Technically you can install PVC in noncommercial buildings less than 3 stories in Chicago. They still require lead and oakum joints, you won't find that in any building outside of Chicago built later than 1970.
I agree 100%. Unions inflate wages for those who are unqualified and deflate wages for those are overqualified. For example, if you are a very good carpenter, you should be able to demand more money, but you are union so you get the same as everyone else.
Another thing about building codes, I am a HVAC consulting engineer. I work around Chicago, which is the biggest union city (or New York, its close). The Chicago Building Code is written to protect union workers. It inflates the cost of construction not for the benefit of safety, but for the unions. No PVC waste piping in Chicago, you know why? It would take plumbers half the time to install.
A trillion dollars a year? If you are trying to make points with numbers and there is no question it is costing a lot, you should probably use the right numbers. The Iraq war has cost a little over $500 billion to date, over five years, not $1 trillion a year. It is just like the 500,000 Iraqi civilian death number thrown out there by some on the far left, the real number is more around 150,000 and the point is still valid, but over-sensationalizing the hard numbers makes it easier to refute your point, even if it is a valid one.
The story you have linked to is about using TAB to switch between links, not tabbed browsing ala Opera or Firefox as I know it. The thought that you can patent something as rudimentary as using tab to switch between fields is very ridiculous though.
The gas tax holiday was a complete bonehead move. I agree with you. It would do nothing, IIRC fed tax on gasoline is 18 cents, gas fluctuates [around here] seemingly that much from day to day besides it would increase demand and therefore prices.
Speculators have driven the price up some, but not nearly as much as people blame on them. Besides, speculation has its purpose. Speculation is why you can lock in a price for heating oil NOW, and KNOW FOR CERTAINTY what you will be paying this winter.
Just as speculation has played a part in driving oil up to record levels, look at its affect in driving it down. The mere proposition of increased drilling would decrease oil futures before any crude is refined and supplied to the pipeline.
As long as a SINGLE barrel of oil comes from outside the United States, ALL OIL PRODUCED IN THE UNITED STATES WILL COST PRETTY MUCH THE SAME regardless of the production costs.
Yes, it is called a market. Russia increasing supply would also decrease the price for us here. The point is that by us increasing our domestic production it will drive down the price.
But I still fail to even grasp what Obama's plan is? All I've heard is that he wants alternative energy, but no nuclear, no drilling and to inflate my tires. The problem is that we cannot get wind power or solar online for many years as well. We need renewable and non-polluting sources like geothermal and solar but we still need oil and natural gas, those are not going away anytime soon.
How is Obama replacing 5 million barrels a day tomorrow? Tuneups and inflating tires? McCain has made it pretty clear he is for all alternative fuel source AND drilling. With the inelastic nature of oil, any increase in the supply will lower prices and drastically. T Boone Pickens by the way is not a green guy, he is just for reducing the burden of foreign oil. He is also for off shore drilling, shale production and ANWR drilling. There is no reason we can't do everything. If we started drilling tomorrow there will be some online in 2-3 years, the democratic talking point is 10 years+ but that would be for all 100%. I am all for getting off oil but the simple fact is that it cannot happen overnight, but in the interim, there is no reason to be sending so much money out of this country.
MythTV in and of itself is still free. You do have to pay for listing now though through Schedules Direct. A whopping $20 a year. Not a $1.67 a month, sweet jesus monkey balls, what capitalist pigs!
A great example is drying clothes, it produces heat and takes lots of electricity. During the summer, this makes your A/C run more to balance the heat when people are already consuming the most electricity out of the whole year.
There is so much wrong with this sentence it's difficult to know where to start....
Pro tips:
* Try a clothesline
* Try closing the door of the rooom the dryer is in so the AC doesn't have to try and counteract it.
Even easier, move your thermostat out of your laundry room?
$100 a month is too expensive?! So what happens when these people who can't afford $100 a month hit a building and cause $50,000 worth of damage? Or what about hitting another car with insurance. Now the responsible person ends up subsidizing the irresponsible.
I am 28 with a clean driving record. Full coverage insurance on my new(ish) car is $1,000 a year. Minimum liability insurance is not that expensive.
On the other side of the coin, it subsidizes the CA industry just like compulsory auto insurance subsidizes the auto insurance industry.
Driving is a privilege not a right. Unless you have the money to cover any damages you may cause, it is absolutely necessary to have insurance. The cost of barebones liability coverage is not that high assuming you have a relatively clean record and if not, you probably shouldn't be driving. It seems that today the idea of personal responsibility is falling out of favor.
Ok, lets just say that there was some weird verbage in their mortgage contract that was their ultimate downfall, but as I expressed earlier, if you are making $75k a year, you can not afford a $600k mortgage. Using 3x rule-of-thumb stuff here, they should have probably been in the market for $200 - $250k home price range. If you are about to spend a large sum of money, you should shoulder some responsibility and educated yourself about it, don't you think? I mean we are not talking about stretching your budget a little, they bought 2-3X the house they could reasonably expect to afford. Sure the lender probably shouldn't have given them the loan, but ultimately they are adults and made a poor decision.
My real concern is that this latest housing bill basically covers everything, it covers 2nd home mortgages [tax payers should foot the bill for someone's summer cottage?] and mortgages up to $625k.
Personally I think it should be way more limited in scope. Allow a one-time forced free refinance to a 30-year fixed at the default rate. If the house goes into default after that, tough titties. That forces the lenders to take on the risk of their bullshit loans, the "deceived" borrows a chance and should cost the tax payers less money.
These people weren't given a loan, they applied for it. Now you can say that the lending institution shouldn't have given it to them, but they should have also known that they couldn't afford it. $5,000 net monthly would seem to be around $75,000 anually, $3,500 in monthly mortgage payments would be about a $600,000 mortgage. No rational set of human beings could begin to think that they could afford that. Undoubtedly they thought they could tough it out for a few years, make a huge return and move on. I feel absolutely no pity for them. They were idiotic and got exactly what they deserved. It shouldn't be the place of society to protect people from themselves.
Usually congressmen first become wealthy, then become politicians for the power. I don't think any elected official has aspirations for office for the over the table pay.
Yes, and its profit margin is at about 10% which is inline with any other economically healthy large company. I guess I am just sick of hearing about windfall profits when they are less profitable percentage-wise than McDonalds. The blame needs to be placed elsewhere, it is not the oil companies raising the price of gasoline.
Oil Companies do not profit from high oil, countries that have oil do. Exxon is down 13% YTD, in Dubai they are building indoor snow lodges and skyscrapers with rotating floors.
The market did decide and Air America is going out of business. The liberals didn't like this and are trying to use the "Fairness Doctrine" to force liberal ideas on NPR where they are not listened to.
John Jackson: "It's time someone had the courage to stand up and say: I'm against those things that everybody hates."
Jack Johnson: "Now, I respect my opponent. I think he's a good man. But quite frankly, I agree with everything he just said."
John Jackson: "I say your three cent titanium tax goes too far."
Jack Johnson: "And I say your three cent titanium tax doesn't go too far enough."
If you disable the LinkScanner then the icon turns gray and shows a red exclamation point complaining that it is not functionning properly. That is a problem because then if there actually is something wrong with it, you wouldn't know because the icon is always saying there is one.
Ah that makes sense. The only PC's I use that have AVG & IE6 on them are Windows 2000 and no SP2 for that. I don't think there is a way to disable it other than running the command line switches upon installation to not install LinkScanner.
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Technically you can install PVC in noncommercial buildings less than 3 stories in Chicago. They still require lead and oakum joints, you won't find that in any building outside of Chicago built later than 1970.
I agree 100%. Unions inflate wages for those who are unqualified and deflate wages for those are overqualified. For example, if you are a very good carpenter, you should be able to demand more money, but you are union so you get the same as everyone else.
Another thing about building codes, I am a HVAC consulting engineer. I work around Chicago, which is the biggest union city (or New York, its close). The Chicago Building Code is written to protect union workers. It inflates the cost of construction not for the benefit of safety, but for the unions. No PVC waste piping in Chicago, you know why? It would take plumbers half the time to install.
That is one old sammich you got there!
Be smart enough to realize that, as is usually the case in software, starting from scratch is a waste of time.
Refactoring the existing structures to better suit current needs and eliminate bugs saves a lot of set up time and costs.
It has worked so well for Vista....
How can something so sad also be so hilarious?
A trillion dollars a year? If you are trying to make points with numbers and there is no question it is costing a lot, you should probably use the right numbers. The Iraq war has cost a little over $500 billion to date, over five years, not $1 trillion a year. It is just like the 500,000 Iraqi civilian death number thrown out there by some on the far left, the real number is more around 150,000 and the point is still valid, but over-sensationalizing the hard numbers makes it easier to refute your point, even if it is a valid one.
The story you have linked to is about using TAB to switch between links, not tabbed browsing ala Opera or Firefox as I know it. The thought that you can patent something as rudimentary as using tab to switch between fields is very ridiculous though.
Obama never said anything against nuclear power.
Obama criticizes McCain's nuclear power plan Obama has said that expanding our nuclear power plants 'doesn't make sense for America.'
Just as speculation has played a part in driving oil up to record levels, look at its affect in driving it down. The mere proposition of increased drilling would decrease oil futures before any crude is refined and supplied to the pipeline.
Yes, it is called a market. Russia increasing supply would also decrease the price for us here. The point is that by us increasing our domestic production it will drive down the price.
But I still fail to even grasp what Obama's plan is? All I've heard is that he wants alternative energy, but no nuclear, no drilling and to inflate my tires. The problem is that we cannot get wind power or solar online for many years as well. We need renewable and non-polluting sources like geothermal and solar but we still need oil and natural gas, those are not going away anytime soon.
How is Obama replacing 5 million barrels a day tomorrow? Tuneups and inflating tires? McCain has made it pretty clear he is for all alternative fuel source AND drilling. With the inelastic nature of oil, any increase in the supply will lower prices and drastically. T Boone Pickens by the way is not a green guy, he is just for reducing the burden of foreign oil. He is also for off shore drilling, shale production and ANWR drilling. There is no reason we can't do everything. If we started drilling tomorrow there will be some online in 2-3 years, the democratic talking point is 10 years+ but that would be for all 100%. I am all for getting off oil but the simple fact is that it cannot happen overnight, but in the interim, there is no reason to be sending so much money out of this country.
MythTV in and of itself is still free. You do have to pay for listing now though through Schedules Direct. A whopping $20 a year. Not a $1.67 a month, sweet jesus monkey balls, what capitalist pigs!
A great example is drying clothes, it produces heat and takes lots of electricity. During the summer, this makes your A/C run more to balance the heat when people are already consuming the most electricity out of the whole year.
There is so much wrong with this sentence it's difficult to know where to start....
Pro tips: * Try a clothesline * Try closing the door of the rooom the dryer is in so the AC doesn't have to try and counteract it.
Even easier, move your thermostat out of your laundry room?
$100 a month is too expensive?! So what happens when these people who can't afford $100 a month hit a building and cause $50,000 worth of damage? Or what about hitting another car with insurance. Now the responsible person ends up subsidizing the irresponsible.
I am 28 with a clean driving record. Full coverage insurance on my new(ish) car is $1,000 a year. Minimum liability insurance is not that expensive.
On the other side of the coin, it subsidizes the CA industry just like compulsory auto insurance subsidizes the auto insurance industry.
Driving is a privilege not a right. Unless you have the money to cover any damages you may cause, it is absolutely necessary to have insurance. The cost of barebones liability coverage is not that high assuming you have a relatively clean record and if not, you probably shouldn't be driving. It seems that today the idea of personal responsibility is falling out of favor.
Ok, lets just say that there was some weird verbage in their mortgage contract that was their ultimate downfall, but as I expressed earlier, if you are making $75k a year, you can not afford a $600k mortgage. Using 3x rule-of-thumb stuff here, they should have probably been in the market for $200 - $250k home price range. If you are about to spend a large sum of money, you should shoulder some responsibility and educated yourself about it, don't you think? I mean we are not talking about stretching your budget a little, they bought 2-3X the house they could reasonably expect to afford. Sure the lender probably shouldn't have given them the loan, but ultimately they are adults and made a poor decision.
My real concern is that this latest housing bill basically covers everything, it covers 2nd home mortgages [tax payers should foot the bill for someone's summer cottage?] and mortgages up to $625k.
Personally I think it should be way more limited in scope. Allow a one-time forced free refinance to a 30-year fixed at the default rate. If the house goes into default after that, tough titties. That forces the lenders to take on the risk of their bullshit loans, the "deceived" borrows a chance and should cost the tax payers less money.
These people weren't given a loan, they applied for it. Now you can say that the lending institution shouldn't have given it to them, but they should have also known that they couldn't afford it. $5,000 net monthly would seem to be around $75,000 anually, $3,500 in monthly mortgage payments would be about a $600,000 mortgage. No rational set of human beings could begin to think that they could afford that. Undoubtedly they thought they could tough it out for a few years, make a huge return and move on. I feel absolutely no pity for them. They were idiotic and got exactly what they deserved. It shouldn't be the place of society to protect people from themselves.
Usually congressmen first become wealthy, then become politicians for the power. I don't think any elected official has aspirations for office for the over the table pay.
Yes, and its profit margin is at about 10% which is inline with any other economically healthy large company. I guess I am just sick of hearing about windfall profits when they are less profitable percentage-wise than McDonalds. The blame needs to be placed elsewhere, it is not the oil companies raising the price of gasoline.
Oil Companies do not profit from high oil, countries that have oil do. Exxon is down 13% YTD, in Dubai they are building indoor snow lodges and skyscrapers with rotating floors.
But when you're stealing power from the sun, I think you're in the clear for leaving your nightlite on without feeling bad about it.
I think you need to investigate this whole solar thing a little bit.
I don't think that you could have a tax rate higher than 100% could you?
We'll find out if Obama gets elected.
The market did decide and Air America is going out of business. The liberals didn't like this and are trying to use the "Fairness Doctrine" to force liberal ideas on NPR where they are not listened to.
John Jackson: "It's time someone had the courage to stand up and say: I'm against those things that everybody hates."
Jack Johnson: "Now, I respect my opponent. I think he's a good man. But quite frankly, I agree with everything he just said."
John Jackson: "I say your three cent titanium tax goes too far."
Jack Johnson: "And I say your three cent titanium tax doesn't go too far enough."
If you disable the LinkScanner then the icon turns gray and shows a red exclamation point complaining that it is not functionning properly. That is a problem because then if there actually is something wrong with it, you wouldn't know because the icon is always saying there is one.
Ah that makes sense. The only PC's I use that have AVG & IE6 on them are Windows 2000 and no SP2 for that. I don't think there is a way to disable it other than running the command line switches upon installation to not install LinkScanner.