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[quote=earlyretirement]Private school would possibly be an option if I only had 1 child. But with 2 and most likely 3 after next year who in the world wants to spend up to $75,000 to $90,000 a year on private GRADE schools?[/quote]
Is $90k/year really that bad if you’re making $400-500k/year? Also, what about people who spend less on housing to pay for private school. Lets say you’re a couple who can afford a $1.2M house, but you decide to buy a $500k house instead. The difference over 30 years is ~$1.1M. To put 3 kids through private school at $90k/year comes out to be ~$1.1M. So, if you treasure your kid’s education more than you treasure your zip code, then that might be what you’d do. I live in a very middle class area and my neighbor sent all 3 of their kids to private schools. That’s just one example.

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CAR, I hope you can tell the difference between probability of getting sick vs probability of staying alive after you got the sickness. I was saying overweight and obese people have higher risk of getting various different kind of sickness compare to average weight person. I want less people getting sick, not more people living longer with sickness. It’s also less stressful on our healthcare system if we have less people getting sick vs more people living longer with sickness.

What’s more likely, an overweight person eating fast food and not exercise or eating fruit, veggies, lean proteins and exercise? I’m not disregarding genetic factor. Lets assume the same genetic make up. I.E. family having a history of heart disease. You have to siblings. One eat right and exercise and another eat nothing but fast food and not exercise. Which one do you think are more likely to be fat and which one are more likely to get a heart attack?

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[quote=ocrenter][quote=CA renter][quote=Cube]+1 to what FLU said.

Carpet in the bathroom is a recipe for mold.[/quote]

X2

The landlord should get rid of the carpet in the bathroom and install vinyl or tile flooring.[/quote]

x3, carpet in the bathroom makes no sense whatsoever. I suggest a $500 fine and mandatory landlord school.

is this another Mira Mesa specific problem like the infamous lack of interior wall issue we have heard so much about?[/quote]
nope, this house is in one of your master planned community built after 2000. Afaik, none of the house in Mira Mesa have carpet coming up to the shower. She bought the house with tenant in place, so there was no chance to remove the carpet after purchase.

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Thanks all. I will relay the unanimous suggestion.

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[quote=CA renter]We need to focus on health, not appearance. There are plenty of skinny, malnourished, unhealthy people out there; and there are plenty of “overweight” people who will never have a serious health complication in their lives. I’ve known plenty of both.[/quote]
No one is saying that we should focus on appearance and not health. But, are you really arguing that on average a fat person (not even morbidly obese) are more healthy than a person who are not overweight (we’re not talking about anorexic or bulimic people here)? We’re talking about average here and not exceptions. Go ahead and ask any health care professionals about the various risks that comes with being overweight. If you don’t believe said healthcare professional, here’s what the government(National Heart Lung and Blood Institute) have to say about the health risks of overweight and obesity: http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/health/health-topics/topics/obe/risks.html

So yes, there are healthy non-overweight people who have bad luck and have health problems. However, on average, overweight people are more likely to have health problem.

I can easily use your logic to defend smoking as well. I know some people who have been smoking since they were teenagers and currently are still very healthy. Does that mean smoking have no risk?

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Fixing over eating is easy. Just tax food at an extreme level where people can only afford to buy a little bit of food. Obesity is a first world problem. The solution is to get people to eat like a third world person. You can’t really get them to do it voluntarily, so force them to do it. Kind of like what we are doing with cigarettes.

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[quote=craptcha]Marketing? You think Tim Cook genuinely cares about providing the best possible experience for the user regardless of the bottom line and he’s willing to suggest competing product in order to achieve that goal?[/quote]
I’m confused at what you’re getting at here. You’re the one who’s suggesting this is mostly just marketing. Not me.
[quote=craptcha]But the maps-gate is mostly marketing, like the stupid verizon/at&t N-g coverage maps.[/quote]

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[quote=craptcha]Apple fans have been poking fun of Android the same way you are poking fun of Apple Maps. I find multi-billion dollar corporate entities to be silly object of affection.

Let me prove my non-fanboy credentials – Apple produces some really crappy software compared to competitors. The dev tools are years behind what MS makes – every release of Xcode introduces new simulator-related issues, like it’s by design. Apple iTunes causes brain freeze on Mac and Win version should be banned. OS X not having cut/paste for files is moronic. The entire app store feels like a happy accident – inability to transfer app ownership between corporate accounts almost four years later is frustrating.

But the maps-gate is mostly marketing, like the stupid verizon/at&t N-g coverage maps.

Here is the consumer report’s bottom line link:

Both the free Apple and Google navigation apps provide clear routing directions. Apple feels like a less-mature product. But as seen with the initial competing applications for the iPhone, we would expect updates to this new app over time–and Apple has promised as much. When getting down to the nitty gritty, Google provides a better overall package, but we feel that both provide a good solution for standard software. We expect the competition between the companies will benefit customers with ongoing improvements.

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I’m not a fanboy of any one specific platform. I’m a fanboy of technology. I like competition. Especially when a underdog release something that’s superior to the top dog’s solution. Android have their fair share of problems as well.

I’m only making fun of Maps-gate because Apple fan tend to be the most arrogant. It’s all fun and game for me.

Again, if it’s really a non-issue and is just a marketing thing, then why did Tim Cook came out, apologize, and tell his customers to use a different solution if they’re not happy? Why not just say, all of these Maps-gate is a non-issue and is just their competitor’s negative marketing against Apple?

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I don’t know what transpired either and I don’t know when Apple started maps either. But, what we do know is, maps is half-baked, which means they released it too soo. Google have been know release beta software, but not Apple. Only recently did Gmail came out of beta. So, your Google example is not a really good one. Many Apple fans have been poking fun of Android for and basically calling it a beta. Apple pride themselves in releasing stuff when it’s ready and good. Which is why iOS didn’t have copy and paste when it was released. Maps-gate is an issue for regular user, or else, why would Tim Cook come out and publicly apologize?

Google release those features for their Android maps, regardless of whether Apple have their own Maps or not. Those features have been in development for probably as long as Apple started their Maps endeavor. As you stated, those features have been in Google Earth and now they’re just porting it to maps. Again, like I said, competition is good. However, in this case, it didn’t drive Google to do anything different than they have been doing. It will only be good for end users once Apple’s map database is as robust as Nokia and Google and they license out those data, just like Nokia and Google. If they don’t, then the effect to end user is probably limited, unless you use an iDevice.

BTW, this is what Nokia has to say about it: http://www.engadget.com/2012/09/28/nokia-navigation-business/#continued
“What we are doing on a global scale is difficult. It’s difficult and expensive. Everybody who wants to get into that should understand what they are getting themselves into.” Apple, in other words, is in for a hell of a marathon if it wants to deliver something as comprehensive as the petabytes of data Navteq has acquired, and catching up on 30 years of expertise won’t be easy.” I have to agree with him. This is how Google builds their maps: http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/09/how-google-builds-its-maps-and-what-it-means-for-the-future-of-everything/261913/. So, yeah, it’s a long way away before Apple Maps will start to be at parity, much less pushing the boundaries and cause a positive effect for end users.

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dup.

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[quote=craptcha]Right. So what’s the big deal wrt maps? It’s not like the built-in app is your only option. The old licensing term with Google expired, Google did not want to allow voice/turn-by-turn, Apple did not want to license maps without it and released what they had. If anything it’s a gain for everybody since Google is accelerating release schedule for vector maps and migrating some of the Google Earth technology to Google Maps. Competition is good. It leads to better products (like I care) and more importantly to more jobs and higher wages within the industry.[/quote]
It’s not a big deal. It’s just a kink in Apple’s armor. BTW, your logic is a little contradicting. If the built-in app is not your only option (which it’s not), then why didn’t they just keep Google map around w/out turn by turn and have its user buy a number of apps out there that does turn by turn. Or, they can easily just wave the 30% fee for the best turn-by-turn app and make it free for its user, by either bundling it into the OS or as a free download. However, that didn’t happen. My guess is, they thought they can swing it on their own and they faltered this time.

No one is saying that competition is not good. We’re (at least I am) just making fun of the fact that Apple releases a half baked maps app. They could either a) start their own map a few years earlier or b) they could have bought garmin, tom-tom, etc. and let it baked better before releasing it to the public. BTW, it’s not like Apple is an under dog, or a start up, that’s disrupting the mapping landscape. This would only be good for iOS users (when Apple full bake their maps). There’s no chance Apple will release their maps app on Android and WP8. So, the “Competition is good” logic is not really applicable here.

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[quote=treehugger]Since the cost to heat a pool up may be $100-200/day depending on the time of year and it would extend our pool season, I think we are going to spend the $4,500 to “upgrade”. [/quote]
That number seems high. Is that your real number or are you guesstimating? This past July, we had relatives over for a little over a week and we went swimming everyday. We had the pool at 92 degrees and that whole month, our gas bill was $104. That’s inclusive of the water heater for the house AND all the cooking we did (our stoves are gas). If we don’t use the pool at all, our gas bill is around $18. That’s including us using the gas stove to cook 2-3 meals a day. So, it seems like your tankless water heater is probably saving you $6-12/month.

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hahahha: http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=27809

[quote=Tim Cook]While we’re improving Maps, you can try alternatives by downloading map apps from the App Store like Bing, MapQuest and Waze, or use Google or Nokia maps by going to their websites and creating an icon on your home screen to their web app.[/quote]

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[quote=flu]iphone 5 user joke…

So an iPhone 5 user walks into a bar….
or restaurant.. or library…or subway… Well, shit, who knows where he really is, because he is iLost…[/quote]
But, he’s lost in style 😀

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Is 4% that big of a deal to get you to buy INTC? QCOM is giving you 1.6%, MSFT is giving you 3%, CSCO is also giving you 3%. Is an additional 1-2% in dividend enough to swing you one way or the other. I personally buy tech for growth and not dividend. I have some dividend specific stock that gives you much more than 4%. AGNC is giving me 14.5% right now. I also have CEL, who’s currently giving me 11.5%. On top of that, I bought it when it was $6.xx, so I’m also up over 30%.

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