We would like to invite you to submit your original work for consideration and possible publication in our research based scientific journal.
Civil Engineering Journal (C.E.J) is a multidisciplinary, an open-access, internationally double-blind peer-reviewed journal that is publishing 12 issues per volume (monthly). Civil Engineering Journal providing a platform for the researchers, academicians, professionals and students to impart and share knowledge in the form of high quality empirical and theoretical research articles, review articles and technical note.
^ Talk about self absorbed ... anonymously, on an internet forum. LOL
Jan 18, 16 10:45 pm
Ricky, a Jab at me?
Sure, the word jab is a little strong. I'll agree with you on that. It isn't the perfect word but enough to illustrate the point.
I agree with you and what Spontaneous said. Despite being suspicious, I also try not to deliberately bad mouth these journals we don't know personally about or much of. I am with you on being suspicious. There is a line between being suspicious like you are and being an asshole and that is what I want to be clear on. I was seeing a bit of that.
Don't take it as an attack at you. It's not. It is an attack on uncivil behavior some members on the forum have been and clearly demonstrated on this thread.
knock knock
Jan 18, 16 10:59 pm
You are LOL' ing a lot today. What's wrong?
How do we know you are "papa m'a dit Miles"? Ha?
Jan 18, 16 11:02 pm
Olaf,
"welcome to the real world, son."
Plagiarising someone's phrase?
Yet you say something as dumb and stupid as that? We all live in the same fucking real world as every other asshole on this planet. It isn't like some of us live in a matrix. I have my own perspective of the real world and so does you and so does each and every one of it. NONE of are entirely right and NONE of us are entirely wrong.
There is different truths perceived by each of us. The real world is what is. What we perceive is a pseudo world and what you understand of the real world through the abstractions your mind fabricates to form a perception or understanding is a pseudo world in each of our minds.
Everything we understand is a pseudo reality abstracted from reality itself. Now, knock the shit off.
I'm not this person going by the alias "your new name". However, I do find this kindergarten bullshit a bit annoying. We been at this childish crap for too long.
knock knock
Jan 18, 16 11:08 pm
I am honored to be found annoying by you Rick less Bor. You are the most spiritual John Wayne.
no_form
Jan 18, 16 11:14 pm
Balkins you're such a turd. Olaf provided his source. It's pop culture.
And Balkins, you don't know shit about ontology. So save us your self help drivel about truth and reality.
Your new name. You're like a child. So naive, taking a chat forum so seriously. Balkins is a troll ass menace and needs to be called out for his continual stream of bullshit.
Archinect is an Internet dive bar as another member eloquently pointed out.
knock knock
Jan 18, 16 11:26 pm
no_form you are too minor to go to a dive bar. You wish though, right?
x-jla
Jan 18, 16 11:26 pm
Uncivil engineering is more fun.
x-jla
Jan 18, 16 11:31 pm
Uncivil engineering journal: find out what happens when you replace traditional aggregate with pop-rocks.
no_form
Jan 18, 16 11:54 pm
Ynn and Balkins. One online village. Two real life idiots. Civil society can't engineer it's way out of stupid.
knock knock
Jan 18, 16 11:58 pm
Maybe your idol Donald Trump can.
Jan 19, 16 12:33 am
no form,
Pop culture? Really. A valid scientific or academic source?
Ontology.... LOL. When you talk metaphysics, be careful what you say in public mediums like this.
Add to that, the domain of metaphysical and spirituality is kind of the domain of religion not science.
You implied that you know what reality is. Here's is a question for you:
What is all that is reality?
Think before you answer. This isn't a dictionary definition or a Wikipedia response.
Jan 19, 16 1:11 am
Err.... got slightly distracted while writing the above.
Correction:
Add to that the domain of metaphysical and spirituality is kind of the domain of religion not mainstream science.
Jan 19, 16 1:29 am
There is many lenses to look at what reality is and what is all that is reality.
This means we need to look at it from not just ontologically but also epistemologically but also we are looking at this from multiple philosophical point of views, possible theologically / religious points of views and then we are going to end up in a never ending debate or one where all parties lose any form of civility to continue any meaningful discussion.
Zaina
Jan 19, 16 4:34 am
@ynn- enta 3rabi? ... lek, mo3zamon so5fa hon, don't be too serious
el 3alam btblesh tetsa5f lmma ma 3enda eshi te7keeh
no_form
Jan 19, 16 9:34 am
Balkins you idiot. John Wayne is pop culture. I don't have an answer about what reality is or how we know what is real. Unlike you I'm not going to make absurd claims either that I do know. I'm not a philosopher.
Get a job!
awaiting_deletion
Jan 19, 16 9:48 am
for those of us who have lives and jobs outside the internet this shit is hilarious.
null pointer
Jan 19, 16 10:16 am
olaf, damn fucking right.
i liked the part when i was asked to verify that i'm an architect.
yup.
that shit be funneh.
Non Sequitur
Jan 19, 16 10:22 am
This discussion really made my monday yesterday.
I am also amazed we made it this far without any mention of hitler.
You would have thought that Balkins parents would have cut the internet and tried to start an intervention for the new years.
Or did you just hack you neighbors wireless Balkins, since we all know you are a hacker and probably a member of anonymous?
Does anyone else wish they could be a fly on the wall, and see what he really does all day... I know, could be scary.
DeTwan
Jan 19, 16 11:34 am
I imagine it is a lot of beating off, and google searches
I wonder if Balkins knows that he doesn't have to high light and copy/paste. Someone should let him know about ctrl+A
archiwutm8
Jan 19, 16 11:46 am
^That's a bit much. As much as I like to argue and annoy Rick, putting his parents into the equation isn't cool at all.
no_form
Jan 19, 16 12:31 pm
"I imagine it is a lot of beating off, and google searches." DeTwan I think you nailed it.
Jan 19, 16 1:27 pm
no_form,
Balkins you idiot. John Wayne is pop culture. I don't have an answer about what reality is or how we know what is real...
Great, you finally have a response. The only right answer to the question is an answer of humility. I expected an answer along this line. Reality is what is. Therefore it contains all that is seen and unseen, observed an unobserved. While we don't have the complete picture or see the complete picture of reality, it proves my point and you had proved it. If you do not know what all that is reality, then you prove my point that we all live in the same reality or real world but we all see only a perspective of it. You proved my point that I said earlier.
Stop saying I am wrong, an idiot or any other vitriol nonsense and yet constantly prove my point that I said in the first place.
Maybe you should try to actually bring your mind into a factual order versus living by popular myths that is rampant in popular culture. Just because is's popular doesn't mean its factual.
Jan 19, 16 2:03 pm
DeTwan,
Or did you just hack you neighbors wireless Balkins, since we all know you are a hacker and probably a member of anonymous?
LOL!
Do you have a brain malfunction?
Zaina
Jan 19, 16 2:58 pm
LOL 2 days of empty discussion on this thread! guys, really...... I have to say: you deserve a break!
Jan 19, 16 3:19 pm
Zaina,
Thank you. I'll take a break away from these shitheads. It's not worth it.
no_form
Jan 19, 16 3:24 pm
Balkins talking about humility and "bringing my mind into factual order." I'm done.
Get a job.
Miles Jaffe
Jan 19, 16 6:15 pm
An Empirical Study on the Civility of Anonymous Internet Forum Posting
Author: A. Troll
JBeaumont
Jan 19, 16 8:03 pm
It's fair of DeTwan to bring the parents into this discussion, as they're the ones who created and sustain this situation. Richard has stated in past threads that one of the reasons he doesn't work is that if he had any income his parents would expect him to contribute to the household. He's also said he hasn't even tried to apply for a job since 2007. Any parents who let their mid-30s child freeload for 15+ years, without even making an effort to launch an adult life deserve much scrutiny and shame.
I hope the parents are sufficiently well off to leave Richard the means to pay property taxes in perpetuity and to pay the IRS when all his deferred loans are finally discharged (the original balance plus accrued interest are treated as taxable income in the year that they're forgiven, with all the income tax due at once.) Otherwise with no home, no job skills, and no employment history he's going to end up at 55 in a shelter with three roommates, spending his days at mandatory "job training" tagging used clothes in a thrift shop or wrapping bars of hotel soap.
no_form
Jan 19, 16 8:26 pm
Jbeaumont wait! Balkins is a talented building designer, drone pilot, aerospace engineer, surveyor, computer software programmer, legal counselor, and much much more! I'm sure when the sheriff evicts him from his repossessed home he will find a 6 figure job within 1 day of sending out resumes.
Jan 19, 16 10:35 pm
.
SpontaneousCombustion
Jan 19, 16 10:44 pm
That break didn't even last 8 hours.
no_form
Jan 20, 16 11:52 am
guess that was too "real" for your small mind ricky b. see that. you do nothing but make up excuses and bullshit on topics you only know about from wikipedia. 10+ years and counting. now you have nothing to show for it except a digital paper trail of nonsense that will only come back to fuck you in the end. have a good morning.
tduds
Jan 20, 16 11:59 am
..
Jan 20, 16 2:28 pm
no_form,
What Spontaneous said isn't going to happen for a variety of reasons.
SpontaneousCombustion
Jan 20, 16 4:21 pm
It's not going to happen that you take a break that lasts 8 hours or longer? Yes, no kidding, that's what I was noting.
And what are the variety of reasons why that cannot happen?
Jan 20, 16 5:36 pm
Sponty,
Yeah, a break longer than 8 hours. I do manage to take breaks longer than 8 hours. It's called sleep but that's not what you are getting at. However, I doubt much breaks are going to occur in a flame war. They never do.
x-jla
Jan 20, 16 5:42 pm
"A flame war" sounds pretty gay.
Jan 20, 16 5:56 pm
No_form,
Regarding this comment from you:
I'm sure when the sheriff evicts him from his repossessed home...
They aren't going to repo the house. It would cost them too much.
We are talking 20 years down the road in the scenario.
Jan 20, 16 6:00 pm
jla-x,
I concur... it does from that perspective. I didn't invent the terminology.
It was a terminology that began in the early days of computer telecommunication from pre-Internet.
SpontaneousCombustion
Jan 20, 16 6:22 pm
Houses are sold by municipalities for back taxes every day. The IRS also likes to seize houses - they're quite efficient about it and seem to find it cost-effective. Bankruptcy courts don't tend to let you keep the house when there's little history of gainful employment. I think JBeaumont's concerns about your future are valid from what I've seen befall neighbors of your ilk.
no_form
Jan 20, 16 7:07 pm
balkins you dumb shit. you're going to lose your house unless you murder your parents for their life insurance and bury them in the basement underneath your piles of lies and bullshit.
no one will find them because you'll have the cops and FBI scratching their heads for years about why someone would use a theodolite to measure a rectangle or program a C64 to do the same thing their iphone does.
get a job. get a life. get off the internet. actually you already do get off on the internet. you're a lost dip shit pathetic cause.
"plonk"
Sincerely,
Get a job!
Jan 20, 16 7:17 pm
Sponty,
There is something called the 5th Amendment.
Government is not legally allowed to take away what people own without compensation. If I own a $300,000 house, and I owe the government $50,000... I must be paid $250,000 before they can have me removed or take my property because I own the property and hold majority interest. They can sell their interest which can muddy ownership matters. IRS can not just evict nor can the courts.
Regarding Employment History comment:
If you start a business when you are young instead of when you are retired, you aren't going to have employment history because you aren't an employee. You are a business owner. There is no employment history when it comes to owning and operating a business.
The loans wouldn't be discharged until ~20 years from now. We are talking about a $40K-$45K base loan amount. Okay. Maybe a little less than 20 years. Say, 18 years. Then there is another year or two of court matters before they can do anything.
I can make that amount by that time. I just have to get off my ass at some point and get capital rolling in. Courts aren't necessarily looking at whether or not someone has "EMPLOYMENT" history. They would be looking at income capital. While, I do recognize validity of concern if I do nothing all the way to that point. I'll give him credit for a valid point there.
Employment working for someone else would not allow time I need to work on the software business and projects which can easily earn more money in a year or two or so time frame then I would ever make as an intern working for an architect. They are going to pay me minimum amount and work me 80+ hours which would effectively make the amount I get paid divided by the hours spent be less than federal minimum wage. Architectural employers INTENTIONALLY do not pay their employees enough that they can easily start their own business. They oppress their employees by wage/salary oppression tactics so they don't turn around and become competition. They know how much cost of living is going to take out of your income. They know how the tax man gets their cut out of your income. They know you won't have any real savings to start a firm on anything remotely decent. They know that most of you are also drowned in student loan debts so you won't make enough money to save up that by the time you could start a firm with starting capital, you would be in your 60s or 70s. Which is retirement age. Your starting capital would be your social security retirement benefits.
I'm not waiting until I am 60 or 70 years old to start a business. I'll be lucky to live until I am 80 years old.
Lets do the math a little. I can't really start an architecture firm of my own without starting capital. I won't get that working for an established architecture firm.
As for a software business, I don't necessarily need to have a saved up starting capital. I can get capital in ways that architecture businesses and like businesses will NEVER see. You never see crowdfunding opportunities for starting an architecture design studio. You have to produce a product for people willing to back such a business. They want a tangible return for backing. Architectural firms are consulting / professional services businesses. You won't get crowdfunding and venture capital any more than I would in a building design business. Basically the same thing for all that matters in this context.
A software business does have access to that kind of opportunities. VCs aren't interested in financing construction of construction documents. They don't make ROI on architectural plans. Selling software has more money / financial start-up opportunities at the start up level and even later phases.
An architect has said, architecture practice is better a hobby than a business. People are better off making a living outside of architecture and do architecture as a hobby. Architectural licensing process is just ridiculous for hobby.
Jan 20, 16 7:31 pm
no_form,
You are a cyberbully troll.
Why would or should anyone even give a shit about what you say?
no_form
Jan 20, 16 7:31 pm
blah blah blah, i'm ricky balkins, big government stole my underwear and won't let me play architecture with my lego blocks! when i grow up i'm going to design the bestest computer in the whole wide world. i'm so cool. i can fly a plastic drone from wal-mart. blah blah blah. i'm going to make a replica of my mommy and daddy's house with cardboard at the shelter when i grow up.
ps. fuck you.
Sincerely,
Get a job!
no_form
Jan 20, 16 7:34 pm
you're a blow hard lazy ass narcissist who has no balls to do anything because then you'd have to take responsibility for all of your shitty life decisions. you're a piece of cybershit. go rot under a bridge in astoria.
null pointer
Jan 20, 16 7:51 pm
Dick, i have "no employment history" for the past two years; but you know what I have? about 20+ projects to show for it, half of them built.
...And this hasn't stopped a cadre of recruiters from offering me six figures.
Did i mention I'm younger that you?
You're a fucking idiot.
Don't speak about things you know nothing about. Some of us are born entrepreneurs, other make ourselves into entrepreneurs. You are neither.
SpontaneousCombustion
Jan 20, 16 8:45 pm
Richard every state has statutes that allow counties or municipalities to place a lien on a property for which taxes are delinquent, and after a certain period (usually a few years) to sell that property for the back taxes. Tax liens almost always have the first lien status, even over the mortgage holder's lien - that's why mortgage lenders often require property taxes to be paid from an escrow account, to lessen the chance of losing the property to a tax sale. There isn't typically any court involvement necessary for a county or city to initiate a tax sale - it's a simple matter of paperwork, ending with the title to the property in the hands of the highest bidder. It's as simple as that. If the taxes owed are $7000 and the highest bid is $7000, then the house is sold for $7000, regardless of whether it's worth 300k or 3 million - and you get nothing.
Some states have a process by which the delinquent tax payer can "redeem" the property within a certain period. Some states don't. Redemption usually means the delinquent tax payer needs to come up with the full purchase price that the highest bidder paid, within a short period of time. But if delinquent tax payer has the ready cash to do that, it's unlikely that the property would have gotten to the point of a tax sale anyway.
The 5th amendment is about seizing private property for public use. If the city wants to seize your house to build a park there, it has to compensate you for the value of the property. If your house is seized for back taxes the 5th amendment doesn't help.
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^ Talk about self absorbed ... anonymously, on an internet forum. LOL
Ricky, a Jab at me?
Sure, the word jab is a little strong. I'll agree with you on that. It isn't the perfect word but enough to illustrate the point.
I agree with you and what Spontaneous said. Despite being suspicious, I also try not to deliberately bad mouth these journals we don't know personally about or much of. I am with you on being suspicious. There is a line between being suspicious like you are and being an asshole and that is what I want to be clear on. I was seeing a bit of that.
Don't take it as an attack at you. It's not. It is an attack on uncivil behavior some members on the forum have been and clearly demonstrated on this thread.
You are LOL' ing a lot today. What's wrong?
How do we know you are "papa m'a dit Miles"? Ha?
Olaf,
"welcome to the real world, son."
Plagiarising someone's phrase?
Yet you say something as dumb and stupid as that? We all live in the same fucking real world as every other asshole on this planet. It isn't like some of us live in a matrix. I have my own perspective of the real world and so does you and so does each and every one of it. NONE of are entirely right and NONE of us are entirely wrong.
There is different truths perceived by each of us. The real world is what is. What we perceive is a pseudo world and what you understand of the real world through the abstractions your mind fabricates to form a perception or understanding is a pseudo world in each of our minds.
Everything we understand is a pseudo reality abstracted from reality itself. Now, knock the shit off.
I'm not this person going by the alias "your new name". However, I do find this kindergarten bullshit a bit annoying. We been at this childish crap for too long.
I am honored to be found annoying by you Rick less Bor. You are the most spiritual John Wayne.
Balkins you're such a turd. Olaf provided his source. It's pop culture.
And Balkins, you don't know shit about ontology. So save us your self help drivel about truth and reality.
Your new name. You're like a child. So naive, taking a chat forum so seriously. Balkins is a troll ass menace and needs to be called out for his continual stream of bullshit.
Archinect is an Internet dive bar as another member eloquently pointed out.
no_form you are too minor to go to a dive bar. You wish though, right?
Uncivil engineering is more fun.
Uncivil engineering journal: find out what happens when you replace traditional aggregate with pop-rocks.
Ynn and Balkins. One online village. Two real life idiots. Civil society can't engineer it's way out of stupid.
Maybe your idol Donald Trump can.
no form,
Pop culture? Really. A valid scientific or academic source?
Ontology.... LOL. When you talk metaphysics, be careful what you say in public mediums like this.
Add to that, the domain of metaphysical and spirituality is kind of the domain of religion not science.
You implied that you know what reality is. Here's is a question for you:
What is all that is reality?
Think before you answer. This isn't a dictionary definition or a Wikipedia response.
Err.... got slightly distracted while writing the above.
Correction:
Add to that the domain of metaphysical and spirituality is kind of the domain of religion not mainstream science.
There is many lenses to look at what reality is and what is all that is reality.
This means we need to look at it from not just ontologically but also epistemologically but also we are looking at this from multiple philosophical point of views, possible theologically / religious points of views and then we are going to end up in a never ending debate or one where all parties lose any form of civility to continue any meaningful discussion.
@ynn- enta 3rabi? ... lek, mo3zamon so5fa hon, don't be too serious
el 3alam btblesh tetsa5f lmma ma 3enda eshi te7keeh
Balkins you idiot. John Wayne is pop culture. I don't have an answer about what reality is or how we know what is real. Unlike you I'm not going to make absurd claims either that I do know. I'm not a philosopher.
Get a job!
for those of us who have lives and jobs outside the internet this shit is hilarious.
olaf, damn fucking right.
i liked the part when i was asked to verify that i'm an architect.
yup.
that shit be funneh.
This discussion really made my monday yesterday.
I am also amazed we made it this far without any mention of hitler.
Kudos to everyone!
quondom are those mushrooms or bombs?
take mushrooms not bombs.
filling out Landmark paperwork (painful) to this mix Aaron Spetcre - Live in Ghent
You would have thought that Balkins parents would have cut the internet and tried to start an intervention for the new years.
Or did you just hack you neighbors wireless Balkins, since we all know you are a hacker and probably a member of anonymous?
Does anyone else wish they could be a fly on the wall, and see what he really does all day... I know, could be scary.
I imagine it is a lot of beating off, and google searches
I wonder if Balkins knows that he doesn't have to high light and copy/paste. Someone should let him know about ctrl+A
^That's a bit much. As much as I like to argue and annoy Rick, putting his parents into the equation isn't cool at all.
"I imagine it is a lot of beating off, and google searches." DeTwan I think you nailed it.
no_form,
Balkins you idiot. John Wayne is pop culture. I don't have an answer about what reality is or how we know what is real...
Great, you finally have a response. The only right answer to the question is an answer of humility. I expected an answer along this line. Reality is what is. Therefore it contains all that is seen and unseen, observed an unobserved. While we don't have the complete picture or see the complete picture of reality, it proves my point and you had proved it. If you do not know what all that is reality, then you prove my point that we all live in the same reality or real world but we all see only a perspective of it. You proved my point that I said earlier.
Stop saying I am wrong, an idiot or any other vitriol nonsense and yet constantly prove my point that I said in the first place.
Maybe you should try to actually bring your mind into a factual order versus living by popular myths that is rampant in popular culture. Just because is's popular doesn't mean its factual.
DeTwan,
Or did you just hack you neighbors wireless Balkins, since we all know you are a hacker and probably a member of anonymous?
LOL!
Do you have a brain malfunction?
LOL 2 days of empty discussion on this thread! guys, really...... I have to say: you deserve a break!
Zaina,
Thank you. I'll take a break away from these shitheads. It's not worth it.
Balkins talking about humility and "bringing my mind into factual order." I'm done.
Get a job.
An Empirical Study on the Civility of Anonymous Internet Forum Posting
Author: A. Troll
It's fair of DeTwan to bring the parents into this discussion, as they're the ones who created and sustain this situation. Richard has stated in past threads that one of the reasons he doesn't work is that if he had any income his parents would expect him to contribute to the household. He's also said he hasn't even tried to apply for a job since 2007. Any parents who let their mid-30s child freeload for 15+ years, without even making an effort to launch an adult life deserve much scrutiny and shame.
I hope the parents are sufficiently well off to leave Richard the means to pay property taxes in perpetuity and to pay the IRS when all his deferred loans are finally discharged (the original balance plus accrued interest are treated as taxable income in the year that they're forgiven, with all the income tax due at once.) Otherwise with no home, no job skills, and no employment history he's going to end up at 55 in a shelter with three roommates, spending his days at mandatory "job training" tagging used clothes in a thrift shop or wrapping bars of hotel soap.
Jbeaumont wait! Balkins is a talented building designer, drone pilot, aerospace engineer, surveyor, computer software programmer, legal counselor, and much much more! I'm sure when the sheriff evicts him from his repossessed home he will find a 6 figure job within 1 day of sending out resumes.
.
That break didn't even last 8 hours.
guess that was too "real" for your small mind ricky b. see that. you do nothing but make up excuses and bullshit on topics you only know about from wikipedia. 10+ years and counting. now you have nothing to show for it except a digital paper trail of nonsense that will only come back to fuck you in the end. have a good morning.
..
no_form,
What Spontaneous said isn't going to happen for a variety of reasons.
It's not going to happen that you take a break that lasts 8 hours or longer? Yes, no kidding, that's what I was noting.
And what are the variety of reasons why that cannot happen?
Sponty,
Yeah, a break longer than 8 hours. I do manage to take breaks longer than 8 hours. It's called sleep but that's not what you are getting at. However, I doubt much breaks are going to occur in a flame war. They never do.
"A flame war" sounds pretty gay.
No_form,
Regarding this comment from you:
I'm sure when the sheriff evicts him from his repossessed home...
They aren't going to repo the house. It would cost them too much.
We are talking 20 years down the road in the scenario.
jla-x,
I concur... it does from that perspective. I didn't invent the terminology.
It was a terminology that began in the early days of computer telecommunication from pre-Internet.
Houses are sold by municipalities for back taxes every day. The IRS also likes to seize houses - they're quite efficient about it and seem to find it cost-effective. Bankruptcy courts don't tend to let you keep the house when there's little history of gainful employment. I think JBeaumont's concerns about your future are valid from what I've seen befall neighbors of your ilk.
balkins you dumb shit. you're going to lose your house unless you murder your parents for their life insurance and bury them in the basement underneath your piles of lies and bullshit.
no one will find them because you'll have the cops and FBI scratching their heads for years about why someone would use a theodolite to measure a rectangle or program a C64 to do the same thing their iphone does.
get a job. get a life. get off the internet. actually you already do get off on the internet. you're a lost dip shit pathetic cause.
"plonk"
Sincerely,
Get a job!
Sponty,
There is something called the 5th Amendment.
Government is not legally allowed to take away what people own without compensation. If I own a $300,000 house, and I owe the government $50,000... I must be paid $250,000 before they can have me removed or take my property because I own the property and hold majority interest. They can sell their interest which can muddy ownership matters. IRS can not just evict nor can the courts.
Regarding Employment History comment:
If you start a business when you are young instead of when you are retired, you aren't going to have employment history because you aren't an employee. You are a business owner. There is no employment history when it comes to owning and operating a business.
The loans wouldn't be discharged until ~20 years from now. We are talking about a $40K-$45K base loan amount. Okay. Maybe a little less than 20 years. Say, 18 years. Then there is another year or two of court matters before they can do anything.
I can make that amount by that time. I just have to get off my ass at some point and get capital rolling in. Courts aren't necessarily looking at whether or not someone has "EMPLOYMENT" history. They would be looking at income capital. While, I do recognize validity of concern if I do nothing all the way to that point. I'll give him credit for a valid point there.
Employment working for someone else would not allow time I need to work on the software business and projects which can easily earn more money in a year or two or so time frame then I would ever make as an intern working for an architect. They are going to pay me minimum amount and work me 80+ hours which would effectively make the amount I get paid divided by the hours spent be less than federal minimum wage. Architectural employers INTENTIONALLY do not pay their employees enough that they can easily start their own business. They oppress their employees by wage/salary oppression tactics so they don't turn around and become competition. They know how much cost of living is going to take out of your income. They know how the tax man gets their cut out of your income. They know you won't have any real savings to start a firm on anything remotely decent. They know that most of you are also drowned in student loan debts so you won't make enough money to save up that by the time you could start a firm with starting capital, you would be in your 60s or 70s. Which is retirement age. Your starting capital would be your social security retirement benefits.
I'm not waiting until I am 60 or 70 years old to start a business. I'll be lucky to live until I am 80 years old.
Lets do the math a little. I can't really start an architecture firm of my own without starting capital. I won't get that working for an established architecture firm.
As for a software business, I don't necessarily need to have a saved up starting capital. I can get capital in ways that architecture businesses and like businesses will NEVER see. You never see crowdfunding opportunities for starting an architecture design studio. You have to produce a product for people willing to back such a business. They want a tangible return for backing. Architectural firms are consulting / professional services businesses. You won't get crowdfunding and venture capital any more than I would in a building design business. Basically the same thing for all that matters in this context.
A software business does have access to that kind of opportunities. VCs aren't interested in financing construction of construction documents. They don't make ROI on architectural plans. Selling software has more money / financial start-up opportunities at the start up level and even later phases.
An architect has said, architecture practice is better a hobby than a business. People are better off making a living outside of architecture and do architecture as a hobby. Architectural licensing process is just ridiculous for hobby.
no_form,
You are a cyberbully troll.
Why would or should anyone even give a shit about what you say?
blah blah blah, i'm ricky balkins, big government stole my underwear and won't let me play architecture with my lego blocks! when i grow up i'm going to design the bestest computer in the whole wide world. i'm so cool. i can fly a plastic drone from wal-mart. blah blah blah. i'm going to make a replica of my mommy and daddy's house with cardboard at the shelter when i grow up.
ps. fuck you.
Sincerely,
Get a job!
you're a blow hard lazy ass narcissist who has no balls to do anything because then you'd have to take responsibility for all of your shitty life decisions. you're a piece of cybershit. go rot under a bridge in astoria.
Dick, i have "no employment history" for the past two years; but you know what I have? about 20+ projects to show for it, half of them built.
...And this hasn't stopped a cadre of recruiters from offering me six figures.
Did i mention I'm younger that you?
You're a fucking idiot.
Don't speak about things you know nothing about. Some of us are born entrepreneurs, other make ourselves into entrepreneurs. You are neither.
Richard every state has statutes that allow counties or municipalities to place a lien on a property for which taxes are delinquent, and after a certain period (usually a few years) to sell that property for the back taxes. Tax liens almost always have the first lien status, even over the mortgage holder's lien - that's why mortgage lenders often require property taxes to be paid from an escrow account, to lessen the chance of losing the property to a tax sale. There isn't typically any court involvement necessary for a county or city to initiate a tax sale - it's a simple matter of paperwork, ending with the title to the property in the hands of the highest bidder. It's as simple as that. If the taxes owed are $7000 and the highest bid is $7000, then the house is sold for $7000, regardless of whether it's worth 300k or 3 million - and you get nothing.
Some states have a process by which the delinquent tax payer can "redeem" the property within a certain period. Some states don't. Redemption usually means the delinquent tax payer needs to come up with the full purchase price that the highest bidder paid, within a short period of time. But if delinquent tax payer has the ready cash to do that, it's unlikely that the property would have gotten to the point of a tax sale anyway.
The 5th amendment is about seizing private property for public use. If the city wants to seize your house to build a park there, it has to compensate you for the value of the property. If your house is seized for back taxes the 5th amendment doesn't help.