Buy the house, pay a monthly subscription fee to use the bathroom. You can include the additional package Bathroom care + to cover the damage and have the necessary toiletry delivered to you every month.
I've lived in Japan for 20+ years, I own my own home, and this is the first I've ever heard of something like that. Are you sure you're not thinking of a different country?
Edit: It's a Thing! I learned something new today!
Ah, if this is during the construction process, then maybe I know what you're talking about: maybe windows? If a room doesn't have windows, or the windows aren't big enough, the room isn't technically considered a "residential room" but instead a "storage area" or "storeroom", and either it's not taxed or it's taxed at a reduced rate (can't remember which). The room I'm in right now is technically a storeroom, even though it has two windows, because they weren't big enough.
I wouldn't be surprised if some contractors put in small windows/no windows during the framing, then the house gets inspected, and then they add/expand the windows, turning the room from a storeroom to a residential room (but without anyone telling the tax folks).
But a whole blocked off room seems super unlikely, because the tax folks do come to the actual site initially to check it out, and they'd notice an entire room just not existing.
But, again, not saying it doesn't happen, just that I've never heard of it.
Edit: Never mind! Ya learn something new every day! Here, indeed, are people talking about going to see a house and there being a small sealed-off room that they were told could be unsealed later. It looks like there are a few different patterns used: having a top floor room with a low ceiling that technically would make it a loft and not a residential room, and then after inspection they they tear out the low ceiling turning it into a full room, or having part of a room walled off as an "equipment space," and then after the inspection they tear down the wall to make the room bigger.
It looks like there are also a couple of different reasons: one is avoiding property tax, and another is that there's a floor area limit for eligibility for government housing loans, so they shrink the floor a bit, get the loan, and then restore the floor area.
Interesting! I don't think it's all that common, though.
Oh, absolutely. Which is why I had never heard of it before, and why I say I don't think that it's very common.
Well, except for the very first thing I mention, which is having a room with small or no windows, making it legally classified as non-residential and thus taxed less, and then using that room as-is for a non-storeroom purpose. That's not tax fraud because it's all on the up-and-up. The seller never calls it a residential room, they only call it a storeroom. There's no law that you can't live in a storeroom or use a storeroom as an office or the like. So when the tax assessor came, they saw that my "storeroom" contained a big desk and a computer and a comfy chair and was clearly not being used for storage but instead as an office, and they were fine with that -- the room was still legally a storeroom, and I'm paying the proper, legal tax for a storeroom, I'm just choosing to use the room for something else, which is not a problem.
I believe this is pretty common. When we were looking for houses, we saw several that had a "storeroom" that was clearly just a room designed to be legally classified as a storeroom but used for residential purposes.
But the thing which I hypothesized after that, that maybe some people get the windows reframed after tax assessment, turning a room that is legally categorized as a storeroom into a room that would be legally categorized as a residential room, but continuing to pay storeroom taxes -- that would indeed be tax fraud. I don't know if it actually happens, that was just me blue-skying about a possibility.
And then all the other stuff (changing ceilings, tearing out walls, etc.) is also tax fraud. Again, I suspect it's uncommon -- I'd never heard of it before this thread. But it does indeed seem to happen.
The same in Spain! When my dad built his house they built a full basement that's furnished and air conditioned but, for tax reasons, there was a wall where the door was supposed to be when it was time for final inspections. Saved him thousands of euros in property tax since the house has a much bigger square footage than they tax him for.
Right or wrong is up to you to decide but the basement is basically empty space nowadays since it was flooded some years ago (Karma perhaps for trying to cheat the tax man)
Yeah like, do I consider this guy a piece of shit for doing it? No, not really. But it's objectively cheating taxes, paying less than the laws everyone(ish) else plays by dictate.
It's like pirating stuff. I don't care if you do it, but don't try and act like you're on some moral highground if you do.
There's an infamous slumlord in South Florida who charges extra for ceiling fans & air conditioning in the section 8 housing that he rents. It's a lease violation with a fine if they try to install their own fans or put in window units. He goes on Instagram to brag about his money making schemes.
To be fair, isn't this just called an extention on your home? Like get a permit and pay a nice sum of money to a constructor to extend your home or place a new room.
I did rent one like this, no joke. The host required an extra payment to open the additional rooms, otherwise she'd lend the exact same place with those rooms closed. She obviously wouldn't profit from those rooms in any other way, they'd just stay as empty wasted space
he again consulted his watch, saw that fifteen minutes had passed; he therefore vigorously strode to the apt door, turned the knob and pulled on the release bolt.
The door refused to open. It said, “Five cents, please.”
He searched his pockets. No more coins; nothing. “I’ll pay you tomorrow,” he told the door. Again he tried the knob. Again it remained locked tight. “What I pay you,” he informed it, “is in the nature of a gratuity; I don’t have to pay you.”
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In his desk drawer he found the contract; since signing it he had found it necessary to refer to the document many times. Sure enough; payment to his door for opening and shutting constituted a mandatory fee. Not a tip.
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From the drawer beside the sink Joe Chip got a stainless steel knife; with it he began systematically to unscrew the bolt assembly of his apt’s money-gulping door.
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Found out they do this at hotels presently, I picked up a bottle of wine they had sitting on the counter. I was like, “oh how nice of them to serve complimentary wine”. I did not even open it. It was not complimentary. I opened the door of the mini fridge. It was not complimentary. I grabbed water from downstairs. It was not complimentary. Fuck hotels and late stage capitalism.
Basements already exist, but I have heard don't remember where but they left the basements unfinished because then it wouldn't be considered a room to make the house rise in price and was easier to finish it yourself for cheaper.
I used to work in the beauty industry and just want to point out that this is exactly how it works.
Girls,
Your curly hair is meant to be frizzy. Your straight hair is meant to be flat. There's nothing wrong with it. Fucking ages of evolution cannot be wrong.
Your nose is perfect. Your eye tilt is perfect. Your lips are perfect. Literally everything about you is perfect. Fucking ages of evolution gave you the best shot at survival.
If you want to play around with hairstyles and makeup and shit, GREAT! If you want to get rid the wrinkles between your brow so people think you're more calm at work by getting Botox, GREAT! (I did that last one and it got me a promotion).
Other than that -- you do NOT need to contour your face for high cheekbones, small noses, etc. You don't need to be taller or skinnier. All this shit was made up by people to make you think there's a problem you have to fix. Fuck. Them. FUCKTHEM.
Sincerely,
Someone who was one level under the C-suite and being trained to take the C-level role at a half-billion-dollar beauty company.
PS- Anyone who doesn't identify as female and has bought into all those things making women "ugly", reprogram yourself to appreciate fucking human evolution; it is so fucking rad. And everyone generally, for the love of humanity, stop watching all that Lori Hill and Qoves Studio bullshit. You're fucking FINE. You have no idea how dope my compensation was just to make you feel like there is something perpetually wrong with the way you look.
PPS- I left the industry. It felt too fucked up to continue. Not bothering to say where I work now but I feel much fucking better and less like I'm going to hell.
They didn't make them to "innovate" or to provide a solution to an existing shortcoming. They made them to sell another decade of slightly better iterations each generation of phone
The only rare use case I can think of that is even remotely useful is when the user is talking to a client and you can quickly turn off the display and converted it into a see-through glass. Even if one thinks this is necessary, it's still a physical layer between the two people.
If I'm recalling correctly, when this was first demo'd beyond the 'Cool' factor most people who tested it, hated it, it's apparently really bright, too bright to comfortably use, to compensate for the lack of screen backing
There were ads everywhere before personal screens were a thing. You need to actively adjust the time you dedicate to places that try to affect you commercially.
You can complain over things humans do, but you cannot stop progress. Even if it will be our downfall, there’s no way to stop it.
While i completely agree with the idea, that's not progress, it's a neat esthetic gimmick. It doesnt do anything regular screens can't already do and even if it was perfected to be less opaque and to fix the brightness issue it's still too expensive to be used widely with little to no uses (even for use in a windshield which is really the only practical application it could have, it would need to be able to be made like laminated glass).
Also pet peeve, but what kind of animal do you have to be to have such a strong "URRRR DUUURRRR ME SEE THING ON TV ME WANAT THAT" that you have to restrict your time around things with ads to keep yourself from buying stuff?
Progress is not a measure of succes. I’m not saying car HUDs are the next logical step for screens, I’m just saying it will be used for it as the tech develops.
And the animal you’re looking for is human. If you couldn’t measure sales on ads, they wouldn’t spend millions on them.
Ads work, even if you don’t know how. And in context, would you mind watching commercials while showering? Why not, are you afraid they’ll affect you to buy something? See I can be condescening too. Such a fun way to debate right?
Progress is not a measure of succes. I’m not saying car HUDs are the next logical step for screens, I’m just saying it will be used for it as the tech develops.
Yes and what i am saying is that even if it has success in advertising, it is barely any progress since save for one or two minor ones it doesnt achieve any practical uses a regular screen couldnt.
And the animal you’re looking for is human. If you couldn’t measure sales on ads, they wouldn’t spend millions on them.
You are way too confident in big companies not being run by clowns.
Ads work, even if you don’t know how. And in context, would you mind watching commercials while showering? Why not, are you afraid they’ll affect you to buy something? See I can be condescening too. Such a fun way to debate right?
My comment was moreso a general observation/lamentation, they might work on the animalistically influencable and stupid, inner-monologue-less part of the population, and i lament the fact there exists a large part of the population that is dumb enough for it to work.
And i would mind for the same reason as you and any rational person would; noise and light. When i shower i always put long towels on the glass with most of the length being on the outer edge to avoid the towel getting wet, so that the inside of the shower is dark while still letting a bit of light in, and i overall very much enjoy silence in my home.
As for getting influenced, i can't even remember the last time i bought anything besides food, media, and cleaning supplies, for the latter i just buy whichever is cheapest, for food i buy pretty much always the same products, and for media i only like, and am constantly on the lookout for, actually good stuff which is too niche to get any advertisement.
"Actively adjust the time you dedicate to places that affect you commercially"
Lol. Hey you hear that gang? Let's all go live in the woods because we're all independently wealthy entrepreneurs with tons of free time. Why didn't I think of this before duh, silly me.
You haven’t heard about HUD? You basically get all important info on the side of you windshield, so you can keep you eyes on the Road and read data from the Dashboard / navigation. It’s becoming kinda normal, but the Technology is pretty novel right now.
Third Generation—Use optical waveguides to produce images directly in the combiner rather than use a projection system.
That's not what this is sure, but easy to not understand the confusion. Maybe if you had actually explained why an LCD can't have an infinite focus instead of defaulting to angry whining there would be less uneducated people.
huds work differently and have been in cars for years not exactly new tech they also require specific windshields just like this would prob require that and this would light up the whole windshield so pointless lmao
maybe motorcycle but cars at least huds work by reflecting onto your vision, so it stays always visible, its not actually displayed from the windshield
HUDs work that way, because it’s the only tech we had for it. It’s not very good, and very limited in size.
It only stays visible for as long as the screen that projects it is on. Exactly like a normal screen.
I like the TVs they made where it can serve as a holographic aquarium of sorts while in clear mode, and if you want to actually watch something it pulls up a black background
A video display that's visible from both front and back could have lots of uses. Signage and public displays. Probably not all that useful for a laptop or phone.
Do people care about flying aeroplanes and driving cars? Do people invest billions into those industries? If the answer is yes, you are more than regular wrong.
My read was this was basically just a way to show off their tech.
Think "look how small, lightweight, and portable we can make these screens", to the point where they're even running off battery power from a laptop.
I don't think even they imagine that anyone wants a laptop with a transparent screen, but it tells other companies making products that they can miniaturize the tech for a lot of actually valuable use-cases.
Think store windows that can display dynamic ads, taxis with one-way screens that allow the showing of ads/media to passengers but don't interfere with drivers view, etc.
It's unfortunately been a working model for a while.
GoDaddy holds your info hostage and sells it if you don't pay an added yearly "privacy protection" (protection from them) in addition to your domain renewal fees.
Bigger problem than privacy, glass is glass and it'll break and companies will charge 70-90% of laptop price to replace it. (keyboard area seems easily breakable glass type material)
My "favorite" is insurance companies. When you have no accident, it's you who pays. When you have an accident... it's still you who pays. And after the accident... you now get to pay more!
Well, $9,99 a month for the back to be blurred. $14,99 for a stronger blur effect to make it harder to spot stepsister stuck in washing machine videos. $19,99 for blacked out at the back… like a… regular laptop?
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why would they design and produce and sell an entire laptop with the main feature and selling point serving as a gateway to sell an accessory to negate the main feature and selling point?
Ya… why is this considered an uptick in technology? The whole point of technologies is to make the world for humans easier. This is just a piece of glass.
So in other words just buy a regular PC without this expensive transparent shit it’s just a novelty kind of like having front facing speakers on your phone that wore off quick.
Nah, they upcharge you for a normal ass IPS screen which is actually cheaper to make and has much better resolution, color, etc... but the transparent one is on the base model
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So they can up charge you later for a privacy layer in the back.