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@hank- Undoubtedly there will be performance variations in different areas, but we have found the USPS to be pretty darned solid for quite a number of years now.
@VintageFreak- Interesting. We use Amazon heavily- at least every couple of weeks, so …
"What should your retirement wish be for 2020"
Well, my wish is that our health remains in as good shape as our retirement income. At the moment, that may be somewhat optimistic.
@hank- Thanks for that NY Times article. At first glance that article may seem like a list of design and manufacturing concerns that further call the safety of that plane into question. This may seem odd, but I don't see it that way.
In the design …
Well, I'm on board with you guys on this one, that's for sure. I fully realize that there are certain situations involving taxes that may be in need of clarification, or that may result in uneven or potentially unfair treatment. Those issues should …
From Wickipedia, FWIW:
"According to Shiller, the most common responses were related to a general mindset of investors at the time: a "gut feeling" of an impending crash, perhaps brought on by "too much indebtedness".
Hard to say, it seems.
"The question that folks like Arnott and GMO always struggle with is they don’t know what will trigger the reversion. It has to be something major. Overvaluation alone is never the trigger."
And the "something major" trigger in 1987 was... ?
@David_Snowball- I was going to respond but then I realized that I have almost certainly misunderstood your comment, and so my comment in response to your comment would probably be misunderstood even more. Plus, I hereby claim Executive Privilege. …
Amazon customer reviews: many times very helpful, if used with caution.
Depending on the nature of what I'm buying I sometimes pay serious attention to the user reviews. Hank's right regarding the cheaper stuff... the grammar of many of those revie…
I wouldn't worry too much about Mr. Muilenburg. He'll fit in very smoothly with the corporate culture at PG&E, and I'm sure that he'll have a brilliant future there.
@msf- Yes, I remember that one. Actually thought that it was pretty funny at the time... sounded like something stupid that I might have done.
But seriously, note the difference between the responses of Lockheed and Boeing... Lockheed admitted owni…
Makes you wonder if the 737 software group was also involved with the Starliner. Surely a software glitch like that should have shown up with adequate pre-testing. Maybe they cut a few corners there too.
I really liked the part where Boeing said, i…
Amplifying @msf's observations, following are heavily abridged selections from a current "Heard On the Street" commentary from the WSJ.
Boeing Needs to Jettison More Than Its CEO
Boeing has taken the right step in ousting Dennis Muilenburg. Repla…
Any post trumpeting the "xx best" or the "xx greatest" or the "xx reasons to" should be regarded as nothing more than click bait garbage, and automatically ignored as a waste of time.
To be honest, I've never quite understood the benefit of posting a public message on someone's profile / "Activity Wall", or why anyone would want to. Like Catch22, I've stumbled on such messages from time to time, and seen messages between posters …
Amen! At this point about the only Federal agency that I still have respect for is the NTSB. And they have been calling out the FAA for many years now on various safety issues.
I've found the delivery info very undependable for UPS, USPS, and Amazon itself. Quite often they claim "handed directly to a resident" when no such thing happened.
Fortunately our front porch is easily visible from a very busy intersection with lo…
I don't have a horse in this race, but I do have some very recent experience with FedEx. On Wednesday of last week I had to take both of my hearing aids to the audiologist because of a malfunction in one of the operating control buttons. On Monday o…
"Even if the FAA were perceived as doing a good job of oversight"
In addition to msf's observations, consider the current political position of the FAA. While those who are closely familiar with the FAA have known better for a long while, still the…
