Smith1776 wrote: ↑Sun Sep 17, 2023 1:06 pm
Elegant looking Lily.



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The forever lovely Lily!

From the VP\ARM thread: Perhaps. I use Standard Notes myself, but it’s got a lot of warts. Like, a *lot.* I think Drafts (iOS) was the software I mentioned to you directly. What {..} I use in my iPad {..} that works quite well {is the Notes app} I could easily take notes in it and just as easily em...

As long as I'm not using that giant 30-pin connector Apple used to ship I'm good lol. You mean the one that all my old iPads, iPods, iTouches, iPhones use? I have innumerable of those cables and use one frequently for the iPad I use to keep score at my softball games. When I was connecting it a sol...

Yes they do have a name. Check the wiki page on USB and you’ll see the different types. I have too many of those kindle-type ones you mentioned and had to buy a “normal USB”-to-USB cable recently because despite having a basket full of cables, I couldn’t find a single normal one for my disk drive. ...

Fear not, Mountaineer, for Apple is ready to sell you a $29 dongle O0 I have exactly one lightning device, and when I trade it in I’m going to send my cables in for recycling. Will they accept them all? Maybe not. I had been wondering about you sending in your cable for recycling since it seems you...

Because you’re not aware that they’re poor value! I do think that all the Apple products I own are great! And, especially great value since I bought all of them used (except for my first iPad which I bought refurbished). It is only Apple computers which I have never owed and believe to not represen...

Fear not, Mountaineer, for Apple is ready to sell you a $29 dongle O0 I have exactly one lightning device, and when I trade it in I’m going to send my cables in for recycling. Will they accept them all? Maybe not. How is it I, the non-Apple lover, have so many devices that use lightning cables? iPa...

May be of value to you:

https://theirrelevantinvestor.com/2023/ ... ure-proof/

Animal Spirits: Is Apple the Next IBM?
Posted September 13, 2023 by sean

dualstow wrote: ↑Tue Sep 12, 2023 7:16 pm
Perhaps. I use Standard Notes myself, but it’s got a lot of warts. Like, a *lot.*
I think Drafts (iOS) was the software I mentioned to you directly.

What do I use in my iPad ("Notes") that works quite well.

I could easily take notes in it and just as easily email those notes to myself.

I'll read. Can at least also be listening to music or having a sports game on at the same time. Videos are too all consuming of too many of my senses. Why do I get the feeling that if you had to subdue a burglar, you would pause to put a baseball game on (or C-SPAN) before finishing. My focus goes ...

… Baker Street Robbery of 1971. Pretty interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Street_robbery .. Just quickly scanned it. … There are some videos on youtube. History channel, etc. I'll read. Can at least also be listening to music or having a sports game on at the same time. Videos are too...

The front page of wikipedia mentions the Baker Street Robbery of 1971. Pretty interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baker_Street_robbery Thanks for this! Hopefully, get to read the whole extensive Wikipedia on this. Just quickly scanned it. Cannot remember if I saw the movie mentioned regardin...

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 09, 2023 8:13 pm
I like to think that if I include more apples in my diet I might not be overweight anymore.

Thanks. As soon as I saw the Topic title again this morning I told myself that someone needs to make some food related comment. And, there you did!

When I backtest I assume a investor would have held T-Bills instead of gold pre 1934, silver between 1934 and 1975, gold since 1976. Prudent. You are way too young plus a non-American to understand what you using that one word made me think of: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-hw-bush...

Thanks for this. A comprehensive list. Thought it took scanning the list a few times to finally find the Simplified Permanent Portfolio. The list is what order? Definitely NOT alphabetical? ????????? 30-year avg return, descending order. Click on the column headers to change the sort order. Thanks....

But what if I step back to get a bit more perspective? What if I look at the preceding 13-year period (late 1997 to late 2010)? Over that time window, the stock market had a meager CAGR of 2.7% (vs. 7.3% for the PP) and also had a stomach-churning negative return of -36.2% in 2008. The picture star...

dualstow wrote: ↑Fri Sep 08, 2023 6:03 pm
You’ve all seen by now, but I feel the need to post it here.

Marine puts the kibosh on robbery attempt in an Arizona gas station.

https://youtu.be/fhKdpKrF3xM

Not me. Still have not seen it yet. I have quite narrow programming compared to the general populace.

I have no regrets going all in on the PP in late 2010 and sticking with it since then. It has had a modest CAGR of 5.0% over that 13-year period, with a max negative return of -11.9% in 2022. It has allowed me to mostly shrug off market turmoil and sleep soundly as I focus on working and accumulati...

https://www.capitalspectator.com/yes-go ... -of-money/

Yes, Gold Is An Alternative Form Of Money

For what did you get banned??!!! For not buying into anti-gold propaganda spouted by a bunch of statists. 😎 I think that this is the MOST political I have EVER witnessed you being in this forum! Vinny, Smithers is describing the way he appears to the Bogleheads. No, I reread it again and I interpre...

Smith1776 wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 10:20 pm

vnatale wrote: ↑Thu Sep 07, 2023 9:29 pm

For what did you get banned??!!!

For not buying into anti-gold propaganda spouted by a bunch of statists.

I think that this is the MOST political I have EVER witnessed you being in this forum!

Here are some of my notes/primer that I thought I'd share (no guarantee as to the accuracy) ... Great write up. 8) It's also nice to see you posting about gold and not being inundated with senseless rubbish from that NiceUnparticularMan cretin. ::) Thanks. I'm on my third and final warning on Bogle...

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 8:03 pm
Like $20 and change. 20.67? That was the rate at the time.
Well, according to chatGPT

// I guess I was typing at the same time as you, Xan

I get the same amount as you here:

https://www.history.com/this-day-in-his ... d-standard

https://www.dexerto.com/tv-movies/joker-2-composer-confirms-the-film-will-be-a-musical-2276848/ Apparently the sequel to Joker , one of my favourite films of all time, is going to be a musical, or at least heavily music-based. This isn't a huge surprise given that Lady Gaga is in it... also I remem...

dualstow wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 2:00 pm
Many people know about the seizure of U.S. citizens’ gold in the 1930’s, but do you know how much the cash compensation was?

I think I may have read about it a few times. But I'm guessing it was not much.