Recent content by ERD50

I really love some of his films, others having me scratching my head, wondering what all the fuss is about. Psycho is just fantastic (IMO), and though I don't recall if I liked this one overall, the dream sequence in "Spellbound", co-written with Salvador Dali, was, I thought, just amazing for...

Try going to "Latest Activity" under "What's New". That gives a snippet of the most recent post, and clicking on the thread title takes to that recent post. At least for me.

What does that mean exactly? Are you painting the members here with a broad brush of being stuck in the past and against any/all changes? This new forum software has some great new features* (OP marking, the "@" notifications, 'Like' buttons, and some others, and probably lots more for the...

Having some money in Roth can be a good thing if you have a large expense in one year. If you pulled that from trad IRA, you could be pushed into a higher bracket.

Yes, I wish people would just post the post link, rather than the link to the 'page'. But I understand (well, sort of - if people found 100 pages too slow to load, they had the option to change it). At any rate, if keeping it at 25 is it, then I just need to adapt. Is the other option possible...

That only does a little for me (FireFox on Linux). For example, I have my window opened to ~ 20" on a 24" monitor, and that sidebar takes up 4 3/4", or 5 1/4" when I click that. That's ~ 25% of the active window width for info I can get elsewhere, I don't need it taking up space on every thread.

Is there a way to show/hide the right column? It takes up a lot of space, and scrolling is already an issue with the way vertical space is used. 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 <<<< for ref, even a one line post will take as much vert space as a 9 line post, plus the header.

I just noticed, the "quote" command is buried under the vertical "..." - that's something that is used often, can it be placed at the top level (like "img", "link", etc)? Oh, "underline " is burried also, but that has the cntrl-u shortcut, so not so bad.

I had the old forum set to 100 posts per page and most recent post at the top. Can I set this forum to that option? That avoids a lot of scrolling/paging for me. And it seems that now, if I return to thread I've read, it take me to post#1, whereas the old forum took me to the last post I read?

That's an excellent point. So much of the 'news' is editorialized, sometimes subtly (maybe the most dangerous?), sometimes not subtle at all. Yes, editorials are for the editorial page. Then I can read it with that in mind. -ERD50

Sorry, no. You haven't followed the conversation. No one can sing a song exactly the same, and being months apart, just makes the point even further (not that it had to be made, enough is enough). As I said earlier, and Fil explains - he is looking at the vocal "under a microscope". It simply...

Now there ya' go! Hot Tuna! I have the vinyl - might just put this on the turntable tonight. -ERD50

Yep, it's not uncommon. I need to hear/see what was actually said, not what the news tells me was said. I actually am at the point that I tell people, if you aren't going to make the effort to dig in and find the actual source info and decide for yourselves, you should just ignore what the news...

It's not that I don't want to be informed, or am not interested. It's just that it's near impossible to be informed. I'm not worried about AI. I worry less about the source of info than I do the accuracy of the info. In either case, I find I need to validate it myself. That doesn't change with...

Unfortunately, I haven't found that it helps much to "watch a variety of stations to get a more balanced view." IME, it's almost all the same stuff repeated, or misrepresentation on both sides. The only thing that works for me, as I mentioned earlier, is to dig in and find the unedited source...