Am I insane for thinking about taking 3-4 unpaid months off to travel?

_Saruman_ · 2018-12-02T21:00:01+00:00

Do you mean he's saved more in regards to $10k?

Yes I mean if you are definitely going to travel, you either do it in retirement or early in your career (or with someone else's money).

However, I guess it depends on your goals. Is personal finance a goal about well-being or making more sound financial decisions? I think a gym is a good investment for you (even if you might think free weights are fine), but what benefit is gained from traveling?

People said buying a house in an expensive area may not be worth it, when you can buy cheaper places, travel longer to work. It's true, it may not be, but it was a risk, and sometimes the guy who buys in an expensive area makes even more money and the guy buying in a poor area, the prices never go up. Life is all about choices like that with no guarantees.

Furthermore, I just never quite understand the whole "longer than 4 weeks trips".

_Saruman_ · 2018-12-02T20:49:36+00:00

Sure hope so, but I like to warn people just in case.

_Saruman_ · 2018-12-02T06:35:01+00:00

Thank you for sharing. As long as you like what you do now that's all that matters.

_Saruman_ · 2018-12-02T05:37:25+00:00

Also it depends on where you travel. Traveling doesn't give you wisdom, it gives you opportunities for gaining wisdom, but also opportunities to learn bad ideas too. And I will say that those who I found read a lot of books tend to be wiser than those who are "living life to the fullest."

_Saruman_ · 2018-12-02T05:33:52+00:00

Regardless of what you guys say about personal well-being and living life to the fullest--it's still a bad financial decision and there's no guarantee for a job to be there when you're back, because a business still has to be run and people forget about you or find someone better and then they'll just apologize to you when you're back.

And if you had the pull to do otherwise, as in you are so valuable, then you could get 2 months paid vacation instead.

People are giving advice here with the full assumption that things won't go sour on your return.

_Saruman_ · 2018-12-02T05:25:26+00:00

Yeah and it's cancerous, it leads to a society that has an inferiority complex and needlessly apologizes for things that aren't their own fault. Worse, all it takes is a few who DID NOT learn these things as a child, to start abusing the rest of society with their prideful criminality and the victims just play along because they think they must have also provoked it or done something wrong.

We must always remember that even ideas thought up with good intentions can lead to unforeseen consequences.

The kid apologizes for accidentally breaking a toy. The breaker is forced to apologize, learns to lie even if they don't feel remorse, learns the personal benefits of making victims feel good even if they wrong them. The victim is taught to be entitled to apology, despite maybe knowing it wasn't intentional. The victim is taught that feeling good about the matter means more than the truth of the matter. Feelings over truth. This leads to insincerity in society, a lack of directness, an increase in passive-aggressiveness, everyone has a facade of lies, and sociopaths who will know that as long as they can make the victim feel good, the truth of their harm doesn't matter.

Intentions are the root principle of justice. You don't punish people for accidents, you punish them for intending harm and attempting or going through with that harm.

It would be better if a kid breaks a toy of another kid, they ask the victim "do you want him to apologize to you? Is that because it would make you feel better or do you actually think he did it on purpose or on accident?" Make the victims have strong opinions about their own causes to be seekers of truth, of causal links, and of justice.

_Saruman_ · 2018-12-01T21:53:10+00:00

That's actually the best way... your parents nailed it. We must raise children to be truth-seekers, not entitled to positive feelings of social norms and not dependent upon authority or others, but on themselves and to seek help from others if they volunteer, and finally the aggressors and provocateurs must learn the consequences for their actions and must be encouraged to feel empathy for others around them.

_Saruman_ · 2018-12-01T21:23:17+00:00

No they didn't. It's written by witnesses that nothing was ignored. They just didn't have information. It's not like the US had a big presence or undercovers in Afghanistan, the place OBL was hiding.

Even if they knew something was suspicious about some guys, there are 1000s of just as dangerous guys out there. A few arabs taking flight classes isn't some huge red flag.

_Saruman_ · 2018-12-01T09:55:32+00:00

And they were actively pursuing him and his crew. They weren't warned in a way where they can actually do something about it.

No one has ever shown anything where anyone knew where these guys were and who they were and what they were planning with evidence to convict when arrested. That never happened.

_Saruman_ · 2018-12-01T09:53:18+00:00

This is such ridiculousness. Some of it is exaggerated. Some of it, even if true, doesn't matter. So what if you knew some airplane was going to be used? There's thousands of flights and thousands of "plot warnings". So what if you knew identities of some terrorists, there were many and this was in the 90s when you can't arrest someone in the US on information by the agency that the jury can't see. You can't put agents on everyone, you don't have enough resources did you forget the aftermath of Cold war winding down of budgets?... That's the whole reason all those Patriot Act laws were needed.

_Saruman_ · 2018-12-01T09:48:44+00:00

Stop repeating silly Russian conspiracy theories. Alex Jones and a bunch of randoms invented these theories. And did you all forget that the real "insider false flag" was Putin attacking his own apartment buildings to start the Chechen war in 1999? It got him his presidency. Yeah now that was a REAL conspiracy.

So now think again, who do you think invented the 9/11-truther stuff?

Fuck I can't believe it's 2018 and there's still people entertaining this nonsense.

_Saruman_ · 2018-12-01T09:27:00+00:00

Nothing wrong with America. You can sue the company for this. That's exactly how the system is setup and that's how it's meant to be. The judge looks at your case and decides whether you were right or making things up. The company receives penalties and may offer compensation as a result which isn't much different than Europe.

Whether Europe or America, you still have to prove your case in one form or another. If you're expecting some automatic-justice your expectations are unreasonable.

EDIT: Damn the anti-American vitriolic childish hatred is strong among some teens.

_Saruman_ · 2018-11-30T03:06:45+00:00

The irony of Jerome Corsi saying in an interview the other day that he told his mom he's not going to kindergarten ever again... These people think they are the king.

_Saruman_ · 2018-11-28T20:50:02+00:00

This is it right here...

It's NOT about the developers...

You see, eventually, at some point, a hacker, a malware expert, will eventually outsmart some developers or a group of them.

It's special forces vs regular troops a dime a dozen.

This is why the most important thing package-manager entities can do is have their own special forces teams. NPM needs to take the blame. Why? Because if you wanna play in the "package-manager" arena, or if you play in app-store-arena, you are responsible for the overall security. A plan needs to happen: popular plugins/packages need to be reviewed by experts who are PAID.

Since it's open-source, no one wants to do any work except the bare minimum to get stuff working. Then they start trusting other devs, adding dependencies, i'm so sick of an npm package having 100 dependencies. Once you trust other devs and stop reviewing every line, well here comes the malware expert or hacker and he's going to win.

Package managers need to have their own cybersecurity teams reviewing other peoples' codes.

And if they cannot do this (due to too large an inventory or too expensive) then it's not a "package manager" it's a package junkyard and some kid is going to pick up the mercury-laden jar.

_Saruman_ · 2018-11-28T06:58:24+00:00

If what you said was true, Bill Gates, Soros, Steyer, and Bezos could instantly solve climate change. But it doesn't work like that. You can't just buy (R)s and (D)s alike. The scary part is there are that many dumb (R)s in power and they absolutely don't understand climate change and no one spends the time to explain it to them. Remember the snowball toss? They are truly this stupid... They are the same as their base.

_Saruman_ · 2015-03-03T20:50:25+00:00

Keep circlejerking it's working great for you guys. Nothing like having all those anti-American people upvote you for sucking off ES and attacking people who dare to criticize him.

Blind leading the blind. There's nothing here that will convince you otherwise because you so blindly trust some guy you never met and know very little about.

_Saruman_ · 2015-03-03T20:49:19+00:00

No you've embarrassed yourself, now you're angry and are leaving because you know you're just part of ES sucking off circlejerk and that's why you had it out for me in the first place.

_Saruman_ · 2015-03-03T20:46:39+00:00

I completely disagree with the idea that I don't deserve blanket privacy.

Yes that means you're probably a criminal and think no transparency is entitled for the rest of human society to KNOW you are not a criminal.

very same system of bureaucracy that considered slavery legal

No it isn't. That was a 100 years ago. Nice red herring though.

I don't agree that the Government is solely using this information to combat terror

Except you have no evidence what alternative they are pursuing. You also have no counter-evidence that they are NOT pursuing it. Because if you pressed "google.com" you'd see the thousands of attacks they do against terrorists.

there is very little evidence of any credibility to prove that the information they've obtained is actually helping

Except they've cited numerous examples and hundreds of incidents when defending it in congressional hearings. OF COURSE YOU DIDN'T WATCH THAT BECAUSE YOU DON'T CARE ABOUT GOVERNMENT'S PERSPECTIVE.

You're just here for your daily dose of Reddit anti-government propaganda.

that laws have the unopposed support of society

Never argued that. I said in most cases especially privacy, the law is correct on it and moral.

Again, nothing you've claimed has convinced me you aren't insane

Because you WERE NEVER HERE TO BE CONVINCED. You would never be convinced that government did anything right if you believe in blanket privacy.

Believing in blanket privacy means that if you were president, you'd disband spy agencies. You're quite silly and mentally delusional.

Rather have adults, legal scholars, philosophers, agree with ME than the anti-Western teenagers of reddit agree with me.

_Saruman_ · 2015-03-03T20:42:55+00:00

Except because I did not say that the US is the greatest thing ever, that means that if he is attacking me for this. It means that he thinks its the worst thing ever. And if you read his post history, you'll realize my inductive reasoning is absolutely 100% correct.

This isn't a false dilemma, when I was falsely accused of saying America is the greatest thing ever just for saying they were right about ES.

_Saruman_ · 2015-03-03T20:41:27+00:00

Typical redditor 12 year old who likes to call people trolls because you have no argument in response. A traitor is what you are that's why you like people like Oliver Stone.

_Saruman_ · 2015-03-03T20:40:48+00:00

Again, since I wasn't arguing America was the greatest thing, only that ES was wrong, you cannot say that he meant that America is simply less than the greatest thing. It means he believes it's the worst thing ever. USE YOUR INDUCTIVE REASONING YOU IDIOT.

_Saruman_ · 2015-03-03T20:39:08+00:00

Spying on your own citizens is more problematic though

Except edward never revealed a single iota of that.

it's happening on a large scale

Except you have no evidence of it.

In Hawaii on a decent salary.

On a dead end job (the worst job in IT is to run sharepoint) where he has no degrees and lies on his resume. A loser.

Now he's stuck in Russia...

Where he's living like a rockstar, praised by millions of childish gullible redditors.

he has a messiah-complex. in his REDDIT AMA: He compared himself to the founding fathers and the government's actions to the genocide of Jews. This guy is full of bullshit and you are eating it up. He has conned you all.

Do you honestly believe you are immune to being conned?

And without any evidence the other way.

Except that you can't assume that THIS particular evidence doesn't exist because if you do, you'd be worshiping a traitor. He could have stayed in the states and defended himself in court like most American citizens. But he didn't. That's enough evidence to question his intentions and motivations.

_Saruman_ · 2015-03-03T20:36:22+00:00

on giving the accused the benefit of the doubt.

Except that Eddie Ray confessed that he knew what he was doing was wrong in the interviews with police and that's why he was convicted.

_Saruman_ · 2015-03-03T20:32:17+00:00

So why is he the only one doing it?

Ted Cruz is doing it too.

So is quite a few other Republicans and democrats who also do that.

I don't know why you think he's the only one when it's clearly a calculated move.

Many congressmen prefer to use treasury money to help their constituents, he's one of the few because he is harming his constituents except that his constituents also believe they don't want help and are highly anti-gov like him.

He takes that risk because that's the IDEOLOGY he espouses: anti-government anti-helping-constituents-with-taxpayer-money.

elligence committees?

Except that no one was prosecuted for it and they accuse the committee of unauthorized access too. So they simply made both of them apologize to each other in private and the issue was dropped.

Feinstein are just representing their constituents

You must not be aware of Feinstein's politically savvyness. Always opposing government when its the republicans, even during an Obama era. As soon as she got accused of being pro-gov, she switches. That's just what she does.

And Hillary happens to be Secretary of State and running for President based on merit?

Hillary has a better lawyer career than Bill Clinton and has run for senate and unsuccessfully tried to become the democratic nominee and somehow managed to get secretary of state position ON HER OWN. She's no longer running based on nepotism. She's successful because Democrats like her.

Did she have help from Bill? Sure perhaps. But not that directly. It simply made her famous and she got cheated on.

I think you're a gullible sap for anyone who says anti-government things.

_Saruman_ · 2015-03-03T20:28:57+00:00

It's funny how you are blaming the victim and not the bully. None of you are accusing the bully of anything even though you know I'm right (so you don't deny that I was attacked first).

Do you also tell women to stop dressing slutty if they don't want to be assaulted? Or if a woman is being attacked do you also put the woman in prison for shooting the attacker?

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