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Do you need to “hide assets” to qualify for financial aid? Some schools are moving to income-based aid where the majority of students get something.

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Greek fees? LOL! Frats/sororities are for jocks and basic girls … they’re a sucker’s bet.

Move to NY state for a year before their HS graduation, send them to a CUNY or SUNY school. $7000/yr tuition, less with financial aid, and they can find housing for about $1000/mo even in the city if they share. Much less if they go somewhere like New Paltz (beautiful small town in the foothills of the mountains).

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It’s a 2200 lb car. Can you depower the stupid thing and call it a day? Some cars even mount the motor on the column, not in the rack, making it even easier to convert to a manual system (if you have a reasonably normal level of arm strength).

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Your ND Miata still has mechanical steering … there’s a mechanical shaft connected to the steering wheel driving a gear on the rack. The power ASSISTANCE is just electrical, not hydraulic — it’s actually less prone to leaks and easier to “depower” than a hydraulic rack. Even Teslas (techbro mobiles par excellence) have a mechanical connection between the wheel and the steering rack.

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The taxes should be labeled premiums, I.e. 90% of the population will pay a health insurance premium that’s lower than their current premium…

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LOL… https://www.marketwatch.com/story/private-sector-job-growth-slows-down-in-november—adp-2019-12-04

67k jerbs added in November … love the Trump ecahhhhnamy.

Trade deficit also down, not on exports, but on decreased imports. Lower consumption (old word for TB) = lower imports.

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Install Ubuntu — all Windows 10-related crapware removed in one swell foop.

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Here’s the problem … my last laptop purchase was under $200, and it’s a better computer than anything you can buy new for under $750, even on Black Friday. Thinkpad T430, so nipple mouse, removable battery, upgradeable RAM, room for up to three SSDs. There was nothing that I really wanted to buy on Black Friday, computer-wise, since there’s so much good hardware on the used market.

As far as printers, someone gave me an older Canon Laser combo device a few years ago, along with five or so toner cartridges … I probably won’t have to buy ink for a few decades at the rate I’m using it.

There’s very little that I need or want tech-wise from Black Friday…

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Car sales fell the most since 2008 — sounds like Father Krampus and The Grinch are coming for this holiday season…

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burghMan — what if you had a provision for cameras on a trailer to send their image to screen(s) in the truck, either wirelessly or through Ethernet on the trailer harness? Done right, this could be better than mirrors.

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The base version will have one electric motor — so there’s still an axle. The motor will be hooked up to a differential and axle or independent suspension.

The most expensive version will use three motors, so this could mean an axle in front and two in-wheel motors in rear. But from Tesla’s past designs, in-wheel motors aren’t all that likely.

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But if people are going to buy a large EthYooVee or pickup truck anyway, wouldn’t you rather it be electric than fossil-fooled?

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If that’s the case, may she win and prosper.

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FlyerInHI, what’s “drying time?” If you really want to be eco, hang the clothes on a line after washing them. CA has a law requiring HOAs to allow clothes lines outdoors.

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The real stat is 8 million people get subsidies at an average cost of $6300 per annum. So closer to $50 billion per year total, some of which prevents future ER costs by making preventative care available.

Meanwhile, we’ve spent $400 billion or more every year on our endless homicide sprees in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2001. We should spend more on our own country, less on endless wars that are lost causes anyway.

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