Maybe your parents didn’t teach you empathy when you were growing up, as is so prevalent these days. There are millions of retired people on fixed incomes who bought their homes when they were normally priced. For example, my grandparents bought a house in Los Gatos for $30k in 1969 and now it’s priced at $1.4M. Is that their fault? Why should elderly people, who cannot take the stress of being uprooted and moving, be forced to sell their homes and lose their balance sheet savings in the process? If anything, discounts on capital gains and property taxes should be based on both income and balance sheet apart from real estate ownership. What if that were you?
In your grandparents case, they could freeze their property taxes, but when the houses switches ownership, they’d need to pay all the back taxes they avoided with the cap.
Why shouldn’t your grandparents have to pay current property taxes? They just had a windfall increase in property value.
If that were me I'd be smiling ear to ear paying 30k taxes on 1.4 million dollars. That's like the deal of a life time. You can't even find a 30k home in cleveland.
Juan from the Blanco Lirio channel just consolidated the rumors that two (2) Tor (Gen 1) (NATO: SA-15 “Gauntlet”) short-range missiles were probably fired from a battery near the takeoff path based on NATO forces’ SIGINT identifying a lock-on from fire-control radar onto the aircraft and radar tracks of the missiles. It’s interesting how Western sources could identify such signals either from space or hundreds of miles to the south from the Caspian. I guess there is also a possibility of visual/IR sensors seeing the exhaust plume of the solid rocket motor moving quickly at a distance.
I remember the smell of carbonless copy paper from an Okidata dot matrix printer hooked up to an AT&T 6300 (same as Olivetti M24) at my dad’s garage (shop). It’s like an earthy “new car smell,” probably cancer-causing VOCs, but it is what it is.
Canonical, FreeBSD, Joyent and upteen Sun customers over 15 years disagree with an opinionated non-programmer jerk with anger issues espousing Tweet soundbites lacking any data to backup a wild claim worthy of John McAfee.
No 747 has been used for mainstream commercial passenger service for almost a year because it’s an old, uneconomical design that simply can’t compete anywhere except in cargo.
That makes it a 737 NG. The NG’s structural components were mostly manufactured (badly) by a subcontractor, Ducommun, but Boeing insisted on installing them anyhow. In 2010, there was a cover-up and a whistleblower; Al Jazeera broke it in a long-form documentary that apparently no one watched.
You watch too much CNN or MSNBC to dredge up the disproven Russiagate conspiracy theory FUD. Maybe you should wait for investigators to provide their preliminary findings, eh?
FAA: “You’re under arrest for unlicensed drone operation!”
Is this sort of scenario we really want? More government control and monetary extraction from every single, benign human activity? Should kites and paper airplanes require licenses too?
So, has HN turned into a political conspiracy theory and propaganda factory to beat the drums towards war? I just don’t see how this is relevant except to egg-on the paranoid InfoWars hobgoblins.
1. People are just learning about this incident
2. It's extremely relevant have you not seen the news?
It has nothing to do with being pro-war or anti-war, it's relevant because it's worth understanding what's going on in our world and the layers of deception from all sides.
> Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon. Videos of pratfalls or disasters, or cute animal pictures. If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic.
Planes are interesting for HN in general, most of us (I think) enjoy learning about how things fail and why, and learning from big business failures is a must if you want to get a startup running. That's why most Boeing MAX stories are usually fine.
"Regular" news stories, on the other hand, tend to be off-topic.
