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Comment Re:Not me, not in California (Score 1) 940

So taking the risk inherent in renting in California is being a parasite?

Get a bad tenant, and you could lose more than your investment, and the income you were hoping for. The definition of risk. In fact, you could be facing legal penalties in excess of your losses if you're not careful.

All while your tenant, leveraging the law, sits happy and safe on your dime. They have the municipal government backing them. You have nothing. And their lawyers are going to be bigger than yours.

You have a strange concept of 'parasite'.

Comment Re:I'm spending 60% of my monthly income on rent (Score 1) 940

You give tacit approval for the government to tell you how to spend your income. Then you complain they don't manage the economy so you can actually follow their advice.

Maybe you should start exercising some personal initiative, or move where the government meets your expectations???

Comment Re:Makes sense (Score 0) 272

"Would you go to slashdot.org/macdonalds and expect a page about hamburgers to come up?"

No, but if I went to youtube.com/mcdonalds I would. slashdot.org/macdonalds I would expect to come up with some random stuff related, marginally, to either Macdonalds or something else. So I'd save time and go to slashdot.org. Same effect.

Comment Let's keep this simple (Score 1) 292

Most of the political poll calls I get, and I get them regularly, are focused on the 2016 Presidential election.

The primaries are still 7-10 months away. I am uninterested. I hang up.

Call me in November, when campaigning should be heating up. It's MUCH too early.

And yes, I know this is driven by the candidates, money, and the media. Those points don't make me more eager to participate so early.

Comment Re: WindowsME 2.0 (Score 1) 277

Ditto. My 8.1 machine at home had its first blue screen 18 months after update from 8.0. The single most stable release of Windows I've ever had.

Mostly I use it for a proprietary terminal program, browsing mostly with Chrome but also IE, Office 2003 apps, and Blender, FreeCAD, Slicr, and some similar stuff. No problems. And I use the classic interface unless I drift too close to the right edge of the trackpad.

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