[joec]

I think after Katrina, housing prices shot up for places which were ok as well…I assume after a massive earthquake, there will be a TON of jobs to rebuild and replan, etc…unless part of the state falls in the Pacific, then maybe folks inland will now live on the coast. 🙂

[joec]

I think after Katrina, housing prices shot up for places which were ok as well…I assume after a massive earthquake, there will be a TON of jobs to rebuild and replan, etc…unless part of the state falls in the Pacific, then maybe folks inland will now live on the coast. 🙂

[joec]

I think after Katrina, housing prices shot up for places which were ok as well…I assume after a massive earthquake, there will be a TON of jobs to rebuild and replan, etc…unless part of the state falls in the Pacific, then maybe folks inland will now live on the coast. 🙂

[joec]

Just to clarify, the unemployment provision only extends whether you can file for extended benefits into 2011, not the length of the unemployment benefits so the max is still maxed at 99 weeks, not 3 years. The old filing extension expired Nov 30th.

Without this provision, someone who had his 26 weeks of UI benefits expire on Nov. 2010 could not get any additional weeks of UI pay if this was not passed.

Does anyone have details on what the business capital equipment write off provision is about? Can’t businesses write that off anyways with Section 179?

[joec]

Just to clarify, the unemployment provision only extends whether you can file for extended benefits into 2011, not the length of the unemployment benefits so the max is still maxed at 99 weeks, not 3 years. The old filing extension expired Nov 30th.

Without this provision, someone who had his 26 weeks of UI benefits expire on Nov. 2010 could not get any additional weeks of UI pay if this was not passed.

Does anyone have details on what the business capital equipment write off provision is about? Can’t businesses write that off anyways with Section 179?

[joec]

Just to clarify, the unemployment provision only extends whether you can file for extended benefits into 2011, not the length of the unemployment benefits so the max is still maxed at 99 weeks, not 3 years. The old filing extension expired Nov 30th.

Without this provision, someone who had his 26 weeks of UI benefits expire on Nov. 2010 could not get any additional weeks of UI pay if this was not passed.

Does anyone have details on what the business capital equipment write off provision is about? Can’t businesses write that off anyways with Section 179?

[joec]

Just to clarify, the unemployment provision only extends whether you can file for extended benefits into 2011, not the length of the unemployment benefits so the max is still maxed at 99 weeks, not 3 years. The old filing extension expired Nov 30th.

Without this provision, someone who had his 26 weeks of UI benefits expire on Nov. 2010 could not get any additional weeks of UI pay if this was not passed.

Does anyone have details on what the business capital equipment write off provision is about? Can’t businesses write that off anyways with Section 179?

[joec]

Just to clarify, the unemployment provision only extends whether you can file for extended benefits into 2011, not the length of the unemployment benefits so the max is still maxed at 99 weeks, not 3 years. The old filing extension expired Nov 30th.

Without this provision, someone who had his 26 weeks of UI benefits expire on Nov. 2010 could not get any additional weeks of UI pay if this was not passed.

Does anyone have details on what the business capital equipment write off provision is about? Can’t businesses write that off anyways with Section 179?

[joec]

I think the feeling and mindset of buying a place/home is similar to being hired permanently at a company. Renting is like being a temp worker.

You know you’re going to move so subconsciously, you just don’t try to bond as much with your co-workers since you’re only there temporarily for the work and that’s it. You also don’t belong and aren’t invited to all the company activities.

I remember the whole group going to watch movie premiers (back in SV) during the day and I had to sit in my cube doing work or wasting time.

With renting, I think for a lot of folks, it’s the same. You just don’t want to get to know the neighborhood since your mind tells you you will be gone soon and you don’t really even try to put down roots…

With jobs what they are now, work is not as great as during the tech boom, but good experiences as a permanent employee vs. just a contractor/temp.

[joec]

I think the feeling and mindset of buying a place/home is similar to being hired permanently at a company. Renting is like being a temp worker.

You know you’re going to move so subconsciously, you just don’t try to bond as much with your co-workers since you’re only there temporarily for the work and that’s it. You also don’t belong and aren’t invited to all the company activities.

I remember the whole group going to watch movie premiers (back in SV) during the day and I had to sit in my cube doing work or wasting time.

With renting, I think for a lot of folks, it’s the same. You just don’t want to get to know the neighborhood since your mind tells you you will be gone soon and you don’t really even try to put down roots…

With jobs what they are now, work is not as great as during the tech boom, but good experiences as a permanent employee vs. just a contractor/temp.

[joec]

I think the feeling and mindset of buying a place/home is similar to being hired permanently at a company. Renting is like being a temp worker.

You know you’re going to move so subconsciously, you just don’t try to bond as much with your co-workers since you’re only there temporarily for the work and that’s it. You also don’t belong and aren’t invited to all the company activities.

I remember the whole group going to watch movie premiers (back in SV) during the day and I had to sit in my cube doing work or wasting time.

With renting, I think for a lot of folks, it’s the same. You just don’t want to get to know the neighborhood since your mind tells you you will be gone soon and you don’t really even try to put down roots…

With jobs what they are now, work is not as great as during the tech boom, but good experiences as a permanent employee vs. just a contractor/temp.

[joec]

I think the feeling and mindset of buying a place/home is similar to being hired permanently at a company. Renting is like being a temp worker.

You know you’re going to move so subconsciously, you just don’t try to bond as much with your co-workers since you’re only there temporarily for the work and that’s it. You also don’t belong and aren’t invited to all the company activities.

I remember the whole group going to watch movie premiers (back in SV) during the day and I had to sit in my cube doing work or wasting time.

With renting, I think for a lot of folks, it’s the same. You just don’t want to get to know the neighborhood since your mind tells you you will be gone soon and you don’t really even try to put down roots…

With jobs what they are now, work is not as great as during the tech boom, but good experiences as a permanent employee vs. just a contractor/temp.

[joec]

I think the feeling and mindset of buying a place/home is similar to being hired permanently at a company. Renting is like being a temp worker.

You know you’re going to move so subconsciously, you just don’t try to bond as much with your co-workers since you’re only there temporarily for the work and that’s it. You also don’t belong and aren’t invited to all the company activities.

I remember the whole group going to watch movie premiers (back in SV) during the day and I had to sit in my cube doing work or wasting time.

With renting, I think for a lot of folks, it’s the same. You just don’t want to get to know the neighborhood since your mind tells you you will be gone soon and you don’t really even try to put down roots…

With jobs what they are now, work is not as great as during the tech boom, but good experiences as a permanent employee vs. just a contractor/temp.

[joec]

Am I the only one who thinks we actually should do racial profiling or background profiling? Like martin said, all this TSA security crap is mostly a waste of time and there are easier ways for terrorists (I feel) to attack planes if they wanted to. Bribes to various workers seem the easiest way or better yet, start them young and have them work and move up in the system while all alone, they work for the bad folks (like those movies). There’s just this “ohhh, it’s so not fair, it’s racial profiling, etc etc…” I say just live with it and that’s unfortunate this is the world we live in now.

At least with profiling, you go after the most obvious folks and don’t waste time on little 3 year old girls or 65 year old grandma’s who would be stopped easily by other passengers.

In my list, men of age 12-65 probably are higher risk. Anyone from those suspected problem countries. Single men traveling alone. For business travelers, maybe they can start using retinal, finger print scanning and compare records with companies or something else.

Just publicize it and in the future, when we go to war with China, I’ll probably just have to spend 5 hours in a room for a nice security pat down before my flight. That alone would deter a lot of terrorist since they know they will be vetted for 5 hours already and how will you gang meet up if all of you would be checked?

Honestly, after 9/11, I think the other passengers would stop most threats since they all probably figure they will die anyways if something occurred so for all we know, Bin Laden is just laughing at the US now with the waste of time/money and they aren’t really doing any attacks in this area now.

I’m sure they are focusing on something that we aren’t checking similar to how virus writers work, etc…

[joec]

Am I the only one who thinks we actually should do racial profiling or background profiling? Like martin said, all this TSA security crap is mostly a waste of time and there are easier ways for terrorists (I feel) to attack planes if they wanted to. Bribes to various workers seem the easiest way or better yet, start them young and have them work and move up in the system while all alone, they work for the bad folks (like those movies). There’s just this “ohhh, it’s so not fair, it’s racial profiling, etc etc…” I say just live with it and that’s unfortunate this is the world we live in now.

At least with profiling, you go after the most obvious folks and don’t waste time on little 3 year old girls or 65 year old grandma’s who would be stopped easily by other passengers.

In my list, men of age 12-65 probably are higher risk. Anyone from those suspected problem countries. Single men traveling alone. For business travelers, maybe they can start using retinal, finger print scanning and compare records with companies or something else.

Just publicize it and in the future, when we go to war with China, I’ll probably just have to spend 5 hours in a room for a nice security pat down before my flight. That alone would deter a lot of terrorist since they know they will be vetted for 5 hours already and how will you gang meet up if all of you would be checked?

Honestly, after 9/11, I think the other passengers would stop most threats since they all probably figure they will die anyways if something occurred so for all we know, Bin Laden is just laughing at the US now with the waste of time/money and they aren’t really doing any attacks in this area now.

I’m sure they are focusing on something that we aren’t checking similar to how virus writers work, etc…

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