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ParticipantLOL, and what percentage of the general population considers it gimped?
What percentage would know what to do with a non-gimped phone? I hear a Nigerian Prince has an ungimped phone, he’s willing to ship it to you, just wire him $50 okay?
Participant[quote=sdrealtor]I don’t know either but if SD is more corrupt than Philly we have bigger problems than anyone can imagine[/quote]
She said Philly, not Chicago.
Participant[quote=CDMA ENG]Oh Boy… Here we go again…
Piggs… Clear to arm… Clear to fire.
CE[/quote]
I’m actually curious if he does or doesn’t. Or agrees with the meme but not the solutions.
I doubt many on the board would consider Brian an anti-government ultra conservative.
Participant[quote=spdrun]Stalkah!
I have mixed feelings. If someone with an uncommon name buys a house or apt in NYC, then their address is exposed to all who search. Perhaps records should be available on the ‘net, but with peoples’ last names blanked out.
This isn’t a question of transparency as much as making it easy to invade random citizens’ privacy.[/quote]
Except by definition all housing purchases are public records.
ParticipantSo Brian, do you agree with what he’s saying?
ParticipantWhat we think is completely irrelevant.
Who wins and who loses will decide by the voter in about 5 states.
The people in those states and the issues they face are very different than what makes the typical southern Californian tick.
ParticipantLol rewritibg would waste our times and yours. As previous told to you the solution is changing the perception of govrrnment. Any legislation would be desd on arrival in the cali assembly. It is the group that voted to block cities from declaring Bk unless they did arbitration. They are the same group who in response recent election are looking to ways to squash the peoplesnwill.
The solution is to first wake the peoplenul so they quit electing people like those in bell and cudahy. (Ibgive up trying to edit typos on the kindle)
[Quote=bearishgurl][quote=sdrealtor]Just to be clear the only one mentioning public sector employees and pensions on this thread was CAR. The boots on the ground were not vilified here so stop being so defensive. It’s a horribly corrupt and inefficient public sector. All the issues are systemic. I have never seen enraged citizens protesting outside fire stations or hurling tomatoes at firemen. I don’t see individuals getting vilified. It’s the system that gets vilified and the boots on the ground whining why are you picking on me when we question the system.[/quote]
Isn’t it this very “system” that you alone are vilifying here which (presumably) draws buyers like moths to a flame to Gridlocked Nirvana (east of I-5) and surrounds simply because they want *newer* construction with restrictive CC&R’s?? Don’t you make your living selling properties in this area … some to well-qualified “public sector” employees?
These same buyers could very likely get a better-built (poss custom) “luxury” LARGER HOME with better appts (ex. floor to ceiling rock FP) with WIDE RV access on a MUCH LARGER lot for the same or LESS money in 91902, 92019, 92028, 92084, 92001, etc. Instead they are flocking to CC&R/MR encumbered properties in and adjacent to your stomping grounds, many with small lots. Isn’t it these very CC&R’s that your clients are paying for because they supposedly “desire” them??
Your memory seems to be failing you. You’re biting the hand that feeds you.
Twice here, I’ve offered you, NSR and “harvey” your chance to work on changing “the system” many weeks ago by rewriting legislation for your representatives and even offered to proofread your work. So far, no one has taken me up on that offer.
It seems that now you must accept the things for which you cannot change. The Covenant is entitled to set their own design standards, change them on a majority vote of the Board and enforce their *latest* standards (even unrecorded) upon the property owners within it as long as they adhere to the notice requirements of the *new* guidelines and the enforcement of such passes the “reasonableness” test.
The justices have spoken.
When you pick up your kid from critter camp today, why don’t you take some more pics of the new RSF fire stn so the Piggs can enjoy viewing it from different angles? :=][/quote]
ParticipantThen Target, Walmart and the corner supermarket should all cease to exist because in the end, they’re just asset price speculators.
They buy an apple for 5 cents and try selling it for 50 cents. They don’t even do their own shipping any more, the vendors and middle men have all that responsibility.
If you think they generate value by making availability, then you’ve just provided your answer.
As for a ‘few’ market makers, wow, learn history. The fewer the market makers more illiquid and the higher the spreads and their profit margins.
You can get that education any day from either trading a thinly held stock or dealing with a real estate enclave that doens’t participate in the MLS or buying a car or any other product with only a few distributors.
ParticipantIt’s so obvious, you’re right. It’s really for our best that we pay some of our small university presidents $300-$400K, and $60,000 a year for a housing allowance and $12,000 a year for a car allowance.
It’s really for our best that they do this on Wednesday and then on Thursday tell us that we will have a 5% increase in tuition IF we pass the tax hike propositions or a 20% if we don’t.
Participant[quote=CA renter]
By all means, people should go out there and create, innovate, and improve upon things. That’s valuable to society, no doubt. But “investors” who don’t create, don’t expand productive capacity, etc.? That’s zero-sum, and requires other to suffer in order for the “winners” to gain.[/quote]You really need to go see a few more places where people don’t invest capital.
ParticipantLoo. There is so nuch more low hanging fruit
Fullerton teacher forging the winner of the student government vote
Cudahy officials doing anpleandeal on corruption
State park service hiding tens ofnmillions wwhile cloosing parks and begging for donations
Browns tax first on th ballot gambit
Most of the workers are just workers in a very very broken unaccountable organization
Participant[quote=flyer]flu–Have heard many similar stories from friends in your industry, and other industries.
Along with intellect, I do believe luck and randomness have something to do with achieving your dreams. Yours are even more examples of that premise, and perhaps, one reason why net worth is so skewed. Guess all of us were just “lucky.”
It’s still hard for me to believe only 5% or less of US households have $1MM or more in investable assets–especially with all of the “attitudes” you see in CA–and I’m saying that as a native.[/quote]
Yes luck is factor. Maybe the difference between being the 99%ile and being the 99.9%ileLuck is the difference between having somewhere in the $2-5 million range and having another zero or two or three.
Some misfortune is just bad luck again a small portion. The bulk 99% of bad luck is really just a fair probability from the choices being made
You could.get cancer at 20 or 30 or even 40. But really why percentage of the non winners are we really talking
That’s the problem with the viewpoint and Obama’s daddy government did thatbfor you stance.
It tells the 90% that made bad choices that the other guy just tot lucky
Participant[quote=AN][quote=flu]AN.. For some people, moving around companies works out for them. For other people it doesn’t. [/quote]
I understand where you’re coming from. Hind sight is always 20/20. The pay difference is only 5-10%, so the decision to not jump around doesn’t affect him as much as his decision to buy the house. So, even if guy A didn’t jump around like guy B, if guy A just listen to guy B’s reason why he doesn’t want to buy a house in 2005, he would have been much better off. One decision alone, not the most popular decision in 2005, would have put guy A in a much better financial situation. This bad luck (2005 RE crash) affected everyone who own a house, so it’s not like guy B was in the right place at the right time.[/quote]Can’t win if you don’t play.
Not moving is basically not playing.
So unless you’re really aggressive about moving around in a large company, then not moving companies is basically a guaranteed non-winner.
Winners make their own luck.
Participant[quote=CA renter]
Also agree with davelj WRT the solution being a progressive tax where all income is treated the same.[/quote]
tsk tsk tsk, you’re wrong. The solution isn’t a progressive income tax. The solution is property (asset) taxes.
Wealth is assets, not income.
And if we want progressive income tax, can someone give people a clue that $250K of income is not wealth.
AS for the government developing the internet. Wow, that’s the biggest fallacy around. They funded some of the research but the internet you know today has little to do with the Government. In fact, ours and most others are desperately trying to bottle that djinni.
While there may be some luck, I personally find it appalling the rationalization slope Obama and supporters are going down in putting Government at the head of the great big Opportunity creator page. Assuming luck is the separator makes it easier to rationalize taking.
Luck is a factor but only because even in those hard working top 25% groups, their reaction to opportunities is very different. Their risk taking is very different.
In the end, many are book smart. Or more appropriately, many are school smart, meaning they know how to succeed in our warped academic world which doesn’t actually translate to the rest of the world.
Do you know what the real difference is between being the big winners are and just mere success?
Comfort. Satisfaction. Happiness.
You get comfortable.
You get married or a girl or boy friend. You’re happy with your life. You want to enjoy your hard work. When you see great job/opportunity across the control, you think about your friends and family instead of the job. You think about your mortgage and how you’ll pay it if it doesn’t work out.
That’s difference.
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