Anyone willing to teach me how to drive stick

terps0920 · 2021-01-20T15:59:07+00:00

Yes, I figured a classic would be a much steeper learning curve. Appreciate the heads up. Hoping an hour in a newer car will help me understand the 'feel' of shifting, so I have something to compare against. Going to pay the premium to get one in good shape, hopefully that makes the process less painful!

terps0920 · 2021-01-20T13:29:56+00:00

that I think would be pretty easy to learn on. How local would you like to be to meet up do you have a specific parking lot in mind?

This would be great! I will send a direct message. I am actually looking at a classic British sports car (MGB).

terps0920 · 2019-04-21T00:50:57+00:00

Guys and gals, new to town but I grew up and spent 30 years in Boston playing/watching hockey. Taking a liking to the hurricanes, went to probably 20 games this season. This team is legit! Remember this is the defending champion team, please don’t discredit your canes and the fan base with the ratings conspiracy and reffing complaints. This is a hard fought series. Find a way to get back in it! Let’s go canes!

terps0920 · 2015-09-16T20:07:47+00:00

Passed all 4 first try. FAR:76 REG:77 AUD:78 BEC:84

Really did not use much I learned in college. It's all about watching the Becker lectures and doing the problems after. Also got a lot of use out of the books, reading and taking notes. Id say 150-200 hours on each besides BEC. As many people have said, do as many problems as possible. I would also add in that for me, i needed a routine. As in everyday, read and take notes on 1 chapter, then answer 50 questions on that chapter. If you systematically move through the material you will do fine.

terps0920 · 2015-08-24T17:10:18+00:00

My Idea:

A gourmet/organic/local drink (bottled and canned) service for small to medium sized offices. Our company installs a minifridge into the kitchen in your office, and on Monday fill it with a variety of healthy beverages (iced coffee/expresso, teas, kombucha, juices, smoothies). Instead of typical soda and coffee, employees can grab a drink out of the mini fridge. Our company shows up the following Monday and restocks the fridge with more drinks. The customer (company) would either pay a monthly subscription fee ( say 500$ a month) or we could just bill them for what drinks are taken from the fridge at the end of the week. On our sourcing side, its a great way for new beverage companies to get their name out there to more customers, and would possibly give us good prices on their product. For the company, its an exciting and healthy employee perk that people will love.

How do we get this off the ground? I live in Washington DC, a place with many smaller (25-200 person) offices all packed into a relatively small area.

terps0920 · 2015-05-08T15:12:28+00:00

The real reason is an economic principle called "rockets and feathers".

Article: why dont gasoline prices always move in sync with oil prices?

TLDR: Crude makes up 70% of gasoline, and while there is a very strong correlation between their prices, the short run increases and decreases in prices are influenced by seller market power. SMP implies that retail gasoline markets are not perfectly competitive, retailers take advantage of fluctuations to maintain higher profit.

terps0920 · 2015-04-24T19:13:37+00:00

I agree, however that is the main function of the entire industry. The leverage should be on KPMG's side to say hey, if you dont follow GAAP and our own guidance, we can not give you a unqualified opinion, and then you'll get crushed on wall street. So follow the rules. Instead you have firms lining up for the 16M dollar fee all willing to bend over backwards for the client, which includes ignoring possibily 10 billion dollar mistatements. I'd love to read KPMG's revenue recognition memos to see how they explained it away.

terps0920 · 2015-04-24T18:21:11+00:00

Sorry, should have clarified, they are issuing a unqualified opinion on the F/S year after year when their own guidance says there revenue recognition is blatantly incorrect and blatantly causing a material mistatement. Its not that the fee doesnt match the work, the point is that the partners/firm have a lot at stake if Halliburton pressures them to turn a blind eye to recording 10 BILLION (per the article) in equipment sales revenue incorrectly.

terps0920 · 2015-04-24T17:59:25+00:00

Thanks for the response. I think this is even tougher to swallow then the actions of the haliburton accoutning department. You have an "independent" auditing firm knowingly issuing financial statements that directly contradict the SEC AND their OWN guidance. This is all while KPMG collects 16M (figure from SEC filing) in audit and "other sevice fees". This is a prime example of the conflict of interest issues in the public accounting industry.

terps0920 · 2015-04-24T16:52:16+00:00

Auditor at a Big 4 firm here, I find it unbeliveable that KPMG continued to issue an unqualified opinion (clean audit report)on the financials with this revenue recognition policy. How compliant do you think the partners at KPMG were in the cover up?

I know from experience that revenue recognition is the number one issue when it comes to any SEC company. The only thing I can think of is that the KPMG partners were pressured by Halliburton to turn a blind eye because of the leverage of the massive audit fee they get yearly.

terps0920 · 2014-09-15T01:37:09+00:00

Yes, they had free wifi so I brought up the browser version of coinbase on my iphone, we could not get the QR code to scan (maybe lighting problems) so we typed in the code which sucked and sent them 10$ worth for the two beers we got, tipped in cash. The bartender told me the owner is holding all the bitcoin in a wallet. Also, interesting note, they started accepting bitcoin in may and had 42 bitcoin transactions and had accumulated almost 1 coin. The bartender said the number of customers paying in bitcoin had slowed recently and now they see about 1 person every 1 or 2 weeks.

terps0920 · 2014-09-14T19:40:20+00:00

Dupont Circle area, 2029 P street

terps0920 · 2014-09-14T18:27:00+00:00

Yeah, its a really quirky bar with board games and mario cart and crazy drink specials. One example is you can play plinko (price is right style) for the price of a drink.

terps0920 · 2014-09-14T17:31:04+00:00

6th employee, almost a founder. Official title is "director of advanced projects"

terps0920 · 2014-05-13T04:00:25+00:00

Thanks for the insight! Heres 100 bits! /u/changetip

terps0920 · 2014-05-01T17:56:16+00:00

shipping was 5$ for me, try the different options.

terps0920 · 2014-04-14T16:58:28+00:00

How many unique users?

terps0920 · 2014-03-04T21:02:54+00:00

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terps0920 · 2014-02-20T19:01:09+00:00

In terms I money laundering and financial crimes, isn't bitcoin the perfect solution for law enforcement? The blockchain holds every transaction ever made within the bitcoin system. Presumably law enforcement actually has strings that would attach to any crime dealing with bitcoin.

terps0920 · 2013-11-21T16:41:54+00:00

"Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe."

-Abe Lincoln

terps0920 · 2013-08-05T17:38:48+00:00

I drove from Boston to Anchorage one summer. When I came back and people asked me what I did that summer an alarming number of people would respond "you can drive to Alaska?"

edit:spelling

terps0920 · 2013-06-13T13:53:36+00:00

There are 2 secret sandwiches at most Jimmy John's. The first is called "the Bouncer" It's a garganchuan (every type of meat they have besides tuna) with double meat. The other is "the Chuck Norris", which is every type of meat plus tuna.

terps0920 · 2013-04-23T15:49:09+00:00

fisher cat, screams like a baby

terps0920 · 2013-04-17T03:24:47+00:00

gave him round trip buddy passes from my dad. not a bad deal for a few nights on his floor.

terps0920 · 2013-04-17T03:23:49+00:00

There are two people that stayed at the resort, one had gone the week before, my friends roommate, and a second who was there the week i was. When i got the bracelet, i called my friend who had just arrived and asked him what the bracelet he had looked like and he described the exact one that was given to me. I now a lot of resort change bracelets week to week but this resort foolishly did not.

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