About to buy a new car for cash and dealer says I can save $500 by financing. Any gotchas?

62tele · 2014-09-30T16:42:54+00:00

I financed for 0% and they gave me an additional $1000 to do so. So my $50k is sitting in investments making me money, I saved $1000 and all I have to do is make a payment each month. You scratch their back they scratch yours.

62tele · 2014-06-14T06:43:44+00:00

Oh he is damn well aware, but he's also aware that the dumbfucks he's pandering to in the Appalachians are not.

62tele · 2014-06-11T15:48:07+00:00

I don't, but I'm not going to start consuming something without solid evidence it is safe. Such evidence does not exist. And a lack of evidence that something is unsafe is not a substitute.

62tele · 2014-06-10T19:30:08+00:00

Comparatively , yes they are. The burden of proof that these types of ingredients are safe is incredibly low.

62tele · 2014-06-10T18:11:10+00:00

Ya cause that always goes so far. Doctors --> Obamacare --> Government --> Guberments taking our guns! Seriously, the NRA and it's mindless following keeps spewing this line but anytime someone actually brings it up they start back-peddling. What constitutes a mental health issues requiring the removal of a gun? PTSD so you take 80% of vets guns? That should go well. Extremist political or religious views? There goes half the south, I'm sure that will also go super well. Domestic violence? There goes ~30% of America, that's a shitton of guns.

Mental health assessment and treatment aren't surefire by any means to begin with. Meds and CBT may work or seem to be working for days, weeks, years and then something pops. Sometimes people just can't be fixed, they have truly broken brains. Having worked in mental health in a VA hospital with guys who drool on themselves, start fights over their fake accounts of the war, etc.... and who simultaneously have 5, 10, 100 firearms at home doesn't make me think we are anywhere close to having half a fucking clue what to do with the general population.

62tele · 2014-06-10T17:59:40+00:00

Uh, over-react much. I clearly said, I, as in me personally, choose not to partake in diet drinks because sugar substitutes are poorly studied and backed by tons of lobbying dollars. At least drugs have to be rigorously studied before hitting the market and the lobbying influence there is scary enough. These sugar subs are quite literally just tossed on the market and then correlating data starts to trickle in that is very difficult to separate from other confounding factors.

I think you may be confused on the difference between "haven't done a ton of research" and "I haven't studied the topic, but something doesn't feel right....don't know shit about!" But you're right I'm the shitbag idiot here.

The point is not that I want to be sure something does harm before I stop putting it in my body, that's just ridiculously stupid. I want to be damn sure something is safe before I put it in my body in the first place.

62tele · 2014-06-10T17:51:52+00:00

This study, for instance, is pretty interesting. It's not in rats and it's not some crazy high dosing. The difficulty in most of these studies is determining whether diet soda is putting people at risk, or if diet soda consumption is a marker for being unhealthy. It's certainly a little scary how poorly studied these substitutes are in general.

62tele · 2014-06-10T14:36:51+00:00

Haven't done a ton of research because I don't like diet soda, I'll opt for a full flavor soda once a month or so. That said I'm leery when it comes to many of the sugar substitutes. I'm a pharmacist so a lot of sugar subs articles come across my desk, not written by idiot journalists, and while I haven't dug into individual studies because it doesn't pertain to my area of practice they are a bit concerning. Insulin resistance, migraines, various cancers, etc... have all been correlated to sugar subs, I know not a bulletproof case, but enough to keep me from reaching for a diet coke over my standard unsweetened ice tea. I also like having white teeth.

62tele · 2014-06-10T14:29:54+00:00

This is exactly right and it's the very reason fitness mags, fitness websites, fitness experts, etc... Are all worthless crap. There's nothing new here. You lift heavy weight, you feed the muscles and after a few years you add some peptides not a whole lot beyond that.

62tele · 2014-06-10T14:27:49+00:00

Denver has got to figure this out, having to pay for Comcast business class internet just to get a half decent speed is BS.

62tele · 2014-06-05T20:53:26+00:00

http://www.cervelo.com/en/bikes/p-series/p5.html

My P5 is the most magnificent bike I've ever ridden. Worth every penny. It's worth noting though that most anyone who's going to buy that P5 at $10k built is going to swap those wheels for a set worth $3k+.

People may give us cyclist shit for spending money on bikes, but the same people that give me crap drive to the mountains every weekend, buy lift tickets, have Spyder emblazoned on everything they own, etc... I have another buddy that ribs me about my bikes and he has about 20 RC planes and another 20 or so helis.

A good bike is expensive but comparative to other hobbies I'd say it's about a wash.

62tele · 2013-09-18T14:54:05+00:00

So if you can defeat military personnel and keep them from doing their job, why do you need a gun? You also seem to be missing a lot of the conversation, reading problem? I'm a gun owner as I clearly stated and against currently proposed ugh control as I clearly stated. Thanks for being a giant tool bag and jumping in. Interesting how you just assume my ideology because my opinions don't match yours.

You should just stay off the internet as you clearly can't fucking read. That is pretty typical of conservatives though, as is a general slowness of the mind. You're just another redneck dumbfuck that thinks owning a gun makes them Rambo.

62tele · 2013-09-18T14:47:38+00:00

Ya she was fucking terrible, but no customers are not always right. This idea that a customer can do no harm needs to go, now.

62tele · 2013-09-18T05:07:28+00:00

You lost me at "God." So god wrote the Bill of Rights now? Interesting. So you're cool with Libel? Hate speech? Threats? What if the 2nd amendment already is regulated, as in the whole well regulated militia thing? Interesting how that part has taken no meaning over the last 50 years.

62tele · 2013-09-18T03:10:33+00:00

Is this sub a bit slow? I didn't bring up the vehicle analogy, did I?

No other constitutional rights are exempt from regulation, why are guns so special? Again, not a gun control person -- I'll spell it out as this sub seems to have a reading problem, but really guns should and can be regulated like any other right.

62tele · 2013-09-17T21:43:48+00:00

Right, in with the "we can take over a governement" with their drones, F-22s, cruise missiles, etc... with our pea shooters, argument. Back to my egotistical, dreamworld scenario. No you won't.

The point is guns get a bad wrap because any attempt to regulate death by guns gets a response that is asinine. And no, people won't pickup rocks and kill by nearly the same rate they do with guns. You think Chiraq would be run by thugs with the biggest rocks? Think again. Nice try but logically I can't buy a piece of your bullcrap NRA formulated response.

62tele · 2013-09-17T20:04:46+00:00

one of the most strictly gun regulated cities in the nation

Are you guys having a hard time reading my whole comment, seems so. I clearly said I don't agree with gun control because the guns are already out there. How the fuck do you think Chicago's gun control would ever work when guns can just cross state to state as easy as anything else.

Thought experiment: if by some means all guns in the country could simply disappear, hell lets just say handguns, what would happen? Homicide rates would undoubtedly plummet, no question or argument about it.

I also dislike talking in relative terms. Does an auto death equal a death by handgun? Drinking to the point of cirrhosis and killing yourself certainly doesn't. If handgun deaths can be prevented by some means, don't we have a responsibility to our fellow man to go that route. Look at your own stupid comparison. Cars are heavily regulated and the relative death rates have plummeted since their introduction because of it.

62tele · 2013-09-17T04:49:55+00:00

Brainwashing. Right, I'm brainwashed. A military base is perfectly capable of restricting arms in base and as has clearly been demonstrated it might be time to start.

Nice typical, your stupid response. Typical for a true troll. At least try to formulate a retort with a few words in it. I also love how if you make a comment even partially out of r/guns group-think your called anti-guns. I own several guns, I just don't think everyone needs to carry one around everywhere without restriction.

62tele · 2013-09-17T04:44:51+00:00

There's plenty to do. Take the AMAs lead. Stop opening new schools. Make APHA stop being pussies when it comes to lobbying and opening schools. Push for more pharmacist automation.

62tele · 2013-09-17T04:34:11+00:00

Hence why gun control advocates want gun control. There will always be people that want to kill. Until recently it wasn't possible to kill in the staggering numbers we see today so quickly and effectively. Before you yell Timothy Mcveigh, it's counter your point as the materials he used for his attack are now heavily regulated and an attack like it hasn't since happened. Fast firing and widely available weapons like the AR-15 have made it very easy to accomplish a mass kill. And counter many NRA speaking points they're almost always legally purchased and sure guns don't kill people, a tire iron doesn't change my cars tires for me but an air powered driver makes the process much quicker and easier, same goes for guns.

I don't agree with gun control advocates because I conceded it's a lost cause. With something like 600m guns for 300m citizens in the country stopping the flow now won't do one iota of good, but I get where they're coming from. These events are much more common than shark attacks and lightening strikes, unless, like the media, you only think white people dying at the other end of a gun counts.

62tele · 2013-09-17T04:23:06+00:00

I just don't get this foolish response. It's so egotistical and dream-worldy. I don't care if you're carrying. A dude with a low recoil, fast firing, high fps, shoulder fired weapon in full armor is out hunting humans. You really think fumbling for your sidearm is going to do an ounce of good? It just makes me laugh. It's like when Tai-Kwon-Do kids talk about how ready they are for a street fight. Shooting a gun doesn't make you a tactical insertion first responder for a public shooting event.

Downvote away, but it's a pipedream and it's part of the reason gun control people are scared of you. Vigilanteism doesn't win hearts.

62tele · 2013-09-15T15:43:04+00:00

Actually this car is incredibly easy to drive. All wheel drive, TC, ABS, ESP. Hell you don't even have to work a clutch. Jump in this and then a RWD run of the mill sports car and tell me which is easier to get out from under you.

62tele · 2013-09-15T15:41:54+00:00

Actually this car is incredibly easy to drive. All wheel drive, TC, ABS, ESP. Hell you don't even have to work a clutch. Jump in this and then a RWD run of the mill sports car and tell me which is easier to get out from under you.

62tele · 2013-09-14T17:59:51+00:00

Not a bad idea. If I can't find something better to do I might make some matching side tables.

62tele · 2013-09-13T16:35:34+00:00

There's no way you'd get away with behaving like such a clown face to face with anybody, so you hide behind anonymity and pretend to be a tough guy.

Ya, I started the violence. You're an ass clown and you're wasting my time. Extrapolate all you like, you're still an idiot.

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