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I can’t believe we’ve been just handing Syria over to ISIS just like that.
Middle Easterners need a dictator in there to crack skulls, throw people off buildings, and chop off heads when they don’t listen. If you’re a leader you don’t do that, they see you as a pussy, and look how they treat their women.
Then the US casts any rebels in the area like their Jedi Knights fighting the Imperials, when in reality we’ve got no idea who were funding and supplying weapons to. Democracy isn’t going to work over there.

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Here’s what I don’t get: why do so many people go to the 4 year university straight out of High School:

Palomar College tuition: $1,288
SDSU Tuition: $6,976
UC Tuition: $11,220

Is there a problem transferring from Community to UC that didn’t exist before?

And unless you go to Ivy League does it really matter which school you attend?

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[quote=bowie]The sellers are not in a hurry to leave but also are ready to sell.

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This doesn’t make sense to me.

Are they trying to sell the place so they’ll have the equity available to buy a new place prior to the end of the school year? What if they don’t find a new place in 59 days (remember that January and February aren’t hot real estate months), or they change their mind about moving and just decide to keep renting from you whether you like it or not?
Why did the house fall out of escrow the first time?

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[quote=FlyerInHi]Doofrat, what is Pi?

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Raspberry Pi. A lot of the use of xBMC and subsequently Kodi was on the Raspberry Pi a year or two ago, but it’s difficult to get it to run with good performance without hours of tweaking. Once you get it working, it runs great, but there are better alternatives out there now like the Fire.

Where it really helps is when you have something that isn’t available anywhere. For instance, for awhile, District 9 was not available on iTunes or anywhere else for that matter, so you could get it on Pi. Or if you like watching “The Soup” you can’t get it without a cable subscription.

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[quote=scaredyclassic] Pull it together!!!! Or take the,year off. I’m pretty sure he’s a faker.[/quote]

And he just had almost 3 months off, and now he’ll get a week for Thanksgiving and a couple of weeks for Christmas.

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Great topic, I’ve always wondered what the significance of the ticker was in today’s world (today meaning the last 20 years or so that they’ve had computerized quotes widely available). I think it’s just window dressing.

As far as Kodi goes, don’t rely on it for streaming live TV. You’ll spend a bunch of time getting live TV set up, then something changes and it all breaks, not worth it at all (time wise I mean, $ wise it’s practically free). Kodi is great for movies and TV shows you can’t get on iTunes, but it’s still easier to just buy it from iTunes than “evaluate” it on Kodi. Also, if you’re interested in Kodi, look into getting it running on the Amazon Fire stick using debugging mode. I run it on Pi, but that’s a pain to get it working. If I rebuilt it, I’d do it on the Fire stick.

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Do you need a prescription or anything to make a purchase? I’m checking for a friend that doesn’t have a PC Computer connected to the Interwebs.

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[quote=kev374]
She claims the average salary for a Sr. Software Engineer in Southern California in the mid 90s was about $40,000/yr and today it is triple that. Hence the tripling of home prices from mid 90s to now.

I think this is hogwash. Who is right here?[/quote]

If that were the case, then the price to income ratio chart should be flat 🙂 The housing boom was driven by easy credit, lowering qualifications, and an everybody’s going to get rich mindset, had literally nothing to do with income.

http://piggington.com/images/primer/sdpricetoincome.gif

I worked as a lowly Desktop guy in 97′ and I was making $55,000/yr. as a contractor. I took a 10% (or so) pay cut a year or so later(better company full time with benefits and stock). I’d guess a software engineer would make more than some desktop guy with a fresh MCSE.

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[quote=outtamojo]He does socialize with all kinds, including girls. On reflection, I think overall he is an ok kid. But you know, I just realized that being a parent will never stop and just because someone young may be “amazing” now doesn’t guarantee they will be the same later on in life. The hopelessness of it all has sapped my mojo :)[/quote]

Outtamojo, you’ve got the right attitude about it, you’re keeping an open mind, and following up on this. Where it becomes an issue is when a parent or administrator ignores the issue or makes excuses; then they just become an enabler. I don’t have kids, but I’d like to think I’d approach it the same way you’ve been.

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[quote=ltsdd][quote=scaredyclassic][quote=Blogstar]What would Freud say about Yo Mama Jokes.? I think he would say it’s impossible that they are ever merely just for fun. What would Shakespeare say about them?

This is actually a serious question, Freud was very good on the topic of humor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humor_in_Freud.

http://usesofhumor.blogspot.com/2008/10/freud-gets-serious-about-jokes.html%5B/quote%5D

Yes. Seemingly fun inocuous interaction is of course very serious business.[/quote]

Innocuous according to whom? To the one that’s dishing it (most definitely) or to the one at the receiving end (very unlikely). The jokes bothered the kid enough for him to tell his dad about it so you can’t dismiss it as harmless. It did have a negative affect on the other kid and he could have reacted in a physical, violent way.[/quote]

Exactly. My sister and I were in seventh grade and were being bullied by this eighth grader after being dropped off by the bus every day. This guy was of course a lot bigger than us and it kept escalating.

Middle school logic: I was going to start bringing one of the guns we had around the house with me for protection.

My sister finally told our dad about this guy and my dad had a talk with his dad and it ended that way instead.

You should probably nip this issue in the bud.

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Your son’s story doesn’t pass the smell test very well IMHO. So He’s buddy buddy with this guy, they’re horsing around like buddies do which includes:

1) Saying You little bitch (seriously we used to call each other this as a joke, no harm was meant and it was understood)
2) Saying yo-mama jokes to each other (We told off color jokes to each other when we were kids, didn’t go telling the parents about it)

All this is good and fine, but for some reason the other kid tells his dad about him and his “buddies” good natured ribbing.

You see how this doesn’t pass the smell test very well? Middle school guys don’t go home and tell their dad about how their buddies horsed around that day, that makes no sense to me.

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From what I understand, it has limited available funds. So if you’re in a low risk earthquake area (in San Diego and not on a fault like Rose Canyon) you’ll just be paying premiums on something you’re very unlikely to get anything from if a big enough quake hits to affect the low risk areas.
If you live in a high risk area, it’s probably worth getting.

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[quote=FlyerInHi]related to internet speed, is a wifi router with external antennas better than one without?[/quote]

Wired is always better, you get latency and congestion with wifi, but having directional antennas is a plus. I’m actually going to finally wire up my Apple TV, sick of the lag with the wireless.

And DSL can be a much better connection than cable theoretically because you get your own connection all the way back to the demarcation point (depending on how far the point is from your house) I had it for a year about 15 years ago and it worked for about 8 months of that year. When it actually worked, it was amazingly consistent, my throughput and ping were always the same. You could make calls on the computer and people couldn’t believe it wasn’t on a landline. Games were always a good connection. It didn’t have a huge throughput, but it was a good connection. The only problem was it came from the phone company and they were a bunch of F@&$ tards. That’s the reason I’ve never gone with Uverse, because I don;t trust the phone company with providing this service.

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[quote=meadandale]My weather station uses RF to transmit from the sensor suite to the base station. It has much lower power requirements than wifi. The whole sensor suite runs on a small solar panel that charges a capacitor for transmission during the night.

Does moisture data transmission really need to be done via a secure IP network?[/quote]

What model are you using? I was thinking about getting one of these stations.

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I used to live in Carmel Valley in a TownHome, and it always had issues with mold that needed to be remediated periodically.
The main issue was the shower in the master bedroom. It was a lame design because all the steam would just go into the bedroom and there was no fan. We never used it unless we had guests, and instead used the shower in the center of the unit that had a fan.
Second problem was the windows. They were single pane windows with a metal frame. Anytime it was cold outside, moisture would condense on them causing mold. I’d clean these with a 10% bleach solution twice a year to mitigate it.
The blinds would also get a bunch of mold on them and required cleaning as well.
If she is seeing mold on the windows, then she definitely needs to clean it with bleach. The issue there is that due to temperature differences between the window and the air inside, air tends to circulate past the mold on the windows carrying spores throughout the house.
When cleaning these windows, you don’t need to use a lot of bleach, you can just dip a q-tip in a bleach solution and hit the worst areas first. Just make sure you do it during a day when you can leave the windows open to air out, and wash the bleach off with fresh water on a sponge 10 minutes later.

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