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ParticipantWell, we never got a chance to watch last season of “The Walking Dead” on the DVR and this season has started. So after dinner and before news pundits start, we’re tuning the TV to a music channel, putting the kid to bed and having a marathon.
Hopefully when Lucille is done singing, we’ll have a calm clear winner. No landslide, just a nice clean margin of victory with a nice margin of victory of electoral votes.
My big concern is that like 2000, the election hangs on the balance of Floriduh and they manage to have another hanging chad review.
Participant[quote=flu]In general, I have a rule of thumb.
If you can’t respect your customer, or can’t do business with your customer without feeling some sort of contempt for them, then you probably shouldn’t be doing that business, because you probably won’t be very successful in the long run.
In this particular case. If you really think the rental pool is “trash” and if “trash people” really bother you, well then you probably shouldn’t be doing this.
It won’t take much to push you over, or say something or do something to get in hot water.
Besides life is too short to spend your time dealing with people you don’t like. It’s not like you desperately need the extra income. Or get someone to do it so you aren’t so attached to it.
Can’t hate the ones that feeds you the income.[/quote]
+1.
I also subscribe to the theory as a landlord that my place will be a place I’d want to live in if I end up in that target social/financial situation.
Participant[quote=The-Shoveler]How many people you know like you sitting in cash?
Almost everyone I know is.[/quote]
Cash or cash not, I think everybody is starting to hedge stuff going whackadoodle between next Tuesday and Jan 20, 2017.
IMO, if the election is decisive one way or another, the market will quickly recover. A Florida hanging chad scenario and the market will freak.
ParticipantNo, the NASDAQ peaked before the Y2K non-event in November at about 4300. Then over the next six-ish months it corrected about 10%. Then it fell off the cliff starting in May 2000 to Feb ’01 all the way down to 1619 before recovering to about 2100 to close Feb ’01. From there it yo-yo’d down over the next year+ to about 1300. Then rotted there about a year.
ParticipantSo your ability to defend her accomplishments as Secretary is so bad you need to create, not one, not two but three straw men I neither said nor implied that you could knock down?
LOL back in ignore group. Eventually you’ll figure out that your partisan hacking is what is given Trump so much pull. Hopefully it won’t give him the election. But who knows, you guys have been surprisingly tone deaf on the warts of your candidate.
Participant[quote=harvey]
It was incompetence, not malice – and minor incompetence relative to the scope of all of the Secretary of State’s responsibilities.[/quote]Yes, because, you know, Arab Spring failing, Benghazi and the death of world respected Ambassador, Syria insurrection, civil war, chemical attacks, utter destruction of Aleppo, Syria refugee crises continued ISIS problems.
Five star performance…
Besides it was only barely over 50% of outside people meeting with her that “donated” to the Clinton Foundation.
Participant[quote=scaredyclassic]fyi aarp starts sending junk at age 50[/quote]
49 years 3 months is when I started receiving it, inviting me to join on my birthday…
ParticipantCan you imagine the shit storm if Comey didn’t CYA and then Congress or the Media learned there was Clinton emails on the Weiner computer?
If it’s just unclassified missives between Huda and Clinton, that’s nobody’s business. If a single one of them is Classified, that’s the whole point. Clinton’s handling of classified info was so lax that it ended up on a computer Anthony Weiner used for sexting with a minor.
Do I think that means we should elect Trump, no.
I’ll gladly take four more years of Elon Musk’s ilk bilking the system than subjecting ourselves to egocentric trepidation of the balding Oompa.
Sadly the 66% that like neither can’t seem to look for any less unlikable out of fear that the more unlikable one will win.
ParticipantI must be jaded. Unless the thing on the Weiner phone is a video chat between Huma and a naked Clinton in bed with a dead pre-teen boy while wearing a strap on weiner screaming “I don’t give a f— if it’s classified, just email it”
The majority just doesn’t really gives a rat’s *ss.
Even if that is what they find, many people will find a way to rationalize it.
ParticipantJust checking, is the webpage reader view capable? In which case, you’d tap reader view then tap forward and just email yourself a link with the text extracted by the reader forward. Or if notes or another app is enabled send it to that.
October 24, 2016 at 2:15 PM in reply to: OT: I really wish Google Fiber would be in San Diego #802588Participant[quote=flu]We really need ISP competition in san diego.
Now, the only real choices is between ATT and cable companies.
That is all.[/quote]
Um, didn’t the news just announce the “mega-merger” AT&T buyout of Time Warner.
ParticipantIt’s iPhone. Will something like the free CopyWeb app work? Easily copy web page content?
Participant[quote=XBoxBoy][quote=no_such_reality]
Blu 5.0 Android phone for $59.99 on Amazon, using a free screen grabber to automated the webserver connection and copy to a text file.[/quote]
Don’t think that’s going to really work as we’re talking about 10-20k lines of text per session that needs to be copied. That’d be a whole lot of screen grabs.[/quote]
Is it 10 to 20K individual lines or one entire section? i.e. is the data in the same location, same format and just happens to rather long raw data?
Will a select all work on it before the copy?
you can get a cheapy laptop, but really seems like overkill since there’s already a $600+ computer hanging on your hip.
Participant[quote=XBoxBoy][quote=no_such_reality]You say “places” and then say “into the field” along with “collect some data … via wifi” and “might do a bit of coding”.
So having supported field staff for a couple decades in various roles couple questions come to mind.
First, will you have access to a decent flat surface (like a desktop/table, etc) to work on? Yes, you see people working with it on their lap at the airport, but really, that’s just because they’re desperate to get it done. You don’t want to work that way
Second, is the “field” basically clean? i.e. Indoor office/store type environment or is it “field” like oil field rig, truck stop, construction site, etc.
Third, are you dependent on interacting with local staff while collecting data and will busting out a laptop be intrusive on that interaction?
Fourth, if this is truly a uni-purpose device, can a simplified tablet or phone be purposed to talk to the data collection device? i.e. could you just use a $59 Amazon BLU android phone with an app to collect the data?
The answers determine if you really what just a $200 disposable laptop, low-end tablet or tabletesque PC like the Surface or Ipad with keyboard.[/quote]
1) No. I will be on a golf course or driving range. I won’t be doing a lot of typing but hitting balls and collecting data on the flight of the balls. This data will appear in the browser that connects to the device (over wifi) and I will then copy the data from the browser into a txt file to be analyzed later. (The device has a built in web server that any browser can connect to)
2) See answer to 1
3) Nope I’ll be doing this on my own. No concerns about clients, staff or anyone I’ll need to impress or interact with.
4) While this will be the laptop’s main function I might use it at night in bed to code a bit(visual studio) or surf the web a bit. I have tried this with an iPad and it connects but iPad (and iPhone) are awkward if not impossible for copying data from browser and storing to txt file. A laptop seems like a simple way to go. (Don’t get me started on the Mac iOS way which seems to include not allowing access to files!)
I don’t want to spend a ton, but it will be a tax deductible business expense and I would probably like it to last a while. I’m thinking 8megs memory and at least 512meg SSD drive, reasonably lightweight would be good, but it doesn’t have to be the lightest laptop ever made. Preferably under a grand.[/quote]
Blu 5.0 Android phone for $59.99 on Amazon, using a free screen grabber to automated the webserver connection and copy to a text file.
Actually, don’t even bother with the Blu, just use the phone you’ve got, odds are it’s either Android already or an iPhone and even iPhone has built in accessibility which should allow you to automate the ‘collection’ to a single tap on the phone.
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