chirakawa

2 hours ago, Twotoes said:

 

Geico does not have outside agents. You have to call them and a customer service rep aka agent for Geico will answer. They say that their premiums are lower because they don’t have to pay commissions. All of their customer service reps/in house agents are on a salary. 

Did you bother reading the link I sent you?  Here it is again Geico Agents

41 minutes ago, Twotoes said:

Geico does not have agents, you have to call them direct. 

That's not what Geico says.  Geico Agents

2 hours ago, jamtracy said:

I suspect Tesla has made a bundle with cancelled $100 deposits.

Not as much as Elio.  🙂

2 hours ago, Zulu said:

In June 2019 Elon said the value of Starlink is to provide low-latency, high-bandwidth internet access to the sparse and moderately sparse and relatively low density areas. Rural and semi-rural places that don't have any or any adequate internet access are optimal and will target 3% - 5% of people in the world. It is not well suited for high density cities.

Here is a compilation of Starlink FAQ's from Reddit.  Consider the source, but I've read most of these at other locations.

Pretty interesting info and supports what you're saying.  It also lists expected cost to be under $50 month.  If that's so, how will Starlink regulate who gets to sign up and who doesn't?  I would think that most people would jump at that, unless they had some type of sweetheart deal like the Mobley connected car plan.  Makes for some challenges.

The most interesting fact to me represented in the Reddit link is that the satellites are only good for five (5) years.  So, by the time they get all the sats up and working, many will have already reached end of life.

From reading this, my understanding is that each satellite will support 20 Gbps and there will be three satellites within view at any one time. 

10 hours ago, filthy-beast said:

I'm hoping it's huge success for Musk. It will create competition, making the other players step up their game and lower the prices.

I share your hope.  However, average household broadband cost in the USA is probably around $70 month.  I don't see how Starlink will be able to deliver for that or less.  The value may be in the product quality and availability, and not price.

6 hours ago, TLRam1 said:

This was going to be strictly about the topic heading but I think I have some answers to that so I changed it up a bit.

1   1. Do you go through a broker or self directed stock purchases?

I buy through Vanguard, easy transactions at little cost.

2    2. What type of stock orders do you use, as in Stop Loss, Trailing Stop Loss, Limit Orders, etc.?

I'm not too market savvy.  I usually buy a stock on a whim and keep it for years, so my purchases are just for a certain number of shares at market price.

3    3. If you purchase stock in the morning how long before you can sell the stock? Hours later, same day?

I don't know the answer to your question.  However, Vanguard is very easy to call and ask questions like this.  They are friendly and knowledgeable.

 

RV, I can sympathize.  Finally, I've reached a financial point in my life when I can afford a Corvette or Miata etc. just as a fun drive.  I just can't get in and out of them without much effort and agony.  Hope the Y works out for you.

1 hour ago, Dutch_12078 said:

I think the two big questions we still have is the cost of the service and the cost/availability of the user terminals. Will there be a contract subscription service that includes the hardware? And/or a hardware purchase option with month to month service? The sat TV and Internet services offer working models of both options of course... 

I'll add a third big question.  How many of us will still be alive when the service goes mainstream?

1 hour ago, Red Crewzer said:

Ok, looks like I will be putting a hole into my ceiling to get a rotating antenna mounted.  Now which one?  Local dealer is pushing the Winegard RZ-6035 Rayzar z1 rotating antenna.  I was also considering the King Jack OA8501 with the included signal finder. Reviews do give the King Jack a slightly better review, because of the signal finder feature.  Dealer also suggested I remove my old King Dome and put the new antenna in it's place up front closer to the tv and control panel running a new short cable on top of the roof and then through a new hole in the roof to a lower cabinet.  Thoughts?

I bought a King Jack to replace my old Winegard batwing.  A year later went back to the Winegard Sensar.  the King Jack did fine on UHF, but was inferior to the Sensar on VHF.  Lot's of stations are on VHF.  The Sensar is the superior product.

2 hours ago, mptjelgin said:

Guilty!!  I'll bet you're relieved that no one loaned you that $890,000!

Wow!  I just looked.................$726.  I'll just have to make do with what I've got for now.

49 minutes ago, mptjelgin said:

That was a good paying job!!

You made an assumption.  Actually, $100,000 is more than I made in 1 1/2 years at my peak earning time.  My last year to work, I made almost $60,000, the most I'd ever earned in a year.

I stand by my statement, $100,000 is more than I made in a month.  🙂

Well, the rumor is that the stock will hit $1,000 today.  So, if I buy 1,000 shares this morning at $890 and sell this afternoon at news of $1,000, I'll make a smooth $100,000 in one day.  That's more than I made in a month as a first responder..

Now, if I could just get someone to loan me the $890,000 this morning I'd be set.

5 hours ago, RV_ said:

🤣Chirakawa, that article had me in stitches. If you go over to "Are You Still In" thread that kind of Koch brother funded Kaka keeps getting cranked out. Thanks for the laugh from the author's attempt at scorn and condescension. Well selected for a good belly laugh.

Yep, makes you wonder how he got a column to write in the first place.  If he lives long enough, there will be a correction in Tesla stock and he'll say that he told you so.

Stumbled across this article with an interesting take on the Tesla stock.

https://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/article/TAYLOR-Never-ever-forecast-individual-stocks-15010901.php

3 minutes ago, Pappy Yokum said:

 

Bigfooted ??  - Even the Yeti gets a bad rap !!

Asians are OK - it's the Ornamentals that must be avoided. - Especially if you see 5 or more in an RV.

New Zealand?? - The people are OK too - but stop using "Ki-Wi" polish on your shoes & boots!

It might put a new hue on you.

BTW - If it's ... "Polish" ....some might say it's from Poland - so.....better avoid Poles!

Ditto on the 5 or more in an RV.

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You're right, I apologize.  I should have said "avoid all white people with polished shoes".

1 hour ago, podwerkz said:

Put yourself in that scenario. Suppose you went to a bank, withdrew $100,000 and headed out on the highway, and a car followed YOU for 150 miles, matching your every move.

Me thinks you would be suspicious, annoyed, maybe worried, and fully justified calling the cops or taking other actions to change the scenario.

 

 

 

 

 

If I withdrew $100,000 from a bank, it would most certainly belong to someone else, and I would expect the cops to be following me.  😁

On 1/25/2020 at 7:12 AM, Wrknrvr said:

   I think this is something needs attention for rv travelers.  

 

   Three years ago we visited the south rim of the Grand Canyon again. It has been 30 years since we last stoped there.

One thing we noticed was how many Asian people were there. So with the news of how this is spreading, I started to think about signs we had seen traveling around Las Vegas. There are advertisements about bus trips to see the Grand Canyon from Las Vegas. And other ways for travelers to see the Grand Canyon.

  Last year we stoped in a campground in Flagstaff Az for two nights. We learned how to ride the bus around town to see things. Had a good time there. But there was a Class C rental next to us that had 6 to 8 Asian people get out of that rv.

 

  Just thinking,   Vern

Threads have a tendency to go like other conversations go in real life, they follow the path that the participants choose.  But, since RV and Kirk are upset that this thread has gone off astray, I'll address the original post quoted above.

Asia is a large continent with 4.55 billion people.  China is a country with 1.38 billion people.  Since this coronavirus evidently started in China, perhaps we should limit our exposure to those who have recently been in China, which would include Chinese tourist wherever they may be or others, whatever ethnic group they belong to.

However, to lump all Asians into that group is both ignorant and bigoted.  It'd be like if a virus had begun in New Zealand, to say we should avoid all white people.

I think the reason that the subject turned to the flu is that the OP is constantly exposing himself to people who are carrying the flu virus and most likely stands a much greater risk of dying from the flu than from the coronavirus.  So, that discussion is certainly on topic, IMO. 

Flame suit deployed.  🙂

49 minutes ago, Ray,IN said:

Actually, I got both! Some years apart though, got a shot(really it was from a powered gun/no needle) again during Army basic training.

Man, that brings back memories.  I remember walking through a gauntlet of medics with those guns on both sides.  Seems like I got seven or eight shots in just a few minutes.  I could barely hold my arms up for the rest of that day.

3 hours ago, Barbaraok said:

Yes it did!  Sabin vaccine came later.  

Okay, I'll bite.  What does age have to do with it?  I was old enough to get the shot, but got the sugar cube.

12 minutes ago, Ray,IN said:

This thread is about the coronavirus from Wuhan China, not flu. No vaccine has yet been produced to counteract this coronavirus yet.

If you're referring to the original post, then this thread is about Asians taking over the Grand Canyon.  I'm glad it got tastefully re-directed from that subject.

35 minutes ago, D&J said:

Why would anyone want to watch the back of a tractor trailer for 150 miles 

Agree, especially since that tractor can straddle an alligator which could do considerable damage to our vehicles.

17 minutes ago, Barbaraok said:

Some of us are so old we got a POLIO SHOT,  not the sugar cube.  All lined up in the school cafeteria; dreading that “huge” needle💉 we knew was coming, but no one was going to cry in front of the whole school!  

 

 

 

Actually, I don't think age has much to do with it.  There were two types of vaccine given, either by shot or oral, after Salk's 1953 discovery.  I don't know why some were given the shot and others the oral, but both were effective.

When many of us here were children in the 1950's, it was common for entire families, neighborhoods, and communities to get the measles in one season or two, mumps almost as commonplace.  Then schools started requiring vaccination for them and they were almost eradicated in the USA.  In the past 20 years or so, people have quit getting their kids vaccinated............and measles is making a comeback.

I'd rather be one of the very few who have a reaction to a vaccine and get sick than one of the many who don't get vaccinated and get sick.  Three hundred million people (300,000,000) died from smallpox in the 20th century alone.  Thanks to vaccination, that disease has been eradicated from Earth.

As a young child, I remember living in fear of Polio.  All the telethons and visuals of people being in iron lungs and crippled from that terrible disease.  I remember to this day how happy I was when they started serving up the sugar cubes with the vaccine in it.

How can anyone rationally argue against vaccines?  Their track record is phenomenal.

1 hour ago, Barbaraok said:

• FLU CAN KILL

In 1918, 50 million people died from the flu.  It can definitely kill.

9 minutes ago, rynosback said:

Jim,

Why would you not be able to buy another Mobley and just transfer the SIM? They should be able to repair the new Mobleys SIM to the newer unit. This way you are still staying in the spirit of the rules of the “Mobley” $20 a month deal. I would call car connect to confirm that it can be done and if there is any process. 

If you buy another Mobley, then all you would have to do is take the sim out of the old one and put it in the new one.  You wouldn't have to call anyone.  There's a few of them on eBay right now, if you want to go that way.