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I have to comment (well, I don't really have to, but it's a figure of speech) that while I don't use TRP, VG or Fidelity my impression from absorbing extensive MFO commentary over the last year or so is that Fidelity is the way to go. We use Schwab …
"While he is insured, he is having great difficulty..."
"the premimum zooooomed. I thought a metal roof should have lowered my cost due to better fire protection. "
Yeah- never give a sucker an even break... from my life experiences I feel that al…
You know, I can sort of understand a pilot committing suicide by crashing a plane into a mountain. But why on earth would they want to take a planeload of innocent passengers and fellow crew members with them?
You really can't predict the eventual evolution of things like this. Something like fuel cells may actually win out in the end- an amalgam of current electric propulsion and control technology with an as yet to be perfected energy source. There are …
China Eastern Black Box Points to Intentional Nosedive
Flight data suggests someone in cockpit pushed Boeing 737-800 into near-vertical descent, according to a preliminary U.S. assessment
Following are extracts from a current Wall Street Journal r…
And he did. But it wasn't pretty.
On the other hand, at the height of the 70s inflationary spiral I found some very decent "Mormon" bonds out of Utah for new electric generating plants at 14%. Did very well on those, until they were called after so…
Yes, it's interesting that the center-of-gravity (CG) is just as critical in the larger aircraft as it is in the small single-engine types. When the aircraft is balanced properly it wants to naturally stay level at cruising speed. In that configurat…
@WABAC- true enough, but we all survived the 1970s. Eventually things sort themselves out. Maybe people have to be in their 80s to remember going through all that stuff. The trick is to not do anything really stupid while all of the smoke and noise …
Yeah, they just love it when they can do that kind of stuff. Doesn't happen all that often.
Our A320 was lightly loaded also, and for weight distribution we had been placed by ourselves in the very rear seats. All of a sudden we were flat on our ba…
Following are edited excerpts from a column today by Paul Krugman.
Last week TerraUSD, a stablecoin — a system that was supposed to perform a lot like a conventional bank account but was backed only by a cryptocurrency called Luna — collapsed. Luna …
Well, yes- same here on a Lufthansa going into Frankfurt. But such a "go-around" does not necessarily suggest an air traffic control misadventure... sometimes the timing of an anticipated sequence of events just doesn't work out, for a variety of po…
This unconfirmed rumor has been floating around on ultra-right-wing sources, many controlled by Rupert Murdoch, for a long time now. If there were any truth to this, isn't it reasonable to expect confirmation from some main-stream source?
It's 19 weeks into the year and America has already seen 198 mass shootings
It is also the 198th mass shooting in 2022. With just over 19 weeks into the year, this averages out to about 10 such attacks a week.
The tally comes from the Gun Violence …
Maybe we can expect a note from certain members of the Supreme Court explaining how the founders of this country stipulated how every 18-year old was to be given the means to shoot as many people as they felt like on any given day.
And of course it…
"... though it'd get really boring when they say "up/down by 0.45 percent" "
@rforno- Well, if I was the newsreader I'd say something like "Up/down by a little bit... nothing to worry about". :)
@msf- Were you by any chance talking to my wife?
"That's the lamest excuse for not doing one's homework before turning it in."
@rforno- Having spent a significant portion of my school years evading homework, I'm curious as to what there is to turn in if one hasn't done it? Evidently I missed some…
Re Tesla:
Following are edited excerpts from an article in this morning's Wall Street Journal:
Last month, Tesla sold just 1,512 cars made at its Shanghai plant, down 94% from a year ago and far below the more than 65,000 it sold in March, accordi…
How about the "Money is Still Flowing" (into ARKK) part??? Surely that's not still true? Unless maybe you can use Bitcoin, "Luna" or "Terra" to buy ARKK??
"adjunct to U.Utah Chemistry in the Pons cold fusion era"
@Anna- I am frequently overwhelmed and humbled by the education, knowledge, and life achievements of so many here on MFO. Many times I feel like a minnow swimming with the whales. Yes, I had…
"My goal is to live long enough to witness the discovery of intelligent life (or what passes for intelligence) elsewhere in the universe."
@hank- Start local: Let's see if we can find some here on earth first. :)
@Anna- Might not have been MIT, but I also definitely remember something along those lines- "paint" on the outside of buildings, if I recall correctly. But lots of times the way those kinds of things are reported suggest that the probabilities of su…
And here's a bit more in this area:
Electric car battery shortage looms in 2025, warns Stellantis boss
Edited excerpts from a report in The Guardian:
Carlos Tavares, the chief executive of Stellantis, one of the world’s biggest carmakers, has warn…
@BenWP- "Misery loves company". :)
A few things for sure:
• Complex processing chips are not going away any time soon.
• More and more very diversified products are using them, and demand is steadily increasing.
• ASML is surely one of the top lea…
@WABAC- Thanks so much for your note. I well remember the old Customs Building on Kearny Street- at 18 I first went there to enlist in the Coast Guard; four years later went there to get my FCC license. I loved the LORAN service- after the year at T…
