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In lieu of sleeping, I watch television. I have opinions. In no particular order, here's some stuff I've watched recently:
Preacher: This is the best thing on TV right now, and is an amazingly faithful adaptation of the comics. I haven't read them in years, but I loved the shit out of them back in the day, and so far this is doing justice to all of the characters. Cassidy, especially, is spot on. The TV version of Tulip is much more interesting, too: in the show she's a person, but in the comic she was The Girlfriend. The first season seems to be building to Jesse giving The Sermon in the finale, and just about every episode ends with an "Oh shit, here it comes" feeling. I am loving this so much.
Mr. Robot: Season one was absolutely incredible in every particular. It's impossible to talk about my favorite parts without massive spoilers, but there's a bit where they do a cliché thing and you're thinking "Oh, you're not going to do the cliché thing are you?" and then there's an instrumental music cue that is the most perfect music cue of all time because in just a few seconds it says, "Not only are we doing the cliché thing but we know it and we know you know it and we are going all in on the cliché thing."
Also: it is best to view Mr. Robot as a sequel to Pump Up the Volume in much the same way that Grosse Point Blank is a sequel to Say Anything (Lloyd Dobbler found that kickboxing didn't work out and joined the army) and that Don't Trust the Bitch in Apartment 23 is the prequel to Jessica Jones (back when Jessica and Patsy lived together before meeting Killgrave -- Jessica was way more fun and less uptight back then).
Anyway, season two of Mr. Robot is not really impressing me yet. I hope they get their shit together.
The Magicians: It took me a few episodes to warm to this, because I have no time for Harry Potter (a series about how hard it is being the popular jock who's good at everything) and this series sounds like it's going to be "Hogwarts, The Graduate School Years", but it's not really that, and it gets pretty dark pretty fast, e.g., the "C. S. Lewis / Lewis Carroll was a pedophile" subplot. It feels much more "real world" than most shows about magic do, and the characters actually have recognizable personalities. This show is excellent.
The Expanse: This might be the best science fiction I've ever seen on TV. It's actually science fiction, not "a western in spaaaace" like so much that passes for it is. The world-building is amazingly complex, the politics seem sensible, it has good characterizations, and probably the best physics I've seen in a scifi TV or movie since 2001. The writers understand gravity and inertia if you can believe that. I know, right?
Stranger Things: I would like to thank everyone who has been raving about this show for being so vocal about it, and thereby letting me know that I should utterly disregard your opinion on everything, ever. This is the biggest piece of trash I've seen since... well, since the last piece of saccharine pabulum that Spielberg vomited onto the screen. It's a ham-handed Spielberg / Stephen King pastiche, and it's just as bad as the warmed over, Very Special Episode 80s crap it is imitating, but nostalgia is a hell of a drug, so the fact that it is doing a decent job of imitating barely-remembered crap passes for depth with a lot of people, I guess?
This is a show that had Amnesia Psychic Girl actually say the line, "Friend? What is friend?"
Someone actually wrote that down. Someone wrote that down and thought, "Yes! Nailed it!"
There is a makeover montage. A god damned makeover montage.
It's basically this:
Orphan Black: Still amazing. Watch this show! If you are even remotely considering watching Sense8, stop that, and watch this instead, because anything that was interesting in Sense8 was already covered by Orphan Black by season 3, and in a less stupid way, and using characters you actually give a shit about (most of whom are played by the same person, which I still can hardly believe).
Wynonna Earp: This show is pretty dumb, but it's fun-dumb in the way mid-series Supernatural was dumb (the period when they kind of just said "fuck it" to making any sense, but before they ran out of ideas). The first few episodes are kind of hard to take, mostly because the writers didn't seem to be in agreement over whether the little sister's character was supposed to be 16 or 25, but it picks up. There's a lot of shooting demons in the face, and it's the most "open carry" show I've ever seen. I wonder what part of Canada is standing in for Arizona here.
Fear the Walking Dead: This show exists solely to remind you that The Walking Dead could be so much worse. You will love this show if you watched The Walking Dead and said to yourself, "You know what this show was missing? All of the incuriosity, pointless secret-keeping and one-note unsympathetic non-characters that I came to expect from Lost." This show is the walking embodiment of, "Why did the character decide to do the thing? Because the plot demanded it." Fuck this show.
Dark Matter: I call this "Amnesia Firefly". If you give your characters amnesia, they don't have to have personalities! If you keep giving them amnesia over and over again, you can keep rewriting the same episode! Avoid.
Killjoys: It's another Firefly ripoff, and it's not a whole lot better, but at least two of the characters have something approaching motivation. There seems to be some complex world-building in the background, but it's a slow reveal.
Powers: The first half of season one was pretty lousy, but it picked up (naked Eddie Izzard eating people! how can you not love that!), and season two is getting good. If you watched the first season of Heroes and wanted to throw things at the TV the whole time, this might be the show that you wished that was.
Penny Dreadful: Or, "The League of Extraordinarily Bloody Gentlemen". Season one was perfection. Season two was pretty good. Season three was a betrayal: just avoid it.
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt: I find this show hilarious. Apparently the people who do not find this show hilarious are people who did not find 30 Rock hilarious. So let that be your guide.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend: Ok, stay with me here. This is actually a musical. Like, a full-on, people stop talking and break into song and dance numbers three times an episode musical. How did this happen? How is this a thing that exists? How is this so funny? Because it's really funny. It's as if Kimmy Schmidt was produced by Bialystock and Bloom.
Black Sails: There is really a lot of excellent pirating in this show. Excellent pirating. Pirating and whoring and quite a lot of historically accurate pubic hair. The seasons tend to bog down and get a little talky in the middle, but they bookend it with some amazing naval battles. And even when it's talky, it's pretty great. Like this:
Flint: That's not why you did it.
Silver: Really? Would you like to tell me why I did it, then?
Flint: Well, I wasn't there, but, I'd hazard the guess that you learned of what had happened, told him how fucking stupid he was, and in that moment, he gave you a look that amounted to something less than contrite. And in that moment, you felt it.
Silver: Felt what?
Flint: Darkness. Hate. Showing indifference to the authority that you sacrificed so much to acquire, disdain for refusing to acknowledge that his actions, had you not intervened, would have led to an outcome that he would have held you responsible for reversing. Pride. Questioning what kind of man you are if you don't seek retribution for the offense.
Silver: So what are you saying? You saying I went too far with him?
Flint: Maybe you went too far. Maybe you didn't go far enough. Maybe you did it just right. The point is that while you were doing it, you heard a voice telling you that disciplining him would prevent him from repeating the offense, a voice that sounded like reason, and there was reason to it, as the most compelling lies are comprised almost entirely of the truth. But that's what it does. Cloaks itself in whatever it must to move you to action. And the more you deny its presence, the more powerful it gets, and the more likely it is to consume you entirely without you ever even knowing it was there. Now, if you and I are to lead these men together, you must learn to know its presence well so that you may use it ... Rather than it use you.
Also, it's a prequel to Treasure Island. You don't need to know anything about Treasure Island to follow it, but if you want to, I recommend the 1934 version.
Outlander: Our protagonist's problem is that she's just too smart and too good at everything, and too many people keep falling in love with her, so she keeps needing to be rescued by a brooding shirtless kilt. This is the most "Mary Sue" thing I have ever seen in my life. It's awful.
Lucifer: Speaking of Mary Sues, this show is basically identical to Castle: that is to say, "I don't give a shit about your stupid mismatched-buddy-cop police procedural -- oh, no chief, please don't partner me with the witty and charming outsider" -- but I watched it for a few episodes because that guy is kind of charming. But yeah, I gave up on it.
Ash vs Evil Dead: So, remember that scene, where Bruce Campbell is fighting his possessed hand and it keeps smashing plates over his head? If you want to see a series that is basically that scene over and over again, this is the series for you. (Note: I do, and so this is the series for me.)
Another Period: This is the actually-watchable version of Downton Abbey.
Outcast: How can you make exorcisms so boring?
12 Monkeys: This is pretty lousy, and it's clear at this point that the writers have no plan at all, and are going to just keep palimpsesting over the plot as needed to keep it going. Bleh. But you have to admire what's-his-name's commitment to maintaining 5 days of stubble. It's a Miami Vice level of tonsorial devotion.
Blindspot, Gotham, The Strain: These shows are bullshit.
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Mr. Robot: Yes, I keep waiting to hear a needle drop on Leonard Cohen.
Bob Frobber says:
I read the first book of The Expanse (Leviathan Wakes) and I have to say, it's quite good sci-fi. I think the idea was to fill in the gaps between modern day sci-fi and post-scarcity stuff like the Culture books. Somehow it manages to combine believable physics with believable interplanetary politics.
phuzz says:
Pretty much my only complaint about The Expanse is that they don't have the multi-billion dollar budget required to shoot in actual free fall. Everything else is fanboy nitpicking.
Oh, and Avasarala needs to swear more. In the books she's effing and blinding all over the shop, and in the show I think she's had one 'shit'. that's it. Apart from that it's a great adaptation.
As for The Magicians, they went in a completely different direction from the books, and I'm ok with that. Penny in particular is now an actual (awesome!) character rather than a plot device who only exists to make the protagonist's life a bit more angsty from time to time.
Now I think about it, there's a lot of book/comic adaptations in the list, I wonder why.
For the same reason that all movies are remakes or sequels. Why invent something new when there's so much of the past to mine?
Doctor Memory says:
The freefall sequences in The Expanse are really pretty good given that it's all being done with wires, camera angles and a bit of CGI hair. It'd be nice if they had the insane amount of money to regularly do shoots on the Vomit Comet, but in some ways I'm even more impressed that for the most part they don't seem to need to.
I think the idea was to fill in the gaps between modern day sci-fi and post-scarcity stuff
Yep, that's exactly what they were going for: http://www.orbitbooks.net/interview/james-s-a-corey-2/
"There's a lot of science fiction that talks about the near future. There's a lot about great galaxy spanning empires of the distant future. But there's not much that talks about the part in between."
It's a good interview.
George McKie says:
Southern Alberta, specifically the area vaguely around Calgary, is standing in for Arizona.
Jeremy Wilson says:
Yes, finally - an actual Science Fiction show is back on TV! I enjoy The Expanse novels and they've been sticking to the books pretty well so far, and I like all the casting choices. I hope SyFy doesn't fuck it up.
Eric Prestemon says:
I wonder if you have tried Bojack Horseman. It starts off ... without clearly conveying what it is going to be, but it gets better over the season, and then again in seasons 2&3.
Pavel Lishin says:
I read the first book that The Magicians was based on, and loathed it. I can't remember the last time I hated a book that much. And the one part of the book I liked, I didn't feel like the TV show did well. So I gave up.
M says:
The thing about The Magicians is that the narrator is a loathsome person and you're supposed to hate him while he stumbles around ruining his life and other people's lives and just being a shitty human being. If you can't stand that sort of book then yeah, it's not for you.
I love the books because the main characters are all broken in the ways that smart/gifted/high-achieving kids often are, the critique of Narnia / Potter is spot on and often hilarious, and it does an excellent job of both sending up its genres and indulging in them without restraint or apology.
I've also been reading the books and I think that's a very good summary -- though I wouldn't go so far as "loathsome". He's very broken, though.
This is actually the first time ever that I've read a book after seeing the tv show that was based on it. They are different enough that it wasn't very spoilery.
I do like the books, but Penny is so much better written in the show. Julia too.
Elusis says:
7 years ago at 10:58 pm
Well, they could hardly be worse.
I suppose they could prance around in lingerie a lot and make out with each other. But his "ha ha, everyone is so awful, aren't they awful, isn't it just too too outrageous how awful they are?" attitude does a shit job of pasting over the fact that actually, his narrator is pretty awful in some utterly predictable, boring ways that smart women have seen every time they log onto OK Cupid, including extremely dull millennial "ironic" straight dude sexism that is not actually attractive or sympathetic to anyone who is not a straight dude, and he is not actually terribly precious or exceptional in his awfulness. And I can meet That Guy just by reading the links on File 770 any day of the week.
I commented to another person about the fact that I wrote a review of the book that I didn't want to repeat here. There's other problems I had with the book, other than the characters. (Briefly; none of what we see matters; all the rules are completely arbitrary and inconsistent; we see flashes of an incredibly interesting world, but keep getting ejected into the shittiest, most boring possible Manhattan.)
you're supposed to hate him while he stumbles around ruining his life and other people's lives and just being a shitty human being.
In that case, Mr. Grossman has completely succeeded, and I applaud him for it. But I think that this book prompted my first ever review on Goodreads, just so I could get the bile out of my system; there's more I hate about it than just the awful people we're being dragged along with.
UnlikelyLass says:
I got about 70% of the way through the first book and set it aside. I am reasonably sure I won't pick it back up.
I'm sure there's an argument to be made that Grossman is capturing some universal life experience in this, but I have zero confidence that either he or the 'protagonist' have enough self-awareness to see just how much of a paen to white straight male privilege the whole narrative is.
The reduction of pretty much all female characters to 'hot or not' did not actually endear me to anything. I was mostly reminded of the bit about how 'write what you know' leads to a lot of novels about middle-aged college professors struggling with adultery.
F-, would not read again.
Hear, hear. I hated that book and its hateful, hateful characters so much that I could barely finish it. And then I read a free "teaser" chapter for Book 2, and it was clearly not getting any better. And the author's smarmy "I'm a white guy with literary cred so clearly I would never write anything so lowly as GENRE, who writes GENRE anyway, small people that's who, small poor people, which is why I'm in the New York Times and GENRE people are not" attitude made me desperate to punch him and his shitty, whiny, sexist, self-pitying, solipsism in the mouth.
Ok! You all hate The Magicians. Fine. But nobody wants to fight about how UNRELENTINGLY AWFUL Stranger Things was?
nooj says:
(Youtube playlist of the bands mentioned below:
A smattering of Holodeck Records artists:
S U R V I V E, Marie Davidson, Troller, BOAN (NSFW)
Nah, Stranger Things wasn't great, but I made it to the end. I mostly kept going because I really like the music!
Turns out it was done by some guys in a band called S U R V I V E that I already like! They do "dark electronic" or something.
I've seen them four or five times now. They did Fun Fun Fun Fest last year-- in the rain!--and SXSW. Great live show. It's just four guys behind nine synthesizers making awesome music! Somehow they can set all that shit up in about twenty minutes, even on a very small stage.
They release under Holodeck Records, who has a few other bands people love: Marie Davidson, who has a wonderful song called "I don't love you." Since she's Canadian, she says it in French "Je ne t'aime pas" and it sounds all sexy. Also, she's delightfully friendly!
Also on the label is Troller, who doesn't grab me so much, and BOAN, a stuck-up narcissistic diva whose music would be better if she just shut the fuck up and let her synth player do solos.
Oh, and before I forget:
Michael Stein, one of the guys who did the Stranger Things soundtrack, is doing a solo set at Volstead Lounge (Hotel Vegas) in Austin on August 1. Also, one of the Troller guys is doing a solo set. Go check it out!
rcn says:
Ah, the music. Yeah. You know, that's one of the things that makes it look like a fake 80s simulation made by someone who wasn't really there in the 80s.
If Kang and Kodos tried to build up a "realistic" human environment for their alien experiments on humans and they tried to base it on 80s culture, they'd probably say "yeah, we'll use that music made with bleeps and blops and electronic instruments from that era, that'll make it".
BUT, music in the 80s didn't really sound like that. When I see a blatantly obvious 80s scene (a group of goonies/et-like kids on their bikes in a forest or a makeup/dance montage) there are three types of music my mind instantly pastes into that:
- A typical John Williams piece with strings, you know, that kind of ionian/lydian hollywoodesque majestic things he does for movies.
- A power ballad
- Cheesy pop or electro-pop (think of the Footloose song)
But even if the electropop song uses instruments from the 80s, the people back then weren't making bleeps and blops with them, they were trying to make them sound like real instruments, that's why they sound so cheesy!
It wasn't until well into the 2010s when more mainstream electronic musicians started to use SID or NES or YM2612 patches and think "OMG that is SO 80s!" and use them for the fake nostalgia effect.
I would have been totally fine with yet another John Williams soundtrack! I cannot get enough of him!
Even when he phones it in I spooge all over the speakers.
https://youtu.be/xOHpXiDFlbA
Michael Böckling says:
If you liked the Stranger Things, soundtrack, you're going to love Jeremy Schmidt / Sinoia Caves: https://open.spotify.com/track/0ur22QFd1c3rVlMbloINoR
Patrick Berry says:
Stranger Things wasn't that bad (my brain did not turn to tapioca pudding and leak out of my ear ruining my favorite chair and rug), but I certainly don't have the buy in to defend it. It was absolutely a stitched together 8-ball of nostalgia and what ever else goes in that drug concoction, but...and here's my huge fucking cop-out, I felt they stitched it together well. I actually feel it works. But I also get how people might want to stab their eyes out with old fudge-sidle sticks rather than watch more than 30 seconds of it.
Also now I have to watch The Magicians...
The Expanse was great! I can't wait for the next season!
And Orphan Black I just watch for the acting. I get to the end of each episode and think, holy shit, I never get confused as to who is who! Is Tatiana just that damn good?
I turn off my brain when it comes to plot. The science has had so many "I cured cancer! Oh wait, no I didn't. Oh look, yes I did, but the only way is if you'll let me inject you with this one-of-a-kind thing....that I just dropped on the floor. Fuck it, we'll make some more in the next episode." So now I just tune all that shit out.
There was a show a few years back called United States of Tara where Toni Collette played a woman with multiple personalities, and in the early episodes she'd change clothes or put on a hat or something when she switched, but after a while they gave up on that, and you could tell who she was this time just by her body language. She was great. But, Tatiana is beyond that.
I love watching Tatiana's interviews. You see the elements of her characters pop out, and it's like, omg, how does she fit everyone inside the same skin??
Editer says:
I regularly watch the end acting credits and wonder where all the other women are. I actually forget they're all the same one.
Michael V. says:
So you've got a pretty packed TV schedule, but if you find yourself needing another show, may I suggest The Americans? Tense Cold War drama, 80s music, great acting, and an FBI mail robot. My favorite show right now.
Yeah I've been watching that too, but the current season hasn't really been grabbing me as much.
I first started watching The Americans while Agent Carter was doing their Black Widow Program subplot, and sometimes I would lose track of which show I was watching, because it's the same operation! One just had more kung fu.
I'm not through the whole season yet, but the Martha situation is pretty tense. The episode with The Day After reminded me just how much that movie fucked me up as a kid - I grew up near O'Hare, and every time a plane went by, I'd have a panic attack.
Good catch on the AC similarity!
Penny Dreadful: Loved season 1, and couldn't make it past a few episodes of season 2. The only character I liked by then was Frankenstein's monster. Rory Kinnear is just awesome. May I have a supercut of just his scenes, please? (For those of you who don't remember, Rory Kinnear was the Prime Minister in the pilot of Black Mirror.)
Mr. Robot: Loved season 1 till the finale, where nothing happened. Same for the premiere of season 2. Are they going to spend the whole season doing nothing, and helplessly wondering what happened? Yeah, fuck that. I'll wait until the interwebs tell me what happened, and use that as my cue to pick it back up. And if he doesn't slowly disembowel and then dismember the shit who kidnapped his girlfriend (who ran off and isn't in season 2), then the emotional climax of season 1 meant nothing.
Lucifer: I loved the comic. Just devoured it! The show, however, is worse than Constantine.
Ash vs. Evil Dead: I'm waiting to binge this on a day where I'm so sick I can't move. I'll still be so sick I can't move, but at least I'll be happy!
Pronoiac says:
Mr. Robot - I've only seen season 1. I love everything with Elliot, but Tyrell bores me. I wonder if the show's good at atmospherics, but utter crap at plot.
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend - I love it! The soundtrack apparently has entertaining commentary for each track. "Heavy Boobs" is kinda messed up. It's on Spotify.
"Last thing: the gift, for the elders, for footing the bill for the debauchery."
"Right. What did we get them last year?"
"An actual, working bag of dicks."
Eric TF Bat says:
My kids are fond of a cartoon called Kipper The Dog, whose voice actor isn't the guy who plays Lucifer, but they sound identical. It's really quite distracting.
roomba says:
What's your opinion on http://www.amc.com/shows/halt-and-catch-fire?


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Q: replacing element with jQuery I have <form>s on my page that I want to replace with <button>s. The thing that is causing me difficulty is that I want to use the value of the <form>'s submit input as the html for the button.
<form action="/postcomment/" method="post">
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<input type="submit" value="Reply">
</form>

Becomes
<button class="postcomment">Reply</button>

I'm having a hard time wrapping my mind around the chaining here. I need to grab the data  values (e.g. "Reply") and then insert them into the button elements in one jQuery operation (or else manage the ordering with something like .index()) and I haven't figure out how to do that yet.

A: Do something like this:
$('input[type="submit"]').replaceWith(function () {
    return $('<button>').text(this.value).addClass('postcomment');
});

jsFiddle Demo
This will replace all of your submit buttons (<input type="submit">) with a <button>, keeping the text on the button.
replaceWith() allows you to use a function as its parameter, which has a reference to the individual submits themselves (this).

A: Working example here: http://jsfiddle.net/Mch86/
$(document).ready(function(){
    $('form').each(function(){
        button = $('<button>' + $('input[type="submit"]', this).val() + '</button>').addClass($(this).attr('action').replace(/\//g, ''));
        $(this).replaceWith(button);
    });
});

A: Since you said you have multiple forms:
$(function() {
    $('form').each(function() {
        var str = $(this).find('input[type="submit"]').val();
        $(this).replaceWith($('<button/>').addClass("postcomment").text(str));
    });
});

A: You could do:
var label = $('form input:submit').val();
var action = $('form').attr('action').replace(/\//g, '');

var button = $('<button />', { class: action});
button.html(label);
$('form').replaceWith(button)

;
fiddle here: http://jsfiddle.net/be3af/1/

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Novated Car Leasing vs. Buying a Car Outright or with a Loan
Home > Blog > Novated Car Leasing vs. Buying a Car Outright or with a Loan
It's a debate that's been going on for years – what's the most cost-effective way to own a car? Purchasing a car through any means is usually a pretty big deal, emotionally and financially. We get dependent on them and can end up spending a fortune on something that's reliable, looks good and has all the flashy features we need. Both owning a vehicle through a novated lease structure and buying a car with a consumer loan come with their own set of benefits and drawbacks – so how do you decide what's right for you?
Before deciding, it's important to weigh up both sides of the argument. Take a close look at your current lifestyle to determine which option fits best. Career choice, car essentials, needs and preferences will all impact the end result too and contribute in reaching a sound decision. Here are the pros and cons of both explained:
What Does a Novated Car Leasing Mean?
Novated leasing is a type of car lease where you own the vehicle under a contract that has a balloon payment (also known as 'residual value' – which is a lump sum repayment) at the end of your lease term. In comparison to purchasing a car via a consumer finance loan which involves two parties – the seller and the buyer, novated leasing is a contract between three parties – you, your employer and the bank or financing company. Not everyone understands how a novated lease works, but what you do need to understand is that with novated leasing you have the potential to save serious money.
Benefits of Novated Leasing
The biggest advantage of novated leasing is the post-tax salary benefits. This is where the big bucks are saved. A novated lease is done via salary packaging which means your employer makes the car payments for you. These payments come out of your pre-tax earnings before your regular pay hits your account.
"When you purchase a vehicle on a novated lease you don't finance the GST (up to a maximum of 10%). That's a significant saving"
Aside from the easy-to-manage payments you have the significant savings and novated leasing also enables drivers to upscale. Whether your job requires driving a luxury vehicle or you're in a need of a serious upgrade, leasing a car means you can drive a better car for less money. Some careers need safer cars to drive in country areas or longer distances. Novated leasing gives you access to these opportunities without the big price tag.
Cars that are purchased through novated leasing are covered by warranty with the latest models available. You'll have the opportunity to upgrade the vehicle at the end of the lease, which is typically anything from 1 year to 5 years. Other key benefits include lower monthly payments, fewer upfront costs, reduced repair costs and you'll pay less tax.
Drawbacks of Novated Leasing
At the end of the day – you own the car with the caveat that there's a balloon payment at the end, and for some people, this is a drawback.
The rationale behind the Residual / Balloon payment is that you are paying off the capital cost of the car using pre-tax salary. The ATO has set the Residual percentage, so as to bring the Residual value in line with the expected market value of the car at the end of the lease. This is because any profit you make when selling the car is not taxed. If there was no Residual value, then you would receive a pre-tax benefit of the sale value of the car, which could run into tens of thousands.
Because the car is essentially yours, it will show as both an asset and liability on your personal assets and liabilities.
Buying a Car with a Consumer Loan
Buying a car through a consumer loan like via the bank or a car financing company has always been the go-to method when you're in need of a car. It's always made sense to purchase a car when you know you're going to need one. Not everyone wants to rely on public transport and if your job involves driving around or working far from home, the convenience of having your own vehicle is undeniable. But since novated leasing has become an option booming in popularity, the debate stands about which option is best.
Benefits of Buying a Car Outright or with a Consumer Loan
Owning a car outright comes with the advantages of paying the car off in full over the period of the loan.
Buying your own car enables you to build up some resale value, paying off the loan earlier and being payment-free and the inevitable independence that many car owners thrive on. Buying a car through a consumer loan is generally paid in full over a 5-year term. AT the end of the 5 years, the cost of maintaining the car leads to a further question as to whether it is cheaper to keep repairing an older vehicle or go back to trading the car in on a new vehicle.
Drawbacks of Buying a Car
Whilst the freedom is certainly a nice feeling that comes with owning your car, there are drawbacks to be aware of.
On average, your monthly repayments will be higher as opposed to novated leasing. This is because, on a Novated lease, you are not paying off the Residual value / Balloon. You won't reap the pre-tax salary benefits and you won't save the GST on the purchase price or any of your repairs. There's no denying that cars can be money pits, and this is where buying over leasing becomes costly. When you do decide to upgrade or move on from your current car, you'll have to face the hassle of trading it in or selling it too.
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Top Five Most Expensive Film Props
By WebmasterFebruary 22, 2014Stockyard Blog
Ever wondered what happens to famous movie props? The answer, not surprisingly, is that they're sold off, often for eye-wateringly high sums. Here are the five most expensive movie props ever sold.
James Bond's Aston Martin DB5 from Goldfinger – £2.5 million
With a top speed of 145 mph, this is just the car for a stylish Secret Agent to evade capture. The star of the 1964 Bond movie Goldfinger, the iconic DB5 was modified by Aston Martin to include machine guns, rotating number plates and an ejector seat. Sold by RM Auctions, it became the most expensive prop in film history.
Steve McQueen's 1970 Porsche 911S – £824,521
In 1971, Steve McQueen introduced this stunning vehicle to the world in the blockbuster Le Mans. Again, it was RM Auctions who brought the gavel down on the slate grey racer, which was fitted with previously unseen car accessories. Car interiors were basic back in the 1970's, but McQueen's Porsche was fitted with and electronic sunroof, air conditioning, and a Blaupunkt radio and tinted windows, all of which were considered cutting edge at that time.
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang Car – £495,415
According to Dick Van Dyke, it had the turning circle of a tanker but this didn't stop Chitty Chitty Bang Bang fetching nearly half a million pounds at auction last year. The 'Gen 11', as it was known, was designed by Ken Adams, and ended up with a private collector, who must have felt he'd got a bargain: the car fell well below the estimated $1-2 million dollars expected. There were six Gen 11s made in total, and all are now in the hands of private collectors, one of whom is the DJ Chris Evans, who bought it in 2012 from the lucky bidder..
Audrey Hepburn Black Dress – £467,200
Christies sold Audrey Hepburn's delightful black dress, back in 2006. Hepburn's good friend Givenchy made the for the 1961 movie Breakfast At Tiffany's. Two dresses were made, and one is in currently on display in the Museum of Film in Madrid. A school was built in Calcutta with the proceeds of the sale. The auctioneers had estimated the dress would make between £50-70,000, so they must have been delighted with their commission.
Luke Skywalker Light Saber – £145,850
The public's passion for Star Wars remains undimmed, and the light sabre wielded by Luke in Star Wars: A New Hope and The Empire Strikes Back caused huge excitement when it came up for auction back in 2008. With productions as huge as the Star War series, there are countless movie props on the market at any one time, but Luke's light sabre is the most sought-after, and the most expensive.
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Volkswagen-owned brands are aiming for synergies from joint transmission development.
The TGS will be one of the MAN models to receive Scania's gearbox hardware.
European cousins MAN and Scania have announced they will co-operate on gearbox technology.
As part of the collaboration, Scania's gearbox hardware will be gradually implemented in TGS and TGX series MAN trucks from 2016.
MAN says it will develop software for the optimal gear changing strategy for its trucks.
The Volkswagen group brands also aim to jointly develop the subsequent generation of the current Scania gearbox portfolio.
"Scania and MAN will be using a collectively developed, innovative gearbox concept in their vehicles in the future," MAN CEO Anders Nielsen says.
"Our aim with this co-operation is for components which set global benchmarks for commercial vehicle technology to emerge," Nielsen says.
"That's why we want to co-operate on development projects with Scania in future too, provided that these do not impact upon their respective brands."
MAN says it and Scania will remain separate brands "in line with Volkswagen's multi-brand strategy", with sales and service activities also separate.
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Idaho CattleWomen , November 20, 2015
Laurie Lickley is a native of Salmon, Idaho, and a tried-and-true University of Idaho Vandal, graduating in 1990. She and her husband, Bill, along with their two children (Valene and Cole) currently reside on the family's century farm and ranch in Jerome. Aside from the daily ranching and farming operations in Idaho and Nevada, Laurie has served Idaho's beef industry from the local to national level in various leadership positions for the Idaho Beef Council, Idaho Cattle Association, and the National Cattlemen Beef Association. In 2004, Laurie was awarded Idaho CattleWoman of the Year. In her spare time, Laurie volunteers with Jerome Rotary, and with Beef Counts, a partnership between Idaho's Beef Industry and The Idaho Foodbank.
We would also like to mention that today is Laurie's first day serving as the President of the Idaho Cattle Association! Having a Cattlewomen at the helm of such a prestigious organization is an honor for us all, and we can't wait to see what great things she will accomplish in the upcoming year!
How are you involved in agriculture today? Our family farms and ranches in both Idaho and Nevada. I'm a big believer in being involved in the groups that keep our industry going; groups like ICA, the Beef Council, and NCBA.
How has your life been shaped by agriculture? I subscribe to the theory that everyone must have food, shelter and clothing. Agriculture and the natural resource industry provide those, and we are rewarded that our generational families provide us with that ability to continue making a difference every day in everyone's life—both domestically and abroad. We all have to eat, and quite frankly, the number one source of protein is beef. It provides more bang-for-your-buck than any other protein source on the market.
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Who inspires you or serves as a mentor? I have been fortunate to have had many mentors along my industry leadership path. First and foremost, I owe a debt of gratitude to Joe Tugaw for his mentoring in my early years. He and Gene Davis, Dave Nelson, and others whom I'll reserve credit (still living) helped shape my leadership style. I miss them dearly. I am wholly inspired by Justice Sandra Day O'Conner who was raised on a ranch on the Arizona/Nevada border and was the first woman appointed to the Supreme Court by President Reagan. Her book Lazy B, with whom she penned with her brother Alan Day, actually portrays many of our lives today. Justice O'Connor's approach to process and practicality motivate me.
How do you provide encouragement to others? Identifying the next generation of industry leaders is important to all organizations and especially to me. Oftentimes, we get so caught up in playing defense that we forget offense may be more important in winning the battle. We've got to engage the offense!
My mantra is write it down, make it happen. We set life, professional and business goals 25 years ago when we got married. My children, each year, write down their annual five, 10 and 20-year goals. Where do you want to be and how do you want to get there? Let's make it happen; I'll help.
If given the chance, what message about agriculture or the beef industry would you share with a large group of people? When my alarm rings at 5:30 a.m. every morning and that first cup of coffee awaits, I know the job that I have ahead of me that day and every day is a job I love. See #2.
Three generations of Lickleys horseback in front of their barn, which was relocated and preserved at the IFARM Museum.
What are you most thankful for? I am very blessed to have an amazing healthy family. My father-in-law is the best; we have good, sane, well-rounded children, and with an empty nest Bill and I still enjoy each other's company (or he says he does, ha!). I am simply blessed.
What is your favorite meal to cook yourself or for others? I am a big ribeye steak girl, medium rare on the Traeger! Prior to last month, my best steak may have been a typical Prime steak from the freezer; however, I recently had an Akaushi steak, which created an "umami" overload. I still have two steaks in the freezer….add a beautiful bottle of red wine and a veggie salad, and I'm in heaven. My family loves a good steak, although they say my meatloaf is pretty tasty too!
What's the first thing you do when you get to the grocery store? Perimeter, perimeter, perimeter and meat case! I really like WinCo and usually check out the meat case for interesting conversation and selection (when excess beef is needed I do shop Costco), etc. FYI, they just changed up their meat case; maybe they were inspired by all the millennial consumers buying beef these days.
What are a few of your guilty pleasures? Beef—No guilt here, though—it's delicious and nutritious, coffee, red wine, a good book, and exercise. I'm pretty easy to please!
What are three little known facts about you? 1) My grandfather rowed for Columbia University in the mid 1930s, just before the 1936 University of Washington team won the Olympics in Germany (you must read "The Boys in the Boat"). After practicing medicine in Republic, Wash., he was elected Spokane County Coroner. 2) My mother played half-court basketball at Washington State. 3) My father had an Outfitting and Guide Business in Salmon in the late 1960s and 70s with a former Fish and Game Director.
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Casey McGehee says:
Wow, very nice! Congratulations. I have no doubt you'll do an outstanding job.
Keith Alan Ricketts says:
Congratulations Laurie. A great family indeed with a great heritage in ranching and working with livestock. I still remember Virgil and Nelie and the "century ranch" that was at the edge of the desert lands. Our family and the Lickley's pastured cattle together for many years on that desert. I was amused by the comments under the picture of the "Three generations of Lickleys, in front of the barn on their century ranch, outside of Jerome." That picture was taken at the IFARM Museum and not on their century ranch as the barn was moved from the ranch a number of years ago. I was glad the folks at IFARM make the effort to preserve the Lickley Barn and home for all to see and visit.
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Q: Same object files with different performance I am using an ARM cortex A9 platfrom to measure the performance of some algorithms. More specifically i measure the execution time of one algorithm using the clock() function (time.h). I use the latter function right before calling my algorithm and right after the algorithm returns.
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Then I compile the code with exactly the same options and i produce two different object files. The first one is named n and the second one nn. On the ARM platform i run my code in one core. All the other tasks'affinity is set to the other cores. Object file n returns 0,12sec while Object file nn returns 0.1sec. I compared the two binaries files and they don't differences. I noticed that if I give a name to the object file larger than 1 letter then I always have less execution time for my algorithm. Moreover if I run the n.c file and then rename it and run it again I will also get different performance numbers.
Could you please give me some ideas why something like this happens? Thanks in advance
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Joint-leaders Qormi will be seeking revenge as they take on Valletta in the big match from this weekend's BOV Premier League programme. Qormi, who share the top spot with Birkirkara, lie two points ahead of the Citizens who had defeated the Yellows 2-0 in the first round.
Since the October 19 clash between the two sides, Qormi won six of the eight matches played, losing only to Birkirkara and being held to a 2-2 draw by Hibernians last week. With Birkirkara due to meet Hibernians on Monday, the team led by Jesmond Zerafa and Vince Carbonaro cannot afford any result other than a win in order to maintain the top spot.
Valletta's last two outings were far from impressive as they lost 1-3 to Sliema Wanderers and were lucky to escape with a 1-0 win over Msida St. Joseph. Against Qormi, they will definitely be all out to return to winning ways and move on top the BOV Premier League table.
Valletta captain Gilbert Agius is ruled out through suspension but Irish striker Declan O'Brien should be back after skipping the game against Msida. Qormi will be lacking former Valletta midfielder Keith Fenech.
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Cos d'Estournel to launch luxury 'COS100' wine
Oliver Styles January 17, 2018
The new COS100 from the Bordeaux 2015 vintage. Credit: Cos d'Estournel
Bordeaux second growth Château Cos d'Estournel is set to release a new cuvée this year.
The new wine, named COS100, is made from a parcel of 100 year-old Merlot vines planted at Cos d'Estournel by women during the First World War.
The wine, named 'COS100', comes from the Bordeaux 2015 vintage and will only be available in large format bottles.
Only 100 double magnums (3 litres) and 10 balthazars (12 litres) were bottled – by hand – from two barrels.
'With COS100, I want to pay tribute to the terroir, and to acknowledge the women who, more than a hundred years ago, courageously worked in the vineyard to ensure the continuity of the estate,' Cos d'Estournel owner and businessman Michel Reybier was quoted as saying in French financial paper Les Echos.
In 1915, most male vineyard workers were fighting or had died on the Western Front during the First World War.
According to Les Echos, two balthazars of the cuvee will be up for grabs at Sotheby's auctions in New York and Hong Kong on 28 February.
A further two double magnums and elephant scultpures will also be for sale.
All money gained from the lots will go to Elephant Family, a charity that protects Asian elephants and their habitat.
The elephant forms part of the Château's brand image.
The château – considered by many industry commentators to be part of a handful of top-quality "super second" growth producers – was built with an oriental twist.
It's original owner, Gaspard d'Estournel, was known as the 'Maharajah of St-Estèphe'. He founded the estate in 1811.
Further bottles of COS100 will be available through the château's website. Prices were available to customers on request, the estate said.
Coming soon: Decanter Premium members will be able to see Jane Anson's tasting note for COS100.
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Undead Is Not An Option: Dead Man's Shoes
Post written by LK Gardner-Griffie at March 23, 2012 8:00 am
Categories: Orange Brigade, Undead Is Not An Option
Tags: andrew jack, anthology, books, Dead Man's Shoes, LK Gardner-Griffie, undead is not an option, zombie lit, zombie survival crew, zombies
Dead Man's Shoes follows a young man named Carlo when he wakes on the autopsy slab at his local hospital to find that the world has ended and zombies have taken the place of almost every human on the planet.
Carlo meets up with Antoinette as he tries to escape, and discovers that not only does she have strange powers over the walking dead; she seems to know more about Carlo than he does.
As Antoinette brings Carlo closer to knowing the role he has to play in ending the apocalypse and saving the remnants of humanity, they are confronted by the demonic source of the plague, a creature named Legion.
To battle the demon, Carlo must confront his past, and call upon the Voodoo god of death, Baron Samedi, to fight for the future of mankind.
Please note because the characters are dealing with a zombie outbreak, this excerpt may have some strong language.
Dead Man's Shoes
by Andrew Jack
Carlo woke up in the morgue. He'd been awakened by screaming, and the echoes of it crashed around in his head.
His muscles creaked as he rolled to the side on the examination table and sat, letting the sheet covering him fall away. Emergency lighting cast the room in halogen relief. He heard a soft, wet sound coming from behind the supply cupboard.
A woman crouched there. She wore a thin hospital gown, so slick with blood it clung to her body, accentuating what had once been beautiful. She crouched over the body of a heavyset man. She reached down and wrenched a chunk of red meat out of his chest, then shovelled it into her mouth.
Carlo gagged at the sight, and the corpse jerked her head up to look at him. Her eyes were milky white, and black veins stood out under the translucent skin on her face. She opened her mouth and hissed at him, a sound not even remotely human.
Trying not vomit, he back away and tripped over something solid on the floor. Another moving corpse, its mouth working soundlessly as he fell beside it. Carlo screamed and thrashed back to his feet. Tears streamed down his face as he took in the rest of the morgue. There were five bodies in all, all awake. Only the woman and the body on the floor moved, the others were tied to exam tables. Bloody clothing littered the floor, vaguely medical, in a bio hazard way. He didn't look too closely, afraid what the clothes might be covering.
The dead woman rose slowly, blood dribbling from her open mouth. Her head lolled to one side, and her filmy eyes didn't blink as she walked towards him.
"Get away from me, get…" Carl's dry throat reduced the words to a croak.
She growled, from somewhere deep inside her, and the rotting meat stink filled the air between them. Something was wrong with the way the woman walked, as if she hung from the wires of a drunk puppeteer.
He cringed away from her, driving his head back against the wall, his feet slipping in the blood on the floor.
She sniffed him, like a dog at suspicious roadkill, then she extended her swollen purple tongue and licked across his eye.
Carlo closed his eyes, feeling the dry rasp of her tongue scrape across his face, snagging his eyelid and dragging it open to see the veins creeping under her skin as she tasted him.
Just as Carlo thought he was going to pass out, she moved, lurching back to the body she'd been eating. The other bodies still mouthed and grasped at him, but as long as he kept to the walls, they couldn't touch him.
The terror stayed with him for so long Carlo began feeling detached. In a quiet corner of his mind he felt his heart trying to leap out of his throat, his rapid breathing and the sweat running off his face and mixing with the blood on the floor.
I have to get out.
It was the first thought that counted as a thought instead of a pure terror reaction. He started looking around for the door. There. Tantalisingly close, just past the rows of grasping hands.
Carlo took two deep breaths and charged as quickly as he could past the tied down bodies and into the double doors. A heavy chain held the doors closed. Carlo bounced off the doors and landed on his ass on the slick floor. He swore and pushed himself up to his feet. Carlo was a big guy, and he threw himself at the door again, aiming not at the chains but at the bolts holding the door to the frame. There was a loud crack, and the abused door tore out of the wall. Carlo entered the main hospital in a shower of splinters, just about running over a woman who'd appeared just to the right of the main door.
They stood blinking at each other.
"There you are. Do you have any idea how many morgues there are in this city?" Her eyes flicked behind him. "No, you stay where you are." She pointed a long white stick over Carlo's shoulder and unleashed a stream of words in a language that seemed oddly familiar to Carlo.
He turned to look at the zombie woman who stood behind him, her mouth hanging open. The creature stood transfixed by the woman in the hallway. There was a long second where Carlo thought the zombie would attack her, but she simply swayed in place for a few moments before grunting and turning back into the darkness
To read more and find out what happens to Carlo in his battle with Legion, check out Undead Is Not An Option.
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Q: Python: Save pickled object in the python script I have a class instance which I dump in a .pickle file using pickle.dump(instance,outputfile) . I can distribute the script and the pickle file and ask users to run the python script with the pickle file as an argument, and then I can load that instance using pickle.load(pickle_file_passed_as_argument)
Can I instead "embed" the pickle file inside the script itself, and then just pass the script around? Then, when users run the script I can load the instance of the "embedded" object and use all the object's member functions?
My question is similar to:
This question
I didn't understand any of the answers given there as they're abstract descriptions of what to do, without code examples. I'm not sure how to use the triple-quote trick to embed objects (though all the answers in that question mention that). I've not used triple-quote strings like that before..
One of the answers mentions using s=pickle.dumps(objectInstance) followed by pickle.loads(s) and combine that with the triple quotes to embed the object. How exactly do I "combine" dumps,loads with the triple quotes trick, I don't get that part..

A: What this answer means is to encode the data to be included with pickle and encode:
import pickle
data = dict(a=1,b=2)
pickle.dumps(data).encode('base64')

> 'KGRwMApTJ2EnCnAxCkkxCnNTJ2InCnAyCkkyCnMu\n'

and to decode it accordingly in your file to be shared from the string being written in the source code:
import pickle
# data encoded as a string
encoded_data = """KGRwMApTJ2EnCnAxCkkxCnNTJ2InCnAyCkkyCnMu\n"""

# decoding of the data
data = pickle.loads(encoded_data.decode('base64'))
print data

> {'a': 1, 'b': 2}