Yeah listening to the side by side comparisons it’s not really that big a deal. Probably the most noticeable thing is distortion of the snare drums. In the pantheon of production own-goals, compared to the way …And Justice For All was produced, with bass mixed down so that you can’t hear it and drums that sound like they’re being played inside a cardboard box or something, this is a misdemeanour at best. The bigger problem with Death Magnetic is that improved sound quality doesn’t change the fact that All Nightmare Long is the only good track on it.
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Maybe they’re just gambling that most people won’t use it, and they’ll jack up your company rates if everyone does?
Late-stage Metallica is most definitely dad rock. Slayer and Megadeth are cool uncle rock.
A proper will and trust for a couple with a bit of complexity would be 3-4k, can be done profitably for 2k on an assembly line. A fancy one for over 10M in assets might be 40k.
As for the other stuff, the value of the insurance will depend mainly on the fine print. I pay 6k/yr for health insurance. Few people need more than 2k/yr of legal work. Most high value legal work, including litigation, is for corporations. It costs more to sue people than it’s worth.
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I once worked somewhere that this was offered. What you should do is read the fine print. There is a lot of stuff under those categories that you listed that isn’t covered. They only do very basic stuff and if you want/need anything a bit different or more complicated, then it’s not covered and you need to pay separately. At least that’s way the plan I had access to worked. I suppose your plan could be better.
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I had a long detailed 2nd paragraph about snares in that post that I deleted. Snare is probably the one instrument that sounds amazingly accurate to me untouched, but the problem is that IRL they are so fucking loud. I feel like it’s always a trade-off between having the real acoustic qualities versus being able to push the volume while avoiding deafening transients. To my ear, -12 to -15 dB leaves enough headroom to do snares properly. This Metallica album coming in at [checks notes] -3 is on my popcorn list.
If you could build a blimp filled with vacuum instead of hydrogen or helium, would it be even more buoyant?
Yes, assuming the vacuum chamber didn’t weigh more than the blimp while being strong enough not to collapse from the pressure difference (which would be equal to the atmospheric pressure outside).
To be clear, the vacuum chamber is your new improved blimp. And now eta, the “buoyant force” would be the same as before because that’s just the weight of the air displaced by your blimp. But the net upward force on the blimp would increase by the weight of the hydrogen you had in your old design. I think that’s what you care about? This is also assuming the old and new volumes are the same.
Edit 2 for conclusion and pic: Best possible vacuum blimp is about 20% better than He and 10% better than H2.
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Insurance wouldn’t be sold if it didn’t generate a profit for somebody.
Unless you’re into house flipping or intend to get parking tickets regularly, I’d decline it.
Porque no los dos? The malice is driven by paranoid fear, imo.
$17/mo is pretty damn low, think I passed over that number. I’d probably get it, maybe do a will, and assume anything I actually needed after that likely wouldn’t be included. I forget where you are, but I know that on the East Coast lawyers are involved in residential property sales in a way they aren’t most other places, so possibly some value there.
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More dicy Erdogan stuff.
Yeah, this. Take it, use it to button up will and trust, any real estate transactions, then drop it after a year or two. I started carrying it again recently, and just closed on a private sale of my old house for $0. The quality of the lawyers can be hit or miss, so shop around and read the reviews.
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Assembly line estate planning is fine for most people, but when you mix significant assets with complex family/business dynamics (kids from prior spouses, disabled children, a closely held business or a taxable estate just to name a few), you need to suck it up and pay an expert to do something other than insert your name into their templates.
Oh, and definitely read the documents before you sign them, and don’t be afraid to ask questions.
Most people who remarry with kids are extremely unrealistic about how their spouse will behave towards their step children if they die first.
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The entirety of the Margarittaville lyric is hilarious and awful, but I have long maintained that “Searchin’ for my lost shaker of salt” is the single worst line in American Literature.
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This checks out. My kids got back from a week-long visit with their grandparents yesterday, and I was overcome with a mysterious compulsion to listen to “Leave” off of New Adventures in Hi-Fi, a song which I have not thought about once in 15 years. It was good.
I would bet that the business model is built largely around people who sign up planning to do this, and then put off actually getting their wills done for eight or ten years. Possibly as zapa says with some roadblocks built in to discourage people who are likely to successfully execute on this strategy.
He said at the start of the Video that she was shot at point blank range and then the gun jammed otherwise she would have been shot again by some of the people who where in the house, but it’s unconfirmed.
And that she was protecting her BF from another rival gang that was in a dispute with them for over a week when another incident happened in the same house in Peckham. That’s from the street and unconfirmed.
The drive by was also unconfirmed reports released yesterday, that I’m sure he said was unlikely and is the possible reason some say it was political.
I’ll post his follow up when it comes out as he seems to have decent contacts on the street in those communities.
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The entire genre of industrial rock/metal is dad rock. Bands like Orgy, Marilyn Manson, and Powerman 5000 are about as 90s as one can get.