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Also, unless you’re dealing with someone too disabled to step into one, tub/shower combos have their uses. And are less likely to leak.

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“Mental association with being old-fashioned” … got to love gullible people who gobble up the cable cos’ marketing. Hook. Line. Sinker.

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This may sound ghetto, but here goes …

If you don’t want to mess with the plumbing or it’s hard to access, build a slightly raised drain pan for the washing machine. Then just run a PVC pipe from the drain pan through the wall on a slight downslope to end 4-6″ out from the house. Or don’t raise the drain pan and run the drain down through the garage to the ground.

This is an emergency drain, not one that will be used on a normal basis, so flooding your yard or promoting mould is a non-issue.

If you’re concerned about un-conditioned air getting in, put some sort of rubber flap on the end of the pipe that won’t open unless water needs to come out.

If you wanted to go 100% ghetto, you could just open a hole in the floor, cover it with a grate, and have any leakage leak into the garage. Most garages are built on a slope to allow any water on cars to drain out via gravity.

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Cool — if I bought a house in a HOA area, I’d install one just to piss off my prissy-ass neighbors.

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Encase the antenna in something pretty. Wood is transparent to RF signals. Besides, if it works, who cares if it looks old-school? Not ghetto, since ghetto is buying a teevee better than yours … on credit with 25% interest.

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And a frying-pan-proof wall between the two apts?

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Also I think it’s funny that people think that were going to start suddenly building 500 to 1000 high rise downtown condo buildings for the next 100 million in population we are expecting to grow in the next 30 years.
Sprawl , get used to it, even in NY most people live out in the burbs and commute via train etc…

There’s only so much land that doesn’t suck in CA. A lot of people would rather live in condo buildings downtown or within a few mi of the coast than in “lizardland” as BG calls it.

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Diego Mamani — no reason not to try plugging the TV into the wall and scanning for QAM and analog channels. Worst case, you don’t get anything.

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Solution should be to make mortgages assumable. Won’t happen, though.

Also d/k why you need a huge house to breed sprogs. Under 1000 sf was average till the mid-60ies, and people had more kids then than now in the US. In short, the prices of McHouses out in Outer Lizardia will plummet, and I’ll laugh at the rubes who bought there and are now trying to sell.

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Nope — a lot of the channels are un-encrypted. You may even get them in digital (look up clearQAM).

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I have very basic cable (basically air channels + a few extra freebies, no box) since my building offers it. But I’ve never overtly paid for cable in my life. And no one has mentioned using BitTorrent plus an anonymizing service.

As far as a land-line, I’m keeping mine. It’s worth the $25 or so per month extra to have a phone that always works in the (212). Most VoIP sounds like shit compared to the phone network, which was designed to carry voice and does it well. It’s not only a matter of speed, but of latency.

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To **** with warranties — I can buy most people’s electronic sloppy seconds at a 60-75% discount on Craigslist. No point warranting if it’s sufficiently cheap.

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Sales tax is on SALES, not a value-added tax, so taxing used items is theoretically correct. Since you have to pay sales tax either way, this still favors used, since you’re paying tax on a lower purchase price.

Poorer?

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Once again:

Frankly, it’s absurd that public businesses providing a routine public service should need to hire security guards. We’re not talking night clubs or concerts, where people can be expected to get drunk and fight.

Holmes could have just as easily attacked in a crowded restaurant, Little League game, or train car. Should those be required to hire armed goons as well?

Sometimes crap happens. So long as we live in a free society, we can’t prevent every attack of that type, nor should we go to extreme measures to do so. Time to lock him up in a secure mental asylum or (if found guilty) give him a death sentence and move on.

The shooting was disgusting enough. The blame game makes the situation even more sickening.

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Fact: the support electronics ARE different.

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