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[quote=scaredyclassic]you cannot buy anything g that tastes better than fresh squeezed orange juice.[/quote]
How about fresh ripe apricots, picked off of the tree?
How about fresh ripe mandarin oranges, picked off of the tree?

Most of the stuff you get at stores has been picked too early so that they would not bruise on the way to the store and for increased shelf life. Picking too early harms the taste.

Sometimes much pleasure can be found in the simple things in life.. I think this is sometimes due to sounds/tastes triggering good memories from when we were young.

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[quote=harvey][quote=CA renter]It’s all those Mexican school children that are taking our taxes![/quote]

Name one city that went bankrupt because they educated too many children.

I can name several that went bankrupt because of pension costs.

BTW: Putting lots of links in your posts doesn’t negate your blatant racism.[/quote]
Stop misrepresenting quotes to create a talking point. It is possible to cross check this site (piggington.com) using Google to see if that quote was ever made. Firefox is also useful by telling it to highlight all exact matches in the search panel.

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Saw that one on the boob-tube. Sure sign of a bubble. 5,800 ft lot is about 1/8th acre, is a square about 76 feet on a side.

“They did leave it standing so you can remodel it versus tearing it down so you save a lot of money when you can leave a wall up and do a remodel versus a complete teardown,” said Barr

Riiiiggghht! The building is literally ashes. This way they don’t have to deal with teardown and disposal costs. Any standing wall can’t be saved because it is burned out. You would need to ‘rebuild’ that one wall first – which could violate the ‘change’ rule for avoiding taxes etc that you would get an a tear-down and build new.

The Realtor said in less than 24 hours since posting it on Facebook, 10 potential buyers have contacted her. She anticipates it will sell in a few days.

Yeah.. it is always ‘pending’ until it really goes pending. Lets create a feeling of scarcity or you gotta jump in or be forever left behind – I think I remember hearing something like that said before.

Yes I know the median house is going for $1,400,000. That does not justify pricing a burned out tear-down for $800K.

NOTE: Yes, salaries are higher in that area, however if all your salary is going to pay the mortgage, then what is the point? You just end up hoping someone will eventually take it off your hands for more than you paid. At the same time you lived ‘house poor’. The people who really profit are the realtors, bankers and state (property taxes). What is the point of life if you are spending all your time to pay off the mortgage and taxes?

How about 14754 Clayton Rd, San Jose CA. 3.91 acres under 800K. I am also seeing a bunch of properties in the Santa Clara area that look like they are in pre-foreclosure. Interesting.

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[quote=spdrun]Small nit to pick 🙂

6.022 x 10^23 molecules = 1 mole.
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Yep, I know
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1 cc = approx 1 gram of water.

Water is approximately 18 grams per mole.

Therefore, 1cc =~ 1/18 mole or 3.34×10^22 molecules.
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noted that I was off (typing too fast). 8(
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Rest of your point stands … though even though there are a lot of molecules available in 1cc of blood, the tests for them have to actually be accurate. The accuracy, not the availablilty of molecules to test seems to be at issue here.[/quote]
It was supposed to work on the ‘nano’ level, meaning that there would be plenty of molecules and it should be sensitive enough to function. It is an interesting idea, however I think it was also rushed to market. I don’t know if they tested for cross-response on the sensing sites (which could bind/respond to something else than the intended target). I also think that intentionally sticking with the idea of only using a fingerprick of blood was a bad idea (source blood purity). I hope that the tech still finds its way to improvement and does not get grabbed by the COO (Ramesh Sunny Balwani) who was definitely part of the problem. She has admitted her fault, paid a price, surrendered her shares. He is still claiming that there was no fraud and holding onto his shares.

The company ‘Theranos’ still has a lot of money from earlier funding efforts. Something around 700Mil. Most of the tech rights may end up going to these bond holders as a result of BK.

This is kind of the direction Theranos was ‘supposedly’ heading. I would need to do a patent check to verify if that was actually where they were going.
http://www.pnas.org/content/100/3/820
https://sensing.xprize.org/teams/competition-1-teams/programmable-bio-nano-chip

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[quote=harvey]$500K penalty for “massive fraud”

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/03/14/theranos-founder-elizabeth-holmes-charged-massive-fraud/424670002/

I don’t know all the numbers but I’m guessing she made more than that along the way.[/quote]
She did.. most of it was in stock that she still had which she was also ordered to surrender. There is also another person who should be eyed: Ramesh Sunny Balwani, supposed one time boyfriend, 64 to her current 34 (take that back 10 years or more and think,…. ewwww). He was point person on the testing fraud, saying that all testing samples should be run through their other standard machines as opposed to their flagship while contracted diagnostic jobs could go through their ‘Einstein’ machine. His argument was that anyone who thought otherwise doesn’t have any legal experience. His background is CS. NOTE: I am not saying she is innocent, but there are two players of concern in Theranos, and Balwani seems to be one that SECs seems to target more than her.

Theranos was in the market of diagnostic testing. Their ‘Einstein’ unit was supposed to do the tests faster and with much less blood. NOTE: 1 cc of water contains 6.022 x 10^23 molecules of water, so 1/4 of the quantity is enough to sense ppm quantities of a material (with caveats following) in blood. 1ppm means that there will be (6.022/4) x 10^23 x 10^-6 or . 1.5055×10^17 molecules (one hundred and fifty million-billion) to work with for a 1ppm sense. It is possible to do diagnostics on small amounts. DNA test works with far less. The little device the hospital clamps on your fingertip – measures blood oxygen non-intrusively as well as heart rate for some installations.

Caveat: when drawing blood from a fingertip, it is not as pure as from artery (source), you are getting blood in ‘transition’, as it is being used by the body. It is also subject to being tainted by chemicals and substances that you recently handled and may either coat or partially permeate the skin. This made worse if a person being tested has poor circulation.

I found the tech interesting, but Theranos was not the only one looking at the tech. I could not see any ‘moat’ or lock-in to the tech. I was also bothered by the lack experience that Elizabeth Holmes had, and that this business was completely outside her field of study. The business was rather opaque, and DD was difficult. By the time my DD was done (what little I could do), the price had gone way past anything that I thought was remotely reasonable (even after getting totally drunk).

One thing to note; the Theranos test is more accurate with arterial blood than from a fingerprick.. but their whole selling point was you only needed a fingerprick. NOTE: Taking blood by fingerprick is much more painful than the traditional because of the number of nerve endings on the tip of a finger.

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[quote=Dukehorn]
Oh, I forgot: one of those elitists with an anti-gun agenda……
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You have been on the board long enough to know that I don’t respond to ad-hominem, nor straw man arguments. I don’t know if this person is anti-gun/pro-gun or whatever. I look at the statements and look for inconsistencies.. ie: how does a radiologist see the actual internal wounds = they don’t, that is the surgeon. Do Xrays give good imagery to soft tissue = no they don’t. Does CT scans give good imagery to soft tissue = no it doesn’t (CTs use Xrays combined with digital processing to resolve an array of individual scans around a body into a matrix of ‘densities’. It is still an Xray). Does a MRI give a good image of soft tissue – yes and no. Frequency being detected in an MRI is resonant/spin frequency on hydrogen(dipole), which is about 64Mhz in the magnetic field used. Wavelength and resolving power vs diffraction etc end up mattering. This is why Gadolinium (contract enhancer – which is toxic) is used as a contrast medium.

I want rational discussion on gun subjects not emotional pleas, tugging on heart strings.

[quote=Dukehorn]PS. I like how the NRA thinks federal agents are jackboot thugs but police going around engaging and killing civilians without any attempt to defuse the situation doesn’t really seem to be a problem.[/quote]
No, I think that some NRA types think that ALL law enforcement act like jackboot thugs. That said, Ruby Ridge and Waco does not help the Fed’s image. On the other hand, I feel that the Fed’s held back too much on the Clive Bundy situation.

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Body armor would help more than bigger guns. AR-15s make a unique sound, so they knew what they were up against, which is terrifying.[/quote]
The ARs that they were using were firing .223 cal (chambered for 5.56 NATO – imperial vs metric). They were not chambered to the normal 7.62 that Kalashnikovs fire. While it has a greater impact than some 9mms, but not all. Because of the small bullet – it does not always impart all of the energy on its target as quickly. The sound you hear from the AR is the cycling of the bolt, which produces a ringing sound.
[quote=Ribbles]A 9mm round hitting a non-vital area won’t kill you. An AR-15 round can have an exit wound several inches across – so the kid doesn’t need to hit a vital area to damage it.[/quote] Wrong – the exit wound from an AR is not that big (several inches). The AR fires a harder round than a handgun. It does not expand as much – often not a hollow point. I can, however, tumble a bit. But remember – the round is 5.56 mm vs 9mm and considerably lighter. The high velocity nature is for accuracy at distance – not solely kill power. The requirement for the weapon is accuracy to 600yards. That is much farther than any reasonable attempt with a handgun.
[quote=Ribbles]They are also bizarrely light and have almost no recoil, which makes them easy to wield by my 7-year-old daughter, let alone an angry teenager.

Not making excuses for them. Multiple officers should have had the collective balls to go in there.[/quote]
Recoil maps to energy out of the barrel and downrange energy fairly accurately. The AR chambered to 7.62 has more of a kick. How about a .357 revolver or Desert Eagle? Ever fire a Barrett (Non California Legal version)?

Nice video example of penetration: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0qgQoej5zE

There is a reason the IDF uses 9mm small arms in close quarters ie. Uzi, MP5. The barrel length tends to be a liability. In close quarter defense, I would rather have something other than a AR, more like a 9mm or more pref SIG P229 chambered to .357. (Full auto not allowed for civilians)

https://www.range365.com/amazing-357-sig

NOTE: The high number of deaths in this incident was due to the time the person had with a semi-auto weapon. Some people were shot multiple times at a fairly close range. Also note 14 were wounded (17 killed).

Final note: Most police departments have a requirement to use the vest – though not all officers do. With 6 min, 4 min of waiting, they had time to put one on. I am also disgusted (putting it mildly) at how many ‘officials’ dropped the ball. Amazing how many students ‘were not surprised’ at who it was. Also note that the suspect must of just walked out by one of the officers ‘waiting’ at the entrance before police/SWAT got on the scene (he was not found in the school).

PS: In my other work, I was a Defense Contractor doing military training.

NOTE: Quote about one of the victims:

On Monday, Ms. Wilford, 17, walked into a conference center at Broward Health North hospital flanked by her parents, a cast on her arm the only outward sign of the injuries that could have killed her. Doctors said the bullet wounds to her torso and abdomen had essentially healed, and that she could be physically ready to return to school as early as next week.

– she was shot 3 times. Another was shot 5 times and survived (both legs and through his back – no aputation). I also heard it was over 30 minutes from start till rescue was allowed in.

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[quote=njtosd][quote=FlyerInHi]Did you guys notice that when you attend a seminars or conference someone always introduces himself as the safety officer? It’s kinda creepy but it’s the country we live in.

Teachers when guns and school surrounded by walls. There goes the open campus concept. Where is the money going to come from for the wall and guards?[/quote]

Plus, the armed security officers and sheriffs that were supposed to protect the children in Parkland hid behind their cars and never entered the building . . . Even with guns they are cowards – so I guess they need really aggressive people with guns. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sheriff-armed-school-resource-officer-never-went-in-to-building-in-florida-mass-shooting/%5B/quote%5D
Lets see – shooting lasted about 6 minutes, armed security stood outside for about 4 minutes, knowing that there was a shooting inside – what, to prevent anyone from going inside and stopping it? Oh – thats right, they are from Broward County. Sorry, but I feel particularly snarky on this one.

PS: Now Broward County deputies will now carry rifles on school grounds — are you sure a bigger gun will make them feel man enough to take on one shooter with 4 officers? Maybe a rifle is not big enough.

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[quote=treehugger]California[/quote]
If rent increase is 10% or less; 30 day notice. Greater than 10%; 60 day notice. This excludes area around and including San Francisco and others that do have rent control. It does depend on the local area – though from memory, I don’t think anywhere within San Diego City and County have employed rent control.

NOTE: Rent increase must be in writing, waiting period before actual increase starts as of date of delivery (can’t have one predated or say that ‘we talked about it beforehand’). With mailed notices, an additional 5 days applies (Recommend at a min certified mail from post office. Capture delivery receipt from post office and file. Signature confirmation might be a bit intimidating to the renters though.).
https://pe.usps.com/text/dmm100/extra-services.htm

More details applies to mid-month increases, but safest bet is to make sure you apply the notice 30 days before any increases take effect.

Did some searching to double check my memory, useful link:
http://www.dca.ca.gov/publications/legal_guides/lt-2.shtml

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Why do we give such a pass to China for the amount of wide hacking sweeps that China does? Russia is bad, but China is out of control. [/quote]

Trump has been really soft on China. Maybe because Trump and Ivanka have valuable trademarks and copyrights in the world’s largest economy. Think it was coincidence that China awarded those trademarks?

HNA (also Hainan Airlines) with over $100 billion in revenue has a contract with Trump Hotels.[/quote]
Maybe so, however realize that several other large, very large donors to the Democrat party have “‘uge” financial entanglements in China; see Bill Gates/Microsoft. Obama was also not hard on China.

In terms of Politics, I don’t ever think I’ll get everything I want with any particular elected official, I just try to get as many of the important ones as possible. That said, realize that my position is that I am not ‘enamored’ by Trump – just best of what I saw are bad options. Face it; if you are enamored by any politician, you may want to go see a shrink. Most lives of politician’s are more f*cked up than your life or my life – unless, of course you live a really twisted life.

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No example of notice. However depending upon the state, you may need to give a 60 day notice (maybe even more) depending upon how long your tenants have resided at that location. Also, depending upon the state – there may be limits on the amount of raise and how often it can be applied.

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[quote=gogogosandiego]Um, it was we have to pass it “so that YOU can see what’s in it”[/quote]
True, correction noted – however it is also known that many in the Democratic Party really didn’t know what was in it – it was nearly 2 reams of paper. If Nancy Pelosi really knew what was in it, she could have summed it up in a 20 min ‘chalk talk’, instead of resorting to jingoisms.

Here are some interesting refs:
https://www.termlimits.com/congress-fundraising-priority/
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-are-members-of-congress-becoming-telemarketers/

I thought they were supposed to work for us? They spend so much time doing fund raising that someone else writes the bills – and they just ‘sign it’.

NOTE: The amount of fundraising done by politicians is about 1.7Bil est per year. What would happen if that money was spent on actually helping people?

The ‘fun’ part:

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[quote=FlyerInHi]
When nationalistic people of low education think the media, sports, Hollywood, the educational and political systems are against them, they are more likely to flip out. The “clenched fist of truth” can easily turn to “a fusillade to the heart of the enemy” kind of like the Oklahoma City bombing.[/quote]

The tired old meme of the deplorables – from someone who has an inferiority and compensating superiority complex.

Your view that the clenched fist of truth ends up being assault from the pro NRA types is very weakly supported. Note that ANTIFA, which is proven to assault, and intimidate is actually an extreme arm of the ‘liberal’ side.

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[quote=harvey][quote=ucodegen]It targets the mis-use of MSM to mold ideas …[/quote]

You are such an independent thinker – not influenced by the “mainstream” at all.

But why the rant about ACA? Trump fixed that during his first 100 days in office. Just like he promised you he would.[/quote]
Nothing like a strawman argument. He didn’t fix it because the Republican party could not get it’s ass together. It was supposed to be ‘repeal and replace’, however some in the GOP didn’t want a repeal, some didn’t want any replace. He did ‘disable’ it – by removing the mandate. If you want to participate in the ACA, then you have a choice to.. but you don’t have to. Trump is dealing with an entrenched political establishment from both sides that does not want any changes that really fix things for the people. The political establishment has very simply done two terms Repub, two terms Democrat and so forth for the past several years, resolving nothing and always making it more difficult for us, the people.

There seems to be ‘mainstream’ and ‘alt-mainstream’. As I have pointed out so many times before.. it is to keep us busy arguing using stupid strawman arguments and red-herrings that we the people don’t get our ass together and tell these idiots to GTF out of Washington.

To throw your strawman argument back to you, harvey; you are such a independent thinker that you take what the MSM says without question because they, of course, have our best interests at heart and swallow whatever the Democratic party provides because they are the most progressive and must therefore be at the forefront of whatever is new, good and ‘happening’. — a little snark added.

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sadly if it were to happen, sara mentioned the US political establishment would be clueless[/quote]

Some of your statements on this post, I would agree with.. others not. However this one I would have to strongly agree with.

The US has a very skilled cyber warfare unit. However they way we deal with it at a political and civil level makes us look like bumbling fools.

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