From: Jeff Davis (jrd1415@yahoo.com)
Date: Tue Jun 03 2003 - 06:02:33 MDT
--- cryofan@mylinuxisp.com wrote:
> "Michael S. Lorrey" <mlorrey@yahoo.com> said:
>
> >
> > [quote from: cryofan@mylinuxisp.com on 2003-06-02
> at 14:28:58]
> >
> >At 500, buy in would average at $20k.
$4.5 mil divided by 500 gives $9k buy in.
Monthly payments as follows:
30yr mortgage
% rate 6.0 7.00 8.0 9.0 10.0
Pmnt 53.96 59.88 66.04 72.42 78.98
20yr mortgage
% rate 6.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 10.0
Pmnt 64.48 69.78 75.28 80.98 86.85
10yr mortgage
% rate 6.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 10.0
Pmnt 99.92 104.50 109.19 114.01 118.94
5yr mortgage
% rate 6.0 7.0 8.0 9.0 10.0
Pmnt 174.00 178.21 182.49 186.83 191.22
Seems strikingly affordable.
Compare to these figures on SF Bay Area Rental Costs
Median Monthly Rents, Fiscal Year 2002
Studio 1 Bdrm 2 Bdrm 3 Bdrm
Oakland PMSA $819 $991 $1,243 $1,704
San Fran PMSA $1,129 $1,462 $1,848 $2,535 San Jose
PMSA $1,131 $1,289 $1,592 $2,182
> > Then we have to deal with operational costs. This
> obviously depends on the
> > sort of propulsion that would be used. Current
> installation would be fuel
> > hungry. One idea I have is that with that big flat
> deck, we could install a
> > number of scrap airliner wings vertically on
> pivoting masts.
Yes!
> >and make it a
> > sailing ship... Extropian Windjammer Cruises,
> anyone?
Yes!
I checked in on the Extropian Principles and
discovered that apparently "Dynamic Optimism" has been
'downgraded' to "Practical Optimism". I'll stick to
the old 'dynamic' if it's all the same to you.
And speaking of extropian principles, what is the ExI
position on fun? I'm unclear on this. I checked the
"Principles" and can't seem to find fun specifically
mentioned. Surely an oversight.
I mention this because, after reading the original
post,--thank you Robert for your stalwart dedication
to our sacred vision: "A man's reach should exceed his
grasp, or what's a Jupiter Brain for?"--I found myself
striding around my living room. Strutting actually.
I was practicing my strutting. Working on my
technique. Head held high, shoulders back, arms
pumping, but not in a forced way. (Naked, of course.
Liberates the somatotropic energy flow and unleashes
the inner child. Only way to go.)
So I'm strutting around my living room, maxing out on
attitude, and all the while soliloquizing thusly: (In
my best over-the-top-imitation-thick-and-cheesy
Scottish brogue) "Ay, lassie, consider yerself
blessed. For you've the rare privilege--sure tis
rarer than the lips of an Ethiopian chicken--the rare
privilege of known', speakin with, indeed, bein'
looked upon with favor by such a man as can truthfully
say that he is the owner--ya might think "proud
owner", but, no, t'would be pure surplussage and
duplication, that--the owner, sure as McDonalds makes
McNuggets, of none other than a Mactaggart Scott C-3
Steam Catapult. Ay, lassie, hurl a fully freighted,
1700 stone fighter jet into the air quick as a
bridesmaid can snap a garter. Sure ya know it takes a
burly mountain of a brute to throw the caber. But
what's a caber then to the Mactaggart Scott C-3 steam
catapult? A twig, a straw, a fleck of chaff. Blink
your lovely eyes and the Mactaggart Scott C-3 steam
catapult will send the caber flying like a shaft from
Robin Hood's longbow. So lassie, are ya game? Sure
it tis, you'll not want to miss out on the thrill of
it. Come down will ya then to the catapult room with
me, and witness the power of my, er, that is to say
the equipment. Press you right down in your seat it
will, helpless as a babe. Take your breath away it
will, the Mactaggart Scott C-3 steam catapult."
I mean try it for yourself. You just can't roll out
the words "Mactaggart Scott etc" and not have a
big-ass smile fan out to the furthest reaches of your
karma.
At least that's how it seems to me.
Best, Jeff Davis
"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend.
Inside a dog it's too dark to read."
Groucho Marx
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