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I doubt that they’re planning that far ahead. From what I see here in NJ (and NE in general), there’s actually more inventory being put on the market by banks in recent months than before.

Any slowdown in inventory there likely has more to do with the NV law making illegal foreclosures a felony, and the expiration of the tax break for short sales. Soon to be reinstated.

If they’re not waiting for prices to rise in a market that dropped 20-25%, they’re not holding their breaths in a market that’s down 50% from peak. Especially since Vegas (IMHO) has very little future.

Everyone and their momma allows gambling right now, and there is very little attraction that can’t be replicated anywhere else. (Concerts and shows can happen anywhere if you think about it.)

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Apparently 10 1/2% of sales in Vegas are short — doesn’t sound like it’s impossible. And the issue is that some people can’t pay at this point, due to the Loser Vegas economy being a turd.

Also, some people may have been delaying short sales due to the short sale tax break expiring last year. Looks like Congress just reinstated itbretroactively and for next year.

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spd, Vegas crashed hard, up to 3/4 in some areas, but recovered fast. People how bought at bottom, easily doubled their money.

If prices dropped by 75% and now doubled, then there are still a lot of people under water.

Not even close to peak right now…
http://www.jparsons.net/housingbubble/las_vegas.png

Same goes for the ‘troit.

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Meanwhile I wonder how EV cars are going to do..

Might be a repeat of the 90s. Sheep will forget about high oil prices very quickly and go back to buying guzzling barges and stupid useless vehicles. Until the next price shock hits, then they’ll squeal like pigs and beg our military to bail us out.

Meanwhile, the French, with their 90% clean (nuke/hydro) power grid and electric trains will laugh in our faces across the pond 🙂

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You say this as if it weren’t a good opportunity. 😉

Not all areas had prices inflate as dramatically as San Diego or Phoenix, and some places crashed harder. Think Vegas, the ‘troit, parts of Ohio.

Even parts of the Northeast that went down 20-25% on average have been basically flat in the last few years.

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Good luck with battery life and possibly IP changes as you move between towers. I’d just reconnect and live with it.

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Benefits? Maybe it benefits wastes of oxygen who like to drive 60 miles each way in their commute short term. But what of the effects of global warming? What about instability caused by increased dependence on cheap Middle Eastern oil, since we’re using our military to save the bacon time and time again over there. What about the retardation of meaningful alternative energy research, and the adoption of nuclear power? For that matter, what about the destruction or mothballing of domestic oil production capability?

The French were smart, unlike us. Come the first oil crisis in the 1970s, they decided to embark on a large-scale program of building out nuclear and hydro power, as well as electrification of all major rail lines. They kicked their economy into the 21st century 30 years early, while we’re mired in the 20th century, partying with cheap fossil poison while the world burns.

BTW – we’re not pressuring Russia to produce cheap oil. We’re using cheap Saudi(*) oil to pressure I.S. and the Russians.

(*)- evil theocratic fanatics — I hope I’ll see the day that there’s a revolution in Riyadh and the Saudi royal family is forced to flee their former country at gunpoint, like the Shah in 1979.

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Typically, if Internet access is lost (passing through an area of “no-G” so to speak), the VPN connection goes down – unless there’s a setting to automatically reconnect.

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Don’t know if this can be taken advantage of, but I’m not sure if this will have the intended effect.

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Interestingly, the NYPD wasn’t modeled on a militia (historically), but rather on Robert Peel’s London Met Police force.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian_Principles

Seems like they might have broken quite a few of the nine rules recently…

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Good. If oil production, even in the US, benefits the Chinese or Middle East rather than good ‘ol Americans or Canadians, maybe there will be stronger political impetus to move to alternatives, rather than staying in the 20th Century.

Time to start building out EV infrastructure and the nuclear and renewable plants to support it!

This being said, there may be laws against foreign ownership of US oil reserves. If there weren’t, why didn’t the Saudis buy up massive quantities of US oil infrastructure in the 1980s — the last time oil price corrected hard?

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The authentication credentials are generally encrypted before being passed.

Some VPNs like OpenVPN can also be set up to use keys manually installed at both ends to encrypt. And you can pass all traffic, not just private subnet traffic through them.

They of course won’t encrypt plaintext traffic between the endpoint server and the Internet at large, but they’ll protect all traffic between the device and endpoint.

Perfect for preventing casual snooping on insecure hotel networks, for example.

Using VPNs to access servers or printers on a private subnet is just scratching the surface of the capabilities of the technology.

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Terrorizing a family after killing one of them isn’t error — it’s a crime.

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And if the cops were really harassing his family after this incident (specifically for the purpose of shutting them up or bullying them because of the incident), they need to lose their jobs, IMO.

No. They need to lose their jobs AND be indicted for criminal harassment and uttering terroristic threats. A message needs to be sent that harassment by people in positions of public trust is unacceptable.

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That’s not a “concern” for you — less home building and fewer people buying hours = more renters and less competition for you. 🙂

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