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Thompson Heating & Air Conditioning

This is mostly for North County

I had a broken fan during Aug heat wave on a Trane unit that was only a few years old. Most companies wanted to arrange for a visit 1-2 weeks later for inspection. Thompson HVAC took my information and ordered parts over phone. It took several weeks for parts order but they came and installed when we were not at home. We came home to nice cool A/C unit and sent payment in mail.

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760-842-7630

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Disney (as well as power companies) lay off employees and force them to train H1Bs to perform their jobs.

But these H1Bs graduated from the top schools in the world with Honors/Distinction/summa cum laude and obviously the employees at Disney were unqualified or just lazy gals who watched Frozen all day instead of working.

My Disney stock has only tripled in last five years. Had they canned these people years ago the stock would have gone up at least another 0.1%.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/09/07/exclusive-displaced-cast-member-how-disney-replaced-me-other-americans-with-cheap-foreigners-on-h1b-visas/

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The cities with fiber have one thing in common. Low cost real estate, low labor and/or easy terrain. Verizon stopped fiber expansion because it was costing $1500 per house when it started and then came down to $750 per house! The wireless business is much more profitable so they gave up on FTTH.

Following that premise, Louisville, KY, and Phoenix are next. Maybe San Jose because of tech inbreeding.

Only way fiber comes to high cost coastal cities is if they can charge a premium and pay city monopoly fees (like the cable companies today), which I don’t think is feasible anymore for general areas. It would work in Carmel Valley, etc, but politics would force fiber company to offer every place in the city, which would make it unworkable.

What is ridiculous is that new homes built after 2000 didn’t have options for fiber connections and purple water lines to each home.

https://fiber.google.com/newcities/

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[quote=AN]Time Warner is deploying TWC Maxx next month, which is their 300Mbps service.

I hope Google get this done quickly. Competition is great and my house is already pre-wired for fiber, so it shouldn’t cost them very much to turn it on.[/quote]
TWC maxx is 300down, only 20up. Fiber is more symmetrical, like 100/100, 200/200. Big difference for some.

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[quote=PCinSD]What is the fundraiser for?[/quote]
Their vacation was interrupted by hospital stay for one guy and they had to get the Legion d’Honneur.

Idea was fund their next quiet vacation at a place such as the La Reserve Paris overlooking the Grand Palais. They may need a big place to entertain belles dames français.

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Here is a DUI death Carmel Valley Rd the other day. Newer Fiat 500 vs 87 Chevy Nova. The Fiat saves the F*** drunk, but Nova was demolished.
Do you want your kids to drive older cars when drunks are way bigger threat than boogey man

http://www.cbs8.com/story/29618676/victim-identified-in-deadly-dui-crash

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I once knew a guy who worked for companies as a contractor doing software engineering. He had really bad experience with contracting company, ending up crazy people (with heavy accents)kept suing him, he had to hire lawyers, a complete nightmare. Definitely needed to hire Jax Teller and Walter White to uhm negotiate with these people.

Then had bad experience with training H1B and salary decline that he blamed on the H1Bs. Like a moron, I stated that well at least they pay local taxes here as opposed to working overseas. That went over like a lead pipe. “Da** foreigners ruining quality of life”

Here is the kicker. No, he wasn’t waving the confederate flag cause he was Asian who had come to US on a student visa.

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Bezos is very tough boss and extremely ruthless businessman that makes Carl Icahn look like Santa Claus. Skimmed through “The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon” book and employee reviews and its a good place if you are a creative person that needs no direction, someone who is basically runs their own business within Amazon. For many people it is a nightmare. I think it would be very interesting place, but I think I wouldn’t make it past noon without Bezos repeating his favorite taunts:

“Are you lazy or just incompetent?”

“I’m sorry, did I take my stupid pills today?”

“Do I need to go down and get the certificate that says I’m CEO of the company to get you to stop challenging me on this?”

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JANA partners is biggest shareholder in QCOM ($2B) and they want some changes, like splitting up the company into two, but execs said no way. But execs did agree to hire “The Bobs” as consultants to look for cost reductions. July 22 shareholder meeting may provide some answers.

http://www.thedeal.com/content/tmt/why-qualcomm-could-end-up-as-the-biggest-proxy-fight-ever.php

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1963 Chicken tax introduced 25% tax on light duty trucks. Still in effect today. May be one reason light duty trucks are profit machines for auto companies, whereas small cars barely break even.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_tax

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[quote=njtosd][quote=flu]Speaking of random coursework at UC schools..

http://www.utsandiego.com/news/2015/may/12/ucsd-naked-final-exam/%5B/quote%5D

I saw that. How does this go on without the administration finding out? How can this professor defend his actions? The liability for UC is scary . . .[/quote]
From Dept Head:

“Removing your clothes is not required in this class. The course is not required for graduation. VIS 104A is an upper division class that Professor Dominguez has taught for 11 years.”

Isn’t most art creepy and degenerate? Just cause I couldn’t pass any art classes doesn’t mean I’m bitter.

Could she get hundreds of students to hold protest rally or drop the dumb class?

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Like the cops in the beating to death of Kelly Thomas, they won’t be convicted.

They’ll get away with it because they’ll claim they didn’t drive that rough, that they didn’t think it could kill him, that the driver didn’t know the others didn’t secure him in the vehicle blah blah blah.

Excuses, excuses, excuses.

It is simple, you should not die in police custody on the way to jail when you enter custody uninjured.[/quote]

If jury couldn’t convict the cops who killed Kelly Thomas by savagely beating him, cops will not be convicted of a crime except for sexual assault on 20 something female with no record.

In Cleveland trial against cop for shooting 15 more rounds through windshield after no threat is coming to a close. Defendant waived jury trial because did not want to face inner city jury. Expect a walk because excessive force laws are impossible to prove since the laws were likely written by police unions.

http://www.wkyc.com/story/news/local/cleveland/2015/05/05/closing-arguments-in-michael-brelo-trial/26913105/

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You should read/post this in the “contractors I would recommend” thread.

We had Roger from Artisan Stone and Tile remove some tile and install new tile on first floor. Very good work and reasonable price. His specialty is bathroom work as you can view on his site.

http://artisanstonetile.yolasite.com/

Phone:858-663-6834

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Russ Craig is very competent and a nice guy.

http://www.zillow.com/profile/Russ-Craig/Reviews/

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“55 Percent Average Benefits Test: The average DCAP benefits provided to the non-HCIs under all plans of the employer must be at least 55 percent of the average benefits provided to HCIs under all plans of the employer.”

So 55% of the DCAP benefits must go to people making under $115K.

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