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Is there an automatic dog whistle you can set up to make the dog bark 24/7? Maybe that’ll annoy her too and she’ll do something about it. Else, maybe it’ll make the dogs bark enough that they’ll lose their voice permanently :-D.

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[quote=ocrenter][quote=AN][quote=flu]My assessment went down by $100k too. So my property tax will drop next year by $1k approximately…

And no, it has nothing to do with reality.[/quote]
I’m jealous. I wish my assessment goes down by $100k. I tried to request for $100k reduction but they only gave me $25k.[/quote]

May have something to do with general lack of walls in MM, it is considered a premium these days. I think the county assessor also factor in the overwhelming lizard population in CV as well.[/quote]
The damn lack of walls and lizards is costing me a bundle.

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[quote=flu]My assessment went down by $100k too. So my property tax will drop next year by $1k approximately…

And no, it has nothing to do with reality.[/quote]
I’m jealous. I wish my assessment goes down by $100k. I tried to request for $100k reduction but they only gave me $25k.

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[quote=spdrun]contingent doesn’t mean it will go through — seems like (from what people here have said), people throw out multiple offers and see what sticks.[/quote]
You must not know this submarket…

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[quote=spdrun]

Unless you’re talking about contractors making $100/hr with any benefits. But even then, that’s still hard to believe.

I said $50-100/hr, and yes, I could see a contractor making near $100/hr. At $150-200k/yr, benefits become sort of irrelevant, especially considering that mortgage and self employed health insurance are tax deductible.

Lastly, how do you know HOW he bought the house? He may have had money from other sources.[/quote]
Proof please. It’s extremely unlikely for a technician to make $100/hr. around here, even as a contractor. Btw, he’s not a contractor.

I know because he’s family.

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[quote=spdrun]Electronic technician? Depending on what exactly he’s troubleshooting, he could be making $50-100/hr. Perhaps more than an engineer — skilled tradesmen aren’t easy to come by.[/quote]
Trust me, he’s far from that. My guess is, $50-75k/year. You’ll understand why I would guess that by just watching how they save/spend.

BTW, I’d like to see some data to back up the claim that an electronic technician with an AA degree make $100/hr in San Diego. I’m extremely skeptical to say the least. $100/hr is equivalent to over $200k/year. Even engineering directors don’t make that much. Maybe once you get to the VP level. Unless you’re talking about contractors making $100/hr with any benefits. But even then, that’s still hard to believe.

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[quote=spdrun]Why should the average American family need to work two 45+ hr/week shifts just to make ends meet?[/quote]
You do not need to work 45+ hrs/week just to make ends meet. If you do, your “ends” is way too high and you need to reevaluate your expenditure. I know a family of 6 living on a single income and that income is just an electronic technician income as well. So you can’t get any more average than that. They bought their own home and they’re still able to save. So, no, you do not NEED to have 2 parents working 45+ hrs/week to make ends meet. You NEED to have 2 parents working 45+ hrs/ week to live a well above average life.

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[quote=flu]I hope we see double digit rent price increase by the end of 2012 from the start of the year. That would make my day(year)[/quote]
+1

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[quote=flu]Well it’s obvious.

First choice… Me

Second choice… AN

Third choice. Markmax33[/quote]
I have enough gray hair as is. My remaining black hairs can’t deal with the stress of political office. What if the reporters ask me what magazine I read.

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[quote=ocrenter]Of course we are not heartless. But we got to pay for it, hence the ACA.

The whole point is you can’t go half way in as we are now, we can’t mandate emergency care yet do not mandate insurance coverage.

Extending Medicare to all is essentially a single payer system. Reason why I mentioned socialism is because that is the number one reason why it is politically impossible to achieve at least in the foreseeable future.[/quote]
If a single payer system is impossible, then why not work together and come up with a solution to the health care problem that both side will like. When you have a bill that one side voted yes and another side voted will inevitably be challenged by the other side.

ACA were passed with 100% of republican voted no, why didn’t they just go straight for single payer, since they’re not getting republic support anyways. Why go have way w/ the ACA?

I think both side can agree that we’re not heartless, regardless of political party line. Why can’t they all just sit down, investigate what are the top 10 reason for the rising healthcare cost and create 10 bills to fix those 10 problem. Would that be so hard?

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Yes, I saw Time Capsule does work with PC. There are plenty of single drive NAS that you can use to back up your data. Getting a couple of them and you’re basically getting something similar to RAID-1. I actually have these NAS to back up my data locally. But I also got Backblaze to put my data in another physical location and it’s sitting in a server farm with a lot more redundancy that I care to try to do. I still think it’s very important to a) back up your data and keep that back up in a different physical location b) have that back up stored in a redundancy system that can withstand hard drive failures. I have my fair share of hard drive failures, so I don’t really trust them.

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[quote=spdrun]

Most people actually would have no idea where to start to build their own back up server. So, for your average user, Backblaze type of online backup is the only real back up option.

Sure they do: buy an Apple Time Capsule. Or similar appliance that contains two drives at RAID 1. Think backup appliance, not Debian box.

And exactly — the average person would have one Backblaze account per device, which would get … pricy quickly.[/quote]
I guess for average Mac user, one would know about Apple Time Capsule. I’d consider myself above average and even I don’t know about Apple Time Capsule. Also, average computer users uses PC, not Mac.

Lets assume average user does have one account per device, and an average family have 3 computers, that $143/year. To set up their own back up device, it’s $140-180/year depending on electrical charges and equipment charges. So we’re looking at similar priced to slightly more to run your own. But you’d need to maintain your own and you don’t have the advantage of the backup being in a different physical location. So, personally, I’d still go with something like Backblaze.

Another question would be, how much data does one wants/needs to back up. If it’s smaller (less than 75GB), it would be cheaper to go with something like Skydrive, which is $25/year for 75GB.

Obviously, running your own would be a better deal if you:
a) have sensitive data you don’t trust putting on someone else’s server
b) you have many computers
c) you have solar electricity
d) you like to actually have total control of your data at all time.

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Where did I say $90/year?

I’m not your normal user. I have a media server and a back up server as well as Backblaze to back up my back up server, which the media push data to on a nightly bases. But that’s definitely overkill for most people. Most people actually would have no idea where to start to build their own back up server. So, for your average user, Backblaze type of online backup is the only real back up option.

I was just trying to compare purely the cost of running your own server and putting it to Backblaze and Backblaze in general is cheaper and much easier to set up and deal with. However, I have both, so I’m not a good example.

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I wish I’m paying 15¢/kW. At 29¢/kW, it would cost me about $100/year just to run the server. So, the total cost to run your own server at $400 for equipment over 5 years is $180 not $132/year.

Also, why are you paying for 3 computers? Unless you just want to waste money. Why not create a centralized media server to store of all those media and have your other device just access those media over the network?

So, we’re looking at $47.50/year for Backblaze and $180/year to run my own. So, for over 3x more to run my own, why would I do that? Not to mention if I’m unlucky and my hard drive die prematurely (more frequently than normal).

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[quote=spdrun]As far as pricing — you’d be very surprised. You can get an Atom-based barebones computer, load it up with two 1TB drives in RAID 1 for a few hundred dollars.

Be able to back up unlimited computers to the device, stream music off of it, etc.[/quote]
I build my own computers, so I know the cost of building one. Backblaze charges me $95 for 2 years for unlimited data. There’s no way I can run my own server for that kind of price. My bet is, the cost of electricity alone would probably cost me that much. Then there’s the cost of replacing components when it fail. Then there’s the rare situations (if my house burn down), I feel safer to know I have another back up at a different location. I do have 2-3 different copy of those pictures/videos w/in my house.

Two 1TB drives cost $220+, depending on which brand. Then the cost of the other components (my guess would be at least another $200 (decent MB with RAID options tend to run at least $70+)). For $420+, that will get me 8+ years with Backblaze.

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