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barnaby33ParticipantI take umbrage with, “student loans are necessary if you don’t come from a wealthy family.” That doesn’t even pass a basic sniff test, me. I’m po white trash from Valley Center (pronounced with a drawl.) 3 years in JC and 2.5 at Cal State Cap N Crunch and I got a CS degree. I did get some grants, I worked and oh yes, I joined the military.
You don’t have to go to an expensive school. You don’t have to choose a non-remunerative major (though most do) and you don’t have to borrow money. It does make life easier if you want the traditional college experience.
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January 17, 2013 at 2:13 PM in reply to: Obama re-elected to grow our national pie, not just re-divide it #757910barnaby33ParticipantHow far can you go taxing the rich and putting the youth in debt until they say F U? Because once you get to that point you can’t take it back.
I absolutely loved this sentence. I just wished he’d actually typed out fuck you!
Nobody seems to have made the point that spending or taxing problems aren’t the base issue. The real underlying problem is the lack of economic growth. Not in ‘Merican bonars mind you, in real economic output. Since we are now officially energy constrained that can’t happen, hence all talk of real growth is absolute horse shit. Now heap on top of that all the fine points made herein about spending and taxing and we have a great thread!
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantTarget valley baby, yeah!
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantThis thread is total housing porn.
JoshJanuary 7, 2013 at 10:18 AM in reply to: OT: So if a underage teen drinker gets drunk on flight and gets arrested, is it constitutional? #757303barnaby33ParticipantWe don’t smoke and we don’t chew and we don’t go with girls who do and our class won the bible!
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantNo entiendo.
JoshDecember 29, 2012 at 10:43 AM in reply to: OT: FLU refinances (again)…..15 year conforming 2.5% #756922barnaby33ParticipantTritto?
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barnaby33ParticipantWhy should the people who don’t want to join a union benefit from the pay and working conditions earned by unions and their dues-paying members? Let them work at a non-union shop and get whatever they fight for on and individual level (good luck with that!). They are totally free to work for any non-union employer they desire, but they do NOT have a right to the compensation and working conditions earned by dues-paying members. Hell no.
Wow CAR evincing a conservative opinion. Those non-union freeloaders getting all the benefits without paying the union costs. Kind of like entitlement programs! It’s amazing to see the same argument applied in almost the same way to two different groups.
Society is a closed system, just like a union. Why should people who don’t contribute much to the system have a right to benefits provided by the system? Apply liberally and repeatedly.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantHowever most bond holders (not traders) don’t purchase them for appreciation, but rather income.
Depends on the investor. I doubt China buys UST debt for the income.
As with everything else said in this thread there are more caveats than certainties.
Least certain of all is the availability of a personality that can see the switch and react accordingly. I made money hand over fist in 2008, when everyone else was losing it. However I just didn’t believe in a turn around. I thought people were smarter than that. I was wrong.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantIs your model to go from spoken English -> Spanish and vice versa? Speech is highly specialized and from my limited work in it a few years ago, gets very complex very quickly. In my mind the best way to proceed would be to use separate speech to text engines then use something like google translate to do a language text translation.
JoshNovember 29, 2012 at 8:29 AM in reply to: OT: Luckily we taxed Amazon so they bring jobs here! #755448barnaby33ParticipantPrices on Prime items are higher, to cover the shipping cost. Amazon isn’t stupid. I use prime extensively, but it’s a chimera, when considering price.
Since Amazon already has distribution centers here was the OP being glib when they linked a new center to tax collection?
Ninaprincess, they are still cheaper in most cases than anyone else. Even with tax.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantGot the couch finally! However the people that had kept it neglected to tell me it was scratched to hell by their cats. Probably because they didn’t want to have to fix it. Really shitty behavior indeed.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantSeems to me everyone argues the taxes they pay are regressive. CARenter, we seem to have entered a phase of civil discourse where everyone is a victim. Somehow it strikes me as a symptom of something deeper.
As to moving to Texas for fucks sake stop talking about it and do it. Obviously not enough of ya’all are actually doing it, because housing here is still ridiculous.
Joshbarnaby33ParticipantSpeaking as someone who has lived in the urban core for years but comes from hicksville, I’d say density is best.
First your current job is never permanent. The job centers for most of San Diego are centered around the 56-8-5-15 corridor. Second costs of commuting will increase. Third if you take a minute and think about how much time commuting takes from you, posters here being ok with an hour commute 1 way! Holy titty fucking christ! Thats around 10 hours a week spent driving. You’ll never get those back and they aren’t optional. Will the bigger space, for the few hours you get to enjoy it, be worth it?
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