Miscellaneous Discussion Thread
The largest apartment house in the city(some 12 units) is an absolute mess, with multiple violations and the owner owes back taxes and for services.
Tuesday night, in sub freezing weather, the town raided the complex, condemned it and gave the residents two hours to evacuate or be arrested. Evidently, no one thought to call the Red Cross or County services in advance so over a dozen people were stuck outside on the coldest night of the year. The townsfolk have taken in all the people and several pets have found foster homes, but after an 18 month fight, you'd expect more from the city.
Quote: billryanBisbee is extremely short of long term rental properties as most owners can do much better renting to short term tourists.
The largest apartment house in the city(some 12 units) is an absolute mess, with multiple violations and the owner owes back taxes and for services.
Tuesday night, in sub freezing weather, the town raided the complex, condemned it and gave the residents two hours to evacuate or be arrested. Evidently, no one thought to call the Red Cross or County services in advance so over a dozen people were stuck outside on the coldest night of the year. The townsfolk have taken in all the people and several pets have found foster homes, but after an 18 month fight, you'd expect more from the city.
The government can only give what it takes first. Actually less due to administrative costs.
Quote: billryanBisbee is extremely short of long term rental properties as most owners can do much better renting to short term tourists.
The largest apartment house in the city(some 12 units) is an absolute mess, with multiple violations and the owner owes back taxes and for services.
Tuesday night, in sub freezing weather, the town raided the complex, condemned it and gave the residents two hours to evacuate or be arrested. Evidently, no one thought to call the Red Cross or County services in advance so over a dozen people were stuck outside on the coldest night of the year. The townsfolk have taken in all the people and several pets have found foster homes, but after an 18 month fight, you'd expect more from the city.
I disagree. If you are willing to live in a place that is worthy of being condemned then its on you for not already leaving. If you can't find a place nearby then move. If they don't condemn the place it someone gets hurt then they sue the city.
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Somebody mentioned being lashed or something as punishment. I might have to consider that more equitable than this kind of result.
Sounds like the local politicians avoided getting stuck with a bill from the county and I think some local guy will wind up winning an auction soon.Quote: billryanEvidently, no one thought to call the Red Cross or County services in advance so over a dozen people were stuck outside on the coldest night of the year. The townsfolk have taken in all the people and several pets have found foster homes, but after an 18 month fight, you'd expect more from the city.
Quote: MaxPenThe government can only give what it takes first. Actually less due to administrative costs.
The government has a guaranteed income stream in future taxes so it can borrow or issue bonds. The United States defeated Hitler and Japan with money obtained by War Bonds.
Quote: DRichI always thought that fines should be relative to a percentage of your net worth or income. You fine me 10% and it is going to hurt, fine Bill Gates 10% and it is going to cost him $10 billion. Of course, he should probably be fined $10 billion just for releasing Windows 8.
I kept fixing and replacing my bookkeeper’s desktop. We switched everything to apple years ago. No problems.
I never fully learned Windows. I changed from DOS to Mac in 1985 or '86, I think, and stayed with it. I remember watching people use the brand new Windows '95 and commenting that it looked a lot like Mac '84 and needed to be updated.Quote: jjjooogggWe switched everything to apple years ago. No problems.
Quote: GWAEI disagree. If you are willing to live in a place that is worthy of being condemned then its on you for not already leaving. If you can't find a place nearby then move. If they don't condemn the place it someone gets hurt then they sue the city.
"Skinny" people don't understand how hard it is to not ender a pie-eating contest on the way home from a casino buffet and then drink a case of beer. I can't afford to buy vegetables.
Indigent, elderly, disabled or mentally ill people in rural Arizona should just move to a new town and get a more expensive place if their land lord is a slumlord.
Quote: DRichOf course, he should probably be fined $10 billion just for releasing Windows 8.
I think you mean ME/Vista.
Windows 8 wasn’t so bad once you got over the start menu.
Windows 10 is nearly perfect.
Quote: GWAEI disagree. If you are willing to live in a place that is worthy of being condemned then its on you for not already leaving. If you can't find a place nearby then move. If they don't condemn the place it someone gets hurt then they sue the city.
If someone pays money for rent, it is on the person who takes the money to keep it legal. If it was illegal, the landlord should not have been accepting rent money.
Quote: gamerfreakI think you mean ME/Vista.
Windows 8 wasn’t so bad once you got over the start menu.
Windows 10 is nearly perfect.
Maybe, I just don’t know how to use it, but I’ve hated the file search for several versions now.
I knew how to get everything I needed in their older versions.
When I went to retrieve it 3 hours later it had totally disappeared. It was nowhere to be seen. Why would anybody want to steal cauliflower potato salad was my first thought. I finally went to the 10 feet away side of the porch and there it was on the ground right side up with the lid intact.
I took it inside and the edges were covered in tiny teeth marks. It had to be a possum, they have very sharp little teeth. It had to be a comical sight, you have that possum dragging that heavy container 10 ft to the edge of the porch. What a funny video that would have been. The little crook..
Bruce Banner is mistaken for a spy/traitor to the US and he cant tell the truth without disclosing he is really the Hulk.
The only person who knows the truth is a current member of the Avengers.
So, seeing no choice, he uses his Avengers pass to get the aid of the only person in America who can be trusted with the Hulk secret and get Banner off.
The President of the United States
Ahem, the most trusted and honorable Richard M. Nixon. "His secret is safe with me"
I wonder if that conversation was part of the missing 18 minutes?
Quote: PokerGrinderHe was deported back to Kazakhstan for his extra curricular activities with farm animals.
Haha. Incorrect race
Quote: jjjooogggHaha. Incorrect race
I changed the country so I don’t dox him but the reasoning is correct. RS, Max or Axel will confirm this.
Quote: PokerGrinderI changed the country so I don’t dox him but the reasoning is correct. RS, Max or Axel will confirm this.
I think his identity is still safe as long as nobody mentions it was actually zoo animals rather than farm.
Quote: PokerGrinderI changed the country so I don’t dox him but the reasoning is correct. RS, Max or Axel will confirm this.
I don’t even know who that guy was I just like his article on life of Counter
Quote: TigerWuHow?
If I invest $1000 in something at 5% interest, I end up +$50.
If I pay off a 5%, $1000 loan ahead of time, I end up +$0.
Furthermore, if I pay off a 100%, $1000 loan ahead of time, I also end up +$0
So, according to the aforementioned logic, a 5% rate of return and a 100% rate of return are mathematically equivalent, which is obviously nonsense.
Right now you have $100,000.
When the loan is due (let’s just say end of the month), you’ll have $98,950. If you pay it all off now, then you’ll have $99,000.
As the Ancient Hawaiians used to say, “A dollar saved is a dollar earned.”
Quote: PokerGrinderI changed the country so I don’t dox him but the reasoning is correct. RS, Max or Axel will confirm this.
You misspelled Mexico.
Quote: EvenBobWhy would anybody want to steal cauliflower potato salad was my first thought.
Why would anybody store cauliflower potato salad on the front porch was my first thought.
Quote: darkozReading an old issue of "The Incredible Hulk" from 1969.
Bruce Banner is mistaken for a spy/traitor to the US and he cant tell the truth without disclosing he is really the Hulk.
There were some crazy comic book storylines in the '60's. I had some old Action Comics from then, and in one of them Superman's secret identity is blown and he had to get a "real" job. Nobody would hire him because he kept failing the job interviews or whatever somehow. He tried to join the Army and they wouldn't take him because they couldn't vaccinate him because the needles kept breaking against his skin. Silly stuff. They did a lot of weird one-shot stories like that back then.
Ironically, when DC lured Jack away with the promise of letting him create his own "universe" within DC, their production problems caused his books to be oft-delayed and published out of sequence, making them appear to be a ball of confusion.
The only comic books I've ever read when I was younger was Mad and Cracked.Quote: DRichI am very suspicious of grown men that read and know about comic books. It would make sense if you were all priests.
Quote: DRichI am very suspicious of grown men that read and know about comic books.
Why?
Quote: AxelWolfThe only comic books I've ever read when I was younger was Mad and Cracked.
Neither of which is a comic book.
Quote: TigerWuWhy?
Because it may be a way in which they are trying to relate to young children for nefarious reasons.
Quote: DRichBecause it may be a way in which they are trying to relate to young children for nefarious reasons.
When was the last time you saw a young child in a comic shop, or even reading a comic book?
Quote: billryanWhen was the last time you saw a young child in a comic shop, or even reading a comic book?
I don't believe that I have ever been to a comic book shop.
Quote: DRichBecause it may be a way in which they are trying to relate to young children for nefarious reasons.
I’m more suspicious of someone who jumps to that conclusion 😉
I collect comics and also loathe children. Young people really aren’t the target audience for comics anymore.
Quote: DRichBecause it may be a way in which they are trying to relate to young children for nefarious reasons.
LOL... That's borderline conspiracy theory talk, right there....
Quote: DRichI don't believe that I have ever been to a comic book shop.
That would certainly explain your bizarre opinions on comic book fans.
Quote: mcallister3200There are actual physical comic book stores? Not just trade shows and online?
Over a dozen in Vegas alone.
Quote: gamerfreakI’m more suspicious of someone who jumps to that conclusion 😉
I collect comics and also loathe children. Young people really aren’t the target audience for comics anymore.
Ditto!
A supernan #1 goes for $800,000. I am suspicious of people who think only children purchase $800,000 items.
I am also suspicious of someone who doesnt know the biggest Hollywood output as a billion dollar industry is Superhero comic book movies.
And heaven forbid DRich contemplates that BBB and myself and plenty of other adults enjoy amusement parks including Disneyland(I believe BBB has said she is a Disney fan before)
EDIT: I suspect many people are suspicious of adults who enjoy playing "card games" Blackjack anyone?
Quote: mcallister3200There are actual physical comic book stores? Not just trade shows and online?
There are thousands in the U.S. alone.
Quote: darkoz
I am also suspicious of someone who doesnt know the biggest Hollywood output as a billion dollar industry is Superhero comic book movies.
I realize it but I don't understand it.
I did see the first Batman movie when I was in college and vowed I would never again waste any of my time on that type of movie. I also abhor science fiction movies and "action" movies. I saw the first Star Wars movie when I was in High School and never understood why people thought it was so good. Haven't watched one since.
Most of my distraction on TV are stupid sitcoms, I watch either MASH, Cheers, or Married With Children every night in bed until I fall asleep.
Quote: DRichI realize it but I don't understand it.
I did see the first Batman movie when I was in college and vowed I would never again waste any of my time on that type of movie. I also abhor science fiction movies and "action" movies. I saw the first Star Wars movie when I was in High School and never understood why people thought it was so good. Haven't watched one since.
Most of my distraction on TV are stupid sitcoms, I watch either MASH, Cheers, or Married With Children every night in bed until I fall asleep.
I recently finished watching all 249 Andy Griffith episodes.
Now that's real TV.😃
Quote: TigerWuWhy would anybody store cauliflower potato salad on the front porch was my first thought.
Because it's colder than the fridge
but less than the freezer. I posted
the story on another forum and a
lady said she put Tgiving leftovers
on the porch to keep them cold
till they left. They put the paper
bags in the car and when they got
home found a stuffed possum
sleeping in a bag.
I got a 12 pound ham on Thursday
and my fridge and freezer are at
capacity so the ham is in a box
on the back porch where the temp
is like a fridge.
Quote: billryanIn Europe, comic books are generally more sophisticated and for a mature audience. Many comic historians think it's because comics were first imported by GIs and Europeans just assumed they were for young adults. While most American comics are published monthly and are about 8x10, with 32 pages, European books tend to be much larger, contain more pages and are published once or twice a year.
According to "Men of Tomorrow", a history of the American comic book, comics were geared specifically towards kids by Pornographers.
According to the book, with no Porn stores abundant in the 1930's, the only way to distribute porn was thru local magazine shops, and candy stands.
walking into a family business oriented candy/magazine store announcing you were a porn distributor would generally get you the boot.
Porn distributors, started paying struggling artists to create comics for kids, content quality not important (but geared for kids, they were not trying to peddle porn to kids)
then they would sell the kids comics to the magazine and candy stores. After sales of the books were successful to kids, the proprietors would ask for more comics to sell which they obliged and then would come the porn pitch.
"Hey, you know if you like those sales, I dont just specialize in kids comics. I have some more adult, risque stuff for your older clientelle. Let me know if you are interested"
As a result, comics were heavily promoted as being for kids to worm their way into stores to sell more adult product.
Quote: MaxPenI recently finished watching all 249 Andy Griffith episodes.
Now that's real TV.😃
I can take one a week, maybe, that's my
limit. The entire show was filmed on
a set in Hwood and doesn't look like
N Carolina at all in the outdoor shots.
Except for Griffith, who was an educated
hick, all the other people on the show
were sophisticated actors playing hicks.
Francis Bavier, who played Aunt Bee, was
such a stuck up snob stage actress she
was impossible to work with. She would
fly into rages over nothing and everybody
avoided her like the plague. In real life
Don Knotts was the opposite of the hick
he played on the show. He was an educated
well dressed ladies man who was always
dating some new beautiful woman.
Quote: EvenBobI can take one a week, maybe, that's my
limit. The entire show was filmed on
a set in Hwood and doesn't look like
N Carolina at all in the outdoor shots.
Except for Griffith, who was an educated
hick, all the other people on the show
were sophisticated actors playing hicks.
Francis Bavier, who played Aunt Bee, was
such a stuck up snob stage actress she
was impossible to work with. She would
fly into rages over nothing and everybody
avoided her like the plague. In real life
Don Knotts was the opposite of the hick
he played on the show. He was an educated
well dressed ladies man who was always
dating some new beautiful woman.
A shows either worth watching or it isn't. The majority of acting is fake.
Quote: EvenBobHe was an educated
well dressed ladies man who was always
dating some new beautiful woman.
You ain't lyin'.... look at his second wife:
Quote: EvenBobI can take one a week, maybe, that's my
limit. The entire show was filmed on
a set in Hwood and doesn't look like
N Carolina at all in the outdoor shots.
Except for Griffith, who was an educated
hick, all the other people on the show
were sophisticated actors playing hicks.
Francis Bavier, who played Aunt Bee, was
such a stuck up snob stage actress she
was impossible to work with. She would
fly into rages over nothing and everybody
avoided her like the plague. In real life
Don Knotts was the opposite of the hick
he played on the show. He was an educated
well dressed ladies man who was always
dating some new beautiful woman.
Are you telling us that the actors on the show weren't simple townsfolk, but were in fact actors? That Floyd wasn't a real life barber?
That Andy wasn't Ron Howard's dad in real life? What a gyp.
