Nitrousbird

I agree. I am moving within walking distance of Wease. Now I have butt rape and someone staring in my window to fear.........

I texted it to you, but my nap time caused a delay.

Doesn't surprise me at all in that area. Time to move!

Is this guy mentally challenged? Or would he understand better if I type "yO DoG MaD tiytE cArz uzs goTs theres" What a fucking tard. His car questions are stupid too. Hey fucktard, try google.com, and do a little reseach before asking your lame questions. You posted in the Kitchen...if you get all pussy hurt from people pointing out how much of an idiot you are, then maybe you shouldn't post in the Kitchen.

It will look like shit.

We are now in contract. The damaged pipes were less than expected, and all has been repaired. They even cut drywall and checked in other places...bone dry. 1st floor master bath pipe burst, and the copper line to the fridge split wide open. All is good.

Well, the good news is it looks like the bank is going to fix the problem. The selling agent is sending his contractor over to it tomorrow to assess the damage/fix it (I'm sure it is bigger than a fix that guy can do on-site). They will have to pressure test it with air, and find all the damaged pipes. But sounds like they are willing to fix the issue = looks like we may be getting an awesome house!

Ehhh, doesn't really help me any. Make my Wii unit run in 720p, and we can talk. 480p + mod chip and lot's o' games is fine by me. The Wii is supposed to be for game play and not much for graphics anyway. If I need 1080p gaming, I always have my PS3. Though I don't own a single game for my PS3, so that's not going to do me a lot of good, lol.

A Cougar. I didn't know you made 148k a year.

My inspector said that we should have the bank fix it; he said just because they say "As-Is" doesn't make that the case when something major is wrong. And that's the only major problem; everything else is simple fixes (well, I'd have to pay someone to put new carpet in, which would be the only other thing I couldn't do myself). As bad as the leak was, and from no sign whatsoever of previous leaks, this pretty much has to be the first time it has leaked.

5000k in my Avalanche. Have had them for over a year. I aimed my lights down to prevent blinding people...I have never had anyone flash their high beams at me, so they must not be too blinding. I am semi-happy with mine. Because I have auto-on headlamps, if I start the Avalanche up in the dark, sometimes one or both balasts won't fire up; a quick flick of the high-beams gets them to both fire. If the truck is running and the headlamps kick on, they always fire up. I am sure some sort of headlight delay upon startup would fix this, but it isn't that big of a deal, especially since I don't drive it that much anymore. Haven't had any issues other than that, and were only about $88 shipped new.

I am doubting previous leaks. My realtor says the other realtor is making it out to be promissing that the bank will come back with an offer to fix it. She said our requirements should be: - Fully fixed leaks, with guarantee, and any related damage repaired to our satisifaction - Township inspector approve of the repairs, to ensure it is up to code - An inspector we choose to inspect the repairs - We get access to watch the repairs, to make sure the right things are being done And all that paid by the bank. That sounds reasonable to me if the bank goes for it...if not, we bail, and I'm out a couple hundred bucks on the inspection, but that's a couple hundred very well spent. I hope it goes through, as we really love home/land/location, and when you walk in, it has the "WOW" factor we were looking for (2 story vaulted ceilings). The rooms are sized the way we want, and has the potential to do upgrades that will really increase the value of the home without breaking the bank. I guess we will see. I guess my main hope was to have someone in here post up having a similar experience buying a home, and what they did for the repair process.

My wife and I have a contract on a very nice foreclosure. Built in 2003. I had the inspection done today. Needs some cosmetic work here and there (paint and spackle mostly, and some new carpets...no biggie). But when we turned the water on...oh shit! Two major leaks; one is from the 1st floor master bedrooom bath; most likely from the pipe feeding the toilet. The other looks like it is from the upstairs bathroom. This was not just a drip or a pour...it was raining. Water was raining by the basement drain, the master bath was leaking into the crawl space. Caused standing water in the master bath and front foyer. No mold that can be seen; our guess is they didn't clear the pipes out when the water was shut off, it froze and burst the pipes. Afterwords, they put the anti-freeze in, but it was too late. I think we were the first to turn the water back on. There was zero signs of rot/leaking/etc anywhere, so this is likely the case. We made sure our contract was contigent on an inspection. It is an as-is home, but we are going back with an offer of "if you fix the leaks and any associated damage, we will still buy it." Obviously, everything in writing, with an inspection post-fix. If they won't fix it, we are out, as the cost would be too much to deal with. That said; once something like this happens, are we in for a world of hurt? The house is exactly what we want, where we want; 3200 sq ft, 2 acres in a really nice neighborhood where everyone has 2-3 acre lots; I was so pumped about this place until the water problem. Other than the plumbing, the rest of the work is DIY fixes that can be done in a few days, no biggie. Are we screwed?

The F-body wasn't losing money, it was rather just breaking even. And the big part of that was the St. Therese plant in Canada. While they were selling 75k cars a year, the plant was designed to push out 200-300k cars a year = inefficient. Along with that was the expiring contract for that plant, and re-tooling for a new car at that plant wasn't economical, and they didn't see it being a profit-maker at a newer plant. Obviously they are bringing it back at a different plant, so it wasn't as if they thought the market was gone for such a car. The biggest problem was poor marketing, wrong plant to produce that kind of vehicle, and not having the foresight to getting things taken care of when they could have, and instead letting the cars die for several years. The Unions need to go. Period. The gov't is throwing bad money after bad (the gov't has no good money). Money isn't going to fix GM and Chrysler; restructuring WILL fix them. Kill off the Unions, pay a normal wage, and at least 80% of the problems are solved.

The answer tells me that for what I would be doing, the 9850 would be the better choice (x264 compression is highly important to me). But at that point, I'd also be sticking with AMD. Not that I am against that, but Intel is kind of where it is at now.......

I can only hope it is true. Buckeye Lake is a true shit-hole, and would highly benefit from private ownership. Dirty, dead fish, shallow, prop-eating, choppy shit hole.

I've been in a similar situation - no kids (I always had a rule about that); she was getting divorced; husband wasn't an issue as he was the one who initated the divorce. All her friends were in similar situations somehow...and my god, there was more drama that I could have ever imagined. It was fun at first, until you get sucked in. Then it was just hell.

Figure low - mid teens for one worth owning.

What are they going to do - force a private company to spend millions to provide them a service? I am SURE TW or ATT would be happy to run the lines, if the home-owners all banded together to foot the bill.

It's called money. Build out is very expensive, and in the market, capital is at a premium.

You would like to think that. It's not.

Well, playing with it more, Demuxing each m2ts file looks like the better way to go. Very hard drive intensive, but 4 drives in a RAID-0 has that covered reasonably well. I have been messing with it some, and I think I will be able to pull enough info out of each file that I may not need compression for most movies; I'm discovering there is a LOT of waste on the Blu Ray discs (8 audio tracks, 1080p track + 2 720p tracks for the main movie, etc.). I only want the best audio and video track; can't see why I would want the rest. I think just spending some time pulling out what I don't need will care for 80% of the movies that are dual layer; I'll have to work on compression for the others...the transcoding software I have tried so far has caused intermintant slightly choppy video.

Any more info on the software; if it can't do Blu-Ray, it isn't useful to me at all. I'll tell you what; this crap I am using now takes FOREVER! Looks like I'll have to do a little more research on water cooling as well. I am pretty good at getting stuff on the cheap.

So what circumstances HAS he had a gun pointed at him? That statement alone tells a bit of a story.

Already checked it out this year. Overall, we would have netted a couple k less doing it that way. Trust me, that's the first thing I started crunching numbers with when I found out what we owed to the state. F'ing BS.