So glad we just paid off our last two. Our baby emergency fund is in place. We're locked in nice and low on our mortgage, working our debt snowball for medical bills, the car, and my student loan. Immediately after that we're going to work on our 3 - 6mo emergency fund. - Heather
crap! I built my current credit report doing exactly what they say could make me a target, right now. I call it "money roll-over" but it is everyday purchases that are paid quickly. Hmmmm - Heidi Jeffers Thibodeau
Unless they completely change the game, you shouldn't have any problem if you pay your cards off every month and don't carry a balance. They can raise your interest rate...but if they're never charging you interest, it effectively doesn't matter. - James Williams
Interesting side note, yesterday, at Sam's, I was offered a Sam's Discover, pre-approved $3800, with $3000 available to spend right then. What makes this different than my non Sam's Discover, that they just amazingly and without any desire, on my part, raised limit on, too?? Do people have two?? How scary! - Heidi Jeffers Thibodeau
Best part is when he stops eating the stuff, then he begins to feel really bad, then he eats some and feels awesome. Telling, eh? I still love the food, but try not to eat it. - Jim Kukral via twhirl
He did a real number on his heart and liver eating only MickeyD's for a month and I recall it took him about 9 months to get his health back to normal. - Larry Kless
there is some other documentary or story out recently about a guy who lost a bunch of weight on a mcdonalds-only diet. so I guess there are multiple factors. - Bruce Williams
Excepting In-N-Out, I haven't eaten fast food in a decade. - Adam Lasnik
Yeah, even though times have changed and Mcdonalds has changed (in some part because of this movie), some things are still severely flawed about the system. Trust me, I worked there. - Art
"There is an initiative in the works that could end up on the November ballot that allows for marijuana to be sold to anyone, and anywhere that already sells alcohol. Its being called The Inalienable Rights Enforcement Initiative. From the full text of the measure:
This initiative will amend the Constitution of California to defend and safeguard the inalienable rights of the People against infringement by governments and corporations, providing for the lawful growth, sale, and possession of marijuana. Marijuana will be taxed through a system of stamps and licenses--a $5 stamp will be required for the sale of an eighth ounce of marijuana and a $50 annual license will be required for the growth of one marijuana plant. To protect participants and encourage participation in the system, such licenses and stamps will be available anonymously in stores where marijuana is sold." - Paul Buchheit via Bookmarklet
Like I don't have enough weeds already - does this mean that TrueGreen won't come and kill the weeds anymore? Sigh - Phillip J. Zannini via twhirl
This story keeps showing up and I keep liking it. - Larry Kless
Need to figure out how to get a hold of Christopher Springer, the proponent of this proposition to talk about helping in a grass roots effort to get the signatures necessary to get this on the ballet. Anyone know how to contact the guy? - Thomas Hawk
Alex "Can I take off my headphones around here for ONE SECOND without hearing the phrase 'smoking a bowl'?" Payne over at Twitter is now shopping for more comfortable headphones. - Karim
besides knowing a number of people who have already probably started to pack their bags.... all I know is that if it passes, I'd love to see the statistics... the increase in revenue based on taxes and tourism should be nice - nick carrasco
I'd love to see what the Feds do about this. As I understand it, Federal law would still make it illegal. - Gabe Schaffer
California would make a pretty good country by itself. Hollywood, Silicon Valley, Central Valley, Lake Tahoe, and San Francisco. Arnold Schwarzenegger could even be president here. :) - Chris White
Chris: I don't know about Tahoe. California and Nevada might have to go to war over it, like Pakistan and India fighting over Kashmir. - Gabe Schaffer
that secession thinking was here and there while reading this thread... guys, pass that what you smoke there, huh? :) - silpol
"going to california in my mind" :-) - Slippy Lane
In other news, Starbucks announced a new line of Space Cakes™ and Hemppuccinos™ to be available in 2009, only in California. - Karim
Meanwhile, the FDA is killing you LEGALLY. - Thomas T. Panto
I'm with Gabe...it's a Federally controlled substance so it will be interesting to see how it pans out if it passes.....hmmm maybe I should lobby for my home state to outlaw Fedral Income tax! :) LOL - Rob Neville via twhirl
Use 'like' when I'm too busy or just not in the mood to write a comment (on stuff I really like) .... - Charlie Anzman
If I like something or think people should look at it in general, I Like it. - Jordan Hofker
I use like two ways 1) I like the posting 2) I want to follow up on the posting. This is more often the case. I then bring all of the liked posts and commented posts (by me) into Google Reader. - Mike Wills
If I like it, I like it and if my subscribers will like it, that's bonus. I do, however, sometimes Like something as a means to come back to it later or if I want to read how the comments play out. We need a Bookmark feature for that. - Akiva Moskovitz
I am a progressive/interlaced liker!! - Joe Dawson
I like it if I find it interesting, insightful, or funny. I rarely like something to come back to it later because I just like too many things. - possible248
i "like" a post to signal agreement. I normally tag posts on delicious for followup (i have a "ToRead" tag there.) Now, if someone were to release a greasemonkey script that let me tag FF posts on delicious in-line, well then.... i might just have to send that certain someone a lifetime supply of chocolate pudding. - Chris Hollander
Some days I feel like a "ooh, shiny!" liker. - Harvey Simmons
I am more of distributer/supportive liker. - Mike Fruchter
Random and progressive liker have been added to the list. I am compiling a list of the types of "liker's" on Friendfeed. - Mike Fruchter
Like Liking. Only ever Like something I've read, I'm not a blind liker. - Toby Graham
liker who often likes but doesn't comment - I use likes to show I've read something and find it interesting - not necessarily that I agree with it - Sarah Perez
I just like when I don't feel like commenting and I am very random. Simple: I basically just like what I like. Not much I can add to that. - Stephan Miller
For me, it serves like the "share item" feature in Google Reader. - brian junyor via twhirl
Bootstrapping your startup makes more sense financially regardless of the state of VC availability, so this is in fact a good thing - Ashraful Sheikh
it's something that we feel for a while, esp. for the large VC's and i also think it might have good impact, making startups built a company and not an exit candidate as some of them do - Naor
Tell me Yuvi how different is powershell from cmd.exe? i feel rather comfortable with cmd except that batch scripts suck! which i dont use in the first place.. - Azeem
A lot different - every command now returns objects. So you can set properties, call methods on them, add them to collections, etc. Really pretty darn powerful. - Yuvi
I guess it's like twitter - I too didn't see the point till I tried it out ;) - Yuvi
i meant as a command line not as a scripting language - Azeem
Compare it to the Python Interactive console :) You can use foreach on the command line, for instance - Yuvi
@Yuvi, waiting for a blog post with advanced uses of powershell from you. :) - Sudar
@Sudar: Wow, friendfeeding from work? First time! - Yuvi
@Yuvi, Yeah.. actually I skipped my morning tea break to do it.. :) - Sudar
I'll be pretty stunned if they can get 694,354 signatures in two months. Then again, I was pretty stunned when they replaced Davis with a robot designed to hunt down and kill Sarah Connor - Dan Kaplan
sooo, will outsiders be able to order it over the internet from cali? - Chris Harris
hah probably - as long as the outsider's state gets to tax the "internet purchase" without having to deal with legality :) - andy brudtkuhl
well, i'm not a pothead, i just would probably get excited over doing something that was illegal for so many years. kind of like taking a shot at age 18 or something lol - Chris Harris
Ah, one of the things I love about California. We're just crazy out here. Wait to see if this hits the ballot. Feds would still crack down on everybody though. - Hutch Carpenter
why is the number of signatures so precise? 694,354, curious... - Chris Harris
my liking does not endorse the use of illegal drugs :) ha ha...just an interesting story - Sarah Perez
"Legalize it, don't criticize it..." - Larry Kless
I have a huge pet peeve with people who use the phrase 'We hold these truths to be self-evident' without understanding what that phrase means. to quote from the link: "We also hold these truths to be self-evident-That, as an intoxicant, marijuana is far less harmful to the health and safety of the People than alcohol..." 'Self-evident' means axiomatic: that it should be seen as true without requiring proof or substantiation. To say that the health risks of something should be seen as 'self-evident' is absurd. Cite the facts and the studies, rather than saying 'it's so obvious that we're right that we don't need to state how we know.' And please stop cribbing quotes from the Declaration of Independence because you think it makes you sound more legitimate. It doesn't. - Kevin Fox
I guess that would make them a Green state then, huh? ;) - Mathew A. Koeneker
Yeah if they had legized that darn thing in the 60' then the hardcore stuff may not have trickled in.. right now the problem is not weed. its Crack.meth, cheese and heroin. Addicts should be dragged off the streets and throw into rehab and dealers should be given 10 yr sentence min for possession of 1gm . Tthereafter 1yr for each additional gram of shit they are caught with. I have yet to hear a case, where a weed smoker has gone and killed some1 money to get more weed to smoke ! - Peter Dawson
Count me in as well. Our 2005 Hybrid is serving us well and I'm hypermiling to get about 15% higher than EPA estimates, but I'm all for alternatives like this. - Kevin C. Tofel
Dude. If you can afford it, then I want a job working for FastCompany, too. :) - l0ckergn0me
Robert -- Is there a pre-order site up yet for Tesla S? I sent them an RFI on how to get on the wait list, but I have not yet heard back. - Jerry Chacon
Chris: you shouldn't talk. You and Ponzi always have the coolest cars. :-) - Robert Scoble
I fear that by supporting Tesla we're only contributing to the West's endless dependence on electricity. - Dan Kaplan
Awesome car. I'd buy one if I could afford $60K. Wonder how much your home electric bill will go up? - Josh Bancroft
Are you planning to generate your own electricity with small scale wind/solar/etc? Otherwise the savings you'll make on gas prices won't be great (as oil goes, energy follows). But electric cars are a step in the right direction, Congrats - Cains
"I like keeping my money in the state" ? Come on Robert... :-) - directeur via NoiseRiver
Does anyone know how the Tesla cars handle heating? My dad is really interested in electric cars, but he always worries about how they will generate heat. - Tracy Hurley
Tracy - I believe the battery pack has a giant aluminum heat sink attached to it, and luckily since the car drives around, there's lots of air cooling ;) - J. Phil
We'll be in the market for a new car in about 2 years as well. I hope these things materialize. - Jeremy Brooks
It is a shame the price is so high. They have probably priced out the people who would most like to get one. - Rob Diana
Josh: Elon Musk, chairman of the board of Tesla, told me you can go about 225 miles for about $3 worth of electricity in California (at today's rates). Compare to nearly $5 gas for our BMW, which goes 24 miles on just $5. Rob: if these are successful, they say there will be a $30,000 model out within four years. - Robert Scoble
I always find Americans talking about motoring hilarious. In America, 30 MPG is some sort of impossible Holy Grail. If you're not doing that in Europe, and I mean ina big vehicle, then either you're driving a Bentley or you've got a hole in your petrol tank. Far as I'm concerned, car technology begins with the Japs and ends with the Germans. I wouldn't spend $50 on a car from any other nation. - john conroy
For electric cars to truly take off we need to find ways to lower the prices sooner, whether by subsidies or whatever. Lower income families are the ones most affected by energy costs and are more likely the ones driving energy inefficient vehicles. - m.0
If I were old enough to drive, I would want one. Then I wouldn't have to pay those outrageous gas prices - Grant
John: I have a two-year-old BMW and it only gets 25 mpg average. And it's the smallest BMW they sell (with the least power possible). - Robert Scoble
[Warning! European High-Horse alert in my comment above] - john conroy
John: US uses a lower RON rated petrol making MPG comparisons difficult - Cains
I just came back from a short spin with a friend of mine (in Ireland). He drives a 1.4l, 2008 Honda Civic. A modest but beautiful car. His display shows the MPG, and we were talking about MPG in general. It was doing 44.5, and he reckons he gets 46 as the norm. Over here, 1.4l is the typical engine displacement for family saloon/hatchback. 1.1 - 1.3l for a small town car. - john conroy
They also announced a 30k model coming in 4(I think) years today. - Jason Massie
apologies-- no more noise from me -- but @Cains -- this I did not know (about the RON rating). This changes things... - john conroy
John: also, most cars in Europe are diesels which supposedly pollute more, but get much better mileage. California, for instance, has much stricter smog laws than most places (just head to China to see how bad it can get). - Robert Scoble
Robert: John's pretty accurate on the average engine size. While diesels are popular here I don't think they're over 30% market share. The main reason for the Us Vs Euro discrepancies is the differing octane rating and problems associated with that (larger fuel tank/etc). For example, BMW's start at 2.8L in the US Vs 1.8L in Europe - Cains
Robert: I'm not sure if modern diesels do pollute more. They are more efficient but, in the recent crisis (in the UK at least) the price of diesel has risen more than that of unleaded so the efficiency advantage has been eroded. - Fraser Smith
John: it's not just the RON ratings that affect the mileage - the engines are dreadfully inefficient too. In Europe 45mpg is the norm, I really notice it in hire cars when I go back home. Americans should demand the fuel efficient engines too, they make a huge difference to consumption. - Sally Church
Sally: good point. Americans have not cared about gas efficiency until now. They like their powerful engines and big SUVs. Marketing of cars is often about how fast they can go, not how fuel efficient they are (Prius and gas prices are changing that). - Robert Scoble
ok, call me an 'old guy' (cue will smith), but the tesla is listing at more than i paid for my first house! [sheesh]. i think i'll keep riding the bus to work. - MikeAmundsen
The whole concept of a $60k automobile being a "no brainer" purchase puts you all in a very different tax bracket than many of us. The payback on this kind of purchase will take a long time and no one can predict the maintenance costs. - Dave Ploch
110k for a car that I don't really like that much, I don't think so. It's like buying a Prius: it makes a statement, but that's about it. Until I can drive it cross-country I really couldn't care. But someone has to buy them to get the idea started, so good for your Robert! - xero
xero: the sedan is $60,000. Expensive for most people, but not unusual in Silicon Valley. - Robert Scoble
Robert: they are paying you too much. ;) - ron k jeffries
