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@hank- No kidding, man. "A metal roof" my a__. Those winds can pick up that roof and spin it half a block away. And then pick up those trees, and dump them down where the roof used to be. When I was 20 or so I spent a year on isolated duty at a Coas…
"But so no one gets the idea that may I know what I'm doing"
Not to worry! :)
Add: @MikeM... sorry, a quick glance misread the name above... thought it was Hank I was replying to. :)
"business groups and several states opposed the rule and said it set the threshold too high. They challenged it in court and in November [Judge] Mazzant stayed it."
Note that there was no challenge to the authority of the Labor Dept. to make such a…
@Sven- Yes, that's pretty much what I was thinking too. Putin certainly wouldn't hesitate to get a double-header by back stabbing both China and the US.
"It's not beta, it worse! ... "
@ibartman- good one! :)
@Soupkitchen- glad that things worked out for you. I don't believe that I would have had the nerve to eliminate all 397 (approximate guess) of those damned M* cookies.
"Wonder where the new technology came from so quickly? "
@Sven- Doesn't seem like it would be in China's best interests to provide that, does it? That pretty much leaves Pakistan, Russia, and maybe Iran?
Hank- yes, all of the in-house funds that I've ever dealt with are as you describe. Someone else (Ted, perhaps?) will be more knowledgeable on this, but I'm under the impression that this deals with trades that don't necessarily involve funds. All o…
If I invested only in what I know, everything would be buried in a coffee can in the back yard.
About the only thing that Donald Rumsfeld ever had right was his observation about knowing what you don't know vs not knowing what you don't know.
Received same info from Schwab, via both US Mail and email, apparently well before Fidelity's notification, for what interest that may have (as David would be the first to say).
@Maurice- The trick there was to disconnect the bells on the "extra" phones. That's how Telco "knew" you had extra stuff. I don't keep these for any value at all... I just like them!
Speaking in the "first person", I can easily see both sides of this discussion. If investment returns are to be compared, one against another, then cash should probably be included.
If you are only interested in comparing your current return to you…
@Ted- Thanks much.
@Soupkitchen- I tried substituting "http://www.morningstar.com/" for "http://beta.morningstar.com/" in my M* address, but it wouldn't take- it reverted back to the "http://beta.morningstar.com/". Since Ted has proven that both ve…
@Ted- just curious: can you take a look and check to see if the URL address shown for M* is EXACTLY the same on the Firefox & Chrome browsers? Thanks- OJ
@msf- Yes, that wall phone (ours is yellow) is out in the garage. The one like you saw in your mother's office came from my father's office when the Southern Pacific upgraded their system. You know they were antiques if the SP was still using them!
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@hank- The AM radio most likely had a small "loop antenna" inside it, usually wired onto a backplate or backboard of some type. Draping the phone cord over the radio caused it to act as a radio-frequency coupler (a very primitive transformer, so to …
@msf- I'm with you all the way on the quality and longevity of Western Electric equipment, most of which was designed by Bell Labs in New Jersey. However, the Bell System played major tax avoidance games with WE. WE, owned by the Bell System, sold a…
@msf: You are well aware that I highly appreciate your insight and perspective, but surely you can get your eyes away from that textbook long enough to observe outfits such as Valeant and Turing Pharmaceuticals (the latter being Martin Shkreli's gif…
@LewisBraham-
Obviously you don't understand. Ted, and those like him, believe that anyone entertaining beliefs even incrementally to the left of theirs is automatically "a communist".
It's sort of comical with Ted, but try reading some of the pre…
"Then Old_Joe takes a repeated swipe at the Linkster for no reason at all."
@Ted: I gave my reasons, in plain English. You are attempting to require a poster to read through twenty or thirty of your links before daring to post, or specifically ask…
@Mark-
About time somebody tries to call this foolishness for what it is. To be expected to read through twenty or thirty links of one egotistical poster before daring to post, or abandoning a post because someone else has also used a certain link, …
@davidrmoran-
As I mentioned to msf in another thread, Ted has, by sheer weight of mouthpower and ill-tempered badgering, managed to contrive the impression that there is some sort of MFO rule or agreement that once someone provides a particular li…
@msf- There is no disputing that Ted works hard to provide links to information that he believes to be pertinent or interesting, and that his efforts are appreciated by many here on MFO.
However, by sheer weight of mouthpower and ill-tempered badge…
To some extent, damned if they do / damned if they don't.
As representatives of specific companies, they have an obligation to do no harm to those companies. As individuals, they have an obligation to disassociate themselves from political or ethic…
From David's link:
"But if there are really hundreds of thousands or even millions of willing workers just waiting to get back into the labor market, that means there is room for job growth to continue without driving up inflation."
If that was tr…
