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davidrmoran
I myself see a big pullback coming in the next six months but I don’t know that I have ever been correct over 45 years. I will put a lot of money in if a 10% pullback comes. I expect you r being prudent depending on how old you are. The thing is, if you’re young, you might as well stick it out and not try to time. He said.
That GE fridge has a carbon footprint like no other fridge in history.
And ongoing --- a new one will drop her electric bill enormously.
The rest of your points: it depends. Some things are well-made and tightly QCed these days. Audio included. And…
See all the recent articles covering wwc and farmers and self-styled evangelical types in Pa and Iowa and 'bama (Sheila Butler!) with utterly wack quotes about giving the guy a chance, let all of his policies work their magic despite my own personal…
@VF, looong recent thread about this prior
they hate the right people, us resented overeducated libtards who condescend to all of the wise and worthy working people in diners and bars and know nothing of the real world or common sense
so goes the…
Only two? Impressive. It appears to take me a dozen bad experiences for my greed to be dope-slapped and become averse or at least avoidant.
That said, I did hold some recent pharm bomb for years, yet another hindsight-terrible tip from some pluto…
This, not alarming clocked dollar amounts, is what chiefly matters, but yes, it's rising and will go up a lot higher, and we should increase gov revenues bigtime:
https://d3fy651gv2fhd3.cloudfront.net/charts/united-states-government-debt-to-gdp.png…
@Crash, you are having your neg MS karma repaid. j/k.
h,lmgtfy:
googling produced this, which is complicated for most of us:
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-permanently-disable-windows-defender-windows-10
but it also says Defender disables i…
Well, more ram will help, and somehow checking for avast conflicts w the builtin programs would be wise if you have not done so already, turning one or the other off for keeps.
Not HD space, but ram on the motherboard. That's the biggest difference-maker.
I use W10 builtin security, works fine, fewer problems now than third-party ones ime. Plus free malwarebytes.
How much ram do you have? W10 enjoys a lot. With enough ram, my experience is that W10 works better and better with each update. They can take forever, for sure, and obvs ymmv.
And yes about clock update timings (chronstamp is the insuck term), although I had this explained to me several times via c/s email, and each time it was a different explanation, so my new confidence is not high about timeliness either.
I was once…
There was a near-total / major (their terms) overhaul in the past, maybe more than once, so I ain't excited, yet. Though each time I kvetched they said they were escalating to top software management, har, since I was a longtime and worthy customer,…
I have used it for years and have always had (different) problems with it. It was Yodlee at one point, yes. It is inconsistent about the insuck (technical term) from certain other shops, and differently inconsistent over the years. Worst of all rece…
I am relieved these people will not suffer any further:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/30/eye-popping-payouts-for-ceos-follow-trumps-tax-cuts-747649
@LB,
This sounds like looking for an excuse to buy WFC.
Perhaps 'easy' is a better characterization for Beery's blog.
As for US slavery, you can join the debate of what to do about Boston's Faneuil Hall's name. To this privileged white guy (and …
I think I posted that famous taibbi link here when it came out 8y ago
sure, that ultra-fatuous shira beery piece is by definition godwin, can't not be
the wfc sales culture was not (imo) like anything I have read about in moderately deep delving o…
@ Crash: Any thought of a part time job ?
Derf
I might be open to the idea. My background, though, is not suited for ANYTHING. EVERYWHERE I apply--- literally--- the employer will wonder what the hell …
@Ben,
>> In my case there is no correlation between how many times a week I look and when I sell.
you would think (I would think) there has to be at least some correlation at some faint level if only because if you never looked at all presum…
wow, you hit the godwin rule so early!
there has been truly new news since this, no?
plus this from not so long ago:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/02/business/wells-fargo-federal-reserve.html
I pose the question to you of how to punish any in…
My editorial point was that laetrile was widely identified before these applications (see google's ngram for it, starting early 1960s, peaking well after Chad Green's death, which is when registration / protection efforts commenced, looks like) and …
I myself completely concur in MJG's
>> Frequent looking encourages frequent action
You gotta be really disciplined to sit tight when things are going against your hopes.
Nah, no need; they're mistaken as a result of timidity, which is all too common in business editorial work. They can discover the cancer.gov "style". Or not.
Laetrile was widely lowercase-generic before this nonsense
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin…
The editor in me needs to point out that not only is laetrile dangerous (toxic) bullshit but also it is not a trademark of any sort.
https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/cam/patient/laetrile-pdq#section/all
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Am…
not his wording, but my takeaway is something like possibly sufficient but not necessary
see his last sentence, no?
and my own add would have to do w sellability
@msf,
>> 1/3 of medicare enrollees have given up "original" Medicare and gone back to commercial insurance. It's called Medicare Advantage, and has very much the feel of commercial group plans.
hmm, what could have caused you to write this? …
It's also a seventh our size, so not easy to usefully compare many things in that respect.
I always find this humbling:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_population_(United_Nations)
I should have posted it elsewhere, I now agree; I had not sufficiently considered territoriality and encroachment or thread-hijacking. Apologies.
Interesting that you imagine your place here as more child than peer.
Informing you is antagonizing,…
Not sure that sort of thing would ever fly or would have flown, these days, since ACA was impossible to get buy-in on too after a pol with brown skin became its driver.
(Conservative views used to include a degree of mandated personal responsibili…
moving into the post-fact era for healthcare policy too:
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/07/28/trump-facts-policy-shop-administration-research-714353
All good questions. I know for myself what are the levels of egregiousness, or I think and say I do, but they would not be others', perhaps. I left Parnassus over WFC, and Herro (Oakmark) as well, when he denounced global warming a year or two ago. …
