I would seriously consider giving the whole smash to your local Mobile Loaves and Fishes or local Meals on Wheels.

Vinny,

You should also consider donating your RMD. That avoids the taxes if I'm understanding correctly.

I suspect that the paper-gold to physical gold ratio will further increase from recent 122:1 levels. Looks like a big buyer, 100Bn, perhaps Russia, buying 1500 tonnes of physical gold, via Options (expiry settlement in physical gold rather than cash). With current sanctions those trades being appli...

Hahaha my fiance absolutely hates Tim Horton's. She says the coffee is just mud water. I mean, i see her point. With the warmer weather coming we are definitely looking forward to doing some biking around the river valley area of our city. Also, there will definitely be festivals and all kinds of o...

I hadn't intended to change the colors, but the latest version of the "Elegance" style removed the 7 different color variations, of which "steel blue" was the one we used here.

I could probably use an earlier version of the style and get our old colors back.

Okay, we're now running the latest version of phpBB, which supports media embedding via the [media] tag.

Viz:

Sorry folks, did some updating last night and needed to install another package. Looks like things are good now.

Ukraine Is Now 'Holy War,' Russian Church Declares https://www.newsweek.com/russia-ukraine-war-holy-1884577 "From a spiritual and moral point of view, the special military operation is a Holy War, in which Russia and its people, are defending the single spiritual space of Holy Russia," the...

It wasn’t down for me, at least, but I did have to kind of break into it despite having the password. Sometime in the past year they added that. Found it when doing estimated payments. It's really strange to need to log in twice. It wasn't hugely frustrating for me because I already had an id.me ac...

I think (note I said ‘think’ rather than the popular ‘feel’ often used by the woke) Sorry. But this use of "feel" rather than "think" predates woke by decades and decades. I've been railing against it similarly for decades, saying "I don't want to know how you feel, I want ...

More later on what Dualstow inspired me to do but first this ... This is the plan I just upgraded to with Xfinity / Comcast: Fast Plan Download speeds: up to 500 Mbps Upload speeds: up to 100 Mbps This is what I have been using: Amazon.com: Belkin 5-Port 10/100 Fast Ethernet Network Switch | Deskto...

findings in an academic paper that illiquid investments actually seem to demonstrate a negative illiquidity premium There are so many negatives there I'm confused. Is this saying that one would expect that illiquid investments would be priced lower than liquid investments, because having liquidity ...

Dualstow, we expect more of you. You accused Vinny of still using his old computer while a new one he spent good money on sits "next to" the old one. Turns out that's not even close to true! It's probably a good 2 feet farther away than that. Please do some more fact checking before postin...

It sounds like they were more reluctant, lesser-of-two-evils Trump supporters. We do have a "lesser of two evils" system. This response would be more appropriate when directed to the people who seem to be mistaking Trump for Jesus himself. But more broadly, maybe this is something the Jeh...

It sounds like they were more reluctant, lesser-of-two-evils Trump supporters. We do have a "lesser of two evils" system. This response would be more appropriate when directed to the people who seem to be mistaking Trump for Jesus himself. But more broadly, maybe this is something the Jeho...

Yet another example of how the Value Stock Geek consistently sends an email with an email date about 2 weeks prior to it actually being sent. I was in the email box yesterday and it had nothing left in it about 24 hours ago. The email was not there. Today it is with a 2/21/24 date. My educated gues...

A lot of email is sorted by newest first, Vin. If what you say is true then those older date emailers are doing the exact wrong thing. Do email programs give you the choice of either newest or oldest first? I just checked with my ancient Eudora email which I use for person. It always has oldest on ...

When I asked someone his opinion of why they did this ... he hypothesized they did it so that their emails would be the top ones (first ones) in your In Box. Huh. At least for me it means there's approximately zero chance I would ever know it had existed. Explain yourself further? Currently my inbo...

vnatale wrote: ↑Wed Mar 06, 2024 4:49 pmWhen I asked someone his opinion of why they did this ... he hypothesized they did it so that their emails would be the top ones (first ones) in your In Box.

Huh. At least for me it means there's approximately zero chance I would ever know it had existed.

Yet another example of how the Value Stock Geek consistently sends an email with an email date about 2 weeks prior to it actually being sent. I was in the email box yesterday and it had nothing left in it about 24 hours ago. The email was not there. Today it is with a 2/21/24 date. My educated gues...

… However, is it not in this forum that Craig stated that he was no longer a Permanent Portfolio participant? I wonder if you’re thinking of PointedStick, a well-respected, intelligent and long-time member. He went all stocks. I don’t recall Craigr ever changing course. No. Definitely thinking of C...

Ukrainians use the word "coffee"? In the Latin alphabet even?

Are your relatives members of the Orthodox Church of Ukraine, the Ukranian Orthodox Church, or something else?

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Feb 14, 2024 9:22 am Have a great trip! Be safe.
Hungary: jealous.

Ukraine: less so?

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Tue Feb 13, 2024 1:27 pm

Xan wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 1:53 pm

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 1:11 pm The missus and I are travelling through Europe soon. I got a couple of these babies for emergency barter, just in case.

Smithers, did you get married..?

Engaged!

Somehow I missed that! Congrats!

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Mon Feb 12, 2024 1:11 pm The missus and I are travelling through Europe soon. I got a couple of these babies for emergency barter, just in case.

Smithers, did you get married..?