s here, and from my travels to countries that try it it will be nice.
Just because you are ignorant of the massive card fees merchants pay doesn't mean you don't pay them.
You pay for stolen cards. You pay in higher prices at the merchant and they give your money to the banks. It is truly shocking what the cards take.
Faults don't really affect magnetic variation. In the area annual change is 0 6' W per year, or 0.1 degree. Such a slow change wouldn't cause a sudden spike in failures, not to mention the entire BART system isn't all that long.
I am very excited. I'm in Milpitas these days and when I want to visit the city or go to berkeley or oakland I have to drive or bike to Fremont to catch BART. Those few miles are super awful after work. Having a station much closer to home is going to make my life much easier.
That article doesn't say anything about Sweden being "almost" cashless. They use cash at about 1/4 the US rate. Last time I was in Sweden I used local currency and Euros and nobody batted an eye. Well, I was turned away from a restaurant for being "too sporty" which cracked me up.
That shouldn't happen. A good wheelset should last you for years, at least 4 or 5 times that many miles.
Well, I can't be sure but I think the axle bent when I got hit by a car. There were also numerous potholes and driveway bumps and the fact that I am overloading the axle. I don't need my bike to be eternal, I treat it more like a consumable. Strangely, since I adopted this attitude it hasn't been stolen or destroyed in an accident but I've been burned enough to not get attached.
you need to buy something quality, not cheap, and you get what you pay for when you buy a bike.
Here you're just plain wrong. My bike is from Walmart, it was $200, and it has nearly 15,000 miles on it. I had the wheel replaced under warranty, if I bought a new wheel from the mfr it would have cost $50.
I ride hard, maintain poorly, and still my cheap bike held up admirably.
It is sad how many years I wasted, thinking that I didn't have what it takes to be a bike commuter, because of misguided people like you. I couldn't get over my heartbreak when I came back to my beloved Peugeot and it was beat to death by vandals in 1988. Now that I have realized cheap bikes are a good option I am a happy cyclist, putting at least 150 miles a week onto my trusty walmart bike.
I know a bunch of people with expensive bikes who are afraid to take them anywhere, and a bunch more people without a bike at all because they think they need to spend 4 digits to get something decent.