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"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…
Thought that "Synchrony Financial" rang a bell. Wickipedia: "prior to its 2014 initial public offering, which raised $2.88 billion, Synchrony operated as a subsidiary of GE Capital".
I deny everything. I wasn't there when it happened and I have no idea even what happened, if in fact anything did happen. I don't speak Russian and have no idea how my name became involved in this fake witch hunt. I was only talking about adopting o…
Lord, preserve us from the "Tampa Bays"! But there was another guy, went by the name of "Dex" (among a few others... he posted under a variety of names, sometimes praising his own posts) who was even worse. This new poster reminded some of us of "De…
Reminds me of an experience in Turkey years ago- asked directions to a good local coffee shop, got pointed to a Starbucks located right behind me next to the ship dock. Finally convinced the young policeman that we wanted the real thing- then we had…
I was unaware that a monopoly on posting is in force at MFO.
@Ted: Thanks for commenting on Hanks' post, thus kicking it into the "Discussions +" category!
Allstate never was much for customer support, but some years ago they decided to actively shed customers, and did so with a selective barrage of customer-unfriendly actions. They couldn't just cancel customers outright for no good reason, so they ge…
Add, from WSJ, 6:41PM, EST:
North Korea Threat Comes After Trump Vows ‘Fire and Fury’... North Korea ‘carefully examining’ plan to launch missiles at Guam
As tensions rose, a senior Trump administration official said Tuesday that Washington should…
UPDATE, Per the Wall Street Journal: (5:55 PM, EST)
North Korea Makes Rare Explicit, Specific Threat on Guam: North Korean Military “Carefully Examining” Operational Plan to Launch Missiles at Guam
Kim Jong Ordered Guam Plan After U.S. Air Force F…
"It's really a shame about the Europeans not making the diesel passenger cars clean. I have driven diesel rentals in GB, France, Germany, Spain, etc. at different times in the past 20 years and I was always impressed with performance and mileage."
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