THE FUTURE IS NOW
We are here with solar power. The breakeven point for solar panels on rooftops is now only 5 years. That means free electricity for the next 20 years from the solar panels! Yes, if you shop correctly, all the solar equipment comes with a 25 year (or longer) warranty.
Oh and it's just a matter of time that people start driving plug in electrics (hybrids or 100@ electrics). Electricity is cheaper than gasoline and cars are way more fun to drive with electric motors.
Here's my thoughts on my recent purchase on an electric vehicle - the 2014 Ford Focus Electric
PS: Thomas Sheridan has updated his videos with the 5th and 6th parts.
[Youtube] My thoughts on electric vehicles
Showing posts with label george4title. Show all posts
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Thursday, April 16, 2015
Tuesday, April 14, 2015
My trip to Downtown LA and Elliphant
APRIL 8, 2015
George videoed our day in Downtown LA for his Youtube channel.
We started out by eating at the Grand Central Market where I had an EggSlut muffin with eggs and bacon and they had Asian good. Jim, visiting from Chicago, and recently from a 6 year residence in Thailand, mentioned it was the best Thai food he had during his visit to California.
Next we joined a historic tour of Downtown LA (showed Neel, the tour guide, the cost of the Groupon and he agreed to be paid directly). We walked past the Los Angeles Times, City Hall, the police building. We visited buildings recently remodeled for retail, restaurants, residential, and office space. Neel mentioned the space for homeless to freely camp was shrinking and agreements with the ACLU (who are they to speak for the homeless?) will allow the areas that are gentrifying to further ban the homeless from loitering and camping in the near future, as they have done in the recent past.
We visited or walked by what were best in class destinations - Bullocks, the busiest store in the world, the busiest intersection in the world, new glamorous movie theaters built by movie stars to premiere their moves (most theaters are now closed for private parties and one converted to a jewelry bazaar). We went thru the jewelry district, today, the second biggest in terms of # of shops in the world, the financial/banking district, some newly converted commercial areas like arcades, and the Hill, where before WW2, the richest people lived, who then moved to the suburbs, leaving he area desolate. Their homes would later be sold for large skyscraper development into the skyscape you see today. All those skyscrapers are really on one street.
I came out with the impression that living in Downtown LA would age a person quickly due to the sheer number of people, noise, traffic, crime, and chaos. The place kind of hurt (wasn't 100% comfortable) like a 3rd world country.
The biggest lesson to learn from the tour was how things change and how quickly they change. One day you have the best in class of something and which is valuable and coveted. In a decade or two, it becomes abandoned and worthless. Ahhhhh, things are always in change ans flux...
After the tour we ate the tasting menu at Portofino Cucina Italiana. Lot of good food and the Amazon Local voucher really helped cut down on the cost. The owner was the waiter.
Then the highlight of the day. Elliphant on top the Standard hotel singing for about an hour! It was an outrageously good and enjoyable performance.
Here are some videos of the day:
I'm the guy in the red shirt and gray pants!
[Youtube] Downtown LA - Grand Central Market + food + the Standard hotel
I'm the guy bringing up the the system.
[Youtube] The dish of the day - Discussion
Other videos of Elliphant:
[Youtube] Elliphant - Never Been in Love
Performance of Elliphant starts in the middle of the video:
[Youtube] Elliphant - Downtown LA 04-08-2015
George videoed our day in Downtown LA for his Youtube channel.
We started out by eating at the Grand Central Market where I had an EggSlut muffin with eggs and bacon and they had Asian good. Jim, visiting from Chicago, and recently from a 6 year residence in Thailand, mentioned it was the best Thai food he had during his visit to California.
Next we joined a historic tour of Downtown LA (showed Neel, the tour guide, the cost of the Groupon and he agreed to be paid directly). We walked past the Los Angeles Times, City Hall, the police building. We visited buildings recently remodeled for retail, restaurants, residential, and office space. Neel mentioned the space for homeless to freely camp was shrinking and agreements with the ACLU (who are they to speak for the homeless?) will allow the areas that are gentrifying to further ban the homeless from loitering and camping in the near future, as they have done in the recent past.
We visited or walked by what were best in class destinations - Bullocks, the busiest store in the world, the busiest intersection in the world, new glamorous movie theaters built by movie stars to premiere their moves (most theaters are now closed for private parties and one converted to a jewelry bazaar). We went thru the jewelry district, today, the second biggest in terms of # of shops in the world, the financial/banking district, some newly converted commercial areas like arcades, and the Hill, where before WW2, the richest people lived, who then moved to the suburbs, leaving he area desolate. Their homes would later be sold for large skyscraper development into the skyscape you see today. All those skyscrapers are really on one street.
I came out with the impression that living in Downtown LA would age a person quickly due to the sheer number of people, noise, traffic, crime, and chaos. The place kind of hurt (wasn't 100% comfortable) like a 3rd world country.
The biggest lesson to learn from the tour was how things change and how quickly they change. One day you have the best in class of something and which is valuable and coveted. In a decade or two, it becomes abandoned and worthless. Ahhhhh, things are always in change ans flux...
After the tour we ate the tasting menu at Portofino Cucina Italiana. Lot of good food and the Amazon Local voucher really helped cut down on the cost. The owner was the waiter.
Then the highlight of the day. Elliphant on top the Standard hotel singing for about an hour! It was an outrageously good and enjoyable performance.
Here are some videos of the day:
I'm the guy in the red shirt and gray pants!
[Youtube] Downtown LA - Grand Central Market + food + the Standard hotel
I'm the guy bringing up the the system.
[Youtube] The dish of the day - Discussion
Other videos of Elliphant:
[Youtube] Elliphant - Never Been in Love
Performance of Elliphant starts in the middle of the video:
[Youtube] Elliphant - Downtown LA 04-08-2015
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
George4Title: Affordable Health Care
NO SUCH THING AS A FREE LUNCH
Ah ha! I knew it! Cheap health care can be had without health insurance. Here is the proof. George4Title visits a local health care clinic where they charge $360 per year to take care of your basic health concerns.
I've always thought that going to the doctors for a cold or cough was a waste of everyone's time and money. Doctors should be attending to more difficult tasks and patients shouldn't have to pay up the wazoo.
The keywords are CASH BASIS. Insurance just ups the costs. I mean who in their right mind pays $5000 for an ambulance ride? Or how about $5000 to put a cast on that leg? Or $5000 for some routine exam? Or tens of thousands for some routine surgeries and procedures? Everyone in health care is overpaid. How so? INSURANCE. Without insurance people wouldn't be paying these outrageous prices.
My experience has been such. When on cash basis, I think twice about going to the dentist. I may go once a year ot once every two years. Frankly, it really doesn't make much difference between going 6 months or two years. In fact, it might be better, as you are exposed to less XRay radiation. Cash basis forces me to shop around and to purchase only necessary services. The bill is looked over with a fine tooth comb. Any discrepancies are argued over and resolved.
Then there was the time with my dentist when I had dental insurance. When I looked over the bill and my copays (yes my copays were less than cash basis), the dentist was making 3x as much as if I had paid with cash. the prices were hiked to what the insurance would payout at max for the services!
When I went for my eye exam and purchased my eyeglasses, I had vision insurance. I had shown the optometrist (they may want to pretend to be doctors in their white coasts, the are not) that I could get the glasses cheaper online. She told me she had to sell to me at full price. It was actually the policy with my VSP vision insurance! It turns out I would've paid the same with or without the insurance.
India is primarily all cash basis. Only recently, has health care insurance bee introduced by MNCs in India. Needless to say, the services provided by clinics are much cheaper on cash basis! The are actually affordable as they have to be provided at prices the customer can pay!
Ok, maybe you don't be Cadillac service in a brand new hospital with the latest gadgets and machinery on cash basis. You do get basic services at prices you can afford. It's just like with everything else. To get a Cadillac, you must be willing to pay for it. For the serious stuff, health insurance is where it should be used. Deductions of $5,000 or $10,000 makes sure it is only used for emergencies such as accidents or major surgery. And at $50 per month this type of insurance makes sense.
And maybe you shouldn't live another few months if it's going to cost millions to keep you alive. Would it be worth it to be in a vegetative state all that time? Statistics say that 1/4 to 1/3 of a person's lifetime health care costs are spent in the final year. Wouldn't that money be better spent during the time of life when you are healthy? Give me that money when I am able to use it and enjoy it! Don't blow it on me when it's past my time!
Anyways, here is my rant from years past about health insurance.
[Youtube] George4Title visits a low cost health clinic
Ah ha! I knew it! Cheap health care can be had without health insurance. Here is the proof. George4Title visits a local health care clinic where they charge $360 per year to take care of your basic health concerns.
I've always thought that going to the doctors for a cold or cough was a waste of everyone's time and money. Doctors should be attending to more difficult tasks and patients shouldn't have to pay up the wazoo.
The keywords are CASH BASIS. Insurance just ups the costs. I mean who in their right mind pays $5000 for an ambulance ride? Or how about $5000 to put a cast on that leg? Or $5000 for some routine exam? Or tens of thousands for some routine surgeries and procedures? Everyone in health care is overpaid. How so? INSURANCE. Without insurance people wouldn't be paying these outrageous prices.
My experience has been such. When on cash basis, I think twice about going to the dentist. I may go once a year ot once every two years. Frankly, it really doesn't make much difference between going 6 months or two years. In fact, it might be better, as you are exposed to less XRay radiation. Cash basis forces me to shop around and to purchase only necessary services. The bill is looked over with a fine tooth comb. Any discrepancies are argued over and resolved.
Then there was the time with my dentist when I had dental insurance. When I looked over the bill and my copays (yes my copays were less than cash basis), the dentist was making 3x as much as if I had paid with cash. the prices were hiked to what the insurance would payout at max for the services!
When I went for my eye exam and purchased my eyeglasses, I had vision insurance. I had shown the optometrist (they may want to pretend to be doctors in their white coasts, the are not) that I could get the glasses cheaper online. She told me she had to sell to me at full price. It was actually the policy with my VSP vision insurance! It turns out I would've paid the same with or without the insurance.
India is primarily all cash basis. Only recently, has health care insurance bee introduced by MNCs in India. Needless to say, the services provided by clinics are much cheaper on cash basis! The are actually affordable as they have to be provided at prices the customer can pay!
Ok, maybe you don't be Cadillac service in a brand new hospital with the latest gadgets and machinery on cash basis. You do get basic services at prices you can afford. It's just like with everything else. To get a Cadillac, you must be willing to pay for it. For the serious stuff, health insurance is where it should be used. Deductions of $5,000 or $10,000 makes sure it is only used for emergencies such as accidents or major surgery. And at $50 per month this type of insurance makes sense.
And maybe you shouldn't live another few months if it's going to cost millions to keep you alive. Would it be worth it to be in a vegetative state all that time? Statistics say that 1/4 to 1/3 of a person's lifetime health care costs are spent in the final year. Wouldn't that money be better spent during the time of life when you are healthy? Give me that money when I am able to use it and enjoy it! Don't blow it on me when it's past my time!
Anyways, here is my rant from years past about health insurance.
[Youtube] George4Title visits a low cost health clinic
Sunday, August 08, 2010
Organic foods - Raid by authorities
Organic food raid by the authorities. The way they go in, you'd think it was illegal narcotics.
From George4Ttitle's youtube page.
[Youtube] Organic foods RAID!!
From George4Ttitle's youtube page.
[Youtube] Organic foods RAID!!
Friday, March 26, 2010
Small Farmers regulated out of business
A LICENSE TO KILL
Used to be a farmer could grow and sell things without interference from anyone else. Why should the government tell you you can't buy something like raw milk from your trusted farmer? As if the milk from a mass producer that abuses their animals and produces milk that's laden with rBST, pus, and antibiotics is safer for me?
What's it the business of the government to say, "No you can't do that!" to simple activities that are quite natural, wholesome, productive which add value to society?
No wonder we're in a depression! We're stopping commerce that benefits the small guys (both on the producer and consumer side).
[Youtube] George4Title interviews a small farmer from Tennessee
Used to be a farmer could grow and sell things without interference from anyone else. Why should the government tell you you can't buy something like raw milk from your trusted farmer? As if the milk from a mass producer that abuses their animals and produces milk that's laden with rBST, pus, and antibiotics is safer for me?
What's it the business of the government to say, "No you can't do that!" to simple activities that are quite natural, wholesome, productive which add value to society?
No wonder we're in a depression! We're stopping commerce that benefits the small guys (both on the producer and consumer side).
[Youtube] George4Title interviews a small farmer from Tennessee
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
George4Title tours ghetto Victorville with Sam
Homes in Victorville whose minimal building cost are $200,000 are being sold for as low as $39,000. New homes that are at most 2-3 years old are destroyed by neglect, gangs, hoodlums, and drug abuses. Section 8 housing is the norm. Windows are broken, lawns are brown, walls are graffitied, driveays host flat tire, cobwebbed, rusting vehicles.
McMansion housing projects are abandoned and appear as ghost towns. Nearby, a mansion is torched, presumably for an insurance payout. Someone explain to me how fire insurance takes a person out of a mortgage obligation?
[Youtube Playlist] George4Title tours the economically collapsed area Victorville with viewer Sam
McMansion housing projects are abandoned and appear as ghost towns. Nearby, a mansion is torched, presumably for an insurance payout. Someone explain to me how fire insurance takes a person out of a mortgage obligation?
[Youtube Playlist] George4Title tours the economically collapsed area Victorville with viewer Sam
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Tom Woods: Asks Why? 09-20-2009
George4Title shortens Tom Woods' speech at the Ron Paul BBQ Bash last weekend. Tom Woods asking some really well thought out questions. The video's 30 minutes long.
[Youtube] Tom Woods: Why? 09-20-2009
[Youtube] Tom Woods: Why? 09-20-2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
George4Title: Report on Vacant Corporate Office Campus
George4Title is back!
Here's an amazing report from George4Title (now Inflation.US) on an empty Corporate Office Campus in the Inland Empire!
[Youtube] George4Title / Inflation.USreports on an giant empty Corporate Office Campus
Here's an amazing report from George4Title (now Inflation.US) on an empty Corporate Office Campus in the Inland Empire!
[Youtube] George4Title / Inflation.USreports on an giant empty Corporate Office Campus
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Monday, April 13, 2009
Inland Empire: "New Home" Devastation
George and Daniel give us a tour of:
1) New Homes for Rent by developers
2) Squatters living in model homes!!
[Youtube] New Homes for Rent
[Youtube] Model Home Squatters
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1) New Homes for Rent by developers
2) Squatters living in model homes!!
[Youtube] New Homes for Rent
[Youtube] Model Home Squatters
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Saturday, April 11, 2009
Deep into the Inland Empire: Store Closings R Us
Daniel and George show us the economic devastation and all the store closings in the deep, deep areas of the Inland Empire in Southern California. We need to stop hacing bubble economies. What a waste of resources!
[Youtube] Inland Empire: Store Closings
[Youtube] Inland Empire: Store Closings
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
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