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November 1, 2011 at 10:24 AM in reply to: Buying again, 2 years after Short Sale – questions for you pros #731863
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ParticipantI’ve heard expats in France complain that truly good wines are either unaffordable or unavailable because of strong demand from (where else?) China. French wine has been a common business/personal gift in China for some time, so I guess it’s natural that with economic growth comes a taste for the good s***.
Maybe the new Chinese tax rules regarding business gifts will ameliorate the bifurcation. Not that it makes much of a difference to me. When I do drink an imported wine product it’s usually a fine $2.99 imported sangria.
ParticipantIn the unlikely event that I ever own a boat larger than my bathtub, I will be glad to give you my business 🙂
Hmmm, maybe I can do a cash-out refi …
ParticipantS.F. Bay Bridge replacement spans … steel fabrication done in Shanghai. Caltrans even turned down federal funding to get around ‘Buy American” requirements.
ParticipantI actually found a made-in-USA aggregate rake.
ParticipantMost of the low down payment buyers I see on Property Virgins, etc., are Canadian … it seems one can still get 95% or even 100% financing in the Great White North.
But it’s OK because the market is hot, real estate never goes down, and it can’t happen there!
Participant[quote=CDMA ENG]What the instructors did was to raise the nose, contrary to what most pilots would do in a stall, and to go flaps down with the engines to 85 percent power. This places the aircraft in a very stable configuration where the plane’s wing will generate enough lift to maintain flight in all conditions.[/quote]
Interesting … Sounds a lot like what the captain in the Colgan Air crash did, except the copilot simultaneously raised the flaps.
ParticipantJust a matter of time before the very industrious Airbus astroturfing crowd shows up here to attack Boeing’s safety record and “unfair” U.S. subsidies …
But I digress. Yeah the crash of Air France 447 really does cut to the heart of the interaction of man and machine. I don’t work in aerospace (much to the benefit of the flying public) but I run into the same problem with software user interfaces … make them too simple and people lose engagement to the point where data entry errors actually increase.
ParticipantI try to explain this to people and they look at me like I’m an idiot … in much the same way as they reacted to my real estate prognostications 6-7 years ago.
September 23, 2011 at 12:00 PM in reply to: Solar Energy, what is the actual cost and how long will it take to recoupe cost #729706ParticipantI’ve worked the numbers forward, backward, sideways, up, down … and in my own situation I can’t find a way to make solar pay off in less than 10 years, even figuring in tax breaks, incentives, and assuming continuous increases in the cost of electricity.
In short, I’m not enough of an energy hog to go green.
Then I found this analysis of the Million Solar Roofs initiative from 2007 … Prices have dropped somewhat since then but I think the conclusions still have some merit.
http://www.physics.uci.edu/~silverma/actions/MillionSolarRoof.ppt
Participant[quote=walterwhite]Waterbeds are synonymous w swinging wild sex in the 70s for me. That was mybperception in jhs[/quote]
Two words: Glenn Quagmire.
Participant[quote=briansd1]Good to see you guys benefiting from government intervention.
[/quote]Ah yes indeed, we owe the current low rates to the Greek government. Papandreou has my vote any day!
ParticipantNot exactly the same situation but … before 1934 many long-term bonds, including government bonds, had a “gold clause” stipulating repayment in gold. After the end of the gold standard and the effective devaluation of the dollar in 1934, debtors were more than happy to declare the gold clauses void and pay off the bonds in devalued dollars. Creditors sued for the dollar equivalent of the gold they were due. The courts sided against the creditors because, well, they were asking for an awful lot of money.
I say the moral of the story is that you can tell the bond market to get ****ed at least once a century.
Participant[quote=walterwhite]Have any of you guys ever had sex on tempurpedic?[/quote]
Not on Tempurpedic but on a latex mattress. No springs, less bouncy, quite preferred it to a regular spring mattress.
ParticipantTry a latex mattress.
But not from IKEA …
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