Or, do like Alton Brown says, and don’t use a spring form pan, use a cake pan and put it in a water bath and bake the cheesecake.

Here’s the best way to pay off student loans:

Being overweight is a ticking time bomb. It’s that simple. However, BMI is absolute bullshit. I spent the majority of my life (ages 5 - 25) overweight. I’m 6’2” and at my heaviest, I weighed 293. That put my BMI at 37.6 which is “obese”. That was totally true.

It's definitely the way to go. My iPod hooked up to the venue's speakers played classical music during dinner, so we didn't have a DJ (no dancing too, thank the universe), it was formal, as in dresses for women, and suit and tie for men, but that's it. We don't regret it for a second. Everyone had fun and it wasn't so…

We just couldn't justify spending tons of money a) on a day that will last only a few hours and we probably won't really get to enjoy much; and b) because of my wife's med school loans.

Our wedding had about 30 guests, we held it at a very upscale hotel where they served amazing catered food that we picked out consisting of a cocktail hour with appetizers, a buffet with 3 main dishes and various sides, and a full dessert bar, we had an open bar for guests (we paid per drink because the math suggested…

My point was, a shampoo that she uses exclusively that is not branded towards men (unless you like the "salon experience") is cheaper than the shampoo that is definitely marketed towards men.

I feel like this is a generalization with little analysis. As many commenters noted, there is a distinct reason for dry cleaning costs differing.

Oh, I get what you mean with equity now (yeah, was totally confused). I agree, a new assessment would be most equitable for all homeowners. See below.

I agree it’s a rather regressive tax, but if not for a property tax, then you’d have to increase sales tax or income tax. Being that NY already has one of the highest income taxes (as well as some pretty high sales taxes), I don’t think that’d be a popular option. One of the big problems is that property taxes are…

No, unfortunately. I think I mentioned in a post above somewhere that we bought our house in October last year. One of the biggest factors for determining what town we lived in were the property taxes. Though the dollar value of the house was relatively constant, the taxes (for houses in different towns) varied from…

Neither in Long Island, nor where I live now Upstate, could even remotely be considered “urban”. My residence is/was the definition of suburban. I can drive about 10 to 20 minutes and be in total farm country surrounded by only green, or I can drive 5 to 10 minutes (Upstate) and be at the largest mall in the county.…

I'm familiar with Farmingville. I think we went to the movies there. I moved down in 2008 for law school, graduated in 2011, stayed there until 2013 before moving to Boston for a year (got a Tax LLM there), then moved from there back to Upstate.

Depends on where you live. My property taxes are about 2.7% of the value of my house in Western NY. I live in a 2600 sqft house in one of the nicer suburbs. As compared to my mom's house, where it's about 2.1% of the value of her house. However, her house is about 1100 sqft, 30 years older, and in a solidly blue…

My mom was originally from Long Island, so we used to go down and visit often. She moved back about 10 years ago for a job. I've lived in Western NY for my entire life, but moved down for law school and spent a total of 5 years living in Patchogue. Honestly, I couldn't wait to leave. I hated every aspect of Long…

In terms of Democrat vs. Republican? Where I live upstate, the county has a Republican executive, but the city has a Democratic mayor and our US Rep has been Democrat for I think around 30 years. I think the state senators and assemblymen are usually Democrat. The suburbs are kind of split but overall I think it's a…

Yeah, basically the Eastern half of long island doesn't have sewer lines for human waste. So each yard as a cesspool buried in it. It's disgusting. God help you if it ever backs up or something happens to it.

To your 2nd paragraph, there is no better illustration than Long Island, NY. Some of the highest taxes in the country, yet, the roads are full of pot holes, public service is virtually non-existent, most homes still heat with oil, most homes have cesspools and not sewer lines, the enforcement of ordinances and codes…

Damn it, I totally read that in Carlin's voice. Now I need to go watch some of his routines.

That is, apparently, what we do in this society. Like... let me think... "for all intensive purposes", using literally for literally everything (see what I did there?), etc.... Instead of correcting the incorrect we just accept it because calling people out on incorrect language usage is probably "bullying".