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Yesterday, I talked to a man in California who for the past five years worked as a “sandwich artist” at Subway. His salary—and his only source of income? $18,000 per year. His recently foreclosed mortgage? $380,000.

The mortgage was individual, meaning no one else was legally or, more importantly, financially responsible for it. He had no down payment for the mortgage. The down payment was an additional $70,000 mortgage loan, also foreclosed. I assume he had someone living with him, who was able to help with the interest-only payments at least for a while until they reset to include the principal. But in the end he was given a total mortgage 25 times his income with no down payment.

” —The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan (February 28, 2009) - The View From Your Recession

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slate in brief summarizing Slate:

9/11 only happened because of multiple instances of dumb luck, not through any genius-level planning or preparation.

The attack itself was a very stupid move, since “nearly 80 percent of al-Qaida’s Afghanistan-based membership was killed” in the US retaliatory attack and al-Quaida’s standing-and membership-in the Muslim world is worse than ever.

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Office / Word 2007 on Ubuntu Intrepid (8.10) using Wine

There’s now one less reason to avoid Ubuntu.

I’ve gotten Office 2007 enterprise to work on Ubuntu Intrepid, through Wine 1.1.15 (a development release), using the official Office installer. That’s a pretty awesome achievement by the Wine devs. Installing required no winecfg tweaks of any kind.

Initially, there was some trouble getting it running. The office apps couldn’t load or save files. The user-facing error was: “word has insufficient memory” when starting or saving, and the “building blocks” template wouldn’t load during startup. In the terminal, the error contained something of the order of “SHGetFolderPathAndSubDirW Failed to create directory LC:/somefilepath”.

The (quick and dirty) solution was to remove or rename the directory “.wine” from my home directory (ctrl+h to show hidden folders in nautilus), since it contained lots of leftovers from older Wine versions apparently. This resets the Wine configuration (and removes all apps that were installed through installers). A lot of things were changed for the good in later Wine versions. This includes default configuration and the default directories (this probably caused the error), and removing the .wine directory makes sure .wine uses these new defaults, i think. Totally removing and reinstalling Wine through apt-get/synaptic/add-remove does NOT solve this problem, as it does not remove .wine.

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Hope this message is at the exact time of 1234567890

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“To some extent, I think de-cluttering involves recognizing that regret is part of life, and being OK with that. Yes, I’ve given away books that I now often wish I still owned. But I’ve also screwed up relationships, made iffy career choices, etc. — you suck it up and move on. If you try to cling to *every* *single* *thing* (material, spiritual, or emotional) that you might need one day in the totally hypothetical future, you’re going to end up bogged down in a lot of stuff.” —Occhiblu @ Ask Metafilter
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