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On 9/19/2017 7:36 AM, Joerg wrote:
snip Not lawless but police often won't do a thing about property crime. We pay a ton of taxes but too much goes towards fat pensions and we get little in return for it. Last Saturday my daughter called me and was asking whether car insurance covers broken windows. Well it wasn't her car, it was her clueless roommate who, despite being told not to leave ANYTHING in her car, went ahead and left stuff in her car. They stole her bicycle and her clothes but for some reason left her Macbook. Thieves will break a window to get two quarters, you leave NOTHING in your car around here. My former colleague had her old car broken into and they stole the owner's manual. My daughter said "well she thought because the house is in a good neighborhood it would be safe." But of course the thieves don't target bad neighborhoods where there is nothing to steal, of course they target "good neighborhoods." The police in big cities are so busy with homicides and other felonies that they are obviously not going to investigate the theft of a bicycle light or other part or accessory of a bicycle. We probably don't want to pay more taxes to hire more police and build more prisons, at $75K per year per inmate (not including construction costs), to lock up thieves that steal a bicycle bell, while letting white-collar criminals off scot-free. My neighbor was a cop for 25 years. He said that getting police to do anything about property crime is very difficult. If your car is stolen, and you have a LojackⓇ, even getting the police to go to where the car is is damn near impossible. That may be why the insurance discount is minuscule. I installed a "poor man's LojackⓇ" in my daughter's new car. It can be tracked by her (or me), and it was only $100, and has no monthly fees. But with an insurance discount of only $7 every six months, it would take 8 years to break even. Don't insult cops because they get a good pension. It's very hard to recruit cops, and the pension is the big attraction because the salaries are not great, and it's a risky profession. San Jose tried cutting their police pensions and it resulted in a huge exodus of cops to other cities, even though San Jose had higher police salaries. Bad move since the acquisition and training costs of new cops is high. |
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Front bike rack on buses, heavy bikes
On 9/19/2017 8:20 AM, Jeff Liebermann wrote:
On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 07:04:51 -0700 (PDT), jbeattie wrote: I hope The Donald does trim the tax code, but I'm certain that as one solidly in the dwindling middle-class, I'd get slaughtered. I didn't vote for him, but it looks like all of his tax proposals would totally sodomize his base. -- Jay Beattie. It wouldn't be terribly difficult. snip The Republicans' proposal to eliminate the deductions for state and local income taxes, mortgage interest, and property taxes, would be very bad for the middle class. Any small cut in federal income tax would be more than offset by a higher taxable income. As usual with Republican proposals, the middle class will end up financing tax cuts for the upper class. http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/09/18/republican-tax-cut-eliminate-mortgage-deduction/ |
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On 9/19/2017 7:55 AM, AMuzi wrote:
snip exactly: http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...529-story.html The most important issue right now is whether or not "footlong" means 12", or if it's just a marketing phrase that has no actual relation to the length of a sandwich. Normally I'd go with the latter, since Subway never claimed that their "footlong" was 12" long. But they do advertise 6 inch subs, which should be 6 inches long, yet they are made with half of a footlong bun which is not 12" long. Jay needs to weigh in on this. Also the photos of the sandwiches don't look anything like what you end up getting. This is important to me because I eat at Subway once each year, and it will be tomorrow at Interbike. The only reasonably priced food near the show is from Subway and McDonald's, across Las Vegas Boulevard. |
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On 2017-09-19 08:27, sms wrote:
On 9/19/2017 7:36 AM, Joerg wrote: snip Not lawless but police often won't do a thing about property crime. We pay a ton of taxes but too much goes towards fat pensions and we get little in return for it. Last Saturday my daughter called me and was asking whether car insurance covers broken windows. Well it wasn't her car, it was her clueless roommate who, despite being told not to leave ANYTHING in her car, went ahead and left stuff in her car. They stole her bicycle and her clothes but for some reason left her Macbook. Thieves will break a window to get two quarters, you leave NOTHING in your car around here. My former colleague had her old car broken into and they stole the owner's manual. My daughter said "well she thought because the house is in a good neighborhood it would be safe." But of course the thieves don't target bad neighborhoods where there is nothing to steal, of course they target "good neighborhoods." That's what our parents taught is before we even went to school. Leave nothing in plain sight in the car, absolutely nothing. The police in big cities are so busy with homicides and other felonies that they are obviously not going to investigate the theft of a bicycle light or other part or accessory of a bicycle. We probably don't want to pay more taxes to hire more police and build more prisons, at $75K per year per inmate (not including construction costs), to lock up thieves that steal a bicycle bell, while letting white-collar criminals off scot-free. Unfortunately thieves know that and act accordingly :-( My neighbor was a cop for 25 years. He said that getting police to do anything about property crime is very difficult. If your car is stolen, and you have a LojackⓇ, even getting the police to go to where the car is is damn near impossible. That may be why the insurance discount is minuscule. I installed a "poor man's LojackⓇ" in my daughter's new car. It can be tracked by her (or me), and it was only $100, and has no monthly fees. ... You'd also need a gun, for when you find the car. ... But with an insurance discount of only $7 every six months, it would take 8 years to break even. Don't insult cops because they get a good pension. It's very hard to recruit cops, and the pension is the big attraction because the salaries are not great, and it's a risky profession. San Jose tried cutting their police pensions and it resulted in a huge exodus of cops to other cities, even though San Jose had higher police salaries. Bad move since the acquisition and training costs of new cops is high. I didn't mean police pensions so much but this kind: http://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/201...300k-pensions/ http://californiapolicycenter.org/av...urity-payouts/ Combined with a much earlier retirement age. Is it any wonder that we have high tax load yet poor police performance, poor school performance, dilapidated roads et cetera? -- Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/ |
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The topper in the next street was a guy with a fairly old BMW motorcycle. One morning he came down ... both Bing carburetors gone. The guy who stole them must have been a BMW lover because he draped something over the intakes so rain would not enter the cylinders. Maybe he's planning on coming back for them |
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On Tuesday, September 19, 2017 at 8:41:52 AM UTC-7, sms wrote:
On 9/19/2017 8:20 AM, Jeff Liebermann wrote: On Tue, 19 Sep 2017 07:04:51 -0700 (PDT), jbeattie wrote: I hope The Donald does trim the tax code, but I'm certain that as one solidly in the dwindling middle-class, I'd get slaughtered. I didn't vote for him, but it looks like all of his tax proposals would totally sodomize his base. -- Jay Beattie. It wouldn't be terribly difficult. snip The Republicans' proposal to eliminate the deductions for state and local income taxes, mortgage interest, and property taxes, would be very bad for the middle class. Any small cut in federal income tax would be more than offset by a higher taxable income. As usual with Republican proposals, the middle class will end up financing tax cuts for the upper class. http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2017/09/18/republican-tax-cut-eliminate-mortgage-deduction/ At least Trump targeted the carried interest rules -- apparently because he hates hedge fund managers. You have to get on his hate list to have your taxes increased. I guess he hates his believers. He's kind of like the Old Testament God -- but orange. -- Jay Beattie. |
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