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What is a well qualified buyer? I see these car ads on TV that spout all this bull about 0% financing and huge discounts to "well qualified buyers". How damn arrogant can they get? For the rest of us peasants, car ads are just a nuisance anyway. I don't know anyone who, after watching a car commercial, rushed out and bought a car. I think the people who need the low interest and discounts are the ones who don't have a bunch of cash sitting around. The only people I know who took advantage of 0% are people who could have bought it outright.
The ads are also misleading. They show a car with all of the leather and "must have" gadgets speeding down the street while they tell us that prices start at $21,000. You have to quickly read the fine print to see that the actual car you are watching is $38,999.
We have local mobile home ads that do the old bait and switch. I saw one last night that claimed they could sell someone a 28 x 80 doublewide for $34,999. They don't tell you that they are already figuring in the $8000 tax credit. They also don't tell you that the one they are panning through during the commercial is not the $34,999 one. One other thing to consider is that the mobile home price works out to about $19 per square foot. Current new construction on a reasonable quality house is in the $100 per square foot range. You have to wonder how good the deal really is.
What the hell is going on in China? I have read numerous stories lately about some nutjob slicing and/or stabbing people to death. Most seem to be school kids on campus. Usually the attacker is male. I know, in a country of 1.4 billion people, 7 or 8 attacks like these are probably within a normal range of occurrence but what triggers it? Video games? Kung Pow chicken? Guess what? It is illegal for civilians to own guns in China! All they have left is axes and machetes. That would be a downside for those in the U.S. who think we should ban guns. Everyone would resort to switchblades and samurai swords. Experienced knife-throwers would be the new snipers. 7-11 robberies would be interesting since a ball bat swung by the clerk could be very effective against a knife. Party revelers would probably be less inclined to throw their knives and hatchets in the air, since they would return to earth a lot closer to them than the bullets they were firing before the gun ban.
Check out this news article. http://tinyurl.com/37neb8e It sheds some light on Mark Zuckerberg's attitude towards the information we put on Facebook. Real reassuring, considering some of his investors! We really can't bitch, however, because Facebook is free. Facebook can be the biggest pain in the ass for numerous reasons. Slow servers are at the top of my list. If they are going to serve from 230 to 410 million people, depending on which Google search result I click on, they should kick it up a notch or six. Sorting out the display to something I want is a challenge. Finding the right area to change a privacy setting is a bitch. Organizing pictures sucks. Then there is the need to check it 4 or 5 times a day because I might miss something! There is also the psychological side of Facebook. Who do you friend? At some point, you don't know your friend's friend's friends. Do you need to have 2 accounts so your work friends don't co-mingle with your home friends? What if one of your friends is both? Uh-oh, Joe crossed the line. Now everyone at home knows I play online poker! When someone gets un-friended (spellcheck busted me on that!), would they wonder if I hate them? Or I'm just tired of them reposting tons of stuff? If I ignore a friend request, is it because I hate them? Maybe I don't know them. Should I know them? Maybe I don't want them to know that I'm friends with someone they hate. It's enough to send one to the nearest mental health clinic!
Oh, by the way, I posted this on my blog May 13, 2010 at 2:27 pm. Let's see how long it takes for Facebook to get it onto my wall ;)
I read this article about the hole in the ozone over the South Pole and how it is lessening. The scientists are patting themselves on the back for that one. Since the ban on ozone-depleting products, the hole stopped growing. The estimate is that the hole will be fully repaired by around 2070. So, we fixed it. Yay! Guess what? There is another one forming at the North Pole. It is being caused by yet unexplained weather phenomena. Huh? Do we really know what we're doing when we try to fix nature? The scientists have also found that closing the ozone hole speeds up the melting of the polar ice caps. That sucks for polar bears! Maybe nature was fixing itself when we came along and interfered.
(Yeah, I know polar bears only live at the North Pole.)
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