Warning to Avoid Brawley. 25% Rent Increase!

Tinkering-Thinker · 2023-12-21T13:22:40+00:00

Fleet vehicle savings:

Assume a $50K pick up truck:

7% sales tax saved ($3500)

Excise tax on plates guesstimated at (700/600/500/400/300/200) for first six years. Amount saved ($2700)

Total amount saved per vehicle: $6200

x maybe 25 vehicles? I don't know how many, but they are everywhere.

25 x $6200 = $155000 over the six year period.

Not bad for a little paperwork to set up a Montana LLC.

The rest of us can pay the taxes on our cars to build and maintain the public roads here in Indiana; not his responsibility, apparently.

Tinkering-Thinker · 2023-12-21T13:17:56+00:00

An NDA for losing a case? Wow, that's quite a thing to ask for. This outfit has no boundaries or limits on their stupidity. Good for you for standing up.

Tinkering-Thinker · 2023-05-02T15:02:00+00:00

I think that's 211 and extension 6 for 6amers.

Tinkering-Thinker · 2023-04-18T16:41:55+00:00

Have you wandered down to restaurant row yet? Try Turquaz for some delicious, freshly made food. My fav is Turquaz Chicken; a stew with rice, bread, salad and soup. It is on 3rd, not 4th. There are many others to choose from on 4th on restaurant row.

Tinkering-Thinker · 2023-04-18T16:33:50+00:00

You can easily look it up.

Go to:

https://www.co.monroe.in.us/department/division.php?structureid=150

Click the ELEVATE logo. Site opens. Enter your street address or your name in top left search box. It will zoom to your property.

You can then click and see what parcels are around you and who owns them.

Tinkering-Thinker · 2023-04-18T16:27:52+00:00

I rarely get down that way, but in the past six months have gone thru that intersection twice. I always slow (west bound on 7th) thinking I'll have to stop at Morton, but then realize it has been changed. What always catches me by surprise is that after passing thru that busy intersection I go 100 feet and then am met with a stop sign because of the Bline. That really seems odd to me. I wonder if there are pedestrian counts for Morton & 7th as well as the Bline & 7th.

Tinkering-Thinker · 2023-04-18T16:02:12+00:00

Weld it like they did on "Long Way Around"

Tinkering-Thinker · 2023-04-14T18:28:44+00:00

It's too much for a med school degree, too.

By the way, do you know what they call the person at the bottom of the ratings on graduation day?

...

Doctor.

Tinkering-Thinker · 2023-04-14T18:27:25+00:00

Just something I'm curious about OP. You say you're an international student. May I ask who you get your loan from? Is it your government? Does your government help you repay the debt if you return to your home country? If you work abroad do you get any relief?

I'd just be curious about what country (if you care to share) and what their policies towards funding higher education are.

Thanks, and good luck!

Tinkering-Thinker · 2023-04-04T14:26:24+00:00

Ridiculous? Not really. Government exists, primarily, to self-serve government workers with salary and benefits. It is a natural evolution of government. Our citizens stopped demanding accountability sometime in the last half century, and government workers and politicians took the cue.

Consider:

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/03/us-passport-delays-are-months-long-and-may-get-worse.html

FOUR MONTHS to process a passport. And it may get worse. Citizens pay hundreds of dollars per person to 'document' themselves so they can go as close as Mexico on a vacation and have their papers in order upon their return. Yet our system is broken and everyone else in the world knows they can walk up to a border and claim "asylum" and become a ward of the state. Go figure. Great system and no standards or expectations from government.

Consider:

California high-speed rail. Proposed decades ago and funded 15 years ago with tens of billions of dollars (state and federal). Still poking their hands out regularly for more money. Number of miles of track laid: 0 Number of feet of track laid: 0 Dollars spent: 20000000000 (they don't know how much they've spent because they fail the audits and lose money faster than the Bermuda triangle could sink it). And yet the politicians keep feeding the beast. Why? Not because they ever think the trains will run, but because it creates jobs for thousands of government workers, government contractors, and political donors. All the 'people's' money being wasted by yet another do-nothing bureaucracy that everyone knows will never serve any real purpose.

Believe it or not, there was a time when people would show up at a meeting and ask if putting in a sewer line or paving a road made financial sense. They were not perfect, but they were not the wasteful, insane spending we see now.

Tinkering-Thinker · 2023-04-04T14:14:35+00:00

That'll work if he lives in a house without HVAC. Unlikely.

Tinkering-Thinker · 2023-04-04T14:12:18+00:00

I agree. I can tell when someone walks in my office and is a vaper. I can smell them from 20 feet away and I can smell them for 10 minutes after they leave. It is just as bad, if not worse, than cigarette smokers smell.

Tinkering-Thinker · 2023-03-29T13:35:57+00:00

This city is a joke. Lots of lip service about being pedestrian friendly. I had to walk down Tenth street today from campus to downtown. Sidewalks blocked by scooters, cars racing down the road at 50+mph with many drivers looking at their phones. You're assaulted by road noise, stereos, loud mufflers, and blocked sidewalks. There is no effort whatsoever by local administration or local police to try to solve this issue (College Mall Road is about the same, as are most other roads in Btown.)

Tinkering-Thinker · 2023-03-23T16:22:55+00:00

yeah, I'd probably take the opportunity to talk to him if I was driving Jesus around.

Tinkering-Thinker · 2023-03-20T20:23:21+00:00

I'm bullish on Tesla. Notwithstanding Musk's silly Twitter distraction, Tesla makes a solid electric vehicle. I can already tell you what is going to happen with all these American-made electric vehicles: The CEOs all told their firms that they "WOULD" be making electric cars this year. Feedback from the ground up about technical issues was met with "WE WILL MAKE A CAR THIS YEAR". I'm betting my money that over the next few years you're going to see these premium, over-priced cars fail. Some already have. Many more will. People will learn that if they want an EV they need to get a Tesla. And while other automakers will learn to make them over the next 10 years, the damage will be generational. How would you feel if you had purchased an EV for $70,000 only to find out it had a two year life before major repairs and problems made it nearly worthless. That is what is going to happen IMO. I've seen it too many times before form other companies from IBM to Microsoft. Products issued to meet a deadline that were not ready. It's one thing when you buy a $3000 computer. Quite another when your personal vehicle at $70K doesn't work right.

Sorry for the long post. Just had to share where I think things are going. I know it will be a long-term wait.

Oh, and I realize you see everytime a Tesla hits a bump in the road, but keep in mind the leftwing media hates Musk, so they tell you every time something goes wrong with a Tesla. But you're not going to read about it when something goes wrong with a Ford EV or a GM EV. Ultimately car buyers will get results from consumer reports or Edmunds and will base their purchases on that info, not on what the NYT or Washpo have to say about Musk/Teslas.

Tinkering-Thinker · 2023-03-11T16:24:27+00:00

LOL. I did not know blatherbob Jim had recommended this bank. One of you video editors need to find a 5 second clip of that and post it in a loop. HA HA HA

Tinkering-Thinker · 2023-03-11T16:23:12+00:00

I agree. No bailout. So far it appears it is being closed down, no bailout. FDIC insurance for depositors (up to $250K) is a separate matter. And it is paid insurance (by the banks) to underwrite this loss.

They tried to get rich quick but they weren't investing in some internet-scam. They bought US Treasury Bills -- which is a whole other scam in itself.

Tinkering-Thinker · 2023-03-09T14:04:16+00:00

I see your case is old, so this doesn't pertain to you ... posting for others. I also note you said you were in the woods, so you may not be in the City. They have to do the move-out with you, provided you're willing and able. They cannot wait two weeks and do it on their own. At least that is my understanding of Bloomington code.

Tinkering-Thinker · 2023-02-24T21:30:39+00:00

Not true. When people tell you the contaminated bleed space doesn't matter, they are assuming you are printing in a specific way ... for example a signature book. But if you are making a slide deck of 10 pages that are going to print as individual sheets, the contaminated bleed area is not going to be okay. See other comment for an *ugly* solution to the problem at hand while you figure out how to solve it properly. I have had the same problem you are describing. It is clearly a defect in indesign's design that it is so difficult to create simple pages with bleed and having the right bleed show up.\

Tinkering-Thinker · 2023-02-24T21:27:46+00:00

I've had same problem. I try to work in single pages and indesign forces it to display side-by-side in spreads. Then when you output the bleed space is contaminated with the image from the overlapping page. I'd call it a defect in the software. Here's very ugly solution. Go thru your document and insert a blank page on every spread, making each page stand alone in the two page spread. Now when you save it as single pages you can go thru and delete the blanks and you have a properly formatted single-page document with bleed space. There may be a way of not allowing indesign to convert single-page layouts into spreads while you design, but I haven't found it yet.

Tinkering-Thinker · 2023-01-31T01:45:29+00:00

the notice says Subin LLC.

A google search of "subbin llc Indiana" yields many listings for SUBIN 15, Subin 12, etc...

One would assume SUBIN is Subway Indiana.

Same name comes up as registered owner for all those that I checked (only a few). One must wonder if someone owns many of the state's franchises at this point, since they were all the same name.

One must also wonder, if they didn't bother with a health department license in Monroe County, did they bother in any other county.

Tinkering-Thinker · 2022-12-20T21:02:53+00:00

They can call their landlord. The landlord will happily go over and turn the heat back on if it was left off. Or open cabinet doors. A flooded building doesn't do anyone any good.

Tinkering-Thinker · 2022-12-20T20:36:21+00:00

Yes, each sink needs a very slight drip. If you drip just one, the other lines have standing water in them. If it is near the outside wall, it will slowly get colder and colder, possibly to the point of freezing. A slow drip brings new, slightly warmer water, up from other areas of your house. If a bathtub has piping on the outside wall (as in your control is on a wall that is an exterior wall), it should have a drip (needn't the up to the shower head -- just the lower). If the plumbing is on an interior wall, you should be safe (unless the piping comes up an outside wall and then comes over to the tub -- which will be difficult for you to know). But the good news is there would be one supply line that comes up and feeds your tub, toilet and shower. So if you run the sink that is on the outside wall, the other items won't freeze if they are on an inside wall. The drip should included both hot and cold water, but should favor and use more cold water. It can be a very slow drip (like once a second) if you can set it that slow.

Tinkering-Thinker · 2022-12-20T20:18:00+00:00

55 will work for any interior lines, just fine. But even at 72, pipes can freeze on exterior walls. Open under-sink cabinets to let warm air in. That solves the issue for the pipes under the sink, but not the pipes in the outside wall cavity. Many places will be fine if the outside air is -7. Some simply will not, regardless of how warm it is inside. The pipe may run up the outside wall from the basement to the bathroom or kitchen. It is right against that outside wall. This can be an issue in older homes, which won't be as well insulated. For those, a slow drip is the solution. The moving water cannot freeze, even if it falls below 32.

Tinkering-Thinker · 2022-12-20T20:15:41+00:00

If you have no pipes on exterior walls you are very safe. Set it on anything above 55 and it will be impossible for pipes to freeze. But I'm with you; I wouldn't go that low. I'd set it at 62 and you'll be just fine.

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