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Participant[quote=LAAFTERHOURS]You can build a monster machine with 500. Or search for one on sale. Both could be found on Slickdeals.net
http://slickdeals.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=9&intagid%5B%5D=9%5B/quote%5D
Absolutely agree! And if you want to watch TV and HD movies on it, MAYBE $750. (I disconnected by cable again recently.)
Participant[quote=AN]In that case, whatever you buy, make sure you get one with a SSD hard drive. I upgraded my 4 year old laptop to SSD (nothing else) and Windows now start up from cold boot in 15-30 seconds where it used to takes many minutes. Launching apps would take mear 1-2 seconds where it used to take many seconds. Bringing the computer out of sleep mode is almost instantaneous and ready to use. So, for ~$100, that gives me the bang for my buck. Hard drive is the biggest bottleneck in a computer and SSD drastically improve that. An analogy would be, upgrading the other part of the computer is like upgrading your car to get more power. But if the road you’re on is congested, you can’t make full use of all of those HP. Upgrading the hard drive is like adding more lanes to the road and increase the speed limit by 5-10x.[/quote]
Good suggestion, AN … you have my attn! I have a SATA/eSATA bus for 3 drives with cheap WD drives (“caviar green and blue”) installed next to each other, in addition to the smaller WD drive which holds the operating system and programs. This year, I will replace the Vaio Pent D’s original WD SATA with a SATA II/III SSD to speed the boot time up … that is, after I install a *new* video card and power supply 🙂
Thanks for the tip!
ParticipantI would buy a multimedia computer with dual processors, at least a 512K video card, dedicated sound card (not on motherboard) and a TV tuner (or an extra slot to put one. It should hold two 1 GB RAM chips but have four slots to be expandable to 4 GB RAM You get so much more for your money with a MM desktop than buying an “empty box” for $400.
I think the cheap “mass marketed” desktop computers are a HUGE waste of money. Tell Frys or a hole in the wall local computer shop what you want and they will build it for you.
For backup, I use a dual processor ASUS multimedia Pentium III (circa 2000) with SCSI and the works (weighs at least 25 lbs) which will blow any current cheap model out of the water.
My main desktop is a (very expensive) 2006 Sony Vaio HD (w/1st gen blueray) multimedia desktop but its video card is on the blink right now and needs to be replaced. It also weighs at least 25 lbs.
May 4, 2012 at 3:22 PM in reply to: If you had a choice between Ron Paul and Ron Paul, which Ron Paul would you choose? #742958Participant[quote=burghMan]It’s captcha. I don’t even know exactly how I figured this out, I just got curious and was clicking around and noticed this:
http://piggington.com/user/captcha
Sorry, did I spoil the fun?[/quote]
No, burghMan, I already posted that the “imposter/imposer” was captcha.
see: http://piggington.com/ron_paul_wins_alaska_and_washington_state_several_state_gops_cha?page=1
As is markmax33®. And probably markmax33©, but I haven’t checked on this yet.
Further, a cursory check of a few recent threads reveals that “harvey” is pri_dk’s “alter-ego”….
pri_dk, could it be that you felt your username was “tainted” in some way and you needed a “fresh start??”
LOL :=D
May 3, 2012 at 5:43 PM in reply to: Ron Paul Wins Alaska and Washington State + Several State GOP Chairman Positions #742864Participant[quote=markrnax33][quote=markmax33][quote=markrnax33][quote=harvey]
Seriously though, are the functions of agencies like the FDA/USDA/FAA/NTSB etc. really going be better served by a yet-untested private solution?(Question is for sduude, not mm)[/quote]
People evolved from protozoa to where they were few decades ago without FDA. If anything FDA slows down the evolution by making it possible for the weak to linger.[/quote]
This is an imposter…[/quote]
This is an imposer…[/quote]
It is captcha imposing himself on mm33’s “turf.”
ParticipantHe definitely can shoot a mean travel video 🙂
Participant[quote=flu][quote=UCGal]Here are the details for our bill. We have a 2000sf house and a separate 700 sf casita. Total residents 4 adults, 2 kids, 1 dog. Landscaping is watered with drip irrigation, which is turned off after every rain. During the winter, we pretty typically stay in the first pricing tier, during the spring/summer/fall we start going into the 2nd tier (more expensive).
Base water fee: $38.66
Water Used: $62.17 (14HCF first tier, 3 2nd tier)
Sewer base fee (less settlement): $30.66
Sewer service charge (based on water use): $60.74
Storm Drain: $1.90So the fixed costs are pretty high – about $70/2 months. My total bill was $194.28.
It goes higher if you have a lot of lawn, a pool, teenagers who spend hours in the shower. (My kids are still young enough I have to tell them to take showers.)[/quote]
I think we discussed this some time ago ucgal in which we were comparing our water bills here, if I remember. I remember BG also commenting that about if we saved water at some specific months, the sewage fees would be less too…
Let me dig it up…[/quote]flu, I don’t know where that thread is, but I seem to remember posting something like that. I had forgotten (from wa-a-a-ay back) that the City of SD has their water and sewer charges for residential customers on the same bill. This thread brings it all back to me now 🙂
ctr70, if you are property-shopping in the City of SD, your water bill will include your sewer charges.
The City of Chula Vista has five sewer tiers, IIRC and they are based upon the resident’s Nov thru April water usage with the Sweetwater Authority or Otay Water District. The agencies have no problem “comparing notes” with one another.
Participantflu, you “hijacked” your own thread!
Participant[quote=dumbrenter]Is that it? I find it hard to believe. Maybe the estate tax returns whose basis IRS used are very different from living people’s return.
Maybe people do take some of their wealth with them when they die.[/quote]“Net worth” (and their progeny) are the only (tangible) things one leaves when they die. Their “salary” doesn’t mean anything, unless a last paycheck is owed to their heir(s).
Perhaps some salaried individuals feel more comfortable leveraging their salaries into more debt in order to “own” more things. This mindset doesn’t necessarily add to their net worth.
IMHO, in most circumstances having net worth is preferable to having more income, but that’s just me … I’m not one who needs a lot to live on.
ParticipantIt’s billed every two months and starts around $50 for two months for a one-person house with little to nothing to water outside (all concrete or xeriscape). It could go as high as $200 or more from April thru Nov if the resident is watering a large lot even if there are only one or two people living there.
Acreages are even more expensive to water, but most of those residents have wells and do not water the entire property, in any case. They also likely have their own septic system and thus do not pay sewer bills.
The average water bill for a family of four is probably about $80-90 for two months, even if there is nothing to water outside.
Sewer bills range from about $16 mo to $40 mo, depending on water usage from Nov thru April in the previous fiscal year and are adjusted in the first billing cycle after every July 1. Sewer is billed every two months, also, in most jurisdictions.
In County uninc areas, the sewer bill used to be added to the tax bill, but not sure about this anymore.
If any Pigg routinely has higher bills than this, please post your circumstances.
May 2, 2012 at 5:02 PM in reply to: OT: Yet another disturbing chapter in “The War on Drugs” #742725ParticipantThis just in this afternoon:
http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2012/may/02/dea-apologizes-student-left-cell/
Apparently, today the DEA “apologized” for the incident (without mentioning Chong by name) and stated they would “review their policies and procedures,” lol …
….Legislators in Washington began to tune into the incident Wednesday.
The Watchdog inquired with Rep. Darrell Issa’s office to ask whether he will use his position as chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform to review the case.
The Vista Congressman’s spokesman, Frederick Hill, responded, “Chairman Issa and the Oversight Committee will be asking the DEA for an explanation of this outrageous incident.”
Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-California, sent a letter to Attorney General Eric Holder requesting an investigation into what happened.
“After the investigation is completed, I ask that you please provide me with the results and the actions the department will take to make sure those responsible are held accountable and that no one in DEA custody will ever again be forced to endure such treatment,” Boxer wrote.
Chong was not immediately available for comment Wednesday…
This is one of those rare days that I wish I had TV. I again had to suspend my subscription due to Cox nearly tripling the cost of my pkg.
May 2, 2012 at 4:44 PM in reply to: OT: Yet another disturbing chapter in “The War on Drugs” #742723Participantomg, this very disturbing, appalling and disgusting “false-imprisonment” incident appears to be clearly the fault of multiple agencies and happened due to complete and utter incompetence at several gubment levels, IMHO.
“Immunity” be damned!!
…Chong’s attorney, Eugene Iredale, said he plans to file a claim against the federal government as soon as today. He said he expected it would be denied and he would proceed with a federal lawsuit later this year.
I am familiar with the superior capabilities and lo-o-o-ong track record of Victim Chong’s highly-respected attorney, Gene Iredale, and can only say that the “writhing-in-mucky-muck-bureaucracy” attorneys for these gubment idiot-“agencies” would do well to have the good sense to meet with Chong and his attorney in a dark closet very early on to pay him an exorbitant sum of money to quietly go away.
Otherwise, this incident WILL go to trial and it is NOT going to be pretty.
Ugh, I’ve seen a LOT of gubment screwups …. but this is just bad …. really b-a-a-a-a-d :=0
Participant[quote=The-Shoveler] . . . There are probably few voluntarily listing who want to list in this environment for obvious reasons I would think.
(they are underwater and just can’t, or they have no place they can buy for what they can get for the current place they would want to move to…) . . . [/quote]…or they aren’t going to give away their longtime “labor of love” at fire-sale prices … since they don’t HAVE to :=]
The non-institutional sellers in this market comprise three groups: the (distressed) “have-to-sell-or-get-foreclosed-on” group, the “senior-citizen-running-out-of-time” group (who likely made little to no costly improvements to their property over many years) and the “subsidized-relo” group (the smallest subset of current sellers whose new, distant employers will subsidize their “loss”).
May 2, 2012 at 4:01 PM in reply to: Ron Paul Wins Alaska and Washington State + Several State GOP Chairman Positions #742719Participant[quote=ocrenter] . . . the point is the only way Dr. Paul is even getting anywhere is to take advantage of the archaic caucus process that is essentially undemocratic. you know this is true. now I frankly have no problem with this since Mitt is also armed with bags of money from SuperPACs . . . [/quote]
All is fair in love and politics :=]
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