[Diego Mamani]

[quote=spdrun]We never had a hard lockdown in the US … even in NYC in March-May, there were no travel restrictions to speak of, parks were open, many stores were open, de-facto outdoor dining and bars existed.

Sweden didn’t have it right. South Korea, Taiwan, and Japan had it right … “soft” lockdowns combined with contact-tracing via apps, zealous testing programs, widespread mask use, etc. I don’t get why so many people are getting their titties in a bind about mask use here in the USA — it’s the socially least costly way of controlling viral spread.[/quote]

You are absolutely right!

[Diego Mamani]

At $0.05 each, that’s quite a bit of equity! And you get a Buddha too.

[Diego Mamani]

[quote=SK in CV]Wouldn’t it be nice if there was something….anything…that could be done to reduce the likelihood of these kinds of events happening.[/quote]
Most of these killers are lonely men who aren’t getting laid. Wouldn’t it be of value to have some sort of registry of these guys (I know, there are millions of them; you would need to secretly “nominate” your neighbors and coworkers). Then we could have a privately-funded entity that keeps track of them and anonymously facilitates escorts or some sort of paid “companionship” and s-e-x to these losers. Wouldn’t that reduce the likelihood of them going postal?

[Diego Mamani]

Didn’t that happen to Pfizer after it acquired Upjohn/Pharmacia 13-14 years ago?

[Diego Mamani]

[quote=jeff303]An absolutely massive quantity of condoms.[/quote]
The last time I bought a large quantity from Costco, quite a few expired unused.

Of course, you could buy and then give them away to your Piggington pals!

[Diego Mamani]

Confirmed:
[quote]Tenant uses this home as a Scrapbooking Retreat and is bringing in the big bucks. Please overlook work tables and beds. You will not believe how many people come here to work on their scrapbooks over the weekends.[/quote]

http://emailflyers.net/nb/30899

[Diego Mamani]

[quote=CA renter]Oddly enough, they have that “family” wooden carving in the one window in one of the early interior shots. I highly doubt a family is living there unless they’re one of those families who adopt massive numbers of kids, but it looks to clean for that…[/quote] Well, it has to be clean, the house is for sale! The family room has too many beds, all with children decorations. Oddly, one bed looks like a queen size. Unless it’s a retreat for children, or for relatives, the house looks like it could belong to a “serial adopter” couple.

Once I knew a gal in the Inland Empire, with a Spanish surname but who looked German. She told me that her adoptive parents had lots of kids, of all colors.

[Diego Mamani]

[quote=mike92104]One other funny thing was his client was an unusually tall woman as well.[/quote]I bet client and attorney looked like this:

[Diego Mamani]

There is no “FED.” Fed is short for Federal Reserve Board. You can write FRB if you like acronyms, but most people who know what the institution is write “Fed.”

[Diego Mamani]

[quote=ucodegen]Because their population sample may have correlated independent variables, the author could remove one of the variables for correlation w/o telling the readers.[/quote] Population and sample are mutually exclusive concepts. The latter is a subset of the former. When the phrase “population sample” is (mis)used, usually its author means to say “study sample”.

[Diego Mamani]

[quote=flu][quote]
I have met engineers that can’t move the decimal place!

CE[/quote]

[quote]
Reminds me of a situation at work where someone asked me for help and the answer was to move the decimal left two places, so I told her to divide by 100. I guess she didn’t like the answer and asked someone else who gave her something better, to “multiply by .01”.[/quote]

I’m sorry both of you work with some pretty dumb people…[/quote]

I’ve had cow-workers who didn’t understand the meaning of rounding numbers. I gave them a table with a TOTAL at the bottom and a footnote explaining that the rows may not exactly add to the total because of rounding. They insisted there was an error and wanted to manually change some numbers. These two had advanced degrees, one of them an MD.

[Diego Mamani]

[quote=SK in CV]Then the guy who owned the company got busted for stealing shit out of the suitcases and the guy at the airport who was in charge of the operation offered him the contract because he was the 2nd in command. He was pretty rich compared to the rest of us. was 20 years old and making probably $22K a year plus tips. Owned a couple vans, had employees. Paid his own rent, funded his IRA every year, bought a porsche (ok, it was a 914, but it still said porsche on the insignia).[/quote]

Great story SK. I wonder how that business works. A few years back an airline misplaced one of my suitcases. The airline found the suitcase the next day and had it delivered to my house. I was very surprised by the delivery: it took place quite late at night, and the delivery guy was a well-dressed gentleman in his late 50s or early 60s, driving a late model Lexus SUV.

[Diego Mamani]

[quote=flu]If you buy from online, the price is pretty clear prior to checkout though.[/quote]
[quote=spdrun]As far as hotels, if you pre-book online, you’re usually told the full price before they charge your credit card.[/quote]
I know. The hotel is just an example… I think it’s moronic that merchants (Costco included, not just hotels) don’t include the sales tax in their price tags, as they do in the rest of the world. So, in addition to all those annoying x.99 prices, we have to add 7.25% or 8.5%, or whatever the rate is in your locality.

I recently bought a six-pack of imported (hard to find) beer at a mini-market. They priced it so that after sales tax and CRV, the total came to exactly $10.00. Cool… I wished they would simply put “$10” on the shelf or price tag, so I don’t have to calculate the real price and carry unwanted pennies.

[Diego Mamani]

[quote=flu]But I think you can do something similar (minus the paperwork headache) and limited by how much money you have.[/quote]
1. You’ll have a different kind of headache at the end…
2. You are limited to borrow one seventh of the total IRA funds you have.
🙂

[Diego Mamani]

[quote=flu]What is annoying is that costco lists this at $89,999.99…Really, now… This isn’t gonna fool people into thinking “wow, great deal because it’s less than $90,000…”[/quote]That’s one of my pet peeves… all those prices ending in 9, it’s really moronic. Even worse is that prices don’t include sales tax as they do in other countries. E.g., when a hotel quotes you $99.99 for a room, you have no way of knowing how much the total bill will be in the morning (there’s sales tax, city hotel tax, resort fee, fuel surcharge, etc.) The total may come to anywhere from $110 to $130.

In Europe, when a hotel quotes you 120 euros, that’s all you pay when you check out. The receipt may itemize room rate, VAT, etc., but who cares? I was quoted 120, and that’s all I pay.

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