BearBones wrote: Thanks, you all. Will try DDG and Startpage. Anyone pay for a private VPN?

I like private internet access.

The Real Mitt Romney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxch-yi14BE

I would recommend against running a KDE desktop environment with those specs. If you want something more full-featured than LXLE, why not give something like Linux Mint Mate Edition a try?

James "Lights Out" Toney.

I'm glad it's working well for you guys!

What would be a good "minimalistic" Linux distro to use on a 10-year-old clunker PC? Just for tinkering around on the Linux command line. I had previously been using Ubuntu on that PC, but one of the recent software updates screwed something up and now it won't even boot. So a distro that...

LOL!  Almost as funny as the cute little black boy playing with his toy truck among the True Believers. Anyway, I feel in the mood to dual boot this weekend.  What is currently the most Windows-like distribution?  There was one mentioned in another thread. Linux Mint with the cinnamon desktop envir...

dualstow wrote: this guest is talking about Edward Scissorhands instead, and the anchorwoman from HLN does not notice. Good stuff.
http://www.avclub.com/article/hln-confu ... and-226146

This made my day, thanks dualstow!

Jake,

I just signed up and am very excited to see what you have so far!

[align=center][img width=800]http://i.imgur.com/dMii230.png[/img][/align] I'd like to see the bid-ask spread on those other "investments". For some reason that is very difficult to find, but that's probably a coincidence. For rare coins atleast, transaction costs absurd! My off the top of...

Ad,

So sorry to hear about your father; I wish you and yours nothing but the best.

Early

Mitt Romney wins via DQ after being on the receiving end of one of Mr. Holyfield's famed "accidental" headbutts.

I've got two invites if anyone wants one just shoot me a PM.

TripleB,

Awesome post! I especially loved the part about marketing and investments; I never considered a mutual fund to have much in common with, say, a golf club. Perhaps Fama/French are to DFA what Tiger is (was?) to Nike Golf?

TripleB wrote:
The only gold I like is the gold in my wife's jewelry.

Never gets old, ever. EVER.

Austen Heller wrote: Everyone.....chill.....out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfL_PwWdNGU

The end result is a huge amount of mistrust between the two groups, to the point where spending time with people who are not a member of your "team" can lead to serious social consequences. Early C, Can you give an example of this? What were the consequences for you or others who have ass...

MangoMan wrote:

Early Cuyler wrote: I recently moved to southeast Idaho from Texas

So we know it wasn't the weather that prompted this move. May I inquire what did?

I am an avid fly fisherman and Idaho is home to some of the very best trout fishing on the planet.

I recently moved to southeast Idaho from Texas, so I was pleasantly surprised to see this thread! Southeast Idaho is an interesting mix of people, with the aforementioned community dynamics all present: You have Mormons and everyone else. The Mormons seem to spend all of their time together (at leas...

I always look forward to reading what you have to say, Moda.

Alcohol is that happy combination: a pleasurable substance that also conveys health benefits. Those benefits are greatest if you drink moderately. But even drinking more than is “perfectly”? recommended, without displaying clinical symptoms of problem drinking or alcohol dependence (and these are n...

Wow is right, didn't see that coming. Better late than never.

So,

I moved to Idaho from Texas around a year ago, and I've since rediscovered my love of fishing. I was wondering if anyone who posts here likes to fly fish too.

Same comment as above. Good advice that unfortunately doesn't really ease my pain. My advice keeps the IRS hands off of your retirement income, and may actually make you a beneficiary from popular redistribution.  There will always be opportunities for smart and flexible people to use the existing ...

Bump. Seriously, not one person has a comment on this? First, I had no idea how the net equity in a brokerage account was calculated for insurance purposes, thanks for bringing this up! So now I have to reevaluate the brokerages I use in particular and investing with a brokerage firm in general. If...