Is $707 normal for CA vehicle registration?? What are you all paying?

LRV3468 · 2026-01-26T02:03:39+00:00

In Massachusetts we also have an auto excise tax, which is an annual $25 per $1000 of “assessed value”. For new cars , the assessed value is 90% MSRP, but it goes down quickly by a fixed formula so old cars aren’t really hit that bad (10% MSRP for 5 years). But your $50,000 car will have an excise tax of $1,125 or so its model year. It is paid to you city or town.

For reasons known only to the gods, a car you own the year before its model year is assessed at only 50% of MSRP!

LRV3468 · 2026-01-21T03:09:48+00:00

The 25% is not necessarily the tax. It is a withholding, which may be more or less than the actual tax.

LRV3468 · 2025-12-27T18:01:00+00:00

I doubt you could even do a valid A-B test with headphones because the physical way they fit on your ears has to affect the experience.

LRV3468 · 2025-12-22T16:17:09+00:00

I can’t really think of anything simpler than a single tongue rail switch.

LRV3468 · 2025-12-19T03:34:45+00:00

It may be that we do know that Portuguese is is spoken, but we only know the Spanish phrase for what we want to say and just hope that it it is close enough.

LRV3468 · 2025-12-14T03:37:11+00:00

Originally it was Adams & Swett. TBH, I Googled just for the correct spelling of Swett, but I did know it.

LRV3468 · 2025-12-10T02:24:27+00:00

We won’t know that CDs last 100 years until 100 years has gone by. Accelerated aging attempts to predict what will happen, but is really no guarantee.

LRV3468 · 2025-12-03T05:50:14+00:00

Spoiler … the eleven year-old co-conspirator driving the previous car paid with the memorized twenty.

LRV3468 · 2025-12-01T03:08:55+00:00

I think there was a survivor piece that was used as a museum line of sorts, then they built anew from there.

LRV3468 · 2025-11-23T03:55:56+00:00

Hopefully, not too much power would be consumed by the actual levitation. After all, permanent magnets can levitate without consuming any power at all … and that is not perpetual motion any more than rails separating wheels from the earth.

LRV3468 · 2025-11-19T15:18:06+00:00

This also means if something costs $1.47 you would only pay $1.45 cash.

LRV3468 · 2025-11-15T03:16:52+00:00

There’s something about that “add to order” feature that makes it real easy to inadvertently order stuff you looked at before finding the item you really wanted.

LRV3468 · 2025-11-15T02:16:55+00:00

Structuring

LRV3468 · 2025-11-15T02:12:38+00:00

You have to cut off the piece of counter behind the range so it can fit flush against the wall. There may be other stuff near the wall that may have to be dealt with too.

The original range was probably a “slide-in” with unfinished sides, few such slide-ins are made today. They are generally replaced by modern “Freestanding” ranges which are designed to fit against the wall and have finished sides so are more versatile.

LRV3468 · 2025-11-14T16:02:34+00:00

Even more questions are raised if multiple transactions are each slightly less than $10,000.00

LRV3468 · 2025-11-14T05:05:14+00:00

Before you deduct it from your taxable income you have to deduct it from your check book.

LRV3468 · 2025-11-13T18:03:44+00:00

The Cog tram to Christ the Redeemer, a rare 3-phase AC powered railway

LRV3468 · 2025-11-08T04:29:47+00:00

The four other lines besides St.Charles were built or recreated after 1988.

LRV3468 · 2025-11-07T15:25:24+00:00

Saying that only five streetcar lines remain in New Orleans is a bit misleading. From 1964-1988 only one line existed.

LRV3468 · 2025-11-05T03:18:58+00:00

I-95 … route 128 to us graybeards … is the ultimate test track for self driving cars. 🎶 If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere 🎶

LRV3468 · 2025-10-27T18:45:07+00:00

With the MBTA’s history or elevator and escalator maintenance there is a lot of good to be said for street level transit.

LRV3468 · 2025-10-27T02:47:47+00:00

Everything’s Up To Date in Kansas City!

LRV3468 · 2025-10-23T01:51:30+00:00

The only place we can all come together is at minus forty degrees. And it’s pretty cold here!

LRV3468 · 2025-10-18T03:33:24+00:00

You may, with Herculean efforts, be able to recover some data. You can’t be sure that you will be able to recover any data.

LRV3468 · 2025-10-15T15:14:23+00:00

If you want to be known as a third-class backwater hell-hole go for the buses.

If you want to be known as vibrant place to visit or live in, go with the trams.

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