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[quote=FlyerInHi][quote=utcsox]Time Warner customers in San Diego will get free speed boost in early 2015. Standard service (up to 15 Mbps) will increase to (up to 50 Mbps). Ultimate Plan (up to 100 Mbps) will increase to (up to 300 Mbps). More detail can be found on the link below:

http://www.timewarnercable.com/content/twc/en/about-us/press/time-warner-cable-announces-commitment-to-transform-customer-exp.html%5B/quote%5D

I think they should give the same speed to everyone. And charge more for people who use it more.

On a highway, you pay for miles driven, not speed limit.[/quote]If we do that, we’ll have slow speed like the speed limit and congestion. Some providers are already doing exactly what you’re proposing and charge extra by imposing data cap. Thanks, but no thanks.

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[quote=spdrun]Yeah you can. Two words for you.
BMW.
Z4.[/quote]
I’ll counter those two words with:
Alfa.
4C.

or
Porsche.
Cayman.

or
WRX.
STi.

Like I said, you have to try pretty hard to get the Miata >3k lb.

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[quote=spdrun]Hopefully the new BMWs will keep the option of a real transmission, not a ladyboy autotragic only.

As far as the Miata, I like them under 200hp. If you have additional HP and torque, you need to pork up other parts. Driveshafts. Structure. Brakes. You’ll turn a 2300 lb car into a 3000+ lb porky pig very quickly.[/quote]Uh, no. You can’t pork up a Miata to 3000lb even if you try.

Alfa Romeo 4C weigh <2000 lb and have 240HP.
Cayman S weigh <3000 lb and have 340HP and a H6.
Subaru STi with 4 doors weight <3000 lb and it has AWD.

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[quote=flu][quote=The-Shoveler]I still got a good vibe feeling going for USA,

IE economy starting to ramp up these days (fastest growing economic area in California now).

L.A. ports at record volume.

Manufacturing being on shored now.

Feels good to me.

I think I will buy a little silver just because (nearing 5 year low).[/quote]

Maybe the cost of a porsche will go down now…. The y aren’t made in the USA, so maybe a stronger dollar is a good thing…And just in time to… 2016 991s mid-cycle refresh might see more power with turbos.. Who am I kidding…..[/quote]I hope this trend continues for awhile. Would be great for those of us who loves to travel. My $ will go a lot further now than it used to. I’m planning to go to Japan next year, so hopefully the Yen will keep on sinking against the dollar. Same with the Euro.

As for your Porsche, I’m not holding my breath. If anything, it just means Porsche profit will be higher, since cost of production (in Euro) vs sale price (in $) will be lower. I do like the trend of everything going turbo though. Too bad the Japanese are dragging their feet in this department.

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[quote=livinincali]They managed to blow a bubble for 6 years after the NASDAQ bubble burst. We’re really only into this current bubble about 5-6 years. It’s kind of funny that we get really confident in their ability to control and manage everything right about when the bubble pops again. I remember how confident everybody was about subprime being contained back in 2007. We’re probably pretty close to being there again and we just completely ignore what happened last time thinking it’s different this time. Most of us have been through 2 big bubbles and here we are again saying it’s not a bubble. I guess we like to forget.[/quote]I wasn’t confident about subprime. It was subprime that got me to think it was a bubble. That and the fact that PITI was much higher than comparable rent. Today, there’s no subprime, lending standards are tight. Most buyers are cash or well financed buyers. Not anywhere close to how it was in 2004-2008. Houses in most areas still have not reach peak price yet. I haven’t even talked about inflation adjusted, just pure nominal price.

As for the stock market, all I can say is, don’t bet against the house, don’t fight the fed, etc. It never end pretty. If you start buying into the DOW 20 years ago and dollar cost average over the last 2 busts, you’re sitting very pretty right now. The DOW is up 340% over the last 20 years. How good are you at predicting tops and bottoms? My crystal ball is broken, so unless it is very clear like 2000 and 2008, I’m not betting against the house. I’m won’t be taking the lead, just have a stop loss in place just in case we get another bust.

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I flip flop between INTJ and ENTJ.

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[quote=livinincali][quote=spdrun]
2000-1 dot.com bubble crash started under Clinton.
2007-1 property crash started under Bush.
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2014[/quote]
Less than 4 months left.

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[quote=flu]Texas actually has a decent high tech community, especially around Dallas….

And Gov. Perry keeps throwing bones at California businesses to relocate there too…. I think there were a few companies in SD that just relocated to Texas….And gotta love the no state income tax…[/quote]
Austin have a pretty big tech community as well. SXSW is also there, so you get a pretty funky tech start up types there too. Gov. Perry have been doing a good job for TX pulling companies from CA to TX.

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This is a prime example of trade off: http://www.sdlookup.com/MLS-140047320-817_Santa_Florencia_Solana_Beach_CA_92075.

Single story 2000 sq-ft, 1/4 acre, with a sit down ocean view. If there’s no freeway noise, I bet this house would go for at least a couple hundred thousand dollars more.

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[quote=ctr70]I rent up in Seattle and rents have gone way, way up here, especially in the city of Seattle proper. My landlord raised my rent about 7% last year. I’ve been renting up here as I moved up here less than 2 years ago and still deciding if I want to buy & where I want to buy.

I own condo rental properties I bought in San Diego from 2009-2011 and vacancy rates are very low. I like to keep my rents a little below market so tenants feel they are getting a good deal and don’t bug you & stay for a long time to pay off your property for you. I have had zero vacancies and not one missed rent payment.

Also, as a reminder to make money investing, often you have to go against the crowds. I remember people right here on this forum arguing with me about buying condos in SD back from 2009-2011, thinking I was crazy. Bearishgirl telling me they would “depreciate” and that condos were bad investments. Those condos have all been AMAZING investments. I was buying 2 bed condos in good rental areas of SD for $130k-$150k like North Park, Rancho P., etc..(that now go for $300k+ and get $1,500/mo in rent). My mortgage payments on some of my condos aren’t much more then car payments. And back then in 2009 NOBODY WANTED THEM. Everyone was scared. Like Warren Buffet says, buy when others are fearful and sell when they are euphoric.

You have to be really careful who you listen to on these forums. There are a lot of big time long winded BS-ers that don’t know s**t. Try to get investing advice from someone who has a higher net worth than you. Not some flunkies on forums who may be flat broke yet handing out advice.[/quote]
I totally agree. Take everything you read on a public forum with a bag of salt. Do your own research and make your own decision.

I wish I had more funds to take more advantage of the 2008-2011 time frame, but alas, I maxed out all my funds. I guess I’ll have to wait for the next crash.

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[quote=spdrun]Problem is that if it has 280 HP and has to be warranted, it won’t be 2300 lb, since the brakes, drivetrain, and chassis will have to be porked up to handle the extra power/tq.[/quote]Brakes, yes, drivetrain, it depends, chassis, not necessarily (look at the Elise/Exige). Add in a turbo will probably add ~50lb and larger brakes and tires will add another 50lb. That is where I get 2300lb from, since the non-turbo weighs 2200lb. If you want to cut weight, you can always pay more and get a single piece forged wheels for example. Regardless, it’s very doable to get 2300 lb and still have to whole car beefed up to handle 280-300 HP, especially if the non turbo car is already 2200lb. You can also reduce some weight by getting titanium exhaust, light weight clutch and fly wheel, carbon fiber hood and trunk. You can go extreme and make it a hardtop with carbon fiber roof. I wouldn’t mind paying another $10k over the base Miata for some of those modifications.

If they can’t keep it down to 2300lb, I wouldn’t mind 2400lb if they make the engine stronger and turn up the boost to yield around 300-320HP. That would still be a very fun little car, not only in the curve but also in straight line.

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Call me when they put the turbo SkyActiv engine in there. Now, that would be a screamer. Mazdaspeed Miata is what would get me excited. 2.0L 280HP in a 2300lb car. That would be fun and trackable.

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[quote=flu]I had to settle to live in the slums of Carmel Valley. I have a tiny front lawn, I have a very tiny backyard, and I have no air conditioning. I don’t have a nice driveway to park 4…sometimes 5 cars..And the stucco exterior is crumbling..I’m too lazy to water my lawn….Nor can I afford to… So green rattle can for me….And I have way too many walls on the inside…..

AN, on the other hand lives in a palace in MM.. He has the finer luxuries of life… Pool, A/C real yards…Solar electricty…And probably has much fewer walls than I do….[/quote]
Palace in MM? Nah, I live in a congested infernal called Mira mesa. I needed AC because I live in an infernal and I need solar because I need AC. And remember, Mira mesa houses has to many walls too.

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[quote=spdrun]

It really depends on the OS and OEM in term of updates. If you have iPhone 4, you can’t install iOS7, which means a bunch of apps are off limits to you.

This is why closed ecosystems are vile and Stallman was right in vilifying Jobs in the end. Android is definitely less bad in this respect. I have a handset that runs Android 4.1 (don’t want to upgrade to 4.4 because of its asinine treatment of SD storage, so I’m holding out for the next version that is supposed to fix some of that), and I can run 99% of apps even though it’s a two-year-old OS.

Though I have to say that other than Maps and Talk, I don’t use a whole lot of Google apps.[/quote]BS, Android is 10x worse in this department. I had an HTC Thunderbolt that was stuck on 2.3 while Google was already releasing 4.1 at the time. In America, not only are we at the mercy of OEM implementing the upgrade but we’re at the mercy of the carriers allowing the upgrade as well. Most Android phones do not get upgrades, except for the Nexus devices. Even those get faded out in less than 2 years. even the Nexus devices, which is the best of the Android ecosystem in term of upgrade, gets spanked by iDevices.

As for being able to use 99% of the apps, I call bs as well. A lot of apps are starting to require 4.0 and above and yet majority of android phones are still running 2.3. This makes life much harder for the app developers, who can’t implement some of the newer api because there are still a lot of android phones that are still running old versions.

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[quote=poorgradstudent]2. The trend is definitely towards people keeping their phones longer. I remember five years ago when a one year old phone felt “old”, these days a 2 year old iphone still seems pretty current[/quote]
It really depends on the OS and OEM in term of updates. If you have iPhone 4, you can’t install iOS7, which means a bunch of apps are off limits to you. If your android OEM doesn’t give you an updated OS, you’re SOL when it comes to newer features. Even Google neglect their Nexus line after less than 2 years.

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