I bought some Swiss annuities while they were still available for purchase by Americans. They are paying 2% or so, which is a lot better than I can get anywhere else, and I like the long-term prospects of the Swiss Franc relative to the US dollar. Nice, I think I'd sleep soundly with that portfolio...

Libertarian666 wrote: Very roughly 50% gold, 35% Swiss Francs, 5% silver, 5% cash.

For some reason I thought you were 100% gold.

The Swiss Francs has thrown me, is it a long term stability type hold or an expectation of the masters of the universe doing the job properly next time ?

The most useful bit of that article was the comment linking back to Tyler's visualisations on this forum, which I missed the first time around.

I think I'm gonna have to get a tattoo. 

I finally decided to stop having the newspaper delivered daily [I know, what's a newspaper?] I really like reading the paper at breakfast though, so I was thinking about getting either a Chromebook or an android tablet. I have a desktop computers that I use for running work related Windows programs...

Tens of thousands of anti-austerity protesters massed outside Britain's parliament on Saturday to demonstrate against the newly re-elected Conservative government's plans for further public spending cuts. Holding banners saying "End Austerity Now" and "Defy Tory Rule", protester...

I guess the only way to tell would be to discontinue but then if I stop feeling fatigue is that a placebo effect? Yes it's really difficult, I found fatigue is very bound with emotional state, teasing out which is causing which is hard. I stopped and started statins 4 times before deciding that on ...

Divorce, Second homes, Children with no shame, ill considered business ventures, overspending and fraud. http://www.fa-mag.com/news/why-clients-fail-at-retirement-21922.html?section=47 It's full of the dreaded 1st world issues, my favourite being the 60 year old dependent child, siphoning off $110k ...

The Diggers in 1649, perhaps more anarcho-socialists.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diggers 

Definitely option 3 with slander, swords and fire.

The biggest problem with gun control to me is that it makes no difference either way. You can substitute drugs, butter knives, meta data collection and so on into the same arguments for the same net effect on crime. The only effect you actually notice in the UK is that you don't have to deal with po...

So how is the crime rate?  I know crime shot up after they banned guns in Australia about a decade or so ago.  At what point does everyone realize they've made a huge mistake??? Crime at a 33 year low, same general decline as you see across the developed world. I doubt there's any correlation betwe...

Perhaps... but not recently. The law dates from the 50s and prohibits the carrying of an offensive weapon in a public place without a lawful reason or reasonable excuse. Does the UK have the equivalent of concealed weapons permits? Mostly no, it's all in the definitions of what "reasonable exc...

The British government has been aggressively restricting or simply outlawing most weapons or implements that could be used for self defense. Perhaps... but not recently. The law dates from the 50s and prohibits the carrying of an offensive weapon in a public place without a lawful reason or reasona...

Jeez lazy analysis. The context is self defence products not self defence . In the context of products, by definition something which doesn't have any legal precedent is neither legal or Illegal. Really what else would you expect the police to say ? In the context of self defence, from the same webs...

madbean I was prescribed statins about a year ago, all was fine and they were effective at what they were supposed to do. After about 6 months I started to feel deep muscular fatigue (like when you overdo the exercise then take a hot bath) which massively impacted my ability to exercise. I didn't re...

Pointedstick wrote: Say, what happened to Marc, anyway? Did he lose his shirt in the Bitcoin crash after putting a huge amount of his money in it?

I think he is about 90% in on cryptocurrencies on the expectation that BTC will correct back to $1000, so still holding onto his shirt I guess.

Thus far the retirement is great. However, I know eventually I'm going to need to get some more structure in my days than I have now! The biggest difference this far, the concept of time has changed. What day is it? ???? LOL.  I have the same problem with the day.  And I think I've used my alarm cl...

On the subject of free courses,  I signed up for "Big Data: Measuring and Predicting Human Behaviour" at future learn which started a couple of days ago. The first weeks material has been good, a couple of interviews, a couple of papers and some introductory exercises on google trends and ...

Oh and I'm not crazy about CHrome, are there alternatives to use instead of Firefox or chrome? Thanks. Pains me to say it but both MS and Apple have upped their game with their respective browsers. FF and now even Chrome are starting to look bloaty, that said trying to get out of the Chrome habit a...

porlex ceramic blade steel exterior hand coffee grinder (japan)- thanks to gizmo rat ... I think I finally have tennis elbow. Great device, but maybe coffee wasn't meant to be hand ground every day. You're doing it wrong :) http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0204/6074/files/IMG_9867_grande.JPG?995 ht...

Captain DIY in the video seemed a little over equipped to be changing a wall socket, my better half's mother used to perform the same operation with just a pair of scissors (shudder).   

- Perhaps I could review how to force a dual boot, as I know the Mint password. Is there a generic key combo for that? - If necessary, I could wipe the whole machine clean and start anew, I suppose with a USB drive, but how do I do that w/ out the Ubuntu login password? I guess there's another key ...

I mean England isn't doing so bad despite losing the entire British Empire, now are they? For all the hand wringing about the American empire's inevitable decline, it should be remembered that all the benefits (such as they are) of being a British citizen were gained post empire. Indeed all of the ...

The subtle one is the fees, it's very easy to sleepwalk into high fees just by taking professional advice, then being guided into actively managed funds. At no point is anyone actually ripping your face off, you're just buying into sub PP returns with eye watering volatility. There's a nicely balanc...

Does anyone know what to do with those annoying flash-like popups that popup blockers don't recognize? Ive used adwaremedic http://www.adwaremedic.com/index.php to strip adware browser hijackers off a mac. However I think what you have might be a 'feature' of the Stackly research cataloging and col...

WiseOne wrote:
Speaking of vinegar, here are my other uses for distilled white vinegar:
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- Cat pee removal
50/50 with warm water, and a little elbow grease. Once it's dry the smell is gone, pretty effective on bare wood.