Grant was magnanimous at a personal level, but he had no love for the ideals of slavery or the people who favored them by the time the civil war ended. The war changed him and Lincoln, it made them LESS tolerant of slavery. The latter part of the quote was my intent for posting. Bad is bad and the ...

(2) Signed up for protonmail, paid version. I still use gmail, but it's nice to have something alongside it. Gmail-to-gmail is now encrypted, I believe. Email as it goes from one server to another is typically encrypted, but it's of limited help. If both servers support encryption, it'll work, but ...

vnatale wrote: ↑Fri Nov 15, 2019 11:18 amI felt like anything rather than rejoicing at the downfall

Meaning, he didn't feel at all like rejoicing.

Is there a particular program you guys recommend to encrypt cloud based files? I use Diskcyptor to encrypt local drives, but not sure if/how that would work for individual files that would be uploaded to the cloud. GPG is probably the default tool for encryption that I would use. I don't have any e...

Tech is right: if you want to keep it private, you have to encrypt it yourself. Are you saying that portals provided by investment firms and CPA firms and the like may not be secure? Vinny That's certainly possible, yes. But in general, anybody who has encrypted something is also able to decrypt it...

Tech is right: if you want to keep it private, you have to encrypt it yourself. Are you saying that portals provided by investment firms and CPA firms and the like may not be secure? Vinny That's certainly possible, yes. But in general, anybody who has encrypted something is also able to decrypt it...

Tech is right: if you want to keep it private, you have to encrypt it yourself.

Maddy, I've tweaked the settings on the forum (primarily increasing the upload file size limit from 2MB to 10MB). Can you try editing your post and attaching again? Still getting the same "invalid file" message. BTW, the file size was 6 MB. I'll dig into it further. Still might be a file ...

Maddy, I've tweaked the settings on the forum (primarily increasing the upload file size limit from 2MB to 10MB). Can you try editing your post and attaching again?

Maddy, below the place to write the body of your post, there's an Attachments tab. That'll let you upload pictures directly to this site and your post without having to put them somewhere else and link to them. Does that work for you?

Not quite an announcement, so it isn't a done deal, but it sure seems close. Really I don't know why they wouldn't. If this were to happen, what would be the PP ramifications? Should we phase into those bonds? I'm thinking the answer would be yes, because we want bonds with high volatility, and as r...

Whether God is watching and cares about that or not is a completely irrelevant consideration. That reminds me of something I read about Zen Buddhism. It said that Zen doesn't actively deny God. It just advocates behaving the same way whether God is there or not. That is very good advice. Concepts l...

Wow. There is a LOT of irony floating around this topic right now. Not sure I follow.... I'm pretty sure that Maddy was poking some fun at Vinny posting a pile of new threads about a thousand different things. (Vinny was recently complimented on "bringing a lot of energy to the forum", la...

Mountaineer wrote: ↑Wed Nov 13, 2019 10:35 am White, but only after projection through a prism. Then I can pick and choose my favorite.

Wait, are we talking about additive or subtractive colors?

Wow. There is a LOT of irony floating around this topic right now.

Top 30 prolific posters: username - # of posts - first post - latest post (Not including this one!) MachineGhost — 11136 — 2011-11-12 — 2016-11-19 Pointedstick — 9729 — 2012-04-17 — 2019-08-22 MediumTex — 9620 — 2010-04-25 — 2019-08-07 dualstow — 8616 — 2010-10-29 — 2019-11-12 moda0306 — 8177 — 2010...

These seem to be the topics which have had the longest lives. Most are still active. It's possible for there to have been big gaps inside of them, though; I didn't check for that. "YouTube Junkie"; started 2012-02-19, 621 posts, last post 2019-11-11 "Boglehead topic best watch for $50...

Oh, okay sure. I didn't realize there had been significant nostalgia already discussed here. Moving a bunch of posts from Bond Dream Room to Nostalgia.

bedraggled wrote: ↑Tue Nov 12, 2019 8:38 am Vinny,

Annie B started the Gold Scream Room in May, 2013.

Anyone heard from Annie B?

Xan,

Is it worth establishing a nostalgia thread?

Thanks.

Go for it.

vnatale wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 3:47 pmI think at this point that I may be immune to it.

That's another common symptom.

dualstow wrote: ↑Mon Nov 11, 2019 3:11 pmI love this cat and I would kill for her and hide the bodies if she so commanded.

I think that's a major symptom of toxoplasmosis. I do not recommend keeping cats in your living quarters.

I use and recommend Free File Fillable Forms. It's an electronic version of the paper forms. Does all the math for you. It's the official way to file online for free.

I checked what Harry Browne had to say on the subject: Harry was certainly wise in many ways, but he also held some extreme positions that he later walked back. I hope the above is in that category. I don't know how one can say that with a straight face. I don't know from where that quote was taken...

Slightly off-topic, but I highly recommend Michael Lewis's "The Undoing Project". In addition to being fascinating like most/all of his work, reading this I discovered I had no idea what psychologists actually did, or how interesting it is.

I checked what Harry Browne had to say on the subject: Governments invariably call upon their citizens to cooperate in efforts for the "public good." They want you to sacrifice to help solve economic crises, foreign-trade problems, and military conflicts; but these things were caused orig...