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ParticipantSure, the inner city areas are more affected, but that doesn’t mean that there aren’t good deals (generally handled via short sales) to be had right now in better areas. Not necessarily the wealthiest towns, but not areas where you’ll get shot after dark either. Think Morristown, a western suburb of NYC, or Hightstown near Princeton.
Please refrain from personal attacks — they add nothing to your argument. And maybe you should do some more surfing or something; it may improve your sunny disposition.
ParticipantIn the Northeast, where the violent Gods, Foreclosius and Shortsalius are running rabid once again.
February 28, 2014 at 11:33 AM in reply to: OT: Temecula Police “DUI” Checkpoint @ 8AM on a Wed Morning!!! #771295ParticipantAssuming IT is in on this…
It wouldn’t be overly difficult to set the system up so that applications of the well-connected are more likely to come in on time. If they’re coming in by fax, sever some numbers from the hunt group, create another group, and only give out those numbers to the well-connected. As far as email, not impossible to set up a server or spam prefilter to bounce emails or direct them to spam based on certain keywords in the subject line.
ParticipantSochi isn’t a new city — it’s been around for the past 100 years or so. Population roughly that of O’side, Vista, and Carlsbad combined.
I’m not sure if holding an Olympic game in a given area will necessarily spur development long-term. Lake Placid isn’t exactly a bustling metropolis 34 years after the last Olympic games there.
Participant[quote=moneymaker]I’m pretty sure alcohol does to the liver what smoking does to the lungs.[/quote]
I have a glass of wine with dinner or a beer/two fairly regularly. As far as liver/lungs, not really. The liver can regenerate to a point — as long as you’re not killing cells faster than you can regenerate them, you’re OK.
Smoking pollutes the lungs and the nasties (including polonium/radium, since tobacco takes up radioactives from the soil and concentrates them) stay in you for life.
ParticipantIf it’s about showing off, the Russians did not show off their ability to build competently and in a timely manner very well.
February 24, 2014 at 5:11 PM in reply to: Moving money to another country for better interest rates #771215Participant.
February 23, 2014 at 7:29 PM in reply to: Economists: Can you punch a hole in this dire scenario? Karl Denninger: Storm Clouds are Gathering! #771203ParticipantArticle is based on two fallacies…
(1) Accounting can be automated
(2) Risk assessment can be automatedWith (1), future revenue projections, projections of risks to business model, risks from disruptive technologies are very fuzzy and not easily automated. Bookkeeping can be somewhat automated. Accounting … not so fast there, Speedy.
With (2), Gustavo Fring’s profile may look very similar to that of the CEO of Angelo’s Burgers. Guess which one is the lower loan risk in real life.
A computer model based on a finite amount of factors can only go so far in determining risk. There’s a place for manually underwriting people who don’t qualify (say, low income on paper, high assets) and for checking up on people who do qualify. (Say the person who’s had a high-paying job for the past 10 years, but may lose it tomorrow due to a publicized scandal.)
February 22, 2014 at 12:45 AM in reply to: Windoze 8 is such a piece of crap.. And customer service is worse #771177ParticipantUnlike crippled-crap iOS, OS X isn’t a walled garden. No jailbreak required to run unsigned or non-Apple-sourced software.
As far as running Windows on Macs, I’ve done so for years, starting with XP and moving to Windows 7 under both VirtualBox and dual-boot. Never a problem, short of an HDD crash that also took out the OS X install. The Intel hardware is very similar to most PCs and is more than capable of running Windows.
As far as safety, it’s for wimps.
Participant[quote=paramount]If you can physically work, that’s the right thing to do IMO. why would anyone want to leave the rat race?[/quote]
Retirement isn’t necessarily the state of not working. It’s the state of not HAVING to work, and being able to choose your work — doing things that you actually enjoy, aren’t against your principles, and hopefully help others or make them happy.
February 20, 2014 at 5:35 PM in reply to: Moving money to another country for better interest rates #771125ParticipantWhy not buy a foreclosure (maybe outside of CA) with the money, rent it out for 8% on the dollar and take some nice tax deductions as well?
February 20, 2014 at 12:48 PM in reply to: Moving money to another country for better interest rates #771111ParticipantConsidering that exchange rates can easily vary by up to 20% per annum, you run a risk of losing your interest to rate changes, especially with tapering coming.
ParticipantRutgers has a 4-year undergrad graduation rate of about 50%. A lot of students do live at home and commute, then have summer and part-time jobs — it’s not hard to pull down $3000 over half the summer and another $4-5000 over the rest of the year with a part-time job or internship. 10 hr/wk, nothing huge.
ParticipantI’m not so sure that education is so unaffordable if you do it right. Tuition at Rutgers (NJ state university) = about $13-14k/yr. You graduate with about $52-$56k of debt if you keep your nose to the grinder and live at home.
Starting salary for an enginerd of the appropriate persuasion is $60-$65k/yr, say $40k/yr or $3,300/mo after taxes. If you’re renting an apartment for a grand a month, spend $1,500/mo on expenses (cook for yourself, drive a clunker), you have $800/mo left over. Paid off in 5-6 years, by the time you’re 27. That is, if you didn’t have a part-time job in college, which would probably reduce the loan amount by 50%, payable in under three years.
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