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some texas redneck posted:Too bad I don't have a laserdisc player, but that can't be TOO hard to track down on eBay... right? I posted a Craigslist want ad for a laserdisc player, saying I'd pay a reasonable price, and within a day a guy had offered me a free player (a pretty decent Panasonic by what I've read online, can't remember the model number right now) and like 30 discs thrown in. The discs were mostly Disney movies, which has actually been a bonus when friends bring kids or I babysit for the neighbors, but there were also some good movies like Blazing Saddles and The Princess Bride. Oh, and two copies of Bambi from Japan (バンビ) and two copies of Song of the South  It's worth a shot, you live in a big city so there should be plenty of people with players. I wouldn't pay more than $40 for one, simply because if you wait long enough someone will probably give one to you. They're quite big and if you're not using it, it'll take up a lot of closet space.
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Woop woop marana represent. That guy was actually not that messed up, he came to my ER. Also I leave for a few days to learn PALS and there is over 600 post in here. 
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Apr 16, 2015 17:34
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Fucknag posted:"Stop talking about us using excessive force, or we'll have to use excessive force!" My dad used to always describe situations like this with "Until morale improves, the beatings will continue."
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Apr 16, 2015 17:36
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LloydDobler posted:My dad used to always describe situations like this with "Until morale improves, the beatings will continue." Worked for slavery, right?....right? Aw poo poo 
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Apr 16, 2015 17:39
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Holdbrooks posted:Woop woop marana represent. That guy was actually not that messed up, he came to my ER. Also I leave for a few days to learn PALS and there is over 600 post in here. What kind of injuries does that sort of impact make?
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Apr 16, 2015 17:42
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LloydDobler posted:My dad used to always describe situations like this with "Until morale improves, the beatings will continue." I had a manager once who said that jokingly during a all hands meeting in the middle of a massive crunch. We did not like her.
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Apr 16, 2015 18:06
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Pham Nuwen posted:I posted a Craigslist want ad for a laserdisc player, saying I'd pay a reasonable price, and within a day a guy had offered me a free player (a pretty decent Panasonic by what I've read online, can't remember the model number right now) and like 30 discs thrown in. The discs were mostly Disney movies, which has actually been a bonus when friends bring kids or I babysit for the neighbors, but there were also some good movies like Blazing Saddles and The Princess Bride. Oh, and two copies of Bambi from Japan (バンビ) and two copies of Song of the South If you would be willing to part with one of those copies of 'song of the south', please let me know.
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Apr 16, 2015 18:14
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Its supposed to rain on monday and that makes me not want to wash my car even though I could use it. I should also do my front brakes, as they're lowish and my car wants to go right when I brake. But lazy.
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Apr 16, 2015 19:08
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Cage posted:Its supposed to rain on monday and that makes me not want to wash my car even though I could use it. Rain all week so far so all the cars are filthy. Friday and Saturday look nice but more rain on Sunday...don't think cars will be washed. Yay spring I guess. Drove the VW in yesterday, something in the left front sounds terrible so that's not going anywhere until I can take a look at it. Wheel bearing has been making noise for a long time but now it sounds like something is dragging or grinding. Nothing hanging underneath and nothing visible with the wheel on so if Fri/Sat is decent I'll be tearing into that. I'm considering just bringing it to a shop for wheel bearings, shock mounts and shocks. I like working on cars but not the VW. If I don't feel lazy I should have some nice pictures this weekend. Thinking of doing a very early morning run down Tail of the Dragon, eating at the resort then a loop around the Cherohala skyway with the M3. Haven't had a weekend with nice weather and not on-call in a very very long time. Need to talk to some of the locals and see how much sand and crap is on the road.
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Apr 16, 2015 19:28
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Somewhere on page 35 someone posted that Netflix's Daredevil was "stupidly good". Gonna have to agree. It gets down right brutal at some points. Holy poo poo bald Vincent D'Onofrio slamming a dude's neck in a car door so many times it decapitates him.  Bought a Nexus 6 on a whim. Holy poo poo this thing is gigantic. Good bye, one handed phone use.
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Apr 16, 2015 20:12
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Posted my V5s and driver's license off to the DVLA a fortnight ago to have the addresses changed. Found the receipts in my wallet today and thought I'd double check they got there... According to the tracking info the V5s are still in the post office branch.  At least my license seems to have gotten there, although the person recieving has literally just signed with an 'X'.
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Apr 16, 2015 20:13
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goatse guy posted:I'm going to miss most of the first round Wild games because of work.  
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My great uncle gave me a couple more awesome space things today. He worked on the space program from the beginning until the mid 80s. This charcoal went around the moon on Apollo 8. I used to stare at it a lot when I was a little kid and it still amazes me to this day that that charcoal was nearby when Jim Lovell, Bill Anders and Frank Borman came around the moon to watch the earth rise and read the lines from Genesis for the television broadcast.  He also gave me this medallion which contains metal from Columbia (the command module, not the shuttle) and the Eagle. This metal has been on the moon and that will never stop blowing my mind. 
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Apr 16, 2015 20:19
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Somewhere on page 35 someone posted that Netflix's Daredevil was "stupidly good". Gonna have to agree. Fart Pipe posted:My great uncle gave me a couple more awesome space things today. Completely unrelated, my mate linked me to this SpaceX Uptown Funk parody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yypBjVpDJZY
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Apr 16, 2015 20:21
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some texas redneck posted:Also uh, suggestions on a cheap corded (120V) drill? One that isn't Ol' Sparky? I got 2 holes drilled before the cordless one poo poo itself, and the hole saw barely made a dent in the 2x6 I was trying to go through. I think I got about half an inch into the 2x6 before it died. A new battery for this piece of poo poo drill costs more than the entire drill did. Need to get some new bits too, these are so dull that 1.5 inch could use them for sounding and not bleed (though I got a nasty 2nd degree burn when I pulled the drill back and the bit brushed my arm). The cordless one has started spitting sparks as well, though not nearly as bad as the ~30 year old corded one we have (which shocks the gently caress out of you if you even touch it while plugged in, and instantly trips any GFCI circuit it's on). I just bought the cheapest Black & Decker at Wal-Mart. It's worked fine so far. I'm irritated that I had to do so - I suspect my former roomy stole my nice HD Ridgid corded drill. Looks like Home Despot has the same B&D I bought for $20: http://www.homedepot.com/p/BLACK-DECKER-5-2-Amp-3-8-in-Drill-Driver-DR260B/202516274?N=5yc1vZc27fZ1z141kh bolind posted:I haven't tried it, but I saw a cool trick for using larger-diameter hole cutters: get the hole started so that outer cut is just defined, then drill one or more smaller holes right on the edge of outer cut. That way the chips have somewhere to go, and the teeth won't get gunked up. Holy crap, that's brilliant! Hope I remember it next time I've got the spade bit or hole saw going... jammyozzy posted:Posted my V5s and driver's license off to the DVLA a fortnight ago to have the addresses changed. Found the receipts in my wallet today and thought I'd double check they got there... So your  Royal mail isn't any better than out colonial one, then?They actually allow someone to sign with an "X"? How asinine is that? How much you want to bet they lost that piece of mail?
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Apr 16, 2015 20:22
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Fart Pipe posted:My great uncle gave me a couple more awesome space things today. He worked on the space program from the beginning until the mid 80s. Dude, that's loving cool!
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Apr 16, 2015 20:24
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Took my dog to the vet, and then to petsmart to grab him a treat. Little fucker decided to poo poo while he walked down an entire aisle.
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Apr 16, 2015 20:27
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iwentdoodie posted:Took my dog to the vet, and then to petsmart to grab him a treat. I went to Petland (which is a Canadian competitor to Petsmart) a couple years ago during the Christmas shopping season to see a dude crouched over, holding a bag, following behind his disdainful Pomeranian taking a massive diarrhea poo poo while walking in front of the grooming area. "No, Biscuit, no!"
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Apr 16, 2015 20:31
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That poo poo is awesome and extremely valuable, Fart Pipe, get them in a safety deposit box and/or insured! News: Community College enrollment for this Summer is down 50% from this time last year. That is a gently caress-ton. Why? I'm going to bet that a bunch of stupid kids believed Obama when he made that ridiculous statement during the State of the Union address where he promised free community college. I bet they are sitting back and planning on waiting until it becomes true. It will never become true. Obama directly hosed the most impressionable and trusting demographic. 
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Apr 16, 2015 20:40
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Darchangel posted:They actually allow someone to sign with an "X"? How asinine is that? This is actually what is considered the legal minimum for a signature, at least in the US.
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Apr 16, 2015 20:46
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BrokenKnucklez posted:Well, most other industrialized countries, college is free, or drat near free. Yep, and instead of that, we charge students interest rates on their student loans that are fully double what mortgages go for... even though some students owe as much as a house in Student Loans. 'murica. 
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New Star Wars trailer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ngElkyQ6Rhs
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meatpimp posted:Yep, and instead of that, we charge students interest rates on their student loans that are fully double what mortgages go for... even though some students owe as much as a house in Student Loans. 'murica. I don't want to get into huge debates about it, but we never invest in ourselves with quality health care, education and so on, but instead make it almost a crime to be "poor" like the latest rounds against welfare. I commented the other day on a facebook status about how they think people shouldn't get hand outs from others etc etc. I casually pointed out that the mortgage interest tax credit is a free hand out, along with the those roads, that while we all pay taxes to use roads, that the truckers pay a much higher percentage of road taxes vs his fuel efficient car, so you know, he can thank those truckers. My comment was deleted quickly.
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Apr 16, 2015 21:00
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BrokenKnucklez posted:the mortgage interest tax credit is a free hand out It's not. Your income is taxed. If you have a mortgage, you then have to pay property taxes. The mortgage credit just makes it so that you don't have to pay tax on your tax.
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Apr 16, 2015 21:23
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meatpimp posted:It's not. Your income is taxed. If you have a mortgage, you then have to pay property taxes. The mortgage credit just makes it so that you don't have to pay tax on your tax. It is absolutely a handout, and it only further encourages people to buy bigger houses with higher amounts of interest paid, because its all tax deductible. Almost all of the benefits go to households earning over 100k.
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Apr 16, 2015 21:29
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CharlesM posted:New Star Wars trailer. I'm such a sucker for these, JJ Abrams is gonna make me believe, and then I'm gonna go see it and then 2 days later the disappointment will settle in. And yes I choked up a tiny bit at the end of that one. God drat.
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BraveUlysses posted:It is absolutely a handout, and it only further encourages people to buy bigger houses with higher amounts of interest paid, because its all tax deductible. Almost all of the benefits go to households earning over 100k. Cite your sources, because that is idiotic logic.
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Apr 16, 2015 22:20
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Paid off my school loan yesterday! 
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Apr 16, 2015 22:25
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Maker Of Shoes posted:Paid off my school loan yesterday! June kills mine. Gots 5k left of CC debt that'll be gone in November and then I'm done. Of course, buying a new car in September. :/
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Apr 16, 2015 22:31
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meatpimp posted:Cite your sources, because that is idiotic logic. http://www.forbes.com/sites/richard...n-people-think/ It costs the government 70B a year to continue the MIT deduction. http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3948 quote:The main reason is that the bulk of its benefits go to higher-income households who generally could afford a home without assistance: in 2012, 77 percent of the benefits went to homeowners with incomes above $100,000. http://old.seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2025532095_zillowqandaxml.html quote:If the federal government capped the deduction at $25,000 per household, according to Zillow’s calculations, the 100 hardest-hit ZIP codes would be ones with an average home value of $865,241 and an average square footage 27 percent larger than the surrounding metro area.
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BraveUlysses posted:http://www.forbes.com/sites/richard...n-people-think/ That just says that the majority of the deductions goes to the people that have the most expensive houses. That's self-evident. The exact same logic is used by rich people to SUPPORT the fact that they pay the most in taxes, even though their tax percentage is often half, or less, what "normals" make. You can't play with the numbers both ways. Either way, "I'm going to buy a house with most of it in interest so I can get a big deduction" is idiotic logic. I don't doubt that it happens, because there are a lot of idiots, but I cannot believe that that situation is anywhere near the majority. If it is, then it's more of an argument for bank reform than anything else. Well cited though, kudos.
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Yeah it's definitely less of a "i'll buy a big house cause i can write more of it off" and more like "i can afford so much more mcmansion than i thought!  "enough of this derail!
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BraveUlysses posted:http://old.seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2025532095_zillowqandaxml.html If you cap deductions at, x, the worst hit zip codes are the ones with the largest deviation from x. HOLY poo poo THE MATH THAT MUST TAKE. And yes. Interest deductions reduce the net cost of houses. But it doesn't reduce it below the sticker price, it just reduces how much beyond the sticker price you end up paying.
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Well, I am going to be taking the plunge back into home ownership in augustish. I am quite sick of not being able to slap in a 240v outlet. ITS RIGHT NEXT TO THE GOD drat BREAKER BOX WHY CANT I DO THIS YOU poo poo(land)LORD? When I own my house, I am going to have black jack. And hookers. And 240v outlets every where. I'll even install it next to the bed just because I can
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CharlesM posted:New Star Wars trailer. The latest Star Trek movies hinted JJ ABrams makes good Star Wars films. And so far everything we have seen says it's absolutly true, that looks bad rear end. Tempering excitement tho remembering Phantom Menace looked bad rear end and it turned out to be a shitshow. You also see that the ball droid ISNT CGI but is a real robot?!? How the hell did they do that?
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ilkhan posted:That might just be the most idiotic stat ever. If you can afford an 800k home, you can afford to pay taxes on more of your income. it gives scale to how immense these giveaways are.
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BraveUlysses posted:it gives scale to how immense these giveaways are. Sorry, programs that benefit the rich and businesses aren't classified as "giveaways" or "handouts." That only happens if the program benefits poors.
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Geoj posted:Sorry, programs that benefit the rich and businesses aren't classified as "giveaways" or "handouts." That only happens if the program benefits poors. Just like putting a "Terrorist" or "Freedom Fighter" label on a person -- often times the only difference is which side you're on.
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Cat Terrist posted:You also see that the ball droid ISNT CGI but is a real robot?!? How the hell did they do that?
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