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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…
@hank- Interesting point. Perhaps that's a subliminal reason why I maintained a small position in many of the funds that we have long held, rather than outright converting everything to cash. As far as denial is concerned, I've been denying lots of …
"old_joe" is quietly thinking that he is only two years younger than Ted was. And wondering which vital subsystem is likely to fail and take him out too.
We had our differences regarding style, but there's absolutely no doubt that Ted had nothing but the best intentions for the welfare of MFO. The amount of time and work that he volunteered was phenomenal. With respect, RIP.
"what you want is largely unavailable in many towns and cities, though not all"
Even in a city with the size and wealth of San Francisco it's becoming less and less available. The SF Chronicle, while still capable of some really excellent reportin…
@Derf- Yes, I don't use that table all that often because it doesn't have a link to Schwab, which I usually use. But I also noticed that "MFO Community" option, and thought to myself that I didn't remember it being there before.
@catch22- Thanks for posting that "first" page. Fun to see that some of us are still around, but sad to see how many of the really good posters are no longer with us.
I think that @Derf is actually asking how long the "MFO Community" option has bee…
Following is a slightly abridged crucial excerpt from the December 2019 article "Against Economics" :
Before long, the Bank of England (whose economists are most free to speak their minds since they are not formally part of the government) rolled ou…
@hank- Same here. Have had a 16" Makita electric chain saw for a number of years. Very good tool, but the cord is a nuisance. If you recall the Russian River had a major flood last year, and our backyard was a real disaster. Natural brush, tree limb…
Yes, It's very hard to see how the Hong Kong situation can be resolved to the satisfaction of both Hong Kong and Bejing. My thought is that the young folks of Hong Kong must feel like fish being caught up in a net and struggling against the inevitab…
@rforno- Assuming that the deal goes through it will probably take a fair amount of time for Schwab to convert The TDA computer setup and statements to the Schwab system. I don't actually pay all that much attention to the the Schwab "paper statemen…
