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I think most landlords are wealthy people who are easily placed to weather this financial crisis.

By definition if you are wealthy enough to own property beyond one house then you’re wealthy enough to survive this.

And if you can’t afford to, then sell it and suffer like all the other real business owners are suffering.

Why should landlords be a protected species in all this?


You can’t sell if no one is buying and if it’s anything like some stories I’ve heard, some people are doing interest only loans on houses

If you sell it for less than your mortgage, you’re still on the hook for that loan, too.

The situation is complicated and ‘just sell it’ comes with other problems.


Being bankrupted by a landlord also comes with other problems.

The biggest expense renters typically have is ..... rent. And for many businesses it’s a major expense too.

Governments are desperately coming up with financial support packages for what? To give to landlords?


This doesn’t contradict anything I said


I've been a landlord. I absolutely was not wealthy.

I bought a house to live in because it was the most affordable solution. When we moved for my husband's career, it got rented out and we became renters elsewhere because we couldn't afford to sell. The market had tanked, our house value had dropped and we didn't have enough equity to sell it without losing our shirts.

Not all landlords are filthy rich. Even if they are, if they are heavily invested in real estate and everyone stops paying them, they will soon be in real trouble themselves.

No one has a Scrooge McDuck swimming pool of money. Rich people tend to have equity in the form of stocks and real estate. When the economy tanks in a big way, they aren't immune from the effects.

This is why a lot of people jumped off of ledges when the stock market tanked in 1929. They knew they were suddenly wiped out and couldn't face living that way.


Not all wealth is liquid. Not all wealth can be liquefied.


Equity release may provide that liquidity, if you can find a willing provider.


most "landlords" are regular folks with a mortgage and would get wiped out just as easily as the tenants


The name is too generic. Think searchability.

What was that product name? Screenmaster screenlord turboscreen are all more likely to get potential customers to remember and find you.

It’s a terrible name as is.


Perhaps Slack was a terrible name then, maybe Zoom was also extremely generic as well and couldn't get any users or customers to find them. /s

All your other suggestions are even more horrific, you might as well call it TurboScreenMaster 3000.

'Screen' and 'Screen Inc' is fine as it is.


When I have issues like this when searching my next search is usually "slack chat" or "zoom video." Now that they're popular, you don't need these qualifiers. What would someone add to "screen"? "screen sharing"?


I don't know if I'm a weirdo but I am so interested in learning about TurboScreenMaster 3000, but it needs to be inherently at least as good as BattleChess 3000 and Class of 3000


You don’t actually want to do the things you think you want to.

Otherwise, you would.


Because money.


So many disclaimers at the top of this about the validity of the information.


No surely a trickle down would work better?


Why in the face of absolute emergency do they communicate in such and understated manner open to ignoring and devaluing by politicians?

They should state with absolute clarity what they think should immediately happen instead of meekly asking two questions.

FFS


It’s beyond belief that any strategy could even be considered that does not have its primary goal to save as many lives as possible.

Containment attempts that.

“Herd immunity” is an experiment that the UK government is going to carry out on its citizens causing massive loss of life for no good reason at all.


To be brutally cold: the goal is almost never to save as many lives as possible. Even hospitals don't use that goal. We estimate the economic value of life and use quality adjusted life years to determine if a potentially life saving treatment is worth paying for.

We make these decisions constantly. You make these decisions every time you leave the house. People die every day from things we could have prevented if we had the inclination.

If the goal is to save as many lives as possible, why are driving and alcohol permitted? Because of personal freedom and the economy.

Treating this pandemic differently would be emotion driven.


Maybe because the scientific advice may be ambiguous and leave room for interpretation which the politicians must exercise under the best of circumstances.

My reading of the letter is that it challenges the scientific advice, as it has been communicated in the media, and seeks to clarify the "wiggle space" politicians have to work with.


Scientific advice shouldn't be ambiguous.


...ever used a weather forecast?


They didn't ask two questions if I read the article correctly.

They asked for two specific actions: more social distancing and releasing modelling data behind decisions.


There you go. So unclear communication I got it wrong.


WHO did the same thing with their oblique, opaque and 'without naming names' bulletins of urgency. Politics at a time like this is a very, very bad idea.


This does not meet any standard of proof or attribution.

With that it’s just misinformation and should not be here.

With reputable reference sources it might be different.


Sourceforge? Is this an old post?


The source code is on gitlab https://gitlab.com/gambas/gambas


Not everyone is jumping into Github.


Considering the malware years of sourceforge, this is no opportunity to take a stab at github. The surprise is that sourceforge is still a thing. https://www.howtogeek.com/218764/warning-don%E2%80%99t-downl...


No but everyone should jump away from SourceForge after the shady crap they pulled. Gitlab is also a thing.


SourceForge has now long been under a different ownership then when the shaddy crap happened. Since ownership changed there has been no shaddy behavior.


I wasn’t aware of this - and it’s a testament to the fact that sometimes there are no second chances after image and trust is destroyed.


The new management has been much better, AFAIK.


The download link actually appears to open a gitlab URL.


The last release is January this year.


There just waiting for the death count to jump so they won’t be blamed for taking radical action that will hurt the economy.

The deaths are the cover they need, so action will come in the next few weeks.


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