and the opportunity cost from not investing that money in something that earns interest.
What opportunity cost? If you didn't spend that money on a house payment, you would've spent it on rent. The house payment you have a chance of recovering. The rent? You don't.
I'm the other island then. I hate tabs. I like to open tons of windows and move them around. What happens if I need to look at 2 tabs in the same window simultaneously? I can't. I hate them. I can't understand why people like them. Apparently it's not just me, there's one other guy on teh intarweb who agrees.
There always will be the exception, won't there? I suppose your friend is lucky he wasn't ejected. Partway. My own anecdote is my husband, who fell asleep at the wheel on a freeway, awoke in the median, overcorrected, and flipped many times (witnesses said 6-12) before landing on the roof of the car. The roof structure of the car held up fabulously preserving his survival space within the vehicle. However, the rear windshield and both windows on the driver's side broke out completely, so had he not been belted he would've been partially or fully ejected.
As it was, he walked away with nothing but a concussion from a metal CD case that we kept in the car. It hit him in the forehead. He was otherwise sore but completely fine.
I believe you, as one time when I was about 15 we went to the lake. We hadn't been there more than 15 minutes when something strange happened. We were all wading out into the lake muck (barefoot) and my brother (13 y.o.) was about up to his armpits in water when he suddenly appeared to shoot vertically out of the lake....and then ran to shore on top of the water's surface. He then commenced hopping and screaming until my mom got him to sit down and found out that he'd stepped on glass and sliced his little toe to the bone.
Now logically I know he did not run on top of the water, but I swear he did.
New cars aren't "made" of fiberglass. A FEW of them (nowhere near all or even many) have fiberglass body panels..but it's already been proven that the body panels play no significant role in the structure of a car during a crash. Those parts are cosmetic, not part of the car's safety cage.
Also, it's advantageous to have a car that does crumple in a very specific way during a collision. In the 50's and 60's they didn't understand this and made cars as rigid as they could. Now, they make the cars specifically to deform in certain places to absorb the energy of impact, but to maintain the structural safety cage so the occupants won't be crushed.
And how does that compare to the fulfilled atheist with family, offspring, and friends?
We're out here too, you know, though it's cute that your stereotypical atheist is lonely and angry. Perhaps he's lonely because your Catholics burned his wife at the stake?
Maybe that's the link, actually.
Maybe the "god gene" gets passed down because people without it have historically been murdered, sometimes en masse.
Fantastic point - and I'd like to add that many other states do not allow philosophical objections. They *only* allow religious or medical objections, so you either have to belong to a religion that would object to a vaccine, or you have to have a child who's already had some sort of negative reaction to a vaccine or a vaccine component.
Maybe your kids are older than mine. I would not even *consider* heading down to get this until my kids neared an age of sexual activity. Right now that's a decade off. Plenty of time for more testing.
Uh, I'm a member of the anti-religious left, pro-premarital sex, pro-gay, etc.
And I STILL think it's a terrible idea to make such a new vaccine mandatory. Call me nuts, but I cannot trust something so new, where side effects are unknown, and I can't trust Merpk to have my or my children's best interests at heart.
I think it's GREAT that this vaccine is available, but it should NOT be mandatory.
You'd be surprised. When my evaporative cooler broke last summer, temps reached 104 (40c) in our house. It is MISERABLE - all you can do is lay there and moan about how hot it is - but the computer did keep functioning, fancy graphics card and all. It never crashed due to the heat but you would not believe the fan noise. The fridge also ran constantly and the exterior was hot to the touch.
SUV's (and also minivans) came out around the same time as seatbelt laws.
Big families went places before SUVs and minivans, but they did so by tossing all kids unbelted in the backseat (and one in the back window) and holding baby on mom's lap.
That's not legal anymore, and it's impossible to fit 3 child safety seats in most sedans now. Since kids have to be in a child safety seat or a booster until age 7 in some states, it's likely that a family would have 3 or more children in these seats, necessitating an SUV or minivan.
In my particular car, we are able to fit 2 safety seats in back but it is not possible to seat someone between them. With safety seats in place our Altima seats 4, tops, and the occupant in front of the rear-facing seat better be short.
Improved safety regulations made people purchase large cars that they don't need EVERY day, because on the off chance you need to transport more than 5 people, they ALL need to be buckled. Most of us can't afford to buy a minivan/SUV AND a small, efficient car, so we have to lug around all that excess steel even when going by ourselves to work.
Think about it...the reason the minivan succeeded when it did was not because people started having bigger families....it was because child safety seats had just hit the market, and because seatbelt laws were just starting to. The families weren't new, the greed wasn't new, but the need to seatbelt everyone was.
Another fun court case lately was a woman in my town who was arrested for selling sexual paraphenalia and porn out of a back room in an earring/tattoo parlor. She was charged with 15 counts of felony pornography distribution...it is actually illegal in my town to sell pornography or sex toys. Seriously. Many people were outraged that such things would be sold here, tarnishing our community. If there's a state that thinks everyone else's sex life is their business, I live in it.
Well, not 17 year olds, but in a case last year, a 13 year old girl turned up pregnant, and subsequently both she and her 12 year old boyfriend were charged with "Sexual Abuse of a Child". Both were simultaneously perpetrators and victims.
Unless the association paid for and paved the streets, the streets are still public property.
Streets aren't really involved - my house is accessible only by our (private) parking lot, since it's set back in the development. It faces away from the street and is blocked from view by several other houses and a 6' privacy fence.
Distance isn't really an issue as at some point the land stops being private and telephoto lenses can take nice pictures of even far away objects. Hell, they could even ask permission of the association and be granted it if the rest of the owners decided they didn't care (isn't democracy great?).
I wouldn't really care if they did -/. acts like this (photographing houses) is all new, but realtors and appraisers do it ALL the time to get comps for a house that's being sold. I was just pointing out that it would not be possible for them to photograph ALL houses from public roads.
That is why I will never buy a townhouse - I don't want ANYONE telling me what I can or can't do on my own property... Well, that and the fact that you can never really "pay off" a townhouse completely - even after you pay 100% of the selling price, you still have the association fees. At least it sound like the townhouse owners are the association in your case. But I still wouldn't want all my "home improvement" money going into a general fund that other people decide how to spend.
Well, whatever floats your boat. Personally, I like having the front yards maintained. Besides, I paid $64k for it 3.5 years ago and we're selling next month for $135k. So the $100/month for association dues doesn't really chap my hide. Our choice (in this market) was between buying a condo/townhome, or buying nothing.
And technically, as long as you live in a country with laws and taxes, you'll be paying someone else to provide services and limit what you're allowed to do on your private property. And in most cities, the yearly property tax dwarfs the assocation dues....so you're never really DONE paying off any house.
It's not like it's hard to get on the board (and be the decider) as they're usually begging people to serve. At least in our association....
I live in a detached townhouse, but all common areas (including the front yards) are private property owned jointly by all the homeowners. They can't photograph mine without trespassing.
I know people will joke that this is a given, on/., but you've obviously never been pregnant. The lack of abdominal space combined with muscle-relaxing hormones means that even water will give serious heartburn. It's probably moot, as you're probably not supposed to take that drug while knocked up, but fatness and eating crap aren't the only causes of heartburn.
I thought you were talking about "email layout" another way. I have accidentally marked several senders as SPAM just because the button is right next to the delete button and I mis-clicked. That's a layout problem I'd like to see fixed.
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Thanks...good to know as we'll be moving a state over in about a month. Guess we're going with Budget.
Why do we hate U-Haul again? I think I know for the rest, but not that one.
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I'm the other island then. I hate tabs. I like to open tons of windows and move them around. What happens if I need to look at 2 tabs in the same window simultaneously? I can't. I hate them. I can't understand why people like them. Apparently it's not just me, there's one other guy on teh intarweb who agrees.
A good example is Unlucky property woman, who shows up wailing in front of an awful lot of destroyed buildings.
As it was, he walked away with nothing but a concussion from a metal CD case that we kept in the car. It hit him in the forehead. He was otherwise sore but completely fine.
Now logically I know he did not run on top of the water, but I swear he did.
Also, it's advantageous to have a car that does crumple in a very specific way during a collision. In the 50's and 60's they didn't understand this and made cars as rigid as they could. Now, they make the cars specifically to deform in certain places to absorb the energy of impact, but to maintain the structural safety cage so the occupants won't be crushed.
We're out here too, you know, though it's cute that your stereotypical atheist is lonely and angry. Perhaps he's lonely because your Catholics burned his wife at the stake?
Maybe that's the link, actually.
Maybe the "god gene" gets passed down because people without it have historically been murdered, sometimes en masse.
But...but....with the "i" it almost anagrams to "marijuana"!
One's two and one's 10 months. I am well aware that we have to start worrying about sex around age 12. :)
Fantastic point - and I'd like to add that many other states do not allow philosophical objections. They *only* allow religious or medical objections, so you either have to belong to a religion that would object to a vaccine, or you have to have a child who's already had some sort of negative reaction to a vaccine or a vaccine component.
Maybe your kids are older than mine. I would not even *consider* heading down to get this until my kids neared an age of sexual activity. Right now that's a decade off. Plenty of time for more testing.
And I STILL think it's a terrible idea to make such a new vaccine mandatory.
Call me nuts, but I cannot trust something so new, where side effects are unknown, and I can't trust Merpk to have my or my children's best interests at heart.
I think it's GREAT that this vaccine is available, but it should NOT be mandatory.
You'd be surprised. When my evaporative cooler broke last summer, temps reached 104 (40c) in our house. It is MISERABLE - all you can do is lay there and moan about how hot it is - but the computer did keep functioning, fancy graphics card and all. It never crashed due to the heat but you would not believe the fan noise. The fridge also ran constantly and the exterior was hot to the touch.
Big families went places before SUVs and minivans, but they did so by tossing all kids unbelted in the backseat (and one in the back window) and holding baby on mom's lap.
That's not legal anymore, and it's impossible to fit 3 child safety seats in most sedans now. Since kids have to be in a child safety seat or a booster until age 7 in some states, it's likely that a family would have 3 or more children in these seats, necessitating an SUV or minivan.
In my particular car, we are able to fit 2 safety seats in back but it is not possible to seat someone between them. With safety seats in place our Altima seats 4, tops, and the occupant in front of the rear-facing seat better be short.
Improved safety regulations made people purchase large cars that they don't need EVERY day, because on the off chance you need to transport more than 5 people, they ALL need to be buckled. Most of us can't afford to buy a minivan/SUV AND a small, efficient car, so we have to lug around all that excess steel even when going by ourselves to work.
Think about it...the reason the minivan succeeded when it did was not because people started having bigger families....it was because child safety seats had just hit the market, and because seatbelt laws were just starting to. The families weren't new, the greed wasn't new, but the need to seatbelt everyone was.
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Unfortunately he hasn't reposted all of his videos (God's Magic Banana Factory was hilarious) but God willing, (ha) he will soon.
Another fun court case lately was a woman in my town who was arrested for selling sexual paraphenalia and porn out of a back room in an earring/tattoo parlor. She was charged with 15 counts of felony pornography distribution...it is actually illegal in my town to sell pornography or sex toys. Seriously. Many people were outraged that such things would be sold here, tarnishing our community. If there's a state that thinks everyone else's sex life is their business, I live in it.
Well, not 17 year olds, but in a case last year, a 13 year old girl turned up pregnant, and subsequently both she and her 12 year old boyfriend were charged with "Sexual Abuse of a Child". Both were simultaneously perpetrators and victims.
Nothing will stop me from my underpants-parading. Nothing!
Streets aren't really involved - my house is accessible only by our (private) parking lot, since it's set back in the development. It faces away from the street and is blocked from view by several other houses and a 6' privacy fence.
I wouldn't really care if they did - /. acts like this (photographing houses) is all new, but realtors and appraisers do it ALL the time to get comps for a house that's being sold. I was just pointing out that it would not be possible for them to photograph ALL houses from public roads.
Well, whatever floats your boat. Personally, I like having the front yards maintained. Besides, I paid $64k for it 3.5 years ago and we're selling next month for $135k. So the $100/month for association dues doesn't really chap my hide. Our choice (in this market) was between buying a condo/townhome, or buying nothing.
And technically, as long as you live in a country with laws and taxes, you'll be paying someone else to provide services and limit what you're allowed to do on your private property. And in most cities, the yearly property tax dwarfs the assocation dues....so you're never really DONE paying off any house.
It's not like it's hard to get on the board (and be the decider) as they're usually begging people to serve. At least in our association....
I live in a detached townhouse, but all common areas (including the front yards) are private property owned jointly by all the homeowners. They can't photograph mine without trespassing.
I know people will joke that this is a given, on /., but you've obviously never been pregnant. The lack of abdominal space combined with muscle-relaxing hormones means that even water will give serious heartburn.
It's probably moot, as you're probably not supposed to take that drug while knocked up, but fatness and eating crap aren't the only causes of heartburn.
I thought you were talking about "email layout" another way. I have accidentally marked several senders as SPAM just because the button is right next to the delete button and I mis-clicked. That's a layout problem I'd like to see fixed.