AmericanIdle

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AmericanIdle replied to the The Synchole board. 8:16 AM

Re: I'm a rules guy.

I am way over on the rules side. For example, I appear to be the only person in Clayton (where I work) who follows the pedestrian lights when crossing the street.

I spend some time in Clayton. I can vouch that Wally is correct [more]

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AmericanIdle replied to the RAD's Living Room board. 8:13 AM

Re: Not a normal tourist

I'm currently in Stuttgart with a clear blue sky and lovely weather.

This plays a very big role. Perhaps our best single stay of our recent trip was Glasgow, which was a change of plans due to the weather looking good there (a couple [more]

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AmericanIdle replied to the The Synchole board. 12:24 PM

Re: Just Sayin'

In other news, Sisyphus is still pushing that (deleted) boulder up that (deleted) hill.

AI

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AmericanIdle replied to the Retirement Investing board. 10:12 AM

Re: Financial Advisor Fees

Well, phuque you all. If Dave wants to present figures, he can knock himself out.

I don't know about the rest of y'all, but I, for one, find this to be a logical and convincing argument.

AI

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AmericanIdle replied to the RAD's Living Room board. 11:08 PM

Re: Road trips

Um, the whole point is not to be working.

AI

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AmericanIdle replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 10:53 AM

Re: 75 month car note? 97 months??

(Though I would like to know what method they used to arrive at average: median? mode? mean?)

In statistical circles, average always refers to mean. If you want to use a different measure of central tendency (median, trimmed mean, [more]

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AmericanIdle replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 10:10 AM

Re: Open Office v. Office

One thing that I thought I had mentioned previously, but apparently not, OpenOffice has incorporated every MS document of any kind without problems, formatting or otherwise. MS products have failed to incorporate the simplest of OpenOffice [more]

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AmericanIdle replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 10:19 PM

Re: Open Office v. Office

I use Open Office also. The one thing I don't like about it is that the Equation Editor is not compatible with Word's, but probably not of importance to anyone who doesn't need to deal with mathematical formulas. (I am a Math Professor, so it is sort [more]

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AmericanIdle replied to the Replies I'd Like To Make board. 10:40 AM

Re: No idea

I have never considered investing in rental property, so I suppose there is something I am completely missing here. Would someone mind spelling it out for me?

AI

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AmericanIdle replied to the RAD's Living Room board. 12:00 PM

Re: My personal rant

I was born in 1954. It is beyond me that women are still getting old and seem unable to take care of themselves. Yes, there are people with big health issues but the others who seem not to have picked up degrees or skills along the way make be [more]

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AmericanIdle replied to the RAD's Living Room board. 11:49 AM

Re: My personal rant

funny , because i feel this way about men - the ones who claim to not know how to cook, do laundry, clean up after themselves...

I can do all of the above, just not necessarily the "right" way...

--AI

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AmericanIdle replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 12:18 AM

Re: Valuable, cheap college education

IMO it's a complete waste of education dollars K-12 if we're just going to have American college students studying libeeral arts, while we need to increase H1-B visas to fill the jobs in healthcare, tech, and sciences.

Do you even [more]

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AmericanIdle replied to the Living Below Your Means board. 12:16 AM

Re: Valuable, cheap college education

I can think of NO subject taught in college currently that a sufficiently motivated person could not learn on their own at least to the level equivalent of a BS of BA degree, by purchasing used text books, reading online articles, working problems [more]