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$500 deposit on tuition for the fall.

I was going to buy the first season of game of thrones on DVD to convert my friends and family but Amazon wants $40 for one. Call me a Poseidon but that is too much for a DVD. I would pay $20.

Steve-0 wrote:

bugz wrote:

$500 deposit on tuition for the fall.

heh, i'm going to commit three large. i just passed the last class of my junior year, and have 26 hours to get my degree. not bad for five years of JC over thirty years of off and on schooling, interrupted by various addictions, real life, and the need for an income. my parents said i'd amount to nothing but i did make captain in bf2 . . .

I've got 345 hours of classes in my first semester from September until the end of December. Sleep is going to be optional...

Good purchase Daniel-san

Those leasing places often fuck up people's roofs. As long as they get the money makers there they don't care.

What's the benefit of leasing vs. owning?  You're paying monthly for them, but you don't have to pay to install/take down?  But then you don't get any available tax credits from state/federal for them since you don't own them, right?  What happens when you are a net contributor to the power grid? Does the power company pay you or do any credits go back to the leasing company?

sorry it wasn't a rembrandt uzi.  i hope you accept my apology.

do you buy Japanese kitsch and chinoiserie to impress all the Asian chicks you hit on in accounts?

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

What's the benefit of leasing vs. owning?  You're paying monthly for them, but you don't have to pay to install/take down?  But then you don't get any available tax credits from state/federal for them since you don't own them, right?  What happens when you are a net contributor to the power grid? Does the power company pay you or do any credits go back to the leasing company?

By leasing I don't pay anything up front and they are responsible for all maintenance and insurance on the system. If a panel blows off my roof and lands on my car, they're paying for all the damage. They also monitor the system and send out repair teams if anything goes bad. Basically, I get a lower rate than I would pay my local utility, like $30-40 a month, and I get a fixed rate of increase. Every year, my bill will go up by 1.9% per month. With my local utility, it could be anything from 3% to 25% they ask for, so it gives some stability (and savings).

They keep the federal subsidy. I keep the state tax rebate ($6k in NY).

They will only size a system to match your usage over the past 12 months. You can't put up any more than that. Anything you generate beyond your needs you can sell back to the utility company at the end of the year for like a nickel per kilowatt. Considering they charge you 18 cents per kilowatt when you receive it, it's a ripoff, but still free money. If your utility allows net metering, you basically send all your power you're not using to a "bank account" with them so you can generate all day at work and then consume when you get home and it's dark out. It takes the place of having a battery bank in your house. All credits you generate are your own to keep.

My system is costing me $22,000 over 20 years via the lease, but I'm getting back about $15,000 in savings and tax credits versus the do-nothing.

Jay wrote:

uziq wrote:

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

i guess there's no accounting for taste in the states

It's from Karate Kid

I'm just kicking myself that I didn't get the feedback of the resident bf2s art critic before i made the purchase.

For what it's worth, it's hanging in my living room/dining area, which are also occupied by a Radiohead "Hail to the Thief" painting, a Rumpleminz mirror that says "don't worry, by 2am she'll be beautiful" and a Michael Jackson painting I picked up at the thrift store for $17 (haggled down from $25).  My taste is fucking impeccable.

KEN-JENNINGS wrote:

Jay wrote:

uziq wrote:

i guess there's no accounting for taste in the states

It's from Karate Kid

I'm just kicking myself that I didn't get the feedback of the resident bf2s art critic before i made the purchase.

For what it's worth, it's hanging in my living room/dining area, which are also occupied by a Radiohead "Hail to the Thief" painting, a Rumpleminz mirror that says "don't worry, by 2am she'll be beautiful" and a Michael Jackson painting I picked up at the thrift store for $17 (haggled down from $25).  My taste is fucking impeccable.

Rumpleminz is the fucking devil.

I like it, Ken. I would take a picture of myself and have it in the background for a match.com profile.

There are other much more trashy ways to decorate your living room.

SuperJail Warden wrote:

Anyone ever buy something esty? They have a lot of cool stuff on there.

inb4 tucker

i went to a national park and they didn't charge me. don't the republicants believe that citizens will pay to see the best of America? do they not know that we will pick up the tab of my impact? i grew up thinking republicants were about responsibility. Long live Lincoln and Reagan.

fuck you short-sighted supporters of the likes of, well, any republicant candidate now declared . . .