KU40

Well you are on at 8 am mountain time- 7 central, 6 eastern. How many people do you think are awake that early on a saturday?

Where did yours go?

No and yes

man I'm tired. I hope I sleep until noon.

I agree with most of this, but I have to ask, if you get a financial planner, aren't you taking somebody else's advice? Just playing devil's advocate here. I'm not saying don't get one, I sure as hell believe a majority of the people in this nation need one (or really, needed one several years ago). But with that said, I think you'd agree that there are several guidelines to investing in a general sense. But if somebody has a stock tip I'd be leery. A few months ago my brother told me that his wife had heard from her dad who was told by his broker that a stock was the next big thing and was ready to explode. And this guy had "never lost money on a stock he bought." First off I find that impossible to believe. Second of all, he probably bought the stock a month or two ago, so it was old news by then and the excitement was already priced in. Sure enough, I looked and the stock had quadrupled in the last 6 months and I was like no thanks. It hasn't turned out to be a typical pump and dump, though, as the price is just above where he bought it 6 months ago I think. But nothing to write home about and some really bad news just came out last week that makes me even more leery and glad I didn't get in. So I think the bottom line is just to not sip everybody else's koolaid. Make sure and do your own analysis, and remember that you'll get some wrong. Harvard grad economists can't agree on where the economy will go from here, and they can't both be right. Just be patient.

What is an example of a beginner workout?

it doesnt effect it at all? Why do you think it would?

Fuck that. What happens when you die the day you retire? What happens if you travel too much and get to be 65 with no retirement fund? Hope the Democrats are still in office, duh. On a more serious note, I believe in investing in my future. I work for myself and have a savings account. Got any suggestions for investment? Cause buying a house is starting to seem like a joke. If you're one of those contrarian-types though, now would be the best time to buy a house. Mortgage rates are the lowest in 50 years, plus home prices are better for the buyer now. On a $200,000 house 1 percentage point on the loan interest translates into a difference of about $120 per month, which translates into $86,400 over the life of a 30 year loan. I don't know about you, but that's a really good chunk of change and can make up for quite a bit of stagnant home price years in which the value of the home does not go up. Plus you have to ask yourself, if you're going to live in this house forever, who cares about resale value? All you're doing with a lower valued home is saving property tax each year. That sounds good to me. And how long do you expect this housing crisis to last? 30 years? I doubt it. Even 5 or 10 years? As for where to invest, it depends on your timeline IMO. But you can always just go back to the old mix of stocks and bonds. China is expected to have explosive growth for the next couple of decades, they've already started. They had something like 8% growth last year while the US was still marred in recession. If you think the US will be stagnant for the next 5 years, don't be afraid to look at emerging markets and countries. But IMO, if you're an active investor, there will be plenty of opportunities to make money in the US market yet. Just stay away from penny stocks. Don't get caught looking for the quick 10-bagger as it will ruin you. I just figured up last night that if I wasn't stuck with the three penny stocks that I have that are losing money for me, I would have earned 19% since I began investing last January, which rapes the market return of about 7% when adjusted for market value when I added money to my account a few times over the last 1.5 years. Instead, I'm stuck at an 8% loss and just hoping these pennies will go back up just so I can break even. My boss has recently advised me on the value of doing covered calls with dividend-paying stocks. You not only get dividend, but get money from writing call options. It may limit your upside to 10-20% if the stock gets called away, but don't be greedy. It also protects you for about 5% to the downside just because of the income you get from the dividend and writing the calls. Plus if the stock stays put, you can continually write calls every month if you want and just keep garnering the money from it. Just gotta have a long term approach and not worry about day-to-day or even month-to-month fluctuations. As far as the house is concerned KU is dead on. While it is tough to get a loan in todays market, the rates and the drastic drop in pricing make it worthwhile to do it NOW. My son just bought himself a condo in Orange County CA. He has been looking for 5 years. The boy just knew what he wanted. He looked at a condo when he first started 5 years ago that was 1200Sq feet that went for $420,000. He bought the exact same condo 3 months ago (it sold to someone else in the interim) for $186,000. Not only did he save ~$235K, he also got a better interest rate by almost 2 points. As far as investing, as someone who made a fortune in the 90s in the stock market and lost a fat wad in the early 2000s I can tell you one thing... don't ever take anyone else's advice. Everyone is so quick to tell you to do this and do that, but if it really were making them money, I am not sure they would be telling you much about it. Do the smart thing and get dialed in with a financial adviser. They can sit down with you and develop a plan that will work best for you with your specific goals in mind. But you really need to get on the stick with it. Retirement isn't far away for any of us... time flies. As for me, when I am ready it will be golden. Sell my rental houses and my house, take all my money and buy a villa in Italy... 10 years to go and i am on the right track. That is a super deal on the condo. Real estate in some places was just getting completely out of control. It was really the most absurd thing. As for the argument for buying a house, I even left out the other benefits that Matt2 talked about with the tax deductions and building equity and all. If I had the 20% down payment that I want before buying a house so that I don't have to get mortgage insurance as well as increase my chances of getting a loan in the first place, I'd be trying like heck to buy right now.

Gotta think about the future. If they can develop this into a commercial plane in 20 years, wouldn't that be worth it? Gotta start an idea off small somewhere. Can't jump into putting solar panels on a 747 and ripping off the engines. Technology always costs more when it's new. In 50 years they'll probably build five solar 747s with that 100 mil. In the beginning it's all about proof of concept.

And incredibly faster also!

It's not going to matter.

How did you get that all free? That's like 300 bucks worth of stuff.

That's because you're pressurizing the air inside when you close it if the vents aren't open.

Make sure your winshield itself is securly positioned. If that is vibrating due to looseness at the edges (worn weather stripping), it can allow extra vibrations across the windshield, which will weaken the glue bond for the mirror.

Just Checked my car.... Alternator is 140A (stock Denso unit) Batterry is a Duralast 130 reserve (idk what that means) Would doing the big 3 be enough to prevent voltage issues? I will fuse the wire going from the battery to the amp, why do you have to fuse it within 12-18" of the battery tho? I'm not sure what's all in the link the end posted, I'll just go through some points here. 1) You want to protect the wire. The farther away from the battery you put the fuse, the more wire is unprotected to short out. 2) Where would you put the fuse from between 18" and your amp? The wire runs through your car. Are you going to fuse it somewhere in there under your carpet or door jam? 3) Remember that fuses protect wire AFTER the fuse, not before. If the fuse blows, any wire between the fuse and battery is still live. Your alternator and battery look to be sufficient. I have two amps in my system, including a 1000+ watt sub amp, and have a 130 amp alternator and I have no dimming or voltage drop issues. I only use a 100 or 120 amp fuse, I forget. At any rate, it has never blown in 5+ years with basically the same amplifier power. You'd be fine with a 120 amp fuse.

Yesterday I did 2 bicep lifts, 4 back lifts, 2 shoulder lifts, some ab work, and pullups. Then ran 1.5 miles. I keep forgetting to post these day-of. Tonight I'm going to go to the gym but just to shoot baskets for an hour or so.

Fuck that. What happens when you die the day you retire? What happens if you travel too much and get to be 65 with no retirement fund? Hope the Democrats are still in office, duh. On a more serious note, I believe in investing in my future. I work for myself and have a savings account. Got any suggestions for investment? Cause buying a house is starting to seem like a joke. If you're one of those contrarian-types though, now would be the best time to buy a house. Mortgage rates are the lowest in 50 years, plus home prices are better for the buyer now. On a $200,000 house 1 percentage point on the loan interest translates into a difference of about $120 per month, which translates into $86,400 over the life of a 30 year loan. I don't know about you, but that's a really good chunk of change and can make up for quite a bit of stagnant home price years in which the value of the home does not go up. Plus you have to ask yourself, if you're going to live in this house forever, who cares about resale value? All you're doing with a lower valued home is saving property tax each year. That sounds good to me. And how long do you expect this housing crisis to last? 30 years? I doubt it. Even 5 or 10 years? As for where to invest, it depends on your timeline IMO. But you can always just go back to the old mix of stocks and bonds. China is expected to have explosive growth for the next couple of decades, they've already started. They had something like 8% growth last year while the US was still marred in recession. If you think the US will be stagnant for the next 5 years, don't be afraid to look at emerging markets and countries. But IMO, if you're an active investor, there will be plenty of opportunities to make money in the US market yet. Just stay away from penny stocks. Don't get caught looking for the quick 10-bagger as it will ruin you. I just figured up last night that if I wasn't stuck with the three penny stocks that I have that are losing money for me, I would have earned 19% since I began investing last January, which rapes the market return of about 7% when adjusted for market value when I added money to my account a few times over the last 1.5 years. Instead, I'm stuck at an 8% loss and just hoping these pennies will go back up just so I can break even. My boss has recently advised me on the value of doing covered calls with dividend-paying stocks. You not only get dividend, but get money from writing call options. It may limit your upside to 10-20% if the stock gets called away, but don't be greedy. It also protects you for about 5% to the downside just because of the income you get from the dividend and writing the calls. Plus if the stock stays put, you can continually write calls every month if you want and just keep garnering the money from it. Just gotta have a long term approach and not worry about day-to-day or even month-to-month fluctuations.

Looks about right, I get 3.5 cubes at 35 hz with winISD though.

You didn't tell us what sub this is for.

Sounds like the amp is at fault then. Try putting a friend's amp in place of yours to see if it works.

Fuck that. What happens when you die the day you retire? What happens if you travel too much and get to be 65 with no retirement fund?

This is what I understand too. What's funny is the kuhmo MT tires get great snow reviews. These duratec's will do really good I think. I get 30 days to test them out. The ride is MUCH more plush and the hum is much lower than from my old tires. The silent armors you recomended and the Nittos(I actually had 3 other local guys recomend them) would have been a week or more time to order. As it was they had to get the duratec from the local distributer. Ther fvkked up though and put the white lettering inside not out. I wanted to be flashy with one thing on my truck... oh well. They look mean as all hell and grip well. I did however notice that they were boiling hot when I got home after they were put on. My ford has them so low on air for factory tollerance I'm thinking about maybe pumping up the PSI a bit. What pressure do they recommend? I know Ford was stupid about low recommended pressure in the late 90s/early 2000s, but wasn't sure if it was on the Expys or not. My Explorer calls for 26 psi. Yeah right. I run mine at 40. Helps a little on gas mileage perhaps. For your Expedition I'd recommend at least 35 psi. Not sure what ply tire you got. 6 ply like mine (load range C) is rated up to 50 I believe, 8 ply (D) to 65, and 10 ply (E) to 80 psi. At least I hope/am sure you got at least 6 ply. The only thing to watch for when increasing pressure is to watch the center of the tread. If it starts wearing faster than the shoulders, your tire is overpressurized for the weight it's carrying. Mine are wearing perfectly at 40 psi, though, and I only have an Explorer.

Is that NET volume or gross volume? How much port areea, and to what is it tuned to? Because the BTL doesn't sounds loud enough to you doesn't means it's not getting the 1700 watts. Actually, as stated above by KU40 and myself, the sub will likely never reach it's full output potential. However, that is not an issue with the amp, it is simply how dynamic impedance functions in a loudspeaker system. The bottom line is, the amp is set with the DMM and is showing the proper voltage. This being the case, we can rest assured the amp is set up to deliver the proper power. Now he needs to focus on the real reason for it not being as loud as he thinks it should be... Install Right. You gotta tell us what boxes the BL and BTL are in, otherwise this whole comparison thing is worthless. And if you don't think the calculations are right for the BTL box, why don't you tell us so we can verify? You gotta give us something to work with here. It's impossible to solve a problem if you don't even know the variables.

If the fader is balanced and you even used a y-splitter, it's the amp.

Are you only going to hook that alt up to dedicated batteries for the system? I sure hope so. As for how to do it...... turn up the voltage regulator until it gets to 18 volts. If you don't know how to run a system on 18 volts, you need to do more google researching before you even start thinking about it.