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BraveUlysses posted:Let's not pretend there's any way this company would have been saved Call me an optimist but I think not envisioning a corporate structure where each and every department has to face off against each other in a thunderdome challenge might have been enough to keep it afloat.
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mariooncrack posted:I heard K-Mart was doing well in Canada. Is this true? It basically became target ironically.
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Jan 3, 2017 00:22
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rdb posted:On the subject of tools and tires, does anyone do tires at home? I keep going back and forth on the idea. A new Chinese machine and balancer combo with motorcycle adapters would set me back about $2500 from Greg smith equipment, or I could piece together a setup of CL for slightly less. eBay has a balancer and machine combo for about $1200 shipped but I would need to get MC adapters and service would not be available locally. I do the tires for my kart myself and it'd be a hard sell getting me to do tires for a car even if the equipment was free. If a rim gets banged up a bit the tire never seats properly and its horribly un-nerving putting over the recommended PSI limit into a tire to get one little edge to seat. If you're doing it constantly like I am for my kart its probably worth it but for me getting a new set of tires every couple of years I'd just pay the labor for a shop to do it.
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Sears is one of those corporate failures that I'm completely fascinated by like British Leyland. There were numerous opportunities to save it and I can't wait for the complete post mortem once the company finally crooks.
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Jan 5, 2017 22:38
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Well I just blew $800 on kart parts from germany.  my wallet.
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Jan 6, 2017 04:41
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Geoj posted:I'd like to hear your explanation to a lowest common denominator voter who doesn't actually care that you can't live on minimum (or even within several dollars per hour of) wage, but who think that they're just temporarily inconvenienced and someday will be the rich prick turning the screws on everyone else and want to be able to take advantage of poverty-level wages once they've boot-strapped themselves to the top. To be fair the issue precisely is that the left usually does act condescending/uppity/elitist/etc towards those people which is why the right has to do virtually nothing to pander to them.
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Jan 7, 2017 01:05
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iwentdoodie posted:Or its looking at the situation and going "well, yeah. I see why they did that. I would too." This all of this. Like it or not, globalization and free trade has absolutely hosed the lower middle class and nobody on the left seems to have a solution to that much less give a single gently caress. I can see how people have basically had almost everything stripped away from them and then are told they are too privileged for benefits or a helping hand get cynical and distrusting of the side that constantly brow beats them. When you're constantly getting hosed and there's no real solution provided by either side all you have is dreams of becoming rich. I get why the guy making minimum wage says he's going to be a millionaire in 5 years, its because that's the only thing that lets him fall asleep at night. F1DriverQuidenBerg fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Jan 7, 2017 |
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Pham Nuwen posted:I would like to clean my 'new' transmission a little bit before I install it. What's the best way to get old nasty grease off without making a huge mess / killing all my grass / etc? Purple Power and a rise? If I work on a concrete slab, will it stain the fucker? throw down a lot of old and hit it with a ridiculous amount of brake clean. Its how I clean my kart since the chain throws oil everywhere and it works ridiculously well. you can buy a 4L jug for like $40-50 and a WD-40 spray bottle for like $2 and you'll probably still have half a jug left over.
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Jan 8, 2017 02:56
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Rhyno posted:I have a friend with a kid who just turned 18 and let me tell you, this kid is a grade A fuckstick. I don't know how because his parents are fantastic people. Well this kid is now well known in the local auto circles for poo poo talking, saying LET'S RACE and basically being a little poo poo. He makes threats and then runs off and hides behind MY DAD IS A COP SO DONT gently caress WITH ME. Not even a week ago I saw him driving as I was heading home and he swerves in front of another car and brake checked them. On the plus side I'm pretty sure he'll be a well behaved driver going forward.
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Jan 10, 2017 02:38
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Seat Safety Switch posted:If hyperinflation occurs just tell the bank to suck your dick, give them the keys to your house and buy the neighbour's house cash from foreclosure for $500. As somebody that does risk related pricing this is generally why I cringe when I hear a blanket unconditional endorsement of debt when interest rates are low.
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Jan 11, 2017 17:22
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angryrobots posted:I am also having a hard time understanding how it could ever add up to be better for an individual to keep a bigger tax deduction via paying mortgage interest, vs eliminating the interest payment outright. Because the money that would've gone towards paying that could be invested elsewhere to offset the hit you're taking. If you're generating a 4% return through investments versus a net 2% interest payment through tax deductions you're coming out ahead. Where you're partially right is what if your mortgage term is up in 5 years you've got 20 years left on the mortgage and the going interest rate is 12%, you might have been better off just paying down the mortgage over the long term.
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Jan 11, 2017 18:21
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I don't know the rules in the US but up here any sort of double payment is principal only. I don't necessarily disagree with your thinking but you also have to assume that mortgage rates aren't going to remain at 3% either and that has to factor into your decision, but everybody ignores that side of the equation. I'm already thinking/budgeting on the idea we're going to be seeing a 4-5% interest rate two or three years from now, but with Trump it's anybody's guess what the hell happens.
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Jan 11, 2017 20:04
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Adiabatic posted:Right Sally would be paying only principle on the remaining $196k as a one time overpayment, but that would have effectively meant $4k 1 year loan at 130% interest. See my edit above. She took out a one year loan at $200k and paid the interest rate for that $200k for one year. That's not 130% interest. Edit: Adiabatic posted:Its also important to note that mortgages are amortized, so youre front-loaded on interest in the beginning. Most of your payment is interest in the beginning while most of it is principal in the end. If he paid it off now hed effectively have paid a much higher interest rate. This is also why you have to carefully consider what you've already paid before you refinance to a lower interest rate. You could be paying more in the long run. Interest isn't front loaded in a mortgage, amortization is just a payment schedule so you pay it off in X years. You're still paying the same interest rate in the final year of your mortgage, is just that the amount remaining is so small it's insignificant in relation to what you're paying. F1DriverQuidenBerg fucked around with this message at 20:38 on Jan 11, 2017 |
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Jan 11, 2017 20:25
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scuz posted:My craigslist searches are now restricted by year: 1980-1989 As somebody who owns 3 vehicles all made in the 1980s: This is a good and correct idea.
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Jan 19, 2017 03:40
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Jan 20, 2017 01:41
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Previa_fun posted:How unfulfilling does your life have to be to allow yourself to get so wrapped up in an internet forum. This is pretty much my view, this place is a time sink for when I have nothing to do at work or right now when I'm making dinner/waiting for the mattress to dry since doggo puked on it twice today. I actually stuck with this forum because its the only internet forum left with an F1 thread that isn't taking way too seriously. Powershift posted:There are people who spend money to put funny pictures besides people's posts on this internet forum. Now you see the light.
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Jan 20, 2017 02:50
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KozmoNaut posted:And people thought they wouldn't actually do it... I'm trying to remain pretty level headed and sensible about the whole thing but the very obvious parallels with 1930s Germany are becoming just a tiny bit alarming at this point.
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Jan 22, 2017 21:55
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Shitbox ownership is a life enriching experience.
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Jan 26, 2017 05:53
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CommieGIR posted:Fingers crossed that two Audi pistons with the same bore and compression ratio but different motors have the same ring lands. Knowing VW of that era I wouldn't even bother crossing your fingers. I know with the VW four pot engine you could slap in any piston you drat well pleased so long as it cleared the valves on the interference engines.
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Jan 30, 2017 17:48
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Coredump posted:At this point I wonder how many hours of television and film have been made about ww2 by the US? I wonder if the rest of the world is over by now and wondering when we're gonna move on. What puzzles me is why it gets rehashed in modern productions when "World at War" is pretty much the definitive series that covers almost all aspects of the war and it was done in the 70s.
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Cop Porn Popper posted:Except it really wasn't. The perception of the versailles treaty being unfair was played up heavily by the german government for sympathy, who then tried multiple times and ways to get out of it. A majority of the fault for ww2 lies on the various german governments between 1920-1939. Except it was. The demands and payments were ridiculous and the inflation it caused got so bad people were burning cash for fuel and Germany was always going to want Alsace Lorraine back. The winning side completely poo poo all over the Germans after WW1 there was legitimate reasons to ask that it be torn up.
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