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Absolutely! The first thing after we land on Mars is to impose a 25% tariff on any rocks or whatever they might send back. And also inaugurate a new cryptocurrency: MARSBIT. Of which 20% will be allowed for the public and 80% for those with a net wo…
Well, it is a mouthful and then some. But one part of the long discussion did get my attention, and that dealt with (to paraphrase) the essential changes in direction of the Democratic party, as driven by the younger generations of Democrats who hav…
"Registered" mail requires the use of registered horses and riders here on the continent, so anything from the East takes a fair amount of time these days.
There have been M* complaints here on MFO for such a long time now... I really don't understand why anyone still bothers with M*. What is that old saying,,, "insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result."
Nice try, BS1000. First you say "Of course, they expect all of us to pay for it." as if the MAGA states are going to foot the bill. When we point out that California consistently sends more to Washington than we ever get back, then you say "I never …
@MikeM said: "I can remove myself from his antagonizing BS."
Sometimes it's useful to see direct evidence of the pathetic ignorance of "the other side" rather than just speculating about that possibility.
“If you know the enemy and know yourself, …
Curious mention in the CNN piece about a police raid on the headquarters of the airline.
I suspected that this was just a typical government CYA reflex reaction. The South Korean government is kind of infamous for that sort of thing. (Our own gover…
@bee- said- "Only $84k AGI? 70% of taxpayers qualify..."
No disagreement there. However I suspect that the great majority of MFO posters are in that other 30%, and my observation was made with that in mind.
I've never heard about anything like this. Ever.
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"Of course, they expect all of us to pay for it."
California has contributed more to the federal budget than it ever received for many, many years.
We are paying for YOUR MAGA states, BS1000.
@BaluBalu- It sounds as if you may need to change your Notification Preferences:
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The South Korea deputy minister for civil aviation said on last Wednesday that the “initial extraction” of data from the cockpit voice recorder had been completed. “Based on this preliminary data, we plan to start converting it into audio format,” h…
Yes indeed- Southwest vs Air Cal. The Southwest guys were really cool. Coming into SFO from the south there was of course a standard approach with turns and descents at various fixes which Air Cal and Southwest did many times every day.. Once in a w…
Simply having a predictable income stream, and spreading the bet a little. Right now the MMKT is trending down, but with our new improved executive branch I wouldn't bet on that continuing.
Not a bet on anything- just maintaining a reasonable overall inflation protection. MMKT = 56%, Fixed = 44%. Incoming pension & SS are sent to MMKT, transferred to checking acct as needed. Always an annual surplus of income over expense, so MMKT …
No prob- as an air traffic controller we really liked the 727s- we couldn't hear the noise, and they could be real helpful when we needed some speed to get the separation. We never liked a '27 behind a '37, but the other way around was no problem.
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Over at Schwab their prime Treasury MMKT SUTTX is down to 4.24%, and the 2-yr Treasury that I bought about a week ago is 4.29. The trick is to balance immediate yield against longer-term stuff, while keeping enough in MMKT to cover any immediate cas…
